Grittiest Marines

The **Grittiest Marines** are a player group in One Piece: The Aftermath. They're a party using a Critical Injury Table and the Gritty Realism rest rules, which is their namesake.

Their Marine unit number is 409.

## Grittiest Marines

### Members:

Rana Ronan
 Heart Ajacks
 Chris
 Blake Mead
 Alicet
 Duke Kato
 Tullet Barron
 Gromelthla
 The Ferrywoman
 Dante
 Basset Salem

## Sea Rat Saga

### Steel Cove Arc

Rana and Heart travel to Captain Cassidy's ship as reinforcements, before being sent to take out a Sea Rat Pirates watchtower so the rest of the Marines can go attack the pirates. Rana and Heart then landed on Steel Cove, fought some pirates, before heading up to a watchtower and engaging in battle with Larry and Jerry. Heart and Rana lost that battle, and retreated.

The rest of the party then met up with Rana and Heart, as they battled a few pirates. Then, a large crowd of pirates showed up. The pirates battled fiercely, and quickly gained the upper hand, but lost it as Alicent and Opus joined the battle. After the dust settles, only one pirate was left standing; Basset Salem. Opus interrogated Basset, and he revealed his sad backstory, and the Sea Rat's whereabouts. Opus then convinced him to join the Marines, and Basset got a makeover.

After Basset's tag-along, the Grittiest Marines had more duty to fulfill: they had not yet inspected or gone through the watchtower which was their primary goal, ideas were pitched but nonetheless they went. When they got to the watchtower, some went to inspect the wherabouts of a prisoner who was kept captive in the watchtowers basement, this prisoner however wasnt ordinary and constantly laughed and cackled, the squadron decided that it'd be a wise decision to rest up then deal with the prisoner; whoever was down there was down there for a reason they thought.

Morning comes and everyone except for those who were either too big or too fatigued engaged with the cackling man. Said cackling man, whos name was revealed later to be "Akanos" and his title "Black Hand" was a stranger to reason and engaged in combat with the party. Akanos was a fearsome foe striking despair in the Marines hearts, knocking them senseless, decaying, and banging them up against deaths door... though the Marines never faltered, they resolved and bolstered themselves and together took down "Black Hand" with Opus's finishing touch that left Akanos's head to roll.

Some stayed back to loot but bared no fruit nor spoils and the others came up with the idea of bringing Akanos's body back to the Captain for more insight.

When they all made it back to the ship the other soldiers cheered, these soldiers were also the reason Captain Cassidy decided to wait another day before leaving the Grittiest Marines on the island alone, since they went without report, though when they got there Heart Ajacks and Opus made sure to fill him in as this mission led in most of the Grittiest to rank up:

* Ajacks, Woton, Mead, Chris, Barron **(Warrant Officers)**
* Opus, Kato**(Ensign)**

and after the fact, Cassidy let the Marines know about the threat Akanos poses which was..  To be Continued, leaving the Steel Cove Arc completed.

### Alaskon Island Arc

The Grittiest Marines were called as reinforcements to Alaskon Island. They make it to a Marine base where Opus, Gromelchle, Heart Ajacks, Duke Kato, and The Ferrywoman go down to the jail. Here in the Jail they meet Visk the Thunderwave, where they tried interrogating him, but got ambushed by the imprisoned Dick-Slicer Pirates. Everyone was somewhat badly damaged except for Opus, who took almost no damage, and Duke walked out with the worst injury of getting his dick sliced off. Zachary the Dick-Slicer Captain and his pirate goons eventually fell to the Marines, but not without a fight. After the ambush, they continued to interrogate Visk. They found valuable information about the Sea Rat Pirates from Visk, but only after Duke lent him a smoke.

## Major Battles

***Rana Ronan and Heart Ajacks*** VS ***Larry and Jerry*** - Defeat; Finishing move: **Regular Punch**

***Grittiest Marines*** VS ***Nicky's Medkit Ruling*** - Victory; Finishing move: **Consumable Section**

***Grittiest Marines*** VS ***Sea Rat Lookouts*** - Victory; Finishing move: **Harpoon Hammer Punch**

***Grittiest Marines*** VS ***Akanos, the Black Hand*** - Victory; Finishing move: **Justice Cleave**

***Opus, Gromelchle, Heart Ajacks, Duke Kato, and Ferrywoman*** VS ***The Dick-Slicer Pirates*** - Victory: Finishing move: **All-Consuming Maw of Justice**