A Sticky Situation

**Date Started:** March 9, 2020
**Date Completed:** Ongoing
**Previous Role-Play:** N/A
**Next Role-Play:** N/A
**Users Involved:** User:PuddingCups, User:Jmayfie01
**Setting:** New World
**Characters Involved**:
* **Snake Hair Pirates:** Belladonna D. Megara
* **Marines:** Bulcher Tina
* **Mentioned**:

## Bon Voyage

Megara often traveled for diplomatic purposes, Boeotia was an affiliate of many islands who much like her own had been left in the dust by the Government. In order to be discrete, Megara did not sail with her crew, The Snake Hair Pirates. Her flag was sure to gain their attention if spotted, so instead she took a smaller ship, one of the royal vessels of Boeotia which though small posessed equal splendor.

Still, she took what the ship allowed. A small crew of strong and loyal Boeotians, trained warriors that knew their ins and outs of sailing who would no doubt allow safe passage and give relaxation to their Queen during the journey.

As she sat in her quarters, pondering what the meeting would entail, her crew members worked above deck. Steering, cleaning, whatever needed to be done. Everything couldn't have been going better, the winds were strong, the waves weak, it seemed that they would arrive to the destination with perfect timing, or even early! Or so they thought.

Sitting in the crow's nest with a telescope, a lookout noticed something strange. A speck of white in the distance, with a giant flag splattered with blue... could it be? No. He scurried from the nest, shimmying down to ask for someones second opinion.

"What is it Lark? Somethin wrong?" A large buff man called out, causing the rest of the make-shift crew to look in confusion. "I think there's a ship ahead Duran!" He looked around cautiously before whispering the next words. "A marine ship." The crew gasped. What were they doing here? Did they know about the meeting? Or was it merely a coincidence? "Someone has to tell Queen Megara!" Naturally, they were scared of alerting her, not that their lives would be in danger, but the wrath that she had laid down upon Marines in the past was enough to scare anyone! Just mentioning them drew her to anger and it would not be fun to see her reaction.

After rock-paper-scissoring it, Lark lost to practically everyone, summoning all his courage he walked towards the captain's quarters, knocking the Queen's door. "Come in." He heard and entered, seeing Megara on a throne as always, petrified by her beauty, the woman stared, her eyes locking with his. "What have you disturbed me for?" Lark gulped nervously, saluting then bowing. "Your majesty! I think... I think there is a marine ship ahead!" Megara's eyes lit with rage as she jolted up from her throne. "Get up. We've no time to waste." Lark ran from the room followed by Megara, despite being angry she walked slow and remained calm and collected like a cool beauty, standing on the deck with a hand on her hip as she watched in the distance.

"Man your stations, we will fight." She called out, receiving only cheers as they did as they were told. They could see her seriousness and harshness and they weren't scared of her they were scared of what she was going to do to that marine!

There was in fact, a marine ship headed in the same direction as them and it was no mere coincidence. This was the ship led by Marine Commodore Tina Bulcher, while she wasn't highly known throughout the world like her higher ups, in the local areas some had known her as a hideous woman that had a rather disgusting yet effective ability. Her eyes were sharp but bleak, her skin was pale and almost gray with her protruding buck teeth similar to a rodent. She quickly noticed the rather small crew on the ship preparing for a fight and who was Tina to refuse? It was decided! Tina yelled out towards her lower ranking marines. "Prepare yourselves, We're fighting against a deadly pirate!" She wasn't afraid of dying or losing, as she had lost many times but her true power was always bouncing back like a boomerang.

The ships weren't close, but they were a few hundred feet away from each other which was more than enough for Tina to be able to use her ability! A grayish vicious liquid protruded from her hands, it looked rather sticky and slow similar to Molasses or snot.. It was very possible this was Mucus but even Tina didn't know, due to its supernatural stickiness and tensile strength. Once the substance was produced, it shot out of her hand at rapid speeds, not taking long before it stuck to the side of her enemy's ship. Once this was done though, she attached another rope of it which with a little manipulation, formed a thick sticky bridge for her crew to follow her on. Instead of walking like some fat rat, Tina stood on the bridge and the liquid rose like a snail and carried her, moving rather quickly towards the ship.

Megara watched as the bridge of mucus was formed, a chunky bald rat running across it as if sniffing for cheese. Her crew attempted to charge forward, but Megara extended an arm as if to tell them no, stopping them in their tracks. "It is dangerous to charge into battle so recklessly." And so they watched and waited until finally the enemies arrive, welcomed with gunfire, spears, and swords.. Megara had leaped to higher ground, towards the back of the ship, waiting for the rat to come into her trap.

Tina May be ugly but she wasn’t dumb, she only brought half of the marines on her ship across the bridge but as she ran along it, thick sticky ropes of mucus shot out towards a few of her crew mates in an attempt to throw them off the boat. Her ability was a rather strange one but it’s usefulness for capturing Pirates was what helped her achieve her current rank, being able to make the best use of a sticky situation was her speciality.

Arms crossed she stared down at her warriors bravely going head to head with the marines and making quick work of them! That was until long, slimy green ropes shot from the mysterious ugly woman, slinging a few members of her crew into the water! Luckily they didn't have Devil Fruits, but they wouldn't be joining the rest of the battle. Megara was startled. Devil Fruits were rare in the world, even with her being a pirate she had only seen a handful, but it wasn't exactly the having a fruit that startled her. It was the ability.

"So you too have eaten fruit of the devil?" Megara questioned, flipping her hair and looking down upon the marine woman from the stern or back of the ship which was much higher than the front bow, allowing Megara to have an ariel view over the battlefield which she would soon join.