"Good Morning all, hope I haven't missed anything important, No? Oh well that's good," Tee called as she strode into the room, all sunshine and smiles. The conversation dropped into silence.
"Who the dam are you?" Crocodile called the first to break the quiet.
"Language Mr Croky, we don' want to be any more inappropriate then we already are," was Tee's candid reply, not a hint of fear on her face, despite the murderous glare on his face. Looking around she furrowed her brow, in mock confusion and asked: "This is the warlord/Marine personal meeting right? The guy at the door said it was," Then she shrugged, "oh well it's always fun to earwig,"
"Excuse me but what is a child doing here?" Tsuru asked frostily.
"Hey, I'll have you know I'm nearly thirteen, though you've probably forgotten what it's like to be young granny, don't throw me in with the kiddie winks and nappers." The assembled adults eyebrows raised to new heights at her rude reply, "Careful now, its looks like your brows are trying to leave your face,"
"Who are you kid?" Garp asked, picking his nose as did so, nullifying his comment with his childish behaviour.
"Hmm, thought I'd been introduced sorry about that," Tee replied, not sounding sorry at all, in fact it sounded like she was enjoying herself rather than being apologetic. "Names Combat Tee," she said with a flourish, to her slightly shell shocked audience.
"Combatti?" was Garp's reaction, his finger still lodged up his nose.
"Nope Combat," she said stressing her last name, "and T-e-e like the drink but spelt with two e's, I think you marines tend to call me Miss Combat, right?" She said, acknowledging Sengoku for the first time since she had burst in on the meeting.
"That is how we addressed your predecessors though you much different from the Miss Combat I came across,"
"hmm, Katia wasn't exactly assertive was she? Any who wether I'm like Katia isn't why I'm here,"
"Right again Miss Combat," Sengoku, finally regaining control of the meeting. "Now our strategist is here we can finally begin the true purpose of this meeting, whilst those not present will be notified individually as we see fit," Sengoku added as the room darkened and an image appeared on a blank screen, much to the rooms occupants shock and to Tee's fury.
"Before now we have respected the delicate balance of the Yoko's and the other occupants of the New world however recent events have pushed the balance into disarray. We have been tasked to remove this threat, our scientist Dr Vega," pausing to gesture to the hooded Dr on his left, before continuing, " has created a special weapon for this task which is being implemented at this moment. Before the weapon is activated we will need to prepare, I understand that the warlords have never been involved in an operation of this scale before, however your presence is required."
During his entire presentation, Tee's demeanour became progressively colder, until she possessed the kind of glare that freeze over hell. In a remarkably childish, tee slowly put her hand in the air, spotting her hand Sengoku idly waved at a nearby recruit and had them open the curtain, letting the midday sunshine once again to stream into the room.
"Yes Miss Combat?" Curious at what the strategist would say, his experience with the girl so far showed that she did the unexpected on regular bases.
"Can I just clarify a few thing?" There was nothing sinister about the way she smiled, yet still the denizens of the meeting felt a shiver of fear bloom, which was highly disconcerting for those present as many of them hadn't experienced any real fear in years. "So you want to upset a delicate balance, kill around 500,000 if my estimates are correct, and they are very rarely wrong Admiral, start a new pirate era, all while using the inventions that you stole from me?" The sound in the room dropped into a void of nothingness.
"How dare you speak such insolence," Akainu snarled, magma pooling around his fist.
"Oh simmer down, or I'll make you," was Tee's enraging reply, the admiral stood from his seat only to sit down in a heap and watch with fear as the magma disappeared into his skin. For a few moments he just stared in shock at his when the magma he was trying to call forth was not appearing. Still in shock he turned to stare at the little girl he had been arguing with only to feel all the moisture in his throat to evaporate as he saw the devil fruit he had eaten all those years ago, spinning lazily on her fingertip a fearsome grin on her face. "Now if you want to get this back, I suggest that you sit down and let me finish my rant ay?" It became very clear to those present who held the power here, if this little chit of a girl had technology to not only nullify but steal the source of the source of the devil-fruit users then who knew what she could do. Add on the fact a large proportion of those present were devil fruit users themselves, well the fear was defiantly present.
"Now as I was saying, Admiral," turning to glare at the shell shocked fleet admiral. "Are your bosses really as stupid as your hat? Because at the moment I'm inclined to say yes, you're willing to do all that I have listed above so that those disgusting pieces of dirt, commonly known as slave traders don't have to worry about Whitebeard repeatedly interfering with their new world slave system?" Tee was standing up by now, her fury evident. "You know, originally I decided I was going to follow the Combat tradition, work with the marines, help keep the balance etc. etc. but now I can see that's not really possible is it? You see Combats must always work for the balance and the person upsetting the balance is you," The sentence was spoken in a sarcastic chipper tone.
"Miss Combat..?" Sengoku tried to speak only to feel his lips clamp shut against his own wishes.
"You know you probably shouldn't have drunk that should you?" Tee said pointing to the drugged glasses, everyone had drunk some of the drink, even a tiny sip felt with horror the numbing feeling taking over their system. "Don't worry it'll wear off soon, until then toodaloo," saluting the group before jumping out the recently opened window onto a nearby roof top, Akainu's devil fruit still in hand.
Sitting safely on the roof, a silver timber she-wolf sat snoozing in the sunlight waiting for the inevitable chaos that was bound to occur. Hearing the shattering of glass, Kinsei took her queue and leaped into their small boat.
A mere two minutes later the clunking of Tee's heavy black boots hit the deck, causing the small boat to shake ever so slightly. "Don't ya just love a good field trip Kinsei? Come on, we've got three hours at best to get back home and prepare," starting the tope of the she-wolf's head, she turned back to the horizon and said "time to go meet the old man, Katia was so fond of,"