Episode 6: Prison Break

"Prison Break" is the Sixth Episode of the One Piece DnD Streams by Rustage, in this episode we follow the crew as they become allied then enemies with Not Steve, start a prison break and meet Pearls brother!

This episode was first streamed on Rustages Twitch, the VOD can be found here! It was later uploaded to Rustages Second Youtube Channel once edited, which can be found here! As well as being posted as a Podcast, which can be found here!

The Summary for this episode can be found here! This consists of a summary of the episode, a TL:DR for the episode, the story impact of the episode, characters in the episode and quotes of the episode.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

TL:DR
This episode starts off with Steve killing Fredrikson who he explains to be a Steam Pipe Pirate, telling the crew he is one as well, but was just infiltrating them. William and Steve talk and they find out that his name isn't actually Steve, so they start calling him Not Steve, and as Not Steve and William talk more, they come to an agreement, that Not Steve will come with them to Tarako Kingdom and then they will never see each other again. We also find out Not Steve is an assassin and his power comes from a small black octopus, not a devil fruit like William assumed. The crew then discuss a plan of what they are gonna do, they eventually settle on blowing up two of the large walls and rushing inside to blow up the walls of the actual prison and then rush in and get out quickly. The Crew agree to this and use their rowboat to get onto the prison island, where William and Verona knock out guards on both sides while Atom places a remote bomb on each wall, eventually they get everyone except Gravy on the island. Not Steve leaves, disappearing into the forestry areas. The crew then blow up the walls, rushing inside they blow up another smaller wall and Ragnar meets an old man from his village, finding out that the people from his village were taken and sold as slaves, also finding out that the healthier people are sold much sooner to people in the Grand-Line, meaning there is a chance Ragnar's family is alive. The crew then head further into the prison and find Pearl's brother in a cell but also meet Not Steve again, who is angry the person he wanted to assassinate wasn't there, so he begins to fight the crew. He holds out a calling card which William recognizes and later on during the fight Ragnar kills him in his bear form. The crew then check on Jasper, Pearl's brother, who seems to break out of some trance like state and that is where the episode ends.

Summary
This Episode starts with Steve saying "Are you gonna tell me where this ship is going" as black tentacles are loosely wrapping around the ship, coming up from the floorboards as if growing up, everybody except Duros and William do not know what is happening, confused as to what the tentacles are doing. He tilts his head to one side, telling William that he's not here to hurt them and that he just needs some help, saying that he knows he is scared and William tries to bluff as if he isn't scared but Steve sees right through this and knows he is scared. Fredrikson goes to say something about the Steam Pipe Pirates before the black tentacles snap his neck and Steve says to William and Duros that he was such a nuisance, asking them if that was right, William explains he doesn't know who that was and that he didn't have to bring out the Death tentacles. Verona during this time pulls out Little Timmy and loads one of his banishing bullets, shooting the tentacle on top of him under the assumption that it will disappear but it resists the bullets effects and just writhes in pain. As this happens William sees Steven become agitated and tells William that it seems his crew doesn't understand the situation and that he should tell them, William says that it's no wonder because he just summoned tentacles from nowhere, William then turns to Steve and tells him that he is okay with talking with him as long as he puts down the tentacles. Duros says there might be some fish involved and William calls out for Gravy to bring some fish and he replies that he's in a pit of a pickle with the tentacles. So William turns back to Steve and tells him that he either lowers the tentacles or its a 6 on 1, maybe 7 if Atom is involved.

Steve tells William that he has no problems lowering the tentacles, saying he just did it to show him what he did and Steve says that if he hears him out they might be able to be friends even, saying that he's a nice person and doesn't want to cause pain. As he says this all the tentacles disappear and William exits to the door and shouts up telling the crew its okay as Ragnar enters with William and Duros, then Steve explains that Fredrikson and him were both part of the Steam Pipe Pirates as they might have already guessed, and that Fredrikson was pretending to be a slave to get onto their ship and kill them and take their stuff. William questions what that makes Steve then, he tells them he infiltrated the Steam Pipe Pirates for business, telling them he is telling them this so that they will be able to trust him because he is an unfortunate situation right now and that he is an assassin of some kind, as well as the fact that his name is not really Steve, which the crew say they already assumed. Ragnar says that he actually likes the name Steve, laughing about it.

Not Steve tells them that he feels fine with telling them that he is an assassin because he doubts he will ever see them again and that he has a target in the Tarako Kingdom and that he requests they'll take him with them to Tarako Kingdom, or he'd have to find another way there. Ragnar says that it depends on who his target is, as they have interest in that Kingdom as well and William agrees. Not Steve says that his target is held up in Tarako Prison but he is no one of any importance and William then asks then mans name. Not Steve tells him that he could tell them the name but it'd mean nothing to them. William says that they might have business at the very same prison, so it is kinda their business, Not Steve then says his name is Jason Locksworth and the crew just question who he is and Not Steve tells them that's why he said there was no point in him telling them. Not Steve tells them that he is of no importance to anyone other than the person who hired him to kill him and that he just needs to break into the prison so he can kill him with his two bare hands.

William recaps what just happened, saying that Not Steve joined up with some Pirates and then got catch up with the Marines, saying its just bad timing which Not Steve says maybe good timing instead because they seem to be on their way to Tarako Kingdom. Ragnar then says that he smells a liar and William says he has to trust Ragnar's sense of smell. Ragnar then sniffs into the air and suddenly trusts Steve entirely, even beginning to doubt his own crew, becoming very confused. William just tells him to go get some meat so he can cool off. William then turns to Not Steve and tells him that he's a gambling pirate captain, so if he answers one of his questions, then they will help him out. William then asks what kinda devil fruit he has and Not Steve just starts laughing and looks down at the ground as a little black octopus squirms out of the ground and jumps onto his shoulder, saying to it that they think he is a devil fruit. Not Steve says that he doesn't have a devil fruit, he just has his little assignment and says isn't that right, looking down at the octopus as it makes a little noise, Not Steve asks if this answers his question and William says it does. William then turns to Duros and begins discussing what to do, Duros suggests that they gain his trust to learn more and see if he is a good or bad person.

William says that he can stay on the ship until they get to the Tarako Kingdom, telling him to keep his octopus companion to himself. Not Steven says that the didn't know he could be so cooperative, promising that he isn't going to betray them. Not Steve says he's going to stick to himself in this corner, saying someone can look over him if he likes. Ragnar turns and says he is going to get a drink as William turns back to Duros, telling him they are going to be keeping a guard posted and that they shouldn't be keeping Ragnar near him for the time being. Duros voluntaries that he will look over him and William says that they will work in shifts. William walks out onto the deck and calls out to Verona, wondering how long until they get to Tarako, Verona telling William that they are about 2 days away but he begins to question what just happened. William tells him to keep an eye on Not Steve and his Octopus companion and he explains that there is only 1 guy now and that the tentacles he saw before are probably the octopus.

The crew then question what they are gonna do with Fredrikson's dead body, as they begin to talk about it Pearl asks William if she could take the dead body, wondering if they would judge her for taking it. William says that her request for a strangled corpse is a little bit off, he says he doesn't mind but its still a bit iffy. Pearl explains that she has cravings and its probably the dragon devil fruit and she says she feels like she's going crazy without it, saying that he was a bad guy anyway. Then she goes on to say that her father used to do something before William cuts her off saying she can do whatever with the body she wants, Pearl thanks him and rips off a hand from the body and throws the body over the side of the ship, going inside with it embarrassed. William places a chair on the deck and gets Not Steve to sit in it, telling him that if he needs anything they can just ask, he says it won't be needing anything but asks William if he's a checkers fan, which William says he is and then Not Steve says that him and William can play anytime and he'll be looking forward to it. As Duros guards over him, he notices he barley breathes and Duros offers him fish, but Not Steve declines. Not Steve's little black octopus friend walks over towards Duros, looks up and mumbles in his own voice and Duros reaches down and pats his head and makes a happy noise as he does so. Duros then drops a fish for him on the ground and he nipples on it before heading back to Not Steve.

Pearl goes up to William and apologizes for doing that, talking about how in her past her father forced her to do that kinda thing and that she only found out about it being a devil fruit a few weeks ago. She says that she's been going through withdrawal symptoms lately and that she knows its wrong but she just can't help it. William places his hand on Pearl's shoulder and says that this is who she is and that they will work through it, fix the situation with her father and at the end of the day they will run across a lot of corpses, William says he's even made some himself before telling her it'll be okay. Pearl comes to her and she says that her and Duros and Pearl a map of the Tarako Kingdom, Pearl says Duros did most of the smaller details and she says that she can inform William about anything he asks to the best of her ability. She then brings out the map of the prison and tells them its separated.

William then questions if there is a safe place for them to dock their ship without being seen by the Navy, Pearl talks about how she knows that the prison is split up into four different sections, one section is used for slaves and another is used for high profile criminals, which is where her brother would be. She talks about how useful Atom's abilities would be to break in and how they need to come up with a plan on what to do. William then calls the rest of the crew over to talk about the plan, with Not Steve nearby so they can keep an eye on him. William introduces Not Steve, Ragnar saying he likes him, confusing Verona. William lays the map on the table and shows it to everyone, bringing up a variety of plans, one being sneaking with the marine outfits they stole. They begin discussing it in more detail and as they do, Pearl points out that the rest of the Steam Pipe Pirates where heading towards the main harbor of Tarako Kingdom. William goes to ask something of Atom, then realizing he's not there Pearl goes and wakes him up. He greets everyone before questioning who the fuck Not Steve is, pointing at him. William also realizes Gravy is not in the room, so Duros goes and gets Gravy, bringing him into the room. Gravy comes in welcoming everyone and bringing some of the fish wondering who the hell Not Steve is. Gravy wonders if he wants fish but Not Steve says he's okay.

William lays out the map to Atom, asking what he can do, if blowing up the walls without doing damage to anyone inside, including the slaves was an option. Ragnar suggests a large explosion to get through the walls and inside and smaller explosions to open the prison, so both slaves and prisoners can get free. William suggests two remote explosions on either side of the walls, creating a diversion. Atom reminds the crew it takes him some time to set up these bombs, so he'd need someone on defense to help him out if he was spotted. William says he can help with that and Atom turns to Not Steve and asks what's happening with him. William also turns to Not Steve and tells him that they'll blow up the walls into the prison and he can leave from there and they can go their separate ways, they'll let each other do their own things. Not Steve agrees and the crew begin discussing more about what they need to do, William leaving how many walls they are going to explode up to Atom. Verona then asks Duros and Pearl whether or not the prison is run by the Marines or Tarako Kingdom, Verona says this because he wonders if it is similar to Impel Down if it is run by the Marines.

Pearl says Duros knows better than her since he was a guard and Duros tells them it is just a simple prison that was recommissioned by the Navy for their own use and Pearl says that she thinks most of the Prisoners are from the Tarako Kingdom but the Navy sometimes use it, its about half and half. Verona questions if they would be able to contact the Navy base, which Pearls says they most likely could. Verona says this is going to be a challenge then and Duros agrees, saying that the Marines were stronger than the knights of the Tarako Kingdom. Pearl apologizes for making everyone do this, but says that it should help them gain many allies to help them fight the Steam Pipe Pirates as well as Captain Marrow, all while making them rich. This makes William realize that many people will be after them during this battle, he then turns to Pearl and asks her what would happen if they did win, wondering if she would become queen then but Pearl says that her Brother would actually become the new king. William asks everyone if there is anything else and Duros mentions that the people are unhappy with the Navy, meaning if they can spark some hope into them, then they may have some allies against the Navy. Ragnar also says he is down for this and to spark as much chaos as he can. Gravy says that he can stay on the ship and protect it and that they better not die as it would be a waste of food.

A day later with a plan now in place, they approach the Tarako Kingdom and they are close enough to where they can see the prison, they dock their ship and talk about a plan, William says they will take the more sneaky people first to setup the explosives and then they will come back and get the rest of the crew, William, Atom, Verona and Not Steve all get in their small rowboat, along with Marine uniforms that William is bringing. As they row closer they can see the prison looming over them and they post two guards standing in front of the wall. They don't manage to notice this group docking on the shore. William talks to Atom and Verona and explains they should dress up as Marines in case they get caught and Not Steve turns to the ground and says that he is off. William tells him that if they run into him again they'll fight each other and Not Steve places a hand along Williams face and says that he has nice skin before jumping off the boat and disappearing into the foliage.

As soon as Not Steve is gone, William lets out a sigh of relief, talking about how creepy he was and Verona wonders why Ragnar was so interested in him and William questions it as well. William, Verona and Atom all sneak off the boat, hiding between the bushes and trees. Atom says it will be hard for him to set up the explosives with those guards there, William and Verona creep up behind the guards, William slams one with a rock from the ground, knocking him out and Verona slams the butt of his rifle, knocking that guard out as well. Atom then runs up and throws his jacket to the ground, his skinny buff body now exposed and he quickly takes things from his jacket and wires various things up on the wall, it takes a while to do this and during this time William and Verona take the guards uniforms/armor and turns back after about 20 minutes with one bomb done. William then says they are going to plant two bombs on the two walls without gates and use it as a distraction on one side.

They get back into their rowboat and make their way to the other-side, finding a very similar situation with two guards pacing the grounds outside the wall, William and Verona creep up behind these guys, William knocking one of the guards out with his Cutlass's hilt while Verona just misses the guards head and the guard turns around and notices Verona standing there, Verona quickly pulls out his two scimitars and stabs one through the guards chest, killing him instantly but as he goes to strike the second one he stabs down towards the ground and stabs himself in the foot. Atom quickly repeats what he was doing before and William goes and checks what happened with Verona, Verona reassures him that he is okay and during this time Atom takes off his hat and places a bomb that was underneath his hat on the wall. They also steal these guard uniforms/armor and William begins transporting the rest of the crew.

After awhile everyone is on the shore on the right side of the prison island. William puts on one of the guards uniforms and Duros places a uniform on top of his own armor, Ragnar doesn't wear armor and denies putting any on, saying it makes him feel weaker for some reason. William questions if Duros or Pearl know anything about where her brother might be, they both say they don't really know so William suggests that they go for the top right one, which everyone agrees. William realizing it will only hinder him, takes off the guard armor and Verona puts it on over the top of the Marine uniform he is wearing. The group then walk up towards the prison as Atom pulls out a detonator and wishes everyone good luck, William explains that they are going to blow up the big wall, then run in and use a smaller explosion to blow up the walls inside and go from there. Everyone places their hands over their ears and Atom takes a puff of his cigarette as he presses the button causing the wall to explode, causing pieces of stone to fly everywhere and what lays before the group is the four way prison and a bunch of very confused guards running around.

The crew immediately run inside and up to the prison, Atom places his bombs quickly and then lights the fuse and a small explosion happens and inside the crew can see a lot of loosely dressed people in rags and chains, some were clearly sleeping on the floor and they all look up as they can see this bright light flooding in, a older man near the front of the explosion looks up at them and questions who they are and Duros says that he is a knight here to free them, and that they have been enslaved for far too long. This causes people to realize that they are not villains and they all get up, as the crew runs in and start breaking and cutting the chains and ropes holding them there and they begin running outside and causing chaos, the crew can tell these people look like slaves and as they realize this Ragnar starts calling out for his wife and son with no response at first.

As he continues to shout though, an older man grabs onto Ragnar's shoulder and questions where he is from, Ragnar says that those names are his wife and sons and that he is from a place that the Steam Pipe Pirates destroyed. The man questions what the name of his town is and Ragnar tells him it is Atlas, the older man says that he is also from Atlas and that he recognized those names and that he is a baker and that they brought bread from him one time. Ragnar says that they brought bread all the time, that it went well with his ale. He asks Ragnar to say his wife's name again and he says it which causes him to remember that 3 years ago him and his village were all taken as slaves and that the king here sells them off as Slaves to profitable buyers in the Grand Line, he says never got sold and looks down where Ragnar can see a wooden peg leg. Ragnar then asks about Magnus, the man questions whether or not that was the 7 foot 9 year old and Ragnar says he was more 6'2 but close enough before the older man says that his family had good genes and they would've been sold off already and that only rejects end up in places like this. He says he is sorry that he can't be of more help but Ragnar thanks him as it means his family could be alive and he gives the man a big kiss on his forehead.

Pearl begins shouting to everyone around, telling them that if they have no place to go cause chaos right now and they will find homes for them later! Duros says that with his honor they will have a happy home! The Crew can see down the other end of the all into the section where it splits into the other four places, they can see Not Steve walking into one of the wings of the prison. Using his strength Duros pulls open the door, and they can see Not Steve heading into the top left wing while they are in the top right wing. Verona says that they should make sure he isn't going to kill the prince as the Crew heads down this corridor they hear what appears to be an alarms being sounded outside. As the crew enter the middle area there are 4 guards ready to fight and they run towards them, telling the crew to halt in the name of Tarako Kingdom. Ragnar doesn't even let them finish, and just runs forwards, slamming his axe into the guards armor doing no damage.

William pulls out his Cutlass and runs up to one of the Guards, stabbing him and killing him instantly. Duros runs forwards to the guard Ragnar was attacking and swings his hammer, missing and hitting Ragnar instead, smashing into his arm doing almost no damage. Verona raises Little Timmy and pops one of the Guards heads clean off. Atom runs up as well, throwing a bomb and missing, hitting Ragnar instead, singing his legs. Pearl then runs up to the remaining two Guards and lets out her fire breath, one dodges out of the way and the other gets burnt, one tries to stab William and William just reacts by spinning and slicing his head clean off while the other goes to stab Ragnar, missing as Ragnar spins around and slices his head clean off with his axe, both of them doing this at similar times and finish by high-fiving,

Continuing ahead down the wing they notice two jail cells on either sides of the hallway, on the cell on the left is a man against a bench with pink hair that Pearl sees and immediately calls out as her brother. And as they notice this, they can see Not Steve on the other side in front of another cell which has less bars and appears to only have a door and a little hole to look inside of, meaning the crew can't see much, they watch as Not Steve unlocks the door and enters inside this cell, exiting soon after with a strong anger on his face. He says that its good to see you friends before William says that he'll stop him right there and activates his devil fruit, the number spins and it lands on 210, the poison ivy fruit, he has the ability to create and control poison ivy. Not Steve says that the man he was looking for wasn't there and he likes them but he needs someone to take his anger out on or else he'd have to do it to himself.

He pulls out a card and says that all that was left was this calling card, it is a little blue card with a key on it, William recognizes this and is just very surprised by this but doesn't have time to explain and as he thinks this Not Steve's Black Octopus comes off of him and morphs into this large black creature and sends these large black tentacles out and they wrap around William, constraining him and hurting him. He then stares down everyone else and behind this creature his octopus has now became, is Not Steve with his hair that was previously covering his face, now raising into the air and all they can see is white pupils. This strikes fear into Duros, Ragnar, Pearl and Atom, with Verona and William being the only ones who are able to resist this fear, causing the others to begin running away slightly. William summons poison ivy vines and summons them aiming towards Not Steve and it looks like they're out of control but luckily they go around the black tentacles and hits Not Steve, striking into him and doing poison damage as well. Atom, Pearl and Duros are all screaming and running away at this point. Verona pops another special bullet into his gun, not having wanted to use another one so soon but shoots it, striking directly into Not Steve's chest but he resists the banishing effect. As Verona does this, William notices that Not Steve dropped the calling card from before.

Ragnar is still running away but at this point scared of Not Steve after he just trusted him like a son. Not Steve turns and tightens the tentacle on William and does the same amount of damage to him from before, then sends out another tentacle towards Verona, wrapping around him and doing damage. William as these tentacles wrap around him, raises his hand out and shoots potion ivy forwards towards Not Steve, striking it across his face, poisoning him properly. William calls out to the rest of his crew who were scared and as Pearl hears William calling, she snaps out of it and turns 180, clawing into the tentacle around Verona, hitting it multiple times but fails to break through. Atom turns as well and says that if he's gonna do anything today, this is gonna be his moment, he throws one of his bombs towards the tentacle on William, weakening them by a lot and as this happens you can hear a cry of pain from the Octopus creature. Duros then goes to rally William, telling him he likes his fish and that is why he is the true captain for him, giving William what feels like temporarily life. Duros then runs forwards and runs to Verona and slams down onto the tentacle surrounding him, it weakens and another cry comes from the Octopus creature. Verona then attempts to escape from the tentacles but just barley fails as he tries to escape. Ragnar now very embarrassed from running away previously, rages and turns into his bear form, running forwards and slicing his claws across the tentacles on Verona, causing them to weaken a lot more, almost to the point where they'd be gone.

Not Steve then turns to William, saying that he is the captain and he knows how this thing works, if he kills the captain the rest of the crew will go running and then he says that William has been more a of nuisance than he thought he was going to be originally. He puts his hand out as he walks towards William and there's like this weird connection between him and the Octopus and one of the tentacles raises up and begins spinning like a drill, as she does this the tentacles around William begin holding him out as if they were trying to pull him apart, as this happens the drill begins to pierce Williams chest, causing blood to squirt everywhere and as Williams limbs begin getting pulled apart along with this drill, he falls unconscious and the last thing he sees is the fury in Not Steve's eyes. The rest of the crew see the tentacles drop William as Not Steve walks up to his body and cuts a piece of his skin off, sniffing it and then placing in inside some sort of book before turning to the rest of the crew and licking his lips. Pearl screams out as she sees William go down and calls Not Steve a monster as she runs forwards and digs her claws into him, unfazed by this. Atom also sends out one of his bomb, mad that Not Steve just did this to William and blows massive pieces of his skin but Not Steve seems unfazed by this all, despite the fact he is clearly damaged.

Duros now rushes towards Not Steve, screaming about how he has failed again, in his anger he goes to smash Not Steve with his warhammer and Not Steve ducks underneath of it and with too much power in his swing, he smashes it into Pearls face, knocking her back. Verona raises Little Timmy and says that he is going to hell today and fires off a bullet blowing a massive hole in his shoulder as Not Steve acts unfazed despite him being incredibly weak and injured. Ragnar then runs towards Not Steve as he sees Verona fire this bullet, Ragnar drops his axe and goes into a bear frenzy and grabs the back of his head, digging in his bear claws and ripping Not Steve in part as Ragnar says that was like the son he never had, as he rips into him. Not Steve says that that is quite impressive and asks if this is what it's like to die and Ragnar just punches him in the face again, causing him to fall to the ground dead. As they do this, the Black Octopus creature shrinks back making it's little noises and looks around before quickly darting away out of the prison.

Duros then goes over to William and brings out a med-kit, patching up his wound as best he can, allowing William to regain consciousness. As he wakes up William questions if they won, not wanting to know if they didn't and Verona tells William that he is in hell now and William looks over and sees Not Steve's body all mangled up but his face still there smiling. William wobbles over to the calling card and picks it up, placing it into his inventory. During this entire fight, Pearls brother Jasper hasn't noticed anything yet and has been sitting there blankly. Duros runs over saying that he is sorry he is so late but that he is here now, Pearl also runs up calling out to her brother, asking him what's wrong. As they do this, Jasper looks up and just looks dead in his eyes and he shakes his head and asks what is going on, he asks who is there and Duros and Pearl both introduce themselves and Jasper opens his eyes suddenly, noticing Pearl and calls her Pearly and notices Duros, saying that he thought he was dead. Looking around confused Jasper questions what is going on here and quickly stands up, seeing the chaos that has happened around him.

Story Impact

 * We get some information about something hinting at Williams backstory, a blue calling card being something he recognized.
 * We also find out that Ragnar's family may still be alive, most likely sold into the Grand-line as slaves.
 * We also finally meet Pearls Brother and Prince of the Tarako Kingdom, Jasper.

The Crew

 * William
 * Verona
 * Duros
 * Ragnar
 * Pearl
 * Gravy

Met

 * Four Random Tarako Prison Wall Guards
 * Four Random Tarako Prison Guards
 * Old Baker Man from Atlas

Mentioned

 * Jason Locksworth

Met

 * Fredrikson
 * Steve/Not Steve
 * Jasper

Mentioned

 * N/A

Quotes

 * "I am a Knight and I free your people, you have been enslaved far too long!" - Duros.