Title: Screwed, Blued and Tattooed: A Walmart Story 4/?
Author: chibichibi_k
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece, the wonderful Oda does.
Notes: None
Summary: A/U “Good morning shoppers and welcome to Walmart!” One Piece characters working at Walmart... How bad could it be?
Part One: Screwed Part Two: Morning Meeting Part Three: Tossed Four
“Yahoo!”
The deafening yell could be heard throughout the store as the raven haired associate, the same young teen that had crashed into the skid, tore through the aisles on the way to his department. He ran quickly and uncaringly through the store and several customers as well as associates had to dive out of the way, lest they be run over. A majority of the associates on the floor steered clear of the young teen’s path used to the daily chaos that the raven haired teen usually caused. Most of the employees found him humorous while others plotted their revenge against him, which usually ended up with multiple attempts on the young associate’s life but he always came out of their plots unscathed.
Luffy continued to dash through aisles and customers but as he screeched around a corner someone grabbed him by the back of his vest, abruptly halting his progress and cutting off his air supply by the force of his sudden stop. He flailed comically until he realised that he was getting nowhere. He pouted and turned his head to find out who is unexpected captor was and came face to nose with Buggy.
“Ack! Oh, it’s just you, Buddzy.”
“IT’S BUGGY,” the assistant manager roared at the young associate.
“Right... Let me go.”
“No. Now listen hear, Mugiwara,” Buggy practically growled. “We had a huge shipment last night and I need you to deal with ALL of it before your department manager gets in.”
Luffy cocked his head then smiled widely. “That’ll be easy. What time is he in?” He figured that the old smoky wouldn’t be in until later if Buggy was telling him to do it.
Buggy smile wickedly as he casually checked the time on his watch. “Oh... He should be in, in about forty-five minutes. Better get to it. I wasn’t flashily joking when I said it was a LARGE shipment.”
Luffy nodded his head, barely listening as Buggy spoke. “Uh huh, forty-five minutes... I can do - Wait! Forty-five minutes!!” He turned wide eyes on Buggy, hoping the assistant manager was kidding.
“Yup, forty-five minutes. Better get to it flashily.”
Luffy went to sprint down the aisle towards his area, determined to see how much there truly was. He didn’t move even an inch since Buggy was still holding him by the collar of his vest. “Do you mind?”
“Hm...?”
“I can’t work if you don’t let me go,” Luffy gestured to Buggy’s grip on his vest.
Buggy pretended to look surprised but it came off more as manic glee. “Right,” he drawled slowly and let go of the raven haired associate, his left hand floating back to reattach to his left forearm.
Once freed from Buggy’s clutches, Luffy took off. “See you later, Big Nose” he called out before stretching his arms to grab a nearby display and then catapulting over it, leaving an utterly shocked and fuming assistant manager behind.
Luffy flew through the air and over three other departments before crash landing into the middle of his. After pulling himself out of his self made crater, he took in the sight of dozens upon dozens of boxes and crates of stock that needed to be shelved or put in the coolers.
“Yosh” Luffy cheered at the sight of all that food. Rubbing his hands back and forth with a huge smile on his face he couldn’t help but bounce in excitement. “Alright, time to eat!!”
TBC.