A Day Later.
The Crew was throughout the ship doing a variety of things. Calliope was in the Workshop working on the Iron Maiden Suit. She wanted to try and either make it larger or slimmer. "Loy has that Gear Second and Third…." She bit her thumb
"Maybe I should try that…" Currently the Armor was stripped down to its endo-exoskeleton. The legs had bars and braces around, a joint piston like a trains at the knee and at the sides, there was also hinges that were circular on the sides of the knees
A simple foot brace was on one, the other was the same even despite that it would used by her prosthetic. A large ratchet-like twisting mechanism was around the hips. Then there was hole punched pieces of metal that served as Lattices and structural support. The arms were the same as the legs, but much how the suit grew her height, the arms were proportional. Her full forearm didnt extend to the end, instead a secondary hand on the inside acted like a puppet string to control the digits. This was incase she ever lose the ability to use her Devil Fruit powers for whatever reason
She took a step back and looked over the fool exoskeleton imagining her Mind's Eye a vague image of what exactly she wanted to do with the rest of the machinery she was great at putting things together coming up with ideas of how to create new objects
but she was no Winslow he was able to build things like no other she was a shit right he was an engineer she could see a ship inside and out and know how everything works but Cali? her main thing was ideas and implementation.
not complex architecture that's why she left the inside for Winslow while she constructed the outside of the ship
but that did make her think maybe she did need a little bit more education… it wouldn't hurt too bad to maybe automate some of this machinery and have it work not just with her devil fruit power but actually be a functional piece of machinery.
but that was advanced that was far more advanced and even her or Jeanne Could do. to think this entire ship was the culmination of dozens of Mines from across that section of the grand line and Winslow calling in favor after favor of scientist after scientists different Engineers the internet and made connections and networks with all to come together and make all of the Machinery that was on full display here
Calliope envied in part, after all why would she Envy herself whenever she was the one that put most of the ship together. but it was a smaller details the machines the engineering the elevator the cannon and the Crow's Nest. those were all based off of her rough blueprints, but they're nothing more than sketches nothing about itemized lists of materials needed or how it would functionally work wait capacity of cables winch links and how much energy a motor would need or how fast that motor would need to rotate something to lift up an elevator or how much munition was needed, or how a magazine capacity on such a large scale could work would be Springfield piston fed, all she Drew was a cannon it was detailed and had a rough idea that bullets were underneath of it.
she raised her metal arm and looked it over looking from her Palm to the back of her hand it began to close slightly a small Sparks animated and attracted pieces of metal together they floated an orbit around each other like small planets or asteroids surrounding a planet to form a ring
she crushed the metal together into a ball. she could always do that just make something a rough amalgamation of metal and force it to work…
she then forced it apart the metal flattening out and taking its proper shape again.
But she enjoyed making things with proper shape and form with an idea behind them she slowly turned her wrists and allow the metal to wander around her fingers like a snake slithering through gaps in the digits slowly the screws and the metal came into place and the little rods were bents others were connected and some were put in place at just the right angle until she was left with a proper Construction
It was a simple almost origami like bird simple metal wire legs but it's torso in head where screws that were put into nuts that then connected into pipes that it could be screwed into intersectioning pieces of metal that could have other pieces go into them. she tried not to bend as much as she could out of shape she wanted to use the shape and create into something new. but like anything good you do have to shift it's form to fit into place but the final result was far better than any bird that was just a mess of metal
she needed books..
she scuffed and rolled her eyes at that very notion rubbing on her forehead she was a punk damn it! but she need a reading for… but for Winslow's sake… she thought she needed to be better than just staying stagnant…
The past 19 days had been rather tense yet boring they were having the usual troubles with the weather going from nice sunny clear one day and then the next having pretty turbulent waves while still being bright in the middle of the noon
the events of Barbary had left them startled. no not just startled, scared downright terrified all of them in some way shape or form, had a lingering sense of worry, caution, and trepidation for the events to come
Barbary had said that he was falling behind all the other Marshalls and yet it took all of them working together to defeat him even if they hadn't gone through the entire Gauntlet he had set up they still would have struggled tooth and nail and barely scraped by.
just how strong did the Marshalls truly get. how strong were the emperors? the Admirals?
To think they were starting just the truly understand how big the world really was and then that comes and happens and they realize that maybe they aren't ready. but in the crews mind, even if they weren't ready, they'd still have each other. and these islands just before the New World where they would launch off from. maybe there is where they could grow or train…
suddenly the silence that was the calm on the ship was abruptly shaken as a cannonball whiz straight over the horizon and slam straight into the water at the port side of the Ember blossom!
over the intercom Jeanne suddenly Screamed!
"Marines! Incoming!"