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Marineford is the main headquarters of the Marines. It is where Fleet Admiral Sengoku and the three Admirals reside, along with many Vice Admirals and lower officers when they aren't assigned to another base. The Marine HQ is one of the three great powers, alongside the Shichibukai and the Yonkou. It is situated near the Sabaody Archipelago, and lies directly next to Mariejois on the Red Line. The only safe way to reach here is through the Gates of Justice.

As the gates to HQ parted open for a familiar set of colors, Myra watched with familiarity as they entered the base. "Now what do those old geezers want now?"
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"Captain Olejo," spoke the Fleet Admiral, "Good to see you."

"Likewise."

They were seperated by a paper door, inked with beautiful caligraphy. As Myra stood on one side, the Fleet Admiral stood on the other. A pair of guards stood watch on either side of Myra as they spoke.

"Have you seen the recent news?" Myra's eyebrow raised at this.

"News?"

"Yes. Regrettably, it has been found that the CP9, I'm sure you're familiar," Myra nodded to this, "Have been found guilty of treason by their captain." This made Myra's eyes widen. Treason?

"Why treason sir?"

"That is irrelevant," he snapped, "However, the abilities of the said assassins have been found too dangerous for further use. Therefore, we have chosen to ban the use of Rokushiki."

Myra listened gravely. He seemed snappy at her simple question, and even more grave with the new laws.

"I suppose I'll just do without it," she shrugged. "Well if that's all-"

"I'm afraid you won't be leaving."

Suddenly, Myra was knocked to the ground. Gasping as the breath was knocked out of her, she made to get up, only to be stopped by the guard's swords.

"Any and all," the Admiral continued coldly, "Of those with the abilities of Rokushiki have been found as a threat. So from now on, you're to be imprisoned here indefinitely." Myra wheezed angrily from her place on the ground.

"So Munsehr-"

"Will suffer the same fate." The Admiral continued. "He's to arrive shortly after you...and when he does arrive, we'll see to it that he shares an adjacent cell."

"You-"

Myra was cut off as one of the guards knocked her out. As darkness swallowed her vision, she wished that somehow, somehow...she could do something...

((Turner will bust you guys out! scream ))

Johann nodded. "He did in fact warn me, but had I disobeyed I would have had the entirety of the Marines at my throat. Now I am safely out of the picture, and can escape with no trouble. You there! Guard!"

The guard perked up and walked over. "Yes?"

"What is your rank, Marine?"

The guard saluted. "Ensign Banmung, sir. Only... Plese don't tell the boss that I saluted you. You're supposed to be prisoners."

Johann's oversized scalpel was at the man's throat, pushing him up against the far wall before the man could blink. Johann's face-splitting grin was back. "Let me put it this way, Ensign. While Sengoku-chan may be your superior officer, he can't visit a retribution as immediate as I can should you fail to release these doors for both myself and the good Captain here." He waited, and was unpleasantly surprised when the guard sneered and slit his own throat. There was another sensation that his body had gone plip, and by the look on Myra's face she'd felt it, too. His surroundings this time were a bit more relaxed, though as compared to the ones they'd found themselves in previously this wasn't a major achievement. In this case, they were within what looked like a solid steel box with a single line of holes across the ceiling for air exchange. The room was well-lit, and a table was set in front of them with a small sushi selection. Before them was the sitting form of Kurobachi, one of the three Admirals. Johann's mouth fell open, and he started to voice a question when Kurobachi held up a silencing finger. "Hello, Commodores. Stay calm, please. All will be explained in time."

Kurobachi smiled. "Commodore, and yes, I am quite serious about that title, you have no idea how many problems you have caused me. However, the explanation will have to wait, as it seems that your fellow inmate is about to burst. You can ask your question now, Munsehr." Johann opened his mouth, then shut it, considering something. "I merely wish to know, Admiral, why it is that you have chosen to bring miss Olejo into this as well. I believe I made it quite clear when you approached me that I would only join under a proviso that allowed my former friends and comrades to be left well out of it." Kurobachi nodded, and touched the table. There was a brief moment where it seemed as if the table had gone plip, and it crumbled to dust. "I do hate those tables. They're entirely too high up. As for your question, Munsehr, you were incarcerated. We couldn't very well break you out with my ability without Olejo noticing your sudden disappearance. Plus the plip feeling that people tell me occurs when I pause their personal time is extremely difficult to explain away." Johann nodded, then tapped what was left of the table in an extremely quick pattern. Kurobachi rapped out a woodpecker's tattoo on the floor, then they both nodded. "I think we can agree on that point, if on nothing else."

"True. Her skills will be useful in the rebellion."

((SHOCK POINT! surprised )

Johann started to speak, but Kurobachi held up a hand. "Please, allow me." He turned to Myra. "Even within the Marines there are those who see the irrationality of the actions of the World Government. Those higher up on the chain in particular see more things that make no sense. So we who see the chaos have decided to quietly affect a change in positioning. The Marines have grown too large, too powerful, and entirely too corrupted at the higher levels, licensing the Shichibukai and Yonkou, and creating the Supernovas." Johann spoke the last bit of the explanation, spoken in a voice that suggested it was more of a memorized litany. "We believe it is time the Marines and World Government were eliminated." He saw the look on Myra's face, and felt a bit of an explanation was in order. "I joined something like ten years ago. Kurobachi-san was just starting out as a fledgling revolutionary, and I provided some... assistance in his instruction on the subject of living outside the law. If you feel that you wish to join, we can assist. IF you don't, you'll never hear from us again." And then, because there are conventions stronger than mere physics, the remains of the table collapsed further in on themselves, releasing a wisp of smoke.

Kurobachi and Johann spoke at the same time. "Missing?" They looked at each other and exchanged smirks. "I'll let you explain." Kurobachi nodded. "You won't be noticed as missing because, in matter of fact, you aren't missing. Those who join us do not give up their old identities like Dragon's men, but instead continue their old lives as if nothing had changed. My abilities allow me to place this room outside Time for limited periods of relativistic temporal passage. It helps to think of Time as a river and this room as a mangrove thicket. You'll be returned to your cells once this conversation concludes, and I've no doubt that with your current abilities that you'll be able to escape. Unfortunately, that's all the time I can create, so we'll have to end here. Goodbye, Commodore Olejo, and goodbye 8-1, Arzt-Krieger." There was a sensation that their bodies had gone plip, and they were sitting in their cells again, the man that had slit his throat still falling to the ground.

Johann shrugged. "I still have my scalpel-spear, but they've taken everything else of mine. No equipment means no medical aid, and the fact that we're in separate cells doesn't help, you know. If I had learned how to use the other Rokushiki techniques at the same time as Tekkai Kenpo I could break us out of here, but Jyabura-dono never showed me that part of his technique."