Grana looked at the Marine ships as he floated in the air for a second, gravity taking a bit to catch up with him as he rocketed out from an invisible portal with the same speed he had going in. He grinned at what he saw, just as a few Marines began to take aim at him with blunderbusses. Grana sighed as he once more fell into the same portal and appeared in a different place, behind the Marines. As he flew out the portal backwards, Grana wound up with his blades and delivered two simultaneous chops with the backs of the blades, knocking out the Marines. "Captain! There's a better plan!" Grana appeared next to Peter, Sammi, and Jacque. "Each of us has to run away from here in opposite directions and draw as much Marine attention as possible. Look!" Grana pointed to the Marine boats forming the blockade. Every last one of them was sending in Marines, presumably to calm down the rioting pirates. "The more trouble we stir up, the more Marines they have to send out. Fewer Marines mean fewer people to command the boats and man the cannons. Spreading out ensures they can't overcome us with numbers, and have to divide their forces to take us down. Just groups of two to make sure no one gets taken out by a sneak attack. Captain, you and Hootingham will go together, to cover each other from attacks from earth and sky, respectively. Captain, your skills are likely to cause confusion, which is even better. I'll go with Sammi for the same reason- it's easy to knock a man out when he's wondering how on earth that white-clad human is everywhere at once."
Grana grinned. "The more hunters we take out, the more the pirates can focus on the Marines. If we do this far away from the boat, every Marine will zero in where they think we are. Destroy the Den Den Mushis, and they can't do that. We keep this up for a bit, the Marines will all be on land, and few will be able to do anything about us escaping." Grana turned around and hacked at the Marine trying to sneak up behind him. He quickly turned back, his blades still unbloodied. "It doesn't matter if we leave for a bit- there are so many small time pirates here, the Marines could arrest all of them for weeks and still not be done. We have to draw them away if we want to escape. Basically," Grana smiled at the challenge, "Keep moving. Don't stop unless it's for one of us. If you can't beat someone, don't stop and fight- run and force him to fight where you want. A few minutes of this should be enough to ensure a clean sea."