This has been floating around in my head for a while, but it just wouldn't come out. Then I started writing it in this style (which I got from the second chapter of Reda's fic My First, which can be found on my fav's list) and it started to flow. The first is 100 words, the second is 200, and the third is 300.

Also, I have read the Marineford arch, but it doesn't exist to me. It was all just a bad dream.

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece

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~Smoker~

At the age of 169 Captain Smoker had been promoted 14 times and retired 22 times. He still held his original office in Loguetown. He still had his first ship, though how it was still able to sail was anyone's guess.

He refused to accept any sort of promotion so the Navy moved the Captain rank higher until it was the highest rank, and he was the only one with that rank. He refused to stop fighting for Justice and everyone was too afraid of him to force him to stop, so he just kept doing what he did best.

~The Navy~

Smoker ruled the Navy, although everyone knew this except him. Most problems were handled through his subordinates (very few people dared to disturb him). However, on the few occasions that something needed his attention it would take a while to convince him to fix the problem ("Damnit, I don't have time for this! I'm pursuing Justice! Figure it out your own damn selves!"). He would eventually relent and use all his cunning wisdom and sense of Justice to solve the problem in a fair righteous manner ("Throw their ass in jail" or "So long has it doesn't kill any innocent civilians or defy Justice, they can do what ever the Hell they want to").

With Smoker single handedly running the Navy crime and violence in the East, West, North and South seas, as well as most of the Grand Line, had gone down to almost non-existent. The New World, and the parts of the Grand Line close to it were still fraught with pirates. Smoke left them alone, figuring that if they killed each other off, it was less work for Justice. That is not so say he was not happy and satisfied when he could royally kick pirate ass.

~Straw Hat Pirates~

If there was one constant in Smoker's life, it was that the Straw Hat pirates were a pain in his ass, even if they had now fallen into the category of friendly enemies.

The lines had started to blur after Smoker's first promotion party. He had saved a chain of islands from a threat, and Pirate King and his crew had helped him. The Navy had decided to throw him a party which Tashigi had dragged him to. That was when the saw the pirates, and Fire Fist. They'd dressed up in his uniform, dyed their hair white and went around telling everyone how they were his biggest fans. He had started to go after him when Tashigi had dragged him aside and told him, forcefully, that she would personally kick his ass if he ruined this party, and that he couldn't kick the pirates out, because they had helped him. Smoker grumbled, but did as told.

So came the tradition that the Straw Hats (and sometimes Fire Fist) would crash Smoker's retirement and promotion parties. Eventually it got to the point where the pirates did not even try to hide who they were, much to Smoker's annoyance.

Aside from being undeclared allies there was an unofficial war going on between Smoker, the Pirate King and Fire Fist. Smoker was determined not to die before either of them, not willing to leave the two most powerful pirates in charge. The King (and, as such, his crew) and First Fist refused to lose to Smoker.

There was a world wide betting pool on who would win (descendants could claim the prize if the persons who placed the bet died). The Straw Hat Navigator had bets on them all living forever, while the Historian guessed they'd all die at the same time.