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Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece, Victorious, or Saw (Goes into bedroom and sobs quietly)
Chapter One
Jade walked confidently down the streets of Readstown. She was a little confused as to why the city seemed empty, but that didn't bother her too much. She was sure she could handle any threat that came her way with her devil fruit, and besides, the lack of people would make getting supplies much easier and cheaper. She followed the street signs that pointed toward the market district, not even noticing when she passed the local Marine office. At least, she didn't until somebody called her attention to it. "Jade?" A familiar voice called out, incredulous.
"Vega?" Jade replied, whipping around. Sure enough, Vega Tori was chained to the front of the Marine office.
"What are you doing here?" Tori asked, confused. Jade raised an eyebrow and looked Tori up and down.
"I could ask you the same thing Vega." Jade said, deliberately avoiding the question. Tori was the daughter of a Marine captain, and Jade wasn't going to just admit to being a new pirate in front of her. Tori blushed and looked away.
"My dad went a little crazy. He's the one who chained me here." Jade made a disgusted face.
"I never liked your dad, but I didn't know he was into crap like that." She exclaimed. Tori blushed even fiercer and shook her head.
"No, no, nothing like that! Several of the local marines rebelled and some of the high profile civilians turned out to be members of Monkey D. Dragon's Revolutionary Army. My dad put the rebellion down, but then he declared martial law."
"Ok, but why did he chain you to the front of the Marine office?" Jade demanded, impatient and confused.
"To keep an eye on me." Tori growled. Jade's eyes widened in surprise. Tori was getting angry, which was a rather rare occurrence. "He doesn't trust anyone, which is why he's holed up in a mansion in the center of town where he can see everything instead of close to the docks. He chained me up with seastone because he doesn't want me to turn my devil fruit against him." Jade raised her eyebrow again. The last time Jade had seen Tori, the brunette didn't have a devil fruit. Jade thought it over, and then smirked. Understandably, this made Tori nervous. "What?"
"Where are the keys?" Jade asked.
"In the mansion. Why?" Tori asked warily. Jade gave her an exasperated look.
"Here's the deal. I'll go get the keys, and in exchange, you have to do me a favor."
"What kind of favor?" Tori asked, sounding scared. Jade rolled her eyes.
"Don't flatter yourself. If I get the keys and save you, then you have to join my pirate crew as my first mate." Tori looked at Jade in shock, making Jade roll her eyes again. "Why surprised? Did you really think that I had become a merchant or a Marine?" Tori frowned, and Jade sighed in exasperation, a feeling that Vega tended to bring about in her. "Do you really need to think this over?" Tori sighed and shook her head. Jade smirked. "Good. I'll be right back." Waving cheerfully, Jade set off for the center of the city. Jade chuckled to herself as she walked away. Meeting Vega had been a stroke of luck. She'd been worried that she'd be bored for most of her voyage, but having Vega along would always give her somebody to torment.
Suddenly, a bullet hit the ground in front of Jade. Her head snapped up and she looked around, jolted out of her thoughts. "Don't take another step!" The shooter yelled. Jade gave him a death glare, but she stopped walking. "Who are you?" He demanded. Jade smirked and pulled open her denim jacket. She'd lined the inside of her jacket with scissors, all of them extremely sharp.
"You really shouldn't threaten a devil fruit user." She told the man, pulling out a pair of scissors. Then she threw it at the man. "Scissor Bat!" The scissor took on a dark due and opened into an 'X', plunging into the man's stomach. Jade laughed as the scissors flew back to her. When they landed in her outstretched hand, the shadow leached out and the handles turned purple again. Jade frowned as she realized that this was the pair that Vega had given her as a farewell gift. Rolling her eyes, she continued on down the main street as though nothing had happened. The rest of her little trip passed without incidence, until Jade realized that she hadn't asked Vega where in the mansion the keys were. To be fair, she probably didn't know where they were, but Jade was still pissed off. Growling, Jade continued on, deciding to just fight her way through the mansion until she found the keys. If that patrolman she'd fought was any indication, she wouldn't have any real problems dealing with the soldiers.
Jade came to a dead stop in the middle of the street, stunned. "No way…" She muttered stunned by the sheer stupidity she saw in front of her. In front of her was a massive mansion, painted salmon of all colors, with a blue tiled roof. Jade had never seen a gaudier building in her life. There were several dozen large glass windows, and the fence offered no real protection or security benefits, it just looked slightly intimidating and vaguely artistic. And it was made all the worse by the fact that Vega's father, a career military man, a veteran of over twenty years, had chosen it as his center of operations. "Vega was right." Jade mused, walking towards the disgusting building. "Her dad is out of his mind." To her surprise, the front gate was actually locked. "Well, at least he's intelligent enough to lock the gate." She said to nobody in particular. "Not that it'll help him much." She continued, extending a hand. "Shadow Needle!" A small, thin tendril of shadow extended from her palm and stabbed through the padlock, breaking it in half vertically. Jade smirked and pulled off the chains, then pushed the gate open and continued on her way.
To Jade's disgust; there weren't any guards outside the front doors. She didn't mind doing things the easy way, but this was insulting. She had never been fond of Vega's dad, but he'd always come off as an intelligent man to her. Suddenly, two marines stood up from the bushes in front of the door, one on either side of her, their guns trained on her. "What are you doing here?" the one on her right demanded.
"I'm here to see Captain Vega." Jade said, careful to keep her voice calm yet scared, rather than confident.
"Well you came at the wrong time." The Marine on her left said. "He's on his daily patrol of the city."
"Oh." Jade said, trying to sound disappointed. "I'll just have to come back later then."
"Wait a minute." The Marine on her right said suspiciously. "Captain Vega has been doing his patrols at the same time for the past month. How do you not know that? Where are you from?" Jade winced, and then growled as the implications of what the man had said hit her. Tori had been chained there for a month, at least. She stopped for a second, wondering why she was so angry about that, then shrugged it off.
"Oh, here and there." She said casually, unsnapping her red plaid flannel shirt and pulling out two pairs of scissors from their pockets.
"Don't move!" The Marine on her right yelled. Jade smirked and shook her head.
"No can do. Scissor Bats!" She threw both scissors at the men. One flew into the stomach of the Marine on her right, while the other stabbed the Marine to her left's wrist. She turned and grabbed him as he fell, the rifle dropping from his hands. "Now then, do you want me to let you two treat your wounds?" Jade growled, looking him in the eyes. The man nodded frantically, and Jade smirked. "Good. All you have to do is answer my question and I'll leave you two alone. Do you understand?" He nodded again. "Alright then-where are the keys to Vega Tori's chains?"
"They're in the captain's office, in his desk, the top drawer!" The man yelled, terrified. Jade shook him, angry.
"Do you think I know where that is?" She demanded. "I need directions."
"Go up the main staircase, it's the first door on your right." He said quickly. "It used to be the master bedroom."
"Thanks." Jade said, dropping him. She turned and opened the door, then extended her hands, calling the scissors back to her. Unsurprisingly, there weren't any Marines in the rest of the house, as far as she could tell. This far away from the Grand Line, with the only real threat chained up, Captain Vega probably felt that only two guards were necessary. The other Marines in his command were probably out on patrol with him. Still, she kept an eye out, just in case he had left any other guards. There was no point in getting ambushed just because she got cocky and lazy. She walked into the office, and headed towards the desk. She wrenched the drawer open and grabbed the keys, then turned around, and ran out of the building. She needed to get back to Vega and get out of her. Knowing Vega, she'd want to beat her dad to save the townspeople, and Jade didn't want to deal with fighting a Marine officer. Even if they weren't on the Grand Line, Marine officers still had some level of skill, and Jade was feeling lazy today. "Hey, Vega!" Jade called, smirking and waving the keys around on her finger. "Look what I found!" Tori's head snapped up, and the brunette smiled.
"Thanks Jade." She said sounding relieved as Jade unlocked the chains. Jade rolled her eyes, and crouched down to unlock the shackles around Tori's feet.
"Whatever Vega, just remember that I'm doing this for me. You're my first mate now." Tori rolled her eyes and rubbed her wrists, trying to get the circulation going again.
"I know." She said, bending down to massage her ankles. Jade stood there impatiently, rocking back and forth on her heels.
"Can we get a move on now Vega?" She sighed, looking around. Tori rolled her eyes again, and then nodded.
"Yeah, I'm ready."
"I'm thrilled." Jade said sarcastically, already walking down the street. Tori sighed in exasperation, and then followed her new captain.
"So what's the plan?" She asked Jade, rushing to keep up.
"We get on my dinghy and we move on to the next island. We'll have to move quickly though, because I'm running low on supplies. I was going to get some here, but your dad put the kibosh on that plan." To Tori's annoyance, she said that last part as though it was Tori's fault her dad had gone off the deep end. She didn't say anything though, knowing that it was just Jade being Jade and that she'd have to get used to it.
"No, I meant after this island. Do you want to stay in the South Blue, Do you want to try and become a Warlord, what's the plan here?"
"One Piece." Jade said simply. Tori stopped and stared at the goth girl, not sure that she had heard right.
"E…excuse me? Did you say One Piece?" Jade shook her head.
"Vega, we've known each other since we were both five. That's twelve years now. Have you ever known me to aim low?"
"Well, no." Tori admitted. "But still, going after the One Piece is pretty big, even for you." Jade shrugged.
"Gold Roger was the Pirate King. I'd say it's about time we had a Pirate Queen. Besides, what's the point in being a pirate if you're not going to dream big? It's not like being a pirate is easy or anything." Tori nodded, realizing that Jade had a point, and began walking after her again.
"So are we just going to head straight for the Grand Line?" Tori asked. Jade shook her head.
"We're going to have to stop, and not just for supplies. We need a decent ship, and I'd like to have three more crewmembers by the time we enter the Grand Line."
"Why three?" Tori asked, cocking her head to the side. Jade shrugged.
"Well, two girls probably won't get very far without being harassed constantly, and there'll be times when we'll face too many people for just two, no matter how strong we are. Besides, at the very least we'll need a navigator and a chef by the time we reach the Grand Line." Tori stared at Jade again.
"You can't navigate or cook?" Jade shrugged.
"I can navigate well enough within the South Blue, but something tells me that the Grand Line won't be so easy. And you know that I can't cook."
"Well, I knew that you couldn't before you left, but I assumed that you had learned since then. What do you eat?"
"Fruit, jerky, precooked meat, coffee. Nothing fancy. But that's not going to cut it when we get more people. By the way Vega, I'm surprised at you."
"Why?" Tori asked, frowning in confusion.
"I was sure that you'd want to fight your father, if only to save the townspeople from him." Tori shrugged.
"I didn't think I needed to bring it up. After all, you've always been pretty violent, and we're headed right for him." Jade stopped in her tracks.
"Excuse me?" She growled, whirling around to face Tori.
"My dad always patrols around the docks this time of day. I thought you knew that. I wouldn't have sent you off to the mansion if I didn't know that he wasn't there." Jade resisted the urge to grab Tori by the throat and shake her.
"How would I know where your dad normally is this time of day Vega? I just got here!" Tori shrugged helplessly.
"I just assumed that you interrogated some of his men at the mansion." Jade growled and ran a hand through her hair. After thinking it over for a few seconds though, she decided to just go with it. It would take too much time to try and get around the Marines, and besides, it would be a good way for her to judge Vega's fighting skill.
"Fine. But you better carry your weight when we start fighting." Tori nodded.
"Don't worry, about me. It took ten Marines and my dad to tie me up, and they had to do it when I was asleep." Jade raised an eyebrow. Did Vega really think that made her confident in the tan girl's fighting skill? All that told her was that the Marines were intimidated by a Devil Fruit user, which wasn't surprising seeing as they weren't on the Grand Line. "Here they come." Tori said, coming to a stop. Jade frowned. She couldn't hear or see anything.
"How do you know?" Tori pointed at a flower box full of red roses in front of them.
"They told me." Jade stared at her in confusion.
"The flowers told you that the Marines were coming?" She asked, looking for clarification. Tori nodded as if there was nothing strange about this. "I swear Vega, if your Devil Fruit power is just talking to plants; I'm going to throw you in the sea once we get out of here." Tori smiled, completely unfazed by Jade's threat.
"Don't worry, I can do a lot more than talk to plants." Jade grunted, unconvinced. Suddenly, thirty Marines came running up the road, with Tori's dad in the lead, holding a den-den mushi. Jade grinned, taking a step forward.
"I call your dad; you take care of the grunts." She said, looking at Tori over her shoulder.
"Excuse me?" Tori exclaimed. "What if I wanted to beat him up? He's the reason I was tied up back there!" Jade shrugged, smirking.
"Too bad. I'm your captain now, so I get the big target. Plus, beating up a Marine officer will help me get a bounty faster."
"Having a bounty isn't a good thing you know." Tori told her.
"It is for me. Nobody will take me seriously as the Pirate Queen if I'm some nobody. Besides, bounties are a good way to judge how dangerous we are." The Marines came to a halt just as she was saying this, their rifles pointed straight at the two girls.
"West C. Jade." Captain Vega said, calmly placing a hand on the hilt of his katana. "You do realize that releasing a Marine prisoner is a crime, don't you?"
"Yes, I do know that, Captain." Jade replied, just as calmly.
"Then why did you assault my new headquarters and release my daughter from her chains? I chained her up for a reason."
"Yeah, because you're a paranoid asshole." Jade responded. Tori looked at her, surprised by the hint of anger in the goth girl's voice. "And I unlocked her because that's something that a pirate should do." Tori's father tightened his grip on the hilt of his katana at this.
"You do realize that you just admitted to releasing a Marine prisoner and to being a pirate in front of thirty Marines, don't you young lady?" He asked, pocketing the den-den mushi.
"No shit." Jade said, the smirk coming back to her face. "What are you going to do about it?" Captain Vega looked at his Marines, taking a step back.
"Fire." He said calmly. Instantly, the Marines in the front row pulled back the hammers on their muskets. Tori responded just as quickly, running towards the Marines, her arms outstretched.
"Rose Scythe!" Jade's eyes widened in surprise as long rose vines extended from Tori's fingers, slamming into the Marines. Her eyes narrowed a second later as she saw Captain Vega running towards Tori, his katana drawn.
"Oh, no you don't!" She growled, running towards him. She drew back her arm and punched him in the face. It didn't affect him too badly, but he did come to a stop, and then turned to glare at her.
"Do you really want to go down this road?" He asked Jade, cocking his head to the side. Jade rolled her eyes, looking at where Tori was dealing with the grunts. She'd have to ask Tori what her Devil Fruit was, because the rose vines were pretty interesting.
"Isn't that obvious?" Captain Vega simply growled then raised his katana to cut her down. Jade grinned, raising her arm to block the oncoming attack. Right as the blade was about to touch her arm, shadows gathered around her arm, forming a tight glove.
"Night Armor." Jade said simply in response to his bewildered glance. She smirked. "Did you think that your daughter was the only Devil Fruit user in the South Blue or something?" She drew her arm back again. "My turn-Shadow Hammer!" She delivered a devastating uppercut to his jaw with her shadow reinforced arm, flooring him. Jade turned to face Tori, who had finished off the last of the Marines. "Damn Vega, you weren't kidding when you said you could fight." Seeing Tori grin at the compliment, Jade quickly added "Of course these guys couldn't fight worth shit. Things better get tougher as we go on." Tori's smile left just as quickly as it came, and she turned to face Jade, pouting.
"Would it kill you to just compliment me once in a while?" She demanded. Jade shrugged.
"You never know, it might. Best not to risk it." She walked over to Captain Vega, who was struggling to get up, and kicked him in the head, knocking him unconscious. Despite the things that he'd done to her, Tori couldn't help but wince at this. Jade took the den-den mushi from his pocket, and then turned to face Tori. "Well? Let's get a move on Vega before the other Marines in his command show up to see what happened." She abruptly turned around and began walking towards the docks, with Tori following.
One week later:
Major Oliver K. Beck sighed as he read the latest reports. As the Marine officer in charge of the base in Knoxtown, the last island in the South Blue before the Grand Line, he received regular reports from the various Marines stationed throughout the area, letting him know who and what might be headed his way. And he really didn't like this latest report. It might have come from the sticks of the South Blue, and Captain Vega had really grown sloppy in terms of keeping his men in fighting shape over the years, but this still wasn't a good thing. It was made all the worse by the fact that Jade and Tori were the ones who had committed the crime. "Is something wrong Major?" His subordinate, Amanda, asked, sticking her head into the office. Beck shook his head.
"It's nothing serious Amanda, don't worry about it." She nodded, and then backed out of the office, a concerned look still on her face. Beck shook his head, not sure whether to be annoyed or touched at her concern. With another sigh, he put the report concerning Jade and Tori in the top drawer of his desk and turned back to his reports.
Author's notes.
Hey guys, thanks for reading! Please review! I'm just going to clarify a few things here in this section that I either didn't want to bring up in the story because it would have been too clunky, or that I couldn't due to the nature of this story.
First off, this is my preferred style of crossover. All the characters featured in this story were born in the world of One Piece, which is why Tori and Jade can fight so well.
Feel free to suggest characters for me to include, just know that I do have most of Jade's crew already picked out, so if you do recommend a character then they'll probably be a villain. Also, if a character has powers in the source material, they have to make sense within the rules of One Piece. If you can't justify it with a Devil Fruit, or technology, I won't include it. So no Superman, Dragonball, Harry Potter, Avatar, just to name a few.
A description of the main characters that have been introduced so far: Tori looks pretty much exactly like she does in the show-long brown hair, jeans, light blue shirt, brown leather jacket. Jade looks like she does in season 1-long brown hair with reddish blond highlights, torn faded jeans, black t-shirt, red plaid flannel button up shirt. Beck-standard Marine uniform, fluffy black hair. Amanda-Jeans, teal shirt, Marine jacket, pixy cut brown hair, multiple pistols.
Yes, I gave Jade the Shadow Shadow Devil Fruit that Moria has. Don't worry, this will be the only time that I give a crossover character an established Devil Fruit, and I have given Moria a replacement Devil Fruit that will allow him to do the same basic stuff. I will explain it better when he shows up in the story.
Finally, for those of you who were wondering why I felt the need to say that I don't own Saw, Amanda (Beck's subordinate and second in command) is Jigsaw's apprentice from Saw 1-3. I'll go into more detail regarding her and Beck as they become more important in the story. Also, Jade and Tori are 17, Beck is 21, and Amanda is 26.