Project Virtus...
Government sanctioned experiment to create the perfect non-devil fruit Super soldier.
Overseen by doctor Vegapunk and Doctor banner.
Through this experiment we have been able to tap into the radiation that the devil fruits use to change the human body for it to access these abilities. Doctor Banner's fruit Unfortunatly had an unlikely mutation due to meeting said radiation. His fruit gained life, now banner suffers from split personality syndrome with a Rage monster we now dub the Hulk. Banner fled and went into hiding and is now a wanted criminal.
We believe it is possible for these Radiation to be used in many ways, one in to change a human's body to grow stronger faster, have it adapt rapidly to different environments and possibly heal quicker. But after thousands of attempts, we have had no long-term success.
Most test subjects have either lost their humanity, become horribly mutated or just died. Doctor Vegapunk believes we should shut it down, and to his knowledge we have. But we have one more test that we have run.
We have introduced the sample to a female egg inside a living breathing woman, after this we fertilised this egg using sperm from some high ranking marine and we waited. We kept the female in a holding cell for the 9 months but her will remained strong, and she refused to give birth.
At 10 months she escaped... Luckily for us, in her weekend state her will broke and she gave birth before she left the facility. We named the baby Virtus, after the deity which represents Martial courage and military might as well as honour and justice. One of the scientists branded the abnormally quiet and intelligent child with the name in its right forearm, as a precaution in case it was to escape. We kept the child with its mother for now, going in once a day to run tests. So far, the child has been known to resist a few poisons and sleeping drugs seem to have no effect on him.
Since we created the sample based from radiation emitted via devil fruits, not just one but many, we held an experiment to see what effects sea water, sea prism stone and haki had on the child... He could easily swim in water, he seemed almost if it was natural to him. However, sea prism stone seamed to weaken the child. We lined the child's cell with sea prism stone as a precaution.
... One year later...
We lost him... Project Virtus is lost, doctor Vegapunk found out about the child after he escaped, we almost lost the Doctors trust...
The mother of the child assaulted the guards and escaped on a random pirate ship that passed by the test facility, we dont know what ship nor do we know where it was heading. We dont even know the status of the subject's condition, all we know is we may have lost a great weapon... Possibly one on par with the ancient weapons.
New p.o.v.
So youre the one whos been selected to carry my name huh?
Whos there? I think to myself... I dont remember much, just closing my eyes after a long day of work.
I am the Deity known as Virtus, you boy have been picked to carry my name in this new world. Unfortunatly that meant that you had to die but oh well, you've tried to kill yourself anyway.
WHAT THE HELL! Great just when I was starting to enjoy life!
Anyway kid, your new name is Virtus. If thats too much you can always be known as something else, like Virgil or something. You'll need to change it eventually, when you hit one years of age you will break out of the testing facility youre in now and be wanted for the rest of your life.
What is happening.
You are the only successful test of using radiation found from devil fruits to augment a human to create a super soldier. Your body is now naturally as strong as steel, you can process your thoughts much faster than any normal human, you have incredible strength and you can adapt to any environment extremely quickly. If you encounter radiation your body will adapt and become stronger, you could mutate and even gain supernatural powers. Well maybe not supernatural powers just something like laser eyes, or I dont know heal incredibly fast. And even though im not entirely sure, I dont see why it wouldnt be impossible for you to maybe copy a devil fruit or maybe absorb some of one's properties without gaining that inability to swim.
Just think of it this way, youre like superman but you gain your powers through radiation so like the fallout perks. The radiation originates from devil fruits, so there will be lots of radiation from devil fruits themselves as well as battle fields after a devil fruit user fights. Not really Zoan users but mainly logia users.
Okaay~ So basically im a superhero or something... Wait hold on, devil fruits? Fuck im in one piece... That could be fun... What could my goal be, I aint gonna follow Luffy around like a lost puppy. I mean sure I could, it will give me a good few fights and I will get to encounter devil fruit users and radiation... I'll need to think about it.
My lord Virtus! I would like to thank you for allowing me to be the carrier of your name in this world! I shall do my best to not tarnish youre name! In my mind I am bowing low to the invisible form of the godly being around me, but I dont exactly have a body so thats not exactly happening.
Go forth my son, train your body with your new powers. Carry yourself forward and do me proud, be as brave as your name suggests and most importantly... Have fun my young demi-god, if you do my proud I shall gift you with anything you desire... If it's in my power to do so.
And with that everything brightens up, I finally come to and see that I am being carried around by a giant of a woman. Or maybe im just tiny... Yeah, I am, im a baby or an infant... She's pretty, she has beautiful brown locks of hair. Her eyes purple and glistening in the moon light around us. She's shaking, weather from fear, the cold or the freshly flowing tears from her eyes I do not know... But somehow, I know this woman gave birth to me, she's protecting me... And she's dying.
"Ma...Mama..." I coo with my baby voice; my underdeveloped vocal cords find it difficult to form the words I know how to speak. They have get to develop the muscle memory to speak them, but my mind races with things to say to this woman before me. My heart aches for her, I dont want her to die, I want to thank her for saving me from the place my mind is now only remembering... I want to thank her for everything, I want to get to know her better, I want to know her name. I cry for her, I havent cried in three years but I cry for this woman that I dont even know.
"Shhh, it's okay mamas here my cute little boy. I wish you looked more like me, but I guess that can't be helped, at least you have my eyes." she smiles to herself, only to be interrupted by a coughing fit, blood and spittle covers my little face. Worry wells up in my chest, I want to take care of this woman, I just can't. I can barely control my limbs which refuse to listen to my brain. "I wish I could get you somewhere safe, I just hope these pirates won't corrupt you. I have no problem with pirates but these men arent proper pirates, real ones are only in it for adventure, not for the money and for raping and pillaging. Bastards... Virtus, god I hate that name... Promise me my son, that you will never rape... Promise me you will do what you think is right, what is just. You can be a marine, you can be a pirate you could even be a bounty hunter or a fisherman, just please dont go out of your way to harm others... Dont treat others as dirt... Everyone is different... Yet we are all equal... Nobody has the right to take away another person's life, you can kill... I dont care if you kill somebody... Just dont kill innocents, dont take away a life and leave a person alive... I will haunt you from hell and back if you do..." Her body rattles with coughing fit after coughing fit, each pause she took was to cough up blood from some wound I cannot see on her body... Tears flow freely from my eyes, my purple eyes like hers.
"I love you mama." im not sure if those words left my mouth, but I hope they did.
"I love you too my son." she wipes my face with the blanket im wrapped in, kisses my fore head and smiles... Her eyes dont reopen.
I sit there for what feels like years, unable to move from my mother's corpse. Her hands freezing cold, her body as stiff as stone but her smile remaining peaceful and beautiful forever. I move against my will when a set of hands pick me up.
"Dont think youre going to get away scot free boy. Youre going to be our little chore boy, as soon as you start to walk anyway." I could smell the powerful pungent scent of alcohol off the man's breath, the man I assume to be the captain of this ship. The man I plan to escape from whenever I am strong enough.
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Sorry for such a short chapter, this is an idea thats been in my mind for such a long time now. Originally it was a story for fallout, but I thought it would fit in the world of one piece too.
I very much doubt that devil fruits emit radiation, but in my story they will. It won't be a harmful one, but it will be a way to tell if someone is a devil fruit user and it could be a way to track devil fruit users, just imagine it like a unique energy signature for each fruit and when a user dies that signature will infect the next container.
Now some of you might've notice I had a Doctor Banner earlier in the story, well yes to answer the un asked question. It is Bruce Banner AKA the hulk.
Dr. Banner is the user of the Rage-Rage fruit, a fruit which increase one's strength when they become angry. The radiation changed this and resulted in the creation of his split personality, the Hulk.
Now some of you mightn't like this but I thought it could be a fun little way to add in OC's that arent exactly new to us. Obviously, they won't be exactly like their actual counterparts, they'll be just based from them. Most won't be in the story for more than a chapter or two but some I think will join the crew. (Virtus's own crew or maybe luffys crew depending on the way I plan to go with this story)
This leads me to one question, which would you rather: Virtus have his own crew or him joining the Straw hats?
I want to thank you all for reading and I will try to upload as often as possible, but it might be a bit difficult for me. Review or pm me for any feedback.