AN: That's my first fanfiction, I hope you like it, it's gonna be slightly darker than canon, also Luffy will be smarter, OP, and he will do things differently than the first time, and there will be pairings though I don't know yet who with whom. Please let me know if you like it and leave a review.

I do NOT own One Piece!

Chapter I

It had been a long way, but they were finally there. 5 years until they reached Raftel where the legendary One Piece was hidden but they were finally there. And it would have been a joyous moment if they would have reached it all together, but that was sadly not the case. Just mere hours before they reached the shore they were attacked by a massive fleet, lead by Fleet Admiral Akainu himself. It was a bloody and overall gruesome battle, 250 Battleships with over 200.000 Soldiers were attacking and leading them were the Admirals themselves. The battle lastet only an hour but the losses on both sides were tremendous, only a couple hundred Soldiers of the attacking force survived, and on the other side, the loss was just as heavy for the small crew and family. Of the 10 Pirates of the Crew, only 3 survived.

Luffy stood before the hastily made grave of his friends and family, it only consisted of a simple wooden cross with a few mementos of his lost ones on it. His face was completely blank, devoid of all emotions, his eyes had lost their once determined shimmer, because on the inside he was dead, he lost almost his entire crew. This should have been the best day of their lives, but so close to the goal, it was all robbed from them.

After a few moments a heavy hand landed on his left shoulder, it was the hand of his first mate Zoro. "I know it's hard, but we need to carry on… for their sake, if we don't, then all of them died for nothing" he said with a firm voice. After a few more moments, Luffy turned around and made his way towards the center of the island where they were going to find the One Piece.

It was a huge cave with torches on the walls witch they lit so they could see what laid before them. It was massive amounts of gold, silver, jewelry, weapons and all kinds of other stuff, but what really got their attention were two things. The first was a gigantic black cubic stone, a Poneglyph, it was large in size then any other they had found so far. The second thing that got their attention was a little box, right in front of the Poneglyph, it was a simple wooden box, with nothing on it, witch clearly stood out beside all the gold, silver and the rest of the treasure.

"They ignored all the rest of the treasure and made a beeline direct to the little box. When Luffy stood in front of it, he had a distinct feeling of what would be inside of the box and when he opened it, he immediately knew what it was, a Devil Fruit. From behind him asked Sanji "Witch fruit could it be? From all the fruits I've seen in the encyclopedia, this one was not in it." The fruit was the size of a coconut, while it had the form of a banana and the color was pitch black with white swirls all over it.

"Well, the only way to find out witch power it gives, would be to eat it then" and with these words Luffy took a huge bite of the Devil Fruit before either Zoro or Sanji could do anything. For Luffy, it was a do or die moment, either he would die and all the pain and loss he had to endure would finally fade away or he would hopefully gain a power that could help him overcome said pain and loss.

Time seemed to stand still, besides that the fruit tasted like a rotten corpse filled with shit, nothing happened. Zoro and Sanji both wanted to scream at their captain what a complete and utter idiot he was for eating a second Devil Fruit, witch should kill him. But before they could get out a single tone, Luffy collapsed clutching his stomach in pain he had never felt bevor, he felt like melting from the inside out, his limbs were burning as if they were drenched in acid, his lungs felt like he would drown and he violently coughed up rotten black blood. While all this was happening, violent quakes shook the whole island, but this weren't earthquakes, time itself was shaking. Luffy wanted to scream in pain, but not a single tone came out of his mouth, he never felt so much pain in his whole life before. To his fortune, the quakes came to an end, and with them the pain when he blissfully sank into unconsciousness.

Zoro and Sanji were panicking, they ran to their captain and thought he was dead, but luckily he was just unconscious, they couldn't have handle another loss, especially their captain who was all they had left.

It took nearly five days until Luffy regained consciousness, he was lying beside a campfire, above him was a clear night sky with uncountable many stars, and right beside him were his two remaining crewmembers. "What happened, how long was I out?" he asked "Almost five days" came the answer from Zoro. He was calm on the outside but inside, he was a complete wreck, he lost almost his entire crew and now almost his captain and best friend too. Sanji wasn't fairing any better when he gave an answer to the other question his captain had "When you collapsed, the whole island began to shake, but that was no normal earthquake, it was something completely different, time itself seemed to be affected, so either eating a second Devil Fruit causes this, or this has a direct connection with the fruit you were eating" he drew long on his cigarette before he puffed out a plume of smoke.

"Why the hell did you even eat it in the first place?" was Zoro's question while he had fixed Luffy with a stern gaze. Luffy reached for his strawhat and shadowed his eyes before he gave his answer "for me it was a last hope, either it was a power that could help me deal with all this shit that happened or it would kill me and would set me free from all the pain and loss, and it seems like it could be the power that could help with this shit." As he finished both Sanji and Zero stared wide eyed at Luffy, even after his brother dyed in his arms, they never seen him this broken, that he would hope to either get a power that could help him order would let him die. They were utterly terrified at this thought, they didn't want to lose him to.

"What do you think is the power you got?" was Sanji's question "After what you said, it's probably a time related power, but I don't know what exactly" was Luffy's answer. "Well, there's only one way to find out" was Zoro's comment. Luffy stood up and was going to try and test his new ability when suddenly his stomach began to growl, it was so loud you could hear it even back at Sabaody, and with that Luffy promptly slumps back to the ground "SANJI, FOOD!" was all he could yell while Sanji and Zoro comically fell to the ground uns they both thought 'some things never change'.

After they finished eating, Luffy tried again, he was trying to feel his new power, focusing on anything that felt different from before. It took him almost half an hour until he finally felt something different, something new, and with that his hands started to glow with a light blue shimmer. It felt like he could grab time itself and form it to his will. He grabbed a nearby stick and focused on this new power on it, and within seconds the stick began to wither to a point where only dust remained, next he grabbed an older log, but this time he focused on the opposite and the log reversed in time until it was just a little stick. With this he finally understood that it truly was the power to control time itself and with that he had a new hope, that he could truly fix things. But he had yet to learn to master this new power and so he began to train.

It took 3 years of hard work and training, but he could finally freely control time, and not only could he simply fast forward, slow down, reverse or stop time, he could send his mind and body back in time where it fused with his younger self, though it only worked to some extend what his body concerned, but at least his mind was completely transferred without any losses, and he could do so not only for himself but also for others. After some more testing he was ready, and so were Sanji and Zoro. The three of them were going one last time to the grave of their friends and family "we will set things right, we will safe you and we will once again set sail." With that promise and his trademark D shaped smile back on his face he readied himself for the journey that would lay before the three of them once again, he layed his hands on the backs of Sanji and Zoro, and started to concentrate, after a few moments he said "Time Capsule" and with that they vanished.