Chapter 2: boss battles

-With the Straw Hat Crew-

"WE DID IT!" Everyone cheered; Franky struck a pose, Usopp and Chopper copied, Zoro was sleeping, and practically the rest of the crew was celebrating in one way or another. Emerald walked pack around to where he left Luffy with a big grin on his face.

"HEY LUFFY WE…WHAT?" Emerald yelled surprised to see their captain wasn't there.

"Emerald, what's wrong?" Jimbe asked as he too found the problem "LUFFY IS MISSING"

"WHAT?" after that the whole crew panicked.

"EVERYONE CALM DOWN" Usopp yelled causing everyone who was running around to pause "AS THE SECOND IN COMMAND I SAY…"

"WE'VE GOT TO SAVE LUFFY" Chopper yelled.

"I was just about to say that" Usopp said with a worried expression 'Why, why can't they listen to me just once'

"And who made you second in commandment anyway, I've had more experience on the crew than you have, so technically I should be second in command" Zoro said

"WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP" Emerald yelled at the two who were now fighting "Technically the captain decides who's second in the commanding order, but from my experience a vice captain has to be calm, collected and ready for anything no matter the cost or the situation." Emerald explained.

"He's right you two." Franky added "I don't know who Luffy had as vice-captain but I do know one thing, I will gladly follow Emerald to the depths of hell to find our captain, he has the attitude I like in situations like this" Franky explained as the rest of the group either nodded or murmured in agreement. Zoro and Usopp looked at each other and sighed defeat.

"If Luffy were here he would say something like 'do what it takes to keep the crew happy'" Zoro said with Usopp nodding agreement.

"And seeing as we really don't know who Luffy want's as vice-captain as of now…" Usopp started as Emerald started to walk away "EMERALD" he yelled causing him to turn around "I WILL GLADLY FOLLOW YOU TO SAVE OUR CAPTAIN" Usopp yelled with Zoro nodding agreement.

"Ok, now if you're done kissing up to me, meet me at my quarters, we'll conduct a plan then" Emerald said as he went to his cabin and prepared the required stuff to show the plan, those things included a chart of all the islands they've visited so far, which he borrowed from Nami, some red figurines he made for purposes like this, including a ship, and a bunch of blue battle-ship figurines. As he finished setting up the rest of the crew entered the room.

"So what's the plan already?" Usopp asked impatiently

"Just wait" Emerald said as he placed the figurines in the centre of the archipelago, and removed a red one to represent Luffy "So, as far as we're aware Luffy may have been caught by the marines so we don't know his location" He explained as the group nodded, "Usopp, you said the marines came from the east right?"

"That's correct" he replied as Emerald put the red ship figure on the east side with the blue ships to the east side of it.

"Ok, Nami what way are we facing?" Emerald asked.

"We are facing the north" she replied as Emerald re arranged the red ship to face north and placed the ship a bit further to the north.

"So we are approximately here" Emerald stated as he slammed the ship down "Now the marines have what they wanted they would be moving away" he explained as he removed the blue figures from the chart, "So, we head back to the archipelago and if we're lucky, Rayleigh may have a clue on where they've taken our captain, but we need some back up, I will head to a few of the islands we went to during the separation and hopefully I can pick up some allies" Emerald finished as he marked the islands with flat disks of wood "I'll go pick up our reinforcements, you lot just head over to the archipelago"

"RIGHT" they all shouted in unison.

"Ok, I'll be there as fast as I can" Emerald said as he ran outside, activated his Phoenix form and took off. But not before leaving Nami in charge because she is the most experienced, SENSIBLE one on the crew, plus she's the navigator.

"Ok, Franky, turn us around 180 degrees, take us back to Sabaody" Nami ordered. "Usopp, you're on lookout, everyone else do your part, Sanji-kun?" Nami finished

"YES NAMI-CHWAN?" Sanji swooned.

"Make the crew some lunch it'll take us a fair bit to reach Sabaody" Nami said

"RIGHT AWAY NAMI" Sanji swooned as he went to the kitchen.

-With Emerald (on the island of the revolutionary army)-

We see a cloaked figure looking out at the sky thinking about something. His thoughts were interrupted by a bright light in the distance "PREPARE FOR BATTLE, WE HAVE AN UNINVITED GUEST HEADING TOWARDS THE ISLAND" the figure ordered as everyone scrambled to get a weapon to defend against the intruder. The light comes closer to reveal a phoenix preparing to land, and once it does it reveals Emerald in his standard form.

"What business do you have here?" a soldier asked pointing a gun at Emerald's head.

"I wish to speak with dragon" Emerald said with confidence

"Well…" the cloaked figure said emerging from the shadows "if you wish to speak to dragon…" he continued as he removed the cloak "Then you have to beat him in combat" he finished as he muttered some words before transforming into a dragon with an armoured plate with the Japanese symbol for each element on its chest.

"So you're the revolutionary, Monkey 'D Dragon?" Emerald mused as he dodged a blast of fire that was shot from the dragon. "Clearly not one for talking" Emerald panted as he narrowly dodged an arctic blast "Ok, GUM GUM…" he starts as he stretched his arm back after dodging an electrical shockwave "PISTOL" his arm catapulted forward hitting the dragon in the jaw, not dealing much damage as Dragon coated himself in steel armour before creating a massive gust of wind that forced Emerald into a nearby building.

He got up, groaning in pain, "Alright, let's try this" Emerald said to himself as he pumped more blood through his body generating steam "GEAR…SECOND" he called as he chafed out of the building right beside Dragons head "JET BAZOOKA" both of Emeralds fists smashed into the enemy's head still not doing much damage as once again he coated himself in steel armour and used his tail to smack him to the floor. This time Emerald charged up his fist as he coated it in colour of arms Haki. In no time he reached a point where his fist was lit on fire "RED HAWK" the flaming fist launched forward getting Dragon right in the gut just as he was not expecting it.

That hit caused dragon to fire spectral lightning (black lightning) at Emerald who narrowly dodged it, and to make matters worse for him second gear faded (Also, I'm only using Luffy's attacks for 3 reasons, one, he copied them from Luffy before he was 'kidnapped', 2, I personally think that they sound the coolest, and 3, I don't really know many attacks from the other powers Emerald copied) "Ok, time to step it up a notch" Emerald said loud enough for Dragon to hear as he bit down on his thumb "GEAR…THIRD…BOSUSHOKU HARDENING (Armour-ment coating)" his fist became swollen to the size of a giant, he then repeated it for the other hand before charging at Dragon "GUM-GUM…ELEPHANT GATTLING" the massive fists started pounding away at the iron covered dragon doing increased damage whilst also forcing him back a bit. After the attack faded the dragon coated it's 'tail' with ice forming ice 'spears' that were flicked off, one of them getting Emerald in the shoulder causing a grunt of pain to be released.

"You should probably leave now" Dragon said preparing another attack.

"No, I refuse to leave until you hear me out" Emerald responded as he clutched the ice spear and jerked it out from his flesh throwing it to the side now covering an open wound. "I guess it's come down to this…" Emerald muttered as he coated his arm in Haki and raised it to his mouth "this isn't second or third gear…" he explained as he bit down "GEAR FOURTH..." he bit down once again and started inflating the muscles in his body with the Haki spreading through his body in a kind of tribal pattern (also I'm going to say that there are alternate forms for fourth gear, just from theory videos I have watched on you-tube, this is standard bounce man) "BOUNCE MAN" he finished when the transformation is complete. Dragon laughed at this as a figure watched from the shadows.

"That's your big finale? How will that help you here?" Dragon laughed.

"You're about to find out" Emerald said as he charged up an attack while Dragon coated his dragon form in iron. He then charged at Dragon with an attack at the ready "GUM-GUM…KONG GUN" Emeralds fist was fired at dragons jaw dealing moderate to heavy damage as he reeled back and dodged another attack.

"You missed" dragon taunted as he swung a steel coated tail at emerald only to have the attack to bounce off with no damage what so ever. During this attack Dragon was completely un-aware of a fist that was bouncing off thin air behind him.

"I never miss when I use this attack" Emerald taunted.

"DRAGON" the soldiers yelled as he turned around for a fist to hit him in the cheek bone sending him flying into a nearby building.

"GREAT SERPENT CANNON" Emerald called as he then warped beside the dragon whilst retracting his feet "RHINO SCHNIEDER (Rhinoceros Howitzer)" his feet then fire hitting dragon in the face sending him back towards the soldiers as the figure emerged from the shadows revealing a marine captain as more marines emerged from behind him all pointing their guns at Dragon.

"Monkey 'D Dragon, we have finally located you and we are taking you in, I am ex-marine captain Morgan, recently appointed Captain again" the marine captain explained as he held his axe hand "Now we can do this the easy way, where you surrender, or the hard way where I execute you and hand you over, take your time" he said to the tired dragon.

'I've got to get out of here' Dragon thought to himself as he tried to get up only to collapse again.

"Well? Your answer is?"

"I vote for a stay of execution!" Emerald yelled as he appeared in front of Morgan still in fourth gear "GUM-GUM…LEO BAZOOKA" the marine captain blocked the attack with his axe hand only for the blade to shatter and the fists belonging to Emerald slamming into his gut sending the captain flying through a series of buildings.

"CAPTAIN" the marines yelled as they turned and charged at Emerald before freezing at a death glare they received

"I'll tell you once, before I kill the lot of you…" Emerald said earning whimpers from the marines "Get the hell out of here" and as soon as that was said there was not one marine left in sight as his fourth gear faded and he doubled over due to exhaustion. It wasn't long before Dragon had enough strength to get up and change back to his normal form.

"Why did you do that? We fought each other yet you saved my life" Dragon asked out of curiosity.

"I said I needed to speak with you, and I can't do that while you're dead can I?" Emerald explained.

"Ok, you get your wish, lower your weapons men" Dragon ordered as the troops lowered their weapons. "And prepare a table for our guest"

"Thank you, also I heard from my captain that one of his friends is a part of the revolutionary army, Emporio Ivankov?" Emerald implied

"Yes; what about him?" Dragon asked

"I also need to speak with him, is he here by any chance?" Emerald asked.

"As a matter of fact he is, but what is this about?" Dragon asked

"It's about my captain, who is also your son, Monkey d' Luffy, he's in a bit of strife right now, which is why I come here, we need your help"

"Ok, I'll tell Ivankov to meet me at the town hall, and then we can talk" Dragon said

-1 hour later in the town hall (after an explanation)-

"So Straw hat boy, has been caught by the marines?" Ivankov asked

"Exactly, and I am travelling to select islands to pick up some allies we've made over the two year separation" Emerald finished.

"So you want us to head to your position to conduct a plan seeing as you don't know where my son is?" Dragon responded

"Right once again, and from what I can gather you can reach our 'base camp' within a few hours seeing as you're the closest one to the island" Emerald explained "So, will you help us?" after a long silence Dragon finally responded.

"We will give you our support, what island are we heading too?" Dragon asked.

"Sabaody archipelago is your destination, head to a place called Shaky's rip off Shack, and that is where the crew will be, I'll be there shortly" Emerald explained as he morphed into an all elemental dragon "also, I hope you don't mind but I copied your devil fruit powers, due to my power being the copy-copy fruit, after all we are allies"

"Just lead the way" Dragon groaned.

"Actually I have others to pick up, Ivankov knows the way though" Emerald said taking off "I'LL SEE YOU THERE" he called back as he flew too his next location.

-A few hours later (after heading to a few other islands, we head to Amazon lily)-

On the ground we see Marigold training a new recruit. "Marigold, I see something" the girl called as she targeted an air-borne object.

"Ok, fire a warning shot, if he keeps approaching then finish him" she instructed

"Right" the recruit drew the bow and fired as the air-borne object dodged and landed on the shore of the gulf where Luffy was being treated by law after the war; it wasn't long before practically every Amazon Lilly warrior surrounded the intruder who was revealed to be Emerald.

"Well shit" Emerald muttered as he raised his hands.

"Who are you and why are you here?" Marigold asked

"I am Emerald and I need to speak with Hancock" Emerald explained "I am a friend of Luffy's, I even have his fighting style due to the ability of the copy-copy fruit"

"We'll be the judge of that" Sonia jumped it as she went to strike Emerald who moved out of the way "You need to prove your worth if you wish to speak with our sister"

"Not this shit again" Emerald sighed as he dodged another attack and pumped more blood through his body "SECOND GEAR" he called as he chaffed out of the way of Marigolds poison shot (That's just what I called it) to right beside her head "JET…PISTOL" hi fist came into impact with Marigolds face as Sonia, who was in her snake form wrapped coils around him.

"Is that all you've got?" Sonia taunted as she turned him to face her.

"I'm only just getting warmed up" Emerald smirked "JET…BELL" his head smashed into Sonia's chest causing her to drop him where he bit down on his thumbs and went into third gear "GUM-GUM…" Marigold who was now in her snake form took position in front of his sister.

"As long as I can match your strength and speed, you can't break through my Haki" Marigold explained as she took defensive position.

"Then let's see who's Haki is strongest, GRIZZLY MAGNUM" Emerald yelled as his giant fists clashed with Marigold with the force knocking her off balance. Emerald now looked out at the distance and spotted a marine ship 'Why are they here?'

-One week earlier-

We see Hancock throw a letter from the marines in the bin then go back to doing whatever the hell she does, day dreaming about Luffy I guess, of course that's only an assumption, ANYWAY.

"Hancock-sama, you should read that letter" Nyaon stated "It may be important"

"And I couldn't care less what the government wants from me" Hancock answered; at this the little old lady grabbed the note and read it out loud.

"'To Boa Hancock of Amazon Lilly; we have found out about your ties with the infamous straw hat Luffy. Because of this, you are stripped of your title as warlord and are hereby ordered to come quietly or we will destroy the island, you have one week to respond' SNAKE PRINCESS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?" Nyaon asked after reading the note as she looked up to the pirate empress to see her day dreaming.

"Luffy, when we meet again promise we will get married" Hancock said blushing still in deep thought.

"WERE YOU EVEN LISTENING?"

-End flashback-

"I'VE HAD JUST ABOUT ENOUGH OF THESE MARINE BASTARDS" Emerald yelled as he leapt into the water.

"HE'S CRAZY, DEVIL FRUIT USERS CAN'T SWIM" Sonia yelled in shock.

-With Hancock-

"What is the navy doing here?" Hancock asked

"YOU'RE TIME IS UP SNAKE PRINCESS, IF YOU WERE LISTENING, THE NAVY STRIPPED YOU OF YOUR TITLE AS WARLORD" Nyaon yelled "NOW THIS ISLAND IS SEEN AS NOTHING BUT ANOTHER ISLAND, ONLY INFESTED WITH PIRATES"

-With Emerald-

We see him transforming under water, into a fish-man? 'Time to show them that I'm not just another gem' Emerald thought as he swam…WAIT…SWAM at high speed straight at the marine vessel leaping up onto the deck "PEEKABOO MOTHER FUCKERS" Emerald yelled as he started taking out the marines until he reached the captain…Admiral Kizaru. "Well shit"

"Too slow" Kizaru said as he pointed his finger and fired a beam of light right at Emeralds gut.

-To be continued-

OOOHHH EPIC CLIFF HANGER, WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EMERALD, HOW CAN EMERALD STILL SWIM, WHAT THE HELL IS EMERALD all those questions will be answered next time, do not forget to leave a review.