Luffy ignored all of the stares as he walked onto the docks of Shell Island, he was used to them after all and he had a place to be namely the closest restaurant. The inside of the restaraunt was almost completely abandoned the only people inside was an obnoxious looking idiot, two marines, a little girl sweeping the floor and her mother taking the idiot's order. "and keep the tab to yourself," the idiot yelled once his order was given. The woman gave a small grimace but didn't say anything.

"Hey lady can I order?" Luffy asked walking up to the counter.

"Just foget about the no name trash and make my food," the idiot yelled at the lady. "Unless you want me to complain to my father about you."

The woman paled, "your food will be ready in just a moment Helmeppo-sama," she said before rushing towards the kitchen.

Luffy annoyed by the idiot's treatment of the woman decided to toy with him. "and just who is your father?" he asked. by the look of the Marines at the idiot's side, Luffy guessed it was a high ranking Marine.

The idiot puffed himself up and gained a look of superiority and arrogance, "why he is Captain Axe-hand Morgan of course," he gloated.

Luffy nodded, giving an impression of being impressed, he wasn't impressed. "So because your father is a Marine Captain you can order everyone else of a lower rank around?" he asked.

"That's right and you would do well to remember that fact, trash," the idiot laughed.

Luffy gave a fake laugh as well, "Helmeppo-sama was it?" he asked, "allow me to introduce myself. I am Monkey D. Luffy, grandson to Monkey D. Garp. I was sent here to inspect this base for any and all signs of corruption."

Helmeppo's laugh cut off and he instantly paled, the two Marines at his side paled as well. "N-n-nice to meet you Luffy-san," Helmeppo stammered.

Luffy gave Helmeppo a cold smile, "That's Luffy-sama to you, trash!" he ordered.

"Of-of course, forgive me Luffy-sama," Helmeppo said, sweating bullets and getting up to leave for the door.

"Leaving so soon trash?" Luffy asked stopping Helmeppo in his tracks. "I was hoping we could share a nice meal and you could tell me all about the base that your father runs."

"I-I-I would be delighted to do that Luffy-sama only i'm not the best person to talk to," Helmeppo said, desperately trying to get out of the situation.

Luffy's smile widened, "but I insist. Also I seem to have forgotten my wallet, you wouldn't mind paying for me would you trash?"

"N-N-Not at all Luffy-sama," Helmeppo cried as he sat down back into his seat.

Luffy grinned as right at that time Helmeppo's food arrived. As soon as it was placed on the table Luffy grabbed it and started to eat, "pay the lady, trash," Luffy ordered.

Luffy had to admit that was probably one of the best meals he had ever had, the food was nice, the service was nice and the entertainment of scaring Helmeppo was even better. "So tell me about the base, anything worth knowing?"

"W-w-well we have that Pirate Hunter Zoro captured," Helmeppo stammered nervously.

Luffy stared at him, "you have one of the best bounty hunters in the East Blue arrested why?" he asked in a voice that said the guy was an idiot.

"Well he attacked me!" Helmeppo shouted indignantly.

"Can you blame him?" Luffy asked, "You are really annoying." Luffy then pulled one of his revolvers out of it's holster and pointed it at Helmeppo, "maybe I should attack you as well, I can just tell jii-san it was self defence."

"B-but that's abuse of your power!" Helmeppo screamed, frightened.

"Sounds familiar doesn't it," Luffy mocked, re-holstering his revolver. "Don't worry I will just write down in my report what you have been doing. It will be up to jii-san to decide what happens here."

"R-right," Helmeppo squeaked.

Luffy got up and walked to the door, "i'm going to walk through town a bit. Go and tell Axe-hand what's happening and that i'll be on my way," he ordered before walking out the door.

...

Luffy's walk through the town was an interesting if saddening one. The townspeople were poor, most were starving, sick dying or a combination of the three, there was crime everywhere and not a Marine to be seen. "Obviously too good to do their jobs," Luffy growled slightly. "I'm going to have to change things a bit." With that decided Luffy made his way to the base only to find a large contingent of Marines and a big axe-handed guy standing outside.

Luffy watched in mild amusement as Axe-Hand walked up to him, trying to look intimidating. "My idiot son told me you were coming. What's your name and rank?" Axe-Hand asked rudely.

"Pause," Luffy muttered watching as time froze. With a smirk on his face he just walked past Axe-hand and his entourage only letting time start up again when he was past them. "Well are you coming?" Luffy asked casually knowing it would both annoy them and scare them.

"Stop right there you insolent rat and answer me!" Axe-Hand yelled.

"guess some people are too arrogant to realize fear," Luffy thought to himself. "All you need to know rat is that I wield the power of a Vice-admiral now let's get this show on the road," he ordered.

The first thing that Luffy noticed once he walked through the gates to the base was the green haired, emaciated form of Roronoa Zoro tied to a cross in the middle of the training yard. "As he is such a high profile criminal I will be taking him with me when i leave," Luffy said with a slight gesture to Zoro before moving on into the base proper.

"First step is the men's barracks," Luffy announced once inside. Several of the Marines paled at that buy quickly Luffy was lead to their barracks, are pigsty of a place. Sake bottles everywhere, beds unmade, dirty clothes strewn about the place and a few rats were seen as well. "Clean it," was all that Luffy sad before walking out the door and to the next room.

After searching most of the rooms that an official inspector was expected to search Luffy ordered Axe-hand to take him to his office. place where they found an red haired thief.

...

Nami was honest enough to say that when the big guy with the Axe for a hand charged her she was scared for her life. She was too terrified to scream for help or try to run and could only stand their, her life flashing before her eyes.

"STAND DOWN!" the young man with the strawhat and two revolvers at his waist shouted out causing the big guy to stop and glare at him in anger.

"Give me one good reason why I should let this rat live!" the big guy demanded.

"She works for me," Strawhat, replied calmly shocking Nami. I sent her on ahead to scout out your base and find any evidence of corruption. Isn't that right?" he asked turning towards her.

"Y-yes sir," Nami stammered nodding her head.

"And did you find anything?" Strawhat asked.

Racking her mind for anything that Strawhat may find useful Nami paused. It took her a few seconds before she remembered a conversation she had heard while sneaking through the base, "apparently the captain s forcing taxes over the citizens so that he can build a statue of himself," she replied.

"is it at least a bronze statue?" Strawhat asked randomly.

Nami paused wondering why it mattered, "er no...sir it's made of stone from what I understand."

Strawhat nodded in acknowledgement before turning to face the big guy again. "You are hereby relieved of your command. you are to vacate the base immediately and someone will be around in one week to replace you. If you wish to continue on in the Marines you will have to talk to your replacement about that. Understood?" he asked.

The big guy's response was to scream, "DIE!" at the top of his lungs and swing his axe hand at Strawhat. This time Nami did scream in fear for the guy, once he was gone then the Marines would kill her as well.

"Bullet Time," she heard strawhat mutter as twelve bullets pierced the big guy's body and sent him flying backwards. Nami hadn't even seen Strawhat draw, shoot or re-holster his guns.

Strawhat then turned to the remaining Marines. "Every single beri in the treasury is to be redistributed to the people of the town. I am to be supplied a pack full of food, Roronoa Zoro is to be released into my custody, fed and given all of his supplies. Me and my associate here are going to remain in this office until where we will go over all of Axe-Hand's paperwork. I will then write a report which will be sent of to Vice Admiral Garp for him to look over. He will then decide on which course of action to take in regards to this pathetic excuse for a Marine base. Do I make myself Clear?" he asked/ordered.

"SIR YES SIR!" the Marines shouted.

Strawhat nodded, "then get to it. And someone bring me a box of bullets i'm getting low." The Marines all fought over who would be the first one out the door and away from Strawhat.

Once the room was clear of everyone but Nami and Strawhat she decided to ask her question. "Wh-why did you lie?"

Strawhat walked over to the desk and picked up the papers on it before responding. "Call it honor among thieves," he grinned.

"Y-you're a th-thief as well?" Nami asked shocked, she had thought he was a Marine Commodore or something with how everyone reacted and how he was apparently able to send a message to Vice Admiral Garp.

His grin widened, "future Pirate King actually," he announced. "I just dropped a few names, told a few lies and acted confidant and they believed everything I said. Not the brightest bunch are they?"

Nami glared at him when he mentioned that he was a filthy, backstabbing, heartless pirate, 'that saved your life,' a small part of her mind added before she pushed it away and ignored it. "What do you want here pirate?" she spat.

Strawhat shrugged, "I was just hopping to stock up on food before i left town again when the captain's son decided to anger me. I figured I would teach him a lesson in respect and be on my way, I then noticed that the Marines weren't doing their jobs and decided to fix that situation. I may be a pirate but I was raised to respect the Marines and these guys tarnish the name."

"Like i'll believe that," Nami said sarcastically.

Strawhat rolled his eyes, Yeah i'm freeing an innocent man, saved your life and i'm giving everyone in town all of this base's money as part of an evil plot," he muttered sarcastically. "Don't you have a safe to break into?"

Nami blushed in embarrassment at his response but didn't say anything deciding instead that her time was better spent trying to break open the safe.

...

Luffy calmly gathered all of the papers on and in the desk in his hands before muttering a simple "pause." he watched as Nami stopped moving and all sounds ceased. Now that he had all of the time in the world he slowly began to read through all of the papers, his calm attitude disappearing with each and every sentence he read. "Marines regularly dying in accidents, townsfolk being killed as terrorists, extortion of the town, taking bribes from pirates to turn a blind eye, relocation of Marine funds to personal account, fifty million beri purchase either he bought an island, a big big ass statue or he has gotten himself a devil fruit, I wonder what it is," he mused aloud. "Guess i'll wait until she breaks into his safe, if it's a devil fruit it will be in there."

Once Luffy had gone through all of the papers he pocketed them, restarted time and waited for the thief to finally open the safe.

It took her another ten minutes but the safe was eventually opened and Luffy was instantly behind her looking inside. Inside was a a strange fruit that looked like an orange covered in purple swirls, nine gold bars, a few deeds to random properties and a scroll with Buggy the Clown's insignia and a message claiming, 'i've flashily stolen the map.'

"The fruit is mine, the deeds go to the town and the gold bars are yours," Luffy told the thief calmly, already reaching out for the devil fruit.

"Or all of it is mine," the thief snarled snatching away the devil fruit before Luffy could grab it.

Luffy rolled his eyes and placed his hand on one of his revolvers as a warning.

"Filthy pirate," the thief snarled before dejectedly handing over the devil fruit. Luffy just grinned.

"So any idea what map Buggy is talking about?" he asked her.

"It's a map to the Grandline," she informed him. "I was hoping to go there for some bigger scores."

Luffy's grin widened, "you know i'm hoping to head there myself, want to team up against Buggy to get his map?...and his treasure?"

Luffy could see the beri signs in her eyes as she agreed, she may not have trusted him but she knew a good deal when she heard it.

"Good," Luffy said, "now let's go meet Zoro, the guy I freed, if we're lucky i can get him to join us against Buggy or even better to join my crew. Just remember though we're high ranking Marines not a pirate and a thief got it?"

"You don't have to tell me that," the thief huffed, "i'm not some idiotic pirate." Luffy just gave a small smirk before walking out the door.

...

Zoro knew that today would be different. He woke up tied to a cross like he did every other day for the last three weeks. He was kicked and beaten like every other day for the last three weeks. He was spat on, insulted and just generally tortured but something about today had felt different to him and it was different. The Marines untied him, led him inside, fed him and gave him back his swords. Yes today was very different.

Then a man in a strawhat with two revolvers walked up to him, a red haired woman in tow. Zoro's instincts screamed at him that this man was a pirate but not one of the Marines even looked like they would try anything. "What do you want," Zoro asked warily, his hand going to his swords.

The man gave a small smirk, "I want you to work with me. I'm going to pay a visit to Buggy the Clown and was thinking that you would be of help."

"I refuse," Zoro stated flatly.

The man's smirk turned into a small pout, "not even going to hear me out? I am after all the one who got them to take you off that cross."

"I was a few days away from freedom, it's not like you saved my life," Zoro pointed out. "Now beat it."

The man gave a small shrug, "well it's your choice," was his response before he walked out the door, the red haired woman in tow. Zoro would never see them again.

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Yup no Zoro in this story, and I have a reason for that. First is doing the same story with only a different power and different Luffy is boring, second is i did this chapter three times and each time something happened to cause me to lose all my work. So i almost finished this on my fourth try and realised 'wait a minute why would zoro join the crew. oh god i'm going to have to redo it again. You know what fuck it' so yeah there's that as well.

I already know who Zoro's replacement is going to be but I will be taking OC ideas if you guys have any either for the strawhats, enemy pirates, marines or friendlies. i will also be taking ideas for the devil fruit or any canon characters you want to join the crew.

as always read, review and give me the winning lotto numbers.