AN: Well, second chapter, time to try and make myself a Strawhat!

We Are Where?

Ch2 Setting the Foundations! Let me Stay!

Location: Going Merry

Time: 30 Minutes Later

"Okay, one things for certain Sanji... you are one of the best cooks I've ever met in my life!" Apparently while I was out, the crew had decided to move me into the Merry's meeting room, apparently due to the fact that a storm had moved in while I was out.

"I'll take that as a compliment Lardy."

"Okay, I know I'm slightly overweight, but where I'm from, its no only average, but healthy for 6'5."

"I cant believe I'm saying this, but I agree with ero-cook here." Okay, now I'm about to pull a spit take with potatoes.

"Hey Anderson," Nami began, "what happened to your accent? You sounded... a lot deeper earlier."

"Where I'm from, that accent... a lot of people tend to associate it with dumb hicks and idiots. I tend to exaggerate it when I'm not being serious. Helps make people not notice me so much, or underestimate me."

"Shishishi! A clever mystery man!"

"Okay, Luffy, I just proved I have outsider knowledge of this universe. I think I am beyond Mystery Man."

It was it that point that Ussop began to ask the single most important question of the night.

"Anderson... just what all do you know?"

Well, this is gonna be a fun one... I've got three options: keep things secret, yeah no way in hell, wise wizard style, or write it all out...

"Alright... the best I can do, given what I know about you guys... Luffy here will probably kill me if I spoil anything, especially about... certain things." A slow nod from Luffy was very noticed. "The best thing I can think to do is not tell you guys every detail, but try and help prevent a lot of the very bad things from happening..."

"Define bad." Leave it to Zoro to want to know the worst.

"Alright... worst case scenario, that will happen, even if I wasn't here? Full scale warfare between pirates and Marines in the Grand Line, madmen running nations and supplying horrifying weapons to anyone with a coin to their name, a genocidal madman running he Marines... you do not want to get me started on fan theories... " The reactions to that little statement went as expected. Ussop had passed out, Zoro and Sanji were grinning, Nami looked ready to join Ussop on the floor, and Luffy? I think he was about to have a joy based heart attack.

"YES! Adventure awi-" He was cut short by Nami nearly smashing him through the deck. Note to self, see if I am still a normal human physically BEFORE pissing off Nami.

"So... I just have two questions for all of you. First of all, how much do you guys actually believe me?"

Luffy stated his absolute belief in my words. Nami begrudgingly admitted I seemed to be right. Sanji fell in line with Nami, as expected,. Ussop grumbled that either I was the best liar ever, or had stolen his talent, but admitted I knew far to much to be lying. Zoro seemed to have dozed off.

"Four-fifths majority, I can live with that. Now... Monkey D. Luffy. I have but one thing to impose upon you. Will you accept me... as one of your crew?"

Luffy took one look at me, and grinned. "Well... I certainly cant let someone this mysterious slip through my fingers!"

"Hmfp...hmmm...BWAHAHWHAHWHAH!" I let out a hearty laugh at that one. "Well then captain... call me Sanger."

"So... just what can you do Lardy?" And that's when it hit me. I really had no readily applicable skills for ship life. Oh, sure, I had all the intel they could ever ask for, especially since it seemed like I had an internet connection... still no clue how that was working... And I know for a fact I had eaten a Devil Fruit earlier... good thing I never knew how to swim in the first place...

"Well Sanji... I've got the intel. And I am 98% certain that I ate a Devil Fruit on that wreck out there. No clue what it does though. All I know is I can see the composition of things when I look at the-" Wait... didn't I... no way! How did this thing wind up here?! I MADE THE FRUIT UP! "And I may have just realized what it does..." I looked down at my empty bowl and began to concentrate on the air around me. The elemental symbols began to appear and shift. Protons, neutrons, electrons, they all began to break apart, reforming as I thought. Looking into the bowl, I grinned and half expected Nami to tackle me. After all,

I had just converted a chunk of the air into 24 karat gold.

"Well... It would see I wasn't entirely right about not having anything else from my world but the clothes on my back and the items in my pockets..."

Nami's eyes lit up with an audible cash register sound and Berri symbols. "YOU CAN MAKE GOLD!" Okay, that was... way to much a squeal for my ears. Continuing to concentrate, I grinned even wider as the gold began to move, twisting and turning to my mind like a potter does clay. It began to take the shape of a sculpture of the Going Merry, growing larger as I converted more gassed to gold. "Oh no Nami... if I am right I can do MUCH more... I think I may have brought this power into being by coming here... I came up with this fruit during discussion with some friends... we called the Atom-Atom no Mi... Basic science lesson. Everything in the world is made of tiny, microscopic objects known as atoms. In their purest form, these atoms are called elements, things like iron or gold. When they combine, they form molecules, things like water or sugar. However, the atom itself is made of much smaller particles. This fruit lets me control them, take apart atoms and rearrange them into other elements and molecules, not perfectly, but close enough... I don't think it will work on other people, but," At that statement, my left arm began converting to iron, "just as I thought. It still works like flesh, but its solid steel... Looks like its a Logia..."

Needless to say, this garnered a reaction. Nami was now looking at me with lusty eyes like I was the gold pillar from Skypiea... which I was pretty sure given time I could out produce... Zoro took one look at the arm and declared I would be an excellent training partner. Sanji began asking if I knew if I could use it to create and preserve foodstuffs, an excellent question that I had no clue about. Ussop and Luffy meanwhile were both looking at me and yelling COOL!

"Well... I think I just found a use Sanji... and the best part?" My body then rapidly dispersed into the air, now composed entirely of oxygen atoms. "I always had a destructive mind. Intel and saboteur positions open captain?"

"SO COOL!"

"I'll take that one... as a yes." Reforming my body I was wearing an almost impossible grin. Inside though...

I only ever made out a basic outline of what this fruit can do. I have no clue just how far I can take it. Oh sure, I had plenty of ideas, but no clue how to pull any of them off... I need to do a lot of chemistry homework... and... maybe some physics... and engineering... I've got a lot ahead of me.

Location: Going Merry, Fore Cannon Deck

Time: 4:30 PM

After frankly telling the men that I would be almost physically incapable of sleeping in the same room as them, mostly due to space issues, they told me I could convert one of the spare room's into a bedroom for myself. I picked the Fore Cannon Deck, mainly due to it being the only room that could be spared, and got to work. I managed to find a decent enough place for a hammock, and bolted a empty barrel to the floor to act as a table. Then, I truly got to work.

Using my phone for blueprints, I started to create my first effort at power generation. I realized I was going to be needing a lot of electricity for my needs, and set to work on the most efficient source I could think of for sea life: hydrogen fuel cell. After a bit of searching, I found some basic designed from the old Apollo missions, and set to work on creating the components for both it and a means of electrolysis. I wont lie, the process to a very long time. It seemed like my fruit had issues with fine detail work, but the more I used it, the more capable I got. I only had to hurriedly throw the first one off the ship before it exploded. Though in retrospect maybe yelling "SCIENCE!" when Nami asked what I was doing wasn't the best idea... it wasn't that big a blast... still gave me some ideas though...

After I finally got a stable set up, I began the most difficult step: Basic computer capable of high speed internet access. I still had no idea how my phone was getting a signal, but I was going to milk it for all it was worth, and if I could set up a proper computer... projector, printouts, the list goes on... all the necessities of a good Intel op.

I wont deny it, the final product looked a hell of a lot like a '05 Acer laptop, but it would do the job. All that was left was to download an OS onto it, jump start the machinery with a few stray electrons. And let the magic of the modern world seep in. It was then that I noticed I had been at this for the last seven hours.

11:30 already? Man, I do need to hit the hay... did I even eat? Ah, I'll just have to fight Luffy even harder for the food...

Location: ?

Time: ?

Black. Everything was black. An endless sea of midnight. I stood in the... well it probably isn't a middle...

"Ya know kid, you got a stuffed head at times..."

The voice... I know it... where

"Ya think he would recognize the sound of his own."

I know I knew the sounds... but where?

"I don't think he understands... not yet..."

Images... a man... in red? Metal? Black flowed round him again, and now I faced a man who seemed to be made of pure fire. Then the night swirled again. I could see... Sabody? But why was- Night fell, and I could see the dessert night, lit by a second sun.

These... make them stop! What are these-

"Ideas. Dreams. Possibilities. Chances. Fates. Endless."

The voice, it changed again. It sounded... why do I? Why was I see- why is she- a grave? What-

"A world so close and yet so far away"

My own voice? And... why was... the posters... different...

DUNDANDANDUNDAN!

As I fell out of my hammock, the last thing I saw, and the only thing I could recall, was the weirdest of the all.

Why was I dressed like Sanger Zonvolt?

AN: And so the Original Devil fruit is revealed! I originally conceived the fruit during a discussion with a group of friends of what we would do to change various Devil Fruits. I based mine of the Gasu Gasu no Mi, where instead of merely allowing the user to turn himself into gasses, all forms of matter are allowed, along with a bit of FMA style alchemy thrown in. Think of it as a Super Logia. As to how it got here, and the truly weird dream? Well, a guy need some kind of OG plot... See you all next time for Arrival! Foreigner in Lougetown!