Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z or One Piece. DBZ is owned by Akira Toriyama and OP is owned by Eiichiro Oda. To better understand this crossover, go on Google or something and look up Toriyama and Oda's cooperative crossover one-shot manga "Cross Epoch". This story follows up the Once Piece Story arc, with some DBZ characters in it. It's not original I know…but I want to do it anyway. The Z gang won't be wearing their normal clothes in this story; they'll be wearing their outfits in Cross Epoch. I may tweak their appearances a bit. If you want a better idea on what they're wearing copy and paste this to the address bar: (.com/art/CROSS-EPOCH-FTW-74393913) Great artist by the way! Note that the main characters from DBZ will be the ones that appear in the manga. I may enter some little fluffy romance (non-yaoi of course) for the heck of it. Enjoy!

Chapter 2: The Swordsman and the Demon King, Bounty Hunters Zoro and Piccolo!

Last time, our heroes Goku and Luffy meet and rescue cabin boy Koby from the clutches of the evil, fat, ugly, and vain pirate Lady Alvida. Koby dreams of becoming a marine and mention a duo of bounty hunters named Picollo and Zoro. So now our heroes are sailing with their new friend Koby to Marine Base Island.

"I'm…so…hungry…" Luffy whined.

"Me too…" Goku mumbled. His stomach growled loudly. Goku blushed, "Damn, how long till we get the marine base Koby?"

"Yeah I want some meat!"

Koby adjusted his glasses. "We'll be there in about 10 minutes are so. How can you call yourselves pirates if you can't navigate?"

Luffy chuckled, "Shishishi…Goku and I don't know nothing about navigating. I'm going to be captain, and Goku will be my co. captain."

"That's why we're gathering a crew. We'll have a first mate, a navigator, a doctor, a very good chef that'll cook us stuff, and…"

"A musician! We need a musician to play music because pirates love to sing and dance!" Luffy added.

"Yeah! And a chef to cook us food!!"

"You already said chef Goku" Koby said. 'Geez, these guys make up for brain power in strength. These two are complete morons!'

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So finally the trio arrived to Marine Base Island. Luffy was the first to jump out and yell at the top of his lungs, "HELLO MARINE BASE ISLAND! MY NAME IS LUFFY!!!"

"Shut up Luffy! You're a pirate remember? You want the marines to here yah?" Koby hissed thinking the marines might mistake him for a pirate and remember he was working for Alvida. He sniffed a bit. "I g-guess this is goodbye guys. After this we'll be enemies, but we'll still be friends and…hey!" Koby noticed Goku and Luffy walking into town.

"Let's find a restaurant with good food!" Luffy said proudly. Not too long later the trio sat in a restaurant, Koby just stared at the pirates, plates covered in bones were piled high, and next to that were columns of bowls.

"Um… guys I know I told I'd pay but…" said Koby he began to cry "I don't think I can afford this…" he cried.

"If you're joining here then you can start a tab…" said Luffy with his mouth full.

Koby sweat dropped, "Uh… yeah…" he said.

Both were finally done and Koby paid as much as he could as they were walking to the base Goku said. "So what does Roronoa Zoro…" asked Goku.

But then the whole jumped in fear at the very mention of his name.

"That was weird…" said Luffy.

"What were you saying?" asked Koby.

"Well what does those two look like?" asked Goku.

"Well I hear Picollo is known for his white turban and white cape and I hear he has green skin…" Koby started thoughtfully.

"Green skin? Cool!" Luffy cheered.

"While Zoro…" continued Koby. The town jumped again. "Maybe we should mention his name…" whispered Koby to the heroic and goofy duo.

"Yeah I guess…" said Goku.

"Makes sense…" said Luffy.

Koby quickly changed the subject, "Well I heard Captain Morgan is the captain of this base…" said Koby. Once again the entire town jumped…

"What's with them?" asked Goku asked scratching the back of his head in his trademark way.

"I don't know…" said Luffy. "It's kinda weird town don't yah think? And so they made their way to the base, it was a very tall blue tower with tiger stripes.

"So are you going to join?" asked Luffy.

"Um… well I'm not so sure…" muttered Koby.

"You join up, we're going to look for Zoro and Piccolo," said Luffy.

Goku jumped and looked over a fence with ease, "Hey I see a guy over there!" he yelled to his friends. Luffy jumped down and ran, with Goku and for some reason Koby following close behind. All three jumped to look over a wall, on the other side was a 19 year old man dressed in a white polo shirt, black pants, and a sash with a very dark green bandanna over his head. It looked like he was being crucified or something.

"The bandanna… the sash… that's Roronoa Zoro!" cried Koby.

"So that's the guy…" muttered Goku. 'I can sense s strong amount of ki in him. Not bad ki though. It's not storng enough for him to be a ki user but it's pretty strong. He must have some sort of ambition in him, a strong spirit,'

"Hey maybe if we release him then he'll join up with us…" exclaims Luffy.

"Hey! You three!" yelled Zoro, "Get lost! You don't want the marines to get you now do you?" Koby seemed to tremble in fear.

"I have no idea what you idiots are doing here… but leave now…" said a very annoyed voice beside them. The three turned and saw a very tall very muscular man with green skin He wore a white turban and a dark navy gi with a red belt around his waist. He had strange brown shoes. He had very pointed ears, pointed nails that looked like claws, and an angry expression on his face. Tucked into his belt was a single Japanese katana. He wore a strange white cape with points on the shoulders.

"Y-Yipe! Green skin with the turban and the cape. It's Piccolo!" Koby stuttered.

"So awesome! You really do have green skin!" Luffy cheered and began poking Piccolo. Picollo gave a beastly growl and Luffy backed off. Goku concentrated on Piccolo's ki. 'His ki is amazing. He must be a ki user! W-wow I thought I may never run into another ki user so early! He could make a great sparring partner!'

Coincidently that was almost the same thing that Picollo was thinking when he saw Goku. "Hmph, yeah I'm Piccolo. That idiot being crucified in the execution yard is Zoro, my idiot of a partner," he said coldly. Just then a little girl in pigtails showed up next to Piccolo carrying a latter, she placed the latter against the wall and claimed it, she held something and shhed the our heroes and Piccolo. She climbed over the wall and ran over to Zoro.

"That little girl is in danger!" muttered Koby.

Piccolo let out a chuckle, "I hate those rumors where we kill everything." He shrugged and jumped up watching what was going on. The little girl tried to give Zoro rice balls… he refused them and told her to leave then two marines and a weirdo with a Cleft chin wearing odd clothing and blonde hair done up in weird fashion showed up.

"That must be an officer! He'll save the little girl for sure!" said positively Koby not noticing Piccolo rolling his eyes.

"Pay close attention kiddies, you'll see the real marines right now," Piccolo said. The trio looked at him like he had three heads, then they remembered he had green skin so he might've been used to this.

On the field the weirdo took one of her rice balls. He didn't like them so he destroyed the rest after telling the little girl that she would have been executed or helping him if she hadn't been a little girl that is. Then ordered a marine to throw her over the fence, Luffy managed to catch her on the other side she began to cry.

"Are you okay…" asked tenderly Koby.

"Who was that weird jerk?" asked Goku.

"The idiot son of Captain Morgan…" growled Piccolo, "Where's the other one?" he asked seeing Luffy had disappeared.

"He probably went to convince your partner to join our crew…" Goku shrugged.

"I doubt he'll agree… after all you guys are a bunch of morons" taunted Piccolo. "Then again my partner can be stupid at time so he might fit in with your lot"

Goku shrugged, "I'm used to it. So you're a ki user?"

Piccolo arched and eyebrow, "You can tell?"

"Uh-huh I can sense ki, both good and bad. I can tell yours and your partner's are good." Goku said smiling. "I'm a ki user too."

"Yeah I could tell. Maybe we could spar one day," Piccolo said smirking.

"I'd like that! I love to spar!" Goku chirped. Piccolo rolled his eyes and Goku's cheerfulness. Suddenly Luffy climbed over to his friends. Luffy climbed over the fence, "No luck…" he said sadly.

"Of course, it's because he's stubborn, plus he wants to be free on his own terms," Piccolo grunted.

"Yeah he said something about him having an agreement with the idiot son," Luffy added.

"I was thinking…killing pirates for their bounties is legal, but why was Zoro arrested?" asked Koby.

"It's all my fault…" the little girl mumbled grimly.

Not too long later they were away from the base including Piccolo for some reason. The little girl named Rika was telling them her story. "It all started three weeks ago…" started Rika, "Helmeppo's dogs was on the loose again and one tried to attack me…"

"That dumbass Zoro decided fight back and stop that dumb dog from attacking, he killed it. However he was arrested shortly later. I went to see him and he told me of his deal, if he can last one month out there when he'll be let go," Piccolo said finishing the story.

"Wow…" Luffy gasped.

"A whole month…I wonder how long has he been out there?" Goku said thoughtfully. "I couldn't do it…"

"Three weeks…" Rika muttered.

"I can't believe they did that…" Koby said grimly, "They aren't who I thought they were!" growled Koby. "I thought all marines were great heroic men! Not monsters!"

"Wake up and smell the coffee kid, here the marines are the loyal dogs the Morgan and his idiot son!" Piccolo barked. "Plus there's nothing you can do. He as stubborn as a mule let him survive."

Suddenly the idiot son or just Helmeppo showed up, making all the people in the bar bow before him. Piccolo glared daggers at Helmeppo. "Temper temper Greenie…" Helmeppo sneered then he cleared his throat "Listen up! Tomorrow I will be executing Zoro!"

Piccolo clenched his fist, "What!" he yelled.

"What about your promise…" asked Luffy.

Helmeppo just laughed "That animal was stupid for beveling it!" Luffy got angry; he made a promise to Zoro and broke it. He punched Helmeppo in the face. Everyone gasped. "No one's ever punched me!" Helmeppo screamed, the Marines picked him up as he yelled "I'm telling daddy on you!" And the two marines dragged him away. Rika's mother showed up and dragged her from the 4… thinking it was bad idea to be seen with them…

"Zoro and Piccolo are both joining my crew," declared Luffy who was currently being held back Goku.

Piccolo smirked, those two maybe idiot pirates, but they were okay idiot pirates, he wouldn't have minded joining them as long as Zoro did after all Zoro was his training partner annoying or not. "So are you going to help me?" asked Piccolo.

"What?" asked Goku who let go of Luffy and Koby, then Luffy ran off.

Piccolo sweat dropped, "I need some help busting the fool out but I guess you friend decided to do it his own way…" Piccolo explained.

"Okay…" Koby said nervously.

"Alright then! Let's save Zoro!" Goku said confidently.

Piccolo was surprised when Goku's expression went to idiotic to the expression of a warrior. He smirked "Let's go do this…" Piccolo said coolly. They ran to the marines' base to where Zoro was being held prisoner.

"Piccolo… what the hell are you doing?" asked Zoro as Piccolo, Goku, and Koby were trying to undo the knots of the rope that held the bounty hunter.

"They're going to execute you tomorrow dumbass," said Piccolo.

"What?" asked Zoro in disbelief.

"So Zoro and Piccolo…" came the voice of marine Captain Morgan, who was a huge man with an axe for a hand and a metal jaw showing up with a huge force of Marines with rifles, "Since we were allies in the war against pirates do you have any last wishes before you die?"

"Stick that axe up your…" said Zoro.

"Fire!" yelled Captain Morgan before Zoro could finish his sentence .Zoro, as well as Goku, Piccolo, and Koby were in their line of fire.

'It can't end like this…' thought Zoro. He suddenly had a flashback of his dear friend and rival Kuina. He remembered she was the strongest female swordsman he knew the first one to defeat him. He remembered how she mourned for being a girl because her father told her she could never be a true swordsman. The promise they made fill Zoro's mind. He remembered the new on how she died by falling down the stairs. The promise he made to Kuina and her father. His dream… it was all going to end. Just as the Marines were about to shoot, Luffy jumped out of a window and landed in front of them took the bullets.

"He's crazy…" breathed Zoro.

"That's insane…" Piccolo muttered.

Goku just smirked, knowing what was going to happen.