AN: And here we are, my first fight in the fic. Sanger and the Strawhats vs Buggy and Company!

We are Where!

Ch4: Battle for the New Dawn! Enter the Gaseous Gunman!

Time: 12:00

Location: Lougetown Execution Platform

I arrived at the platform to see that things had already began. Buggy already had Luffy disabled, and Sanji and Zorro had just arrived. Near one of the entrances, I could see Smoker and Tashigi ready to clean up the mess we were about to make.

"Oi Fatass, nice of you to join us!"

"Well excuse me Ero-Cook! I had to buy a few things!" With that, I dispersed the bag I was holding and grabbed the rifle from my back holster. It earned a few millimeters of raised eyebrow from Sanji. "What? I have almost no hand to hand experience, and haven't developed any functional attacks with my fruit. It was a good investment if ya ask me!" He simply shrugged in response.

"Alright Fatty, so you got a bit a meat in the brain. But can you hi-"

CrackBLAM!

Roughly four hundred feet away, Buggy's hat went flying with a .45 caliber hole going right through the middle. "... Well the fat man can shoot."

"Actually Zoro, I missed..."

"YOU WHAT!"

"See...," I started rubbing the back of my head, "I think I forgot about bullet climb on this thing... I was aiming for his nose. Now if you'll excuse me, I think they are staring at us."

Starring... not so much... more like charging headlong in a frenzied battle rage. Fine by me, revolver time.

"Sanji, Zorro, save our idiot of a captain. I'll go to semisolid and take as many of em as I can before I run out of ammo."

And like that, 2/3rds of the Monster Trio ran off to save the other third. And me? I had turned myself into a dense cloud of black gasses, still shaped like myself, with a .44 in each hand. And I drew a bead on the first man coming for me.

I wont lie. I didn't hesitate to pull the trigger. I didn't feel shock as a .44 caliber bullet hit him in his left eye, taking a fair chunk of his skull with it on its exit, and a fountain of gore in its wake. I didn't feel remorse. Quite the opposite. I started laughing.

"MWEHEHEHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHA! COME AND GET ME BOYS! I GOT A SLUG FER EACH A YAS!"

In truth, I did that for two reasons. One, I am a little bit crazy inside. And two: They just watched a demonic smoke monster blast a hole clean through a mans head. If nothing else, I had them freaked the fuck out.

Second shot, stomach shot. The man went down screaming as his own organs started trying to eat him. Third, leg shot on a charging one. He went down hard and fell on his sword. Fourth shot, glanced across a mans jaw, sending splinters of it into his skull. Non lethal, immediately anyways, but painful as hell. Fifth round went into a man's shoulder, shattering the bone. Sixth went through another head. By then they had started to spread out, trying to be smaller targets.

So be it. Zorro and Sanji should be near the platform by now...

It was then that I felt... a most curious feeling. Looking at where my stomach would be, I could see a man had shoved a cutlass clean through me.

Okay... thats just... I can feel it, but I cant... okay... good to know Logia defense comes with some pain negation. Now, to freak him out even more.

"YA TINK DAT 'L STOP MEH? AHM A FUCKMUDDERING DEMON FER HELLS SAKE!" And with that, I pulled the sword out and stabbed the man in the heart with it. They had started to back off. The realization had come to them, this wasn't some kind of trick. I was immune to them. Bullets started to fly at me, and I could feel the sensation of hot steel fragments on my skin, yet no truly lasting pain, more like mosquito bites. "BULLETS DINA URT MEH, STEEL DINA URT MEH! I COME FER YA SOULS! YA SIGNED YE LIFES AWAY WHEN YE BECAME PIRATES, NOW STAND AGAINST DE GRIM FUCKIN REAPER FER EM!". Shotgun blast from one barrel caught a fat one clean in the chest and sent him reeling backwards into his friends. They were panicking now. The outliers were starting to rout, dropping their weapons like dead weights. Six more bullets rang out, and six more corpses hit the square. Then the true psych warfare hit.

Striking down from the sky, a single bolt of lightning obliterated the platform. Perfect timing to, that truly sent them routing. Good one Dragon.

Now... back to the Merry before I need to find out if I can fly...

At that point, the Marines began to flood the square, Smoker Leading the way. Tashigi however seemed to be charging headlong at me. Seems like... what do you call killing 14 men anyways?

"MURDEROUS SCUM!"

Okay... katana in head is WIERD feeling...

"Oh, is that so madam? Wel den, lets observe de follown few facts: One, evryone one of dem was a pirate. Two, dey attacked me after I attacked a wanted bounty, a legal act. Three, no civie casualties on my part. Four, I have a boat to catch." Those words, the fact that I was speaking with a sword in my head, and my sudden dissipation into a colorless gas seemed to leave Tashigi in a bit of shock.

Damn glad she didn't pull off some Armament Haki... Now, to flee before the big threat shows up

Fortunately, Smoker was at the time busy chasing Luffy, leaving me to get back to the Merry just s Dragon decided to whip up a storm. As the Merry was pushed out to sea by the actions of one very ticked off Devil Fruit user, I braced myself for something quite important.

What the fuck am I about to say...

The barrel had come out, and they all started.

"To be the strongest swordsman in the world."

"To draw a world map!"

"To find the All Blue."

"To be a brave warrior of the seas!"

"TO BE THE KING OF THE PIRATES!"

Here goes nothing...

"AND TO LEAVE THIS WORLD LESS FUCKED UP THEN THE ONE I KNOW!"

AN: And cut! Sorry for the delay, but I've had an old friend show back up after a few months off the grid. Next Time on We Are Where: Gateway to the Grand Line! Climb Reverse Mountain!