A/N. Here's episode 3, enjoy!

To Vampire Revan: Cool penname, and thank you for your review. And don't worry, they will be sure to cause as much havoc as possible. Hope you enjoy it.

To Umbra8191: What did I say about waiting? Thanks for the review, and here is that next chapter. Have fun reading.

To LazyFoxLover: Glad you like it, and thanks for your review. Hope you enjoy the story.

To Naomi-nami16: Thank you for your review, and now you know why I wrote it. Not enough Whitebeard fanfics out there, or fem!luffy, or ones where Sabo is alive. Boo! that sucks! Anway, enjoy!

To Thrill-Pair-All-The-Way: Thank you and I will try to keep this interesting. Here is the update.

To weirn018: Yes yes it was, thanks for the review by the way. Wait till training starts, I almost feel bad for Marco, almost.

To IndigoButterfly: Thanks for your review. Marco is more of the big brother figure, though he occasionally acts like a father to them. One more thing...How did you know? Anyway enjoy!

To Kitsumi-sama: Thanks, I thought I did horrible on it, and as for your question concerning the Straw Hats, maybe, as I'm not sure yet. And for the pairings, again not so sure. There may or may not be any. We'll just have to see.

To Shiary: Sorry about the mistakes, and thanks for the review. And he doesn't just know their devil fruits, he's just making educated guesses. Besides, you have to remember that he is a highly experienced pirate, one of the strongest. And concerning his guess toward Ace's Devil Fruit, as far as I know there are only four, and one of two of them aren't even completely flame based. The paramecia one you are probably talking about controls heat, not flames, and the other Logia is a Magma type, not flame based, and there were no specific traits mentioned that would lead to him guessing this. There is also the Mythical Zoan, which Whitebeard knows was eaten by his first division commmander. So that just leaves the Mera Mera no mi. Besides, there is only one devil fruit with one power at a time. Two devil fruits can have similar abilities, but not the exact same, meaning that if Ace ate the Mera Mera no mi, then that is it, he is the only one that has that specific Devil Fruits abilities there are no other Devil Friut like that, though there may be variations, when it comes to the flame based devil fruits, I am going by what I know currently. So sorry, but thanks for the review again. Anyway please enjoy this chapter and sorry if I sounded snippy about it.

To TheBlackSeaReaper: She wanted to shock Sabo and Ace, she was completely off target though. That will eventually stop happening, they hope. Anyway thanks for your review, and glade that you like it. I will, like always try to keep things interesting.

To nekozr: Ack! If only you had replied sooner! Sorry but no Shanks, though he is mentioned, and the kids will meet him later. So sorry, but thanks for your review.

I have fixed some of the mistakes from the last chapter and also did some corrections that I felt was neccesary. Now for the summaries and disclaimers.

Episode Summary: Marco begins training Ace and Luffy to control their abilities, all the while playing a fun game of tag with Sabo, if you can count having the boy land on you at random moment a fun game of tag. If that's not the worst part, Luffy keeps shocking him by accident and Ace keeps setting the ship on fire. The biggest question: Will he survive long enough to deal with a very angry Vice-Admiral that was able to tie with Gol D. Roger? Things just got a whole lot funner.

Disclaimer: Do not own One Piece. Oda own One Piece.


Episode 3: A Very Angry Garp's Very Big Mouth!


The Moby Dick-

Luffy and Ace were currently standing in front of Marco. It had been a couple of weeks since it had been established that they were now part of the Whitebeard family, and after making sure that they were perfectly comfortable, and that Dadan, their former caretaker, was ok with them living on the ship from now on, Marco and the others had proceeded to start the three children's training. He had managed to reduce the amount of times a week Ace accidently set fire to the ship, which was actually pretty painful, and had gotten Luffy to the point where she could hold her transformation for at least an hour. They were stillw orking with Sabo and his teleportation abilities, but at least had to go up the mast to get him now. Instead, Marco and Whitebeard had to worry about the boy landing on them. Personally Marco thought he was doing it on purpose. Like now for instance, the man hadn't even started yet and Sabo was already grinning mischievously at his brother and sister while sitting on Marco.

Marco would have yelled at him, but then he teleported away again, most likely near Whitebeard, judging from the startled yell and the sound of something breaking. Marco just sighed before finally starting today's little session. He had gotten Luffy's transformation out of the way for now, what he needed to work at with her was her control over electricity, as she had already shocked fifteen crewmembers, and she hadn't even been awake for half of it. Marco pointed to the targets he had set up and placed the four year old a good three feet from the target. He told her to try to concentrate on hitting just the target, and when he made sure she understood, he proceeded to get Ace started on his training.

In hind sight, he probably should have been keeping on the little sparkplug because not five minutes later, he found himself being turned into fried phoenix. It idn't help when Ace started laughing at him, and in a bout of non-concentration, added to the problem. And then to make matters worse, Sabo landed on top of him after another teleportation mishap, yet again. Marco really couldn't be mad at them, as they were still learning to control their powers, that didn't mean that he wasn't a bit on the fed up side as this was happening quite a bit, and Whitebeard didn't think the others could properly train a fire-user and a Mythical Zoan as well as he could. So he sat, or rather laid there, and waited until an apologetic Sabo got up and left via teleportation, this time the sounds of spilt alcohol were not heard. Luffy, being the ever sweet little girl that she was, quickly left and got the first aid kit. Really the man didn't need it thanks to his regenerative abilities, but still, it was nice that the girl cared enough to actually try and find it. He just knew she was gonna get lost again.

Ace watched as Marco stood up, looking at least somewhat apologetic, which was about as good as it would get for him. Marco gave him a slight smirk, patting him on the head, before going off in hopes of finding his sister before she got lost, which knowing his luck currently, would be impossible. But hey, the guy can hope can't he. To his utter shock though, he wound up running directly into both Sabo and Luffy. They looked panicked, and more then just a little scared. He remembered something that Dadan had told him last week concerning the kids.


Flashback:

Marco was sitting across from Dadan, having a small drink before he went back to the Moby Dick, knowing that the others could only do so much befor the kids drove them up the wall in insanity. Just as he was about to get up and say farewell, Dadan, in one of her rare moments of caring, gave him one warning.

"Those kids like you, that whole crew of pirates, which is a rare thing in itself. So I'm gonna tell you this once. Beware of their grandfather, he's a nasty man that's obsessed with making them all marines. Though I'm not sure what he was gonna do with Luffy. Probably the same with the others. The only person that they truly fear, and they don't even fear Whitebeard." She placed her cup down, and gave him one very hard stare. Marco didn't even flinch, he just gave a nod, waved good-bye and left, wishing the mountain bandits a nice day, and that he would visit some time later on.


Present-

Marco looked at Ace, who was now at the side of his siblings, looking for any way out what-so-ever. He wasn't sure if he should be afraid to, but that was answered quickly when Whitebeard himself, along with several of the commanders came out on deck. They all had serious faces. The nurses had come up as well, and were now herding the children and other subordinates below deck, the insueing fight would not be very pretty, and they didn't want naymore people to get hurt then necessary.

"So I'm guessing their grandfathers here." it was more of a question then anything else. Whitebeard just nodded, as the ship was suddenly, and quite violently, shook. Suddenly they all nearly fell on their butts as one Vice-Admiral Garp landed on deck, looking ready to gutt anyone that got in his way. Marco's eye twitched as he wondered what the furious man was doing here. He was answered though as the man hollered at Whitebeard.

"WHITEBEARD WHERE'S MY GRANDKIDS!" Everyone's eyes widened as they realized that the three kids grandfather was Garp the Fist. No wonder they were so scared. Whitebeard just camly watched before busting out into a hardy laughter,

"HAHAHAHAHA! No wonder they were so scared! You've got them fearing for their lives!" This caused the seasoned marine hero to grit his teeth in frustration. The man suddenly pointed an accusatory finger at him before yelling out,

"OH LIKE YOU SHOULD BE TALKING! KIDNAPPER!" The whole ship went so silent, so suddenly, you'd of thought everybody just died out of nowhere. When Whitebeard spoke again, to say it was as cold as Anartica, would have been like saying China's as small as Hawaii, a horribly wrong understatement.

"What are you talking about you crazy ol-" he didn't get to finish as Garp continued what had to be signs of him finally losing it,

"DON'T PLAY DUMB WITH ME WHITEBEARD! I KNOW YOU WERE GOING TO TURN THEM INTO WEAPONS!" Garp continued to shout. Now things just dropped several degrees on the ship, the man didn't take notic though. Finally Whitebeard decided he'd had enough, and viciously punched the man in the face. What in the world was their grandfather thinking, he had no idea. Turning them into weapons was one of the very last things he wanted to do. They were kids, and besides, they just wanted a secure place to belong, Whitebeard, along with his crew, had offered them that, and so much more. A loving, caring family, a warm place to stay, they were happy, absolutely ecstatic to stay with them, and they had the freedom to leave and never come back if they wanted to. But they stayed just because they liked being there. It was home to them, and Whitebeard wasn't about to ruin that for them.

"AGAIN I ASK! WHAT IN THE SEVEN LEVELS OF HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!" he finally snapped. Garp growled at the man above him before answering.

"Like I said before! Don't play dumb with me! You know as well as I do that Luffy and Ace aren't normal children." To this, Whitebeard near hit him a top the head. Of course they weren't normal! They had Devil Fruit powers for God's sake! But it seemed that that wasn't what Garp was getting at.

"You know as well as I do that Ace is the son Gol D. Roger! And Luffy's the daughter of Revolutionary Dragon!" This caused everything to freeze.


With the others-

In the back, Ace had hidden Luffy behind him, as she had no idea how much danger she was in, now that her heritage was revealed. The daughter of a criminal like Dragon, a four year old no less, was helpless against these men, though Ace wouldn't fair any better, that didn't mean he was going to just sit and watch while they murdered his and Sabo's little sister. They just got shocked looks, not fear, just surprised. Ace and Sabo didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, until all of them bust a gutt laughing. This had thrown both boys for a loop. Before one of the others came up and gave both of the children reassuring pats on the head, and several said that it was ironic that the grandchildren of a marine hero, were also the kids of two of the worlds most dangerous criminals to ever walk the earth, even if one of them was dead now thanks to that very same hero.

They relaxed slightly, but not entirely as they watched them all spout out nonsense about this and that involving their respective parents. Luffy still had no idea why Sabo and Ace had been so protective though. Someone was going to explain this to her later.


Back with Whitebeard and the commanders-

Marco growled in anger, not at the fact that the children he considered family were actually the spawn of what most people considered demons, but that their grandfather seemed to be stupid enough to blare the information out for all to hear. And judging from what he saw earlier, before everyone else had been herded down below, there were other marines here. There was no way this would be kept a secret for long. Those kids couldn't say here, not where the Navy could get them easily, it was no longer safe for them. No longer safe at all. Marco really didn't want to, as it was dangerous, but they'd have to go back to the Grand Line soon, and have to take Luffy, Ace, and Sabo with them. Marco was now having an innerwar, debating about how smart an idea it was to try and attack the marine hero. He was starting to sway towards the 'yes, it's a good idea.' side when Whitebeard did the deed for him.

Garp went flying into the railing before getting a massive foot belonging to an infuriated Whitebeard on his chest.

"Garp you fool! Do you actually think I care who their parents are! They're good kids, and have had a rough life thanks to your poor parenting skills. And the one chance they have to be happy and live peacefully is ruined because you were stupid enough to go blabbing that type of information for the whole world to hear! Are you happy now!" he hollered the man as he increased the pressure he was placing on the man's chest. He would've continued, had not one Luffy come bounding out, several nurses plus some of the crew hot on her tail, trying to catch her and bring her back inside, and proceeded to grab onto the man's leg.

"Please Pops please! Don't hurt the geezer anymore! He made a mistake, and he's sorry now! So please don't kill him!" She was weeping pitifully into his pant leg, and Whitebeard couldn't help but deflate as he watched her for a bit. Marco quickly came and picked the girl up, only pausing for a bit to let Whitebeard give the girl a reassuring pat on the head, which always seemed to help in these situations, before taking her back down to the others along with the those that had followed her up. Whitebeard turned to face Garp one last time before taking the man by the collar of his shirt, and speaking,

"You really messed up this time Garp! I hope you're happy, 'cause you really screwed up this time." he told the man before unceremoniously chucking him back down to the other marines, all of which were panicking as they tried to get everything sorted out. Marco had come back up after insuring that Luffy wouldn't make another random appearance, at least until they were far away from the other marines.

"So what now Pops? It's not safe for Luffy and Ace to stay here, and we can't just abandon Sabo. So what do we do?" he asked. Secretly, the phoenix was hoping that they wouldn't have to take them to the Grand Line with them. But things were looking dismal, and it was starting to seem like they only had two choices: Either bring the three kids with them, or leave them to the non-existant mercy of the marines. He didn't like either, as both meant risking the children's lives, and he didn't wand to do that. They were his younger siblings, and not just his, but everybody else's in the crew as well. They were apart of their family. Whitebeard didn't like the choices either but it looked like he'd have to pick. He growled lowly, cursing Garp and his stupidity a thousand times over before finally speaking,

"MAn the sails and prepare to leave! We're headed back to the Grand Line. It's the safest place for those kids right now, and as much as I don't like it, it's there only chance at surviving." Marco nodded as he chewed at his lip. He really the hated the navy right now, especially Garp.

"Aye-aye sir!" they all answered, though none of them was enthusiastic about taking them to the Grand Line. Marco made a mental note to explain to Luffy the situation later, as judging from the differences between hers and Ace's reactions, she didn't know a thing about her father.


With Luffy and her older Brothers-

Luffy, Ace, and Sabo were sitting up in their beds. Or rather Sabo sat up and calmed Ace, who couldn't sleep because of the earlier events, plus having to explain to Luffy the current problem, wasn't much fun either, as the girl seemed to have cared about as much for the fact that her father was a world renowned criminal, as she cared for a person's status in life, which couldn't have been anymore nonexistant then a tenryubiito's kindness, and they all know that that didn't exist. Suddenly the door to their room opened to reveal a very tired Marco. He gave the children a tired smile before motioning them to come closer. He talked to them quietly for a while, telling them that they were going to go to a very dangerous place, and for them to survive, they needed to listen to everything that Pops and the others told them to. The children nodded, at least semi-understanding that there was indeed a problem, and that yes indeed they may die. He then had them follow him to Whitebeard's quarters, as the man wanted to talk to Ace and Luffy personally. Sabo was supposed to be there too. Though Marco didn't know why.


At Whitebeard's headquarters-

The three children, plus Marco entered, Marco making to leave only to be stopped by an even more tired Whitebeard. Luffy carefully climbed onto Whitebeard's leg, befor settling down, a reassuring prescence that everything was fine, and that they would be good kids, and listen for at least a while. Ace and Sabo followed Luffy's example, though they didn't climd onto the old man's leg, opting for sitting in front of him silently instead. Whitebeard gave them all reassuring smiles, before he spoke, in what had to be the most fatherly voice any of them had ever heard. The children vacantly noticed the other commanders off to the side, most likely moral support for the man.

"You three, especially you Ace-" he leaned over and gave the boy a gentle pat of the head, "-and you Luffia-" for once she hadn't objected to someone using her real name, as she let the man pat her on the head, "-I want you all to know that no matter what, even if you are a demon's spawn. You will always be part of my family! You will always be accepted here in the Whitebeard crew." Ace watched in mystification as the other commanders, and appearently the rest of the crew, who had been peeking in on this, thinking they were sneaky but not really, smiled and nodded their agreement and approval. Whitebeard smiled as Ace lowered his head so nobody could see, and began to silently cry. Marco came up, an bright orange hat in his hand, and placed it on the boy's head. Ace quickly wiped away his tears as he stared in shock at the man,

"It's a birthday present, though it wasn't much of a birthday, as some idiot marines had to ruin it." Marco explained as he temperarily removed the hat to ruffle Ace's hair playfully, before placing it back on his too small head. He then got up, pulling a straw hat out, and placed it on Luffy's head.

"I won that off of one Red-Haired Shanks in a drinking contest, the guy lost royally. Promised I'd take care of it until he could win it back again. But I think you'd be able to keep it safe batter then me." he explained as the girl just gave a grin, knowing full well that the Phoenix was lying out right about the winning it off of another pirate. She could tell that he had definitely gotten it from that person though, it was more likely a gift of sorts, rather then a prize from a bet. Luffy wasn't about to tell him she knew though, and just gave a nod as she pulled the hat farther over her head. Marco grinned as she lept off of Whitebeard's lap and went to stand near her two older brothers. Whitebeard motioned that it was time to leave telling the others present,

"Alright everyone, shows over! Time for bed, we got a long couple of weeks ahead of us." he declared as everyone filed out. Everyone except Ace, Sabo, and Luffy. Luffy stepped at before asking, in a rare moment of shyness,

"Um...Can we stay here with you for the night Pops?" she was trying to be polite, which was even rarer then her shyness. Whitebeard could only give a small chuckle, before he noded his head in agreement, picking up the three children and placing them in the bed, waiting till they were fast asleep, before getting to bed himself. In his mind, along with the others of the ship who were thinking similar thoughts, especially Marco, Whitebeard swore upon his very name, 'I'll make sure those kids have the best darn life possible! Nobodies gonna hurt my kids! None of them!' he felt a new wave of over-protectiveness for his crew, who might as well have been family, wash over him, before he finally went to sleep.


A/N. What do you guys think? The reason I portrayed Garp like I did is because honestly, he seems like the type of person who would go blabbing about that kinda stuff to me when he's panicked concerning them when they were younger. Especially when it came to Ace and Luffy. Anyway, please review and see ya!

Luffy, Ace, & Sabo: Bye-bye!