Hey guys

and here we have another chapter for Confusing Reality. To one of my reviewers who was confused because of the strawhat. Luffy does have his strawhat. In my Story Roger gets the hat from Shiro once they were older in the original time line. That they somehow appeared in Luffys time and the original time line is still continued is something I don't think I will explain for quite some time in the Story. So Shiro still has his strawhat with a different band and Luffy still has his strawhat which he was given from Shanks who got it from Roger in the past. Hope I could clear that for you.

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Ygg

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Chapter 4: Marine Lieutenant "Axe Arm Morgan"

The townspeople were shocked at that. Sweating profusely, they begun shouting. "Th...this is bad...! Who are they?!" "He dared to hit the Lieutenant's son...! Lieutenant Morgan won't forgive him!"

Coby and Roger meanwhile had a troublesome time keeping Luffy from hitting Helmeppo again. "Luffy-san! Calm yourself! They are marines!" Coby said without stuttering. "I don't care! A bastard is still a bastard." Luffy said while gritting his teeth in anger. "Y...Y...YOU DARE TO HIT ME?! MY DAD HASN'T EVEN HIT ME ONCE!" Helmeppo shouted out. "I'm Marine Lieutenant Morgan's son! I'll tell him about this!" He continued to shout almost crying and he got a bloody nose. The townspeople drew back in fear at the threat. "He's pretty pathetic." Shiro muttered. "Why don't you fight me yourself?" Luffy seethed.

*Because he is a bastard who can't fight!* Roger thought. "Luffy-san, don't do this!" Coby shouted. "You'll regret hitting me! You'll get a death sentence for it!" Helmeppo said while grining sinisterly at them. "Considering our choice of profession we already have that." Roger mumbled. "And my dad will be the one who executes you!" He shouted while running away with two marines. "That was even more pathetic. Honestly it wont work, Luffy." Shiro said while Roger nodded along. "It's meaningless to hit people like him." Luffy said while nodding to his two friends and plopping his straw hat on again. "He run away..." Coby mumbled weakly.

"Onii-chan, you were so cool! Just then I was scared to death!" The little girl spoke to Luffy. "Really? I should have hit him a couple more times!" Luffy said his arms crossed in front of his chest. Shiro rolled his eyes. "Seriously? He wouldn't have stood after the second hit." Roger said mildly. "Ri...Rika!" A woman shouted at the girl. "Come here! Don't talk to strangers! You'll be executed too if you were mistaken as one of their friends!" Rika's mother continued while the three pirates stared at them.

"Mom, they're good people! And so is Zoro..." Rika tried to defend them. "Don't be silly! Did you sneak into the exection site again?!" Her mom shouted. "No...no I didn't...!" Rika said unsure. "Come back into the house quickly!" Her mother ushered her into the house while Rika looked back to the three pirates and the marine wannabe. Luffy, Shiro and Roger were all smiling broadly and waving their hands.

"Bye Bye!" They said in unison. While Coby stood a bit behind them unsure. "Looks like we're gonna be in a lotta trouble! Coby begun shouting. *Dramaqueen* Roger and Shiro thought. "If the Lieutenant gets mad he might send marines after us...!" *They will be after us sooner or later.* Shiro thought. "We'll deal with it when the time comes!" Luffy said still smiling broadly. "I'm gonna go talk to Zoro." He ended. Both Roger and Shiro sighed at that. "We have your back." The two said in unison and walked after Luffy.

~Marine Base - Main Building~

Inside a darkened office was a man who was smoking. "I am..." the man begun saying, looking out of the window behind his desk. "great!" he finished. A marine officer was saluting this figure. "Yes! Because you are the Lieutenant, Lieutenant Morgan!" The officer sayed still saluting. "But lately, the offerings seems to be..." Lieutenant Morgan begun. "decreasing?" it was said in a questioning tone.

The officer begun to sweat from that question. "Ah! That...about the money for the offering..." he faltered. "The citizens have their financial problems too..." The officer said with a fake smile plastered over his face. "It's not a matter of financial problems..." Morgan answered while glancing back at the officer. "It's because they don't respect me!" Morgan said dangerously.

"DAD!" the bastard son crashed into the room. "What's the matter, Helmeppo?" Morgan asked calmly. "I want to kill a certain someone." The son answered visibly annoyed to hell.

~At Zoro's prison ground~

"Yo." Luffy greeted the bound up swordman. "It's you again?" Zoro asked annoyed. "I told you, I don't wanna be a pirate..!" Shiro and Roger were watching them a distance away. "He won't have much of a choice now..." Shiro mumbled. Back to Luffy and Zoro. "I'm Luffy. They are Roger and Shiro. If I loosen up the ropes, then you're gonna join us, okay?!"

"Talk about politely blackmailing someone..." Roger said as both he and Shiro recovered from the faceplant. "I have things that I need to do." Zoro answered seriously. "Besides I'm not going to be a bad guy like a pirate." He finished his short speech. "Why are always the pirates seen as bad guys!" Shiro shouted. "That's the difference? Besides..." Luffy answered seriously too. "Everyone already thinks you are a bad guy." *Ouch*

"I don't care what they say about me! I haven't done one thing that I regretted in the past and it will be the same for the future!" Shiro and Roger watched Zoro with new interest before approaching the pair. "I won't become a pirate!" Shiro made a faceplant and Roger looked heavensward. "I don't care! You are going to join me!" Shiro and Roger smiled. "Welcome to the crew..." "DON'T DECIDE THINGS LIKE THAT YOURSELVES!" Zoro shouted with sharklike teeth.

"Hey, I heard that you use Katana, is that right?" Roger asked. "...! Hrm... if I'm not being tied up, I could use a Katana." Zoro answered miffed. "Hey Shiro can you lend him your Katana?" Zoro looked to Shiro shocked that he was a swordsman. "No." Shiro said absolutely cold. "Why ever not?" Roger asked. "Do you remember the last time YOU tried to pick it up?" Rogers face turned ashen.

"Nevermind."

Luffy and Zoro blinked at that display. "So...where is your Katana?" Luffy asked Zoro as Roger and Shiro bickered in the background. "That bastard kid took it. It's something that I treasure most... other than my life...!" Zoro answered. Shiro's eyes glinted strangely at the word treasure. "Ohh?" Luffy said. "Treasure, huh? It must be something great!" Shiro answered the unasked question. "The treasure of a heart..." he whispered.

"Okay! I'm gonna go to where the bastard kid is.. and get your Katana back!" Luffy decided while pointing at Zoro. "What?!" Zoro asked shocked. "but if you want me to return it to you, you'll have to join our crew." Shiro smirked and Roger hid his face in his hand. "THAT'S DIRTY!" Zoro exploded. "Oi! Wait!" Zoro tried to stop Luffy. "Ok! I'm going!" Luffy shouted as he ran. "...is he planning on sneaking into the base? What a fool...!" Zoro said.

"Hmm? No Luffy won't sneak into the base..." Roger answered distracted as he and Shiro had begun to play poker. "What?" Zoro asked. "Luffy will fight them head on." Shiro answered.

~At the top of the marine base~

"OKAY! THAT'S THE RIGHT POSITION!" Someone shouted. "Lift the statue!" as we now see several people and a statue.

"Dad! That kid hit me! Why won't you help me take revenge?!" Helmeppo shoutet at his father, his eye still swollen. "Even you haven't hit me before!" He continued shouting. "...! Do you know why I never hit you?" Morgan asked seemingly calm. "YES, BECAUSE I'M YOUR..." Helmeppo answered before he was interrupted. "Yes, because you are..." Morgan slowly stated getting up. "A BASTARD SON THAT'S NOT WORTH HITTING!" He ended while punching his son full force with the axe.

"Arghg" Helmeppo cried out while flying away. "Why do I have to..clean up your mess?" Morgan asked calmly. "You can do a lot of things in my name but I only punish those who oppose me!" He stated. "Don't misunderstand you are not the great one here! It's your father!" Morgan said leaning in towards Helmeppo threatening. Helmeppo only cried. "Me!" Morgan shouted.

"Rumor says a little mouse sneaked into the execution site. Is it true?" Morgan asked turning away from his son. "Huh...? O...Oh you mean that little girl..." Helmeppo answered unsurly. "I've already..." He haven't got the chance to finish. "Have you executed her?!" Morgan asked forcefull turning around again. "HUH? No..She...she's still a little girl..." Helmeppo said holding his hands up. "She didn't even realize her mistake..."

"Hey, you! Go into town and kill her!" Morgan ordered a random marine soldier. "WHA.."

"I don't care how old she is. Whoever opposes me WILL die!"

~Back to Shiro, Roger and Zoro~

"Why aren't you two following him?" Zoro asked the two.

"Captain-chan is gonna take care of it on his own." Shiro stated sipping a bit tea having enough of poker. "Besides if he needs help we would hear him." Roger countered also sipping his tea. Suddenly Shiro twitched. "I suppose it is good we didn't go with him..." Roger said eyeing Shiro warily. "Huh? Why not?" Zoro asked before a massive killing intent washed over before it was over. "I will kill that murderous bastard painfully." Shiro said plainly.

~Back to the marines~

"But...but Lieutenant! She's just a little girl! ...! I couldn't do that to her...!" the random marine spoke out.

"Couldn't do it, huh? You are a marine captian right?" Morgan asked advancing to the poor marine captain. "And the rank of captain is lower than the rank of lieutenant... isn't it?" he asked slowly. "Y...yes sir." The marine answered scared.

"In that case you have no right to go against my order!" Morgan spit out a vein visible. "If I order you to go, then you will go!"

"I can't...!" The marine answered through he was scared shitless. "YOU TRAITOR!" Morgan yelled swinging his axe and hitting the marine with it. "Uwaaaaaaaaaah" Helmeppo screamed. "...! You didn't have to do that...!" Helmeppo managed to get out. "Cap...Captain!" A few fellow marines cried out going towards the fallen man. "Nevermind... for the sake of reminding the citizens.. I'll go there myself." Morgan said holding his arm turned axe.

"With this arm, I rose to the rank of Lieutenant. Rank is the most important thing in the world!" He ranted. "I am the highest ranking officer in this base, which means I'm the greatest one here...! Great men don't make mistakes! Do you all agree...?!" He asked looking up. "You are absolutely correct, Lieutenant!" "Yes sir!" The marine soldiers shouted out paniced. "Look! This is a symbol of my power!" Morgan shouted pointing towards a statue of himself being pulled by a few other marines. "A statue that has been finished today after years of work! Now stand up my great statue at the highest point of this base!" He continued to rant.

~Meanwhile with Luffy~

He stood in frong of the base entrance having circled the whole thing. "That's strange, there isn't any marine around." He stared at the base. "Are they having a meeting?" He pondered out loud. "Nevermind the Katana, I can't even find that idiot son like this." he continued sighing.

~At the top of the base~

"Pull! Pull!" The marines shouted until an arm scraped the exit towards the lower levels of the base. "Hey! Hold on a second...! Just now... you damaged my statue!" Morgan rounded on a marine. "S...sorry Lieutenant! I was being careless." The marine answered scared.

~Back to Luffy~

"Huh?" Luffy said looking up. "There seemse to be people up there?" He asked wondering. "Let's go up and see!" He suddenly said cheerfully crouching down and suddenly threw a rubber band up there which attached itself on the edge of the building. "Banji-jump." Luffy said while kicking off. "Reverse!" And he was shooting up.

~To the marines we go~

"Do you know how long I've been looking forward to the completion of this statue...?! And you went ahead and damaged it...!" Morgan said angrily. "I'm sorry! I'll go fix it right away...!" The marine replied frightened. "This statue represents me...! Damaging it meand that you don't respect me!" Morgan said plustering himself up.

~To Shiro, Roger and Zoro~

"I suddenly want to mince a statue to dust." Roger and Shiro said at the same time. "You two are the most weird people I ever met." Zoro said shaking his head. "By the way why don't you two untie me?" Shiro and Roger just looked at him as if he was stupid. "Surely you don't think that we don't think that you will think that you could ran away?" Shiro asked.

~Back to the marines again~

"Do you understand?" Morgan shouted ready to stirck while Luffy flew up in the back ground. "Oh no... I'm going to fast!" Luffy said worried holding his strawhat. "What is that?!" "Something flew up from down there...!" The random marines shouted shocked. Luckily for Luffy he managed to catch the ropes hoding Morgans statue thus pulling the marines holding the rope with him a bit.

"Stopped at last!" Luffy shoutet *Shiro would have me if he knew what happened just now...* He thought. While jumping down on the ceiling completly intact. Through the statue wasn't that lucky and brok in the middle. "Hmm?!" Luffy said staring at the statue while holding one rope in his hand. *Now I suddenly feel like Shiro and Roger are proud.*

While the statue was crumbling down everyone stared at it slackjawed. "S..." Luffy began waving them a hi. "Sorry." In that moment the rest of the statue landed on the ground with a resounding crack. "Capture him! I'm gonna kill him!" Morgan yelled out with more veins visible. "Y.." "Yes sir!" The marines shouted.

"Dad, it's him!" Helmeppo shouted his eyes almost bugging out of his face while pointing at Luffy. "He's the one who hit me! I told you he's no good!" Luffy only noticed Helmeppo before grabbing him. "I've been looking for you!" He said seriously. "WAAAA! Let me go! Dad, help...help me!" The bastard son shouted while Luffy already set into the main building dragging Helmeppos with him.

~With Shiro, Roger and Zoro~

"Go Luffy!" Shiro shouted before laughing. "What's up with him?" Zoro asked Roger. "Don't ask me but somehow Shiro always knows what Luffy is up to. It is creepy." Roger said while shuddering.

~The main base top~

Lieutenant! Someone's at the execution site!" a marine said while pointing. "What...?! Another traitor! Have them all killed...!" Morgan said through clenched teeth.

~With Shiro, Roger and Zoro~

"What?! Luffy-san is inside the base? Alone!" Coby yelled at Shiro and Roger. "Hey now it's not like it would do any good if we were with him right now." Roger said. "He's too hotheaded...!" Coby mumbled. "Yea you're right. Anyway, who are they?" Zoro said. "Hey don't ignore us!" Roger shouted.

"Oi! If you help me, they are going to kill you!" Zoro said. Whie Corby tried to untie the knot. "Shiro he is freeing Zoro." Roger said to Shiro. Shiro only grinned a bit sharklike. "You shouldn't be arrested!" Coby said quitely. "I can't stand those kinds of marines. I'm going to become a real marine! Just like the way Luffy-san is determined to become the pirate king!" Corby said determined.

"What?" Zoro asked shocked and glancing at the two other people here. "P...pirate king...?! You are joking right?"

"Heheh...I was a bit shocked when I first heard him but he's serious!" Corby said brightening up. "'Bit shocked' is and understatement." Roger said lightly. "I only remember him saying 'impossible' many times." Shiro added. Before either of the three to four could do anything it seemed Corby was hit. Zoro, Shiro and Roger stared flatly at the top of the marine base.

~To Luffy~

"They're over there! Stop where you are!" A following of marines shouted at Luffy. "Where's Zoro's Katana?!" Luffy asked determined Helmeppo again while dragging him along at the throat. "I'll tell, I'll tell! Just stop dragging me!" Helmeppo shouted grabbing at Luffys arm.

Hope you enjoyed it and leave me a lot of Reviews.

Ygg