The Deadly Doctor
"I suggest you train your new energies, such as Ki and Magic. They will benefit you greatly when we have to fight others with similar abilities. I also suggest gathering a crew, it'll make grabbing the One Piece easier."
"One Piece? What is that and why should I search for it?"
"Not going to comment on the whole 'gather a crew' thing?"
"I was the one who trained Obito and I fought in wars for nearly all my life, I am not averse to being a leader of groups large and small; and I certainly understand the benefits of having back up and delegating tasks. Now, you're avoiding the question: what is One Piece?"
"The One Piece is the legacy of Gol D. Roger, the former king of pirates. The One Piece was used as a means of undermining the World Government and their Marines. It is theoretically the largest amount of gathered wealth and knowledge in the world. At his execution he declared that if anyone wanted it they could have it; if they could get to first. To posses the One Piece is to be the new king of pirates and to be the uncontested strongest man on the planet. Considering the saiyan we saw and just how ludicrously weak and pathetic he was (and the fact that he had no scanner), I doubt that this planet will be under attack soon by anything you cannot counter; however it is inevitable that the… unique resources of this planet will be discovered and many, many people will come looking for the quick power boost."
"So I'm to become a pirate then? Ehh, why not? I don't have anything better to do anyway. TIME TO RAPE AND PILLAGE! WOOOO! Wait, what 'unique resources' are you talking about?"
"Devil Fruits. They grant you one potentially incredible powerful or downright stupidly useless powers in exchange for your ability to swim and giving you a rather significant weakness to seastone, the hardest material on the planet."
"So not worth my time then I presume?" New weaknesses are never a good thing, especially when what you gain isn't guaranteed to be even remotely worth it.
"No, most likely not. You have plenty of power already and an ability to rapidly grow stronger thanks to your Gamer status. Speaking of, you should see about using those points you gained from killing the saiyan; I'm pretty sure you leveled up. Also, check his body for anything of use."
After thoroughly searching the arrogant fool of saiyan and finding nothing of interest, I cut off and sealed his head before burning his body; I had no desire to see this fool resurrected and I personally had no use for him. I took his head in case he had a bounty(though i doubted it) he was in no way worthy of being a trophy (other than being the first sentient life form I killed in this world and the first saiyan). I set out to find myself a crew… and a boat. As I was walking something occurred to me. "You know, that saiyan doesn't explain why everyone is missing on this island. He really didn't seem the sort to employ any form of subtlety."
"I Agree, we still don't know what happened he-"
"Hello good sir, how are you on this fine day?"
I quickly jerked around trying to find the source of the voice, I was shocked at what I saw. There standing behind me dressed in a black suit and fedora with a metal attaché case in his hand… was a skeleton wearing a rubber mask of a cheery old man. "Who… what are you?"
"Me? I'm a doctor, Dr. Sawbones to be specific. And you are?"
"Madara Uchiha. Dr. Sawbones? Really, fucking sawbones? What, Murderer McPsychopath taken?" I noticed he hadn't acknowledge being a skeleton but I was new to this world and skeletons might be perfectly normal for all I knew.
"There not. There are some undead in this world but only rarely and very few living skeletons." So I should be wary of this… Doctor.
"I'll have you know the Sawbones name is a very well respected name in the under- IN society" Under? As in Underworld? Curious… and apparently his name is a sore point for him.
"You must admit it's a very strange name to humans But as I can see you're not human I understand why you wouldn't understand that." I wanted to see how he would react to his extraordinarily weak cover being blown.
I watched his posture stiffen for a moment before he swung the briefcase at me. As I dodged the blow he flicked numerous scalpels at me from his free hand, they slid out of his sleeve so fast it looked (to any inferior eyes) like they had simply appeared out of thin air. Blocking the scalpels with a chakra rod(damn I need some kunai) in one hand I formed a hand seal with the other and blew a fireball at him.
Searching the smoke I dodged a bonesaw aimed at my neck from the side and thrust my chakra rod at the 'good' doctor sliding it right between his ribs. Unfortunately he had no actual organs and the blow meant nothing, however I jammed the rod down and cracked his ribs apart.
He jumped back, holding a hand to his ribs; the mask on his face was grimacing now. Apparently the mask can change expression, Interesting. He flicked more scalpes at me and I used shinra tensei to send them right back at him. My sharingan predicted where he would land as he dodged and I sent a lightning infused water bullet at him. The bullet struck true and he was blown apart in a shower of bones and medical equipment(manly scalpels and saws).
I approached the pile that used to be a doctor and was mildly surprised when I heard his voice coming from his now maskless skull.
"Good shot, my boy. However I will regenerate from this damage and we might well be fighting forever. How droll." I was about to ningendo the smug bastard when the guide(I really need to think up a name for him) interrupted.
"He said he was a doctor right? If you're gonna start a crew having a nigh unkillable doctor who was capable of injuring you in a fight will be a significant boon." He Injured me? I looked down and saw numerous scalpels imbedded in my chest, my regeneration starting to push them out.
"You raise a good point, though I could just rip out your soul. However, you mentioned being a doctor; are you any good?"
"Am I any good? Boy I'm the best doctor in the underworld! I have stitched so many zombies and demons together in my time I've lost count." Apparently he no longer felt a need to keep his origins a secret from me.
"Could you work on humans?" If he couldn't then this whole thing would be pointless.
"Well yes, that's why I came here, my boy. I wanted to see if zombie and human anatomy was close enough for me to easily expand my skills. The only difference I noticed was that people die a lot easier and tend to bleed a lot." I didn't ask if his 'patients' were willing or not; I really didn't care.
"Well, in that case I have an offer for you. You see I'm starting a pirate crew and I find myself in need of a doctor. You see where I'm going with this, right?"
"You want me to join you, right? Why should I?"
"Well, for one I can offer you a limitless supply of people to study and experiment on or whatever you plan on doing with them, I can offer adventure, fame, fortune, and companionship. You seem to be quite lonely here on this empty island and I rather doubt you left this underworld of yours alone just to study humans; and even if you did why haven't you gone back?"
"Because I got kicked out…"
"What was that?" Heard him clearly but wanted him to say it louder, can't have a member of my crew having undealt with issues that could fuck us over later.
"{Sigh} I said I was kicked out…"
"Why?"
"For malpractice… I sorta killed the vampire king's son in surgery because he was a prick." So don't fuck with the medic, eh?
"We'll, killing crew members will not be tolerated unless I specifically tell you otherwise, but if you can keep from doing that I can promise you you will always have a place on my ship." I had learned in my delusional years seeking peace that loyalty could be bought with friendship given to the lonely. Though I didn't plan to betray my crew I did want them loyal.
"...Alright, I'm in."
