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 8: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Battle at Slope
The dawn came; the Straw Hats were waiting at the island shore to ambush Kuro's pirate crew. While the Usopp Pirates were convinced by their captain not to participate, Goku, Nami, Bulma, Usopp, Zoro, Trunks, and Luffy were than enough to stop the pirates.
"I got my secret weapon to trap these guys." said Usopp with a sly grin. The long-nosed man pulled a barrel and poured it out. Gallons of oil come pouring out form a trap. Our 4 heroes waited and waited, only to have an hour to pass with no pirates.
"Where on earth did you get all that oil?" Trunks asked suspiciously.
"I know a guy," Usopp answered.
"Where are the bad guys? I want to fight them!" whined Goku with impatience.
"Yeah, they should be here now; being early is better for an attack." said Zoro.
"Wait a minute...OH NO!!" The straw hats turned to see Nami and Bulma in a panic.
"What's wrong, girls?" Trunks asked.
"Did it occur to any of you idiots that the pirates could be attacking from the OTHER slope?" Bulma asked shakily. The two thefts were really getting a bad feeling from this.
"B-But I saw the planning of the a-attack here!" stammered Usopp.
"Yeah, but what pirate would be stupid enough to meet and attack at the same place? Oh no...Our treasure and our boat are docked there too!!!" Nami shrieked.
"Damnit! "
"Shit!"
"Crap!" Luffy turned to Usopp. "How long does it take to take to get to the other slope?"
"About 3 minutes."
"I'll be there in 20 seconds! Come on, Goku!"
"Right!" With that, Goku and Luffy left the shore. Usopp and Trunks quickly followed them. Nami and Bulma turned to go as well, but Nami slipped in the oil slick, having to grab Zoro and Piccolo to hold on.
"Get off me!" Zoro growled.
"Damn bitch!" Piccolo barked.
"I'm going to fall... Hello!" Nami got out using Zoro and Piccolo's heads as stepping stones. Zoro and Piccolo, on the other hand, fell deep in the oil. Nami grabbed Bulma's hand and landed safely out of the slick.
"Sorry, boys. But it's for the treasure! You understand, right?" With that, Nami and Bulma left as well, leaving only Zoro and Piccolo stuck.
"Damn....." Zoro muttered.
"….Bitches," Piccolo finished.
Meanwhile, on the correct shore, the Black Cat Pirates were docking on the island. Jango was leading them all. He turned to his crew. "All right, men! Let's attack this village!"
"Aye-Aye!" shouted all the pirates on the ship.
"Not so fast!" The pirates all turned to see Usopp and Trunks standing ahead of them, feeling confident Usopp announced, "I, Usopp, and my pirate allies will stop you and defend this village!"
"What allies?"
Usopp turned and to his horror, no one was there. Luckily, Nami and Bulma soon arrived.
"Hey, Usopp." Nami panted. "Hey Trunks!"
"Nami! Miss Bulma! Are you going us to help attack these pirates?" Trunks asked hopefully.
"Are you drunk? Hell no! We just want to get our treasure! Leave the fighting to Luffy, Zoro, Piccolo and Goku." Bulma smiled. Trunks sweat dropped and thought, 'Perhaps mother's stories a bit off…'
"But they are not here!" Usopp cried.
"Enough chattering!" Jango was getting impatient. He turned to his men. "Kill these fools!" The pirate crew quickly charged at the small group. Trunks charged in and began to attack with sword swings and ki blasts and punches. Bulma zapped some wither ray gun. Usopp attack with his special lead stars and Nami blocked them off with her staff. A large sum were defeated; yet more kept coming. The small team closed their eyes and waited what would come. Before they could be attacked, the sounds of slashing and 2 punches were heard. Eyes were opened to reveal the sights of Goku, Luffy, Piccolo, and Zoro! They knocked back the attacking crew.
"What took you guys? We could've died!" Usopp was in a panic.
"Sorry, Goku and I got a little lost." Luffy rubbed his head in embarrassment.
"I told you north was left," Goku said. "But you didn't listen.
Zoro pointed at Nami and Bulma. "Those bitches left us to roll around in oil."
"Oh bite me, Zoro!" Nami hissed.
"Enough!" The Straw Hats turned to see a very angry Jango. "It does not matter the number of you all; more deaths for us." Jango took out his pendulum. "But better safe than sorry. One, Two, Jango! Become stronger!" His crew was caught in the hypnosis, but Luffy and Goku followed the pendulum as well. The men gave a battle cry and charged at our heroes. Luffy gave similar cry, and charged at the men.
"Don't tell that freak hypnotized you too!" screamed Zoro.
Oddly, the spell had at a different effect on Goku. The entranced Goku began to bang his head on the wall. "GRAH! THAT HURT! GRAH! THAT HURT! GRAH! THAT HUUURT!"
"He said stronger, not clueless!" said an annoyed Usopp.
"How embarrassing," Trunks mumbled rolling his eyes.
Luffy moved his fists back and forth to generate the illusion of multiple arms. He used his attack on the crew. "Gomu Gomu no Gatling Gun!" The barrage of fists hit all the attacking pirates, easy. Luffy charged at the ship now.
"Crap, this isn't good." Jango took out his pendulum again. "One, Two, Jango! Fall asleep!" The spell worked, as Luffy DID fall asleep on the ship's stem post, which was what he was attacking. The sleeping Luffy and the stem post fell on the pirates knocking them out.
IIII
Meanwhile, at Kaya's mansion, the blond girl was walking around, trying to find her butlers, who haven't made appearances all day.
"Merry! Kurohadol! Where are you guys?" Kaya stepped into a room to find Merry, still wounded from Kuro's attack the previous night. She instantly ran up to him. "Merry! Who did this to you?"
Merry barely had the strength to speak. "It was Kurohadol. He...plans to kill you and take your fortune... you must flee."
Kaya looked very shocked. "Oh my... Usopp was telling the truth! I must find Kurohadol!" Kaya quickly darted out of the room.
"No...Miss Kaya... it's too dangerous." But the plea was unheard as Kaya was long gone.
IIII
Usopp's pirate crew of 3 were just sitting around when they saw Kaya running. "Hey...That's Miss Kaya! And she's headed for the shore! She'll get hurt!" Pepper said.
"We'd better save her!" said Carrot.
"But Captain told us not to fight the pirates!" Onion mumbled.
"Yeah.... But Captain will be really mad if Kaya dies because of us!"
"Good Point." With that, the 3 boys followed Kaya, bringing weapons. A wooden bat, a frying pan, and a wooden sword.
IIIII
Meanwhile, Jango was laminating with his loss."This is not good. Captain Kuro will kill me. There must be something else."
Luffy was still asleep, and Zoro and Piccolo were eager to fight. Usopp was sitting on the sidelines, half-sure the battle was over. Trunks was scanning for the enemy and doubting a bit of the stories he was told of his parents' old pirate crew. Nami and Bulma were thinking of a way to take her treasure with no hassle.
"Very Well! Behold my trump card!" Jango snapped his fingers. "Sham, Buchi! Come out!" Two men resembling cats came out of the ship and jumped down to Jango.
"What is it, Boss?" They asked.
Jango pointed at the Straw Hats. "Kill these people!"
Sham looked horrified. "But we just guard the ship! We are not fighters!"
"Doesn't matter. You are our only hope."
"Oh fine!" Sham weakly started to run at Zoro.
"So they're a couple of pansies. What can they do?" Usopp snickered and stood back.
"I'm not sure Usopp. Something doesn't feel right." Trunk said darkly making the other wonder.
Sham walked up to Zoro with a look of fear. "Please don't hurt me!"
Zoro only smirked. "Don't worry; I won't hurt you THAT muc...." His comment was cut off by the realization that 2 of his swords were gone. "Hey! Where did....." Zoro looked at Sham, who had his swords and was smirking. "You tricked me."
"Correct. I took advantage in your drop in guard and disarmed you! Now you only have one sword to fight me! But first... introduction time! Let's go, brother!
"Right!" The duo stood up and made a pose. "We are the Meowban Brothers, Sham and Buchi! Prepare to die!" The brothers dashed at Zoro.
"Crap. I only have one sword. This sucks." Zoro mumbled.
"You mean one and a partner's," a voice came. Zoro turned and saw Piccolo standing beside him.
"When'd you get here," Zoro asked dumbly.
"Shut up and fight asshole. I can't have my only sword sparring partner die on me" Piccolo smirked making Zoro frown at his insult. But happily took the offer.
Before the brothers could attack, Goku came and blocked them both, apparently out of his trance. He kicked them both back.
"Son, what are you..." Piccolo stuttered.
"You guys had your fun. Leave this to me! I'll get your swords back." Goku smile his trademark way. The brothers charged at Goku again, but he avoided their attacks and what's more, took Zoro's swords from Sham.
"You bastard!" The brothers successfully attacked Goku with their claws, inflicting a big gash on Goku. However this did not hinder the warrior.
"I've had enough of you guys! Time to end this! Nyoibo Tornado!" Goku pulled out the red pole and began to spin it rapidly. The pole spun and moved rapidly, striking the brothers repeatedly and knocking them out.
While Jango was distracted by the battle, Nami quickly ran to the sleeping Luffy and tried to wake him up. "Damn it, Luffy, get your ass up!" However Jango saw this.
"You little bitch!" Jango threw his pendulum which doubled as a chakram, straight at Nami. Luckily Luffy woke up and caught it in his mouth. Luffy's teeth broke the chakram and the rubber human lazily stood up.
"What did I miss?" He asked groggily.
"Very disappointing, Jango." Everyone turned to see Kuro standing the tip of the slope. Obviously, he wasn't happy.
"Captain, I...." Jango stammered, shaking in fear,
"Silence!" Kuro took a few steps and stopped. "I entrusted you to begin the plan, and I see you failed me. Luckily, I am a forgiving person. Do something to fix this or you will pay!
"Understood!" Jango took out a spare pendulum and walked up to a wounded Buchi. "One, Two, Jango! Become Stronger!" While everybody was trying to grasp the situation, a familiar voice was heard.
"Kurohadol!"
With the exception of Jango, who was still hypnotizing Buchi, and Nami and Bulma who were stealing treasure from the pirate ship, everyone turned again to see the source of the voice. It was Kaya! She had a pistol out pointed at Kuro.
"You don't want to shoot me, Kaya." Kuro said smoothly.
"I don't want to, Kurohadol. But please stop this! Don't you remember all the good times we had when you served me?" Kaya begged.
Kuro chuckled slightly. "Kaya, I'm afraid it was all a ruse. For 3 years, I focused on earning all the villagers' respect and thus getting closer to your fortune. I never cared about you at all."
Kaya looked horrified. "You didn't..." Her shock was so great that she dropped her pistol.
"You heartless bastard!" Trunks barked throwing a ki blast at Kuro which he easily dodged my leaning to the right.
Meanwhile, Buchi had recovered and was rushing at Goku, who was too distracted to counter. Luckily, Zoro was not. "Lion's song!" Zoro used his only sword to attack Buchi. While Buchi recoiled, Zoro took his swords from Goku.
"I'll take these. Tiger Hunt!" Zoro's 3 swords attack finished off Buchi. The now recovered crew saw this.
"Wow! He defeated Buchi, even after Jango hypnotized him!"
Back to Kuro Kaya was still in shock. Kuro simply chuckled, however Usopp stood up and stood between Kaya and Kuro. Trunks hid the same.
"It ends here, Kuro. You will pay for your crimes!" Usopp said boldly.
"You can't stop me, you play pirates." With his cat claws, Kuro slashed rapidly at the two, dealing a good amount of damage.
"Usopp, Trunks!" Before a finishing blow can be dealt, 3 more familiar voices ringed out.
"Leave our captain and first mate alone!" Pepper, Onion, and Carrot were standing, weapons at the ready.
"What are you doing here? I told you guys not to come!" Usopp shouted.
"Sorry, Captain! But we can't let you or Kaya die!" Pepper said.
"Well in that case, take Kaya and run!" Trunks ordered. The boys quickly took Kaya and headed for the woods. This was not overlooked by Kuro.
"Jango, follow them! I won't let them escape!" Jango quickly got up and followed the party.
"Why you!" Usopp slowly got up, look of anger in his eyes. "I can't believe you! You don't care about Kaya at all? You lived with her for 3 years!"
"Not at all."
"What an unredeemable scumbag." Said Zoro.
"Who wants to redeem HIM?" said Luffy.
Suddenly Usopp fell down. "Damn...... I got to save Kaya!"
Luffy had an idea. "Oi, Zoro. You, Piccolo, Goku, and Trunks go with Usopp while I take on Kuro."
"All by yourself Luffy-san?" Trunks asked.
Zoro and Goku wasted no time, picked up Usopp and pulling Trunks, and headed for the woods.
"Who allowed you to climb this slope?" Kuro reached to attack our heroes.
"I did! Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" Kuro avoided the punch, but Usopp and the others quickly ran off, leaving only Luffy, Kuro, and the Black Cat Pirates on the sidelines. Luffy tried to again Kuro again, the butler warped out of the way.
"Hey... how did he do that?"
"It's my skill, for I have super-human speed. Before we fight, I have one question. Why are you, an outsider, trying to protect this village?"
"Cause there's someone I don't want you to kill. Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" Kuro simply jumped on Luffy's extended arm, avoiding the attack.
"You are boring me, boy." Kuro ran on Luffy's neck and kicked him in the head, knocking him back. Luffy stumbled around before getting up
"Damn.... I cut my lip."
"Nice shot, Captain Kuro!" screamed the pirates.
"You fools; do not call me that!" Luffy looked confused at Kuro's words.
"You still don't understand, do you? My plan is to do away with Captain Kuro!"
IIIII
Meanwhile, the 3 boys and Kaya were running away from Jango through the forest.
"Don't worry, Miss Kaya! No one will catch in these woods!" Onion said bravely.
"Thank you all." mumbled Kaya. Suddenly, she collapsed and began to break in a cold sweat.
"Hey! She's sick! We need to find a doctor!" said Onion.
"No time, baka! Our lives are in danger!" Carrot squeaked.
BUZZ. The boys looked up to see nearby trees cut down and Jango staring at them.
"Oh crap, it's that hypnotist!"
IIII
"Three years ago, I had a reputation as one of the most fearsome pirates on the East Blue. But every day, I was either hounded by bounty hunters or marines. I had no peace! So one day, I decided to end it all the attention. By using one of my own crewmates as a decoy, I was able to convince the marines that I was dead, when in reality my crewmate died for me! I was finally free of being a pirate, and able to construct my plans…And my plans never go off course!!" Kuro lunged at Luffy, but Luffy defended by picking up a rock and blocking the hit. "So stretching is not your only skill." Kuro's blades were caught in the rock.
"Nope! I've been training to be a pirate! And if you want to compare plans, I have bigger ones!" Luffy slammed the rock at Kuro, breaking his finger blades.
"Hey, that guy broke the Captain's blades!"
"You rubber fool!" Kuro got up. "I'm going to kill you, and show you the powers of a true pirate!" Kuro started to slouch back and forth. While this confused Luffy, the Black Cat pirates were terrified.
"Captain, wait! If you use that move, you'll kill us too!"
"That's the idea. You're just pawns in my plan. I don't need you anymore. You have outlived your need, and that goes for Jango!"
"But captain..." said the pirates.
"Shakushi!!!" Kuro disappeared from the area. At this point Nami and Bulma had reappeared with bags full of treasure.
"What a shame, I thought there was more treasure. Hey.... what's going on? Is the fight over?" Bulma asked.
"Nope, but something is giving me a bad feeling about this," Nami shivered.
The black cats began to shiver in fear when suddenly, one pirate got slashed.
"Oh no, it's starting!"
"What is doing? Where did he go?" Luffy was very confused.
"It's the captain's ultimate move; he goes around and slashes everything in sight. But, he doesn't know what he's cuttin......" the pirate was cut off when Kuro slashed him, causing him to fall down. Soon, more and more pirates began to get slashed, each begging Kuro to stop. Luffy just stood there, while Nami and Bulma were horrified.
"What the.... everyone is getting cut by an invisible blade!!"
Anger rose within Luffy. Kuro had no regard for his crewmates, and they were being killed by him."Show yourself, butler!!!" screamed Luffy, despite being slashed himself. Before Kuro could strike again, Luffy grabbed him, canceling his attack, and threw at him at a wall.
"Damn you!" Kuro quickly got up. "Because of you, my pawns had to suffer without your death! Time to die!" Before anything could happen, Luffy latched on to Kuro, stopping his movement.
IIIII
Jango walked up to the boys. "Now I found you! Prepare to die!" But Jango was stopped by a familiar weapon.
"Nyoibo, extend!" Goku's red pole managed to stop Jango in his tracks. Nearby, Zoro cut down a branch allowing Usopp to attack Jango.
"Take this, hypnotist! Exploding Star!!" An explosive struck Jango, knocking him out. It was over..... For this part of the fight.
IIIII
"Release me now!!" Kuro barked.
"No! You have no care for your crewmates! You call yourself a pirate?! Pirates care for their nakama! But now I'll finish you! Gomu Gomu no....." Luffy extended his head backwards.
"No! My plan..... My plan cannot fail!"
"Kane!" (Bell) Luffy slammed his head into Kuro, defeating him and breaking his glasses. Now the battle was over.
