Mystoria Island:
"ACEEE!" Luffy yelled in a panic as he saw no one but Ace as he charged towards him running at full speed. Before Luffy could make it back to Ace a blur of blue and yellow fire known as Marco the Pheonix stopped right in front of him. Instantly with memories clouding his mind, Luffy let out a massive wave of haki.
"What the shit!? That kid has conquerors!" a pompadoured man exclaimed as he saw many of his crewmates struggle to stay on their feet.
With Marco momentarily distracted by the haki, Luffy resumed his running and stood in front of the unconscious Ace in a protective stance. "I won't let you have Ace!" Luffy hissed as he looked Whitebeard straight in the eye with a determined glint in his eye.
'Is this kid challenging pops?' Marco thought, 'how crazy is this crew?!' he thought as he watched what was going on. "Gurararara! Brat, are you challenging me now?" Whitebeard said with an interested laugh. "All we want is for Ace to join us as a son and brother," Whitebeard explained with a soft look.
After Whitebeard said that Luffy snapped out of his memories and fell out of his stance. "So your gonna be his...Father?" Luffy asked for clarification and he was met with nods from everyone who didn't pass out.
Marco who had hidden his presence slowly throughout the ordeal quickly turned into his phoenix form and shot towards Ace. he grabbed Ace with his talons just as Luffy started to react and was about to fly off but then Luffy latched onto Ace's legs as they flew higher, Marco sighed and flew to the water to shake him off.
When they were over the water Luffy grit his teeth as Marco started doing barrel rolls in the air trying to knock him off. Luffy flung his body in the air trying to get on top of Marco but instead, Marco shot off in the direction of the famous Moby Dick leaving him to fall.
"Ahhhhhh! Deucyyyyyyy!" Luffy yelled out in horror as he fell to the sea Luffy was too far out to grab anything on shore so all he could do is fall. On the shore, Duece came running back and cursed turning to Whitebeard he glared. "LUFFY! Dammit, he just tried to stay with his brother and now you're going to KILL him!?" Duece said looking Whitebeard in the eye. Duece saw Whitebeards eyes widen in realization, "He's a devil fruit user?" Whitebeard said and looked to where Luffy was falling to the sea and saw him about to hit the water.
"Thatch-" Whitebeard started but the pompadoured man called Thatch was already moving. "Already on it pops, Jozu throw me." He said with a serious face and so the big man picked Thatch up and threw him in the direction of where Luffy just hit the water. Thatch hit the water and immediately opened his eyes to start the search.
With the sea water stinging his eyes Thatch finally caught a glimpse of Luffy and started swimming faster as his lungs burned to reach him. Thatch broke the surface and immediately cursed as Luffy's head lolled onto his shoulder, "Where's Namur when you need him?!" he cursed and started to swim as fast as he could towards the shore once he saw the team ready and waiting for him.
When a wave almost pulled both of them under and Luffy didn't react in the slightest bit a pang of fear went through his body and he started to push his body to swim even faster. "Damn Turkey,' he thought as he swam.
After many stressful minutes, for Thatch and those on shore Thatch dragged Luffy onto the sand let the team of nurses take over. Thatch took a moment and stared at the nurses nervously as they started CPR before sitting down to rest his limbs.
Once Thatch hit the ground He noticed Deuce walking up behind him and stopping next to him. With a worried glance to Luffy Duece sat down next to Thatch and sighed, "Luffy's pretty strong you know. Pretty damn close to Ace in terms of power. He'll fight-" just as Deuce started to say it they heard a cough and many sighs of relief.
"So his name is Luffy then." Thatch said and smiled.
"A little warning," Deuce started which got everyone's attention, "He's unconscious right now, so is Ace I presume." he got a nod. "You better hope he's still unconscious when Luffy wakes up." Deuce finished and he smirked at the confusion written on everyone's expressions.
"Let me put it this way, anyone who made a move on Luffy since I joined was beaten into oblivion," Deuce said and some faces turned to one of understanding while the others turned to shock.
"I see. If you would like then you can tail us with your ship while we treat the two brothers." Whitebeard said, and Deuce nodded not wanting to make any more trouble then there already is.
On the Moby Dick:
"Oi Marco, Pops is calling a meeting with the commanders." Thatch said barging into Marco's room where he was doing paperwork. "Oh, and you almost killed that kid. Luffy," Thatch added with a hint of anger in it. Marco sighed abandoning the paperwork and then following Thatch to the meeting room.
Once they got there the meeting began, "What this about me killing that brat?" Marco asked with an uninterested look on his face. Thatch then stepped forward and explained.
"The brat that was hanging onto Ace was actually his brother." Thatch started and Marco's eyes widened a fraction, "Not only that but he was actually a devil fruit user. When you shook him off he fell into the water and nearly drowned." Thatch explained and Marco's expression turned to a worried one.
"He's unconscious in the med bay but that brings us to the main reason for this meeting. All you Pops," Thatch said answering the unspoken question and Whitebeard nodded in thanks. "Thanks, son, now Izo. How do we not know about the relationship of the Spades?" Whitebeard said and the mentioned man flinched.
"The only info we found on the crew was from observing, and newspaper, rumors you know that kind of stuff. None of the crew seemed close, they talked to each other but there wasn't any concrete evidence that they were close to each other. So it's just like we told you." Izo said but a deep frown formed, "But we now know they are close and that the captain had his brother on that ship. The brother isn't even supposed to be apart of the crew, he wasn't there when we observed them."
After Izo said that everyone went over what they knew about the two brothers currently in the med bay. "That brat… Luffy he has conquerors haki and it's strong." Jozu said and everyone nodded remembering what happened.
"I wonder if Ace has it? We know they both have devil fruits but we only know that Ace has the Mera Mera no Mi. Luffy's is unknown." Thatch said and then Whitebeard spoke up. "Okay then, Marco I want you to head down to the med bay and Check the condition of the brats." Marco nodded and the meeting ended with the commanders going back to what they were doing before.
"Thatch-yoi," Marco said successfully getting the cook's attention, "I'm going over to the Ace's ship before I head down to the Med Bay to see if there is any info we should know about them," Marco said and Thatch grinned.
"Yeah, we wouldn't want something to happen to our soon to be brothers." Thatch said and followed after Marco. Marco gave a smirk, 'yeah pops probably will want both of them now,' he thought before walking to the figurehead and transforming then he grabbed Thatch as he took off.
Over on the Spadille, the watch had just notified everyone of who was coming and now everyone was panicking on the deck. "Duece! What're we gonna do!?" Pinnacle was yelling running all around but Duece just sighed and shrugged. "We'll probably just avoid the whole ' know like half lie and half-truth." Duece said calmly which slightly calmed the crew members down slightly.
Marco landed on the main deck dropping Thatch before and then looked across the deck for someone who seemed to be in charge. "How can I help you guys?" Duece asked walking in front of the group.
"Yeah, Deuce, Marco here wants to know more about Ace n' Luffy." Thatch said with a carefree grin. Duece looked skeptical but still motioned for them to follow to the galley.
"What do you wanna know?" Duece asked a semi-serious face on as he sat at the table inviting the two to do the same.
"As you might know the two are in our infirmary right now and seeing that they can't give us any information about other medical things we should know about, we came here," Marco said and Duece put a hand to his chin in thought.
'Should I tell them about Ace's narcolepsy? Most likely no, he challenged their captain after all.' Duece wondered. Coming to a decision Duece spoke up, "There wasn't much about them only that they are crazy strong and stubborn. Oh and hungry," He said making sure there was no trace of a lie on his face.
"Really? That's all? Can we speak to your doctor, just to make sure?" Thatch asked and Duece shook his head no.
"Our doctor of sorts left the crew not to long ago." he said thinking of Sabo, Deuce then looked at the two pirates, "Is that all?" he asked and Marco nodded but Thatch looked like he wanted to know more.
"How is Luffy doing?" Duece asked finally before Marco and Thatch left the room. "We're going to check on him right now," Marco said and Left for the Moby.
Once they finally got back to their ship they headed straight for the infirmary, what happened to the doctor?" Thatch murmured in thought and Marco shook his head fondly. "Just relax-yoi," Marco said and Thatch grinned.
"Yeah? Your the one that should be worried, you threw him off. What if he holds grudges?" Thatch asked an amused expression on his face while Marco shook his head. After the comment, the two fell into a comfortable silence until they heard some ruckus coming from the infirmary.
"Bay? What's going on!?" Thatch yelled running into the infirmary with Marco close behind, "Thatch, Marco! Thank god someone who can hold him down is here." Bay the head nurse said and then the two noticed the screams for help and Luffy thrashing around. It seemed like he was awake but there was a dullness in his eyes that told otherwise.
"Go hold him down while we determine what's happening inside that night terror." Bay said and the two nodded in agreement. Marco and Thatch held down Luffy who was constantly calling out names they didn't know except for Ace.
With everyone in the room, no one noticed the occupant of the bed over from him shifting like he was going to wake up any moment. "Lu?"
Everything in the room stopped once they heard the murmur. They turned around pausing in holding Luffy down to see Ace sit up on his bed. "Ace you shouldn't be up right now…" Bay said in a serious manner but it fell on deaf ears as Ace swung his legs over the side of the bed and stood up.
"Luffy it's only a nightmare, don't worry your with me now." Ace said pulling Luffy into a hug which caused him to relax slightly, "It's all in the past and it's different now." Ace said and finally Luffy was calmed down and awake.
"You okay now?" he asked and Luffy responded by giving a nod against his chest and a hug back before they separated. "Good, ...this is Marco, Thatch, and Bay." Ace said the last part under his breath so no one would hear but Luffy. After that Ace quickly turned around with a glare on his face, "Why is Luffy in a hospital bed?"
"Ah, well… Long story short the little guy fell into the water and nearly drowned." Thatch said conveniently leaving out how Marco dumped him in the ocean. Ace nodded accepting the explanation with a mild glare still plastered on before he was jerked off his feet and landed in his hospital bed.
"You shouldn't be awake right now, stay in bed." Bay said and Ace frowned at hearing this. "Bed rest for at least two to three days." she finished and Ace's frown deepened. "I'm not going to stay in here because of little injuries like these. I've had much worse than this, so bad that I practically died." Ace said in an annoyed tone.
Once Ace finished he noticed Luffy flinch while reaching for his beloved hat and the grim faces of everyone in the room, "What? It's the same with my brother," Ace commented in a nonchalant voice as the eyes snapped to Luffy who just shrugged clearly not caring in response.
The tense mood instantly disappeared at the stomach growls of the two D. brothers. "Hahahaha! Looks like you two are hungry. Wanna get some food?" Thatch said but Bay shot him a warning glance so he chuckled nervously. "I mean Luffy you can come with me and we'll bring something back for Ace." Luffy's face did not dampen in mood form the mention of food because he knew Ace trusted them.
"Shishishishishishi! Yay! Food!" Luffy said jumping off of his bed and running out of the room. "O-oi wait up! You don't even know where your going!" Thatch yelled after Luffy who was already on the deck staring around in excitement.