Chapter 11: Natsu and Luffy! The Fireball and the Burning Rubber!

Wealth, fame, power…Gold Roger, the king of the pirates obtained this and everything else this world has to offer. And his dying words drove countless souls to the seas.

"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I've gathered together in one place! Now you just have to find it!"

These words lured men into the Grand Line in pursuit of dreams greater than they've ever dared to imagine. This is the time known as 'The Great Pirate Era'.


In the city of Sycca, our heroes stopped at a nearby hotel, planning their next move.

"Hopefully we can figure out where we're going if we use this map." Wendy said, looking at the map of Edolas.

"That's weird." Happy said. "It looks more like Earth Land than I thought it would."

"This is where we last met the Edolas Fairy Tail." Nami said, pointing at a spot on the map and started dragging her finger on it. "That frog creature chased us somewhere around here." Then she dragged to the word 'Louen.' "Louen is where we ran into the Earth Land Lucy and Chopper." She pointed at the word 'Sycca'. "And we're certainly held up in the port city, 'Sycca'. We find a way to overseas if we were to reach the Royal City."

"Our friends are a half a world away." Chopper said.

"And that's a half a world filled with Royal Army soldiers that we'll be dodging around every corner." Wendy said. "It'll take us weeks to get anywhere near the capital."

"No, it won't." Luffy said, cracking his knuckles. "Bring them on. I'll beat the crap out of every last one of them."

"Wow, this is nuts." A new voice said. The group looked at Edo-Lucy with the Earth-Land Lucy behind her, both of them wrapped in towels. "She's just like me. We even got the exact freckles on our bums."

"What are you saying?!" Lucy shouted. "I don't have freckles anywhere!"

"Wait Scary Lucy, did you forget that the boys are in the room?!" Wendy shouted.

"I can see them just fine, half-pint." Edo-Lucy said. "I just don't care."

"Well you should!" Lucy said.

"Take about major act of duplucity." Happy said.

"Tom cat, you are not to speak for the rest of this journey." Carla said.

Natsu looked at the two Lucys intently, catching Edo-Lucy's attention. "You see something you like?" She asked. "I'll show you more."

"Don't you dare!" Lucy shouted. Then a snicker escaped from Natsu's mouth. "Hey, what the heck are you laughing at?! I get it. You're trying to poke fun in me by saying that the other has a better figure, is that it? Well if you want die today, be my guest!"

"I just thinking, you can totally wash your own back now." Natsu said. Luffy and Chopper started to laugh when Natsu said that.

"They're such children." The two Lucys said in unison.

Nami hit Natsu, Luffy, and Chopper in the head and shouted, "It's not funny!"

"The two of you look so much; it's kind of hard to tell which is which." Wendy said.

"I'm pretty my caboose is in better shape." Edo-Lucy said.

"Would you knock it off?!" Lucy shouted. Then an idea popped into Natsu's head.

"You two should totally come up with a mirror impression act together." Natsu said.

"Not happening!" The two Lucys shouted.

"They're even in perfect sync." Nami said.

"They're perfectly annoying." Carla said.

"Actually this reminds me off when Gemini is around." Happy said, mentioning the twin spirit.

"Oh yeah, now that you mention it." Natsu said.

"Gemi…what?" Luffy questioned.

"A celestial spirit that I'm contracted with." Lucy said. "They can turn into perfect look-a-likes of different people." Lucy took out of one her keys. "Open, Gate of the twins: Gemini!" Then another Lucy appeared.

"Tada, Gemini at your service." Gemi-Lucy said.

"That's so cool!" Chopper and Luffy shouted with in stars in their eyes.

"Whoa…" Edo-Lucy said in shock.

"If you thought two was great, try a triple dose of hotness." Lucy said.

"I don't know about you guys this would make an awesome guessing game and party." Luffy said.


"And now, it's time for 'who's the real thing?'" Happy said, holding a microphone. Then the three Lucys appeared behind Happy.

"Hello, I'm the real Lucy!" Lucy #1 said.

"Nope, I'm the real one!" Lucy #2 said.

"Then again, it could be me!" Lucy #3 said.

"Alright folks, use the buzzer to make your choices." Happy said. Nami, Wendy, Carla, and Chopper all hit number one on their buzzer as Natsu and Luffy hit number 3.

"You just lost the game big time!" The three Lucys shouted at Natsu and Luffy.

"They all seem real to me." Wendy said.

"I have one question." Nami said. "When are you planning to put clothes on?"

"I'm still naked!" Lucy shouted in surprise as she and Edo-Lucy quickly put on a pair of pajamas.


"Even without Gemini around, it's still almost impossible to tell which one of you is which." Natsu said.

"I don't suppose you got one of those ghost things that is good with a pair of scissors, do you?" Edo-Lucy asked her Earth Land self.

"Yeah, I have the perfect spirit for that job." Lucy said as she took out another one of her keys and summoned Cancer.

"It's been a while since you called me, baby." Cancer said.

"Are you cool with him calling you 'baby' like that?" Edo-Lucy asked.

"If you have a problem with him, then you'll freak when you meet Taurus." Lucy said. Then Cancer proceeded to cut off some of Edo-Lucy's hair.

"I hope you like your new dew, baby." Cancer said.

"There shouldn't be any trouble telling us apart now, don't you think?" Edo-Lucy said, running her hand through her now shorten hair.

"Are you sure you're ok with chopping it off?" Chopper asked.

"He's right." Lucy said. "Mine took forever to grow out."

"Yeah, it's just hair." Edo-Lucy said. "It's not serving some great purpose by being longer, so why does it matter?"

"Because every lady should have pride in their dew that they support, baby." Cancer said.

"I guess so." Edo-Lucy said, walking towards the window. "In a world like this, I tend to forget the little thing like boy or girl that separates you from your friends. In the end, we're all just survivors."

"If it's that tough, why everybody in your guild seem care-free?" Luffy asked.

"Of course, they did. It's important to keep your spirits up even if you have to force them every single day. And when we can't bring ourselves to smile, we remember that there people in this world who need us. Even that means we are labeled a dark guild, Fairy Tail will always be there to lend a helping hand. But I guess, it's still isn't enough in the end." Luffy looked at Edo-Lucy confused when she said that last. "Oh, it's nothing. I was just rambling."


"YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" Lucy yelled, waking everyone up expect for Luffy. "I CAN'T BELIEVE MYSELF!"

"You're certainly energetic first thing in the morning, aren't you?" Natsu said, rubbing his eyes.

"What's wrong with you?" Nami asked tired.

"Little miss me picked her bags and took off last night!" Lucy shouted, showing the note that Edo-Lucy left.

"Keep walking for three more days and you'll get to the Royal City." Wendy read. "I'll going to go back to my guild now. Good luck and try not to get busted."

"What was all that about 'lending a helping hand'?!" Lucy shouted. "When I get my hands on her, I'll wring her scrawny neck!"

"So you're saying that you have a scrawny neck too?" Happy questioned.

"SHUT UP!"

"There's nothing we can do." Chopper said. "And she said that she wasn't going to fight, so we should respect that."

"You're saying that we should forgive this?!" Lucy questioned. "Someone with my face should never abandon people in need."

"Come on, it's no big deal." Natsu said.

"IT IS TOO!"

"At any rate, we should start moving too." Nami said. She walked to her captain and started to shake him, trying to wake him up. "Luffy, wake up, we got to go. Wake up!" A vein popped up in Nami's head. "WAKE UP, YOU IDIOT!"


Outside of the hotel, Edo-Lucy stood near the entrance, listing to the conversion.

'They can change this world, huh?' she thought. 'What a joke.' She started to run to the outskirts to the city. 'I can't how lazy I've gotten. Change shouldn't be brought about by outsiders. It should be done by the people who live here! If they can pull off this suicide rescue plan of theirs, then more power to them. But they shouldn't be the only ones taking the kingdom down a peg. I guess you were right, Nami."

(Flashback)

"Where are you going, Nami?" Edo-Robin asked.

"I'm heading to the Royal City." Edo-Nami said. "It's about time that the Royal Army get what's coming to them."

"Have you lost your mind?!" Edo-Lucy shouted. "They'll kill you before you even get close to the city!"

"Then what the hell do you expect to do?! Sit around as they hunt us down, killing our friends one-by-one?! Screw that! It's about time we take the fight to them and fight for this world together!"

(End of Flashback)

'It's time for the Fairy Tail of Edolas to quit running from our problems.' Edo-Lucy thought as she started to pick up speed. 'I'll convince everyone to stand up and fight for this world together!'


Elsewhere in Sycca, Gajeel walked into a bar and sat next to a man wearing a navy suit.

"Did you hear?" a man said, sitting at a table next to the bar. "They're going to extract the magic power from the giant lacrima in two days. It kinda freaks me out, to be honest. I mean, where did they honest all of that power from? An alien world or something?"

"I hope they know what they're doing out there." One of his friends said. "Missing with magic power like that could be trouble."

"Be careful, it sounds like you're questioning the methods of our great king."

"That's not what I meant at all. I'm loyal."

"Relax, don't worry." The second friend said. "Everything will work out in the end. Just leave to his majesty and Edolas will sitting pretty."

Gajeel and the man in the suit got up from their stools and walked towards the table. "Interesting conversation." They said in unison. "Would you three punks mind telling me what you know in greater detail/Would you three mind explaining in greater detail?" Gajeel and the man looked at each other and saw that they look almost identical.


Our heroes walked through the streets of Sycca as Lucy leads them, holding a book with a big smile on her face.

"Well she's not screaming anymore." Happy said.

"It's good to know that you can cheer Lucy up by giving her a rare book to read." Wendy said.

"So what book did you end up buying anyway?" Natsu asked.

"The complete history of Edolas, silly." Lucy said. "Do you want to learn more about this amazing world while we have the chance?"

"Not really."

"We know someone who would want to." Chopper said, as a picture of Robin reading Lucy's book popped into his mind.

"You know the saying 'Knowledge is power'?" Lucy said, holding her book in the air. "Well this book has tons of it. For example, there's a ton regarding a fearsome of tribe called the exceeds."

"Oh, we actually heard about them already." Nami said as Lucy opened her book. "Everyone keeps getting freaked out whenever they started talking about them."

"Whatever, I can take them." Luffy and Natsu said. Then the group started to hear a strange noise as a shadow loams over them.

"Look above us!" Carla said. The group looked at the sky and saw an airship flying above them.

"What the heck is that?!" Luffy asked.

"An airship?" Natsu said.

"Move it or you'll get left behind!" a new voice said as a group of Royal Army soldiers ran after the airship.

"It's the royal army again!" Nami said.

"We got to hide." Wendy whispered as she pushed everyone behind a pillar of a nearby building.

"I heard that they're going to pull the magic out of the huge lacrima the day after tomorrow." A soldier said.

"So that's why they're calling for addition security detail." Another soldier said.

"Yeah, this is the big one." A third soldier said. "We better get on board."

"They're talking about our friends." Chopper said.

"And everybody from Magnolia too." Wendy added.

"They said that the magic extraction will take place two days." Nami said. "Damn! That means if we go on foot, we'll never going to make it."

"And once the extraction process is underway, we lose any chance to turn back to their normal states." Carla said.

Natsu narrowed at his eyes as the airship begins to descend. "We're gonna have to steal that ship." He said.

"Steal it?! All by ourselves?!" Wendy said surprised.

"That is a completely unnecessary tactic." Carla said. "It would be easy if we just sneak on board."

"I can't stand hiding." Natsu complained.

"This must be the weird Natsu because ours would never want to ride in a vehicle." Happy said.

"Does he have motion sickness?" Chopper asked and Happy nodded yes.

"That's true but with Wendy's Choia spell, vehicles aren't a problem anyone." Natsu said.

"Did you really forget we can't use magic here?" Wendy asked.

"You're right, let's find another way." Natsu said.

"It's too late!" Nami shouted.

"I say we take it by force." Lucy suggested. "It's our best chance to make it time to save them."

"But how would we do that?" Wendy asked.

"Duh, we'll use my magic. Did you forget that you're in the presence of the most powerful wizard in Fairy Tail? And did you notice how quickly we got the upper hand on those back in Louen? Earth Land magic must be far more advanced than anything in Edolas."

"I think you might be on to something." Wendy said.

"Um…where did Luffy go?" Happy asked. The group looked around for the Straw Hat captain but he was nowhere to be found.

"Hey!" Luffy's voice rang out, surprising the wizards.

"I should've known." Nami said, face palming. "That idiot doesn't know when to wait."

"It's one of the members of Fairy Tail!" One of the soldiers shouted, spotting the pirate.

"Capture him!" Another shouted as the soldiers charged towards the pirate.

"Bring it on!" Luffy shouted, charging towards the soldiers. "Gum-Gum…Gatling!" Luffy's hands came out so fast as if they multiplied as he struck several of the soldiers down with ease.

"Did he just stretch?!" One of the soldiers asked shocked.

"What kind of magic is that?!" Another one asked.

"Who cares?!" A third solider shouted. "Capture…" He stopped in mid-sentence when noticed a huge black cloud hovering over him and his men. "What the…"

"Thunderbolt Tempo!" Nami shouted as she threw a yellow ball of electricity from her clima-tact in the cloud. Lighting appeared out of the cloud, electrocuted the soldiers.

Lucy charged another group of soldiers, taking out one of her keys. "Check this out, you guys!" she shouted. "Open, Gate of the Lion! Leo!" Then Virgo appeared instead of Loke. "Wha…Virgo?!"

"Please forgive this intrusion, princess." Virgo said.

"Huh, why did she use her?" Natsu asked, looking at the maiden spirit.

"What's going on here?!" Lucy shouted. "And where's Loke?!"

"Big brother is currently occupied with a date." Virgo said. "He cannot be summoned at the moment."

"Big brother?!"

"Yes, Master Leo requested that I refer to him in that manner."

"Has he lost every ounce of sanity he had?!"

"That's Lucy from Fairy Tail!" One of the soldiers shouted. "Capture her!"

"Now what am I suppose to do?!" Lucy shouted. "I was counting on Loke to take them out and make me look like a powerhouse!"

"Princess, if you allow me, I believe I can fulfill that role." Virgo said, as she started to dance. "With the power of interpretive dance!'

"Go home!"

"Why don't you just Aquarius like you always do?" Happy asked.

"I can't do that without water!" Lucy shouted.

"Cow-man!"

"That won't work either! We're gonna die!"

"If our magic is useless, then we'll use Edolas magic." Natsu said, activating the Sealed Flame Sword.

"Watch out!" Wendy shouted. "We know what we're doing now!"

"That's the stuff from the black market!" Happy shouted. Natsu and Wendy charged towards the soldiers but were easily defeated by them. "Without their own power, they're totally useless! But they're still better than Lucy!"

"I want to shine!" Lucy whined.

"Gum-Gum…" Luffy shouted, stretching his leg towards the oncoming soldiers. "…Whip!" He kicked the soldiers back before they got close to the celestial wizard. "Just stay back, you guys! Me,

Chopper punched another soldier in the face as he felt a strong gust. He looked towards the airship and saw it starting to ascend. "The airship is getting away!" he shouted.

"We have to do something quickly or we'll never make it!" Nami shouted. She tried to run towards the airship as it started to fly but was surrounded by Edolas soldiers.

"Get back here!" Luffy shouted as he chased after the airship but was blocked off by Edolas soldiers. "Get out of the way!" The airship took off and was quickly getting out of view.

The soldiers quickly started to surround to the pirates and wizards. Then two objects covered in dust started to come into Natsu's view.

"What is it?" Natsu asked as the objects got closer. They were magic mobiles with Fairy Tail's insignia on them and the people looked awfully familiar.

"Who's driving the magic mobiles?" Lucy asked.

"I don't know but they got Fairy Tail's emblem on them." Happy said.

"Lucy thought you guys might need a lift, so hop in." A man with pink hair and wearing a pair of goggles over his eyes, looking like Natsu said.

"If you want to save your friends, then get in." A man with black hair and wearing the same pair of goggles over his eyes, looking like Luffy added. Luffy and the others quickly got of the vehicles. "Fasten your seatbelts because we're riding hard." Flames started to come out of the tires of both magic mobiles and Edo-Natsu and Luffy started to drive away.


"So to summarize, you were send to this world by one Mr. Mystogan with nothing but a simple explanation and the shirt on your back?" Edo-Gajeel said.

"That would sum up my entire life up to this point." Gajeel said. "Getting used to this place isn't no picnic, I'll tell you that much."

"This has got to be most bizarre story in my entire career." Edo-Gajeel said, continue to write what Gajeel told him.

"Well duh, how often do you get meet yourself in a bar?"

"I must say, your simple perspective is certainly refreshing." Edo-Gajeel closed his book and sat across the table from Gajeel.

"It's seems like you made quite a name for yourself as a muckraker around here."

"Indeed. Investigative reporting is my life's true calling. Seeking out the truth and enlightening the masses."

"The truth isn't an easy pill. I bet you got some haters. In fact are a few losers that are much in dirt because they thought I was you."

"While I thank you for taking care of such annoyances for me, I apologize for the inconvenience. Truth be told, I've became a throne in the side of many powerful organizations. My article caused numerous for the king and the government over the years. As long as I can put pen to pad, I'll write the truth." Edo-Gajeel took his cup and drank some of the liquor from it.

"You know when I heard about this place, I thought would be completely different from my world."

Then two Gajeels stood and said in unison. "But you and I are almost exactly alike!"

"Not only you don't take crap and fight the man, but you dress good and write fancy words like I do if I care." Gajeel said as he and Edolas version walked out of the bar.

"And your unkempt wildness is a reflection of my soul." Edo-Gajeel said. "We have so much in common, Mr. Me. I'm quite skilled when it comes to playing instruments and singing."

"Me too! We're a musical genius!" Gajeel's expression then changed into a serious one. "Some pals of mine are here too. Honestly, they're a bunch of morons. If they got it where it comes, they start causing trouble soon. When they do…"

"Yes, I'll let you know the moment they strike." Edo-Gajeel said. "I've got contracts everywhere. The king can't scratch his nose without me knowing about it. Keeping tabs on them will be easy."

"I'm counting on you. I'll lie low until you give the word."

"Well, until then…"

"Don't keep me waiting." Gajeel said as he walks away.


"Whoa, this is awesome!" Luffy shouted as his Edolas version's vehicle.

"We made a clean getaway and we got to cruise though the desert." Happy shouted from Edo-Natsu's vehicle.

"Thanks for giving us a ride." Lucy said to Edo-Natsu.

"Yeah, you and the other Luffy saved our lives." Wendy said.

"Thanks for helping us out back there." Nami said to Edo-Luffy.

"No problem." Edo-Luffy said. "It's our pleasure. Our wheels are way faster than that piece of junk airship."

"Then again, there isn't me or Luffy can't leave in the dust." Edo-Natsu said, taking off his goggles. The Fairy Tail wizards looked at shock.

"Natsu!" They shouted.

"That's…me…" Natsu said, weak from the motion sickness.

"You see Natsu and I are kinda big deals around here." Edo-Luffy said, taking his goggles as well and the pirates looked at him with a shock expression as well. "He's known as the Fireball and they call me the Burning Rubber."

"Luffy!" Nami and Chopper shouted in shock.

"Wait, that's me?!" Luffy said shocked.

"This is crazy." Lucy said. "You're nothing like the Natsu we know."

"And you're nothing like my Lucy." Edo-Natsu countered. "Except for the looks, of course. So the puke-face is your world's me. How pathetic."

"He's usually not like this." Wendy said. "He's just not good with vehicles."

"Just don't ruin the upholstery alright. They wouldn't call me Fireball, one the carrier wizards if I just toss my cookies just sitting in the car."

"So you're the other world's me?" Edo-Luffy asked.

"Yeah, that's me." Luffy said.

"This is weird because our Luffy doesn't drive anything without usually crashing into something." Nami said. "You're nothing like him."

"There is a reason why I'm one of the carrier wizards." Edo-Luffy said. "And besides the looks, you're nothing like my Nami."

"How you guys are able to drive this thing without a SE plug attached to your arm?" Happy asked Edo-Natsu.

"What are you talking about?" Wendy asked confused.

"The SE stands for Self Energy." Carla explained. "It converts magic power into fuel so without one, it shouldn't run at all."

"Then again, I guess since people in Edolas don't have natural magic power, they don't SE plugs in their vehicles." Lucy said.

"Does that mean this thing running on another power source?" Wendy asked.

"Fascinating." Carla said. "Though they're lacking in magical prowess, Edolas has made great strides when comes to vehicles."

Then Edo-Natsu and Luffy put their on the breaks, causing their cars stop in their tracks.

"Are you trying to make me kiss the dashboard?!" Lucy shouted.

"Why did you stop?" Chopper asked Edo-Luffy.

"You people sure are ignorant." Edo-Luffy sighed. "Since magic power is limited resource, things like magic fuel are equally limited. It's nearly impossible to get a hold of."

"We can't afford to take you any further." Edo-Natsu said. "So get out!" The wizards looked at Edo-Natsu stunned. "If Luffy and I keep burning though fuel, we won't be able to make it back to the guild. Thanks to the Fairy Hunter, they chanced locations again recently."

"So what are you saying is, this is as far you're going to us." Nami asked.

"That's right." Edo-Luffy answered. "Luckily for you, the Royal City isn't too far off. You should make it there by sundown."

"Hello, solid ground!" Natsu shouted, getting out of Edo-Natsu's car. "I've come back to life."

"I'll hand this to your world's me." Edo-Natsu said. "He knows when it's time to pick up and move on. Now get out!" Edo-Natsu tossed the Earth Land out of his car. "If you're planning to take on the kingdom, then I won't stop you. Just don't go dragging my Fairy Tail into it. We only helped you because of Lucy." Lucy looked Edo-Natsu. "Not you, my Lucy. I can never turn her down when she ask for something. So thank her for your rescue. I don't want anything else to do you. For me, driving is all that matter."

"Hey!" Natsu said, walking the Edolas version's car. "I want to talk to you a second."

Edo-Natsu widens his eyes as the Earth Land version grabbed him by his shirt and dragged him out of his car. "No, you got your hands off of me right now!" He shouted.

"Sorry but I got to have a nice heart to heart with myself." Natsu said.

"Aw damn!" Edo-Luffy cursed, watching Edo-Natsu being his Earth Land version. "What now?!"

"Would you cut it out?!" Edo-Natsu shouted. "Let go of me! I can't get out of the car!"

Natsu sat Edo-Natsu down on the ground and said, "Now tell me, why is it you don't get car sick?"

"That was your big beef?!" Lucy shouted.

Then Edo-Natsu started to cover his face, shocking the wizards. "I don't know why." He said as his eyes started to water. "I'm sorry. Please don't hurt me."

To be continued…

Next Chapter: The Royal City! Full View of the Lacrima!


Longest chapter I've written to date. Thanks for reading.