Chapter 3:
Goten was staring around the huge dark room he just walked into. It was enormous and he wished Trunks was there to see how cool it was too.
"This thing will eventually..." the boy looked over at the man with the sword. Law didn't seem to be talking to him as much as he was to himself and the kid looked up where he was staring. There was a large iron tube in front of the pirate with the word, 'SAD' written on it and a deadly chemical symbol above that. "...Shake the entire New World to its core."
Goten remembered the last time he and Trunks played around with something that had the chemical symbol above it in Bulma's lab. Their hair was bright red and puffy for a week and it stunk. "I don't think we should mess around with that," the child advised.
Trafalgar Law wasn't even annoyed this time. He just chuckled and stared at the machine he was going to change the world with.
"Who are you?" Trunks asked the man next to him. A man in a black suit with blonde hair was kicking the air and keeping himself up as he picked up some of the fallen soldiers and rushed them away from the gas. Trunks was doing the same thing but he had no idea where this pirate came from.
Black Leg Sanji didn't really know why he came in the first place. He looked back and saw the falling Marines and something compelled him to come and save them. The kid next to him definitely piqued his interest though. "I'm Sanji, and you are?"
"Trunks," the boy replied and they both tossed the Marines through the next closing door before flying in themselves. The door shut behind them and they just made it, again.
"Little bro!"
"Black leg!"
"Arigato!"
"Shut up!" Sanji yelled at them and Trunks was a second away from smacking the next man who thanked him. "Listen up! I only want to hear high-pitched, feminine cheers." Trunks stared at the man blankly for a few seconds. He thought the guy looked pretty strong, but he sounded like a dumbass.
"Little kid, are you okay?" One of the Marines asked and for the first time since he arrived over here, Sanji really looked at the kid next to him. His eyes went wide and he kid turned away.
"I don't want your pity," the boy growled at them. They were staring at the large cracks on his left cheek where Vergo hit him in the stone part of his face. His left leg was still covered in stone and so was his right shoulder, but the child with lavender hair was floating a foot above the ground and knew he was stronger than all of them. "I could take you all on without my arms or my legs, so stop worrying about me, and start looking for the other children!"
"Oh right!" the men shouted and started moving out.
"That had to be a Vergo impostor, right Captain Tashigi?" the men behind her asked with nervous chuckles. They were still shaken up by the attack and a lot of them were injured.
The girl in the pink coat was thinking back to what Vergo used to tell her about their subordinates and how he cared for them. She stopped walking, "Yes. Of course he's fake. The real Vice Admiral Vergo is like a father to you. He would never do something like that."
Sanji saw the beautiful woman and ran over to her, spinning around and calling her 'cute-marine-chan!' Trunks flew over to the captain on her other side and whispered only loud enough for the two right there to hear. "Why do you lie to them? They're grown men, not babies." The woman pretended not to hear the child and kept going.
A loud alarm was blasting over their heads and repeated a message from earlier. "Emergency message to all towers in Laboratory Three! The traitor, Trafalgar Law, has broken into the SAD Manufacturing Room!" The sirens kept blaring and Trunks looked over in one direction fast.
"What is it?" Tashigi asked him and Sanji lost the hearts in his eyes to look over to the child. "That guy, he's stronger than I thought. He's heading towards Goten and Law."
"Should we go help them?" Sanji asked, not looking too concerned since there weren't any ladies there.
"Nah," Trunks said and put his hands behind his head. "Goten might not be as strong as me, but he can still kick that guy's ass."
Captain Tashigi wasn't even thinking about helping the pirate and the boy, she was back on her original focus. "Alright men! Time to go save the children! Move out!" Sanji and all the Marines held up their arms and cheered.
As they started running with Tashigi, Sanji, and Trunks in the front, the pirate turned to the little boy who he saw his captain embrace earlier. "So how do you know Luffy?" Sanji questioned the kid.
"Well there was this big war," Trunks said, deciding to just give the short story, "and we saved his and his brother's lives." The cigarette dropped out of Sanji's mouth and he stared at the kid for a few seconds.
"Big war?" He's talking about the War of the Best. Sanji remembered his time on the island of Okamas where Emporio Ivankov helped train him. He spent so much time trying to get information about Luffy and the war out of the large headed, purple haired, drag queen, and on the day he landed his first kick on him/her, she agreed to tell him something. This is the child, he's the one who saved Luffy. "Thank you," Sanji said and bowed his head to the little boy flying next to him.
"Don't mention it," the boy responded and looked back in front of them. There were a lot of powers in the base, but none of them felt weak like normal children's so he couldn't decide which was to go. The kid stopped and looked back over to where he felt the man he was fighting's power rise again. You've got this Goten... right?
Krillin and Vegeta were sitting in the two chairs in front of Doflamingo's desk. The Warlord had another one of those snail phones in front of him and this one was wearing black sunglasses and had large sideburns on the sides of it.
The human was listening close while Vegeta was just sensing in the other direction to feel out what was going on himself. He could feel the power of the man on the Den Den Mushi who just got a lot stronger and it looked like Krillin must have spent some time with him as well.
Doflamingo had an unreadable smile on his face that they couldn't tell if it was from pure anger or if he was actually happy about what was going on. "Law's after the SAD?"
S. A. D. wonder what that is? The Prince of the Saiyans thought, deciding to figure out on his own later. He had some time to spare and he could definitely unearth some secrets about this place if he checked it out.
The snail started talking, "Indeed. This confirms that he's betrayed us."
"I see," Doflamingo stated and then he started laughing. It was held in so it was coming from his throat, but it was a laugh nonetheless and it was a little disturbing. "I thought as much. After I've raised him like a brother for all this time."
"Who's this Law guy?" Vegeta asked and Krillin turned to him as to not interrupt the King.
"He used to work under Doflamingo," the midget started in a low whisper, "he's got an... interesting past."
"This is so disappointing," Doflamingo added with a frown.
"I know," Vergo said over the line. He continued to kick the air behind him, using Geppou to make his way over to the room.
"The SAD Manufacturing Room huh?" Doflamingo was thinking about something but the door smashed open from behind them. Vegeta was the only one surprised by the entrance as the broken wood splintered out and a girl in a purple and white dress making her look like a maid busted in. She looked intimidating with the guns strapped on her back and then to make it worse, her left arm turned into a cannon and she jumped across the room onto Doflamingo's desk.
Vegeta kept staring at her in surprise, but Krillin was shaking his head and the blonde pirate didn't even seem to notice her. She had her legs planted on either side of the top of the desk and her arm cannon pointed an inch in front of the Shichibukai's face. "If I were him, what would I do?" Doflamingo continued. The Prince felt a bead of sweat drip down the left side of his face as he stared at these weird people. The man was completely ignoring the girl pointing the gun at him. "First of all," the pirate in red sunglasses said and grinned wide, showing all his teeth, "I'd destroy that room."
Only now did Vegeta see the tears coming out of the girl in the maid outfit's eyes. He didn't get what was going on, but she fired her gun and the desk exploded along with the entire half of the room. He didn't expect her arm weapon to make such a racket and he swung his arm in the air to brush away the explosion.
The girl was panting hard on the broken desk and Doflamingo was lying on his back behind it. He didn't look particularly injured, but Vegeta felt another sweatdrop as the man was still talking on the phone even after that explosion. He wasn't acknowledging the girl's presence at all. She looked like she was in her low twenties and she was smoking a cigarette between deep breaths as she stared at the King.
"And he's trying to capture Caesar you say? Hmm, I would've just killed him," the pirate lifted up his head a little and kept talking to the snail. The Prince of the Saiyans was starting to realize that this man's life was pretty busy and his excuse that he couldn't fight at the time, was probably not an excuse at all, but more of an annoyance that he couldn't get around.
"How dare you kill my lover?!" the girl exclaimed and Vegeta snapped his head back to her.
She was a vengeful girl hellbent on killing Doflamingo, and now he knew her reason. Too bad she was a weak... he felt her power and then looked to Krillin who just sighed. "Did you..."
"Yeah," the midget replied in a quiet voice, not wanting the girl to go on a rampage against him next. "She's part of the family too."
"After all, Caesar is the only one in the world..." Doflamingo continued talking and Vegeta started to think the man was enjoying this girl's attempts to distract him. She was getting angrier every second he ignored her and again Vegeta was surprised as her arms turned into large razor sharp scythes. The girl jumped in the air and brought down an arm that the Prince had to step away from as it went down towards Doflamingo's head. The pirate captain only moved his head a little bit so the blade wouldn't hit him and he finished, "...who knows how to make SAD. But if he actually did that, I'd be the one inconvenienced, Vergo."
Krillin decided enough was enough and grabbed Baby 5 by the arm, pulling her away and holding her back as she thrashed against him. Doflamingo was still talking to his right hand man at Punk Hazard, "If Caesar is killed, no one will be able to make that gas. My business will go down the drain."
"Baby Five calm down," Krillin tried to console the grieving woman who had at least a little right to be angry.
Vegeta was paying attention more to the business-going-down-the-drain conversation going on where his son might play a role in it, but he could also spare a glance the other way to see how Krillin was faring with the maid. The girl was writhing around and growled, "This time, he's gone too far! I am going to murder that piece of filth."
"I need you to stay quiet for a few minutes," Krillin said and emphasized the word 'need.' The girl looked at him with starry eyes and then shut her lips tight and stood absolutely still. Vegeta had no idea how he did it, but at least now they had some quiet so he could hear the conversation better.
"And if I'm inconvenienced like that, you know what happens next? What happens is," he started laughing and cut himself off, "a chain of misfortune will extend to everyone involved." He sighed but kept the smile on his face, "I know it must be tough for you, but will you finish off Law for me?" The other three in the room were now staring at Doflamingo as veins grew in his head and his smile was not hiding how furious he was at the moment, "Make sure he dies so cruelly... that he regrets ever being born."
"Understood." The voice came over the snail and Krillin winced. He always hated this part of working with the pirates, they treated people's lives badly. The man they were after was another pirate though, and that was part of a Shichibukai's job, to take down pirates. At least he could accept that much. "I'll take a picture of his corpse and show it to you Doffy. Using the camera I just bought at Dressrosa."
Hmm, he called Doflamingo Doffy, must be one of the top guns in the organization, Vegeta could tell these two were particularly close. Doflamingo lost the popped veins on his forehead and spoke into the Den Den Mushi, "You didn't actually buy a camera did you?"
"Oh that's right," the snail said and they could imagine the man on the other side realizing it as well. "I didn't buy a camera..." Baby 5 suddenly lost all her patience and started sprinting at Doflamingo with one large axe as one hand, and a pistol on one of her other hand's fingers. She charged the Young Master and jumped up towards the sitting man, but he rose one hand, finally acknowledging her presence in the slightest. "In that case I'll just chop off his ear instead." Vergo finished speaking and Doflamingo was moving his fingers, stopping Baby 5's movement midfight and causing her to fall to the ground.
The girl was standing on shaking legs and her hand with the pistol barrel started rising towards her face. The pirate pulled out two other snail phones and put them next to Vergo's. They started making noise and were picked up a second later, "Monet, Caesar, can you hear me?"
"Loud and clear, Joker," a woman's voice came over one of the snails that now had green hair and yellow eyes.
"Shirodododo, of course Joker!" the crazed scientist Caesar Clown said. His snail had darker hair and horns sticking out of the top of the eyeballs.
"I'm sure I don't have to tell you to watch out for Law, but be careful of Straw Hat as well. He's awakened his Conqueror's Haki. He might even have more potential than Law does." Doflamingo finished and the next words that came over the snail phone made all three of the men in the room stare at Monet's Den Den Mushi.
It spoke as if she wasn't talking into it, but to someone else in the room. "Really? You're that strong?" Now they knew Luffy was in the same room as this woman and they could barely hear his voice in the background.
Caesar was surprised, "He can use Conqueror's Haki?"
"That was the wave of energy he emitted during the war," Krillin reminded Vegeta and the Prince thought back. It was the moment when they were at their worst. All the admirals and different fighters were keeping them occupied and they almost let that kid get executed, but his brother shouted to stop and a quarter of the plaza passed out in an instant.
Doflamingo looked at Baby 5 and kept talking into the snail phones, "I happen to have a woman lusting for blood here." She looked to be resisting his other hand that was making her arm lift up and point the barrel of his pistol at her face. She was struggling and managed to keep it from her so far, but it was about to turn towards her. "I'll send Baby 5 and Buffalo to meet you. When you're done over there, all of you will come to Dressrosa."
"Alright," Monet's snail said and then turned off like Vergo's before her.
"Roger that," Caesar said and laughed as his snail went to sleep too.
The pirate put down the snail and then turned to the woman called Baby 5, "Go get Buffalo and head over there. I need your help on this one." The second he said the word 'need,' the girl stopped struggling and her weapons went away.
Her eyes grew big and she put her hands together as she blushed, "You, you need me?"
Vegeta dropped his jaw at the stupidity. First there was the man on the snail phone who thought he bought a camera, but didn't. Now there was this girl who could forgive the pirate so easily for killing her lover as long as he was the one who needed her now.
"Yes," he replied, "now go," he waved her off and the girl dove through the open window as fast as she could, no longer attached to his strings.
Krillin walked over to Doflamingo who sat down on a not broken chair and he asked, "You sure about this? You always talked about Law like you thought he'd come around. Will destroying this SAD thing really be that bad?" The pirate nodded to his executive and Krillin sighed.
The human scratched his chin and started, "There might be a problem then." Doflamingo turned to him and frowned so Krillin continued, "Straw Hat Luffy has a little bit of extra help with him."
"What do you mean?" Doflamingo asked. He figured Vergo could take care of everything easily, but now he wasn't so sure.
"Remember those kids from the war?" Krillin began and Vegeta started chuckling. Doflamingo remembered trying to mess with them with his strings, so the boys fused together and punched him so hard he couldn't think straight. "Well, they're on Punk Hazard. And if I had to guess, I'd say they're helping out Luffy again."
"That is a problem," Doflamingo began and walked over to the window. He thought for a few seconds and then grinned, "Krillin, I've got a job for you." Both of the Z fighters in the room froze for a second as they knew what the man was about to say. "I need you to head to Punk Hazard. Don't let those children interfere with our operations."
"Umm," Krillin began and looked at Vegeta. "One of them is Vegeta's son..."
"If you kick my son's ass, then that just means he hasn't been training hard enough that he was beaten by a human." Vegeta stated plainly and Doflamingo started laughing despite the situation he was in. Krillin decided not to mention the fact that he beat Vegeta only an hour earlier and he just sighed.
It was going to be hard to convince the boys to stop doing whatever they were doing over there, but he couldn't just say no to an order from the boss. His family lived on the island and he had a good thing going for him here. "Why not?" Krillin began, shaking his arms out from his earlier match with Vegeta and rubbing some bruises on his chest. "I haven't seen either of the boys in a while," he grinned at Vegeta, "I'm sure they'll be surprised when I show up."
They'll be more surprised if you have to fight them and use your shadow fruit, Vegeta thought with a smirk. He wanted to see the reaction on his son's face when Krillin's shadow started beating him up, but he'd rather stay and check things out here for a little longer. If most people said they were going to take down his son, he'd stop them in an instant, but since it was Krillin he knew the human wouldn't do anything that would seriously hurt his kid. Is that trust? He thought to himself as he watched Krillin lift off with a small salute and fly into the distance.
"Bye Krillin!" a few people in the pool in the back shouted up to him. A few of the Don Quixote family members waved and the man waved back as he flew off towards Punk Hazard.
Vegeta turned to Doflamingo after Krillin was gone and he asked, "What's the purpose of SAD?"
"You don't care if it's immoral or illegal?" Doflamingo asked and the Prince couldn't have cared less. "You really should join my crew," the pirate laughed.
Back in the war when Doflamingo offered it, Vegeta replied that the stronger person usually leads. He still felt that way, but he'd wait until they fought to prove it. For now he was interested in this pirate business, it sounded... fun. "For the time being I'll be a pirate," the man responded and the Shichibukai was surprised. He was mainly asking the question as a joke. "So what is this S A D?"
Doflamingo grinned and motioned for Vegeta to take a seat in one of the chairs around the room and he took another. This was going to take a while, and he was waiting for another report from Vergo anyway so he had some time. "There's a Yonko named Kaido, and he requires a steady supply of Devil Fruits..."
Trunks looked around at the Marines behind him. He'd be moving a lot faster if it was just him or if only that pirate was with him, but a lot of the soldiers were injured.
One of the men behind him was leaning on his friend's shoulder and Trunks spun around fast, feeling his ki drop significantly low. A few of the men behind him didn't understand why he was stopping.
"What is it?" Sanji thought maybe the kid was feeling a weird presence behind him. He didn't feel anything with his Observational Haki, but this kid could sense Vergo a minute ago when he couldn't. The pirate and the Marines stared as this kid flew between them towards one of their comrades.
The soldier holding his friend looked up and saw Trunks staring at the man on his shoulder. It was a heavyset red haired man who got a finger in the chest that was making him bleed a lot. "Here," the boy lifted the man off his friend's shoulder and he ripped the man's shirt off fast.
Everyone stared at the kid as he rose his hand to the man's chest. "Sorry," the boy muttered and then his hand glowed and the guy he was holding thrashed for a few seconds as his skin melted back together. It wasn't the best way he could help him, but it was all he could do at the moment and it would save his life.
"Alright let's go," the boy said and started flying forward faster than before. The Marines stared at him in shock for a few seconds. They had no idea who this miracle kid was, but this was like the tenth time he'd saved them and it was bringing some of them to tears.
"Stop crying and move it," Sanji yelled and kicked them in the butt when they were falling behind.
The group kept rushing forward and Tashigi looked back at the child. The war was mainly a blur for her and she got taken out pretty early in the action from what she heard. She didn't know anything about Red Hair Shanks's arrival or the Jesus Burgess meteor that almost destroyed the island. What she did remember though, was how she thought the Gods themselves came down to stop the war before she went unconscious. The way this child was acting made her believe it too. Who else would protect the weak from the oppressive, while still trying to save the oppressor's life?
Suddenly the boy stopped moving for a second as he heard a shout that sounded like a child's. It was far away from him, but the kid sounded in pain and he couldn't stay with the Marines anymore. "Follow me if you can, I found the kids," he shot off in a trail of white light and Sanji stared after the kid in awe, not really having seen much of what he could do yet.
The pirate was fast, fastest on his crew maybe, but the kid who just flew away was going to fast for him to keep up with. He turned to the Marines and called to them, "You heard him, let's go!" He started running ahead and now that the soldiers knew the general direction of the children, they were motivated to get there fast and help out.
Trunks was flying around corners and corridors and he could hear the shouting getting louder. He turned one more corner and flew to the end before stopping in front of a large metal door. He was hovering high above the ground and looking down with a confused expression. There was a large furry guy standing below him with his arms pressed against the doors and he had large muscles. Next to him though, was a child, except this girl was HUGE! They were both pushing against the door and there was a large metal pipe between the handles to keep it shut, but Trunks could hear screaming children on the other side.
"Let us out Mocha!"
"Give us the candy!"
"RAAA!"
Trunks stared at the door and he could hear loud thuds against it as children were slamming on it from the other side. They sounded rabid and he had no idea what was going on here. He looked down and saw the large girl with black hair look down at the furry man next to her. The furry guy was big, but she was a giant in comparison. "Hey, why can't we eat the candy?"
Candy? Trunks didn't get what was going on so he just listened close. The furry man with the blue and red hat frowned and he looked angry and sad at the same time. The floating boy could feel the enraged ki's on the other side of the door, all shouting about how much they wanted the candy.
"Well you see," the brown-furred man started in a low voice that humans wouldn't be able to hear from this distance. His Saiyan hearing allowed him to though and he stared down at the man, "that candy... is a lethal poison."
"What?" the girl said in horror next to him. Trunks looked back at the door and could hear the children all trying to get the candy. If the kids were as large as Mocha was, the door wouldn't hold them for long and soon they'd break in. He couldn't let them eat the candy when they did. "S-So Master is a bad guy?"
"Yeah. He's as bad as they come," the man answered the girl while keeping his arms against the door.
"But he's always so nice to us," the girl argued, "the candy he gives us every day is so tasty!"
"It's all part of his trap," the furry man said and Trunks was getting angrier and angrier by the second.
"No way, but..."
The man turned to her and even with his cute light blue hat, he still looked serious as he said, "You're, his test subjects."
"Test s-subjects?" the girl asked.
Trunks couldn't handle this. He didn't know who this Master guy was, but he was experimenting on children. What Vergo did to his own men was horrible, but the man doing this, he was the worst kind of trash.
"Mocha open up!"
"We're going to the Biscuit Room!" the voices on the other side were getting crazier by the second.
The furry guy continued talking, "You were never really sick!"
"Th-That's imposs..."
"Your big bodies are proof," the man cut her off, "turning humans into giants as a tool of war is something scientists all around the world have been trying to do for centuries. In other words, their experiments have failed over and over for centuries. Nobody has succeeded. There's no easy way to say this, but this experiment will also fail." Trunks started muttering under his breath but the two underneath him couldn't hear what he was saying. "Caesar knows this. All he cares about is gathering data for his next experiment."
"Despicable, despicable..."
"So, what's gonna happen to us?" the girl asked and it looked hard for the man to respond.
"You'll die. None of you will make it home." Mocha gasped and Chopper continued, "That delicious candy is a lethal poison. It causes your body to break down without you even realizing it. And yet, if you eat one you'll want another. The more you eat, the harder it'll be to escape from Caesar's grip!"
They're addicted. You experimented on, drugged, and are trying to kill all these children? Trunks was trembling in rage and he remembered Luffy saying he was going to go kick that Caesar guy's ass, but he could still feel the evil ki somewhere in the base.
Chopper continued talking below, "When you saw the children on the other side of this door, you could see how terrifying it is, right?" The girl's mouth dropped as she stared at the shaking door from all her crazed friends smashing on it. "I've given you a sedative, but the side effects of the candy and the experiments, will most likely, claim your life long before you grow up."
I'm going to kill him, the thought came to Trunks without him realizing it, but he didn't regret it at all.
"We won't grow up?" the girl asked. "We, we won't ever get to see our moms and dads again?"
"That's right. Not unless we get you out of here now."
"We never thought that we could die," the girl said with a trembling lip and didn't know what was happening. "We wanted him to help us because we wanted to go home! We were afraid he might break his promise and keep us another year because of the unknown disease!" She was shouting now and it only made Trunks angrier. She moved her hands away from the door and Mocha fell to her knees, "But..." her hands were shaking and tears started to fall, "but..." she grabbed onto her white dress and clenched it with both hands, "We didn't think we were gonna die!"
"You won't," a voice said from above the two of them. Mocha stopped crying and Chopper stared up in the sky where he dropped his jaw seeing a flying child above him. The kid had light purple hair and was wearing a black tank top that showed his muscles, but the most amazing thing about him was the white flaring aura that surrounded him and was spraying off in every direction. "I will not let you die," his eyes that were dark and black flickered to teal and then back again.
"Who are you?!" Chopper called up. Maybe one of the children was experimented on further and can now fly!
"You won't die," Trunks repeated while staring at the girl, "none of the children will die." His hair flickered gold and his white aura did the same. The ground beneath Chopper's feet began to shake and he and Mocha were scared as they backed up against the door they were blocking. "The only one dying today is," he turned his head the other way and his eyes turned teal, his muscles bulged, and his lavender hair turned gold and spiked above his head, "CAESAR!"
The boy shot off in a blinding flash of golden light that left the two behind him speechless. They heard the banging on the other side of the door and remembered they had to push against it to keep it shut. Chopper turned his head back around though once he was pressing on the door, Who was that?!
Trunks was flying fast down corridors and around corners with rage in his eyes. There were strong powers all over the place but he didn't care. He didn't care about the stone covering part of his body, the stone didn't even seem to be able to handle his aura and was falling off piece by piece revealing his body underneath it. When the stone on his chin fell, he winced since the cracks in it mirrored as slashes on his face. "CAESAR!" the boy roared again. A group of men in yellow hazmat suits were running in his direction and they couldn't see the child who moved so fast that he knocked them down with the wind rushing behind him since it couldn't keep up.
"Whoa," the tall man put down the little girl in his arms and his wife tilted her head at him funny.
"What's wrong Gohan?" Videl asked as she walked over and picked up Pan.
The scholar wearing glasses took them off and set them down. "I've been feeling weird things all day. Vegeta and Krillin were fighting earlier, I told you that. But now the boys are somewhere and Trunks just snapped into full Super Saiyan 2." The little girl in her mother's arms reached up with tiny hands towards her father and Gohan smiled at her. "I don't know what's going on, but I'm going to head to the Lookout and talk to Mr. Piccolo. You alright here for a while?"
"Sure thing," she said and leaned up, giving him a peck on the cheek. The demi-Saiyan smiled at his short beautiful wife and then waved to his daughter who laughed when he lifted into the air himself and flew out the door and into the distance. He was wearing a button down blue shirt with jeans on, but he was guessing that wasn't the best atire to wear wherever he was heading. I'll ask Mr. Piccolo to change my clothes with his clothes beam, hahaha, what a silly power.
"Look over there," Nami pointed and the others looked to see Chopper roar in pain as the gigantic children were attacking him. "He's using his Monster form?!"
"What is he doing?" Zoro asked in annoyance.
Chopper was trying his hardest to stop the children, but they didn't just get big, they obtained a giant's strength too. The bigger the child, the harder their hits hurt. "Stop," he said in his low monster voice but the kids were enraged, they had lost every sense of themselves except for having to go and eat the candy. "Stop!"
He couldn't let them get to the candy. Mocha ran ahead to protect it from her friends but he didn't know how much longer he'd be able to stall them. He was incredibly powerful, but he couldn't attack the children, only take their hits. "STOP!"
"Uhh, whatever you're planning on doing," Goten started talking and looked behind him. Law looked around the room full of tubes and machines and he rose his sword. "You should probably do it right now!" The boy spun around as he felt the ki getting towards them really fast.
Law was pulling his sword from its sheath and he looked at where the child was staring. The door they walked in from now had a new figure standing in it and the man walked into the dark room. "I guess this is what you could call, 'biting the hand that feeds you,' Law."
Vergo started walking into the room like he owned the place and the little boy floated up in the air. He didn't like the feel of this guy and he wondered what the man was going to do. When Vergo saw him lift up however, he froze in his tracks and stared at him with his cold black eyes since his glasses were broken, "You," he pointed up and Law was surprised he even cared about the child, "can you turn your hair gold?"
"Uh huh," Goten nodded.
"I see," Vergo said and the man looked a little pissed off. He turned back to Law and started walking again, "It goes beyond what we can allow as a child's mischief. You're too clever for your own good." Vergo's head was round at the top and his hair was short enough that in the shadows you could barely tell the difference of where his hairline started and skin began. His white jacket was even darkened by the room and Goten gulped at the dark energy he felt coming from the man. "People like you, need to be disposed of quickly."
Goten looked back and forth between the two men. He was here to stop the guy with the sword from killing people, but this man here looked a lot more ready to kill, he even had dried blood on his fingers. The child gulped and didn't really know what to do. Vergo continued, "It would be easy to kill you by squeezing your heart, but I won't do that." Squeeze his heart?! "It'll be satisfying to take my time and torment you. I'm gonna fix that cocky little face of yours. I'll make you remember what fear tastes like."
As the man held his arm down and the long staff of bamboo in his hand turned black with his fist, Goten could feel the special energy exuding from him. It was incredibly powerful and condensed. He didn't like this man one bit; all his talk of torture and killing made the boy choose him as his enemy, but the man said a few more words and then vanished to Law, while moving really fast for Goten.
Trafalgar Law lifted his hand to create a Room, but Vergo was already at him and swung his hand up, slamming Law in the chin and snapping his head back. The pirate lifted off the ground and the Vice Admiral moved fast again to go around him and elbow him down hard with a blackened elbow. "Enough!" Goten shouted and flew towards the man while he was using Soru. The little boy tried kicking him in the back of the head, but unlike when fighting against Trunks, this time the man was ready and hardened his entire skull.
Goten yelped in pain and then felt a strong grip around his ankle. He was spun around and thrown into an opposite wall where he slammed into the steel. Law was still writhing around from the heavy elbow in his back but the man looked down at him, "Get up Law. It's too soon for you to die."
The pirate in the white hat on the ground did seem scared for a second and then he grit his teeth in anger. His eyes went wide as the child on his right got out of the hole in the wall and flew back over with a fist pulled back. Vergo lifted an arm and blocked the punch, but the martial artist eleven year old started punching faster than Law and even Vergo could see. He got a few hits past the man who rose a knee to knock him out of the way, but Goten planted a foot down on the man's rising knee and then backflipped to kick the man under the chin and up in the air.
He flew around and above the rising enemy before slamming both of his hands down at the same time. Vergo hardened his head at that second and Goten yelled out in pain while the Vice Admiral reached up and grabbed the kid by the throat. He gripped tight and Goten growled before flaring his white aura and kicking up in the man's chest, knocking him backwards.
While the child was grabbing his throat and breathing in and out to get control of himself, Vergo dropped back down and kicked Law in the face as the pirate tried to push himself back up. He kicked the pirate a few more times before dropping to one hand and kicking up with an entirely blackened foot. He nailed the child dropping towards him in the crossed arms, but it still hurt and knocked the boy back.
"Take this!" Goten lifted a hand and a large yellow ball of light appeared on it. He threw it at Vergo but the man moved too fast and vanished, making the ball head straight for Law who was coughing up blood on the floor. The child panicked and flew around, trying to catch his own ball, only for it to explode on him and throw him backwards into the railing.
Law lifted his head and saw Vergo approaching him again and he pulled himself to his feet. "Are you guys starting to worry that your plan is falling apart? The thing in this room, seems really important to you," all of a sudden Law felt a tremendous pain in his chest and his face distorted as he fell to his knees.
Goten pulled himself back up and looked over to see Law writhing in pain. His eyes went wide as the man they were fighting had a human heart in his hand. It was pink and entrapped in some sort of bubble, but the guy was squeezing it and causing Law a lot of pain. "Bite your tongue brat."
"Aghhh, Room!" Law held out a hand and the dome extended out and surrounded them. "Heart, return," he pulled it back over and held it in his hand, but Vergo was too fast and shot across the Room and spin-kicked Law so that he flew backwards and slammed into the child on the railing, bending the metal back farther. The heart left Law's hands and dropped back into Vergo's.
"Oof," the child said and pushed himself up while Law reached for the rails. "Don't worry," the boy told the wounded guy next to him. Vergo was walking closer and Goten held out his hands, "I'll take care..." before he could finish, Vergo moved faster than ever before in their fight. He didn't kick the ground multiple times to move faster, this time, he just was. The man rushed in with a fist covered in Armament Haki and nailed the brat who was about to make his hair go gold.
Law turned his head the slightest bit and watched the fist indent itself into Goten's stomach and he could see the fist on the boy's back. The kid's eyes rolled back and he coughed once, blood splattering out of his mouth from the attack. Vergo spun around and backhanded Law with the same fist, knocking the man's hat off and bending him back over the railing. The hat flew off the edge and floated down to the darkness down below them.
The pirate was bent backwards with his mouth wide open with blood coming down it, and the child next to him was hunched over on the floor unmoving with a hand over his stomach. Law leaned up and was groaning but he made his hands into fists with his thumbs sticking out and glared at his opponent, "Countershock!" A huge blast of electricity left his hands and flooded into his opponent who snapped backwards with smoke pouring out of his body.
There was blood coming down Vergo's nose and his mouth and the man stayed on his feet with all the smoke coming out of him. "I have a message from Joker. He says it's a shame."
"It didn't work?" Law muttered through staggered breaths. He thought for sure his opponent would be down after than. "Snatching my heart back from Caesar would have gone according to plan," the pirate grumbled as his plan was disrupted by Vergo's presence. "The only thing I didn't expect was your arrival. Vergo," he spat the last word out as disrespectfully as he could.
"It's Vergo-San!" the man yelled at the brat and squeezed the heart in his hand. Law bent back and his eyes rolled farther back as Vergo squeezed tighter. Everything looked red to him and he was in so much pain as he screamed at the top of his lungs but the Navy Vice Admiral didn't let up.
"OOAAHAHHAHAGHHA!" Law screamed and finally Vergo released the vice grip he had on his heart. The pirate fell to the ground, too exhausted from the pain to even look up and see the reason why Vergo stopped.
The fake Marine stated without turning around, "I'm rather busy at the moment, but I guess you won't wait, Vice Admiral Smoker." The man turned around and through his glasses he met the gaze of the Vice Admiral with white hair smoking a cigar. "I was planning to silence you either way."
Law could hear that Smoker was in the room, but he couldn't move at the moment to look up, the pain was still too fresh in his mind. He was lying down with his face turned towards the child on the floor, and for some reason he felt that the hit Vergo hit the child with was much harder than any of the ones he was hit with himself.
Smoker spoke from the other end of the dark room tinted with green, "Get it over with then. I don't think I can stand looking at this trash before me for much longer, Pirate Vergo."
The real Marine Vice-Admiral was looking around at all the tubes full of green liquid and the large tank in the middle of it with the letters 'SAD' sprawled out. "What is this dangerous looking room?" Smoker asked. He was wearing a white coat and had his Navy officer coat on over it with the word Justice written down it. He had his Kairoseki jutte in his hand and glared back over at Vergo.
"It's something you don't need to know about," Vergo responded.
"Oi," Law growled. The pirate with scruffy black hair was leaned back against the bending rails and he looked like a mess, but in a raspy voice he growled, "Why are you looking away? I didn't say that I give up." Vergo squeezed his heart again, "AAhhhh!" the pirate yelled and tilted his head back to scream to the sky.
"I'll kill you later," Vergo stated in a cold voice. He had blood dripping down his face from the Countershock, but it wasn't enough to greatly weaken him. He was far too powerful for that. "Shut up and stay on the ground."
"Vergo," Smoker called out from the other side of the room, "I don't want my subordinates to find out about this. They love you like a father. To find out that you're Joker's dog, and would betray them like this..."
"Oh, it's too late to do anything about that," Vergo said in a calm voice and Smoker narrowed his eyes. "I already met them a few minutes ago."
"What did you do?!" Smoker lifted his weapon and started running forward.
"What indeed?" Vergo replied and sounded like he almost enjoyed tormenting his fellow Vice Admiral. He rose his green bamboo shaft and held it out in front of him, blocking the white haired Marine's attack. "You seem pretty upset, Smoker-kun. Are you seriously worried about those misfit Marines? As base leader I can do whatever I want to my useless subordinates," he smacked away Smoker's jutte and the Marine leapt backwards with the clank of their weapons. "And since you guys know too much, I'm gonna have to make you disappear."
A vein popped on Smoker's forehead, but Vergo wasn't joking around. He shot forward faster than the Logia could see, and he held up his completely black bamboo shaft and blew into it. It widened for a second and then a bullet also covered in Haki flew out towards Smoker. The man dissolved around the bullet a second before it would have killed him and the bullet flew back and made one of the tanks explode in a giant fireball.
After that it was a mess of smoke and flailing limbs as Smoker tried to get around Vergo and attack, but the man dodged every attack as it came. His Armament Haki was impecable, but that wasn't to say he didn't have amazing Observational Haki as well. Still, Smoker managed to get behind him and brought forward a fist covered in Haki, and the hit knocked an already damaged Vergo back where he bounced and bent back another part of the railing as he fell to his knees and then his stomach, losing his grip on his bamboo stick.
Vergo pulled himself up to his knees and Smoker took a step towards him, "It doesn't matter how long you've been with them," the white haired Marine started. Vergo lifted a little higher and stared at the Vice-Admiral, "Or that you're their base leader," Smoker continued. "Since you left the base, they've become my subordinates. Don't you lay a finger on them!"
The last shout was enough to make the small boy lying next to Law stir. The pirate looked down and was surprised the child was managing to move after that hit. There was a small puddle of blood beneath where Goten's open mouth was and the kid finally closed it. The spiky haired child's fists slowly clenched and he gripped the floor, tearing the steel with his fingers as he did.
Over on the other side of the room Vergo stood up fully. "This is getting tiresome. Since none of you will be leaving here alive, it doesn't matter if I show you my full power." The man held his arms to the sides and his Armament Haki disappeared. Smoker was going to charge him now, but he saw something else that almost made him drop the cigar from his mouth. The man's body started to get covered in a thin white veil and he smirked at the other Vice-Admiral who was getting more and more nervous by the second.
"You, what are you..." Smoker couldn't continue as the man moved fast again, but much faster than a normal Soru. He moved faster than Smoker could see, and the Vice Admiral watched as the bamboo staff on the floor was lifted without him seeing anyone take it. At the last second he felt someone on his right and lifted his jutte. The silver jutte was filled with Haki and turned black, but the bamboo staff that slammed into it was made of a much harder Haki and broke Smoker's weapon in half, then kept moving and hit the Vice Admiral himself.
Smoker slammed into the ground and then turned into smoke, wondering what just happened. He was dispersed through the room, but somehow Vergo could sense out exactly where he really was and jumped up in front of where Smoker's eyes were. His left darkened fist slammed into the Marine's face and the smoke all went away as Smoker tumbled backward.
"My Armament Haki is stronger than yours," Vergo stated and then disappeared, reappearing at the same distance only behind where Smoker was standing up. He kept walking towards Smoker and the Vice Admiral wiped some blood from his lip as he tried to follow Vergo's. "Your Logia power is annoying, but I have a far greater power now," his feet lifted off the ground and the white veil around him grew larger.
Smoker recognized these powers, "How are you doing this? Only they can..."
"They?" Vergo asked with a small grin. "Some of those you are referring to are just normal humans. Anyone can learn," his face went back to its usual scowl realizing what he said. "It doesn't matter that I told you, because this is where you die," he charged forward and spun a heavy kick into the side of Smoker's head. The Vice Admiral lifted a blackened arm to protect himself, but Vergo easily smashed through its guard with his Armament Haki covered leg. Smoker slammed into the ground and rolled over near Law, except on the other side of the child between them.
The Marine coughed up some blood and one of his arms felt broken. He turned his head and saw Law looking his way with wide eyes, but it wasn't him he was looking at. Smoker now started staring as well at the figure on his knees between the two. Vergo looked their way and said to the three of them, "You must realize by now that this fight is meaningless." Vergo started walking towards them and neither Law nor Smoker could do anything about it.
The boy between them though, he was getting back on his feet. His stomach was bruised and he was panting hard as he got up to his feet, but when he snapped his head up and made eye contact with Vergo, Joker's right hand man froze in his tracks. The disguised pirate saw the cold look the spiky-haired boy was giving him and knew he had to attack now. He rushed forward with a black fist held out and he didn't see the child move, no one did, yet his fist slammed into an open palm and stopped moving.
The three men in the room stared at the terrifying child who was lifting off the ground. His random black spikes all pointed up now and were bright gold, just like the aura that covered his body. Lightning bolts flew out of his body and sparked around them as the kid's aura grew larger.
"What the..." Law stated with a shocked look as he stared at the kid. Smoker was just as shocked there was another kid like this. Vergo was the most annoyed however and the thin aura around him grew as he pulled back his fist again. This time, Goten rushed him when his fist was back and the kid's teal eyes stared into the black irises of his enemy and plowed his forehead into his enemy's right as Vergo hardened his head.
Goten growled in pain, but there was still enough force in his headbutt to knock the man backwards and make him tumble across the floor. He looked angry, and it was mainly from getting punched in the stomach, but this man was also being a jerk to Smokey and Law. They didn't seem like bad guys and this man was torturing them. "I won't let you hurt them anymore," the boy stated and lightning crackled off of his body as the two men behind him lowered their bottom lips that a child one third their age was saving them.
Vergo stood up and rubbed his head in pain. He covered it in Haki, it shouldn't have hurt that much, yet this was the power of the gold haired fighters. He was warned by Doffy to stay away from them, and instead he attacked one straight on and didn't finish the job. "It seems I've made a mistake, however," he looked past Goten and towards the other two men, "I can not let them leave here alive," his body started to change and the other men stared wide eyed as Vergo tossed his jacket aside and his entire chest started to turn dark purple.
The bamboo shaft turned purple first, followed by his arms and legs. His entire middle section including his pants changed next, though his well-defined abs and pecs were still visible through the Armament coating. Finally his head and his face turned purple and his entire body was covered in the strange energy. The man looked more like a monster now, but the child in front of him wasn't phased. Goten had fought monsters scarier than him before.
Trunks felt his best friend's power go through the roof on the other side of the compound but he wasn't paying attention to him. What that furry guy had told the giant girl made him so angry that he couldn't think straight. He knew where the Master was and he flew full speed around another corner. He was moving so fast that he slammed into the wall on accident and left a huge dent on it as he turned the corner.
"Oh no oh no oh no! Why is the gas from outside in here?" Usopp shouted as he looked behind him and saw the huge cloud of purple around the next corner. "Didn't we close the gates?"
Trunks rounded the corner nearest to them and looked back seeing the huge cloud of purple. It was annoying that he couldn't just smash through the walls to get to Caesar, but he knew if he did that the gas would get him and everyone else inside so he had to follow the confusing maze of hallways.
Looking down, the kid saw the guy with the long nose, the tall guy wearing a kimono like Goten's mom wears, and a green ghost floating out of the skeleton's body. He shivered as he looked at the ghost, but his mind was still on the children. The people beneath the kid looked up while they ran and sweat started pouring down their faces. Sure, the gas was scary, but the golden child with lightning flashing out of him was terrifying.
They didn't recognize him at first, but then Usopp's jaw dropped. "Y-You're the kid from before right?!" He shouted and Trunks looked down into the sniper's eyes. Usopp could definitely see a resemblence, but what was up with the kid's hair and eyes, they were different than before?
The child lowered a little and glared in front of him, "How do I get to Caesar?" He asked in a dark tone.
"Wait," Usopp held out his hands and stared at the child. He knew the kid was really strong, but he didn't know what powers Caesar had. "Do you know what he can do?"
The child assumed he meant what Devil Fruit and he shook his head, "I don't care."
The kid was friends with Luffy, so Usopp couldn't just let him rush to his death. "You should!" They were still running from the gas but now Trunks was paying a little more attention to the long-nosed pirate. "He can take all the oxygen out of a room and you won't be able to fight him."
"Huh?" Trunks saw some weird powers in the War, but this was a new one.
"He has the Gas-Gas Fruit, and it's really dangerous. You should just let Luffy take care of it. He uses Haki so he can hit Logias," Usopp felt relieved that he stopped the kid but the boy remembered what Chopper said about the drugs and his mouth turned into a nasty snarl.
Kin'emon kept repeating to himself, I'm not scared. I'm not scared. Samurai's don't feel fear! But the child above them was scary when he made a face like that.
"Haki?" Trunks asked and rose a fist, "You mean this right?"
Usopp, Brook, and Kin'emon all stared as a golden glow surrounding the kid's fist and got more and more condensed until it was coating his hand. It was darker gold than the rest of his aura, but it didn't look like any type of Armament Haki they'd ever seen before.
"Thanks for the advice," Trunks said and then shot forward again. Can remove the oxygen from the room. I have to be careful against this guy.
"Why won't you attack me?" Monet asked the swordsman in front of her. Both had green hair, but hers was a much lighter shade and the Snow Woman flapped her wings as she smirked down at Zoro. "Could it be, chivalry? To be honest, I didn't think I could win against you. But that might not be the case," she licked her lips.
Zoro was glaring at her through his good eye and he heard footsteps behind the woman. There were lots of them and voices called out, "Let's find the kids and get out of here!"
"Isn't it kind of cold in here?"
"The Navy?" Zoro growled, already aggravated enough. The only thing that could make it worse was if the stupid chef was...
"Let's go through that door back there!" An annoyingly recognizable voice shouted out and Zoro frowned deeper. Sanji was leading a huge pack of Marines into the Biscuit Room.
Monet dropped to the ground and glared back behind her, "Everyone's trying to steal the children. I won't let them."
"Raaaa!" the Marines roared with their fists held up in the air.
"Let's go! Charge!" Sanji was running in the front of the pack.
"Why the hell are you leading them?!" Zoro shouted angrily at him.
Lieutenant Pike turned to the pirate who kept helping them. "Hey aniki, the kids aren't here, but Pirate Hunter Zoro is."
Sanji darted his eyes to the left and kept running while grumbling to the others, "He's one arrogant bastard. Alright guys," Sanji started in a serious tone. "Pull down your lower lip and make fun of him!" Zoro's forehead twitched with popping veins as the whole crowd of Marines pulled down their lips and started taunting him.
"They should all slip on the snow, hit their heads and die." He sighed as he realized that was never going to happen and then pointed the other way. "Hey, Nami and Robin are through that door." It was the quickest way he knew how to get rid of the curly cook. "Just hurry up and get going."
Sanji held up a thumb, "Wow, you may be an idiot, but that was some good information." He turned back to face the Marines, "Alright let's go guys..." his eyes caught something as he was turning and his voice froze in his throat, "Is what I want to say but there's a beauty right here!" His nose exploded with blood and he flew backwards from the force of the nosebleed. He saw Monet and the beautiful woman with green hair and huge wings stared back at him.
"You're right!"
"What a cutie!"
Zoro was getting annoyed at the Marines and yelled, "You guys are annoying! Hurry up and go on ahead!"
While the Marines were contemplating whether or not the woman was a real human or a harpy, and then deciding that she was cute either way, the snow in the room was picking up. The men started to realize this and then the woman in front of them said she wouldn't let them take the kids and the snow started attacking them.
A giant snow creature emerged from the snow covering the ground and Snow Monet bit into a man's shoulder. She caused it to turn into snow and then ripped through it completely. The men started shooting at her but she was a Logia and their bullets had no affect. "Damn that woman," Zoro muttered as he watched her slaughter the men. His interest piqued as he watched someone run up from behind her and jump, slashing at the bird woman's left wing.
Tashigi landed in front of her and blood splattered from Monet's wing. "A swordsman that uses Haki?" Monet mumbled in pain and released her grip on the closest Marine. The men started cheering for their Captain who explained that she was boarding up the door to stop the gas from getting in which is why she was so late to stopping the woman.
Tashigi looked over to Zoro but called to her men. "We don't have a lot of time. Everyone go look for the children."
"What are you going to do Captain-chan?" one of her men asked her.
"I'm going to stay here," she responded to the shocked men. She walked over to Zoro and then turned to face the Snow Woman.
"What are you trying to pull?" Zoro asked her.
She put both hands on her sword and said, "I figured I am needed here!"
The pirate swordsman narrowed his eyes that she thought he needed her help. "Eh?!"
"You feel it right Mr. Piccolo?" Gohan asked his mentor as they stood on the edge of the Lookout. They were both looking over the edge and could feel how strong Trunks and Goten were.
"Yes," the green man agreed. He could feel how strong the other fighters in the area were and he saw no need for the kids to completely skip Super Saiyan 1 and go straight to the ascended form, but there must have been some reason for them to snap so quickly.
"I'm going to go check it out," Gohan said and his old teacher frowned at the idea. "What is it?" The man asked. He was still very much a child in Piccolo's eyes and the alien smiled at his pupil.
"I don't think you'll be needed," he stated and Gohan finally felt the other power that Piccolo was already following. "Looks like Krillin's heading over there now."
Hmm, guess I'll wait up here for a little and visit Mr. Piccolo. He asked his master how he'd been and the two conversed while sensing the island far below on the surface of the planet. In the middle of a sentence, Gohan stopped and he and Piccolo both looked the other way.
The huge power that emerged on the island still wasn't close to the two children, but it powered up so fast that neither of them were ready for it. After a few seconds it went away, but at the same time they felt one of the few large powers on the island vanish. Both men were incredibly good at sensing ki, and they were relieved to find that the person's lifeforce wasn't completely drained. Whoever it was still had a small bit of ki left in them.
"Monet you're so useless," Caesar clown stared at the computer screen in front of him. "Hurry up and get to Tower R, Straw Hat Pirates." He spun his chair and smiled, "I can't wait until you're all suffering the effects of my gas, as my test subjects. Shirodododo!" Little wisps of gas floated around him and he laughed at the thought of killing them all.
The men in the room were all wearing their yellow gas suits but had the hoods pulled down since they were in the safety of the room. They were all smiling at their Master and were happy that he was with them in this dangerous time.
Suddenly, everyone in the room dropped their jaws as the door behind them exploded forward and slammed against the wall on the opposite side of the room. They all turned their heads slowly since they couldn't follow the door it moved so fast and they gawked at the crumpled piece of thick metal as it fell off the wall and thudded on the floor.
Caesar Clown's jaw was dropped more than anyone else in the room and he had a booger seeping out of his nostrils. They all snapped their heads over to the doorway to see who could possibly be at the room. The Gas Man thought he knew where everyone in the laboratory was, seeing all the important people on his monitors. When he looked into the doorway though, he just got even more confused, "Who are you?!" The man yelled at the boy with flowing spiky blonde hair above him.
"Are you the Master?" Trunks asked the purple man in front of him. The guy looked evil and he could feel the aura radiating off of him, but he wanted to hear the man say it himself.
"Yes, and you are-" Caesar's question was stopped as the men in the room were all thrown backwards and slammed into the walls on the sides. Trunks's eyes met with the man in front of him and every internal alarm Caesar had telling him when there was danger went off. The boy in front of him flew forward and kicked the man in the face. As he thought, his leg went right through the man and he turned to gas, flying around the room and floating above Trunks as a purple haze with a face.
This child wasn't in the talking mood and Caesar Clown got serious. All his men were shouting at the child and trying to shoot him, but at the same time they all started grabbing their throats in pain. None of them could breathe anymore and Caesar laughed, "Shirodododo, sorry my precious subordinates," he was smiling down at the child floating below him who was glaring back at him, "but you must be sacrifices for..." Trunks flew up fast and his fist was covered in condensed golden energy as it slammed into the mad scientist's face.
The Master wasn't able to keep using his ability because of how disoriented he was and suddenly everyone in the room was able to breathe again. "But how?" the man said as he coughed up blood and got off the floor where he slammed into. "I took away the oxy..." he dropped his jaw as the child floated down in front of him.
Trunks's cheeks were puffed out and the boy was glaring at him intensely. He hasn't taken a breath the entire time! Now Caesar was getting scared and he pulled out a weapon to hold in his hand.
"Master! What are you doing?" one of his men shouted.
"If you use that in here we'll all burn!"
Trunks took another deep breath as it seemed like the man was going to use another ability now. He was surprised the man could take a direct punch from him, but he didn't think it was his strength which was the problem. It was probably his Haki not being strong enough to transfer all the force into the blow.
The creepy man had a round disk that split in the middle showing one half red and the other blue. He had it open facing Trunks and the boy decided it would be a good idea to dodge, "Gastanet!" The man shouted and the child didn't realize how fast or dangerous the weapon was.
A huge fiery explosion blew up half the room and Trunks was only moving away from it enough for the blast to send him flying into the other side of the room where he landed in front of a computer screen. He could hear Caesar's own subordinates screaming in pain behind him and he felt the same fury he felt before when Vergo was attacking the Marines.
"Whoever you are," Caesar started in a smug voice, "you can't beat me! I'm the best scientist in the world: Master Caesar Clown!"
"My mom's a hundred times the scientist you'll ever be," Trunks laughed back at the man. He didn't want Caesar to lose quickly, he wanted to beat the crap out of this sick man, and taunting him came first. "Bulma Briefs, ever heard of her?" The boy started laughing as the crazy scientist's face twitched and he started snarling.
Trunks saw something in the corner of his eye and Caesar was going to attack when the boy's back was turned, but something told him the boy wouldn't be as slow to dodge a second time. The kid was staring at a computer screen and he was smart enough to know how to turn on the sound. It was one of the security camera footages and he stared at the giant girl on the screen he recognized.
The volume turned on and the girl was shouting, "Don't you care that you'll never see your mom and dad again?!"
"Shut up!" another giant of her size shouted and stopped trying to grab the huge bag of candy from her. Instead, the chubby boy started tugging at her hair and making the girl scream in pain. "Just give us the candy!"
"Shirodododo, good children," Master laughed from behind the child. "Eat the candy and stay here forever!"
"I'll be back for you later," Trunks muttered loud enough for the Logia eater to flinch.
Then, the boy moved so fast the scientist couldn't even see him. All he saw was the golden blur shoot out of the door and leave behind a trail of light behind him. He turned to his screaming men and sighed; there was no convincing them how much he loved them now so there was only one option. He smirked and the oxygen in the room disappeared, causing every man there to drop down and writhe in pain from loss of oxygen.
Trunks was flying as fast as he could in Mocha's direction, but he felt the powers behind him start disappearing. He knew the Master was trying to kill his own men, and he could stop it, but if he flew back now the children would die. He snapped his head back and forth before deciding and flying towards the children. "I'm sorry," the boy whispered as he felt the first of the men start to die behind him.
Faster, faster, he thought and he had to keep flying as fast as he could. He could hear the screams in front of him and spun around the next corner to see the children being held back by white clouds and two gigantic hands. Three of the pirates were trying to stop the children from getting to the candy, but when he looked down the stairs, his eyes went wide and his Super Saiyan 2 state faded.
No one was even looking at the tiny child who just flew into the room. Every person there was staring at the giant girl with black hair. Her cheeks were puffed out, full of the small red balls of candy, and she reached down for the final piece that her friends were diving towards.
She picked it up and lifted it to her mouth, but right before it went in, a small boy with purple hair flew down in front of her and snatched the ball. He held it in his hand and the ball disintegrated from a small burst of Trunks's ki. The girl stared at the kid and didn't know who he was, but her friends were all ignoring him.
"Mocha ate all the candy!"
"Mocha!" the orange haired woman shouted down at the girl.
"How could she be so stupid?" Robin exclaimed. They all knew what would happen if the girl ate that much candy.
"Give it back Mocha!"
"Stop hogging it you idiot!"
Trunks wasn't listening to the children around the room, he was staring in fear at the girl in front of him too. She was a few years younger, even if she was so big, and he could see how scared she was as she held her hands in front of her mouth. The kid glared around at the other children, trying to intimidate them enough to stop them from attacking the girl.
His eyes focused on a small furry animal wearing a blue and red hat with antlers above his ears. The guy looked similar to the other furry guy from before and he figured the person must have ate a Devil Fruit. "MOCHA!" The reindeer shouted. "Don't do it! Spit it all out!" He started pulling himself down the stairs, "You remember what I told you that drug was right?!"
Maybe there's still time, Trunks turned to the girl and was going to knock the candy out of her mouth and destroy it all, but he was too late. She swallowed it all and froze as everyone stared at her. Then, her mouth opened and blood splattered out all over the boy floating in front of her.
Nami, Robin, and Chopper all stared in horror as the girl dropped off her feet and tumbled down the stairs. She wasn't too far from the bottom and thudded on the ground grabbing her throat. There was a small puddle of blood around her and the pirates kept shouting her name as she writhed around on the ground.
All the children stopped their rampage and looked down at the girl on the ground. "Mocha just coughed up blood," the one who was just tugging her hair said in confusion.
"Why'd the delicious candy make her do that?" Biyu added.
Chopper was pulling himself down the stairs step by step since he couldn't move his legs after being in Monster Point for so long. The other kids were all asking why Mocha was so hurt, but the boy floating in the air above her was trembling in rage. He was too late to save the Marines who got covered in the gas, the guys in the yellow coats, and now he was too late to save this girl. "Damn it all!" he shouted.
Robin looked up while she ran down the stairs. She'd picked up their reindeer doctor and was taking him down to Mocha, but this child in the sky gained her attention. She thought he went with the Marines earlier but here he was with them.
"See, this is because you were selfish," one of the kids reasoned with himself as he stared at the blood in front of Mocha's face. The girl was crying and grabbing her throat which was in tremendous amounts of pain.
"Mocha! Mocha hang in there!" Chopper jumped out of Robin's arms and crawled over to the sobbing girl.
"Why?" one of the children asked. Their enraged expressions were all so confused as they stared at Mocha.
"This is what the candy does to you!" Chopper yelled at them with tears in his eyes, "Mocha wanted to save you! Even if it meant sacrificing herself!"
The lady pirates said that they needed to take down the other children while they weren't enraged, but Chopper needed to help Mocha when there was still time. If Trunks wasn't so distracted, he would have felt them coming, but suddenly dozens of Marines jumped down and started restraining the children.
"The kids aren't moving! Go!" Sanji yelled and the Marines all followed him. "No violence, right guys?!" He yelled and no one wanted to hurt the kids so they all shouted in agreement.
"Sanji," Trunks muttered as he saw the man standing on top of one of the kid's heads. He was stopping the kid from getting up while Marines held the boy down and the pirate chef glanced up at the kid above him. The kid's eyes were cold and dark and the boy whispered in a menacing tone, "I'll leave the rest to you."
"Huh?" Sanji asked, "Where are you going? We found the kids," he thought that was the reason the kid was with them before, but since then Trunks found a new purpose.
"I'm going," the boy stated and his hair turned gold again. This time he was calmer, more focused on what he had to do, though the rage inside him had tripled and his body was literally trembling with rage. Sanji took a step back with a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face as the child spoke again in a tone that made the Marines down below want to piss themselves, "to kill Caesar Clown."
With that the boy was gone in a flash of golden light. The Gas Man watching the whole thing from the surveillance room littered with dead bodies of his men dropped his jaw in fear and felt the R building he was in start to shake. This is bad! He turned completely into gas and did the only sensible thing he could think of, hide.
BAM! The floor of building C exploded upwards and smoke filled the room of guards. They all turned and stared, "Why'd the Dust Box suddenly..."
They all saw a figure walking through the dust and tried looking closer to see who it was. Mugiwara Luffy walked through the smoke and they rose their guns to shoot him, but he snapped his eyes open and his pupils shrank with another black circle going around them. All the men around him dropped their weapons and collapsed to the floor unconscious except for one.
The pink dragon wrapped around his shoulder was asleep, but it looked totally out of place on the serious expression Luffy had. "Where is Caesar?" Luffy asked the one remaining guard who was looking around at all his comrades and sweating buckets in fear.
"I dunno, I don't..."
"Where is Caesar?" Luffy lifted the man by the yellow suit and glared into his eyes.
"H-He's right down this corridor, in Building R." The man admitted and Luffy dropped him.
"Alright, I got it," the pirate muttered with a furious look on his face as he walked away. CAESAR!
A/N Hey everyone! Luffy and Trunks are converging on Caesar while Goten fights it out with a powered up Vergo. The boys have snapped into Super Saiyan 2's, but Gohan isn't heading over since he thinks Krillin is already on his way to help. Unknown to him, the midget has other plans when he gets there. Hope you all enjoyed the latest chapter and we're nearing the end of the Punk Hazard Arc where I'll take another short break before starting up Dressrosa since I haven't gotten too far into it yet. I started up a Game of Thrones and One Piece Crossover if you feel like checking it out. Thanks for all the reviews on the last chapter!
Daxen123
Ohhhhh...shhhh, that might be a problem since they introduce something that won't happen till way later in the arc that could help level the playing field for the straw hats against these guys
I have heard word about a Gear fourth and I'm totally looking forward to that. If I get to a point in the story where Luffy's up against someone he can't beat, I might go ahead and cheat a little, but I hate spoilers so I'll probably try to avoid that. What I'm liking about this story so far is that the Z fighters aren't all on the same side here. Krillin's working for Doflamingo and Vegeta's getting into the Schichibukai's business dealings as well... let's see how it turns out.
pokeball645
Wow, this is pretty good stuff, I hope Trunks gets the stone off him soon.
His aura burned that shit right off! Glad you're enjoying it!
Kratos89
Glad to see krillin get the win. I wonder, how many of the other z fighters learned the other types of haki?
Always love a good upset, and even Krillin knew it was a longshot beating the Saiyan. All the ones who learned it in the War haven't really forgotten, (since it never took them very long in the first place), how to use it, which is how Trunks was able to kick Caesar. Caesar Clown got the Grizzly Magnum to the face and he was still conscious after it so I'm saying one kick from Trunks didn't mean instant defeat for the crazy ass scientist XD! Next time we get some more badass Krillin! Thanks again to everyone who read and reviewed. Till next time!