Chapter 12: The Explanation and Current Condition
A moment of silence passes by as everyone just stood around; they stared at Luffy and the stranger, who had just been identify as Luffy's Grandpa!
The Straw Hats, for once, were at a loss of both thoughts and words. None of them were expecting THIS of all things to happen to them in this world.
"So," the large brown Keronian smirked, "what kind of trouble had you've been up to without the Marines to keep you in line, eh my idiotic grandson?"
Luffy just fumes on the floor, holding the giant bruise that had swelled up to rival the size of his head.
"Uh," Natsumi whispered to Nami's ears, snapping the Navigator and the rest of the crew out of their trance, "is this really Luffy's grandpa?"
"And how," Nami nodded, "This is INDEED Luffy's Grandpa, Vice-Admiral Garp the Fist also known as the 'Hero of the Marines'…"
"Hero of the Marines?" Giroro repeated questionably, "why such a title?"
"Remember what we told you about Gold Roger?" Usopp reminded (apparently, the Straw Hats had filled them in on their world) of which the ARMPIT Platoon and the Earth Force nodded, "well, apparently Luffy's Grandpa was the one who corner him…"
"GERO?" Keroro sputtered, "You mean THIS is the guy who took down the King of the Pirates, the ONCE most POWERFUL person in YOUR world?"
"He's strong alright," Luffy finally muttered, catching everyone's attention, "whatever you guys do, don't get on his bad side…in fact don't mess with him at all! Grandpa had tried to kill me hundred of times in the past…since I was barely seven years old…"
"HUH!" everyone exclaimed in shock and horror.
"Hey," Garp huffed, felling insulted, "don't give these people the wrong idea now! All of those times I threw you into the jungle at night…"
A quick image of Luffy fading into a dark jungle at night, screaming in fear, flashes through everyone's mind.
"…All those times I threw you down those deep canyons…"
A quick image of Luffy falling and fading into a deep ravine, screaming in fear, flashes through everyone's mind.
"…All those times I tied you up in those weather balloons and sent you flying off to who knows where…"
A quick image of Luffy fading towards the clouds and the heavens, screaming in fear, flashes through everyone's mind.
"…And all those times I threw you into the dens of some hungry dinosaurs…"
A quick image of Luffy falling towards a group of bloodthirsty, hungry raptors, screaming in fear, flashes through everyone's mind.
"…I did all those things for your own good; I did it to make you strong!"
A brief and awkward silences erupted from the house as Garp stood there, feeling proud of himself.
"Uh," Tamama sweat dropped, "was he TRYING to convince us that he's not like what they were telling us?"
"…Huh?" Garp sounded, surprise at the comment.
"I think," Dororo sweat dropped, "I'm beginning to understand how he was able to beat Murdada now…"
"…What?"
"With a family member like him," Fuyuki sweat dropped, "who needs enemies?"
"…Excuse me?"
"I heard of home discipline," Garuru muttered, "but even I have to admitted that his method were…unethical…"
"…Say WHAT?"
"Is he really, like, qualified to be anyone's relative, let alone a grandpa?" Sumomo added with a sweat drop.
"HEY! THAT"S GOING TO FAR!" Garp yelled. "Did you REALLY think I did all of that out of my own amusement? If it wasn't for ME, he would probably died a hundred times by now!"
"…Well," Giroro huffed, "I can see that…"
"In the end," Garp continued, "I decided to give him a break and left him with a good friend of mine. But as soon as I took my eyes off of him, this happened…"
Garp glared at Luffy.
"I had hoped to train you to become a strong Marine!" Garp lectured, "But instead, not only did you not show me gratitude, you used the strength I gave you to become an infamous pirate!"
"It was your own god damn fault!" Luffy yelled back in defiance, "I'd been telling you that I was dead set to be a pirate!"
"ONLY because you let Red-Haired Shanks taint your simple head!"
"HEY! Don't talk badly about Shanks! I told you, he saved my life!"
"You DARE raise your VOICE towards ME?" Garp growled as he grabbed Luffy by the neck, ready to punch him, "You think you have any RIGHTS to lecture your own WISE Grandpa, when it is YOU who've been causing the problem? You got some NERVES!"
"AAAHH!" Luffy cried, desperately trying to wiggle free before Garp can punch him, "I'm sorry!"
"I don't believe it!" Dororo exclaimed in shock, as was everybody else, "Against Murdada, he was so confident. But now he's not even trying to resist!"
"Just how bad did this Grandpa of his imprinted in him," Momoka muttered.
"S-Shouldn't we be doing something?" Fuyuki asked.
"No," Nami sighed with a sweat drop, "just give it a second…"
"Huh?" everyone who was not the Straw Hats or the Marines quoted, until they saw that both Luffy and Garp had fallen asleep still in their position, "WHAT THE! THEY FELL ASLEEP?"
Zoro huffed a sigh. "Jeez, this family of his…"
"Hey, hey," Saburo muttered with a sweat drop, "what do we do now? I've never been in a situation like this before!"
"I'll believe you there," Franky chuckled, "don't worry, if it's going to turn out like it did last time, we're okay…"
"Wait," Moa asked, "this happen before?"
"Yeah, a little while before I'd joined and way before Brook joined…"
"Ah, but I have heard about it," Brook laughed, "but to think I get to see it all over again in front of my very eyes…although I have no eyes!"
While Brook was laughing at his own joke, Koyuki was wondering about something that had come up.
"Robin," Koyuki sounded, catching the archeologist's attention, "Who is Red-Hair Shank? The way Luffy's Grandpa had stated it, he sounds like someone very infamous…"
"Ah, so you caught on," Robin giggled before becoming serious, "well, in our world, after the death of Gold Roger, four powerful pirates had risen up to rival the power of the World Government. They had made a big name of themselves in the New World, the second half of the Grand Line, which eventually led them to be called the Four Emperors. Red-Hair Shanks is one of them and believe me, I was shock to find out that Luffy had ties with him when I first heard about it…"
"The straw hat on his head," Nami interjected, indicating Luffy's hat, "was given to him by Shanks, might I add…"
Garp and his grandson, meanwhile, were still snoring in their sleep forming anime snot bubble from their "nose". That is until Garp's bubble popped, waking him instantly.
"H-Huh? Oh crap, I'd fell asleep!" He exclaimed, still a little woozy, before noticing that Luffy was still asleep in his grasp and therefore getting irritated, "Hey you! You DARE sleep while I'm LECTURING you! You've got SOME nerves!"
In moments, Garp had began to "beat" the sense right back into the Straw Hat Captain and Luffy had found himself screaming the entire time.
"Uh," Zoruru sweat dropped as he watch Luffy get "punished", "was this how it happen last time?"
"Somewhat," Sanji sweat dropped as Luffy continue to receive pain, "although I could swear that last time it looks a lot less painful than now…"
"Apparently," Robin giggled, "the Vice-Admiral is showing off…"
"Showing off?" Aki sweat dropped, "showing what off to whom?"
"To you people, apparently, and about 'what'…I guess he was showing you how he express his tough love…"
"Uh huh," Karara sweat dropped, "tough love huh…?"
Finally, after what seems to an hour of torturing…err, "punishing", Garp finally release his grandson who was currently nursing the swell on its swell on its swell on its swell on its swell…in other words, to cut a long story short, a mountain of bruises.
"That will teach you to respect your elder," Garp huffed, "now come with us…"
"Uh, why?" Nami asked.
"Isn't it obvious? To stop you pirates from causing trouble to this world…"
"Uh, sir," Fuyuki spoke up, "you got it all wrong…"
"…Huh?"
"Well, they hadn't been causing any trouble since they got here. In fact you can kind of say they been fixing OUR problems…"
"…Really?"
"Duh," Natsumi rolled her eyes, "in fact, they just save our world not even an hour ago…"
Garp gave them a blank expression before turning to Aki.
"Kids these days don't have a clear sense of justice," Garp explained, "you're an adult, so let's hear it…have the Straw Hat Pirates cause you any trouble?"
Aki shook her head. "No, not at all. It is just as the kids said…"
"…huh, I see," Garp hummed in thought, scanning the room for a moment, "well, if that's the case…" Garp marched out the hole and toward his men. "BOYS…!"
"Yes Sir…" the soldier cried, ready to follow his order.
Garp suddenly pointed to the hole. "…Go fix up that hole on the house…"
"WHAT~!" the soldier exclaimed in disbelief as everyone else in the house sweat drop.
"Sir," one of the soldiers complained, "you can't do that!"
"That's right," another soldier exclaimed, "if you were going to make us repair it in the end, why did you break it in the first place?"
"Because it's a lot cooler making an entrance like that," Garp explained, causing all of his subordinates to perform anime fall and everyone else in the house to sweat drop.
"The same freaking excuse?" Franky huffed.
"SIR!" one of the soldiers exclaimed, "DON'T just do unnecessary things just for the SHOW of it…"
"We'll fix it like last time," another soldier offered, "but just like last time, YOU have to help us!"
"WHAT~?" Garp exasperated, "why?"
"You were the one who cause the mess!" his soldiers exclaimed comical way.
"Oh! Well…alright, fine…"
A few minutes later, Garp and his soldiers slowly but surely began to patch up the wall as everyone else continues to watch.
"Gero," Keroro sounded as he watches Garp hammer away on the same nail for the last few minutes (so in reality, Garp isn't really helping much), "Luffy, isn't your old man really high-ranking and famous?"
"Well," Luffy muttered, "I don't really know much about his work and all…"
"He's definitely the superior," Garuru muttered, "but it looks like it's a mere title…."
"Well," Fuyuki hummed, "there's no doubt about his strength, that for sure. I mean, the only few I've seen so far to able to hurt Luffy that badly was Nishizawa-san mother and Dark Admiral Murdada…"
"Not to mention," Kululu added with a chuckle, "the fact that Luffy didn't even try to resist and just grovel in fear…"
"Can't blame the poor guy," Tororo chuckled, "how would you feel if most of your early life your own grandpa try kill you repeatedly…"
"I'm surprise he had gotten a trauma," Dororo sighed, "though I suppose Luffy groveling in fear is one type of trauma…"
"So, Nami," Natsumi addressed, "is all of Luffy's relative like that?"
"Apparently," Nami sighed in frustration, "but at the same time, not really…his brother isn't at the least…"
"Huh…Brother?"
"Yeah, did I mention it before," Nami quoted as everyone else shook their head, "really, I've never mention it?"
"No," Fuyuki muttered, noticing that Garp slightly flinched at the mention of Luffy's brother.
"Well," Usopp began, "You see, it turns out that Luffy had an older brother name Portgas D. Ace. Though he's called 'Fire Fist' Ace because he ate the Devil Fruit Flame-Flame Fruit, which allows him to become fire. We met him before Robin joined us. He's pretty powerful, considering he's the Second Division Captain of the Whitebread Pirates…"
"Whitebread Pirates?" Koyuki mused over the topic, "What's that?"
"They," Robin answered, "are the current pirates closest to obtaining the One Piece, led by Edward Newgate better known as Whitebread, hence the pirate crew's name. He is currently one of the Four Emperors. It was said that he was the only pirate to have ever stand toe-to-toe with the Pirate King when he was still alive. So it is natural that he is currently given the title of 'The Strongest Man in the World'…"
"Oh! So let me get this straight," Keroro mused as he started calculating in his head, "This Whitebread guy is the strongest man thus far, Luffy's brother is the SECOND division captain, Luffy's grandfather was the one who caught Gold Roger the decease Pirate King, and Luffy is currently the one who wish to be the next Pirate King. So, in a sense, if Luffy really wants to be the Pirate King than he'll have to battle these people eventually, right?"
The Straw Hats turn to Keroro in astonishment.
"That's…That's right!" Franky exclaimed.
"Whoa," Natsumi and Giroro mumbled, "Stupid frog/Keroro is actually using his brain!"
"Hey," Keroro cried, feeling insulted, "I had to get something right eventually…right?"
"Anyway," Luffy suddenly voiced, turning back to his Grandfather, "what are you doing here anyway, Grandpa? Are you supposed to be back in the Grand Line?"
Everyone, except for those unfamiliar with the Straw Hats' current situation, flinched in realization.
"Hey that right," Momoka noted, "how did people from Luffy's world come to our world?"
"Not to mention," Dororo hummed in thought as he looked at the Straw Hats, "it seems that they knew where to find you all…"
"Oh crud," Natsumi suddenly screeched, "if you all came here by foot, then that means someone must have seen you! And that means…"
"That means…" Keroro sweated as three world struck his thought: Dissect…Experiment…Road Kill (ok, it's actually four words, but I've considered "Road Kill" to be one; so SUE me!), "NO! We'll be killed! The mission and our lives are in jeopardy!"
"…What's with all the fusing?" Garp turned to them in confusion, picking his "nose".
"This is NO time to be PICKING your nose!" Giroro yelled, "We're ALL in DANGER because YOU were spotted by people out there!"
"What are talking about? They didn't see us…as if they could anyway…"
"…HUH?" Everyone, even the Straw Hats, exclaimed in confusion, "What do you mean?"
"The device that sent us to this world made us perfectly invisible to most of the resident of this world save for a selective few who had been in an unusual situation in the past…in other worlds, anyone who had a 'close-encounter'…"
"So," Saburo began, "you're saying anyone who have met or interact with creatures from other world are the only one able to see you guys…"
"That's what that scientist said," Garp replied, picking his nose, "and it should be the same with my grandson and his crew…"
"Wait, really?" Usopp noted in surprise, "You mean we can go out there, do something crazy or embarrassing, make a lot of loud and obnoxious noise, sleep amongst a crowd, kick some bad guy's butt and get away with it?"
"Yeah, pretty much. No matter how hard they try, they had to have seen or interact with something 'strange' from this world first…at least that's what that scientist said, and it seems to be holding out…"
"Oh," Luffy exclaimed, "that's a relief then!"
"That is NOT a relief," Kululu uncharacteristically growled, "do you realize that I just waste some precious parts, equipment, AND my time to make you those Anti-Barrier Wrist Protector?"
"Oh yeah," Luffy laughed, as he toss nine Beli coins to the suddenly greed-stricken yellow frog, "what were you saying again?"
"Oh~ never mind~!" Kululu hummed as his glasses displayed yen symbols.
"He's easily pleased," Chopper sweat dropped.
"Hmm," Robin hummed in thought, "when you said 'it should be the same with us', it sounds like you know how we end up here in the first place, Vice-Admiral Garp…"
Hearing the Pirate Archeologist, everyone turn to Luffy's grandpa, wondering if Garp DOES know something about the Straw Hats' situation.
"Of course I do," Garp replied as he 'went back to work', "after all, it was our fault that you all ended up here…"
"WHAT?" Everyone exclaimed, including the Marine Force but for a different reason.
"Vice-Admiral sir!" Garp's subordinates comically yelled in frustration.
"What with all of you?" Garp asked in confusion.
"Saying that 'we', as in us Marines, were the one who is at fault is going a BIT too far," one of the soldier complained, "Wasn't it YOU, sir, that did it?"
"Huh?" Garp raised an eyebrow, before thumping his palm remembering, "Oh, right~! Sorry about that…" Garp turned to everyone else, smiling embarrassingly and scratching the back of his head, "Uh, actually it was MY fault that you all ended up here…sorry, I goofed…"
"That's all you can SAY?" the Straw Hats, except for Robin of course, comically yelled as their friend anime fall from Garp's lack of consideration.
"How exactly were you involved with us being here?" Robin asked.
"Yeah," Fuyuki noted, "could also tell us how it happen as well?"
Garp looked over to them before shrugging his shoulder.
"I don't see why not," Garp stated, "Well, it started about over two weeks ago…"
"Funny," Zoro muttered, "we've arrived here nearly two weeks ago…"
"Hey! Do you want to hear the story or not?"
"Sorry…"
"Anyway, over two weeks ago, the World Government's top scientist, Dr. Vegapunk, created a new device call the Wrap…"
"The Warp?" Natsumi rolled her eyes, "how original…"
"Hey! Do you want to hear the story or not?"
"Sorry…"
"Anyway, this device was said to be revolutionize the Marine's ability to capture or to be summon to place. There's a lot of scientific mumble-jumbo and stuff along with it, but I won't get into details…"
"Ah!" Luffy thumped his palm, "So it's a 'Mystery Device'…"
"Hey! Do you want to hear the story or not?"
"Sorry…"
"Of course, like every new toy, it needs to be tested first before anyone can officially use it so only the higher ups currently knows about…"
"So," Fuyuki hummed, "that's how you know about it and cause all of this mess?"
"Yeah, pretty much-AH, Hey! Do you want to hear the story or not?"
"Uh…Sorry?"
"Anyway, that's pretty much the reason I know about it and…well, I was a pretty impatient guy…and so were some government officials, so they gave me permission to use the device despite the Vegapunk's protest…"
"How typical," Sanji rolled his eyes.
"Hey! Do you want to hear the story or not?"
"…Are you ever going to say anything else when someone interrupts you?" Sanji asked with a sweat drop.
"Anyway," Garp continued, ignoring Sanji's question, "So I end up playing with the new device, which was pretty cool actually; I had a lot of fun warping stuff and people from one place to another. That's when it happen…"
"Like, what happen?" Sumomo wondered.
"Hey! Do you want to hear the story or not?"
"Like, just answer the question already!" Sumomo rolled her eyes, "You can, like, do that AND continue your story, you know…"
"Oh, right…uh, anyway I suddenly thought of this crazy idea about and try to warp many targets at once to one location, so I randomly chose some targets and launch the device. However, apparently it was too much and the device went haywire instead. I try to stop it, even Vegapunk tried but it was no use…so I did the next best thing…"
"Like what?" Giroro asked worryingly, not liking how this was going.
"…I smashed the device up…"
"You did WHAT?" Everyone, save for the selective calmer people, comically exclaimed.
"Hey…"
"Don't EVEN start IT! Just keep TALKING!"
"Okay, okay, jeez," Garp grumbled, "anyway, like I said, I smash the device up, hoping that it would make the device stop. It did stop, but not before it warped the random targets I'd selected earlier. We later found out that, due to the short-circuiting, the targets were sent not to another place in the world, but to another place in ANOTHER world, shocking even Vegapunk…"
"I bet he was shock," Kululu chuckled.
"Hey! Do you want to hear this story or not?"
"Not really," Kululu smirked, before point towards the others, "but these idiots do…"
"Shut up, jerk!" the ARMPIT Platoon mumbled.
"Anyway," Garp went on, "the World Government didn't like the sound of that, fearing that the targets I'd sent would cause trouble in another world or something like that, and told me to go gather them up to be taken home…"
"Because you caused the ruckus, right?" Karara wondered.
"Uh, yeah…so, Vegapunk hurryingly put the device back together and sent me and a selected few to go retrieve the targets within two month…"
"TWO MONTHS?" everyone exclaimed.
"Yeah, two month is the time limit…"
"And," Robin spoke up, "exactly how many targets do you have?"
"Huh? Oh, well…uh, about say…four hundred and fifty…"
"WHAT?" everyone exclaimed.
"Ah, don't worry, most of them are just Seakings, some objects, and other large animals…"
"Oh," Luffy smiled, "that's good…"
"How is THAT good?" the ARMPIT Platoon and Earth Force exclaimed with an anime pop vein.
"Well, for the Seakings and animals, we can just simply eat them…"
"EAT THEM?" Everyone aside from the Straw Hats and the Marines exclaimed in horror.
"HA, I like the way you think, Luffy," Garp laughed, "That's my grandson for you!"
"Wait a minute," Franky intervened, "when we were target, does that mean our ship as well?"
"Yeah, pretty much…"
"Then that means the Thousand Sunny is out there somewhere, right?"
"I supposed so," Garp picked his "nose" as he continues to "help" with the wall fixing.
"Crap!" Franky panicked as he turn to the others, "we got to go find it! Now!"
"What the big deal?" Tororo chuckled, "It's just a ship…"
"Not really," Moa informed, "as a group of pirates, their ship is their lifeline…"
"Not to mention it's a ship I had built myself!" Franky lectured, "So it IS a big deal!"
"Well," Robin began, "you really don't need to worry, Franky, since only those who had 'close-encounter' can see it, let alone vandalize it…"
"Oh…right, but still…"
"Speaking of which," Robin mused as she turn back to Garp, "how exactly did that happen, us being invisible to almost everyone else I mean?"
"Well," Garp hummed in thought, "I'm not quite sure how it had happen, but according to Vegapunk said that it was a side-effect from being warp to another world, and so far it seems to be holding out…"
"Ah," Luffy cupped his chin, "so it's a 'mystery effect'…"
"Pretty much…"
"Wow Luffy!" Chopper exclaimed, "You're so smart!"
"So," Nami hummed, "do you know who you sent then?"
"Uh," Garp paused, "well, the truth is…"
"You have no idea do you?"
"Nope, not at all," Garp laughed, "oh, well! It's nothing to be concern about…"
Everyone sighed in frustration as Garp continue to laugh his head off.
An hour later, Garp and his troop were done repairing the wall (in a crappy way according to Franky).
"…You're my grandson," Garp happily announced, "and you didn't commit any crimes since you got here, so I'll let you go this time, Luffy. That's the excuse I'll used this time…"
"Sir," the gray Keronian with the gray hat sweat dropped, "the higher up will never except that! Isn't it easier to say that we didn't run into them?"
"But," Garp continued to explain to Luffy, ignoring his subordinate's advise, "if I catch you all doing anything stupid or fishy, I won't let you off again! Got it?"
"Got it," Luffy nodded.
"Well, we better be off now. The other targets aren't going to turn themselves in to us, at least I bet most of them won't, so take care of yourself now…"
"Okay, bye!" Luffy bid farewell, only to have Garp punch him in the face in rage.
"That is WAY too CASUAL!" Garp lectured angrily, "it's been a while since we've since each other! Show some more regret; I'm your grandpa, for heaven sake!"
"Well, what DID you EXPECT?" Luffy shouted in defiant, holding onto his new bruise, "All you ever BEEN doing since we've met is BEAT me UP!"
"That's because I'm showing you my TOUGH love! And talk to ME with more RESPECT, you hear?"
"Whoa," Natsumi commented with a sweat drop, "this whole family seems to have passed on some of their big ego…"
"My thought exactly," Nami chuckled.
"How stupid," Zoruru simply stated.
"You mean the comment about ego being pass on?" Garuru asked.
"No…the family…"
"Oh…"
"Jeez!" Luffy huffed, wandering back towards the house as the Marine left, "I can't even say farewell to him without getting beat up…"
"How did you survive all this time, Luffy?" Chiroro asked suddenly, "I mean, it's hard enough to believe he'll treat his own grandson like that…"
"Oh, you'll get use to it I suppose…"
Everyone sweat dropped.
"I highly doubt that," Keroro noted, waving his hand wildly in front of his face.
He wasn't the only one; Fuyuki, Giroro, Koyuki, Kululu, Tororo, Paul, Sumomo, and even Garuru were doing the same.
"I doubt I'll get use to it," Fuyuki muttered.
"I've taken some harsh military training," Giroro muttered, "but I've never been force to stick my head into a hornets' nest like that…"
"Even ninjas' training session aren't that bad!" Koyuki admitted.
"I doubt I'll survive for a second," Kululu and Tororo mumbled together.
"You were very fortunate," Paul added before correcting himself, "No, you were extremely very lucky to have been able to grow up…"
"Like, I can't imagine myself in that situation," Sumomo trembled.
"…I can't imagine anyone in that situation," Garuru remarked.
"Well," Saburo nervously chuckled, "apparently a particular somebody did; it's no wondered he's so freaking strong, or why he could smile in dangerous situations for that matter…"
"You can say, surpassing the limit?" Moa chimed.
Everyone nervously chuckled at the proverb, until they noticed a particular delicious aroma in the air.
"Hey," Taruru wondered out loud, "what's that mouth-watering smell?"
"That my friends," Robin chuckled pointed towards the table, covered in a mass variety of foods with Sanji waiting patiently, "is the master chef's work in completion…"
"He set it all up while we were busy with Garp," Brook laughed.
Everyone looked at each other for a moment before a grin overcame their face.
"Let's EAT!" Luffy shouted in joy, speaking everyone's mind.
"…No matter how time I taste Sanji's cooking," Aki hummed after joyfully swallowing her food, "they always taste better than before!"
"Yummy!" Karara, Chiroro, and Sumomo glee as they took another mouthful.
"Incredible," Pururu complimented, "if only my diets are just as good…"
"Never fear my purring darling~," Sanji flirted, doing his silly dance again, "give your prince the command and I'll shall prepare you a year worth of delicious diet food~!"
"If that's the case," Karara dreamingly offered, "would you marry me so that you can continue to cook this kind of food for me?"
"WHAT?" The rest of the Straw Hats choked on their food.
"Marry…?" Sanji repeated before a massive nosebleed sent the poor womanizer crashing into the wall behind him.
"WAAH, Sanji!" Chopper exclaimed as he went over to assist the fallen cook.
"No," Sanji mumbled, his visible eye now a heart shape, "I can't be this fortunate in life; this must be the day I die…"
"Hang in there, Sanji!"
"How can the very same guy that beat me so badly in the last chapter," Taruru wondered with a sweat drop, "can be so weak and humiliating in front of woman?"
"Well," Tamama chuckled nervously, "let's just say you got your weakness and he got his…"
"What a idiot," Zoro mumbled from the corner of his mouth.
Catching every word with his sharp ears, Sanji, as if he had already healed from his condition, immediately stomped over to the swordsman.
"What was THAT, Moss-Head?" Sanji roared.
"I'd said you were pathetic," Zoro calmly answered.
"HUH?"
"Hey Sanji," Nami called, "we need more food over here!"
"Coming, Nami-san~!" Sanji cheered.
"Get me more meat!" Luffy called.
"…And more Star Fruits!" Keroro added.
"Go get them yourselves!" Sanji growled.
"Meanie," Luffy and Keroro whined.
"Hey, pipsqueak," Kululu turn to Tororo, "pass me that bowl of curry…"
"Hmm," Tororo pondered mischievously, "I don't feel like it…"
BUZZ! Kululu gave Tororo a shock with a stun gun.
"Get it," Kululu chuckled dangerously.
"…Yes sir," Tororo whimpered.
"Say, Zomimi," Dororo addressed to the silent cyborg assassin over in the corner, "you should come join us…"
"…It's Zoruru," Zoruru grumbled.
"Oh! Sorry…"
"Here Fuyuki-kun," Momoka smiled as gave Fuyuki more food, "have some more!"
"Thanks Nishizawa-san," Fuyuki smiled, "I really appreciate it…"
"Fuyuki-dono and Momoka-dono, sitting in the tree," Tamama and Keroro sang, "K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"Sergeant!" Fuyuki exclaimed, as he and Momoka heavily blushed, "don't say such ridiculous thing!"
"K-I-S-S-I-N-G?" Luffy wondered, "what does that spell?"
"You're HOPELESS!" Usopp, Franky, Sanji, Taruru, and Pururu exclaimed.
"Well, Luffy," Keroro sighed cunningly, "that spell…"
"Paul!" Momoka exclaimed and immediately the combat butler dropkicked the green Keronian.
"Uh," Paul coughed, "It means nothing, Master Luffy…"
"Uncle-sama!" Moa cried as she instantly change into her alien form, her Lucifer Spear high above her head, "How DARE you hurt my Uncle-sama!"
"Oh crap!" Fuyuki yelped, "everyone run!"
Most of the being presence quickly scramble away, even though some of them (such as the Straw Hats) have no clue what's going on. The only one not to run away was:
Keroro (who was still pinned under Paul's feet),
Paul (who had yet to realize what was about to happen),
Luffy (who hadn't been paying attention),
Zoro (who had unfortunately fell asleep),
Chopper (who was too curious to move),
Sanji (who was mesmerize by Moa's "beauty"),
and Tamama (who was too busy eating the sweets)
...didn't realize the danger…yet.
"Hey," Luffy noted, "what's going on?"
"Z-z-z," Zoro snored.
"What's she doing?" Chopper wondered.
"I don't know~!" Sanji flirted, "but she's so gorgeous~!"
"Huh," Paul and Tamama sounded before turning to Moa.
"Oh no!" Keroro yelped.
"OH SH-…"
"One-millionth," Moa declared as she slammed the Lucifer Spear into the ground, "HELLMAGEDDON!"
Instantly, a column of energy erupted in a five meter radius around her, engulfing Keroro, Paul, Luffy, Zoro, Chopper, Sanji, and Tamama in the energy with only their dark silhouette showing.
"AAH~!" Paul cried in pain.
"GERO~!" Keroro cried.
"TAMA~!" Tamama followed in suite.
"LUFFY~!" Luffy joined.
"Don't COPY us!" Giroro screamed as he aimed to dropkick him, only to end up getting caught in the eruption as well, "GIRO~!"
"Is he an idiot?" Nami mumbled with a sweat drop.
"ZORO~!" Zoro groaned in surprise.
"You TOO!" Franky exclaimed.
"CHOPPER~!" Chopper exclaimed as well.
"Not YOU too," Usopp shouted as he try to comically kick him, only to join in as well, "USOPP~!"
"STUPID!" Nami comically yelled.
"MOA-CHAN~!" Sanji weakly called.
"…Okay, it's official," Nami sweat dropped, "they are totally NUTS!"
After about a minute later, the attack subsided and the victims fell to the floor, all with Afros on their head.
"Uh," Robin blinked, "what's with the Afros?"
"You can say it's a safety mechanism for us Keronians when we get hit with something extremely powerful," Garuru explained, "though I have no explanation why the Pekoponian develop one as well…"
"Man, that was some alarm clock," Zoro groaned only to notice the large lime-color Afro on his head, "What the?"
"Ha," Sanji jeered, not yet realizing the blond Afro on his own head, "the shitty swords-boy got a silly Afro!"
"Look who's talking…"
"What?" Sanji noted before finally noticing his own Afro, "Oh man! Not me too!"
"Hey guys," Chopper cheered innocently with a large pink Afro perched on his head, "I got an Afro! It's an Afro! Don't you think I look cool in an Afro?"
"I had said that Afros are something to be feared," Usopp mumbled as he used a hand mirror to inspect his large black Afro, "but it definitely doesn't look good on me…"
"That…WOMAN!" Tamama growled under his breath.
"What…was I thinking?" Giroro mentally slap himself.
"Oh no! Uncle-sama!" Moa yelped as she tries to wake Keroro, now sprouting a large Afro.
"Have," Keroro mumbled, "Have I died and went to heaven?"
"Heh, Heh, Heh," Luffy laughed with his big black Afro (the biggest among them all, might I add), "you all look ridiculous!"
"You are the one to TALK?" Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Keroro, Giroro, and Tamama comically yelled as they anime chop at the air.
Luffy continue to laugh before the bystanders began to laugh (or in cases like Garuru, only slightly chuckled) and it wasn't long before everyone joined in as well.
It was definitely a party…Straw Hat Pirate style. A party to celebrate the world survival for another day.
However, not far from the Earth, things were not as pleasant. Floating aimlessly, we find Dark Admiral Murdada battered, injured, weakened, and unconscious.
Luffy's final attack had been powerful; it had sent him skyward, rocketing away from the very planet he had claim to be able to take with ease. Fate, however, had apparently given him an obstacle to great to overcome, something that he had anticipated: traitors!
To think that his might and fame didn't even deter them. Especially those two ringleader: Sergeant Keroro and Monkey D. Luffy. Murdada had wondered in what part of hell did such being had originated from. They were like no other he had faced before; not like Sergeant Keroro who manage to strike even fear into him for a single instant; not like Monkey D. Luffy who manage to surpass his might with his own. They were both the biggest miscalculation he had made, and he had paid the ultimate price.
This was his first defeat since he'd enter military. And with the defeat comes the loss of many other things. No more shall he be fear as being invincible. No more will soldier look up to or fear him as they had done before.
All that effort to make himself a living legend crumble with this one defeat.
But he's the type to let it go that easy, oh no. Slowly, his fingers began to twitch and the dark that surrounds him return; his eyes immediately opened, the light of evil once again shine brightly in his eyes.
"…They," Murdada growled, "They…They shall…pay…with their LIVES! I…I…I will NOT…fall like THIS! I will farther my strength and I shall…RETURN!"
"Is that so?" A voice suddenly spoke, catching the Dark Admiral's attention.
Murdada struggled to turn his numb head to the source of the voice. There he found another Keronian, but it was a strange one at best.
The Keronian's entire body was cover in some sort of shiny metallic armor that seems more skin-like than armor-like. The helmet it wore was made to give him the look of devilish look, forever making his expression angry and menacing. It right arm was larger than its left, ending with large blades in place of its finger. A kind of jetpack that was currently keeping him "upright". But his most ominous feature was his single insignia located on its belly region: a Keronian Star with three slashed marks across it.
"Who," Murdada growled, "are you?"
"…My name," the Keronian spoke, "is of no important at the moment. I merely came here to see if you will accept a little offer…"
"Offer?"
"Do you wish…to return our home world Keron to its formal TRUE glory? To really be able spread our TRUE might throughout the universe?"
"…Interesting questions; suppose I do?"
"Then come with me," the Keronian held out its hand, "and together, we WILL return Keron to its greatness!"
Luffy: "Who was that? Who was that? Who was that?"
Nami (knocking Luffy unconscious): "Quit BOTHERING him, Luffy!"
Keroro: "Who is it? Who is it? Who is it?"
Giroro (throwing a bomb at the Sergeant, blowing him up) "Shut the HELL up!"
Normama (sweat dropping): "Eager, aren't they?"
Garp: Can't really blame them, considering that you're slacking..."
Normama: "..."
Garp (sweating in worry): "Hey, hey, don't take it the wrong way! I was just..."
Normama: "...I quit..."
Everyone: "WHAT!"
The ARMPIT Platoon: "GARP! Look what YOU have done!"
Garp (looking around at all of the angry face): "Hey, Hey, I didn't mean any harm..."
Normama (sweat dropping): "Uh...I'm not done yet! I was going to say that I'll be posting a Mini-Chapter next time..."
Luffy and Keroro (getting extremely excited): "FOR REAL!"
Normama: "Yeah, but I'm not quite sure when this time, so my devoted readers please be patience and Review this chapter..."