An: I hope you enjoy this chapter. If you're also a reader of the Wizarding Bat, I will be updating that story shortly too. Thank you WildMan and 'Guest' for the reviews.

*** Orange Town, East Blue

Anjali was training hard.

Obviously, nowhere near as hard as say, Coby was under Garp but she was training with the new Lieutenant Commander assigned to the base, Ganpo.

Ganpo was relatively skilled with one sword style and was training her in fitness and swordsmanship. She too had gotten stronger and had been promoted to Lieutenant and was Ganpo's assistant.

In some ways she missed being on Luffy's crew but truth be told she had been there for a very short period of time so she didn't think about it much except for the occasional bout of short-term nostalgia.

On her daily morning jog through the forest, Anjali noticed a blue coloured coconut that was at least twice as large as the average coconut.

Anjali scaled the tree and ate the fruit.

The fruit had turned out to be a devil fruit, the tita-tita no mi, mythical Zoan… The Titan fruit.

She could turn into a 15 foot tall incredibly strong monster with horns.

"So Cool!"

*** Marine Holding Cells

Without even unshackling his handcuffs, Black Bat Langstrom had beaten all of the guards around the cells.

Alaric had been pretty lucky to catch him at a bad time. After the huge battle he had been through, it had been a much harder fight than it would have been otherwise.

He admitted to himself that he might still have lost at full strength but he would have given Alaric a run for his money.

Presently, Langstrom picked up the key on the desk and unshackled his sea-stone handcuffs, feeling his power come flooding back.

He turned into his Human-Beast form, using his Bat-Bat fruit Model: Vampire. He was as big as a human, with his muscles remaining but bat-wings growing out of his back and him growing black hair all over his body… However the scariest part about his transformation were the fangs of the Vampire Bat that were dangerous enough on a regular bat but were at least 9 times larger on Langstrom's face. The bat-ears on Langstrom's head twitched.

He did still have the sense of sight but he also had the sonar locationing power that bats did.

He flew straight at the flimsy wooden door that stored the possessions of the prisoners.

The door burst open as he flew headfirst into it.

He looked around the cluttered room and found what he had looking for.

A huge tomb shaped box with a button on it.

The case for his bat-suit.

*** Several days later

Black Bat Langstrom landed on the island of Fuze, where he was supposed to meet Rayliegh.

His escape and subsequent defeat of the weakling Rear Admiral Sanshoo had increased his bounty to 248 million beli.

A voice from behind surprised Langstrom.

He spun around, quickly, transforming into his Human-Beast form, his fangs bared, ready to fight.

Dark King Silvers Rayliegh smiled at him.

"You interest me a lot, Gunther D Langstrom…"

*** Whiskey Peak

Luffy stepped out of the shadows, surprising the few frontier agents whom he had left awake, mainly to gather information.

Mr 9 and Mr 8 took a step back, Ms Wednesday and Ms Monday also gulped and took a step back.

Luffy slowly unsheathed his sword and walked up to Ms Wednesday, before carefully putting the sword to her throat.

At this, Mr 8 seemed to gather his wits.

"Igarappapa!" he roared. He revealed guns in his hair, Mx-1000 Kira idly noted, and started shooting at Luffy.

All of the bullets passed right through Luffy, luckily the trajectory that Mr 8 had used (on purpose) mean that after the bullets passed through Luffy they would continue on and not hit Ms Wednesday, which they didn't.

Mr 8's eyes went wide.

"A devil fruit!"

"Choco Choco no mi." said Luffy before clearing his voice, preparing for the interrogation, probably the skill he was worst at.

Before he could start, Mr 8 gasped in even more fear than he had shown Luffy.

"Mr 5! W-W-We can explain our failure." Ms Wednesday stuttered.

"Tch, you think we're here to supervise your mission, you think officer agents like us would bother?" said Mr 5.

"We're here…because somebody knows something…"

Mr 8 and Ms Wednesday seemed to pale even further.

"Very Descriptive." Said Luffy dryly.

Behind Luffy, Smoker and Gin strolled out of the bar they had been occupying.

Mr 5 ignored them.

"Ms Wednesday and Mr 8… or should I say Princess Vivi of the Arabasta kingdom and Igaram of the Arabasta royal guard!"

Smoker just about managed to hide the surprise from his face, Vivi was the missing princess.

Igaram went for another Igarappapa but they didn't affect Mr 5.

"I ate the bomu bomu no mi. I am a bomb-man, explosive bullets can't hurt me!"

He then flicked a booger at Igaram, the booger exploded on contact with Igaram's head sending him flying into the wall.

As he was about to finish off Igaram, and Vivi was preparing to intervene in desperation, Luffy moved swiftly in front of Igaram and unsheathed his sword, deflecting Mr 5's next booger away towards an unoccupied building.

"Chocolate Eruption."

The chocolate jet knocked Mr 5 out hot.

Ms Kilo (I don't remember her day so I'll just call her by her devil fruit) gulped and turned her mass to 1 kg.

"I-I ate the kilo kilo no mi, I can change my weight from 1 kilo to 10,000 kilos!"

She jumped high into the air before turning her weight to 10,000 kilos and coming crashing down onto Luffy.

Luffy raised one armament-ed fist that Ms Kilo fell onto.

"Oww." Said Ms Kilo before blacking out with blood flowing freely out of her chest, where her ribs had cracked from Luffy's fist.

Luffy had used Ms Kilo's own velocity to beat her.

Thanks for reading. I am really busy right now, so updates will be extremely sporadic. I hope you enjoyed.

Px5 out.