Chapter 21: Straw Hat Time loops
Long ago in a galaxy not far away, an author by the penname of Innortal came up with the brilliant loop fic genre. The concept grew as several authors took up the task of penning their own looping adventures. And now, this humble author adds his own entry to the saga. Enjoy
Loop 1
Luffy rolled his eyes as another loop started. There had been more loops that the teen could count since he and the other fifth generation anchors had began their little jaunt through time. He had seen and done it all.
Become Pirate king?
Mission accomplished.
Take over the World Government?
Been there.
Created a harem?
Done that, but still enjoyed it.
Find the one piece?
Bagged it, tagged it, and spent it… several times.
Sadly, even eating meat got old after a while.
It was a heartbreaking state of affairs when a person's dream became easy and commonplace.
Heck, last loop he beat up old man Whitebeard and Blackbeard without breaking a sweat and took over both their crews just to see the old farts of the WG blow a gasket. That had been a fun loop… up until Ace and Grandpa had come after him.
Luffy learned that loop that the fist of love wasn't the most feared thing in the world, it was the fist of being pissed beyond comprehension.
Moments later, Luffy remembered the universal fact that most of the anchors tended to end up 'waking up' in the worst situation possible.
Case in point, Luffy came into the loop just as (the soon to be late) Vice Admiral Garp applied his patented fist of love to the back of the young boy's head. From the look in his eyes Luffy was about to be subjected to one of the man's cocked up training exercises.
"Someone will pay for this…" Luffy thought.
That was when the man tossed him into a nearby gorge.
"It could always be worse, it could be the cat fist…" Luffy muttered as he dusted himself off.
"Mrow!"
"Hiss!"
"PURRR!"
"I just had to tempt fate didn't I…" the looping pirate looked to the heavens.
Loop 2
Several loops later, shortly after arriving at the Baratie Luffy casually picking his nose while staring down Hawkeye Mihawk.
Normally this would be tantamount to suicide for two reasons.
First, Mihawk was Zoro's rival. And his first mate tended to get stabby when someone horned in on his shtick.
Second the guy was Hawkeye Mihawk! He had practically whetted his teeth on a sword. Facing him without some unbelievable skills or some major sharringan level cheat code was not the best of ideas…
Luckily, Luffy had a few tricks up his sleeve.
You didn't survive being an anchor without picking up a few mad skills.
Luffy cupped his hands by his side.
"Let's hope those loops in the DBZ verse were worth picking up this gem." he muttered.
Hawkeye unsheathed Kokutou Yoru and lunged for the captain's jugular.
"FALL!" the world's greatest swordsman bellowed.
"Kamehameha!" Luffy replied.
PHOOOOOOM!
The beam washed over Mihawk and knocked him ass over teakettle into the water. While it might not have been as strong as Goku's personal planet cracker, it was good enough in a pinch.
BBBBOOOOOMMMM!
Unfortunately, the teen's aim needed work, considering he blasted the restaurant sky high.
"Oops!" the straw hat pirate grinned weakly.
Loop 3
When Luffy woke up several loops later, he felt as if his head had been stuffed with cotton and his tongue had been scrubbed down with sandpaper.
He looked up and realized that he was pinned to the bed by a pile of bodies.
Female bodies.
As the memories of the past week of debauchery and carnal activities came back to him, Luffy grinned so widely that it looked like his head would split.
"Kishishishi! Best. Loop. Ever." The multi time pirate king muttered as he went back to sleep.
Loop 4
There was an unspoken agreement that the Lost ones were never to be spoken of under pain of excommunication from the Brother(and sister)hood of time loopers.
Especially around Luffy, the last of the three fifth generation looper after the other two were banished to the space between; the one dimension that was immune to looping. Mostly because it was a type of void that had no up or down, and no space time continuum to actually keep track of. People who were cast into the hellish place didn't live, they existed.
Both had given into their darker urges after several millennia, pursuing their own ends and growing more powerful, warping their previously benign nature into something foul, something dark, something demonic.
Raven was the first. She experienced freedom for the first time in her entire life during the loops. The lure of actually being able to show emotion and have the damage undone was too much. After several worlds were shattered, she was banished.
Then there was Yugi. His was the most tragic story, because he was banished not because of his own actions, but because of an accident. After spending several loops experimenting with the shadow realm, he accidentally merged with one of the most powerful duel monsters ever born; the Magician of Black Chaos. His mere presence threatened to destabilize the Yggdrasil even further. He voluntarily entered the Space between until a way could be found to separate the monster from the man.
At times Luffy wondered if he too would crumble, but then he looked at his fellow loopers, laughing and joking after the latest series of time loops ended.
Maybe there was some hope after all.
Loop 5
When Luffy came to He was surprised to discover that he wasn't in the Grand line anymore. He had apparently been reduced to the age of six or seven for this loop. The multi time pirate king was sitting in a giant stadium surrounded on all sides by other children who were chattering excitedly.
"KIDS NEXT DOOR RULES!-!" the blond in the center of the arena bellowed.
"All right, which newb messed up and sent me and probably a few others into a new generation fused loop?" Luffy thought.
"Let's see: Non looper, Non looper, Non looper, Aang, Non looper. Ranma (who looks pissed), Non looper, Goku, Ash, Ichigo, Naruto, loopers I don't know. BINGO!"
After the kid (who Luffy had soon learned was designated numbuh 362) had instigated a game of tag that left pretty much the entire stadium running for their lives, Luffy made his way over to the other anchors who had cornered the newbies.
"All right, what did you do?" Goku frowned, flexing his muscles (which lost a bit of its intimidation due to the fact that he a quarter of his normal size).
"I told her a million times that instigating a war among the Gods wouldn't stop the loops! But no! Ms. Daughter of the goddess of wisdom just had to pit the big three against each other in a celestial cage match!" Percy Jackson grunted, eyeing Annabeth sourly.
"Damn newbs…" Naruto uttered rolling his eyes.
Loop 6
"This is not happening! This is not happening…" Nami whispered as she looked at Buggy's, splattered, battered, and bruised carcass shortly after waking up to her first loop.
"Believe it navigator!" Luffy nodded.
"But how?" Nami sputtered.
"Long story short, the computer that ran the multiverse crashed in a big way. Now a bunch of worlds are stuck in a time loop until Skuld, the goddess of the future, can figure out how to bypass all the defenses and fix the thing.
"So we're stuck looping until some goddess fixes the world? How long can that take? A few months?" the redhead giggled nervously.
"So far, by my reckoning, The other anchors and I have logged about ten million, eight hundred and thirty thousand, seven hundred and thirty two loops give or take a few…" Luffy sighed. It was at that moment that the redhead noticed the look in her captain's eyes. While he might have looked like the same knuckle head she knew and tolerated, his eyes said differently. It was the kind of look you saw in a tired old campaigner who had seen too much.
"How do you cope with something like that?" Nami asked.
"You learn to adapt. One thing I've learned is that when in doubt, cause trouble…" Luffy grinned mischievously.
WHA-BOOM!-!-!
"Who snuck a shaving cream bomb into my office?-!" Admiral Akainu roared.
POW!
"And the whipped cream bomb?-!"
BANG!
"Oh Kami! A garbage bomb! What a smell!" the magma user yowled.
Loop 7
The latest loop had been an odd one to say the least. Luffy had woken to find himself with no powers whatsoever, and living in a rundown hut in a small village of Dismal Downs Scotland. Naturally, after several years down the road, things changed once his father for this loop handed him a handmade shoe shine kit.
After shrugging his shoulders, the young boy tromped out into the village and got to work. Of course, he laid the old ditch digger out flat after he tried to cheat him with some foreign currency, but that was the beginning of one of his most interesting looping adventures yet…
Loop 7a
About ten years later…
After leaving home at the tender age of thirteen, the boy now named Luffy D. McDuck (who freaked the moment he was born and saw a beak that would have made Usopp green with Envy) tried his hand at ranching in the barren land known as Montana.
Things got interesting after the first few weeks.
A pair of ruffians known as the viper brothers stole a prize bull that his boss had been planning to auction off in a matter of weeks. So, the multi time pirate king volunteered to go out and find the varmints.
The cowboy was perched on a nearby ledge overlooking the duo, beside him was a former politician, who simply wanted to known as Teddy.
"There they are…" Luffy whispered, grinning mightily.
"We'll have to do this quick. We need to lasso those two before they see us." his companion replied.
"Easier said than done. I have only one Lariat, so I'll have to use both ends…" Luffy grunted as he swing the loop in a wide circle.
WOOSH!
Right on target. The sleeping cowboy didn't even notice that he had been caught.
Teddy smirked as he picked up the other end and heaved.
The future rough rider gave a might tug as he tried to throw the weapon. He stumbled as the rope tangled on something behind him.
"GGRRRRRR…" the trapped grizzly bear snarled.
"Fancy meeting you here?" he squeaked.
"RARRRR!" the bear snarled, lunging for the two.
Luffy let out a squawk of alarm as he dove out of the way, the future president and the furious bear hot on his heels.
"WHOA!" the younger of the viper brothers yelped as he was jerked off his horse.
"Shot him! Shoot him!" Roosevelt bellowed as the bear raised its paw for another swipe.
"What do you think I'm trying to do?" the other cowboy cackled as he tried to free his gun.
WHAM!
In a odd twist of fate, Snake eyes Viper slammed into the grizzly, toppling it and knocking the looping pirate and future president off their feet.
"Ugh…" Luffy grunted as he landed on the bull's back.
"Ack! Cut me loose!" Snake eyes babbled as he ran from the bear, his arms tied to his sides and the creature at the other end of the lariat hot on his heels.
"No way! You're on yer own!" his older brother sputtered as he rode like his life depended on it, which it did!
That's when things got even weirder. The thunderous running of the bear and Snake eyes jostled loose one of the many dinosaur skulls that dotted the landscape, dropping it directly onto the head of an unsuspecting buffalo.
"ACK!" The Indian guides who led Teddy and Luffy to this point yelped as he came eye to eye with the confused, tyrannosaurus skulled buffalo.
Roosevelt stumbled to his feet as he gaped at the spectacle below: The buffalo was chasing the guides, who were following behind the enraged grizzly, who was chasing the still tethered younger viper brother, who was hot on the hells of his elder sibling, who was chasing the stolen bull that was being ridden backwards by Luffy.
"And I thought politics was a three ring circus…." The former politician blinked.
Loop 7b
Luffy reflected that his time in this particular loop must have been affecting him more than he thought. He hadn't been in this kind of temper since his days before the loops.
Deciding to dust off some old skills, the rubber man's fist stretched back, a good hundred feet from his current position. His ears picked up a snatch of conversation from within.
"Hey kid, there's a cowboy outside who says he's looking for you." The prospector winced.
"A cowboy? What's that? Some kind of apprentice milkman?" the target of Luffy's ire sneered.
"Gomu Gomu no PISTOL!"
POW!
Flintheart jumped out of his seat as the bottle dropped from his slackened lips and the swinging door was shattered off its hinges with a single mighty punch.
"No Glomgold. It's your worst nightmare you no good, back stabbing, son of a tri-sexual piece of shit!" Luffy snarled as he stomped into the bar, which had become silent as his killing intent radiated throughout the room.
"Luffy? I-I-I-I thought you had been captured by a band of Zulu warriors…" the thief gulped.
"Shut up. I've fought the tougher bastard than you and come out on top. My encounters with them made me resourceful and scrappy….but you…you made me mean." He snarled.
"Now get over here!" he bellowed, his arm stretching out as he grabbed Glomgold and tossed him through the window.
"Yow! Don't shoot me, please!-?" the other duck whimpered pitifully.
"I'm not gonna shoot ya, I don't put down dumb fucks like you. I just humiliate them!" the pirate barked back.
POW! POW! POW!
Three shots ripped through a row of molasses bottles, showering the thief in the thick syrup.
Glomgold stumbled into a discarded mattress, as the next round of bullets ripped through the area round him, showering him with feathers.
"This is what we do back in the states to cheats like you…we tar and feather them!" the looper barked as his opponent ran for the hills.
"Get back here! I'm not through humiliating you yet!" Luffy snarled as he ran after the retreating form.
Loop 8
"Claw: Megami no neko!" Nami barked as he ornate katana turned into a wicked looking scythe.
She leaped into the air and sliced and diced a hollow into pieces.
"I always liked these Bleach loops. It's always interesting to see when we show up and under what circumstances. This world's loops typically start around a hundred years before the real action starts…" Luffy smirked as he sheathed his zanpakuto: Kaizoku dono.
"A hundred years?" Nami squeaked as she contemplated running herself through now and ending the loop early.
"I wouldn't if I were you. If you kill yourself and end the loop early, you'll just end up in a worse loop later…" Luffy advised.
"What could be worse than spending minimum of a hundred years here?" the redhead sputtered.
"One word Nami: Eiken."
For some inexplicable reason, the navigator felt a shiver run down her spine.
Loop 9
Luffy stared into Rob Lucci's eyes and did something that he had seen but never tried before.
"You will turn around and jump into the sea…" the pirate captain said softly, waving his hands.
The leopard man's expression turned slack before he turned around and took a running leap out one of the giant holes dotting the tower.
"The force is…so…cool!" the rubber man giggled happily.
Anakin Skywalker felt a chill run down his spine.
"What's wrong master?" Ahsoka Tano asked.
"Snips, I just felt a major disturbance in the force. Something really bad just happened." The Jedi knight shivered.
Loop 10
Luffy dubbed this particular experimental loop the WTF Era.
Several interesting things happened for those years.
First off he ate mera mera no mi instead of Ace, snatching it from under his big brothers nose, much to Ace's ire.
Also, due to saving Belemere, the trio went traveling and joined the Straw Hats as gardener, navigator, and helmsman.
The Same thing with Kunia, because Luffy kept her from dying, Zoro was named the heir of the dojo after he surpassed his friend in strength and skill. Years later Kuina became his first mate while she went on a training trip to prove herself in her father's eyes.
Oddly enough, Red Haired Shanks took Usopp along on his journey instead of his father and the man who used to be the sharpshooter for the red haired pirates joined the strawhats.
Although he was still trying to figure out how the hell he ended up with Gecko Moria, Bartholomew Kuma , Princess Vivi, Conis, Mayor Boodle, Colby, and Helmeppo, joining his crew…
Loop 11
Luffylet outa contented yawn as he logged into another loop. The last one hadn't been that bad. He had spent the better part of that particular loop as the Ruler of Skypeia. It brought back some nice memories after he beat Enel into the ground with the proclamation of 'We don't like dat shit!'
The best part had been taking all the hot girls, like Conis and Lucky, as his harem…
The one rule he followed when looping was no lolis! He left them to Ranma and Naruto thank you very much!
His body might have been sixteen, but that didn't mean he wanted to take the pups when he could get the full grown foxes instead!
Luffy stretched his arms out only to discover that he was being penned in on all sides by something.
"Oh god! Don't tell me I woke up in another Bondage loop!" the pirate captain grimaced as he flashed back to the one and only time he had been subjected to the horror of an S&M loop.
Robin turned out to be one of the scariest women he knew in or out of a loop when she had a whip in any of her hands…
Luffy struggled mightily and kicked out, shattering the bottom of the prison holding him. He stuck his legs out of the holes and toddled along as fast as his apparently stumpy legs could move him.
Suddenly, the ground dropped out from under the pirate king.
"WHOA!" Luffy yelped as his prison rolled over and over, sending him hurtling into the air and back into the ground with a jarring impact, shattering what he realized was his egg.
"Mumble? Are you all right?" someone asked.
"Do I look all right to you? And who are you calling mumble?" the transformed pirate sputtered as he got to his feet.
"That one's got an attitude…" one of the white and black blobs at the top of the hill uttered as Luffy's vision came into focus.
"PENGUINS!" Luffy screamed as he ran off into the other direction as fast as he was able.
Somehow even after logging so many loops, he wasn't able to get over being mauled by those stupid doom penguins the Achino Family sent after his crew….
Loop 11a
Dear journal, even after six months in this loop, I still can't get over the feeling of unease that comes from being surrounded by these devil birds. These things get weirder and weirder every day. They seem to put all their efforts to singing. It's enough to make a person go deaf. Not to mention that I have to deal with these withered old birds who keep giving me the evil eye. I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
Luffy
Several days later...
"You are a disgrace to the great guin! You are incapable of singing and your insistence on this trivial activity called sailing has driven away the fish!" the hunchbacked, shriveled bird in front of him ranted.
"You got any…evidence to back that up…oh wrinkly one?" Luffy drawled.
"Why I never!" another equally old bird sputtered.
"Your right, you've never done a lot of things. Like get any! Maybe that would dislodge the stick that seems to be stuck so far up your butt…" the skinny half grown penguin snickered.
"That. Is. IT!" I have had enough of your inane idiocy! Your insistence on being different! And most of all you refusing to take off that ridiculous straw hat!" the elder snarled, snatching the multi millennium old piece of haberdashery off and tossing it into the water.
"NO!" Luffy screamed as the old black and white wind bag in front of him tossed the teen's precious hat into the water.
"That is it! Now you've crossed the line! Gomu Gomu no bullet!" Luffy screamed, punching the elder into L.E.O with a clenched rubber flipper.
Every last penguin who had been gathered around the confrontation gawked.
Then the torches and pitchforks came out…
"DEMON PENGUIN!"
"GET THE UNHOLY ONE!"
"KILL HIM!"
"Erm…gotta go!" Luffy squeaked as he dove into the water
Loop 12
"Ow! Mental note! Never…ever eat a second untreated devil fruit while tapping into a dragon line again…" Luffy thought blearily as he wondered what kind of FUBAR loop he got stuck in for that last cock up…
WHOOSH!
Luffy bit back a yelp when something insubstantial and very, very cold passed through his chest.
"What the hell?" the multi time pirate king sputtered, jumping to his feet.
"All right boy, how's about you explain how I'm here, twenty years after being executed?" theinsubstantial, ghostly form of the former pirate king spat, glaring at Luffy.
"Ok. This isn't a FUBAR loop….but it's damn close!" the straw hat pirate uttered weakly as he remembered making fun of the other anchors for their tenants.
Loop 13
One thing he learned from Sakura was that on occasion, being a mad scientist could be fun. And stealing Vegapnuk's notes on how to make your own custom devil fruit when the genius got plastered was surprisingly easy.
One such use of that knowledge; switching out the ushi ushi no mi: model giraffe and the awa awa no mi for something a little more amusing…
"Urg….that was weird…" Kaku groaned, clutching his stomach after eating his mystery devil fruit.
"I agree…" Kalifa moaned.
POOF!
Suddenly the two were enveloped in a cloud of smoke…
"What the hell?-!" someone yelped.
"Oh Kami! Spandam you moron! I'm gonna murder you!" another roared.
The cloud cleared, revealing a now female Kaku and a now male Kalifa.
Making your own custom devil fruit?
Ten million berries a piece.
Snagging the hito hito no mi to use as a template before chopper got a chance to eat it?
Two thousand berries worth of medical expenses after getting gored.
Watching the Cp9 run around like chicken with their heads cut off after two of their members eat the Hito Hito no mI: Model woman and model man?
Priceless!
Loop 14:
"Ranma, I swear that your Father was a bigger moron than me before I started looping! If I ever end up in Nerimia again, I'm gonna indiscriminately grapple that baka Panda until he screams!" Luffy spat as he poured a bucket of hot water over his head, reversing his brand new jusenkyo curse.
"Achoo!" Genma panda sneezed as he wondered why he felt a chill run down his spine.
"It could be worse. At least your human when you change…" the pigtailed time looper shrugged as he sipped his beer.
SPLOOSH!
A water pipe burst above their heads, dousing the duo cold water.
"True. But I wanted to be King of the pirates! Not the Queen!" the Luffy chan snarled.
Loop 15
"Meat! Meat! Meat! I want brazed meat right off the bone!" Luffy chanted.
"How the hells did I manage to get this far?" Looping Luffy snorted as he watched his younger self badger Sanji into cooking for him.
"Damn analogue loop…" The pirate captain rolled his eyes as he fought the urge to punt himself over the side and wait for the bubbled to stop.
"Oi! Teach me how to be king of the pirates!" Younger Luffy grinned.
"I suppose I can teach you a trick or two…" the multi time pirate king stroked his chin…
"Here's a little training game I call: escape….here's how you play…" the looping pirate king smirked.
"It's been three hours! You can let me down now!" the non looping Luffy pleaded after being tied to the mast with his own limbs.
"It's always fun to corrupt yourself…" Nami thought as she showed her younger non looping counterpart a specific spell that she had mastered over the course of her time looping…
"And this spell is called pilfer. It allows you to steal from people without even touching them!" Nami's older self smiled benignly.
Loop 16
"Damn it Nami! Have you been taking lessons from Sakura?" Luffy sputtered as he belted Zombie Zoro across the chops.
"Brains…" the hoard chanted.
"I swear this wasn't me! I had nothing to do with this!" the redhead pleaded as she blew the head off Zombie Chopper.
"Yeah Right! Sakura told me about that loop you two did together when you created borg queen Hinata! Naruto is still out for your blood after you two pulled that stunt!" the Straw Hat Pirate snarled.
"Brains…" the hoard groaned.
"Ok, so I dabble a little!" Nami wheedled.
"If we get out of this alive I'm gonna…" the pirate trailed off.
"Join us Luffy…" the zombie version of Boa Hancock, Alvida, Robin, Vivi, Lucky,Cami, and Analog Nami moaned as they marched toward the duo.
"Ah well, if you can't beat em…" Luffy shrugged, leaping into his Zombie harem's arms…
Loop 17
"Nope! I'm not saying it!" Luffy chan growled.
"But you have to!" the talking cat in front of him ordered.
"NO! NO! AND NO AGAIN!" the pirate king snarled.
"You, Luffyko Tsukino, are the reincarnated guardian of the moon, and the only who can save the world!" Luna said stubbornly.
"Nope! Never gonna do it! I am not going to hold up that damn pen and shout MOON POWER MAKE UP!"
One transformation sequence later….
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! If I find out Saotome or any of the other anchors are behind this I'll gear fifty them into the next Galaxy!" Luffy raged as he tried to keep his ridiculously short skirt form riding up.
"I love it when a plan comes together!" Ranma smirked, watching the fireworks from future's past.
Loop 18
"Ah vacation loops…gotta love em!" the pirate captain grinned as he lounged on a deserted island.
"Sun, solitude, and a surprisingly large amount of Rum! What could possibly ruin this?" the dark haired young man slurred sleepily as he prepared for a nice long nap.
"Oi! Out of the way!" someone grunted, heaving the rubber boy out of his chair face first into the sand.
"SPURT! GAH! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" the pirate captain snarled, spitting sand.
"I'm captain Jack Sparrow!" the man in front of him grinned as Will Turner rolled his eyes.
"Oh bugger…" Luffy groaned.
Loop 18a
"I'd just like to point out that the next time I see Will, I'm gonna kick his ass for this!" Luffy spat as he waded through the gang of pirates that were trying to kill them. Only moments before, Will Turner had rescued his lady love and somehow, against all odds, managed to knock the two of them out.
"Less talking and more fighting!" Jack barked.
Loop 18b
Luffy watched in shock as the waterwheel containing the brawling Will Turner, James Norrinton, and Jack Sparrow rolled by.
"Maybe Jack had the right idea being drunk all the time. I think I'll need a few pints to forget this loop!" Luffy grimaced.
Loop 18c
"And I did it without a single drop of rum!" Sparrow proclaimed grandly.
"WHHHHHAAAAA!-!-!-!"
CRASH!
The multi time pirate king plowed head first into the deck after being catapulted from the Dauntless by Sparrow…
"I hate you Jack…" Luffy mumbled.
Loop 18d
"I call for a vote!" Jack piped up as his father started playing his guitar.
"Ammand the Corsair!"
"Sri Sumbhajee votes for Sri Sumbhajee," the Pirate Lord's attendant said.
"Capitan Cheval: the penniless Frenchman!"
"Mistress Ching!"
"Monkey D. Luffy…" the rubber pirate lord said resignedly.
"Elizabeth Swann…"
"Hector Barbossa."
"Villanueva!"
Everyone turned to Jack.
"Monkey D. Luffy!" the pirate lord smiled.
"What?" Barbossa sputtered.
Chaos erupted in the Pirate court as the other lords protested.
"NOOOO!" Mistress Ching wailed.
"You will vote for me!" Villanueva barked.
"What the hell? I worked my ass off to become pirate king and you just hand me the title?-!" Luffy goggled.
"Am I to understand that you lot will not be keeping to the code?" the dreadlock wearing pirate said innocently.
TWANG!
One of Captain Teague's guitar strings snapped as he shot the entire room a dark look.
"That was even scarier than the time I gave Magellan a wedgie!" the straw hat wearing pirate lord gulped as he took his seat.
Loop 19
"Myname is Monkey D. Luffy. I like pirates, Brazed meat, and my dream is to be Pirate king someday!" Luffy said as he logged into another Konoha Loop.
"Don't you mean hokage?" Kakashi asked.
"Hokage Schmokage! Pirate king's where it's at!" the straw hat shinobi smirked.
"Ok…How about you with the funky staff. And don't think that I didn't notice you taking my wallet!" the Jonin instructor frowned,
"My Name is Nami, I like money, Tangerines, money, and predicting the weather. Did I mention I like money?" the redhead chirped.
"Several times." Sasuke snorted.
"The one thing I dislike is when people doubt by precognitive abilities!" the redhead sniffed as she handed their sensei his coin purse.
"And my name is Sasuke Uchiha…And I'd like to request a transfer to another cell please…" the last 'loyal' Uchia gulped as he saw how the redhead was eyeing him.
"Did you know you're going to get hit with a bolt of lightning in about five seconds?" Nami asked innocently as she silently readied a Thundaga spell.
Thank Kami for those Final Fantasy Loops…
"Like I'd believe a lunatic like…"
ZAAAAAAKKKK!
One order of Uchiha: extra crispy!
Loop 20
"I think...coming online…system restoration optimal…" someone said.
"What about…other one… green armor…three swords?" Another chimed in.
"Ung…what hit me?" Luffy groaned. His entire body felt monstrously heavy.
That last loop had been an utter disaster. Somehow, Sakura had managed to knock him out and lock his curse.
The fact that it was an Eiken loop made it even worse.
"Welcome to the world, Megaman X" a smirking pink haired woman in a lab coat said.
Luffy looked down in Horror at his metallic body and did the only thing he could think of:
WHUMP!
He fainted.
Loop 21
Sengoku rubbed his temples as he tried to stifle a headache. The yelling dignitaries weren't helping. The story so far had been a weird one to say the least.
A boy from the backwater burg of Fuschia Village beat up his Grandfather, Vice Admiral Garp, and went sailing with his step brother, who shockingly turned out to be the son of the late pirate king and the estranged son of a noble.
Time after time they stopped and disrupted the peace, at the same time uncovering shocking secrets.
Their first stop had been at a Dojo in the East Blue. They had stopped a young girl from being attacked by a group of bandits. The duo then took her and another trainee swordsman along.
The next stop had been the small Hamlet of Cocoyashi village. Somehow, the four kids, plus two girls and a retired marine drove out an elite pirate crew of Fishmen.
The next stop had revealed that the infamous Kuro of the thousand plans was alive and well, and that he had killed the owners of the largest mansions in Syrup Village. They had beaten up one of the most infamous pirates in the world, hogtied him, and left him in front of the local Marine base.
This happened time and time again, saving a stranded dish washer from a local restaurant and a crippled pirate, recruiting a pair of Giants, the princess of a desert country of Arbasta , several members of the previously mythical country of Skypeia (oddly enough, most of them were women), a reindeer, a young girl that had been known as the most wanted woman in the world, a cyborg who had been apprenticed to the Famous Tom the Shipwright (they had picked up a bigger ship when they stopped at Water seven, making use of the bounty money from all the pirates they caught).
From that point, the trip had taken them to the desolate corner of the world known as the Florian Triangle. Later that Day, (former) Shichibukai Gecko Moria had been found floating on a piece of debris on high tide several miles away from his citadel on Thriller Bark. He had claimed that a group of children had come and freed one of the people he had stolen a shadow from; a skeleton swordsman. And now half the World government was in an Uproar because all of the Tenryubito had been beaten to within an inch of their collective lives.
"I love vacation loops!" Luffy grinned happily as all of the people he had invited partied on the Thousand Sunny 2.0
Loop 22
"Falcon…" Luffy growled as he wound up.
WHAM!
"PUNCH!" the future pirate king bellowed, punting Akainu into the air before he could kill Ace.
"Who's hotter now?" Luffy cackled as the magma man vanished into the ionosphere.
Loop 23
Luffy wondered what he had done to deserve this. This loop had been one of the most messed up he had ever experienced.
"Hentai!" Naru Narusegawa screamed as she punched him through the roof after accidentally walking in on her while she was in the bath.
POW!
"I feel sorry for whoever normally lives in the loop…" Luffy thought as he headed toward the ground at mach two.
Loop 24
"What did you call this thing again?" Luffy asked as he looked worriedly at the coffin like contraption.
"I call it the Animus! It reads genetic memory to allow a person to view their past lives!" Sakura smiled.
"Maybe this will finally break down those mental locks on those first couple of hundred loops that I blocked out…" the pirate king cocked his head as he laid down.
Several minutes later…
Luffy's expression screwed up into one of horrified shock and terror as he bolted from the room and emptied his lunch into the toilet.
"I wonder if the animus has a reverse setting! I never want to remember those first loops on Kamabakka Queendom again!" the pirate king shuddered.
Loop 25
"Falcon…." Luffy growled as he cocked his foot back
POW!
"KICK!" the multi time pirate king belted out, booting Saint Charloss through the ceiling.
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