A/N Castle Oblivion is over, but the war has just begun. Before our heroes go off to fight the devious Underworld and sneaky NEG, they're going to... party! I mean, what else to do after a great victory like Castle Oblivion? XD Anyway, hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the... ah damn it, I can't cop out here. Here goes: I don't own, DBZ, The Incredibles, Flash, One Piece, Fairy Tail, Harry Potter, Maximum Ride, Naruto, Teen Titans, Toriko, Fairly Oddparents, Ben 10, RWBY, God Eater, Pokemon, Kingdom Hearts, SAO, Batman, or Star Wars. Wow, that's a lot.
Nexus 8:
Port Royal
"Kanpai!"
"Cheers!"
The three men clanked their mugs together and then tipped them back. "Ahh!" Kuzan slammed his down first and he had a pink shade to his cheeks. "That sure hit the spot," the man said and then burped accidentally afterwards.
"Haha- urp," Mr. Incredible started chuckling at the Ice Man but then burped himself.
"Amateurs," the man between the two of them said as he lowered his large mug calmly and wiped his lips calmly. He lowered his mug and put it down on the table, grinning at the two men next to him who were amazed by his tolerance and had no idea he'd been using slight of hand to replace his drinks with water.
Unlike the men with superpowers all around him, he had to work hard to keep his body at pique physical strength and fight in the same league as these monsters. Bruce Wayne smiled casually at the other two men, sitting there without his mask or uniform on. Bob Parr didn't have his red suit on either, but he looked pretty similar even without the small black mask over his face. Batman looked completely different when he wasn't in his costume on the other hand.
Nightwing was looking over at his former teacher and knew the man wasn't really drinking with the two men partying with him. He'd been trained never to let his guard down and he didn't like how Bruce wasn't wearing his uniform out in public like this. This isn't Gotham though, this isn't even our world. Secret identities don't matter as much here, he looked down at the black and blue suit on his own body and smiled anyway, remembering how excited Starfire was when he asked her to help him make it.
The young man looked behind him and over the railing he was leaning on where the party was already in full swing. He was standing on the port side of Straw Hat Luffy's ship, looking off over Dock 43 and at the people dancing, eating, and drinking all over the place. On the other side of the dock was a large ship with a big red dragon figurehead, as Red Hair Shanks decided to stay for the party.
"Surrounded by pirates," the man in blue and black muttered to himself. "Pirates and children," he added, looking around as Ben and Dash were running from their cousin and sister respectively. The older boy hopped on Dash's back and the blonde kid raced away faster than Nightwing could follow with his eyes, but Violet and Gwen didn't give up and raced between adults' legs as they charged through the party after the boys.
"You're not so old yourself," a voice said in Nightwing's ear and he spun around in surprise. When he saw Bruce standing behind him he wasn't as surprised anymore that the man was easily able to sneak up on him. Batman stood next to the ledge with the boy and looked down at the main party that most people in the Port were at. There were people on both ships, but they weren't nearly as densely packed as the dock covered in party-goers. "Your friends seem to be having a good time, why don't you go join them?" The older man suggested to the teen he considered like a son.
"It's not really my thing," Nightwing stated coolly, looking back over the side where the other four Titans were laughing and talking to Speedy.
The teen with orange hair had a bow and a quiver of arrows slung over his back, along with a black mask that only covered his eyes similar to Nightwing's. He had arrived at Port Royal having heard about the resistance, but showed up a little too late as he found the port city was full of wounded people and had remnants of what looked to be a battle inside it. When he asked around, he learned the whole city was pretty much annihilated, but Timmy Turner had fixed it after the battle in a matter of minutes. Still, he was amazed at how many injured people there were throughout the city and he decided to help out a girl with dark red hair who told him the people he was looking for were coming back soon.
As Kairi promised him, by nightfall the first ship returned, but with a lot more injured and Speedy continued helping out the red haired pirate's crew as they got all the people rescued from Castle Oblivion into town. While he was running bandages from one building back to the docks, he saw another ship docking at the same dock as the ship with the red dragon, only this one had a large golden lion that looked like a sun as the figurehead. That was the moment he saw his fellow Titans. It felt fantastic.
Speedy was laughing and telling the Titans all about his journey through Awul these last two years and how amazed he was that they were all here. He'd bumped into some bad guys on a road not too far inland from Port Royal and beat them up when they tried ambushing him and mugging him on the street. They moaned and complained afterwards about how their old favorite place to prey on the weak got taken when Timmy Turner arrived in Port Royal. He asked them why, and after a little coercing, they told him the word was that a bunch of people were about to go against the NEG.
"I wouldn't have thought anything of it if they hadn't already mentioned Timmy Turner's name." Speedy told the four in front of him. "Imagine my surprise when you guys showed up on the same ship he was on!" he started laughing. The teen really was glad to find some more friends after so long.
"We weren't expecting to see you either," a voice said on the boy's right. Bruce is right, this is a party. I'll enjoy myself now, and as soon as it's over it's back to work as usual, Nightwing grinned as he walked towards his friends. They all smiled to see him joining them and he walked up to Speedy, shaking the apprentice of the Green Arrow's hand and grinning at him, "Speaking of which, you up for a round? I bet you've got a few new tricks up your sleeve since the last time we met."
"Anytime. Anywhere." The orange haired teen responded with a smirk.
"Please friends," Starfire flew forward and wrapped Speedy and Nightwing up in a hug that with her super-alien strength crushed them together and squeezed the air out of their lungs. "Let us enjoy this joyous celebration with the custom of eating large quantities of food and singing until our lungs hurt!" She swung them around happily and then released the two boys with blue faces who fell to the floor gasping for air.
Cyborg and Beast Boy started laughing at their leader who was panting on the ground and even Raven couldn't help it either, having to stifle a giggle. "Anyway," Nightwing said as he hurried back up to his feet, trying to hide the blush on his face after that hug from Starfire. "Where's this great food I've been hearing everyone talk so much about?"
"They're making a new batch now," Beast Boy said with an excited smile. "And Sanji said he'll even make me a vegetarian meal!" The green skinned teen seemed really excited about that and rubbed his hands together eagerly with drool dripping down the right corner of his lip.
Raven smiled about that as well. She was not as vocal as Beast Boy when the delicious looking stew came out and everyone started exclaiming how good it all tasted, but she was glad he voiced his complaint so now they would have something to eat too. It was pretty clear he only had his own stomach in mind, but she was glad he mentioned it anyway.
Sanji was stirring the huge cauldron with the similarly huge soup spoon that he fashioned out of a paddle and a bowl. He was cooking with a few others, and though he normally liked having his own kitchen, finding other chefs a nuisance when they didn't know as much as him, these other chefs were pretty amazing. First there was the chef for Akagami, who the blonde man already expected to be pretty amazing if he was cooking for a Yonko.
Both of the pirate chefs were amazed by the other two with them however, one of them being Timmy Turner. The boy had picked up on some great cooking techniques during his time on Nexus, most of which he spent alone having to cook for himself when he couldn't wish Wanda to make him a meal. He'd also read Sanji and Lucky Roo's minds, figuring out some good recipes and proper techniques and skills so he wouldn't make a fool of himself while cooking in front of such experienced chefs.
The fourth member with them was truly amazing though, and they had no idea where he came from. He told them his name was Komatsu and that he'd like to help them cook the meal, but they wound up being the ones to help him as he took charge of the dock and pulled out all types of crazy ingredients and ideas of mixing foods that the other chefs had never thought of before. Mixing his style with Sanji's hormone cooking that revitalized everyone, bringing back their strength from battle, and the ideas the other two had as well, everyone at the party agreed it was the best meal they'd had not only on Nexus, but in their entire lives. Because of this, you couldn't look around the dock and see a single unhappy person there.
"I really should be going," Gohan mentioned to the chefs as Timmy tried handing him another plate of amazing food. The half-Saiyan had a huge appetite, but he had other things on his mind. He grabbed the plate and started eating, his body moving on its own to grab the delicious-looking plate from the younger boy, but he kept talking while he started devouring the meal. "I didn't come to help fight the NEG. I won't try to stop anyone here from doing so, but my enemy is the Underworld."
"Lighten up a little Gohan," a boy said as he suddenly appeared out of nowhere between two pirates dancing on the floor. Timmy and Gohan looked over at him and had felt him approaching with their ki sense, but were surprised to see him just appear out of nowhere like that. A few people nearby who saw this fell backwards in shock and Ben started laughing. He looked like a three foot tall purple alien creature with bumps on either side of its head that looked a little like ears, and small slits on its face for eyes and a mouth.
Ben was trying not to laugh at the two gawking boys as his body became engulfed with red light and he transformed back into a human. "I call this guy Clear Body. Invisibility, pretty cool huh?" he asked the other two who smiled back at him. He walked over and Timmy handed him a plate too, which unlike Gohan he didn't pretend like he was too busy to take. "Come on Gohan, let's stay for the party," he said, taking another bite and moaning in pleasure about how delicious it tasted.
"Yeah!" Natsu landed between them and shocked Ben who fell backwards in surprise now, and made others back away even farther at the sight of the strange boy with pink hair dropping down in front of them from the sky. The Dragon Slayer reached out and Sanji handed out another plate from behind the cauldron, but he spoke before digging in, "We beat Ansem! Everyone in the port is having a blast. There's no need to head back to Pao Town so soon."
The demi-Saiyan stared at his plate and then snapped his head up angrily at the other two boys. "Did you forget why we came here in the first place?" he growled at them angrily. The mood changed quickly as the chefs all turned his way and saw the two boys he was talking to suddenly start looking grim as well.
Natsu started imagining Master Makarov and Ben saw his Grandpa Max in his mind. "Of course not," the two of them responded together, looking seriously back into Gohan's eyes.
"Then we'll head back to Pao," a low voice stated from behind them and they looked back to see a tall muscular man in a fur coat walking towards them. Laxus stood in front of the three of them and stared down. "As soon as the party's finished," he added, walking over and smirking as he reached out for another plate.
Sanji looked at the other blonde man who looked extremely powerful. The chef wished he could have seen what the tall muscular man could do back at Castle Oblivion. He handed the man a plate of food and Laxus looked back at the other three. They wanted to argue with him that the people who attacked their home were still out there, but he lost his Grandpa too, there would be no point in telling him what he already knew. "You did a good job today," he told them, and all three were surprised to hear praise come from Laxus of all people. "Have a good time, celebrate with the others, and after we get a good rest," he steeled his face and stated harshly, "we're going to crush the Underworld."
"The Underworld?" someone asked behind them and they turned to see the Teen Titans coming up for another round of food. "What do you know about them?" Nightwing asked the man with spiky blonde hair in front of him.
"A few names, some places," Laxus responded vaguely, not really caring to answer this teenager whom he didn't sense much power from.
"You know where they are?!" Beast Boy exclaimed in surprise.
Timmy started sweating behind the large pots of stew and it wasn't from the heat of their hot cooking fires courtesy of the straw hat pirate's brother. The boy cleared his throat and chuckled, "Oh, did I forget to mention that?" Timmy wondered out loud and scratched the back of his head. The Titans looked back at their ally who they were planning with for a week in Port Royal and never mentioned anything about where the Underworld were. "I got some information out of that red spiky guy who we captured. I didn't get everything, but the older Sith killed him and escaped during the attack earlier. I already gave most of it to Goku and Vegeta when they were here, but there were a lot of bases I gave the two of them. Even with their firepower, they wouldn't be able to search all the ones I gave them."
"And at every base they go to," Gohan continued, "they'll probably find clues as to the locations of other bases and more leaders of the Underworld." The boy stopped and then considered something, If Vegeta doesn't just blow them all up as soon as he gets there...
"Well then," Nightwing started and looked back at his team who all nodded at him with smiles on their faces. "How about we help you out?" he offered and smiled at the group in front of him.
"No, you really don't have to-" Gohan started up, but the bubbly girl with long orange hair wearing all purple flew up in front of him and leaned forward with a smiling face.
"We want to!" Starfire said happily.
Beast Boy nodded his head and added, "Without you guys we'd probably all be toast around now. We have to repay the favor!"
"Besides," Raven said coldly, "beating up bad guys is kind of what we do."
"And the Underworld is full of criminals of the worst kind," Cyborg said with a stoic nod of his head.
Nightwing didn't mention it, but he was also hoping in the back of his mind, If I had to guess where you've been hiding, I'd say it's with them. Isn't that right, Slade?
"You're all sure?" Ben asked the group of five in surprise, smiling at them as he did. They nodded together and Laxus grunted, not really caring one way or another, but he was interested a little bit in the two girls of this group of five whom he felt a lot of powerful energy emanating from. "Cool!" the thirteen year old exclaimed, happy to have more friends to help them.
Beast Boy came walking back over to the group as he had walked away a few seconds ago while they were all still talking. He stepped right behind Raven and slid is arm in front of her face, holding a delicious-smelling plate of food on it. The surprised girl in the blue cloak looked away from the others who continued talking about the Underworld. She stared at Beast Boy who was holding up a plate of Sanji's vegetarian meal for her and one for himself. "You're a vegetarian too, right?" He pushed the plate closer to her and rose his eyebrows a few times.
"Th-Thanks," she mumbled. Raven took the plate and stared at the food. Guess he wasn't just thinking about his own stomach. The girl smiled at the food and said, "If we're going up against the Underworld we'll need the energy."
Gohan looked around at the Titans who all wanted to help them out. He stared back at Natsu, Laxus, and Ben, knowing they took this way too personally to be left out either. "Alright, looks like we're fighting the Underworld together."
"Sounds like fun," a new voice said behind the Pao Town group and they spun around too see Luffy standing between Sanji and a distracted Komatsu, putting the big spoon in the pot and eating right off of it.
"OI!" Sanji yelled at his captain and spun, kicking the rubber pirate in the face with a leg full of invisible Armament Haki, slamming into the Captain and sending him flying. He caught the spoon as it fell from Luffy's grip and tssked at how it had to be cleaned now since the pirate ate right off of it. He had an idea and turned to Timmy though, "You mind wishing up a new spoon?" he asked the boy.
Instantly, Timmy's demeanor changed and he reached down to his waist where a very, very light pink belt was wrapped around him. It was mostly gray and Sanji looked down to see closed eyes and a snoring mouth on the front of the belt. "Sorry," the young boy replied, "I don't think I'll be making any wishes for a while."
Quickly changing the grim tone of the conversation once again was the rubber pirate who bounced right back from being kicked away. He was in too good a mood having his brother, most of his crew, and a party with delicious food around him to be quieted with one kick to the face. The pirate with a bump on his head shouted, "I want to fight the Underworld too!"
"LUFFY!" Nami and Usopp both dove out of nowhere and tackled their Captain, having felt a strange sensation from across the dock that the pirate was about to do something stupid. They got there just as they heard his declaration and Nami had her hands around his neck, shaking him back and forth as she yelled in his face, "That's where Blackbeard is! Not to mention those scary Sith and who knows how many other insanely powerful people. I let you talk me into taking on the Government, but we can't fight them both at the same time!"
"Luffy please, I don't want to die so soon after getting my body back," Usopp begged with tears in his eyes. "Let's just take this one at a time."
One at a time... Nico Robin thought as she watched the large group near the cooking area. A man stepped up behind her and she sensed his presence, "Hello there Mr. Shanks."
"Oh, so you noticed me," the man said with a smile as he leaned up against the side of his own ship that Robin was standing next to. He had a bottle of sake in his hands and took a swig of it, yet for some reason the female archaeologist felt his senses weren't dimmed in the slightest. "What are you thinking about?" he questioned her, and this time Robin was surprised at his words, realizing he must have spotted her and discerned her thoughts, or at least partially understood them to have come over.
"How very observant of you," she stated in a calm tone. She looked across the dock to where Franky was having a great time showing off all his cool robot functions to Shanks' amazed, childish crew. "I was just thinking how it was quite convenient that our Underworld prisoner escaped during the attack on the port yesterday morning." As it was long past what midnight would be considered on this planet, it was technically the next day already.
Robin had heard from Franky that the cyborg shirpwright ran up to the deck of the Sunny when the battle started, but before he could join in, he heard a crash behind him and saw the prisoner walking out onto the deck. Franky had asked the guy in the brown cloak how he escaped, but the next thing he knew he was missing an arm and the old man was gone. "Hmm," Shanks hummed next to her, "could just be a coincidence." He offered it up mainly to show she had no real proof on what she could possibly be implying, and she nodded at him, accepting that that was true. "But then again," he said in a deadly serious tone, "if it wasn't, that would lead to the conclusion that the New Earth Government, and Awul's infamous Underworld, are in collusion with each other."
The woman didn't reply, but she looked back over at the group of pirates, Teen Titans, and a few children and teens who were talking about taking these two forces down. "You're absolutely right," a voice said above the two of them. Robin snapped her head up in surprise, but Shanks just slowly lifted his head to the boy he noticed listening to them for a while now.
The kid off the edge of Shanks' ship was standing in the air over the ledge of the railing so he was hovering above the dock. He slowly floated down until he dropped down between the two, and despite him being over a decade younger than both of them, he was the same height and looked them in the eyes. "I happened to hear what you were discussing, sorry," he apologized for his rude interruption.
"Not at all," Shanks said, taking another swig of his alcohol. "If you know something, please," he requested and then reached out to hand his bottle to the boy with long silver hair.
"No thanks," Riku denied the offer with a small wave of his hand, but he would take the man up on his other request. "Ansem is inside me," Riku stated, "without my body he would have nothing, no physical form in this world," the other two were surprised by this and Riku was happy Ben, Sora, and Gohan had kept to their word and stayed silent about how Ansem was defeated. "He was at the very top of the New Earth Government, he knows all their secrets."
"And," Robin questioned, "what do you know?"
"He had no idea about any Underworld prisoners inside the port when he came to destroy it," Riku stated confidently. Both of the other two felt a little relieved at that, but Riku wasn't finished and continued, "However," the two adults looked into the boy's eyes and he stated, "The Underworld and the NEG do have connections." He closed his eyes and tried to figure out just how deep those connections were.
Who are the leaders? Do you know where they are? How many in the NEG know about this? "Quiet child! I may have to tolerate you, but do not expect me to answer your every question. This is not my battle, and I am not so dishonorable that I would give up my entire organization to those who want to destroy it." You're no longer a part of that organization! And since when did you care about honor?! "...Since I became a part of you..."
Riku sighed in exasperation and opened his eyes, seeing both of the people in front of him waiting for results. "I'm sorry, that's all I know," he apologized to them.
The pirate Emperor stared at the kid for a few seconds and didn't think he was lying from the look on his face. "Hmm, alright then," he turned and lifted the bottle to his mouth, drinking, and drinking more while Robin and Riku sweatdropped. The man finished off the bottle and then looked back at the two of them with a smile, "Then tomorrow I'll be off with my crew."
"You're leaving?!" Nami asked the man, angrily storming past when she happened to hear the man speak. She couldn't convince her captain not to join in on the battle against the Underworld, and now her mood was even more sour.
"Of course!" Shanks replied like it was obvious. He looked across the area to where Luffy and his brother started eating and laughing together. He shook his head and chuckled, "Had I known the resistance I was joining was led by that numbskull I never would have came." The idea of working under Luffy didn't sit well with the older man with red hair. He scratched the top of his head and smiled at the beautiful young girl on Luffy's crew, jealous of the rubber kid for not knowing how lucky he was. "But," he looked away and mentioned as if it was a side note, though it was really very important, "I will continue causing trouble for those NEG bastards. Just not with you."
"Aren't you happy to see Luffy again?" Nami asked the man who her Captain viewed in such high regard and talked about all the time. She would have thought he'd be just as happy to see Luffy as Luffy was to see him.
Shanks smiled and turned around, starting to walk away. He chuckled, "Am I happy?" he said in a voice just barely loud enough for Nami to hear him. "You bet I am. Those brothers defeated me and saved my entire crew. It's pretty humiliating actually... but am I happy?" Nami started smiling at the man as he turned his head a little and she could see how high the corner of his lip was pulled up, "Yes ma'am."
"Don't tell Luffy until tomorrow," Shanks added with a wink towards the orange haired woman. "Tonight's a party, so we're gonna celebrate!" The man reached behind him and pulled out a bottle from seemingly out of nowhere, lifting it up and roaring. "Who thinks they can outdrink me?!"
Luffy and Ace stopped their conversation and looked over at the red haired man who they both admired. The two of them looked back towards each other and the competitive looks on the brothers' faces were obvious from across the dock where Shanks was standing. "Bring it on then," the pirate Emperor called over to the younger men.
"How about it Bats, want to join in?" the man suddenly standing behind Batman asked. The man in black didn't turn but he did grumble in annoyance at the nickname. "Oh you're no fun." The Flash taunted and then zipped back off the ship he jumped on. The red streak zoomed over to the drinking circle being set up where a few of the other partying pirates on Shanks' crew as well as other citizens of Port Royal were joining in. Everyone was taunting each other and shouting and yelling as drinks were being brought out from the pirate ships, as no self-respecting pirate traveled around without several barrels of rum on board.
"Room for one more?" a sweet innocent voice questioned. Mr. Incredible and a pumped up Cyborg turned around, and then looked down to see the beautiful navigator of the Straw Hats looking up at them with a cute smile. "Girls can enter this tournament too, right?"
"Uh oh," Sanji, Franky, and Usopp said at the same time, turning towards each other and gulping. Everyone else around the circle started laughing and telling her that she could but she wouldn't stand a chance against them.
"Might want to tell your navigator to sit this one out," Shanks suggested. He was sitting between Luffy and Ace and he looked at the younger brother, "She's in a league she's not prepared for. New World Pirates can drink a lot more than she's used to..." The man stopped speaking as he saw the sweat coming down the pirate in the straw hat's face.
"Naaaammmiii," Luffy moaned, "I wanted to have a chance!"
"Just accept it Captain," Sanji called over to his Captain from across the circle. "Get ready to pass out, Nami won't stop 'till we're all snoring like little babies." Sanji's eyes turned into hearts, "She's so amazing!"
"Thank you Sanji-san," Nami said cutely over to him, lifting up her mug and looking around at the men who were quieting down and starting to look at her more nervously. Her innocent expression narrowed and her mouth twisted into a huge devilish grin, "DRINK!" she yelled and tilted back her mug.
No one expected her to be the one to start it, but they didn't want to be left behind and all began lifting their glasses. Bob Parr lifted his mug to his lips and then almost spat out the first sip as he watched the girl next to him lower her empty glass after a second of chugging and sigh, satisfied by her work. His face turned blue, and every person in the circle thought at the same time, What did I get myself into?
Sanji didn't make it very long in the drinking contest. These were experienced New World Pirates he was up against, (and Nami), there was no chance for him from the start. With tinted red cheeks he excused himself and made his way back to the Thousand Sunny.
When he got up on the deck, he noticed a boy on the opposite side of the ship staring out over the water. He'd seen the teen during the escape from Castle Oblivion, and a few times during the party, but he hadn't formally met the kid yet, and since he was feeling pretty outgoing at the moment, the tipsy chef walked his way over to the kid. "How's it going?" he asked.
Gray looked over his shoulder at the man approaching him. He saw the chef a few times and remembered the guy giving him some food earlier. "Fine," he responded, staring back out over the water. Sanji came up and stood next to him, leaning over the rail as well and staring out like the younger man. The two of them exchanged names, but that was the extent of their conversation.
The wizard sighed after a little while of staring out with this guy, "It's strange being back here."
"'Back?' What're you talking about?" Sanji asked the strange teen.
"On Awul," Gray stated, still looking out over the water. "Though, when I was here I'm pretty sure no one had named it yet. Hell, this planet probably didn't even have a name."
"Where'd you go?" Sanji asked him.
Gray chuckled a little, "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Try me kid," Sanji told the boy who probably wasn't more than a year or two younger than him actually. "I've been teleported across worlds, eaten by creatures I thought were only in nightmares, and turned into an evil monster, I think I might be able to believe just, about anything right now. Hehe," Sanji chuckled at the thought of all that had happened to him recently.
The ice wizard chuckled too at Sanji's words. "It was only about a week after I got here. I traveled the length of this planet in a few short days. The place I arrived at after leaving Awul was full of danger: harsh terrain, monsters all over the place, and even those who weren't monsters were still, monsters." Sanji nodded, knowing exactly what he meant by that. "If it weren't for the two of them," Gray added, sounding a bit nostalgic, "I would have died years ago."
"The two of them?" Sanji asked.
"Yeah," Gray whispered, looking back over the ocean, "my friends..."
First Day + 0
Naruto stared up at the empty sky where Madara Uchiha had just disappeared from. It still seemed so impossible to him, but he didn't have a lot of time to ponder it. The yellow haired teen dropped out of his Tailed Fox aura and returned to his normal clothing. The boy sprinted across the heavily damaged ground and leapt faster than the normal human eye could see to a patch of ground surrounded by lava on all sides. "Hang in there little guy," Naruto whispered as he picked up the bloody, passed out ten year old and put him over his shoulder. "You too," he said and grabbed the unconscious gray haired fairy lying next to him.
The boy with the demon fox inside him jumped back up in the air as a pillar of lava shot up from the pools around him and engulfed the land Timmy and Wanda were just lying on. "Ahh!" The teenager shouted as the heat of the lava was more intense than he thought and got burned even being several meters away.
A spiky haired man flew down out of the air and grabbed Naruto under the armpits as the boy descended. "Let's go," the Saiyan with crazy hair said and flew the four of them out of the area and to safety.
Goku landed them over in a cluster of other fighters and rested them down in the middle. Everyone was looking at the small boy that Naruto rested down and they were truly amazed by him. Whatever that green haired fairy with him did, it healed their injuries and defeated that monster of a man.
"Madara," Neji whispered as he looked out from the edge of the forest they were gathered around. There were broken trees and craters around them, but the area was the least damaged in the region covered in barren landscape and lava pools. "He's gone," the Hyuga clan member said as if he couldn't believe it. And this kid beat him?
Yamcha was landing down on the ground and he lowered the armored girl with dark red hair down next to Naruto. "That's everyone right?" He asked and looked around one more time.
"I believe so," Makarov stated and scratched his chin thoughtfully as he finally looked away from Timmy. He looked up at the man with spiky black hair and questioned, "Who are you? What was that crazy magic you were using before?"
"Magic?" Neji asked in confusion as he turned to the old man. "You mean chakra?"
"I think he's talking about ki," Yamcha corrected and lifted a hand that became filled with a ball of white energy. The group started discussing the discrepancies in what they were saying, but Goku wasn't looking at any of them, he was staring off in the other direction.
"Hey, looks like Tien could use some help," Goku suddenly interrupted with a glance over at Yamcha. The scar-faced man nodded and floated off the ground with a gulp as he felt the horrible evil power with Tien. "It was great meeting all of you," Goku said to the crowd of confused people. "You were all really strong! I hope we can fight someday!"
"Wait! Where are you going?!" The tall old man with a long black beard questioned the two fighters who flew up in the air. Sengoku rose an arm wanting them to wait and explain themselves, but the more powerful of the two was already flying off.
Yamcha paused and looked back, "Sorry, there's a really bad guy over there. Maybe next time!" He waved back at the group and then shot off after Goku, gulping again at the massive power awaiting them near Tien.
The group stared off after the Z warriors for a few more moments and then turned to see the boy with yellow hair and scars that looked like whiskers on his face reaching down for the strange boy and his fairy. "I'll watch over these guys," Naruto stated with a smile. You really kicked butt today kid, sorry about your friend. If only I had been stronger I could have stopped Madara before that green fairy guy had to... Naruto clenched his eyes shut and felt horrible for the two in his arms. He saved us.
Goku and Yamcha flew away from the battlefield and over a few miles of forest. They didn't have to go far as Tien's battle was happening pretty closeby to the battle with Madara. The two Z fighters arrived at the coast and saw Tien and his opponent floating over the water. There were huge chunks of wood and ripped up sails floating in the ocean below, as Tien's fight had already caused massive amounts of damage.
"It's Frieza's dad," Yamcha yelped as he saw the huge figure facing Tien. Oddly though, other than his torn clothing, Tien looked perfectly fine while his opponent had burn marks and cuts all over his body.
"Hey Tien, need some help?" Goku called over to the muscular bald triclops who wasn't looking too bad right now.
Tien had felt his friends approaching and held up a hand towards them. "I'm fine," he stated, "don't interfere."
"Alright then," Goku replied. He wanted to fight too, but he wasn't one to interfere when his friends wanted a one v. one fight.
The bald three-eyed man took a deep breath and then glared across the air at his angry opponent. "What happened to you?!" King Cold shouted at Tien. "One second you were on your last ropes, the next you're back at the peak of your strength!"
What was that I wonder? Tien thought. He recalled a bright light that distracted both him and his opponent. They looked miles away to the source of the brightest light they'd ever seen, and then Tien felt warmth filling him. For some reason his opponent didn't get healed by the same light, but Tien felt his strength return and then flew at King Cold faster than he had the entire fight, catching the evil overlord off guard and getting a power combo in on him. Neither of them knew about Cosmo's sacrifice to defeat Madara, or how much it had helped Tien stay in this fight.
The large alien monster had white skin with blue plating on its joints. It was eight feet tall with a long slender tail behind him that flicked around angrily in the air. "Son Goku," King Cold muttered angrily as he spotted the Super Saiyan arrive. He had an intense fear of Super Saiyans and this one in particular had kicked his ass while he was already in Hell. It was not a pleasant experience.
"Your opponent's right in front of you," Tien reminded coldly as he clenched his fists and powered up again. He felt strong, and he roared as his white aura flared around him.
"Earlier I underestimated you, human," King Cold admitted. "And because of that I only used fifty percent of my true power, even in my final form." Tien got beaten badly earlier, and as he was powering up he felt a little nervous that his foe had so much power still to use. "I will finish this quickly and then get on to you Son Goku," he growled, this time not looking away from his opponent however.
Tien floated in the air with his huge white aura and he glared at his opponent as King Cold's large white body bulked up in the arms, then the legs, then his whole torso expanded and made him much more buff. "That's what Frieza did too," Goku pointed out to Yamcha who was sweating profusely and trying to stay behind his powerful Saiyan friend.
The bald three-eyed man and his buff Arcosian opponent shot towards each other and their fists collided in midair. The two shot around the sky while Yamcha and Goku's eyes darted back and forth following the two of them.
Meanwhile down below on the coast of the continent stood two men with lowered jaws. Sanji and Zoro stared up at the sky past the two floating black haired men to where shockwaves kept rippling out all over the place. They could feel huge, powerful gusts of wind slamming into them every so often and the amount of force going into every blow was astonishing.
The two of them had made it out of the forest and they both found it unfortunate that the other was the first member of the crew they found. After walking down the coast a little though, they saw the bald man who was over their ship trying to fight Enel when they first arrived, crash into the beach nearby them. Since then they'd been watching, or attempting to watch as he battled the strange alien enemy.
"This is unbelievable," Sanji whispered as both men stopped flying for a second and the bald one lifted both arms, firing hundreds of little balls of light from his hands. Explosions covered the sky moving like a path that chased the bigger fighter until King Cold realized they were moving in on all sides and got caught by explosions coming in at him from all directions.
The martial artist shot up into his explosion and swung a kick at his opponent, catching Cold in the head and slamming him out of the smoke. He followed up with a punch with his right, but the alien moved his head slightly and then reached up grabbing Tien's arm and twisting it while bringing up a knee in the human's gut. He bent the arm the wrong direction, but the bald man spun and planted both feet against the monster's face, shooting a blast of energy out his soles and into the Arcosian's face.
Tien cracked his right shoulder and swung his arm to loosen it up a little. It was in tremendous pain, but he didn't even scream out and then flew back forward to keep his enemy on the ropes. King Cold had more energy than him, but Tien suspected the alien had always had more power than his opponents and never needed to train. The difference in their powers wasn't so great that superior technique couldn't win this fight, and that was what he was betting on as he faked a punch with his left hand, then a left kick, only to uppercut the monster in its chin with his right hand. He made the uppercut not that powerful to imply he was going for a combo, but when King Cold went to block the next punch Tien tried to make obvious he would to throw, he instead opened up his right fist that was still under the alien's chin into an open palm and released his most powerful kiai that snapped the alien's head back.
Tien shouted as he pulled his arms together slamming down with his hands pulled into one fist down at Cold's chest. He forgot about the alien's anatomy for a second though, and the long white tail shot up between Cold's legs and wrapped around his left leg. He tried finishing his punch, but he got yanked from his position and swung around as King Cold regained his composure. The alien overlord roared furiously with blood trickling down both corners of its mouth. He spun Tien towards him and then punched the man in the stomach, sending Tien spinning around the other side where Cold brought back his left elbow and hit the human in the side.
The elbow was so powerful it threatened to throw Tien ten miles into the distance, but with the alien's tail still wrapped around his leg it wouldn't happen. Unfortunately the force was still there and a loud crack sounded as Tien's left leg snapped. "Ahh!" The man with three eyes yelled. He clenched his teeth and his fists at the same time.
King Cold started laughing, "A lowly human thought he could defy me?!" He spun Tien back for one more hit to the head, but as the human came spiraling back in front of him, Cold's eyes went wide to see the man's hands in the shape of a triangle in front of his face. He'd seen the attack earlier in the fight and let go, trying to move back in time but too late as Tien's eyes shot open.
The three eyed man yelled at the top of his lungs with his head point blank in front of King Cold's. "KIKOHA!"
Yamcha and Goku flew out of the way a second before as they were currently in the path behind King Cold. Tien's Tri Beam Ha plowed into the monster with a giant beam of light that engulfed him and a huge portion of the sky as it flew across the air.
"Eeh hahh ehh ahh," Tien wheezed out a few breaths and then looked down at his left leg. It looked terrible and he cursed his foolishness. He won't be defeated with that one attack. I need to finish this now, the bald man ignored Goku's calls over to him to switch out and he shot into the distance after his attack.
Zoro was glaring up at the sky so intensely that he didn't notice Sanji looking at him now with a confused look. The blonde chef didn't understand why Zoro looked so angry, but the swordsman started muttering to himself. "The top is still, so far away," he growled with clenched fists and a visible black aura surrounding him. My goal to become the strongest, is it even possible?
He almost hit himself for thinking it. Of course it's possible, and I will do it. Even if this is a new world. Even if everything I thought was true is wrong. I will still become the strongest! The green haired man calmed himself down and removed his hands from his sheaths that he had subconsciously grabbed.
"Oi! Shitty swordsman," Sanji called back to the man standing on the coast. Zoro looked back behind him and saw Sanji walking away with his back to him moving towards the forest. "I'm going to search for the ladies. Stay close so you don't get lost again."
Zoro growled after him and started walking towards the woods, "What did you say curly cook?!"
"You wanna go?!" Sanji yelled back at him, spinning around.
"Anytime," the other pirate responded. He started reaching for his swords while Sanji was lifting a foot, but the ground shook again and the two of them stopped.
There were life and death battles going on all around them. They didn't have time for their childish feud right now. "Once we find the others we're settling this," Zoro stated as he slid his swords back into his sheath and looked away annoyed.
"I don't have time to be standing here, Nami-san, Robin-chan, and Juvia-swan could be in danger!" The chef exclaimed and started heading off into the forest with a purpose, forgetting about the swordsman who was bad at following directions. Zoro muttered something about the chef being an idiot and then followed the blond man into the forest. Oi Luffy, where are you? You too Usopp?
First Day + 6
"Nami-san! Where are you?!" Sanji yelled as he spun around the thinning out forest. All the huge trees had kind of shrunk down to normal sized ones the further they walked and now it looked like a normal forest. The chef sighed sadly as there was no response again.
Sanji was a little surprised that the man behind him wasn't complaining about his shouting like he always did. "What? Not going to tell me to shut up this time?" He turned around and then blinked a few times with a blank expression on his face.
The chef lowered his face into his palm and shook his head a few times. "You got lost," he whispered. He tilted his head up in the air and shouted, "IT'S BEEN TEN MINUTES! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
In a part of the forest a whole three miles away, a man with green hair looked to his right where a flock of birds came flapping out the tops of the trees. "Where did that stupid cook go to?" The swordsman muttered in annoyance. "And why do all these trees look like those trees from five minutes ago?" He scratched the side of his head in confusion and kept walking through the woods, though he did see a clearing up ahead.
The swordsman continued walking, figuring sooner or later he'd bump into the dumbass cook again, so he should spend his time looking for the others instead. He wasn't walking for a full five minutes when he heard noises coming from the woods in front of him. In the last week he and Sanji had fought countless monsters in this forest, but as he sensed out, his Haki told him the presences he felt up ahead were human. Still, to be cautious the pirate drew his Wado Ichimonji from the white sheath at his waist.
Zoro walked forward and past a few more trees that were in his way blocking the small group he felt up ahead. He pushed aside one more branch and then stepped out into a tiny clearing in the woods.
"Oi," he called out, alerting the group of his presence.
Most of the figures jumped in surprise at his voice and spun around. The pirate glanced around at the group and smirked at one man who looked particularly strong holding a long wide sword. He sheathed his own weapon to put the people at ease though, as a few of them did not look much like fighters. "You see any pirates around here?" The man questioned as he walked farther into the clearing.
Two girls were sitting on the grass in the clearing when the man walked over and they jumped up upon hearing his voice. When he put away his weapon, they looked a little more at ease and relaxed their wings that spread behind them ready for flight. The younger of the two let go of the boy's arm she grabbed and calmed down her breathing.
"It's okay Angel," Kirito whispered to the freaked out girl next to him. He flashed her a smile to bring the young girl's spirits up and it seemed to work. She was still looking for her brother who she got separated from on the first day. Gazzy was the only member of their flock who could still be alive out there.
Maximum Ride had re-found Angel and Kirito on the second day there. She brought along the orange haired person she had originally escaped with, along with her badly injured younger sister Nudge. That huge bald man with the incredibly strong powers only got one attack in on her, but just like Fang and Iggy, Nudge succumbed to her injuries. The girl died from Nappa's attack the next day after they regrouped.
The orange haired teenager next to Max put his hand on her shoulder. She didn't relax very quickly and was on guard constantly, so Ron felt bad for her and wanted to help, especially after she saved his life on the first day.
Ron Weasley lost his wand. He was ashamed in himself as he had found it in his possession when he arrived, yet had lost it within ten minutes of getting there. The young man looked over to the green haired swordsman walking towards them and gulped. He might not have had a threatening look on his face, but his scar-covered face and torso, along with his very large muscles were making Ron sweat pretty bad.
The wizard opened his mouth, "P-pirates? No, we haven't seen any."
"That's a shame," Zoro muttered, still looking at the man wearing the headband and a white facemask covering his mouth. The guy had short spiky black hair and was wearing all black, though the huge sword that was as tall as his body was what really caught Zoro's eye.
He could feel bloodlust coming from that sword that matched and even surpassed the bloodlust of his own Sandai Kitetsu. "That's an interesting blade you have there," Zoro stated as he met eyes with the man before him.
Zabuza Momochi lifted up his sword and slung it up to rest over his shoulder. He grinned under his mask and looked the green haired man up and down. No headband, not a ninja. His swords look good though, he looks powerful. "What are you here for?" The rogue ninja questioned.
Zoro sighed and was about to mention how he was looking for his crew members when he felt other powers approaching. He snapped his head to the left where the closest one was coming from. "I got us some bananas. These trees are just full of..." The black haired teen who walked out of the woods stopped and dropped the fruit in his hand as he saw the green haired man standing near his companions.
The muscular boy wasn't wearing a shirt and he had a dark blue tattoo on his chest of what looked like a fairy with a long tail. "Who are you?" Gray Fullbuster questioned the swordsman who was standing before him. The wizard held his hands together in front of his body in a ready stance in case he needed to fight.
"Hold on Gray," Ron called over to the other teen. "I-I don't think he's here to fight," he looked back at the pirate, "are you?"
Zoro was grinning at the teen who was quick on the trigger to fight, but he didn't have time to answer either of them. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed another figure in an all black costume come out of the woods on his right, but he was much more focused on the huge power directly in front of him behind the group of weaker people.
Out of the trees the man walked, ten feet tall with curly black hair. Zoro started sweating and his hand went back down to his sheaths where he let it rest while he stared at this man. "Aokiji," Zoro muttered.
The girls with wings along with the other guys in the group all looked back to the tall man. "Thought you said your name was Kuzan?" Zabuza stated as he stared at the tall former Marine who this pirate seemed to recognize.
Aokiji, or Kuzan, looked just as surprised to see the pirate before him and went wide-eyed. "Roronoa Zoro, how surprising."
"What are you doing here?" The pirate growled at the Ice Admiral. The two of them were clearly not friends from the tone in the pirate's voice and some of the others there were getting ready for a fight.
"Whoa whoa," the tall man said trying to calm everyone down. "I'm not an Admiral any longer. That means we're no longer enemies," he stopped and waited for Zoro's reaction.
The pirate stared at him for a few more seconds and grumbled to himself, "I do remember Jimbei mentioning something about that." He wasn't going to forget about how the Admiral attacked their crew though and he stayed on guard as he stared at the tall man who would actually know who he was talking about unlike the others. "Tell me then former Admiral Aokiji, have you seen my nakama?"
The older man scratched his stubble beard for a few seconds and then shrugged. "Nope," he said plainly, making Zoro sweatdrop in annoyance.
The green haired man didn't really have a reason to stay there any longer, though that sword the ninja was holding was beckoning him to challenge him to a fight. He resisted though since he had other things to worry about and he turned and started walking away again. He remembered something and spun back to face them, "Oh," he figured Aokiji knew who the members of his crew were, but there was one more person the man might have seen who he was looking for. "What about a girl, about seventeen, blue curly hair?"
Kuzan didn't immediately respond, but the black haired shirtless teen on his left did flinch and take a step forward. Gray called out to Zoro, "Do you know what her name was?"
"Yeah," the swordsman stated, "she said her name was..."
On the other side of the clearing, a man with blond hair was walking out and Zoro stopped talking as he looked over to see the chef. "There you are!" Sanji exclaimed and started walking out through the group, "Stop running off-" the chef noticed two girls on his right and spun to them, completely ignoring Aokiji as he exclaimed, "And who are these cuties?!" He looked back and forth from Max to Angel, unable to decide who was cuter.
"Her name!" Gray exclaimed again, wondering if the girl Zoro was talking about was the same curly blue haired girl in his own guild.
Zoro looked back at the wizard and nodded, "Oh yeah, her name was Juv..." The muscular man watched as the teen's eyes suddenly widened three times their normal size, the same moment he felt shaking on the ground behind him. I didn't feel a presence! He didn't feel any creatures or humans behind him with his Haki, but he could faintly see a hand coming at him in a swipe faster than he could dodge.
The swordsman started turning his head and his eyes widened at the same time as Sanji's and Kuzan's at the sight of the man who just teleported out from the woods directly behind Zoro. The green haired swordsman barely got his head halfway around but he recognized who the figure behind him was and his whole being screamed at him to run. "Fu-" the hand swiping across the air slammed into him and the swordsman was gone.
Now every person in the clearing dropped their jaws and stared in shock at the spot the swordsman was just standing. All that remained was a wisp of air pushing the grass down as the man vanished from the clearing. "Zoro!" Sanji yelled with sweat coming down his face and a dropped jaw. Behind where the swordsman was just standing, was a man twice as tall and five times as wide. His body was dressed in black and white and he kind of resembled a bear. He had a huge chunk sliced out of his left side that looked almost like a bite mark, as well as a chunk of the top of his head missing.
Sparks shot out of the cuts and slashes all around the cyborg's body and the other people in the group backed up nervously. "Bartholomew Kuma," Kuzan stated with a little bead of sweat rolling down the left side of his face. "Stay back," he warned the others who were probably thinking about fighting this man.
Sanji growled furiously at the monster. Getting hit by Kuma, what were you thinking shitty swordsman? ...Zoro could be anywhere by now, he also realized with a sense of dread. In their own world it took two years to find each other, but here they didn't even know where they were, it was going to be near impossible finding him now. I have to be careful too, Sanji looked back at the partially broken robot that looked like it had gone haywire. Nami and Robin are still around here somewhere, I don't want to get sent too far away from them.
The pirate chef and Kuzan both knew how strong Kuma was so they were on guard, but the rest of them were way past that point. They were terrified of the monster that just appeared out of nowhere and seemed to obliterate the swordsman who himself looked pretty strong. Kuma's head tilted to the left and then snapped back into place, smoke coming out of the open chunk in the left side of its head. "Black-Black-Black Leg Sanji..." It's right eye glowed red and its voicebox got much lower and ten times more terrifying as it growled, "Eliminate."
Kuma's bottom jaw dropped down and he snapped his head towards the two winged girls huddled together in fear. Kuzan jumped in front of the group just in time and rose his arms, creating a huge wall of ice right as a beam of light shot out of Kuma's mouth and slammed into the wall.
Kirito was sprinting away to his left but the force of the explosion lifted him off his feet and he tumbled across the ground.
Back over at the ice wall, the former Marine Admiral was holding both hands up against the wall as Kuma fired two more blasts. More explosions shook his ice wall and threatened to break through his barrier.
At the same time, all the other fighters went into action and jumped up. The man in the all black costume pulled out two bat shaped bombs from his tool belt and threw them down towards the huge man. While he did that, Gray fired ten ice lances at the Paw Pad Man and Zabuza created twin water dragons that shot towards him.
Right as all three attacks were about to hit, Kuma's mouth shut and the bear man disappeared. Sanji was expecting him to teleport and looked around, going wide-eyed as he spotted the man standing behind a tree. All the water, ice, and explosives slammed into each other, but the fighters knew their enemy wasn't caught up in it. Kuma appeared right on the edge of the woods where a young teenager was pushing himself back trying to get away.
Kirito kept sliding back and he snapped his head back and forth around the clearing. He couldn't see the huge man anywhere and then watched as everyone else looked his direction. In absolute terror he looked up and saw a hand lowering down towards him. "AHH-" his voice was cut off and everyone gawked in silence as a gust of wind flew into their faces and the boy was nowhere to be seen.
"We have to stop him!" Ron shouted. He wished he could do something in this scenario but all he could do was pick up a rock and throw it at the man. Kuma lifted up his left hand and the rock collided with it, bouncing back a hundred times as fast as Ron originally threw it and plowing straight through the teen's chest.
"Ron!" Max shouted as she dove down to the ground where the boy was twitching with blood pouring out of him.
"Diable Jambe!" Sanji shouted and Kuma turned his head a little to the left. The robot's vision was tinted red but kept going staticky and target symbols were focusing on every life force it picked up on. Black Leg Sanji was everyone to him the second his sensors picked up on the man.
The flaming foot slammed into Kuma and made the robot man skid back into a tree, breaking right through it and tumbling down on the ground where he slid back. Kuzan wasn't going to wait for the Schichibukai to recover and put his hands down to the ground. "Ice Time," he said and ice shot from his hands across the ground where it covered the larger man completely along with half the trees around him.
"Whoa," Angel yelped and flapped her white wings, lifting off the ground as some of the ice encroached near her feet. She looked at the large man who looked like a bear, covered in ice, and she felt so angry at him for what he did to Ron, and Kirito.
The little girl looked back over at the tree where Kirito was curled up before and she felt like crying. He was gone, just like that green haired man, he was gone.
"Don't worry Cutie-chan!" Sanji said to the girl and she snapped her head to her left in surprise. The blond man wanted to get off the ground as well when the ice spread out and he was kicking the air beneath his feet to keep himself afloat. "He just got thrown really far away, whoever that boy was is perfectly fine."
"You mean it?!" Angel asked him hopefully.
"I would never lie to a lady!" The man proclaimed, "Especially not one as cute as yourself!"
"Angel stay away from him," Max warned and flew up in the air, pulling her little sister away and glaring at the perverted-looking man. He did just help save them though and she nodded her head at him, "Thank you for..."
A loud crack echoed around the clearing and everyone snapped their heads back over to the spot where the monster of a man was covered in ice. A huge crack ran across the ice above him and Kuzan slammed his arms back down to put on another layer.
He was too late.
Three yellow beams shot out of the ice surface and up in the sky where they exploded in huge spheres of yellow light. The Paw Pad Man flew up out of the ice with ice in his joints. Wherever his internal circuitry was exposed, ice was inside it and it fried his programming even more. The man pointed his right hand at the closest life force, forming a translucent ball in the shape of a bear's paw that flew out of his hand.
Sanji dove towards the girls and pushed them out of the way right before the paw pad slammed into them. The attack crashed right through his chest instead and his eyes rolled back, blood splattering from his mouth. It was like a condensed shockwave just ripped straight through him. The attack kept going upon leaving the back of his body, crashing into a tree trunk behind the man and shattering it, showing them all how strong it was to make Sanji fall to his knees coughing up blood.
Kuma had already turned around and lifted an arm. Zabuza was bringing his sword down at the larger man, but the Demon of the Hidden Mist's eyes widened as his sword bounced backwards and sent him flying back into a tree. Every attack was being repelled off the man; nothing was working.
"Ice Partisan!" Kuzan yelled and four ice tridents formed in the air. They shot forward at Kuma, but the man made entirely of Vegapunk's strongest steel was unharmed as three of the tridents slammed into his chest. He opened his mouth and incinerated the fourth with a beam that plowed through the trident and crashed into the ground at Kuzan's feet.
"Ice Make: Tiger!" Gray yelled and formed a huge tiger made of ice that started flying towards the Devil Fruit eater. The pirate warlord, turned ultimate human weapon, pressed his hands together and a humongous ball of air formed between his paws. He started moving his hands together as the tiger approached and the giant translucent ball became more visible as it got smaller. The Paw Pad Man made the huge clear paw pad small enough that it was about the size of his own body.
"Ursus, Shock Shock Sh-Sh-Shock!" The machine roared with a faulty speaker. The ball of condensed air smashed straight through the tiger before exploding in a huge shockwave that sent trees all around them scattering in the wind.
Sanji was weakened from the paw pad that was sent through his chest. The size of the translucent attack was larger than the much more condensed one he'd faced before, but he knew it would still be powerful. He dropped to the ground and dug his fingernails in to keep himself there as the force of the explosion pressed against him. He faced something like this two years before on Thriller Bark, and he was much stronger now, but it was still an incredible shockwave.
Batman tumbled away and grabbed onto a tree stump as he was rolling past. "What the Hell is he?" The Dark Knight growled as he felt his whole body getting torn away by the explosion.
When the huge ball of light faded away, a crater was all that was left of the clearing from before. The clearing was much larger now though with the forest being thinned down a lot.
Two certain female pirates searching the nearby area saw the explosion and were on their way over to it now, thinking that maybe more of their friends were in that direction. They started having to move around fallen tree trunks and finally made it to an opening in the trees where everything in front of them was destroyed.
In the center of the clearing was a man that made both Nami and Robin gasp. Bartholomew Kuma's whole body was sparking out in different directions and his right eye was glowing a deep horrible red. His head clicked a few times to the right where two fighters were staggering on their feet, and the next second he was standing to the right of them with his arm pulled back.
Zabuza and Gray started turning their heads to the left. They didn't even have time to curse as Kuma slammed his hand down and hit Zabuza first, but then Gray with the same swipe.
Nami stumbled backwards at the sight of the two people disappearing, afraid it was going to happen to her again too. She fell over something soft though and looked down to see a sweet little girl curled up, unconscious from the shockwave. A few yards away from her was another girl only slightly older who was also passed out. Oddly these two girls had wings on their back, though they looked damaged from the explosion.
"Nami," Robin gasped and pointed at the center of the area where three men were walking forward. "Look, it's Sanji-san, and..." the archaeologist's voice faded off as she stared at the man twice their chef's height.
"Admiral Aokiji?!" Nami exclaimed.
Kuzan sweatdropped that these people kept calling him by that old name, but then he became very concerned as Kuma's head snapped to the source of that new sound. In a horrifying low voice that was probably never meant to be used, but was the result of a malfunctioning voice box, the Schichibukai growled, "C-Cat Burglar Nami. Devil's Ch-Child Nico Robin. ELIMINATE."
Both women found themselves going blue in the face with fear and stepping backwards subconsciously. Their steps were cut short as they bumped into something very hard, it felt like steel.
They turned their heads around slowly and stared in horror at the teleporting monster behind them. Kuma's mouth was open and a yellow glow was building in the back of his throat. He shook violently and then the beam shot out right towards its first target, Robin.
Robin thought it was going to be her last sight as the beam shot out of the monster's mouth, but suddenly there was a huge wall of ice separating her and the pirate. She looked up in shock and saw a man flying past her from above, ice shooting out of his feet leaving trails behind him as he lifted up and over his shaking wall that was hit by an explosion from point blank on the other side.
Sanji was still several feet away and he cursed himself for not making it on time. He didn't like it, but he had to mentally thank Kuzan for what he did there. He and Batman raced over and while he checked to see if Nami and Robin were alright, Batman picked up the unconscious winged girls and started running off with them.
On the other side of the wall, Kuzan had an arm shoved inside the hole on Kuma's right side. He filled the monster's body with ice and then shattered it, demolishing his insides and breaking apart the cyborg's right shoulder so bad that the whole arm fell off.
"F-f-former Admiral A-Aokiji," the Government weapon stated in a quiet tone, the red light in its eye fading.
Kuzan lifted his arm again and pressed it on the open chunk of Kuma's head that revealed the most vital parts of the monster. "Ice Time," Aokiji muttered, almost sadly, as ice extended out of his hand one last time for this fight.
Ice filled the human weapon's head and its whole body started powering down. "Th-Thank you," Kuma whispered as the light in his eyes finally went out.
Kuzan started at the motionless machine in surprise as he continued to fill and cover it with ice. Was that the real Bartholomew Kuma talking? Or did Vegapunk add that in? The former Marine preferred to think of the former option as what happened and he smiled softly as he pulled back the hand he used to freeze the pirate.
Sanji was kicking the air beneath his feet and hovering up above the ice wall. He looked down at Kuzan and watched as the tall man balled up his hand into a fist, and then smashed it forwards powerfully. His fist smashed the Paw Pad Man into pieces that scattered on the floor.
The chef nodded and then dropped back down between Nami and Robin. The orange haired woman dove into him and gave him a huge hug as she hadn't seen him for almost a week. Her actions gave him a nosebleed and he fell backwards in joy.
"It is just you here Sanji-san?" Robin questioned the blonde haired man.
The chef lying on the ground lost the hearts in his eyes and frowned deeply. "Zoro was with me," he stated, and the fact that he used Zoro's actual name instead of some insulting nickname scared the two women on the Straw Hat crew. "Kuma sent him flying."
"What?!" Nami screamed. "But, then he could be anywhere right now!"
"He may have already been attacked and killed by one of those flying fighters," Robin said while holding her chin in a thoughtful pose.
"Don't say that so calmly!" Nami shouted at her. She fell back down to her knees, "First Luffy and Usopp, now Zoro. We have to find the rest of the crew around here before anyone else goes missing!"
"Agreed Nami-san," Robin said. "Since you are the navigator I believe you should lead us in Luffy and Zoro's absence."
Sanji rose both of his hands up in the air, "I will follow you to the end of the Earth! Or whatever planet we're on!" He added at the end since he was pretty sure the huge monsters he'd been kicking the crap out of for days were not found anywhere on their world. Sanji turned his head and looked off into the distance, his smile fading a little, Shitty swordsman, where the Hell did you go?
FD + 9
"Ugghh," Zoro moaned as he sat up. The green haired man rubbed his head and sat up. He looked around him at the walls of some sort of crater and stood up, staring blankly at the ground beneath his feet.
"You've got to be kidding me," he muttered. The swordsman bent his knees and then jumped thirty feet up in the air. He looked down at the spot he just woke up in and glared at the huge paw print indent in the ground. "Fuck," he cursed, realizing Kuma had hit him from behind and it was likely days later now.
As he was lifting up, he noticed the ground looked a lot blacker than the green grass and lush forests he'd been traveling through previously. He lifted his head up and looked out over the landscape, suddenly noticing dozens of presences he felt way too close for comfort.
Huge monsters covered the harsh black landscape around him. Volcanoes were scattered around him as far as he could see. Even on the horizon there were more giant mountains and smoke was lifting from the tops of a few. Magma was rolling down the sides of some volcanoes, and the air was dark gray, almost black.
The swordsman landed down on the ground and looked around him. Four huge black monsters on four legs turned towards him. They each had razor sharp teeth, fat hairy bodies, and two twisty horns on the fronts of their heads. Behind them, a forty foot tall red monster with a huge thick spiky tail turned his direction as well. "Grou-don," it roared towards the man and flames leaked out of its open mouth.
The swordsman looked up in the air and saw a huge blue bird with long slender wings. As he looked up at it, three even larger black birds dropped out of the dark clouds above and tore through the blue monster. One bit it by the neck and pulled, while the other two shredded through the wings to get bites of it.
There probably aren't any people around here, the man thought as the amount of monsters made this land nigh uninhabitable. And if there were, he thought with a glance towards the carnivorous-looking monsters staring yearningly at him, they're all dead now.
Just then, the man noticed a white dot soaring through the air above his head. "What the..." he whispered and looked closer to see it was actually two distinct white dots, and they were getting closer to him. At the same time they were also descending and they got close enough for the swordsman to see what was inside, or actually who was inside the aura.
Shit, the swordsman thought as he watched the two of them fly over his head. The two people had gained the monsters' attention for long enough that Zoro was safe, but they started freaking out and charging as the green haired human started running after the white auras.
A huge thud shook the ground, but Zoro didn't stop running towards the side of the volcano that white dot just crashed into. He got close and stared at the huge paw print in the ground, bigger than the one he arrived in, but necessarily so considering both Gray Fullbuster and Zabuza Momochi were lying in it.
"Wake up idiots!" Zoro yelled down at the two he recognized from right before he got sent flying. As he shouted at them he spun around at the same time. He unsheathed two of his swords and sent attacks flying towards the charging beasts. His slashes slammed into their horns and pushed them back, but to his amazement they didn't slash straight through.
He did gain them a little bit of time though and spun to see the two down there shaking their heads and getting up to their feet. "What in the Hell happened?" Zabuza muttered as he looked around him and didn't recognize anything. "And why am I so hungry?!"
"It feels like I haven't eaten for days," Gray moaned as he got up as well. The shirtless teen started sweating badly and he realized how hot it was around him. "What the..." Gray looked around and his jaw dropped at the sight of volcanoes all around him, including right behind him where a small stream of magma was rolling down the mountain's wall towards them.
He looked the other way and his shock tripled as he saw the man with green hair shrouded in a horrifying aura. The pirate looked like he had six arms and three heads, collectively nine swords in total. He was slashing away at huge black birds, if you could even call those disgusting monsters birds, and the black bulls with sharp teeth charging at him.
Zabuza was impressed by this swordsman as he watched the mam's swords cut through monsters like they were rice paper. He reached down and grabbed the sword at his feet. "Hey kid," he stated to Gray without looking at the shocked teen, "close your mouth and get ready."
The Hidden Mist Ninja walked up to Zoro and neither of them said anything as they stared at the huge red monster lumbering towards them. It opened its mouth and Zoro shouted, "Dodge!" while at the same time diving to the right. Gray and Zabuza didn't bother asking why and just listened to the man, which saved their lives as a pillar of flames shot out of Groudon's mouth and demolished the ground they were just standing on.
Zoro got back up to his feet and looked back at where he left a pile of monster bodies before. As the smoke cleared, all he saw were some bones, all the meat had been burnt from the flesh.
Although Gray was panicking, the Fairy Tail wizard tried to hold it together and stated, "We have to find a way out of here."
Neither Zabuza nor Zoro were thinking along the same lines and they both looked back at the eighteen year old with smirks on their faces. "Run?" Zabuza asked, smirking underneath his white mask. He reached up and pulled it down, revealing the sharp teeth he had in his smile that made him look like a beast. "Why would we do that?"
Zoro didn't say anything, but he felt the same way. This will be some good training. These monsters are durable, strong, and unpredictable. To reach that next level, I'll have to surpass my current limits. The man put his third sword back in his mouth while removing a green bandanna from where it was tied around his arm.
The pirate tied the green bandanna around the top of his head. His right eye seemed to glow red next to his closed left eye that had a scar running over it vertically. "Don't stray too far from each other," he stated through the sword he had clenched in his teeth. "If you want to survive that is."
Gray watched as the two men soared up in the air at the huge red monster and started attacking it. He heard roars and screeches coming from all around him and looked around the landscape. The big red one was the only one attacking right now, but there were hundreds of monsters crawling all over the place. Where the Hell are we? He thought and looked up at the dark clouds above his head. Natsu, Erza... Juvia, where are you?
Present
"The two of them?" Sanj asked as the boy mentioned his friends.
"Yeah," Gray whispered, still looking off the side of the Thousand Sunny with a nostalgic smile. "My friends, Zabuza Momochi, and Roronoa Zoro. The two of them helped me get through some of the hardest challenges-"
"Zoro..." Sanji whispered. He said it louder, "Zoro? ZORO?!" Sanji leaned in towards the younger man's face and his eyes doubled in size. "You were there!" Gray didn't know what he was talking about, though something did seem a little familiar about this blond guy now that he thought about it. "The day we fought Kuma, you were one of the ones sent flying!"
"You were-" Gray started, then gasped as he remembered the strange guy with blonde hair he saw that day. So much had happened during that fight, and in the weeks and months that followed that he had completely forgotten about him. "Haha, hahaha, so you guys beat him? I already saw Kuzan, so that means-"
"Yeah we beat him," Sanji said in a rushed voice. "But what about Zoro?" He questioned. "Is the shitty swordsman alright? Why didn't he come back with you?"
Gray shrugged his shoulders, "The only reason I'm back is because Timmy wished me here after searching Juvia's memories, or at least I think that's how he explained it," the boy added while scratching his head, not seeing how that made sense in the slightest. "Though I doubt Zoro would have returned," the wizard continued, sounding a bit sour.
"Thought you said the two of you were friends," Sanji questioned.
"We were," Gray said, making sure to use it in the past tense. "He's fine, I'm sure of it. But... but he was a driven guy, you know?" Normally he liked to think of Zoro as arrogant, annoying, a little like a certain pink haired Dragon Slayer he knew. Right now though he was wishing he could see the swordsman again. Gray continued, "He was obsessed with getting stronger. It took up every second of his time. He surrounded himself with people strong enough to challenge him constantly, people who could handle the type of monsters he would go after. But when we found the rebels, the people fighting against the King, I knew I had to stay with them." The boy paused for a little, "I wish he would have stayed with me."
Sanji put a cigarette in his mouth and lit it. He stared out over the water with Gray, both of them thinking of the same man. So you are alive huh you shitty swordsman? A smile tugged at Sanji's lips and the tipsy man allowed it as he took a puff of his cig, Good.
A/N Whoa! So Zoro's alive, and he knows Gray?! Too bad he's not even on the same continent. Aebrith really sounds like a shitty place in these flashbacks, nothing like Awul with its lush green fields, beautiful mountain ranges, and corrupt governments in league with evil criminal organizations... Haha I hope everyone enjoyed the party and the flashback to the early days of Nexus. A lot happened back then, and there will be more flashbacks in the future, but next time be prepared, because it's time for an Underworld battle! And... here's a quick list:
DBZ: Vegeta, Goku, Yamcha, Gohan, ChiChi, Tien, King Cold, Frieza
One Piece: Kuzan, Sanji, Luffy, Franky, Nami, Shanks, Lucky, Zoro, Sengoku, Kizaru, Robin, Kuma, Schichibukai, Usopp
Teen Titans: Nightwing, Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven, Cyborg, Speedy
Batman: Batman
Flash: Flash
Incredibles: Bob Parr, Helen, Violet, Dash
Ben 10: Grandpa Max, Ben, Gwen
Star Wars: Darth Maul, Count Dooku
Fairy Tail: Natsu, Juvia, Makarov, Laxus, Erza
Fairly Oddparents: Timmy, Wanda, Cosmo
Naruto: Naruto, Zabuza, Madara, Neji
Sword Art Online: Kirito
Harry Potter: Ron Weasley
Maximum Ride: Max, Angel
Toriko: Komatsu
God Eater: Aragami
RWBY: Grimm
Pokemon: Groudon
And finito! 'Till next time!