Can't believe this stories gonna be finished soon. Anyway here's the next chapter. Enjoy.

Chapter 26: Franky and the Number Zero

The group stopped again to take a little break and to get themselves together.

"Sanji, I'm hungry." Luffy said to his ship's cook.

"When are you not hungry, moron?" Sanji barked. "I'll see if there are any apples around and I'll give them to you, understand? I'll be right back."

"Okay." Sanji walked off as Luffy joins Usopp while the sniper was making more equipment for himself. Meanwhile Ichigo, Gray, Erza, Franky, Uryu, Brook and Natsu were talking.

"It looks like we're almost done." Gray said.

"Looks that way to me, the only ones who haven't any action so far are Brook and Franky." Uryu said.

"Yeah, you should try and make yourselves useful." Natsu taunted the two straw hat members.

"WHAT WAS THAT, YOU LITTLE PUNK?!" Franky yelled back at the dragon slayer.

"YOU HEARD ME! YOU WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT?!"

"Natsu, Franky, now is not the time for us to be bickering with each other." Erza said, stopping the fight before it started.

"She's right." Ichigo said. "We have to stay on our toes, fighting each other would give this Vangis guy more of the advantage."

The two listened to Ichigo's reasoning and backed off. "Wow, I never pegged by the reasoning type Ichigo." Renji said.

"Just shut up."

"Come on now, yo ho ho ho." Brook said. "Why don't we calm down until an enemy appears? Now, who want to hear a song?" Brook began to play his violin.

Robin was with Lucy and Rukia, taking a look at the ruins trying gather as much information about the island and Vangis. Zoro was taking a nap as usual. Wendy was chatting with Chopper and Orihime about the best way to be prepared when their friends are seriously injured. And everyone was resting or keeping an eye for any signs of another enemy approaching.

"So, what did you find interesting Robin?" Lucy asked.

"So far, bits and pieces about this island so far." Robin answered. "If that man didn't destroy those ruins from earlier, I would have more about both this island and Vangis."

"Don't worry; I'm sure we could find some information about this island if we look for ruin as we travel." Rukia said.

"You're probably right." Then a tree popped out of the ground and rolled out a seed. The seed exploded and revealed a man with neat silver hair that reaches to his shoulders, black straight on his face and the mark of his guild, Oracion Seis, on his chest. His name is Brain.

"So which one of you maggots want to die first?" Brain said after making his entrance.

Natsu narrowed his eyes and said, "Not you, again."

"What the…" Zoro said, awaken from his nap. "Who's that?"

"Brain?" Wendy said, recognizing the man as everyone gathered around ready to fight.

Brain looked over to Wendy and said, "Well, well, long time no see little girl."

"…And he is?" Nami asked.

"Remember the two enemies that Renji and Orihime defeated." Lucy said. "This guy is their leader. He's the head for the Oracion Seis guild."

"H-He's the boss of those two bad guys?!" Chopper shouted. "Scary!"

"Aye!" Happy said. "He's extremely strong too."

"You've got to be kidding me?" Usopp said scared.

Franky smirked and said, "Come on, this guy can't be that tough. I super got this one, you guys. Just sit back and watch."

"Are you sure about this, Franky?" Wendy asked.

"Don't worry, just your keep your eyes SUPER pealed. This won't take long."

"We got your back from here, Franky." Usopp said hiding behind one of the ruins with Chopper.

"Ah, ha, ha, ha, you think you can defeat me, you piece of trash?" Brain laughed.

"Oh, you don't think so?" Franky removes the skin from his right hand. "Well then, you should have no problem fending against this! STRONG HAMMER!" Franky hits Brain with his metal hand, sending him back a few feet.

"Alright, that's what I call power." Natsu said. Then Franky's left hand opened up to reveal a cannon.

"WEAPONS LEFT!" Franky fried a cannonball at Brain.

"Laughable." Brain said he points his staff at the oncoming weapon. "DARK RONDO!" Brain fired to thin tendrils of dark energy through the cannonball, causing it to explode and continue until it hit Franky.

"FRANKY!" Wendy yelled. As the smoke cleared, Franky was still standing and unharmed as he used his right arm to create a shield.

"Come on, is that all you got?" Franky asked unimpressed.

Brain smirked and points his staff at Franky again, "Fine then, let's see if you block this. DARK CAPRICCIO!" Brian fired another blast of dark magic at Franky.

"STAR SHIELD!" Franky made a shield with his right arm again to block the attack. But the shield wasn't working like last time at the blast hit Franky.

"FRANKY!" Luffy yelled.

"Damn it, my shield didn't work." Franky cursed.

"Do you see it now?" Brain asked. "Do you see how slim your chances are? DARK CAPRICCIO!" Brain fired a third blast of dark energy but this time Franky dodged it.

"Alright then, take this. MASTER NAIL!" Franky then fired nails from mouth like a machine gun.

Brian twirled his staff to redirect the nails. "Why you little bug, I'm tired of stupid games. DARK CAPRICCIO: SCREAM!" Brain then fired a powerful version of his dark capriccio at the pirate.

"Oh crap, think Franky, think." Then Franky found out a way to avoid the attack. "That's it, COUP DE VENT!" Franky fired his attack at the ground to send himself flying and dodging the attack, surprising Brain.

"Whoa, he's flying." Happy said.

"Do you guys think he has a plan?" Gajeel asked.

"I think he does." Sado said. "We just have to wait and see what he'll do next."

"Now I got you." Franky said. "STRONG RIGHT!" Franky fired his metal hand at Brian, breaking the staff and striking the wizard, sending him through one of the ruins. "SUPPPPPERRRRRR!"

As Franky landed on the ground, Brian started to laugh like a maniac. When Brian got back to his feet, his appearance changed. His eyes turned blood red, his skin is paler, and his hair is wavier.

"What the hell?" Zoro said surprised. "What's with this guy?"

"Well done, maggot." Brain said. "You've managed to push Brain to his breaking point. So, allow to introduce myself. The name is Zero."

"Zero?" Franky repeated. "Whatever, you're still going down." Franky took off his sideburns to use as weapons. "FRANKY TRIANGLE JACK!" Franky threw his sideburns at Zero.

"Huh, he's using his sideburns as weapons?" Lucy said confused.

"Wow, that's so cool." Happy said.

"DARK CAPRICCIO!" Zero fired his spell to counter Franky's attack.

'Damn it!' Franky thought as his sideburns grew back. 'I'm starting to run out of cola. I need to refill now.' Franky looked over to Chopper and remembered that ask Chopper to keep the extra cola in his bag.

Then Zero appeared behind Franky and slammed him into the ground hard. But the shipwright grabbed Zero's arm slammed him into the ground even harder. "I've had it with you, bastard! BEANS LEFT!" Franky fired mini bombs from left hands to at least down Zero so he refill on cola. "Chopper, hand me some cola your bag."

"My bag?" Chopper asked.

"Yeah your bag, I let you hold on to some my cola in case I need to refill." Then Chopper remembered Franky putting some of his cola in his bag.

"Oh, right." Chopper said, reaching into his bag and getting the cola. "FRANKY, CATCH!"

Chopper threw Franky's colas in the air and Franky managed to catch them before Zero got back to his feet. "DARK DELETE!" Zero said as he threw dark magic disks at the pirate. The disks hit Franky in the back causing him to crash to the ground.

"FRANKY!" Everyone except for Robin yelled. As Franky lay on the ground, a sudden rush of energy began to course through his body.

"SSSSSSUUUUUPPPPPPEEEERRRRR!" Franky yelled with his new found energy as he got back to his feet and started to walk to the wizard. "Prepare yourself."

"What was that?" Brian asked irritated. "You think you can beat with one of your weak punches?"

"STRONG HAMMER!" Franky struck Zero with the force he got from the cola and send him through one of the ruins.

"WOW, AMAZING!" Everyone expect for Sado, Robin, and Erza yelled in amazement.

"Sorry about that, you were right. My attacks were weak until now."

"You bastard, you were holding this entire time." Zero said. "That is completely UNFORGIVABLE! GENESIS ZERO!" Then a huge magic circle appeared and began to suck everyone into it. "This spell will lead to the land of lost souls, where they overtake you and destroy you from the inside out. Not a fitting way to die, is it?" Franky is slowly getting dragged into the circle along with everything else.

Then Luffy and the others noticed that they're getting dragged in as well. "Ok, that's weird." Luffy said. "That weird circle thing is dragging us too."

"Everyone grab hold on something." Erza said. "If we get pulled into that, we'll most likely die."

"WE'LL DIE!" Usopp and Chopper yelled in a panic as everyone as Erza instructed but it was no use, it was getting dragged in as well.

"FRANKY CENTUAR!" Franky's legs divided into two parts, one part in front of him and the other is where he is, to stand his ground. "No way, I'm not going to lose here. I won't lose! COUP DE VENT!" Franky fired his air-pressure cannon at the Genesis Zero and destroyed it. That surprised everyone including Zero. Franky went back to his original form and walked toward Zero, ready to strike. "STRONG HAMMER!" Franky hit Zero with the amount he used when he refilled his cola and defeated Zero, causing him to disappear.

"Whoa Franky, that was awesome." Natsu said.

"Correction, it was SUPER Awesome!" Franky doing his pose with Natsu and Happy.

To be continued…

Next Time: The Bones Faces The Hollow!

Can't wait for next chapter. Until next time.