29. I've come to stop this war
"DON'T DO IT!" someone yelled. Vivi and the rest of them looked up to see Pell approaching, carrying three figures and another hanging from the hand of one of them. They stopped what they were doing (which was trying to blow up the palace) and looked at the approaching people.
After a few seconds, Pell landed.
"Thank you, Pell." A very well-known voice announced. The bird zoan nodded but then collapsed in pain on the floor, just as they were about to 'dismount'.
"PELL!" Vivi yelled in shock.
"Don't worry about him, Miss Wednesday. He's just tired." A melodic voice announced.
"YOU!" Vivi screamed. The guards took up their arms in alarm. "MISS ALLSUNDAY!"
"She helped us get your father, so don't be angry at her, Vivi." Another voice said.
Then the three figures stepped towards her. It was Nefertari Cobra, Nico Robin and Monkey D Luffy, who was dragging someone with his elastic hand.
"He's right, Vivi." The king told her. She simply nodded, but then she took note of the man Luffy was dragging. "Luffy-san, is that-"
"Yes, that's Crocodile." Luffy interrupted and threw him towards her feet. She, along with several royal guards gasped in awe and disbelief. "He gave me a little trouble, but I kicked the crap out of him."
Luffy sighed.
"Get some seastone cuffs and put them on him, otherwise he'll be a threat again, once he wakes up." Luffy told a random guard. The man nodded and ran off somewhere. Luffy then turned to Vivi. "Have you found the bomb?"
Vivi shook her head.
"I came straight here. Didn't have much choice, you see." She told him. "But I did tell the other guys."
"What bomb?" Cobra asked in shock. Robin turned to him.
"Crocodile put a bomb in the clockwork tower. It's planned to go off soon." She told him. He, along with the guards looked in shock.
"I've also told the marines." Luffy added. "But I don't trust them, so-"
"I'll go to the clockwork tower, then." Pell told from behind them. Luffy turned and nodded. "Take Robin here with you. She can help you with any guards." He told him. Pell looked at him skeptically and then at the king, who nodded. Then he shrugged and also nodded. She got on his back and they flew off.
"Luffy-san! You can't trust her!" Vivi yelled once they disappeared into the distance. Luffy shook his head.
"She won't dare betray me. I have what she wants." He replied.
"SHE KILLED IGARAM!" Vivi yelled. Everyone looked at her in shock, including the king.
"No." Luffy told her, startling everyone with the information. "Igaram is alive."
Vivi looked at him in shock.
"She made it look like he died. I wanted to tell you, but if Crocodile knew that he was alive, she'd have no choice but to actually kill him." Luffy told them. Then he turned and walked towards the soon-to-be-battlefield.
"But there's no time to think about all that." He finally said. "There's bigger things to worry about."
He pointed towards city, from where the rebel army was fast approaching towards them.
'That rain would be very handy now.' Luffy thought. A royal guard finally arrived with seastone cuffs and restrained Crocodile. Then Luffy felt a presence approaching.
"Vivi." A voice said.
"Kohza!" Vivi shouted upon seeing him. "Listen, … "
"VIVI!" he interrupted. "Who was it that stole the country's rain?"
"Crocodile." She said and pointed at the fallen warlord. The rebel leader's eyes widened in shock.
"This country's hero? He was the one behind everything?" he asked.
"Crocodile was never a hero." Luffy told him and everyone turned to him. "He planned all of this, but he doesn't even want the country."
Everyone looked at him in horror.
"WHAT?" Vivi yelled. "SO WHY DID HE DO ALL OF THIS?"
Luffy looked at her.
"He wanted the ancient weapon, Pluton." He told them. He turned then to the king, who looked at him, shocked. "You know of this weapon?"
Cobra nodded.
"It's location is supposed to be inscribed on the poneglyph underneath the palace. It's what the royal family is protecting." He told them. Luffy nodded.
"Mrs. AllSunday searched for that stone as well, but for a different reason. That's why she helped him." He told him. Then he walked past them and picked Crocodile up again. "Let's go stop a war."
Kohza looked at him.
"Sorry, but who are you?" he asked. Luffy turned to him.
"I'm Monkey D Luffy, a pirate." He answered. Everyone gasped (they didn't know yet).
"A pirate?" Kohza asked with narrowed eyes. "What's a pirate doing here?"
"I'm the one who brought Vivi back to Arabasta and I'm the one who beat up this Shichibukai right here." Luffy told him. Kohza turned to Vivi.
"Is that true?" he asked her. She smiled and nodded.
"Let's go now." Luffy interrupted them. "The more time we waste, the more people may die."
They quickly nodded and went after him. Luffy, Vivi, Cobra and Kohza all walked down the stairs that led to the palace.
"FLY THE WHITE FLAG!" Vivi yelled. Everyone looked up.
"THAT'S RIGHT!" the king yelled in confirmation. "EVERYONE DROP YOUR WEAPONS! ROYAL ARMY!"
"If we do that, what'll become of the country?" one of the royal guards asked. Then they noticed who was walking beside them.
"That's Kohza! What's the rebel leader doing alongside them?" a royal soldier asked in shock.
"LISTEN TO THEM!" he yelled. "WE NO LONGER WANT VICTORY OR WAR! THIS BATTLE MUST END!"
They looked at him shocked, very surprised by his words.
"I'LL INFORM THE REBEL ARMY THAT THIS BATTLE IS MEANINGLESS! THE ENTIRE THINGS WAS CAUSED BY THIS MAN HERE!" he yelled and pointed at Crocodile. Luffy lifted the Shichibukai and put him into a near standing position and used his arm to make Crocodile wave with his hook at them.
"Crocodile?" they whispered.
"PLEASE FLY THE WHITE FLAG!" he once again asked. "I BEG OF YOU!"
They did as he said and took up white flags at the front. The approaching rebel army stopped upon seeing that. Rebel leader Kohza also took one and stepped at the front. The other three were behind the royal army.
"THIS BATTLE IS OVER!" Kohza announced at the front. "REBELS, CALM YOUR ANGER AND THROW DOWN YOUR WEAPONS! THE ROYAL ARMY NO LONGER WISHES TO FIGHT!"
"Is that true?" one of rebel soldiers in the front asked. Presumably he was one of the people in charge.
"Yes." The leader confirmed.
Then, someone in the ranks of the royal army took out a pistol and fired at him.
Luffy noticed this. With Crocodile still safely in his hand, Luffy activated his Soru and just in time, he intercepted the bullets. He repelled them somewhere in the air. He glared at the one who did this and the man fell down.
"KOZHA-SAN!" multiple rebel soldiers yelled, as it appeared that he was hit. The leader turned around and noticed his savior.
"You … " he whispered in shock.
Then Luffy jumped down from the platform that Kohza and he were standing on. He stepped in the middle between the two armies and threw Crocodile on the ground.
He turned sideways, so that he had the royal army on his right and the rebel one on his left.
"Who is that?" multiple voices asked from both sides.
"I'M MONKEY D LUFFY!" he announced. "I'm the one who brought princess Vivi back to her country and I'm here to stop this war."
"Luffy-san … " Vivi whispered with tears in her eyes somewhere in the background. The king looked at her and grabbed her arm and smiled to her.
"You have found a great friend." He told her. She nodded and smiled.
"This man!" Luffy continued and pointed at the fallen enemy. "Royal Shichibukai, Sir Crocodile, is the man who caused this war."
This caused quite the commotion between the soldiers. They were in a state of disbelief.
"But Crocodile-san …"
" … This country's hero … "
" … Our savior! … "
" … Can't be … "
"SHUT UP!" Luffy yelled and interrupted them. They all put their attention back on him. "He used that dance powder thing to make this country dry!"
Many eyes widened upon hearing this.
"He and his group Baroque Works are the reason this war even began!" he announced. "It was their plan all along to have this country fight, but I defeated him and my crew defeated his agents."
They started whispering amongst themselves again.
"If anyone wants to fight any longer … " Luffy announced and pulled out his sword.
'Sorry, Shanks, but I'm stealing your line here.' Luffy thought and grinned inwardly.
"Then fight me! I'll take you all on!" he finished.
The soldiers gaped at him in disbelief, as well as Kohza, Cobra and Vivi (despite already knowing that Luffy was very strong). They couldn't believe what their eyes saw and their ears heard.
'Luffy-san … ' Vivi thought to herself as she looked at him, positioned between the two armies.
"If not, then everyone drop your weapons. You have no reason to fight anymore." He added after a few minutes.
The men looked at each other and after a few moments started dropping their weapons. Luffy could see that even the agents started dropping them, not daring to go against the man that they learned had beaten up the man, who they now knew was their boss.
Then Luffy sensed another presence among the crowd, a distinctly different one. He saw ensign Tashigi and two other marines trying to make their way through the rebel army. The soldiers moved out of their way upon seeing the navy insignia.
After they made their way through the crowd, Tashigi looked at Luffy with uncertainty. Luffy nodded to her.
"He's all yours." He told her. She nodded and looked at the unconscious Shichibukai.
"A Baroque works ship carrying dance powder has been captured!" she announced, gaining everyone's attention. "Leader of the secret organization, Baroque works, Royal Shichibukai pirate, Sir Crocodile. By order of the Marine Headquarters, acting with the authority of the World Government, in accordance with the Naval Enemy Seizure Clause, you are henceforth stripped of all titles and privileges granted to you by the government."
Luffy grinned. She turned his attention to him now.
"Straw Hat Luffy!" she began. "You're a pirate too, but you saved this country, so I thank you."
She bowed her head. This earned gasps of surprise, both at learning that Luffy was a pirate and because of a marine thanking a non-Shichibukai pirate.
"Did you get rid of the bomb?" Luffy asked her. She lifted her head in surprise. She nodded. Then he was the one who bowed his head.
"Then I have to say thanks too." He told her. She looked at him in total surprise, as did many of the onlookers.
"Now listen up!" he yelled out. "As of today, I'm putting Arabasta under the protection of the flag of the Straw Hat pirates. If anyone dares to do anything like this in Vivi's country again, I'll beat them up like I beat up Crocodile!"
'Luffy-san ... '
After a while, the soldiers of Arabasta were in for another shock, as soon after rain started falling again. After a while, Igaram also arrived, carrying the child survivor from Nanohana, who confirmed everything Luffy and Kohza said.
Okay now. I'm done with this chapter. Luffy came and pulled a 'Shanks' and stopped the war. And before you ask how Luffy knew what Shanks did at Marineford: Luffy does read. ... Sometimes. Even if he didn't, Rayleigh would tell him about it. So, how do you feel about this? Is it OOC? I personally don't know, I just thought that Luffy (at least this one) would do that, when he saw that stopping the war might not be so easy with Baroque works agents around.
Also, everyone in the plaza now knows what a naughty guy Luffy is, beating up Shichibukai at breakfast, stopping wars at lunch, so the World Government won't be able to cover this up this time. :D
Another thing. I can't be exactly sure of the timing here. I couldn't exactly know how long stuff took to do, so I just did the story like I felt it would happen.
Next up! Showing Robin her poneglyph, calling Whitebeard, gaining bounties, more Bon-chan, Robin joining ... hopefully all of that. But at the very least some of that. I hope you enjoyed this rather regrettably short chapter. Please review and don't start hating swords for no reason! :D
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