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In one of the many hiding spots that had a clear view of the plaza, one of the 9th Damned was aiming his rifle at the podium, where the lieutenants of the New Fishmen pirates were standing.
Next to him, was his spotter who was using his binoculars to scope the area.
"Man, I've never this much enemies in one place before."
"What? You didn't fight in the Whitebeard war?" The sniper asked his spotter while being kept focused on the plaza.
The spotter shook his head "No, sir. I defected from the navy just a few months ago. Met a Dragon-sympathizer in my base and convinced me and a few others to join. So I got transferred here.
"….Which unit did you serve?"
"What?"
"I said, which unit did you serve?" The sniper asked his spotter, wanting to know where he served priory.
"I was in G-5. Sir. Petty officer." The spotter answered his question.
The sniper got his eyes from the scope and turns to him "You served under Smoker?"
He nodded "Yes, sir."
"But that unit filled with cold vicious sonsabitches, how do you get mixed in with that bunch?" the sniper questioned, the kid next to him just looks young, possibly even too young to even get a beverage of alcohol.
The spotter explains to him that he was busted for theft one time and that he was given a choice, either prison or join the navy, and because the higher-ups didn't want another buildup of another second division of marines that were filled with common criminals, they decided to just split them up in different branches.
So he told the sniper he got thrown into G-5, did not like the atmosphere around it and basically deserted his post a short while after he got transferred to that unit.
It's not unusual for marines to defect to the Revolutionary Army, not since Naruto had publicly joined them. Ever since he did join, many more marines defected to the Revolutionary Army and fought for their cause, most of them landed in the 9th Damned of course.
"Well, let's hope you can put your abilities to good use." The sniper pulls back on the handle of his gun and aims straight for the plaza "Because this is going to be messy."
Naruto stepped in front of the rest and was openly facing off the lieutenants of the New Fishmen Pirates. With Flame and Nojiko standing by him, he made a scene in front of everyone that was watching from the sidelines.
And he gained some remarks from the other side.
"Say, wasn't he responsible for killing over two dozen World Nobles?"
"Yeah, I heard about that. Supposedly he and his crew rolled into the city and freed all the slaves, human and fishmen."
"He also fought in two wars, I hate to say this but we're up against an enemy who's on a different level."
"Never mind that, what about Straw Hat? He invaded Marineford twice, and we're no navy!"
"Quite! Don't let them hear you."
Staring at the backs of Naruto and the two others in front of them, the Straw Hat crew already made up their thoughts.
Ussop recognized one of them and gasped "Ehhh! That's Nojiko! What's she doing here?"
"Ehm," Brooks turned to his long-nosed friend "Who's this Nojiko?"
"She's Nami's sister."
"Oh if its the-WHAAAT! NAMI HAS A SISTER!?" Brook turned shocked from and turned from Nami to Nojiko, back and forth until he stopped looking at the blue haired woman and commented: "I don't see the resemblance, to be honest, but I do see the beauty, maybe she won't mind me asking for her pan-"
BOINK!
Brook fell down on his face with standing behind him an angry Nami "You dare ask that from her…"
"Then show me yours."
"NO WAY IN HELL!"
"Straw Hat!"
Luffy turns around and smiled when a starfish landed in his arms "Pappagu wassup, it hasn't been that long."
"I know, I know. but I almost died, many times, because of those guys." the Starfish pointed at Brook, Zoro, and Usopp "Luckily for them, I was there to save them before the palace was about to be flooded."
"Yeah right, you just got the keys," Usopp commented, "It was Naruto's guys who came to the rescue." He said explaining that they were being rescued by members of Naruto's crew and escorted them away from the palace until they got picked up by the Thousand Sunny.
"Hmm?" Nami still had her fist over a fallen Brook "Which guys?"
"One guy that has a pineapple haircut and then there was a big chubby guy," Usopp answered scratching his chin "I don't remember their names to be honest."
"That's us."
Two persons jumped off the ship, it was the same persons Usopp described just a second ago, one was the pineapple guy and the other was the chubby guy.
"If you excuse us, we need to get to our captain," Shikamaru said walking past the pirates, going directly to his captain/comrade.
"Right…sure," Sanji said while the chubby guy then stopped next to Usopp and turned his head to the long-nosed sniper.
"Just to be clear, I'm not chubby or anything, I'm big boned. Make sure to remember that. Alright?"
"R-Right!" Usopp nodded nervously. Chouji took the confirmation and walks up to the others.
Naruto stood there as he held was staring at the lieutenants of the New Fishmen Pirates, looking not troubled at all that their captain had gotten a terrible punch from Luffy.
Shikamaru walked up behind him and focused on the front "We're here."
"I see, status report?"
"We've managed to rescue your brother's crewmembers, just before they were about to drown."
Naruto nodded as an explosion occurred to where Hordy was. Seeing that he was standing up, it was about to begin.
"Flame, get back to the Sunny, you won't be able to get back to the others to get to the ship."
Flame nodded and started walking away, leaving for Chouji to fill the spot with a glaring look on his face, focused on the enemy.
Behind Naruto, he listened how Shirahoshi was being told that her actions were not that of a coward, but instead showed she was a strong woman who didn't succumb to hatred to the killer of her mother.
Shikamaru noticed Naruto was making a fist and asked him "You alright?"
Naruto didn't say anything as he now was too focused on his target; Hordy who was now walking up slowly and talking directly to Jinbe for his alliances to humans.
"I fell right into your trap Jinbe. I should have guessed this was the case when you didn't resist as much as you could have after getting caught. I can't believe how friendly you got with these humans! You've totally forgotten your pride. You've grown up with Fisher Tiger in our district, and let's not forget Arlong, who was, your brother, both of them got either killed or beaten by humans and instead of avenging them you sided with the humans, you're a gutless man just like Neptune!"
They just simply listened as Hordy kept talking.
"But once I'm king, we'll change that. To begin is the World Summit." Hordy smiles revealing his plan "With every ruler in the surface world in one place it will be easy to kill them all. Then the whole world will fear our underwater kingdom. By then we will drag every human down and enslave them all. There won't be a soul than to resist against us and we will rule the Pirate Era!"
Hordy released a laugh that was backed by a lot of smirking and grinning by other fishmen pirates who joined in.
"….Pfff, is that your plan?"
Hordy stopped laughing and looks to see it was Naruto who spoke back.
He just stood there not impressed by the plan "What? storm in Mariejois, try and kill the leaders of these kingdoms and expect what?" The blonde ex-Marine said as he began walking up forwards a little bit.
"I see flaws in your plans before you can see it through your ignorance that is clouding your dark but tiny mind," Naruto said before getting glares from the fishmen pirates.
Hordy growled but questioned, "Oh, what then?"
Instead of saying anything, Naruto just looked at the ignorant Fishman and shook his head at thinking of that plan. For one, they obviously lose sight on the fact that the World Summit is being held in the same place where many of the strongest Marines are stationed at, with the kings being protected by some of its strongest warriors who fought in many battles and some of them the blonde veteran know closely, most of them are not easily intimidated by thugs like Hordy. Heck, he had a better chance in taking over Mariejois and holding it, these guys wouldn't be able to go past the first gates.
"That's it! you stupid pweman!" A random Fishman walks up to Naruto and pulls out a pistol against his head "We're fishmen! We are by definition superior to you humans! And with the military training we got, we're sure to squash you, filthy humans!"
Everyone began to tense up by the sudden move that was made by the pirate.
Jinbe didn't like where this was going "No…"
Naruto didn't seem to butch but instead said: "So, you've got yourself some training from Neptune's army?"
"Bah! That army is filled with cowards and traitors! I learned everything I needed to fight a war from Hordy," the pirate smiled pressing the barrel against Naruto's temple "and how to use a gun."
The citizens of Fishmen island were worried about what they saw and one child even yells "Someone stops him!"
"Traitor!" The pirate saw the child and points it at him "Die-"
BANG!
The Fishman who was about to shoot the child dropped his pistol to the ground and soon followed it as the pirate dropped to the ground in front of Naruto.
Gasps and screams were heard and people wondered where that shot came from.
Nojiko didn't have to figure it out who it was and smirks while her eyes looked back "Nice shot, Hunter."
From his spot, Hunter pulled back the chamber of the high-powered rifle and re-aims at the scene with the barrel of the rifle still releasing some steam.
The child that had yelled was petrified at what he saw, he just saw someone being shot right in front of him.
A hand touched his head "Don't blame yourself kid."
The child looks up and saw the hand belonged to a man in a grey trench coat and a helmet with a mask, armed with a shotgun he just walked past the crowd and stood on the front of the public.
The man readies his shotgun and said: "Go back home kid, this isn't a place for children."
"Hey, look."
The child looked around and saw that more and more of these men were coming forward with different kind of weapons, surrounding the whole plaza and the army of the New Fishmen Pirates.
Hordy saw the humans coming from the crowds with weapons, those must be Naruto's men. He should've known that his crew was somewhere close by.
"Those must be the human revolutionaries that have been spotted, I wondered where they were hiding." The purple Fishman Zeo guessed "No matter, they will learn their place."
The wobbegong Fishman turned to Naruto and saw him just standing there.
BANG!
Another explosion occurred and this time it was just nearby where Naruto stood, leaving a crater filled with fire in it. possible one of the
Naruto just stood there and said, "Because you never know what your enemies is capable off." He said looking down at the pirate that laid in front of him "…Like for the fact they may saw combat…had their baptism of fire…." He looks down at the pirate in disgust "They may not show sympathy to those who try an hurt the innocent, or even dare point a gun at a child."
The fisherman's body that laid in front of Naruto started to bring up some memories in Naruto's mind.
Many bodies of his enemies, civilians, and friends….
Many of his friends…
From up far, Luffy could see what Naruto was doing, he knew what he had to do and decides to walk up to towards him.
Zoro noticed his captain walking and asks "Hey, Luffy."
Hordy began to laugh hysterically before speaking up "Take a good look at the pirates under my hold Straw hats. This will be your future while I'm the one who will be the pirate king! Just what do you think you can do against 100 000?!"
A lot of fishmen pirates yelled in agreement as the fight was about to begin.
Hody explained what he'll do when he's King, and bragged about his forces and his plan, the one thing that was added to the list that pissed off Luffy was that last line "I'll be King of the Pirates Straw Hat!"
"Is that so…" Luffy's eyes shadowed and turned to where Naruto was standing.
"KILL THEM! NEW FISHMEN PIRATES!"
In a matter of seconds, all the fishmen pirates who were waiting eagerly for the fight now were running for the humans they were going to destroy.
While the Straw Hats were taking the situation in their own situation, Naruto's crew was seeing it differently.
Chouji didn't seem impressed "Let them come, I just grow up and crush them like bugs."
"What a drag, normally we should've talked about a strategy but instead we go head on….well what the heck." Shikamaru went into his position to use his jutsu.
Nojiko noticed Luffy walking passed her and going straight to Naruto and she saw him holding his fists tighten up.
Stopping beside him, Luffy says something to Naruto that wasn't clear to hear. Just as the pirates were closing in.
"Straw Hat's 400 million berries are mine!"
"Those of that Uzumaki scum is mine!"
"It's too easy!"
Naruto nodded and looks up "Together."
Luffy and Naruto looked up and released a strong surge of power that soon covered the whole plaza and hits everything in its way and path.
…..
Nobody knew what happened until they saw that the fishmen who stood the closest to Naruto and Luffy stopped in the middle of their run…and they all began passing out one by one like dominoes.
Many, but literally many of the fishmen pirates and also some of the slave humans succumbed to the surge and went unconscious to the ground.
It looked like almost half of Hordy's army must've been knocked out in less than a minute by two young men.
"HUUUH! WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!"
Hordy was awestricken by the sight of half his men being defeated without even being touched.
The sight of tens of thousands of enemies on the ground was an astonishing one for those who had pre-judged the whole situation. Especially the fishmen pirates who just lost half their numbers.
"But they didn't do anything, and they still knocked them all out!"
"Hey! Get up guys, hurry up!"
"Damn! They took half of us in an instance."
"That must've been fifty thousand of our men, what did they even do?"
The Straw Hats were impressed by the power their captain had presented into them after two years of training. But also the power of Naruto was impressing to witness.
"That Haki…." Robin said impressed as both brothers were in the reflection of her orange-tinted sunglasses.
Jinbe stood by a surprised Nami, Ussop, and Brooks and commented: "That training really must've paid up…"
"Unreal," Sanji said been taken back "I mean, conquerors Haki? Scary."
Zoro smiled proudly of his captain "I expected nothing less, or else he couldn't be my captain."
Chouji smirks at his captain "Here he goes again, taking the lead, doesn't he, Shikamaru?"
Shikamaru could only chuckle while shaking his head, after knowing the blonde for a few years he didn't expect anything else.
Nojiko saw Naruto and Luffy standoff against the rest like close brothers, she was glad to know Luffy was there to support Naruto, and she saw that he had a small smile growing on the end of his mouth.
Flame cheers for his captain "Yeah!"
The bluenette looks back at her sister and winked at her.
Nami saw this and smiled nodding back, seeing her sister going to join the fight also motivated her to give her fullest energy to this fight.
On top of the civilians, they also couldn't ingest what they just witnessed.
"Did anyone else see that?"
"Yeah! But, I don't know what it was." A mermaid woman asked not believing what she saw "That's just impossible!"
"No, it's not."
All the merfolk turned to who spoke and saw it was the human with the trench coat and shotgun who says "Just watch closely, those two will end this rebellion of fools, I bet on it. especially the boss."
"Is Naruto really that powerful?"
The man turns around to see it was a woman with shark fins talking to him and he replies "That's the captain for ya, he won't let anything happen to his home."
"His home?" One of the mermen spoke, "But we treated him badly, why would he want to live here after all we've had done?"
Aladdin and Kaneshiro were listening in on this.
The man snickers "From what I know, he still views this place as his home. The rest you need to ask him yourself."
Those who heard that looked back down and were stunned to know Naruto still felt feelings for Fishmen Island and its people, was Madam Shyarly wrong?
And for Madam Shyarly, she hoped she was wrong and hoped Naruto came here to save Fishmen Island….
Shirahoshi stood there and watched both Luffy and Naruto on the front, prepared to fight Hordy and his men who were responsible for the death of her mother and almost destroyed her country, her family and her mother's dream.
She wanted to cry but instead did a small prayer and looked down "Please…..be safe."
Luffy was about to say something but instead, Naruto spoke.
"Hordy," Naruto began again and spoke directly to the grey-haired Fishman "You may have killed Queen Otohime, forced me out of the first home I ever had and cause tremendous pain to this country, but I will not stand while you are trying to destroy the Queen's dream of bringing the humans and merfolk together."
Hordy growls in anger, being joined in by his closest friends who also despised Naruto.
"I will stop your plans on bringing the future of this country down even if I have to put my life on the line!" Naruto roared as he brought out his blade and points it at the New Fishmen Pirates.
Everyone turned their attention to Naruto.
"Fisher Tiger wanted me to bring his Legacy to the future, and Queen Otohime hoped for the next generation to be able to live next to the children on the surface world." Naruto spoke passionately as he thought back on those two people he considered his closest mentors to his goal "And I will not stand it for you to destroy it! So I will stop you at any cost!"
Jinbe stood there and grabs for his Sun mark and nods at the young kid that had grown into a fine young man.
Luffy could see that this was an emotional moment for Naruto, so he made sure not to let anything happen to him.
"So I swear by Tiger's Legacy! I will make sure this kingdom and all its people will follow Queen Otohime's dream!"
Shirahoshi couldn't help but let a tear drop from her cheek and say words.
"Thank you….Naruto."
Well, That is it for today. Leave me some reviews if you want me to put out the next chapter now, I will be trying to work on the other stories but also this story for the future.