Too Far Back

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece :/

Edit: 8/8/20- Ah. Re-did the prologue. It's a little better now hah.

What I have in mind for this story is pretty much funnies, fights, and lots of scenes with the badass Monster Trio. The idea popped up from a dream of mine, so let's see how it'll turn out. Also, this is a pretty lengthy chapter and if I were to write more in the future, I don't think the chapters would be this lengthy. Anyway, I'll stop rambling.

Enjoy.

Chapter 1: Arrival at Marineford

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Prologue

The man with an extraordinarily long nose balanced his elbows on his knees, stiff hands holding his head. There was an expression of concern across his brow, nothing unusual, but then again, there was always need for concern with this group. "Oi, oi, Nami, are you sure this is a good idea?"

The Cat Burglar swung her head around, orange hair following her seamlessly while she casually fitted together her revised Clima Tact. A brilliant idea she devised herself, she credited. "No," she smiled, "but if we succeed, we'll be able to travel through time."

"What?" Usopp's jaw dropped, his face turning an icy blue, while a racoon-dog bounced up to the Clima Tact, watching Nami piece it together with sparkles in his eyes, "That's awesome, Nami!"

A lovely sigh was heard from not far. From behind, a man with a suit and tie clasped his hands together, pink hearts replacing his eyes as he sped up next to the navigator, "Ahh, Nami-swan; she looks so cute when she's focused!"

Robo-man held a finger over his nose, "Heh," a sharp grin appearing on his face as he pressed down gently. Three seconds passed by so slowly to Chopper and Usopp, who watched him with anticipated excitement. And without warning, a surprise of blue spiked hair popped out, both amazing and scaring the duo, "Ow! Time travel is super cool!"

Brook tipped his hat upwards, revealing his shining bones, "I wonder what it would look like to time travel…. ah, not that I have eyes though."

"Where would we be heading, navigator?" Robin smiled softly, her walnut-shaped eyes never blinking as they rested upon the occupied navigator, who, with an inkling of interest, looked up at her fellow female-crewmate before turning back to her Clima Tact.

She waved her hand dismissively, a hint of nervousness in her voice, "Ahh, I don't really know."

Fear struck the duo's hearts like an arrow shot by the navigator herself.

"Ah! She doesn't know!" Chopper's eyes bulged with terror.

Usopp fell with dramatization, "Ahh, that's not good! What if it takes us to the middle of a war?" A waterfall of tears flowed rapidly down his face as possibilities of death-warranted situations overflowed his mind. He almost drowned in the thought.

Nami sighed restlessly. Usopp was right, but of course she wouldn't admit it. That would be too easy. A certain moss-headed sleeping idiot caught her eye as did another idiot, whose loyalty to ladies was undying.

An idea came to her, a wicked one in fact, and she gleamed at the thought.

As an innocent smile spread across her face, it seemed that Robin was the first to recognize it.

"Well, that's why we've got these two idiots to test it out for us." She pointed to them, her words entering through both Zoro and Sanji's ears at the same time. The bubble that had formed at the tip of his nose popped loudly, and he knelt forward, "Huh?"

Sanji instantly ignored the stupid swordsman and raced out to wave beside Nami, blowing her a beloved kiss, "Yes! Anything for you, Nami-swan!"

Nami paused. Ah, wait...there was...that problem, actually. Ignoring the two for a minute, she huddled the crew around her with a wave of her hands. They looked surprised and confused, but most followed her command with silence, since she was the one pretty much calling the shots, anyway. That and she would hit them if they didn't.

She looked over her shoulder quickly as if to see a ghost before pulling back into the clustered group, "Listen," her voice dropped to a whisper and her eyes narrowed, "we can't tell Luffy about the time travel either, otherwise he'll want to go too."

There was a pause, but all agreed nonetheless-it made sense. Sort of. There were two head nods in agreement from Long-nose-kun and the raccoon-dog paired with Franky and Sanji's thumbs up.

Robin laughed lightly, "That sounds like him." She turned to Brook standing beside her, who chuckled afterward.

"Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, you're right, Robin-san!"

A suspicious mood gripped the air and the eyes of Usopp shifted thoughtfully. "But then we won't have to fight…" He whispered, but didn't see Nami behind him, a vein popping out of the side of her head.

"No! That could rupture the timeline!" She shouted, slamming her fist down on his head while Usopp dropped to the earth, steam rolling from the bump on his skull.

"I'm sorry…"

Sanji marched forward, saluting the navigator, "Don't worry, Nami-san! Even if it kills me, I won't let that bastard come near your time portal!" He was resolute, and nearly stepped on Chopper in the process, who barked in surprise (just like a raccoon-dog.).

Chopper was ignored, and an unhealthy smile broke onto Sanji's face, drool nearly falling from his mouth as the wind of love almost knocked him off his feet. The thought of saving Nami's time portal from their idiot captain flooded his mind, as did the inevitable thought of her loving him in return for his heroic deeds~

"Stupid love-cook."

"Huh?" He snapped out of it.

A hand shot up, like a question held in a classroom full of children, "Ah, Nami…"

Nami ignored Franky, attempting to hurry up her Clima Tact to prepare for the time travel that she had promised them all. Silence filled the short gap between the two, not even a sound was heard from the other crew members during that time. Franky's face frowned in anxiousness and he pointed softly behind her, his voice lowering to a whisper, "Oi, Nami-"

She snapped, "What is it? I'm almost done with the calculations of weather for the time travel!" Her fist shook with the utmost of anger, but Franky kept still. Pausing, a bead of sweat formed on his forehead. Moss-man raised his eyes and the love-cook twitched his curly brows towards the horizon, Usopp sitting with his hands at his side as all three felt the presence of someone strong. Chopper and Brook slowly turned to peer around their navigator, and of course-Robin knew already.

They were close. They almost had it. But they just weren't quick enough. Nami's face paled as she slowly realized, by the look of the crews' faces, what was behind them.

"AHH, THAT WAS GOOD, HEY!"

A loud voice sounded from behind him and she started to sweat furiously. Usopp was sitting next to her, and both slowly turned, eyes focusing on the figure in the distance who had padded his stomach happily.

Luffy paused, his eyes widening as he saw the crew. Jaw dropping as he remembered why had marched all the way back there, he threw his hands in the air in surprise and excitement, ignoring the disbelieving stares of his friends, "HEY, ARE WE REALLY GOING TO TRAVEL THROUGH TIME? TRAF-GUY TOLD ME! AWESOME, WHEN DO WE GO?"

-End Prologue-

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Luffy pulled back his fist, sweat rolling down the side of his pale colored face as he stared intensely at the Navy opponents that blocked the path in front of him. Tightening his teeth in anger at their abrupt interference, he gripped the top of his head firmly with his opened left palm, just to ensure that his beloved straw hat didn't blow away with his next attack. Stretching back the opposite arm, he readied his fist for a Gomu-Gomu no Pistol strong enough to blow the stupid Navy soldiers away.

He felt as he could go on for days longer, because of his main objective and motivation that's been egging him on for the entire time. He had broken into Impel Down not so long ago, fought various monsters (that really weren't that hard to beat), battled with the Warden, nearly died, discovered new nakama, and then broke out again. Now, he was here, at Marineford, fighting for the person that he had come for in the first place: his big brother. It was only mere moments ago when Luffy's temporary crew struck down with such an entrance, with the whole 'flying-navy-ship accident', that even the Navy Admirals and Warlords stood speechless. The Old Man might have come from underwater, and sure, that was surprising, but Luffy had come from the sky, which defied all logic and made the entrance that more powerful.

"Gomu-Gomu no… Pistol!"

Luffy's fist collided directly with the Navy commodore, creating a domino effect as the punch on impact blasted right through the soldier, creating enough force to keep going and knock down ten more others in the process. Fighting and yelling seemed to never end around Luffy, but blocking out the noises didn't seem that hard for the young raven-haired captain. Without thinking, he kicked aside another soldier effortlessly, his dark eyebrows furrowing as he raised his head to the sky and inhaled through his nose as much as he could muster, just to make sure that the one person on his mind heard his pleading call:

"ACE!"

Everyone, including Ace, turned their heads to the boy with the straw hat that stood out amongst the rest of those in battle. Ace's eyes widened with shock and horror while Luffy stopped mid-battle, gaping his mouth with confidence and determination, and throwing both fists back in the air.

"I'VE COME TO SAVE YOU!"

On the execution platform, Garp stood shocked while his anger fumed furiously. He covered his ears with his hands with one hopeful thought that he had misheard the call from his stupid grandson, but instantly disregarded the idea when that idiot continued to battle his way through the Navy. Gritting his teeth with his eyes nearly bulging out of his head, he exclaimed, "LUFFY!"

Sengoku stood with his arms at his side, his teeth clenched tightly as his eyes raised in irritation. Turning to Garp, who looked in just as much shock as everyone else, a vein popped out of the side of the Fleet Admiral's head while he raised his voice in annoyance, "Garp! It's your damn family again!" Sengoku spat and then turned away while Garp nearly gasped again out of shock and despair. Quickly turning to Ace, Sengoku watched as Ace sat paralyzed, his hands behind his back, but nonetheless, gaping in alarm with his eyes frozen in fear for his brother as he made his way closer and closer to the designated execution platform.

A snicker was heard from the opposite side of the battle, and a frown replaced his partial smile that was left on his face, "That damn brat." He murmured confidently under his large, white curved mustache, ending with a small smirk and glint of recognition in his knowing copper-colored eyes.

The Warlords were aligned in a linear order, glaring out with mixed emotions at the sea and Whitebeard's giant fleet. Moria was the first to react to Luffy's entrance, chanting his name bitterly over and over again, reliving his utter defeat back in Thriller Bark. Kuma remained silent and stiff while Boa Hancock stepped forward, her hands on either side of her head in relief and love, gasping when she spotted her beloved, "Luffy! I'm glad you're alright!" She cried, shaking a little when mentioning his name.

Doflamingo smiled malevolently, extending his arms while laughing with true excitement, watching Luffy throw his fist full-force in retaliation to a punch to his side from a Marine officer, "Ha! That's the rookie everyone's talking about, Straw Hat! Oh, this will be fun!"

Mihawk crossed his arms, never blinking his hawk-like eyes when staring at the straw hat boy with nearly no emotion whatsoever, "So that's Straw Hat."

Aokiji, a Navy Admiral, lifted his head off of his hand as if he had been napping out of boredom, and just finally woken up to something that had peaked his interest, "He sure made one hell of a statement."

Kizaru looked on, his eyes widened a bit when they landed upon the boy with the straw hat, his lips perked when he spoke, "Oh, Straw Hat. I didn't think I would get to eliminate him for good so soon."

"Straw Hat…" Akainu whispered menacingly, his hands at his side as the two other Navy Admirals watched him expectantly. Akainu's coal-colored eyes narrowed as he threatenly glared down at the lively battle field, watching Luffy with a darkened glare while he made his way closer to where his goal was. "Just another bug that I have to squash."

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Luffy knew that everyone was looking at him now, whether they were fighting or not, but he continued to plow his way through the sea of Marine soldiers without another thought besides the rescue of Ace. He grunted as he planted his sandled foot in a soldier's face and then landed his extended fist into another's, but spun around and narrowingly escaping the sword that had nearly struck him down, cutting a small part of his shirt off his back. Ah, I gotta get to Ace! Throwing his leg around, Luffy swung around and sweeped the surprised captain off his feet, forcing him to throw his sword back several feet behind him. Stepping on his face for a boost while letting out a small simple, "Eop." and ignoring the Navy captain's grunt in pain, Luffy jumped off of his face and soared mid-air, charging back his fists for another Gomu-Gomu no Gatling.

Suddenly, a crack split the air and all eyes turned to the narrow slit that seemed to be held open mid-air like a doorway. Eyes widened as the new hole broadened over what seemed to be at least a hundred yards away from Luffy. Luffy pulled back his arms to their normal length and landed on the ground without a hard hit, his curiosity was what he was more focused on than fighting any of the Marines that surrounded him. "Huh? What's that?" Luffy wondered aloud, cocking his head in confusion.

What came to mind first was the Old Man's devil fruit that he had exampled before, where he cracked air and somehow made everything shake, which was pretty awesome in Luffy's eyes, but this was something different. Luffy looked over at Old Man Whitebeard, whose eyes were seemingly content on the foreign object hovering mid-air as well. Even the Marines were concerned for what was happening near the sea, debating whether or not it was another attack.

Sengoku's eyes narrowed, expecting more unwanted reinforcements from the opposite side while Garp raised an inquisitive eyebrow, knowing something was indeed different with the situation. The Navy Admirals turned their head towards the glowing rip-like thing in mid-air that was stationed near the sea, and all seemed quite intrigued, or in Akainu's case, vexed, with the new object that seemed to hold promise for the upcoming War of the Best.

"Oh, interesting." Kizaru commented excitedly, lowering his yellow sunglasses and standing up for the first time since Whitebeard had arrived.

"What the hell is that?" A puff of white smoke separated and then had combined back together in no less than three seconds to form the broad faced, elite soldier, Captain Smoker.

A girl with glasses and short black hair unsheathed her green sword, lifting it high above her head horizontally, readying herself for a fight, "Smoker-san, what should we do?"

Smoker lifted his lip as he puffed out smoke from his cigar, his eyes narrowing as they scanned the clearing of people; nearly almost all the fighting had stopped. "Nothing."

Without warning, the sudden "rip" in the air made a cracking noise and shrunk partially, sparks erupting and the tear flashing angrily. After the loud crackle, the "crack" went silent and soldiers began to pay less attention to it after a minute, but some were still stricken with wonder and panic as to what the thing. No one wanted to go near it, that was for sure.

"What's going to happen?"

"Is that a crack...in the sky?"

"Don't ask me, Todd!"

"Ya, what're we going to do?"

Another crack and the fighting and howls stopped again. What was going on? Luffy stared sideways at the weird hole and thought about cursing at it, but undoubtedly ignored it somewhat: Ace was his main priority. Yelling, he shot himself forward with his arms and flew over a lot of distracted soldiers, and continued to run towards his brother. "ACE!" He shouted again and eyes were averted back once more to where his main goal was. But something had everyone's focus again.

Turning back to the foreign object, a dark green boot had emerged from the hole... and then shortly after, another. And after the long, dark green boots had emerged, a pair of dark black dress shoes were spotted, appearing from the "crack" in mid-air. Gasps and shouts were heard from around the clearing and Sengoku's eyes widened in surprise and confusion at the weird phenomenon. The Warlords watched with intriguing glares and confused looks when the pair of dress shoes and boots landed on the ground, simultaneously. By landing on the ground, long black pants were revealed as well as what seemed to be a long green dress-robe that had followed shortly after.

"Huh?" Luffy didn't have time for this, but his curiosity was, in fact, getting the best of him. For one split second, he looked over at the rip in the air and what he saw didn't surprise him in the least. Just some green and black shoes exiting from an interdimensional rift in time… WAIT!

"Oi, Moss-Head! I thought I told you that I was going first!"

"Huh? No. 1 should go first and No. 7 should go seventh. That's how it works, stupid dumbass cook."

"Dagh! Idiot, why are you still referring to everyone by the order they arrived at Rayleigh's! We just somehow end up at Marineford and you're already pulling that shit."

Two darkened figures emerged; one was wearing a sleek smile while the other had an annoyed grin on his face. The sun brightened at their entrance, and smoke lifted from one of the figure's lips, floating lightly up into the air until visibly disappearing from sight.

"And there's only two of us, anyway, so I wouldn't go seventh, dumbass swordsman." He said.

A slight patch of grassy hair began to appear from the darkness of the ripped hole as the sunlight had hit it just right, "Heh, damn it… why does No. 7 get to talk to No. 1 so bossily?" The man grunted, the long scar on the left side of his face almost fully visible now.

The Marines watched in horror as the two figures seemed to continue to argue with each other, completely unaware of their surroundings. The other man's curly eyebrows twitched irritably, his eyes flaring with a fire that was unrivaled in most cases. He pointed an accusing finger at the green-headed figure, "What was that? Listen, after I kick all their damn asses, do you want to fight, Stray Moss?"

Stray Moss lifted his head and his eyes narrowed with a deadly intent as he took his thumb and propped up one of his swords, "I'll cut them up and when I'm finished, I'll kick your ass too."

"I'll beat you into the ground, you damn bastard!"

"Bring it on, pervy cook!"

They both completely left the hole and instantly, the tear vanished, leaving no traces that it was ever there. All that was left of the tear, was a ferocious blue-flamed, three-sword swordsman and a neatly dressed red-flamed furious blonde cook, who both glared at each other, gritting their teeth as they readied themselves for a fight.

"Wait a minute…" A startled Marine beside Luffy began, his hands shaking furiously as if he had just seen a ghost.

"Is that…" Began another, his teeth chattering with fear as the two figures turned to look their way.

Sengoku's head nearly popped off when it didn't take him too long to realize the two mysterious characters were Wanted pirates from Straw Hat's crew. Garp said nothing and neither did Ace, clearly not surprised by whatever happened next. At that moment, it was like Ace was never going to be executed in the first place.

Whitebeard glared on with a partial look of perplexity in his eyes while Marco the Phoenix stood next to him with a hand to his chin, trying to understand the situation.

Jimbei, who had been quiet most of the time, shot his palm forward that struck a Navy soldier in the chest, and then quickly shot around to look at what Luffy was staring at with such wide eyes: a green-haired man in a dress and a blonde haired man wearing a suit and tie. Judging by their diverse looks and personality types, Jimbei guessed that they were apart of Luffy's crew.

"Wait, guys! Don't forget about me!" Buggy the Clown shot forward, looking around as the prisoner's eyes were bulging, focused intently on the two newcomers. "AGH!" He shouted and fell backwards, and gasping, he pointed with his finger at the green-haired swordsman as all the color drained from his face, "Ro-ro-ro-roa-roan…" He stuttered but couldn't get the words to come out of his mouth, staring fearfully at the swordsman that suddenly turned his way. Taking action, he jumped behind a rock and peered around it until the swordsman looked away, letting out a breath of relief that the green-haired devil wasn't after him particularly.

The Warlords didn't really get it, but Doflamingo chuckled happily and Mihawk raised his tricorn, a small smirk sliding onto his pale emotionless face as his hawk eyes glowed with some form of ferociousness that no one has seen before. His swordsman-spirit took over and he reached behind his back and pulled out his large, black blade, Yoru,with no trouble at all, holding it out in front of him with one his hat down and flashing his eyes once more, he lowered his voice; in his eagerness, he grinned, "Roronoa."

Sanji lit his cigarette with one hand, his face unwavering as he looked up at the sky and exhaled a giant puff of smoke into the air, "Looks like we'll have to fight." He inquired coolly, reaching up to pull the cigarette out of his mouth as he breathed out another puff of smoke.

Zoro let out a short laugh, his mouth curling into a dangerous grin as he reached for his green/black bandana, putting it over his head and tying it slowly, "Of course, what else did you expect, a carnival?" Turning to look down at his swords, his grin widened as his eyes lit with an exhilarating fire, "This will be fun."

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Yeah, okay that's it for now. So, it would mean a lot if you could help me out and just comment bad things, the good things, and you know, if you like the idea and if I should continue with the story. Honestly, it would mean a lot and it's the ideas everyone gives that help a story on this website flourish. Alright, I don't want to make this too long; hope you all enjoyed! ~Papa Sasuke :3