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Freedom Fighter Pirates: KERENNIE doesn't own one piece or its characters but does own this storyline.

ASL: please forgive if characters appear OOC.

Chapter 2

Okay, Mace was right, Don will admit that- this Sabo kid has a very interesting story. A noble born kid who ran away from home because he was abused by his Noble parents, lived in a trash heap for a few years, made friends with a kid with anger management problems, left a kid younger than himself to almost die by the hands of a pirate but then saved him because said kid never told the pirates where Sabo's and his friend's treasure was. The kid become their friend and after that Sabo then went to live with his two friends who later become his sworn brothers. The two sworn brothers were like family that Sabo never really had. And there, he met the man called Shitty Gramps and young Sabo was accepted by that man as a grandson. The blond boy was also accepted as a foster son by Dadan and her band of mountain bandits. Sabo was raised for a little by mountain bandits? That was kind of cool. And soon afterwards the three sworn brothers moved out and built their own home, a treehouse where the three boys lived together.

The boys had fun- hunting, playing and training together. Whether it was hunting, having their hundred training matches together, running away from shitty gramps, just running around and having fun, sneaking into High Town, doing dine and dashes and so much together. Finally, Sabo had what he apparently wanted the most- Freedom.

But then, one day- one of their dine and dashes changed everything. Because they happened to run into Sabo's father that time when they were running away. And after that, nothing was the same again.

Sabo told his brothers about his parents and heritage- even though he didn't want to do because he was scared and thought that they were hate him for it. That they wouldn't want him to be their brother anymore. That he would lose the one thing that he actually treasured more than his freedom- his two new brothers.

But they didn't care. They still accepted Sabo- everything about him. Even his Noble blood, the one thing that he thought would destroy their brotherhood and friendship. But neither of Sabo's two brothers cared about it because Sabo was still Sabo, his parents didn't matter. His parents didn't make Sabo who he was, he did and his brothers accepted that. They accepted Sabo.

Not long later- a storm hit and wrecked their treehouse home. So, the three brothers left to collect some material to fix it. Where they were ambushed by pirates and town guards that had been hired by Sabo's father to get him back- to take away his freedom. And where Sabo was given a choice- his freedom or his brothers' lives.

For Sabo, the choice was easy. His brothers' lives. There was no point in fighting- Sabo knew that moment that he was caught that he was going to lose his freedom, there was no point in taking away his brothers' freedom as well.

After that, Sabo isn't sure what happened to his brothers- he was back with his parents and family. That horrible, abusive and loveless family. But as the saying goes- we can't choice our family but we can choice our friends. Well, in case, it is right and wrong. Yes, Sabo can't choice who's his blood family is but he can damn well choice to not see them as that. he didn't have to see those people as family if he didn't want too. Since after all, family is what you make it. And to Sabo- Dadan, the bandits, Shitty Gramps and his two sworn brothers, they were his real family. Whether his 'fake' (blood) family liked it or not.

Sabo's some called father then tried to pin and put all of the blame of what the three of them did together on just his two brothers. Saying that Sabo didn't have a choice but to do it, which was a lie. But it didn't matter, no matter how much Sabo protested and wouldn't blame his brothers for his choices and actions because his father being a noble and rich was able to lay the sole blame on them anyway.

Sabo then went back home where he met his 'new brother'- a kid his parents adopted to replace him. Who then told Sabo about the plan- the plan to burn the whole of Grey Terminal down, to 'clean themselves' of the trash and junk of this world- that put they here and created mind you, so that the Celestial Dragon who was coming to visit would like them- they killed innocent people just to impress a World Noble.

Macey, Sin and Don found this disgusting. There was nothing worse in this world than the World Nobles, nothing worse in this world than the World Nobles of it. Other than those who work for them, like the Marines and those bastard Pirate Warlords. (A/N: There's some bad blood there but that's another story for another time, back to Sabo's interesting story since we're not done yet- just a little more to go.)

At first, Sabo didn't want to believe that the Nobles were that horrible, even though in his heart he knew that they were. Especially the day, just of and when the fire was going to happen. Everyone was acting like it was fine and acting like it was any other day. So, when Sabo started to ask and talk to a few people- he was able to confirm his fears, the thing that his heart knew but mind didn't want to accept. The Nobles knew that the fire was going to happen and they were fine with it- they were okay with destroying someone's home and with destroying lives. They were fine with killing all of the innocent (though some aren't) people of the Grey Terminal. They were fine with killing people just because they weren't born nobles!

So Sabo ran- he had to warn his brothers, he had to tell the people of the Grey Terminal and try to save as many lives as he could. But they, the Nobles and the guard of the High Town chased him and tried to stop him, actually in fact, they did stop him and his father locked him up in a wine cell so that Sabo will keep the plan a secret and not tell anyone about it.

But Sabo managed to escape but he failed to get to the Grey Terminal and warn the people and his brothers. Since was he stopped by the guards and is beaten up by them. That's where and Sabo met the cloaked man and told him about how the Nobles and Royal Families knew about the fire and had planned it all. How High Town smelled worse than the Grey Terminal and Sabo find it hard to breathe here. Sabo also told the man how he was ashamed to be born a Noble. Then Sabo passed out, well, that was all that Sabo could remember at least anyway.

Sabo told his new friends that the Celestial Dragon's ship will be here in three days' time now, since Sabo was out for a bit, which made Don and Sin freak out a little. So, Macey slapped the two of them. damn idiots worrying about and freaking out.

"Stop freaking out you idiots!" Macey told them sternly. "The ship won't be anywhere near us so we'll be fine. We'll just lay low, if something happens and I think we're any kind of danger. We'll leave alright?"

Don and Sin calmed down after that. They knew that Macey well enough that if there was any sort of danger to the crew- they would leave. Macey might always be careful with herself but she was when it comes to the safety and lives of her crew. But then again, being in danger and being careful are two completely things.

Sabo had no idea why Don and Sin were freaking out and he was going to ask but decided not to in the end- whatever the reason, it was theirs and neither of them looked like they wanted to talk about it.

"Now I guess we come to interesting part," Macey smiled at Sabo. "What to do with you, actually, scratch that, what do you want to do Sabo?"

What…?

"Huh?" Sabo said looking at Macey funny. What did she mean by that?

"What do you want to do Sabo?" Macey asked Sabo again. "It's your choice. I don't want to force anything onto you."

Well, Sabo thought that was nice. Macey was giving Sabo the option to choose what he wanted to do. But what could Sabo do?

"I don't even know…" Sabo sighed thinking about it. "I want to make sure that Ace and Luffy are okay but if I go back to them, they're just going be put in danger because of me again. My father won't stop looking for me. He'll just come back again and I don't want to go back to him or there again. But if I don't, he'll go find Ace and Luffy and try to force to tell him where I am, even if they don't know, then he kill them. I don't know what to do… I don't want to lose my freedom again but… I don't want to lose my brothers either… I don't know what to do! There's no right answer! There's no right choice! I lose no matter what! It's hopeless!"

Sabo slowly started to cry and the crew looked at each other than to their Captain who seemed to be thinking.

"The way I look at it," Macey said to Sabo as he cried. Seeming to be ignoring that the blonde boy was crying. "Is that you have a few choices."

"He does?" Sin commented which earned him an elbow to the ribs from Marc. "What? I can see where the kid is coming from! It's a hopeless situation!"

Marc groaned and face palmed. Don sighed as Jack snickered and Max looked confused as fuck because he had no what they were on about.

"Sin, shut up," Don told him. If the captain says there's a few choices, then there are. "I know it looks hopeless. Been there before too remember? But come on, this is Macey we're talking about. If there's a will there's a way and Macey always seems to find a will and a way. So Macey has obviously thought of something that we have all overlooked, or that we haven't thought of."

Sabo looked at Macey as he tried to stop himself from crying and was rubbing his eyes to make the tears go away. She has…?

"And what are my choices then Miss?" Sabo asked a little bitterly already knowing what they are but wanted to see if the older blonde girl had really thought of something or someway that Sabo hadn't or that he might have missed.

"Well option one- you give up and go back home," Macey said listing them using her fingers. "Act as if this never happened. Let your parents control your life."

"Don't want to do that," Sabo muttered.

"Option two- go back to your brothers and hide the rest for your lives and pray to god that your parents give up or don't find you," Macey counted.

"That's not far on Ace or Luffy," Sabo told her, a little angry and kind mad about that option. "Especially Luffy, he's three years younger than us! He'll be in danger!"

What was Macey getting at?

"Can you think of any other options?" Macey asked Sabo- seeing if he can see a way out of this situation himself.

"Well, I guess option three could be that the three of us could leave," Sabo sighed. "But there's no way we could do that without getting caught. I'll end up back with my parents and Ace and Luffy will either end up dead or in prison. And even if we could leave, how the hell are two ten years old and a seven year old meant to be survive out on the open seas by themselves?! That's suicidal! Pirates could catch us, slavers could catch us or we could die, hell, even worse than that Shitty Gramps could find us, catch us and then force us to become Marines! Ack! See? What did I tell you?! It's hopeless!"

Macey laughed as Sabo got all depressed. Why the hell was she laughing at Sabo like he was some kind of idiot!?

"What's so funny?!" Sabo shouted.

"I believe option four is the best," Macey smiled.

Option four!? What option four!? What was she talking about!?

"There's an option four?" Sin whispered to Don who just shrugged his shoulder.

"Of course there is," Jack snickered. "It's Macey."

"What is option four?" Sabo asked- not understanding where Macey got this fourth one from. "Just what is option four?"

"They should change that saying," Macey smirked. "Because where's there a will, there's always the Macey way."

"Of course you want your name in there," Don laughed- it was hard to believe that their captain was the smartest here sometimes. "Okay Captain, what is this option four you speak of?"

"Oh that's easy," Macey smiled and said seriously, without missing a beat. "They come with us."

Somewhere in the New World, three years ago… continued…

West hated all of his brothers right now. They all decide it was up to him to knock on the door and get Marco's and Pops' attention. Even though it was all Thatch's idea, they all voted and decide that West could interrupt the meeting then blame it all on Thatch. They were all using him as a human shield right now too! The bastards!

West looked back at his brothers who were all hiding behind him, damn bloody cowards, this was not befitting the crew known as the World's Strongest Pirate Crew! West took a few deep breathes, knocked then opened the door without waiting for an 'okay' or 'you can come in' from either their father or Marco.

West stood there hiding behind the door partly as he looked into the room. Marco looked unimpressed as Pops just sat there.

"What is it my son?" Whitebeard smiled his usual smile.

"Um, we… I mean Thatch has something to show and tell Marco," West said as he walked in and opened the door. The other commanders all fell over onto the ground from West's quick movement and thinking.

Thatch moaned as he was on the bottom of the pile of commanders.

"West! That was mean!" Thatch whined.

"Your fault for hiding," West said.

"Says the one who was hiding behind the door first-yoi," Marco sighed. What was so important that Thatch made West and the others come here with him for? "Fine, what is so important that it couldn't wait till later Thatch?"

The other Commanders got off Thatch who got up and gulped.

"Um…" Thatch said not looking at Marco. He wasn't sure how to say it. Damn it… "Have you seen the paper today? Or the new wanted posters yet?"

"No," Marco yawned because he was a little tired from staying up late doing paperwork. You know, for pirates, they do a shit tone of paper work. "I haven't. Been going over everything with the twelfth division with Pops-yoi. Why?"

Thatch looked at West. He didn't want to do this anymore. West sighed as he grabbed the wanted poster and newspaper article then handed them over to Marco.

"Read the article then look at the posters," West told Marco, since Thatch has chickened out of doing it. "Something about one of them should make sense once you look at it."

Marco sighed as he read the article. It went on about a kid doing something stupid- going up against a Celestial Dragon… freeing some salves… stealing a small ship… shit this kid was mad! What were they thinking!?

Wait… this happened about a year ago, so why are they only reporting it now…? Marco read the article thoroughly as it talked about said kid breaking into a marine base and kidnapping a marine brat and that brat turning into a pirate a few days again… wait… what…? Apparently, the brats are calling themselves the Freedom Fighters…? they're a pirate crew… Odd name…

Marco looked at the wanted posters. One was of a young Fishman, okay whatever, another poster of kid, well teen- who the hell calls their kid Sin? And another one was of the Marine brat- well, Jack was at least a normal name. And the last one was the ring leader and captain of this small crew… looked like a girl with blue eyes and blonde hair wearing… what the hell!?

"What the hell…?" Marco said staring at the wanted poster. Making sure he wasn't seeing things. What the fuck…? What the actual fuck? "What the actual hell!? This kid is almost wearing my clothes!"

"I know right!" Thatch said being brave enough to come forward and say something again. "I mean, she could be a survivor from the research island that Naomi was from, right? Right? Who else would be wearing clothes like yours Marco?"

"Thatch that's impossible-yoi," Marco said looking at the poster again then he went pale and dropped it as he saw the name on the poster. It couldn't be… could it…?

"Oh come now feathers!" Thatch complained. Not believing that Marco was being so negative right now. "It's not that impossible! I mean, Naomi copied and went with your colour scheme the moment after she meant you! And you said she had a kid, a daughter at that too! It could be hers! Naomi had kind of blonde hair and blue eyes and the picture you showed us of her kid did too! You showed us a picture of her and everything! This kid could be her! I mean… hello? Earth to Bluebird? Flaming Turkey? Birdbrain? Pineapple? Mango? Marco? OI! BLUE FLAMING CHICKEN ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME!?"

West and the other Commanders looked at Marco- a little worried. Pops looked at Marco a little worried too. He stood there, pale as a ghost and seemed to be in shock or something. What happened to cause Marco to suddenly look and be like this?

"Marco?" Pops said. Noticing that something was odd and off with Marco. "Are you okay my son?"

"It said Mace," Marco said picking up the wanted poster shaking a little. Unable to believe his eyes. "It says Mace… I'm not blind or crazy or seeing things right? It says that this girl name is Mace? Right?"

West looked at the wanted poster again. It does say Mace, why is reacting like this because of that?

"It does, why?" West asked Marco.

"That was Naomi's daughter name…" Marco said, as he ran her hand over the poster. He has never felt this happy or relieved before. She was alive… she was still alive… Macey was still alive… his daughter, their daughter… she was alive. "Or at least close enough to it. Her name was Macey… Our daughter's name was Macey…"

"Our daughter?" West said as everyone just stared at Marco and their mouths dropped. Our daughter?! Our daughter?!

"I knew it!" Thatch said pointing at Marco. "You two were involved! Why didn't you…!"

Thatch got his mouth covered by West.

"What do you mean our daughter Marco?" Pops asked,. Thankful that West had stopped Thatch so that he could talk to Marco himself about this. "When you talked to me about Naomi and her having a daughter, though not by name, you never mention anything about you being the father. Is that what you are saying Marco?"

The other commanders all just stared blankly at Marco. WHAT!?

Marco sighed, god damn it- he let it slipped- that wasn't meant to happen. But he just been so shocked about the name on the poster and everything. He was just so happy to know that Macey was still alive he hadn't realised that he had admitted that she was his daughter out loud.

"I guess I should quick from the beginning then," Marco sighed, "I'll get the letters you guys didn't see. They'll help explain a lot."

Letters? What letters that they didn't see? Marco kept letter from Naomi from them!? What!? Wait! Marco has a daughter?! And she's wanted dead or alive for 250, 000, 000 belli, so far. Damn, and to think that is only her first wanted poster at that too.

Though one would think that a girl, especially one so young who stood up to the Celestial Dragons and stole/freed some of their slaves then messed with the Marines at one of their owns would have a high bounty than that…

Oh well.

Macey: K is welcoming fans to add their own OC to this fanfic if they wish! just PM her! because I want about twenty or thirty more crew mates! and she is having problems coming up with them! so please, share and give her ideas for new crew members in the Freedom Fighters Pirates!

yes, please add roughly everything I would need for them. a rough background, description, etc. will be staying in childhood arc with Macey and the ASL for a long while yet. and any help with new characters is welcomed! plus anything you think could be good for storyline purposes as well.

cheers and thank you!

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