A.N.
Let me start with you guys are awesome! Onwards then.
BeastSage09 - I would like Lucci to get his cannon devil fruit, but there is still some time between the time he gets it and the current timeline. Things could change on the fly.
Daniel2610994 - You're a G man! Thank you for reviewing each chapter, this means a lot to me, the people's support is what gets me going. So I'll answer some of the stuff you asked in your plethora of comments. In regards to Shanks having both arms...hehehehe and yes Teach is going to get his ass handed to him, or will he? Yeah I know those celestial dragons should have died, but Luffy beat them to the edge of life that they should think twice before doing dumb things again. I know I should've killed Vander Decken but at this point I didn't really know if I wanted to kill people. Nobody, not even me, expected Arlong and Brulee to be a thing. But more power to them. In this timeline, only Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Kaido are Yonko. As far as changing Hancock's faith, it was implied that things could have happened but I feel that if my readers want to assume that she was raped or not, then it is completely up to the readers in that. Good guess on Lucci, only one person really got that it was him and a bunch of people drew a blank on that. I wanted to get across that Luffy only defeated Borsalino because Borsalino never feels like he needs to train and get better. Yes I have plans for our resident favorite archeologist ;)
Erasesenpain946 - Could have included her huh? Nah there are plenty of women for our boy Luffy. #Robin in the harem
Burning Moonlight - Technically yes. Whitebeard is doing something in the background of the main story.
Monxu Aki - it wouldn't make sense without motivations, so I try to be as close to the source as possible.
Exodus12345 - Yes they will hehe
Sasukedoom - Yes hehe
The group had a brief pit stop with Laboon, though this time they decided to bring the whale along with them on their journey.
Arlong specially took a liking of the giant whale as he decided to mount the creature and create a harness so that he could stand on its back and command it under water. Brook found it funny but glad that the crew took his friend on their journey.
Though the more peculiar case was a man, who they learned was living within the stomach of the whale.
"It is rude to talk to someone without introductions." He held his spear on his hands as he looked over the Strawhat Pirates. "My name is Crocus, blood type A and B, doctor."
The group deadpanned, at first believing that he was threatening them.
"My name is Monkey D. Luffy and I am the Captain of this crew." He shook the doctors hands. Then the doctor turned and looked at the skeletal man.
"So you came back for Laboon, glad you were able to, I was thinking you died." Crocus took the hand of Brook, the two sharing a moment.
"I did die with my crew...and I was reborn when I met Captain Luffy."
"Good to hear. Anyway my job here is done, I cared for that whale for so long and now that he found you again I think I'll go find another place to situate myself." Crocus had gathered what he wanted to bring with him.
"You can join us on our journey, we could use a doctor." Luffy asked, but he knew the man's answer before it could escape his lips.
"No thank you. I'm done with traveling the world. Say, do you want me to tell you about Laugh Tale?"
"Nah, we'll find it ourselves."
"Suite yourselves. Anyway I'll be going then."
"Hey Crocus, I know a place called Drum Island. There's a certain blue nose reindeer with the human human fruit. If you want, you can teach him to be the best doctor possible."
"I'll think about it." Crocus then dove into the water.
"Wait, he's swimming." Asked Brulee.
"Crocus was the doctor of Gol D. Roger, he is far stronger than people give him credit. He's going to be alright." Suddenly, a massive sea king was launched out of the water by the swimming Crocus, he was letting the other creatures of the sea know that nobody can mess with him. "See what I mean."
With that the crew retreated back to their post, Arlong decided that he would ride Laboon and lead the Strawhats to their next destination.
It took them some time to reach Whiskey Peak. And, just like in the previous timeline, they were greeted by happy villagers, who were actually involved in the Baroque Works organization.
Luffy let things play out as his crew was treated to a feast, though none of the people were familiar to him.
Funnily enough, as the moon reaches its highest point in the sky, Brook was fast asleep, Brulee had eaten and drank so much along with Arlong that they were passed out in each other's arms. Luffy had pretended to be asleep causing Hancock to fall asleep in his arms. Meanwhile Katakuri, Mihawk, and Lucci were on high alert. As they caught early on that something was off.
"Drink some more friends." Said one of the friendly villagers.
"I'm good." Replied Lucci. They stared at each for an intense few seconds. Then the man finally broke the stare down.
"Alright the gig is up." The friendly villager pulled out a pistol, pointing it at the head of Lucci. The rest of the friendly villagers followed suit as they also pointed their guns at Katakuri and Mihawk. But some people had guns pointed at the sleeping Strawhats as well. "Give us all your money right now, you have fallen into the trap of Baroque Works!"
"The who?" Lucci wasn't taking them seriously, cleaning his ears as the Baroque works agent mouthed off.
"Look bastard, either you comply or we kill you. Our numbers far surpass your numbers, so best lead us to your treasure." But the Agent found a foot in his mouth as Lucci had enough.
All hell broke loose.
Katakuri trapped the people around him in mochi encasing. Mihawk swung his sword to the people who had their guns pointed at Arlong and Brulee. Lucci went go aid Brook knocking out the people with a swift kick and series of punches.
Luffy decided to finally open his eyes and grabbed the pistols that were pointed at him and broke them all. Hancock continued to sleep from exhaustion and three of the eight Strawhats went to work.
"Have it your way then." Luffy said with a smile as he let his three commanders run through the enemies as if they were nothing.
And they really were irrelevant as the shear power of his three men were too much for the Millions agents, even the Thousands and the Hundreds agents present for the 'party' were no match for the Strawhats.
Arlong, Brulee, Brook, and Hancock eventually woke up through the commotion and joined in the one sided fight, they had no chance at all.
As Lucci held up the final member of the Baroque works by his shirt, Luffy made his way through the bodies of all the agents defeated by his group.
"Good, let's move on then." At his words, his crew followed right behind him.
Lucci tossed the man to the side allowing him to survive, to tell the tale of that day.
"Boss...Mr. 0…" Said the trembling survivor of Whiskey Peak.
"Yes?" Replied Mr. 0, At this point in time, the Baroque Works have been in operation in Alabasta for four years and some months.
"Mugiwara is here Mr. 0, He brought with him his entire crew."
"What!? What would a New World powerhouse be doing in my land?!" Exclaimed Mr. 0.
"They are going to Alabasta now...they just left Whiskey Peak. Mr. 0 his crew is too much...I'm the only one conscious ..."
With this Mr. 0 threw the snail against the wall, but luckily the snail caught itself against the wall.
"What's the problem Mr. 0?" A cowboy hat wearing woman stood at the doorway of Mr. 0. She had recently been recruited to decipher the poneglyph in Alabasta for the location of the ancient weapon.
"Ms. All Sunday…" Mr. 0 was trembling with anger. "...Mugiwara is here, prepare all our people. We have to let the Kingdom know that we are under attack."
"Alright Mr. 0, I will let Pell know."
Alabasta Kingdom, Outskirts
"Hey Captain." The strawhats stood right next to each other, with Luffy in the middle of the group. Arlong was in the very right end of the line with Brulee to his left, then Brook. On the other end was Brook and to his right was Mihawk, Katakuri, and then Hancock who stood beside Luffy.
"Yes Arlong?" Luffy asked, looking at his crew mate.
"Why are the entire Alabasta forces out here...intercepting us?" Before the Strawhat Crew, Alabasta has sent out its military force to indeed intercept the Strawhats. The group was led by Pell, a very powerful Zoan type fruit user.
"Strawhats, we suggest you turn back as you are not welcomed in the Kingdom of Alabasta." Exclaimed Pell.
"A thousand strong warriors give or take." Said Katakuri towards Luffy. To which he smiled at Katakuri for the information.
"Pell of Alabasta, I only wish an audience with King Cobra, I have some troubling information in regards to Sir Crocodile."
"Funny you would say something like that, Sir Crocodile warned us that you would try to throw some slander at him." Pell exclaimed back. He was already the commander despite being so young. Really impressive.
"What I have are facts. When did your rain stop Pell?"
"What the hell do you mean rain? Sir Crocodile is the best thing ever to happen to Alabasta. No pirates dare to invade our lands!" Then Pell put two and two together...once Sir Crocodile arrived, the rain suddenly stopped coming, turning the land into a desert wasteland. It has to be a coincidence right?
"If you will not listen to reason. Then I will get an audience with King Cobra, by any means necessary." Luffy disappeared from where he stood, he was too fast for anyone to catch, but the next time he appeared, he unleashed a powerful palm strike at the stomach of Pell, causing the zoan fruit user to gasp out of air. He doubled over causing an uncomfortable shift to occur within the Alabasta soldiers. But four soldiers surrounded Luffy, each with different weapons. They were stronger than a common soldier.
"We are the Tsumegeri Guards of the royal family. Today you have chosen death by crossing us." Luffy looked at the four men that surrounded him. There was a large muscular man wielding a giant battle sword, a tall hunchback man with two pole-arms for a weapon. Then there was a tall and thin man who wielded a double edged sword. Lastly there was a bulky man who wielded a large axe.
"Today gentleman, I choose to meet your King in peace." With that Luffy disappeared once more in a blur, leaving behind a large cloud of steam in his wake.
"We don't want Captain to have all the fun now." Brook twisted his cane as the rest of the ground began to move forward. The Tsumegeri Guards attempted to chase after Luffy but was stopped by one man. Katakuri had moved ahead of the group to confront the fiercest warriors of Alabasta. The rest of the strawhats dealt with the one thousand men of Alabasta's main battle force.
"Remember, Captain said do not kill." Relayed Mihawk.
"Yeah, when do I ever kill for fun?" Arlong gave a toothy grin before jumping ahead, kicking two guards at once and tossing another guard to a large crowd.
"There he goes again, acting all cool." Brulee commented, she was once again back line as this suits her ability best. Then Hancock gave her a sly smile for her comment.
"You like it though." She commented before joining the battle as well. With the command of her dearly beloved Hancock did not activate her devil fruit ability and went into battle with only using blunt force to shut down the army. Mihawk followed after with using the dull end of his blade, and Lucci was using his mastery of Rokushiki though he held back from killing his opponents. Brook had a trick up his sleeve, his slices were not fatal, but they were chilly, as in cold air emitted from his sword.
Then there was Katakuri, who fought the Tsumegeri Guards. If he wanted to, he could probably encompass them in mochi and call it a day, but he needed to hone his other skills, he chose to instead fight them without his devil fruit, only his trident was going to be used.
"Come at me at your strongest." Katakuri twisted his trident finally resting it between his elbow and hiding it in his back.
The warriors attacked as one. The big guy with the broadsword attempted to cut Katakuri in half though he was parried by Katakuri's Trident.
The skinny man with the double edge sword tried to cut his head off and Katakuri responded by shifting his trident slightly, causing the broadsword guy to fall forward and allowing Katakuri to block the double edge blade. He then stomped the broadsword guy over the head knocking him straight to the ground. As far as the double edge sword guy, Katakuri grabbed him by his face and slammed him on the ground. The two warriors were unable to battle any longer.
"Bah! How could you do that to Hyota and Arrow!" Exclaimed the dual polearm user.
"Be careful of this man, this is Dogtooth of the Big Mom pirates." Commented the axe wielding individual.
"I am First Commander Katakuri of the Strawhat Grand Armada, Mugiwara is my Captain." He declared tossing his trident at the man with the dual polearm. He blocked the trident with his polearm but Katakuri was just too quick, grasping his trident and pushing forward. The shear force of Katakuri broke the polearm of the warrior causing him to fall backwards. Katakuri stood above the fallen warrior with a deadly look in his face.
"Brahm!" Exclaimed the axe wielding man, but Katakuri turned his head towards him. This caused shivers to travel down his spine. He was desperate, all he knew was to attack even if he was going to lose.
Katakuri respected him for this allowing the man to swing his mighty axe though the first commander caught his axe by the palm of both hands.
"Good try big man." Katakuri pushed him back by sheer power causing the man to stumble backwards. Katakuri then jumped in the air and launched a spinning back kick upside the head of the warrior, knocking him out.
In his wake, Katakuri defeated the famed Tsumegeri Warriors.
"No...we can't fall to a bunch of pirates." Pell attempted to get up but the injury from Luffy's initial strike was not allowing him to get up.
"We are not your enemy, understanding our strength, if we wanted to, we could have overtaken your country, right?"
Pell's eyes widened as he looked around. Their massive army was being manhandled by seven strong individuals. They still had him, they still have Sir Crocodile. But where was he? Where was the hero of Alabasta?
"Fine" Was all Pell could say.
Alabasta Palace - Throne Room
"King Cobra, I advise you to escape immediately."
"Sir Crocodile, I will see that my country does not fall to the hands of pirates. What kind of king will abandon his own people!" King Cobra exclaimed, with his passion echoing in his sentiment. The room echoed with agreement as the meeting was taking place with the highest member of the court for King Cobra.
A young blue haired girl listened in on the meeting, she was very curious and impressionable.
She stood outside of the throne room, listening through a small air filter beside the main double door to the throne room, of the event that was transpiring.
Though she suddenly jumped up when she felt a presence of a strong person behind her. She quickly turned around and saw a straw hat wearing man, his red vest revealed his strong stature, and he wore khaki shorts and wooden sandals. He must be a farmer.
"Halt, I am Princess Vivi of Alabasta, who are you." Said the young girl who caused a smile to form at the man before her. She was alone without her usual guard because she escaped from the confinement of her room to stoop in on the meeting.
"My princess, I am a friend, here to meet the King."
"Very well, state your name."
"Monkey D. Luffy."
"Well Mr. Monkey, my father is currently handling a very important problem. Your troubles with your crops will be resolved as soon as we are able to obtain some water from neighboring lands. But since you came out all this way and my father will not find out, I suppose I can grant you a barrel of water for your crops. You can find it in Alubarna, and tell them Princess Vivi sent you." Finally the child finished her sentence. Luffy was surprised at how well versed she was, more so about her kindness to her people.
"Princess Vivi, this matter is more important than mere crops, I will just show you." Luffy walked past the Princess, opening the double door that led to the throne room. Princess Vivi was going to protest but it was too late.
King Cobra and Sir Crocodile stopped their conversation and the later had a flabbergasted look on his face. "That is him King Cobra! Hurry and escape! I will take care of this pirate!"
"Sir Crocodile you have done so much for Alabasta, and you are so loyal to me...despite the voice against you as my successor..Sir Crocodile, if I die here today, with my court as my witness, I declare you to rule Alabasta until my Vivi comes of age."
To this Sir Crocodile mouth formed into a massive grin. Then his golden hook sparkled in the light.
The moment King Cobra declared a verbal succession to Crocodile, was the moment he would have died. Crocodile brought his golden hook and aimed for the stomach of the King. It would have been a killing blow, if it had connected. But Luffy, well he was too quick for the warlord, using gear 2nd to enhance hid speed and retrieved King Cobra before the hook of Sir Crocodile could reach him.
"Mugiwara?" The King exclaimed in confusion, he was supposed to be the enemy, why did Sir Crocodile attempt to stab him. "What is the meaning of this!?" Exclaimed King Cobra.
"Once you've passed on, I will be King of Alabasta right?" Sir Crocodile started with a smile on his face. "No loose ends." He then pointed his hook hand at the young Princess, whose neck was threatened by a small dagger.
A young raven haired woman that Luffy was ever so familiar with, held the Princess at knife point.
"No please! Take me, not my Vivi!" King Cobra collapsed on the ground, at the collective gasp of the crowd, nobody knew what to do. The guards attempted to get close but they sunk on the floor by quicksand.
Luffy simply observed, Crocodile was going to go on his bad guy spiel.
"The entire castle is surrounded by my agents, your army is stuck dealing with the Strawhats. All I need to become king is to kill you." He pointed at King Cobra. "You." He pointed at Princess Vivi. "And you Mugiwara." He pointed at Luffy and said it in such a venomous tone that if words could kill, Luffy would be dead.
"But why...we treated you so well, you helped us against pirate invasions!"
"Yeah it was all for this moment. I had to become King somehow, and luckily, Mugiwara sped up my plans."
"Hate to break your bubble, but I'm here to do two things." Luffy interrupted, first looking at the raven haired women holding a knife at the neck of the Princess. "I'm here for Nico Robin." Then he turned to Crocodile. "And I'm here to kick some sense into your power hungry ass!"
Robin tensed at the statement by the Strawhat man, 'How did he know my name.'
Crocodile did not know what to make of his statement. But he was worth 1 billion beri, and he could not take him lightly. "Fine! You want a piece of me! Then come at me!" Crocodile morphed into sand and launched himself at Luffy.
"King Cobra, please clear the hall. My crew should arrive any time to deal with the Baroque Works agents outside." Luffy could tell that the King was concerned for his army, "Don't worry King, your army is just knocked out, I gave my crew strict instructions." Then he looked at Robin as Crocodile was quickly approaching him. "Robin, I can protect you better than whatever this asshole promised you." Then as Crocodile neared him, Luffy's fist turned into a resin black color and he slammed it over the head of the warlord knocking him onto the ground.
A collective gasp echoed in the room, Robin dropped her knife in shock allowing Vivi to run to her father. She trembled at the visual defeat of Crocodile, the man who was supposed to protect her from the government in exchange for her poneglyph interpretation skills.
King Cobra immediately led his people outside, choosing to carry Princess Vivi and leaving the room immediately. If the words of the pirate was true, then King Cobra will put his faith in Mugiwara to end this mutiny.
The hall finally cleared, leaving Luffy and Crocodile.
The warlord quickly got up, his anger could not be contained.
"Shall we?" Luffy's skin glowed a pink color, with steam emitting from his body.
"Haki...I should've known…" Crocodile covered his hands with a similar resin like substance.
Alabasta Palace - Outside
Just as Sir Crocodile claimed, the main force of his numbered agents from Mr.1 through Mr. 5 along with their partners were present.
They all stood in a line to block the way of escape for the Royal Family, the court, and his escorts.
"Make way for the king!" Exclaimed one of the surviving guards. But one of the crazy haired looking guys with a red coat flick a booger at the unsuspecting guard, then it blew up on his face, his coat caught on fire from the explosion.
But a rumbling underground began and suddenly something emerged from the ground, a massive whale and a fishman on its back.
"MOTHER FUCKERS!" Arlong emerged on the back of Laboon, they had found an underground reservoir thanks to the help of Alabasta's local sea life and took them to the capital itself. Combine that with the perfect timing and you get a grand entrance.
The King's party and the Baroque works agents jumped out of the way. Each of the members were shocked at the massive whale emerging from the dry desert ground of Alabasta.
"Sheesh Arlong you sure know how to steer some excitement." A man with a fashionable goatee, a tall hat, and a slick looking necktie that was half way undone. His dress shirt was also a bit undone showing his chiseled chest. He rubbed his neck as he was in the process of rolling up his sleeve at the exchange that was about to take place.
Laboon landed on top of Mr. 4, a stout baseball wielding person, Miss Goldenweek and Miss Valentine were the former holders of the rank as these ladies were mostly nobodies, who were both unlucky enough to freeze in place when the Whale emerged from the ground.
"Thanks Laboon." Arlong jumped from the back of the whale, landing beside Lucci. Laboon let out a happy noise that only a whale could make and slithered back into the hole he came from, returning to the underground waterway.
Mr. 5 and Mr. 3 were immediately intrigued. Setting up a match between the quartet.
"Babe you left me to make a grand entrance!" Exclaimed Brulee who was mainly joking. She then caught the eye of Miss Merry Christmas who was a stout grouchy lady who looked like she would barter for three whole apple pies for the price of one apple. She was the partner of Mr. 4, who was still flattened along with Miss Valentine and Miss Goldenweek.
"Disgusting all around!" Exclaimed Miss Doublefinger as she morphed her fingertips into sharp, pointy spikes. She attempted to charge at Brulee but stopped mid stride when she sensed danger. Good thing she did too because if she did not stop, a powerful stomp would have crushed every bone in her body. Hancock landed in front of her, creating a crater where Miss Doublefinger should have been.
"Do not try to hurt my friend, you'll answer to me!" Her head was so far back that she arched her back, and she pointed at the Baroque Works agent with a very intense gaze.
"Why is he just watching?" Mr.2 commented as he was alone without a partner. He was strong enough to carry on his work without one so Crocodile just let him do what he wanted. Mr. 2 was referring to Katakuri, who stood at a distance, watching the events as it transpired.
"It's because there is no need for him in this battle." Brook stepped forward, each step releasing some steam from his chilling ability. Brook had learned so much about himself in the time with such powerful people that he was able to hone his devil fruit power to a new height.
"Oh?" The okama formed his signature fighting pose and a match was about to transpire between the two.
"You are the strongest, then you are my opponent." Mr. 1 morphed his arms into blades, using his devil fruit ability. But someone else had a say against this.
"You won't even reach him." Dracule Mihawk stepped in the sight of Katakuri, as he drew the black blade. "I am your opponent."
"Fine, you'll die as well!"
The King's group moved through the building tension, where the Baroque agent attempted to intercept them, the Strawhats would blow their attempts.
This allowed King Cobra and Princess Vivi to have enough time to escape to their doomsday bunker. It was said to be strong enough to withstand a buster call!
Then there it was, the match of Alabasta finally set.
Main Event: Luffy vs Crocodile w/Miss All Sunday
Match 6: Mihawk vs Mr. 1
Match 5: Brook vs Mr. 2
Match 4: Hancock vs Miss Doublefinger
Match 3: Lucci vs Mr. 3
Match 2: Brulee vs Miss Merry Christmas
Match 1: Arlong vs Mr. 5
Pre-show Match: Laboon(W) vs Mr. 4 & Miss Valentine & Miss Goldenweek
Will the Strawhats defeat the Baroque works and free Alabasta? Or will Baroque Works prevail?
