Strawhat HQ ~ 3 days before

Overhead on the centralized speaker system, all thanks to Franky and Caesar, a fine tune was playing. It was an original piece by Brook as he poured his soul into it.

The melody was upbeat, and the lyrics were heartfelt, this is why everyone enjoyed it.

~The sun rises with the morning air~

"I love this song." Jozu was snapping his finger, as he was carrying a load of supplies for their journey. He dropped off the two massive crates next to the thousand sunny.

"Isn't it? Brook had been energetic since the return of the captain, so these songs come natural." Machvise dropped a package next to the one that Jozu carried. Then Usopp and Kaya passed by them, where Usopp caught a piece of fruit falling from the crate that Machvise dropped accidentally.

~Breath it in, let it fill your hair~

"Finder's keeper." Said Usopp with a smile as he took a bite out of the apple. Kaya playfully slapped her boyfriend as she too was given the apple and she took a bite out of it.

"You big meanie." She said laughing at his silliness. "I got to head out soon, my team needs a doctor."

"Be safe okay?" Usopp gave her a firm kiss on the lips.

~For once trouble brews, I'll be there~

In the underground cafe, two people were enjoying a meal together.

"Aren't they cute, young love right?" Baccarat leaned against the chest of Gild, as they were enjoying a delicious meal made by the fine chef of the Strawhats.

"To be young again huh?" Gild said with a smile as he kissed the forehead of his love. It was strange really, seeing the Captain back, but Baccarat was now loyal to only one man. And Gild, well finding love with someone he worked closely with was new to him. He never thought he would ever find it again, but here they were.

~I'll be there...I'll be there~

"You guys make me gag." Tanaka sat with the duo then next to him was Buffalo who became good buddies with the phasing human as they had shared a similar humor, best friends even.

"You're just jealous of them Tanaka~nninnn!"

"Shut up duffus you're not doing any better either!"

"Keep it down why don't you!" Exclaimed Caesar jokingly from across the way, to which Tanaka waved him away. "Bunch of rowdy pirates."

"Aren't we all." Said Monet as she sat beside Caesar, laughing at him. "Anyway, how's your project going?"

~So my friend smile once more~

"Oh the Pluton excavation project? It's going well, we have so much more toys than we can count. It's a wonderland!" He then leaned in. "Our new boss is kinda stiff though, he'll loosen up eventually."

"What about me Caesar?" Bullet sat on the other side of Caesar, plopping down next to him.

"Uhhhhh." Caesar Trailed off but luckily, an explosion occurred in the distance as Wyper and Baby 5 were having an accuracy contest.

"Comeon give up babe." Wyper said as he wrapped his arms around Baby 5. Though the human weapon arsenal simply smiled lovingly to her boyfriend and accurately hit her mark five times in a row.

Da, dam,da, dam, dee. I'll be there

"Sure babe." Replied Baby 5 with a smile. Which caused Wyper's mouth to hang open. Passing by the shooting range was Sanji, who walked alongside Gin and Kaku.

"Ready to be locked down?" Asked Kaku who had his hands behind his head.

"Maybe she's a babe you know, Pudding...hmm nah I'm thinking stout and mean." Gin jokes to which Kaku laughed. Though there was someone who wasn't laughing. Zeff stood in front of Sanji and the head chef immediately grabbed his ears.

"You dumbass, we have thousands of meals to cool! Get back to work." Fumed Red Leg.

"Dammit oldman! I'm on my smoke break! My smoke break!" Replied Sanji to which Gin and Kaku chuckled.

~Put your troubles away~

"You both too!" Zeff delivered a powerful kick on the forehead of the two snickering men which caused them to follow Red Leg to the kitchen.

Bege and Kuro noticed this to which they just shook their heads.

"Are you sure your sources are accurate?" Asked Kuro for the thousandth time. He wasn't going to have people die on his order.

"Yeah for the millionth time Kuro, it's my wife, the mother of my child, so yes my sources are accurate. Stop sweating it, if anything goes wrong, our Captain is the insurance." Replied Bege.

Suddenly, they were stopped by the appearance of Dice and Absalom, who was trying to scare them.

Let your worries fade~

"Damn! You were too loud you big log!" Exclaimed Absalom.

"No you tripped, you tripped!" Replied Dice.

"Yes?" Asked Kuro, who snickered at their attempt to scare them.

"Alright listen, why don't you leave Galdino and Brook to do the boring monitoring duty?" Asked Absalom, he wanted to be in the fight.

"Yeah, yeah, and we take their place on the mission."

"No Absalom." Replied Kuro. "We need you both to watch over the injured, and to make sure everything is okay here."

"It's going to be so boring!" Replied Dice, to which Absalom nodded his head.

"Well everyone needs to do their part." Replied Bege.

For I will always be..I will always be~

"Everyone ready?" Galdino was heading the party. He looked over his group and was satisfied with the people he had. The group was animated, excited for their mission.

"So how is Zou?" Bonney was speaking with Bepo, who was a Mink who knew the way home. They were tasked with going to Zou to garner allies in the coming war with Kaido. If there were people who would help them in this coming war, it would be them as the minks were faithfully loyal to the Kozuki.

"I'd like to think that Richie would love it there." Said Mohji who was part of the mission. He had missed his buddy, and he was doing alot better than two years ago, he was a mess when Richie died. Though he was getting better by the day.

"I feel like it's winter there." Monet said joining the group. "Or would it be summer on top of an elephant?"

"It's going to be so awesome!" Ohm exclaimed, rounding up the party.

"Elephant!" Exclaimed Bepo, to Zou they go.

"Be safe!" Exclaimed Trebol, a man who has changed his ways, now a valuable ally to the group.

There. There. There~

"You too." Responded Galdino with a smile, and waved as the group left.

"I am completely against this, but it is the Captain's orders." Buggy had his arms crossed, his bag packed and his people ready to go. The Strawhats distributed their forces, a group would go to Big Mom's island, another will go with Shiki to stop the marines, and lastly a group with Shanks to halt Kaido from aiding Big Mom.

"Ah you'll be fine Buggy, it will be like old times." Shanks stood in front of the group, overlooking the team which Luffy gave him.

"I don't like working with you, always stealing my thunder." Buggy said.

"Come on man, it's not like I lost to Alvida!" Joked Red Haired to which Buggy began to chase after him with a knife. The two having a comical exchange.

Their Kaido party involved; Kaya, Senor Pink, Jango, Cabaji, Sugar, Shura, Daz, Zala and Gedatsu.

"How's the little one?" Asked Cabaji, while still on his unicycle, to Senor Pink.

"He can't wait to join the Armada, but I hope we can wrap things up before he reaches the age to join. I am doing this to have a simple life for my child."

~Once more we must say goodbye~

"Having a child would be magical." Said Sugar with heart over her eyes. Though she hasn't found a proper partner to explore these options with.

"And stressful!" Joked Senor Pink as being the only parent of the group.

"Don't you want children with Usopp, Kaya?" This question caused Kaya to blush feverishly and the group laughed, even Daz who let out a snort of air. Zala and Gedatsu were sharing a look, almost as if they were hiding something. Jango was gasping for air at the joke, for some reason it was extra funny to him, thinking of Usopp with a child.

Luffy arrives through a portal, returning from a scouting mission. He analyzed all the points of Whole Cake Island, to make sure their plan went smoothly. He could not lose anyone, especially being invested in the relationship he established with everyone.

"All good." Luffy wrapped his arms around Hancock and began to walk towards the depth of the base. Though a report came in, they have arrived. Who are they?

The Sun Pirates arrived from their journey from Atlantis Island.

And there was no word exchange, for Luffy and Arlong exchanged an embrace.

"Welcome home my friend." Luffy said as he tightened his embrace, a single tear falling from the eyes of Hancock, as the exchange was very passionate, like two long lost brothers finding each other once more.

"It's good to have you back Captain." The rest of the Sun Pirates greeted their friends. They were the Strawhat Pirates, turned Sun Pirates, and once again they are proud to be called the Strawhat Pirates.

~And the sun sets once more~


Present Time

Above the former underground base of the strawhats, Kuzan and Ace were leaning against the now broken gate. Moria was huffing and puffing, as Ace took his frustration out on him, Kuzan getting in between them.

Words were exchanged, where Ace blamed Moria for not revealing his allegiance quickly enough and Moria blamed Ace for being so fucking slow and the two duked it out, enough so that they made a new hole in Dawn Island. Though that was over.

Now Kuzan was calming down Ace, and separated him from Moria.

"So you're with the Strawhats, Warlord?" Asked Kuzan.

"I am...you helped us." Replied Ace. "I won't say anything if you don't."

"Fine."

"Ace we came as soon as we can." A masked warrior arrived, alongside a parasol using woman. This man was Mask Deuce and in his company was Perona.

"What happened?" Asked Perona, to which her question was met with silence. Oh no, it was bad.

Meanwhile with Moria, Dr Hirulek joined him, taking a quick break from his painful job of counting the fallen.

"Hey."

"Hi." Replied the shadow user.

"Thank you for saving my life." Dr. Hirulek said as Moria was quick to hide the doctors in his shadow, he along with Dr. Kureha, would have died.

"Not quick enough." Said Moria to which Dr Hirulek touched him in his right hand and squeezed it.

"Don't blame yourself, not a single soul here today could have stopped this from happening." To this Dr. Hirulek returned to his job, his job of declaring the dead.

It was silent, empty, then just as fate would have it, there was air in his lungs.

He was lifeless, laying along his fallen comrade. And yet, for some reason he took a breath once more, sitting up suddenly. He felt a sharp pain all over his body. This wasn't right, this isn't right. He continued to play over and over in his head.

"Another one here!" Exclaimed a familiar voice, her tone was panicked and yet relieved. Who was it? Who was he?

He looked around finding himself in a sea of bodies, his friends, his allies. They were all unmoving. And yet why was he breathing? He died in a painful fire, one in which come to think of it, was very soothing. Why is he alive?

"Gem...Gem, look at me." Someone got in his face, immediately looking at his eyes with a flashlight.

"Dr Kureha?" He spoke, his mouth was dry, how long was he out. Across the way, several beds away from him was a red haired woman, drinking glasses, and glasses of water.

"Welcome back Gem, how are you feeling?" Dr Kureha asked, though looking closely, Gem noticed the fresh tears from her eyes.

"Doctor. Why am I alive?" Asked Gem, tears started to well up. He was finally realizing what happened and he felt guilty, guilty for being alive.

"I don't know Gem, but I'm glad, on a day like this, we need a little bit of miracle." She turned once more, letting the tears flow.

The only other person to survive the massacre stood up, walking slowly towards him.

She then got close and embraced Gem.

"We have to keep going, for everyone." Said the red haired woman, Baccarat. She too asked why she was alive, as it was nothing short of a miracle. The flames were painful, then peaceful, then nothing.

"Yes." Replied Gem, though the hug caused him to break down, finally. The weight in which they had to bear was heavy, though they could not do anything now. Their Captain will know what to do, he will have to.


Somewhere...

"What the fuck do you mean we are missing some fruits?!" Teach had slammed their sack of devil fruits. They had gone in a hunt in Strawhat HQ and the fruit that they actually wanted were missing.

"What is missing?" Asked Lafitte in his usual silky smooth voice.

"Luck, Bomb, and Gas fruit." Said Van Augur, scouting through the bag of fruits.

"Fuck! The Logia, out of all things, the logia is fucking missing?" Exclaimed Teach unleashing a deadly wave of darkness all around him.

"We still came out okay boss. We got the Wolf, Phase, Snot, Rotate, and Rupture." Burgess tried to make the situation seem a little bit better. But Teach was not in the mood as he immediately grabbed Burgess by the neck.

"Do I look like I want 'okay' you fucken idiot!" Teach then tossed Burgess to the side. "How could this happen?"

Meanwhile on the side, watching this frustration erupt from Teach, was the single woman in Teach's crew, who licked her lips and smiled at his frustration. What was her play?


New World

"We're the closest! We have to press on. Goddamn Mugiwara is going to beat another Yonko. The balance of power will be tilting toward him. It's too much control for one man to have." Aboard the Marine ship were Admiral Zephyr and Admiral Fujitora. They were the closest to Whole Cake Island, and once again events happened under their nose.

"I wish to see this man who has returned from the dead." Fujitora had his eyes close, though his signature scar was nonexistent as he opened them, revealing a clear white iris. Duea to the changes in the timeline, Fujitora never changed his justice, and therefore he never blinded himself.

Where did the two admirals come from? They actually came from the World Economy News Paper, shutting down the news line and arrested every single member of Morgan's staff. The entire news operation was replaced with Marine agents so therefore they now completely control the news. All it took was Zephyr to take down the news network, Fujitora just hung back and did not even lift a finger.

Though the massive marine fleet was put into a halt. For four people stood in their path.

Their ships were held in suspension as Z looked onward eyeing the floating lion mane wearing man.

"Jihahaha! Where do you think you are going?!" Exclaimed the golden lion, floating along in front of the marine fleet.

"Shiki?! I'm going to fucken kill you!" Though Zephyr had to worry about others. For alongside the Golden Lion was the Byrnndi World the explorer. Then there was Douglas Bullet, the strongest soldier. And last was the Golden Emperor Gild. All four were former prisoners of Impel Down level 6, and all four were tasked in slowing down the World Government from getting in between Mugiwara versus Big Mom. Oh and to complete the team, there was also Magellan, the former warden of Impel Down, standing along the quartet, opposing the institution which he once stood with.

This was familiar waters for the Marines, as one again they were being prevented from pressing onward. Nine years ago it was Shanks, now it was the Golden Lion and company.

"Not again." Zephyr did not achieve his rank by sunshine and rainbows. No, he got to where he was due to a mastery in haki, infact, he was so widely respected that only Garp could rival him in sheer strength. To have that form of respect, why he didn't care much for it. All he really cared for was absolute justice.

So the first opportunity he got, Zephyr jumped from his marine ship. Lunging into the sky and meeting the unsuspecting Gild straight through, trucking through him with a single punch.

And the golden man would have fallen in the ocean water if it wasn't for Shiki, who caught him moments before he landed in the water.

"Glad you're still spry Z!" Exclaimed Shiki as he brought Gild aboard the enemy marine ship, the golden man going off as he brought the gold towards him, easily recovering from the initial shock from Zephyr's strike.

Though Fujitora would not stand pat, as he was shifted to manifest two massive meteors from the sky and unleashing them on the three level six prisoners.

Byrnndi got to work and absorbed the size of the two meteors and minimized them, so much so that the massive world ending meteors were turned into two tree size meteor. The effectiveness and quickness of casting his abilities was impressive, even more impressive was Byrnndi redirecting the tree size meteorite towards Fujitora, and Byrnndi sped up the projectile and increased its size as well.

Fujitora looked directly at Byrnndi as he was swift in cutting the tree size meteorite towards the sky, back to where it came from. Though with his gavitional power, and momentum of the redirection, eventually those tree size meteorites were going to destroy something, specially with the lack of gravity in space. Regardless, Fujitora jumped into action, colliding immediately with Byrnndi as the two squared off.

With the two admirals busy with Byrnndi and Shiki respectively, Magellan and Bullet jumped along the marine fleet, causing as much damage as they could.

"These are the more simple times!" Exclaimed Gild, jumping over to another marine ship burying a pole of gold into the core of the marine ship.

"What? Destroying marines?" Asked Bullet as he gathered material and created a mechanical sword that swung around the battleship with his orders.

Magellan kept quiet as this was his people previously though his allegiance has shifted since. He now worked with the strawhat, and his loyalty was unwavering with the man. It was strange and yet he felt at home with these people. He smiled as a wave of his poison swallowed the mast of a marine battleship, eliminating its movement.


Shiki 'the Golden Lion' vs Marine Admiral Zephyr

Shiki threw debris from the battle at Zephyr, but the Marine Admiral simply jumped in between the debrief, getting closer and closer to him. Once Zephyr got close, Shiki threw two wooden piles together and attempted to squeeze the purple haired man. Though Zephyr got out of his encasement and threw a powerful punch threw the guts of Shii, causing the Golden Lion to double over. His punches were heavy, comparing even that of his Captain.

The Admiral didn't let up, continuing on assaulting Shiki with punches wherever he would land in the air.

Until finally, Shiki created just enough separation by catching Zephyr mid air, and tossing him as far away as Shiki could possibly muster.

He gasped painfully as he had a lot of internal damage from the bluntness of Zephyr's strikes. Any moment now, the purple hair bastard was going to return for more, and Shiki needed to get ready.


Byrnndi World vs Marine Admiral Fujitora

His projectiles were easily parried by the gravity user. Fujitora's skills were not limited by his swordsmanship.

Once Fujitora got close, Byrnndi felt very heavy, unable to unleash his projectile at the gravity user. The Admiral exerted so much force that he felt like he was going to be drawn to the earth, disappearing forever.

Byrnndi attempted to enlarge a rock and sent it to Fujitora, but the swordsman simply cut his attempt into pieces.

"Foolish World! Surrender or it will be death!" The pieces of the same rock that Fujitora sliced up still retained their trajectory, and hit him across his face. Looks like Byrnndi was not going to go down without a fight. "Death it is." Scoffed the swordsman as he took his blade and slashed Byrnndi across his chest. The strike was enough to send Byrnndi off the platform into the edge, and finally falling from the edge to the mercy of the sea.

Byrnndi began his descent and nearly fell into the open ocean before Bullet retrieved his fallen form with a mechanical contraption he created. It was time to go.

"They're coming! Retreat!" Exclaimed Bullet who sensed the approach of some powerful marines. Bullet carried Byrnndi on his arm while Shiki was breathing heavily. The Admirals were no joke, but they weren't there for that.

"Got it." The reason why Gild was asked to tag by is for the sole purpose of doing the following.

A streak of light was zooming through the air, and with the element of surprise, Gild was able to deflect the light using Admiral with several panels of gold. "Let's get out of here!"

Magellan provided a wall of poison, blocking an incoming magma wave. All these techniques were not meant to kill the Admirals, it wouldn't be enough, it was just enough to slow them down.

Shiki gathered his allies, and swiftly put them aboard their ship, the Great White, and pushed them through the treacherous water. Aboard the great white was Zeo, who drove them to safety.

"Let's go!" Zeo exclaimed, launching the great white through the open sea, away from the marines.

Once again the pirates succeeded in stopping the marines long enough to slow them in disturbing the war between Big Mom and Mugiwara.

"Too slow." Fujitora said as he retrieved his blade and placed it in his sheate.

"Couldn't handle some damn pirates?!" Asked Akainu, slamming his hands against a barrel, decimating it into hundreds of pieces.

"Fucken Shiki and Bullet were here." Replied Zephyr. "They weren't here to fight, they were here to stall."

"Yup." Added Kizaru, crossing his arms. "If Aokiji wasn't suspended...no...no Aokiji sucks."

And 80% of the marine forces were there. They were even given assistance from the World Government as four members of the Cipher Pol Aegis 0 were apparently already on their way to Whole Cake Island.

The question is, was Shiki's attempt to stall them long enough to miss their chance?


Open Sea

On the moment of his magnificent descent, a dragon stood still as his body twisted around its own. For before the dragon was Red Haired, who halted his attempt at going forward.

"Why do you defy me Red haired!" Roared the mighty Dragon, around him were the forces of the Strawhat Grand Armada, who if called upon were ready to engage the upcoming forces of the Dragon.

"Kaido. It is not your time yet." Shanks proclaimed to which the Dragon let out a mighty roar.

"Fine Red Hair, your death then." Kaido began to build up energy inside his mouth and he was going to release a mighty beam.

And yet Shanks simply pulled out his blade.

"Come then Kaido." And Kaido released his beam in which case Shanks caught it with his blade, infused with Haki.

The clash was intense, almost unbearable for others. But Shanks came out unscathed. And Kaido transformed to his human form.

"I'll make you move eventually Shanks." Behind Kaido, a prehistoric zoan flew to his side. He then transformed into his human form revealing King. Next to arrive was Queen who retained his brachiosaurus form alongside Jack, in his mammoth form. The calamity of Kaido were not the only members of the Beast pirates there.

Out came the flying six, which were the six people in line with becoming All Stars. And then the rest of the Beast Pirates started to appear around the Red Force. Surrounding the escape of Shanks.

"Sure thing Kaido." Shanks replied with a smile, remaining confident despite the dire situation. It only appeared dire, but Shanks was not confident for no reason. He had his entire force with him too, Ben Beckmam and Yasopp shared Shanks' confidence.

Buggy rallied the Strawhats, he feared no one, his goal was to simply put away Alvida, the woman who put him in the hell hole for a very long time.

Kaido stared down the Shanks.

King was targeting Ben Beckmam.

Queen felt like he would be mostly entertained by Buggy who was far from being the joking meaning of clown.

Jack cared for no one but looks like he will fight with Yasopp.

"Go." Commanded Shanks and another titanic war was commencing, while another occurred on the other side of the new world. Whole Cake Island.


Whole Cake Island

"Chopper-ya! How are they holding up!" Law had been doing two surgical procedures at one time. Daifuku and Oven were suffering immensely from their own mother's power

"Critical damnit." Chopper was trying to resuscitate Smoothie. This was insane, just goes to show that a Yonko was way above their capabilities. Cracker remained heavily injured but he tried his best to help his siblings. Raisin was out, Noisette was down, Galette remained gone. It was not a good day for the Charlotte siblings. Gin helped the group carry the people to a proper position, he was tasked with assisting the doctors.

Custard, Nougat, and Broye came to their aid, immediately asking. "Please, tell us what we can do." Broye and Law looked at one another for a moment. Even if they weren't professionals, they would have to do. This was crazy.

The war between the Strawhats and the Big Mom pirates was officially underway.


Whole Cake War

Emperor 'Mugiwara' Monkey D. Luffy vs Emperor 'Big Mom' Charlotte Linlin

Roronoa Zoro vs Gasparde

'Demon Child' Nico Robin vs Charlotte Amode

Vinsmoke Sanji w/ Pudding

'Soul King' Brook

'Warrior of the Sea' Jinbei

Nami

Cyborg Franky

'Sniper King' Usopp

'Dogtooth' Katakuri vs Charlotte Perospero

'Sand King' Crocodile vs Charlotte Opera

'Hawkeye' Dracule Mihawk vs Charlotte Snack

'Queen' Boa Hancock vs Charlotte Capote

'Mad Monk' Urouge vs Charlotte Counter

Capone 'Gang' Bege vs Charlotte Cadeza

Wyper vs Charlotte Cabaletta

Baby 5 vs Charlotte Gala

'Thousand Plan' Kuro vs Needles

Kaku vs Shuraiya

'Champion of the Sea' Arlong vs Streusen

'Thunder King' Enel vs Tamago

'Whitebeard' Edward Newgate

Marco 'the Phoenix'

'Diamond' Jozu

'Flower Sword' Vista

Blamenco

Namur

Izo

Corazon

Bonclay

Blueno

Brulee

Gin

Charlotte Lola

Capone Chiffon

Capone Pez

Charlotte Praline

Ikarus Much

Hatchan

Kuroobi

Surume and Laboon

Vinsmoke Yonji vs Charlotte Effilee

Vinsmoke Reiju vs Charlotte Dacquoise

Vinsmoke Ichiji vs Charlotte Baskarte

Vinsmoke Niji vs Charlotte Saint Marc

Vinsmoke Judge vs Charlotte Mont d'Or


On the outskirts of Whole Cake Island, four masked individuals finally arrived. They were imposing and powerful, their goal? Death to all pirates, even if it caused them their life.

This was the way of the Cipher Pol, this was the way of the World Government.