Hey guys! Forzarismo here with the fourth chapter of The Rubbery Vengeance. I'm actually surprised by all the positive stuff you guys have said about my fanfic, not to mention it got popular rather fast because as of right now, I have 124 favorites and 180 followers. This chapter is split into 2 parts, and I have something in store for you guys in hopes to differentiate myself from other Time-Travel One Piece fanfics. Now I hope you guys enjoy!
Disclaimer: Apparently someone actually called the cops and stopped me from jumping the Golden gate Bridge. As of right now, I'm the same as ever: not own ing One Piece, except I'm in prison. Knowing my luck, I'll probably drop the soap.
Chapter 4: An Unseen Change: Part 1
Ace was not having a good day. In fact, he wouldn't have a worse day until he confronts Blackbeard and gets captured. Thinking he and Sabo can still steal under the noses of the Bluejam Pirates, they tried to do it once more after Ace convinced Sabo, only for both of them to get captured by Bluejam and his crew. 'How!?' Ace thought angrily as helped Bluejam and his crew set up packages all over the area of the Grey Terminal. 'Man, I should've listened to Luffy. I don't even know when he'll come back. Now because of me, Sabo was forced back into his old home to which he doesn't want to be at.' Ace was ready to to tear up in anguish as he was being pushed forward by Bluejam.
"I thought I told your grunt to tell you not to harm my brothers Bluejam." Said a child-like voice who Ace immediately recognized. Blue jam and his cohorts turned around to see a rather pissed Luffy who was steaming all over. Ace was very happy when he saw Luffy, but then he saw the look Luffy was giving him. "Ace, would you PLEASE tell me HOW you got into this situation?" Luffy said as he gave strained smile while the look in his eye showed Ace that he was gonna get it after this. While Luffy was assessing the situation, he noticed the paper Bluejam was holding in his left hand.
"Oh, what's this?" Luffy said as he took the paper from Bluejam's hand and looked into what appeared to be a map of the Grey Terminal.
It took him a couple seconds before Bluejam looked into his left hand. When he realized what happened, he was left shocked as he didn't even see the kid take the paper from him. Heck, he didn't even see the kid move from his spot!
"So! you were planning on burning down the Grey Terminal. Why were you planning that?" Luffy asked Bluejam.
"Isn't it obvious?" Bluejam retorted. "The nobles say that if we burn down this wretched place, we can become nobles ourselves! Who wouldn't accept this offer!" Bluejam continued raising his voice every couple of seconds. Luffy just looked at him with little pity, knowing that he was one of those responsible for having a traumatic experience however, made Luffy re-affirm his decision.
"So this is how it's going to turn out, I will kill all of you, and that's it." Luffy deadpanned as he put the piece of paper in his pocket and set aside his backpack. Bluejam and all of his cohorts started roaring in laughter right as Luffy finished his sentence. Bluejam continued laughing until he noticed that he was the only one laughing, along with feeling some warm liquid land on him. He then opened his eyes and looked in shock as all of his grunts were sliced in perfect, neat piles of flesh and organs. "W-what did you do!?" Bluejam yelled in anger as he looked towards Luffy.
"Rankyaku Barrage" Luffy muttered, barely audible to Ace and Bluejam who were the only ones left there alive. Bluejam the found himself getting plowed through the trash of the Grey Terminal, getting shreds of metal pierced through all of his body, making him ache and groan in pain. Luffy then grabbed a long, sharp, broken pipe and launched it towards Bluejam at a high speed, guaranteeing a hit. The pipe pierced through the middle of his neck, causing him to start gurgling in his own blood, making him slowly drown to death. Luffy then turned to Ace who just stood there motionless.
"Ace…You and me are going to have a little chat when we get home." Luffy said in a very happy sounding tone, though it couldn't fool no one about Luffy's actual feelings at the moment. "But before that," Luffy said as he took out the map from his pocket and looked at it. "We need to retrieve those boxes and dump them into the ocean, so help me with that." Luffy said seemingly calming himself down enough to think rationally.
Later at Night…
"…And what did we learn from this?" Luffy asked a very beaten Ace who was kneeling before him.
"To not go do stupid shit unless it's 100% safe to do so or if you know you'll live." Ace said as he rubbed his cheek with the ice pack that Rouge gave to him to lower the swelling around his face.
"Correct! Now as punishment, you will have to refurbish the Dadan House as well as make Dadan a gift." Luffy concluded as he walked towards the door. "Oh! and if Rouge asks, tell her that I'm at the Grey terminal making sure nothing bad happens there."
"Okay Luffy I…will." Ace responded right when he realized Luffy left immediately.
Luffy found himself walking around the perimeter of the Grey Terminal. While walking around there, he overheard some people talking and decided to eavesdrop on them.
"Well, now we know what happened to that damn pirate. They are always a useless piece of shit when it comes down to it." Said a man who was wearing some rather expensive-looking clothing. he appeared to be looking over a dead body who Luffy realised was Bluejam as he saw the pipe was still through his neck.
"Well, what do we do now? With him and his crew out of the picture as well as those explosives not in their places, how will we get rid of this trash? The World Noble will definitely not be pleased if he sees this." Said another noble that was beside the first one. After hearing this, Luffy decided to take action.
"The World Noble will definitely not be pleased when he sees this trash. As to how you nobles will get rid of it, you won't." Luffy said as he surprised the 2 nobles as well as the guards that came with them.
"Who're you kid! And what do you mean we won't be able to get rid of this place?! It's just trash! That's all there is to it. What, do you think you can stop us?" Yelled angrily Noble #1 as his guards surrounded him.
"Actually yes I do. And YOU guys won't be going nowhere." Affirmed Luffy as he started walking down the heap of scrap metal and trash towards the nobles who're being protected by their guards. Luffy decided to just knock all of them out with his Conqueror's Haki feeling to lazy to actually punch them. He went on to tie them all up with some rope he found in the metal heap beside him, then mischievously decided to bring them to the Dadan House in which they were beaten brutally by a very happy Dadan and her Grunts.
'hmmm...' Luffy hummed to himself, 'I wonder if how the World Noble would react with the Grey Terminal still intact.'
The Next Day…
Luffy watched as the World Noble's ship was starting to become visible. From the look on his face, one can definitely see that Luffy was EXTREMELY frustrated on what to do on this fateful day.
'FUUUUUCK! I want to save Sabo, but if I do, he won't be able to become the Chief Of Staff of my dad's army!' Luffy inwardly screamed at himself as he tried to get himself comfortable on the tree he is sitting on. He was currently contemplating on what to do with what is going to happen to Sabo.
Eventually though, he made the decision to just let time take its course however painful it may seem for Luffy. Luffy went on looking at the event and after a couple of minutes, he saw a little boat and a little boy wearing a tophat in said boat. Luffy looked on with hopelessness and rage evident in his eyes as we was forced to see his older brother Sabo get shot down along with his boat by the World Noble. While he knew Sabo would survive this attempt of getting his life taken away, it made Luffy enraged as he saw firsthand what caused Sabo to lose his memories. It took all of his willpower to not do anything while the World Noble docked and Sabo's body sunk into the depths of the ocean. Seeing this, Luffy instinctively used his Observation Haki to try to find Sabo's presence. After a couple seconds of searching for his presence, Luffy sighed in relief as he found Sabo's body still alive, albeit drifting away. He then sensed an all too familiar presence coming closer to Sabo: his father Dragon.
While Luffy should've been joyful at this, he couldn't mainly because his anger was beginning to cloud out his judgement after seeing that disgusting World Noble shoot at Sabo with no remorse visible on his person. In his first life one may call Luffy a little crazy, if not downright insane, but for what Luffy was planning, They would definitely say that he is the embodiment of madness.
Where the World Noble is…
The World Noble was very angry today. The people of this so-called 'clean' city had the gall to lie to him just to make him visit and make him waste his very precious time. Once he reached the southern gate of the walled city, he was disgusted to the point of almost vomiting at what he saw. He turned away from the giant heap of metal and looked furiously at the nobles who they themselves were shocked at what they saw.
'What is THAT still doing here!' Outlook III screamed mentally, 'I thought that that damn pirate was going to burn this place to the ground by the time the World Noble got here!'
"You dare…" The World Noble muttered before exploding in anger, "YOU DARE BRING ME HERE, WASTE MY TIME, TAKE ME TO AN ABOMINATION OF A PLACE AND BE OKAY WITH THAT!? How dare you pathetic gnats take to your dump!" The World Noble finished as he shot Outlook III at the head, killing him instantly. The other nobles were horrified at the World Noble's outburst but just kept themselves quiet, hoping that this regretful day would hurry up and end already.
The World Noble had enough of this and decided to leave this horrid land. While he went back up his ship through the ramp, he felt himself shiver in fear, confusing him. Choosing to ignore it, he continued up the ramp, into his ship's quarters. Out on the cliffside, Luffy was glaring at the government ship while leaking killing intent towards said ship.
Luffy waited until the ship was beginning to go near the horizon of the sea, he then activated Gear Second and geppou'd to their general direction.
Once Luffy was in a reasonable distance to the ship, he noticed that there were four Marine ships awaiting for the arrival of the World Noble's ship. Knowing he could easily take them out, Luffy went closer to the Government ship.
"GUM-GUM ELEPHANT GATLING!" Luffy yelled out as he blackened his arms after he expanded them to a ginormous size. The crew on the government ship heard what Luffy said and turned to see where the sound came from, only to pale in fear as they saw two massive hands coming towards their ship at great speeds. The four Marine ships in the distance saw in horror as two massive hands seemed to appear out of nowhere and started destroying the ship where the World Noble is currently on. Many people on that ship got luck and abandoned it while the rest weren't so lucky, such as the World Noble. After a good ten seconds of Luffy's surprise attack, Luffy deflated his arms and used his haki to locate the World Noble in the debris of the ship. Once Luffy found him, he knew he had to make it quick as the four Marine ships were closing in on the destroyed government ship's position. Luffy got the World Noble out of the broken wood on top of him, bring the World Noble up to his face with anger and disgust on both of their faces.
"Who are you, you piece of shit!? What happened to my ship!?" The World Noble bellowed to Luffy, spitting on his face in the process, making Luffy even angrier.
Luffy was silent for a couple of seconds before jabbing his haki-infused hand into the World Noble's gut, causing the World Noble to gasp in shock and cough up blood.
"You harmed my brother today. I don't care if you're a World Noble or not. To me, you're the same as the dirt I walk on. You will pay for what you did." Luffy said as he brought up his unused hand and blew in it, then forced the air in his bone to enter his other arm. This caused the arm to expand and, subsequently, causing the World Noble to explode. The surrounding government workers as well as the Marines were frozen stiff at what just happened at that moment. What were they going to say to the Gorosei and the other World Nobles? That they failed in protecting one of their brethren from getting killed? Luckily for them, Luffy was putting too much of his attention to the prick he had just killed, giving the Marines enough time to prepare to capture the straw hat wearing boy. 2 marine snipers got in position with the first one shooting and successfully hitting Luffy in the back of his left leg with a kairoseki bullet, causing Luffy to be weakened considerably and fall on his knees. The other sniper decided to not take any chance and hit Luffy with a tranquilizer round in the back of his neck, successfully knocking him out. Once they got close enough, the Marines chained up Luffy with massive amounts of kairoseki chain in order to keep him from resisting too much. Once that was completed, they dragged Luffy into one of the jail cells in the Marine ship and threw him in there, awaiting orders on what to do with the child.
In one of the Marine's Ship…
Once he came to, Luffy found himself in a very dark and damp cell inside of a Marine ship as far as he can tell. He looked to where he saw the most light and found a Marine sitting behind a desk, reading what seemed to be a manual of sorts. Luffy sighed as he realized the predicament he is current in.
"Well…this was an outcome that I did not expect." Luffy mused to himself as tried to get himself in a comfortable position, only to feel extreme pain in the back of his left leg. Luffy looked towards his injured leg and found a bullet wound there along with a puddle of blood in the surrounding area. Luffy grunted in pain as he dug two of his fingers into his wound in order to try to take out the kairoseki bullet that is still lodged in there. After a couple grunts of pain and tries, Luffy successfully took out the bullet despite his weakened state.
"Keep it down kid! I'm trying to meditate here!" The Marine guard yelled towards Luffy's cell. Luffy then kept himself quiet for a while until his stomach grumbled. The Marine heard the grumbling and his felt sorry for the straw hat boy, so he went up to the kid with a bag of beef jerky.
"Hey kid," The Marine said in order to get Luffy's attention, "You want some?" The Marine continued as he brought out the bag of beef jerky.
Luffy saw the bag and started drooling with anticipation, making the Marine guard chuckle as he tossed the bag to Luffy.
"Thank you! You're not such a bad guy after all!" Luffy exclaimed as he smiled up at the Marine who smiled back at him.
"The name's Jonathan. Yours?" The Marine now named Jonathan said as he brought a chair up near Luffy's jail cell.
"My name is Luffy!" Luffy answered back as he opened up the bag of beef jerky.
"Would you care to explain to me why you did what you did?" Jonathan asked the 7 year old boy as he brought out his own bag of jerky.
"He killed my brother, so I came here to kill him once we were far enough from the island" Luffy half-lied while he munched on some of the jerky, as he remembered that in his first timeline, he truly did believe Sabo was dead.
"From what most of us saw, your arms expanded into a massive size. So what kind of devil fruit did you eat?" Jonathan inquired as he brought a big chunk of jerky into his mouth.
"I ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, making me a rubber man." Luffy responded as he dumped the rest of the jerky into his mouth.
"Don't you mean rubber boy?" Jonathan joked, making Luffy pout. "Anyways, about the killing the World Noble thing, most of the Marines as well as the government workers that were left alive after your assault are pretty pissed about what you did. Hell, all of them that are pissed at you want to execute you right here right now. Me on the other hand, am actually joyful that you did this. Each and every single person in this boat, besides you of course, are afraid of invoking the wrath of the World Nobles, thus we can't do anything against them. Even if they do crimes that we would usually arrest someone, because of their heritage, we have to turn the other way around. Makes me and some other guys angry you know, that we are supposed to represent justice, and yet, we have many people in the system who abuse their power for money and fame." Jonathan ranted while Luffy listened and nodded. Luffy had to agree with the man. The Marines as well as the World Government really were corrupt, destroying islands just to keep some things a secret such as Robin's home island Ohara, or when Luffy's crew and Allies had been ambushed right before reaching Raftel.
"Umm…Jonathan? Got anything to drink? The jerky made me thirsty." Luffy asked as he felt around his throat to further emphasize his thirst. Jonathan just looked at Luffy and smiled.
"Sure, and give me your empty bag of jerky so I can throw it away while I'm at it." Jonathan said extending his hand out to grab the bag. Once he did, he walked towards the the ladder to go on towards the next level of the ship, where the kitchen is located at, leaving Luffy alone to ponder in his thoughts.
At The Kitchen…
There were two marines standing next to each other looking at the glass filled with a light bluish smoothie with some red in there as well. The first marine has a whiskered face while the other one has prominent cheekbones as well as a toucan-beak nose.
"So Shepherd, who's going to drink this devil fruit? I mean we both found it, so it belongs to the both of us." said the whiskered-faced marine as he looked towards his fellow comrade.
"How about we rock-paper-scissors for it Nezumi? Best out of 3 as well, so that way, we leave it to lady luck." The now named marine known as Shepherd said to Nezumi as they prepared themselves for their game.
"What power do you think this devil fruit has?" Nezumi asked as he brought his right hand over his left palm.
"Who knows? From the books we have here in the ship, I couldn't identify it. It might be a whole new power that no one knows about and it might be the most powerful fruit ever!" Shepherd said excitedly. Right as they were going to begin, the transponder snail coms came up.
"ALL MARINES REPORT ON DECK IMMEDIATELY! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!" The coms said before they went quiet.
"*Sigh* looks, like we're going to have to continue this later." Shepherd said as he and Nezumi walked out of the kitchen, leaving the smoothie there. Moments later, Jonathan came in and saw the smoothie there.
'How convenient.' He thought as he took it and left the kitchen to go back down to Luffy's cell.
Back to Luffy's Cell…
Luffy heard the coms and wondered what that was about. Before he could further think about it, Jonathan came in and went towards Luffy with a bluish smoothie.
"Here you go Luffy. Now I have to go. Apparently, all marines have to go outside for something." Jonathan said as he quickly left Luffy and went back up the ladder. Luffy looked at the drink with mild interest as it looked rather weird. Despite this, he threw caution out the window and chugged it down. Once he got it down, he realized that it tasted horrendously bad and started scratching his tongue in order to remove the taste from his mouth. He then felt his stomach rumble lowly, which started getting louder and louder until an audible splurt was heard. Luffy's eyes widen as he started coughing up blood and writhe on the ground in pain. 'Oh no…' Luffy thought as he started bleeding out of every single pore in his body. Eyes, nose, ears, mouth, and many other places were like geysers of blood as Luffy couldn't handle the pain anymore and started screaming in agony. 'Is this it for me?' Luffy thought as he felt his life force leaving him. 'I definitely fucked up big time…I'm sorry everyone…looks like this might be the end for me.'
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"ATTENTION ALL MARINES! THE EXECUTION OF NICO ROBIN SHALL COMMENCE IN 10 MINUTES! PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR THE OCCASION."
Ka-cha!
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'What…!?'
Luffy didn't even know Robin was here at all. Luffy tried activating his Observation Haki, but couldn't as he was too weak and still dying due to the fact that he unknowingly drank a second devil fruit. "No…!" Luffy wheezed out as he started to get up from the floor despite the very increasing paining and losing massive amounts of blood at a very fast rate.
As he started limping towards the cell door, his body suddenly started to melt as well as glow blue in certain areas of his body, causing him to fall back down. Despite this, Luffy continued on as he felt a boost of strength overwhelm his body. His body started glowing more and more until he was glowing in a lightish blue color all over his body.
"Robin will not die today…" Luffy rasped out as his body started to expand and a foggy, dust-looking cloud started surrounding him. Then Luffy somehow got back up despite his melted, deformed body making it impossible for him to do so and yelled at the top of his lungs.
"ROBIN WILL STAY ALIVE AS LONG AS I'M HERE!"
And at that moment, Luffy's body burst, making the bluish dust-looking cloud increase in size and expand all over the vicinity of the ship's prison, with the only thing signifying that Luffy was ever there is the blood on the floor in his cell along with his trademark straw hat.
MUHAHAHAHAHA! I'm evil! Another cliffhanger... Don't kill me plz.
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Forzarismo
October 15, 2015
