Hey guys! Forzarismo here with the 7th chapter for The Rubbery Vengeance. Just to let you guys know, this might be my last chapter for the year, so I'd like to thank each and every one of you guys who have supported my fanfiction, reaching over 300 favorites along with over 380 followers is like a dream to me. As of today, these are my story stats:

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So if this IS my last chapter for the year, I'd like to bid all of you guys a Merry Christmas if you celebrate it. If not, then happy Kwanzaa or Hanukah. And to all of my fellow fanfiction writers and readers, I bid you a Happy 2016!

(DECEMBER 13, 2015 EDIT: I made a poll on what kind of weapon would you guys like Usopp to specialize in since he's being trained by Grasmick Neos. Would like to know as you guys affect what happens next in my story.)

Disclaimer: Somewhere in the multiverses, I own One Piece. Sadly that is not this universe.


Chapter 7: Helping Those in Need

"How did we ever end up in this mess?" Arasval mused as he overlooked at Wayne tending at the three people who appear to be a family, a man, woman, and a little girl. They had rescued them during the massive storm that happened a half hour later after they finished their job from the World Government.

"Well, we couldn't just leave these people to die." Neos said monotonously. "If it weren't for me, their deaths would've been guaranteed."

"Well that is true, but we don't know who they are though, and we can't keep them with us." Arasval stated as Wayne finished up checking on them. Wayne didn't have his mask on, showing his somewhat feminine, yet handsome face to his crewmates. He also was wearing a simple white shirt with a white coat over it along with khaki chinos and brown suede shoes.

"Well…Aside of a couple fractures, cuts, and bruises, they are going to be just fine." Wayne said as he looked over at his work. The three people appeared to have been a rich family that were at the wrong place in the wrong time. Arasval especially took note of the group. They were pale, not due to being cold or anything of the sort, but rather they are naturally pale, along with having light blonde hair. A little while later, they woke up.

"W-wha? Where am I? What's going on?" The now awakened man spoke as he got up the bed he is in.

"Calm down sir, you and your family were caught up in a storm when we rescued you three from drowning." Neos explained trying to get the man to calm down. Soon after, the man's wife and daughter woke up in panic as well.

"Honey! What's going on!? Where are we!?" The woman asked with panicked evident in her voice.

"M-mommy? Daddy? Why are you yelling? Is something wrong?" The little girl asked hesitantly as she noticed her parents and herself bandaged and in some beds in front of three strangers.

"Now before any of you jump to conclusions and do something rash, we were merely passing by in our submarine when we already saw you three sinking into the abyss of the ocean." Arasval explained to the now calmer family. The man spoke up after Arasval spoke, gaining courage and calmness by the captain's words.

"How were we saved?" He asked the three men in front of him.

"Well, the stoic guy leaning on the wall there practically did the entire rescue mission so he should be the one gaining your thanks." Wayne said as he directed the man with his head towards Neos who just nodded with his usual poker face on. "As for how we saved you, that's a secret." He continued on as he gave them a playful grin.

"Well as you all probably know, we cannot keep you here with us." Arasval stated seriously as he looked at the family. "So where I'm getting at is, where do you live, and is it nearby?"

"We live in Syrup Village which are on the Gecko Islands." The little girl said a little scared of the captain, most likely due to his soul-piercing, hawk-like eyes.

Arasval took note of what she said, nodded, and turned to Wayne. "How long will it take us to get there?" He asked as Wayne left the room and went to the Navigation room. He looked at the very advanced looking table which showed a holographic map of the East Blue. He then pinpointed their location and where the Gecko Islands were located at. Once he got the information he needed, he went back to where the rest were.

"It'll take us 2 hours to reach there Aras. So with that out of the picture, let's introduce ourselves! My name is Gracielson Wayne and I'm the Doctor and Navigator of this submarine."

"I'm Gastun D. Arasval, the Captain and Cook of this humble place."

"Grasmick Neos. Shipwright and Weaponmaster."

"Well, I don't see any harm in introducing ourselves," The man said, receiving a nod from his wife and daughter. "My name is Edmund, and this is my wife Charlotte." He said as he grabbed his daughter and put her on his lap.

"And this little beauty here-" He was stopped by the girl's hands.

"Daddy, I can introduce myself you know." she said as she got off her dad's lap and went up towards Arasval as she extended her hand.

"My name is Kaya, future doctor! Thank you for saving us!"


With Luffy a Couple Hours Before…

"Well…That's enough training for today." said a completely tired out Luffy as he laid on the ground with round bushes surrounding him. He now knew that making living things take SO much energy, even when he 'memorized' said living being's structure. After getting up, he heard a sizzling coming from his hat, which he remembered placing the piece of paper that Drizzy gave him and took it out. Much to his shock, the moment he got it out, it fizzled out of existence.

"…So he died." Was all a saddened Luffy could say. He knew that everyday for a pirate, there was always that chance of death leering over them. Not letting the demise of potential ally and friend get to him, he decided to head back home as he got really hungry. Despite this, If he found those responsible for their deaths, he will avenge them. When he was about to home, he came across a wild boar who stupidly charged at the exhausted Luffy, who despite his exhaustion, just rankyaku'd the boar straight through the middle effortlessly, splitting said boar into 2 pieces. When he came back home, he saw that Robin was out on the porch reading while Ace was chopping down wood.

"Hey guys! I'm back with food!" Luffy yelled happily as he made his appearance known while he held a piece of the boar in each hand. Ace rushed up to Luffy while Robin just looked up from her book and smiled at the two.

'He would really be a great father.' Robin thought to herself suddenly as she continued on watching Luffy and Ace interacting with each other. Realizing what she just thought of, Robin face reddened a little before removing such thoughts of Luffy from her head. Before she could go say hello to Luffy, he headed to the back of the house to give the sliced boar to Rouge.

After Luffy came back from giving the boar to Rouge, he went up to Robin to speak to her about some things.

"Hi Robin!" A re-vigored Luffy spoke cheerfully as he sat down next to Robin.

"Hello Luffy-san. I guess that your training ended well?" Robin asked as she took a sip from her cup of coffee that was on the table nearby her.

"Finally! I was getting tired of being called Straw Hat-san." Luffy said as he gave a very honest grin.

Robin chuckled at that statement. "Well, if you are going to be my captain, I could also call you captain-san." she stated playfully much to Luffy's horror.

"No! Don't call me that just when you finally started calling me by my name! I hate formalities." Luffy said before he was shocked by what he said. 'I can now say super long words. Didn't see that one coming.' Luffy thought as he stretched his arms (WITHOUT using his Gum-Gum Fruit).

"Okay then Captain-san." Robin said making Luffy pout and put his head on the table.

After a moment of silence, Luffy started the conversation again. "So Robin, would you like to learn how to use haki?" He asked the archaeologist.

"You would teach me that?" She asked surprised by his generous offer.

"Of course! Anything for my nakama." Luffy stated happily as he gave her his trademark grin.

Robin couldn't help but smile at what he just said. This is the first time in ten years that someone was genuinely helping her get stronger as well as keep her safe, not to mention all he asked of her was to join his pirate crew.

"Sure why not tomorrow seeing as you seem pretty tired from training." She said as she finished the last of her cup of coffee.

"Okay then, we'll start tomorrow morning." Luffy finished as he headed inside of the house with Ace and Robin following shortly thereafter.

"Thank you Luffy." Robin whispered as she went inside the house.


With The Perditionists…

When The Perditionists reached the Gecko Islands, they expected it to be a little more…populated to say the least, not that they were complaining.

"Land ho!" Wayne yelled as he jumped off of the submarine and with Edmund riding on his back while Neos and Arasval did the same with Charlotte and Kaya respectively. When they landed they didn't expect someone to be out there as if he were expecting them.

"PIRATES! PIRATES HAVE LANDED! AND THEY HAVE CAPTURED KAYA AND HER FAMILY!" The young boy with an unusually long nose exclaimed repeatedly as he ran back to what appeared to be his village. But before he could he even run 10 feet, Arasval appeared in front of him, grabbed him, and blurred back to his original position next to Kaya.

"Do you know this kid?" Arasval asked as he put the long nosed kid down.

"Beware you pirates! I have over 8,000,000 men behind me, the GREAT Captain Usopp!" The now named Usopp exclaimed a little shakily as he tried to intimidate the three unknown men in front of him with his 'very believable and well thought out' lie.

"Usopp, stop! They saved us from getting killed by a storm! If it weren't for them, we wouldn't be here." Kaya said to her friend trying to get him to calm down.

"Ohhh…I'm sorry! I just saw that you guys were carrying Kaya and her family and I jumped to conclusions." Usopp apologized to which Wayne and Arasval shook their heads in amusement while Neos had a very unnoticeable smile on his face.

'This boy,' Neos thought as he examined Usopp. 'I wonder how he knew we were going to land here. Does he have Observation Haki? If he does and at such a young age, he no doubt has massive potential for it, like me.'

"How did you know we were here?" Neos questioned the little Usopp.

"I don't know, I just felt some sort of pull over here." Usopp answered confirming Neos suspicions.

"Well let's head to the village, you three will absolutely love it!" Charlotte said as she took her husband's hand and led the other five to Syrup Village.


At Syrup Village…

To their surprise, the village was rather lively and looked peaceful…TOO peaceful for their tastes. Well, then again, they are big-time bounty hunters that are accustomed to warfare.

"So what do you think Mr. Gastun." Edmund asked the captain of the three-man crew.

"I've never seen such peacefulness in a single place. But please, no formalities. Arasval is fine." Arasval stated as he looked around the area.

"Oh! By the way Usopp, how is your mother?" Kaya asked Usopp who just shook his head in sadness.

"It's pretty bad, the local doctor says she doesn't have more than two days left." Usopp choked out as tears threatened to fall off.

Wayne just looked on at the two youngsters and decided to butt into the young children's conversation.

"Maybe I can help? I am a doctor you know?" He told the young Usopp who just gaped at the orange-haired man in shock.

"Really!? You can heal my mom!" Usopp exclaimed with hope evident in his tone of voice.

"Believe it or not, Wayne here is one of the best doctors out there in the world, so I can vouch for him." Neos stated neutrally as he looked at Wayne, who just grinned at his compliment.

"So can you take us there Usopp? That is unless you don't want your mom to live." Wayne stated a little playfully as Usopp rushed as fast as he could towards his house motioning the three bounty hunters and Kaya's family to follow him. Wayne's statement was met with two punches, one from each of his crewmates for scaring the kid a little with that statement.

"You shouldn't say that to a kid about his own mother who apparently is near death's door." Neos scolded Wayne as he really disapproved to what he did.

"If you were just some random ass doctor that I barely knew, I would've shoved Caliburn so far up your ass or slice off your gentleman's parts just for saying that, even though that wouldn't have killed you either way." Arasval warned to the now pale Wayne.

After said warnings from his crewmates, Wayne and the rest went to Usopp's house.


In Usopp's House…

When the group entered Usopp's house, they were greeted to the sight of Usopp sitting on a chair that was next to a bed, which had Usopp's mother lying there.

"Hello there, Usopp has told me about you three. I'm Banchina. I would get up to shake your hand, but certain circumstances won't allow me to." Usopp's mother now known as Banchina said softly as she looked on to them from her bed.

"Okay then, I guess I'll skip introductions. So," Wayne said as he extended his right arm as blackish red gas started emanating from it and condensed itself before dispersing to show a big bag filled with state-of-the-art medical equipment, much to the shock and surprise of those in the room minus his crewmates. "Apparently you're sick and the local doctor has resigned you to your deathbed. Well, you aren't going down if I have any say in it." Wayne promised seriously as he began to position all of the equipment in the bag around the bed that Banchina is currently in.

"Okay, I'm going to need everyone to get out for about a couple of hours or so." Wayne ordered professionally as he then looked down at Usopp. "That means you too youngster. I'm sorry but you can't be with your mom while I'm working. please go out with the others." Wayne kindly told Usopp who noticed everyone but him left the building, so he left following Wayne's orders.

"Are you ready Banchina?" Wayne asked to which she nodded.

"Alright then, Let's get you healthy again."


Outside Usopp's House…

"Will she be okay?" Kaya asked Arasval while Usopp walked out of the house next to her.

"Don't worry about it." Arasval said kindly to the two kids as he crouched down to look at them eye-to-eye and rustled their hair. "If I ever were to catch a deadly disease unknown to man, I would trust Wayne to find the cure and to give it to me."

"Indeed. The old geezer has vast amounts of knowledge inside of that 'youthful' head of his. It's a wonder how he hasn't gotten senile yet." Neos remarked as he looked up at the sky to watch the clouds.

"Umm…Neos sir?" Edmund began. "Why do you keep calling the young doctor 'old geezer'? He appears to be around your age if not younger." He questioned as Neos smirked while Arasval let out a chuckle.

"The fact of the matter is, He is actually older than ALL of us combined times 6. In fact this year, he's going turn…" Arasval went on as he somewhat forgot how old Wayne REALLY is.

"468 years old Aras." Neos informed his captain.

"Yes, 468 years old. That is the first reason we call Wayne 'old geezer'. The second reason we do it, and quite possibly the main reason as well is, It irritates him." Arasval finished smiling while Neos' smirk turned into a chuckle.

The other four however, paled in the realization that the doctor is essentially a relic from the past that happened to also be immortal.

"D-Did Wayne eat a devil fruit?" Charlotte asked uncertainly as she looked at the house where the orange-haired doctor/navigator was currently in.

"Yes he did." Neos stated simply as he continued cloud-gazing.

"Which one is it?" She pressed on.

"We can't say. It's a secret to anyone and everyone who isn't in our crew." Arasval said with seriousness evident on the expression on his face.

"What about you and Neos?" Usopp asked this time.

"We also have devil fruit powers if that's what you are asking." Arasval voiced out as he let out a yawn.

"Which powers are they?" Usopp and Kaya inquired much to Aras' amusement.

"Like I have said before, That's a secret." He teased much to the children's frustration. "Well, now if you guys don't mind, I'll go to sleep. Wake me up when Wayne gets out Neos." Arasval told his shipwright who just nodded in confirmation.


2 Hours Later…

"Well…That was pretty fucking easy to cure. And here I thought it was going to be a new discovery or something!" Wayne exclaimed as he stretched and removed the rubber gloves he had on. Everyone, including the now awake Arasval looked towards the direction of the now professionally dressed doctor.
"So!? How's my mom!?" Usopp asked worryingly as he was preparing for the worst.

Much to his relief Wayne smiled. "She is just fine. Thankfully I had the cure to her said disease. Give her a week's rest as well as plenty amount of food, and she'll be back to the mom you always knew and loved." Wayne reassured the long-nosed kid, who started crying out of joy.

Arasval then went up to Wayne. "So I take it all went smoothly?" Arasval asked.

"Oh hell yeah, The disease is curable, the doctors here in the area just didn't have enough information about the disease. Even if they did though, The supplies for the disease aren't available here in the East Blue." Wayne explained as he looked at Kaya's family and smiled.

"First you save us and then you save a family friend, How can we ever repay you three?" Edmund said gratefully as he looked at the three bounty hunters.

"Hmm…" The three were in thought before they looked at each other and decided to huddle up away from the four.

"What do you guys think? We don't need money and we are no longer wanted by the World Government. What can they give us?" Arasval asked his crewmates.

"I would like to have the chance to train the long-nosed kid." Neos said shocking the other two.

"Why? What did you see in him?" Arasval question Neos, who just gave him the 'you serious?' face.

"Well for one, He was there when our submarine surfaced. He also said that he felt a 'pull' so to speak that led him to us. This is an obvious sign of him beginning to awake his haki." Neos reasoned.

"Yeah now that you mention it, I'd like to also train the young girl. She did say that she wanted to become a doctor." Wayne chimed in much to the Arasval's dismay.

"Well alright then, If that's what you guys want, then we'll ask for that." Arasval concluded as they headed back to where the other four were.

"We decided that you can repay us by selling your souls to us!" Wayne exclaimed evilly much the horror of Kaya's family and Usopp who turned blue in fear.

Wayne then got smacked by the blunt end of Neos' guandao along with the handle of Arasval's Caliburn.

"Sorry. The geezer didn't mean that. What we really want is to train your daughter and her friend." Neos stated professionally as Wayne gaped at him. "Yes Wayne, I told them your not-so-secret secret. They now know that you are a old senile fool who's only good at being a doctor and navigator." Neos taunted while Wayne extended his left arm as the same blackish red gas started emanating from it to form his signature 'Warning Sign' weapon.

"Would you like to repeat that?" Wayne warned dangerously as he started walking slowly towards Neos, who entered a fighting stance with his guandao.

"I'll be gladly to, you are a old senile fo-" He wasn't able to finish as Wayne launched a flurry of strikes at him which Neos was able to defend from gracefully and successfully. Did I mention he also did it with grace?

"Ignoring the fighting, Neos is going to train Usopp while Wayne is going to train Kaya." Arasval explained to them who nodded in understandment.

"Alright then, give me moment." Arasval continued before flashing between Wayne and Neos and coated his arms with Armament Haki to block their respective weapons.

"If you guys are done, may you explain what you are planning on training the children to the adults?" Arasval stated receiving a nod from the both of them.

"I'll train the long-nosed kid in Observation Haki and how to protect himself and his comrades." Neos stated getting a nod from Usopp.

"I will be teaching Kaya my as much as I can with my knowledge in the medical field." Wayne started before holding Arasval in a one-armed hug. "And Aras here, will teach her in swordsmanship." Before Arasval can even retort, Wayne tightened his hug on him and whispered to his ear. "You owe me Aras. Besides, she looks like a fast learner, so she could be a good disciple for you."

Arasval sighed, knowing Wayne can be more stubborn than himself at times, so he gave in and nodded in confirmation. "You probably don't own a sword, so I'll give you the weakest sword I have available so you can start." Arasval said as he closed his eyes and opened his right hand before a small golden portal appeared and coughed out Caladbolg. Once it came out, He grabbed on to it and handed it to Kaya, who accepted it gratefully.

"Thank you so much! I will try my best" Kaya exclaimed happily as she lifted Caladbolg into the air.

"I-I will try my best too! For I am the great Captain Usopp!" Usopp exclaimed as well as he held up his slingshot.

"Well, now that that is settled, come over to our house for some nice dinner." Charlotte offered.

"Only if I help with the cooking." Arasval said kindly.

"Sure, if that's all you ask for." Charlotte responded happily as she led them to her family's mansion.

"B-But what about my mom?" Usopp asked as he didn't want to his mother alone.

"She'll be fine. Right now she's resting and I know that Arasval will save some food just for her." Wayne said grinning comforting the young Usopp while Arasval nodded at his statement.

Arasval then looked around his surroundings and saw how his crewmates were all relaxed and enjoying themselves on this peaceful island. He smiled and followed Charlotte and her family to their mansion.

'I could get used to this.'


Back to Luffy…

Luffy laid on his bed thinking on ways on how to use his new devil fruit power when suddenly.

purupurupuru~

purupurupuru~

puru~ka-cha!

"Hello? Who's this?" Luffy asked when he picked up the call from his den-den mushi.

"Who's this!? Who are you!? Where's Luffy!?" Shanks questioned angrily while Luffy realized who it was.

"I am Luffy, Shanks. It's a long story to explain." Luffy told shanks who grunted through the other side of the den-den mushi.

"I have plenty of time. But what I really want to know is what happened in the future that caused you to come back."

"…Sure, I'll tell you. You are the only person besides your crew and Makino who know about me being from the future." Luffy told Shanks

"Okay then, on with it."

"Alright…It all started one morning…"


So this chapter was mainly about my OCs, but this was the only way I can think on how to help Usopp and Kaya get stronger and/or become more useful for the Straw Hat crew. So as always, don't forget to favorite, follow and review! I really appreciate all of your guys' support and I hope you'll continue reading this fanfiction.

Forzarismo

December 9, 2015