It was a picturesque day at Windmill Village. Birds were singing, the wind was blowing, and people were screaming as Luffy knocked over his wedding cake… It was perfect. At least, in Hancock's mind, it was. What better day to get married? ALL of Luffy's friends were there. Unfortunately, that meant Windmill Village was VERY crowded. But that was okay with Hancock. It just proved how charismatic her soon-to-be-husband was.
After Luffy returned from Laughtale, Chopper repeatedly diagnosed him with death from sacrificing his lifespan. With six months left to live, Luffy agreed to marry Hancock because he didn't know what else to do. He was further convinced by learning that all his friends could come and enjoy a feast which would mostly be for him.
Nami was attempting to get Luffy to wear a suit. Luffy was refusing. So Hancock hit her. How dare she try to make HER Luffy do something he didn't want to!? As the chaos unfolded, Nami couldn't help but wonder if this was a good idea. Hancock looked hot in that dress, but there were SO MANY GUESTS. Oh well, at least she'll be able to take the wedding presents.
Chopper was sobbing over the cake while Sanji and Pudding were frantically making a new one. Usopp, the best man, gave his toast early to anyone who would listen. Meanwhile, the person who would be doing the ceremony, Sabo, was panicking because he couldn't find his script. Sabo, being the new World Government's Vice President, was made the justice of the peace by default.
Finally, it was time for the ceremony. Sabo cleared his throat, and Hancock and Luffy rushed to the front of the Sunny. Everyone sat down on the benches and prepared for Sabo to start. Of course, Sabo would have to improvise, but they didn't know that.
"We are here today to celebrate the union of Luffy and Hancock. Uh… Do you take each other to be each other's spouses?" Sabo stuttered.
"I DO!" Hancock screamed.
"What? Uh, sure," Luffy said while staring at the feast.
"You may now kiss the bride," Sabo said, relieved that this was over. Luffy leans over and kisses Hancock on the cheek, and the feast begins. Luffy runs over to the banquet and starts eating. Sanji silently brings out a backup feast for everyone else. "Bwahaha! Bwaaah!" Bartolomeo sobbed.
"What awe you cwying about?" asked Leo the Tontata. Bartolomeo was unable to speak coherent words through his tears. Zoro had hardly touched his food and was instead gorging on sake.
"Yohohoho! Now that everyone's finished eating, how bout a dance! I'm taking requests!" Brook called.
"Oh! How about…"
"Bink's Sake it is!"
"Hey! I was talking!"
Soon, night falls, and everyone heads back to their ships. It was a bittersweet moment. Though the party was fun, they all felt it might be the last they would be able to have with their captain. Nami sighed. Another feeling was bugging her. "Something's wrong with the weather, be on guard," she warned the others. It was routine at this point. Then, as everyone prepared for bad weather, a crackle of lightning lit the night sky, and a strange, egg-shaped machine fell into the water.
"Waah!" Chopper screamed. "I can hear a voice in there!" Jinbei leaped into the water to rescue whoever was inside and fished the machine out.
Inside is a teenager with lavender hair and a sword strapped to his back. Unfortunately, he is unconscious and badly injured. As such, he is deposited into the care of Chopper as the rest of the crew goes back to bed, save for Luffy and Hancock, the latter of whom insists on spending time with Luffy.
The following day, Luffy bounds into the medical wing of the Sunny. "Is he awake yet?" the Pirate King asks. Chopper shakes his head but says he'll be up any minute now. Or at least, he would've if the teen hadn't snapped awake that instant.
"WHA- Where am I?" he shouts.
"Calm down! You crashed your… vehicle?... into the sea by our ship. You're on the Thousand Sunny right now," Chopper responds.
"T-the Thousand Sunny?" repeats the boy.
"HI! I'M MONKEY D. LUFFY, THE MAN WHO'S GONNA- I MEAN, THE KING OF THE PIRATES!" Luffy shouts. In response, the boy simply covers his ears.
"Ow…" he complains.
"So, where exactly did you come from?" Chopper asks.
"Um… well, that's really complicated…" the teenager sighs.
"Okay! Start with your name!" Luffy says.
"Uh, my name is Trunks," Trunks replies. "And… this is going to sound weird, but what year is it?"
"Uh… 1524?" Chopper replies confusedly.
"Say what now?" Trunks says, blinking. "I traveled from Age 781…"
"TIME TRAVEL?!" Luffy screams. "THAT'S SO COOL! "
"Uh…" Trunks blinks.
"Can you tell us why you were time traveling?" Chopper asks.
"Well, an apocalypse was caused by a pair of androids called Seventeen and Eighteen. I was traveling to prevent it. But, like I said, it's a long story."
"Lemme go get the others!" Luffy says excitedly. "That way, they can hear, too!"
Five minutes later, the crew was gathered in the med bay and ready to hear Trunks' story. Trunks sighed and began his tale, seeing as there was no way he could get out of this situation. These people were FAR above him in strength, after all.
"It started long before I was born, but that's not too important. This guy named Goku single-handedly defeated an army as a kid, and its top scientist wanted revenge. So he created a series of androids. The last two were called Seventeen and Eighteen. They were his greatest successes and humanity's greatest failure. They didn't listen to him or his revenge plan and killed him immediately. Then, when they couldn't find Goku, who had died a few months before of a heart virus, they terrorized the nearest city. When Earth's defenders tried to stop them, they were all killed, except for my mentor, Gohan, the son of Goku. His mentor sacrificed his life to protect him and, in doing so, triggered an ancient transformation belonging to my father's people, the Saiyans. Apparently, no one was creative enough to come up with a better name than Super Saiyan."
Brook nodded. "Very uncreative, if you ask me." Trunks laughed. Though still under stress, these people somehow managed to lighten his mood.
"Well, several years passed, and Gohan came to live with my mom and me. I'm unsure what happened to his mom and grandfather because he wouldn't talk about it. Regardless, I tried to convince him to train me because I was half-Saiyan like him. Unfortunately, I only managed to persuade him after an incident with this wizard named Babidi who wanted to summon some demon and this incompetent god trying to stop him. I almost died after blowing up the demon's egg thing and being attacked by some other demon. However, I was surprisingly saved by the incompetent god sacrificing his life."
"Then how exactly was he incompetent?" Franky asked.
"Well, his plan was stupid, and he did absolutely no research before coming to Earth, as well as being really stuck up and just… generally incompetent? I don't know. No one noticed when he died, so…" Trunks shrugged.
"Oh. Okay, carry on," Franky replied.
"Hold on, where's Earth?" Nami inquired.
"You mean this ISN'T Earth?" Trunks asked. "What planet is it, then?"
"P-Planet?!" Nami screamed. "Y-You mean…"
"NAMI, you're interrupting the story!" Luffy complained.
"Uh… I'll explain later?" Trunks says helplessly, still reeling from the revelation. "Well, it wasn't long after that when this little alien named Hoi came along. He claimed he had a hero who could beat the androids inside a music box and begged us to help him open it. Of course, my mother, being the genius she is, was suspicious but managed to open it anyway. Out popped Tapion, this amazing guy from a planet that was terrorized by a monster called Hirudegarn. He and his brother, Minoshia, had the two halves of Hirudegarn sealed inside them by a wizard who cut it in half with the Brave Sword. Then, they were sealed inside music boxes and sent to opposite ends of the galaxy to prevent Hirudegarn from being revived. Unfortunately, Hoi was aiming to do just that and had already freed the top half of Hirudegarn. Tapion fought valiantly, but the bottom half was released. We had to team up with the androids to try to fight the entire thing, but we STILL lost. It was only Tapion and I left, and all seemed lost. But Tapion managed to seal Hirudegarn inside him once again. He couldn't hold him for long, so he handed me the Brave Sword and told me to kill him and, therefore, Hirudegarn. It worked. That was my first kill, where I got my sword. I was eight."
"You were so young to have to go through all that," Jinbei sympathized. Trunks laughed bitterly.
"I'm FAR from finished," the teenage Saiyan prince said solemnly. "When I was ten, Gohan FINALLY let me fight the androids. That turned out to be a mistake. I froze up. He sacrificed his right arm to save me. I never asked to go again after that. Three years passed, and Gohan and I had been training nonstop. The androids were constantly on our minds. I was finally ready to fight them again, but Gohan had a bad feeling this time. I dismissed it, but he took it seriously. If he didn't feel like that when he lost his arm, what could happen when he DID have a feeling? Rather than risk my life, he knocked me out. When I woke up, he'd been killed. He'd died, not from his injuries, but from a PUDDLE. HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS IN A PUDDLE AND DROWNED. I could have saved him…" Trunks sobbed, and Luffy gave him a hug.
"Perhaps," Robin responds. "But there is no use dwelling on the past without learning from it."
"What could I learn from that?" Trunks asked dejectedly. "To trust the gut feelings of a mentor who DIED because of them?"
Zoro snorted. "Is that what your mentor would want your mindset to be? Sitting there, dwelling on what could've gone differently? What's done is done! You can either move forward or not move at all."
"Wow, mosshead. That was surprisingly profound, coming from you," Sanji said.
"It's been a year since then, and my mom and I completed the time machine. Of course, I wound up here instead of where I wanted to, about three years before I was born, to give them a warning. And after looking at the time machine, I doubt it's in a working state. I guess I should make the best of the situation, huh?"
"Yep!" Luffy says. "Hey! I know! You should join my crew!"
"Your crew?" Trunks asked confusedly. "Uh, sure?"
"Hor-eck!" Luffy coughed up blood.
"Luffy, don't get too excited." Chopper advised him.
"What's wrong?" Trunks asks, concerned. Once Chopper explains Luffy's dilemma, Trunks pitches in with an idea.
"I only have one of these left, and I found this one between the couch cushions. They're called Senzu Beans and can heal any injury," Trunks started. "I don't know if it'll help, but…"
"Well, if you only have one left, why don't we plant it?" Usopp suggests. "Luffy's got several months left, after all! It's worth it to experiment with them to find a cure! How fast do they grow?"
"I don't know. I'm a quantum physicist and engineer, not a botanist," Trunks replies. "I can't keep kudzu alive!"
"Well, I happen to be one of the best botanists out there! So I'll see what I can do!" Usopp laughs. Elsewhere, a much darker plot is brewing.
"The Straw Hats are still sitting on their laurels, now is the time to strike them down," Onigumo declared.
"Just the two of us?" asks a young man who looks like a llama.
"Think about this, Llama. We have both the numbers and the surprise advantage. Furthermore, they have no idea of your powers. And we can't pass up this chance to bring them to justice." Onigumo replied, gesturing to the fodder marines.
"Llama isn't my name, y'know," Llama said. Onigumo rolled his eyes.
"Well, it's what I'm going to call you. So shut up," retorted the newly appointed Admiral.
"We're approaching the Thousand Sunny, sir," reported a random small-fry.
"Good. Stay back until the Straw Hats have fallen asleep. Stay quiet," Onigumo ordered.
That night, everyone lay in bed. Most were asleep. Some, like Luffy, were not. Luffy was trying to sneak into the kitchen. However, he was foiled by Sanji, which, coincidentally, allowed Onigumo and Llama to sneak in instead.
"What now?" asked Llama in a whisper.
"We make our way to the bedroom," replied Onigumo. The duo made their way to the men's room.
"Restrain them," commanded Onigumo. As the soldiers approached the beds, Trunks sensed the invaders. He kicked his potential captor into the wall of the Sunny, causing the others to start to awaken and the soldiers to turn around.
"Whazzit?" Luffy muttered, having finally crashed after not sleeping for three days straight. "Huh?" Luffy was shocked to see a group of marines approaching him. The rest of the crew sprang into action, dispelling the soldiers.
"Crap!" Onigumo shouted. "Web Barrage!" The webs shoot out across the room, aiming for each Straw Hat.
The Straw Hats block and dodge the webs, except Trunks, who is too surprised that this guy can shoot webs to react. The webs explode upon contact, causing Trunks to be restrained by the webs, but he quickly uses an explosive wave and frees himself. Meanwhile, bullet wounds open up in the rest of the Straw Hats, save for Luffy, Jinbe, Sanji, and Franky.
"What's going on?" asked a confused Trunks. Luffy and Sanji glare at the llama man.
"Him," they say in unison.
"So you figured it out with your haki, huh? Well, no use hiding now! I ate the Llama Llama No Mi! I hit your friends with my Spit Gatling!" He chugged a bottle of water and launched a glob of it. "Spit Take!" Jinbe blocked the water blast and redirected it at the llama man. He catches it in his mouth and swallows it. "I can't use my spit blasts with you around, huh? Onigumo, take care of him!" Onigumo leaps forward and attempts to strike Jinbe, only to be blocked by Trunks.
Trunks was overpowered by Onigumo, sending him flying into the wall. He shook himself off. "You're tougher than I had expected," noted Onigumo.
"I've been basically tortured almost my entire life," Trunks said by way of explanation.
"Web Beam!" Onigumo lashed out with a compressed web shot. Trunks cuts it in half, moving forward to slice Onigumo. Onigumo blocks the attack with his sword and forces Trunks back. Trunks launches a kick which is blocked by one of Onigumo's arms. He flips Trunks and steps on him, webbing him to the ground with thick webbing. He raises his sword and attempts to skewer Trunks through the head.
"Crapbaskets! I need to get serious!" Trunks dissolves the webs with Super Saiyan.
"What the?" Onigumo was surprised by Trunks' transformation.
"Yaah!" Trunks lands a powerful kick on Onigumo. As Onigumo falls over, he uppercuts Trunks and slices him across the chest. The Straw Hats charge the fodder soldiers. Meanwhile, Jinbe battles Llama.
"Even if I can't use water against you, I have other weapons," Llama swings his swords at each other, holding them over his head. Then, he drinks some nitroglycerin and launches a fireball at Jinbe.
"Sharkskin Palm Thrust!" Jinbe is sliced after being distracted by the flame ball. Jinbe regains his footing and kicks Llama with a shout of "7,000 Brick Fist!"
"Gaah!" Llama is sent flying into a wall "Grrrr! Blood Bullets!"
"Karagiri Glaze!"
Llama raises his sword and puts it in his mouth. "Sword Blast!" Shooting the sword out, he blasts Jinbe and he back hands the sword, before rushing at Llama
"5,000 Brick Fist!" He lands the hit and K.O's Llama.
Meanwhile with Trunks, things are NOT going as well. Trunks isn't nearly as strong as the other Straw Hats, at least, not under the massive gravitational pull of the planet, nor is he used to fighting with anyone other than Gohan, Seventeen, or Eighteen, who all have the same powers, and adapted their fighting styles to fight each other. Trunks has been reduced, at this point, to desperately trying to dodge Onigumo's attacks, and is failing miserably.
Suddenly, an idea pops into his head. If Onigumo is using spiderwebs, then they're made of silk, which is highly flammable. Instead of trying to dodge, block, or cut through the webs, he decides to grab the next net Onigumo throws at him, set it on fire with his ki, and chuck it back at Onigumo. When he does this, Onigumo's mass of hair catches fire, too.
"AAAUGH!" Onigumo screams. "My HAIR! HOW DARE YOU!"
Seeing an opening Trunks charges Onigumo and hits him with a point blank Galick Gun. It seems that Onigumo is down for the count when suddenly a web shoots out and grabs Llama. "You win this time."
Bonus Scene: Botany Can Regrow Limbs, ApparentlyAfter the battle, Trunks was the only one with wounds severe enough to warrant one of the few senzu beans Usopp had somehow managed to grow in a single day. However, his selective breeding of the beans had an unexpected consequence.
"GAH!" Trunks shouted as he swallowed the beans. His wounds had disappeared, but it seemed a certain limb he'd had removed as a baby had regrown. Trunks gasped as he waved his tail, realizing what this would mean. "Crapbaskets…"
"Uh, where'd you get the tail?" Chopper asked.
"It's a Saiyan thing," Trunks explained. "But mine was surgically removed at birth." Chopper gasped in horror.
"Why?"
"Well, when the full moon comes out," Trunks began. "I'll turn into a fifty-foot-tall rampaging monkey that only the most elite Saiyans ever learned to control. So no one wanted to risk that."
"So they REMOVED A LIMB?!" Chopper cried. "That's like gouging a mink's eyes out so they don't go Sulong!"
Trunks considered this. "Well… I guess you're right. Besides, now that I'm old enough to learn to control it, there's not really a point in not having it, is there?"
Official World Government BountiesPirate Empress Boa Hancock - 350,000,000 beris
Soul King Brook - 200,000,000 beris
Iron Man Franky - 500,000,000 beris
First Son of The Sea Jinbei - 600,000,000 beris
Straw Hat Monkey D. Luffy - 5,600,000,000 beris
Cat Burglar Nami - 300,000,000 beris
Devil Child Nico Robin - 520,000,000 beris
Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro - 2,000,000,000 beris
Black Leg Sanji - 1,999,999,999 beris
Cotton Candy Lovin' Tony Tony Chopper - 5,000 beris
God Usopp - 7,777,777,777 beris
Ogre Prince Yamato - 1,900,000,000 beris
True Marine BountiesPirate Empress Boa Hancock - 3,500,000 beris
Soul King Brook - 2,000,000 beris
Iron Man Franky - 5,000,000 beris
First Son of The Sea Jinbei - 6,000,000 beris
Pirate King Monkey D. Luffy - 56,000,000 beris
Cat Burglar Nami - 3,000,000 beris
Devil Child Nico Robin - 5,200,000 beris
Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro - 20,000,000 beris
Black Leg Sanji - 19,999,999 beris
Cotton Candy Lovin' Tony Tony Chopper - 50 beris
God Usopp - 77,777,777 beris
Ogre Princess Yamato - 19,000,000 beris