Justice

by Black' Victor Cachat

Dealing with villains is all part of being a superhero, the Justice League knows this. So how do they handle the new supervillain gang that can't decide whether they're good or evil? And said gang, the Straw Hat Pirates, are just desperate to get home to fulfil their dreams, whatever it takes. And they have no problems with fighting more believers in 'Justice' along the way

21. Omakes 2

I do not own either One Piece or Justice League Unlimited.

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Guest Review answers :-D

Behest

*Shrug* Like I have said numerous times before, this is not just about the Straw Hats. This is about them and the DCAU, and the changes they are making to the world. Particularly since frankly the Straw Hats are so powerful and driven they would dominate the plot if I did not give others screentime.

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Zorosavage22

Great to hear you enjoyed it, and yeah chapter 1,010 was amazing!

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Austin

Glad to hear you like my work so much! :-D

Even imprisoning le Fay would likely have been a slow execution really. She is shown in the episodes, visibly getting younger from draining people, so presumably she needs to do it often if she has to keep doing it again and again.

Oh yes, Mordred is very much the incarnation of spoiled aristocracy!

For future X-overs, I do have more planned, but I am trying to maintain just doing planning for them, given how many stories I already have ongoing. Alas, I weaken at times due to being hit by such fun inspiration, write a chapter or two, and figure I may as well publish. That said, I am not really familiar with the Tokusatsu genre, including even Power Rangers.

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Evil Reviewer

. . . This is proving to be a very fascinating rivalry indeed. I could do a character study on this! :-P But that said, they are already mention on TvTropes for their omake, "Luffy's Day Out," while I cannot find the reference to yourself you are making . . .

Everyone, myself included, wants to see more SHP. Alas, this story is not just about them. They are changing the world, and the ripples of this are steadily growing. But yes, it is not feasible for them to be directly involved in every JL mission, and would just be cheap shoehorning if I did that.

No plans to continue with Mordred. I would have to spend a bunch of work showing a brat growing up and becoming a feasible threat, even if he does have a few tricks left up his sleeve. Even then, the most he would be capable of it seems, would be some chaos.

I am planning for this story to go up to the conclusion of the Cadmus arc. So nothing from the final season.

I do understand your reasons for not logging into your account though. I only do so with a computer myself.

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SargentEpsilon

Yes, Cadmus' goals made sense, but their methods honestly kept making the situation more and more worse. Not just antagonizing the heroes, but creating messes they had to clean up. Honestly, it really served more to undermine the whole basis of Cadmus and the reason they existed, which is something I am going to work to try and avoid here. The Straw Hats actually help serve to balance issues a bit, since Cadmus does not want to antagonize the Justice League so badly they would not help with the pirates. Obviously a lot more going on, but that is one issue they have to consider.

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Arc

I do not know which version of Superman that was, but in the DCAU he is explicitly noted to be vulnerable to magic.

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Nobody Stlyes

Yes, this was definitely a chapter focused more on the Justice League and the growing ripples set off by the Straw Hats. More pirate scenes to come though! .

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Nakamarama

Yeah, I wished that the Straw Hats were present more here too, but they did not really fit in. As for Shining Knight, yes he is one of the growing ripples the pirates have set off ;-)

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VioSephy

Nice to hear this story was able to help you some :-)

Going to have a lot of fun with Ace!

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Ultraviolet

Oh yes, I have PLANS for the Thanagarian Invasion! :-) Especially since the Thanagarians proved that they had done their research and preparation thanks to Shayera, so you can be sure they will account for the presence of the pirates. In retrospect, her efforts with the Justice League were probably viewed by her superiors as preventing any strong military and dictatorial force from conquering Earth, and being a threat to their plans. And yes, crucial technology revealed during that as well.

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Chapter 21: Omakes 2

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Remember, Omake chapters are written by some of my wonderful readers, as well as a few of my own contributions. I wish to emphasize though that these are not 'canon' for this story. That said, I may indeed use some of their ideas from here.

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"Hoist the Colours," by Drag0n5on

Terry McGinnis trudged under the hot sun with his head kept down, doing his best to keep his fellow prisoners from taking notice of him. That was the last thing he wanted. No one wanted parademons attention. That was how you got killed. Or worse.

Suddenly one of the parademons screeched, alerting the others of trouble. Terry dared to look up to see what caught their attention.

That's how he noticed the snow falling.

Not far from him there was a woman who seemed to be standing on the water. On her head sat a straw hat. Terry didn't need to guess who this was.

"~The Queen and her men stole the gods from their bed~" Straw Hat began to sing with a haunting, captivating voice as she stepped forward, with each step a sheet of ice formed in front of her, preventing her from falling into the ocean.

"~And bound them in their bones~"

Her feet glided across the ice as she easily dodged oncoming parademons.

"~The seas be ours and by the powers~"

It didn't take long for her to touch the shores but Terry wasn't fooled. This woman was the most dangerous person in the area.

"~Where we will we'll roam~"

All around them the parademons had been frozen solid.

"~Yo ho, all hands~"

Above them, Apokoliptian ships began to descend from the clouds.

"~Hoist the colors high~"

She kept singing as she held an arm out.

"~Heave ho, thieves and beggars~"

Terry could only watch in awe as frost began to encase one of the ships. He watched the flames of the thrusters literally FREEZE in place, causing the ship to crash into the sea.

"~Never shall we die~"

"~Yo ho, all together~"

The sight of purple lightning was the indication that Straw Hat hadn't come alone.

"~Hoist the colors high~"

As everyone around Terry began to sing he could only watch as the remaining two ships get taken out.

"~Heave ho, thieves and beggars~"

A small rocket blurred through one of the ships destroying it instantly, while the other was taken out by a powerful lightning strike.

"~Never shall we die~"

Two figures came to join the Straw Hat as the ships exploded around them.

"~Yo ho, all together~"

Suddenly the gently snow became a storm

"~Hoist the colors high~"

"~Heave ho, thieves and beggars~"

Once it cleared Terry noticed the shackles binding him and the other prisoners had been frozen solid making them brittle.

"~Never shall we die~"

And just as quickly as the storm appeared, it was gone, taking the mysterious figures with them. The only proof of them being there being the echoing of her song.

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AN:

Notes: my goal here was to show the world in shambles in the future but there are a few remaining heroes doing their best. I was originally going to make Maureen a bit more neutral, but I figured she would hold on to her bond with Static, and maybe Supergirl or Ace. As you can see, I upgraded the CRAP out of their abilities, which I figure is appropriate on two accounts. The first being Maureen's exposure to training with the Straw Hats before they 'disappeared,' and Static picking up a few tricks since he has to fight in a post-apocalyptic world

!JUSTICE OMAKE!

"No Sleeves, So no Aces," by Bellduke (formerly BlackWizard71)

November 9

Nami wasn't quite sure what to do with the thing, sure when she saw that hat she knew she had to buy it along with those pants… and now she had the full outfit ready but she just... Was this really a good idea for Luffy's birthday? She didn't know if he would like this for in his closest, or burned on a funeral pyre.

Eventually, Nami just left it in a corner of one of the base's unused rooms while most of the crew went away to deal with Zoro's birthday present. At least she labeled it properly…

/Later/

Volcana was hanging with Maureen in the break room, helping Maureen with her homework when she walked in.

The new girl, Ace, who had immediately captured the hearts of the Straw Hats, had seemingly left her room for the first time of her own volition. Going from complete solitary confinement, to absolute freedom was rather daunting, she could relate there. Ace was wearing one of the most bizarre outfits she had ever seen. Considering her career as a supervillaness, that was saying quite a bit.

The main issue being that it was quite clear that her outfit was oversized for her to a comical degree. The wide cowboy hat almost completely covered her head, with two blue smileys, one frowning and one smiling, and a string of red beads sitting above the rim. Volcana could see her large staring eyes looking up at her while being partially obscured by the hat. The shorts she was wearing were clearly intended for a man twice her size, and instead of going to her knees almost touched her shoes. They were only held up by a belt showing off a Buckle with an "A" on it, wrapped twice around her waist. She simply had no shirt, only a bra and the oversized necklace of beads dangling from her neck. To complete the outfit what looked like a bowie knife hung from her waist in its sheath.

It was one of the cutest things that Volcana had seen in a long time, and she considered whether the girl had worn it to offset the unsettling creepy vibe she had unconsciously mastered.

Softly Ace spoke to her and Maureen," I need your help".

Maureen looked up, anything for a distraction from her homework. Volcana, also wondering if Ace had been pranked into this, asked, "Help with what?"

Ace look puzzled, like she didn't know what she wanted to say.

"It's not complete, or too complete, I don't know."

This in no way helped Volcana's comprehension of what Ace was getting at. "Well, yeah. You need a shirt…"

Ace shook her head, and then the teen took a long look at the older woman's own *ahem* chest area, namely how it was exposed since Volcana was wearing her supervillain outfit.

Was that what this was about, was Ace feeling… Inadequate?

"It's Ok then," was all Ace said before she started unclipping her bra.

"WAIT, WAIT, NO!" shouted Volcana as she just barely stopped Ace from stripping in front of Maureen.

Ace recoiled from the sudden movement, but quickly let Volcana reattach her exposed undergarments.

Fuming a little, Volcana asked," Where did you even get those clothes, and who told you to wear them?"

Ace calmly replied," They were in my room, with my name, no one told me."

Volcana, not sure who was pranking Ace, pushed onward, "Well who told you to strip, then."

Ace calmly but defiantly stated," I need to complete my outfit."

Volcana looked at Maureen who was silent, but a little red in the face, pretending to complete her homework. "Ace, you should never expose yourself to people like that."

Ace quietly pointed at Volcana where… oh Touche.

"That's completely different. These clothes are flame resistant, those would never survive a real fire."

Ace silently peeked out of her hat as she contemplated. "When I am given an outfit, I'm supposed to wear just that, nothing else. I'm also to never expose my chest, but apparently others do it."

Oh, this was where only growing up in a government lab was getting in the way of common sense. Yeah her old 'bosses' were extremely nitpicky too.

Harley leaned into the room, "We can't have children undressing on the internet, we'll be arrested."

Just as suddenly Harley was gone to who knows where.

Volcana sighed," Blondie's right, you can't just go around showing, people…" Volcana pointed at her own chest, "this at your age. It'll give people terrible ideas. Not your fault, it's theirs for having them, but I don't want you going through that regardless."

Ace pondered this, "So as long I wear it only in my room it's ok?"

Maureen was looking at Volcana with a blush.

Oh Volcana was going to hate this, but anything to make sure Maureen didn't see someone stripping in front of her.

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"One Piece Rising: Blade Wolf" by Denied love494

A Justice x Metal Gear Rising crossover

It was a cool night outside the Straw Hat base, and the air was so quiet that one could almost hear the quiet footsteps of an invisible figure which walked over to the edge of a small cliff, using its enhanced senses to zoom in on the base. Were it not invisible, then it could easily be identified as a sort of robotic dog, roughly 4 feet in length (excluding the tail). Looking down on the base, the robotic dog prepared to descend down the hill towards the target when it suddenly received a call on its built-in communication system, a call that came from a certain teenage prodigy.

Choosing to answer it, he was greeted by the face of an adorable 13-year old blonde-haired girl who had a concerned look on her face.

"Wolf, are you sure this is a good idea?"

"I do not see the need for concern, Sunny. This is a simple reconnaissance mission, so a direct confrontation is unlikely."

"I know, but these guys can go toe-to-toe with the Justice League! Isn't that a bit out of...well...your league?"

"I do not believe so."

"Are you sure? I can always get Raiden in just 12 hours if you want some back-"

"I will be fine, Sunny. I will see you in a few hours".

And with that, Blade Wolf shut down the communicator, feeling a mote of what he assumed was guilt at having abruptly ended the conversation as well as snapping at Sunny. Shrugging it off for the time being (after all, he didn't want guilt to distract him and cause him to mess up the mission), he double-checked his surroundings before jumping from rock to rock down the cliff, having not noticed the out-of-place human ear and eye extruding from the side of a nearby tree...

It took just 30 seconds for the invisible robotic canine to reach the bottom of the cliff, and after surveying his surroundings , he began to slowly walk towards the base while searching for any 'back doors' or hidden weak spots he could use to enter the building.

He had made sure to improve his armament before he left by reinstalling the chainsaw that he once used with his tail (that was, before Raiden freed him from his oppressors). He was certain that he could sneak in and out without any need for a conflict, but after his lopsided defeat at Armstrong's hands in Pakistan a few months prior, he was not taking that chance.

After a few minutes of slow but steady crawling, Blade Wolf was close enough to the building that he could see the entrance door closing, and judging by the lack of anyone outside the building, the Straw Hats had all entered the building. Good. Blade Wolf made his way to the back, opened one of the doors (after making sure that there were no alarms), and began to traverse the large building's halls. The majority of it went smoothly, with Blade Wolf successfully avoiding all the inhabited rooms he passed as he made his way to the computer room, but as he got close to the main computer room he detected at least 10 Straw Hats in rooms and/or halls that were adjacent to the computer room.

A covert distraction would best prevent detection, Bladewolf thought. Suddenly, he noticed that the room next to him, titled on the wall was "Nami's Private Sanctum (DO NOT ENTER-DOING SO WILL RESULT IN HARSH FINES AND GRAVE BODILY HARM)," beside an open door.

"Perhaps I can find a way to divert their attention in here."

As the robotic dog entered the room, he noticed that the center of the rather large room had a shallow pit full of money, with the blanket and slight indenture on it implying that someone had been using this sizable pile of dollars as a bed (just like the one that was found by Question, Supergirl, and Green Arrow). Blade Wolf couldn't help but feel some disgust at how depraved human greed could get, when he suddenly got an unorthodox idea.

He used his tail to take out one of his superheated knives, hot enough to melt steel (so about 1370 degrees Celsius or 2500 Fahrenheit), and tossed the searing-hot blade into the money pile. It sliced through some of the bills, then set some of the other ones on fire due to the sheer heat.

The fire quickly spread across the pile and soon enough, the entire pile was ablaze. Blade Wolf, knowing that he had seconds before the fire alarm rang, quickly jumped upwards and used his claws to attach himself to the ceiling, before hurriedly scurrying upside-down to leave the room.

He took a split second to look back at his handiwork and couldn't help but feel a bit of joy that he ruined the greedy indulgence of someone who (in his view) didn't understand that money was more than just a luxury to use frivolously. "So this is what catharsis feels like", he thought as he saw a woman he recognized as Nami sprinting into the room, her eyes widening with horror as she saw her bed of money burning to a crisp.

"NOOOOO!"

The navigator's screams could be heard throughout the building as at least half a dozen other Straw Hats rushed into the room with fire extinguishers, with more on the way.

That was Blade Wolf's cue to leave, scurrying across the ceiling and out of the room as Nami went to her knees with a look of pure brokenness and trauma on her face (similar to the one Chopper had when he got his first bounty after Enies Lobby), the other Straw Hats either putting out the fire (even though it was too late) or trying in vain to comfort the navigator.

Once he was far enough from the room, he dropped to the floor and continued until he reached the computer room, which was quite large (which was no surprise to him, given that they were a criminal empire). He went to the nearest computer, then shut off his invisibility so he could focus all of his energy on hacking the computer's mainframe. He inserted the 3 ends of his tail into the computer, and was just about to begin downloading information when he heard a certain voice yell out with glee:

"A robot dog? That is so cool!"

This caused him to immediately withdraw his tails from the computer and he whipped around to see 3 people next to the door: Luffy, Robin, and Permafrost. Luffy and Maureen had childish faces full of excitement at seeing something cool (since it is hard to deny that a badass robotic canine ranks high on the coolness meter), while Robin had a smile that mixed between motherly and unsurprised, as though Blade Wolf trying to steal all of the information of the syndicate she ran was completely normal behavior. Watching this woman remaining calm and composed despite everything, it was easy to understand why she was the boss of this whole operation.

And then it hit him: He'd been played. Somehow, this whole thing was a setup.

When he got home, he was going to give Sunny a very sincere apology.

He then took mere milliseconds to activate a hidden weapon he'd gotten installed, and a miniature railgun popped out of his back (it hadn't been installed when Raiden had freed him, but Raiden's friends found the blueprints for it and it was easy for Sunny and Doktor to install). He then quickly turned around, aimed the railgun at a wall, and fired, forming a large hole in the wall for him to escape through (as well as in the next few walls as well).

As he ran through room after room in an attempt to escape (with the miniature railgun now withdrawn into his back), he could hear Monkey gushing about how "cool" a miniature railgun was, only for his voice to get gradually louder. He didn't dare turn around, but he knew that Luffy was somehow keeping pace with him with ease (despite the fact that Blade Wolf was as fast, if not faster than Raiden, who was thousands of times the speed of sound). How was he doing that!?

After a few minutes, Blade Wolf finally burst outside through one last wall, but before he could make his leave, he was drop-kicked by an invisible figure, sending him flying across the grass. When he came to, he could hear what could only be the invisible force running at him before throwing a kick while yelling "FOR THE HONOR OF NAMI-SWANNNNN!" Unable to see the kick, Blade Wolf felt a sudden pain in his head, before everything went black.

Blade Wolf awoke in a small cell, the pain from the invisible man's kick having mostly gone away. Shaking it off, he quickly began to look for potential weak spots in the cell's structure which he could use to escape...

Only to see that the door was open, and that a few feet away from the cell were 2 people who seemed as though they were waiting for him to wake: Nico Robin and Luffy, the former of which was holding a box in her hands and sitting at a small table, while the latter was sitting off to the side eating a stick of meat. Blade Wolf cautiously walked towards the cell door, before looking at the 2 captors in front of him, and defiantly asking "I assume you want me to reveal to you the identity of who-"

"Nah!" Luffy suddenly interrupted him, "Robin here already knows all that boring crap! She just wants to play this boring game with you, then she says that you can show me some cool stuff!"

Blade Wolf, who was now very confused at Luffy's behavior, saw that there was a chair at the table across from Robin's seat (Luffy was adjacent to both chairs). He immediately realized that he was supposed to sit there, so he walked to the chair then jumped up on it, then sat in a way that resembled how a normal dog would sit. He then saw Robin open the box... revealing a chess board and chess pieces. After putting the board on the table, she asked Blade Wolf if he knew how to play, smiling and saying "good" when he said that he did.

Outside, he could faintly hear some yelling, although he didn't know that it was Zoro using a full Nelson to physically restrain an enraged Nami from going into the room and killing Blade Wolf with her bare hands (she said that using the Clima-Tact wouldn't have the same catharsis). Zoro was partially doing it since Robin truly believed that Wolf had potential to be a new member of their group, but mostly because after reviewing the reports on them, he wanted to fight both Blade Wolf and his friend Raiden (particularly Raiden). Maybe Raiden would come to save his friend, and then Zoro could fight Raiden's "Ripper Mode" to see which of them was the better swordsman.

Back in the 'interrogation room,' Robin set up both her and Blade Wolf's pieces (she chose black), using at least a dozen hands to his surprise to set it all up in 5 seconds, before gesturing to Blade Wolf to make the first move. He warily did so, and the game began. After each of them had made 3 or so moves, Robin opened the discussion:

"So, Blade Wolf. Tell me about yourself."

Usually Blade Wolf would refuse to answer this, but something in Robin's voice combined sophistication with kindness, making it seem less like an interrogation, and more of a genuine conversation-starter. He then told her (and a listening Luffy) the backstory behind his creation (aka, the Desperadoes wanting to make him a sentient killing machine), how they viewed him as a 'failure' for lacking human brutality (despite him exceeding all other expectations and even having human emotions), and how they threatened to erase his memory if he even tried to resist them and gain his freedom.

As he talked about how he was forced to be a slave for World Marshal and the Desperadoes, Robin's face seemed to show a mixture of tranquil fury and pity for the canine, since he spent most of his life without the chance to make his own choices. It was hard to tell if Luffy was listening or sleeping though.

Blade Wolf, secretly surprised at their empathy, just continued on with how he had tried to escape, only for Mistral to trick him and painfully electrocute him. While mentioning this, he briefly had a flashback to the mentioned event, causing him to have a brief moment of anger and tighten his front paws, scratching the table. Blade Wolf apologized, only for Robin to wave it off and motion that it was his turn.

After they each played a few more turns and Blade Wolf finished his story by talking about how Raiden rescued him (and how he had helped Raiden stop Senator Armstrong), Luffy then interrupted by asking Blade Wolf: "So what's your Dream, then?"

"What?"

"I mean, you have a human brain, so you can think like one, and that means you have a Dream!"

Blade Wolf stopped, dipped his head for a few seconds while thinking about what Luffy said (while noting that he carried a charisma very similar to the late Senator Armstrong), before lifting his head back up and stating his response:

"When Raiden freed me, I felt as though I owed him a debt, even though he himself did not agree. He told me that I could make my own choices, yet I decided to follow him and help him prevent a global catastrophe. When he killed a...former friend of mine, named Samuel, I told him that I did not understand why humans fought, and he responded by saying that it was best that I figure it out on my own. In other words, Raiden was the one who, through his words and actions, gave me the right to philosophical freedom as well as physical freedom.

However, while I was near termination after being badly damaged, I overheard Armstrong give Raiden a speech about how most men fight for, in his words, 'reasons they don't understand and causes they don't believe in'. After I recovered, I began pondering why I truly fought for. After thinking about it, I believe I now know what my desire, or 'dream', is: To truly be free, to not fight for any reasons I don't understand or causes I don't believe in, and to not be a slave to any cause other than my own. I wish to carve my own path, discover my own ideals, and create my own life."

There was a brief silence in the room, as Robin seemed to ponder this, only for Luffy's face to morph into a big smile. "That's an awesome dream, Blade Wolf! All we want is freedom, too! You'll fit right in here!"

Robin chuckled at Luffy's loud outburst, before turning back to Blade Wolf. "So", she asked, "what do you say?" Blade Wolf was momentarily confused, before realizing that this entire thing was a job offering. Before he considered any answer, he responded with: "And if I refuse? Will you hold me hostage for information?"

Luffy then had a confused face, as if he couldn't comprehend such a thing. "What the heck are you talking about? We'd just let you go and tell you not to come back. I mean, Nami will probably wanna beat you up for burning her money, but that's not really up to us." The last sentence caused Robin to chuckle again.

Blade Wolf looked down at the almost-empty chess board, thinking about what Luffy had just told him, and thought back to how much he had wanted freedom when he was a slave of Mistral and World Marshal, then to how Raiden told him to find his own philosophies and that he was free to be his own master. Lastly, he thought of Armstrong wanting a world where everyone was free to make their own decisions and forge their own destinies. And a decision was made in Blade Wolf's robotic brain.

He moved his white rook piece (putting Robin in checkmate) before looking Luffy dead in the eyes.

"I accept."

Luffy's face then morphed into a smile. "YAY! Now we have a cool robot dog! That's so awesome, right, Robin?"

Robin, who was putting away the chess set, smiled as she said "I agree."

"We have to get some good food to celebrate!"

"But I don't think-"

"Don't care! We still need to get a lot of food!"

Robin chuckled again at this while Blade Wolf just looked at Luffy with a small bit of fascination, mostly regarding his charisma and his behavior. Until, that was, he was interrupted by someone kicking down the steel door. He turned his head to see an enraged Nami (with a beaten up Zoro behind her), and she was so angry that her teeth became jagged and her pupils had disappeared. She'd also taken one of Zoro's swords for her own use.

"YOU! YOU BURNT MY MONEY!"

Blade Wolf looked at her before calmly replying with: "Correct. But in my defense, it is said that rich people have a large amount of money to burn."

Luffy laughed out loud at the joke (ensuring that Nami would beat him up once she finished with Blade Wolf), Robin chuckled, and Nami prepared to swing at Blade Wolf.

Suddenly, Blade Wolf's communicator rang, and Blade Wolf made a projection of the caller in front of him for everyone to see, stopping Nami in her tracks. Blade Wolf then saw the identity of the caller. It was Sunny.

The room went silent as the projection showed the face of an adorable 13 year old girl with blonde hair and a face full of worry. Even the enraged Nami felt her anger disappear as a result of children being her soft spot.

"Blade Wolf, are you okay? You should've been back already."

"I am fine, Sunny. I apologize for worrying you."

"Where are you?"

"That is...not important."

"Were you captured? Because I can get Raiden and..."

"There is no need, Sunny. I am...resigning from your care."

"What? Blade Wolf, you're not making any sense."

"I am choosing my own path now, just as Raiden told me to."

There was silence, before Sunny replied with: "Are you sure about this, Wolf?"

"As a human would say, I am 'as certain as I can be' about this decision."

Sunny, looking very distraught, said nothing before turning off the camera. There was a bit more silence in the room before Luffy broke it with: "Who was that?"

Blade Wolf explained how she took him in after Raiden had killed Armstrong, and how she was a very nice person who treated him with nothing but kindness. Even Nami couldn't help but smile a bit when hearing Blade Wolf talk about how she was such a kind person (although Blade Wolf's personality led to him having some trouble being totally open about it).

When he was done, Nami (who quickly went back into what the other Straw Hats called "Money Mode") asked Robin in a somewhat annoyed tone: "I'm assuming that Luffy already let him into the crew?" Robin smiled and nodded. Nami turned back to Blade Wolf with a grin full of both anger and malicious glee (think of the smile she gave to Zeus when she made him her slave) before saying "Fine, but you're going to repay all the money you set on fire. With interest! And if you try anything else like that, you'll wish that you were dead. Understand?"

Blade Wolf, completely unafraid of her (he did not fear death, after all) calmly said "I can make no promises, because I fear that your depraved greed will probably make me break them, which would strictly be against my programming." before walking out of the room to explore the facility. Nami just stood there in shock while Luffy laughed. He liked this guy already!

(A few days later)

Some of the Straw Hats were watching video clips that Blade Wolf had given them of Raiden's actions against the Desperadoes, although the only ones that Luffy cared about were the ones where Raiden destroyed gargantuan Metal Gears with ease (they didn't even bother to ask for information on Raiden and/or his employers). Luffy and Chopper gushed like little kids at how Raiden flipped a 100,000 ton Metal Gear known as "Excelsus", before ripping off its building sized swords and overpowering it in a sword fight (never mind that Luffy was probably capable of even better feats of strength). They were also amazed at how Raiden effortlessly threw a 1000 ton Metal Gear in the air then sliced its arm off with ease.

Zoro, as mentioned earlier, was interested in fighting this 'Raiden' guy. Blade Wolf even noted how similar they both were, in regards to their personalities (mainly how they were both headstrong and defiant of any negative political or legal authority). Perhaps Raiden might have even considered joining these guys, were it not for his anti-social nature as well as his wife and child in New Zealand.

Volcana, after hearing about both Wolf's backstory and Raiden's backstory, had a look that tried but failed to hide a bit of empathy for the 2 of them, since she understood what it was like being used by a rogue government group as an experimental weapon and spent much of their lives being brutalized both mentally and physically to better embrace their violent natures.

As they were watching recordings of Raiden being awesome, they came across one that Wolf had forgotten to remove: the time when Raiden went Ripper Mode. As the video began, Blade Wolf quickly realized his error and said to Permafrost (who he liked, since she reminded him of Sunny): "I believe that Nico Robin wanted you to finish your history essay by tomorrow morning."

"But I already finished it," the frosty girl replied in a tone resembling that of a child wanting to see a cool action movie (which wasn't far from the truth). Fortunately, Volcana caught on to what Blade Wolf was trying to do, and said "Did you double check for errors? You know how Nico Robin gets when someone misspells something history-related," causing a bunch of the Straw Hats to shiver. Permafrost, now pouting, reluctantly agreed and went to her room.

A few seconds later, the video was at the part where Monsoon was trying to break Raiden's spirit and make him embrace his killer instinct, a task which ended up succeeding when Raiden went into his Ripper Mode, becoming Jack the Ripper as he cut through armored cyborg soldiers like butter, cackling all the while. Volcana then realized how right Blade Wolf was to get Maureen out of the room.

Many of the Straw Hats were a bit shocked at how brutal and viscous the previously-nice Raiden had become, aside from Zoro, who asked Blade Wolf if he could challenge Raiden's Ripper Mode to a duel (since Ripper Mode greatly amplified Raiden's power and speed). Blade Wolf gave a small robotic growl as he quietly said "No." in a tone that made Zoro put his hand on his sword handles. Only Luffy remained unfazed.

Before any conflict could break out, Blade Wolf recollected himself and said "I apologize. I was just upset at the thought of Raiden being forced to revisit the mental trauma from his past. Again. If you wish to fight him without Ripper Mode, then I will not interfere."

Zoro thought about this for a second, before accepting his answer and replying with "Well then how about you show me what you can do without Raiden to back you up."

Blade Wolf nodded, and they headed off to the gym, while the other Straw Hats in the room decided to skip the "Ripper Mode" video and instead look at the fight between Raiden and Senator Armstrong (which they all agreed was pretty awesome). When the video got to Armstrong's speech, the 'OG' Straw Hats initially thought that this guy had the right idea with wanting everyone to be free to pursue their own goals and fight their own wars...until he mentioned wanting to 'purge the weak', causing all of them to immediately turn from respect to disgust for the now-dead Senator (though they all admitted he was one hell of a speaker).

Blade Wolf and Zoro both enjoyed sparring with each other, with Blade Wolf's speed and stealth being a good counter for Zoro's sword skills. The gym soon rang with the sound of swords colliding against knives, claws, and chainsaws. During their fighting, Nami passed by the room and saw Blade Wolf, the new bane of her existence. Eye twitching in anger after remembering his desecration of her 'sacred' money pit, she got out her clima-tact and walked towards them.

"Hey, Zoro! How about I get a crack at this nut?" She was smiling, but anyone could see the anger in her eyes. Zoro stepped out of her way, not wanting to deal with a pissed Nami. She then faced Blade Wolf, who replied by re-entering his battle stance. "You know, you might act like you're some genius who's better than everyone else, but I'm going to show all of the Straw Hats that your bark is bigger than your bite."

Blade Wolf replied by analyzing her joke before saying: "Word play. My exoskeleton resembles a canine, and canines tend to bark in a method that gives them a more intimidating appearance than their actual biting power would suggest. Amusing on two levels."

Nami stopped and blinked, confused by him dissecting her quip, before shaking it off and getting into a fighting stance. The gym then rang with the sounds of lightning and slashes and parries as the 2 settled their differences via sparring.

By the time they were done, both of them were pretty exhausted (Blade Wolf somewhat less so, since he wasn't human), to the point where Nami was too tired to be truly angry and vowed to get him another time. Blade Wolf simply left without giving any indication of how he felt about the fight, went to the boys' room (where they said he could sleep on the floor for the time being), and went to sleep. This would be a very interesting experience for Blade Wolf, but at least now he was free.

(A few minutes later, in an undisclosed location)

Raiden had just finished killing some human traffickers (he'd be lying if he said that he hadn't taken some pleasure in killing those pieces of human garbage) and was watching the local authorities help the rescued women and children by giving them blankets and food, when his codec suddenly rang and he saw that it was Sunny calling. Concerned as to why the girl he viewed almost as his own daughter was calling him, he went a fair distance away from the crime scene before answering.

"Hey, Sunny. How have you been? Whoa, slow down, what happened? He infiltrated WHO? ON HIS OWN!? *sigh* No, no, it's fine, Sunny. You did nothing wrong, Blade Wolf's just a loner. Besides, I'm sure he's smart enough to escape- You're kidding me. Are they forcing him to stay with him? Did he say that under duress? I don't know either. I'll figure this out as soon as I get back. For now, just make sure that the Straw Hats don't find you. They probably saw you talking to Wolf, and until we know more about them you need to stay safe. Yes, I'll be safe, Sunny. I promise. Goodbye."

Raiden turned off the codec and reflected on the situation for a moment before saying one word to reflect the situation: "Shit".

!JUSTICE OMAKE!

" Dreamin' On," by Drag0n5on

mugendai no chizu hiroge hate shinai iano basho e

The camera flies forward through space before landing on earth and flying across the ocean.

Let's sail on takaku

The camera passes by the Justice League one by one

ho wo agete

It passes a few more characters before moving upward.

kaze ni nore

Shadows appear to be falling to the sea.

Woah…

The Strawhats are revealed to be falling towards the ocean with looks of excitement.

Don't give up

On the screen the title appears.

kakugo kimeta no nara hikikaeshi wa shinai sa

The Straw Hats go on about their daily life with Luffy laughing as he and Maureen manage to raid the kitchen causing Sanji to yell at them.

waraitobase aranami

The scene changes into a television that Waller seems to be watching as she watches the Straw Hats.

Shout it out

Waller holds her arms out as Suicide Squad moves into action.

kokoro kudakenai yō ni

Batman Beyond looks forward to three adult silhouettes standing before a large group of villains. The silhouette in the middle seems to be wearing a straw-hat.

nakama ga irunda hora tsuyogari nante iranai

nakama ga irunda hora tsuyogari nante iranai

The silhouettes are replaced by a smiling Maureen watching Virgil and Ace get into an argument. Terry looks at them with an irritated look and says something causing Virgil to turn and yell at him while Ace simply glares. Meanwhile Maureen laughs at their antics, similarly to how Luffy laughs.

itsudatte

Suddenly Muareen turns to see the Ultimen charging at the teenagers who meet the clash head on.

yami ga hikisakō toshite mo

In a mysterious room a man holds a picture of Gol D. Roger bringing a smile to their face.

hora Brave it out

Amazo looks out into space as he reveals himself in his gold form.

daijōbu sa

He observes as something crash lands on earth.

uchiyaburu saikyō no kizuna

Within the crash site, a pair of red eyes glare out at the world.

mugendai no chizu hiroge

Flash runs forward blowing back multiple assailants that Green Lantern wraps up in a green sphere

hate shinai ano basho e

Martian Manhunter slams two attackers into each other before going intangible, allowing Aquaman and Hawkgirl to fly through him and take out a group of attackers.

fumidase yūki no ippo Shining Knight and Batman take out approaching attackers from all angles before jumping away.

Dreamin' on

Wonder Woman slams into the earth shattering the ground and all sending his opponents flying.

mugendai no chizu hiroge chikai atsumeta hata

Killer Croc slams into Grundy while Bronze Tiger leaps over to attack only for Clayface to catch him. Copperhead goes toe to toe with Cheetah while Captain Boomerang runs from Ivy who lazily follows him while attacking him with her vines.

tatakai tsudzukete iku

Livewire and Volcana collide multiple times in explosions of Lighting and Fire.

" jibun jishin " tsuranuke

Harley seems to be pestering Deadshot, who rubs his hand over his face, not even bothering to try and attack the clown.

tsukami toru Dreamin' on...

Billy Batson lets lightning strike him as he transforms into Captain Marvel.

makerarenai nige ya shinai deai wakare koe ikō

The Straw Hats appear to be protecting civilians as they destroy falling debris and shadowed opponents.

zenbu takaramono

The shadowed being lets out a roar, destroying everything around them.

mugendai no chizu hiroge hateshinai ano basho e

Luffy and Superman walk forward as the world falls into chaos around them. They glare up at the shadowed being with red eyes, and bone-like spike growing out of its body.

fumidase yūki no ippo ko wo agete

The two begin running before Superman takes flight while Luffy activates his Haki and becomes surrounded in flames.

Woah…

The two roar out as they thrust their fists towards the creature and collide with it creating an explosion.

Woah…

In a field a pole seems to be waving Superman's cape like a flag while a certain straw hat rests on top of the pole.

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AN:

Hope you enjoyed this. My goal here was to give them an opponent that could actually give Luffy major trouble which I believe Doomsday can DEFINITELY do, being unkillable and all that. My favorite part if I'm being honest was the scene with Maureen interacting with Supergirl, Static and Terry. I wanted to hint to Terry recalling them as forces to be reckoned with in the future but appears doubtful with how they act in their younger years. 'Are you all seriously the greatest heroes of my time?'

I was going to do Ace too but I have no idea if you're going to kill her or not so imma play that one by ear. A couple other characters I was going to include there would be Gear, Nails and MAYBE Billy Batson. As for the Ultimen they were basically teenagers and I figure they would serve as a good 'rival group' so to speak against Maureen and her merry band of juvenile misfits. I was thinking the second iteration of them and not the first. The second iteration is far colder and believe the justice league need to do something about the Straw Hats and they target Maureen since she is known to interact with them. The only other group I could see going against them is if you add in Deathstroke and his school of villains.

Task Force X follow their Cadmus companions lead (albeit unwillingly) and fight against the DC Straw Hats as you could see. Although I couldn't bring myself to NOT have a fun moment with Deadshot and Harley. Despite his morals I can't help but like the guy, he loves his daughter.

!JUSTICE OMAKE!

One of these was so long, the author has gone and made their very own story with it!

"Justice - Of Fairies, Pirates, and Heroes," by Denied love494.

!JUSTICE OMAKE!

"Lois Lane interviews Monkey D. Luffy" by Xavier Rall

"How much longer you gonna be there, Lois?" Perry asked her over the phone from the Daily Planet.

"Just having some lunch at some restaurant, meeting up with Clark after he finishes with something he had to 'take care of,' and then gonna catch the next flight out," Lois answered from Bialya.

"Good," Perry sighed. "I know this isn't your first time in a war zone. Lord knows Metropolis has felt like one at least every other month."

"Got that right," Lois looked around the remarkably tidy shop in spite of the revolution that happened literally right outside. The glass had been swept up, but there were still scratches in the wood from the furniture being shifted and moved about at an earlier time. Likely to prevent it from being damaged too much, given how polished and largely intact each table and chair were. Unfortunately, the owner couldn't do anything about the bullet holes in the walls and the door to the kitchen area in the back.

"It's just there's something… different, about the Straw Hat Pirates," Perry admitted. "They're willing to put on rock concerts and run multibillion-dollar medical companies one day, the next they could be robbing Star City blind-"

"Or overthrowing a corrupt dictatorship on the other side of the world," she finished, looking out the hole where the front of the restaurant used to be. In the street lay the destroyed remains of one of the hyper-advanced mechs the government planned to use in an invasion of Kahndaq. And that wasn't (just) the masterful deduction of world-class reporter Lois Lane – the moment they appeared, that was the immediate conclusion of a populace that had been showered with more anti-Kahndaq posters and pamphlets than bandages.

While the twenty-foot machine was still an impressive sight even in defeat, what still astonished Lois even more was how it had been sliced clean in half – along with the building behind it, where both halves neatly rested on their respective sides.

"I still don't know what to make of these guys. And what do you think the Justice League will do? They can't just let supervillains go around overthrowing governments. Even if they are corrupt. Heck, do we even know why they did it? Like, do you know if they're now busy looting the treasury?"

"No," she admitted. "I don't have any clue yet what their motives were, or what they're doing now."

And then, as if the universe were granting her a favor (or more likely, her journalistic investigation paying off), she heard something land only fifteen feet away. But the boyish laughter, however, suggested someone. Someone who she didn't think she would ever get a better chance to catch off guard and talk to.

"Hey, Luffy T! I'm back!" called out the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, Monkey D. Luffy.

"Mr. Monkey!" called back the owner, one Lufti al-Omar, who knocked over the door (it was hanging by a couple loose screws in the hinges anyway) in his rush to meet the supervillain. "I saw you fight the الشياطين العمالقة! It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen! Especially when you blew up your arms like balloons, and turned them black, and just punched it to scrap metal!"

Lois' Arabic was pretty rusty, so the best she could manage was the man calling those robots 'giant devils,' which was probably a nickname. Probably. Actually, given the attitude of their previous owner, he might actually have called them that.

Also, given that seemingly casual greeting, she had really lucked out in choosing where to sit down for lunch and to make her call.

"Shishishishi!" Luffy laughed. "It was nothing! You got anything to eat?" His grin was deceptively infectious, as Lois felt her lips try to stretch further than the calculated smirk she was aiming for.

Then the pirate turned her way, and the two of them met each other's gaze for the first time.

"Hello, Luffy," she said, getting up and standing in front of him.

"Oh yes, Mr. Monkey," Lufti said. "She says she's a reporter from America, and she saw the revolution happen. She came here looking to talk to you."

"Really?" Luffy asked him, and then crossed his arms and hummed to himself. "Hmmm, huh. I don't think I've ever actually talked to a reporter before."

"Well then, it would be my pleasure to be your first," she extended her hand in greeting. "Lois Lane, from the Daily Planet."

His smile vanished while he tilted his head back in thought and then his eyes widened in recognition. "Oh yeah, you're the one who interviewed Nami and Sanji before Batman broke in!"

"Yes, that's me," she replied with a level look.

Though Lois knew she wasn't the World's Greatest Detective, or some kind of psychic, she liked to think she could get a generally accurate impression of someone by greeting them in an unannounced meeting. His stance was relaxed, if energetic, and his eyes were wide, bright, and filled with joy, showing his pleasant… surprise(?) at her presence, and now she was a little confused. It was as if he had known someone was there, yet didn't know who exactly they were. Or maybe he was just happy, and her presence simply didn't change that.

Overall, he looked wild, but also very childish, only the old curved scar under his eye giving any credibility to the fact that this boy was the same man who had fought both an army, and a fifty-foot mecha just the other day.

She walked back to her table, and pulled out both chairs. "Why don't we sit down, and while we wait for your friend to make us lunch, we can give you your first interview?"

Luffy stood for a moment, thinking it over. "Hmmm. Well, Nami never said I couldn't do an interview, so yeah!"

What's he so worried about with Nami? Lois thought, remembering the pretend scientist (and unnaturally busty woman, her traitorous brain reminded her) she had interviewed at Cherry Blossom Medical.

He took the seat she had pulled out.

He's the captain, why should he be worried about what she says?

MEANWHILE, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

A shiver ran down Nami's spine, and she suddenly looked around.

"What's wrong, Nami?" Maureen asked her. The two had been practicing together to see how well Nami could synchronize her weather manipulation with Maureen's ice powers, as well as to expand both of their abilities.

"I don't know, except I have a feeling Luffy is behind it, we're all going to be in a whole lot of trouble over it, but it'll be my fault because I never forbid him. But that doesn't mean that I won't have a… talk with him."

BACK TO LOIS AND LUFFY

Lois placed her recorder on the table in front of her and turned it on. "Alright, I have just succeeded in convincing the infamous supervillain, Straw Hat Luffy, to-"

"Pirate," Luffy interrupted. "I'm a Pirate, not a supervillain."

"Pardon, the notorious pirate, Straw Hat Luffy, to sit down for an interview, Lois coolly continued. "And let's start with that, you call yourself a pirate, but not a supervillain. Why?"

"Because Pirates are free, and can go anywhere and do anything they like!" Luffy responded. "Supervillains have to wear stupid costumes, and hurt people, and fight heroes, and have no friends."

Lois could see how childish Luffy was, and so felt bold enough to contradict him a little. "True, but a lot of people have seen you hurt people here in Bialya, you did fight some of the heroes in the Justice League, and that hat of yours is your most defining piece of clothing you wear, like a costume. Also, you have people working for you who were convicted supervillains even before you arrived on the scene."

"My hat's not a costume, it's my treasure," he pouted, and once again she had trouble seeing how the childish idiot(?) in front of her was the monster who had toppled a dictatorship.

"But," and he emphasized this by pointing at her, "supervillains are alone and miserable all the time. I've got my crew, and they're my nakama! So being a pirate's loads better."

Interesting distinction, she mentally noted. "That's fair enough. Although, pirates are generally sea-faring, and ever since you appeared, I think your crew has been spotted at sea only once."

"'Cause the seas here are boring and wimpy," he immediately replied, with a note of disdain and disgust Lois heard.

"They can't be that bad," she said jokingly. "Sure, there are no sea monsters or mermaids here, except there's lots of interesting sea life, and I've heard there's nothing like sailing on the open water."

"But what's the point of sailing the sea when all the seas have been sailed before?" he moaned. Then he smiled a bit. "Back home, we DID have sea monsters to fight and mermaids to find! And we've done both!"

Lois couldn't help but raise an incredulous eyebrow. "Really? And what else did you do?" she asked curiously. "Find hidden treasure, rescue princesses, fight off the navy, and sing 'yo-ho-ho' while dancing around with a bottle of rum?"

"Yes!" Luffy cried out in surprise. "How did you know? Are you like that green guy? Can you read my mind?"

He sounded genuinely fearful that Lois was, in fact, reading his mind right now. "N-no, I'm not reading your mind," she calmed him down. "I was just joking about what I was saying."

"Well I wasn't!" he shouted. "People shouldn't look into other people's heads! That's something only perverts would do!"

The sudden use of the word 'pervert' in the interview, and its association with the Martian Manhunter almost made Lois's professional façade crack. Whether it was out of shock or humor, no one knew or would ever know, and Lois was already debating whether to edit this part of the interview out.

It was also painfully, nearly literally painful, to realize she could not get sidetracked on his origins. There was clearly too much going on there, and he was too easily distracted. Right now it was more important to dig into the present, and if it went well, hopefully she could get a follow-up interview.

Lois cleared her throat. "Moving on from that, it's clear that you've been on some wild adventure back in your home, which does honestly sound like an… interesting place to live."

"It's the best!" Luffy enthused.

"But there is one thing everyone wants to know right now," Lois leaned a little forward. "So far, everything you've been doing has been centered in America, with one trip to London that authorities can confirm. Why suddenly come to Bialya? And why help the rebels overthrow the government?"

Just then, a young female voice came from outside: "Father! I'm home!"

"Welcome back, Lina!" Lufti shouted back. "You've got a friend here!"

Lois looked to see a girl in her late teens dressed in flowing brown desert robes with a green head scarf come from the street. While her figure was largely indistinguishable, she was tall, with long arms, a stump where her right hand should have been, and her round face was set with bright chocolate eyes. And her eyes widened in recognition upon being set on Luffy, who had gotten up to meet her.

"Lina!" he greeted.

"Luffy!" she picked him up in a hug and twirled around with him in a circle before setting him down, both happy to see the other. "I thought you'd already left! Your friends said they were anxious about the Justice League coming in because of them, and were getting packed up when I saw them last! They said they were leaving as soon as they found out where Zoro had gone."

"Shi-shi-shi-shi," Luffy laughed. "Don't worry about it, he's probably drinking some bar dry somewhere. Or he's looking for the palace after drinking out the bar."

"But the palace is the easiest place in the city to find," Lina protested. "You can see it from anywhere in the city."

"Ah, Lina," he put his hands on her shoulders with a humored smile. "You should never underestimate Zoro's ability to get lost anywhere."

Lina gravely nodded her head, seeming to take Luffy's words as gospel truth. Then she noticed Lois at the table, and asked Luffy. "Who's that?"

"Lois Lane, Daily Planet," she stood from her seat.

"She's a reporter," Luffy explained. "She wants to know how we helped you out!"

"Really?" she looked back at Luffy, who nodded. "You want to know why the Straw Hat Pirates helped me? Helped us?"

Lois knew right then that she had hit the proverbial bullseye. Not only did she have Luffy himself to answer questions, but she also had someone here who called herself his friend, and had the inside track on the how and why the Straw Hats suddenly turned revolutionary. She was also fortunate the girl spoke such good English, with only a slight accent.

It was too bad the kid was a minor though, or else she could put her actual name and picture in her upcoming, Pulitzer-winning article.

"Yes. And not just me, but everyone else as well."

Lois Lane gestured to the table, and offered her a seat, and the two sat across from each other. Then, just as Lois noticed that Luffy was left without a seat at the table, he gave Lois her first close-up look at his powers when he stretched out his arm and grabbed one for himself, sitting at a side between them. That was when Lufti came out from the back with a large platter filled with tangy fruits, spicy meats, and crispy fish with a mouth-watering aroma filling the room.

"FOOD!" Luffy cried out with joy, as it was set in the middle of the table. Lufti had neglected to bring forks and knives and plates, yet Luffy didn't care, as he immediately started grabbing the meat and stuffing it in his rapidly stretching mouth. Lina was quick to start taking food for herself, and Lufti and Lois were both quick to realize they needed to do the same before the pig in rubbery human skin ate it all. Lois turned off her recorder briefly to partake in the meal – as much as she could keep from Luffy's grubby hands, anyway.

It didn't take five minutes before everything was consumed.

As Luffy sat back happily patting his expanded stomach, Lois turned her recorder back on and asked Lina her first question: "Lina, how did you meet the Straw Hat Pirates?"

The spirited girl's face fell dark, and her father reached over to comfortingly rub her shoulder. She brushed his hand off and steeled her face. "They rescued me, from human traffickers."

Lois couldn't stop herself from gasping in horror.

Lina continued her tale with cold, angry eyes. Despite how traumatic her tale was, her voice never wavered. "I was kidnapped right off the street only a year ago. I was sold to some rich, slimy bastard who kept me around for entertainment. I got tired of it, and tried to run away, but his guards overpowered me, and kept me from doing anything more than scratching his face. So he had my right hand cut off, and sold me back. The traffickers forced me to do their menial chores while they looked for a buyer, but no one was interested in a girl with only one hand."

While her focus remained on this brave little girl's face, she could sense the protective fury radiating of the father. Given where this story seemed to be leading, it was no wonder why this man nearly worshipped Luffy upon seeing him.

Lois recalled in the back of her mind the various horror stories of human rights abuses being committed in Bialya and how people were furious that nothing was being done. She even felt a kernel of shame that none of her own stories had tried to drag those crimes into the light; forcing officials to take action. But she also recalled how geopolitical rivalries, development and smuggling of advanced technology, and rising metahuman activities, had stayed the hands of those who wanted to see justice done out of fear of the consequences.

Well, at least now with her ongoing article she could try and do some good here.

"Then one day, a scientist purchased me, and he brought me to America, 'cept I was no freer than before, and he was apparently getting ready to experiment on me. I don't know what he was planning to do, but thankfully I never had to find out, because on my second night there, when he was preparing to perform his first experiments, the Straw Hats came."

Lois could see her mood lightening at this point in the story. Although by the sound of it, Luffy was still scarfing down his food. She did not know if he was even listening.

"The man had something they thought they could find a use for, and so they came to talk to him. I hid because I was afraid of what a supervillain might do to me, but then my cage was opened by a blond man in a suit with swirly eyebrows. He looked shocked, and I prepared for the worst, but then he bent down, and tried speaking to me. I didn't understand him, but I understood what he was trying to say, and was willing to risk trusting him. So I let him pick me up, gently, like I had never been held in so long. He showed me to his friends, and they got mad at the scientist, who revealed that I hadn't even been the first, so they beat him up, took everything from him they wanted, and smashed his place."

Lois was a little surprised at how she portrayed the slimy Sanji Kuroashi that she had interviewed at Cherry Blossom Medical. She supposed Nami's word about him actually being a gentleman any woman would be safe around actually had some merit to it.

"The Pirates took me in because I was too afraid to leave the people who rescued me. I also didn't speak English, and they didn't speak Arabic. But thanks to one of the women, Nico Robin, we learned to talk to each other, and Luffy promised to reunite me with my father. It was easy enough to tell them my exact address in Bialya, yet when I came back, we suddenly ran into the traffickers who had kidnapped me in the airport where we landed. The Straw Hats easily fought them off, and went to bring me home.

At this Lina paused briefly, but thanks to her own extensive experience, Lois was ready. People could only talk like that for so long. With only a gentle smile, she passed the little girl a glass of untouched water for her to catch a drink. It also gave Lois her own chance to recollect her thoughts, and quickly jot down in shorthand a few key points to look into later. Including a reminder to later praise the kid for how quickly and clearly she had learnt to speak English.

"But when we finally got home, the city was in a state of lockdown, because protests that had been brewing for a few days in the city had suddenly become a violent revolution, because a patriotic general was attempting a coup. We snuck through the city to get here to my home, but the military was already here, waiting for us, along with the bastard who had bought me, who was wearing a general's uniform. We learned then that the human traffickers and the Bialyan government were connected, and the traffickers learnt from the scientist we might be on the way, so they were waiting for us. So the Straw Hats attacked the soldiers, and saved my father.

"The next day was when the government unleashed the robots, sending two straight here. They had found out the Straw Hats were here, and accused them of fomenting the rebellion. They ordered the Straw Hats to leave or be killed. Their response: Luffy punched the first one into the sky, and Zoro sliced that one in half."

She pointed to the mech sitting just outside the restaurant.

"After that, you know what they did, Lois?" She leaned in, a massive smile on her face.

"Tell me," Lois requested, utterly drawn into the girl's story.

"They laughed. And that is a sight I will never forget. These strange, wonderful people who I had only known for such a short time, who didn't even know I existed last month, were willing to fight the most powerful and terrifying force that I had ever known. They were going to do it all for me. And when the government threatened them with brutal deaths, they laughed in their faces.

"And those Pirates punched their teeth in for the whole world to see."

Lois sat back, and processed what she had heard. As crazy as the story sounded, it made sense. The Straw Hats were a very unpredictable group, but the only things that were in common with every instance they appeared, was that they were trying to obtain something valuable, be it money or scientific equipment, and that they had a strong sense of camaraderie to rival that of the Justice League itself. The Straw Hats' participation in the revolution didn't fit the pattern before, except this story that Lina gave her established a clear timeline and motive for the Straw Hats to leave the security of whatever base they had in America, to come to the other side of the world and duke it out with giant robots.

"Huh," Lois chuckled a bit.

"What?" Lina asked.

"It's a little funny," Lois wryly mused. "Pirates who hate slavery and overthrow tyrannical governments. That's something you don't see every day."

"Eh, not the first time," Luffy spoke up.

"What?" Lois was perplexed. "Are you saying you've overthrown governments before?"

"Kinda, several times," Luffy remembered, and started listing off his accomplishments. "Dressrosa, where I beat up Doflamingo, Drum Island where I beat up Wapol, Skypeia where I beat up Eneru, Alabasta where- wait, we stopped Crocodile from taking it over, so that doesn't count- but yeah, we've done this before."

Lois was thrown by how casually Luffy just said that he was responsible for overthrowing the governing bodies of at least three different nations by beating up their sovereigns, and had apparently fought more. The fact she did not recognize any of them, added credence to the Straw Hats being from another world. Suddenly Lois had the feeling that Bialya wouldn't be the last country in either world he did this to; that he was more than willing to do it again if he were so inclined.

Well, she hoped those were 'just' countries, and not bigger places.

"Now it's my turn to ask you a question, Miss Lane," Lina's voice was sharp as the steel of Zoro's swords.

"Yes?" Lois asked.

When she spoke, her voice almost choked on the feelings of bitter rage of one who had suffered under a totalitarian dictatorship, while her eyes conveyed the utter helplessness that only a young woman who had been trafficked as a literal slave during the Information Age could feel:

"Why didn't the rest of the world help us? Why did we have to wait for a crew of Pirates to free us from tyranny?"

Lois could think of many answers, and even wanted to argue that there was no telling that the Straw Hats had even improved the situation. How in most cases of overthrown governments, things actually got worse as the situation broke down, and violence spread. She had even visited places before where that was exactly what had happened. But in the face of this woman's hardened features, they all felt like pathetic excuses.

"Easy," Luffy suddenly spoke up. Lois and Lina turned to him.

"They weren't free to help you. We were."

In that moment, Lois Lane looked, and in his eyes, she saw wisdom born of grave experience, akin to that of a war veteran, and the conviction of mind and future vision that only true leaders hold. She saw the same eyes that she saw in Superman.

At first glance "free" seemed like a flippant response, like they had nothing better to do, so they did it... Yet by the look in his eyes, the true depth of those words rang loud and clear. The pirate here was free from obligation, from international law, from politics and diplomatic considerations. He was free not to care about the consequences if he wanted to. And here he had decided to do what he wanted to help.

She felt awe and respect as she looked at his free-spirited face.

Now THIS is the Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, Lois realized.

"Hello there, am I interrupting anything?"

Then the moment was ruined when her partner finally showed up. Late. Like always. She looked and there was Clark Kent in all his suited up small-town glory.

"Sorry, Smallville, you just—"

"Hi, Superman!" Luffy shouted.

She froze in shock.

Standing where there used to be a doorway, Clark froze in fear.

She thought that Luffy was pulling her leg, that this had to be some kind of joke-

"I'm, ah, flattered, Captain Straw Hat Luffy, sir, but I'm afraid—"

"Oh come on, I know it's you!" Luffy insisted. "It's the worst disguise ever! You're not wearing a mask, or even a fake beard and mustache!"

Lois refused to believe this was true, but all the little inconsistencies and questions slowly lined up in her mind-

"You're just wearing glasses!"

—and clicked.

…

I am such an idiot.

!JUSTICE OMAKE!

Author Notes:

I was intending to do another omake chapter from the start, but not for a good dozen or two chapters. Instead I was genuinely stunned by how many I was receiving in such a short time, so I had to post this before it got too many. Heck, already got a start on a third one, but going to hold off on that as long as possible.

My sincere and utter thanks to these amazing authors! Honestly honoured by how much you all put into this!

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Next Chapter: 'The Savage Time'

(An adaption of the Justice League episode by the same name, which may be helpful to catch up on beforehand, even if just with the wiki.)

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