Author notes:
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Chapter 1: rewritten and beta'd by Kurapikababu.
Chapter 2: rewritten.
Chapter 3: small mistakes corrected.
Chapter 4: posted again and beta`d by Gerbilfriend
Chapter 5: written and beta`d by gabrielsangel23 and Gerbilfriend
Chapter 6: written, and here, beta`d by Gerbilfriend.
Chapter 7: ¾ written.
Chapter 8: planned.
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I don't own one piece!
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Especial thanks for Gerbilfriend for helping me with this chapter. I am very thankful for her, taking her time to help me and encourage me. XD
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Warnings:
English is my fourth language, the story will include thoughts about suicide, self-harm, and Ace self-worth issues.
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Thank you, To all of you that followed, favorite and especially reviewed. You are seriously amazing, really!
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GreenDrkness
Hello, thank you for your review. It seems like Marcy is gonna do something drastic doesn't it. Don't worry she will be fine for now. Continue reading and let me know your thoughts.
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Yuuki no Yuki
Thank you for review. I thought a lot about how to write that chapter, do I write it by using Lina POV, maybe Ace, or someone else, and I decided in the end that I want to show the war and what was happening not only from one side but from the other side too (marines). You get some things right. I am sorry to say things or gonna get more confusing as we go XD, please continue reading and let me know your thoughts.
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Guest-chan (anon-chan) or My mile long reviewer :D
Thank you for review, I look forward to read them every time. They encourage me to write more.
Yes, I was speaking about you. ^^
I am happy to hear that you liked the chapter, I was very unsure if choosing to show what happened from the marines POV was the better choice, I wrote different versions for the chapter.
The outcome was awesome wasn't?. XD
Yup, I was speaking about you. I am not that good conversationalist myself, but would love to chat with you. But don't feel pressured, only if you feel liked it. I am here all alone and bored… Shishi ..
I look forward to read your review for this chapter, it is my favorite so far. So I expect a mile long paragraphs about it ;)
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Read and enjoy and review XD
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It worked, it worked, the bloody plan worked.
Lina couldn't believe it.
Shit, she couldn't feel her hand, her whole shoulder was numb.
Using the Reject dial, was tricky and harder than she thought.
She was SUPER lucky.
From her fingertips up to her shoulder, everything was on fire. Everything was gonna hurt like a *itch when the effect of the hormones disappeared. But who cares? It bloody worked.
She had to stop herself from doing a Franky Pose while shouting: Super-Duper.
This moment deserved at least a Franky pose.
There were so many things that could have gone wrong, so many that she would need days to count them all and their devastating consequences.
But it worked!
IT WORKED!
At least the hard part worked, now for the tricky and most important part.
They needed to keep the monument going.
They needed to work fast before the marines wake up from their shock and got in formation.
She felt sorry that she couldn't admire this moment in time more, or at least have time to get a picture to remember this moment by, especially on rainy days.
Even a picture drawn by Luffy would still be glorious.
She would just have to take solace in the memory.
Now, to the real work.
Fast.
She started to move with purpose, her mind already working a mile a second to put priority on all the things that needed done first from all the millions of things that needed to be done fast.
First ...
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Someone was calling him, the farthest part of his brain was shouting at him.
Buggy didn't care.
The Admiral was on the ground. He blinked again, yes, Kizaru was still there. He blinked again.
Admiral Kizaru was still there, shackled with sea stone cuffs. He blinked again, the picture didn't change.
He began to laugh and laugh, clutching his stomach.
This was bliss.
This was heaven, the gods answered his prayers.
"I never once doubted you," he said looking adoringly at the sky.
He was going to throw himself in the cold floor to roll in his enjoyment when someone punched his head, hard.
Who?...
Who dared disturb him while he relished this glorious moment, him, captain Buggy, enjoying this victorious moment.
He began to turn, while demanding, "Who dares..." intending in going all out showing his awesome moves to take care of this intruder on his special moment.
L…
"Lina," he exclaimed.
It was Lina, the genius, he knew all along that her plan would work.
Of course, he knew.
But without him it would had never worked.
He was the One True Star.
"Lina, your plan worked, I knew it. Of course it's all thanks to me playing my critical part. You and I should …"
She cut his speech (about his generous offer for her to join his fabulous crew, he was making this exception just for her, she should be honored! Dammit!), "No time, we need to make sure that the marines don't get him back or everything will be for nothing," she said hurriedly breathing hard.
Take him back. She meant Kizaru.
To take him back. Those words stuck in his head.
Lina continued after taking a long breath, "You, No. Captain Buggy is needed to keep this monument going for our victory."
Take the admiral back, take his glorious victory from him.
Like hell. Like he would let something like that happen.
"Don't worry, my dearest Lina. I, Captain Buggy will take care of it." He said, high on confidence, while hitting his torso and then coughing hard as result.
She nodded while moving her hands in the OK sign, shouting, "I am counting on you, captain Buggy," then running to where the ex-Admiral (BHABHABHA) was being held.
He was quite touched by her trust in his fabulous abilities. Trust in the right person of course.
He admired the vision in front of him.
The Ex-admiral was being secured by Crocodile, Daz Bones and Mr.3, purple head queen, and even Jinbe was there helping.
He wanted to shriek with laughter at the vision in front of him (so he did, he would have preferred rolling on the floor, but he could do that later!).
The marines had no chance against them, especially with him as the leader.
He, captain Buggy, would defend this victory with his life, well, his follower's lives actually but who cared about the small details.
He called an authoritative voice to the still shocked pirates all around him.
"Wake up you fools and move it. Follow your captain Buggy to defend our victory."
Cheers roared behind him. They were gonna destroy the marines.
The pirates were shouting their triumph.
"Move it!"
"Follow our Captain Buggy!"
"Beat up more marines."
"Captain Buggy, you are our saviour and we will follow you to the death."
"Yeah, cause you will win!"
"Bring the broadcast Den Den Mushis."
"Please tell me you got the image of Kizaru shackled."
"Damn right, I did."
Shouts of "I want a copy" filled the air to the brim with the sound of victory.
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Seeing a plan come together was always so satisfying to watch, even if it wasn't his plan, mused Crocodile, taking care of another marine that moved a little in their direction.
The direction of the high wall of bodies surrounding the Admiral, a literal wall of bodies.
The little girl. No, Lina, was inside with the annoying purple queen and Mr.3 (another surprise, Mr. 3 had disappeared right after they arrived here to reappear before the plans execution, it made him wonder!) some other okamas, ex-prisoners were also inside, doing who knows what.
Well, probably whatever the little girl, Lina, told them to do.
They needed absolute privacy for the next part of the plan, according to her. And their job, he, Mr.1 and Jinbe, was to make sure nobody bothered them.
To be honest, he didn't know what to think when the little gi.., no, Lina, he reminded himself, suggested the plan of taking out an Admiral when they were on the stolen marine ship.
The little.., Lina didn't leave any kind of impression on him in their 'meeting' in Alabasta. She wasn't weak per say, but she were a follower, or at least that what he thought.
This.
This changed everything.
He wondered, if when she had devised this plan she knew how it would affect her standing as pirate.
He would bet his right hand on an increase of at least 200 million Beli on her bounty.
And another surprise, she devised this plan at the last moment, of course there were pieces everywhere that she collected prior. But it became whole, a functioning plan, only a minute before it was carried out, and it still wasn't finished and things promised to become more and more entertaining.
He couldn't help but wonder, if she had more information and more time what would she had done? What kind of crazy and complicated plan she would had devised.
And more impressive was how she and her brother, strawhat Luffy, were able to attract everyone (including him, he reluctantly admitted) to their pace so effortlessly. To follow their instructions and obey orders without second thought, like it was the most natural thing to do. This was feat, especially when speaking about pirates, ex-imprisoned pirates who in this case had just received their freedom.
Lina, like her brother, would become someone to watch from in the future. If he was smart, as he knew he was, he should take her and her brother out now, before they became a real problem, a threat to all of his future plans (he had no doubt that somehow they would meet again and when he least wanted or expected it, the strawhats had an annoying knack for that).
But he was more curious about how the whole thing would play out now.
He took care of another marine quietly.
She demanded that they take care of the marines quietly as not to wake any up from their 'sleep' induced shock.
He would observe and play along for now.
Just because he could.
And things now were being quite intriguing, especially after staying in such dull place as Impel down.
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He had to admit, he lost control of the damn situation, he wasn't sure he had any to begin with when fighting someone of the caliber of Whitebeard, but any that he had just vanished. Sengoku bit his lip hard, tasting blood in his mouth trying to control his boiling anger at this unacceptable situation.
His only consolation was the fact that the Whitebeard and his pirates were as shocked as he and his men were.
Sengoku tried to shout orders again.
Damn it.
They were not listening, and those who were, weren't able to master enough power to do anything before Jinbe and Crocodile (both ex- Shichibukai, damn it!) took care of them.
Sengoku turned to scream at Garp again. He didn't remember how many times in this hour alone, and he didn't care. It was the moron cracker eater and his cursed family's fault!
The fool was still in shock (he had been since watching his damn granddaughter flying), jaw dropping literally to the floor.
"Damn you, Garp, and your accursed family."
Fire Fist was still in shock too, eyes wide open, jaw stretched wide but not like his utter failure of grandfather.
He took a deep breath, he needed to control his emotions to be able to control the situation (That was hard to do when Garp was standing beside him, even silent the man gritted on his nerves).
The situation was chaotic, to say the least.
But that meant the side who were able to take control of the situation first would be able to turn the tide of the war for his favour.
It wouldn't be easy!
The ones to move first would most probably be the victors.
It was a race.
Between their side and Whitebeard's.
Kizaru, no, Borsalino. Sengoku was gonna flay Borsalino's hide, for getting caught, that moron. Why did he have morons surrounding him? Why? And he had to get caught by no-name pirates as well. No-name, not anymore! If they weren't dead by the end of the day, their big bounty would make them target to everyone, he would make damn sure of it.
The odds weren't in their favor, but all they needed to do was to get Borsalino back, and then hopefully things could turn to the better for them.
He thought to himself, yes, they still could turn this whole situation to their favor.
Thank the Gods they disabled the broadcast Den Den Mushi, this was a disaster.
An utter f**king disaster.
But they could still ...
Akainu was making his move.
Sengoku was about to give him the orders (do something damn it).
GOOD, real good.
So was Aokiji, even better.
They were both heading directly to the wall of bodies where Kizaru was being held (Damn you Borsalino).
This was good, they can still get the ..
*uck.
No.
Shit.
Whitebeard intercepted Akainu, and Marco the phoenix and other commanders were facing Aokiji, stopping their advance.
Full stop.
This was the worst. It couldn't get any worse. He and Garp needed to join the fight now or else...
He was calling his replacement in overseeing the battle, letting him know. They didn't have any time to waste.
Every second counted.
"Garp," he snapped urgently and gritted out, "we need to get Kizaru back now," looking intently at the heated battles unfolding in front of him between his admirals and the Whitebeard pirates.
Damn, in the worst scenarios of how this battlefield would turn to be or what would occur, and he imagined several in detail, this had not happened.
This was the worst thing ever.
Garp wasn't answering him. He looked at Garp intending in beating the shit out of him, if he had too (with pleasure), to wake him up. They needed to make their move like ten minutes ago.
He turned his head to see Garp trying to move his jaws (finally he was doing something other than standing idiotically), he was pointing with trembling finger at something in the battlefield.
Fire Fist whose eyes were big as saucers and his jaw was dropping even more than his crazy grandfather, snorted, he seemed trying to hold something in and finally gave up, he burst out laughing loudly and hysterically.
Sengoku began to turn his head with a heavy heart filled with dread to the direction of the battlefield.
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Shit.
Shit, it could.
It could get way worse.
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Looking back.
It was probably at this moment that Lina's name shone out of the shadow. Not as Fire-Fist little cute sister, not as strawhat Luffy twin sister.
NO.
She would be known as Lina the goddess of chaos.
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SHISHISHI...What do you think happened?
This chapter was my favorite one this far.
So what do you all think? Which POV you liked and want to see more of?
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After some thought I decided that I would have at some point, Lina explain what happened and her thought process.. For now, you could only guess .. :D
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I am hoping to publish new chapter for MDNR soon, go check out the Fic, and let me know your thoughts.
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Ahhhh, and finally did something about the Fic image ^o^.
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I only wrote a little bit of the next chapter, so encouragement may help inspire me, please review. XD
