A/N: I jinxed myself... so glad I made no promises... Internet was out yesterday, but thankfully it came back on today! I'm a bit unsure about the chapter but I hope you'll like it! Enjoy!
Chapter 45: Another North Blue Adventure
Glossaryck suggested to Star to go on a Blue Dimension Adventure, since their last one was a trip to the South Blue, they decided to flip it and once again go to the North Blue.
"All right! You two ready for another North Blue Adventure?" asked Star.
"Oh yeah!" cheered Luffy.
"Remember to create clothes if it gets cold." Pointed out Marco.
"Oh I know!" laughed Star, "Later Glossaryck."
Star created a portal and all three went though the portal to the North Blue.
They went through the portal and found they were indoors.
"Uh-oh… not again…" said Star.
"Let's find a place to exit then explore the rest of the island." Said Star.
However they didn't know two things. They weren't on island but rather a floating fortress or castle.
And the second thing was that they were being watched.
They didn't notice on the wall were large snails watching them.
In a control room several people were watching them.
"That was a portal!" yelled one of them.
"Wait does that mean Hell Spawn is here?" asked another them.
"No none of them match her description." Said another.
"Inform the king and active that device!" yelled another.
"Wait you don't mean…" said one of them.
"We don't know if it work though." Said another.
"We have no other choice." Said the first one.
One of them activated a button.
Elsewhere a strange device lit up.
Elsewhere in a darkened throne room saw a large blonde man.
"What do you mean there's intruders?" he asked.
"They came through a portal similar to Hell Spawn. The device has already been activated and hopefully it will work." Said a snail in front of him.
It was a Transponder Snail. They're psychic snails that the blue dimension uses as phones.
"Whoever they are we're already sending the Germa 66 after them." Said the person on the other side of the snail.
"Good." Muttered the man.
"But if it doesn't work." Said the person on the other end.
"Two of them are here." Said the man.
"Okay..." said the person on the other end, "Good…"
Meanwhile with Star, Luffy and Marco…
"Why did Glossaryck suggest one of these adventures?" asked Marco.
"Probably needs some time to himself after what happened with Ludo." Said Star.
"He has been acting weird." Said Luffy with a shrug.
That was when they were suddenly surrounded by a bunch of solders in a strange uniform.
"Surrender now! Or prepare to fight!" yelled one of the solider.
"Yeah! Time to ditch this place." Sighed Star.
She took out her scissors and cut opened a portal but nothing happened.
"Uh…" said Star.
Luffy tried doing the same.
In the control room the people there celebrated, the device had worked.
Back with the three.
"Okay I have an idea!" said Star.
She pointed her wand at the small army.
"Jelly Bean Hallucination Mist!" she called out.
The mist hit the army and they began tripping.
"I'm freaking out!" yelled one.
"Spiders! Spiders every here!" yelled another.
"Give me your gold leprechaun!" yelled another.
They all ran thanks the hallucination.
"Okay! This is bad! Really bad!" yelled Marco.
"I have an idea!" said Star, "Split up!"
"What!" yelled Marco.
"Hey do you have any bars?" asked Star.
"What?" asked Marco then realized what she meant.
"You know I haven't tried to use my phone in this dimensions." Said Marco then checked and confirmed, "Thought so no bars."
"Interdimensional Service Transfer!" said Star zapping his phone.
"Okay! I have better service on earth now!" said Marco.
"Okay! Let's go look around and find why the scissors won't work!" said Star.
Luffy ran off making Marco sigh.
"Call us if you find anything!" yelled Star.
Star then ran off.
Marco sighed even more, it was probably a good idea to split off and try to figure out what was going on.
While they were splitting up the ones in the control room were giving pictures of the three two people, both of them appeared to be in their late teens, the older of which was a young woman with pink hair wearing a strange pink dress.
The other was a boy wearing blue with bright blue hair.
The strange thing was their swirly eyebrows.
"These the intruders." Said the boy.
"yes…" said the person giving them the pictures.
"They just split up." Said one of the people watching the screens, "It seems they're doing a divide and conquer strategy."
"And you say they came out of a portal?" asked the woman .
"Yes they did." Said the person gave them the pictures.
"I see." Said the woman.
She looked at the pictures but she lacked any reaction to them.
"Why are they even here?" asked the woman.
"We don't know…" said the person who gave them the pictures.
"I'll find them." Said the woman walking off to find them.
The boy also left planning to find them as well.
But he was unaware that the woman had very different motives in finding them.
The person who gave them the pictures struggled while had the boy not have goggles on, they would have saw him roll his eyes.
With Star she searched for a spot to leave the building hoping that going to side would solve the problem.
She did manage to leave the building and looked out, she was shocked to discover that where they were was on a strange floating platform.
"Cool but weird." Said Star.
She then took out her scissors and tried to cut open a portal, but still nothing.
"There she is!" yelled one of them.
"Starfish Tsunami!" she called out using the spell.
Hopefully the others will figure something out.
Meanwhile with Luffy he wasn't being subtle at all.
He had beaten up several of the soldiers, which was actually pretty easy.
"Wow… for someone intruding on our kingdom you don't know the meaning the word stealth do you?" asked the boy showing up.
"I guess I have to fight you." Said Luffy getting ready to fight.
However the by just smirked, then he disappeared.
And reappeared behind Luffy.
The boy then kneed Luffy in the back not only that but he gave a jolt of electricity to Luffy somehow.
When he was done with the attack Luffy just turned around and looked at him.
"Yeah… was that supposed to do something?" asked Luffy scratching the area where the boy kneed him like it was just a bug bite.
The teenager just stared at Luffy, unsure how to respond really.
Meanwhile Marco was using the exact opposite tactic of Luffy, using stealth to hide.
"I think I saw something over here!" he heard a voice call out.
He noticed a nearby door and entered the room.
It turned out to be rather nice pink bedroom. Very spacious and clearly the best went into everything.
"This is defiantly the bedroom of someone important." He said to himself.
He then realized he should really find a hiding spot in the room. He noticed a closet and entered it. It was extremely large. Like something out of a rich girl's room in a teen movie.
He also noticed that all of the clothes were pink.
"Someone sure loves pink." He whispered to himself.
He decided to go to the back of the closet and hide there, he moved the clothes and when he moved them he found something that made his jaw drop.
Back with Luffy the teenager he was fighting quickly recovered from the fact that his attack didn't work on Luffy, so instead he deicide to switch to a punch with him coating his hand in electricity.
However Luffy was once again phased by the punch.
"You make light shows with your punch!" said Luffy with his eyes sparkling, "That's so cool!"
"It's supposed to be electricity!" yelled the teenager.
"Uh… okay…" said Luffy confused, "If it's supposed to be shocking me then why it working?"
"How the hell should I know!" responded the teenager.
Luffy shrugged, and knew that it was clear the teenager was trying to fight him.
"Gum Gum Bazooka!" he Luffy flinging him away with the double palm thrust.
The teenager crashed into the wall but was strangely unharmed.
"A Devil Fruit…" said the teenager. "And judging by the name you're a rubber man."
Luffy blinked, but got ready for a fight.
Meanwhile Marco stared at what was in front of him.
It was a shrine to two princesses.
Princess Marco Turdina and Princess Luffy Gummygum.
After the revolution at Saint Olga's the princesses started spreading the word. Even creating merchandise.
That was where 650 of the 1300 dollars a month he got came from.
Then word spread that Princess Gummygum was from the Blue Dimension. A Princess from a kingdom that somehow discovered about other dimensions.
The Princesses decided to create a newsletter.
They would find every single princess in the Blue Dimension and send it to them. They would have a date and time for a portal that the princess could use to send some money to keep subscribing and surprisingly many of the Princesses continued the subscription.
Though sadly to Luffy's disappointment not Princess Nantokanette of his own home island. Not because he wanted to befriend her but because it would have been funny to know that Sterry's fiancé was a fan of his.
Not only that but the second Newsletter also came with a catalogue for merchandise.
Due to complicated right issues involing the Blue Dimension 650 dollars was added to the royalty checks, not that Marco was complaining.
Not to mention the merchandise was popular in the Blue Dimension, posters, doll and all sorts of other things.
Plus it helped that the two "Princesses" were distinct to one another.
Princess Turdina was the brains and the mouth, using "her" words to inspire the other Princesses and coming up with plans.
While Princess Gummygum was the brawn and the heart. The one to lead the fighting and the one to help protect and guide those that needed it.
He knew there were probably shrines all over the world as he couldn't see any of the Princesses shoeing their parents about it.
But just coming across one was surprising.
What Marco didn't know was that one of the solders saw him enter the room and directed the young woman there.
She kept a calm face as she entered her bedroom and then decided to check her closet figuring that would be a good place for him to hide.
She opened the door and smiled at him.
"So… you saw everything." She said causing Marco to jump.
"Uh…" said Marco.
"It's interesting that two boys who look identical to the two rebellious interdimensional princesses show up with Princess Star Butterfly from a magic portal." Said the woman.
Star was mentioned as being a good friend to the two in the newsletter… though she didn't have any merchandise due to the fact that she wasn't the one to lead the rebellion or punch out Miss Heinous.
"I should explain… shouldn't I?" asked Marco.
"And in return I'll explain why you can't make a portal." Said the woman.
Marco breathed a sigh of relief.
Even if she lost respect for Princess Turdina and Princess Gummygum, it was clear she was going to help them.
Because that's just how rebellious princesses rolled.
Back with Luffy he looked at the teenager.
"Gum Gum Whip." Said Luffy.
The kicked connected to his side but what happened when it was hit was Luffy's leg just wrapped around him. Not only that but when it hit the guy felt very hard.
"That's weird." Said Luffy.
"Gum Gum Pistol!"
He tried punching him in the face, but the teenager just stood there.
"Is that all you got?" mocked the teen.
"I guess I shouldn't hold back with this guy." Said Luffy.
"Yeah…" said the teenager mocking him then realized what he just said, "Wait… what?"
"Gum Gum Pistol!" he shouted punching the teenager in the stomach so hard it was like it was dented.
"That's weird…" said Luffy looking at what happened to the teenager.
"You'll pay for that." Said the teenager clearly struggling to breathe.
Back with Marco and the woman, she had introduced herself as Reiju, Marco had explained how he started the revolution and Reiju was surprised.
Partially because Pony Head wrote a couple column in the news letter, but quickly got booted when it the column was about herself.
"Yeah, that does sound like Pony Head." Said Marco.
"Now the reason you can't get leave is because of a device my father created to prevent Hell Spawn from doing anything here." Explained Reiju.
"Hell Spawn?" asked Marco.
"One of the most wanted criminals out there." Said Reiju, "Even if we're considered just an urban legend, we wouldn't put it past who she works for to send her here."
"She has the power to create portals?" asked Marco.
Reiju nodded.
"What would she even want?" asked Marco.
"Have you heard of the Germa 66?" asked Reiju.
"No." said Marco.
"Well you are from another dimension." Said Reiju, "It's an army that the World Government uses as enemies in a propaganda comic. Most people think they're fake but they're very real."
"And this place is the location of Germa 66?" asked Marco.
Reiju smiled when he said that.
"My father is the head and King of this country." Said Reiju, "A county of science and technology. He has engineered all sorts of weapons… including people."
"What do you mean including people?" asked Marco getting a bad feeling.
"He genetically engineered the perfect warriors." She explained, "To have powers and skills beyond a normal human. Not only that but to follow every single order he gives…"
Marco paled and realized.
"You're one of them aren't you?" he asked.
Reiju nodded, "Thankfully he didn't do what he did to me what he did to my brothers."
"What did he do?" asked Marco.
"He took away their emotions..." she explained.
"That's horrible!" gasped Marco.
"All three of them are remorse less killing machines." She said.
"Are you telling me to warn you or to get it off your chest." Said Marco.
"A little of both I guess." Said Reiju, "Is there anyway to get in contact with your friends?"
"Thankfully yes." Said Marco, "And hopefully neither one had run into your brothers."
"Brother." Said Reiju, "Two of them are busy helping conquer some kingdom."
"Well hopefully neither have run into him." said Marco, "Though knowing Luffy's luck…"
Back with Luffy, he was still fight the teenager.
Luffy dodged any and all punches he threw, but because of his strangely dented chest the fight had become extremely one-sided.
"Time to finish this!" said Luffy, "Gum Gum Gatling!"
He unleashed the rapid fire punches at the teenagers, not only that but they were so hard his face was dented in.
IT was clear that his opponent was down for the count.
"Okay!" said Luffy, "I guess I still have to find out why my scissors aren't working."
Meanwhile Star she had just punched away another group of solders with a large rainbow fist punch.
That was when her mirror rang, she saw it was Marco which meant she had to use it as a phone.
"Hey Marco! You okay?" asked Star.
"I'm fine." Said Marco, "In fact I know what's going on."
"You do?" asked Star.
"Yeah." Said Marco, "You run into guy with blue hair?"
"No I haven't." said Star.
"Good." Said Marco, "Because you don't want to, where you?"
"I decided to stay outside the castle." Said Star.
"You're outside?" asked Marco.
He noticed a nearby balcony.
"I'm near a balcony!" said Marco.
"Awesome!"" said Star.
Marco went to the balcony and Star when to a tower and used her wand as a heat seeker. She then found Marco's heat signature.
She jumped to the balcony and joined up with Marco.
"Hey!" said Star.
Then she noticed Reiju.
"Who is she?" asked Star suspiciously.
"The Princess of this kingdom who would rather see you safely escape." Sai Reiju.
"Okay…" said Star with a shrug, "You call Luffy yet?"
"Not yet… I'm dreading it." Sighed Marco.
"I'll call him." sighed Star.
And so she called him.
"Hey Star! You find a way out of here?" asked Luffy.
"We need to turn off a device keeping us here." Said Marco.
"What does it look like?" asked Luffy.
"It's in a secret room, I do have the passcode to there though." Said Reiju.
"Who's that?" asked Luffy.
"The princess of this place." Said Star.
"She's a fan." Said Marco.
"OH!" said Luffy giving a bright smile.
"What?" asked Star confused.
"Explain later." Said Luffy.
"Have you seen a guy with blue hair?" asked Star.
"Yeah!" said Luffy, "And I kicked his ass."
"You what?" asked Reiju.
"I kicked his ass!" said Luffy, "It was weird when I punched him as fully strength his body got dented in a weird way… I don't know."
Reiju was shocked but then she smiled.
"It takes a lot of strength to dent our exoskeleton. So you really defeated Niji." Said Reiju, "But how did you get past his other abilities."
"You might his weird lighting? I don't know." Said Luffy.
"Wait! I know what happened!" said Marco, "You're devil fruit powers must make you immune to lightning!"
"Oh! Awesome!" said Luffy.
"Okay I have an idea!" said Marco, "Luffy… just do your thing! And we'll find out!"
"But are we going to get to the device." Said Star.
"I think a hostage would work." Said Marco looking at Reiju.
Reiju nodded.
And so Star magiced up some fake chains and a fake bomb collar to make it seem she was their hostage (the collar was Reiju's idea to sell it that they somehow neutralized her powers).
Considering the fact that she used magic on many of the soldiers it would make sense that she could easily do something to hold her hostage.
The three left Reiju's room.
She led the way and along the way they heard a shout "OH FUDGE MONKEYS!"
They headed a different way to where the shout came form knowing it was some the soldiers.
The solider that yelled this out saw the unconscious teenager who was indeed named Niji.
"What happened to him!" yelled another.
"One of the intruders must be stronger than we thought! Inform the Generalissimo." Said one of the soldiers.
""Fudge Monkeys"" said one of the other soldiers to the one that yelled it out.
"I'm trying to cut back on swearing! Okay!" said the solider that yelled it out.
They did run into some solders a few times but Star was able to easily take down with some spells.
However when they wee once again found b the soldiers they heard "Gum Gum Sickle!" and Luffy gave all of them a clothes line.
" Luffy!" said Star.
"All right!" cheered Luffy.
"We're almost there." Said Reiju.
"Good we can get out of here." Said Marco.
She led them to the room where the device was. She entered the code to get in.
"There's some surveillance snails in here." Said Reiju.
Star looked around and saw them and knew what to do.
"Jelly Bean Hallucination Mist!" she called out using the spell for a second that day causing the snails to hallucinate.
Those in the security room were freaking out at the image they saw.
"What the…" said one of them.
"What did that girl do to the snails?" asked another.
Back in the room, Star freed Reiju from the fake chains and Reiju deceived the device.
Luffy made a portal back to the Diaz house.
"It worked!" said Luffy.
"Well I guess this is good bye." Said Reiju, "I'm glad I got to meet you."
"You might get in trouble." Said Luffy.
"It will be fine… I deserve it." Said Reiju.
"Or…" said Marco, "You can come with us…"
He held out his hand.
"What?" asked Reiju surprised.
"I'm getting the feeling that the stuff you told me isn't everything." Said Marco.
"No… it's not…" said Reiju looking down.
"You can run away." Said Marco.
"But what if my father..." said Reiju.
"Has he figured interdimensional transportation yet?" asked Marco.
"Not yet." Said Reiju.
"Come on! We can make sure you get a new life in another dimension." Said Marco, "You don't have to be an assassin any more."
"I never said anything about being assassin." Said Reiju.
"It felt like that's what you raised to be though." Said Marco, "There's a reason why you have that stuff in your closet. So that you can break free one day and truly rebel."
Reiju realized he was right.
"My dad an totally hook you up with a house on Mewni." Said Star.
"Yeah! Come on!" said Luffy.
"All right." Said Reiju.
She took Marco's hand. And they all went through the portal.
"All right! Home!" said Star.
"Yeah… next time make sure we're not inside a castle." Said Marco.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Said Star.
"Do you have any clothes I can barrow?" asked Reiju.
They realized that the weird dress she was wearing was not something that he should be wearing out side her kingdom, with the weird skates and how skimpy it was not to mention the really weird cape.
"You don't' mind if they're created with magic." Said Star.
"No…" said Reiju.
"She has a thing for pink." Said Marco.
She created a nice pink dress for her to change into.
Reiju noticed the privacy curtain and got changed there.
Star went to the mirror.
"Call dad!" said Star.
King River immediately picked up.
"Star!" said King River.
"Dad! I need a huge favor." Said Star.
"What is it" asked King River.
Star began to explain about Reiju.
"I don't get why… that lightning didn't effect me." Said Luffy.
"I guess I have to explain." Said Marco.
And so Marco began to explain why Luffy was immune.
That was when Glossaryck left the Book of Spells.
"Thank you so much!" said Star.
"Not a problem, and you're mother hopefully won't find out." Said King River.
"And that's why you're immune to lighting." Said Marco.
"Okay." Said Luffy.
"So how was your adventure?" asked Glossaryck.
"Oh you know the usual." Said Marco.
"Fought evil people, found weird places we'll probably never see again… convinced a princess to run away from her evil father who raised her to be an assassin…" Said Star.
"Wait what was that last one?" asked Glossaryck.
That was when he noticed Reiju left the privacy curtain. She was holding a strange pink cylinder and tossed it out the window.
"Okay then." Said Glossaryck.
"Wait was that you three out window?" asked Marco.
"My raid suit." Said Reiju.
"Wait that weird outfit you were wearing?" asked Marco.
"It's actually a piece of technology my father developed for fight." Said Reiju.
"Wait! Why did you toss it out the window?" asked Luffy, "Because that sounds really cool."
"I through I already established that my father is a monster." Said Reiju.
"So do you want to talk about it some more?" asked Marco.
Reiju nodded maybe telling them about her mother and him might help her.
"I told Marco about my brothers… but I didn't tell him about my mother." Said Reiju.
"What about your mother." Said Marco.
She told them about her mother about how she was against making her brothers sociopathic living weapons. She took a drug to reverse the genetic modification.
However it only worked for her third brother.
Because he was a normal little boy her other three brother would beat him and she was scared that if she didn't join in on the mocking they would set their sights on her as well. But she did help him in secret.
Not only that but the drug her mother took made her deathly ill and she eventually died when they were all children.
"I'd rather not say what my father did next… other than letting him live." Said Reiju.
"Wow… I think you're dad might be worse than Sabo's…" said Luffy surprised.
"Let them settle it on their own." Said Star.
"Sabo?" asked Reiju.
"One of our brothers." Said Star.
Reiju nodded figuring it was a sworn sibling thing.
"What happened to him?" asked Star.
"I eventually helped escape the kingdom… the only good thing my father ever did was let him leave under the condition that he never reveal that he's related to us." Said Reiju.
"Is he still alive?" asked Marco.
"I don't know…" said Reiju.
"How about we help you find him." said Star.
"No thank you…" said Reiju, "I don't think it's a good idea to look for him. Not yet at least. One day maybe…"
"Well you're free!" said Luffy.
"Thank you… all of you." Said Reiju.
King River gave her a house in Mewni thanks to a program that existed for years. Reiju also asked for some space to settle in, after her life until then was a nightmare of murder and conquest.
Though she did remain in contact sending a text to Marco every now and then.
Of course in the Germa Kingdom things were mess. Niji was fixed up from Luffy. And Judge (the king) was upset over what happened after all finding out a bunch of intruders made a mess of things and kidnapped his daughter… they wanted to settle the score.
However even with all that… it would be a long time for them to settle score… But it was still a long ways away for when that would happen…
Next Time: Ace falls asleep and discovers his pants are missing! Who would steal his pants? And how stupid is this person? Will he manage to get his pants back? Find out next time!
A/N: Reiju will be a major character... but won't be until season 3... Sorry to say it will be a while she shows up again, but it will so worth it when she does. Also her raid suit will show up in the future don't worry about it.
