A/N: Whoo! 20,000 hits! All right! Awesome!
Anyway... here's a chapter everyone has been waiting for... This will probably be the final flashback chapter unless I get an idea. Also I was planning this from the very begging on how Luffy got his scissors. I hope you enjoy. Also contains my head canon about Hekapoo and her trials... I will discus that at the end... Enjoy!
Chapter 48: The Story of Luffy's Scissors
For the past 16 years he was looking for her. For the past 16 years he was wandering dimensions trying to find her.
He spent more than half his life in the quest.
When he was a teenager he made a teenager mistake. HE abused the dimensional scissors. He had thought the scissors originally belonged to one of his best friend's other best friend.
Turned out they didn't.
They belonged to Hekapoo.
The forger of the Dimensional Scissors.
That who he was looking for the past 16 years.
To get the pair back.
Sure his other best friend (who after these all these years he realized was that case… it was sad really. HE knew had to make it up to him once he found Hekapoo) had his own pair, but it was the principal of the thing.
He had lost the pair that belonged (well… "belonged") to his first best friend. And he was going to get them back.
He found the building with two Hekapoo clones standing guard.
He flew on his dragon cycle towards the two. Used his sword skills to caused a razor wind attack to blow one of the fames out.
Then he grabbed the other had blew out her flame.
He took out his book and crossed out the final two flames.
Elsewhere the dimension Star was fuming.
"I can't believe Pony Head giving me stolen scissors!" she muttered.
"Well it is Pony Head…" said her companion.
Star face palmed and glared at her companion. IT was a man in his mid 20s, with spikey black hair, he wore a cape like coat and a red shirt underneath. He also had a beard and hanging from a string from his neck was an old straw hat.
Star sighed, "Marco better be okay!" she said.
(Flashback)
Star was practicing her magic in a way that Glossaryck suggested. While he was playing a game of "How long until she figures out I'm making her reference a movie".
The exercise was her zap a ball that was shooting lasers at her.
"Feel the magic all around you." Said Glossaryck.
"I know… since when do you say stuff like that?" asked Star.
"Hey I'm barrowing your dimensional scissors." Said Marco.
"Okay." Said Star.
"Are you?" asked Marco.
Glossaryck shushed him.
Marco nodded knowing that Glossaryck was messing with Star while training her.
He also tried not to laugh as it was a pretty good prank when it came to training.
Sometime later she heard a man said "Good boy Joffrey!"
Star took off her blindfold and saw a man with a dog as the dog was about pee on her couch.
"What are you doing!" yelled Star who then shouted "Rainbow Diaper Blast" used the spell to put a diaper on the dog.
"Take it easy man, it's just that this new dog park is confusing." Said the owner.
"What's going on?" asked Luffy jumping down from his tower.
"Marco did something." Said Star.
"Hey… are you learning to use the force?" asked the dog owner.
"What?" asked Star.
"You were training with a laser ball while blindfolded so…" said the dog owner.
"Glossaryck!" yelled Star.
"May the magic with you!" said Glossaryck running into his book.
They went into Marco's room and discovered a bunch of portals.
"Oh no! He's gone Scissors happy!" said Star.
Star noticed the portal to the dog park and pulled out the laser puppies (where it was on fire thanks to their lasers).
Luffy however tapped his sister's shoulder and pointed to a portal that resembled fire.
"That's Hekapoo's portal." Said Star.
They looked at each other and knew they had to ask Pony Head.
They called her while she was doing her "cardio" (IE: just floating above a treadmill).
However Star wasn't' amused with one of her best friends.
"Lilacia…" said Star.
"Don't call me that." Said Pony Head though a little scared since it meant that her best friend was REALLY mad.
"Can you please explain why one of Hekapoo's portals is in Marco's room." Said Star.
"Uh…" said Pony Head sweating.
"Pony head… be honest." Said Star.
"If she asks you don't tell her that you got those scissors from me!" said Pony Head.
Star and Luffy looked at each other.
"You stole those scissors didn't you?" asked Luffy.
"Stole is a strong word… I found them at the Bounce Lounge." Said Pony Head, "But she totally left them there."
"Pony Head!" muttered Star.
"Come on! We should go find him!" said Luffy.
"Talk to you later girl!" said Star, "Bye-ee!"
She hung up and they both looked at the portal.
And they went in… both of them aware of the properties of the dimension they were about the enter.
(End of Flashback)
"Don't worry… I'm sure Marco's fine." Said Star's companion.
"He's not you… he can't just bounce back up!" said Star.
Her companion was about to ask something.
"Pun intended." Said Star.
Her companion laughed in response.
They continued on their way heading towards Hekapoo's place.
In said location, the mysterious man entered. He was a rather muscular man and had an old tattered hooded cape covering his face, it used to be a hoody but time took its toll on it.
Hekapoo was clearly forging a pair of scissors nearby.
"So it all comes down to this. 16 years. A lot of clones. Seemed to go by like that." Said the man snapping his fingers, "I finally tracked down Hekapoo."
"Yeah, it's the real me." Said Hekapoo, "No more clones."
The man rover his hood, revealing himself to be Marco! But now 30 years old.
"Who's a little boy now?" asked Marco.
"Did I ever insult you for being a little boy?" asked Hekapoo, "Because trust me, I met a little boy far tougher than you 16 years ago. By the way, this is the part were you blow out my flame."
Marco sat down a nearby couch.
"You barely escaped me on the exploding flames of Fendar. And when I lost you in the trail mist of the Neverzone, I though I'd never find you. After spending a few years infiltrating a cloister of monks, I acquired some ancient texts, which led me to dimensional scholars who taught me to translate their language. After that it was a simple matter of surviving the…Said Marco getting up and walking towards Hekapoo, "Afflicted forests and arriving at your door."
He blew out her flame.
"Not bad for an Earthling." Said Hekapoo handing him a pair of Dimensional Scissors that his name on them, "You truly earned these."
"Why do you always mock me for being an Earthling and never a human?" asked Marco, "Plenty of people I met on my journey mocked me for being such."
"I'm good friends with plenty of humans… just none from Earth… you're not even the first human to earn those scissors. And you won't be the last." Hekapoo with a smirk.
Marco looked his scissors.
Then he remembered Luffy had to get those scissors somewhere.
That was when Star arrived kicking down the door.
"You could have just opened it?" sighed Hekapoo, she knew Star would show up sooner or later during the trial.
"IT doesn't matter!" said Star.
"Star!" said Marco not noticing that Star literally hadn't changed since he last saw her.
He ran over to hug her.
She broke the hug and looked at Marco.
She was unsure at first and took in the universal features. His eyes, his nose and realized it was Marco.
However she then saw his abs, his glorious abs that he gained in the last 16 years.
"So how long were you here for?" asked a voice.
Marco turned and looked over to Star's companion.
And Marco immediately recognized the man.
Monkey D. Luffy.
"Luffy!" said Marco.
That was when he noticed something off.
Luffy was clearly in his mid-20s and Star was still a teenager.
Luffy was actually older than him (Luffy's birthday in May, while Marco's in November)
"Wait! How you younger than me" asked Marco, "You're supposed to be older than me!"
"This dimension runs on wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff." Explained Luffy.
"What?" asked Marco.
"Oh right I totally forgot to mention that this dimension time runs differently." Said Hekapoo.
"What! Seriously?" asked Marco.
"Yeah if you enter this dimension you age separately than on Earth." Said Hekapoo with a shrug.
"Yeah, if you leave you go back to normal age but if you come back you go back to the age you were here. It's really weird and you should have saw Ace and Sabo's faces the first time I brought them here." Laughed Luffy.
He looked at Star and Luffy. He realized that meant Star had never been there before (or done so in short bursts so that she hadn't agreed much). However with Luffy he realized something… if they aged separately between dimensions and adding the fact that Luffy first came here when he was 8.
"Wow… you actually took longer than 16 years. " muttered Marco.
Hekapoo started laughing.
"You have no idea…" said Hekapoo.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Marco.
"You want to hear the story on how Luffy got his scissors. IT will completely shatter your expectations." Said Hekapoo.
"We have all the time." Said Luffy with a big smile.
"Minds as well." Said Marco with a shrug, it would be nice to rest after his journey.
"Abs…" said Star still in a hypnotic trance.
They all stared at Star who was drooling at the abs.
"She'll snap out it soon." Said Hekapoo.
(Flashback)
Queen Moon had asked Hekapoo for a meeting one morning.
"So it's been happening for nearly two years and you only now contact me?" asked Hekapoo.
"I'm sorry I hadn't told you before." Said Queen Moon, "I would have thought the perpetrator would have stopped by this point but."
"Fine… next time the thief uses them I'll put a stop to it." Said Hekapoo, "Or you could have those knights and guards do a better job keeping track of them."
"You should be doing a better job too." Pointed out Queen Moon, "I mean I shouldn't be telling you how to do your job."
Hekapoo stared at Queen Moon and grumbled.
"Whatever." Muttered Hekapoo.
Later that morning the four Siblings were looking around the castle for a good place to send Luffy and Ace home.
They had a sleepover the night before, and of course Star once again stole scissors for this role.
"All right this is a good spot." Said Sabo.
Star used the Dimensional Scissors however it wasn't the normal bright blue portal to the Blue Dimension but rather a fiery portal.
And Hekapoo stepped out.
"So you're the thieves!" said Hekapoo.
She stared at the four, unsure how to respond.
"The Princess and her three adoptive brothers…" said Hekapoo, "Seriously!"
"Who are you?" asked Ace putting his siblings behind him.
"The name's Hekapoo." Said Hekapoo.
"She's the one that forges the Dimensional Scissors." Said Sabo.
That was when Hekapoo realized something, she had heard somewhere that Star started hanging out with Luffy a couple years before… roughly the same time as the Queen said that the thieves started occurring.
"Wait! You're not from this dimension are you?" asked Hekapoo.
All four kids averted her gaze.
"Seriously!" said Hekapoo.
She took the scissors from Star.
"Looks like your stuck here then." Said Hekapoo.
"What!" yelled Star.
"Look your mom told me to stop all of the servants scissors until I caught the culprit." Said Hekapoo, "Unless someone lends you their scissors they'll be stuck here…"
"What if we get our own scissors?" asked Luffy.
Hekapoo looked at Luffy then started laughing.
"You can try!" laughed Hekapoo, "But you won't be able to do it."
"She's right the trials are extremely hard." Said Sabo, "I don't think you'll be able to do it."
"But if I get my own pair then we don't have to ask River to barrow his all the time." Said Luffy.
"Wait… River knows?" asked Hekapoo.
"Dad won't let us barrow them all the time." Said Star.
"And Queen Mom doesn't know anything about it." Said Luffy.
"She can't know anything!" said Star panicking a little.
Hekapoo sighed, of course she would stumble upon a weird conspiracy involing little kids from another dimension.
"Look… it doesn't matter what's going." Muttered Hekapoo, "IF you want a pair you're going to prove yourself… only the worthy can get them."
Luffy looked at Hekapoo with a determined look on his face, he was going to prevent this from happening.
"Oh you're cute." Said Hekapoo, "There's no way you can get those scissors so just give up already! Considering how young you are it's going to take years… I doubt you'll want to waste your life."
Luffy still looked at Hekapoo.
Hekapoo went through the portal.
Luffy looked at her brothers and sister. No matter what he was going to prevent the thing they've been worried about for the past 2 two years.
"I'll be back before I turn 17." Said Luffy.
He jumped through the portal before any of his siblings could stop him.
He found himself in another dimension.
"Took you long enough." Said Hekapoo with a shrug.
Luffy glared at her.
"All right in order to get a pair you have to blow out my flame." Said Hekapoo.
"Okay!" said Luffy.
Hekapoo jumped into the air very quickly.
However even with her speed, she a hand grab onto her.
"What…" said Hekapoo.
Luffy flung himself at her and the two collided in mid air.
Luffy managed to recover and blow out her flame.
However Hekapoo disappeared extremely quickly.
""What?" asked Luffy.
"I have no idea what you did…" said Hekapoo's voice from somewhere.
"Oh I ate the Gum Gum fruit and now I'm rubber." Said Luffy.
"I'm going to pretend that makes sense." Said Hekapoo.
That was when he came across a bunch of Hekapoos.
"Can you find the right one?" asked the real Hekapoo from the crowd, "You can always try again when you're older…"
Luffy thought back, he needed those scissors, if he had his own then he wouldn't have to worry any more. He wouldn't lose Star or Sabo.
And they weren't sure what Queen Moon would do if she found the truth, would she sent Sabo back? Would she keep him there so he wouldn't go back to his parents.
Either way wasn't good.
He looked at all the Hekapoos.
Thanks to a combination of gut instinct, Luffy's determination and his just plain insane luck (Plus MAYBE something else…), Luffy stretched out and grabbed one.
"What?" asked the Hekapoo.
Although Luffy did have his powers for about a year by this point, he still hadn't perfected it so when he grabbed onto her they still crashed into her.
But Luffy was the first to recover and blew out the flame.
And the Hekapoo didn't disappeared.
She was the real one…
(Cut out of Flashback)
"WHAT!" yelled Marco.
"Luffy is the current holder of the record for that version of the trial." Said Hekapoo.
"Wait… there's different versions?" asked Marco incredulously.
"There plenty… it depends on my mood the one who wants the scissors. I was feeling particularly vindictive with both of you." Said Hekapoo with a shrug, "You with the thief of my scissors and Luffy with the conspiracy, so naturally I did the hardest."
"Luffy was 8 at the time!" yelled Marco, "And you gave him the hardest."
"He smashed every single fastest time record to pieces. Heck he's still the youngest candidate to pass any of the trials." Said Hekapoo.
"And you gave an 8 year old the hardest?" asked Marco.
"I stand by my choice.," said Hekapoo.
"He's Luffy." Said Star.
"Yeah… if she didn't give me her hardest then who knows what might have happened." Said Luffy.
Marco sighed… he supposed that even as an adult he's still Luffy and Luffy had his logic.
Then he realized a couple things.
"Now that I think about it… I can't see Ludo passing that." Said Marco.
"Yeah, I gave him the easiest… and it still took him 20 tries to earn it." Said Hekapoo.
"Also how you take it?" asked Marco.
"You see…" sighed Hekapoo.
(Flashback)
Hekapoo hadn't moved in the past several minutes. Hekapoo's clones all disappeared when the flame was put out so it Luffy wasn't' left chasing the others.
However she was still catatonic.
Someone passing under five minutes happened before. Usually form the most skilled warriors, or those she let train in the dimension.
They always fell for the initial decoy.
And this wasn't no exception… but he was the fastest to take it down.
And the fastest to take down the real her.
Even the fastest had caught her after making the myriad of portals.
But catching her after first spotting all the clones.
None has ever done so before.
Let alone a kid.
Luffy had been pouting in front of her.
She had finally came to her senses.
"What… how…" said Hekapoo, "How old are you!"
"I'm 8." Said Luffy, "Aren't you going to give me my scissors now?"
Hekapoo sighed, this was going to be weird… she at least got to know the people that she made the scissors for in some way so she could customize them.
She decided to have the walk to her forge to be a little long so that she could talk to him a bit and get to know him so that she could get a better design.
"So what dimension are you form?" she asked.
"Oh the Blue Dimension." Said Luffy.
"Wait! That one with all the pirates?" asked Hekapoo.
"Yep!" said Luffy with a big grin.
Of course she had only heard of the Blue Dimension in the vaguest of sense she knew it was a sea faring dimension and knew in recent years it had become over ridden with pirates.
However it made too much sense for Star to randomly choose one of the more dangerous dimensions to explore after stealing a pair of dimensional scissors.
Hekapoo knew she had to change the subject.
She looked at his hat, and it looked old and realized that something that old must be important.
"So what's with the hat?" she asked.
"Oh it's my treasure." Said Luffy.
"How is that a treasure?" asked Hekapoo.
Luffy began to tell her about Shanks and how he saved his life a year before hand.
"So there's good pirates?" asked Hekapoo surprised.
"Oh yeah! I know not all pirates are good." Said Luffy, Hekapoo noticed that Luffy was clearly speaking from experience, "But Shanks is good."
"HE lost an arm to protect you… of course he's good." Said Hekapoo.
She also knew what the design would be.
They soon arrived at the forge.
She med the custom pair for him.
She was done she handed the pair to him with his name etched in them, the hand was round that was red on the outside and yellow on the inside also the blade were yellow as well.
The colors were clearly inspired by his hat.
"Awesome!" said Luffy, "Now I don't have to worry about Queen Mom finding out and making it so that Star won't be able to see me again?"
"You don't have to worry about that happening." Said Hekapoo.
"Thank you so much!" said Luffy.
This wasn't the first he used Dimensional Scissors so he knew what to do get back to the Palace.
"Wait!" said Hekapoo.
"What?" asked Luffy.
"If you ever want to hang, I'd be open for it." Said Hekapoo.
"Why?" asked Luffy.
"If you want to be king of the pirates you have to get stronger and this dimension is one of the best places to do that." Said Hekapoo.
"Awesome! As long as you don't tie me balloons or throw me into the jungle or throw me to a canyon." Said Luffy.
"What?" asked Hekapoo.
(Cut out of Flashback)
"Wait… have you met Luffy grandpa?" asked Hekapoo.
"Yeah… I have…" said Marco, "He once tried to convince me to join the Marines."
"Figures." muttered Hekapoo.
(Cut back to Flashback)
"Gramps does it all the time when training me." Said Luffy.
"Okay… that's messed up." Said Hekapoo.
Thankfully Luffy didn't know any better or else he would call her out on being a hypocrite for doing her hardest trial on him.
"But no, I just want to go on adventures with you…." Said Hekapoo.
"Cool!" said Luffy.
(Cut out of Flashback)
"You wanted to go on adventures with an 8 years old?" asked Marco.
"An 8 year old who already bested me." Pointed out Hekapoo.
Marco looked at Luffy who had his trademark smile on.
"Good point." Said Marco.
(Cut back to Flashback)
"I should get back to my siblings." Said Luffy.
"Later." Said Hekapoo with a smirk.
As Luffy left, Hekapoo realized that Luffy was something special.
Then realized…
"Great he's one of those people… the ones you can help but to like even if you know if for a few minutes." Said Hekapoo relating just how charismatic that little kid was.
She just shrugged it off, she could tell he was a good kid even a somehow extremely charismatic one.
She couldn't help but to wonder, she never really thought about the Blue Dimension. She had way too much time on her hands, maybe she would learn more about it.
Studying really wasn't her thing, but maybe the dimension would be prove interesting enough to learn more about it.
Back in the palace, Luffy came out of his portal.
"I'm back." Said Luffy.
"You were gone for like half a second…" said Star.
"Wait… you go the scissors already?" asked Sabo realizing that the pair he was holding were brand new.
"Yeah! I had to chaise her down and blow out her head fire." Said Luffy, "It was really easy."
"She made you do that one and it was easy?" asked Sabo incredulously.
There was a book about the various trials that Hekapoo was known to utilize and he could tell that Luffy just took the hardest.
"Why what's wrong?" asked Luffy genuinely confused.
"Only you Luffy…" sighed Sabo.
Sometime later, Hekapoo met up with Queen Moon.
"Stopped the thieves." Said Hekapoo taking out the scissors that Star had stolen, "And I made sure they never steal them again."
"Are you sure the thieves won't steal them again?" asked Queen Moon.
"Trust me." Said Hekapoo, "They will never steal them again."
Queen Mon sighed knowing that she would not get a straight answer out of Hekapoo.
A few days later she Queen Moon as heading to her office when she saw a portal open up, then she saw all four kids coming out it.
She knew she had to go into mom mode right away.
"Monkey D. Luffy." Said Queen Moon, "Where did you get those scissors."
"Hekapoo gave them to me!" said Luffy.
"Let me see." Said Queen Moon.
Luffy gave them to her. And she saw indeed his name was etched into them, meaning they did belong to him.
Queen Moon's eye twitched.
But she did return them to him as it wasn't her job to regulate the scissors, even if she was the Queen of Mewni, she could still get in trouble with Hekapoo denying someone the sue the scissors.
However that didn't' mean she couldn't call to talk to Hekapoo about them.
"They're his." Said Hekapoo after she was summoned there.
"Why did you give an 8 year old Dimensional Scissors?" asked Queen Moon.
"He earned them fair and square." Said Hekapoo, "Besides I'm sure you noticed his friendship ability."
Queen Moon knew what she was talking about, Luffy's ability to draw people in.
"That cant' be the reason why you gave him the scissors." Said Queen Moon.
Hekapoo shrugged.
Queen Moon sighed knowing she was going to get a straight answer… like at all.
"You know… I don't know." Sighed Queen Moon.
Hekapoo smirked.
(End of Flashback)
"Wait… how are you in your 20s then?" asked Marco.
"We went on so many adventures." Said Luffy with a shrug.
"5 of them lasted a year or more, and about 50 of them ended up being longer than we expected." Said Hekapoo, "And a good chunk of those lasted several months."
"How did that happen?" asked Star.
"Get distracted…" said Luffy with a shrug.
Marco sighed and looked at his dimensional scissors, originally the plan was for him to find Star and Luffy and make it up to the two and continue his life adventuring on this dimension.
To him it had been 16 years.
But to the others… barely any time had passed.
And from what Luffy said, he could always come back and go on adventures whenever he wanted.
"Before we go home." Said Marco he turned to Hekapoo, "Can you take care of Nachos."
"Don't worry she'll be in good hands." Said Hekapoo.
"Don't worry Nachos I'll be back to see you every now and again." Said Marco to his dragon cycle.
"Wait… why can't you let her live with me." Said Luffy, "It would be easier to take care of her."
"Your home dimensions might not be one of the ones, but I'm not letting you take care of a dragon cycle." Said Hekapoo.
Luffy pouted…
It should be noted there was… an incident and Luffy's not allowed to own a Dragon Cycle in multiple dimensions. Hekapoo knew it was best to keep them away from Luffy even if it's not one of the ones where the ban exists.
"Wait before you go." Said Hekapoo.
Marco turned to Hekapoo and she tossed him something.
It was a strange red mango covered in swirls.
"I don't want it, but I think earned it as well." Said Hekapoo.
"No way!" said Star.
"Awesome!" said Luffy.
"A fruit?" asked Marco.
"Marco! That's not just any fruit!" said Star, "That's a Devil Fruit!"
"Where did you get it?" asked Luffy.
"Oh come on! You know I have a hobby in your dimension." Said Hekapoo.
"Oh right,." Laughed Luffy.
"You always forgot." Muttered Hekapoo.
"So you're giving it to me?" asked Marco, "Why?"
"Do you really have to ask?" asked Hekapoo, "Also Luffy can't have it. IF someone eats two Devil Fruits they die."
"What?" asked Marco.
"I heard something like that too." Said Luffy with a shrug.
"Seriously?" asked Marco.
Luffy nodded.
"Thanks." Said Marco.
"You earned it along with those scissors." Said Hekapoo slapping him on the back of his head.
IT should be noted he had a bald spot there.
"Hey!" yelled Marco.
Marco made a portal home.
"Bye!" said Star.
"See you around." Said Luffy with a smile.
"Later H-Poo!" said Marco what a smirk.
"Don't' call me that." Said Hekapoo.
They got back to the Diaz house, where Marco sighed, he put together the pieces and knew his body wasn't going to remain but still.
Though he was weirded out by the fact Luffy had his normal clothes back on and he had the clothes he was wearing in the other dimension.
"My abs." he lamented.
"Squish!" said Star poking his somewhat flabby stomach.
"Stop that!" said Macro getting her hand away.
"Your bald spot remanded thought." Laughed Luffy.
"What!" yelled Marco.
"You got the mark of Hekapoo son!" yelled Hekapoo sticking her head out of the portal, "Okay! Bye bye!"
She went back into her home dimension.
"Well I have to check in with Sabo… you know about the thing going on with Ace." Grumbled Star.
Marco blushed, she had forgotten what she meant.
"Hey we have to talk about some things." Said Marco to Luffy.
"What is it?" asked Luffy, "Oh this about the memory or the clothes thing?"
"What memory thing?" asked Marco.
"Well when you stay there a long time and you get back home the memories get all fuzzy after a while." Said Luffy, "They come back when you go back, but it still kind of sucks."
"Seriously?" asked Marco.
Luffy nodded.
"On the bright side any knew fighting skills you get there you actually remember really clearly so that's awesome." Said Luffy.
Marco blinked in surprise, "So I'll still know how to use a sword even when they fade."
Luffy nodded.
"It wasn't that…" said Marco, "It's something I realized back during my journey…"
"What is it?" asked Luffy.
"I have two best friends." Said Marco, "Star… and you."
"You just realized that?" asked Luffy with a big grin.
"Oh come on!" said Marco.
"It's fine." Said Luffy, "And I figured Hekapoo didn't tell you the dimension time thing."
"Yeah…" said Marco.
"So you're going to eat your Devil Fruit?" asked Luffy.
"I still have to think about it." Said Marco, "I mean I do like swimming."
Luffy grinned at Marco.
Luffy left the room to let Marco readjust, while Marco put his new Devil Fruit in his desk drawer.
He then looked at his computer and realized he forgot his password to his computer.
But from what he could he would remember and his memories would get fuzzy about his time in the other Dimension.
He would readjust thankfully, but still things were a but different.
And they would get even more different once he would eat the Devil Fruit… because he was going to take that bit… though it would still be a while until he did…
Next Time: Ace is having problems... after days of fighting and recovering his crew gets absorbed into another larger crew lead by man described as the World's Strongest. However Ace refuses to let this happen and decides to kill him... but trying to kill the World's Strongest man isn't something you can just do... especially once he drags his siblings into it... What will happen? Find out next time!
A/N: Yes... I had always intended for Luffy to get Hekapoo right away... Mostly due to sheer dumb luck to be honest. Though I am leaving it open interruption if he somehow used Haki... it will up to you if that's happened because I'm invoking Shrug of God here...
Also let's be honest... do you see Ludo winning the trial? Because I can't... maybe giving them to him out pity... but out right winning... I just cant' see it. I will admit I can see Buff Frog passing the canon trail, it would take many years but with his skills as a spy to find the real Hekapoo, yeah I can see how he earned those scissors.
Also no suggestions for Marco's Devil Fruit. I already planned them out, I wont' say what they are, you just have to wait. But I will say one thing: The reason why I chose it be a mango is a reference to the fact Oskar things it's his name.