Chapter 6 The Goal

I don't own One Piece or any of the powers and gear used in this story.

Squall was at his room sitting on a chair looking outside a window, next to him was Marianne and she was staring at him.

"Is there something troubling you?"Squall asked.

"We will see Mr. 3 again?"She asked.

"Your teammate, maybe, he will go to Alabasta so if we go there faster than him we could find him."Squall said making her smile.

The others came in and Gem said:"Hey captain, can you tell us more about that Box?"

"Pandora, why not."He said.

"You've been wanting to find this box for a long time, but what does it do actually?"Kuroobi said.

Squall smiles."The power to become a god."They got shocked hearing that.

"You mean... That box can make people gods."Honey Queen said.

"Of course, imagine if we get Pandora before the others, we will be able to be the top of the food chain, not even the entire marines and the sea emperors can defeat us."Squall said.

"I see."Gem said."I heard about those Sea Emperors, they're the strongest pirates of the world."

"That's right, not even those idiots know where Pandora is, we are the ones that have any trail to it."

Mikita laughs."How interesting, I can't wait to see they're faces when we get the box."

"I see, so this is your plan, to make yourself the strongest being in the world."Kuroobi said.

"Of course, you see in order to be the strongest you need power to do it, Gol D. Roger was arrogant not trying the box for himself, he was the strongest and decided to die for himself, but when I see the box, I see potential, it was said in the poneglyph that Gol D. Roger could feel the power, he even gave a example that a weak pirate could defeat a the Sea Emperors with it, so imagine if one of us got it."Squall said.

"Nothing would stand in our way."Gem said.

"Bingo!"Squall points at him."The best part, we don't need to fight over it, Roger said it could make his entire crew have the power and more. We would become the most powerful crew in existance and then not even the Pirate King can stop us."

"So that's why your not going after One Piece right away, you prefer to get Pandora first."Honey Queen smiles.

"Of course, what does the world's treasure compare to the power of a God, I could just take the title after getting Pandora."Squall chuckles.

"But what's the real reason in getting it?"Gem said.

"Simple, order in the world, if I have the power, I can topple the so called Celestial Dragons and destroy they're little city, since the marines wouldn't be able to stop us."Squall said.

"I see."Kuroobi nodded.

"So when we are going to get there?"Mikita asked.

"Well first we need to be prepared and gain more members, you see I found something about Devil Fruits."Squall said.

"Which is?"Gem said.

"You can make better use from what you know of it, if we can find a good teacher you all could become even better with your Devil Fruits, a hidden power that all have."Squall said.

"So we have to train using our Devil Fruits?"Mikita said.

"Of course, you can't just expect sitting on every enemy."He said.

Mikita pouts while Marianne chuckles a bit.

"Did you eat a devil fruit?"Honey Queen asked her captain.

"No, not me."He said."My powers are unique to my bloodline, similar to Marianne here."

"Oh."Marianne was amazed.

"Let me guess, it comes from your eyes."Gem said.

"Yes, I have another power that's a secret."Squall smirks.

"I thought theres no secret between us."Honey Queen said.

"There isn't, I just want to see the look in your faces when you see it."Squall chuckles.

They got curious, is it so strong they would be shocked in seeing it.

"So where are we going now?"Mikita asked.

"Alabasta, we don't have anywhere to go now, plus I have plenty Log Poses, like this one."He shows the Alabasta Eternal Pose surprising them.

"Why didn't you tell us?!"Mikita said.

"Ha, I wanted to see the look on your faces."He chuckles.

Marianna goes up to him and stares at the Log Pose.

He then looks at her."Oi."She was now sitting on his lap looking at it."I know it's confortable but come on."

"Hey!"Mikita and Honey Queen got mad at her.

Squall pats her head and she got happy, he likes Marianne being a more peaceful member of his crew, he can tell that all of them have great potential when given the proper training and unlike the ones that abuse they're crew members he respects the members he has, since they are like him in a way.

"Tell me... How many members would be joining us of your old group?"Squall asked.

"From Baroque works?"Gem said."The only one I could think would be Miss Doublefinger."

Mikita chuckles."She has no real loyalty, but Mr. 1 is harder."

"Still... Could be worth a try."Squall said.

"What about Mr. 3, Mr. 4 and Miss Merry Christmas?"Marianne asked.

"We will have to see, the more members we can get gives us a better chance, the other pirates are too busy either being greedy, being a bunch of bullies or too arrogant, we have a goal, to become the better crew and be superior, some pirates that just pillage cities and steal stuff just to be funny, we are superior because of that."Squall said.

"What about the few of us that did it?"Kuroobi asked.

"I'm a guy of second chances, you can do much better than with Arlong, also in terms of power..."Squall chuckles."He wouldn't wouldn't be standing after a few seconds."

Kuroobi got surprised, when Luffy fought Arlong, it took everything he had to defeat him, but his new captain is saying he can defeat his older one with ease.

"You see, when I met with Luffy, he tried to do his little tricks against me but they didn't do anything, he's only second best."Squall said.

"Captain, how long to Alabasta?"Marianne asked.

"Just be patient."He said.

"What if we run into to those guys?"Gem said.

"Well let's get ready until then, it's the Baroque agents we will have to avoid, plus a little birdy told me that your leader is after a Poneglyph at Alabasta."Squall said making them curious."It has info of a powerful weapon in that place, one of Ancient Weapons."

"Ancient Weapons? Is Pandora one of them?"Honey Queen asked.

"Nah, Pandora is still way better, the Ancient Weapons that can cause massive desctruction, the only reason I'm interested in it, it's to make our job easier."Squall said.

"Oh I see, get it and then go to the New World with ease."Gem said.

"Yeah, I don't care about destroying islands or cities, I just want to use it to blast my enemies away, so I won't have to deal with the Admirals."Squall said.

"The Admirals!"They got surprised.

"What?! You think because I burned a Celestial Dragon's face I would be off the hook from them?!"Squall said.

"N-No."Gem said.

"Yeah whatever, so let's get going, get the weapon and then it's just smooth sailing for us."Squall said.

The group continued to travel while they improve they're skills with they're techniques to be prepared for the battles in the future.

Note:Here's more info on Pandora and what Squall wants, he only wants that Ancient Weapon because it's the smartest thing to do, if he gets it than the Marines wouldn't be able to stop him unless they go and make a big attack on him.