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Chapter 17: Reunion With The Monster Doctor

(Little Garden-Several Hours Later)

"Hey Wei. Wake up!" a voice was yelling but for some reason the man couldn't hear it too well. "Wei get up dammit!" the voice snapped. Suddenly the man known as Wei began to open his eyes and saw several bodies hovering over him.

"It's just you guys. Damn my head feels like it's about to split open. Hey Benny. Wei spoke as he stood up. "Pass me some rum, would you?" Wei extended his hand out and motioned for the one who was known as Mr.6 to pass some rum.

"Gladly Sir." Benjamin rushed promptly to the man's aid. Wei took a gulp of rum and gurgled it around in his mouth and swallowed it.

"Ahhh. Now that hit the spot." Wei yelled loudly and then looked up at his group and noticed they were beaten up. "You guys look like you were victimized by the Alabasta Police."

"Says the one who got his ass handed to him by their Captain., who's a walking condom by the way" Miss Tuesday retorted.

"Hey! I had no idea that bastard was that strong!" Wei's face flushed in embarrassment. "You know you sometimes say very hurtful things Astrapi." Wei began to circle his fingers in dirt.

"Can someone remind me why we have this idiot as a boss?" the one who was formally known as Miss Tuesday said in irritation.

"Because that idiot is stronger than all of us combined." Miss Mother's Day grunted in frustration.

"Don't remind me Tomoe." Astrapi groaned.

"Well this weakling isn't stronger than I." Mr.10 grinned proudly.

"Care to wager that Kliever?" Wei grinned maliciously. Suddenly both monsters of men began to size each up and was about to prepare to have a deathmatch but Tomoe (formally known as Miss Mother's Day) den den mushi began ringing.

"As much as I want to see this deathmatch boss, you have a call." Tomoe face was serious "so obviously whoever is on the other line is important. Wei blew out air in exhaustion and grabbed the den den mushi.

"Wei speaking. Yes sir. It seems that what Admiral Z has said is true. The Straw Hat Pirates are a dangerous pirate crew." Wei spoke into the den den mushi.

"I see. Return back to Headquarters to await further orders." The voice spoke.

"Sir what of the Giants that were supposed to be missing?"

"Commander Shepherd will handle this matter. Return to base." the voice replied before the den den mushi call ended. Wei hung up the den den mushi an began to walk past his subordinates.

"Sir. Shall I go get the ship started?" Benjamin asked Wei?

"Yeah. We're heading back to Headquarters."

…...

(Going Merry)

Vivi was able to get a sample of the poison when she saw Miss Friday incapacitated and was trying to determine what it was, but to no avail. Meanwhile Nojiko and Usopp were doing their best to keep Gin alive. Nojiko and Usopp would rotate changing Gin's bandages every hour.

Meanwhile Luffy was on the Merry's figurehead when his Haki picked up on a certain weirdo out at sea

"Look like the one who has a bottomless stomach is coming up ahead."

"Weather Egg: Thunderbreed Tempo!"

Nami launch a large egg into the air towards the direction where the weird guy was standing at. Suddenly the egg hatched and formed a large thundercloud. Chess who was standing on the ocean saw a pirate ship come into view was about to announce he found a ship but saw ominous cloud above him. Nami swung her Clima Tact down thus causing a large single bolt of lightning come crashing down upon him. Chess yelled out in agony as his body was being fried on the inside and outside. Chess's body fell limp into the water. Luffy and the rest of the crew looked out in a shocked manner as they saw Nami walk into her room.

"We don't have time to deal with that idiot right now." Nami sighed in irritation.

"Hey Zoro?

"Yeah?"

Remind me to make a mental note to remind myself from pissing her off."

"Got ya."

…...

(Drum Island)

An elderly woman and a reindeer were in town getting supplies after finishing a few annual exams and examining a few patients, when the reindeer noticed a familiar ship over the Horizon. Suddenly, the reindeer face expression changed and it darted to the port.

"Chopper! Will you slow down!? I'm not as young as i used to be." the woman grinned as she walked to the direction where the reindeer known as chopper charged off to.

(Several Minutes Later)

The crew was pulling up to the shore of the island known as Drum Island. The land was covered with snow and is known to be the home of a certain doctor.

"Wow. Never knew it could get this cold." Nojiko spoke as she was shivering from the cold. All of the crew was dressed in winter coats and boots. As Vivi was in thought about something, her face suddenly lit up.

"I just remembered something. There's a king who known as Wapol here. He's rumored to be a tyrant and abuses his power and title." Vivi gritted her teeth in anger

"Did he happen to have eaten a Devil Fruit?" Luffy yawned.

"I'm actually not sure."

"Well long story short, that guy Nami almost killed is a part of Wapol's crew. Apparently, rumor has it that Wapol fled his country after a certain group of pirates invaded and almost destroyed the island." Luffy folded his arms as a clear emotion was evident on his face; Rage.

"How do you know about that?" Vivi questioned.

"Reliable informants." Luffy lied. He knew he couldn't tell her the truth just yet.

"Stop right there, pirates!" a loud voice boomed over the port. A man who loomed over the edge of the cliff was glaring at the pirates.

"I believe that man is known as Dalton, the captain of the Royal Guards of this country." Vivi whispered into Luffy's ear.

"How do you know that?" Luffy raised an eyebrow.

"I've met him when I was a kid while attending a conference." Vivi replied.

"Relax. My crew and I are looking for a certain doctor who can heal our friend. He's been poison and is dying." Luffy held on his hat as he announced their intentions for coming to the island.

"Those lies won't work us you filthy-" were all the man was able to say before he and the rest of the citizens collapsed suddenly. Dalton eyes widened in shock as everyone around him collapsed.

"What the? What is going on?" Dalton stood frozen in place. Luffy sighed and signaled for the crew to pull the ship to the port.

"Your citizen was about to make a grave mistake and I wasn't in the mood for a constant back and forth." Luffy groaned as he and his crew were preparing to go into town.

"What did you do to my people?!" Dalton roared and was about to change forms but someone managed to stop him in time.

"It's alright Dalton. Looks like Chopper wasn't lying when he said there some interesting people coming into town." A skinny lady who was wearing some unusal clothes came into view.

"Looks like the old lady is alive in this timeline." Zoro smirked as he saw the old lady known as approaching the ship.

"Oh my. You're a mighty handsome young man. What's your name?" smiled seductively. Before Zoro was able to tell her his name, he was struck with a high kick to the face, thus causing him to fly into the sea.

"Shitty Marimo" Sanji muttered after putting his foot back down. He turned around and bowed down to kiss 's hand. " Excuse my ignorant crew member. He doesn't know what beauty is." Sanji spoke softly.

"What a gentleman... blushed slightly but struck Sanji in the face with her heel. But flattery isn't going to get you nowhere boy." chuckled. Suddenly, a large form darted past everyone and jumped into the sea.

"What the hell was that?" Nojiko yelled out as she and Vivi was trying to process what just happened. Usopp sighed and shot a Pop Green into the sea. A couple seconds later, a platform made out of vines began to rise up out of the sea while carrying Zoro and a familiar animal.

"That idiot knows he can't swim and he's still jumping into the sea." Nami sighed. Luffy and Usopp began to yell and tussle around with the animal.

"I can't believe it's you Chopper! How did you get so big and manly?"

"Stop jumping in the water you idiot!"

"I was just trying to save Zoro. He was about to freeze to death!"

"Please, Aokiji's devil fruit powers are far worse than this." Zoro said in annoyance.

"Um who is this?" Nojiko asked.

"Oh, I forgot. So, this strange talking tanuki is known as Tony Tony Chopper." Luffy held the animal known as Chopper in the air.

"I'm a reindeer you ASS!" Chopper yelled out as he bit Luffy's wrist. Luffy yelled in pain as he dropped Chopper. In the previous timeline Chopper in his hybrid form stood at about 2 & half inches but, Chopper in his hybrid form was standing at about 51 inches (which is about 4 foot in feet.) Chopper was wearing his previous attire he wore at Sabaody but the only difference was that Chopper was wearing his old hat that Hirluk gave him.

"Seems like the tanuki has more spunk than usual. Luffy gritted his teeth as he was rubbing his forearm. Anyways Chopper, we have a serious matter that you can fix." Luffy had a serious look on his face. Chopper looked confused while Zoro and Sanji retrieved Gin from the Merry.

"Who is this? Who are these new faces? Chopper turned and saw both Nojiko and Gin.

"These are our new crewmates." Usopp responded. Gin was panting heavily was breathing irregularly. Chopper immediately darted towards Gin and hunched him over on his back and started carrying Gin towards the castle.

"By the way, those two already know we're from the future." Usopp whispered the last part in Chopper's ear.

"You're just going to let these pirates into our town after what just happened?! Dalton hissed.

"Relax Dalton. I'll bring you up to speed in a minute just get all of these people back into town. Dalton sighed in defeat as he began to round up the townsfolk who were unconscious.

...

(Drum Island- Bighorn)

Luffy and the rest of crew were currently inside of one of the town's clinics. The main difference in this timeline was that instead of being scared of the townsfolk, Chopper willingly decided to help the town out with rebuilding the town and trained some citizens to become doctors although most of work fell upon Dr. Kureha. Dalton became worried and asked if the citizens are all right. simply told him that they were all just sleeping.

"So I got to ask. When did you guys get the time to build all of this?" Luffy looked on in amazement.

"Chopper here helped do this all by his self." Dalton cleared his throat.

"What?!" Luffy, Usopp, and Nami yelled simultaneously.

"Look at Chopper being all useful and caring." Usopp and Nami began patting on Chopper's back.

"It wasn't all that hard." Chopper was swaying left and right while blushing in embarrassment. "I was able to help the town after Blackbeard left and Wapol fled because I knew I wasn't going to be a match for any of the Blackbeard pirates." Chopper held his head down at the last sentence.

"It's okay I wouldn't want you to confront them on your own." Luffy patted Chopper on his hat "But what if Wapol returns?".

"Wapol and his crew might not return because of a going away present we gave him." Chopper smirked slightly.

"What kind of going away present?" Luffy raised an eyebrow.

"a little something that I, Doctrine, and this interesting snakeneck woman came up with." Chopper said with a bit of glee

Dr. Kureha noticed Chopper was sounding a little bit excited again. and said "she said her name was Salazar Poveglia, she called it the 'Damning Sickness', I think she has a devil fruit. She stayed for a few months learning how various poisons and diseases work." Kureha explained as she leaned against a wall.

"Oh so it seems you're not such a innocent reindeer after all." Nami smiled coyly.

"Eh?" Chopper chuckled nervously. Chopper was about to ask a question but someone managed to speak up

"Okay it's nice and all that you guys ae catching up but, is Gin going to be ok?" Nojiko asked desperately.

"Yeah. He's going to be alright." He then administered the cure to Gin with a syringe and told the crew to give him rest and plenty of fluids for the next two days. "He appears to contract the same poison Nami happened to have in erm..." the other day Chopper was about say something about the future but he remembered Usopp told him that Vivi doesn't know they're from the future. Nojiko sighed in relief as she felt like a weight has been lifted off her chest. Nojiko got up and began to walk out the clinic.

"Hey sis where you heading?" Nami asked.

"I'm going to the training room. I need to train to get stronger. I don't want to see my crewmates getting hurt because of me." Nojiko gritted her teeth as she tried to stop herself from crying.

"Perfect timing. I was getting bored with waiting for my student to wake up. Come I've been itching to stretch my muscles." Zoro yawned as he got up and walked out of the clinic. Nojiko followed suit.

"Is she going to be ok?" Chopper asked worriedly.

"Yeah. This is the first time in a long time she seen someone close to her injured." Nami said lowly. Nami's mood instantly when she heard Gin's breathing become more stabilized, but something puzzled her.

"What is the 'Damning Sickness'?" She asked.

"Poveglia had Wapol examined for a check-up when she administered it. She said it was time activated and very debilitating. the disease's effects are similar to the Bubonic plague"

Vivi shuddered at the thought of the Black Death at sea "that sounds like the Eki Eki no mi", she later said offhandedly.

Nami asked "how do you know that?!"

Vivi pulled out a large, old book from her satchel. "This is how. Jokingly called 'The Bootlegger's Guide of the Orchard' although it's officially called 'The Royal Encyclopedia of Devil fruits'. this is a self-updating detail of every Devil fruit in the world. It's a mystery of how it does it. Sixteen of these books exists." She turned to Kureha "I'm sure Wapol had one since he is or was royalty."

Chopper perked up a bit and revealed a similar book "I kept it when Wapol left given that it helped me with my research on my fruit, although I don't know why it's called 'The Bootlegger's Guide' since the prices aren't on it"

Luffy laughed a bit at the thought of having the upper hand against various DF users but decided he'll leave details like that to Usopp and the rest.

"Hey I might have read one of those books back home." Sanji chimed in. "Maybe the Suke Suke no mi will be in the wind for me to get it." Sanji thought to himself while leering.

"So Chopper?" Luffy spoke up.

"Yeah Luffy?"

"So I asked everyone this question... Do you want to join my crew again as my Doctor?" Luffy smiled brightly.

"Only if you let me be second-in-command." Chopper replied. Luffy frowned.

"How about this... if you slack off on board, I'll make sure Zoro puts you through one of his hellish training regimens? Deal?" Luffy extended his hand.

"D-deal!" Chopper gulped nervously as he shook Luffy's hand. He remembered how long Zoro likes to train.

"So, you think you're slick, boy? You got some nerve trying to steal my son right in front of me! And Chopper you didn't even ask me if you have permission to leave!" Dr. Kureha got up and started throwing an array of weapons towards them. Both Luffy and Chopper immediately started to dart out of the clinic with Dr. Kureha on their heels. Nami and the rest started to chuckle except, Dalton.

"I am deeply sorry for my actions to you at the port. I was aware that you all were close friends of Dr. Chopper. Please forgive my ignorance." Dalton lowered his head as he was about to bow but, Vivi patted him on his shoulder and shook her head.

"It's all right. We've did the exact same thing. You were just trying to protect your country. Please raise your head."

"Thank y-wait. You're Princess Nefertari Vivi! The world has been saying you've been missing for several months." Dalton was shocked that he was seeing the Alabasta Princess in this country.

"Let's just say I made some friends who want to help me save my country." Vivi smiled cheerfully.

"Do you think they can help you save it?" Dalton asked her

"I am now certain they can." she instantly replied.

"Well I guess I'll be looking forward to seeing their names in the newspaper." Dalton smiled slightly as he stood back up

(Drum Island – 3 days later)

The Crew were loading the ship up with supplies and food. Gin made a full recovery and was in the training room exercising to relieve the tension in his muscles. Zoro was in the Crow's Nest taking a nap. Nami was in her room making maps and focusing on the Eternal Pose. Luffy was in the kitchen banging on the table for food in which he received a boot to the face by Sanji. Vivi was busy talking to a News bird trying to get the current news on her country. Nojiko was helping Usopp unfurl the sails because they were about to sail off.

Chopper was at the mountain hospital packing up his items (The cave that located in the Drum Rockies)

"You know I've seen so much greatness in you and I knew you would be special but I didn't know you were going to be this special. I remember when you first told me about you coming from the future and eating a devil fruit. Dr. Kureha chuckled while drinking. "I wouldn't have believed it if I haven't seen the shit the New World had to offer."

"Wait. You've been to the New World also?!" Chopper eyes widened in surprise.

"Hell yeah. I was sailing around with this rag tag group of pirates back in the old days." Kureha shouted out. Chopper looked on in amazement.

"I'm going to miss these times again." Chopper said sadly.

"Boy don't say stuff like that. I know you'll come back to visit me soon." Dr. Kureha replied as Chopper was finished gathering the rest of his medical items.

"You bet I will. Mom." Chopper wiped the tears from his eyes and began walking out of his clinic. gasped in shock.

"Cheeky brat. This is the first time you called me that." pushed her glasses and ran towards Dalton and grabbed his arm and dragged him to the castle for something important.

As Chopper made it to the Going Merry, he noticed it was bigger than usual.

"Hey Usopp?"

"Yeah?"

"Has the Merry gotten bigger or something?"

Indeed. You are right my friend. There are extra bedrooms, a training room, a slight improved crow's nest." Usopp snickered.

"Awesome!" Chopper shouted excitedly.

"Ready to go Chopper?" Luffy asked while walking out of the kitchen with face swollen.

"Yeah. Let's go already. We gotta go save Vivi's country." Chopper stood firmly while pointing towards the sea. Luffy rolled his eyes.

"Set sail then." Luffy yelled out.

Chopper, Luffy, and the rest was just getting ready to sail off before the sound of distant cannon fire could be heard coming from the mountain.

"Is she firing at us?!" Nojiko shouted before the whole sky lit up. Chopper stopped and stared as the whole sky went from white to a brilliant shade of pink.

"Whoa!" Luffy cried out as Usopp whistled.

Can't believe I'm seeing something so beautiful again." Nami said as they all stared up at it with a smile while Chopper's eyes soon filled with tears that quickly ran down his face.

'Mom! Dad! I promise I'll be back to visit.' he thought as his father's smiling face came to mind before he broke down completely and sobbed his heart out. smiled from atop the mountain as tears fell down her face while Hiriluk's flag waved in the wind.

'Farewell, my stupid son."

Author's note

Someone mentioned that there will be a Luffy Harem. Well, he's DEAD WRONG. Yes, there will be pairings, EVERYONE will be paired somewhere... no Luffy won't be getting laid with every female character in the story. This won't be a cliché fanfic harem that involves orgies and lots of sex. That's disgusting. If you want that seek "Luffy's Renewed Adventure"

Some Devil Fruit name will be in Japanese with etymology in the notes, while others will have English names

DF

Eki Eki no Mi (疫疫の実)- from ekirei (疫癘)meaning plague. English: Sick-Sick Fruit

Alas we're reaching the final chapters of the Baroque Works Saga. There will be some chapters that will take a exceptional amount of my time so you guys will have to bear with me. Be prepared. I'm about to throw some crazy ass plot twists in the story.