Hello everyone! I welcome you to my newest fic (at least when I've just written this), Impel Down Outbreak, which is obviously a One Piece fanfiction. I hope you'll have fun reading this. :)

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One Piece: Impel Down Outbreak

Chapter One: Captivity

It had all happened so suddenly. Being surrounded by a whole fleet of Navy ships, lead by Admiral Kizaru and Admiral Fujitora themselves. They were with too many, and we with too few. Very soon, we were defeated, one by one, and captured. We were forced on board of a Navy ship and were brought to Impel Down, the prison feared by many, leaving the Sunny behind. The ship, together with all of us, was used as bait, bait for our captain, Monkey D. Luffy, who was out in the forest when we were attacked. Now, we are imprisoned, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook and I. We've all been seperated from each other, not knowing where the others are, on different floors and in different cells. None of us knows when we will get out, if we ever do.

Please, come save us….

Captain….

Monkey D. Luffy, the captain of the infamous Straw Hat Pirates, walked out of the shadows of the forest after having looked everywhere for something fun and exciting, with not much success. The only thing he'd found was a golden stagbeetle, but it had soon flown away.

The young captain pouted as he trudged towards the Thousand Sunny. "Ah, this forest is boring, it has boring stuff in it…" he complained to himself. He launched himself on the ship. "Oi! Sanji, make me some food, I'm hungry!" he exclaimed. When he didn't get a reply, he yelled again. "Sanji! Hey! I need food!"

After waiting for a while again, Luffy didn't get a response, again. Weird….

The captain looked around his ship, and to his confusion, no one was on deck. There was always someone on deck…

The Straw Hat climbed into the crow's nest, but he didn't find anyone there. He was really getting confused here, this wasn't normal. If no one was on deck, someone was always bound to be up in the crow's nest.

Luffy went back down to the deck and then entered the kitchen. No one… After that, he checked the bedrooms. Still no one… The bathroom…Nobody in sight…. Infirmary…None of his nakama to be seen…Aquarium bar…Empty….Library…Nobody there…Engine room…no Franky or anyone else…Storage…Empty too…Franky's workshop and Usopp's factory…nothing…

The entire Sunny…was deserted…

Luffy was starting to get really worried at seeing that absolutely no one was on the ship. When he returned to deck, he saw a slip of paper pinned to the mast with a knife, which he hadn't noticed before in his confusion. He walked up to the mast and started reading.

'Straw Hat Luffy,

We, the Navy, have captured your crew. As you are reading this, they have probably already arrived in Impel Down. They will be kept there for life if you don't do something about it. If you want them to be released, come to Impel Down and give yourself in, or else you'll never see them again. Any attempts of breaking into the prison to free them will be futile. You won't be able to repeat what you did 2 years ago.

The choice is yours to make, Monkey D. Luffy.

Sincerely,

Admiral Kizaru and Admiral Fujitora of the Navy.'

Luffy's eyes went as wide as plates at reading the letter. His crew had been captured and brought to Impel Down.

His expression darkened as anger boiled up inside him. He had to save his friends! There was no way he was just going to hand himself over to the Navy either, they'd probably just go after his crew anyway. They probably strengthened the prison's defences since the big outbreak two years ago, and what they said in the letter about any attempts to break in being futile enforced that. But despite that, he was going to do it again, but he needed help in order to pull it off. But the question was…from who?

The Straw Hat thought for a moment before various faces of friends he'd made on his adventures appeared in his mind and then, he knew just who to ask. He went to the library, took out some paper and ink and started writing.

In Alabasta, Vivi Nefertari was peacefully reading a book with Carue sleeping next to the chair she was sitting on.

Suddenly, Igaram practically stormed into the room. "Vivi-sama!" he exclaimed, causing Carue to wake up and jump at the sudden yelling.

Vivi looked up from her book. "Hm? What is it Igaram? Did somethin happen?" she asked quite normally. Igaram stormed into her room all the time, even for small things, so she was used to it.

"A letter came in!" Igaram uttered loudly, breathing heavily. He probably all the way to her room.

Vivi tilted her head. "A letter? From who?" she asked, getting a bit curious.

"Straw Hat!"

Vivi's eyes widened. "Luffy?" she asked surprised. She got a letter from Luffy? That made her quite excited, she hadn't heard from Luffy and the others since they left two years ago. Sure, she read about them in the newspaper almost all the time, but hearing from them personally hadn't happened yet ever since their goodbye.

Igaram nodded and took an envelope out of the pocket of his jacket. He walked over to the princess and handed her the letter.

Vivi looked at her name written on the back. It was in a very squiggly, childish handwriting, definitely Luffy's. When she took the letter out of the envelope and folded it open, she was surprised to see the same handwriting. Had Luffy written it himself? Vivi had expected someone with a slightly more readable handwriting, like Nami, to write it for him.

As she started reading the letter, she'd expected it to be something positive, but much to her shock, it was the exact opposite. Her eyes widened as she read the words and she wondered if she hadn't read it wrong because of the squiggly handwriting. She read it over and over again, but she still read the exact same thing….

The crew had been captured and taken to Impel Down…all but Luffy.

Vivi quickly continued reading, and she felt hope welling up inside of her. Luffy wanted to break them out, and he was asking for her help. Luffy needed her, his old crewmate, once again and Vivi couldn't help but feel both touched and honoured.

After she finished reading the letter, the princess of Alabasta looked up to Igaram with a determined look on her face. She was ready, ready to save her friends.

"Igaram, go prepare a ship, we'll be heading out tomorrow morning." She spoke on an unusually serious tone, something that Igaram couldn't possible say no to.

Somewhere on an island in the New World, Jinbe was sitting on a cliff that overlooked the sea, enjoying the sunset when suddenly, a mail delivery bird dropped a letter on the grass next to him.

"Hm? A letter?" Jinbe wondered out loud as he picked up the envelope. He opened it and folded open the letter. A drop of sweat ran down the side of his face as he saw the horrible handwriting.

"Definitely from Luffy-kun…" he muttered and started reading.

His eyes widened in shock at reading its contents. Luffy's friends were captured and imprisoned in Impel Down?! Luffy was asking for his help, and the fishman was certain that he wasn't the only one being asked.

"Hmmm…It seems we have to break into that bothersome place once again." He grumbled as he got to his feet and made his way to the island's port to head to Luffy's location.

On Momoiro Island, Emporio Ivankov was rudely woken up from his beauty sleep by Caroline. He needed his beauty sleep…

A letter was hastily thrusted into his 'delicate' hands, so he opened the envelope with his sharp nails and started reading the almost unreadable handwriting. Just by the fact that the handwriting was so un-beautiful and childish, the Okama 'Queen' knew right away who the letter was from.

He was shocked to read that Straw Hat-boy's nakama had been captured by the Navy and sent to Impel Down. They wanted to use the crew as bait for poor Straw Hat-boy. The young man wanted to break into the prison once again, with his help, as well as a few others, though the names weren't mentioned. Ivankov knew for sure that Jinbe would be one of those other people.

Ivankov smirked and turned to Caroline. "Honey, prepare the ship and notify Inazuma, we are heading out after I finished my beauty sleep."

This was going to be fun.

Meanwhile, far away, in Impel Down, the Straw Hats had arrived. They were all roughly shoved out of the ship and towards the prison's gates, one by one, with shackles on their wrists and ankles.

The Devil Fruit users of the crew had difficulties walking, let alone staying upright. The shackles were made of Sea Prism Stone. Especially Chopper seemed to be having a difficult time moving forward, the poor thing. Instead of carrying him, the marines just kept pushing him up again whenever he lost his balance.

Some of the crew were acting in a complete different way though. Zoro, for example, was glaring dangerously at every single Marine around, unnerving a great deal of them. The rest of the crew couldn't help but be amused by this. Zoro was an expert at scaring and unnerving people.

When they reached the gate, the Straw Hat Pirates were handed over to the jailers of Impel Down. They were led over the bridge that went from one gate to the next and were then pushed inside. After walking through a long, dark hallway, they were forced into a very warm, humid room. When the crew looked around, their eyes widened in horror at what they saw in the center of the room.

Large, stone pots filled with boiling water.

Were they actually going to force them to go into those things? The entire crew started to feel uneasy, even Zoro, Sanji and Robin.

Chopper, who was closest to Nami, looked up to the navigator. The little reindeer was shaking, a lot, and it wasn't just because of the Sea Prism Stone shackles. "Nami, I'm scared…" he uttered.

Nami's expression softened. "Don't worry Chopper, it's going to be okay." She tried to assure him, though she was afraid as well.

"Shut up!" One of the jailors yelled loudly, making the two flinch.

"Oi, what are these things for? Are you gonna cook dinner for us?" Zoro asked, challenging the jailors.

"Shut up I said!" the same jailor yelled again. He took a nightstick from his belt and hit Zoro square in the stomach with it. The swordsman didn't bend over like most people would, but he still gritted his teeth together from the pain. The first mate glared at the jailor, who simply ignored him and put the nightstick back in place.

The first ones who got stripped from their belongings and clothing were Zoro, Sanji, Franky and Brook. Of course, this was quite humiliating, being naked in front of all those people. They were each shoved towards one of the pots with boiling water, which was meant to desinfect them.

Zoro was the first to get pushed into his pot, but he didn't scream or even move, he just tightly gritted his teeth again while he was practically cooked alive. Sanji did the same thing, but a few pained sounds did escape from him, but not much. Brook didn't react much, with him being a skeleton and all.

Franky was a special case, being a cyborg. When they'd stripped him of his weapons, they actually pulled all his parts off besides the ones that kept him alive. It took a long time to remove everything. When he was pushed into the boiling water, he did scream, but only once and it wasn't so loud. He did his very best to endure it, like the others.

When those four came out of the water, all of them, except Brook of course, were completely covered in burns and blisters. They were then forced to put on the typical black and white striped uniforms.

It was Nami, Robin, Usopp and Chopper's turn. Of course, it was even more embarassing for Nami and Robin, being women and having all those male jailers ogle at them, though Nami found it much worse than Robin. Those four did scream, terribly, even the usually calm Robin. Since Chopper was so small and couldn't turn into his Heavy Point because of the shackles, he was held up in the boiling water up to his neck by a steel chain.

When the four came out of the boiling water, they were also covered in burns, and some of Chopper's fur had even burned off, giving him bald spots. They were also forced to wear the uniforms.

After that, they were registered in the prison's 'list' and it was decided which levels they would all be placed on. The moment they were all seperated from each other had arrived. It was a silent, yet very emotional goodbye. They weren't allowed to talk, so they spoke with their eyes. Chopper also started crying and tried his very best not to make noise or else he'd be beaten.

Chopper was placed on level one, having a bounty of only 50 beli. He had to suffer through the hell of being cut all over his body and being chased by poisonous spiders and jailers.

Nami was put on level two and she was unfortunate enough to end up in a cage full of men. Usopp was put on the same level, but in a cell on the exact opposite side of the huge level so they were as far away from each other as possible. They had to constantly be on guard for the monsters walking around.

Even though level three was mostly for criminals with bounties of 50 000 beli and higher, Franky and Brook were put there, again as far away from each other as possible. They had to live through the torture of starvation and the heat that came from the level below.

They put Sanji on level four, making him work very hard every day in the horrible heat.

Robin was on level five, having to suffer in the incredible cold.

And finally, they placed Zoro on level six, in complete darkness and isolation, shackled to the wall of his cell.

Like this, the Straw Hats would have to go through indescribable pain and mental torture, but despite being apart, they were all thinking the same thing.

Luffy was going to save them one day, no matter what.

And that's it for the very first chapter of Impel Down Outbreak, I hope you enjoyed reading it and feel like reading more. If you could review/comment, telling what you think, that'd be great, though you don't have to if you don't want to of course, I'd really appreciate feedback though ^^

Until the next chapter!

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