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... Wow it's been awhile huh? Hello everyone! Sorry for the wait but I had so much work, that I've haven't been writing for a few months now. I saw all of your comments and half are supporting for the continuation of my story and half are referring to my earlier chapters and how they are annoyed with Goku being defeated really quickly so... I guess it's a half win for me? Thank you all for sticking to my story and I hope all of you who celebrate Christmas had a great time and hopefully everyone has an amazing New years!

It's been way too long since I said this, Now let's get back to the story!

Again, this is a really short chapter as i'm just getting back to the story, I'll make sure the next chapter has more to it than this one.

"Looks like your worst fears have been confirmed, Tashigi," Smoker said. "Caesar's abduction of those children was covered up and labeled a 'sailing accident', and the mastermind behind it was the very head of our base? True, it seems fitting for G-5...but it makes of a mockery of our military honor!"

"I don't blame you for not noticing," Law said. "Vergo hasn't suddenly gone turncoat on the Marines."

"He's a pirate, through and through. He enlisted into the Marines on Joker's orders before he made a name for himself. 15 years of service have carried him through the ranks. There isn't a more useful and trustworthy sailor in Joker's employ. He's been with Joker's crew from the very start!"

"There was a time I use to work under him. That's how we met Vergo"

"Really?" Luffy asked.

"But 'Joker' is only his underground alias," Law explained. "In reality, he's a pirate known throughout the whole world…one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Joker's real name… is Donquixote Doflamingo!" Everyone gasped in shock at this, except Franky, who is still asleep.

"…Wait, his first name is Dominatrix?" Luffy asked, stupidly, causing Law, Smoker, and Tashigi to groan.

"You know what Vergo... I'm fine with dying right now" Smoker said feeling done dealing with Luffy's stupidity

Back with Nami, Usopp and Hancock...

In the lab ruins, they found themselves face-to-face with Caesar while the children cheered happily at his appearance.

"Master!" the children cheered

"Master?" Nami repeated before she gasped in realization. "So it's you! You're the one who kidnapped these poor children!"

"What's he doing here?!" Usopp questioned. "Did Luffy and his group miss him coming the other way or something?!"

"Shulolololo…" Caesar laughed. "My, my…what a cruel thing to do. Why did you take the children outside?! Can't you see their suffering?!"

"What did you say, you rat-faced-" Nami shouted, but Usopp held her back.

"No, Nami!" Usopp shouted. "Don't you see?! That's just what he wants! Law told us he's a Logia user, worth 300 million, remember?!"

But Nami didn't listen. She pushed Usopp away and stepped toward Caesar.

"Your insane!" she stuck her finger in his face. "How dare you accuse us of causing these poor kids to suffer?! What the hell did you do to them, you monster?!"

Ceaser smiled and theatrically put his hand over his forehead, "Me, a monster?! why i'm simply saving these poor little ones! these precious boys and girls were sick! oh how unhealthy they were before I gave them the candy that helped them!"

"Candy?!" the kids shouted in delight. "Master, we want our candy! Do you have some?!"

Hancock was disgusted with Ceaser, "They all just wanna go home, their parents are probably looking for them and you're experimenting on them with such cruelty. You can't keep them here, we're going to get them off this island!"

"Shulolololo!" Caesar laughed. "Fool, do you think they want to go home to you?!"

Usopp then ran in front of the kids, blocking their path.

"Hold it!" he shouted. "Don't go! You don't really wanna go back to the lab, do you?!"

One of the little boys, who is about Usopp's height, growled viciously.

Ussop took a step back in shock by the bloodshot eyes the kid showed him. "Get outta my way!" he shouted. "I SAID MOVE!"

WHAM! He slugged Usopp right across the jaw, sending him to the ground in seconds! Once he was down, the children began to run passed him!

"Oh, no!" Nami cried as she ran to the sniper's aid.

"Usopp!" Hancock shouted. She ran quickly and blocked the path between the exit and the kids. She wanted to help, but wanted to make sure the kids didn't leave.

"Shulolololo!" Caesar cackled as he held out his arms. "That's right, kiddies, come back to your Master."

"No! Stop!" Nami cried as she held onto one of the kids arm stopping one of them. "Please, you can't go with him! Don't you kids wanna go home and see your families?!"

"AAAAH! GET OFF ME!" He punched Nami across the face, forcing her to let go

Nami crashed down with a bloody nose and a bruised leg from the impact of the hit.

"N-Nami..." Usop groaned in pain. He looked at Ceaser's smirk and that brought him to his breaking point. "That's it!" Usopp shouted. He pulled himself back up. "I've had enough of your acting out, you bunch of little brats!" He pulled out another pellet and aimed it at the kids, they turned around and suddenly tensed up in fear at the weapon.

"No... Usopp... Don't" Nami groaned. "Don't hurt them..." Nami spoke as blood was dripping from her nose and to the ground. She slowly crawled towards Usopp and pulled on his arm, "Please... don't hurt... them" Nami croaked as she was hurting bad.

"Nami I don't have a choice" Usopp shouted not taking his eyes of them. "I know they're kids, but if it means we have to stop them by force in order to keep them here then so be it!"

"They're not in control Usopp! They didn't mean to attack us" Nami shouted.

"These children…they're victims in all this! They've done NOTHING to deserve this!"

"AAAAAGH!" Sind screamed. "MY HEAD~!"

"GET THESE STUPID CHAINS OFF~!" shouted Doran.

"B-but Nami!" Usopp cried. "If we don't do anything, they'll clobber us!" Usopp said watching Hancock willingly taking shots from the kids in order to make them stay.

"Then focus that rage on him," Nami said, pointing at the laughing Caesar.

"Urrgh…!" Mocha cried.

"These chains are restricting my movement, get them off me!" "Get 'em off!" Sind shouted at Hancock who was barely standing from the hits. "RIGHT NOW!" SNAP! The chains came undone, freeing the giant children!

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!" they all roared.

"Woah!" Usopp screamed. "No way! They broke the chains?!"

"Shulololololo!" Caesar laughed. "What incredible strength they've developed!

"Stay down and get out of our way lady!" one of the kids screamed at Hancock who now was bleeding from her forehead and was down on one knee.

Breathing heavily* " I'm not letting you go to your 'master' children, I faced something terrible when I was younger" Hancock groaned as she staggered up to her feet "I refuse to let you go through the same thing, even if it means dying!" Hancock readied into her stance.

"Hang on!" Usopp shouted. "I've got just the thing for you gas masked freak! Special Attack! FIREBIRD STAR!" Usopp shot a huge firebird from his Black Kabuto!

"Huh?" the kids stopped attacking Hancock and began observing the object in the air.

But then, Caesar just let the attack pass through him causing the firebird to be reduced to a tiny bird-shaped clump of ash.

"WHAT?!" Usopp questioned in shock.

Caesar laughed. "Did you really think you would ignite an explosion? Did you know my Devil Fruit powers are gas-based? Unfortunately for you, I extinguished the fire before it could touch me! And I can control all of the air within a certain distance around me! Since fire cannot burn without oxygen to feed on your pathetic attack won't work! And you cannot survive without oxygen to breathe!"

As he said this, Usopp began to gag and grab at his throat.

"Just like this…!" Caesar smirked…as he made a squeezing motion with his hand, causing Usopp to choke

"Huh?!" Nami muttered. "Since when did he get right in front of him?! Usopp!"

"I…I can't…!" Usopp choked as he began to fall to the ground.

"That's it!" Nami shouted as she held her Sorcery Clima-Tact, which started to make a chain of Weather Balls with storm clouds inside.

"Black Ball…RAI- ugh…!" Caesar reached his hand over to Nami, who gagged and fell to the ground as well as he started to take away the oxygen she breathed.

"Nami!" Hancock shouted as she tried to move towards Caesar but also succumbed to being choked out by Caesar.

"Shulololololo!" Caesar cackled as the children surrounded him.

"Master! I want my candy!"

"Me, too, Master!" "They candy makes me feel happy!"

"Hurry and give it to me!" "No, me first!"

Caesar ignored their pleas and instead smiled down upon the three Straw hats "Did I hear you say," Caesar began, "that Straw Hat missed me going the other way? But I did meet him, as well as your other two crewmates! Straw Hat and the others…I suffocated them, just like I did to you!" Then, he turned to look at the children.

"Listen up now, children!" he ordered. "I will only give candy to the good children who come back to the lab with me. You'll just have to wait until then." The children nodded their heads at this. "But before that," Caesar began as he pointed to the choking Nami, Hancock and Usopp,

"Defeat these wicked demons who lured you out…and tried to make your pain even worse! Pummel them with that giant pipe you see there!"

"YEAH!" Sind and another giant boy roared as they grabbed a giant pipe nearby. 'My head doens't feel right...' Usopp thought as he began to black out. 'Don't…do…it...kids…!' Nami thought. Hancock, only observed as her body failed to even turn and watch the kids ever so closely surround them.

"G... Gokuuu!" Hancock closed her eyes and screamed into her mind before passing out from a lack of oxygen.

Back with Goku...

Vergo had excused himself out of the room in search for more hamburgers to eat while Monet decided to make herself a cup of coffee watching the prisoners.

"G... Gokuu!"

Goku's eyes widened as he felt Hancock's energy dwindle down dangerously low. "Hancock is in trouble!" He stood up and turned his head towards her life energy. His eyes turned serious and looked at Luffy.

"We gotta go now Luffy" Goku said. "Huh? go where?" Luffy asked confused, Robin merely stayed quiet while Franky scratched his head in confusion.

"Where the hell do you think you going? we're trapped in here you idiot!" Smokey barked at Goku which incited a laugh from Monet who was watching at a distance. She was sipping her drink before flying over to the cage.

"Yes, please understand that you have no place to go right now Goku" she chuckled before looking at him. "You what's funny? Your really strong but stupidly naive to understand the situation your in. A man of your caliber... to be so weak minded as to falling for Caesar holding one of your friends hostage. It's honestly sad!" Monet laughed with tears coming out of her eyes.

Wooosh*

"AAH!" Smokey and Tagishi looked in shock.

"So you've heard of me huh?"

"Yeah I-" Monet gasped as she saw a ki energy ball directly aimed at her face.

"Then you should know what I'm capable of..."

BOOM* the ki energy ball turned into a ki blast engulfing Monet's entire body.

"AAAHHHHHH!" Monet screamed in agony and she was blasted out of the room and exploded out of the building and flew out to who knows where.

The bars were ripped opened and thrown across the room in a violent manner.

"Let's go, and you two" pointing at Smokey and Tagishi who were in shock at the Orange clad sayian. "Get out as quickly as you can, I hope to maybe someday fight you two again but right now isn't the time"

Luffy, Robin and Franky grabbed ahold of Goku's shoulder, and the Sayian placed his fingers to his forehead. He looked at Law who didn't move a muscle. "Go on ahead, I just need to finish up some business here" Law said nonchantly. Goku nodded and teleported out of the room leaving the other two in shock.

Goku teleported back to Nami, Ussop and Hancock when he noticed Brownbeard beside the injured crew holding a pipe aimed at Caesar.

"Everyone!" Luffy cried out as he and the rest of the crew rushed over to their friends aid.

"What the?! how did they escape?!" Caesar thought angrily. Goku tossed Franky and Robin two senzu's to give to Nami and Usopp. Goku gave the third senzu to Hancock and managed to chew down the bean. Hancock opened her eyes and saw Goku's face.

She smiled as she cupped his face, "Darling... you came..." Goku smiled back "I told you, I would always come and pick you up when you fall"

Goku's eyes now turned to see the kids angrily ball their fists up at him, he knew almost immediately they were the ones responsible for hurting his friends.

He saw red, Goku powered up and shook the building, Hancock realizing what he about to do, wrapped her arms behind him from attacking the kids.
"No Goku it wasn't their faults, they only attacked us because Caesar tricked them, Please!" Hancock begged holding him tighter.

He turned his direction at Caesar who had his hands full with an irate Brownbeard.

"CAESAAAAAAARR!" Brownbeard roared as he swung his pipe at Caesar, only for the pipe to go phase through him. He kept swinging not realzing he was going nowhere with his attack.

Goku turned back at the kids who now where surrounding him and the crew. He held his hand out and without a missing a beat paralyzed the kids to their position, overloading them with ki and caused them to pass out.

"That should do it for now" Goku said before teleporting towards Caesar.

Caesar had stopped Brownbeard momentarily before directing his attention towards Goku.

"Ah Go-" Wham* Goku sent a punch that blasted a knocked out Caesar out of the cave, and across the island. Goku had enough of talking, he was a pissed off sayian and he needed to blow off some steam.

Everyone began regaining their bearings explaining what happened and how Brownbeard came back to save them.

Flashback*

The Straw hat Pirates passed out as the kids, preying down on them as if game went in for the kill.

"CAESAAAAAAARR!"

Caesar turned to see…the now fully conscious Brownbeard, holding a large metal pipe, himself as he pushed passed the children and knocked them back.

"RAAAAAAAARRGH!" Brownbeard roared as he swung his pipe at Caesar, only for the pipe to go right through! Brownbeard growled as he tried to keep hitting Caesar with his makeshift weapon, but no matter how many times he tried, he just couldn't land a hit!

"You BASTARD!" Brownbeard shouted at Caesar who simply transformed into a gas cloud.

"Who are you again?" Caesar asked mockingly as Brownbeard roared in anger

"Hmm…oh, that's right! My most talented henchman, Brownbeard! But what happen to you?! I can barely stand the sight of you!"

"That was YOUR doing!" Brownbeard shouted as he swung his pipe down on Caesar's head, only for it go right through and crack the floor. "I TRUSTED YOU!"

"Oops my bad, Shulolololo!" Caesar laughed as he moved around him and shouted order towards the kids. "Kill them my precious little angels! The first person to kill them will be rewarded with candy first!"

The kids grinned sadistically as they were growing agitated without their candy. "OH NO YOU DON'T!" Brownbeard shouted at the kids. He swung the pipe down at the kids feet in order to make them back away from the unconscious pirates.

Brownbeard had kept them safe until Goku, Luffy, Robin and Franky finally arrived.

End of Flashback*

"I trusted him..." Brownbeard cried as tears flooded down his face.

Goku floated up to his face and began comforting him "It's alright, you didn't need that bastard, you have friends here that will always have your back"

Brownbeard didn't know what to say except nod silently and wipe the dried tears from his face. "When I find him, I'm ripping his head off and getting my crew back" He declared.

"So what do we do now?" Luffy said to which Usopp piped in. "We're getting out that's what!"

"Then let's get everyone together and escape, even if it means carrying all those kids on the boat" Nami said as everyone agreed in unison.

With Zoro, Sanji, Brook, and Kin'emon... (5 minutes ago)

Zoro, Sanji, Brook, and Kin'emon are still running away from Smiley.

"Jeez this big blob bastard doesn't quit does it?" Sanji said running out of the poisonous gases range.

"Yeah, and we can't even get close to it or attack it" Zoro said holding his swords out.

Boom*

Everyone stopped to witness what appeared to be a body flying across the sky and suddenly disappear. "What the hell was that?" Kin'emon shouted.

"It wasn't a clock otherwise I would say time is flying by really fast" YOHOHOHO Brook laughed only to be curb stomped by Sanji.

"This isn't the time for stupid jokes!" Sanji roared.

The poison blog gurgled as it saw the flying object and made a beeline for it leaving the four by themselves.

"Coward! come back and fight!" Kin'emon shouted going after it. Zoro placed his arm in front of the samurai. "You can have your revenge after we get out of here!"

"And to find my son!" Kin'emon responded back.

"Besides, that object was thrown from there" Sanji pointed in the direction it appeared, "Maybe someone is over there, it's the best chance of us finding Luffy and everyone else. Let's go and look"

"Right!" Everyone agreed.

Just as they were going a dragon decided to drop down in front of them...

"OH WHAT NOW?!" Sanji asked.

"It's a dragon!" Zoro said. In front of them was a small dragon.

"A dragon?!" Sanji repeated. "No way! I mean, they are just a tale told to scare children, they don't exist!"

"Dragons do exist" Zoro retorted. "Except this one is a lot smaller than the one Luffy and I fought earlier!"

"A dragon!" Kin'emon said in surprise seeing it all the way here.

"Wait! let's catch it and hitch a ride to that location you were talking about!" Zoro said

"Yes, a brilliant idea!" Brook praised.

With Law, Smoker and Tagashi... (10 minutes ago)

Goku nodded and teleported him, Robin, Luffy, and Franky out of the room leaving only Law, Smoker and Tagashi by themselves.

Law cleared his throat and broke the chains that were clamped on his feet and hands. "What the hell?!" Tagishi shouted. "I thought devil users couldn't break out of sea stone chains?"

Law sighed "These aren't infused with sea stone, I stole all of Ceaser's chains and replaced it with regular chains. Smoker eyes widened. He looked down at his arms and smashed it across the walls and they snapped open easily.

He ripped the chains of Tagishi's arms and legs and removed his chains from his legs as well.

"Now to deal with you two" Law aimed his focus at the two. "Hmph" Smoker rolled his eyes, "What do you want? cause we aren't going to do jack for you!"

"You two know a lot, it may be problematic to have you two with everything you know" Law said as the tension grew.

Babump*

"But whatever, i'll just fix you up"

Smoker and Tagishi eye's widened as they realized they were suddenly back in their own bodies. However, Tagishi realized something when she returned back into her body. She looked down and saw her shirt was unbuttoned and was open for everyone to see.

"KYAAAAA~!" Tagishi curled up in a ball as she was felt completely embarrassed.

"Sheesh... why are you squealing like a little girl?" Smokey rolled his eyes.

Wham*

Law was nervously sweating when he saw a menacing aura coming from Tagishi as she slammed her foot onto smoker's head and crushing it into the wall. "I told you to button my shirt! You don't know how this looks for a woman!"

Sighing heavily Law waited until everything cooled down. "So now that I fixed you, you're gonna have to follow me, because otherwise you'll never make it out of this island alive"

"Like that'll happen punk" Smoker growled, "We'll do it" Tagishi retorted.

"What the hell Tagishi! He's the asshat that got us into this predicament! You're telling me your actually going to depend on these pirates?!" Smoker shouted.

"WHAT CHOICE DO WE HAVE!?" Tagishi shouted back. Smoker was taken aback by that statement.

Tagishi closed her eyes before taking a breath, "Look, I don't like it as much as you but but really, what choice do we have? Our men are somewhere out there trying to find us and now we find out these missing kids are here as well... If we don't follow him, everyone will die" Tagishi looked at Smoker as if pleading with him.

Sigh* "Okay... Okay, let's go" Smoker said.

Law smiled, a rare sight to see "Now it's time to set the plan into motion"

"It's time for a counterattack"

Goku and the rest of the crew including Brownbeard luckily began closing into the front of a building that read: Lab "Alright, is everyone here?" Ussop said looking back to see the crew and surprisingly the kids acting completely normal and responding to him as if they didn't just fight a few minutes ago.

Flashback*

The kids started to wake up "Ugh my head hurts" Mocha cried out,

"What happened? where did master go?" another child asked. "Where's our candy?" another asked.

"Crap!" Ussop shouted "They're going to go rampant again!" Robin placed her hand on his shoulder. "I have a plan, it's a 50/50 chance of working" Robin said as she walked over to Goku and held out her hand.

"Goku, do you mind passing me some senzu beans?" Robin asked.

"Huh? okay sure... but why?" Goku asked as he took out some senzu beans and handed it to Robin.

She smiled "You'll see"

The crew observed as Robin quickly moved in front of the kids field of view. "I have something you'll really like kids!" robin said as she passed around the senzu beans to each kid. They munched down on the small bean and suddenly their bellies began to swell and then return back to normal. "Yummy!" They cheered.

Robin smiled as everyone's eyes widened at what they witnessed. "How the hell did you do that?!" Nami asked in shock.

"It was a 50/50 chance but I know small children usually don't know what they are feeling and usually perceive something as good to be their remedy." Robin grinned "That's why I tried a theory and gave them a senzu bean" Robin said as she turned her attention back to the smiling kids.

"Turns out they were't craving the medicine, they were just hangry and believed that the 'candy' was going to make them feel better" (A:N: Let me be the first to say this statement is not true, this is none of my business but if you are feeling helpless to an addiction of some sort, please seek a friend or someone you trust to talk to about it. Addiction is a serious issue.)

End of Flashback*

Ussop nodded in approval "Okay let's go!"

At the lab's front entrance, they observed the room and were amazed at the size of the room. It was a large, clear dome that was connected to one of the many towers. What they didn't know was several mysterious figures seemed to vanish into thin air within it. They didn't have a detectable power level so Goku didn't notice as well.

Not long after, as they opened the door, a bunch of G-5 units rushed in from the opposite side of the room as well. They quickly shut the door behind them closed and looked relieved. "Now that weird blob thing won't get us with it's poison gas!" one of the G-5 units said as they all cheered.

As they were in the middle of their cheer, they noticed the Straw Hats and the kids were also in the room with them. "AHHH, IT'S THE STRAW HATS!" The G-5 units shouted.

Up from above the room, one of Caesar's minions noticed the commotion underneath them.

"Quickly, everyone! Get out here! "We've got an emergency!" cried one of the satyrs.

"The shutters are rolling up and the G-5 and Straw Hats are here... And they have the kids!"

"What?! the shutters opened" questioned another satyr.

"Who flipped the switch?!"

Caesar' men drew their weapons down at them and in response, the G-5 aimed their weapons at both the Straw hat's and Caesar's minions.

Luffy, Ussop, Robin, Franky, Hancock and Goku stood in front of the kids raring to fight it out with both groups.

"Don't fire at the kids you idiots!" a harsh voice bellowed across the room.

"Intruders! Up there as well" shouted a black-haired satyr.

Everyone looked up and it was revealed to be Law, Smoker, and Tashigi, who are sitting atop a pile of defeated guards.

"They defeated out men?!" the half-man creatures questioned in shock.

"L-LAW?! TAGASHI! SMOKER!" one of the G-5 men shouted in shock.

"But I thought that the Master locked them up!" one of Caesar's men shouted.

"Hmm-hmm," Robin chuckled to herself remembering their escape.

"At least now, we found our men are safe and unharmed inside" Tashigi said in relief.

"Luffy!" Law shouted getting the Captain's attention. "It's time for the next step in our plan"

"Shishishishi!" Luffy smirked "Right!" Luffy pounded his fists together. "Counter attack!"

Goku was pumped "This is getting exciting!"

"Tch! To think I'm working with scum like you, of all people," Smoker growled.

Crash*

Everyone to their surprise looked over and suddenly saw a small dragon along with Zoro, Sanji, Kin'emon and Brook slicing down a door from the G-5's side and entering into the standoff. "Humph! Looks like we made it time!" Zoro said.

"Yeah only because I took over guiding the dragon! You nearly got us killed like seven times!" Sanji growled angrily.

Nami suddenly then became estatic "LAW! CHANGE ME BACK!" Law looked down to see Nami waving at him and pointing at Sanji, "MY BODY IS HERE! CHANGE ME BACK!"

"Oh right..." Law snapped his fingers and immediately both Sanji and Nami switched back to their original bodies. "NOOO MY DREAM OF SNAPPING A PHOTO IS OVER!" Sanji fell to his knees and cried.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" G-5 screamed. "THEY SLICED THE DOOR DOWN! NOW THE GAS IS GONNA GET INSIDE!"

"WHAT?!" Nami screamed as she realized she now was on the other side of the room where the gas was leaking through.

"YOU IDIOTS!" Usopp shouted.

"Hey! Don't blame us!" Zoro shouted back. "How do you expect us to get inside?!"

"Shishishishishi!" Luffy laughed before he looked down. "Hey! everyone here?!"

"Yep!" the Straw Hats answered.

"Great!" Luffy said as he punched a fist into his palm and cracked his knuckles.

"Then it's time to throw down!"

End of the chapter I hope you all enjoyed it so far! Thank you to those who privately messaged me voicing their concerns about whether or not I was done with the story. Currently i'm not thinking of ending the story but i'm just really busy and haven't been active in awhile so again i'm really sorry for not updating consistently. I would like to thank all those who took the time to review me their honest opinions and stuck through to keep reading my story. I decided to change up the flow story so the arc will move faster because let's be honest, this has been the longest arc I've ever written. (From 22- 33?!)

Also I know it's frustrating to see me take so long to make a story but just remember. I'm also busy with things and I feel like I should prioritize those more so than a story. If you don't like this then I'm truly sorry but there's nothing that I can really do about it. Anyways I would like to see you think about this chapter! With that of the way I would like to see a review on how you think this chapter and story is doing so far.

Thank you everyone for all the support, it means the world to me. Thanks and Enjoy having an awesome New Years! (P.S. It's going to be awhile before I update again but hopefully not too long haha)