Chapter 2 is out, hope you guys do not get disappointed!

Scarletroofs: I'm glad you liked the beginning, hopefully this answered some of your questions regarding how they got back as for your second question, ill just let you find out in the next chapter or so.

AnimeFreak.25500: haha I try to write as much as I can when I get the free time, really glad you liked it, let me know what you think of this chapter.

LongPastNidnight: I'm glad someone got the Star wars reference, it sort of just popped in my head as I was writing that scene XD.

Jennifer Wilson: First of all I would like all of you to check out the one piece story "CURSE" it's also a time travel fic but it's with an amazing twist and great writing skills, I honestly hope I get to write like you.
Trust me the rough chapter drafts are much worse before I proofread them, but after reading it a dozen times your brain simply skips some words and that's when I miss those pesky one or two words.

I guess I might get a Beta just to proof read with a fresh mind.

One Piece is owned by Oda.

It has been a rather quite journey to Shells town reckoned Coby. After confirming their destination Luffy seemed to have spent his time in either deep thought as he stared off the horizon or deep in sleep due to the lack of food. The newly reborn pink haired boy didn't dare try to disturb him in fear that he may anger him, it was the last thing he wanted to do after that display of raw power earlier with Alvida.

Suddenly Luffy jolted from his slumber, he placed his Straw hat over his head and inhaled a deep breath before screaming into thin air "Zoroooo!" freaking Coby out in the process.

Coby stumbled onto the deck form his spot at the sudden action. "Luffy-san what's going on?" asked a concerned Coby.

"What do you mean? We are here of course," announced Luffy in casual tone. He could sense Zoro's aura all the way from where he was, and the sheer size of it confirmed what he was assuming. 'Zoro travelled back with me.' Luffy grinned in the mere memory of his first crew mate.

The town wasn't anything special it was a simple island with a marine base at the center and the rest was built around it. People must have flocked here due to its safety given that the 153rd marine base was here.

"Yosh Coby lets go get some food," led Luffy as he led the duo through the streets.

"Luffy-san, have you been here before?" asked Coby as he noticed how easily Luffy was navigating the town.

"Nope first time I visit," he lied. Sabo had taught helped him improve how to lie given that he was terrible at lying, the trick for a good liar is to add some truth to it, there are outliers of course such as Usopp and Buggy who were just fluent in Lying. He really was visiting Shells town for the first time in this time.

"I can just smell were the food was," lied Luffy, not entirely. He finally saw the restaurant he was looking for and decided to flaunt his aura even more the closer he got to the restaurant. He could feel the immense aura taunting his own grow stronger, they have been going at it for a while ever since they both starting sensing each other .

Luffy's grin couldn't get any bigger as he finally reached the entrance, he pushed through the double swinging doors to see the entire populous of the restaurant stare at him in awe of his naturally exuded aura. There was one exception and it was one green haired man with three swords by is side, his back was facing Luffy as he took a swig of sake from the bottle, Zoro paused mid drink and muttered in a low tone that no one would hear under normal circumstances but the atmosphere was so tense that all eyes and ears were on the two.

"Took you long enough Luffy,did you get lost?" mocked the swordsman as he finally turned around to face Luffy who was glaring back at Zoro with an unreadable expression.

The air was tense, and that was an understatement, some people eating were considering booking it as fast they can through the windows or any other possible escape hole due to the sheer heavy weight they were feeling on their chest. The Green haired savior of their town who was carefree the entire time in the face of different scary thugs finally seemed to acknowledge someone. The two straw hat pirates kept gazing at each others eyes they both blinked in acknowledgment, sharing between each other unspoken words before they both burst into laughter.

The entire restaurant residents let out a breath in unison they never realized they were holding. They two seemed to know each other, but who was this boy with the straw hat that seems to be on equal ground as the green beast?

Luffy took a seat right next to Zoro's before motioning for Coby to join them. "I'll have two sake glasses please," requested Zoro without having Luffy tell him. This called for a celebration as they finally met. Luffy wasn't much for a sake drinker expected for two reasons and celebrating was one of them.

"You know," Started Luffy before pausing to devour a piece of meat in one swallow that he stole form an unsuspecting diner.

"You didn't have to show off like that," humored Luffy as he snatched another piece from a different diner.

All Coby could see was pieces of meat magically appearing in Luffy's hand before he swallowed them whole with bones and all. Zoro raised his eyebrow at Luff's statement but more so to his action of snatching food like that.

Luffy picked up on the unasked question of his actions "Meh, I realized this way I can technically have an ending supply of food without having to worry about paying for it," shrugged Luffy.

"wow who are you and what have you done to my captain," asked Zoro in mock shock as he took another sip and finally turned his attention to Coby who seem to have shrunk to the size of a mouse as he was holding his untouched sake glass.

"Who's this?" asked Zoro knowingly fully well that it was Coby,

'wow I still cant believe that Haki juggernaut was this little shrimp before Garp took him in' mused Zoro.

He wasn't sure by whom he was impressed more ,Coby or Garp, then again that crazy old man did raise Luffy to be who he is as well.

"M-m-me?" muttered Coby as his hands started d shaking uncontrollably, spilling sake everywhere. This was the infamous bounty hunter that is said to be the strongest in East blue, and here he is talking casually to Luffy calling him captain, Coby was lost at words.
"Well who else am I talking to?" responded Zoro as he tried to suppress a chuckle that his captain failed to suppress miserably, seeing Coby like this was very refreshing.

"My n-name is C-Coby," replied the pink haired boy, his face was as pale as a ghost as he tried to slowly breathe, Zoro really seemed too much for Coby to handle so casually like Luffy is.

"Coby here wants to become a marine," finally answered Luffy, he reached for Coby's shoulder to pat him in reassurance, somehow that seemed to do the trick as Coby's tense raised shoulders finally relaxed.

"T-that's right!" stuttered Coby.

"Being a marine that captures pirates has always been my dream," he finished. Zoro looked at him in an appraising tone, his eyes weren't judging him rather they seem to have some sort of respect for having a noble dream. Coby couldn't help himself but blush as he realized neither do Zoro nor Luffy seem to mock him for chasing such a foolish and unrealistic dream.

"Yo Zoro guess who I met before getting here!" asked Luffy.

"Yup you must have met Nami, she was here about an hour again you know," responded Zoro. He sensed the greedy witch as he was raising hell in the marine base. He didn't want to approach her as it wasn't his place to recruit her.

"Shishishi, that's Nami for you, she was ahead of us by a few minutes only, would u believe that!" he laughed proud of his own soon to be navigator. Zoro merely Nodded in agreement sharing the same feeling, he wasn't a very chatty man, having already said his fair share.

"So what's the plan now captain?" asked Zoro from his place as stared at his now empty sake bottle deep in thought, mesmerized by the small droplets left inside the bottle. Both Straw hats knew the many meanings behind those words.

Their journey was cut short the last time and there was a lingering emotion about the uncertainty of what's going to happen next. Time travelling back was necessary and all thanks to that legendary bastard, and to think they all thought we was dead by now.

"You know after you all travelled back and I was last, he gave me a present," mentioned Luffy casually. He wanted to show Zoro how cool it was but wanted to save it for later, it was always cooler to do it that way.

"And knowing you, you're not going to tell me yet," finished Zoro. He knew his captain too well at this point. Being able to communicate from mere glances isn't possible unless you knew the other person more than you knew yourself.

"The plan this time Zoro," paused Luffy to add dramatic affect so what he was about to say. He seemed to have picked up the showmanship from that man as he stood up from his stool and open his hands in a wide arc for emphasized effect.

"We are going to cause a major ruckus in this world, one never seen before!" He yelled with a confident grin almost daring anyone to challenge him.

He placed a firm grasp on Zoro's shoulder, he knew that Zoro would never show it but he had some doubts in him ever so minuscule, after all they have been through he couldn't blame him, but Luffy wanted to crush them at the bud.

"We are not going to loose anyone this time, I'm going to make sure of it this time."

He remembered the time they spent in limbo, a place where the great force of time couldn't get its boney reach with all it's might.

Before the time jump

They finally made it to Raftel, it took Luffy's absurd ideas to figure out how to get there. It was truly meant to be found only by the craziest of people , calling it a special island was an understatement. There was a reason this was the last island on the fearsome sea that claimed countless lives due to its stubborn refusal to follow the laws of nature, there was a reason Roger chose to leave his treasure there, Raftel was an existence in itself that shouldn't have existed.

Luffy would be screaming in joy at the greatness of an adventure this would be, it's the pinnacle of undiscovered possibility, but who could he share this joy with, only three of his crew mates are left. At this point he was doing it more for the sake of his fallen crew mates, his fallen alliance, his fallen armada that he had formed back at Dressrosa, they annoyed him at first but grew warm into his heart. He had called them nakama and they never delivered anything but the very best.

Now it was all gone.

Luffy was first as he stepped on the island but before any of the remaining strawhats could take any further step, they were blinded by an enormous flash of light that rendered them blind, truly blind.

"WHAT'S HAPPENING!?" Screamed Zoro. He got used to loosing his one eye and now the light seemed to have left his other eye.

"I can't see, you too Zoro?" screamed Luffy back as he clutched his eyes. the burning sensation was only increasing and the pain growing stronger.

"Ah sorry about that," beckoned a voice form all around the blinded starw hats. The mere reverberating voice of this new person seemed to have eased off their pain to a mild level.

"you see you aren't supposed to make it here with any regrets and you bunch seem to be full of it," continued the voice as it finally found a good pace, it carrid with it a hint of pity being the one to deliver the somber news.

"I'm not going to be stopped from finding onepiece by mere blindness," screamed a determined Luffy. "You think this will be enough? I'm not even afraid to die,' he finished yelling at no one in particular.

"Ah a will of D," mused the voice, it carried with it a different demeanor as if it found it's favorite toy after loosing it.

"Well I suppose this may change some things, I guess I'd be lying if it didn't mean that I'm just playing favorites." The voice finally stopped as the rest of the crew finally found the light in there eyes gain.

The scenery caused each of them to squint as the light was too bright again, this time though it came for an overload to the sensory in their bodies. It was simply beautiful. Sakura trees shedding their leaves in a symphony of organized chaos surrounded them, engulfing them with light pink petals that dictated the calming mood.

"Where we?" This time it was the swordsman that voiced the crew's thoughts.

"We are at the end of course," replied the voice cryptically before materializing into the most recognizable face in the world. He was the one that started all of this. The man that the entire world was tuned upside done by mere words at his execution, Gol D Roger.

"Surprised to see me?"

"The man with the most freedom in the world," gasped Luffy. The man's presence in it self was enough to cause your heart to shake in excitement. How and why he was here didn't matter all they wanted was to hear more from him, listen to what he has to say, be engulfed for longer in his captivating aura.

"The pirate King." Fished Zoro.

"Well I certainly won't regret playing favorites with you folks, not like anyone else mad it here either," he joked. "I was sort of expecting Whitebeard to show up first but I guess he was truly happy with what he had."

Roger had great respect for that man, he was the one he truly considered as his true rival. It was only proper that he choose the same spot he met with the man last as a sign of respect.

"Oh it seams you lost a lot of precious people," confirmed Roger. He had a sad frown above his eyes. He truly felt for them, loosing nakama was the worst thing possible more than loosing your own life while travelling this sea. He saw the lifeless husk of bodies that they were, they were truly broken. "Would it cheer you up if I tell you that there is a way to fix all this?" He spoke.

Every Straw hat's ear perked up at that last statement, the only reason they were doing this and not throwing there own lives was for the sake of there fallen comrades. Hearing that this can be fixed was immediately taken seriously, who are they to question what the man who's execution was witnessed by the entire world twenty years ago yet still lives suggest.

"How?" asked Luffy not concerned at all with the other nagging questions swimming in his head?

"Well that's simple, ill just send you back in time," replied Roger with a smile, he then saw the grim look on their faces unsure of why that didn't cheer them up.

"What's the point of returning if things are going to repeat themselves," revealed Zoro from his spot, his grip on his katanas loosened considerably compared to earlier. Zoro may not be a man of words nor did he clue any one on what he is feeling ,he was truly a master of his body emotions, his one tell tale known only to those close to him was his grip on his swords varied depending on how hostile he is feeling.

"Ah yes, you guys feel weak even though you managed to conquer the grand line," Roger split into three more forms of himself as they each stood next to each other carrying the same grin.

The forms started morphing slowly matching the same form as the strawhat counter parts, if it wasn't for their translucent ghostly appearance then you wouldn't be able to tell them apart from the originals.

"I'm about to send you back, all of you." Finally spoke Roger in unison with all his forms.

"While you are being sent we will take a pit stop and I will be your opponent each, until you defeat me you won't be able to be sent back." Roger's eyes hardened at his last statement to show how serious he was.

He gestured a fist sign in the air and everything turned grey as the Sakura trees and roaring waterfall faded, three portals appeared in front of the straw hats except for Luffy. Each of the straw hats before they could utter any other word were nudged into their portals, it didn't take longer than a second after the respective Roger clone following suit for the portal to collapse on itself and disappear forever.

Luffy was left with his own form staring back at him, it felt weird yet nostalgic looking back at his form. Luffy remembered Bentham using his ability to tell jokes back in the day, the memories of his lost friend did not sadden nor deter him, in fact Luffy's fist clenched in determination as he steeled his resolve in not letting the past repeat itself.

"It's pretty funny how I'm wearing my strawhat but not really at the same time," mused roger as he pointed at the straw hat he was now fashioning by copying Luffy's form.

Luffy wasn't sure of anything when he was approaching Raftel, he had a mixture of emotions clashing in his head each telling him to do a different thing, uncertainty clouded his spirit.

After meeting Roger and having this rare once in a lifetime encounter Luffy was still filled mixed with emotions, instead of them being fear and regret this time however they were excitement and utter happiness. One thing certain in his eyes was the fact that everything was going to be fine.

Roger sat down and grabbed a sake jar form thin air as it poofed, he took a sip to make sure of the taste before pouring it into two large saucers that followed the jar's appearance form thin air.

"Now that the captains are left by themselves, shall we," sated Roger as he motioned for Luffy to come join him.

Roger was in a very nostalgic mood he glanced around remembering his old crew before his eyes fell back to Luffy, but it wasn't what he was expecting , Roger's eyes widened at Luffy's form or perhaps at appeared behind him.

Back to the present

"Alright Coby before we set off lets get you into the marines," cheered Luffy, grabbing Coby by his shoulder as he pulled him off his seat.

The group was about to reach the marine base before Zoro halted, he looked at Luffy all flustered struggling to say something. Luffy paused as he picked up on Zoro change in demeanor, he didn't say anything as he waited for his swordsman to finally speak his mind.

"Luffy I kind of accidently did something when I got back," muttered Zoro form under is breadth, he was debating if he should say anything but decided to just let the two boy find out themselves. If a picture was worth a thousand words then witnessing something first hand was probably worth a million.

"W-what happened here," Coby was stuttering again at the sight in front of him. He didn't notice the two stopping and kept on walking around the corner only to be struck by the sight before him. Just when he thought he had seen it all and started getting used to the mind blowing events that happen around Luffy, fate strikes yet again and proves him wrong. There was another madman apparently and he was standing a few meters behind him chatting with Luffy.

"Shishishi, Zoro that's so cool," Luffy was rolling on the floor in laughter at the sight in front of him not even slightly affected.

"Yeah...I was still getting used to my strength, I didn't realize it was this much as it is," he finished rubbing the back of his head in shame, not at his actions but rather at the fact that he couldn't control his strength.

A swordsman is one with his sword he wills things to be cut and other not to,he should be able to control the strength of a swing to be lighter than a feather and his precision to be within a hairs width.

"I thought since Roge-" Zoro paused making sure not to let his name slip out "Since HE,told us that our strength will come back throughout a year's time that it wont be as…yeah," trailed off Zoro lost at words as he stood right in front of the marine base or at least what was left of it.

The proud 153rd marine base was split in half vertically with surgical precision, you can see the cross section of every room of the tower. The left side seemed to have remained in its place, the right side didn't however do as good, it was leaning diagonally to the right still intact with the exception of it being about to fall off at any moment. The entire immediate area by the now split tower was sectioned off in fear if the right side collapsing.

"The base is not usable anymore!" shrieked Coby at the turn of events "What are we going to do Luffy-san," asked Coby as his voice kept rising in pitch the more he talked.

Luffy took off his straw hat and placed in Coby's hand as he walked past the pink and green hair colored freaks. He double jumped in the air kicking it as he ascended, he stopped and was hopping in the air as he was now facing the midsection level of the right side of the tower, he sucked in some air and blew into his right arm .

"Gear Third." He spoke from under his breathe as he channeled all the air to his left arm from the right, he wasn't sure if he would be able to hold back if he used his right hand.

"Gomu Gomu no FIX IT!"

Luffy was still trying to hold back his laughter. His left palm stretched and pushed the right side of the tower back in it's place. The immediate are by the base was shaking as it felt the tremor of Luffy's palm re-erecting the fallen tower

The noise the structure made as it started moving back to its place was thunderous, the entire town dropped what they were occupied with and flooded the streets in expectation to witness the right side of the tower finally collapsing, only to be gob smacked by the sight. Luffy left palm was as big as the tower, it was a great sight to behold that no one would believe if it was ever retold, his hand's size would rival that of a giant.

"Well that's takes care of it," stated Luffy, he bounced on thin air casually and made his way back to Coby and Zoro .In the mean time the entire town folk bearing witnesses to what he did earlier were struggling pick up their jaws from the ground.

"There you go Coby, that takes care of things." Luffy grabbed his straw hat from Coby who was still frozen in awe.

Well this is a good spot to stop I suppose, I want to update weekly, since I want to focus on the quality of the story and not just pump out as much as I can in the shortest time possible.

I explained some of what happened but didn't want to reveal it all! I want to add more depth to time travel fics and not just the same stuff you guys are used to reading, so expect some interesting aspects added to the story.
I am contemplating what day I should stick to when posting a new chapter, I suppose I'm just experimenting to see what works best for me and for you guys as well.I did Monday to maybe cheer you up with something during the most boring day of the week -_- I know Mondays suck.

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