Another Nakama IV

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A/N: May 5th Children's Day/Luffy's Birthday. I planned on having the first chapter of Water 7 posted today but during my break my personal life became more complicated and delayed my writing. Hopefully this short Omake Series will hold you guys over while I sort out my personal issues.

Alternate Davy Back Fight pt 1:

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"Foxy made a big gamble and it paid off," Ricky stated. "I can respect that and now I'm obligated to serve my new Captain to the best of my ability. Although, I can't help but wonder what would have happened if we had won that dodgeball game."

The Straw Hat Pirates and Foxy Pirates were in the middle of the first round in their second Davy Back Fight. The game was Hit and Dead Ball and after everyone else on both teams had been eliminated. It was now down to the two Captains Luffy and Foxy.

"NOW!" Foxy shouted to his crew. There were over a hundred of them and they were all armed with fake balls. Thanks to the team shuffle that had been led by Porche there was no way of telling who had the real ball. "LET THOSE BALLS FLY!"

WHING! WHING! WHING! WHING! WHING! Ove fifty balls flew at Luffy from behind and both sides. He quickly spun around to face the incoming barrage.

Whap-whap-whap-whap-whap! Luffy shot his rubber arm out and snagged the balls out of the air and quickly tucked them under his other arm. Whap-whap-whap-whap-whap-whap-whap! Luffy's arm stretched as it strained to hold all the balls that he'd caught.

"Fehfehfehfeh!" Foxy laughed as Luffy faced away from him to catch the bombardment of balls from his huge crew, "Nice try, but you're finished! NOW PICKLES!"

SWISH-SWISH-SWISH! Pickles spun around and hurled a final ball at Luffy. WOOOSH!

"LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" Usopp shouted.

Luffy twisted his head around after catching all the other balls to see the final ball flying at him. But his arms were full, there was no way for him to catch this one.

"LUFFY, DON'T DODGE!" Nami yelled. "LET IT HIT YOUR FACE!"

"Easy for you to say!" Zoro snapped.

WHOMP! Luffy took the ball right to the mouth. "MMPH!" WOING! Luffy's straw hat fell off his head as his neck stretched back from the impact of the ball.

"ALRIGHT!" Usopp exclaimed.

"YEAH, LUFFY!" Chopper cheered as he finished changing the bandages on Ricky's chest.

"Mmmm mmmffmmmm…" Luffy mumbled around the ball that was now lodged in his mouth.

"LUFFY!" Ricky shouted. "DON'T YOU DARE EAT THAT! SPIT IT OUT!"

Luffy blinked. Then spat. PTOOIII!

The ball flew across the field and pelted a shocked Foxy in the stomach. WHAM! Foxy's feet were knocked out from under him and he dropped to the ground.

The Foxy Crew stared in utter shock at their fallen boss.

"That was close," Ricky said, "Eating the ball is illegal."

"It's true," Robin noted as she reached the final page of the massive rule book. "Ingesting any part of the ball results in instant disqualification." Robin looked over at Ricky, "That rule is on the very last page… how did you know about it?"

"Because they added that rule due to a game of Hit and Dead Ball that I played with the Whitebeard Pirates. Blackbastard Teach fell asleep in the middle of the game and got pegged in the mouth while he was yawning. He ended up swallowing the ball. Pops petitioned that eating the ball should be illegal so that rule was officially added just last year to account for him."

"Wait a minute…" Usopp said, "Does that mean…"

"Silver Fox Foxy… you're out!" Rokuroshi announced.

"I don't believe it... Our boss Foxy has been eliminated…" a subdued Itomimizu announced on commentary. "That means… the Straw Hats win the first round!"

"YEEAAAHHH!" the Straw Hat Pirates let out a loud cheer.

"OUR BOSS FOXY PUT UP A VALIANT EFFORT BUT ALL THOSE STRAW HATS WERE TOO MUCH FOR HIM!"

"Too much?" Nami repeated, "There were FIFTY of your guys!"

"I WOULDN'T HAVE BELIEVED IT IF I DIDN'T SEE IT WITH MY OWN EYES! OUR BOSS FOXY HAS ACTUALLY LOST A DAVY BACK FIGHT ROUND!"

BLOOM! The Foxy Crew seemed annoyed because they only shot off one round of fireworks to celebrate the Straw Hats' victory in the first round.

"THE STRAW HAT PIRATES HAVE CLAIMED VICTORY IN ROUND 1 OF THE REMATCH OF THE DAVY BACK FIGHT! NOW IT'S TIME FOR CAPTAIN MONKEY D. LUFFY TO CLAIM HIS PRIZE! WILL HE CHOOSE AN ACTUAL MEMBER OF OUR CREW THIS TIME? OR WILL HE MAKE ANOTHER BONE-HEADED CHOICE LIKE HE DID WITH THAT HORSE?"

"Luffy…" Ricky said as he stood next to his brother, "I know this is your decision… but I've got a plan. If we follow it we'll win this Davy Back Fight with our entire crew intact."

"I vote we go with Ricky's plan!" Zoro immediately announced.

"Me too!" Chopper chirped. "Let's do Big Brother's idea."

"You don't even know what it is yet," Nami pointed out.

"He hasn't steered us wrong in these games yet," Robin pointed out. "I say we do it."

"The last thing any of us wants is to lose another crew mate," Sanji said, "If Ricky has a way that we can avoid that… I think we should give it a shot."

"Yeah!" Usopp agreed, "We should use our fox to outsmart theirs!"

"All in favor of Ricky's plan?" Zoro addressed the others as he raised his hand. Chopper, Robin, Sanji and Usopp all raised theirs too.

Nami glared at Ricky then raised her own hand, "I'm still mad at you."

"Yeah well, it doesn't seem like I can avoid that anymore," Ricky replied.

Luffy scratched his hat, "Okay… what's the plan then?"

Ricky motioned the others towards him and they all formed a tight circle for a group huddle as he began to explain his plan.

"IT LOOKS LIKE STRAW HAT IS TAKING SOME COUNCIL FROM HIS FIRST MATE 'ONE EYE' RICKY! THAT GUY'S A CRAFTY BASTARD… THIS COULD END BADLY FOR US…"

"GREAT IDEA!" Sanji exclaimed. "I support this plan one hundred percent!"

"I… I can do that," Chopper timidly agreed.

"That's remarkably underhanded of you, Mr. One Eye," Robin remarked.

"That's gonna be a pain in the ass…" Nami commented, "But… it'll probably work…"

"I don't know…" Luffy said, "That seems kinda mean… I thought we were having fun?"

"What's fun about playing games against a bunch of cheaters?" Usopp asked.

"Do you want to win or play silly games?" Zoro questioned.

"If we go through with this once the competition is over we can play many games as you want," Ricky offered, "Against people that actually have some honor and integrity. And we'll be able to do it with all of our Nakama."

"Okay, okay, fine," Luffy conceded, "We'll do it your way."

The Straw Hats broke their huddle.

"IT LOOKS LIKE THE STRAW HATS HAVE FINALLY MADE A DECISION! IT SURE TOOK THEM LONG ENOUGH!"

"HURRY UP AND GET IT OVER WITH, STRAW HAT!" Foxy called out from the stage.

"I pick… you!" Luffy pointed into the crowd of Foxy Pirates. "Baton-girl. Porche."

"…" The field was immediately struck silent. The entire Foxy Crew stared at Luffy in wide-eyed, opened-mouthed horror.

"NOOO! NOT PORCHE!" the heartbroken Foxy Pirates screamed.

"M-me?" Porche stammered.

"HOW DARE YOU, STRAW HAT! HOW COULD YOU TAKE OUR BELOVED PORCHE? WHY DON'T YOU JUST RIP OUR HEARTS OUT YOU CRUEL, EVIL BASTARD!"

"IT WASN'T EVEN MY IDEA!" Luffy insisted.

"OOH! THAT MUCH IS CLEAR! THIS HAS ONE EYE'S HANDIWORK WRITTEN ALL OVER IT! WHO ELSE WOULD BE HEARTLESS AND EVIL ENOUGH TO STEAL OUR PRECIOUS IDOL!?"

"I'll do whatever it takes to protect my Nakama," Ricky stated, "You're not gonna get to me."

"It's okay Porche, you don't have ta do it!" Foxy insisted.

"Sure she does," Ricky replied, "She's your crew Idol. If she doesn't swear allegiance to our crew, she'll be breaking the oath you made to Davy Jones to follow the rules of this competition. That will not only render this Davy Back Fight null and void but it will also disgrace your crew to the point where no one will ever play a Davy Back Fight with you again."

Porche wiped her tear-filled eyes, "It… its okay boss. The honor of our crew is at stake... I can do it."

"WOW! THAT'S OUR IDOL! SHE'S PRESERVING THE HONOR OF THE FOXY CREW AND IS PUTTING ON A BRAVE FACE AT BEING FORCED TO JOIN THAT MANGY LITTLE CREW OF SAVAGES! PORCHE WE STILL LOVE YOU!"

Porche took a deep breath and slowly made her way over to the Straw Hats.

"Lose the mask," Ricky instructed.

Porche sighed and untied her Foxy mask. It fell away from her blue eyes that were still bruised from when Nami had broken her nose in the last round.

Porche faced Luffy and raised her hand as she made an oath, "I, Porche, Idol of the Foxy Pirates swear loyalty to you, Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates."

Luffy scratched his head, "I still don't even know what an Idol is."

"An Idol is a cute role model that the rest of looks up to and admires," Porche told him.

Luffy blinked. "I'm not sure why we even need one of those…"

"Good point. I'll ask the brains of this operation." Porche turned to Ricky, "Why me?"

"You're the heart of your crew," Ricky answered, "Taking you away is the next best thing to the Peanut Strategy. Now they don't have you to lead them through the next round and even if they somehow manage to beat us in the race, Foxy will use his pick to take you back so that protects the rest of my Nakama."

"OH CRAP!" Foxy suddenly exclaimed. "PORCHE WAS IN OUR LINE-UP FOR THE RACE! NOW WE'VE GOTTA PLAY A MAN DOWN!"

A sly grin spread across Ricky's face, "And my plan's only just begun…"

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'Till Next Time…

Peace!