A/N: Sorry I haven't been very active lately. I'll work on it and try to get this updated regularly for those who enjoy this since I like where its is going. Review/Follow/Criticize/Eggs/Hail Zundar-sama
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Franky grabbed Bard by the head and smashed it against the deck of the Sunny with a loud thud followed by the sound of the rest of his body hitting the floor. The impact was so hard that it could be heard and felt throughout the entire ship. Sanji burst out the kitchen door, with a mix of annoyance and worry on his face.
"Oi! What was that?!" At around the same time, Zoro came down from his post at the watchers cabin. The cook and the swordsman caught eye of each other and began to glare. Sanji was first to accuse him. "STOP MAKING ALL THAT NOISE, STUPID MARIMO!" Zoro's glare intensified. A sliver of his patience was permanently destroyed every time that man called him a moss-head.
"YOU'RE THE ONE BEING LOUD, STUPID COOK!" Zoro returned. The air around them electrified as it usually did but they were both caught off guard by the sound of another loud thud, similar to the one they heard before. Franky had once again bashed Bard's face in. The walked over to the scene to see Brook, Usopp, and Chopper trying to talk Franky out of killing this new masked man they'd seen laying limp and held up by his head. Zoro calmly approached Robin, who stood away from the crowd. "Hey, what happened?"
"Luffy and Nami have been taken into a different dimension" She responded in a hushed tone, looking lost in thought. Zoro raised his brow and choked a bit on his retort.
"W-what?!" The swordsman had to take a step back in confusion. Robin finally had decided enough was enough and walked over to the aggravated Franky.
"Franky, let him talk." She placed one hand on his shoulder, catching his attention. The cyborg looked at the masked man, on the verge of unconsciousness and scowled. He threw his body at the railing of the ship and like a ragdoll, he sprawled out in an awkwardly painful position. Robin walked over to him and crouched to meet him at eye level. "Mr. Bard, is there any way we could bring our friends back?"
Bard sat up, with painful trembling. His eyes began to glow yet again and energy emanated from him just as before.
"There is…but one way…"
Nami was enthralled by how astoundingly different this world was. Just through observation alone, she had discovered that people used what were called 'cell-phones' as opposed to the den den mushi she was so accustomed to and that they had a plethora of more uses. She'd also seen towers with wires fixed upon them that didn't seem to fulfil any purpose but nonetheless captured her imagination just as everything else did. She had one mission on her mind, which was to find Luffy, but the sights around her led her hopelessly astray. She spotted the entrance to what looked to be a large plaza and convinced herself that Luffy could be there as an excuse to do a little more exploring.
Just down the road from where his navigator was, the captain of the Mugiwara pirates was also having the time of his life. He stood in front of a hot dog cooker inside a convenience store, hypnotized by the cooking, spinning piece of meat giving off a heavenly smell. Drool cascaded from Luffy's mouth as he began to speak.
"Ahhh Hey shopkeep! What is this?!"
The man working behind the counter smoothly made it over to the space behind the cooker where one could open it. He slicked his shaggy hair back and made for the tongues on the cooking apparatus. His voice came out like sweet caramel.
"This, mah man? Aheheh…Well…this is a-" Suddenly, the doors to the store flew pen and in came a man in a ski-mask, wielding a gun. He shot one bullet into the ceiling before shouting his demands.
"THIS IS A ROBBERY, EVERYBODY DROP TO THE FLOOR!" The store clerk gave a loud, ear piercing shriek and fainted instantly, dropping to the ground behind the counter. Luffy, still in his hot dog induced trance, only heard the first word that came out from the gun-wielding criminal's mouth.
"Raw-berry? This doesn't really look like a berry though…" He kept on in his own little world, ignoring everything around him. The robber ran up to Luffy with his gun and ruffled his hair with the barrel to let him know he meant business. Feeling this, the rubber man came back to reality and got the full grasp of the situation upon seeing the store clerk out cold. 'There are bad people even in this world, huh…' he thought to himself.
Raku, Chitoge, Onodera, Tachibana and Tsugumi continued on their trek to being late to school and inevitably to their punishment. With this in mind, and without words, they had unanimously decided to take the scenic route, through a popular plaza, filled with many shops and restaurants. The heads of many young men turned and many women snickered and made jealous remarks at a particularly pretty young girl walking within their group. Her newly found strawhat made her the center of attention but Onodera could only pay attention to how the boy walking in front of her made many faces and talked so easily with Chitoge. The face he made when smiled, laughed, pouted, and even when he got angry were all so captivating to her and she couldn't help but feel a little jealous of the fact that she could never have a conversation with him without her succumbing to her own shyness.
"I'm telling you, Chitoge, you've gotta use mouthwash after brushing your teeth, or else it doesn't work!" Raku stammered.
"Ah, quiet down beansprout , does my breath smell bad to you?" Chitoge got extremely close to Raku's face and began breathing heavily with her mouth wide open. Onodera was shocked at how close they could get with each other.
As people's focus waned from the cute little girl in the strawhat, their eyes were then caught by another stunningly attractive young girl, wearing only a swimsuit top and jeans. Nami could ignore the stares easily enough however she found herself more affected by the attraction she had towards all the products being displayed in the shop windows. Up ahead on the same path, the group of truant teens made their way through the plaza, and came up to TV shop, one with many screens on with channels available for the general public to see. Just as they walked past, music blared from all the TVs in unison. They all recognized it as the theme from the local news station. Tsugumi, who walked at the back of the group, waved for all of them to pause and pay attention to what was about to be shown.
"Everyone look! It seems that something just went on not too far from where we are." They all stopped and crowded around the display. Nami, hearing the music and seeing a small crowd form in front of the shop, figured that something special was happening and became determined to see it. She found her place among the group of people, behind a boy who used braids in his hair and a girl with a peculiar yellow strawhat.
"Hey! That's-!" Everybody hushed the navigator before her voice could raise any louder. Onodera took notice of her but her attention was quickly brought back to the TV as the news anchor began to report.
"Breaking News! A robbery attempt at a convenience store near Kaimono Plaza was quickly thwarted by a young man who, as an eye witness account states, "stretched out his limbs to beat the criminal to a pulp."
Nami panicked. 'That couldn't be-' she began to whisper to herself before the report continued.
"And now we have reporter, Nanase Yumi, live on the scene". The camera cut off and then a view of another reported came on the screen. A woman was standing outside a convenience store Nami had happened to pass by on her way into the plaza. The news lady stood next to a woman wearing sunglasses and all black clothing who seemed to be in charge of everything.
"Nanase Yumi here, reporting to you live from near Kaimono plaza, outside of a convenience store. Here with me, I have Honda, from the police force who have been investigating the scene. Tachibana's eyes lit up in pleasant surprise.
"Ah, so Honda is nearby. Perhaps we should go say hello, we might be able to get a lift to school with excuses…" She said in a hushed tone so that all in her group could hear her. The reporter passed the mic onto Hondo who began to speak in a very formal tone, as she always did.
"All but the suspected criminal are safe and unharmed. All parties are planned to be brought in for questioning however the young man has agreed to make a public statement."
Nami felt a mix of shock and embarrassment when she saw the camera turn to a bold and smiling Luffy . He looked straight into the camera and without hesitation, he made his first statement on national television.
"I'm Luffy! I'm going to be the next Pirate King!"