Chapter 3: Two Straw Hat Luffys?

Last Time…

"I'm hungry." Luffy complained as he holds his stomach. "Is there any restaurants around?"

"I guess we could stop for a quick bite." Nami said. Then Luffy and Nami noticed that Usopp stopped moving. "What's wrong, Usopp?"

"Look..." Usopp said, pointing in front of him. The two looked in front of them and saw three figures that look almost like them.

Luffy walked to the person that looks like him. The two Luffys stared at each other for a few seconds until the look-a-like asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Luffy. And I'm the next King of the Pirates!" Luffy said with a smile. The other two look-a-likes looked at Luffy in shock.

"Huh, but I'm Luffy." The look-a-like said surprising Nami and Usopp.

Now…

The two groups led by the two Luffys looked at each other confused. "Can someone tell me what's going on here?!" The younger Nami demanded.

"I wish I could but I don't know what's going either." The younger Usopp said. "I mean they kinda look the same."

"Usopp, what's going on here?" The older Nami asked.

"How the heck should I know?" The older Usopp said. "Unless, these are the fake Straw hats."

"That is a possibility but that Usopp would have the Sniper King mask on."

"That's true." The younger Nami and Usopp looked at their older self confused. Then a loud noise roared catching both groups' attention.

"Man, I'm starving." The two Luffys said in unison making their respective groups sweat drop.

'Yeah, they're the same person.' The two Namis and Usopps thought in unison.

Elsewhere, Sanji was looking through a part of the town with Robin and Chopper. The more they look at the area, the more it looked like they were there before.

"This place…I got a feeling that we've been before." Sanji said.

"Really Sanji?" Chopper asked.

"I have to agree with him, Chopper." Robin said. "We've been to this island before. I believe we came for supplies correct?"

"Yeah, I remember now." Sanji said pointing at the book store near them. "You and Chopper went into that book store over there. And I went to get some food so we replace what Luffy ate. What did that Taiji bastard do to us?"

"Do you think he send us back to the Grand Line?" Chopper asked.

"There is a possibility."

"It's not just that." Robin said.

"What do you mean?"

"Look over there." Robin pointed at a younger Robin, Sanji (who's looking at the older Robin with a heart in his visible eye.), and Chopper 'hiding' behind Sanji's leg.

"What the…what's going on?!" The older Chopper said surprised.

"As I thought, we're in the past." Robin said.

Back to Luffy's side, the group of the two Luffys/Namis/Usopps continues through the town. As they were about a make a turn to another street, they stopped and hid in the shadows.

"Ah great, the marines are here." The younger Usopp whispered looked at the marines.

"Oh yeah, now it's coming back to me." The older Nami said. "We came here some ago to pick up supplies, two years ago."

"Wait, so we're in the past?" Usopp questioned.

"I'm not 100% sure but judging us meeting ourselves, it looks we are."

"We're in the past, really?!" the older Luffy shouted getting everyone's attention, including the marines.

"Do you hear something?" the commander asked his troops. The marines looked around until one of them spotted something.

"Wait a minute, that Straw Hat…" one of the officers said at the younger Luffy. "That's Straw Hat Luffy and his crew!"

"What the…who's that?" Another one said looking at the older Luffy. "He's looks like Straw Hat Luffy."

"There are two of them?!" A third marine shouted.

"It doesn't matter how many of them there are! Capture them!" The commander ordered causing the marines to get up and chase the pirates.

"You two just had to get their attention, didn't you?!" The younger Nami shouted angrily at the to Luffy.

"Complain about it later!" The older Usopp said. "Let's go!" The straw hats started to run until the commander with of his soldiers blocked them.

"You're surrounded Straw Hats." The commander said as more solders came from behind surround the two Straw Hats group. The older Luffy looked at the ground as he walked ahead of the group and stopped. "Ready your guns, men!"

The older Luffy lift his head at the marines and then the marines fell to the ground unconscious. The younger Luffy, Nami, and Usopp looked at what happened with widen eyes. The older Luffy looks back at the group, grinned at them.

"Whoa, that was awesome!" the younger Luffy said with stars in his eyes.

"What the…what just happened?" The younger Usopp asked, spooked of the future Luffy's power. "What did he do?"

"Who cares?" The younger Nami said. "Let's go!" And the two Straw Hats ran towards the respective ships.

But unknown to them, Taiji was standing on the roof on a nearby smirking at what happened. "So the two Luffys have met each other. Ha, ha, ha, everything is going as planned."

An alarm went off throughout the entire island and a voice in a large Den-Den Mushi in the center said, "Three members of the Straw Hats Pirates have spotted on the island along with a man look identical to 'Straw Hat' Luffy. All marine personal have them captured immediately."

To be continued…

What does Taiji mean by '…everything is going as planned'? Find out on August 15th.