Haruta was sleeping on the couch, having stayed all night looking after his father and brothers. Now he was in Marco's room, tired. It has been a year after the Particle Accelerator's accident and they haven't woken up. Things were getting bad at the company, with all those man saying how incapable they were of running it without Pops and Marco. He was so deep asleep that he didn't heard the groan Marco made when he woke up.

"Did you see the plate of the truck that ran over me, Haruta yoi?" asked the blond, sitting on his bed. The tiny man woke up immediately.

"Marco! You are awake!" he yelled happily. "Doctor! My brother is awake!" soon there was a lot of chaos outside the room, before some doctors entered with medical equipment and a recorder. They soon proceed to check him up, making him confused.

"What's happening yoi?"

"Mr. Newgate, could you heard me well?" the blond nodded. "I'm doctor Hills, from Starling City's hospital. Do you remember anything that happened?"

"I was at the party for the Particle Accelerator's activation and… there was so much noise yoi…"

"Mr Newgate, you had an accident… in fact, several people did. The activation was a complete disaster, it blew a hole in the city. You have been in a coma ever since"

"Oh, God" said Marco, searching for Haruta. "What happened with my family yoi?"

"Everybody is alive" answered the brunette, taking a seat next to him. "But Pops, Namur, Jozu and Rakuyo are in a coma. You are the first one that woke up. It's like a miracle after so much time…"

"So much time? What are you talking about, yoi? How much was I asleep?"

"A year" the poor blond nearly felt right into a coma again. The doctors continue asking him questions and making test to check his health, but the only thing he was able to think about was how he failed to protect all of his family. Then there was a knock on the door from a nurse that came to inform that another of the victims was awake. He sent a few of his assistants to see the other lucky guy.

"What the hell…" was the only thing Portgas D. Ace could think about when he woke up, a pain pounding on his head. He opened his eyes and saw the hospital. Silently as he could, he took off the medical equipment from his arms and quickly went to search his family. The first one he found was Sabo, lying unconscious on a bed. "Hey, Sabo, wake up" no answer. "Come on, man, this isn't funny"

"Mr. Portgas?" asked a nurse, recognizing him. She walked right towards him. "Glad to see you doing so well after you year long coma, but I'm afraid you have to come back to your room"

"What's happening? And my family?"

"They are all in the same state, unfortunately" the girl answered. "Now, if you would go back, the doctor would want to make you some exams and…"

"I want to see them"

"You will as soon as we make sure you are okay, now go" they went away. After a lot of exams, he was left alone in his room. Soon a man came in, holding a black bag. He started to talk about how the life insurance of his family didn't cover this kind of eventuality and that they were going to be disconnected when he lost his shit and had to be restrained before he killed the man. During that, he felt some kind of heat on his fingers. He was left alone in the dark room again.

"Remember, Ace, how do you escape from a situation like this? Come on, the ancestors left some technique that…" suddenly his wrists caught on fire and the restrains were turned into dust. "Well, not exactly the same, but not bad"

Ace went out and located each member of his family's room. Then he found a window and went out to find some things… he went back with two trays of meat he found in a nearby house and went into his brother's rooms, putting the things well into the smelling range of the two youngsters. In Luffy's case the effect was immediate.

"Meat!" the teen screamed and woke up, doing exactly the older of the ASL trio thought he would. Sabo's reaction was not as happy, but he started eating the meat as soon as he could. Ace smiled and went to check on Dragon's room, it seems that his son's cry shook him awake too. Ace went out again and brought back a chocolate bar and donuts, putting them in both Garp's and Law's room, right under Sengoku's nose. The oldest D started to eat right away, but the younger sniffled for some minutes.

"It's that chocolate what I'm smelling?" asked the surgeon half asleep. Sengoku woke that moment to hug his adopted grandson and call the doctors. Law was a little bit angry, being a doctor himself he can say that he was alright. Finally, he asked for his old friend Eustass and Sengoku answered that there were some victims that haven't woken up yet.

"Don't worry, he will surely be alright" assured him the old Marine, taking off his glasses to whip off the tears. "But… you have to know something. A lot of people was injured in the accident, including… Doflamingo, Crocodile and their gangs"

"Great news, Sengoku-ya" laughed the brunette, chewing the chocolate bar he was just handed. "It was about time something bad happened to those people" Sengoku looked a little bit surprised, after all the young man had seen Doffy a few times when he was younger and Rocinante was still alive. "What, do you think I was going to feel pity for them because he was kind to me when I was ten? His so called kindness ended up when that day when I was thirteen"

"Well…"

"All the person with the D are strange? Don´t worry, I´m the most normal of the whole bunch"

"Yeah, the most…" Sengoku looked at the crystal door and saw some other people running around. He went outside to ask what was happening and came back smiling. "It seems that you have nothing to worry about, both your family and your friend are okay. Mister Eustass has just woken up a few minutes ago"

"Thank god" mumbled Law and reassumed his eating. He felt like if he was able to eat all the chocolate in the city, a feat that previously he thought could only be achieved by the other people in his clan.

-Some time later-

Ace returned to work in the coffee shop like if nothing happened, forgetting that his wrists caught in fire a few days before. He entered the shop and found Marco busy there, typing on his computer furiously. In their father´s absence a woman called Isabel Roschev tried to take over the company, being barely stopped by his brothers, but her ambitions came to an end when Marco woke up and took over the company until Edward was fine. A few months after that, the big man was totally recovered, but that harpy was still causing them troubles, now as Queen Consolidate´s CEO.

"What are you doing there?" asked the freckled man, looking curiously at his former stalker´s job.

"It´s some work, for my family´s company yoi" said the blond, sighing and closing the laptop before rubbing his ached eyes. "Why do you ask?"

"Well, I have a new vision of life now that I woke up from that coma" he looked at the papers in the other´s tale and frowned when he saw the name in there. "Isabel Roschev? You better be careful with her"

"You sound as if you know her yoi"

"Not personally, but I have heard about her before… or her reputation about ruining the companies she bought… and more" it was clearly a lie, he knew her because she was an assassin. The Ds always kept track of the most dangerous assassins. Should they entered to their territory they were dispatched immediately. But that Roschev girl and her adoptive father were not the same. It wasn´t as if they were scared, not even the Mirakuru could match the Will of D, but it was better not to attrackt attention.

"Then, do you know what is she planning? Because I don´t think it´s anything good yoi"

"The hell if I know" he said before retiring and grabbing his phone to make an urgent call home. "Sabo? What do you know about the Miakuru? What could happen if there was an army of men using it?"

"Nothing bad, each D can with a thousand of them" answered his brother, twisting his pole. "Why? Are you afraid of those genetically manipulated puppets?"

"No, but… it´s not only the clan we are talking about" he looked around. "It´s the whole city, they are going to die if we didn´t…"

"The local super team is already working on that, I can tell" answered the scared blond. "And I could tell you that if they put a foot into our territory they will be death"

"I know"

"Then why are you so worried? You sound like Lu"

"Maybe Lu is right about that… anyway, bye" he hanged and went back to his work, absently serving some coffee. By the end of the day, he was busy trying to forget what the blond had told him, but somehow it was impossible.

"By the way, do you want to… go on a date with me yoi?"

"Hum… movies seems fine"

"Okay"

"And you have to buy everything I want to eat"

"Okay yoi"

-At the D household-

"Did you tell that poor soul in despair what he was getting into before agreeing to a date with you under those conditions, Portgas-ya?" asked Law, dodging a blade and attacking with his nodachi. Ace shook his head and threw his dagger at the brunette, that just smirked before getting out of the way. "Well… poor thing"

"His family has a company, he could afford that"

"With your appetite, you are going to sent them to bankrupt" joked Sabo, ending his sparing with Luffy and getting to the fridge. "Someone wants juice?"

"Yes…" suddenly something caught the freckled man´s attention. "What the hell is that sound"

They went outside only to find Garp and Dragon fighting in the front with at least ten soldiers each. They wore a strange outfit, black with a two toned mask. Then more came from the sides and the younger ones joined the fight. Suddenly Ace was cut by a sword… but he didn´t bleed or anything, just turned into fire and reformed without a scratch. He was so confused that didn´t noticed more coming his way. Luffy, however, did and sent a punch, even if his arms weren´t long enough to reach the goal… until they stretched like rubber.

"Awesome!" yelled the brat before laughing and continue fighting… receiving a few of his own punches thanks to his poorly controlled habilities.

"Wow" said Sabo when he twisted the swords of the soldiers with his fingers. H turned around only to find Luffy in problems… until the soldier was hit by a lightning and Garp demolished a wall with a punch. Law was seriously wondering if he hadn´t gotten crazy.

"What the… Room!" he yelled, as the word appeared in his mind. He cut the soldier´s head and saw the body still alive. Then he smiled, it was not practical in combat but at least will come in handy in his profession.

"I need to find Marco" said Ace, worried, but Dragon stopped him and shook his head.

"This abilities… are not advantages, for now" he said. "They threaten us and everyone around us… they even could make us unable to use our fighting stile"

"You are right, son" said Garp, which surprise them all. "Pack everything, we are going to our ancestral land, Raftel, for some special training"

"Raftel have been empty for years, how are we going to find instruction in that place, Garp-ya?" asked Law, worried for his grandfather.

"Don´t underestimate the secrets the ancestors left for us. Do as you are told"

-In the Moby Dick Corporation-

"Are you alright yoi?" asked Marco, reuniting with his family after saving Tatch from those lunatics with super strength. They were scared and sweaty, but fine.

"Yes, boy, everybody is okay" answered the father soothing his oldest. "Is anyone hurt? Curriel has basic knowledge of medicine and could threat you if you are."

"No, but… I feel sick" said Namur, sheltering in a corner. His brother ran to his aid, trying to make what was possible for him to easy the other´s pain. "It hurts, Pops. It´s like my skin is on fire"

"Marco was hurt when we escaped from those men" pointed Tatch.

"What are you talking about, yoi? I have no injury, look" Marco raised his trousers were a cut was made by the sword. It was true, the skin was completely unscratched. "He didn´t touch my leg, don´t worry"

"But I saw…" begin the chef. Then something burst into the room and Marco was thrown by the force of the explosion through the window. He closed his eyes, but opened them again when he realized that he wasn´t falling. In midair, he looked at himself using one of the windows as a mirror. He was a big blue bird now. He opened his mouth to scream, only to realize that he couldn´t speak, only make a bird like noise. He snapped out of it and went to help his family, moving his wings much like the birds he has seen, only to find that they had everything under control… but something strange was happening.

"What the hell yoi?" he asked when his body finally returned to it´s original form.

"No idea" answered Izo, getting up.

-After the invasion finished-

"Do we really have to go to Raftel now?" asked Ace, putting on his jacket, something he despised, just because it was cold. "I had a…"

"It´s necessary" said Garp, shutting him up. Quickly all of them got into the boat that will ferry them to the hidden island. Ace looked back once and sighed. He didn´t know what he could do now or to explain that he didn´t have a choice.

"Well… it´s not a big deal or like it was going to work" he tried to convince himself. "After all… rich and spoiled kids always are bound to be more scared of my bad manners than all the others together."