Nami's History Revealed! Blue-Shade Pirates vs. Arlong Pirates!
AN: Sorry it took me so long to update, i've been busy over the break, believe it or not.
On to the story. ;)
It's the morning after they left the Baratie; all three of the men were awake and were discussing what they were going to do next.
"So… I don't suppose your going to explain that whole, 'devil-fruit user being able to swim' thing are you?" Sanji said as he and Yosaku walked out of the boat's little cabin.
Nick looked to them and stood up, "Not yet. I'd prefer to tell the whole crew when we catch up with them. That way I don't have to repeat myself. If you don't mind."
"Don't matter much to me." Sanji said as he let out a puff of smoke.
"Wait! He can swim!?" Yosaku asked in complete shock. "Never mind, I don't want to know. Anyway, we are going to be going to a dangerous island. It's being controlled by Arlong."
"You guys hungry?" Sanji asked, completely ignoring Yosaku.
"Yeah. I haven't had spaghetti in a long while. We got the stuff to make that?" Nick also spoke, ignoring Yosaku's question.
"WOULD YOU TWO LISTEN!" Yosaku screamed with razor sharp teeth.
Sanji was quick to set up the food that Nick had requested and they began eating, Nick ate a lot of the spaghetti that Sanji made and spoke. "Calm down. I already know where we're going, and how dangerous it is. We are going to Cocoyasi Village. And as to why it's dangerous, it's under the control of a Fishman pirate named Arlong."
Yosaku was surprised on how informed Nick was on where they were going. "How did you know?"
"Oh crap." Nick thought to himself. He had to be quick or they would be more suspicious. "Nami told me where she was from a few days ago," he lied. "I also learned from a friend of mine that a fishman pirate named Arlong claimed that area of the East Blue." That part he didn't lie.
"Then you know that Arlong himself is stronger than Don Krieg!" Yosaku said.
"What dose it matter, we don't exactly have a problem with him." Nick said as he continued.
"That is if our lovely navigator asked for our help to taking him down." Sanji said as he let out a puff of smoke.
"Well, I hope she doesn't, I'd be suicide to take on Arlong." Yosaku said as he started eating some of the spaghetti.
By this time, Zoro and the others had already caught up with Nami. Usopp tried to stand up to Arlong and was scared away just as the fight started. Zoro had met Hachi, an Octopus type Fishman, who took him to the village after a little mix up that happened in 'Arlong Park'.
As this was all happening; Nick, Sanji, and Yosaku were still sailing for the island and eating their lunch. As they were getting closer, a massive Sea-Cow came up out of the water and looked to the little boat below.
Yosaku was the only one of the three to freak out, Nick was amazed at how big water creatures could be, and Sanji was surprised in a less dramatic way.
The Sea-Cow looked to the food that they had on the table on the boat. Sanji and Nick tried to offer some, but the monster almost ate them whole. In response; Nick punched with his iron fist in the head "IRON-STRETCH PISTOL", while Sanji kicked it in the jaw "COLLIER SHOOT".
The creature fell backwards unconscious, causing a big wave that pushed the little boat towards their destination even faster. "HOLD ONTO SOMETHING!" Nick ordered as they held on while the boat was riding a big wave towards Cocoyasi Village.
Over at Arlong Park, Usopp was captured by the Arlong Pirates and brought to the courtyard. Nami helped Usopp escape by pretending to stab him with a rubber knife that he had in his took bag. After pretending to die, Usopp swam away to keep from being seen.
As Usopp 'died', a fishman, with weird elbow fins, pulled out a map; Nami was in complete shock to see it in his hand. "Hey Nami, This is a worn-out treasure map, right? A map of the island that points to a very special place, like your Berri stash?"
"Where did you get that?" Nami asked, trying her best to hide her shock in her voice.
All the other Fishmen wanted to see the map but Arlong ordered the pirate to give it back to her. Arlong then noticed that Nami had brought a silver and red metal suitcase. "What did you bring with you, Nami?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Something I stole off a pirate. Thought it could be worth a lot of money to you guys." She said as she brought it up to him.
One of the fishmen walked up to the suitcase and inspected it. "It's sealed tight. The outer casing is made of steel. And what's really weird, there are not hinges at the bottom to show how it opens."
"Where did you say you got it from?" asked the fishman with the fin elbows.
"I told you, from a pirate. You wouldn't know him; he doesn't even have a bounty. Whatever it is, he it was important to him." Nami said with irritation in her voice.
"It's heavy, if there's gold in here, there would probably be more than 20,000,000 Berrie's worth in here." Said the pirate who inspected it.
Nami gave a look to Arlong; he raised his hand, "Now don't get your hopes up Nami. We still don't know if that's what's in there. Until we do, you still owe us the amount we agreed."
"Just so long as you keep your word." Nami said as she walked away.
From a far distance, Johnny saw the whole thing. "Usopp is dead? I got to find brother-Zoro!" he said as he stared running towards the village.
Because of the wave that the Sea-Cow made, the boat that Nick and the others wee on was sent flying inland of the island they were heading to. As they were getting closer to the ground, Nick saw Zoro in their path.
With a split second decision, Nick punched the boat they were on straight down causing it to crash just before it could hit Zoro. Which caused the boat to tumble and brake apart. All four men survived the crash, and as Nick was starting to stand up, he got hit over the head with a katana sheath. "THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!"
Nick looked up to Zoro and smiled, "Glad to see your doing better, Zoro."
"So, where are the others?" Sanji asked as he lit a new cigarette.
"I heard Usopp got caught with the Arlong Pirates, we need to hurry befo-" Zoro was explaining before he was interrupted by a shout behind him.
"HE'S DEAD!"
Everyone looked behind Zoro to see Johnny soaked and tears running down his face like a waterfall. "Brother Usopp… was murdered by Sister Nami!"
Nick was about to tell Johnny that she would never do that, but was stopped when he noticed her walking towards them. Nick then saw that Nami had Arlong's jolly roger tattooed on her left shoulder. He never noticed it until now.
"He said you killed Usopp. Is that true?" Nick said with a serious face.
"He was a nuisance, as are all of you." Her face was cold.
"Why would you kill your own crewmate? We all came for you!" Nick sounded irritated.
"Like I would care. And 'crew mates'? Don't make me laugh. It was nothing but a little cooperation." Nami continued with her cold expression on her face.
Sanji tried to flirt from a far distance, Zoro cursed under his breath calling her a 'witch'.
Just as Nick was about to do something stupid, Jarvis interrupted, "Sir… She's lying." Nick stopped. "Her face may show signs of sincerity, but her heart beat is in a fluctuating pattern, that only happens when a person is lying."
At the same time, Johnny was calling her a cold-blooded killer and she brushed it off like she didn't care. Zoro asked her where Usopp was and when she said that he was at the bottom of the ocean he tried to attack her. Sanji stopped him and they both started to get into an argument.
"If you two are going to fight, might as well do is somewhere else." She then looked to Nick who continued to stare at her, his face changed however; instead of anger, it was interest without a smile. "Don't you get it? I only stuck around with you for the money! And now that you don't even have a cent, I couldn't care less about you all!"
Right then Nick remembered that she still had his suitcase, "By the way, WHERE THE HELL IS MY SUITCASE!"
In slight fear of him, she took a step back when he yelled. "It's with Arlong, you'll never see it again."
"That part was the true." Jarvis said.
Nick's fists started to grip really hard, "Sir, I suggest we stay on the island. Arlong lives here, it's not like he will be taking the suitcase anywhere any time soon. Plus, if we learn more about the village, I might be able to fix the data on her."
Nick's fists released, and he took a deep breath, "You know what… I'm tired… I'm sleepy, so if anyone needs me, I'll be under that tree asleep." Nick said as he walked over to the tree. He laid flat on his back under the shade, put his hat over his face and put his hand behind his head.
"FINE, DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT! YOU CAN DIE FOR ALL I CARE!" Nami screamed as she stormed off.
Johnny and Yosaku headed into town after Zoro told them to get some food for the rest of them. While this was happening, Nick was talking to Jarvis quietly under his hat.
"What can you tell me about the Arlong pirates?" Nick whispered.
"Arlong himself is the captain, he is a Sawshark-type fishman; his bounty is 20,000,000 berries. Three of his strongest are: Hachi, an Octopus-type fishman, Kuroobi, an Rayfish-type fishman, and Chuu, a Japanese whiting fish-type fishman."
"Man, there's a wider variety of fishmen than I thought." Nick said as he heard what sounded like Usopp screaming and was suddenly interrupted.
Nick sat up and moved his hat to see Usopp on the ground with burses on his face. Nick ran over to him and lifted him up, "What the hell happened?"
Sanji closed his eye and put his hand behind his head, "That was us, sorry."
Usopp slowly came to and started to threaten both Sanji and Zoro. Usopp then told the others about how Nami faked his death in front of Arlong and his crew. Then a woman with blue hair walked up to them, "Please, don't get involved. No matter what you do you won't be able to change Arlong's rule over this island."
"Who's she?" Nick asked.
"Nami's sister, Nojiko." Usopp answered.
"I'll tell you all about how things got this way, so in return, I want you to just leave quickly." She said.
She then led them to her home and told them the story of how Bellemere became their mother and Nami and Nojiko became sisters. She then talked about how Arlong took the island. Nick already knew the story, but it was different this time hearing it from an eye witness stand point. She said that Bellemere paid for Nami and Nojiko's freedom from Arlong, but couldn't pay for herself. That was when Nojiko told them that Arlong killed Bellemere. What caught Nick's attention the most was when she said that they saw her die.
"Wait. He killed her, right in front of both of you?" Nick said with a sad and slight angry voice.
She nodded to his question.
Right then, Nick wasn't in the house anymore, he was in an alleyway. The alleyway was dark, some light but it wasn't much. The ground was wet; a lot of puddles of water were on the ground. He looked to the sky expecting stars but only saw dark clouds and thunder. He then looked down to see a woman on the ground, Nick then ran to her.
She looked like she was around 20 to 30 years old. Her hair was long brown and curly. She lifted her head to Nick and smiled. Her eyes were blue and filled with tears. She had some bruises on her face; some blood was dripping down her mouth, as if she had just been in a fight. She opened her mouth to speak and put a hand on Nick's face.
"My brave, soldier. Don't be afraid." She said with a weak voice and trying her best to keep her smile on her face.
Because Nick was so upset and afraid, he could only utter one word. "Mommy."
The Nick at this moment wasn't the 28 years old that we all know… he was 4 years old.
She pulled off her necklace with the cross on it and put it around Nick's neck and kissed him on the forehead.
Nick woke up from his sudden flash back and was back in Nojiko's house.
"Sir, your heart rate just jumped for a few seconds. Are you ok?" Jarvis asked with a concerned voice.
"She knows… She knows the pain," was the only thing that was running though his while Nojiko continued the story.
Nojiko continued the story and told them that not only is Nami stealing money to buy the town away from Arlong, but she also makes map charts for him.
They heard a ruckus outside and saw that some Marines were searching the house. Nick and his crew were forced out of the house while they were investigating. A Marine captain with whiskers claimed that all the money that Nami stole was to be confiscated. Nami had arrived to try and stop them but was stopped by a man who had a pinwheel on his hat, Gen.
The Marine captain ordered to check in the orange tree field, the soldiers found something. They found a bag that was full with enough gold and jewels that would equal 10,000,000 Berries. Nami noticed that the Marine captain knew how much was in the bag before he opened it.
"WAS THIS ALL ARLONG'S IDEA!?" Nami yelled
The Marine captain laughed, "I wouldn't go that far… as workers of the government, we're only doing our natural duty of persecuting thieves…"
Just as Nojiko and Gen called him out on his corruption, the captain ordered the soldiers to shoot them. Nojiko was shot in the belly area, while Nami and Gen were grazed by the shots.
"It is a good thing that these marines are not very good marksman." Jarvis said.
Nick couldn't do anything because they had told him to stay out of it. But if it weren't for that, he would have stopped them before they even had a chance to fire.
Nami and Gen went to Nojiko to help her. Nick walked over to them and Jarvis scanned Nojiko's wound, "She's lucky, the bullet through the body but didn't hit anything vital. It was a clean shot."
"She's going to be ok. Just stop the bleeding and she'll be fine." Nick said.
Nami turned around to see Nick; she looked mad, "Why are you still here?"
"Nami, I can help. But I can't unless you ask." Nick said while sounding irritated.
Nami grabbed Nick by the collar, "THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU! SO JUST GET THE HELL OFF THIS ISLAND!" She then pushed him away and ran towards Arlong park.
As she was running away, Jarvis talked to Nick, "Sir, why are you waiting for to ask for your help? You helped Sanji and he didn't ask for it."
"Because she told me to stay out of it. Sanji didn't. If I did without her asking, she would think it would be out of pity." Nick said with a somewhat sad look on his face.
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Nick was walking though town again, the rest of the crew behind him. The all sat down at a beach house, Nick decided to 'sleep' again.
"Sir, I have finally uncorrupted the data on Nami!" Jarvis said.
"How?" Nick asked, with slight shock in his whisper.
"After Nojiko told us the story on how Nami also works for Arlong as a mapmaker, I was able to discover more information. It would appear that, in this time, Arlong built a small empire in the East Blue because he knew the best roots through the East Blue better than anyone. It was because he had Nami make the maps and charts for him as she stole from people all around the East Blue. It says that Nami's village decided to attack Arlong because he went back on his word to free them under Nami's agreement. I believe we just witnessed that a few minutes ago."
"What happens to them?" Nick sounded nervous when he asked that question.
"The villagers were all but whipped out. When they attacked, Nami committed suicide out of grief of failing them." Jarvis then sounded sad.
Right then Nick stood right up in a heartbeat. "WE NEED TO GET TO NAMI, NOW!"
All the rest of the crew jumped when he screamed, Nick ran off and looked around. Jarvis scanned the immediate area for her; he detected what sounded like screaming. "Sir, go this way!"
Jarvis put an arrow on Nick's HUD, Nick quickly turned to the arrow and found Nami. She was stabbing her left shoulder with the tattoo while screaming, "ARLONG! ARLONG! ARLONG!"
Nick then saw that the blade looked like it was going to head for her chest and he sprinted towards her. He grabbed the blade with an iron hand and stopped it just short of her chest.
She looked up to see Nick standing over her while holding the knife's blade. "Nick…" She then let go of the blade, and Nick through it away. "What do you want? You don't know anything about this; you don't know what's been happening on this island for the past 8 years." Her voice was crackled from crying a few minutes ago.
"Actually, I do." Nick said, trying his best not to sound like a now-it-all.
"Then you know that this has nothing to do with you." She started to sound angry and claw at the ground. "I told you to leave this place."
"I heard you the first time." This time he sounded annoyed somewhat.
She then started scratching some dirt towards his feet while shouting, "SO LEAVE! I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE! GET OUT OF HERE! GET OUT OF HERE NOW! GO! GO AWAY! GO! GO! Go…!" Her shouts slowly died down and she stopped tossing dirt.
She started to cry again, she put her hand over her mouth to try and stop it but it was no use. She cried a little bit more and took a deep breath, "Nick… help me." At the angle she was sitting she could see his eyes, and she looked directly at them with fear in her own.
"Normally I would give her a hug to tell her that everything would be alright, but that would make me look like I was pitying her. She wouldn't want that, that's not even what she needs right now." He then thought back to when he cried this much: when his mother was dying, when Shanks was leaving the East Blue. "She doesn't need pity, she needs hope."
Right then, Nick took off his fedora and put it on her head, "All you had to do… was ask." Nick then turned towards the direction of Arlong park, "That fish-stick-prick is going to pay for what he's done." He said with an angry voice.
Nami then thought back to when Buggy was making fun of his hat and Nick beat him up for it. "He gave me his hat?" She thought as more tears welled up in her eyes. "Nick…"
As Nick was walking, he passed his crew. "Lets do this," he said with a serious voice.
"Right." All three of the crewmen said in unison.
As they were walking, Nick explained how they were going to take them down effectively: Zoro would fight the octopus-type fishman, Sanji would fight the rayfish-type, Usopp would take on the whiting fish-type, and leaving Arlong to Nick.
As this was happening, Johnny and Yosaku were sitting at the door to Arlong Park, preventing the villagers from attacking. They looked like they were just in a fight, they were all scratched up and bruised.
Gen was the first to speak, "Did Arlong and his crew do this to you? Move aside. We have business to take care of with them."
Johnny lifted his head and spoke, " When we learned the truth about Sister-Nami, we decided to take on Arlong ourselves."
Yosaku then spoke, "But then we lost, it was close," he tried to sound hopeful.
"I'm sorry, but we can't let any of you into this gate. There's no way any of you could win." Johnny said.
"What did you say?!" Gen asked, he sounded annoyed and angry.
"Please, just wait a while. We're waiting for some friends of ours to show up." Yosaku said.
"What 'friends of yours'?"
"Don't worry, they're coming. I just know it." Yosaku said, trying to reassure them.
Nick and the crew just arrived right behind the crowd; Yosaku was the fist to spot them. "There they are!"
Everyone turned to see Nick and his crew walking up to them, they were shoulder-to-shoulder.
"It's them." Nojiko said in disbaleif.
Gen was the most surprised, "Why would they come to fight for us?"
"If those men can't beat Arlong and his crew, then no hope. Not just for this island, but for the whole East Blue." Yosaku said.
"Those are the faces of the men who are here to change your destiny. Burn their images into your memory." Johnny said.
(AN: The funny thing is, he couldn't be more right.)
As they got closer, Nick spoke, "Excuse us."
In Arlong Park, Arlong was laughing. He turned to Kuroobi, "Hey, do you think those two idiots from earlier were a part of Zoro's little crew?"
Kuroobi looked disappointed, "Zoro? No way, they seam too weak to be apart of his crew. They weren't even worth killing."
"That's for sure. HAHAHA!" Arlong said as he continued laughing.
His laughing was halted when a loud smashing sound happened near the main gate. The crew of fishmen all looked to see big dents in the gate. Another crashing sound happened and the gate broke to pieces. When the dust settled, it reviled Nick standing in the center of it; he was in a stance that looked like he punched the door.
Arlong was surprised at the sight of a human breaking his door. "What the…?"
Nick then straightened his stance and looked around with a cold look on his face. "Now… which one of you is Arlong?"
All the other men looked somewhat nervous at the sight of someone breaking the gate all on his own. Arlong, however, was somewhat amused, "Arlong...? That would be me."
"My name is Nick." He said as he started walking towards Arlong.
"'Nick'? I see… and just what the hell are you?" Arlong asked sounding irritated.
Two of Arlong's men tried to get between Nick and Arlong, but were quickly knocked out when he grabbed the both of them and knocked their heads together, hard. "Your in my way."
"What do you want with me?" Arlong asked.
Right then, Nick sprinted forward and punched him with an iron fist at full speed. At the point of impact, Arlong was launched 40 feet away and hit the opposite wall of the park. "That was for killing Nami's mother in front of her."
"WHY YOU!" "HOW DARE YOU…!" Some of the other fishmen tried to attack Nick but were quickly knocked away by Sanji's kicks and Usopp's shots.
"Jeez… Running in head-first alone like that." Sanji said as he let out a puff of smoke.
"Just stick to the plan, I can handle him."
"Dumbass! When did I ever say I was worried about you? I meant don't try to hog all the glory to yourself." Sanji exclaimed.
"I d-don't particularly mind either w-w-way, Nick." Usopp said while stuttering with fear.
"Ain't you gutsy?" Zoro said towards Usopp.
Hachi and Kuroobi both noticed that Zoro was with them. Hachi in particular was mad the most, saying something about Zoro tricking him into giving him a ride. He then cupped his extended mouth and shouted, "COME OUT, BEAST!"
The water in the bay of Arlong Park started to rise and what came out was a massive Sea-cow. Nick and Sanji noticed that it was the exact same one that tried to eat them not too long ago. They could tell because it had a bruise on its forehead and chin form their attacks.
The Sea-cow looked down to see Nick and Sanji looking at him. It then tried to swim away, until Arlong ordered it to attack; he looked infuriated. It then turned around and looked angry and tried to attack Nick and his crew.
Usopp screamed while everyone else was getting ready. Nick grabbed Sanji's shoulder, "Kick me at him, I have an idea."
Sanji then smiled, he moved his right leg back and kicked Nick in the back. Nick made his back rubber so that Sanji's kick wouldn't hurt either of them. As he was flying at the Sea-cow he shot his right leg left and made is foot iron. "IRON-STETCH WHIP!"
Nick's attack then caused the Sea-cow to go off course and crash into Arlong's crew and part of the main building. Hachi, Kuroobi, and Chuu all pushed the Sea-cow a few feet away from the main building before they all faced Nick's crew.
Nick himself, landed in the water and swam to shore. He ran back to the rest of his crew.
"That was a pretty cool move you did there. I didn't know you could swim." Zoro said while reading his sword.
"It's a long story for another time." Nick said with a playful voice.
"How dare you do that to my friend!" Hachi yelled.
Kuroobi and Chuu walked up side by side with him. Kuroobi turned to face Arlong, who was still in the wall after Nick punched him. "Let us deal with these pests, Arlong."
"If we let you fight while that much enraged, all of Arlong Park will end up destroyed." Chuu said.
"Take this!" Hachi said as he took a deep breath. "TAKO-HACHI BLACK!" Hachi yelled as he spat a lot of black ink from his mouth.
Everyone dogged his attack, however, some of the ink got passed Nick's glasses and got in his eyes. He tried to wipe them, while being oblivious to Hachi holding a large plate of concrete over him, in an attempt to smash Nick. The plate was shattered before it hit Nick.
Sanji was standing there with his foot straight up in the air right next to Nick, "Jeeze, looks like I chose to follow a dumbass for a captain."
"My feelings exactly." Zoro said.
"Hey! He's great!" Usopp said.
"But it's still 100 times better than being in a pirate crew that would harm a lady." Sanji said with a smile.
Kuroobi was surprised at how Sanji was able to break the plate with ease, "For a human, you're not half-bad. But a pirate going around spouting chivalrous lines? How half-assed…"
Right then Usopp fired at Chuu, "FLAME STAR!" Chuu took the hit directly, but still remained standing. He gave Usopp an extremely angry look.
Usopp realized that it would take more than just one shot from his best attack to take him down, so he ran away. Chuu chased after him with intentions to kill him.
Arlong walked up behind Kuroobi and Hachi. "Arlong, I've already asked you to not fight."
Arlong laughed a little and walked towards Nick, "Don't worry, it wont last long."
Arlong charges at Nick, while at the same time, Nick ties a whip but was caught by Arlong. Arlong then through Nick into the water and jumped in after him, leaving Zoro and Sanji alone to face the other two fishmen as planned.
At the bottom of the water, Nick was trying his best to stake awake. The water may not pull him down like any other devil-fruit eater, but it can make him just as week if he stays in too long, or goes too deep.
Using his normal strength he did what he could to fight Arlong, but he was too fast, every punch he tried to do would be either dogged or caught by him. Arlong then slammed Nick into the wall of rock below and was then buried by the rock, leaving his head sticking out. Arlong then went back up to the surface to watch the fight above.
Zoro and Sanji were facing their opponents. Zoro, with his green bandana on and using Yosaku and Johnny's swords, took on Hachi, who had six swords. While at the same time, Sanji was fighting Kuroobi.
The fight between Zoro and Hachi was happening at a fast pace. Hachi was fast, but Zoro was able to block most of his moves, even in the current state he was in. Hachi moved all his swords in a stabbing position, where all the tips of the swords were touching. Zoro on the other hand, made a different stance than he usually does.
While at the same time, Kuroobi was fighting Sanji with what he calls, 'Fishmen karate'. He even managed to knock Sanji down a few times. Sanji may have been getting beat up pretty bad, but he managed to get back up all the same.
"Take this! SIX SWORD STYLE OCTOPUS POT STANCE NEW YEAR'S!" Hachi shouted as he charged Zoro with his 'spear like' attack. Zoro then acted with his new technique and charged, "Demon… SLASH!" At the point of their swords impacting, all six of Hachi's swords shattered like glass. "Now do you understand the difference in the weight of our swords? I hope you're satisfied, octopus."
Hachi backed up in shock, and then charged at him again with his fists. Zoro was quick to counterattack, "TATSU…" "TAKOYAKI PUNCH!" "MAKI!" Zoro's attack caused Hachi to go flying into the air with cuts all along his chest and belly.
Kuroobi was caught off guard that Hachi lost to a human. Zoro sat down, due to the fact that he was still wounded by Mihawk and exhausted by the fight. Kuroobi tried to attack Zoro while he was down but was stopped by Sanji. "You sure did punch me back pretty far. But it'll take more than that to keep me down."
Sanji then dove into the water to help Nick in any way he could, and saw that his head was extended to the surface. He saw Gen at the bottom trying to lift the rocks off Nick's body while Nojiko was holding his head above the water.
Kuroobi attacked Sanji from behind, causing him to lose some of his breath. "ARM BLADE SLASH!" Kuroobi continued to attack Sanji, and whenever Sanji tried to attack him, he either missed or his attack didn't hurt him.
"It's the water, my kicks aren't as powerful down here." Sanji realized too late. Kuroobi continued to attack Sanji, causing him to lose more and more of his breathe.
Kuroobi then tried to hold Sanji down until he drowned and was caught off guard when Sanji grabbed him and blew air into his gills. Kuroobi then let go immediately due to the pain of what Sanji was doing.
With his chance, Sanji swam up to the top and let out a large gasp for air. He then climbed up to the park and walked up to the kneeling Zoro before him. He then faced the water with an intense and angry face, "GET THE HELL BACK UP HERE, YOU DAMN FISH! IT'S TIME I KILL YOU!"
Kuroobi did as Sanji said and tried to gloat until Sanji stopped him with a lot of kicks. "COULLIER!" He kicked him in the face. "EPAULE!" Kicked him to the ground. "COTELETTE! SELLE!" He kicked him in the chest and the legs as he was getting back up. "What did you say you would take from me?" He then kicked him in the left leg. "GIGOT!" kicked him in the right leg. "POITRINE!" kicked him in the chest.
Just as Kuroobi was about to attack, Sanji finished him off, "MUTTON SHOT!" He kicked him so hard that he went throught the main building in the park and out the other side. Once he was sure of it, he face Arlong, "He won't be coming back."
"SIR! Please wake up! Now's not the time to be sleeping!" Jarvis said thought the glasses that were still on Nick's face.
Nick opened his eyes to see that his head was above water, and felt that his body was below. "What the?"
"Hold on, I think he's almost got you free." Nick heard a voice above him; he looked to see Nami's sister holding his head above water.
Nick felt around to see if his body was free, he felt some freedom in his arms, and then made a fist. "No more playing around." He smashed the rocks with his normal fists below the water.
Gen was shocked to see that Nick could break boulders with ease. Nick's body was then being pulled up like a slingshot.
"You might want to let go." He said to Nojiko before his body reached the surface.
Nick was then launched upward and then landed back in the main center of the park. He looked around and saw Hachi on the ground unconscious, Zoro kneeling with blood in his mouth, Sanji behind him with a slight smile that has a little bit of blood dripping from it, and Arlong standing there with slight shock in his eyes. "I see that I've come at a good time."
"Yeah, no kidding." Zoro said as Sanji helped him up and walked him towards the main gate, knowing what was going to go down.
Nick looked to Arlong, "Shall we?"
Not far from Arlong park, Nami was patching up her shoulder from her self-inflicted knife wounds. Once she got the knot around her wound made, Nick's hat fell off her head. She reached for it and saw that there was something tucked inside it, it looked like paper. She pulled it out and unfolded it.
The paper was a wanted poster. The picture had a little girl, looking to be 8 or 9 years old. The name said "Nico Robin" and the bounty was 79,000,000 berries. She then noticed the the date the picture was taken, "This picture is 20 years old. Who ever she is, she must be important to him."
She then saw Usopp running past the house, he was covered in scratches and bruises. He saw her and ran up to her. "Nami, are you ok?"
"I'm fine, what happened to you?" She asked while looking at the wounds Usopp had.
"I kicked a fishman's ass." He said with a smile while holding a metal hammer. "Come on, we need to get back to the park, I think Nick is fighting Arlong."
They both ran up to the main gate to fine the rest of the villagers watching the fight.
Nick was doing what he could to fight Arlong, but his left leg was weak. He looked down and Jarvis scanned it, "You still haven't recovered from your fight with Don Krieg yet, sir."
Nick had to think fast; he looked down and saw some swords that were on the ground from the fishmen that were knocked out from before. He the charged at Arlong while swinging them, there was some technique to his attacks, but they were sloppy.
"Nick is a swordsman?" Nami asked in surprise.
Arlong bit one of the swords and snapped it in two. "Just because you can swing swords around doesn't make you a swordsman, you little-"
Nick cut him off as he upper cut him with an iron fist. Arlong backed up a little bit from the shock of being hit with that much force.
Nick waited until Arlong was looking to him again, "I know. I don't know much about sword-play. I'm not much of a navigator. I can't cook. Not exactly that good at lying either."
"Hey." Usopp said.
"But that's why I need my crew, and my own strengths are why they need me." Nick said with a content face.
A light shined in his face, he looked to see where it was coming from and saw that it was sun reflected off the metal suitcase. "Speaking of which." "Jarvis start it up." He said.
Nick saw that Sanji was not far from the suit, "SANJI! KICK THAT SUITCASE TO ME!" Nick yelled across the park.
Sanji looked down to see the case in the rubble of the hole he made when he kicked Kuroobi. "Maybe he has something there that can help."
Arlong then charged at Nick trying to bite him. Sanji acted fast and kicked the case as if it was a kick ball. Nick managed to dodge Arlong's attack but when the suitcase came at him it passed him. He turned around sharply and dodged another attack from Arlong and ran for the suitcase.
"JARVIS NOW!" He shouted as he reached the suitcase.
(AN: I've been waiting months to post this. :) )
Right then the suit case opened up slightly and opened a little hole at the bottom of it. Nick stuck his foot in the hole and metal plates rapped around it. The case then opened even more and rapped around the other leg. The handle bar split down he middle and moved apart. Nick grabbed the handle bars, turned them slightly and pushed down on them as metal plates rapped around his arms. He then lifted the case up and pushed it against his chest, after doing so, metal plates rapped around his body and back. He extended his arms out as metal plates folded over his skin and closed up. His legs were also covered by the same kind of plates. He opened his hands that were in a metal glove to reveal a light in the balm. His chest plates folded down and a light shined in the center of his chest. Metal plates then moved up his neck and rapped around his head, the plates all converge on his glasses and made the lenses into 'eyes' for the helmet.
Everyone looked in complete shock at what just happened. Arlong didn't understand however, he raised an eyebrow and gave a slight arrogant smile. "What the hell is that supposed to do? Make you stronger?"
Nick looked to him, then to the Sea-cow that was still beached on the land behind him. He walked up to it and rested his right foot on it, and then pushed it back into the sea with ease. As the cow was engulfed by the water, Nick turned his head back to Arlong, "You tell me."
Everyone at the main gate was frozen, even Sanji was stunned. Nami then realized something, "That is why his suitcase was so important to him. It wasn't treasure he was hiding, it was a weapon."
Arlong charged at Nick and was stunned when he was punched in the face. He was hit so hard that his teeth shattered like glass. Everyone at the gate started to cheer for Nick.
Arlong's mouth then popped out a new set of teeth, "I am a shark after all. My teeth will grow back ever time. and these new ones are always stronger than the last!" He then removed his teeth. "No matter..." pulled out another set. "How many times!" and another. "This is the gift bestowed to me by the heavens." He held his pulled teeth in his hands like they were pinchers. "Now do you realize, just how much superior fishmen are?"
He charged at Nick, "TOOTH GUM!" Nick blocked it with his right arm and to his surprise it pierced some of the plates, Nick saw drops of blood coming out; even with his arm as hard as iron on the inside, it still pierced his skin.
Nick then opened up his left hand at Arlong's chest, "REPULSER!" Arlong let go of Nick's right arm and backed a few steps.
"Sir, that did little damage to him. His skin is harder than I originally predicted." Jarvis said.
Nick then fired multiple shots and still Arlong stood his ground. Arlong then charged at Nick and then through him towards the water again.
"Oh not again." Sanji said as he put his hand over his eye in disappointment.
But to his surprise there was no splash, he looked to see that Nick wasn't in the water, he was flying. Little fires were shooting down from his feet and hands, keeping him above the water.
"That's not going to work the same way twice." Nick said.
Arlong then jumped into the water and swam deep until no one could see him anymore. Nick looked like he was about to go in until he stopped.
"Sir, i highly suggest not doing that, you'll be in his domain." Jarvis said.
"But he doesn't know how the suit works, he'll underestimate it." Nick argued.
"Sir, this suit is not designed to fight under water, the oxygen tank will only last two minutes."
"I'm done just waiting around, I'm taking the fight to him now!"
Nick dove into the water, a small count down timer popped up on his HUD. Starting at 2 minutes and counted down.
"Please do not talk, sir, you'll waist air that way. I already pulled up Arlong's file, the closest person I have in my database like him is Attuma. He was an Atlantian who has similar powers to the fishmen that we've seen. Super strength, breathing underwater, tough skin... The only weakness that he had was that he was weaker on land than in the water. If you want to win this fight, get him out of the water."
(AN: Before you all ask, "Who's Attuma?" He was a villain in the "Avengers Assembled" show. He reminded me of Arlong, some what.)
Nick looked around with his visor set to inferred, given that night-vison doesn't work underwater. Then a fast moving object slashed across Nick's left side. He looked down that what ever it was, it cut through the armor and gashed his body. He put his hand over it and dodged the object again.
"It's Arlong. He is propelling himself like a torpedo down here. Maybe we can use this." Jarvis said as he set up an arrow on Nick's HUD. "Go over here, turn around and be ready to catch him. When you do, fly straight up."
One minute remaining on the clock, Nick moved to the position Jarvis suggested, and turned around. When he looked out in front of him he saw something coming fast. It was Arlong. Nick moved his hands in front of him, getting ready to catch him. Arlong then got close enough and Nick grabbed him and blasted his thrusters upward and they ended up at the center of Arlong Park.
Nick then through Arlong at the six-story building and landed. He pulled off the helmet, leaving his glasses on and spat out seawater. He coughed a few times, "Nice call, Jarvis."
Nami heard that, "He's talking to that Jarvis guy? But where is his snail?"
Arlong charged at Nick again with his torpedo attack, but this time it was slower so he was able to kick him to the ground, hard. Arlong got back up, his eyes were elongated similar to a cat's but even the iris was stretched.
"Thats the kind of eyes a Sea-king makes when they get angry." Sanji said with slight worry in his voice.
"HOW DARE AN INFERIOR HUMAN..." He grabbed Nick from the leg. "DO THIS..." Through Nick at the building. "TO ME, A FISHMAN!?" Nick crashed into the building as rubble landed off him.
He was able to pushed the rubble off him with ease, "Well, that pissed him off." He said as he dodged a hand strike from Arlong and flew above him. Arlong then pulled out a massive weapon that had what looked like teeth like a saw.
"It's 'Kiribachi'!" Nami yelled.
Nick then flew above Arlong as he continually tried to slash him with it, this continued all the way up the building until Nick was hit and knocked into one of the windows. When he landed he looked around to find all kinds of charts and maps inside. Some where even hanging on string. "Where are we? Some kind of map room?"
Arlong huffed at that question. "These aren't just any ordinary maps. These are all the maps that Nami spent 8 years making. For us fishmen, obtaining data about the sea is simple. But using that data to draw maps is another matter. even if you search the whole world, you won't find someone who can draw maps a accurate as these... That girl is a genius." He gave a devious smile with blood dripping down his mouth.
Nick then stood up and saw the table where the maps were made, he lowered his head and closed his eyes. Arlong continued his monologue, "There is nothing more tragic than to waste those god-given talents that she possesses!"
Nick looked and saw that some of the pens on the table were covered in dry blood. "For Nami, there is no better happiness than to stay here and continue drawing maps! For the sake of my ambition, that is!" Arlong positioned his saw to have Nick's neck between two of the teeth. "Once we fishmen learn everything there is to know about the seas from her maps, we shall be invincible! I will build an empire where fishmen will reign as the true superiors to the humans! And this island, and the East Blue of course, will be the start. DO YOU THINK YOU CAN USE HER MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN I!?"
Nick grabbed grabbed the saw blade in front of him, Arlong noticed that he couldn't move the weapon at all after he grabbed it. "USE?!" Nick said with an angry voice as he shattered the saw blade like glass.
"My Kiribachi!" Arlong was stunned by Nick's strength, now that he was wearing that suit.
"What the hell do you think she is?" Nick asked with his eyes shooting though his glasses at Arlong.
"It doesn't matter what I tell you, I own her, it just as simple as that. And I will always own her, that's just how this world works." He said with an arrogant smile.
Nick then blasted the desk with both his hand repulsers. Everyone outside was caught off guard at the sight of a desk being shot outside and obliterated. Nami saw it before it exploded. "Nick..."
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" Arlong yelled as Nick continued to blast the walls of paper.
Arlong tried to stop him, but Nick dodged every slash; some slashes even hit some of the stacks of paper in the room. "This room isn't a map room, it's a prison." Nick shouted as he continued.
Arlong caught him off guard when he grabbed Nick, turned him around and bit him on the neck. Luckily, Nick made his neck iron in time to help prevent Arlong's teeth from going too deep. "I don't care if your a fishman, or a human." Nick reached behind him and grabbed Arlong's razor-nose. "NO ONE SHOULD BE OWNED BY ANYBODY!" He then snapped the nose.
Arlong let go as he cried at the pain, Nick then had somewhat the same look in his eye that Arlong had a few minutes ago. "The only way to free her its to erase this place completely." he said with a cold and scary voice.
Nick then launched his foot up, even the armor around his leg stretched with it. His foot broke through the ceiling and broke through all the other top floors and a few feet higher than the roof. "IRON-STRETCH...!"
(AN: The reason why the armor can stretch too is the same reason why Devil-fruit user's clothing changes with them when they use their powers. Just so you know.)
"Don't get cocky! I won't let you destroy my life's work so easily!" Arlon shouted as he fixed his nose and charged at Nick again. "SHARK ON TOOTH!"
Nick's foot then retracted fast, "REPULSER BATTLE-AXE!" He landed his foot against Arlong's back; when his foot hit him, it slammed him into the ground and when the repulser fired, he was sent straight down through all the floors below. The resulting shockwave from both impacts caused the entire building to collapse in on itself.
Everyone watched in complete shock and terror as the building collapse before their eyes. "NICK!" Nami, Sanji, Usopp, Johnny and Yosaku all shouted at once when the building came down.
Just when they were all losing hope, a blast came out from the wreckage and what came out was Nick, his armor was scratched and broken on most parts of his body. Blood was seen dripping down from his hands through the armor. He was panting.
Everyone started to smile at the sight of Nick standing over the scrap yard that was once a symbol of fear to the villagers.
"NAMI!" Everyone heard Nick shout form the top of the wreckage.
She looked up with a surprised look on her face.
"YOU WILL ALWAYS... BE MY FRIEND!" He finished as he fell to his knees.
Nami started to cry a little, "Yeah..."
All the other villagers started to cheer Nick and his crew and thanked them for freeing them of Arlong and his gang.
"Congratulations, sir. You just saved the East Blue."
Nick couldn't help but smile, then he started to laugh slightly.
"THAT'S ENOUGH CELEBRATING!"
Everyone looked to see the same Marine captain, that stole from Nami and worked for Arlong, behind them with some of his soldiers. "I never would have guessed that a bunch of no-named pirates could actually take down Arlong and his crew. But thanks to you, I now can keep the same money I would have given to Arlong, along with all the riches of Arlong park, now belong to me, Captain Nezumi!"
Just as he was about to continue gloating and ordering the villagers to drop their weapons, Zoro appeared behind him and grabbed him by the neck.
Nick watched from afar and smiled.
"It ain't nice to be such a wet blanket, when people are busy celebrating." he said as he and Sanji beat the crap out of the caption and all the other Marine soldiers that worked for him.
Losing the ability to stay awake, Nick fell forward and tumbled to the bottom of the collated building and fell asleep. The rest of the crew looked at the sight and couldn't help but smile.
Nami walked up to the Nezumi, who was still conscious. She held her metal poll, "This is for shooting Nojiko and for defiling Bellemer's tangerine fields." and then swung it against his face.
After that, Nami told the captain to leave the island and never return, with Zoro and Sanji backing her up. All the marines fled with their tails between their legs.
Once they were gone, the crew all looked to their captain. "He's got a lot of explaining to do." Zoro said.
"He said he would. But I guess that'll have to wait until he wakes up." Sanji said as he lit a new cigarette.
Nami walked up to her resting captain and placed his hat back on his head. "Thank you."
TO BE CONTINUED!
On the next 'Marvels of One Piece', 'Nick reveals his secrets! Untimely family reunion!' I'm going to be King of the Pirates
AN: OH MY GOD! Longest Chapter YET!
You don't know how long I've waited to post this part of the story.
I'm sorry that I haven't posted sooner, I've just been constantly distracted with stuff.
Even on brake I still have to do stuff.
I'll try my best to update again soon.
R&R!