Chapter 4: Supernovas encounter
In no time, the auction house went into chaos. The eldest of the Tenryuubito grabbed his own gun and pointed it towards Luffy and Sanji was the fastest to react by kicking the weapon out of the man's hand.
While the cook took care of the remaining, Franky hurried to Caimie so they could set her free. The World Nobles' bodyguards shouted for someone to call on the Marines and other guards were showing up insistently to get rid of them.
"I see that you scum are trying to defy us to the very end!"
"Caimie's not a 'thing' you can sell!" Luffy shouted out of anger.
"Call an Admiral and his battleships! Let them put these low-lives in their place!"
"Get down!" Zoro warned. "Sanjuuroku Pondo Hou!" The attack flew past his crew mates and made a clean cut on the fish tank where Caimie was trapped.
"Are you trying to kill us!" Nami shouted at the swordsman.
"Caimie, stay right there, we're coming!" Hachi yelled.
"Thank you, Hacchin!"
Right then another hoard of Flying Fish Riders smashed into the building leaving Robin, Brook and Usopp with the rest of the Straw Hats.
"Good luck out there!"
"Be careful!"
"Thank you!"
"Out you go!"
"You know, I never said I was able to fly!" Usopp yelped as he was thrown out of the Flying Fish.
For good or bad, Usopp ended up landing on one of the Tenryuubito. "Ah, sorry, old man!"
"These pirates don't know when to quit!"
"Usopp, Robin, Brook!" Luffy exclaimed with relief.
"Clutch!"
"Luffy, where's Caimie?" Usopp asked.
"Over there! We're getting outta here as soon as we get that collar-bomb out of her neck. There's battleships and an Admiral on their way!"
"I see… Oi! What was that…?!" the sniper asked in alarm.
"Oh. Trust me, Straw Hat-ya, the Marines are already here." A man said calmly. "If you're worried about the Marines, they've been here all along. Since the auction began, that's it."
"What? Seriously?"
"After all, the Marine Headquarters do have a post on this archipelago." Law smiled. "But I doubt they thought someone would actually touch any Tenryuubito."
"Oh. You're Trafalgar Law. Luffy, that's a pirate," Robin said as a matter of fact. Well, it wasn't like the raven-haired boy didn't know him. Back on his time they were… friends? Not exactly but they weren't enemies anymore either.
"You've put quite a show, you and your crew," Law laughed.
"Caimie!"
Luffy turned around and as he was about to unleash his Haoushoku haki, someone else did, as the remaining Tenryuubito fainted. Who…? Rayleigh! It was the old man!
"See? What'd I tell you, Giant-kun? The place is in total chaos."
"R-Rayleigh!" Hachi exclaimed in surprise.
"Huh? The coating engineer? Who?"
"Oh! Why if it isn't Hachi! That's you, isn't it? It's been a while!" Rayleigh exclaimed with pleasure. "What are you doing in a place like this and with all those wounds?" As he turned he saw Caimie. "Oh, don't worry. No need to explain."
Rayleigh looked carefully at the situation at hand and nodded once.
"I see. You got yourself in some big trouble, huh, Hachi? And you guys saved him, right? Now then…"
The old man unleashed his own Haoushoku haki to make the rest of the guards faint.
"What? What the heck did he…?"
"What the fuck's that old man…?" Sanji spouted.
"And that Straw Hat… It certainly suits a fearless man like yourself. I wanted to meet you, Monkey D. Luffy!"
"Looks like we're involved in this whether we like it or not… They're acting as if we're their accomplices," Law said with amusement.
"Oi! I got to see first-hand if Straw Hat Luffy's as crazy as rumors say but I sure am not in the mood to stick around too much to face an Admiral right out of the blue," Kid replied.
"Oh, by the way," Rayleigh said, "I won't be using that 'power' I just used any more than this, so now is all up to you, guys." The old man smiled. "It would be irritating if the marines caught on who I really am."
"Well, the longer we stick around, the more of 'em we'll have to deal with." Kid sighed, his tone was bored. "We'll be going ahead, if you don't mind. Oh, and while we're at it, we'll do you guys a favor!" Luffy and Law looked back towards Eustass Kid glaring daggers at him. "We'll take the guys loitering around, so don't bother your little selves with this shit."
Without even thinking it twice, both Law and the raven-haired boy ran up the damn auditorium stairs to follow Kid. Like hell they'd let him do as he pleased and "owe" him a damn favor in the future.
"Here they come!"
"There's three and all of them are captains!"
"From the right to the left, they're worth three hundred million, three hundred and fifteen millions and two hundred million beli respectively!"
How nostalgic… Luffy thought. "You guys stand back, I can handle this myself."
"I told you to stay outta this!" Kid said annoyed.
"Try to order me around once more and I'll take ya out first, Eustass," Law said nonchalantly.
"Mortars! Fire!"
"Gomu gomu no… Fuusen!" Luffy inflated himself to repel the cannon balls that were thrown at him.
"Repel!" Kid said as the cannon balls went right back at the marines.
"Room," Law smirked as he and the one in charge of the marines got inside of his Devil Fruit power's circle. Once inside, Law unsheathed his sword and cut the man. "Shambles." The cannon ball that had gone straight to him changed positions with the marine's head.
"Cannons won't work on these guys! All three of them… are Fruit Users!"
"My, my. There are more than what I first thought…" Law said, sighing.
"You guys have some crazy abilities…" Luffy commented as he set his hands on his hips. He wanted to go all out but with them… he couldn't risk it yet.
"Yours is the weirdest of all," Kid spat.
"Even mortars don't work on them…"
"They're not called infamous for nothing, after all!"
"We just have to hold on until Admiral Kizaru gets here!"
"Do you really think we'll wait that long?" Law asked with an evil grin, throwing the severed head towards the rest of the marines.
"Ah! A severed head!"
"Don't drop me!"
"How the hell can you talk?!"
"I don't know but my body feels hot!"
"You don't have one! Oh, that one? It's burning up…"
"Yeah, and it's too hot!"
"You can feel it?!"
"Anyways, stay out of that guy's circle!"
"Room."
"Uh, you mean this one?"
"Uh-huh, that's the one."
"Now, now. Don't worry, it'll be over soon."
"Gear third."
The marines took a step back as Luffy inflated the bone of his arm.
"What's with that arm!?"
"This? Is the arm of a giant!" the Straw Hat pointed out as a matter of fact.
"Don't panic, get your weapons ready, he has to have a weakness!"
"Wha…! The weapons are flying away!"
"What the heck's that?"
"Man, what's this? Is already over?" Zoro said, disappointed.
"Looks like the other two were also Fruit Users," Sanji commented.
"I like the look of this!" Rayleigh said as he laughed out loud.
"Well, seems that with this their military formation's screwed up…" Kid sighed.
Once they escaped the Marines military ring, the Straw Hat crew followed Rayleigh back to Shakky's bar where they maintained a rather calm conversation. There the rest of the pirates discovered who Rayleigh was and as Usopp had attempted to find out if the One Piece was real or not, Luffy had to stop his prying mouth. He did know that the legendary treasure existed. Hell, he had obtained it from where he came from but the rest of them didn't have to know as much as he already did.
Now, things were about to get messy. He knew it and also acknowledged the fact that he couldn't change a damn thing if he really wanted to let things go smoothly from now on. Still, having to lose them was hurting him all over again.
Once they agreed to meet with Rayleigh in three days at the Sunny, they all set out of Shakky's local and were trying to decide where the hell to "hide" so they didn't have to face the admiral that surely was already on the archipelago.
"Luffy, stand back!" he heard his crew say. Slightly confused, the raven-haired pirate looked forward to meet face-to-face with one of the Pacifistas. He knew this wasn't the real Kuma yet.
Trying to act as if he didn't know that, the Straw Hat captain asked: "Who's that?"
"That guy's one of the Shichibukai!" they said as all of them got on guard.
"A Shichibukai?! But… why do you all know him?" Yes, it was strange and he didn't remember they did know Kuma at the time. Damn his memory.
"Make sure he doesn't hit you with that attack!" Sanji warned. "That's a kind of shockwave!"
"Shock… wha-?!" A light began to shine on the palm of the Pacifista and Luffy, annoyed, could only think that it was too damn slow.
Luffy waited until the last moment to dodge the beam that was aimed at him. "That wasn't a shockwave at all!"
"That was… a beam!" Chopper chirped as his eyes turned into gleaming stars of admiration.
"This is not the time to be admiring it!" Usopp freaked out.
"Bartholomew Kuma…" Robin mumbled.
"That bastard…!" Zoro said through gritted teeth.
"Is that the one who showed up back after we won in Thriller Bark?" Luffy asked.
"Yeah. He used those paw-palm-like to create those shockwaves that got us beaten.
"He was planning to dispose of us back then and there. He must've realized that he didn't get us so he's back to finish the job!"
"This is payback for what you did back there! Coup de vent!" Franky shouted as he let his attack be released and hit the cyborg straight on. Which did almost nothing.
"Gear Second," Luffy let his blood stream run wild as the steam began to flow through his body. "I know you're strong, so I'm going all out."
But he knew he had to contain himself. Damn, it was so hard to not just destroy the thing right away so he could give his comrades a chance to run for it. But if he did something too flashy and changed everything, from this point out it would be a mess. All of his nakama needed the two year skip to get stronger or else they wouldn't be able to make it out of —even— Fishman Island.
And, on top of that, despite hearing what Sanji said, he knew that none of them were even a match for this one robot standing in front of them. Nevertheless the other one to come, the commander of these machines and the real Shichibukai. Rayleigh would come and take care of the Admiral. He knew as much…
Damn it all… Here we are once more, Luffy though as he prepared himself for this "one-sided" battle.
A/N: I know, I know. I'm kind of late. Sorry! I've got a job, which is taking some of my free time and I don't know how long it will take me between updates. I haven't forgotten this story and as far as I know I'm planning on finishing it.
I am trying my hardest to speed-up the pace of this first scenes so that's why there's a lot of summarized stages. Have me some patience, alright? As you can see, we're almost there. Maybe one or two more chapters before we begin with the Impel Down and War of the Best arcs.
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