Okay, so I have several things to talk about.
First, thank you all for the reviews! (especially the compliments! ^_^)
Second, if it bothers some of you so much of how short the chapters are, I'll try harder to make them longer and better (I worked extra hard on this one!)
And Third, I got a guest review today saying how I should know that there's already a story like this written and I just wanted you to know that I know. I know that there are multiple stories out there based on the idea of what if Luffy was a marine and this is one of them, however, unless it's been plagiarized, no stories are completely alike. They may have a similar main idea (like a marine version of Luffy), but the story lines are different. So rest assured, I have my own storyline and my own ideas of what's going to happen. Sorry if this sounds a bit rude, but I just wanted to say this so there's no problems or misunderstandings with anything.
Now, enough with my rambling. On with chapter 5!
"Please, Captain! Please let him go! He had no intentions to chip your statue!" pleaded one of the marines. By Morgan's orders, all marines under his command were to be on the roof of the marine base, assisting in lifting up his statue.
"What did you say?" Morgan slowly turned his head to the other marine, making no move to remove his left hand that was tightly gripping one of his subordinates by the collar of his shirt. "Are you going against me too?" with each word, Morgan took slow, intimidating steps to the other marine.
With a very audible gulp, the marine stuttered, "N- No, Sir. I was just-"
"Betraying me by backing up this pathetic excuse of a marine?!" he demanded, growing more and more angry, causing the other man to quickly back away, "I specifically told everyone to NOT damage this statue of me, which took a VERY long time to make! This statue represents me! Which means that if you damage this statue, you have absolutely NO RESPECT FOR ME!"
With that last sentence, Morgan threw the marine that was still in his left hand into the other man. Then as quick as he did that, he impelled his 'axe- hand' into both of their guts, causing them both to plummet down the roof, screaming for dear life.
"Now, who else wants to go for a dive?" Morgan demanded, staring each and every one of his subordinates in the eye. When he was satisfied that no one talked back to him, he finally said, "Good, now get back to work!"
Everyone quickly surrounded the statue in order to lift it up.
"Should everyone really be up here with this ridiculous statue?" whispered one of the marines, struggling to pull the statue up with the ropes, "I mean, shouldn't there be at least a few people keeping watch by the entrance, or better yet, the prison cells?"
"That can't be helped," whispered back someone else, "Unless you want to be severely injured or killed, you know the Captain's orders must be obeyed."
"I know. But still... I have a bad feeling about this..."
As luck would have it, the marine was right, because right after that sentence was said, the building shook violently leaving everyone bewildered.
"What the hell?!" shouted Morgan, "What is this? Some damn earthquake?! Everyone, whatever you do, protect the statu-"
BOOM!
With that last noise, a giant hole was made in the middle of the roof, causing everyone to stumble back in confusion. Dust and rubble was everywhere making sure that no one could see a single thing until it all cleared away. Eventually, a figure could be spotted, jumping out of the hole and onto the roof.
"Yosh!" Luffy shouted excitedly, "It looks like Nami was right! Everyone's on the roof! Huh? Did I accidentally break that statue? Sorry about that." said Luffy, giving an apologetic smile to no one in particular.
As he looked around, he saw everyone's eyes widen and jaws drop. When he looked more closely, he could see that their gazes were fixed on the statue, now just a pile of rubble, with only the head still intact and rolling toward Morgan.
Morgan's mouth was gaping as the statue head rolled to a stop at the tip of his toes. "My... my... statue... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY WONDERFUL STATUE?! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA-" He stopped abruptly when he finally processed what Luffy just said. "Did you just say Nami?" Morgan asked.
"Yep." said Luffy.
"Orange hair?"
"Uh- huh."
"Did you, perhaps do anything to her?"
"Yup, I let her go." Luffy said innocently, completely oblivious of how Morgan's head was turning as red as a tomato, like he would explode any second now.
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT SHE WAS ATTEMPTING TO DO?!" roared Morgan.
"Yep." Luffy said, getting more bored by the second.
10 minutes ago
"Huh?" Luffy said, "I know you."
After getting over the shock of seeing Luffy, the tied up girl's face brightened up.
"Oh! It's you! Come over here and untie me." she ordered.
"No, seriously," Luffy said as he grabbed the key that was hanging off of a hook, far from reaching distance from the cell. He unlocked the cell door and repeated, "I know you."
"Of course you do, idiot." the girl said while Luffy untied her, "We met back in Orange Town remember? When you were capturing Buggy the Clown. Then when you finished, you caught me trying to steal Buggy's treasure, then I bought you some meat and you let me go, ring a bell?"
"Oh! I remember now!" Luffy exclaimed as he finished untying the rope, "You're... um... Orange Girl, right?" Right after saying that, Luffy's head was met with a hard punch from the girl's right fist, causing Luffy to fall down with a large bump on his head and the orange haired girl with an annoyed vein popping out of her forehead.
"If you don't remember someone's name," she said while gritting her teeth, "Don't make it up!"
"Owww... You're punches hurt the same as ever, Nami." pouted Luffy.
"Well... I'm glad I knocked your memories back." Nami said with a satisfied smile.
"Wait a minute... You were tied up... and in a jail cell..." you could practically see the gears turning in Luffy's head as his face turned red from thinking too much, "That means you did something bad doesn't it?"
Nami let out a sigh, "To me, the only bad thing was getting caught stealing money for the second time now."
"Huh? You were stealing again? And even worse, you ended up here too. You really like money, huh?"
"Hey! I had my eyes on that pirate's treasure first! Then the marines had to go and confiscate it. I couldn't just stay there and watch while all my babies got taken away!"
Luffy's eyes widened, "Huuuh? Babies? You had kids and the marines took them away?!"
"Oh forget about it." Nami quietly wept after thinking about what could have been hers.
"Oh yeah!" Luffy said, suddenly remembering the reason he was here, "Do you know where Morgan is? Actually, do you know where anyone is? I've been running around here nonstop and you're the only one that I've found so far."
Nami's face perked up after hearing that, "You mean no one's here right now? Now that I think about it, I did hear one of them say something about putting up a giant statue on the roof... I bet that everyone's up there!"
"Really?!" Luffy shouted, getting excited all over again. He started running out of the room and shouted back, "Thanks!"
"No," Nami said with belly signs in her eyes, "Thank you." And she ran off out the door in the other direction.
As Luffy was running up the stairs, he had a sudden thought come to mind. How long is it going to take to get all the way up to the roof, he wondered. Hmm...
"Shishishishi!" laughed Luffy. And with that, he aimed his two fists towards the ceiling and shouted, "GOMU GOMU NO GATLING GUN!" as he rapidly fired his fists at the ceiling, causing the whole building to shake violently. The impact of his fists creating large holes in each floor until it reached all the way to the roof. Finally Luffy stopped, and still laughing the whole time, he grabbed the edge of the hole he made in the roof and sprung himself upwards. Reaching the top, he expertly did a front flip while still having a firm grip on the roof. With his feet finally making contact with the roof, he let go of his hands, silently thanking his grandpa and the marines for all the intense training he was given.
Current time
Morgan's eye twitched as Luffy slowly stretched his arms up above his head and yawned.
"Kid," started Morgan, "Who the hell ARE you?!"
"Hmm?" Luffy lazily asked, resting his gaze on Morgan again. His eyes slowly widened in alarm when his eyes went to Morgan's jaws and quickly to his right arm. "Holy crap! Y- You're jaw! It's... steel! And you're hand... awesome!" Luffy shouted as his eyes turned to stars. His face soon turned into one of realization, "Oh! You're Axe- Hand Morgan! No wonder your name sounded familiar. I heard about you at Marine Headquarters."
"Marine Headquarters..." Morgan mumbled in surprise, "Again, kid, who the HELL ARE YOU?!"
"Oh yeah!" Luffy shouted, seeming oblivious to Morgan's question, "I'm here for a good reason." Then, as if switching off the lights, Luffy's tone changed from his usual carefree attitude to one of dead seriousness. "Captain Axe- Hand Morgan of the marines, who is currently governing the area of Shells Town, I, Captain Monkey D. Luffy of the marines, am here to arrest you for excessive abuse of authority."
Morgan's face turned into one of pure anger. "What did you say, punk? You barge in here, release a prisoner who tried to steal from me, destroy most of the floors in my base, and now you're telling me that you're going to be the one to arrest me? I DON'T GIVE A DAMN IF AN IDIOT LIKE YOU IS A CAPTAIN TOO! I'M GOING TO BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF YOU AND THEN THE MARINES WILL SEE WHO'S BETTER! IN THIS WORLD, STATUS IS EVERYTHING AND I'M NOT JUST GOING TO GIVE IT UP!"
Morgan looked back at Luffy just to see that he had lost interest in his little speech and was now looking over the roof at something.
"Ah! Coby found Zoro's swords!" he grinned.
"Are you listening to me?!" Morgan roared.
"Hey! Coby! Zoro! Up here!" Luffy smiled widely as he waved at them from the roof. The last thing he saw was Coby waving back and Zoro shaking his head before Morgan jumped next to Luffy and was about to smash his 'Axe- Hand' into his skull. It was a good thing that Luffy had fast reflexes and rolled out of the way in time because the next thing he knew, the ground where Morgan's axe was struck was split in two.
"That was close!" Luffy sighed as Morgan looked over the roof to where Luffy was looking at. He looked in time to see Coby trying to untie Zoro's ropes.
"Now what?!" Morgan yelled dramatically, "First this punk shows up and now this? Kill those two! I'll take care of this kid here."
After watching with stunned faces, it took the marines a few moments before they realized that they're captain was talking to them. When Morgan shot them an evil glare, they finally did what they were told and aimed their guns at Coby and Zoro.
Before they could shoot however, Luffy stretched left hand out toward the marines, smacking their hands. The very fact that Luffy's hand could stretch surprised the marines which caused them to drop their guns. Before any of them could grab their guns again, Luffy swung his arm off the roof, making sure that every single gun fell to the ground down below.
By now, Morgan was steaming from how angry he was. "YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF USELESS IDIOTS! DON'T YOU SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THIS PUNK GETS WHAT HE WANTS?! I'LL BE STRIPED OF MY TITLE AS CAPTAIN AND PUT TO JAIL! WHY CAN'T ANY OF YOU BE USEFUL FOR ONCE?!"
Everyone stood silently for a minute until all the marines looked at each other simultaneously. Then, the next thing that happened would have surprised anyone that was watching. Together, all the marines charged forward to attack, but not at Luffy. Instead, they charged at their very own Captain Morgan.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" screamed Morgan, "You're going the wrong way!" What he said was useless though, because the marines just had one thing in mind; to be free from Morgan's rampage.
"You've been power crazy for far too long, Morgan!" one of them shouted.
"Respect and status doesn't mean anything if you don't deserve it!" another shouted.
Luffy watched from the side, happy that the marines who were under Morgan's command, fully understood that somewhere, sometime, Morgan became corrupted and didn't understand the true meaning of being a marine.
"Stop it!" Morgan shouted, but his voice was muffled from all the marines dog piling him to keep him down. Soon though, another voice was heard shouting the same thing, loud and clear. Everyone looked in the direction where it came from.
Down below the building, where Zoro had just been untied, Helmeppo could be seen with an arm wrapped threateningly around Coby's neck to keep him from moving, while Helmeppo's other hand had a gun pointed at Coby's head.
"Leave my father alone or I'll shoot!" Helmeppo shouted. Helmeppo's hand was shaking violently while sweat could be seen dripping down the side of his face.
"Luffy!" Coby shouted from below, "I'm sorry! When we found the swords, I kept my eyes off of Helmeppo for just a few seconds and he disappeared. It was a big mistake, but you need to know that I don't want to get in your way of taking down Morgan! I knew the risks of joining the marine and I still wanted to join. I'm not afraid of death if it means dying for the sake of justice!"
"Shut up!" Helmeppo shouted, shoving the gun into Coby's head.
"Shishishi!" Luffy laughed, "You heard him, Helmeppo! Zoro!" Luffy shouted, staring at Zoro who was standing at the side, itching for a fight.
Zoro immediately caught what Luffy wanted him to do and with his three swords now back in his possession, he rushed forward to aide Coby. Helmeppo couldn't even see Zoro's movements before he was knocked down by him. By the time he recovered from what happened, he was already pinned down on the ground by the butt of one of Zoro's swords.
"Helmeppo!" Morgan roared, knocking aside the marines who let their guard down.
"Father! I'm sorry, I was here to help, but-" Helmeppo was cut off by Morgan.
"You useless damn son! I didn't need your help! I could have handled this without useless trash like you interfering!" he screamed.
"B- But... father..." Helmeppo mumbled quietly.
"AND YOU!" Morgan pointed at Luffy, "HOW DARE YO-"
"Shut up." Luffy said in a threateningly quiet voice, "I've just about had enough of you. You have no idea what you're doing. First you terrorize this town and now you insult your own son when he was just trying to help you. The worse thing is that you're doing all of this in the name of a Captain of the marines. Scum like you make people think badly of us, you know?"
"Oh, please." Morgan sneered, "I demand respect. I am a-"
"I SAID SHUT UP!" Luffy screamed, pouncing at Morgan. Morgan couldn't even react before Luffy started punching him in the face repeatedly nonstop. Luffy was blinded by his own anger, not realizing what he was doing until Morgan became unconscious. When Luffy finally got off of Morgan and wiped the dust off his shorts, all the marines were stunned silent. Then, simultaneously, all the marines cheered for Luffy's victory. (A/N: Would you still call it a victory if Morgan didn't stand a chance?) They cheered for the end of Morgan's tyrant. They cheered for their freedom from being under Morgan's control. But most of all, they cheered for the bright new future of Shells Town.
Yay! Happy ending for this chapter! Review and let me know what you thought of this chapter; did you like it? was it better or worse than the other chapters?
Oh, and just to let you know, I'm going to make sure all of Luffy's would be crew (Zoro, Nami etc) are going to be somehow saved/involved by/with Luffy because I just didn't want to leave them alone to rot (they're too awesome for that!) and they are all going to have an important role later.
And you should also know that there's eventually going to be some major spoilers later on. (sorry if this is a little late since I already mentioned Luffy's grandpa... but other than that, major spoilers... major)
Anyways, until next time, later!