Saiyans on the Grandline
~Warning: If you haven't read my Saiyan Heroes of U.A, story before clicking onto this. You're gonna be lost the instant you start reading. If you're okay with that, press forward, and good on you. If not, then click on my Pen-name, and read Saiyan Heroes of U.A first.~
"Mind telling us what we're doing in your Workshop?" Kaen questioned his sister as he, Mina, and Eri walked through the attic workshop of their house.
"Yeah, Kaen promised me we'd take our flight to America for our Disney World vacation today." Mina said, dressed in nothing but a bikini top, and a mini-shorts, completed with a vest.
"Mama, Papa, when are we going?" Eri asked, dressed in a pair of red overalls and a blue t-shirt. "I wanna see Disney World, and I wanna meet the big talking Mouse." She had a hat on her head with two big round ears.
"We'll be leaving soon. Aunt Athena just has a few things she wants our help with. An' you'll be able to meet Mickey Mouse when we get there." Mina said.
"She's already wearing a Mickey Mouse Hat." Kaen chuckled.
"I was hoping you'd give my new invention a whirl." Athena said, pulling their attention to her, before holding up something that looked like a watch. "It's supposed to replicate the Instant Teleportation Quirk I have in my arsenal, with more efficiency and pin point accuracy to one's location, but in order for it to work, one of you needs to wear it."
"How exactly does it work?" Kaen questioned.
"Well when you put it on, you press the red button, and a hard-light holographic screen will be projected, and ask for coordinates." Athena explained. "It's still experimental, so start with a small distance, before going for a bigger one."
"Are you sure this is safe?" Mina inquired.
"I'm 50/50 on this." Athena said. "It could go either way."
"Alright, here goes." Kaen said.
"Careful Papa." Eri said.
Pressing the red button, Kaen brought up the hard-light screen, and put in five feet for the distance to teleport.
"Put a little more distance than that. Try putting in an address or a corner store that's nearby." Athena said.
"Are all Saiyans this nutty with tech?" Mina asked, holding Eri's hand. "'Cause I don't wanna end up like that."
"I think it's just an Athena thing." Kaen said, putting in the closest convenience store location. "I think she's been hanging around Rose, and Hatsume for too long."
"Hey!" Athena mock gasped. "They are not that bad. An' neither of them have caused anything to explode since I became a surrogate. So don't go mocking me or my friends, just because you don't understand how technology works."
"She's gonna rant again." Eri said.
"Fine, fine. Be back in a minute." Kaen sighed, before he disappeared. A short while waiting later, Kaen reappeared in the attic workshop, holding three Fruit Punch Rockstars.
"Who's thirsty?" Kaen smiled.
"I am." Eri smiled.
"Nice one." Mina smiled. "Hey Athena, can Kaen, Eri, and I take this to Disney World to avoid plane expenses?"
"I don't see why not." Athena said. "Just grab onto him before he leaves, and you should disappear with him."
"Alright, this should be good." Mina smiled.
"Got any Quirks for us before we go?" Kaen asked.
"I do for Mina actually, and I've been working on my deliverance, so you shouldn't feel any pain when I give them to you." Athena smiled. "I was wanting to wait until I had complete control over the deliverance of the Quirks to make them painless, so now's a perfect time." Athena smiled, Mina's face. Her hand lit up as she transferred copies of the chosen Quirk, before removing her hand. "There. How do you feel?"
"I've got a slight headache, but other than that I'm fine." Mina said. "What Quirks did you give me?"
"Well, I gave you a merged combination of two different Quirks I melded into one. But before I tell you what they are…" Athena smiled, looking over to her twin brother. "Kaen, why don't you go down stairs and grab your groups travel bags?"
"Oh right, be right back." Kaen said, running down the stairs of the attic.
"Okay spill, what did you give me?" Mina asked with a smile.
"Stick this… between your breasts." Athena smiled, holding up one of the two remaining cans of Rockstars, Eri already drinking one of them.
Mina took the can, and the instant it touched her bare skin, she shivered, feeling how cold it was from the convenience store fridge.
"Oooh, that's cold." Mina said, looking down after she shoved it all the way in. "Huh, where'd it go? I can't feel it anymore."
"Reach in, and pull it out." Athena said.
Mina did so, and was shocked her chest felt like an endless void, before she felt the can, grabbed it and pulled it out.
"Whoa." She smiled.
"Now reach in again." Athena smiled.
Mina did so, and to her surprise she felt another can, and pulled it out.
"What the? I could have sworn I only stuck the one can in there." Mina said. "What Quirks did you merge together, exactly Athena?"
"The two Quirks I merged together were Pocket Void, and Duplication." Athena smiled, enjoying the look of shock on Mina's face. "I call this Quirk, Duplication Void. Anything that's been in there once, you can create an infinite number of, and they're an exact duplicate, down to the last atom. I have it myself, and tested its limits. You can use it for storage, without duplicating the item if you want it that way."
"Cool." Mina smiled.
"Now Mama's chest is more then just a distraction for Papa when he gets mad at her for something stupid she did." Eri pointed out.
"What was that?" Athena questioned.
"Any other Quirks you give me?" Mina asked, wanting to change the subject as her face flushed violet.
"I couldn't really think of any others you might want. Any abilities on your mind, in particular you might desire?" Athena inquired.
"Hmm… I guess you do have a point. I can't really think of anything." Mina said, before an idea came to her. "Oh wait, I just thought of one. Can you give me a Quirk that allows me to permanently change my appearance? Like skin tone, or changing colors for camouflage?"
"What for?"
"I'd like to see what I'd look like with different colors of skin, like neon blue, or maybe emerald green, oh, how about purple, or maybe orange, what about Simpson Yellow?" Mina smiled excitedly.
"I guess that could work." Athena chuckled, putting her hand on Mina's face. "An' I have just the Quirk to give." After her fingers and hand glowed a bit, Athena removed her hand, and smiled at Mina. "Try thinking about what color you want your skin."
Mina smiled and closed her eye before it began to change, and her skin became a deep royal blue. "Wow, that's so cool." Mina smiled, before switching her skin back to pink.
"I gave you a simple camouflage Quirk, but since I upgraded it with Xerox, it can do more than just make you blend in with backgrounds." Athena explained.
"Anything for me Aunt Athena?" Eri asked.
"I have just the thing." Athena smiled, grabbing something from her Duplication Void, and putting it around Eri's shoulder. "This is a fanny pack made with Duplication Void, and a special sweet treat for you inside."
"Thank you Aunt Athena." Eri smiled, before she went running for the exit. "There's something I forgot to grab."
"I'm back you two." Kaen said, coming up with his and Mina's luggage, while Eri ran past him. "Where's Eri going?"
"Apparently she forgot to grab something." Mina said. "I can take the luggage." She smiled, taking the bags, and shoving them into her Duplication Void.
"Whoa." Kaen said with a blush. "That is a pretty handy Quirk."
"I know right?" Mina smiled, enjoying the flustered look on his face, as she tossed him the duplicated energy drink.
"One more thing." Athena said, tossing them a small sack, sounding like they were filled with something. "Celeron said, he went to the other earth during these last six years we haven't seen him right?"
"Yeah, he spied on Kakarot and learned that Kamehameha attack from watching him perform it several times." Kaen said. "He also brought back something that instantly healed his injuries. He called them Senzu Beans."
"Well you'll be happy to know, with the Senzu Bean you gave me, I managed to make my own garden of them." Athena said, tossing Kaen the bag. "That is filled with about twenty five Senzu Beans."
"I got this." Mina said, taking the beans and putting them where she'd put the luggage.
"Alright, you're all set to go." Athena said. "Now, you're just waiting on Eri."
"I'm back." Eri called out, running back up to them. "Sorry to keep you waiting."
"Now that everyone going on this trip is here, Disney World here we come." Mina said, as Kaen put the coordinates into the watch.
"Here we go." Kaen smiled hitting enter, as Mina grabbed Eri's hand, while grabbing Kaen's with the other.
The watch began to power up, but Athena knew there was something wrong when the teleportation device began to glitch, and apparently, she wasn't the only one to notice this malfunction.
"Athena, what's going on?" Kaen questioned.
"I don't know. Something's wrong. I tested out every simulation I needed to before making this, and it's never happened in any of them." Athena said looking at the device. "The watch is malfunctioning. The distance is too great for it to handle in its beta testing phase."
"This is bad." Kaen said. "I can't get it off."
"Hold on Kaen, we'll get it off you." Mina said grabbing at it.
Kaen saw the device was overloading, and about to blow. Looking to Mina, Kaen pushed her and Eri back, not wanting either of them to get caught up in the explosion.
"Hold on, I've got a remote somewhere to remotely undo the locks." Athena said, searching through her workshop.
"I don't think we have the time." Mina said.
"You three find cover." Kaen ordered her the three girls.
"No, I won't leave you Papa." Eri cried out, hugging him tight.
"Eri, you have to leave, and find cover to avoid the explosion." Kaen said.
"No, if you're going down, we're going with you." Mina said, taking Eri into her arms, and grabbing Kaen's hand. "I'm positive this won't kill you, so wherever this thing takes us, we'll see it through, together."
"Mina…" Kaen paused. "I'm sorry for getting you and Eri into this mess."
"You didn't get us into this mess. We chose to be here." Mina said with a soft smile.
Kaen pulled Mina and Eri in for a hug, as the three of them embraced one another for the inevitable explosion. Without a sound, the device connected to Kaen's wrist went off, enveloping the trio in a flash of light, before the loud boom echoed out, causing the windows to burst, and for the building to quake.
"Athena?" Toshinori called out, racing into the workshop with Gine, both of them gasping when they saw the attic looked like a bomb had gone off. "Athena?" He inquired with a bit more panic in his voice.
"Over here." Athena called out, pushing a table off her, and coughing up the smoke in her lungs, caressing her pregnant curve.
"Athena what happened?" Gine questioned, running to Athena, to see if she, or her cargo, was all right. "Are you hurt anywhere? Are the babies okay?"
Gine and Toshinori noticed the look of sadness and pain on her face, before she broke down, crying into her mother's embrace.
"I'm sorry mom, dad." Athena balled. "I'm sorry. I couldn't stop it, and… and…"
"Hey, it's okay, you're safe now." Toshinori said.
"But it's not okay." Athena said. "Kaen, Mina, and Eri were up here to and they… I let them use my latest invention to go to Disney World, to skip the long flights, and my device malfunctioned and…"
"What was your device meant to do?" Toshinori asked, knowing Athena would never intend to invent something that was meant for harming innocent people.
"It was supposed to utilize the Instant Teleportation Quirk I have in my Xerox arsenal. Kaen tested it by going to the store and coming back with some drinks, but it couldn't handle the distance from here to Florida." Athena explained.
"Where are they now Athena. Where are Kaen, Mina, and Eri now?" Gine inquired.
Athena just began crying and pushed herself deeper into Gine's embrace.
"Gine… I think I know what happened to them." Toshinori said, solemnly.
Gine turned to Toshinori, and saw he was looking, directly at one of the walls. Turning her gaze to match his, she gasped, when she saw three silhouettes of ash, embracing each other.
"Oh no." Gine gasped.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have been so prideful of my device, and let them use it." Athena sobbed. "Mina was certain that the explosion wouldn't kill them, that it would only take them somewhere else. But now, I can't help but feel she was wrong."
"This isn't your fault sweetie." Gine said, as she began to tear up.
"Why would you build something like that in the first place though?" Toshinori inquired.
"I thought if I did, Heroes could get to villain attacks faster and there'd be less property damage or casualties as a result." Athena cried.
"Oh, Athena." Toshinori said, pulling her into a hug. "You're always thinking of others safety before your own. An' I'm proud of you for that."
"C'mon, the fire department and police are gonna be here soon." Gine said. "Let's get out of the attic to let them do their job. No doubt an ambulance to. They're gonna want to take you to the hospital after this mess."
~The Grandline~
"Ow, what the hell happened?" Mina questioned, as she opened her eyes.
Mina found herself lying in a bed, and with bandages wrapped over her right forearm, and a few bandage patches, over cuts on her cheek and forehead.
"Where am I?"
Mina looked around and saw that she was in a cabin that she recognized as being part of an old time ship.
"What is this place?" Mina questioned sitting up.
"Oh good, you're awake."
Mina looked over to where the voice came from, and found herself looking at a small, humanoid reindeer, with a blue nose, wearing a pink top hat, with a piece of metal holding one of his antlers together.
"Are you feeling any better?" The little talking animal questioned.
"Mmm, a bit." Mina said. "Where am I?"
"You're on the Thousand Sunny, it's our ship." The little reindeer said. "My name's Chopper, I'm the ship's doctor."
"Oh, well then it's nice to meet you." Mina said. "My name is Mina Ashido."
"How are you feeling though? I'm needing you to be specific about how you feel." Chopper said, hopping up on a stool, and shining a small flashlight in one of her eyes.
"My head is a little sore, so is my arm, but that's about it." Mina said.
"It doesn't look like you've got a concussion, no signs of any internal injuries either." Chopper said. "Let me know when and if you feel any dizziness, or nausea."
"So, where is this ship heading?"
"That I'm not too sure of. You'd have to talk to our navigator for that. But I can tell you for certain, we're on the Grandline, and you're lucky we managed to find you and your friends, or the three of you could have been eaten by a Sea King." Chopper exclaimed. "But I can't seem to pinpoint the cause of your skin becoming pink like this. It's unlike any ailment I've ever seen."
"Oh, that's due to my Quirk." Mina said.
"Quirk?" Chopper inquired.
"Yeah, it's my power. My skin is this pink, due to the high PH levels in my body." Mina explained.
"So, this power of yours has something to do with acids?" Chopper asked, writing the information down on a clipboard.
"I can secrete acids from my skin. I can control its toxicity, its viscosity, I could even make it as harmless as plain old water if I wanted to." Mina smiled. "Theoretically, I could probably even make a rubber ball if I harden the viscosity enough."
"That's amazing." Chopper said.
"So, does your Quirk involve reindeer?" Mina asked.
"Oh, I'm afraid I don't have this, Quirk, as you call it. I was born a reindeer, but I ate a Devil Fruit called the Human-human Fruit." Chopper said.
"Devil Fruit?"
"A special type of fruit that gives whoever eats it, a certain special power. The trade-off is, those who eat a Devil Fruit, can't ever swim again." Chopper explained. "We become drained of all our power and energy if we go in water, even taking a bath is draining on us, but it's not so bad since it isn't sea water."
"That sucks." Mina said, swinging her legs over the edge of the bed.
"If you know the right tricks you can work around it." Chopper said. "So, can you tell me more about these Quirks? Can you do anything else?"
"I have a couple more abilities. One of them is, I can camouflage myself or just change the color and tone of my skin to different colors. But you've never heard of Quirks?" Mina inquired, puzzled at this, as she changed her skin to a light coco tan color, and the sclera of her eyes to white. "How can you not know about Quirks? 80% of the population of earth is filled with Quirk users."
"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Chopper questioned. "No, if you had I would have found the contusion."
"I'm fine. Can I just go see Kaen and Eri?"
"Your friends? Sure, they're on the main deck with the others." Chopper exclaimed.
"Thanks." Mina said, getting up from the examination bed.
Mina steadied herself as the ship rocked, and went outside the medical room to see Kaen sitting on the deck, with Eri in his arms and on his lap, with three other guys in front of them. One of them had moss green hair, with three katana on his side and earrings on one of his ears. Another, was a black haired boy wearing a red button up vest, with long blue shorts, and a straw hat on his head. The third was a young man with light tan skin, and a long nose, wearing brown overalls, and a banana on his head. But what Mina noticed of the ship took her breath away.
"Whoa this thing is huge. It even had grass." Mina said.
"Mina, hey. How are you feeling?" Kaen inquired.
"Mama." Eri smiled, looking at Mina, parts of her skin covered in bandages.
"I'm fine." Mina said, before noticing the bandages on his right arm. "I'm guessing Athena's device caused our injuries?"
"Yeah. But nothing a couple Senzu Beans can't cure." Kaen said.
"Kaen, I think we should be reserving them for life or death injuries, not ones we can still move around so easily with." Mina said.
"You got a point there. I guess we shouldn't become too reliant on them." Kaen smiled.
"Hey, weren't you pink before?" The straw hat wearing boy inquired looking at Mina. "Zoro wasn't she pink before?"
"Don't ask me." Zoro tsked.
"Yeah, that's my natural skin color." Mina said. "But I thought I'd try a skin tone similar to Kaen's."
"Luffy, Ussop, don't look now but the Ero Chef is coming." Zoro stated.
"Go drown in the ocean Moss Head." A blonde haired man with a curly eyebrow glared at him, before setting his gaze on Mina, and his voice changing to one of lust and desire. "I'm just here to see if this beauty is okay. I went by Chopper's office to see if you were doing any better, but he said you'd already left hot stuff."
"Typical Sanji." Ussop sighed, shaking his head.
"Okay, you're a little too close to my personal space." Mina said, pushing him away.
"Hey buddy, step away from Mina." Kaen said, wrapping an arm around her shoulders, while Eri grabbed Mina's hand.
"You I could care less about." Sanji said.
"Watch what you say around my man." Mina spoke to the blonde cook.
"Oh, we haven't even been properly introduced and she's already madly in love with me." Sanji gasped, his eye a throbbing heart.
"I wasn't talking about you." Mina said, leaning closer into Kaen's embrace, while taking Eri into her own lap. "I was talking about Kaen."
"Sanji, just leave her be. She's clearly already taken." Ussop said.
"I am, and I'm a mother as you can see." Mina said. "So you can buzz off."
"Yeah, and go make us something to eat." Luffy demanded.
"Fine, I'm going." Sanji said, walking off.
"So, how strong are you guys?" Luffy asked with a big smile.
"How strong are we?" Mina asked. "I don't know how to answer that one."
"Are you even human?" Zoro asked, noticing Kaen, Mina's monkey tails, and Eri's tiger tail.
"To answer your second question, we're not human." Kaen said.
"Babe, you sure it's alright to tell them?" Mina asked.
"It's fine. I have a feeling we can trust them." Kaen smiled. "We're a race of warriors called Saiyans. At least two of us are. Eri here's human, with a powerful White Tiger Quirk."
"Whoa that's so cool." Luffy smiled.
"So what are the skills of a Saiyan?" Ussop questioned. "Or a Quirk for that matter?"
"Well, Saiyans are naturally able to control Ki, or more commonly known, as life energy and we can naturally utilize it for attacks, or defensive abilities." Kaen exclaimed. "As for Quirks, each one varies from person to person. Sort of like snowflakes, no two Quirks are the same. With a few rare exceptions of course."
"Can you use Ki for anything else?" Zoro inquired.
"We can use it to enhance our bodies, and make our muscles and bones stronger, and denser to a certain degree." Mina said.
"Whoa, cool." Luffy smiled. "Do you two wanna join my crew?"
"LUFFY." Ussop and Zoro shouted, with Ussop smacking him upside the head.
"Stop asking random people to join the crew." Zoro stated.
"What exactly does your crew do?" Mina inquired.
"Mina, look up." Kaen said.
Mina looked up to see a black flag with a skull and crossbones, wearing a straw hat.
"We're on a pirate ship?" Mina asked.
"We're on a pirate ship." Eri confirmed.
"We're not like those crazy blood thirsty pirates though." Ussop said. "All we're interested in, is finding the One Piece."
"Along the way, we've stopped civil wars, put an end to tyrannical kings, kicked major corrupted Marine butt, took down a self-proclaimed god, took down a Warlord of the Sea, and declared war against the World Government." Zoro explained. "We've always prioritized the lives of innocent people over our own self interests."
"But you're wanted criminals?" Mina inquired.
"We're wanted, because we're not doing what the World Government wants us to do?" Ussop said. "Fall in line, and be their definition of normal, like the good dogs we're supposed to be."
"That is just messed up." Mina said.
"We're known as the Straw Hat Pirates. An' I'm the Captain of this crew." Luffy said.
"It sounds to me, you're more heroes than villains." Kaen said looking to Mina and Eri. "Mind if Mina and I talk this over a bit?"
"Sure thing." Luffy said, going to the goat head at the bow of the ship.
"I'm going back to the crows nest and do some more training." Zoro said going to the mast of the ship.
"I'm gonna see if Franky needs any help." Ussop said, heading off to a different area of the ship.
"Okay, what do you wanna talk about?" Mina inquired.
"What's this about Papa?" Eri asked.
"While you were out of it Mina, Eri and I were talking with some of the other members of the crew, and I recognized some of the things mentioned about where we are from the logbooks of where my mother's ship was before it was used for the escape of planet Vegeta's destruction." Kaen said pulling out a flat device from his pocket, and opening it like a book. "I'm not entirely sure of the planet's name. But it does have a few things I read about in the report that match up with what I've learned. An' this planet is a lot bigger then Earth." A holoscreen produced itself and showed a hard light image of a map of the planet three times larger then earth, but the map was mainly of the Grandline.
"Whoa." Mina and Eri were in awe.
"This world has an ocean known as the Grandline, and legends about a treasure known as the One Piece, and a Pirate King who went by Gold Roger, or as his actual name suggests, Gol D. Roger, who originally found and hid the One Piece." Kaen explained.
"So, we're not on Earth anymore?" Eri inquired.
"It doesn't look like it sweetie." Mina said.
"No, but it's safe to assume we're still in our Universe, and not any of the other 12. Athena's device worked, but it worked too well. It couldn't handle the distance with being a prototype, and sent us to a random location, when the explosion went off, except instead of a location on Earth, it sent us to a random location in the Universe after it overloaded." He said. "This planet isn't even in the same quadrant of the universe as Earth, it's on the literal opposite side of the galaxy. An area Frieza or his men, haven't even begun to touch yet."
"Is that good or bad?" Mina asked.
"Depends on your view of the situation." Kaen said, putting the hologram pad away. "For one, we're in a world where we're free to use our powers without restraint, so we don't have to try and earn any sort of licenses to use them like we do on Earth. On the other, we don't have a way to contact my mom to get her to start up the ship and come get us. Not that she could, the main floater is cracked and needs to be replaced with a part made of technology that doesn't even exist on earth yet, so that veto's that option in more then one way."
"Couldn't we just build a communicator, or a ship of our own?" Mina inquired.
"This world doesn't have that kind of technology. An' if it did, I wouldn't even know where to begin in building the ship." Kaen said. "The best we could hope for, is to wait for one of Frieza's men to come and steal his Scouter."
"After kicking their ass first, of course." Mina said.
"Swear." Eri said holding up her swear jar.
"Where were you hiding that?" Mina asked.
"In the fanny pack Aunt Athena gave me." Eri smiled.
"Is that what you went to grab before this whole mess started?" Mina questioned.
"Yep." Eri nodded.
"Well sorry, but I don't have any Yen to put in there." Mina said.
"Back on topic, we will be giving some pain to one of Frieza's men if that option becomes available to us. I'm really wanting to avenge the Saiyan Race." Kaen said. "It might not be Frieza himself, but at least it'll be a bit of payback. But I don't think that'll be happening any time soon. Because as I said, Frieza's men haven't even begun to touch this quadrant of the universe."
"An' Celeron turning me into a Saiyan is kinda good. When we're ready to settle down, I can help with rebuilding the Saiyan Race." Mina said.
"I wanna be a Saiyan." Eri stated.
"I'm not sure that's gonna be possible Eri. But Mina, remember what Celeron said after he'd turned you into a Saiyan?" Kaen asked.
"Oh yeah. He had planned on making multiple women Saiyans for a breeding harem, and using them to turn Earth into the new home for the Saiyan Race." Mina said. "Hold up, do you have that Scouter, Athena developed and made part of your costume?"
"It's in my costume case." Kaen realized. "It's not powerful enough to let out a signal to our Earth, but it should be a good for keeping in touch, if we had more then one that is."
"So, are we going join the crew then?" Mina asked.
"I don't see any other choice." Kaen sighed. "But the life of a pirate on the sea, isn't the kind of life, I wanna raise Eri in."
"But I wanna be a pirate." Eri said. "I wanna join you and Mama for adventures on the sea. I don't wanna be away from either of you."
"Eri, we can't allow you to." Mina said. "The life of a pirate may sound fun, but it's filled with life threatening dangers, and it's no place for a child."
"So let's tell Luffy. We'll join his crew, or I will at least, and we can find somewhere for your and Eri to settle down and build a home on." Kaen said.
"No fair." Eri groaned.
"Too bad young lady, it's the plan we're going with." Mina said.
"I just hope the conditions are acceptable for him." Kaen sighed.
"Those terms are acceptable. Welcome aboard." Luffy said, his head appearing between them with a smile, with his neck stretched out extremely long.
"Gah, how long have you been listening in?" Mina questioned.
"Robin was listening for me, and told me you decided to join." Luffy said with a laugh, pointing to the bow, where a woman with black hair was standing, with her arms crossed.
"What?" Kaen questioned.
"Papa, your back." Eri said.
Kaen looked over his shoulder, and saw an ear on it, that disappeared in a small burst of sakura petals.
"Robin ate a Devil Fruit, didn't she?" Mina questioned.
"Yep, she can make duplicates of any of her limbs, or body parts." Luffy said.
"That's kinda… weird and creepy." Mina said.
"Anyways, Nami said it'll be a while before we reach the next island the Log Pose is pointing to, so we should probably get something to eat and then party to celebrate another crew member joining." Luffy cheered.
~Hours Later~
As the hours ticked by, Kaen, Mina, and Eri ended up partying with the crew, Mina on multiple occasions, having to literally push Sanji away from her, with Kaen sometimes butting in and pushing him away. At some point during the festivities, he'd changed into his hero costume, a navy blue sleeveless Kevlar like suit, with slim shoulder pads, and matching combat pants, with a belt holding several pouches on it, with a pair of vambraces on his forearms that covered the backs of his hands, and steel toed combat boots on his feet. (Imagine a sleeveless Captain America Stealth Suit from the 2014 Winter Soldier movie.)
"How many times do I have to tell you, to get it through your thick skull you monkey tailed bastard? If she doesn't have a ring, she's still on the market." Sanji glared at him.
"An' I keep telling you, she's not anyone's property, and doesn't want you, perverted chef. Now back off, you're freaking out Eri." Kaen exclaimed butting heads with him.
"Oh please, I doubt she even actually likes you. I bet you're just keeping her by your side, to make yourself look good, and to help raise your child, so you don't have to do it." Sanji declared before getting punched in the face.
"That's it." Kaen growled as a brawl broke out between the two.
"Kaen, please." Mina sighed.
"Papa's at it again." Eri said, drinking a bottle of milk Chopper gave her.
"Sanji's still at it huh?" An orange haired girl wearing a T-shirt, and shorts, sighed coming to Mina and Eri's side.
"Yep." The pinket sighed.
"Does he even know how old you are?" Nami inquired.
"Kaen's tried telling him, but he blew it off as Kaen just trying to keep me to himself." Mina sighed. "Granted, I can't really blame him for not believing Kaen. I am an early developer." She said, gesturing to her chest. "Plus, I took on the role of Eri's mother when she became part of Kaen's family."
"How old are you?" Robin inquired, joining the group.
"I'm fifteen, Kaen's almost sixteen." Mina explained. "Eri's six."
"An' you're how big?" Nami questioned, sounding amazed.
"What do you mean?" Mina asked.
"I think she means your chest Mama." Eri said.
"Yeah. You look pretty big to be a fifteen year old."
"I'm an H-Cup." Mina said.
"Wow, you have some crazy good genetics." Nami said looking at Mina's chest in shock.
"It's nothing too special." Mina said. "My mom was the same when she was my age. Runs in the family for the women actually."
"That's impressive." Nami said, noticing the fight between Kaen and Sanji stopped as Kaen stepped away from the downed chef, dusting his hands off. "Damn, he took down Sanji. That is no easy task."
"An' he did it so fast to." Robin said.
"Saiyan's are resilient. We thrive in battle. But originally, I was human, just like Eri." Mina explained.
"What happened?" Nami inquired.
"Does it have something to do with the world you came from and what Kaen's brother did to you?" Robin asked.
"Eri, why don't you go and sit with Papa? I'm sure he'd like the company after that fight tired him out." Mina suggested.
"Okay." Eri said, before running to Kaen on the other side of the ship.
"Now that Eri's gone, I can tell you the story." Mina sighed.
"It's that bad huh?" Nami asked.
"It was an incident involving his older brother, and a whole lot of blood thirsty, and murderous villains." Mina stated. "His brother's Quirk, allows him to steal Quirks from others on our world. Originally, he got that Quirk from its original owner. The name of the Quirk is All-for-One, and that's what the original owner of it called himself. Celeron got it, and stole a Genetic Reprogramming Quirk from someone, and used it on me, to turn me into a Saiyan, so he could steal me from Kaen add me to his breeding harem he's tried putting together, to rebuild the Saiyan race."
"What happened to the Saiyans?" Nami asked.
"According to Gine, Kaen's aunt and adoptive mother, about 95% of them were wiped out with Planet Vegeta by an evil tyrant named Frieza. Several Saiyans managed to escape, since they were either off world, or were late getting back to planet Vegeta. Kaen's cousin was actually sent off world for his own protection, when he was just a baby." Mina explained.
"What do you think happened to him?" Nami asked.
"Kaen's brother Celeron knows, but I'm not certain of anything." Mina said.
"Enough doom and gloom. Let's party." Kaen cheered from where he was, with Eri sitting on his shoulder.
Mina and the others saw he was standing next to Zoro, and surprisingly, those two were getting along as they were both drinking bottles of booze.
"Well it's no wonder Sanji and Kaen don't get along. Zoro and Sanji hate each other's guts just as much." Nami chuckled. "Aren't you gonna have any ale?"
"I'm fifteen, Kaen and I aren't of legal drinking age, not yet at least." Mina said. "Plus I'm a mother, and I have to set a good example for my daughter."
"You're a pirate now. Live a little." Robin smiled, using her Devil Fruit powers to bring her a mug. "At least, just have one drink."
"Eh what the hell, it couldn't possibly hurt to have one drink." Mina smiled, accepting the mug.
~The Following Day~
"Hahaha, and now for my next trick. Ussop will fly." Ussop declared, happily while Eri, Chopper, and Luffy were laughing. "Here goes."
"Ow my head. Why does it hurt so bad?" Mina questioned, coming out of the cabin to the crew's sleeping quarters.
"Morning sleeping beauty." Kaen smiled, looking back at his girlfriend, as she came and leaned against him. "Feeling like your head might explode at the slightest noise?"
"Yeah." Mina groaned.
"Then you picked the wrong time to be coming out of the cabin." Kaen chuckled. "Ussop is busy making some of the crew laugh."
Mina turned her head, looking out on the main deck of the ship, finding the long nosed sniper, making a fool of himself to make Eri, Chopper, and the Captain Luffy, laugh and be entertained on the swing set, that hadn't been there the previous night.
"Ussop just set that swing up. He thought it might be fun for Eri and Chopper."
"Hey Kaen?" Mina asked.
"Yeah?"
"Do you really think we'll be able to separate ourselves, so Eri can live a normal life on this planet? I mean, it's not like we're gonna be able to return to Earth, is it?" Mina inquired, reaching into her Duplication Void, and handing Kaen a Rockstar, while grabbing herself one.
"No. To be honest, I don't think we'll be able to leave this planet. So I guess there's no reason for me to keep my secret from you anymore." Kaen sighed, opening his can.
"Hey…" Mina said, taking his can away. "I thought we agreed no more keeping secrets from each other."
"This secret, is one I had to keep from more then just you Mina." Kaen said, standing up and taking his can back, standing firm in front of Mina as she looked at him in awe.
Mina could tell from the tone in his voice, this was something serious.
"Who else did you keep this secret from?" Mina asked.
"Pretty much the rest of the world." Kaen sighed, turning back to the railing. "If this secret were to get out, it would have caused a whole lot of chaos."
"What, are you the legendary Super Saiyan or something?" Mina asked.
"No, I'm no Super Saiyan." Kaen chuckled. "Mina I…"
"Papa." Eri called out running to Kaen and pulling his arm in a panic.
"Hmm? What's up kitten?" Kaen asked.
"Ussop went into the big water tank to get some octopus for dinner, and now he's in trouble. Ms. Nami said he's in the middle of an octopus sandwich, and now the water's all icky and black." Eri said.
"Crap. The Octopi must have shot out their ink. He's blind in the water, he could drown." Kaen said, handing Mina his Rockstar, and running to the entrance to the tank, finding Luffy and chopper there. "Out of the way, I'm going in after him."
Jumping over Chopper, Kaen dove into the inky black water. Using his ability to sense Ki, Kaen was able to locate Ussop in no time, and quickly pulled the Octopi off the struggling long nosed man, before grabbing him, and pulling him out of the water. Breaching the water's surface, Kaen dropped Ussop to the ground with a gentle thud, as the long nosed sniper gasped for breath.
"Man, that was a close one. But you saved my life, thanks I owe you big time." Ussop said, before gasping.
Looking Kaen up and down, the ink in the water had soaked into his clothes, and mixed with the navy blue, made the suit a perfect obsidian black.
"Whoa, you look badass in that new color of yours Kaen." Ussop said.
"Swear." Eri said, holding up her, now empty, swear jar to Ussop.
"Totally cool." Luffy and Chopper said, as Ussop groaned for having to put a couple of coins in the jar.
Kaen looked himself over as he hadn't realized his clothes had been dyed a different color, before realizing that it was true, the new color of his suit did make him look more intimidating.
"Oh I know. You should totally paint an emblem onto the back of the suit. Maybe even sew it in." Luffy said.
"It'll have to be the first one. This suit is made of a highly durable bullet proof carbon fiber mesh." Kaen said. "But that's not a bad idea."
"Why don't you write loser on the back, and that can be your pirate name." Sanji said coming out.
"Screw off." Kaen glared.
"What's with all the noise out here? It's just some octopus." Sanji stated.
"Oh yeah? Well I nearly drowned because they'd wrapped themselves all over my body." Ussop stated.
"Hey, there's something floating in the ocean." Zoro called out from the crows nest.
"Ooh, let me see." Luffy said, running to the side of the ship.
"Where is it?" Ussop asked.
"There." Sanji said, spotting what they were looking for.
Floating in the water, was a barrel with a literal big red flag tied to the side, with something written on it.
"A barrel?" Chopper questioned.
"Huh? I think it says treasure on it." Ussop said, straining his eyes to get a closer look.
"Hey, you're right. Maybe it fell off a treasure ship." Luffy said.
"I'll grab it." Kaen said, taking to the air, and flying to the barrel to grab it.
"He can fly?" Ussop, Chopper, and Luffy questioned.
"Always gotta show off, don't ya Hun?" Mina smiled.
"Mama's got that dreamy eyed look again." Eri said.
"Hey, I don't think this is actual treasure, like gold or silver." Kaen said, bringing the barrel back onto the ship.
"What makes you say that?" Ussop asked.
"Well for one, if it were filled with that kind of loot, then it wouldn't have been floating. It would have sank to the bottom of the sea with the weight of the treasure." Robin said, getting what Kaen was saying. "It's probably just an offering barrel filled with old food and booze."
"A what? How would you know?" Luffy asked.
"Because it says treasure offering to the Sea Gods, in kanji right on the flag." Kaen said.
"Strange how a language from our world, is somehow on this world." Mina said.
"It's an old practice called barrel drifting." Kaen said. "Back on earth, a few hundred years ago before actual technology was electronic and we had cars, there was an old practice done by those who worshiped the sea. Hell, there's even a mythical lost city, but we can get into that later. Anyways, this is done by people making an offering and praying for safe passage to the guardian of the sea. Since this is still around, it's safe to assume it's still somewhat practiced on this world."
"It is. Basically it's more about superstition then actual treasure." Nami stated.
"In other words, we got our hopes up over a barrel of sea trash." Ussop grumbled.
"Whoa, who says booze is trash? Let's drink it." Zoro said.
"What? No, that's bad karma." Ussop stated.
"It'll be fine. Just say a little prayer first." Nami said.
"I pray to no God. Sea or otherwise." Zoro said. "It's not that I'm an atheist, but I'm just not the superstitious type."
"Alcohol stirred by the waves. From what I hear, that improves the taste." Nami said.
"Oh yeah? Let's find out!" Franky smiled, licking his lips.
"Alright, then we'll make a toast." Ussop said.
"You're over the bad karma all of a sudden." Kaen chuckled.
"After you finish, they say that you're supposed to add a new offering in place of the old one, and set it adrift again for good luck, okay?" Robin smiled.
"Who cares? Open up." Franky said, trying to undo the ropes on the barrel.
"So, hey God! We're stealing your booze!" Luffy said, offering up a prayer.
"Ha. Now you're praying to God?" Zoro questioned. "If I remember, you beat the crap out of God back on Skypeia. Don't bother, God's a jerk!"
"I'm sorry, he did what now?" Mina asked.
"Oh it was just some power crazed Logia Type Devil Fruit, user who let the power go to his head, and considered himself a deity." Nami said.
"When in reality, he was just some idiot who wrongly put himself on the same pedestal as God." Kaen nodded in understanding what Nami was saying.
"Hold up, there's more then one type of Devil Fruit?" Mina asked.
"Oh yeah, there are three in total. Paramecia, Zoan, and Logia. I'll educate you on them some time." Robin said.
"Prayers over." Luffy stated, before he went to untie the knots. "Here goes."
Once the rope was removed, Kaen's nose caught a whiff of something, something familiar, and he ran at Luffy, tackling him down.
"Get down." He called out, right before the lid to the barrel went off like a bomb, and a giant flare shot into the air.
"Whoa, what was that?" Luffy questioned. "How'd you know that was there?"
"Gun powder. I caught a whiff of it coming from the barrel after the ropes were removed." Kaen explained. "This area on the sea probably is set up for a trap. An' we just took the bait."