Chapter 88
WORLD ECONOMY NEWS
The entire office of the World Economy News was in shambles! Papers flew around the room as stressed employees talked on phones trying to verify information.
"You'd better not be pulling my leg with this one!" A man yelled into the phone.
"No way! Are you serious!?" Another woman yelled.
In the middle of the office the giant Albatross boss, Big News Morgans stood with his wings behind his back.
"The Grand Line is completely overrun with this "DEATH" organization? Frank G of the Coated Pirates have defeated Big Mom? Kaido, THE KING OF BEASTS HAS MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED!... and to top it all off, Red-Haired Shanks has also been murdered! THIS IS BIG NEWS!" Morgans yelled.
"You! Has there been any word on the shinobi!?" Morgans asked a random worker.
"After their attack on the Holy Land they went dark on us!" The worker answered.
"Damn! We have to find some evidence that the shinobi want vengeance! We've already pushed the agenda!" Morgans yelled, "I'm going to my office, I need these articles out right away!"
"YES SIR!" The office yelled.
Morgans sat down in his office and pulled out his type writer.
"Who is DEATH? What do they want? It's not a pirate who wants pirate king title, nobody even knows who the leader is! Think Morgans think!" Morgans continued typing, "Whoever was behind the Assult on the Holy Land didn't take control at the top of the world... so there was something deeper they were there for... "
Morgans rolled back to his bookshelf and pulled out an old paper.
The article read, "100,000 dead. Everyone killed in Marineford overnight."
"This was 22 years ago... could they have been behind this too? An attack of a Government facility with nothing left to show for it than the bodies left behind... what were or are they searching for?!" Morgans stressed, "Why attack and leave it at that? What could they have wanted? A devil fruit? Break out a friend? No no no no only civilians were killed when Marineford was attacked... nothing was taken and no notable figures died that day... was it... retaliation!?" Morgans yelled.
Morgans rolled back to another shelf and grabbed a newspaper from the Ohara incident.
"YES! 22 years ago the island of Ohara was completely annihilated! That seems more than enough of a reason to seek revenge on the Government... but who would want revenge? Nico Robin was a mere child at the time!" Morgans yelled.
Morgans rolled to another shelf and grabbed wanted posters distributed at that time.
"They had to have found out who was behind it! They had to!" Morgans yelled as he shuffled through the posters. Morgans' hearts stopped when he found two particular posters.
WANTED, FOR THE MURDER OF 100,000, ONLY DEAD: "PSYCHO" UCHIHA
WANTED, FOR THE MURDER OF 100,000, ONLY DEAD: "URSA MAJOR" CYCLONE
Morgans' hands shook with sweat as he read their prices. The cold eyes of the two men staring into his soul.
"8 BILLION BERRIES EACH!" Morgans screamed, "But there's no way... these two could be behind this DEATH organization taking over Marineford and they definitely didn't mastermind the attack on the Holy Land... Not just two men! And this was 22 years ago... they're probably dead by now!" Morgans yelled, then he thought about it, "Wait... do not tell me!"
Morgans rolled over to another shelf to grab a recent paper with the image of a man on it, staring at the camera. Morgans froze with fear and reached over to the bounty poster of Psycho. Perfect match. Morgans choked with fear.
"N-N-N Im-IMPOSSIBLE! HE HASN'T AGED A DAY! But is this Psycho guy... BEHIND ALL THIS MADNESS! THIS IS BIG NEWS! No... a man from 22 years ago... still seeking revenge... THIS IS THE BIGGEST NEWS!" Morgans screamed at the top of his lungs.
Suddenly, a typing sound was heard. Morgans looked back at his type writer.
"What the hell..." Morgans said softly, rolling slowly towards the type writer as it typed.
After a few more moments it stopped. Morgans grabbed the paper while shaking uncontrollably. Morgans swallowed and read the note.
"If you're reading this. It is too late. You've already seen it." Morgans read.
Psycho's images in his bounty poster and the image from the paper showed a clear view of his sharingan.
"And thanks to you and your paper, Morgans, you've helped the rest of the world see it too." Morgans finished.
"See...See what!?" Morgans yelled.
The type writer typed up a few more words immediatley after.
"Peace."
Morgans breathed in and out slowly and full of fear.
"Sincerely, Psycho."
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Morgans yelled.
Back in reality, Morgans stared off in the distance. Outside his office, every employee was also under the same spell.
EGG HEAD ISLAND
"Take us to Vegapunk and nobody else has to die!" Collector yelled as he blasted a giant container with chemicals.
Who's-Who attacked scientists and destroyed projects as Cyclone walked through the island looking for Vegapunk.
"Nobody is saying anything your exellency!" Collector said.
"I believe we found someone willing to speak." Cyclone said with a smirk.
A version of Vegapunk, Shaka the good, spoke to Cyclone with his hands in his pockets.
"Cyclone, old friend, what's the meaning of all this." Shaka said.
Cyclone grabbed his sword.
"Take me to the real Vegapunk, right now, and I'm not going to ask you again." Cyclone said.
"But-" Shaka hurried and dodged as Cyclone sent a slash at him, cutting a giant structure in half.
Cyclone smiled.
"What am I thinking... I already know where he is." Cyclone said.
Shaka stared at Cyclone as Cyclone closed his eyes.
"Now!" Shaka yelled, pressing a button and 10 high powered lasers all firing at Cyclone's position!
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!
"Cyclone!" Who's-Who yelled.
"Excellency!" Collector yelled.
When the smoke cleared, Cyclone had a hand held out and one of his rinnegan active.
"No!" Shaka yelled.
"Big mistake." Cyclone said softly, blasting Shaka through the head.
"HAHAHA! THAT SHOWS HIM!" Collector said.
Cyclone opened his other eye that had taken the form of a blue gear that rotated in Cyclone's eye. In an upper Office, Through Vegapunk's perspective, Cyclone watched his attack on the island. All Government agencies had been destroyed and the Grand Line had enough problems, no one was coming to save Vegapunk now. Cyclone closed his gear eye and looked up towards the office.
"NO! HOW DID HE KNO-"
BOOOOOOOOM!
Vegapunk was interuppted by Cyclone blasting a hole in the wall. Cyclone, Who's-Who, and Collector all walked in. Vegapunk had a stream of blood running down his head.
"Hello, old friend." Cyclone said.
"C-C-Cyclone!" Vegapunk choked out.
"What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost." Cyclone said, "Or did you already know you did something wrong."
Vegapunk put his hands up as Cyclone smacked him across the room. Cyclone walked over to Vegapunk and slammed his head into equipment and threw him into a bunch of computers in the corner of the room.
"Cyclone please!" Vegapunk pleaded.
"Please what? The World's smartest man couldn't even guess this would happen? You told Kaido my secrets. You almost got me killed." Cyclone said.
"I told them all that information thinking it was dead knowledge! I told him you were most likely dead by the time I gave him the info he and his team were just so curious and they paid well!" Vegapunk said before being knee'd in the face.
"LIES! I read Kaido's mind and saw everything. You told him EVERYTHING... if not for Jambavan I might have died because of the info you gave Kaido." Cyclone said.
"Who the hell is Jambavan!?" Vegapunk asked, noticing a button.
"Oh, just a little devil fruit I invented for myself." Cyclone said.
Vegapunk's eyes widened.
"The bear bear fruit model Jambavan is based on the tale of a blue bear, Jambavan, who was born from his mothers mouth. When I "die" Jambavan takes over and eliminates my enemy, I then am regurgitated. Stronger than before." Cyclone said, "But that's not a form I usually have to resort to, but lately things from my past have been haunting me. For some reason I actually feel I could be defeated soon, but thats IMPOSSIBLE! I AM CYCLONE!" Cyclone yelled.
Vegapunk looked at the button again and lunged for it.
"STOP!" Cyclone yelled, "No! My clock eye isn't active right now!"
Vegapunk pressed the big red button and an alarm on the island went off.
Vegapunk sat up against the wall and smiled.
"I might die today... but so will your entire operation!" Vegapunk laughed, "You're an evil man Cyclone! Who should have died a long long time ago! I sold Kaido that information... hoping he could defeat you if you ever returned!"
Cyclone was boiling with rage.
"What... did you do." Cyclone asked.
Vegapunk made a determined face.
"Let's see how you feel... when 100,000 of your people are killed!" Vegapunk yelled.
Cyclone's eyes widened.
"NO!" Cyclone vanished out of sight and was instantly back at DEATH HQ, everyone was already looking up at the giant shadow in the sky. Robin, standing on the roof, stared up at the shadow.
"What... is that!?" Robin yelled.
"What the hell!?"
"Is this an attack!?"
"Everyone on guard!"
Everyone was in a panic. Until an extremely loud charging sound was heard. Cyclone's eyes widened even further as his fiace lit up along with the faces of everyone on the island. Robin couldn't believe what she was seeing as a gargantuan beam of light shot at the island from the sky.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The entire DEATH HQ base was destroyed in one giant beam. No trace of it left that it ever existed.
WHOLE CAKE ISLAND PORT
Branch, Rationingu, Seiya, and Misuta stared at Yugami.
"What is he saying blood man?" Branch asked.
"He's talking nonsense! I didn't betray anything!" Yugami yelled.
"You left me! To die!" Yamashiro repeated.
"You know that's not what happened. "Cook." Yugami said.
"What are we going to do about him?" Yamashiro asked.
"WE are going to wait until the captain gets back and then we'll discuss this... on top of the damage we've received he'll be rather upset to hear about assumptions of a rat..." Branch said.
Yamashiro grit his teeth and Yugami stared at Yamashiro. After a few minutes of waiting, Frank and Renji showed up.
"Captain!" Branch yelled.
The crew stood to their feet. Frank looked at his damaged crew.
"Somebody has to pay for this men! This inferior crew actually managed to do some damage to us! But I know it was because we were comprimised... and I already know who it is!" Frank said.
Yugami shook and Yamashiro glanced at Yugami.
"PSYCHO! He's the only one who could have tipped them off!" Frank said.
"But captain, what about our sister ships being compromised? Even Psycho didn't know they were there." Seiya said.
"That zombie probably has his ways." Frank said, "Now come on! We need to get out of here, the Government is sure to be sending Cipher Pol agents here to assess the damage." Frank said, being helped onto the boat. Renji glared at the Yamashiro and saw him glance at Yugami.
"Is there something we need to know?" Renji asked.
Frank looked back without turning around.
"N-No sir!" Yamashiro said. Yugami stared at Yamashiro.
"Then lets get the hell out of here!" Frank ordered as the crew got on board.
ISLAND OF GLUMBURG
After a while of sailing, Frank and his crew docked at the Island of Glumburg and sat by the beach and ate. They were all tuckered out from their fight with Big Mom.
"There's just no way they should have been that much of a match for us." Misuta said.
"If we had the world serpent formation we would have been gold. We had one boat versus an entire emperors' force." Branch explained.
"We took some damage but the job was done. Now get some rest you all." Renji said.
"All of you stop being so down! As your captain I order it!" Frank yelled.
Suddenly a innocent old man walked towards the crew.
"Hey there!" The voice said.
Frank and the crew looked back at the old man walking up with his hands outstretched.
"Mind if I warm my bones?" The man asked.
Frank stared at the man with untrusting eyes.
"Sure." Frank said.
The man got down on his knees and warmed his hands.
"Yupppp. You know this is Glumburg Home of the Trolls? You should be careful where you're camping." The man said.
Frank smirked and looked at the man.
"You threatening me old timer?" Frank said.
"I'm just sayin'... There's no way you would've ever docked here if you knew you destroyed our candy trade with the Big Mom Pirates." The man said.
Seiya immediately shot an arrow into the man's chest.
"GUAG!" The man coughed up blood and fell over.
"Excellent kill Seiya!" Frank yelled.
Seiya's eyes widened as he felt something coming towards them. Seiya looked to see a troll the size of a mountain in the distance. It looked like it just got done throwing something. It was a giant boulder!
"GET DOWN!" Seiya yelled loading up a bow with an impact dial attached to it. Seiya lined up his shot and fired.
The arrow crashed into the boulder and the impact dial exploded, destroying the boulder.
"EXCELLENT SHOT!" Frank yelled looking back with a smile, but Frank's smile went away slowly as he noticed Seiya's shocked face. Frank looked back and was shocked as well to see a line of trolls, all as big as mountains. Each troll had a boulder in their hands.
"You're kidding..." Branch said.
"Was this a set up too!?" Misuta yelled.
BOOOOOOOOOM!
An explosion took the Coated Pirate's attention off the trolls.
"THERE THEY ARE!" A commander for the Big Mom Pirates yelled out.
"We can't let them get away with Momma's murder!" Another yelled.
Frank became furious.
"YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" Frank yelled.
"They're boxed in! The trolls have the other side of the island locked down! Kill Frank G and the Coated Pirates!" A pirate yelled.
The trolls then loaded up their boulders and took turns throwing them at the Coated Pirates. At least 20 pirate ships fired cannonballs at the island.
Frank looked at Renji.
"Renji... it's time to put this crew to the test." Frank said.
Renji's eyes got wide.
"Captain... you can't be thinking!... We'll both be out for a while... are we sure they can escape this place?" Renji asked.
Frank smiled big.
"If these techniques work... there won't be any one alive to escape from!" Frank yelled.
Renji glared at Frank and nodded, pulling out his sword. Frank looked at the ships at sea and put the ends of his wrists together and pointed them at the sea. Frank began charging king's haki all over his body, shaking the island! Renji's sword slowly began to smoke and take over Renji as Rationingu, Branch, Seiya, Misuta, Yugami, and Yamashiro watched.
"What are we supposed to do!?" Misuta asked.
"Get back on the ship! We'll be lucky if there's anything left of this island when they're done!" Branch said.
Frank continued pumping his body with haki as Renji cut through the smoke, now in the form of a green ape with red eyes.
"ZOO SUBARU!" Renji said, with sharp teeth and steaming saliva dripping. The green ape wore Renji's robe around its waist and kept Renji's tiger striped bandana on as well as his red ponytail. Renji's sword had transformed into a giant long toothed sword that leaked wind.
"What the hell is that?!" Misuta yelled looking back.
"It's Renji's devil fruit! Zoo Subaru!" Branch said.
"What the hell are these devil fruits!?" Misuta asked.
"That's not important! Get ready for an immediate retreat once Frank and Renji have launched their attacks! The two will be knocked out for a while!" Seiya yelled.
Renji launched in the air and looked out over the boulders that flew towards his crew. Renji held the sword sideways as haki pumped through the sword and blew up Renji's ape arms to massive sizes! The sword began to shake from the wind building up inside it. Renji cocked the sword back like a baseball bat as red haki blasted out of the sword.
"RRRRAAAAHHHHH!" Frank yelled as his haki was almost at its limit. The Big Mom Pirates had made it to shore and ran towards Frank.
"Kill Frank before he can launch his attack!" A pirate yelled.
"ZOO SUBARU: CLOUDED GORILLA, COMBING CHOP!" Renji screamed as he sliced the air and seemed to cut reality itself. Almost instantly every boulder in the sky was cut in half, every troll that threw a boulder was cut in half, and the sea behind the trolls... was cut in half, creating a giant waterfall.
"WOAHHHHH! Is that really a devil fruit!?" Misuta asked.
"Vice Captain Renji ate the Mythical Ape ape fruit model: Zoo Subaru... a mythical zoan that allows the user manipulate the wind as a base ability... awakening the ability gives you access to Zoo Subaru the mythical green ape. Your abilites and strength are boosted one million fold..." Branch explained.
Yamashiro listened, as did Yugami.
"Why doesn't he use that all the time then?" Misuta asked.
"The same reason Captain Frank doesn't just go all out... the powers those two have... would easily kill a regular man." Branch said, "Devil fruits are a blessing and a curse. How many times do you think Captain Frank broke his arms creating shockwaves? You don't just eat a devil fruit and get powers... you bond with the fruit... it becomes a part of you." Branch explained, "Renji and Captain Frank aren't strong because of their devil fruits abilities... their devil fruit abilities are strong because of them!" Branch explained.
The crew watched as Frank looked back at Renji with a smile and then back at the pirates and the ships at sea.
"G!" Frank yelled. The pirates stopped.
"FLASH!" Frank screamed and blasted a ginormous beam of haki at the sea splitting it in half! Every ship and pirate was swallowed alive by the beam. The haki beam travled off the sea and into the sky, eventually making it out to space. All that rest in front of Frank was a giant split crater and a permanent split in the ocean. Frank smiled and fell to his knee.
"I leave the rest to you all!" Frank fell over unconcious. Renji was already on the ground in the same condition. Branch, Rationingu, Seiya, Yugami, and Misuta ran out of the boat to go get them. Yamashiro looked around at the destruction.
"All that power left after the fight in Totto land... amazing." Yamashiro said.
"Yamashiro, Come on! We've got to go now! If Cipher Pol wasn't on us already they definitely are now!" Branch said.
"No. We're staying here." Yamashiro said with a much deeper and serious voice.
"What? Who the hell do you think you're talking to rookie!" Seiya yelled.
"Silence! We're staying here." Yamashiro said.
Branch handed Renji to Misuta and walked over to Yamashiro.
"Look you damn cook we're leaving this island. NOW-
CLICK
"YOU'LL DO AS YOU'RE TOLD! BRANCH "THE LONG LEG!" Yamashiro yelled pointing a gun in Branch's face.
Branch and the others were taken back by his tone.
"Coated Pirates, you are hereby under arrest on behalf of the World Government." Yamashiro said.