(Back on the Shore)

Leo, Zoro, Pewtoe, and Chopper were now on the shore looking at the remain of the race with Alisa.

"Dammit." Leo said pounding the ground in frustration.

" Are you okay Leo?" Pewtoe said

"No i'm not I can't believe I let myself be caught off guard like that." Leo said

"Relax Leo it happens to the best of us sometimes...its all up to Gwen and Whiplash along with the rest of the Straw Hat crew to finish this race. You all did your best out there, but I wish I was there with you." Alisa said

"Oh no, don't be feeling guilty Alisa you were in no shape to participate in this round, and besides what would've happened if you fell into the ocean like me?" Leo said

"Yeah I get your point, I can't really do anything right now at the moment, hopefully the next round will be more suitable for me to participate in. I'm through standing around having you fight without your captain." Alisa said blowing a strand of hair from her face.


Come on we gotta catch up as fast as we can." Sanji said paddling fast with an oar.

"Well what do you want us to do padel with our arms, we only have two oars." Cray said

Luffy then looked and noticed a broken board laying right by Gwens feet.

"Hey Gwen could you pass me that piece of broken board." Luffy said

"What are you going to do?" Gwen said handing him the board

"Just watch." Luffy said holding the board horizontally with both hands Luffy then quickly started to twist his arms together as much as he could and then placed his arms in the water behind the boat

"GUMO GUMO NO...PROPELLER!" Luffy yelled as he let loose

"the four of them then felt themselves being propelled forward in a break neck pace.

"Yeah we'll catch up to them in no time with this speed." Cray said

WERE COMING NAMI-SAN! ROBIN-CHAN!" Sanji yelled out


"Damn there fast!" Nami yelled

"Yeah we'll never catch up to them at this rate." Ussop said

"HEY YOU GUYS!" Gwen yelled

"NAMI SAN-!, ROBIN CHAN!" Sanji yelled

All of them turned and then saw, The Raging bull heading towards them at very fast pace.

"GWEN!" Whiplash yelled waving his arm and Tentacle at her.

"Were coming in to fast well be passing by them!" Gwen yelled

"Don;t worry I have an idea...GET READY YOU GUYS!" Cray yelled at nami and the other

"READY FOR WHAT!?" Ussop and Cray yelled

"JUST HOLD ONTO SOMETHING TIGHT!" Cray yelled

suddenly they then Quickly passed by Nami and the others.

SNAPPER HAND!" Cray yelled launching the rainbow colored hand at the raft grabbing the front of it. the Barrel Tiger was now riding right behind them.

"YEAH NOW WERE GETTING SOMEWHERE!" Ussop yelled

all of them then can see that there catching up Porche and Capote.

"SEE YA LOSERS!" Nami yelled as they passed them.

"WHAT THE HELL!?" Capote yelled

"YEAH THIS IS IT! WERE IN THE LEAD WE GOT THIS RACE IN THE BAG!" Cray yelled

Then suddenly everything then started to slow down.

were slowing down." Gwen said

"Luffy whats wrong?" Cray said

"ugggghhhh i'm to tired..went on for to long, going to sleep noooow." Luffy said exhausted as he layed there with half of his body in the water.

"Come on Luffy you can't be tired now were in the lead!" Cray said pulling Luffy up onto the boat shaking him to get up.

"BYE LOSERS!" Capote yelled as they passed them all.

"Are you kidding me!?" cray said

"WE JUST PASSED THEM!" Nami yelled

"Great." Gwen said

"(sigh), this is annoying...well I guess I have no choice...Nami, Robin could you please move out of the way." Whiplash said walking to the front of the boat.

"What are you planning on doing?" Nami said

"You'll see." Whiplash said

Whiplash then jumped into the water.

"Sanji, Gwen could you move the raft closer to each other?" Whiplash said

Sanji and Gwen then moved closer to the barrel tiger as they were told as Whiplash swam close.

"What are you doing?" Cray said

whiplash then moved one of his tentacles and attached it to the the Barrel tiger he then attached the other one to the Raging bull

"Your not seriously going to try to pull both boats by yourself?" Sanji said

"What? you don't think he can do it? have you ever seen a fishman in action when there in water?" Gwen said

Sanji then thought back at Cocoyasi Village when he fought Kuroobi, he then cringed a little.

"Oh yeah I've seen one before...(I wish i can forget it)." Sanji said in his head

"Are you sure you could handle all of us even, if were paddling?" Robin said with her arms crossed

"Theres no harm in trying is there?...all right everyone keep your hand and feet in the boat at all times and enjoy the ride." Whiplash said

"Come on Whiplash enough with the jokes." Gwen said

"Okay...HERE WE GO!" Whiplash yelled

Whiplash then started to Front crawl as fast as he could pulling the two boats, and to there surprise they were going alot faster then they expected.

"Woah I didn't see that coming?" Nami said

"Its not super fast but were getting somewhere, come on lets paddle!" Cray said

Ussop, Robin, Cray and Sanji were all paddling as they could see themselves getting close to the Cutie-Wagon. but as they were getting closer they then noticed big large pieces of coral sticking out of the ocean along with weird currents forming around it.

"Hey look at that? whats going on there?" Sanji said

Whiplash then looked at the currents he then made a quick stop.

"Everyone stop paddling!" Whiplash yelled

"Why whats the matter?" Gwen said

"Take a look." Whiplash said

"Whats going on with those wierd current?" Cray said

"Well this is great how are we suppose to cross it? Look Porche and her team are going to head straight towards it no problem?" Ussop said

All of them looked and noticed that Porche, Capote and Monda try to make there way towards it only for them spin out of control and sending them back.

"Oh...never mind." Ussop said

"Don't worry I will be able to get you guys through here no problem but I'm going to needs some help, Nami, will you help me navigate through this Coral reef?" Whiplash said

"Heh, Sure..ALRIGHT EVERYONE FULL SPEED AHEAD!" Nami yelled


"what is going on? come on Monda you can do it!" Porche yelled

They were then passed by the S.H.S Allaince

"HELLO AGAIN LOSERS!" Whiplash yelled this time.

"WOAH FOLKS IT LOOKS LIKE THE S.H.S ALLIANCE IS HEADING TOWARDS THE CORAL REEF IN POSTHASTE! AND NOW THE FOUR BOATS ARE ENTERING THE LONG CORAL REEF AT THE SAME TIME!" itomimizu said

As they were getting ready to head straight through, an arrow then whisked right by them planting on one of the Corals releasing a large amount of Smoke blocking there vision.

"What the..?" ussop said

Fuehfehfehfeh!"

On the Shoreline there was Foxy laughing with one of his crew members Hamburg by his side

"AHH THERE IT IS AT LAST THE DEVILISH INTERFERENCE FROM YOU KNOW WHO!" Itomimizu yelled

(Cough)(cough) Smoke Screen are you kidding me?" Cray said

"That damn idiot is cheating!" Gwen yelled

"I can't see a damn thing." Sanji said

"Operation white out is a success! lets you all get through this coral maze blind!" foxy yelled in triumph

"Success? Ha." hamburg snickered

"Then out of the smoke came the Two Boats.

"WHAT HOW IN THE WORLD!?" Foxy yelled bug eyed

Whiplash then emerged from underneath the water still able to pull the two boats through the smoke screen.

"I may not have been able to see outside of the water but under its clear enough for me." Whiplash said

"Yes way to go Whiplash." Gwen yelled

The Boats were then traversing through the Coral Reef. Suddenly they felt themselves being moved on there own

"Hey whats going on its moving by itself, Whiplash are you alright?" Ussop said

"I'm fine." Whiplash said

"This a maze of sea currents the whirlpool up ahead is causing strange currents in the reef full with smaller whirlpools, so really we don;t need to see ahead at all, the currents will carry us through as long as we take the right entrance." Nami said smiling to herself

"AWESOME THATS THE POWER OF OUR NAVIGATOR!" Ussop yelled

"WAY TO GO NAMI-SAN!" Sanji yelled

"Yeahhh about that, its not really quite that simple taking the right entrance." Whiplash said

Nami then looked at whiplash with a dissatisfied look.

"Oh and whys that?" Nami said

"The Coral that is sticking from underneath the water, it wouldn't be such a problem if they weren't so big and in different shapes and sizes but thanks to the large numbers of them its making the currents that were flowing through unpredictable meaning the currents are coinciding with each other, mixing them up and there current flows" Whiplash said

"Meaning.." Ussop said

"Suddenly they felt themselves being turned in another direction.

"It means that the solution getting to the entrance changes the more we head forward, its like constantly being hit with crossroads we need to be sure the currents we take head us in the right direction to the entrance...QUICK TO THE LEFT!" Whiplash yelled puling the boats

They then turned in that direction but the Raging Bull then felt itself being carried away in other current. and Whiplash was barely hanging to it was becoming to strong. and then the tentacle gave way as it detached from the boat.

"Trienta Fleur." robin said

Arms then sprouted from the Barrel Tiger and grabbed a holdd of the the Raging bull as Robin was helping pull the Boat back to there current.

"Woah that was a close one?" Cray said

"Thank you Robin." Whiplash said

robin just smiled with her arms crossed

"Your amazing Robin-Chan!" Sanji yelled

"IT SEEMS THAT THE S.H.S ALLIANCE SEEMS TO BE PULLING THROUGH BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THERE HEADING TOWARDS THE DEADLY LONG RING WHIRLPOOL!" itomimizu yelled

"MAN ITS JUST ONE PROBLEM AFTER ANOTHER!" Ussop yelled as they were getting close to the Whirlpool. whiplash Quickly got back onto the boat.

"Ussop you need to fire it." nami said

"Fire what?" Ussop said

"The Impact dial." nami said

"But we don't have that with us right now sorry. "Ussop said quickly

"We have it right here." nami said holding it

"Wait where did you find that?" Ussop said scared

"Hurry! before were sucked in the Whirlpool!" nami said

"You've used it before you told me the last time you did it it nearly blew your shoulder off." Ussop said

"Thats okay, I don't mind." Nami said

"Thats because your not doing it." Ussop said

"What are you two talkign about?" Whiplash said

"Nami wants me to use an Impact Dial to jump us out of the whirlpool..But I'm sure you should strong enough to get us out of this whirlpool right you are a fishman afterall." Ussop said

"Sorry I may have been able to deal with small whirlpools but this one, thats all you." Whiplash said

"ARE YOU SERIOUS!?" Ussop yelled

"HURRY UP THERES NOT MUCH TIME!" Nami yelled

Good Luck Ussop." Cray, Luffy and Sanji said giving him a thumbs up.

Ussop just had a scared expression on his face.

"ah well...I had a good life." Ussop said taking the impact from Nami

Ussop used the dial in the water in the back of the boat While robin kept hold of the Raging bull with her Trienta Fleur. Ussop activated the Dial which caused all of them to be sent flying high into the air as they were sent forward above the Giant whirlpool and over a large piece of land called the Long Cape. But as they were passing the Long Cape something unfortunate happened, the piece that Robin was holding onto snapped off.

"OH NO IT SNAPPED OFF!" the four of them yelled

Cray, Gwen, Luffy and Sanji then looked as they were high above the large piece of land ready to plummet down

"Ahhhhh!" Gwen yelled as she was falling along with others very quickly. She quickly closed her eyes just waiting for the pain to arrive.

As they crashed down with a thud leaving there boat in a complete wreck. Gwen opened her eyes looking at the clear blue skiy and surprisingly she didn't feel any pain, instead she felt warm hands holding her stomach tight she then started to move her head left and right wondering whats going on.

"Don't worry Gwen-chan I used myself to help cushion your fall, your safe." Sanji said kind of in pain.

"Oh why thank ya kindly...now...WOULD YOU PLEASE LET GO OF ME!?" Gwen yelled feeling uncomfortable


"WHAT A SHAME THE RAGING BULL IS OUT OF THE RACE!" Itomimizu yelled

the Barrel Tiger crashed into the water.

"Phew we made it across. good work Ussop." Nami said

"AHHHH! My shoulder! it feels like its been blown clean off!" Ussop yelled holding his arm in pain

"Oh your right, our shoulders socket is out of place." Whiplash said

Whiplash went to Ussop and then wrapped his tentacles around his arm.

"Hey what are you..."

"POP!"

"AHHHHHHHHH OWWWWW!" Ussop yelled lying on the boat on his back passed out.

"There you go problem solved." Whiplash said

"NAMI SAN WERE SORRY BUT YOU ALL ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FINISH THIS RACE ON YOUR OWN! DON'T WORRY ABOUT US WERE FINE!" Sanji yelled out

"BUT IT SEEM THAT THE BARREL TIGER IS STILL IN THE RACE, DOES THIS SPELL DEFEAT FOR THE INDOMITABLE CUTIE WAGON!" itomimzu yelled

"WE UNDERESTIMATED THEM A LITTLE BIT! HANG ON PORCHE-CHAN!" Capote yelled

"I'm counting on you two!" Porche-chan

"COMBINE! TWO FISH ENGINE!" Capote yelled jumping into Mondas Mouth Leg first with his upper body sticking out Capote then started to swim while Monda helped as they were traversing the Coral Reef maze at a fast pace.

"WOAH IT SEEMS THERE NOT DONE YET! THEIR FISHMEN MUSCLE AND SHARK FIN COMBO DOUBLES THERE SPEED! THEY ZIP THROUGH THE ZIP THROUGH THE CORAL AND TURBULENT WAVES TO CLOSE THE GAP! THE RACE IS HALF OVER AND MEANWHILE THE BARREL TIGER PADDLES DESPERATELY AS ONE OF THERE TEAM MEMBERS PULLS THEM! FORWARD!" Itomimzu yelled out.

"USSOP COME ON GET UP!" nami yelled padeling

Ussop then woke up.

"Where am I?" Ussop said

"Just start paddling." nami said

"Your arm was twisted in an odd direction, but not to worry the Fishmen navigator aligned it back to normal." Robin said nonchalentely

"Hey guys I see a sign that says go right." Whiplash said pointing a sign that mysteriously came out of nowhere

"Oh alright then i guess we should go right...THROUGH IT!" Nami yelled kicking it out of the way. Leaving Foxy in a state of shock again

"OH MY IT SEEMS THAT OUR BOSSES'S PLOY #18, "Lie to Them" HAS FAILED! TRULY FORMIDABLE DOES THIS GIRL NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING!" itomimizu yelled

"SHUT UP YOU!" Nami yelled up at Itomimizu

"SHES FOUL MOUTHED TO! THE BARREL TIGER IS STILL IN THE LEAD!" itomimizu yelled

Foxy on the other hand was still trying to stop the Barrel tiger by any means even by dressing as a dying old lady while Hamburg played as his grandson asking for help but to no avail. the other attempt was putting a fake finish line to try to slow them down but just like the sign, Nami looked through it kicked it out of the way as well.

"FIRST THE OLD LADY TRICK AND NOW THE FAKE FINISH LINE THIS WOMAN IS COMPLETELY HEARTLESS AND LACKING TRUST IN PEOPLE! I'VE NEVER SEEN A WOMAN THIS COLD!" Itomimizu yelled out

"I SAID SHUT UP I'M NOT STUPID ENOUGH TO FALL FOR DUMB TRICKS LIKE THAT!" Nami yelled

"AND SHES STILL FOUL MOUTHED!" Itomimizu yelled

"Come on Capote Monda were almost catching up to them go faster!" Porche-chan yelled

"THE CUTIEE WAGON IS ALMOST ON THE BARREL TIGERS TAIL!" Itomimizu yelled

"I think its about time we sink that pitiful boat do you agree?" Capote said

"One Hundred Percent. GO CAPOTE!" Porch yelled

"ALRIGHT MONDA READY!...TWO FISH TORPEDO!" Capote yelled

Monda with all his strength then Spat out Capote at a fast pace right towards the Barrel Tiger.

"I see the real finish line out in the distance were almost there." robin said

"Yes were gonna win this! Hey Ussop check out how far the other boat is" Nami yelled

Ussop the looked and noticed something heading towards them fast.

"DAAAAH its that fish man guy and he's heading straight for us really fast With his fist straight out I think he's going to try to ram us! WERE GOOD AS SUNK!" Ussop yelled

Whiplash then Quickly detached himself from the front of the boat and quickly went to the back.

"Whiplash what are you doing!?" Ussop yelled

"JUST KEEP GOING!" Whiplash yelled

Capote was mere second away from hitting the boat.

"Your Boat is done for!" Capote yelled

Whiplash then Quickly Put his Tentacles in front of him and as Capote fist made contact it created a huge splash of water shooting it in the sky.

"Capote then looked, and was disappointed that what he hit wasn;t the boat, but Whiplash's Large tentacles that were out in front of him

"YOU! YOU RUINED MY ATTACK!" Capote yelled

"Whiplash then went into a fighting Stance.

"Fishman Karate...IKA KUCHIBASHI Suitoraiku! (Squid Beak Strike)" Whiplash yelled

Whiplash's two tentacles then started to Strike Capote in the face and chest area at a quick pace it sent Capote back a few feet.

"Errr, I see you know a little bit of fishman karate yourself." Capote said

"Well I had a good Teacher." Whiplash said

"Oh yeah? Well lets see you deal this!" Capote yelled dashing towards him. Whiplash Quickly blocked the kick attack but was then surprised as he quickly changed formation and Frontflip Kicked him right on top of his head sending him down into the water. Whiplash Quickly Swam up and Upper cutted Capote as both of them emerged from the water. Surprising Porche.

"Capote what are you doing!?" Porche said

"Just Finish the race I'll handle with this second rate fishman." Capote said

"Alright then Come on Morda! Full speed ahead!" Porche yelled as she went by them

"Well come on show me what you got!" Capote yelled

Whiplash just stayed there.

"WELL!?" Capote said

Whiplash just continued to look at him, he went into a karate stance. and with one of his tentacles he made a "Come at me" gesture with it

"FINE LETS SEE YOU HANDLE THIS!" Capote yelled coming at him with a deadly Sea Speed Drop kick Whiplash Quickly blocked it and countered with a high kick of his own which was countered again by a hand chop. Both of them were then rapidly dodging and countering each others attacks.

"IKA Amutorappu (Squid Arm Trap)!" Whiplash yelled

Whiplash then Quickly wrapped one of Capotes arm as he went for an incoming punch towards him. the Tentacle then forcefully stuck right into Capote's arm he then felt his arm begin forcefully crushed

"AHHHH!" Capote yelled trying to get the tentacle off of his arm

"The more you struggle the more it'll get tighter." Whiplash warned him

He Quickly pulled him in and then readied for another kick which hit Capote in the gut dead on.

"HA Got Ya." Capote yelled smiling devilishly but still in pain

"Birrufishi Suitoraiku" Capote yelled

Capote then formed his free arm into a hand and stuck whiplash in the Chest, feeling the pain hit straight through though it didn't puncture him, Whiplash grunted in pain that he let go of Capote as he clenched his chest area. Capote went for another Strike but Whiplash dodged and swam down.

"Ha! already had enough after that move!? You really are pathetic!" Capotes yelled chasing after him

"Whiplash then turned towards Capote as he started to swim backwards as he could see Capote Swimming straight for him. Capote then put his hands together put his arm straight out infront of him.

"Fishman Karate...BIRRUFISHI YARI!" Capote yelled as he rapidly spinned towards Whiplash with his hands together out in front him like a spear.

"I need to finish this bastard off quick...I'm exhausted..this last attack will give everything I got left." Whiplash said in his head

Everything went slow as Whiplash was concentrating on his next Technique he then formed his two tentacles in front of him and formed a circle as he pulled it close to his face he then pulled his arms back and then waited as Capote got closer to him

"Fishman Karate...IKATAIRU SEIKEN! (Squid Brick Fist)" Whiplash yelled

He then threw the two tentacles and his two fists infront of him as he let out a strong shock wave towards Capote at first nothing happened but then suddenly Capote then unexpectedly stopped spinning as he could feel himself being pulled back with such powerful force, the force was to much and he was then propelled back up to the surface as he was launched into the sky and crashing right back onto land.

"CAPOTE!" The Foxy crew yelled out as they saw there fish man lying on the ground unconscious.

Whiplash then came to the surface as he pulled himself onto land, on his knees and hands breathing heavily exhausted, coughing out water and a little bit of blood.

"WHIPLASH!"

Whiplash looked up and noticed Gwen Alisa along with the rest of the crew and straw hats that were eliminated from the race running towards him.

"Oh hey guys."Whiplash said

"Here let me help you up." Alisa said grabbing his arm

"Thank you Captain." Whiplash said

"Oh come on quit being so formal." Alisa said

"Okay fine then...Ally." Whiplash said kidding around

Alisa then punched him in the shoulder.

"Ow." whiplash said

"Oh Whiplash I'm so glad your all right, we saw what you did that other guy he came crashing down hard what the hell did you do?" Gwen said

"Like I told that poor bastard lying on the ground unconscious, I had a good teacher." Whiplash said ready to take off his beanie to ring it dry but as he did he quickly covered the top of his head with his two tentacles but there was slight glimpse of what looked like a burnt mark on top of his head.

"So how is the Barrel Tiger? are we winning?" whiplash said

"Yeah there in the lead right now...look." Cray said pointing

they could the See the Barrel Tiger alogn with Cutie Wagon neck in neck.

"COME ON GUYS YOU CAN DO IT!" Cray yelled

"YOU GOT THIS NAMI-SWAN!" Sanji yelled

But as they were getting close to the finish line they notice Hamburg and Foxy running along the sidelines.

"What is he doing!?" Cray said

"Probably going to pull one those stupid tricks like last time I wouldn't worry about." Whiplash said

then suddenly foxy did something that shocked all of them he did weird hand sign and suddenly large pink flash appeared along with weird pink wavelengths hitting the Barrel Tiger, they were suddenly slowing down.

"WHAT JUST HAPPENED WHAT DID HE DO!?" Cray yelled

"Wait a minute that flash it was the same one that caught us off guard a while back...he must have some sort of devil fruit power!" Gwen yelled

Suddenly the whistle was blown.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMAN I GIVE YOU ARE WINNER AND STILL UNDEFEATED! PORCHE-CHAN AND HER CUTIE WAGON!" Itomimizu yelled out.

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