Chapter 34

Psycho breathed in and out as he looked at his left hand as it secreted darkness. He lifted his right hand and balled his fist, this time forming a white orb around it. Everyone watched with amazement.

"Did… did… did he take his abilities!?" A DEATH member asked.

"That's what it… looks like!" Another member noted.

"How the hell did he do that!?"

Blackbeard fell over and onto his side, still barely alive. His captains had already been slain by the DEATH generals: Kaku, Lucci, Cyclone, and Kuro. Crocodile still held Sakazuki's face up to witness the stealing of Blackbeard's powers. Sakazuki was stunned.

"He… stole his abilities! How is that… even possible?" Sakazuki said, looking at Psycho, who's back was to him. "So… his comments about Borsalino were true…"

MARIEJOIS A FEW MONTHS AGO

Fleet admiral Sakazuki was filing paperwork in his office while the former fleet admiral, Sengoku, fed his goat. A marine officer walked in.

"Fleet admiral, sir." The officer said, saluting.

Sakazuki looked up with a cigar in his mouth.

"We want you to approve the bounty we've put on Frank G. Junior." The officer said.

Sakazuki growled. Sengoku smiled at the mention of Frank G. Junior.

"Is he still up to no good!? What did he do now?" Sakazuki asked, annoyed.

"Apparently he's been a major problem in the new world. He attacked fishman island and has been reportedly at blows with the emperor "Big Mom" Charlotte Linlin." The officer explained.

Sakazuki growled again.

"These damn pirates will never know order!" Sakazuki said, stamping the paperwork that raised Frank G. Junior's bounty to B 1,980,543,000, "If it gets any higher than this I'll deal with him myself! Now get out! And where is Borsalino?! He should've been back from Sabaody ages ago!" Sakazuki yelled.

The officer paused.

"Uh, fleet admiral? Did you want me to tell you that before or after I left?" The officer asked.

Sakazuki became and enraged.

"GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" Sakazuki screamed.

The marine officer got scared and ran out of the room and into Admiral Kizaru. He hurried and saluted the admiral.

"Sorry for that! Admiral Kizaru!" The officer said.

Kizaru looked down at him with gloom.

"It's fine officer." Kizaru said softly, walking into Sakazuki's office.

The navy officer watched Kizaru walk into the office and was confused.

"What's up with the admiral? Why's he so gloomy? And isn't he light? I ran right into him…" The officer thought to himself.

As Sakazuki continued paperwork Kizaru walked in and sat on the sofa. He rested his elbows on his knees and put his chin in his hands. It didn't take long for the fleet admiral to notice this, as well as Sengoku.

"What the hell's wrong with you? What happened at Sabaody with that man who killed that family of celestial dragons?" Sakazuki asked.

Kizaru sighed. Sengoku became serious.

"Spit it out!" Sakazuki yelled.

Kizaru looked up at Sakazuki and smiled. Sakazuki looked at Kizaru with shock hidden behind his angry face. Kizaru took off his navy admiral jacket and set it on the desk.

"What is this? What the hell are you doing?" Sakazuki asked.

Kizaru smiled and turned to walk away.

"I don't have the power to continue fighting for the navy. I'm resigning… I'll see you around." Kizaru said as he walked out of the room.

Sakazuki and Sengoku both stared in silence, confused about what just happened.

PRESENT

Sakazuki continued to stare at Psycho, who lifted his head and turned around to look at the fleet admiral.

"Revenge." Psycho said softly.

Crocodile continued to hold Sakazuki's head up. Sakazuki was confused.

"Earlier in this battle, I attempted to tell you something about revenge. Do you remember?" Psycho asked.

FLASHBACK

"Imagine coming out here with the intention of revenge to be dominated like this. It must be embarrassing, let me tell you something about revenge fleet admiral."

END OF FLASHBACK

Sakazuki groaned from Crocodile's grasp.

"Revenge… defined as inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands. It can be a truly powerful asset to someone as it gives them power and energy they didn't even know they had all for the sake of beating said person they want revenge on." Psycho explained.

Sakazuki coughed up a little blood and mucus.

"But that's not always a good thing. Revenge can get a man in over his head as well. You and I are examples of good and bad revenge." Psycho said, walking over to the fleet admiral. Psycho looked at Crocodile and nodded. Crocodile dropped the fleet admiral to his knees and stood on his back. Psycho stomped on the ground and a small rock came up which Psycho sat down on.

"You and Teach… destiny brought you both to me. So that I could be the one to defeat you and lay their souls to rest." Psycho said softly.

"Their… souls?" Sakazuki asked.

Psycho nodded.

"Thatch, Ace, Newgate… and all those Oharans… None of them deserved to die the way they did. I asked myself all the time why I had to bear witness to their deaths'. Little did I know though… that I would be the one responsible for getting revenge for them. I've trained my mind and body to be ready for the day I saw the both of you, so that… I wouldn't go overboard and lose my life to make sure you lost yours… kind of how you acted today…" Psycho said.

Sakazuki clenched his teeth.

"Your insane hatred for me for what I did to your forefathers here in Marineford, to what I did to those celestial dragons, and… for what I did to Borsalino, got you beaten here today. Funny thing is though, I hate you a lot more than you hate me. When I saw you standing across from me before this battle began… I haven't been filled with that much hatred for one man in a long long time." Psycho explained.

Sakazuki got angry.

"WHAT THE HELL DID I DO TO YOU!? I'M THE ONE WITH BLOOD BOILING HATRED TOWARDS YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR!" Sakazuki yelled.

Psycho stared at Sakazuki with a straight face. Sakazuki retracted a little as he stared back at Psycho.

"I already told you what you did. You ordered the destruction of a boat with nothing but innocents on board." Psycho said.

Robin slowly started to wake up. She sat up and held her hand to her head and looked at it. Full of blood.

"What… what happened?" Robin asked.

Robin looked next to her and saw a man sitting next to her, it was Cyclone. Cyclone was reading his favorite book as Robin watched him.

"Is this the same guy who was killing people and going crazy on the battlefield?" Robin asked herself.

Cyclone looked down at her.

"So, you're awake?" Cyclone asked.

Robin nodded and looked around.

"What… what's going on now?" Robin asked.

Cyclone looked down at his book.

"Take a look up and see for yourself."

Robin looked around and almost screamed. The battlefield was full of dead navy officers with DEATH members mixed in a little, but they had been wiped out. She looked over at Psycho, who was talking to Sakazuki and Blackbeard laying not too far away, both arms cut off and dying. Before Robin could ask anything else she overheard the conversation.

"THEY WEREN'T INNOCENT! THEY HELD INFORMATION THAT COULD DESTROY THE WORLD!" Sakazuki yelled.

Robin gasped.

"Could they be talking about…" Robin said to herself.

"THE OHARAN'S WERE GOING TO USE THEIR ABILITIES TO READ THE PONEGLYPHS TO REVIVE THE ANCIENT WEAPON PLUTON!" Sakazuki argued.

Psycho chuckled.

"You couldn't be more wrong, fleet admiral. The Oharan's had no interest in reviving such a useless weapon. All they wanted was to learn more about this world and its history. Nothing more and nothing less." Psycho said softly, "Then you navy came in and ruined everything."

Sakazuki groaned.

"Why does somebody like you care about them? A cold-blooded killer who cares about nobody but himself! A man who wiped out this island of loyal marines who did TRUE justice in taking out scum like you!" Sakazuki yelled.

"HA HA HA HA HA!"

Psycho's laugh caught everyone off guard. Even Cyclone, just a little.

"Loyal navy who did true justice? Again, what do you call killing an entire population off an assumption? Or killing another marine because he was scared he wouldn't survive the summit war?" Psycho asked.

DEATH members smiled. Sakazuki wore a nervous expression.

"Peace is such a complicated topic… I've spent so many years attempting to figure out the answer to finding true peace. My ways may seem unorthodox and some may even say hypocritical, but that's fine with me. Everyone will understand soon why I've taken the route I did. I will bear the hatred of this world so that everyone else can live in harmony. That is my goal." Psycho explained.

Sakazuki's head fell back on the ground.

"You also asked why I care so much about the Oharans…" Psycho said to himself, looking back at Robin.

Robin noticed Psycho looking at her and tensed up.

"What is he looking at?... Me?... What is he going to do?" Robin asked herself.

Psycho continued to look at the woman.

"Because the only other woman I've ever loved was from that doomed colony… Robin." Psycho thought, "I will always protect you no matter what."

Psycho looked back at Sakazuki.

"You know something, fleet admiral." Psycho started.

Sakazuki looked back up.

"What now?" Sakazuki asked, in pain and annoyed.

"The day I took Borsalino's powers… it wasn't just because his abilities were of major interest to me… I took his powers out of curiosity." Psycho admitted.

Sakazuki looked surprised.

"Curiosity?" Sakazuki asked.

Psycho nodded and stood up.

"As I said earlier, I roamed these lands for a very long time after leaving the ninja world. The first thing I noticed was how cocky even a regular citizen was with the added power of devil fruits. I began to ask myself every day "Where would these people be without these devil fruits?" As you could see, devil fruits to me are a mere bonus. I've trained myself in thousands of different techniques and skills to use in battle." Psycho explained.

Everyone listened as Psycho's deep but smooth voice sounded over the battlegrounds.

"I could've taken anyone's ability at any given time, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it as it wasn't the right moment. Then…" Psycho paused and walked over to Whitebeard's old bisento staff and picked it up.

"That day in Sabaody… when Kizaru approached me with that cool attitude of his… I could immediately sense that this stemmed from his glint glint fruit powers. I had finally found someone to test my theory against. It wasn't my hardest fight, to tell you the truth, I was very disappointed in him. After I killed his annoying nephew and took his powers he did exactly as I thought anyone would when they lost their abilities." Psycho said.

Sakazuki's eyes widened.

"He killed Kizaru's nephew!? He didn't tell us that!" Sakazuki thought.

"Kizaru gave up. And even told me to kill him. Can you imagine that? A man who was just so sure he could defeat me… wanted me to take his life when he lost his powers. Disgusting." Psycho turned and began to walk towards Sakazuki.

"Now… you've witnessed this same behavior again in Teach. Just look at him." Psycho said.

Everyone looked at Blackbeard twitch and groan on the ground. Psycho lifted his two arms and his left became darkness and his right formed a white orb. After a moment Psycho dispelled the abilities.

"That emperor level pirate is nothing more than a regular pirate captain, well, that's what he would be if he wasn't about to die here." Psycho said.

Sakazuki continued to stare at Psycho with rage.

"And now, fleet admiral, you will die here as well. With your death, as well as Teach's, every Oharan, Ace, Thatch, Whitebeard, and her… can rest in peace. Die here knowing the navy is over as of today, die here knowing that two people are still in this world who can read poneglyphs still exist…" Psycho stopped.

Robin became shocked.

"TWO people!? Who else can read poneglyphs like me?" Robin asked herself.

Psycho continued.

"Die knowing… that I lived…" Psycho said, raising the bisento staff.

Sakazuki looked up at Psycho, who looked down on him, and became enraged.

"WELL WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!? DO IT! I'LL NEVER BEG FOR MY LIFE LIKE THAT PITIFUL EXCUSE OF A VICE ADMIRAL!" Sakazuki yelled, looking at Tashigi's lifeless body.

"DO IT! DOOO ITTTTTT!" Sakazuki yelled.

Psycho nodded.

"You will be neither missed nor remembered… fleet admiral." Psycho said.

Psycho swung the bistento staff towards Sakazuki's body.

PPAAACEWWWWWWW BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!

A super huge explosion took out every remaining ship parked in the bay of Marineford. The shockwave blew DEATH members all over the place.

"SIR WHAT WAS THAT!?"

"IT'S A… IT'S A… PIRATE SHIP!"

"HA HA HA HA! DO THEY REALLY WANT TO CHALLENGE US!?"

A man o war ship with a skull and cross bones wearing a pirate captain coat jolly roger entered the bay as well as his incredible fleet of 250 allied ships. The head ship's huge 9ft tall pirate captain Frank G. Junior stood on its figurehead; arms crossed.

"FEEEEE HEEEEE HA HA HA HA!" Frank laughed.

The pirate crew celebrated.

"The captain's legendary bazooka took out 7 navy warships in one explosion!" A crew member said.

Frank stared at the island full of debris, fire, and corpses.

"My my my… what an incredible war." Frank smiled.

Psycho, Cyclone, and DEATH's army watched the massive fleet weigh anchor as the giant ship in front of them docked at the bay. The captain of the man o' war looked through the crowd at two people in particular. Frank's mouth began to literally water.

"PSYCHO! CYCLONE!" Frank yelled.

Psycho and Cyclone both looked at the large man out the corner of their eyes. Frank squatted and jumped from his ship doing an uncountable amount of front flips before landing. A small amount of dust showed up under him and then suddenly a massive shockwave rocked the ground knocking men out of the way and knocking some over. Psycho and Cyclone continued to watch the man.

"Was that haki!?" A DEATH member asked.

"I think it was!" Another DEATH member said.

Frank laughed.

"Feeee heeee ha ha ha! It's not haki you fools. That's nothing but pure power!" Frank answered, looking at Psycho and Cyclone, "Finally. It's been a long time, Psycho and Cyclone."

Psycho and Cyclone still stared at the man. Cyclone closed his book and stood up to cross his arms.

"Psycho…" Cyclone said.

Psycho looked over at Cyclone.

"Do you… remember this guy?" Cyclone asked.

Psycho shook his head slowly.

"No… I can't say that I do." Psycho answered.

Frank G. became shocked.

"AHHHHHHH THEY DON'T REMEMBER ME!" Frank yelled.

Frank's crew reacted behind him.

"HOW COULD HE NOT REMEMBER THE CAPTAIN!?" They all yelled in unison.

Frank became angry.

"It's me! Frank G. Junior of the coated pirates! Remember? I challenged you in Sabaody after you beat Kizaru?!" Frank yelled.

Psycho and Cyclone were still confused.

Frank clenched his fist and a white orb formed around it.

"THE ONE WHO COULD USE WHITEBEARD'S GURA GURA NO MI POWERS!?" Frank yelled louder.

Psycho's eyes widened a little bit and he looked at Frank's fist.

"I think… I do remember now." Psycho said softly.

Cyclone looked over at Pyscho.

"Yes… you're the weakling that tried to use Whitebeard's powers to beat me. Just another punk in over his head because of his devil fruit powers." Psycho said.

Frank clenched his fist and threw a punch cracking the air. Psycho looked at the incoming shockwave and slammed the side of his fist in the air cracking it himself and blasting an equal shockwave at Frank's. The blasts shook the island and when it settled Frank was impressed.

"So… you did do the technique I thought you did just moments ago." Frank said with a smile.

Psycho stared at him.

"Yes. I did." Psycho said.

Frank smiled and looked over at Blackbeard.

"Teach? Fee hee ha ha. You don't look so good." Frank joked, looking over at Sakazuki, "And the fleet admiral? What kind of battle went on here?"

Psycho looked at both men.

"A war to decide the direction this world will go in next…" Psycho said, "You've brought quite the army behind you… may I ask what you're doing here?"

Frank crossed his arms.

"Isn't it obvious? I want to fight you and Cyclone right now! I want to kill you both and have my name written in the hall of infamy as the man who killed the strongest men in the world! I brought my fleet to take out your petty soldiers." Frank said confidently, "As a matter of fact… looking at you it looks like the navy did quite a number on you!" Frank laughed.

Psycho looked at himself and up at Frank.

"Well, in my defense I did hold back quite a bit." Psycho said.

"NO EXCUSES! We'll fight right here and now and I will be the victor." Frank said.

Psycho stared at the tall man.

"Sorry, but that will have to wait. I'm on a strict schedule and fighting you and your fleet will take too much time… if I was to continue to hold back that is." Psycho said.

Frank clenched his teeth.

"If you'll excuse me, Frank…. I have business to conduct with the fleet admiral." Psycho said, looking back down at Sakazuki.

"Damn Psycho! Treating me like child's play! I've gotten a lot stronger since our last fight… it's true you wiped the floor with me… but you just gained that old bag's special ability… I've had it before I was even a pirate captain!... I'll entertain your demands for now… but when you finally have time… I'll end you with this awakened gura gura no mi power!" Frank thought to himself.

Psycho lifted his bisento staff above Sakazuki again only to be interrupted by a loud scream.

"PSSSSSYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" A loud young voice yelled out.

Everyone in attendance looked towards the front of the battlefield to see Luffy and Hancock standing tall. Kaku, Lucci, Doflamingo, Crocodile, Doflamingo, Cyclone, and Psycho all stared at the young man. Robin looked over to see her captain and tears came to her eyes.

"Luffy! No… why did you come here!? Please don't fight anyone over me! Please…." Robin thought to herself.

Frank G looked back at Luffy and smiled.

"Straw hat Luffy?" Frank said.

Doflamingo chuckled with evil intent.

"This just got interesting!" Doflamingo said.

"Straw hat Luffy… it's been a while." Lucci said.

"Straw hat Luffy…" Crocodile said.

Luffy looked around and saw all the familiar faces, destruction from war, and became shocked. Hancock was the same way.

"Why are so many of these big shot guys here?! What the hell happened here?" Hancock asked.

Luffy started to feel uneasy, remembering what happened in this exact same place only two years prior. Luffy shook his head and looked up to see his target, Psycho Uchiha, staring directly at him. Psycho was bruised, and cut in different locations, his face was a mess with blood. His leaf headband over his forehead.

"Monkey D. Luffy… I didn't expect to see you again so soon." Psycho said.

LONG RING LONG ISLAND

Arlong continued to stare at the straw hat shinobi with rage. He just couldn't seem to get the upper hand on them no matter what he did.

"ALL THIS DAMN TRAINING JUST TO BE ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THEM!? NO… NOT EVEN THE SAME LEVEL! BARELY ON IT! I'M NOT GOING TO BE BEATEN HERE! I'M NOT!" Arlong yelled to himself.

As Arlong became angrier the ground started to shake.

"What's he doing now!?" Usopp yelled.

Naruto, Sasuke, Law, and Sanji stared at the fishman.

"Hey, Sasuke? Do you think he's about to transform?" Naruto asked.

"I wouldn't rule it out. Stay on your toes, Naruto." Sasuke said.

Kakashi pulled out a kunai. Arlong continued to release world shaking anger as Franky, Chopper, Brook, and all the girls got to their feet and walked over to stand behind the men.

"So, you're all fine." Kakashi said.

"Yeah! We underestimated him honestly, but we ain't losing again!" Franky said.

Everyone looked back at Arlong who had squatted now.

"GRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Arlong screamed, cracking the ground below them.

Powerful winds blew incredibly hard at the heroes. Two more sets of arms came out of Arlong's body and two faces came out of both sides of his head. Everyone stared with shock at what Arlong became. Arlong spoke in an aggressive and demonic voice.

"NOW THE REAL FIGHT BEGINS! I'LL PAINT EVERY LAST ONE OF THESE ISLANDS WITH YOUR BLOOD!" Arlong said.

Naruto watched Arlong's transformation and smirked.

"Hey, Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said.

The three teammates looked at him. As well as the straw hats.

"Remember what I said before we got to the sand? About a new form I wanted to use?" Naruto said.

Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi attempted to remember.

FLASHBACK

"You really think I haven't been training? I've pulled all nighters at the training ground developing my skills. Even worked out a new jutsu with Kurama." Nauto finished with a smile.

END OF FLASHBACK

Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura smiled as Naruto walked to the front lines and stared at the demon Arlong. The straw hats became confused.

"Hey, what's he about to do?" Nami asked.

Sakura smiled.

"You guys know that golden fox mode he goes into right? For enhanced speed, power, and jutsu? Well he told us he had a new jutsu he wanted to use when he faced somebody strong enough." Sakura explained.

"So basically…" Chopper started.

"The real fight is about to begin." Law finished.

Naruto looked down and then back up. His eyes became pure white with no pupils as well as his chakra cloak, his body developed stripes that took on a galaxy pattern in place of the regular black stripes. White flames surrounded him and a dark purple staff with a bijuu bomb colored orb at the top. Sanji stepped up next to him. Naruto looked over at him.

"Hey, remember, you're in our world. I can't let you show us up." Sanji said, lighting a smoke.

Naruto smiled as he looked at Sanji, who closed his eyes and his left leg lit on fire. The red flame slowly took on a blue color until it was a dark blue flame with white outline.

"I've been doing serious training myself. I'm not going to let you ninja have all the fun." Sanji said.

Nami looked at Sanji impressed.

"SANJI-KUN! WHEN DID YOU LEARN HOW TO DO THAT!?" Nami asked.

"HAIII NAMI-SANNNN! IT'S JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING I DEVELOPED OVER TWO YEARS! NOTHING MAJOR!" Sanji yelled, hearts in his eyes.

Slowly everyone walked next to Naruto and Sanji. Arlong stared at them through pupil-less eyes. Naruto banged his staff on the ground and Sanji lifted his leg, taking a muay-thai stance. Naruto and Sanji spoke at the same time.

"Bijuu chakra mode…" Naruto said.

"Diable Jambe…" Sanji said.

Both closed their eyes and opened them back up with intense glares.

"CRYSTAL FOX!"

"JAMBE DU DIABLE BLEU!"

MARINEFORD

Luffy stared at Psycho with pure rage. Everything that's happened between them: helping him and all of his friends when they were younger, beating them savagely the other day, and now kidnapping Robin. Luffy had enough. Luffy hardened his arm and blew into it. Steam swallowed Luffy and he developed a pattern on his body, his arms were huge, and his legs were still small. The latter of which he bounced on one foot. He held one arm flexed towards his head and the other arm with his palm stretched out towards Psycho, his face held a permanent angry expression.

"GEAR FOURTH!" Luffy yelled.

Hancock stared at Luffy and blushed.

"Luffy…" Hancock said to herself.

Psycho stared at Luffy.

"Gear… fourth? There's a fourth gear?" Psycho said softly.

Lucci, Kaku, Doflamingo, Crocodile, and Kuro all stared at Luffy with straight faces.

Luffy stayed quiet for a moment and then finished.

"BOUNCE MAN!" Luffy yelled, bouncing on one foot.

With this, the real fights were about to begin.