A.N I own Nothing
Zoro and Sanji walked off the field towards the rest of the crew; they had won the second game in the Davy Back Fight. The Foxy's crew dragged their team off as well and those that played back to the ship to see the doctors.
"Good job guys, I knew you could do it," Luffy praised.
"If they could have won by working together in the first place then why did they spend so much time arguing?" Nami asked.
"I'm surprised they aware able to work together at all," Usopp commented.
"Well we won in the end so I guess it doesn't really matter," Nami sighed.
Sanji came over to both Nami and Robin.
"Nami-Swannn, Robin-Chawn...did you see me win? Have you both fallen in love with me now?" Sanji asked.
Nami rolled her eyes.
"You did very well," Robin said sweetly and gave Sanji a light kiss on the cheek.
Sanji instantly shot up into the air like a rocket and flew around for a bit' everyone watched him and followed with their heads before the cook crash landed and fainted out of pure happiness with hearts in his eyes.
"Pervert," Zoro commented.
Connor walked up to Zoro and held out his swords.
"Here are your swords back," Connor said and held them out.
"Thanks kid," Zoro said and he took back his blades.
After the Foxy's team had taken the Groggy Monsters to the infirmary Zoro had a chance to rest and Sanji had recovered from Robin light kiss on the cheek; the time came for Luffy to choose his prize. Foxy and his crew waited in suspense as Luffy looked over them all. A few of Foxy's crew were trembling in fear of being chosen as they assumed that the rubber captain would choose them; after a few moments Luffy suddenly spoke.
"Alright I have decided, the one I want is..." Luffy started.
"Hold on," Nami interrupted.
"What is it?" Usopp asked.
"We still have one more game to play right?" Nami asked.
"That's right, it's between Luffy and Foxy," Robin stated.
"Whatever game we play and whatever rules there may be, I'm sure Foxy will be up to his usual tricks and if you get hit by his Noro-Noro beam it won't matter what the rules are. He'll have a huge advantage right away,"
"What's your point?" Zoro asked.
"Well since we won the second game why don't we take Foxy himself as our prize?" Nami asked with a sly smile "that way we win the next game by default because the line-up can't be changed and players can't be substituted,"
"Wait...they...they want to pick our boss?" one of Foxy's men asked in shock.
"That's not a bad idea, if we pick Foxy then we won't have to play the next game and the chance of losing another crew member becomes zero," Usopp agreed.
"Plus having someone that can slow things right down would be useful," Sanji agreed "especially if we got into a sea battle,"
"It would be very advantages," Robin agreed.
"Can they even do that?" another asked.
"Well...it's not against the rules. Since any member of the crew can be chosen," Porche said "after all we have picked captains to join our crew before too,"
"But that's cheating," one yelled out.
"But your backing out of a fight," one of Foxy's pirates yelled.
"You dirty cowards, this is not how pirates fight," another cried out "we all thought you were cool but clearly you're not,"
"Yeah we all agreed to fight fair and square," another shouted.
"But you guys cheated first...in fact your team has done nothing but cheat," Connor pointed out.
"Your just a kid, you wouldn't understand the complexity of adult life," one of the pirates scoffed.
"At least I know what playing fair is," Connor shot back.
"Don't even bother Connor," Sanji advised.
"So it's okay for them to cheat but when we do it we're the bad guys...how is that fair?" Connor demanded.
"Let it go kid, they're not worth it," Zoro advised.
Connor wanted to say something more but he held his tongue, he shot the Foxy pirates a hate filled glare. He knew life was not fair but he really hated it when those who made the rules or used them to get what they wanted out of everyone else refused to abide by the same rules when they were turned on them.
"This is a surprising turn of events, are the Straw Hats actually considering this. Even though taking the enemy leader on the second round would mean running from a fight. In the whole history the Foxy Davy Back Fights, many have thought about it but none have actually done it," the Announcer claimed.
"SHE JUST SAID YOU DID DO IT!" Nami yelled and pointed a Porche.
"More likely because the other crews never won or got the chance to choose someone from Foxy's due to his cheating," Connor commented.
"Oh what an evil, evil woman the Straw Hat Navigator is, only someone who doesn't have a soul would ever suggest something like that," the Announcer continued.
Foxy's crew started to boo and hiss at Nami, while the Announcer went on and on about how unfair the decision was and how terrible of a person Nami was for thinking of it. Nami retreated to Robin and started to cry.
"Oi stop picking on Nami-Swan, I'll kick your assess," Sanji yelled.
"I hate those guys, why are they picking on me," Nami cried.
"I agree with Nami's plan," Usopp said, voicing his opinion.
"Nami don't cry, you are the one at fault here," Zoro claimed.
Nami instantly recovered and beat Zoro into the ground; she then turned and gave the Foxy Pirates a dark look.
"Shut up all of you, do you want to end up like him?" Nami asked.
"We're very sorry," the whole of Foxy's crew instantly apologised.
Nami then turned to Luffy.
"Hurry up and pick Foxy so we can get Chopper back and be done with this whole pointless game," Nami ordered.
'Damn it Straw hat...are you really going to choose me?' Foxy thought 'well I am the natural choice after all, my talent, charm and incredible strength makes me the obvious choice...Yes that's it you must have been taken by my charm,'
"Okay I have decided," Luffy said.
'So this is it...farewell my loyal pirate crew, when I leave you I won't cry, I will be strong, I will be inspiring, I will be...' Foxy continued to think as he braced himself for Luffys decision.
"Hold on Nami, your plan is both logical and would guarantee us the win in the next game. But if we go through with it, doesn't that mean that Foxy will have to sail with us from now on?" Robin asked.
"No we don't want him," Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Connor and Usopp all said at the same time.
"GAHHHHH!" Foxy screamed and collapsed to the ground depressed.
"Oh no boss," Porche cried.
"His fragile emotions have shattered and he caved in again," one of his crew stated.
"Those Straw Hats are the worse...they're too mean with they're words," another said.
"Yeah they should watch what they say," another agreed.
"Boss to us your irreplaceable," Porche assured.
"That's right, your our one and only boss," one of Foxy's crew agreed.
"Yeah you'll show them in the next round how amazing you truly are," another agreed.
"You guys…you're the best crew anyone could ever ask for," Foxy said tearing up "I don't need the Straw Hat's…all I have ever need was you…I'm sorry I ever doubted that fact,"
"We love you boss," the whole crew cheered.
"Stop being a clown," Sanji said "it no wonder no one likes or wants you,"
Foxy collapsed on the ground again.
"Oi stop that, hurry up and choose, the boss can't handle this kind of emotional stress," Porche said.
"How are these guys pirates again?" Usopp asked.
Once Foxy had returned to a somewhat stable emotional state Luffy finally let everyone know his decision.
"Come back Chopper," Luffy called out.
Chopper instantly ran over back over to the rest of the crew and threw off his eye mask and fake ears. He jumped into Luffy's arms and cried happily. He was happy to be back with his friends, Porche and the other female members of Foxy's crew were very upset that Chopper had been taken back by Luffy.
Once Chopper was reunited a large cannon was brought out and Foxy brought Luffy over to it. Luffy wondered what it was used for.
"This will determine the arena for the next round," Foxy explained "we both spin the cannon and where it points is the location of the next game,"
"Ohhh sounds like fun," Luffy said enthusiastically.
He and Foxy spun the cannon together and it spun round in a circle. it slowed down and it looked like it would stop on the open field of the island but it instantly turned and pointed to the Foxys Pirate Ship.
"Oh looks like the random spin landed on my ship...lucky me," Foxy said in fake surprise.
"HOW WAS THAT RANDOM...IT'S RIGGED!" Usopp cried.
"We will now start the last event of the Davy Back Fight...this will be a Captains Fight," the Announcer declared "let me explain the rules...could one of the captains fire the cannon please,"
"Oh...Me," Luffy said and raised his hand "I want to do it,"
Foxy stepped aside and let Luffy fire the cannon; a cannon ball flew into the air and towards the ship. It landed just before it hit the main mast of the Sexy Foxy in the direct centre of the ship.
"The cannon is pointed towards The Sexy Foxy, Captain Foxy's ship. It will serve as the Arena, where the cannon ball landed will be the centre and everything within 50 meters is part of the arena...that is a 100 meter circle," the Announcer claimed.
"Well...at least Luffy will have plenty of room to move," Zoro said.
"Anything found on the ship may be used; this includes all weapons, guns and ammunition. Fighters may not bring in any from the outside. As this is a one on one fight between captains all crew members are forbidden from entering the arena once both captains are ready. If any crew member enters the area under any circumstances their captain will be immediately disqualified,"
"Also please remember all space inside the area counts as the filed, this includes the the ocean below and the sky above. If someone falls outside the 100 meter diameter only then will it be considered a ring out,"
"So this one is all up to Luffy then," Sanji said.
"Yes it could be a tricky fight, who knows what traps and other things foxy has on that ship...not to mention Luffy could get hit by the Noro-Noro Beam as well," Robin claimed.
"While the fighters get ready and our crew mark the outline of the ring, the stands are selling some merchandise to commemorate this event, also food and drink are available for purchase as well," the Announcer claimed "Please take this time to look and buy Foxy Pirates memorabilia,"
While Foxy was getting ready and his crew were stringing together some floating balls to mark the area boundaries the Straw Hats wandered through the stalls looking at the merchandise. None of them were really interested in buying anything but Sanji ran off to get some drinks and snacks for the fight.
"Look at this junk...who would actually buy this crap?" Nami asked in disgust.
"Luffy and Usopp apparently," Connor answered and he pointed to a nearby stand.
Nami looked and saw Luffy and Usopp were standing there and the stall owner handed them something.
"Here you go your limited edition Foxy Pin. Enjoy," the stall owner said.
"DON'T PAY FOR THAT PIECE OF OVERPRICED CRAP!" Nami scolded.
Just then one of Foxy's crew came over to them.
"Excuse me, but where is your teams' fighter?" he asked.
"Over there," Zoro said and pointed at Luffy.
"Do you mind if i take him now, he needs to prepare for the fight," the man said.
"HURRY UP AND TAKE HIM BEFORE HE WASTES ANYMORE OF MY MONEY!" Nami screamed.
The man from Foxy's crew walked over to Luffy and Usopp and led them away towards the ship.
"Oh there you are," Tonjit said "look what I just bought,"
The old man held up a painting of Foxy without his shirt on as a mermaid in a sexy pose that was truly something no one should ever see.
"Why would you spend money on that?" Nami asked.
"It has a certain appal and I think it will lighten up my hut don't you?" Tonjit asked.
"i think i need gouge my eyes out," Nami commented.
"Well beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all...I'm going to get a good seat for the fight," Tonjit said and walked off.
"Beauty maybe in the eye of the beholder but there is no beauty in that picture or in Foxy at all," Zoro said.
"That man has strange tastes in art," Robin commented.
Not long afterwards the start of the Captains Fight was announced and everyone from both crews made their way to the seating stands that had been set up. While everyone could clearly see the deck of the Sexy Foxy Sanji was a bit concerned what would happen if the fight moved to the interior of the ship where no one would be able to see what would happen.
Once everyone was seated the fight became in a spectacular show with fireworks, smoke and lights and projections of their bounty posters in the sky that introduced the two captains. When both captains came out they both had no shirt on and were only wearing pants, shoes and boxing gloves. Luffy also had an Afro which impressed Sanji and Zoro.
The rest of the crew came however had no clue why he was wearing an Afro wig or why Usopp claimed that because Luffy had the Afro there was no way he could lose.
Once both captains had been introduced and were ready the fight started.
Luffy started off trying to end the fight quickly in one punch but Foxy hit him with his Noro-Noro beam and then gave the rubber captain a series of jabs; it quickly became apparent that Foxy had no intention of fighting fair at all as his boxing gloves became spiky and his blows pierced Luffy's rubber skin. Once the effect of the Noro-Noro fruit had worn off Luffy was blown back but his rubber body did not receive any damage. Luffy ran towards foxy and kept trying to punch him but Foxy was quick to counter with his Noro-Noro powers.
Luffy eventually avoided one of his beams and finally got a good hit in, unfortunately it was not enough to and Foxy was blown back further into the deck. When luffy got there he was shocked to see that the air was filled with Cannon Balls that seemed to just be floating there.
Luffy carefully avoided them but it was not long before the cannon balls started moving again and each one hit, while this would not normally be a problem for the rubber captain as he has been known to bounce them back. However due to him being so close the cannon balls did not have the momentum required to bounce off Luffys body and blew up in his face.
Sadly Luffy was not immune to explosions.
Once all the explosions had passed and the smoke cleared Luffy found himself face to face with several dozen arrows hovering in the air and all of them were pointing at him. His face paled and Luffy turned to run, unfortunately for him the arrows regained their momentum and flew after him.
Luffy ran to the other side of the ship and jumped over the railing, he hung onto the ship and dangled over the side as the arrows flew over him and remembered themselves in the railing. Once the arrows had passed Luffy climbed back up and looked for Foxy, he saw the other captain off into the ship and Luffy ran after him.
The Crew were watching from the stands in anticipation, since both Captains had gone inside the ship no one knew what was going on...although the explosions and loud crashes definitely meant the fight was still going on.
"What's going on in there?" Nami wondered.
"Luffy's probably breaking stuff," Zoro answered.
"Yeah I almost feel sorry for the Foxy Pirates, when Luffys done they are going to need some serious repairs to their ship," Sanji agreed.
"Depending on how far the battle escalates they may be unable to sail at all and might need to get a brand new ship," Robin said.
"But this island has no shipyard or any place to buy supplies," Connor pointed out.
"That is not our problem," Nami claimed.
"But if Luffy's the one who destroys the ship..." Connor started.
"Your forgetting it was Foxy who challenged Luffy to the Davy Back Fight in the first place. So anything that happens to his crew and his ship is Foxy's responsibility...even if that means Luffy destroys it,"
"He's right Connor, maybe this will teach him not to play such a stupid game," Nami claimed.
Inside the ship Luffy was filled with booby traps and Luffy was very quickly setting them all off. A few of these inculded a room filled with cannons...which Luffy set off inside the ship, Foxy dressing himself up as a nurse who Luffy mistakenly took for Foxy's sister and when he went back to confirm it he saw Foxy getting out of the costume. Several sharp mechanical attachments for the boxing gloves...Luffy found these fun and turned them on the other pirate captain and chased him around the ship.
Luffy eventually chased Foxy into the kitchen where a chief was cutting up some fish and he nearly fell for the same disguise trick twice, the only reason it didn't work was because he called Foxy's hair stupid and chief became comically depressed. Foxy quickly recovered and blasted Luffy with his Noro-Noro Beam before punching him heavly with this boxing gloves. Luffy started to slowly move towards a metal door at the back of the kitchen and Foxy opened it. When the beams effects wore off luffy flew threw the door and down a metal shaft.
He landed in a thin hallway with metal walls. Luffy looked around for Foxy or the exit.
"Huh...huh...where did he go?" Luffy asked.
He looked down the hall behind him and saw that there was a giant mirror not far from him.
"A mirror...what's this for?" Luffy wondered.
Luffy suddenly herd a mechanical noise and he looked behind him to see a large walls with a lot of boxing gloves sticking out coming towards him. At the top Foxy sat at the controls driving it.
"Lets see you doge these Straw Hat," Foxy laughed.
The wall began to shot punches out and Luffy dodged one or tow but they quickly became closer, faster and harder to dodge. However the gloves stopped inches from the mirror wall behind Luffy and not once did they make contact with the mirror or the walls of the ship.
Luffy accidentally got hit by one and he caught on fire from the blow. He started to panic and dropped and rolled on the ground to put the fire out.
"Oh did I forget to mention that each one of these gloves sets fire to what ever they come into contact with?" Foxy asked.
'Wait...he's not using his beam power,' Luffy thought 'why isn't he using it? If he hit me with it i would be at his mercy,'
Luffy glanced behind him at the mirror, he then remembered that in the cannon room and the infirmary Foxy had not used his powers either.
Suddenly something clicked in Luffys head as he realised he had just discovered Foxy's weakness. Luffy dodged the next strike from the machine Foxy was driving and then turned and punched the Mirror breaking it. He then jumped in the air and punched Foxy in the face; Foxy was so angry that he unleashed several Noro-Noro beams and Luffy smiled. He ducked out of the way and the beams reflected off the mirror and hit the Machine that Foxy was in. Luffy took the opportunity and jumped up to the controls where he clocked Foxy under the jaw and sent him flying straight up through the deck. Luffy reached back to the ground and grabbed something before following the other captain back onto the top deck.
Meanwhile the rest of the two crews were wondering what was going on as they could still hear the sounds of fighting but had no idea who was winning; not even the Announcer knew what was happening. Suddenly Foxy burst out from under the top deck and landed on the
Luffy appeared a few seconds later, everyone could see that Luffy was very badly injured and it was clear that he would not last much longer.
"Straw Hat..." Foxy growled hatefully.
Luffy charged forward towards Foxy and the two began exchanging blows again.
"The Captin's are back and it looks like Straw hat Luffy could collapse at any moment,"
Foxy got in several god hits and flung Luffy back across the ship but kept getting back up. Luffy panted and breathed heavily but continued to fight Foxy
Despite his injuries Luffy would not go down, he and Foxy continued to trade blows until Foxy lunged forward to unleash his Noro-Noro beam on Luffy again but the rubber Captain slammed his fist into Foxy's the moment the beam was activated. Everyone watching was stunned as it was not Luffy who had become slower but Foxy.
Suddenly something small and clear dropped from Luffys hand.
"A...A...A...A MIRROR SHARD!" the announcer cried "A mirror shard has fallen from Straw Hat Luffys hands...HE HAS REFLECTED THE NORO-NORO BEAM!"
Luffy stood up and looked at Foxy who was trying to say something but it was coming out in incredibly slowly.
"I picked it up earlier, I noticed that you never used your beam while there was a mirror nearby," Luffy said seriously "and when you did it was reflected back. Now you can't move," Luffy said to Foxy.
He pulled back his arms.
"Now it's my turn. Gomu-Gomu...GATTLING!" Luffy yelled and let loose a flurry of blows. Due to Foxy being slowed down it did not appear to affect him.
Once he was done he stretched his arms straight back.
"GOMU-GOMU ROKET!" Luffy yelled and launched his arms straight into Foxys chest.
"I'm not done yet," Luffy declared and pulled back his Leg as far as it would go.
"And finally Gomu-Gomu...NUTCRACKER!" (1) Luffy yelled and slammed his foot directly between Foxys legs.
Every male member of the audience (which is about 95% of the people watching...Foxy has a lot of crew) winced and let out a collective"Ooooo,"at the rubber captains tactics.
Luffy however stood up straight and walked away from Foxy and started counting down from ten. As he did it was clear that the beams effects were beginning to wear off and the damage Luffy dealt was starting to show. As soon as Luffy reached zero, Foxy received the full force of Luffys attacks and was blown off the ship as a result.
The Straw Hat's all stood up and started to walk off the stands.
"Where are we going?" Connor asked.
"To safety, we don't want to be trampled to death under 500 pirates," Robin answered with a smile.
No sooner had the Straw Hat's all got off the stands Foxy fell into the sea not far from the boat outside of the boundary ring around the ship. The straw hat's cheered while the rest of Foxy's crew stared in shock.
"The landing point is….outside the ring!" the Announcer cried "Foxy who has just been knocked outside the arena's boundaries,"
"THE WINNER IS STRAW HAT LUFFY!" the Announcer declared "AND UNDER THE THREE COIN MATCH RULE THE DAVY BACK FIGHT IS OVER!"
It took a moment for everyone to process what had just happened, Foxy the man who lied, cheated and did every dirty and underhanded trick in the book to win…the man with over 900 consecutive Davy Back Fight victories had just lost.
After a few seconds the rest of Foxy's crew realised that Foxy could not swim due to his devil fruit ability. They all suddenly stood up and rushed to the edge of the stand at once pushing and stepping over each other as they all attempted to save their captain. A few fell off the stands and one or two landed in the ocean but most of the crew were tangled up or trampled over…it was chaos and that very chaos kept them trapped stuck in the stand.
Since the Straw Hat's had left the stand prior to Foxy falling into the ocean they were safely out of the way and they saw no reason to help the other Captain either.
"Oi Chopper, I think Luffy needs his doctor," Zoro stated.
Chopper looked up at the first mate for a moment and nodded; he ran onto the Sexy Foxy to start treating Luffy. The rest of the Straw Hats watched as Foxys crew all franticly ran over each other in an attempt to dive in and save Foxy. Robin turned to look at Connor.
"See told you," Robin said.
(1) This is an attack I made up but totally something Luffy would think of…especially for those really annoying enemies….I may infuse this attack with Haki in later chapters.