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Bold is for attacks

Steve's POV

After finding Zed's location Luffy, Zoro, Rose, Sanji, Usopp and I went off to confront him while Robin and Brook took Nami, Chopper and Lil to the train. On our way out to the dunes where Zed was supposed to be the local volcano erupted and started spewing rock and lava on the town.

"We have to hurry!" I told them "Before the whole island falls apart."

As soon as we got out to where the Neo-Marines were Luffy ran on ahead.

"Gum-Gum Rifle!"

Luffy ran up and punched at Zed but the attack was easily blocked by the man's heavy arm.

"Well look at that, the pirate punks came back."

"Yeah so what are you gonna do about it?" Sanji asked.

"Turn my friends back now." Luffy yelled.

"Ain…Binz…"

"Yes Sir!" "Right!"

"I'll take the girl with the knives." Zoro said.

"I'm with Zoro." I said following him.

"No fair I wanted the girl." Sanji yelled.

"Will you two knock it off?!" Rose screamed.

I made my wings come out and flew at the girl. I kicked my legs at her but she blocked my waves with her blades. Zoro took a few slashes but like me his attack was held off.

"Brimstone!" I shot a laser out of my mouth, taking the girl by surprise.

She flipped to the side to avoid my attack but before long Zoro was swinging his swords at her.

"Finger Pistol: Drill!" I twisted my wrist as I connected with her stomach and set her flying across the sand.

She quickly recovered and swung at me.

"Iron Body Armament." I tightened my arm blocked her attack.

"Return-Return!" Her hand glowed and she tried to slap me.

"Paper Art!" I slinked around her and kicked her in the back.

"We're done here!" Ain yelled "But make no mistake next time you will meet your end."

And with that she vanished in a cloud of smoke.

"Let's get back to Luffy." I told Zoro.

"Roger."

Rose's POV

"Blade Arm!" A long sword came out of the side of my fake arm.

I slashed at the ninja man but he was faster, even Sanji's kicks were struggling to make contact.

"Chainsaw Arm!" I revved up my arm and tried to cut through his sword but he kept moving back.

While I had him distracted Sanji came around and tripped him up.

"Wrist Knife!"

I pulled my wrist back and a knife came out. I stabbed down at Binz but he moved out of the way.

"Sit Still!" I yelled shooting knives at him, trying not to hit Sanji at the same time.

"Claw Hand!" I clicked my palm and each of the finger on my fake arm became sharp.

I clawed at the man but he brought up a few vines for me to cut through.

"Detach!" I shot my hand off like Franky would but it was kicked away.

"Time's up!" Binz said throwing a smoke bomb.

"Damn he's gone…" Sanji grumbled.

"Coward!" I added

Steve's POV

Zoro and I regrouped with Rose, Sanji and Usopp.

"There's a landslide coming." Sanji said "We gotta hurry and go."

"Hey Usopp." I said yanking him out of the sand "Where's Luffy?"

"Huh? Oh…Luffy?!"

We followed Usopp back to where he left Luffy. When we crested the dune, we saw that Luffy was a knocked out husk on the sand.

"LUFFY!"

I went over to him. He was in rough shape, he was beaten and bloody, not to mention he had a bullet wound somehow.

"Dammit." I mumbled.

The volcano rumbled and the landslide drew closer.

"RUN!"

We booked it back into town but the rubble was quickly approaching.

"How fast is it going?" Sanji yelled.

"Nami said 60mph." Usopp told him.

"Feels about right." I said flying faster.

"How come you don't carry us?!" Rose yelled.

"Yeah?!" Zoro said "You're not having any trouble keeping away from it!"

"You expect me to carry 5 people with only two arms?!"

"Not really the time for this guys!" Usopp yelled "Wait if this is a hill…Green Star: Boat Banana!"

Usopp made a raft appear and the others hopped in.

"Doesn't this thing go any faster?!" Zoro yelled.

"It doesn't have an engine!"

"Steve catch!" Rose yelled shooting her hand at me "Tow us!"

I grabbed her arm and pulled the raft along.

"You're slowing me down!" I yelled back.

"Just keep going!"

"It's catching up!"

"I'm doing my best, you guys ain't light!" I yelled.

"Are you calling me fat?!" Rose snapped.

My wings are gonna give out at this rate.

"AHHHH!"

"Move aside."

I yanked the boat to the left; I looked behind me and saw Aokiji freezing the cloud.

That was close.

"Let's go." Sanji said "We have a train to catch."

I grabbed the boat and pulled it to the bottom of the hill.

"Come on!" "Hurry up!"

We all got out and quickly hopped on the train. I grabbed the first open seat I could find and got Luffy in it.

"What happened?" Chopper asked me as he examined him.

"Found him like that." I said "I'm not sure what happened."

"Let's just get back to the other island and we can sort it out there." Nami said.

LATER

When we got back Chopper extracted a bullet out of Luffy's shoulder and patched him up. Luffy was not happy that Zed had stolen his hat, something I didn't even notice when I picked him up. Luffy was off moping, or something, and looking out on the ocean. I stood back, watching. It was raining and tiny Nami came up holding an umbrella.

"How long?"

"He's been like this for an hour now." I said "He hasn't been like this since…well you know."

Nami just nodded.

"You gonna fight or are you gonna sit there feeling sorry for yourself?!"

I turned around to see Aokiji was there.

"Aokiji?!"

"Why is he here?!"

"We don't want any trouble!" Chopper yelled.

"Everyone relax." I said "He ain't gonna hurt you…right?"

"Nope…I'm just here to talk." He said "Scouts…Ummm…what's the…ah never mind."

Aokiji told us about Zed, or Former admiral Zephyr. He told us that the man's plan was to blow up the Endpoints and destroy the New World and all the pirates in it, to do this Zed had stolen the Dyna Stones, a volatile explosive.

"The Government did research on the Endpoints." Robin said "The announced the results were just a legend."

"Come on you know better than that Nico Robin." He said "The research was real the results…not so much."

"We stepped into a real mess this time." Sanji sighed.

"I don't care!" Luffy yelled "My hat is all that matters. I'm getting it back and that's it."

"No way we have to get out of here." Usopp said.

"And go where?" Rose said "You plan on making it through the Calm Belt? Or do you wanna swim to Fishman Island?"

"I promised to return that hat and become a great pirate." Luffy said.

"And that's what we'll do." I smirked.

"But…" Usopp started.

"Just give it up." Sanji told him "The Captain made up his mind."

"Hey Nami which way?" Zoro asked.

"Give me a second."

"Let's get moving." Rose cheered.

The team slowly dissipated and only Robin, Lil and I were left. Aokiji looked at us, even though his glasses I could tell what he was thinking.

After a few seconds he didn't say anything, he only nodded.

We got back to the ship and the whole crew was there.

"Franky are we ready?" Robin asked.

"OW! Yeah we're all set." Franky said "The Sunny's good as new."

"The question is." Wyper said spitting out his seeds "Are you ready?"

"Well if you've all made your decision all help you out." Aokiji said placing an Eternal Pose down "That'll lead you to the final end point and Zed."

"Why are you helping us?" Lil asked.

"Cause you wouldn't get very far without that." Aokiji told her "Just understand that there is more at stake than just some hat. If you lose you'll be destroyed along with the rest of the New World, but if you win the best men in the Marines will have you surrounded…it doesn't look good for you. I doubt you'll get a happy ending but I'll watch none the less."

"Saving the world wasn't on my to do list." Wyper said "But I suppose I can make some room."

"If that's what it takes to fix Nami." Franky said.

"But first." Wyper smirked "You all remember those powerful weapons, right?"

"Oh yeah!"

AN

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