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Bold is for attacks

Steve's POV

With the help of the old dock master and his family we got suited up to make our assault on Zed and his Neo-Marines. We loaded up the Sunny and headed out. Everyone had pretty wild outfits going. I was wearing a red vest like the ones Luffy used to wear, Lil had on a stripped red and white dress to go with her Cardinal themed hat, Wyper had on a red bandana and a black one sleeved t-shirt, and Rose was wearing a red leotard with black stockings.

It didn't take us too long to get where we needed to be, and Zed's forces were on us quickly. We had to bat back a few cannonballs but nothing too extreme, well until we hit the flagship and Luffy had Usopp fire the cannon to wipe it out.

"We never really use that do we." I said "It kinda just takes up space."

"And what do you suggest we put in its place?" Wyper asked running a barrel of cola around to refuel.

"Ummm…well…good point."

"I see it up ahead!" Brook yelled "The final stage!"

Franky brought us in hot and beached the ship. We all grabbed the last of our things and jumped to shore.

"Here we go!" I yelled jumping off.

"Wahoo!" Lil laughed.

"We have to find Zed." Luffy commanded "Clear a path!"

Franky used his fancy shoulder cannons to provide support for our forward progress. Wyper stayed behind to help him her their giant robot ready.

I weaved in and out of some swords.

"Tempest Kick: Corkscrew!"

The wave shot out and drilled though the men in front of me.

"Hey where did everyone run off to?" Zoro asked looking around.

"How did you end up here?!" I yelled.

The two of us were near a lava flow.

"This place is weird." Zoro said touching one of the rocks.

"Yeah you said it."

The rock glowed and returned to when it was magma.

"Oh hey there." I smiled.

"I will not let you near Master Zed, your opponent is me." Ain told us.

"Alright." Zoro said.

"Fine by me." I smirked "We'd have to beat you to turn Robin back so it was inevitable."

I glared at her "Just understand you've awoken your worst nightmare Demon Body."

"RAAAHHHH!" I roared at her as I shifted to full demon form.

"Is that supposed to scare me?" Ain said "You two need to beat me to turn your friends back, but all I have to do is buy time. If I have to die for my Master's ideals, so be it."

"How noble." Zoro said "The brave soldier is willing to lay down her life for Master…but I sense some uncertainty in your blades from when we fought before."

"I refuse to be lectured by pirate scum!"

"Can I crush her skull yet?" I growled.

"Life Return: Four-Legged Form!"

Life Return, the ability to control your bio rythmn and in some cases even temporarily change the shape of your musculature…I saw Lucci do it once to make himself thinner for a bit…it's hard to pull off but I've figured it out and with it developed some alternate fighting styles.

I lowered down as my appendages got larger and bulkier while my horns pointed forward like a bull. I changed forward crashing through rocks and stone.

"Horn Pistol!"

I destroyed the rock Ain was on with my horns and Zoro stepped up to trade a few slashes with her.

"Brimstone!" I shot my mouth laser at her but missed and created a small crater on the ground as I returned to my normal demon form.

Zoro chased her down and the two traded slashes until the girl jumped back again.

"Return-Return!" Ain used her powers to change the rocks back to lava.

I heated up my arms and blasted them back. I flew forward on my wings swinging my arms at her. Zoro ran up and tried to get a few slashes in on Ain but she was doing well to block. She flipped back and fired two pistols at us but the bullets were easily batted away.

"Enough!" I yelled flying forward and looking her into her eye "Stare into the Center of Hell! Demon Glare!"

"Ah…ah…AHHHH!"

Terrified by my aura of darkness Ain let her guard down

"Three Sword Style: Astral Dragon Stance!" Zoro rushed passed by me "Flowing Water!"

"AAHHH!" Ain dropped to the floor and Zoro put his swords away.

I shifted back into my human form and wrapped my arms up.

"If you ever conquer those doubts you can challenge me again some time." Zoro told her

"Let's go find Luffy." I told him.

Rose's POV

"Knife Shot!"

I pulled open my wrist and fired off a knife. Binz batted it away with a vine. Sanji came from behind and tried to kick him but once again the wannabe ninja blocked.

"You don't deserve to exist in this world." Binz told me "I condemn you pirate! Master Zed condemns you!"

"Well I'm not just a pirate." I smiled "I'm a Pirate-Ninja."

"So cool~!" Sanji swooned.

"And you've succeeded in killing the mood again." I've told him "I had a cool moment going there."

Sanji pulled out his lighter and lit his cigarette "Master this, Master that, do you ever think for yourself?"

"Chainsaw Arm!" I switched out to a sharped saw and grinded against Binz' large throwing star.

Sanji came up and kicked the star up.

"Arm Blade!" I rotated arms and slashed and Binz' stomach but he was so thin and quick I missed.

Sanji was about to at him again when Binz erected a large vine wall.

"YAAH!" I sliced into down and made a path for Sanji to jump in a deliver a gut kick.

The two exchanged a few more kicks before Binz sent his vines at us.

"Sky Walk!" Sanji kicked the air to avoid the attack.

"Shadow Run!" I quickly ran across the water to get at Binz "Claw!"

Each of my fingers opened up to reveal a curved blade. I shattered Binz sword and batted away his throwing stars.

"Diable Jambe!"

Sanji used my arm as a jumping point and got close to Binz.

"I'm gonna pound you until Nami's sexy again!" Sanji said laying into Binz stomach.

He does know this guy isn't the cause right?

"Sexy Fire: Meteor Strike of Love!"

Sanji drilled into Binz with a massive kick and blew the man away.

"Did you feel the heat, Nami-Swan?"

"Oh gag me." I said making a face "Come on let's go."

Lil's POV

"She's just a little girl. This shouldn't be that hard." One of the marines yelled as I ran around in a circle avoiding them.

"I'm more than just a girl." I said pulling out a stone "I'm a girl with some very powerful friends, Sheep Stone: Elder Titan!"

I shattered the rock and a huge hulking beast appeared. He had green skin with ram horns and fur clothing; he also had blue tribal markings on his face and a funny looking brace like weapon in his hand.

"Where the heck did that thing come from."

"ET!" I said spinning my baton "Help me send these guys flying!"

"Very well." He said slamming his weapon into the ground "Earth Splitter!"

The ground cracked and ruptured tossing men around and spraying out lave.

"I've shaped the land for centuries; some newly formed volcanic rock is like putty to me." Elder Titan told them.

"Thanks a bunch!" I smiled "I don't think they'll be getting back up; you can go."

"Any time Young Miss."

With that he faded away. Behind me I heard a lot of screaming and crashing thunder.

"That must be Nami." I said jogging over.

"Don't pretend you didn't know how to aim that!" Usopp yelled.

"Yeah that hurt." Chopper whined.

"You smell like burnt fur." I said looking at him.

"My, what massive destruction." Brook said.

"Where's Luffy?" Mama asked.

"He ran off like usual." Nami told her.

"Hey look out!" Brook yelled.

I turned around and saw a bunch a Pacifistas marching towards us. These weren't like Kuma though they wore white and seemed half unfinished.

"They're really scary!" Chopper yelled.

"AHHH!" I screamed running in a circle.

"Run!" Robin yelled.

"Right!" we said following her.

Dodging Lasers is hard…we ended up getting hit by one and thrown forward; Mama was the only one to stick the landing.

"Oh no!" Chopper yelled as one started to get close.

"Impact X Flash Dial: Flashbang!"

A grenade hit the Pacifista in the face and exploded in a flash of light, blinding it. I looked back to see Franky and Wyper blasting back the cyborgs.

"Sorry it took so long." Franky said.

"But we're all set!" Wyper yelled climbing in the back.

"YOW! He we go!"

"Iron Pirate: General Franky!"

"Oh it's the grown men's' children's toy…" I said.

The two pulled their levers and pushed their buttons to move their toy to destroy the other robots.

The front door kicked open.

"Franky Radical Beam!"

A large blast of yellow light destroyed the Pacifistas and cleared the way for us to get to Luffy and the rest. Along the way Nami, Brook, Chopper and Mama grew back to normal.

"Aww I'm the youngest again…"

Steve's POV

By the time Zoro and I got to Luffy his fight was reaching its climax. Both men were at the breaking point, one good punch would finish it. Zed's metal arm had been broken and Luffy was all Haki-ed up.

I looked around; on an outcropping not too far off was Aokiji. Like us, he was watching the battle between the ages.

Hard to believe two years ago he couldn't even walk he was so depressed.

This fight was the greatest thing I had ever seen. Two men, just their fists, no weapons, no devil fruit powers, just two men…fighting till they couldn't stand. In the end though Luffy came out on top.

"I knew he'd do it but like always he made me worry." I sighed to Robin.

"That's just the way you two are." She smiled "it's his job to make you worry."

We went down to meet Luffy and as usual Nami scolded him and Chopper hugged him. Zed apologized to his two subordinates for making them do all these things for him, but they were just happy he was alive.

"How convenient, all the players have assembled on the board."

"Kizaru?!"

"Crap." I hissed "I really don't have the energy for this."

"It's a shame Strawhat and Master Zephyr are close to death, but you're all going to die anyway so what's the big deal right~" Kizaru said.

"So he's here huh?" Zed said walking away "And with all my old friends…You won Strawhat Luffy, so you get to continue on your adventure. Leave this to old man Zed."

"No wait!" Luffy yelled.

"Master you can't!"

A huge wall of solid ice erected in front of us. I looked up at the cliff; Aokiji was standing there with his arm up.

Why did he? A final fight…going out as he wanted huh?

"Master!"

On the other side I could hear a lot of smashing and gunfire.

"We gotta go now!" I said "Why we have a chance. Back to the ship."

I went forward.

"Come one, there's nothing more you can do." I grabbed Ain and threw her over my shoulder "This is what he wants."

She banged on my back screaming to be let go, but I didn't drop her till we were out at sea.

"MASTER!"

When I got to the back Luffy, Zoro, Rose and Sanji were already watching. The island was filled with beautiful explosions of light and smoke. At first no one said anything, we just took in this display of pride.

"What an incredible man." I mumbled.

Later

We dropped Ain and Binz at a nearby island so they could say their goodbyes to their Master. Franky had to do a few quick repairs to the Sunny so we had an hour or two to spare.

"Thanks for giving them a ride." Aokiji said walking up behind me "Guess I owe you one."

I was sitting on a rock looking out and the sun on the horizon.

"Whatever. You don't owe me anything." I told him shaking my head "So what are you gonna do with those two?"

"I don't know, maybe I'll take them with me or something." He said scratching his head "That's up to them."

"So what the student is gonna be the master." I smirked.

"Something like that." He said.

It got quiet.

"You know when I first met you, I tried to kill you, and you tried to kill me. The same thing happened during the war." I said "I guess we've both changed."

"Hmm." Aokiji hummed.

"You always call me boy or kid." I said "And you talk to me in such a strange manner."

"Hmm."

I stood up and looked at him "Don't tell anyone I said this but, thanks I guess…for believing in me or some crap like that."

Aokiji scoffed "You still got a long way to go…boy."

"Are you ever gonna stop this philosophical Master bullshit with me?" I said.

"I don't know…probably not."

"Why do you even care about me?" I asked "I'm just the son of a pirate, a pirate in my own right too."

"From the moment I met you." Aokiji said "I could tell you were something special. From the aura you gave off, to your attitude, to being the only person on this world to say he loved Nico Robin. You've always been interesting."

He started to walk off.

"Hey Kuzan!" I yelled "I'll see you around."

"How did you…?"

"I read." I told him "It's not too hard to find the real name of an admiral. That and Robin told me. She said someone named Saul called you that."

"Stupid girl…" he mumbled walking off.

I laughed to myself and started to head back to the ship.

"What were you two talking about?" Robin asked me.

"Nothing." I said "But I'm sure we'll come across him again."

"What makes you say that?" Robin asked leaning her head on my shoulder.

"Just a feeling." I said "I think we'll be seeing those three again someday."

AN

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