Gaap's Guide to Piracy

Adventure.

It's always been a passion of mine to go out and make a name for myself like my dad and loads of siblings did when they struck out to be Contractors for the Company. So it wasn't a shocker to them that I sought to become a Contractor and make a family of my own to adventure across the nigh-infinite amount of worlds at the precipice of the Multiverse. They had even wholeheartedly supported my endeavors.

Well, everyone except for Mama...

"Noooooooooooo~! Not Paimon's baby boy! Don't be like your dad who goes after anything with a hole! Do you really want to leave your Mama all by herself to die of loneliness!? Don't leave my nest of love and security!"

B-But with a brave heart and perhaps some tears on my part, I put my foot down and valiantly declared my dream.

And that dream was solidified from reading my father's favorite manga. Every sibling I've ever had was conditioned and taught to respect this manga as if it were sacred scripture. Father even takes it so seriously that he'll only purchase copies of the manga from his original universe before the Company hired him.

One Piece.

I've grown to love the story overall and despite our family not having the complete series despite our parents being who knows how old, I decided to try my hand and see about throwing in my own lot as a swashbuckling pirate that can take the world by storm.

So, after getting trained and mentored by my father, brothers, sisters, I happily inducted under the Archduke of Eternity's Patronage to begin work. I was given free reign to choose the time period, and the loads of perks associated with being a Contractor.

Now the choice was tough, but I chose to take the middle ground and jump into the World just before the Main Character/Protagonist began his adventure and way later after the Pirate King's execution.

It was a bit of a blank zone, but to give a good indication of my place in the timeline, I was essentially starting my career of piracy around the same time that Portgas D. Ace was.

So, we were rivals…well, he doesn't know I exist yet and probably won't for a while since I was tossed to the New World due to my higher-end genetics from my parents as a 75% Saiyan/Dragon/Thing (Whatever Mom is) Hybrid. B-But you get what I mean!

Also, I was tasked with a difficult mission along with being placed in what was pretty much hell on Earth for this World.

Now this job Quick-scope Mission may seem insignificant but the task itself was far from simple. Donquixote Doflamingo is not an easy guy to reach and he's far from being a total push over. I'm pretty decent with a Power Level of 1500, which practically is more than enough for a good majority of this world, but I'm not about to just go all out on an island and wipe everything and everyone out.

So that meant Ki was a no-go until all options have been exhausted. Which meant that we'd have to work on sharpening our Haki that I purchased using Added Potential and since the New World wasn't lacking for a surplus of asshole pirates and marines to find, we made sure to get in loads of combat practice to get the basics.

"Yo, Koko~! Stop messing with the ship and fight me already. You're literally the only one I haven't fought yet. C'mon, I need to know if you're weak or not to see just how low on the totem pole I am. Here, why don't I just…"

"Grab my tails and I'll string you up by those flabby sacks of condensed lipids on your chest, you stupid bronze gorilla…"

However, we had to practice the most important skill of all before we could commence with travel to Dressrossa: Communication.

Now I have to admit that I chose the best people for the job but some of them just didn't have the right amount of cohesion amongst each other to function as a cohesive group. Some meshed well with others like Musashi, Sakura, and Marl generally getting along quite well with each other while Kaina and Kokonoe were silently amicable with each other.

But when you meshed the two groups together, you'll begin to notice some friction.

"So…your arm turns into a gun, huh? That's nifty."

"…"

"But it sure must come in handy when you can't afford or bring an appropriate firearm to complete a mission."

"…"

"Also, your hair, it's like putty that hardens but does it still harden when it still attaches to your head or does it do that when you pluck it ou-?"

"Musashi?"

"Y-Yeah?"

"We don't have to make small talk, okay?"

"O-Oh, yeah, I get it. Sorry."

"Hm."

At first, I thought that over time things would iron out smoothly like they did in comics or in manga, but…

"I'll flatten you if you even try to think about modifying our bodies in our sleep again, Kokonoe!"

"Tch, you should be begging for my help considering I could take care of the honking forehead of yours that you've been oh so self-conscious about~."

"You little-CHAAAA!"

But I was foolishly wrong to ever leave things to fate like that, which is why I called a Crew Meeting in the Farenheit's (Oh yeah, that's our Air Ship BTW), main bridge. Our physical progress went swimmingly but our ability to get along and work together has gone poorly so I brought up my concerns to everyone and…looked and felt like an idiot with how they all stared at me.

"Kaina has been a spectacular opponent to train my skill in Observation Haki against ranged opponents! We may be lacking in social chemistry, but our combat synergy has certainly improved." Musashi laughed.

"What she said." Kaina quietly nodded across the room, her back on the wall with her arms crossed.

"Also just because Miss Forehead and the Bronze Gorilla piss me off doesn't mean that I can't collaborate with them." Not even bothering to pay attention to the rest of them, Kokonoe went about modifying the ship as she always did.

"As much as her methods disgust me like a certain snake I knew from my old world, Kokonoe has certainly helped me adjust to using most of the newer medical equipment." Sakura sheepishly shrugged.

"Yeah, Gaapy! She even made these awesome gauntlets that made tearing apart some pirates super fun!" Marl unveil said gauntlets to me.

"By the way, thanks for these, Koko~!" Marl excitedly bounced over to pull Kokonoe into a bear hug.

*WHAAAM!* *CRASH!*

Kokonoe without even flinching pulled out a drill hammer and bashed the jubilant Brawler through one of the ship's walls with a baleful sneer.

"Keep those fat udders the fuck away from me!"

"Hehehe, okay~!" Jumping back through the hole her body had made, Marl's body inactivate the black armament haki coating enshrouding her body as she sheepishly scratched her head and laughed it off.

"I fucking hate you." Kokonoe growled.

It was then at that point did I realize something. Apart from being with them all individually or separately in their groups, I was never there with each of them all the time. As one person, I would no doubt miss all of their interactions so…I've technically been worrying over nothing.

"Just because we can't stand to be around each other doesn't mean we can't work together, Gaapy." Kaina put it best for everyone, who nodded in agreement, even Kokonoe.

"Besides, idiot, it'd be counterproductive for us, the clones that your purchased, to make your job harder on you than it already is." The scientist rolled her eyes and tossed a lollipop in my direction before returning to work on removing the ship's floor panels to get at its circuitry.

That meeting became an eye-opener and reminder that I still had much to learn even with Communication Talent to help boost my ability to read others and communicate with them.

After that, we really got to planning on our next move after spending a full 6 months going from island to island and fighting quite a few decent foes. We didn't really leave much of any survivors when the foe was either Marine or Pirate, so no bounties were made for us yet.

And so, after countless hours of arguments and solidifying the roles of every member of the crew, we finally set course for Dressrosa. Kokonoe's technical expertise came in clutch since she added a camouflage feature to the ship with a protective barrier, so we didn't have to worry about losing our ride should shit go south for us.

The teams were broken up as such:

Vanguard Squad: Me, Marl, and Musashi

Infiltration Squad: Sakura and Kaina

Mission Control: Kokonoe

Vanguard Squad was to enter the island out in the open, locate any viable targets, work with the local resistance against the Donquixote Pirates, and fulfill the mission.

Infiltration Squad's job was to locate and destroy the SMILE Factory, suppress Sugar if present, and free the enslaved Dwarves.

Finally, Mission Control was tasked with keeping surveillance from the Fahrenheit through the mobile spy bots that Kokonoe created to surveil the entire perimeter of the island from every possible vantage point. She had even devised other "goodies" that she would rocket over to our location should the time call for it. When I had asked how she could pin-point our exact location, she stiffly mentioned something about her Observation Haki doing the work.

Until Sakura used her Medical Ninjutsu to check for something around her neck before getting into a destructive squabble with the unrepentant cat lady for basically chipping us without consent.

But hey, in the end if it helps then I'll gladly look the other way.

Dressrosa was certainly a marvel to behold. The roman architecture along with the fantastic smelling aroma, helpful and entertaining live toys, and it rich culture just made it seem like it was a place straight out of a story book. I mean, technically it was but this lovely scenery would quickly seem horrific if you didn't know that they toys were nonconsenting slaves and the fact that Donquixote Doflamingo was their Hero.

There was just so much wrong to this place.

"Ignorance truly is bliss, huh?" Musashi frowned from our table at a café watching the island's inhabitants go about their peaceful day.

"Not even a bit. Losing their memories of their loved ones is just downright cruel. You can't even be mad at them for treating the toys that know them as strangers…" I ate my bowl of spaghetti with a grimace.

"Indeed." Musashi glared up at Island's Royal Castle, where the true culprits for the place's suffering resided.

"I still don't get it, you two. If they were strong enough then they wouldn't be enslaved. Simple as that." Marl tore through her stack of bowls of meat, spaghetti, and various six course meals with little regard to etiquette. She might not be one, but she certainly had the appetite of a saiyan.

"It's just distasteful for us, Marl. Don't worry about it too much and look forward to fighting some of Doflamingo's strongest fighters." I grinned, not even bothering to change Marl's world view. She was from a world where the strong would prosper and the losers became their rightful slaves. As a Contractor, it would be hypocritical of me to convince her to change her mindset.

"Don't gotta tell me twice, Gaapy!" Marl gave me a bright grin of her own and thumbs up. "I'll break 'em up and prove that I'm the strongest."

"Shush!" Ah, Musashi was mad. "We shouldn't be talking about ousting the land's leadership while in public." She pointed to the surprised and suspicious looks that most of the other café inhabitants were shooting at us.

Ah, right. We're supposed to inconspicuous. Gotcha.

Too bad that Marl didn't get it. "Then they should mind their own business." One glance and a powerful pressure filled the entirety of the caf-no, the entire kilometer of the block that we were in.

Musashi and I's facepalms were drowned out by the collective amounts of bodies collapsing on the ground.

"There, now we can talk all we want." Marl proudly puffed out her large swaying chest. Usually that'd turn me on, but now was not the time.

"Marl…" Musashi groaned.

"Eh? Wh-What happened, what did I do?" Cluelessly blinking, Marl looked between us with a finger to her chin.

"Next time, DON'T just use Conqueror's Haki without warning!" I hissed, then paused to hear the rapid and multiple footsteps of what no doubt was the Donquixote Pirate's lower ranked enforcers. "…Ugh, let's move."

"E-Er…sorry?" Marl gulped.

"A little late for that." Musashi disappointedly shook her head.

And we took off running down the street without paying for the bill. For weak mooks, I doubted that they could keep up with our enhanced speed, but it did surprise me to notice that there was a one-legged toy soldier that was barely tailing us from the rear.

"And you are?" Musashi blinked curiously at it from behind.

"Follow me." The Toy Soldier deeply grunted and ramped up their speed to pass us and steer down an alleyway that was just ahead of us.

Both Musashi and Marl looked to me, but I just shrugged. "Wouldn't hurt to follow him." Plus, Kyros was basically integral to the Dressrosa storyline and an adequate capture target.

And so, we threw caution to the wind and followed the "mysterious toy".

POV: Sakura

As a Shinobi of the Leaf Village, Sakura was not so averse toward the concept of taking a life. She was literally given missions to help in clearing out bandits and assassinate threats to their clients. So, when she was tasked with Kaina to locate and infiltrate the SMILE Factory, she took to the task like a fish to water.

With help from Gaap's Company phone, she used the Mapper App and Kokonoe's additional coordinates to locate the facility. Even without it, she doubts that any of them could dismiss the large domed building as anything but insignificant.

The next part of the plan was infiltration and Sakura possessed just the technique to excel at this. It wasn't hard for Kaina to locate and snipe a drunk Donquixote Enforcer from her vantage point for all just for Sakura to transform into him, learn his identity's name and position, and enter the building undetected.

Kaina did warn her that she'd be on her own on the inside, but Sakura dashed her concerns. She was well aware of the risks and would ensure that her mission would come to fruition. Which is why upon mixing herself in with the other nameless mooks in the crowd, she separated herself from them and started picking them off one by one until she had effectively killed 5 Enforcers to replace with 5 Shadow Clones of herself.

Gaap using Talent Share: Soul Talent truly helped her expand her chakra reserves and study the Shadow Clone Jutsu without risk of killing herself. Now with more ground to cover, she and her transformed clones disposed of the bodies and fanned out to learn all they could about the facility and it's workers.

And…apart from that, she didn't really have much cause for concern. There didn't seem to be any sign of the Donquixote's stronger officers around. Apart from the large Factory Manager, Kyuin, there wasn't much to stop her from simply destroying everything right off the bat.

But she needed to be discreet, so to test things out, she decided to sacrifice one of her clones and make a scene. Her clone grabbed the pistol of a nearby, unassuming enforcer began to precisely shoot down any person surrounding them.

"Gyahahahaha! DIE! DIE! DIE!" Ugh, she hated to act so comically evil. It was embarrassing!

"My my my~! What do we have here, a naughty little dissenter?" Sakura's transformed clone stiffened as they whipped around to face the intimidating presence of the foe behind them. But just as they did, they found a stiletto piercing their forehead before dispersing.

The sensation and memory hit Sakura like a truck, but she poised herself to at least make a guess, "Guess that was Dellinger…" She breathed out and shook herself off. Then immediately the Den Den Mushi Intercoms clicked on to make an announcement.

[All personnel meet in the Main Hall! All personnel meet in the Main Hall! This is an order made by Officer Machvise and Lao G! Any who refuse to show up or are late will thus be terminated!]

Sighing, Sakura shrugged and made her way with the other disgruntled henchmen to see what their higher ups wanted. Well, looks like she didn't do as good of a job as she thought she did. Using the crowd to hide herself, she made another clone to take her disguise as she slipped past everyone in the shadows to search for the Dwarves.

With the announcement calling everyone there, she figured that all of the officers on site, including Dellinger, would no doubt gather in the Main Hall and allow her to free and rally the Dwarves onto her side.

…But that had been a grievous error on her part.

"Tch, looks like I didn't waste my day off by showing up to lend a hand down here after all. Dealing with rats like you scurrying about is such a pain…"

"Ohohoho~! Now now Gladius, your hunch was right on the money, dearie. Now, how should we deal with this cute little intruder? Oh, I know of just the perfect art piece for a sweet little thing like her!"

"Idiot, we need to know why she's here and who she's affiliated with to tell Joker. After that then we can dispose of the filthy rat."

Gladius and Giolla, two other Officers of the Donquixote Family were here?

And if that announcement was to be taken at face value, then all five of them were in the same building as her. Sakura would have cursed this as a stroke of bad luck had it not been for the fact that…she could pretty much just handle the opposition without needing to hold back anymore.

'Hopefully, you'll rush in to back me up once things pick up, Kaina.' Sakura resolutely smirked as she mentally command all of her clones to ready themselves.

It was weird tapping into a new source of power, unlike Chakra, Haki felt rawer and thus she had to learn to tap into it while simultaneously using Chakra in tandem.

So, one day during practice, Gaap posed a question for her: "Do you think your Clones can use Conqueror's Haki?"

And since she had 4 active clones in the Main Hall with the other Donquixote enforcers and officers, well…

Sakura pretty much had the playing field in her favor.

"W-What!?" Gladius growled as he fell to a knee followed by Giolla falling onto all fours.

"Co-Conqueror's!? Doffy? No, he's not on the island…he's off attending that meeting up in Mariejois. So what exactly is-!?"

Like a collective explosion of pressure, a four times magnitude of Conqueror's Haki filled the entire facility. Pretty much EVERY henchman was knocked out while the Officers were either trying not to pass out, were on their knees, or struggling to attack her and her clones.

But instead of letting them recuperate or fully recover from the sudden whiplash. Sakura and her clones chose to strike.

""""CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!""""

After all, like pirates, Shinobi weren't afraid to fight dirty too.

*CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!*

POV: Kaina Tsutsumi

Kaina would have gone to check the massive collapse of the SMILE Factory were it not for the fact that it was suddenly snowing in her location. Also, the sound of a weapon being cocked that wasn't her own caused her to heed her haki's warning and bound from rooftop to rooftop to better distance herself from her assailants and get a good view of them from her scope.

"Tch, we've already been found out this fast?" Kaina clicked her tongue, noticing a fat bastard helicoptering his body through the air as two women on his back trained their weapons onto her.

She tried to take aim at them multiple times while dodging their artillery fire, but then a fierce snowstorm hit her and block her view, thus making her lose her targets.

*BANG!*

"Tch!" Too close. Kaina ignored the pain of her grazed cheek and immediately bounded off to the next rooftop as her opponents continued their chase of her.

DON'T JUMP!

A massive warning flash through her mind and so she heeded it and to great effect too since a massive missile was fired at just the area where she would have been in mid-air.

Then Kaina blinked in surprised terror as the Missile outright sneered at her transformed to that of a woman and pounced at her with an arm that transformed into a massive flail. She luckily dodged the attack undamaged, but the building itself buckled underneath the attack's weight and collapsed.

With both of them falling, Kaina decided to just use the leverage of being a bit higher than her foe to line her shot up and drop her. Tch, she noticed the woman doing the shame by turning her own arm into a rifle. When she woke up this morning, she didn't expect to be in a literal mirror match with an opponent with a similar skillset as her.

But Kaina did expect for the two others who were with their enemy to use the snowstorm around them to cloak themselves and strike when she was vulnerable. The fat flying fuck with that green haired woman on his back came right at her from behind.

Locked in between a foe gunning for her from below and the two from above, Kaina decided to lean fully into her haki and use armament haki to encoat her entire body to negate the bullet fired at her head, then allowed her Observation Haki to paint a picture of the two enemies behind her.

The flying bastard couldn't be the cause of the snowstorm and neither could it be the dangerous bitch below her. Gaap told her that people couldn't survive eating two devil fruits so that only left the green haired woman trying lunge a spear into her.

Using the momentum of getting shot in the head, Kaina leaned body back just right to aim her arm riffle at the woman, pluck out a strand of her hair that further hardened with Haki and line up the shot.

"…! Buffalo, pull u-!"

*BANG!*

"Bullseye." Kaina smirked.

"W-What? MONET, NOOOOOO!" Wailed the helicopter bastard who just now noticed the limp form of their partner falling off of his back.

"You vile bitch, I'm going to-!" Also distraught, the black haired woman below tried to take aim at me once more.

But by then they both had already lost.

"Quiet."

Gaap had once told her that facing a user of Conqueror's Haki with broken composure or distress is a sure-fire way to be overwhelmed by their haki. And killing their comrade did just that and so with a mighty flex of her haki, Kaina effectively neutralized both of her breathing enemies with little issue.

They all crashed to the ground, but Kaina's haki ensured that she wouldn't be harmed by the fall. Picking herself up from out of the rubble, she noticed the unconscious forms of the two blatant Donquixote Pirates and acted accordingly.

First was the massive bastard with the tattooed teeth.

*BANG!* *BANG!*

He was too big to carry back to the Fahrenheit for Gaap to capture and he was an enemy so putting him down for good was the only choice for him.

As for the woman…

*WHAAAAAAAM!* *BANG!* *BANG!*

A haki-coated heel to the down woman's jaw and two haki-coated bullets to the legs was enough to neutralize her and ensure Kaina that she wouldn't have a rowdy passenger for when she takes her back to the ship. Now, she just needed a good place to hide her while she goes to support Sakura.

Tapping her earpiece, she contacted Mission Control. "Kokonoe, we've been compromised. What do you have for me?"

["Nothing except that our Communal Fuckboy was an idiot for not explaining that the Donquixotes have a god damn assassin that can see through everything including the minds of people."] Kokonoe growled on the other side of the line.

"You're joking." Kaina deadpanned.

["The assassin's 50 degrees West from your location. Go check and see if I'm shitting you, if you like."] Kaina chose not to push it, knowing how irate the already grumpy cat woman gets when aggravated.

"What about Sakura?"

["Killed 3/5 of the Officers in the Factory and is holding her own well. Don't worry about that and just focus on capturing that assassin."] Kokonoe grunted.

"Capture? Not neutralize?"

["Her ability's useful and when our dumbass gets the extra credits, I'm going to viciously give him a long talk about prioritizing our data security by investing in Talents that prevent the enemy from knowing our every move."]

"Ah."

["Yeah. Now get your ass moving already."]

"What about the target I have with me?" Kaina looked down at her captured foe.

["Take her with you then bring both her and the assassin back to me. The shitty equipment I have isn't enough for me to make a courier to extract them for me."]

"Roger." Kaina nodded and ended the call.

Well, at least things were underway in the operation, as chaotic as it is.

She could only hope that progress was being made with the Vanguard Squad.

POV: Gaap Abbot

"There's a Colosseum here!?" Marl excitedly bounced on her heels.

"And you want us to save this Rebecca girl that's being forced to fight in it by the Donquixote's?" Musashi happily smiled while sharpening her katana.

"And free all of the Gladiators being kept prisoner?" I grinned.

"Yes, that's exactly what I said. We and the Tontattas are in desperate need of your aid, and this might not be the perfect strike against Joker since he isn't here, but its close enough to reclaim our home. So, are you willing to lend us your aid?" Asked the Toy Soldier, who was joined by quite the small army of Dwarves and their Leader.

I might not get to fight Doflamingo, but the prospect of being a Pirate-Gladiator that brings to light an Underground Crime Ring did fill me and my two companions with childish glee.

"Buddy, do you even need to ask?" Gaap laughed.

"Good, then shall we-?"

"Hey, you wouldn't happen to be related to this Rebecca girl, now would you?"

"No, I'm simply her guardian. Nothing else." Huh, looks Thunder Soldier wants to play coy. It was sweet, but for the happiness of my future lover/wife, I needed to nip this in the bud fast.

"Oh, that's a shame…I really wanted you to be like her dad or something."

"Eh, why?"

"Because I was just going to warn you that I intend to take this Rebecca girl as my wife, so it would have been nice to have your blessing when that happens, dear Father-in-Law." Gaap winked.

"…Die." Ah, there's the rage of an overprotective parent.

"THUNDER SOLDIER, NO! WE NEED THEIR HELP!" The Tonttata Dwarves as a collective swarmed the Toy Soldier in a bid to hold him back from braining me with the handle of his toy gun.

Musashi could only shake her head in exasperation while Marl joined me in laughter.

So far even with Doflamingo's absence, the plan seemed to be going just fine.

Next up, the Corrida Colosseum!

AN: Hello! Just started reading some One Piece and decided to make an Omake for one of the SI's other future kids. I hoped that you all enjoyed the chapter. Also, Gaap forgot to mention Viola becuase he remembered her being an ally when she started off as an enemy to the Strawhats before Sanji rizzed her up.

Also, I noticed that not a lot of WC stories use Sakura and instead go for Tsunade which is understandable, but I've grown to appreciate Sakura for the moments where she mattered, so hey, she's here and I hoped that you enjoyed her.

Anyways, I hope you all have a fantastic weekend. I'm Out so Peace Out and have a lovely day!