Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece or This Bites. These belong to their respective owners, I'm merely taking inspiration from the two and adding my own characters to their worlds. I hope you enjoy.
Please enjoy the new start to This Bites: Trinity Mission!
Sorarocks: Did you see the newest episode of One Piece?
SheperdofFire: Yeah, that was amazing, I mean we knew Garp was strong, but we had no idea he was that strong.
Sorarocks: I guess Garp took inspiration from Luffy when they avoided him at Water 7.
SheperdofFire: Guess so,
KeybladeTerra has joined the chat.
KeybladeTerra: Sup guys!
Sorarocks: Terra! Hey dude how you been?
SheperdofFire: Hey Terra! How are you doing?
KeybladeTerra: I'm doing well, just got off work. Gonna watch some more One Piece, need to catch up to you guys.
Sorarocks: DO IT! Latest episode is so good.
SheperdofFire: Just wait till you see what the Hero of the Marines can do. It's crazy. No way he was going all out at Marineford. There would not have been an island left.
Sorarocks: Hey, speaking of have either of you heard of a story called This Bites?
KeybladeTerra: I'll try and catch up soon.
KeybladeTerra: Nope never heard of it.
SheperdofFire: Can't say I have.
Sorarocks: It's a self insert. Basically a writer gets dumped into the world of One Piece by a god-like being, and traps him there for his amusement. The main character is
Cross, who ends up meeting a Transponder Snail that he names Soundbite, because it ate a Paramecia Devil Fruit he calls the Noise Noise Fruit, following me so far?
SheperdofFire: Yeah, sounds interesting, keep going!
KeybladeTerra: Sounds cool!
Sorarocks: Okay, so he ends up joining the Straw Hats, and alot of things change because he has knowledge of the story. All the way up to the end of Dressrosa. Anyways, lot's of things change including Vivi getting a bounty, Alabasta going revolutionary and more.
SheprdofFire: That sounds crazy, I gotta check this out.
KeybladeTerra: So, where are you going with this?
Sorarocks: Well, I was just wondering what it would be like getting put into a story like that. You know, i'm sure it would be quite the crazy journey.
KeybladeTerra: Yeah, and honestly it's one of the safer anime worlds to get plopped into. Think about it, devil fruits give quick access to powers without having to train them up.
SheperdofFire: What kind of devil fruit would you guys want if you guys got sent there. I'd want a Mythical Zoan.
Sorarocks: I'd probably go with the same. Normal Zoan's are kinda meh, but Mythical one's open all sorts of special powers.
KeybladeTerra: Honestly, I'd probably go with something that could help me stay alive. There's lots of things to be concerned about in the Grand Line.
SandsofTime has entered the chat.
SandsofTime: So those are your choices? Very well, I'll see what I can do.
Sorarocks: That's true.
Sorarocks: What the hell?
SheperdofFire: Terra you invite this guy?
KeybladeTerra: No, not me. Sora?
Sorarocks: Nope, uh….Hello?
SandsofTime: Well that's a more cordial greeting then I usually get. Hello there, I couldn't help but overhear your conversation, and i'm here to grant that wish. I don't have time to explain, but needless to say, i'll be keeping an eye on you all. If you need help i'll do what I can. Until we meet again.
Sorarocks: Wait-WHAT THE HELLLLLLLLLLLL!
SheperdofFire: NOOOOOOOOOO!
KeybladeTerra: FUCKING BULLSHIT!
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SandsofTime: Let's see…two years should be enough time.
BitchinglyRidiculousOutstandingBiotch joined the chat
BitchinglyRidiculousOutstandingBiotch: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO KRONOS!?
SandsofTime: Ah right on time. Good I was meaning to inform you. Something is amiss, and abnormalities have appeared in the timeline. I have selected three suitable candidates who will be helping me fix things.
BitchinglyRidiculousOutstandingBiotch: I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THAT! IF YOU SEND ANY MORE HELP IT WILL RUIN MY FUN, BASTARD!
SandofTime: Rest assured they won't be interfering with your plans all that much. Only a few things here or there. Primarily the fire boy's capture and his imprisonment.
BitchinglyRidiculousOutstandingBiotch: THAT'S THE MOST FUN PART! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!?
SandsofTime: Calm down. I've already taken it into account. Rest assured the boy will still be captured, naturally. However, there will be unforeseen obstacles in the way of things. We will need more pieces to make sure the timeline remains stable.
BitchinglyRidiculousOutstandingBiotch: …
BitchinglyRidiculousOutstandingBiotch: And you're sure they won't ruin my fun?
SandsofTime: I guarantee it. In fact they might be a little entertaining themselves…Just know, this isn't up for discussion. They are a necessity to keep things from falling out of balance.
BitchinglyRidiculousOutstandingBiotch: Fine! Do what you want, but just know, if they ruin my plans, then they won't be the only ones who suffer.
SandsofTime: I'll keep that in mind.
SandsofTime: Was that all?
BitchinglyRidiculousOutstandingBiotch: Yep, that's about it. Later Sandman!
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SandsofTime: Always on the move.
SandsofTime: I pray for your success
In another place and another time, an lone fisherman was out at sea trying to provide a meal for his family, and also bring in money to live on. This fisherman was older, in his early 50's and he looked it too. His skin, slightly wrinkled but otherwise fit.
There was one feature that would appear odd if someone was to see him for the first time, and that was that his hair wasn't normal at all. Instead of a normal cut his was anything but that. His hair was shaped like the tip of a stalk of corn after the main part was harvested, his hair fanning out like leaves on three sides.
This incredible hairstyle gave his parents the inspiration for the most creative idea for a name that they could possibly think of.
They named him Cob.
At one point in his life the man hated the name with a passion, cursing his luck for having developed such an eccentric feature as he grew older. Yet as the years went by, and Cob began to make connections to those close to him he found himself growing more fond of the name. In time, it's what he preferred being called.
His grizzled face shifted as he looked at his haul for the day. He had about 100 give or take, but he figured he could get more with another cast of his cage. With this in mind he started to prepare it. The bait he had wasn't anything special, just some meat from a sea king that thought it would be a good idea to stop him from getting his daily qouta, but it got the job done.
Cob finished off by shutting the trap and grabbing the rope connected to the cage. With a strength that was very much superhuman he threw the heavy cage into the sea and watched as it slowly sunk to the bottom, the buoy floating atop the waves as he sat down, in a chair and cracked open a bottle of beer with a simple flick of his thumb.
He took a long swig of his drink as he tried to clear his mind. His eyes showed that he probably hadn't had a good night's sleep in a very long time.
"God, what I wouldn't give for something to read right now.
"CAH!"
Cob stopped as he heard the noise and looked up as flying above him was a news coo. Was it already Monday? No, probably not… but he couldn't be certain.
He looked up at the bird and waved it over, which the bird happily landed on the boat, ruffling it's feathers a little. Cob watched as the bird shuffled it beak into the bag it was carrying and pulled out just what Cob had expected the bird would have. A newspaper.
Cob smiled and patted the bird. "Thank you, I was just looking for something to pass the time." He said before he went over to his haul he had for the day and pulled out a small fish for the feathered delivery bird.
"Here's a tip." He said as he tossed it at the bird who happily ate the tasty treat.
"Cah!" The bird squawked as it flapped its wings, clearly pleased.
Cob watched as the bird bowed its head politely before flapping its wings as it took off and flew off in the direction of his island.
As soon as the bird left, Cob's smile faded. If the bird was out delivering mail then that meant there was some sort of news that warranted it not being on it's usually scheduled delivery date.
Sitting down in his chair, the older man opened the paper and started reading it's contents.
Nothing much to be mentioned at first, some pirates had tried to go to Amazon Lily and hadn't been heard from since. "Poor fools are probably dead, I haven't heard of anyone coming back from there alive." He said before he continued reading.
Apparently there was unrest in the Kingdom of Alabasta due to a lack of rain water.
"Not a good thing to have happen to a desert nation." He mused as he kept reading.
"A tournament being held on Dressrosa soon. If I wasn't retired I might have entered…might be a good way to blow off some steam." He said as he finished reading the first page. He turned the page and his eyes widened at what he read.
"Seriously? He ended up joining up with them? The old man has an even stronger crew now."
He was about to turn the page to see if there was anything else, before something shook his boat, a loud crack sounding in the air like thunder. The old man stood up straight as he prepared to cut his line. Being a Grand Line native he was well aware of the unpredictability of the storms the sea had.
He quickly raised his anchor as he looked in the air and saw something coming straight towards his vessel. He tried to maneuver the ship out of the way, as something crashed into the water next to him. Water erupted like a geyser from the point of impact, and Cob quickly ran to the side of the ship to see if he could see just what crashed down next to him.
He didn't see anything at first, but then he saw it, two figures both struggling to stay above the suddenly turbulent waves, as the storm that accompanied them began in earnest.
Without any time to spare, he grabbed a life ring from his boat and tied a rope around it. With a mighty heave of his arm, he tossed the thing so it would land next to the two figures.
"GRAB HOLD!" He screamed hoping they would hear him over the storm, as wave took them out of view. Cob feared the worst but he soon felt tension on the rope he held, and he started to reel the rope in, being careful not to go too fast or too slow, not wanting them to lose their grip on the ring.
It took about 5 minutes, and he lifted them up as they held on to the ring and they two fell to the floor of the deck, one coughing up water that had entered their lungs and the other not moving.
Cob finally got a good look at who he had saved and was surprised to see it was two kids…well kids in comparison to his age. In actual reality they looked to be in their late teens, he couldn't be sure though. One was a girl with long brown hair that hid her face as water had drenched her from head to toe. She coughed as she tried to find her breath again, and Cob quickly went over to her, and with a firm slap to her back, he saw her cough up the last of the water.
The girl in question looked around her and tried to take in her surroundings, when she saw her friend on the ground.
"SORA!" She said as she rushed over, and looked at him, she saw he wasn't moving at all, and turned to her apparent savoir.
"Help me! He couldn't swim, he took in too much water!"
The older man nodded and quickly got to work, preforming as he pressed his hands down on his chest as he tried to bring the man back from the brink.
The young woman frowned as she watched him work, and it was a solid minute before Sora suddenly started to cough, letting the water finally begin to exit his lungs, he turned over so gravity could help assist in the process, as he tried to regain his breath.
It took a few minutes before the young man was finally able to somewhat breathe as he looked around still trying to recover from what just happened, and he looked around, spotting a familiar face, he was quickly hugged by the woman.
"Sora, thank god you're okay." She said as she looked at him, as he still felt a little dazed. His mind started to become more clear, like a window when the morning fog is wiped away.
"Cynthia…what the hell happened?" He said as he soon felt rain hit his head. The two looked up as rain started to poor down on them. The older man rushed over to a wheel of somekind, and Sora's brain started to fill in the missing pieces, he was on a boat. A boat currently in the middle of what looked to be turning into a horrendous storm.
"Glad you're both okay, but I need a little help! Grab that rope and tie it down there." He said point to the rope and pointing to the rigging of the ship.
Cynthia looked at Sora, who in turn look at him, and they we're about to say something before the man interrupted them.
"NOW DAMN IT! UNLESS YOU'D RATHER SWIM BACK TO SHORE!" He said, alarming the two greatly as the two quickly scrambled and started adjusting the sail. Cynthia had grown up near the sea, and so she knew how to do most of the work, and Sora was a hands on learner so he quickly picked up on what he needed to do.
For a while, it was touch and go, with waves crashing against them, as water sloshed at their feet from the combination of the down poor, and the sea water that had made it onto the deck.
Eventually the group of three made it out of the worst of things, as the two sagged their shoulders in relief finally able to relax.
Cob approached the two. "For a couple kids, you two worked pretty fast. Nice work."
The two looked at each other and Sora rubbed the back of his head. "Thank you for saving us." He said as he began to introduce himself.
"I'm Sora, and this is my friend Cynthia." He said as Cynthia bowed politely to their savior.
The older man nodded. "Cob, and I'm just glad I was there to help. In all of my years on the Grand Line, I've never witnessed something like that. You two just crashed into the sea from up above." He said, causing the two to freeze in place as they heard this.
He saw the two did so, unsure about what he could have said that would cause such a reaction.
"What's wrong, did I say something wrong?" He asked but Sora's brain was moving at a mile a minute as he tried to process what he heard. He looked at Cob, and noticed there was something he was holding in his hand. It looked like a newspaper.
"Hey can we see that for a second?" He asked as Cynthia caught what Sora was pointing at.
Cob, looked at the paper he was holding and nodded. "Sure, I finished reading it before you both showed up." He said handing over the paper to Sora.
Sora took it, and with Cynthia looking over his shoulder the two saw something that all but confirmed that they had not misheard what Cob had just said.
Special Edition: New Second Division Commander! Fire Fist Ace joins Whitebeard Pirates!
Cynthia looked at the document with wide eyes as she stared right at her friend who met her gaze, and the two both came to the realization of what had happened to them.
They were in the world, home to some of the most beloved characters and hated villains in all of storytelling back home.
The two we're in the world of One Piece.
This is the first updated chapter, I'll be editing chapter 1 next.
Be prepared for some major changes. I'm basically rewriting the whole thing.
