A/N Hey guys, sorry for not putting this in the Author's Note at the end of the last chapter, but the alien Ben transformed into at the end was the same one as Lord Boros from One Punch Man. Saw some confusion over that, so guess I should have made it more clear. Anyway, enjoy the latest chapter!
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"Come on Ben," Dash moaned. "What's taking so long?"
"There are ten thousands aliens on this thing," Ben snapped back at him. The thirteen year old twisted the green knob on top of his watch around and around but he just kept frowning at the dark silhouette on top of it. "I don't know why I can't transform into him the same way as everyone else… there!" Ben stopped twisting the watch as he saw a bipedal creature with spikes coming out of its head. The watch's top popped up and the boy rose his hand high above it while Dash got an excited look on his face. "Dominator!" Ben yelled, slamming his open hand down on the watch.
A green light enveloped Ben's body, faded away, and Dash lost his excited look as he lowered his gaze to the floor in front of him. Ben lifted up his own hands and in a high-pitched, squeaky voice, he shouted, "Gray Matter?! Whaat?" He dropped his tiny gray hands and lifted his big green eyes up at Dash who lost his initial disappointment and was now smirking and trying to keep his cheeks puffed out. He could not stop himself though and started laughing at Ben's total failure to transform into the alien he wanted as he now looked just like the creator of the Omnitrix, only a lot less old.
Another flash of green light surrounded Ben and he transformed again into a much faster alien that he started chasing Dash around with. The two of them sped down the stairs from the side of the cabin where they were talking and raced across the grassy main deck of the Sunny. A long-nosed pirate standing on the side of the ship did three spins as blurs flew by him so fast he was taken by the wind. When Usopp finally stopped spinning he was wobbly on his feet and he had to shake his head around to regather his bearings.
He waved a fist after the blurs and yelled at them, then turned back to the edge of the ship where he had his fishing rod attached and the line out in the water. The sniper watched as the lure bobbed, but it did not look like he caught a bite yet. Usopp sighed and leaned back, then heard someone behind him and turned his head slightly to glance back out the corner of his eyes. "Hey Juvia-sis!" Franky said as the blue-haired girl walking across the grass deck came close to him. "Mind giving me a hand with this?" The cyborg asked, catching Usopp's attention as Franky had been working on an invention on the main deck for over an hour now. Juvia smiled at him and got down on her knees to help with the contraption he had set up.
Usopp continued to fish but he glanced back every so often to watch what the other two were doing. He was getting confused as he watched them though, What's she doing? He thought Franky needed Juvia's water powers for something, but he watched as Franky handed her a wrench and she leaned into the bowl-shaped top section of the device. The girl had a blue tank top on and a pair of black shorts, and she tied her hair up in a ponytail behind her head to keep it out of the way as she worked. Juvia leaned back and she wiped some sweat off her face before handing Franky back his wrench with the same hand, "Did Juvia do well?" She asked.
"Better," Franky said as he looked away from the part he was currently working on and looked at what he asked her to do for him. He turned to her and threw his arms up over his head, and Juvia did the same thing, putting her arms together and pointing them diagonally the same direction Franky was. Franky yelled out, "You did-" and the two of them together shouted, "SUPER!"
Juvia started laughing as she lowered her arms and she got back up in front of Franky. He thanked her for her help and Juvia shook her head, "Juvia is happy to help." She turned away from Franky and as she turned she caught Usopp staring, but he quickly spun back to look out over the water.
Usopp had a frown on his face as he looked back towards his fishing lure. He did not know what it was at first, and then it suddenly hit him. All that time I spent as a Heartless, Juvia got to sail with Luffy and the others. She's been more a member of this crew than I have these last two years. I was barely- "Usopp-san," a voice spoke behind him and Usopp jumped, spinning around as he had not heard anyone approaching. The girl on his mind was standing behind him, looking a little nervous herself.
Juvia is close with all of Luffy-san's crew. Juvia wishes to be Usopp-san's friend too. She shifted her weight from one foot to the other as she thought of what to say to the man who was looking at her as hesitantly as she was looking at him. The idea hit her as she looked past him and her face lit up, "Would Usopp-san like help fishing?" Usopp looked at her confusedly, and then his eyes lit up too as he realized what she was offering.
"Can your water powers help?" Usopp wondered, looking out towards his lure as Juvia stepped up next to him.
She nodded her head and reached her arms out over the ledge of the ship. She waved her hands out then turned them back towards herself and pulled in, then repeated the motion several times. Usopp watched the water as it started pushing away from the Sunny and then back towards them in waves that were getting larger with every motion she made. His eyes widened in wonder and he glanced right at the girl, but she was extremely focused on what she was doing. Her eyes examined the waves she was creating and she finally spotted something shimmer under the surface, There! Juvia swung her arms straight up and the wave exploded, bursting in every direction while one part of it shot straight up in the air like a jet, propelling a twenty-foot long tuna up in the air towards the side of the ship.
The tuna was floundering around in its descent towards the ship's edge, and it was falling really close to the side of the Sunny. Usopp and Juvia saw it coming and neither were expecting it to be this big. Since Juvia did not think it was this large though, she did not put enough force behind it and it was falling back down before reaching the side of the ship. It was within arms reach though, and both of the panicking fishers reached out to try and catch the fish. It slammed into their arms and they struggled to hold on while leaning their top halves off of the boat.
Franky looked up from his invention and Dash and Ben stopped running around nearby as they spotted the two leaning so far off the side. Franky stood up and called out, "Oi! If you-"
"Ah! Hold on!" Dash shouted, starting to run across the ship. He made it in an instant and reached out to grab onto the back of Usopp's overalls, only for the weight of the tuna, Usopp, and Juvia all falling off the side of the ship to pull him with them. Ben was running over as well and although he was semi-panicked at the sight of the three of them toppling over the edge, the boy could not help but burst out laughing at Dash's scream when he wound up falling too.
The three crashed down into the water and Franky yelled, "Men overboard! And Juvia!"
Usopp, Dash, and Juvia all hit the rough water on the side of the ship and dropped beneath the surface. A second later, all three of them were shooting back up in the air in a pillar of water that arced and plopped them down right back on the deck where everyone else was running to after hearing they fell off. Ben's laughter cut off a second before the huge mass of water fell on him, but getting wet was the least of what stopped his laughter.
Usopp coughed up a bucket of water and sat up fast. He shook around his head to get some water off his hair, then turned to Juvia who was wringing out her wet blue ponytail. "Thanks," he told her, though he scratched the back of his head as he wondered whether he would have fell in in the first place if she had not thrown a giant fish at him. She had a red face as she was thinking about the same thing, but before she could apologize, the two of them spun hearing loud laughter coming from all around. It started with Dash, but the others who ran over to see if their friends were okay all started laughing as well at the sight of a twenty-foot long fish lying on top of Ben's stomach as the young boy pushed up on it trying to breathe.
"Nice catch," Luffy called over. "Sanji!" He shouted, but the chef waved him off as he was already heading down to get the ingredient for their next meal.
The others called out how good of a snag it was too, and Usopp turned back to Juvia who was looking around in surprise at all the praise. "The amazing Captain Usopp could not have done it without Juvia's help!"
"We know," Nami called over to him, as it was her blue haired friend she was congratulating in the first place. She sighed though and shook her head as Juvia started laughing along with Usopp and the two wet people a couple of years younger than her started talking. Good, Nami thought with a smile. Juvia's a member of this crew after all. It's about time Usopp… Nami stopped her current train of thought as she had a strange feeling hit her all at once. Several others on the ship tensed up as well, because they all heard the same thing that made their entire bodies fill with shivers, the good kind of shivers.
"OhhOHHohhhh… Aaahhhooo! Eee, eeelaala. Sailing ships and rising tides, yohoo, yohoo…" The voices they heard were so beautiful all of them spun around, needing to find out where the song was coming from. Sanji dropped the huge fish on the deck and blood dripped out of his nose from the sound of those voices alone. Juvia and Usopp froze mid-conversation and both snapped their heads to port, then starboard, searching for the source of those beautiful voices.
"Rin, what is it?" Kuro asked. The small black cat on Rin's shoulder saw its master tense up and look around so it did the same. "What's up with those weird voices?" Kuro asked.
"Weird?" Rin asked, his voice getting angry. Kuro looked confused as Rin shot a glare at it. "Those are the most beautiful voices, I've ever heard," halfway through his sentence he lost his enraged look and his mouth curled up again as his eyes closed. Kuro leapt off his shoulder and backed away as Rin started walking like he was in a trance towards the starboard side.
Timmy floated down from the top of the mast with his head tilted back, his eyes closed, and his face looking like he was in a state of euphoria. "What is that?" He mumbled, landing next to Nami without even looking at her. The navigator was just as entranced as him though, listening to the sounds of female voices that seemed to touch her very soul.
"Franky," Nami called out, though not turning to her left to look at the cyborg. "Turn us, towards the sound of those voices."
"Follow the sound of our song… Come find us. OooOOOooo… Stepping out of the cabin were two teenagers, both of whom looked like they were feeling the same way as everyone else. They heard the voices louder now and spun to starboard, staggering over and looking over the ledge into the distance. They turned more towards the bow and saw it as Franky started turning the ship, "Look," Sora said, nudging his older friend with an elbow. "Out there."
Riku did not say anything back to him. The silver haired teen was just staring with wide green eyes at the island in the distance. It was not a huge island, in fact it was just a large cluster of rocks. However, as they got closer he could see several figures sitting on the rocks close to the water where waves splashed up and made a mist fall down over them. The women the mist fell over waved their heads around to get some of the water off and their hair glistened with little droplets of water on them. They continued to sing the entire time and there was a glow around each of their bodies, five of them in total who were so gorgeous he could not look away.
"Guys, what's wrong?" Kairi asked, stepping towards the two who had walked away from her inside the cabin and were now staring the same direction as everyone else. She did not like how weird this was, and as the ship turned more, everyone lining the starboard side of the ship started walking as if they were in a trance towards the bow of the ship. "Sora? Sora! Riku," Sora walked away and Kairi tugged on Riku's arm as he was about to walk past to. "Something's wrong!" Kairi shouted at him, seeing a glossy look in his eyes.
"Listen to her Riku," a voice said in the silver haired young man's head. His eyes became less glossy and a look of confusion spread across his face instead. "This is unnatural. Look around at your friends," Ansem's voice echoed in his mind and Riku snapped his head back and forth to see everyone near him was wandering towards the front of the ship, all except for Kairi. "What is…"
"AhhAAhhaaa-ohhhmm…" A beautiful voice forced itself inside Riku's mind as he opened his mouth to talk to Kairi, and his mouth slowly closed as his eyes glossed back over. Kairi grabbed him by the arm and shouted at him, but Riku shrugged her off and kept walking, the same as everyone else who left the cabin or came around it from the stern to head towards the bow. "Guys! Guys!" Kairi yelled, tugging on each of their arms and running after them towards the bow. "What's happening to all of you?!" She yelled confusedly.
"Hey Kairi," a voice said directly behind the teenage girl on the starboard side of the main deck. She stopped in her tracks and spun around, then lifted up her gaze to the man behind her's face. Goku tilted his head to the side and asked, "What's everyone doing?"
"I don't know," Kairi said. She looked flustered and spun back to the others who were all climbing the steps to the front deck. She chased after them with Goku right behind her and watched them gather at the edge of the bow where they stared off in awe. Luffy jumped over the bow and crawled across the Thousand Sunny's lion face figurehead to get as far forward as he could. He put his chin in his hands and let out an enamored sigh while staring across the ocean's surface at the source of all the beautiful sounds. Kairi and Goku turned left as a figure walked by them and Kairi's eyes widened at the sight of Franky striding past.
The auburn haired girl spun around and looked at the helm. She lowered her bottom lip even more at the sight of the contraption Franky had been working on all morning in pieces next to it, and two of its pieces were sticking in between pegs of the wheel to keep it going straight. "Franky!" Kairi yelled at the cyborg's back. "What are you doing?"
"It's okay," Franky mumbled and waved a hand to the side.
"Robin! Gray! Ben!" Kairi spun around and looked at all these people leaning farther and farther over the bow. The ship was approaching the rocks fast and Kairi started to get nervous as she looked out at the figures she could hear from the deck. She heard them and their voices sent shivers down her spine. Not because their voices were scratchy or bad-sounding to her ears, but because she was able to see what the creatures really looked like did their voices give her chills. The naked women on the rocks ahead had crusty mouths that were pale white, and sharp teeth stuck out of their gums with small gaps between them where Kairi could sweat she saw lingering pieces of flesh. Even more nerve-racking were the planks of wood and shreds of white cloth laying around the rocks, and the breaking of waves near the closest of the visible rocks, implying there were other shallow surfaces even before the creepy women.
"They sure have nice voices," Goku mentioned, though he still looked confused as he stared ahead at all the strangely acting pirates, mages, and children in front of him. He turned back to Kairi who was not acting like them and saw a look of realization on the teenage girl's face. "What is it?" He questioned.
"Have you ever heard of," Kairi began, turning to the older man, "sirens?" Goku tilted his head showing that he did not and Kairi spun back to her friends and the quickly approaching rocks beyond them. "They lure sailors in with their beautiful song," Kairi whispered. "And then…" She had never been too clear on what happened after that, but she knew one thing for sure. "Goku," she spun to the older man again. "We have to get away from here! The ship's going to run aground!"
"Shouldn't we tell Nami?" Goku asked. He looked ahead and called out, "Nami, Kairi thinks we're going to crash into the rocks."
"It's okay," Nami said. She reached an arm out over the railing, "Because we're almost there."
Goku frowned and he scratched the back of his head. "Huh, I guess maybe we should do this ourselves."
Natsu climbed up on the railing and he crouched with his feet on the bow. He stared out in awe and if he thought he could swim faster that the Sunny was moving, he would have dove off to swim there already. "They're so beautiful," he whispered.
"Pretty ladies," Sanji mumbled. "Beautiful ladies. Cute ladies." He had the urge to get there sooner, but the song compelled him to stay on his ship or to jump in the ocean. The urge to use his Sky Walk to get to them was not there for some reason, the same reason Timmy was not flying over in an instant. The little boy in a pink hat floated up over the railing, and his eyes were glossed completely over. He stared straight ahead at the sirens, and then he stared ahead and to the left at them, just like everyone else.
The entire crew became confused as they had to start looking left to follow the rocks they were staring at. It looked like the rocks were moving to port, and many of them realized at the same time that it was not the rocks that were moving, but their ship itself. They spun around and saw Kairi behind the wheel, spinning it to the right and yelling at them although her voice became muffled as soon as it reached their ears.
"What are you doing?" Gray asked, taking a step back towards her.
Dash spun to Kairi and then back over the edge of the ship. "No," the kid muttered. He ran to the edge, jumped up on the railing, and whispered, "I need to get to them. That song, it's so…" Splash! Dash was in the water before he finished his sentence. He popped back over the surface and started swimming forward, waves occasionally breaking over his head but the smile not once leaving his mouth as he only heard the song getting louder.
Most of the others who saw Dash go in the water watched him get closer to the sirens than them, and they all dove off after him. They were falling on top of each other and knocking their own comrades even farther below the water in pain. Natsu marched back towards the wheel with Gray and Sora at his sides though. "Turn the ship back that way," Natsu growled.
"Kairi, we need to go over there," Sora said, his eyes as glossy as everyone else's.
"Sora," Kairi said, her heart hurting. She lifted up her right hand and showed him the ring on it, "Why do you need to go to them? Listen to yourself. This isn't you."
"This isn't me?" Sora questioned. He looked over the bow and stared towards those gorgeous women who kept singing to him in beautiful voices. Goku was no longer on the ship with the four of them, as he had dove overboard and swam down to gather up Kirito, Luffy, and Robin who sank upon hitting the water. Sora stared back ahead at the auburn haired girl who was looking increasingly afraid as two figures walked up on either side of her with threatening expressions on their faces.
Sora blinked a few times, his eyes losing their glossy coating. He heard the song getting louder and he threw his hands up to his temples, clenching his eyes shut and screaming loudly to get the sound out of his head. "Natsu! Gray!" He yelled, snapping his eyes open and glaring forward at the men about to grab onto his fiancé. They turned towards him and Sora stomped forward in a way that made the entire front deck shake. "Step away from her."
"The song," Gray shouted back at the spiky haired teen. "We need to-" Gray froze mid-sentence and he gained a confused look as did Natsu on the other side of Kairi. They became confused because the song they were listening to stopped, making a deep sense of sadness fill them instead. Once that passed though, they became confused and stepped away from Kairi who they were just showing very threatening looks. Gray turned from Kairi to Sora who was still glaring at him and the ice mage gulped, thinking back on the day everyone on the ship went insane when he saw what Sora could really do when he got mad.
"Who did these clothes belong to?" Goku questioned, standing on top of a rock in front of five scared sirens. The Saiyan had three figures tucked under his right arm, all very confused as to what was going on as the sirens had stopped singing and their effect was wearing off. And all three of the Devil Fruit eaters were also dead silent because of Goku's expression at the moment. Goku looked down at some blood-soaked clothes sitting out on the rock, and he turned left to see part of a hull washed up between two larger rocks, and bones sitting on top of the wood.
"Hsssss!"
"How are you resisting our song?"
"What are you?"
Goku frowned that these things were talking to him. He rose up his left hand and pointed it forward at the creatures that looked somewhat human but he could tell were monsters. "I am sorry," he said. "I never like taking a life." The five creatures screamed, but their screams lasted less than a second. All of them, and the rocks beyond where Goku was standing, became engulfed in a white cone of light that shot out of Goku's hand. When the light vanished, so did the creatures, so did the other rocks besides the one tiny piece Goku was standing on, and so did the water's surface for about a mile past Goku's hand creating a long trench ten meters wide the whole way.
Robin and Kirito were sweating a little while Luffy's eyes just opened wide at the awesome display of power. Those floating in the ocean behind them had varied reactions as well, with Sanji's being the most extreme as he screamed out in sorrow and anger.
A few minutes later, a soaking wet crew was back on the Thousand Sunny. Sora was still apologizing to Kairi, telling her he had no idea what came over her, and Rin was petting Kuro who said he was really afraid when Rin jumped off the ship. Natsu and Gray both apologized to Kairi too, but Sanji marched up to Goku and frowned at the Saiyan while everyone else was drying off and trying to get over what just happened. "Why did you do that?" Sanji snapped at the Saiyan.
Goku looked at Sanji in surprise, and he replied, "They were trying to kill all of you."
"You didn't know that!" Sanji exclaimed.
"Sanji, he just saved our lives," Nami groaned over at the idiot chef.
"He harmed ladies," Sanji growled, glaring harder at Goku who frowned back at him. The Saiyan scratched the back of his head and he did not know how to react to Sanji's anger. "You did not have to kill them," the chef growled. A lot of others looked over now, and Luffy could see Sanji was actually angry here, not just moaning because of a broken heart. They watched as Goku and Sanji made eye contact for several seconds with neither one saying anything.
Finally, Goku lowered his arm back down to his side, and he said, "If I left them there, they would have caught the next sailors going past. It looked like they had killed a lot before." Goku reached a hand forward and put it on Sanji's left shoulder, "In the words of someone I once knew: 'There are those, who words alone will not reach.'" The others were opening their eyes wide while staring at the usually carefree Saiyan warrior. Goku continued, "Sometimes, you know that by letting someone go, they will cause a lot of pain it the future. I've made the mistake before. There are some creatures that are beyond reasoning with. I do not like to hurt, but," Goku smiled softly, thinking back once more, "it is because I cherish life, that I must protect it. I believed that leaving those monsters behind would have caused others to die in their place. I couldn't allow that."
Sanji did not know what to say as Goku lowered his hand from the chef's shoulder. Goku turned away and walked off, most people staring at his back as he did. They were all pretty quiet so they all heard Franky loud and clear when he shouted a few seconds later, "Land ho!" Everyone sitting down and catching their breath after the experience got back up on their feet. The crew looked tired and they were all soaking wet, with the exceptions of Kairi, Goku, and Kuro the black cat.
They looked over the bow of the ship together and spotted a lighthouse in the distance, its white light occasionally flashing their way. Nami sighed a deep breath of relief as the sight of a lighthouse meant there were people there, real people. "Let's get ready to land," she said and the others started running around to get to work. Nami took a step forward and under her breath muttered, "I've had enough of the sea for one day."
The Next Day
"We've definitely got to go back to that island on the way home," Dash said while looking off the stern of the ship. The island was fading into the horizon behind him, but Dash was still smiling thinking about all the nice people they met there.
The others at the stern with the twelve year old agreed with the sentiment. Natsu leaned back and interlocked his hands behind his head. "Sounds like we're getting close to our destination anyway. What'd Arthur say? A few days?"
"I thought he said we were still a week out," Ben mentioned. Natsu shrugged and turned around, walking away as he did not care that much. He looked a little nervous as he walked off though, as he was wondering when Wendy's Troia magic would fade off and his chronic motion sickness would return.
The others all walked off after Natsu, but two boys stayed there a little longer. Dash turned to his best friend, "How are you doing Ben?"
Ben looked at Dash and he could see what Dash meant. Ben sighed, "I'm fine," he said. "Azmuth said he took away the self-destruct function altogether this time. So at least I don't have to worry about the watch bugging out on me again."
"That's good," Dash said and smiled. He looked out over the ocean and the island they left a while ago had finally vanished in the distance. "How far away from Pao do you think we are now?"
"How far?" Ben repeated. He hummed to himself as he thought about it, then shrugged his shoulders. "Who knows, I'd guess at least a thousand miles. Maybe two."
"Two thousand? Really?" Dash asked in awe. Neither of them knew just how low-balling it they were.
"Probably," Ben answered him. "I didn't think the boat ride was going to be this long actually. I thought it was going to be a quick trip over to Aebrith, but you know what? I think this is nicer." Dash nodded his head in agreement. Ben kept going anyway, "After months of fighting the Underworld nonstop, that short break we had after Metropolis really wasn't enough. Once we get to Aebrith it sounds like we're gonna be caught up in some tough fights. But at least for now, we can just enjoy an adventure as pirates. We fight occasionally, but most of the time it's just sailing, and exploring, and a lot of fun, right?"
"Yeah!" Dash agreed quickly. "This has been the most fun I've had since-" he stopped and thought for a second, before his eyes widened and he said out loud, "ever. This is more fun than I've ever had."
"Well, you're still young. Don't worry, there will be other fun adventures to-"
"I'm young?!" Dash exclaimed. "You're only a year older than me!"
"A year's a long amount of time," Ben said with a shrug of his shoulders. "Besides, look at our height difference." He smirked down at the shorter boy by a whole head.
"Eh?! What does height have to do-"
"Hey guys! Come look at this!"
Ben grinned as Dash was interrupted. He pointed towards the bow with his thumb, "That's my cue." He turned and ran off while his best friend fumed angrily behind him and then gave chase.
Ben ran around the cabin to the balcony right before the stairs down to the main deck. He looked across the grassy deck where a lot of the others were running towards the bow, and he looked over the bow deck as well to the ocean past it. "Whoa," Ben gasped and stared out there in awe.
Dash came around the bend preparing to say something to Ben, but his jaw just dropped instead. He hopped up on the railing and leaned forward with his right hand flat in front of his forehead. He peered out and said, "That's a lot of ships."
"That would be an understatement," someone said on their left. They turned and looked at the third member of their group of three best friends. Riku was standing there looking out over the ocean with a growing frown on his face. "Look at the sails," he said to his younger friends.
Dash and Ben turned away from him and looked back out over the sea. Everyone on the front deck was talking loudly about the incoming ships, but the boys were no longer planning to go up and join them. "The sails?" Dash mumbled. There were over ten ships sailing in their direction, with one huge one directly in the center. All of them had blue sails, and in the middle of those sails were symbols just like the Straw Hats had on their ship.
Instead of a skull and crossbones with a straw hat on top though, there was a tall cross behind the skull with the horizontal piece close to the top. Farther down the cross was the skull, but with spikes sticking out of the top like the dead man had spiky hair. But the strangest thing about the sail were the two curved white lines that stretched to either side from below the skull. The lines had concave down arcs so that it kind of looked like the type of bird a kid draws on a picture in art class. The lines were white on dark blue sail backgrounds and Ben wondered out loud, "Are those supposed to be seagulls?"
"That was my thought," Riku agreed. "And who else uses seagulls as their symbol?" He questioned.
Ben and Dash's eyes popped open wide. "The Marines," they said quickly.
Some people on the front deck realized the same thing and were getting nervous at the thought. "Is that a fleet of Marine ships?" Usopp exclaimed.
"The symbol is off, but it does bear a striking resemblance," Robin said.
"Even if they are Marines," Gray began. "Don't you think Aokiji would have let this men know not to attack us?"
"Huh? Why would he do that?" Luffy asked the mage on his right. Gray stared confusedly at Luffy for a few seconds and Luffy continued as if talking to a child, "Pirates fight Marines. Marines fight pirates."
"Baka!" Nami snapped at her captain. "After we let Aokiji travel with us all that time, you really think he's got the Marines out trying to catch us?"
"He doesn't?!" Luffy exclaimed in surprise. Luffy turned to Nami, "Are you sure?"
"God Luffy you can be such an idiot," Nami grumbled. "Why do you think we were allowed in Metropolis after the battle? Kuzan probably told his men that we had free passes."
"So then we shouldn't worry about those ships?" Rin asked the woman in front of him.
"Not at all," Nami replied.
"Then why are they firing at us?" The half-demon questioned. Nami blinked a few times, then turned her head and dropped her jaw at the sight of hundreds of cannonballs flying their way.
"Franky! Hard to-" Nami stopped her orders midway as all of the cannonballs stopped flying at them. Everyone preparing to jump up and defend the ship hesitated and wondered what was going on.
One boy at the bow with them looked around and said, "Oh sorry, did you guys want to get those?" Timmy looked genuinely concerned and he turned back to the cannonballs. "Because I could let them go if you want," he offered, having frozen all the attacks in midair with his mind.
Luffy frowned for a second but he shook his head and smiled wide. "Do whatever you want Timmy. They're enemies, let's go all out!" He threw his fists forward and grabbed the figurehead of the Thousand Sunny. "Gum Gum, ROCKET!" Luffy threw himself up in the air and in between all the cannonballs hovering there.
Timmy watched Luffy go and he dropped the attacks. He did not want to fire them back at the ships and blow up all those random people, so he dropped them straight down into the ocean.
"Alright! Franky pull in the sails, Sanji, steer us to the right of their fleet," Nami barked out orders to the others.
"I'm taking Mini Merry!" Usopp shouted with glee. He ran towards the cabin and a woman he ran past turned with him.
"I will come along," Robin said with a small grin.
"Natsu," Nami called down to the starboard side of the main grassy deck. "Go down to the lower deck and open up the port-side gunports. Push out the cannons and-"
"Yeah, not gonna happen," Natsu said. Usopp and Robin turned back towards the deck, Franky looked at the man next to him, and Sanji turned from the wheel. Natsu was leaning off the starboard side and he looked far forward at the armada of ships where a single man was jumping around going nuts all over his opponents.
"Oi," Sanji growled back at the Dragon Slayer. "Listen to what Nami-san says or-"
"No, Natsu's right," Gray called up to Sanji who turned to the ice mage now in surprise. Sanji thought the fire mage was just being an ass, but Gray seemed more reasonable than that. "We're not actually pirates," Gray said. "And if that is a splinter faction of the Navy, I'm not fighting them."
"Why not?!" Usopp yelled back at him.
"Because the Marines are the good guys," Rin said to the long-nosed pirate at the doorway a few feet from him. Usopp turned to the teen in surprise but Rin did not look prepared for a fight either.
"So what?" Nami shouted. "Are you all just going to sit around while we fight? They're going to attack whether or not you fight back. You are on a pirate ship!"
"I guess, I'll help," Ben announced. The boy jogged forward on the main deck and glanced over at Natsu who just shrugged at him. He ran up to the bow and looked at Nami hesitantly, "I gotta help Luffy after all."
Nami nodded at the boy, but she did so as hesitantly as he did. Am I really going to send Ben into battle? Why are the Marines attacking us?"
"More incoming!" Timmy shouted. He rose his right hand and opened it into a palm that froze the next volley of cannonballs. Once he froze them though, Timmy's eyes shot open wide and he snapped his head down at the water. Out from beneath the surface shot dozens of long dark green vines of seaweed. The vines flew up and wrapped around the cannonballs, then threw them in at the Thousand Sunny.
Timmy closed his open palm and all the cannonballs exploded before reaching the Sunny. The explosions were enough to make the front of the ship lift up though, and the whole boat rocked around.
"Could you wrap this up quick?" Natsu called out as he steadied himself on the deck. "Not trying to get sea sick!"
"Can you even get sick with Wendy's magic working on you?" Gray asked his fellow Fairy Tail mage.
"Hey!" Nami yelled behind her. "If you aren't going to help then shut up!"
Natsu opened his mouth to yell back at her but he got interrupted before he could start. "Hey guys," someone called down from the crow's nest. They all looked up and saw Goku floating just in front of the nest. As they looked up, they saw Timmy shoot off across the sky towards the fleet. The Thousand Sunny was much closer now, on the far right side of the line of Navy ships attacking them. Without Timmy there, the cannonballs flew in without anyone stopping them. Sanji leapt away from the wheel and kicked explosives away while Franky rose his left arm and blew up others with machine gun fire.
Meanwhile, Goku kept calling down to the group, "I felt Luffy's power go down. He isn't in the water, but it feels like he is."
"Crap," Nami muttered under her breath. She glared out at the ships with the strange Navy sails and shouted, "They're probably using Sea Stone weapons on him then. Timmy should be able to save him."
Almost as soon as she said it, Timmy reappeared in the air above the bow. He floated there with Luffy in his right hand, the pirate gasping for air with a bloody nose and his neck red from whoever was choking him. Timmy lowered to the deck and dropped Luffy, while Goku flew forward now and punched and kicked right through the cannonballs. They exploded around him but he flew straight through without taking any damage.
Luffy coughed, and coughed, and snapped his head up to look at the half dozen people gathered on the bow. Natsu, Gray, and Juvia came running up to the front and looked down at Luffy in surprise. Luffy pushed down his right fist, and he slammed down his left, shaking the entire bow. "He took Hat," Luffy snarled.
For the first time since he got back to the ship the others noticed what was most off about the captain. His signature Straw Hat was missing, and the black pupils in the middle of his eyes were dilated with smaller white circles inside. "What's so important about that hat?" Natsu asked. He laughed, "You can always just get another-"
A rubber hand snapped out and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. "That was Shanks' hat," Luffy said seriously. He looked into Natsu's eyes and said, "I can't let anything happen to it."
"Where is it?" Nami called down to her captain who she knew cared as much about his hat as anything else.
Luffy let go of Natsu's collar who looked at the pirate oddly, not knowing how to respond to what Luffy just told him. Luffy rubbed his neck and he looked off the port side at the fleet they were going to the right of. "Their leader," Luffy said, his fists balling at his sides. "He took Hat," Luffy said it while glaring past several of the ships closest to them. The others followed his gaze and looked out towards the ship in the very middle of the fleet at the front of it. A man stood on the bow of that ship, a man with spiky purple hair and a giant arm made of Sea Stone.
"He's strong," Goku said excitedly as he felt the man's power.
"So are the two next to him," Timmy said as he looked at the taller man in a weird flowery jumpsuit on their leader's left, and the shorter, pretty girl on his right side who wore a white cloak that had their Navy's symbol on the back of it.
The Thousand Sunny was pulling up on the port side of the farthest enemy ship to the right. Their ship, unlike the Sunny, had dozens of cannons sticking out of the side ready to fire at the Straw Hats' ship. "Everyone get ready!" Sanji yelled as he dropped back to the deck. The enemy ships were no longer firing cannonballs at them, but many soldiers from ships farther down the line were jumping across ships to get to the one closest to the pirates. The cannons on the port side of that ship pushed out and they could see a bunch of soldiers getting ready inside them.
"Juvia will protect the Sunny," the Rain Woman called out.
"Juvia," Gray began towards his girlfriend.
"Gray-sama," she started back, not waiting for him to say anything to her against doing this. "Juvia must help Luffy-san and her friends. Thousand Sunny-san means a lot to them," she said, then stepped towards the port side of their ship and rose up her arms. Gray stared at her in surprise as she was usually never that confident about something, especially if he was against it. The water down in between the two ships that were almost directly next to each other now rose up, and cannonballs that shot out of their enemy's ship flew into the wall of water and lost all their momentum.
"They're boarding!" Nami yelled as she saw people putting planks across the two ships.
"Anchor us Franky!" Luffy yelled. He glared across the ship next to them and felt out with his Haki towards the main ship where some strong presences were getting closer, probably leaping from one ship to the other to get closer to them. As Franky got the anchor and threw it over the side, Luffy yelled out, "We aren't leaving until I get Hat back!" He threw his arms over the side of his ship and grabbed onto the mast of the one next to them. "Gum Gum Rocket!" He yelled, his voice a lot more serious than the time he shouted it a minute ago. He flew right over the enemy ship and onto the one behind it where hundreds of other soldiers from other ships were moving across to get to the one they would board the pirate ship from.
"Shoot him!"
"It's Straw Hat Luffy!"
"Take him down!"
Beams and bullets flew at Luffy but he leaned back and forth and the attacks all went right by him. He stopped moving as several of the soldiers charged him with risen swords. He glared straight ahead over the opposite side of the ship as his own and the one closest to his was on, all the way over at the purple haired man who stopped moving and glared back at him through his sunglasses. Luffy saw the swords coming down all around him, but he did not move a muscle.
Natsu was leaning on the starboard side of the Sunny, staring over their ship and the one after it all the way over at Luffy two decks down. His eyes widened at the sight of a visible white aura shooting off of Luffy's body and surrounding the entire ship he was on. Swords halfway down towards his head fell out of the grips of the men swinging them, and most of the people on the ship with him dropped down unconscious without the rubberman moving a muscle. "Whoa," Natsu muttered, though he kept his voice quiet so the others would not hear how amazed he was by that action. There were people swinging across ropes onto the Straw Hats' ship who seemed to get hit by the blast of Conqueror's Haki too, as they let go of the rope and slammed into the side of their ship or fell down into the water.
Despite Luffy taking out a large portion of the enemies, some who did not fall ran across the planks to board the Sunny and charged at the people on board the ship. "You guys can take care of them," Goku said, and he excitedly leapt forward from where he was standing eagerly watching the fight. Luffy can probably take those guys himself, but I want a turn first! He leapt right over Luffy's head and landed on the ship between the one the rubberman was on and the one with the enemy leader.
"Oi!" Luffy shouted at his back as he could tell what Goku was doing.
"Hey you!" Goku called out, pointing a hand forward at the most powerful man in this fleet. "You're strong! Let's fight!"
The muscular old man with spiky purple hair glared at the figure in an orange fighting gi. In a deep voice he growled, "Ain, Binz, take care of him." The two subordinates on either side of him shot forward and landed on the ship with Goku in the blink of an eye.
More soldiers were running across the armada of ships and ran past the leader to jump on the ship as well, but they left it to their commanders to handle, running right past to the ship that Luffy was on. Some of them stopped to fight Luffy while others kept running to take on the other pirates with their comrades who were already over there.
"Pirate scum!" A muscular, tan-skinned man with a thick black ponytail, mustache, and beard yelled. He had on a long black cape and was the first one on the Straw Hats' ship, having not even faltered at the feeling of Luffy's Conqueror's Haki blast before. Shuzo pointed a hand forward at the blond man in front of him who was glaring back his way. "The Neo Marines make the ocean around Aebrith safe for all travelers! Pirates like you have no place here!"
"Neo Marines?" Gray muttered, his eyes darkening as he heard the name. Natsu glanced over at his friend who did not seem as against fighting as he was a few minutes ago. "You bastards aren't Marines," Gray growled, making Shuzo dart his gaze to the bow where Gray started walking down the stairs. "You aligned with the Emperor."
Shuzo lost his grin for a second but he regained it and glared at the mage. "I do not answer to pirates. The Emperor is the ruler of the southwestern coast-"
"You betrayed the Resistance!" Gray shouted at him. He rose his hands and a huge sword of ice formed in them.
"The Resistance allied themselves with Whitebeard," Shuzo snarled back at Gray. Sanji's swirly eyebrow lifted up in surprise at the sound of that name. Shuzo lifted up his fists and they covered in a thick black veil, making everyone on the Sunny get a lot more on guard. Half a dozen other soldiers came across the planks while the man was talking, and two more swung in on ropes to land on either side of their commander. "Now, you pirates will face the wrath of the Neo Marines!"
Back two ships away from the Sunny, Luffy slammed his right fist into a woman and sent her smashing back into two other Neo Marines who all crashed into a railing and broke straight through it. They yelled while falling off the ship, and a small man only two feet tall came charging at Luffy with an axe in his hand. The dwarf had a hairy face and body, and a very long black beard coming off of his chin. He swung his axe down and Luffy jumped up over it, pressing a hand down on the dwarf's head as he did and then extending his arm and pushing the tiny man straight through the deck to the level below.
"Shoot him!" A muscular figure with green skin shouted. He pointed his rifle forwards and two purple men on his sides with oval-shaped heads and yellow dots all over their purple skin fired beams attached to their wrists. Luffy jumped up high to avoid the beams, then turned his hands black with Haki and moved them around to block all the beams shooting up at him now. His Haki-coated hands did not feel any pain from the beam attacks, and when the alien men realized this and lowered their weapons, Luffy swung one of his black fists down and whipped it across the ship. "Gum Gum Scythe!" The aliens yelled out as they were slammed by the arm and tossed straight off the side of the ship.
Goku faced off against two figures, both of whom seemed strong enough that he did not want to go right past them to fight the leader of this giant army. This will be a good warm up, he thought. He rose up his arms and spread his legs into a fighting stance. He looked ahead excitedly and the two in front of him did not know how to react. The tall lanky man wearing pink with flowery symbols all over his clothes sprinted forward first and yelled, "Mosa Mosa!" He swung his arms at Goku and out from the floor all around him shot green vines the same as the ones he saw come out of the ocean before.
"A Devil Fruit huh?" Goku asked. He dodged left and right as the vines swung towards him, then did a backflip as Binz threw a large shuriken on his back at the Saiyan warrior. "Nice moves!" Goku exclaimed, definitely feeling the use of Haki in that shuriken. Whips of vines were arcing up above him as well and slamming down where he was dodging, so he realized that the powerful subordinate of his main enemy had Observational Haki too and knew where he would dodge before he even moved. Gotta think far in advance even for these fighters, Goku thought, his mouth curving into an even bigger smile. He crossed his arms and let the vines hit him, not that they hurt at all. They slammed him down into the ship, and kept slamming down rapid fire into him, cracking the wooden deck beneath him.
Finally, Goku reached up one hand and clenched it around all of the tips of the vines at the same time. He waited for the moment when they would all be coming down simultaneously, and grabbed right behind the tips so he could see them wriggling around through the gap in his hand. He stood up while grabbing the vines, then heated up his hand with some energy and burst them into flames. Binz stumbled back at the sight of his vines all covering in flames, and he reached behind himself to pull out his sword instead.
Ain was already running forward before Binz pulled out his sword. As soon as Goku grabbed Binz's vines, she dropped the black cloak off her back and sprinted forward in a purple tank top and short white shorts. She was fast, and Goku looked down at her, raising his right hand to block the first punch she swung at him. He grinned as she looked amazed by his speed and ability to block her when she was only a foot away, but Goku lost his grin after a second. He lost it because when the girl touched him, she called out, "Modo Modo!" Goku's eyes widened and he looked down at his arms in confusion as he definitely felt something strange just happen to his body. He did not see any noticeable difference with his body though, and his power felt like it remained the same. Still, he leapt backwards after blocking her punch and put some distance between the two of them.
Binz ran past Ain who was still standing where she just punched Goku in the hand. He lifted his sword and covered it in Haki before swinging it at the spiky haired man in an orange gi in front of him. As Goku leaned back and forth to dodge his attacks, the Saiyan lifted his head and called out, "No fair! I wanted to fight him first!" Binz looked up too as did Ain and they all saw Luffy soaring right over their heads with an arm thrown far behind him coated in Haki.
"Z-sensei!" Ain called behind her as she saw where Luffy was heading.
"You've come back," Z stated. The large muscular man was not wearing a shirt so his ripped torso was exposed. He had a huge arm made out of kairoseki, the Devil Fruit eater's biggest weakness.
Luffy landed on the ship in front of him and slammed his arm forward fast, "Gum Gum Bullet!"
Z brought up his giant Sea Stone arm and he slammed it forward right as Luffy's fist neared him. The two of them pushed into each other, and Z yelled out, "I suppose you want that hat back!" Z clenched down on Luffy's fist and out from his own hand blasted an explosion that covered Luffy's entire body. He kept his hold on Luffy's hand though so the pirate would not go flying, and he chuckled darkly as the explosion subsided and Luffy stood there panting and covered in burns. Z lifted up his arm and swung Luffy up in the air, then slammed down hard on his other side and smashed Luffy down into the deck of the ship behind him. He let go as Luffy slammed into the deck, making a small crater in the wood. Luffy groaned and when he opened his eyes they turned into saucers at the sight of the old man dropping towards him with his huge fist pulled far back.
Luffy rolled to his side and pushed off the ground to toss himself up over the cabin. Z slammed his fist down on the deck and it ripped apart. The man looked towards the cabin that Luffy landed on, and the pirate glared back at him, yelling, "Where is Hat?!"
Z glared at Luffy through his sunglasses, "Pirates like you never learn." His teeth ground and he growled over, "What purpose does that hat have? Why a straw hat like that?"
"It's my treasure," Luffy growled back. "And I'm not letting you have it!"
"Treasure?" Z laughed. His eyes narrowed and he clenched his fists hard while looking at the skinny pirate up on the cabin of one of his ships. "Come and get it then."
A few ships away from the two of them, a teenager dropped down on the deck and slammed his Keyblade into a sword. "I'll take him off your hands Goku!" Sora shouted. The brown haired boy smashed his Keyblade back and forth, but his eyes widened as Binz kept getting faster and he started backing up. Goku was not going to argue with Sora though, as he had to focus ahead of him on the girl who sprinted towards him again, this time with a couple of pistols drawn.
Ain fired her pistols at Goku more than ten times each, but the Saiyan warrior only moved his right hand. He moved it in front of his body so fast it looked like a blur. When she finally ran out of ammo, Goku opened up his clenched right hand and dozens of crushed bullets fell out of his grasp. Ain's eyes turned into saucers, and then Goku charged at her. "I don't know what that power you have is, but this fight is all over!" He called out, moving faster than she normally moved, but not so fast that if she was holding back at all she could not speed up and keep up with him. It did not look like she would be able to speed up that amount though, so Goku slowed down right before he reached her and he appeared behind her back in an instant.
Behind me, she thought, before Goku had even disappeared from in front of her. She did not start turning, but she did spin her left hand at her side the other way around. She started pushing it backwards right as Goku appeared where she heard he would approach from with her Haki. Her hand touched the front of Goku's body and he smiled, impressed that she knew where he would be and was able to make a move despite his huge advantage in speed.
Goku started swinging his arm around in a chop anyway, going to hit her on the neck and take her down. As his arm was coming around though, he noticed it was changing. He had the same feeling as when she first touched him, but this time the effects of her attack were a lot more noticeable. His arm was shrinking, his legs halved in height, as did pretty much his entire body. He shrank down one foot, two feet, and the only part of him that remained the same was his spiky black hair. "Huh?" He said, his voice a lot higher pitched than it was before.
The others who were watching Goku fight from back at the Thousand Sunny, where an unconscious Shuzo and all his men lay on the deck, dropped their jaws at the sight of the Saiyan turning into a child.
"What the…" Ben mumbled.
"What kind of power is that?" Nami asked nervously.
Sora became distracted too as he saw Goku shrink down, and he spun towards the boy, opening his mouth to shout his name. As he did though, a vine whip slammed into the back of his head and sent him flying at the cabin. Sora was disoriented from the sudden hit, but crashing head-first into the cabin in that dizzy state was even worse. Ain and Binz both focused back on Goku again who was now a small child, looking like he was only ten years old, maybe even younger. "Well this is weird," Goku said, looking at himself confusedly. He saw Ain approaching and shot up twenty feet in the air in an instant. If I touch her, or only when she touches me maybe, I age backwards. If two touches turned me back this far, then one more and I might disappear completely. That was a close one.
Goku froze before he could think up better ways to take down those enemies below him. He stopped and looked to the ship that Luffy was on, where the pirate who was facing off against Z dropped his jaw and opened his eyes as wide as plates. Ain and Binz were going to attack Goku while he was distracted, but they heard screams and gasps of their fellow Neo Marines and looked around. They spotted a few men on the same ship as them looking back a ship or two, and they looked over as well. The two of them went wide-eyed like everyone else, and their eyes started to water up at the sight they were looking at.
"Z-sensei," Ain whispered.
Binz had tears pouring out of his eyes and he started running towards that other ship.
The two of them and the rest of the Neo Marines were in shock, they were enraged, and they were so sad. Z lowered his gaze down slowly and stared at his chest in utter confusion and shock. He coughed and a bucket of blood splashed out of his mouth. There was a glowing hand with sharp nails sticking out of his front, and the boy with spiky white hair behind the Neo Marines' leader pulled it back out soaked in red. Most of his right arm was red actually, and Killua brought that arm down to his side in a satisfied way, finally dropping the aura of Zetsu he used to sneak over and wait for Z to get fully distracted by Luffy.
"Got him," Killua said. The kid then lifted up his left hand and flicked the straw hat in it to Luffy who rose his hand and caught it. "Now we can go," Killua stated casually. The pirate frowned at Killua for several seconds after catching his hat. That was not the way he wanted that fight to end. Z beat him once, took his hat, and they were in the middle of fighting each other. Killua just stole his fight, and the way in which he did it unsettled the pirate captain.
Goku was frowning down at the top of Killua's head and he shook his own around a few times. He saw Killua turning and looking at the two of Z's commanders who were running towards him in an enraged way. The kid got a dangerous look in his eyes, but before anyone could do anything, Goku was suddenly on the ship in front of him. "We have caused them enough pain," Goku said. He grabbed Killua by the left hand, surprising the boy who barely saw the smaller kid reach out. Goku flew them up and over to Luffy who he also grabbed without pausing. He turned and flew back over Ain and Binz and several of the Neo Marines' ships without a word.
The Saiyan lowered down to the deck of the Thousand Sunny and no one said a word. They did not know who they would speak to first. Killua had just murdered a man in cold blood, a Marine who hunted pirates, not a villain for most of them. Luffy looked pissed about his fight, and Goku was a child. The kid with spiky black hair raced around the deck and gathered up all of the Neo Marines quickly. He shot back over the ships to the one he was fighting the commanders on, which they just got back to as they had to turn around and run the other way to chase Killua. They were both crying as Goku dropped their soldiers down in front of them. "I'm sorry about this," Goku said, bowing his head a little. He shot to the right into a hole in the cabin of this ship, picked up Sora who had blood on his head and was knocked out, and shot back over to the Sunny right as Franky got the anchor up.
Luffy looked over the port side and the whole crew heard wails coming from a few ships down. "Let's get going," Luffy said. The ship started sailing forward again and they went right past the enemy fleet.
Killua turned away first, walking towards the cabin while wiping his right arm down with a cloth. He got most of the blood off, but continued to walk calmly towards the cabin with an uncaring look on his face. Others gave him a wide berth as he walked by not saying a word. They saw me kill Jones in the memory, and I was ruthless towards those Forever Knights. There's no point in hiding anymore. They all know I'm a killer.
"That was," Gray started, turning his head and looking over at Killua's back, then spinning back to the armada of Neo Marines' ships getting farther behind him. He shook his head and grimaced, They betrayed the Resistance, but I heard Z was a great man. We were on different sides of a war, but, that was, brutal…
"Wow Sora," Riku said while shaking his head at the teen lying on the ground in front of his feet. "You shouldn't have let your guard down."
"That's not nice Riku," Kairi scolded the older boy. She walked over and picked Sora up with a little difficulty. "Help me get him inside," she told the silver haired teen. Riku grumbled but came to her side and the two of them carried Sora over towards the cabin. "Don't worry Sora," she whispered as they reached the cabin door. "I'll fix you right up," she told him. The other teen helping her saw the way Kairi looked at Sora who was unconscious between them, and Riku felt a pang in his chest that he tried to ignore. Kairi looked back up at him but Riku turned forward before their eyes met, walking while facing straight ahead instead.
"Hey Goku," Usopp began, finally shaking himself from the stupor he was in for the last few minutes. The sniper turned and he lowered his head down to face the figure who used to look like a God among men. "When do you think that strange aging power wears off?" Usopp asked.
Kid Goku shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know," he responded, his voice high-pitched and childish. "But I don't really care," he added. The Saiyan boy smiled wide and started laughing as he looked down at himself. "I'm a kid again!"
A/N Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Leave a review telling me what you thought about the sirens and the attack of the Neo Navy. The battle between Z and Luffy ended a lot differently than it did in the movie... Killua's scaring the crap out of his comrades. Also, Goku gets turned into a child by Ain, who they leave behind without defeating... which leaves Goku as a child XD. Thanks for reading!
Espada-001 chapter 17 . Feb 24
I'm glad to see you back in action after so long, and I hope you had a good Valentines. Anyway on to this chapters review. I did enjoy a lot of the fight scenes and I do believe that some of the villains could give some trouble to the main characters since they had a partial infusion of Goku's DNA. However Driscoll seemed a little too overpowered especially since in his Oozaru form wasn't even being hurt by Timmy's combat form. I mean after all you did have Timmy hold his ground against Goku in his ascended saiyan form and I'm pretty sure that was stronger than a half baked DNA copy. I'm pretty sure that Luffy or Riku could fight him while they're serious while some of the others could have group attacked him. The only way I couldn't see that happening is if Driscoll had somehow become equal to an ascended saiyan which I find doubtful but I guess not impossible. I thought it was interesting that Gray's now confirmed as a Haki user as well. Also I can't say I recognize the alien that you had Ben use at the end there and I was wondering if you could let me know what it is or if you mentioned it and I simply missed it. Also I meant to ask this last time but what made you give Ben Conqueror Haki? Conqueror Haki usually manifests in people that are strong leaders and I honestly have never seen Ben as a leader type in any version of his series. Well that's about all I can think of right now, so until next time have a good day and I can't wait for the next chapter!
When I was writing Driscoll's power I first tried to think of a way to get Timmy away from the fight for a minute or two, but wound up just making Timmy too nervous to go all out while his friends were on the island as an excuse for why he could not beat Driscoll but Ben could. Also, I gave Driscoll so much power because of Dr. Genus from One Punch Man, who created the entire House of Evolution which and many very powerful creatures. So I figured with the DNA of a Saiyan he could make something even more powerful than Carnage Kabuto. Also, I can find it reasonable that something that was created could become equal to an ascended Saiyan (like Cell). At the top of the chapter I mentioned the alien Ben turned into, and as for Ben's Conqueror's Haki, that was the first time we saw him use it so maybe he's now starting to become more leadership-y, like how when his friends wanted to force Azmuth to fix the watch but he tried to make them see a different way which wound up working in the end. Thanks for the review!
joebob323 chapter 17 . Feb 24
Hey man, great chapter! The fight scenes were epic, and this is the first time we get to see all of the other crew members in action against a common enemy, and actually not be outclassed! (at least not as badly outclassed as Luthor...) anyway, I only have 2 questions, the first being: will it ever be revealed who saved asmuth on day one? I mean, it has to be either goku or gohan, as they have spiky hair and know the kamehameha, but then again, it could be yamcha...Nah... the 2nd question is, who was the alien that Ben turned into? Is it an OC, or an actual alien?
Thanks for the review! Yeah that was definitely the first full group battle against a common foe, but there are going to be some more of those in the upcoming parts of this chapter... It looks like they're the ones outclassing their enemies now, (although Sora got embarrassingly beat up this time :P ). Who saved Azmuth may remain a mystery, or a future flashback could very well show what happened. I always like to imagine Yamcha doing stuff, cuz Yamcha needs to do stuff once in a while. And again, Ben turned into Lord Boros alien. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, faved, and followed this story! 'Till next time!