Nexus HWR 3.9 Dressrosa Part 3:
Dash Parr snapped up to a sitting position from flat on his back. The kid opened his mouth and breathed in hard, "Aaahh-ahhhh." He snapped his head left and saw ten terrified people sprinting down the street across an intersection in that direction. The road he was on was mostly empty, but then again the street he was on was covered in debris: broken pieces of buildings, wood and steel shards, huge stones, and the road itself was so broken up there were cracks right under his feet.
"I'm me again," he mumbled, looking down at his hands and examining them closely. He let out a deep breath and then looked around him to see what was going on. As a toy he had little ability to run around with the amount of carnage around him and the loss of his speed. He started jogging forward and turned right on what he thought might have been a road but had a building collapsed over the start of it.
The kid sped up and jumped to make it over the pile of rubble in one hop, but as soon as he reached the top of his arc over the building, his jaw dropped and he wished he could turn in midair. He started swinging his arms in front of him wildly as the madness in front of him got closer. He hit the ground and instantly sprinted to the right to dodge a massive black hand slamming down towards him. He made it out from beneath, only for another huge black hand to be swinging sideways, smashing straight through the building on his right and throwing debris at him.
"Whoa, whoa!" Dash hopped to his left on top of the back of the first hand that smashed down, then sprinted down the black arm towards the main body of the man with dozens of huge arms sticking out of him. He almost reached the body and pulled back a fist, when two more huge fists shot out of the guy's back and smashed into him. "Ahh!"
"Dash!" The kid stopped flying back as he slammed into a muscular chest and came to an abrupt halt. The man who caught him turned the boy around so Dash could see his face half-covered in blood, and body all scratched up and bruised. Natsu only had on a pair of tattered pants now, and he stared seriously into Dash's eyes, "This fight is mine." He dropped the kid and Dash spun to say something, only for there to be six huge hands all around them, and on the palms of each of those hands were glowing eight-pointed stars.
The kid booked it away, and just in time too as a half dozen explosions tore apart where he was just standing. He spun back and opened his mouth to yell his friend's name, but Natsu was lifting up above the explosion with three trails of fire spinning around him. "Oh, okay, you got this," Dash said, seeing scales covering Natsu's arms and cheeks and not wanting to mess with Natsu's fight anymore.
He turned and started running a different direction, and he looked up as he did. "That Birdcage is getting a lot smaller," he said nervously, and turned his head left on what used to be a main road all the way back to the port area of the city. He stared towards the docks where the Birdcage's edge had almost reached, and his eyes opened wide as he realized something. "The Sunny!" He exclaimed. The kid started sprinting back towards the water and he reached the docks in seconds.
Dash turned left, then right, and he saw docks on the edges of the port getting shredded by the powerful strings. He spun towards the Sunny that was near the middle of everything and a bead of sweat rolled down the left side of his face. "What was my plan again?" He mumbled as if he had a reason for coming down here in the first place.
"Dash-bro!" a voice yelled up the block from him. The blond boy spun around and looked up the street to see two grown men beating the crap out of each other with their fists. Both looked horribly beaten and battered, but Franky's bloody face also looked terrifying without any of its skin and his glowing red eyes. Dash dropped his jaw but Franky shouted at the scared boy, "Help Usopp! He's in Super trouble over-" Señor Pink slammed a fist into Franky's face and the cyborg stumbled back, then clenched his huge right red fist and smashed it down into the top of the tan-skinned baby man's skull.
"But the Sunny!" Dash shouted up as he realized this was Franky now despite the appearance difference.
Franky turned as Pink stumbled away from him and he grimaced at the sight of his dream ship being closed in on by the Birdcage's strings. Still, the decision was not hard to make at all, "Usopp first! Then the Sunny!" The little boy nodded as if Franky was willing to sacrifice his ship, that meant Usopp was not just in a little bit of trouble.
The kid sprinted up the block and right in between the two men going in for another round of trading blows. He turned left and saw a huge explosion as the strings on the north side of the city ripped through a factory. Sections of the city that were built stronger than others were being pulled by the Birdcage, dragging inwards and smashing apart weaker buildings. Dash saw a crowd of hundreds of people running towards him on his left, and behind all those people was a wave of rubble being dragged across the floor.
He shook his head and kept sprinting up the road in the direction Franky pointed him towards. He checked every intersection he passed and after sprinting down a couple more streets, he finally found Usopp. The kid's eyes opened huge and he sprinted to a nearby boulder that Usopp was leaning against on his butt while tiny people tried helping him. "Hold on Captain Usopp!" A little man in a cute green hat and suspenders shouted as he ran up Usopp's arm, stitching him up as he did with what looked like some form of magic.
"How are you doing that?" Dash wondered as he stared at the little creature holding a needle and stopping all of Usopp's deep wounds from bleeding pretty fast.
A chubby little dwarf in a brown jacket who had a yellow tail and horns over his head like a beetle spun to the child. "Leo ate the Sew Sew Fruit- wait, who are-"
"Dash," Usopp said, his eyes turning towards the kid in front of him.
"Usopp," Dash replied, seeing a lot of blood on his older friend's face. "What happened? Who did this to you?"
"It's alright," Usopp replied, and he turned his head back the way he was looking when Dash originally arrived.
The boy was so distracted by Usopp's condition that he was ignoring the sounds of clanging swords to his left. He finally followed Usopp's gaze over and his eyes opened wide at the sight of a muscular man in a red cape leaping up in the air. This man brought a broadsword up and then slammed it down at the leader of the army that first attacked them earlier. Diamante pushed back with both hands on his weapon but the one-legged man pushing down against him was making his arms and sword tremble.
"Kyros," Diamante growled, sweat on both sides of his face. "Then that means Sugar has been taken out," he said, his mouth twisting into a snarl of rage. He pushed back on his sword and sent the former gladiator flipping backwards in the air and landing down on his one leg. Kyros was pretty bloody, but there were much more injured fighters all around him, badly damaged or worse from Diamante's Death Enjambe a few minutes ago.
"DIAMANTE!" Kyros roared. "You bastard!"
"You were the one-legged soldier all this time," Diamante said, his voice getting more smug as he did. "That makes sense considering the way you acted when I murdered Scarlett, the woman, you…" Diamante faded off and his eyes were opening wide.
Kyros was about to charge him too, but as Diamante realized it, so did the one-legged man. For years, he had hated Diamante more than any other executive because of what the man did, but only a few minutes ago he was enraged for a totally different reason. Kyros thought about all his time as a toy, but for some reason, in the last several months to a year, he had forgotten all about a main part of his rage.
"Ky-ros," a voice whispered from behind the former gladiator and captain of the King's guard. He froze and then slowly started turning around. Littered bodies of other people who fought hard against Diamante as toys before Sugar was taken down lay all around him. They were moaning, covered in blood, scattered in between little people from the Tontatta Kingdom and other allies they made in Dressrosa over the years. He fully turned and looked back at the wall, where a toy he knew very well, who he had gotten to know over the last few months since he met her, who had been badly injured against Diamante, and who he had helped over to a building that he laid her down against, had transformed back into a human as well.
With this woman's transformation back though, came a flood of memories to both Kyros and another fallen toy's mind. "Mother, father," the two who were staring at each other in shock spun their heads, looking over towards an overturned section of the street, where a girl in a green cloak, and a golden breastplate and underwear, lifted her head towards them. Another member of their Resistance, fighting alongside each of them for months, alongside Kyros for even longer than that. She lifted her head with tears pouring down and Kyros was horrified and shocked and relieved and furious all at the same time.
"Rebecca, Scarlett," Kyros started shaking. He trembled in rage and the ground around him started to shake. Pebbles and broken chunks of building shook on top of the ground and Diamante took a step back. He rose his sword, and opened his mouth to yell an attack, but Kyros spun around and looked deep into his eyes before he could do that. Diamante let out a yelp, and then Kyros shot off the ground like a missile.
Dash's eyes opened up huge and he followed the man's movements that became near impossible for anyone else on the street to follow. Kyros leapt up in the air and his eyes were red with rage, his hands gripped his sword's hilt so hard it cracked, and he roared, "TRUENO-" Diamante lifted his sword to block. "BASTARDO!" Kyros finished, and he brought down his sword so hard that Diamante's sword could not hold against it, shattering and allowing Kyros's blade to slash from his shoulder down his torso all the way to his feet. Usopp leaned forward as did all the fighters still conscious on the street, their eyes opening huge as blood splashed into the air and Diamante let out a defeated gurgle as he got thrown backwards by the force of the slash.
"Whoa, that was-" Dash stopped mid-sentence as the entire road behind Kyros erupted with flames that burst in from one side of buildings and broke straight through the other. Everyone screamed, but the flames were pointed up a little and went over the heads of all the people still remaining down on the road. The pillar of flames was enormous and from a quarter mile away Dash had to shield his face from the heat of it. Are you sure you can handle it on your own, Natsu?
Natsu landed down on his feet but dropped a hand to the floor and fell to a knee. He was panting heavily and he glared forward into the smoke where he could no longer hear Zormudd's screams. "Good riddance," he muttered. His Lightning Fire Dragon's Roar faded away and Natsu dropped to his other knee as he was feeling drained after all these fights.
"You-" a voice began and Natsu's face pointed towards the floor snapped back up. "Do not, think you, could stop Zormudd. I, am Zormudd," Natsu pushed down hard on the hand pressed to the floor, and he got back up off his knees. He stared into the smoke where a horrific visage of a man stepped through, his regular arms bumpy and disfigured, while behind his back the rest of them had turned into one big disorganized blob of blackness. It was swirling around and bumps moved through his skin that continued to grow behind him.
"What the fuck?" Natsu muttered, as one of the bumps moved from his back's blob, straight into Zormudd's face, went across his forehead, and then down into his right arm to buff it out even more. The man's dark body was burned badly and there was dark red blood splashing out of cracks in it.
"Al-Tharmen, is, unstoppable," Zormudd said, his mouth twisting up into a smirk that revealed his mouth that had only half the teeth he started with after a few devastating hits from Natsu. "We, are legion. We, can not, be stopped. We are the darkness on Nexus." As he said that last part, Natsu heard a low rumbling sound coming from the sky and he lifted up his head. The Fire Dragon Slayer was not taking what this man said to heart, but high above him, even higher than the top of the Birdcage, Natsu saw dark gray clouds swirling around over a single point, over Zormudd. There were three figures below those swirling clouds though, figures with turbans on their heads and white masks wrapped completely around their faces. One had a wooden staff in his hands, and Natsu saw the man move that staff to point it down at the Birdcage.
At first Natsu thought they were going to try and destroy the cage around Dressrosa. He quickly realized that was not their intention though, as he heard screaming ahead of him and snapped his head back down. "No! I can still do this! I am, Zormudd! FORGIVE-" The bumps all over Zormudd's body started growing exponentially and more formed all over his torso and face. His mouth got hidden beneath the blobby mass and all Natsu could hear were muffled screams for another second or two, at least until Zormudd exploded and his blood and guts went everywhere, including all over Natsu's body.
Natsu closed his eyes when the blood flew at him, but now he opened them back up and looked down at his body in disgust. His disgust was not because of all the organs and Zormudd goop on him though, it was directed at the figures he snapped his gaze up to after his first glance down. "You bastards! He was your comrade wasn't he?!" The three above the Birdcage did not respond to Natsu. They pointed their heads down as if they were listening to him, then turned around completely and started flying off. "OI!" Natsu screamed, but not one of them responded nor stopped. "Al-Tharmen," he snarled, his fists balling and flames surrounding them, burning his former enemy's flesh off of his body. "I'm going to get you for that," he growled.
The young man heard an explosion and he spun a full one-eighty degrees to look behind him. Away from the blood-soaked area he was in, he could see hundreds, maybe thousands of people, all converging in the center of Dressrosa. He spotted some soldiers in red armor running that way too led by Commander Zhao.
The Fire Nation officer turned back to his soldiers, and Zhao growled at the Lieutenant next to him, "That bastard Doflamingo puts us all in this death trap, and Gambit decides to go on a revenge trip. We are returning to Sin City as soon as that foolish Lord is killed."
Natsu thought about attacking those men running in front of him, but he saw a couple of them stop and help some civilians out from beneath some rubble and he decided against it. It's like Gray said. Not all of our enemies are monsters, some just follow that King guy because they don't want to be killed. Maybe these guys aren't so bad. He stopped following them and turned right instead, deciding to maybe go down that mostly empty road in the direction of the palace where he knew the final battle would be going on.
The Dragon Slayer took a single step, then his entire body covered head to toe in sweat and he could not move. He stood there, body frozen, one leg in front of the other, while all the hair on his body stood on end. This magical power, he thought, while his eyes darted to his left and he slowly started moving his head. It was the largest magical power Natsu had ever felt, in his entire life. There was only one other time in his life he had felt something like it, but as he turned he knew it was not something "like it," it was it.
Natsu turned around and he spotted someone walking towards him. The person's head was bowed and he had silver spiky hair that fell behind his body all the way past his waist, as well as spiky bangs that covered up most of his face. He stopped walking when he was ten meters from Natsu, and he lifted his face for the pink haired man to see. Natsu knew it from the magical power alone, but now he was positive. He gulped, already tired from previous fights, his body shaking from more than just the intense fear he felt at the sight of this dark tan-skinned man's face, covered in blue tattoos like his right arm that was sticking out from beneath his dark gray cloak. Natsu had never seen the man before in his life, but he knew who it was, and he said in as sturdy a tone as he muster, "Acnologia."
Acnologia's right eye narrowed and the magical power around him rose. He lifted up his right arm, and when he did his cloak moved a little from the center of his body to reveal more of his torso, a torso covered in scars. His silver bangs that covered part of his face also moved around when he shifted his arm, revealing the left side of his face, a face missing a left eye that looked like it had been gouged out by the amount of damage done around the socket. There were claw marks on his face and torso like he had been ravaged by some sort of beast, and Natsu's jaw dropped at the amount of damage done to him.
"Natsu Dragneel," Acnologia said, his voice deep, his presence horrifying. A dark blue aura surrounded him and rose up like a flame.
Across the city, Son Goku paused what he was doing for a second and he spun around with teal eyes opened wide. He spun back fast though as five huge spikes of condensed strings with Haki coating the sharp tips of them came at him from every direction. Still, the feeling behind him made him intrigued for more reason than one, What's that dragon doing here?
"You are Acnologia," Natsu said, already sure of himself but being confirmed now by this man's failure to deny it. "How? Why?!"
"You do not need to know why- ack, ugh ahck-ak," Acnologia lifted his right arm in front of his face and hunched over, starting a fit of coughs that lasted almost five seconds while his aura faltered around him. When he stopped, his lifted his head from behind his arm and glared at Natsu furiously. "Don't look at me, like that!" Acnologia screamed and Natsu tensed up as he had no idea how he appeared to be looking at the most powerful dragon on his world who followed up with, "I'm going to kill you!"
"Try it, and you'll be dead before you get within nine meters of him," a voice said in between Natsu and Acnologia. Both of them snapped their heads down, to look at a boy holding a golden sword in his right hand and holding up a glowing left.
"Timmy?" Natsu questioned, his eyes opening wide at the kid's sudden appearance out of nowhere. Acnologia snarled and flared his magical power, only to start a coughing fit again.
Timmy shot forward, planted his left hand against Acnologia's chest, and filled his opponent with heat. Acnologia tried stepping back but Timmy grabbed him by the cloak and tugged hard, making the person spin around in a three-sixty as his cloak got ripped from his body. Once the cloak was gone, Natsu dropped his jaw and even Timmy had to hesitate for a second at the sight of Acnologia's body. How is he alive? Timmy thought.
Acnologia no longer had a left arm, but more than that, he was missing entire chunks out of his left side. He did not have a stub on his shoulder, his entire shoulder was missing and there was scar tissue all over his neck and around his collarbone. Scars stretched over his pecs and around his abs and waist. There was one vertical scar down his left side like someone had opened him up from his missing shoulder to below his waist where his white belt held his black pants on. Acnologia saw them staring and he opened his mouth to growl at them but wound up having another coughing fit instead.
Natsu stopped being afraid. He calmed himself down and stood fully behind Timmy who noticed Natsu was no longer shaking in fear as well. "Good thing I got here when I did," Timmy said in a dark tone. "I think he was about to kill you, or at least try. Wonder what he could do in that broken body."
"I will destroy you!" Acnologia screamed.
"You will leave, or die," Timmy said. Acnologia's enraged expression froze as he looked into that child's eyes. Timmy was serious. There was no hesitation. His hand clenched around the hilt of Excalibur and he rose it up a little as if what Acnologia did next would determine its fate.
"Grr, GRRR," Acnologia shook and he turned to stare at Natsu again. He looked deep into the Dragon Slayer's eyes, and then out of nowhere he snapped his head back and roared, "ROOAAAAAA!" As he roared, his body started shaking and becoming disfigured. His light blue tattoos got darker, but not as dark as his tan skin that turned black. His right arm buffed out, then grew exponentially in size like his face and the rest of his body. Timmy's jaw dropped and the kid stepped back from the monster. Acnologia grew and grew until he was hundreds of feet long and had a massive tail that swung across the air. Thousands of people screamed and every battle in the city stopped, even the Birdcage hesitated for a second, because the sight of this enormous dragon was not what anyone was expecting.
Acnologia flapped its wings, including its left wing littered with holes. It flew straight up at the Birdcage, opened its mouth, and roared. The roar that came out of its mouth hit the Birdcage and did not hesitate for even a second before shredding straight through it. The huge dragon flew into the hole it tore as dozens of the thick strings of the Birdcage started separating and falling apart. Acnologia flew off, and then seconds later, speeder bikes and powerful people who could jump very high shot out of the hole after it. They did this so soon, because out from the top of the Birdcage came more strings that were filling in the hole Acnologia left, and the entire cage was shrinking again.
"Are you alright, Timmy?" Natsu asked.
The small boy standing in front of Natsu who continued to glare up in the sky did not say a word. "Maybe I should go after him, make sure he doesn't kill anyone," Timmy said, his expression dark.
"Timmy!" a voice yelled to his right.
Natsu was just opening his mouth to tell the kid to calm down, when both he and Timmy's eyes opened wide. His lips then curled up in a smile and he turned to wave at the woman, but stopped when he saw her running straight towards the smaller boy in front of him. Natsu stepped back and watched as Timmy turned completely, and Natsu's jaw dropped again as he spotted the tears flowing down both sides of Timmy's face.
Nami sprinted straight at Timmy and she dropped down to her knees next to him. Nami wrapped her arms around the boy who put his on her sides too and buried his face in her chest. "Na-Nami," he said, tears still coming out of his eyes as he clenched them against her. "I forgot, I forgot about you. But I remember now, I remember why I came here."
Nami pushed Timmy away a foot so she could look down into his face. She had tears on the corners of her eyes too but she smiled wide at the little boy, "Yeah, because I made you." Timmy shook his head as she said it, but he sniffled and his mouth curled up too. They both knew Nami could not force Timmy to come, they knew why he really came. He reached up and grabbed the rim of his new hat, and he pulled it down over his face to cover up his tears from Nami.
A pink haired man standing not far from the two of them was feeling pretty awkward and he decided to turn away. He turned left, and then his jaw dropped as out from the wall of a building right there, a man with gray skin over his entire body and cracks lining it like he was about to fall apart came crashing through a wall, covered in flames. He hit the ground and the red lightsaber in his hand fell out as he bounced and then slammed into a wall on the other side of the street that he hit so hard he indented into it and made a crater.
Nami and Timmy spun and they stood up to look past Natsu on either side. The three of them stared at the hole in the wall of the first house the Sith Lord came crashing through, and all three of them dropped their jaws as a girl came stepping out of it. Her shirt on her right shoulder was ripped off and one of her pant legs was in tatters, she had a bloody cut on her left cheek, and she held up a pink Keyblade with a victorious grin on her face. She saw the guy indented in the other wall was not getting back up and she twirled her weapon around in front of her before resting it on her shoulder.
"Kairi?" Nami questioned, and the auburn haired girl spun to see her friends standing there which only made her happier.
"Nami," Kairi said nostalgically. She shook her head and looked into her friend's eyes, "It's good to have you back."
"You beat that guy?" Natsu asked in surprise. He didn't think he had ever seen Kairi fight someone before, and the guy who came crashing in looked pretty strong.
"My first Sith," Kairi said with some excitement in her voice. "Darth Sion," she said, turning back to the gray man with scars all over his body. "He sure was strong," she complimented. She then lifted up her Keyblade, and said, "Cure." The others thought she was getting rid of the bruises on her shoulder and leg, and the cut on her face, but then a green flash of light surrounded Natsu and he looked down at his arms to see the burns and cuts all over him from his fights with Gladius and Zormudd were fading.
"Wow," Natsu said. He lifted back up his head and nodded at her, "Thanks." He turned and glared into the distance at the palace, "Now, I'm going to-" Natsu stopped mid-sentence and he just stared in shock in the same direction. Everyone else on the street with him who was looking in that direction also dropped their jaws as the entire palace started to morph. It transformed into thousands of white strings that pulled together towards the middle while shooting up high into the sky, extending farther while glowing black and purple near the top. The sharp point at the top started to curve and it pointed back down at the city, then shot down at a hundred miles per hour.
A single light shot up into the sky beneath the falling point and inside that golden blur a small man pulled a fist back. "Mayor," Natsu whispered in relief, as he was afraid for a second the entire city was about to be destroyed. A grin came to his face and Natsu pumped a fist in the air, "GOKU!"
Goku's fist stopped the point of Doflamingo's attack short but the kid was pushing back against it as hard as he could. More and more strings were pulling up from buildings that were transforming from stone and wood into strings for Doflamingo to use. "Uuhahaha!" Doflamingo laughed from above while Sora and Luffy shot around either side of the giant attack Goku was blocking the protect the city and all the citizens down below. The crazed Lord slashed his arms across his body sending five strings to both sides of him. Luffy and Sora tried to dodge but were too close that they got slashed instead and thrown back. As they were falling with blood splashing out of them, Doflamingo brought his hands back together and combined more strings into his attack that he was pushing down harder and harder each second, and which finally started to lower towards the city again.
"On my world I could count on my hands the number of people I believed were stronger than myself!" Doflamingo shouted. "This world was different, so I became stronger! Are you stronger than me Son Goku?! I have no clue! But I know you can not defeat me!"
Three sections of the lower city where civilians had evacuated to suddenly transformed into waves of string. The ground climbed up their bodies and strings wrapped around their necks, strangling hundreds of them at the same time.
Robin, Juvia, Gray, Rin, and Kirito stared ahead of them in horror as all of the debris, rubble, and the very ground itself transformed into strings. They spun back and forth trying to deflect all of the strings coming for their bodies, but flames nor water nor ice did little to stop the strings from connecting with their bodies and stopping their movements. Once they could no longer move, other strings wrapped around their arms, their legs, and started strangling them.
"Rebecca! Scarlett! Get back!" Kyros yelled at his pink-haired daughter and wife who were behind him. He rose up his sword and tried slicing all the strings away as they snaked towards them, but the more he stopped, the more the ground near them itself transformed into strings. Before long, his arms were no longer his to move, and when he tried breathing in he had to grab his throat in agony.
"Father!" Rebecca shouted. She tried running towards him on her bloody legs, but froze as her body became connected by Doflamingo's strings. She could not even reach up to grab her throat in pain because she had no control over her body at all. The family gasped as they lost their air like hundreds, thousands of fellow citizens of Dressrosa.
"Uuhaha! UUHAHAHA!" Doflamingo's fingers twitched like mad as he controlled a city full of strings. Goku had both hands pressed up against the giant attack that was slowly lowering him down to the ground, but he looked below him and saw people getting wrapped up in cocoons of strings and their ki's were all wavering.
Goku snapped his head back up and his teal eyes flashed brighter green instead. His hair shot up even spikier and waved around in the gusts of wind that surrounded him out of nowhere. "Ahhh! AHHHHH!" Goku snapped his head back and his golden aura doubled, tripled, and grew exponentially in size until Doflamingo could no longer see his city down below his attack. Everything was glowing golden, and the giant spike of strings that was over three hundred meters up in the air before it curved and shot down, stopped moving. Doflamingo pushed down harder on it, but then the spike itself came flying straight back up in the air and it slammed into the top of the Birdcage, ripping through the center of it and making every single line of string connected to break off.
Doflamingo snapped his head up and glared at the falling Birdcage in rage, but his rage was quickly replaced by fear as there was something floating in front of him. He lowered down his gaze and there was a kid floating in front of his face, glaring into his eyes and making his entire body fill with sweat. "I'm going to break you," Goku said.
"Wha-" Goku's left fist hit Doflamingo in the face and shattered his nose. The man went flying like a missile away from the city, but Goku appeared in his path and spun a kick into the man's back, sending him flying back towards Dressrosa. Goku appeared above the path Doflamingo was flying in first though, and he brought both fists up in the air above him. He slammed his double-fist down into Doflamingo's stomach as the man was coming by, and sent him slamming down into the planet below so hard that every person in Dressrosa felt the ground beneath their feet shake violently, violently enough that thousands just released from the strings' holds on their throats and bodies fell to the floor from their loss of balance.
"What's going on?!" Dash yelled.
He, Franky, and Usopp were down at the coast with the Thousand Sunny. Before the Birdcage had fallen, Franky had taken down his opponent, and all three of them were trying to drag the Thousand Sunny up on land so they could get it away from the edge of the strings. The Birdcage was gone now, but they got knocked off their feet by something powerful.
"I don't know!" Usopp screamed back.
"Yo! Look over there!" Franky shouted. His friends followed his point up in the sky to the south where a golden light glowed bright like a sun in the sky.
A mile away from them, Robin got back to her feet while rubbing her neck. On her left, a younger girl with blue hair pointed into the southern sky and they all followed her point. Juvia's smile was wide and she shouted, "It's Goku-san!"
Gray looked next to him at his girlfriend, then turned to the glowing golden portion of the sky as well. Gray looked down a little from the golden glow and saw a rock pillar closer to him, in between him and Goku, and on top of that pillar was a blinking red light. He left the city boundary, Gray thought. Everyone knows now. They all know he's here.
Luffy lay flat on his back, no longer fat and muscular in his Gear Fourth Boundman form. He lay there panting over and over, barely able to move, but he sat up through the pain and stared into the south.
Riku stood on the eastern edge of the city, standing in front of the body of a crumpled-up, unconscious mutant who had been shouting about hunting down some kid with a green watch. Gambit never made it to Ben for that rematch though. Riku turned and grinned into the distance where he caught the sight of Goku's glow.
"DOFFY!" a rotund guy wearing all yellow and black shouted. The executive flew through the sky with the use of his Devil Fruit that made him almost like a helicopter. He was just above the tops of some buildings, and a boy in between two rows of those buildings looked up to see what appeared to be another member of the Donquixote family.
Killua stood back up from where he was sitting watching the final battle, but he heard a voice on his right. "I've got this." He turned in surprise and saw the one-armed toy robot girl from before who had transformed into a human after he defeated Sugar. The girl was younger than him by a few years, but the look on her face was serious as she glared up at the sky. "Buffalo!" She shouted, and the man in a puffy yellow and black jacket snapped his head down to look at her.
He had spinning rotors around his head that kept him flying just like the ones sticking out of his back. Buffalo looked down at this girl and looked confused like he had never seen her before. The girl wore a green sweatshirt with one sleeve that was too long for her arm and another that just lay flat on her side as there was nothing inside it. She had long black hair and she rose up her single arm to point a rifle she found on the ground up in the air. "This is for my arm!" She yelled.
Buffalo's eyes opened wide as he suddenly realized who was pointing a rifle up at him. The end of the rifle glowed red and then fired a beam up at him. The fat man tried swerving around through the air, but the rifle's lasers were too fast for his fat form to dodge and he got hit once, twice, three times in the center of his body. His rotors started rotating slower and his entire body began to spin around and around as he fell out of the air leaving a trail of smoke behind.
"Nice shooting," Killua told the girl when the fat man finally crashed down a block away. "Guess your time fighting as a toy carried over."
The girl turned to Killua and smiled in a cute way as she tilted her head. "No silly, I learned how to shoot laser rifles a long time before I became a toy. I was a secret agent you know?" She asked, and Killua's eyebrows lifted up. It was not the craziest thing he had ever heard, and Hell, he was killing people as an assassin since before he was in the double-digits.
"Cool," he finally told her, and she just laughed before turning around. As she turned, Killua saw her smile fade and her face take on a more depressed, serious look. "Are you okay?"
She waited a second and then sighed, "No," she said. He heard her sniffle before continuing, "My friends forgot about me."
"Well, they would remember you now," Killua assured her. She lifted her head and turned a little, and he gave her a nod to show he was serious. "I remembered my friends as soon as they stopped being toys. It's probably the same with yours." Why am I doing this? Killua thought suddenly.
The girl's face lit up and her sad expression flipped around again. "Really?! That's great!" She turned and started running, slinging the rifle from her hand onto her back as she did. Wally, everyone, do you remember me now? She suddenly remembered something and spun around, looking back at that teenager who gazed at her confusedly. "Thank you!" She yelled, and she waved her hand at the older kid who waved back after a second and then watched her run away.
Killua's confusion over why he was consoling that girl went away, and he just stared at her back as she ran off. He did not notice but he was smiling the entire time.
At the outskirts of Dressrosa, a man in a purple hakama, a style of kimono for men, stood facing the sky and the glowing golden child floating there in it. He had a black katana sheath looped in the white belt in the middle of his clothes, and a hand on the hilt of that blade, but he let go as it no longer seemed like he would get the chance to go after Doflamingo.
"Tsk," he scratched the back of his head and muttered, "Wouldn't have been a good fight anyway. Only reason they got me was that dirty trick the girl used." He only stayed in the city instead of leaving through Acnologia's hole like so many other former toys did because he wanted a chance at Doflamingo, so now there was nothing keeping him in the city. His arms dropped back to his side and he yawned with his head tilted back. The man had long black hair going straight down his back almost to his waist, and his mustache was thin and pointed down on either side of his mouth. He wore a pair of sandals that he started walking away from Dressrosa in, the whole time looking up at that glowing child who was making the ground shake and glaring down at that hole he just hit Doflamingo into like the Lord would somehow make it out of there.
Nobunaga Hazama finally turned from Son Goku when the kid's blond hair turned back to black. He stared out into the eastern distance and narrowed his eyes at the darkening sky that direction as the suns were starting to go down in the west. It's been a while since the rest of the Spiders were here. I wonder if I can find the Troupe on this huge world on my own?
Goku stared down at the hole Doflamingo should have been coming out of. He glared into it and felt a power at the bottom, a power much weaker than it was a minute ago, but still there. Doflamingo lay underneath huge masses of rubble, but the rocks around him were turning into strings that moved away to give him a safe space underneath the ground. He lay there in a cube made of strings while inside his body, other strings held together his internal organs that would have been falling apart without them.
He is too strong, Doflamingo thought. The Lord of Dressrosa was covered in his own blood, and though he could repair some parts of his body with strings, using strings to repair his bones was taking longer. He also was not intolerant to the pain, and his entire body screamed out as he stared at the roof of his little string fortress. What do I do? I have angered a monster. My family is defeated. I can feel it, none remain. What should I-
Doflamingo's thought process was cut short as he felt a presence approaching him fast. He sank down into his strings like it was water and continued to make more rocks beneath him strings to escape farther and farther down. Then it hit him, and his mouth twisted into a devious smirk. The ground he transformed into strings above him, he allowed to turn back into stone. He sank farther and farther, and the ground continued to turn into strings for him no matter how hard it got. He sank over a mile into the ground, where the earth itself became so hard he could punch it full force and not leave a mark.
The Lord relaxed and took a deep breath to calm himself down. Then, he snapped his head straight up and his eyes started to widen as the rock roof above him tore apart. A boy flew down into the room fist first, and Doflamingo saw a giant golden dragon surrounding this kid's body as he slammed his fist straight into Doflamingo's chest. "Raaa!" Goku yelled, and his Dragon Fist pushed far into Doflamingo's body that he tried hardening with Haki at the last second. It was in vain, and Goku's fist punched in one side and out the other.
The two separated and Goku flew there in a collapsing hole a mile below the ground. He stared at Doflamingo, stumbling backwards while strings filled the hole in his torso. Goku saw him trying to reconstruct and he said, "You are strong. If I wasn't so sure you would start killing again the second I leave, this could have ended differently." Bigger cracks lined the ceiling and huge chunks of stone were falling down around the two of them. Goku continued, "But you turned your own people into toys, tore apart families, made them forget each other. You made people murder each other with your strings. And you erased my friends from my memories, something I can not forgive."
Goku pointed his left hand forward at the man, "Still, letting you get buried alive in here would be pretty harsh." The small boy with a brown tail sticking out the bottom of his back created a ball of white ki on his palm, and said, "I'm sorry it had to be this way." Doflamingo rose a hand and opened his mouth to tell Goku to wait, but blood just splashed out of his mouth instead, and then he was incinerated.
In Dressrosa, everyone felt the ground shake, and then light shone up through a hole in the ground outside of the city. The glow faded with the rumbling, but inside the fading glow something remained. It was a small boy with black spikes of hair who had a serious expression on his face for only a moment longer before smacking his cheeks once and starting to smile. He looked back into the city and spotted his friends all over the place looking his direction. They saw him floating there alone, his golden hair back to black, and they all knew it was over.
"He did it," Kyros said in shock as he stared out of the city at that child.
"How?" Rebecca wondered as she stood next to her father, the man who had watched out for her her entire life, even though she did not remember him, even though he was just a toy soldier. "He's just a kid," she said in shock.
"Because," a voice said behind them. They turned and saw Usopp walking their way, with Franky and Dash on his sides. Usopp grinned and continued, "That kid is Son Goku."
The family in front of him along with anyone else still on that road heard what Usopp said and their eyes opened huge, their jaws dropping. Usopp pointed a thumb at himself, and yelled out, "And he's on the great Captain Usopp's crew!"
Leo pumped his sewing needle in the air and yelled, "That's our Captain Usopp!"
"Captain Usopp!"
"Captain Usopp!"
Dash turned to the long-nosed sniper next to him who was beaming at all this praise. He chuckled and asked, "Just what lies have you been telling these people?" Dash shook his head and said, "Nevermind," right as Usopp was about to back himself up. Dash saw how badly injured Usopp and Franky were and he stopped laughing to gain a more genuine expression. "Thanks guys," he told them. "You got really beat up, and I just got turned into a toy. You really saved my butt."
"Don't worry about it little bro!" Franky shouted and posed with his arms up above his head diagonally.
"Yeah," Usopp said. He smiled slightly and his eyes drifted above Dash to a patch of empty street where he saw a few clear people standing. The sniper's smile lifted some more at the sight of the smiles on their faces before they faded. "It was nothing," he said, looking back down at the small kid before him.
Franky and Dash became confused as normally Usopp would have taken that opportunity to start bragging or something, but they both liked that response better. "Hey guys!" All three of them turned and saw a kid jogging their way. Killua spotted Dash next to the pirates and he pointed at the boy who looked sheepish upon seeing Killua. "You idiot!" Killua yelled at him. The boy taller by almost a foot, not even including his hair, ran up to Dash and frowned at him. "You're the fastest one of us! How could you let Sugar get you like that?" He bonked Dash on the head and the smaller boy groaned.
"I know, I know," Dash mumbled in annoyance.
"If I couldn't find her, I never would have gotten you out of that-"
"KILLUA!" An angry voice roared. All of them turned left and looked over the rubble of a building to see a ball of flames high in the sky. Inside that fire was a blond-haired man who glared Killua's direction furiously.
Killua chuckled, "Guess Sanji's back too. And, I'm betting he's not too happy about how I charred Sugar to a crisp."
"You beat Sugar?" Scarlett asked him. Killua turned to respond to whoever just asked that question, but when he turned he noticed an entire street full of people staring at him awaiting his response. Nervously he nodded his head, and then as an entire group the crowd roared in approval. They heard Sanji scream his name, and now all of them were chanting 'Killua' instead of 'Captain Usopp,' to Usopp's dismay.
Sanji came crashing down in front of Killua, who immediately pointed right at the pink haired beautiful women on his right. "They were toys, and I turned them back to normal." Sanji's rage-filled expression shifted as he turned and spotted the beauties who made his nose bleed. Killua cupped his hands to his mouth and called out, "Sanji helped me stop Sugar!"
Sanji opened his mouth to say he had nothing to do with it, but froze when a hundred women cheered his name at the same time. Sanji's nosebleed intensified so much that he got thrown off his feet backwards with hearts in his eyes and landed on his back having a spasm. Usopp, Franky, and Dash stared at Sanji's writhing body for a seconds before turning back to Killua in amazement. Franky scratched the back of his terrifying robot head that was still scaring the people on the street even if it was one of the people who saved them all from Doflamingo. "That was, pretty smart," Franky said, wondering if Killua had made that plan in advance since the kid did not hesitate a single second to hear out Sanji's shouts at him.
"Thanks," Killua replied. He chuckled and turned to the crowd who went back to cheering his and Usopp's names mostly between just general cheering for their victory. The rest of the crew were making their ways towards the middle of the city, and the people of Dressrosa, freed toys, and little people of the Tontatta Kingdom all cheered for them. When the small boy with spiky black hair flew back in though, the roars intensified three-fold and the entire city cheered his name as word spread fast who it was who took down their Lord.
"We did good work in this city," Nami remarked as she walked forward with a few of her friends. They all turned to her with skeptical looks, and the woman laughed loudly with his head tilted back, totally ignoring the fact that she was turned into a toy even before the battle started and had no role to play in toppling the evil Lord or his men. She rubbed her hands in front of her after she was done laughing and she smirked ear to ear, "Now, let's find out about a reward."
The Next Day
"How much did you manage to get?" Gray questioned the orange haired woman who he walked up to.
The busty pirate navigator turned around and her eyes were in the shapes of dollar signs. They did not look like Beri symbols, nor the symbol they used on Awul for credits, but actual '$'s as that was the symbol they used for the main currency throughout Aebrith. Gray nodded his head as she started talking about how rich they were now after she went around the city asking for rewards as un-humbly as possible, talking all about how bad off the city would be had their crew never arrived.
"What about you?" Gray turned to Franky and Usopp who were supposed to have gone out and gotten them a vehicle.
Franky shook his head and Gray grimaced. Usopp spoke up, "We found that Capsule shop you mentioned, but it was burned down." Gray spun around and glared at Natsu who shrugged his shoulders like it could be anyone, though he smirked as it was probably him.
"Who cares?" Natsu said. "I want to go by foot for a little anyway. Check out this big scary place you keep talking about."
"Well," Gray turned and looked over towards Goku and Timmy who were talking with Dash and Ben like all four of them were just normal kids. "I think we should be okay, for the most part."
"How's our food situation?" Franky asked, not having been part of the team that went to get some but figuring Gray knew since he was going around asking everyone how their missions that morning went. They spent much of the day in Dressrosa, helping out the citizens they saved, learning that the guy Kyros would be training a military to protect their city as many other forces would be coming in to take Doflamingo's place now. While most of them prepared for their own journey across Aebrith to accomplish their various goals, Sora, Riku, Kairi, and even Ben went around the city healing people who needed help after the day before's chaos.
"Sanji got a lot," Gray replied to the cyborg who did a great job repairing and repainting himself so he looked good as new. "Timmy and Sora have some magical packs that have incredibly large spaces inside them, so we can keep our food in there along with any things that we want to take off the Sunny Go with us."
"Great, though I'll carry my cola myself," Franky said, and he turned a little to show off the huge pack on his back full of mainly extra bottles of cola that he emptied from the ship's barrels as he did not think they would be returning soon. He asked the chief of the Tontatta people to watch over the Thousand Sunny while they were gone and all of the little people were happy to do so. Kyros also promised that the people of Dressrosa would keep guard over the Sunny as long as their heroes needed them to.
The crew continued to gather on the eastern side of the city, until almost all of them had arrived. Gray wanted to wait for everyone, but he figured he could get it done faster if he just explained now. The ice mage of Fairy Tail opened up a bag he bought with some money he asked Nami for, as she highly insisted on keeping all of their cash in one place- with her. He took out several bracelets, twenty of them to be exact.
A small black cat noticed the number of bracelets as soon as Gray took them out and put them on the ground. Kuro walked over and he looked up at Gray, asking, "I need one too?"
Gray leaned back in surprise, That cat talks?! It was always with Rin, and he had created a rift between the two of them early on in their ship ride when he accused the teen of being one of Satan's demons. He shook his head as he wondered if he was the only one who did not know this as no one else reacted like he did. "Yeah," he said to the kitty cat. He continued to explain as he knew there would be a follow up question from the cat, "They are made to be able to expand and retract certain amounts, that way in case people power up and their wrists grow they don't have to take off the Power Blockers. It should expand enough that you can still transform into your big form."
"Nami, Usopp," Gray pointed at a couple of Power Blockers he put in a different group than the rest. The two pirates pretended not to care as they grabbed their PB-2's, but the smirks Dash and Ben gave them were pretty aggravating.
"Why does Kairi need a PB-4?" Usopp grumbled as he picked up his Power Blocker.
"Because Kairi beat up a Sith Lord yesterday," Sora bragged to him. Usopp turned and saw Sora put an arm over Kairi's shoulders and she shied down a little with red cheeks as he bragged some more about her.
"A Sith?" Usopp mumbled in shock. "Oh," he said, and decided not to say anything else as he put on his Power Blocker.
Kairi walked over to Usopp as Sora put on his PB, and she smiled up at the sniper who was surprised to see her so close. "I heard you were really brave yesterday 'Captain Usopp.'" Although she said the last part teasingly, she meant the part about him being brave and the sniper started beaming again as he thought about the moment he stood up to Diamante and got an attack in on him.
"Are we all ready to go?" Ben asked, looking to Gray who had been explaining a lot the last day in preparation for the imminent departure into the vast continent of Aebrith.
Goku and Timmy put on the PB-6's Gray got for them and the ice mage turned to the tallest boy of their youngest four. He frowned at Ben and then snapped his head around, checking everyone once, twice, three times. Gray took some deep breaths then looked back towards the eastern exit of the city. There were two tall pillars on the sides of the road ahead of them, a road that did not get as damaged as most others in Dressrosa. It led up a green hill outside the city and beyond the top of the hill they could not see much but blue sky in the distance.
"Yeah," Gray said. "We're ready." He walked forward and all his friends around him stopped talking and threw their packs on their backs. They followed the ice mage towards the outskirts of the city, and while they did, Gray thought, Axel, Gon, everyone, I'm coming.
Zoro, Chopper, Luffy thought, his mouth curling into a grin as he neared the exit. I'm going to find you.
I hope I see Tien again soon, Goku thought. I bet he knows the best places to eat here!
Umbrella Corporation: Southwest Regional HQ
"What did you just say?"
Two men in black suits stood in front of a table where a young man sat. He had a freckle-covered face and in front of him on the table was a nice, juicy, raw, piece of cow meat. The suited man on the left of the two removed his sunglasses and repeated, "There is no doubt about it. Blue flames."
The man at the table lifted up a napkin and wiped both corners of his lips, which really only smeared the cow blood around instead of getting it off. He got to his feet and walked around the table in the dimly lit room deep underground. The regional director leaned back on his table and his lips twisted into a smirk. It can't be Okumura Yukio, which means Rin has finally made it to Aebrith.
"We should bring this to Lucifer-sama right away," the man on the right of the director said. His comrade nodded and agreed with him, though their leader chuckled under his breath and made them stare at him nervously.
The director's head lifted up and his eyes narrowed while his smirk remained. His men's eyes opened wide, and the one who took his sunglasses off dropped them as he spun around. He sprinted for the door but the flames covering the director's arms shot off and engulfed his entire body. "AHHH!"
The other man did not try to run. His eyes only opened in shock for a second before he reached down and grabbed a pistol from his waist. He pointed it forward and fired, fired, fired, and then when his clip was empty, he lowered his gun and stared at the dozen holes on the director's body. Orange flames filled the holes and his body repaired itself, and finally the man started stumbling backwards towards his comrade's no-longer-screaming body. "Director Todo, wait. I don't understand-"
"I have other plans for the Okumura brothers," Saburota Todo said. Then, the other figure burst into flames and screamed, grabbing at his face to try and protect his eyes, only his hands were on fire too. His eyes melted and his voice stopped letting out screams before he was dead, as his vocal cords shriveled and burnt to crisps first. Todo walked towards this man who fell down to his knees and after a few seconds he kicked forward, and the man's body crumbled into chunks of ash. "Why would I tell Lucifer, and thereby Satan, such powerful information? Okumura Rin's existence here must remain a secret. At least, for now," Todo's smirk widened to reveal two rows of sharp white teeth. Flames rose behind him and spread out like wings while above him, the head of a magnificent bird emerged. He tilted his head up and the bird's head did too, and the two of them roared out pillars of flames.
A/N Thanks for reading! A new enemy emerges as Saburota Todo seems to have plans for Rin. Doflamingo goes down and our heroes prepare to leave Dressrosa to embark on their journey on Aebrith. Next chapter is the final one of this arc, and it's kind of a special chapter as Chapter 4 is just Chapter 4, no individual parts to it. Doesn't give away much, but I hope you're excited, it's a good one! I have a few finished chapters ready right now, so I'll be posting one a day for a few more days. Let me know what you thought of this finale chapter, predictions about the upcoming journey, questions about the Umbrella Corp, or anything else you wanna discuss! Anyway, here's a quick list of characters:
Blue Exorcist: Lucifer, Satan, Okumura Rin, Kuro, Yukio, Saburota Todo
One Piece: Señor Pink, Doflamingo, Diamante, Kyros, Leo, Kabu, Scarlett, Rebecca, Sugar, Dressrosa, Gladius, Thousand Sunny, Franky, Usopp, Nami, Nico Robin, Luffy, Zoro, Chopper, Sanji.
Hunter x Hunter: Gon, Killua, Nobunaga Hazama, Phantom Troupe (Spiders)
Star Wars: Sith, Darth Sion
Kingdom Hearts: Kairi, Sora, Riku, Axel
X-Men: Gambit
Avatar the Last Airbender: Zhao
Fairy Tail: Natsu, Gray, Juvia, Acnologia
Fairly Oddparents: Timmy Turner
DBZ: Goku, Tien
Magi: Al-Tharmen, Zormudd
Resident Evil: Umbrella Corporation
SAO: Kirito
Ben 10: Ben
The Incredibles: Dash
-Also, just as a mention, I don't own any of those characters^ XD. Alright, review responses!
joebob323
Great work as always! I swear, the part where you described Killua chasing Sugar down with a door, that had me on the ground laughing! I can't wait for the next update, where it all ends. Thanks for your hard work man!
Thanks! Hope you enjoyed the ending, and glad you thought that part was funny!
Espada-001
Well this chapter was defiantly filled with excitement! And while I commend Ben for trying to attack Doffy, I don't see that battle going in his favor at all really even if he were at full power. Also Killua gets another big shot added to his kill streak, and frees all the toys. I can't wait to see who you had turned into toys show up, also even though a lot of the main characters were injured they have plenty of back up on standby now. Anyway I saw your comment about RWBY and I'm looking forward to seeing them, I know some people don't think that RWBY characters can keep up with other anime characters based off of other fanfiction crossovers I've read but they're pretty damn strong given how small their series is. Well I'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of the battles go. That's all from me for now so until next time have a good day and I look forward to the next update, Good Night!
Yeah, Ben was not very prepared for taking Doflamingo on at all. Killua got some more time this chapter, though before he could take down Buffalo, someone else did... Who was that girl? Why didn't I put her name? If anyone knows who she is, then good on you. Left a few hints, be cool if anyone could guess. Glad you're looking forward to the RWBY arrivals. They're definitely getting a lot stronger towards the end of Season 4, but right now I don't know which season/ part of their timeline, I took them from. I'll figure it out later :P. Hope you liked the ending of chapter three of Nexus: Heroes Will Rise! Thanks again to everyone who reviewed! 'Till next time!