Nexus HWR 11.8 Natsu vs Luffy vs Sasuke Uchiha:

"My name, is Sasuke Uchiha," the ninja forming one point of a triangle stated. He glared forward with strange eyes at the two battered men in front of him who looked to be struggling to stand. All the earth around us is Scorched. The forest, the plain, everything. It's all destroyed just after terraforming. I don't care what you two are here for, your fight will needlessly draw attention here.

Luffy thought about the name and frowned because it sounded familiar to him somehow.

Natsu glared over at the man who cut into the bridge of his nose a few moments ago. The panting mage growled his way, "Should have stayed out of our fight, if you knew what was good for you."

Sasuke's red and purple eyes, his Sharingan and Rinnegan, narrowed at the mage on his left. "I could not do that, you two-" Sasuke began in a dark voice.

"Oi," Luffy growled at him. "Shut up. We aren't talking," Luffy's black pupils darted over at Natsu who turned back to him and glared angrily at the pirate who made him so damaged. The two of them were bloody, burnt, and broken, but neither looked ready to fall. Natsu covered in flames and Luffy was still in Gear Fourth even if his hands were crispy and covered in blood.

Sasuke's mouth flattened into a straight line. "Nevermind, it doesn't matter," he said, mainly to himself. He rose up his right hand and it covered in sparking blue electricity.

Natsu and Luffy were about to charge each other when they saw Sasuke's hand glow. They each started to turn his way right as a blue beam shot off Sasuke's fingertips and flew their way. The beam split halfway to them, but it was moving at the speed of lightning and neither of them could dodge fast enough in their battered states.

A bolt slammed into Luffy's fat chest and went out the other side. Luffy stood there and calmly took the attack, but he did shift his full attention to the ninja and get a much more furious look on his face. A dart of his eyes towards Natsu showed that his other opponent did not fare as well against the attack. Natsu was stumbling backwards, lifting a hand to his chest as electricity zapped around his body. Sasuke saw that Natsu was affected more and he attacked again, this time with several beams of lightning at once.

Luffy shot steam out of his fat legs and flew towards the fire mage to get in front of the lightning, but Natsu turned as he was approaching. Luffy's eyes went wide but he couldn't stop his momentum fast enough to not get flame-punched square in the jaw. Nastu hit him, and the pirate went spinning through the air, hitting the ground and rolling ten yards before managing to get to his feet where he skid another twenty feet back. Luffy snarled across the field at the Dragon Slayer whose life he was only trying to save, but his snarls died down as he saw Natsu, head leant back and all of the lightning around him swirling up in a funnel above his head.

The lightning came down into Natsu's mouth and he shook around in pain for a few seconds as it jolted him, but his body quickly adapted and his mouth curled into a venomous smirk. Natsu rose his head towards Sasuke and his eyes that were shadowed by his hair became visible, showing that they were glowing bright red. "Dragon Slayer Secret Art:" Natsu started to yell.

Dragon Slayer? Sasuke thought. His Sharingan saw the attack coming and he darted to the left fast as Natsu roared.

"Charged Flaming Vortex!" Natsu slammed his knuckles together while twisting his body sideways. A huge tornado of flames shot off of his hands and got bigger as it moved towards Sasuke. The ninja dodging away from it looked to his right and saw his own lightning bolts sparking off the funnel of flames. What is this? The Dragon Slayer controls fire and lightning? Sasuke ninja-leapt away as the funnel grew bigger, and he turned to Natsu who he threw five shuriken at. My ninjutsu will be ineffective against him. I need to- Sasuke stopped his train of thought since Natsu prepared to dodge his shuriken, and because of that the Dragon Slayer lost focus on his other opponent for a second.

"Kong Gun!" Luffy yelled. Natsu started to turn but was far too late to dodge or block the fist flying towards him. He roared in anger and then pain as the fist hit him in the left side, crushing his better arm into his side and pushing his ribs into his lungs. Natsu flew away so fast that Sasuke's eyes had a hard time following him, though he did see where the ground exploded upwards upon Natsu's collision with the floor three quarters of a mile away.

Sasuke turned back to Luffy and instantly had to jump backwards as the pirate wasted no time in coming after him. Luffy shot around the sky and Sasuke sprinted across the floor only ten feet beneath him. Luffy punched down over and over, but Sasuke was too fast and Luffy's Haki could not read his dodges as well as Sasuke's Sharingan could read his attacks. "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" Sasuke put a hand around his mouth and shot fireballs up in the sky every direction that Luffy tried to dodge.

One of the fireballs came right into the spot he dodged and he could not get out of the way. It hurt to do, but Luffy covered his right fist with thicker Haki and the blood all over it blackened too. The fireball exploded and Sasuke looked up in the air to see what damage it did. The flames dispersed and behind them was the pirate, bouncing in midair with steam coming out of the bottoms of his thighs. Every time Luffy breathed out, a puff of steam came out of his mouth too, and Sasuke noticed there was more steam than when he first arrived. Luffy was panting hard, and the other fighter was nowhere in sight. "Time to end this," Sasuke said, and his Sharingan started to change. The black symbols inside his eye shifted around and his iris became brighter red, and Sasuke felt his head throb with pain. He ignored the pain though and just yelled out, "Amaterasu!"

Luffy wondered what his opponent was doing, as Sasuke did not look to be preparing an attack. At the last second he heard it with his Observational Haki and he darted his gaze down to his chest. He began covering himself with Busoshoku, but the black coating did little to stop the black flames that erupted all over his torso. They spread out and went down his arms and his legs while he screamed at the top of his lungs. "AHHHHHH!"

Luffy moved up his right hand while the flames were still moving down his elbow and up his neck. He lifted his hand and Sasuke thought he was going to try one last desperate attempt to hit him. The pirate did not punch that fist forward though, he reached up above his head that was gradually covering in black flames, and before the fire touched his hair or his hand, he grabbed his straw hat that he had been covering in Haki most of the fight and threw it to the side.

Sasuke stood there in utter confusion. He could see no purpose to what Luffy just did. While screaming in pain, instead of looking for a way to put out the fire, he saved his hat. What insane people, Sasuke thought, right as Luffy opened his mouth wide and steam shot out more than ever. His body shot around the sky like a deflating balloon while he shrank back to normal size, still covered in black flames. He dropped out of Gear Fourth while flying around and screaming in pain the entire time.

The pirate slammed into the ground still screaming and Sasuke narrowed his eyes. Such strength. Amaterasu should have completely burned through his skin already. He must still be focusing Haki even as he burns alive. He growled, "Amaterasu," and more black flames surrounded Luffy that made him scream louder until his voice gave out. The ninja stepped towards his burning, and now silent, enemy, but he came to a full stop and stared at Luffy first in confusion, then in realization which made his gaze snap up. All of the black flames on the pirate on the ground were moving in a weird pattern. They shifted around and shot off of Luffy's body without Sasuke's intent, and the ninja looked across the field to see a pink haired ninja with blood covering most of his face, sucking in his Amaterasu from a half mile away.

The black flames filled Natsu's stomach and as he gulped, he roared, "AAOOGGHRRR!" His pain-filled scream echoed for miles and he dropped down to his knees. The flames were still burning inside him and he could feel his heart racing. Natsu curled his left hand into a fist and smashed it down on the floor. He tried to do the same with his right but other than his hand being too mangled, his entire right arm was broken now too and just trying to clench that fist put him in more pain than the Amaterasu burning his insides.

Sasuke watched from a distance as the mage got back up on one foot, then to his other. His shaking body calmed down, and his eyes snapped open and made eye contact with Sasuke's a half mile away. Sasuke was about to start genjutsu on him, but he froze as Natsu's fists started to burn. "Impossible," Sasuke whispered.

Natsu's fists, or his left fist and busted right hand, both burst into flames. The flames were not red or orange however, they were the same black flames Sasuke just used on Luffy. "Just what are you?" Sasuke growled. "Eating my Amaterasu, my lightning, no Dragon Slayer should be able to take in so many different forms of energy."

Natsu ignored everything he said. Mainly it was because he didn't care, but also because his ears were busted up a little and Sasuke's voice sounded like someone mumbling from this distance. When Natsu spoke though, his low voice echoed for miles, "What do you think, you're doing-" Natsu's entire body covered in black flames that covered the ground around him in a ten meter radius circle and rose up into a giant pillar high in the sky. Natsu screamed as his black flames rose, "TO MY NAKAMA?!"

Luffy lay face-up on the ground, his mind blurry, his entire body in pain. He wanted to scream, but he lost his voice and his throat had burned when the flames came into his screaming mouth. His burnt eyelids opened however, and he stared up at the sky with wide eyes. The rubberman felt vibrations on his right and he tilted his head just a bit, where he saw Natsu covered in black flames shooting around with the younger ninja who had a blade of lightning in hand.

Natsu slammed his left fist forward and Sasuke blocked with his right forearm. As he blocked, the black flames on Natsu's fist caught onto the ninja's sleeve. Sasuke's Sharingan focused on his flaming arm and the black flames vanished, but as he did that, Natsu spun around in front of him and kicked towards his chest. Sasuke rose both hands and stopped the kick, although it still skid him back fifty feet and burst his hands and lower arms into dark flames.

Sasuke growled in pain, but he lifted up Natsu's leg and then slammed the mage down hard into the ground. Natsu was not expecting the ninja's strength and he gasped out, blood splashing out of his mouth from previously-inflicted injuries. He smashed down into the floor so hard that it broke apart in giant pieces around him, while Sasuke pulled out a Kunai from his weapon's pouch at the same time that he made the black flames on his arms disappear with Kamui, another of the Sharingan's abilities.

He rose up the Kunai while glaring down at a wheezing Natsu, and he brought it down. His hand made it a foot before halting completely, and he spun to his right to see a hand wrapped around his wrist. He turned more and standing behind him was a skinny man without any clothes on, all of his visible skin covered in second and third degree burns. Again?! "How are you moving?" Sasuke asked as Luffy held his wrist, keeping him from stabbing down on Natsu.

Luffy's blackened eyes shifted and focused on the mage in the crater past Sasuke. Words that came out of Natsu's mouth a minute ago echoed in his mind. "Get away," Luffy snarled. He clenched his fist around Sasuke's wrist harder and the ninja's eyes went wide at the vice grip the pirate had on him. "From my nakama!" Sasuke flipped back and twisted his wrist at the same time, trying to slice at Luffy's hand with his Kunai. Luffy's hand turned black though, and the Kunai shattered on his knuckles.

Sasuke finished his flip and looked back at Luffy still with wide eyes. It took him a second to narrow his Rinnegan and Sharingan at the pirate again. As he stared at the pirate, he spotted motion not far from him and turned his gaze to the crater where Natsu staggered up to his feet in. Neither Natsu nor Luffy looked at the other, but they did move apart so there was an equal distance between the two of them as there was between each of them and Sasuke. They recreated their triangle, and Sasuke looked ahead at his two enemies and his hands started shaking. "You two," Sasuke began, speaking through clenched teeth. "You're mad!"

Natsu's right eye was swollen shut, but his left eye full of blood narrowed at his opponent. Luffy blinked and even though moving his burnt eyelids hurt like crazy, he made no indication of it and just glared harder at his enemy. Luffy spat a glob of blood to his right, and the inside of his mouth hurt more than his eyes did thanks to his burnt tongue and inner cheeks.

"Why are the two of you fighting?" Sasuke growled. He rose up his hands as it looked like his enemies would attack at any second. What are they? How can they even be standing with injuries like those? "Why do you want to kill each other?"

"Who said I wanted, him dead?" Natsu growled. He was panting between his guttural words, but his busted lips twisted up into a grin. "I'm just teaching the rubber bastard a lesson," he said.

Luffy spat again, but this time it was in Natsu's direction and the glob of blood hit the upturned earth between them. "Bring it birdie slayer," Luffy taunted, though he made sure to keep his gaze on the ninja in front of him who was ridiculously fast. He had to be ready with all of his senses, not just Haki.

"This guy, doesn't seem like he's going to let us finish," Natsu said. Smoke came off of his body all over and red flames emerged on his hands again.

"Guess I'll just have to, kick both your asses," Luffy snarled. He brought his hands down to his knees and pushed down. His legs pumped and his skin, burnt as it was, started to steam and turn red. As he unbent his knees, he muttered, "Gear Second." He brought his left hand up to his mouth and bit down on his thumb, "And, Gear Third!"

Natsu's flames covered his entire body and he growled out, "Lightning, Fire, Dragon Mode!" His tendons tensed and pulled apart and Natsu roared in pain, but his muscles bulked up anyway. Natsu's body buffed up more than ever and he ripped right through his shirt with his broadened shoulders and massive pecs. His pupils and irises vanished into the whites of his eyes and his aura turned more orange. "ARCOSIAN DRAGON-" The ground under his feet started shaking more every second.

Sasuke watched the two people in front of him in amazement. They're on death's door. Are they going to fight until they die? He ground his teeth and shook his head. If these two power up and go all out again, there's no telling what's going to get attracted here. The Resistance can't deal with this right now. Sasuke glared at his opponents and he shouted, "This is the end!" His body started shimmering blue light and he rose up his hands in front of him as he yelled, "Susano'o!"

Luffy's left and right hands turned huge as he blew air into them. The pirate leaned his head back and he sucked in harder than ever before. His stomach inflated and his hands turned black as he puffed up. "Gum Gum Balloon! And..." Luffy's jaw unhinged and his teeth turned black like his giant arms that he held up in front of his face.

"SUPERNOVA! GOD! AMATERASU!" Natsu was screaming at the top of his lungs and all the different energies he had absorbed over the years swirled around him. His skin cracked down his arms and legs, and blood splashed out of the splits in his skin as his aura got enormous and bright before turning dark and having purple flames rip out of it. Blood rose inside his own aura and gave it a darker red tint.

Sasuke surrounded with a translucent purple aura that grew a hundred times around him. He rose up two giant purple arms, and two more huge arms ripped out of the sides of his body beneath them. Out of the back of his giant purple aura's torso sprouted two massive wings that created a hundred foot wingspan. He floated up through his aura but did not go all the way to the giant head with glowing white eyes. In all four of his glowing purple hands formed huge bolts of lightning that curved like swords.

Luffy chomped down with his black teeth right into the giant steaming fists in front of him. As his mouth came down he roared, "GEAR FIFTH!"

"HEY!"

All three of the massive powers facing each other snapped their heads up. Sasuke had just charged forward, Natsu slammed his hands forward, and Luffy's entire body was rippling and changing. They snapped their heads up and saw a teenager dropping down towards them with a long weapon in his hands that he held up above his head. "TRANSFORM!"

The tip of the silver weapon shimmered white and all three of the surprised figures below saw their bodies glow the same color. The glow got brighter until the figures inside them were no longer visible. Three miles away to the south, hundreds of people watching the fight dropped their jaws. They were already sweating and watching the fight nervously, but as the white lights surrounding the fighters disappeared, they could not stop themselves from going slack-jawed at the scene.

The spiky haired boy dropped down on the ground between Natsu, Luffy, and Sasuke. He had on a black jacket and a dark red shirt on beneath it with blue stripes near his shoulders. His weapon was three feet long and at the end of it were prongs like a key. Sora slashed his Keyblade in front of him and then slung it back to rest over his shoulders.

"I don't know what you guys were thinking, but I think you all need to calm down," Sora said. The teen said it seriously, but he could not stop the smile from spreading across his face a second later. He tried hard to hold in his laughter and he looked left, right, and straight ahead at the three people in front of him. Only, they were no longer "people," technically.

Sasuke blinked his eyes a few times in shock as he stared down at his hands. His arms were a lot whiter than he remembered his skin being, and he was no longer wearing any clothes. He was shorter than usual, just like Natsu and Luffy who looked down at their hands and feet in surprise.

Natsu stared at his toes and he lifted up his right foot to check if that really was his foot. He watched the three-toed pink foot lift up and when he tried to lower his foot he watched it lower too. Natsu rose up his head in anger and he glared at the spiky haired teen in front of him. "Sora!" Natsu yelled. He yelled it in fury, then blinked his eyes a few times and they shot open in shock. "Sora?!"

"Sora! What are you doing here?" Luffy exclaimed. His eyes narrowed and he waved a fist covered in feathers at Sora, "And why did you turn me into a chicken?!"

"Me too!" Natsu yelled. "Turn me back!"

"Who are you?" The third chicken growled. This chicken had longer, darker hair on top of his chicken head than the other two.

Sora walked towards the chicken with shorter black hair and he reached behind his back as he did. Sora pulled out a straw hat and Luffy looked at it in surprise. "Here, I think you dropped this," Sora put the hat down on top of the two foot tall chicken who nodded at the teen in front of him.

"Now turn me back," Luffy said, looking into Sora's eyes to show he meant it.

"Nope," Sora said. Luffy frowned deeper at him which only made Sora laugh considering his beak.

"Do you think this is funny?!" Natsu yelled at him.

"Wouldn't you?" Sora chided back, and he burst out laughing at the spiky-pink-haired chicken's expression.

Chicken-Sasuke marched forward on his skinny chicken legs, looking about as serious as a chicken could. He lifted up his feathery fists and some lightning sparked off them. He turned me into a chicken, but I can still use jutsu. If I-

"Can I just get you guys to cool off for a second?" Sora asked. "You have no idea what's going on right now. The King is making his move," the three around him looked at Sora in confusion. "Prepare yourselves, I think he might be coming to destroy the Resistance. Warn everyone!"

Sora spotted a few vehicles racing towards him from the south. There were people running in between the vehicles too and he spotted a few people he recognized. "I want to catch up with everyone, but not yet." He waved his Keyblade and it glowed white as did the chickens around him. "Don't kill each other, we'll all need each other's help when Meruem comes."

Sasuke, Natsu, and Luffy turned back into their human selves. None of them were in their powered up states though. Sora created a black portal behind him that he turned around and walked into. He lifted his Keyblade once more as he walked in and stated, "Cura." He did not use his strongest healing magic, but that was intentional. Don't wanna heal you guys too much. You'll just start beating on each other again.

Green light shimmered down over Natsu and Luffy. Luffy's burns got a little less bad, while Natsu's split skin from his final powering up sealed back up. The two of them watched as the black portal faded and then they turned to each other. "What just-" Natsu muttered.

"Let's finish this," Luffy said. Natsu blinked a few times wondering if he heard Luffy right, and then he grinned and started laughing.

Natsu kept laughing as he stumbled towards Luffy. Sasuke stared at the two of them in shock and he could not believe what he was seeing. Natsu picked up his mangled right hand, and his entire body screamed in exhaustion and then pain as he managed to clench it into a fist. Luffy turned his way and tried lifting his arms to block, but the fatigue set in at the same time and he just wound up getting slugged by Natsu. Luffy stumbled backwards, before snapping his gaze forward and swinging an uppercut into Natsu's solar plexus.

The Dragon Slayer lifted off the ground a foot or two before coming down and staggering away. He ran forward a few steps and punched a right hook at Luffy, but the pirate ducked, then slammed a foot up that he caught Natsu under the jaw with. Natsu lifted up, but brought his hands together as he did into one fist. He came back down and slammed both fists down on top of Luffy's head as the pirate panted while facing the ground. Luffy's face slammed straight down into the floor, but because he was rubber he bounced back up and the back of his head slammed into Natsu's face.

The two of them stumbled away from each other. They glared back and both balled up their right fists at their sides. Natsu was not the only one grinning now, and the two of them stumble-sprinted towards each other and punched at the same time. Their fists went right past each other's and collided with the opposite person's face, right in their smug grins. They stood there with their fists in each other's faces for a few seconds, their cheeks smushed against their comrade's fists. And then, the two of them dropped down to their knees.

Natsu's arms fell limp at his sides and he lost all feeling in them. His right eye was completely closed shut with his swollen face around it, and his left eye was droopy, his eyelid barely able to stay open. Luffy was burnt head to toe from not only Natsu's fire, but Sasuke's as well. He had his straw hat on his head again, but it cast a shadow over his face that kept the others from seeing that both of his eyes were closed and that he had to open his mouth wide every time he took a breath.

Sasuke looked at the two of them and he had a thought to go over and kill them. The thought much more prominent on his mind however, was that of the spiky haired boy who showed up and spoke of the King. What the Hell was that? Who the Hell- How do these two know him? I can't kill them, if they know that boy, then they might know what he was talking about. Sasuke's mouth fell into a deep frown, The King is making his move? The Resistance might be his target? This is very, very bad.

"Hey Sasuke," a high-pitched voice called to him. The ninja turned south and saw a line of vehicles almost at him. One of the figures flying in between two trucks shot away from the others much faster than she was previously going. The small girl in a blue and black striped outfit had blonde hair tied in pigtails. She smiled at the older boy she flew up to and said in her usual bubbly tone, "Who are these guys? Who was that other guy? What was it like being a chicken?"

That last question made a bead of sweat form on the side of Sasuke's head and he grit his teeth. "You saw, Bubbles?" He questioned darkly.

"Everyone saw!" She replied and held out her arms to exemplify just how many people. "That's why we all came out here! You were still a chicken when we started heading over." Bubbles explained.

"You idiots!"

Bubbles and Sasuke looked back at one of the trucks that got closest to them first. A woman standing on the front of it jumped down and she marched across the burned-up, devastated field. She stomped right up next to Natsu and Luffy's kneeling, panting forms, and she slammed fists down on top of their heads, smashing their faces into the floor. "Were you trying to kill each other?!" Nami shouted at them.

Neither one responded and Nami started sweating bad at the sight of them. Luffy had nothing but his hat on and Natsu's clothes were not much better for the wear. Even worse than their clothing situation was the condition of their exposed bodies though. Now that she took a second to get a good look at them, she panicked and spun back to the vehicles, "Riku!"

"He didn't come with us," Usopp yelled down from the top of the truck Nami arrived on. The long-nosed man shouted, "He's back with Ben inside!"

Natsu and Luffy heard these voices while they stared at the black dirt beneath their faces. Nami, Usopp, Riku, Ben, Luffy thought, his mind blanking of its anger and filling with relief instead.

The order in which Natsu thought their friends' names was reversed, but the anger left him as well. They're alive. They're all okay.

"Oi, what was Sora doing here?" Sanji called down from the truck, and Luffy smiled more at the sound of his chef's voice. "He showed up out of nowhere!"

Sasuke looked back towards the truck that Sanji was on and his eyes widened. These two, he looked back over at the men on their stomachs near him. They're part of that group? Same one as that speedster from the other day... Then that teen, his weapon really was a Keyblade, just like Riku's. Sasuke stared at Luffy and Natsu's backs and he muttered under his breath, "Who are you people?"

Nico Robin walked through a tall set of open doors into a giant room full of people. The building looked to be several stories tall from outside, but once inside, she saw that the ceiling of the first floor was oddly much higher than necessary. Perhaps giants use this building, Robin thought, though when she looked around there were only normal-sized tables and furniture around the room.

She walked farther inside and took in her surroundings. The building did not look to serve some greater purpose as all anyone inside it was doing was sitting around. Groups of people stood in circles or sat on couches and chairs and discussed events with each other that Robin may have listened in to with ears that sprouted out from the sides of their furniture.

"Did you hear?"

"...another of that group showed up."

"They beat the Commander-"

"It was three against one!"

Robin sighed to herself as she continued to walk and allowed her extra ears to vanish. It seems the others have already arrived. I hope everyone has made it.

"Robin!"

The woman with long black hair turned her head right and looked across the room at a table on the side. Her lips curled up in a smile and she started walking over as the rest of the group at the table jumped up.

"When did you get here?" Usopp asked.

Nami, the one to shout her name in the first place, did not bother with a question first and gave her best friend a hug to start off. "Robin," Nami whispered. "I missed you."

"It was only a few days Nami," Robin said and patted her friend on the top of her head. Nami leaned back and Robin smiled at her, "Though I did miss you too." She walked by Nami and over to the table where Sanji pushed Usopp out of the way so there was more room for her.

"Oi!" Usopp yelled at him, then he dropped his bottom lip as Robin really did take the seat that Sanji pushed him away from. "Heyyy," Usopp groaned, and he started grumbling as he had to drag over a chair to sit on.

Robin looked around at the four at the table with her. Sanji sat down on her left on the table's bench, while Nami sat back down next to Riku across from her. Usopp pulled a soft chair up to the side of the table so that it looked like he was at the head of it. "Really Robin," Usopp said, trying to sound more serious this time. "When did you arrive?"

"Just now," Robin replied. She chuckled and continued, "When I told them my name they said I could come in. I believe I have you all to thank for that."

Usopp beamed at the good idea he had the night before to let the guards know their friends' names. It seemed important after the fiasco at sunset yesterday.

Robin took a deep breath as she was finally able to relax a little. Having Sanji and Riku at the table meant that she could lower her guard unlike she had in almost the whole last week. "So," she began. "Who else is here?" She did not ask 'Is anyone else here?' because she wanted to stay optimistic, and she turned out to be correct for doing so.

Riku answered her, "Ben, Luffy, and Natsu are in the medical bay." He shook his head a few times, "They're pretty messed up."

"What happened?" Robin asked.

The other three pirates looked down and had pissed off, annoyed expressions on their faces. Usopp started, "Natsu and Luffy tried to kill each other…"

"When we asked them why," Nami continued. "Neither of them could give us a reason. A good one at least…"

"Then the Commander of this base went out to stop them, and he almost killed them too…" Sanji kept it going.

Riku was the only one with a grin on his face, and he finished, "Then Sora showed up and turned them all into chickens."

Robin's eyebrows lifted up and she put her left hand in front of her face. Sanji swooned over how cute she was and Nami yelled at her for laughing at such a serious situation. "And Ben?" Robin finally asked, wondering what could have injured him considering the silly way her captain and Natsu were injured.

The others' looks all turned grim, especially Riku's as he knew Ben longest and felt guilty over what happened. Riku spoke darkly, "Ben was crucified." Robin gasped and Nami winced and clenched her eyes shut, thinking about the boy she recently visited in the medical bay who would not talk to her when she tried to comfort him. Riku continued, "One of Zeref's elites, a member of that Spriggan 12, ran into him and..." He faded off as there was no need for further explanation.

Robin looked down at the table and she thought about the young boy. He has been through so much on this journey. I fear he will not come back from it. She was not the only one thinking about it, as the others remembered the close call with the Self Destruct Mode on his watch. They thought about his trip through time and the horrors only he saw when fighting Nox. Then he lost his Omnitrix, and when trying to get it back he got tortured.

"How is he doing?" Robin whispered to the boy's close friend.

"He's holding up," Riku replied. "His injuries were the most treatable of the three," Riku spoke softer, "at least, the physical ones."

"Oh wait," Nami began, trying to get their minds off this for a moment. "We forgot to mention that Killua is here too," she said, and Robin smiled at the mention of the boy. She asked how he was and Nami shook her head, "He still hasn't woken up," she said to her older friend. "But we got news when we went to see him. Apparently, the boy who brought him in to the medical bay was a speedster with blond hair."

"Dash is here as well?" Robin questioned.

Nami shook her head. "No, we looked all over for him until we found a knight who apparently saw Dash when he got here a couple of days before us. Lancelot said that Dash went running back off north for some reason soon after he arrived."

"You think he's out there looking for us?" Usopp wondered.

"If he is, then that's not all that bad," Sanji said. The others looked at him and he shrugged his shoulders. "We've still got missing comrades out there. If Dash is looking, he'll find them all no matter where they are."

"Heh, guess you're right," Riku said, though he was still worried about his younger friend.

"Hey, you there." The group of five turned to look behind Usopp where a gruff man with a face covered in a black beard was looking at them. He was muscular and wearing a black tank top that showed off his big, and hairy, arms. His hair oddly spiked up on the sides in two distinct spikes above his forehead though the rest of his hair was gelled back. "We just got word, Beta Squad ran into three of your group on their way back from their mission."

"Who?" Nami asked, jumping out of her seat.

"And who are you?" Riku asked, wondering why the Commander of the base did not come to tell them himself.

The muscular man looked over at the silver haired teen first. "Logan," he replied. "But you can call me Wolverine."

"Why would we call you that?" Usopp asked in a deadpan tone.

Logan looked down at the man on the chair in front of him and he lifted his right hand. Three shiny steel claws shot out of his knuckles and came within inches of Usopp's face, making the pirate's skin turn blue and his bladder pressure to build up. Wolverine's claws retracted and he turned to Nami, "The names I got were Rin, Gray, and Juvia. They're on their way here now."

Every person at the table, bar Robin, sighed in relief. Nami thanked the man who nodded and walked away, and she sat back down with a relieved look on her face. Her expression of relief faltered after a second though, Juvia. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to- to look at you like that. Nami looked down shamefully at the table as she thought about what Kirito said to her inside the Fire Lord's Palace.

"So when they get here," Robin began. "All we will be missing will be Franky, and Kirito-san."

"Is that all?" Usopp muttered sarcastically. "Or is that just the ones we think are okay?" The others looked his way and he mumbled softer, "We'll still be missing Dash, even if these people say they saw him. Not to mention… Kairi." He bowed his head like Nami was a minute before and stared at the table angrily.

"We'll get her back." Usopp lifted his head to see Riku staring straight at him. The two of them had not seen eye-to-eye recently, but on this they could agree. "As soon as we get our strength back, Kairi will be our top priority."

"Agreed," Nami said, though she hesitated for a second. Timmy.

Robin nodded her head and Sanji shouted in agreement as well. Usopp stared into Riku's eyes for a few moments longer as they both thought about the moment Kairi was taken. The pirate finally nodded his head back at Riku before turning the other way towards Robin. "How far away were you after the land got all messed up?"

"The land was 'messed up?'" Robin questioned. She thought about that bright light that surrounded her and how the area around her looked completely different when the light was gone. "I suppose that makes sense. I do not know though," she added. "I simply walked south in hopes that I would run into you all again."

"Commander!"

The group at the table turned hearing many people saying the same word and a few people got out of their seats as the ninja walked by. Sasuke Uchiha crossed the hall and walked over to the pirates' table, "What? Thought you were too busy to come talk to us yourself," Sanji chided at the younger man.

"I was," Sasuke said without looking over at the blond pirate. He focused on the silver haired teen and continued, "However, one of my guards, a man named Lancelot, overheard the names of those two who fought with each other yesterday."

"Natsu and Luffy?" Nami wondered.

"Yes," Sasuke said. He grimaced but continued, "Lancelot said that the speedster he led through our camp mentioned the two of them when he brought in that other injured boy. He said that when the injured boy with him failed, it was 'Natsu' and 'Luffy' who took down Fire Lord Sozin."

"That's right," Riku said, confirming what the ninja was really asking them by bringing it up. Sasuke got the verification he needed and he grimaced even more, thinking of how he tried to kill the two of them twenty-four hours earlier. "Told you we're your allies," Riku added, looking annoyed as he did. He muttered after, "Might consider trusting us now," and Sasuke knew why. The Hidden Leaf ninja pretended like he had no idea what Riku was talking about though, or that he had guards tailing the group members wherever they went inside the base.

"Sir!" Before Sasuke could continue talking to them, a guard ran into the room and everyone looked over towards the entrance. The figure was panting and he tried to regain his breath just enough to shout, "The monitors! The maps! All our readings are off the charts!"

"What?" Sasuke growled over. He vanished to the majority of people there and reappeared in front of the guard who did not jump in surprise as he was used to the Commander's speed. "What's going on?" Sasuke asked.

"Come see for yourself sir, it's-" the floor beneath their feet shook and the guard stopped talking. Everyone in the room looked around at the vibrating walls or up at the swinging lights and they could see furniture shaking around them.

"An earthquake?" Usopp whispered.

"You think it's a coincidence?" Sanji muttered, looking back over to the guard at the front of the room.

"I highly doubt it," Robin replied. She got out of her seat as the ground shook again and turned to her comrades, "We should leave this building."

"Let's go," Riku said, getting up as well and making for the door. The room trembled once more and a light fixture on the ceiling fell down. It hit the floor and shattered, sparks flying out of it along with glass. Things were not looking good, and Riku ran out of the door and looked around to see if anyone had an idea as to what was causing the shaking. Sasuke and the guard who reported to him were not far away, but they were no longer running to the building the guard originally came to bring him to. Instead, the two of them were facing north and staring up into the sky.

Riku slowly turned and he looked up as well. The pirates ran out behind him and he heard gasps escape their lips. Riku's heart was racing and he stared into the dark blue sky to the north that should not look like that considering only minutes before the sky was perfectly clear. It was the middle of the day, but darkness took over the world and dark purple wisps moved through the dark sky in the distance. In that dark sky, a golden light shone and the ground beneath them shook even more. The golden light got brighter and it pressed against the black and purple, and the two colors smushed against each other fighting for dominance.

"This, is not good," Sanji said. The chef pulled out a cigarette, and he noticed it was the last one in the box. If that was not an ominous sign, he did not know what would be. He lit it up anyway though, and for a second he thought his hand was shaking in fear as he used the lighter. He quickly realized that it was just the ground shaking so much that his own arm could not stay steady. Sanji got his cigarette lit and he took a drag as he stared into the northern sky. "Oi," he began in a quiet voice, so only the other four directly around him could hear. "What do you think the odds are Goku is there?"

Another bright flash of gold in the northern sky that was still nothing compared to the utter darkness in that direction made the group collectively frown. "Pretty high," Nami whispered. Riku nodded with her, though he was thinking of the chances of someone else being there at the moment.

"You think he's trying to stop the King from attacking the Resistance?" Usopp wondered. They heard from Sasuke the message Sora brought them the day before, and when the ground started shaking they thought that might be it. Usopp tried hard to keep his legs, and his voice, from shaking as he offered, "Goku could, beat the King."

"Maybe," Robin said. "Or he could-" She was going to say something dark, and scary, like she normally would. Unfortunately, she had a dark feeling in her gut that made her not want to say anything of the sort. The others looked to her waiting for her to finish the sentence, but Robin just stared north and kept her mouth shut. To them, that was even more unsettling than if she had said something ominous.

Inside a room a few buildings to the front of the group and on the right of camp, a boy walked to the window on the third floor of the building he was in. He had an I.V. stuck in his wrist, but it was attached to a machine that rolled with him if he wanted to walk somewhere, which for the last few days had mainly been the bathroom. Ben stepped to his window and stared outside into the northern sky. "Goku," he whispered. "Is that you?" He curled up his left fist and held it against the window in front of him.

"I want to come help you," Ben whispered, but his eyes gazed down at the dark skin of his wrist. His hand unclenched and he lowered it from the window. "But I can't," he whispered. Ben stepped back from the window and he sat down on the bed behind him. "I'm too weak," he said, and lay back down on the bed, ignoring the shaking of the floor below him.

Only twenty miles north of the Resistance base Ben was in, five motorcycles came to abrupt halts on a Scorched landscape. The Capsules turned their heads and looked the opposite direction as where they were heading. Two people who were not members of the biker gang also turned their heads. A cyborg on the back of the dark purple motorcycle got off the back and stared north in silent shock and awe. Franky had implanted a metal plate in his spine the day before at a Resistance outpost they stopped at, with the help of a doctor and a technician who together were able to help him temporarily stand, which would have to do until he had more time to undergo more extensive repairs. The plate had an electrical chip in it that Franky's mechanical eyes had to be adjusted to include its status on his visual display. The pirate felt more like a robot than ever, with even the skin over where they cut into him to do surgery being fake now. He did not mind though, as it was his back not being made of metal that took him out of commission in his last fight.

Another figure got off a bike close to Franky, and the teenager with messy black hair actually stepped a few feet to the north while staring at that sky in shock. Kirito looked the direction of the half-outpost they left earlier that day, only half of an outpost because it had been teleported to the edge of the affected zone of rearranged region. They had learned at that base that south of them the region still looked like it did before the white light, and they also heard about a battle that apparently went on a day earlier. After finding out the battle's location and some details about it, not only Kirito and Franky, but Edo-Lucy and Edo-Natsu were convinced of who was involved. They stopped heading in the direction they hoped to find Natsu in though, and they all just stared to the north, struck silent by the display of colors in the distant sky.

"What, is," Kai began whispering. His voice could be heard despite its low volume because everything was silent on the black ground where they stood. He never finished his sentence because like many of the others, he started holding his breath without even realizing it, making it all the more quiet. The only sounds they could hear were the rumbling noises as the ground beneath their feet shook.

Kaneda ran a hand through his hair while his shocked look lowered into one more of disbelief. Geez, whatever that is, I wanna stay far away from it. He looked back to the south and said, "We should get going." His gang looked in towards the center bike, and Kaneda continued in a steady and serious tone, "That's gonna be causing a lot of commotion, and we're probably getting a new mission because of it. Let's go find out what that is." He turned his bike back on and revved the engines, then turned his head and looked back at the two figures who got off the bikes and were not getting back on. "What? Never seen anything like that before?" Kaneda asked, acting like it was some totally casual thing even though it freaked him out too.

"No," Franky said with a shake of his head. "Just the opposite," the cyborg muttered.

Kirito stared at the blackish purple and the golden lights in that distant north sky. He felt the vibrations beneath his feet and could practically see pressure in the air that was making it hard to breath. Kirito could hear his own heart thumping, and he thought, Goku. I wish I was there right now. I want to fight with you, but, I know that whatever it is you're facing, it's way too much for me. Kirito's expression turned darker, his mouth curling down into a deep frown, Sora. The others said you went to find Goku, so you're there too right? You're in the thick of it, like you always are. The dark sky grew a whole notch darker and the ground shook hard as it did, as the sky lost the light in it and plunged the landscape deeper into the dark.

"We're leaving now!" Kaneda shouted back at the other two.

Franky gulped, but he turned and jogged back to the bike he had been sitting on. Kirito stayed for one last second. He stared in the direction that the two people on this world closest to him were likely in a fight for their lives. So much of him wanted to ignore his fear, ignore the parts of him saying he would only be getting in the way, and to lift off the ground and fly as fast as he could without his wings towards that battle. He knew he could not make it though, not at his level of flying using only his ki. You two are my closest friends on this fucked up world. Please, Kirito thought as he turned to get back on Edo-Natsu's bike, don't die.

A/N It's happening! "What?" you ask. You'll find out soon...ish! XD Hope you enjoyed the chapter! This was the last one I had mostly written out before I started posting all these chapters day by day, so despite 9 chapters in the last 8 days, might be a little before the next one. Anyway, Natsu and Luffy and Sasuke are stopped from killing each other by an intervention by Sora. Robin arrives to find many of her friends gathered in the same base, and many others are heading their way as well! Across the continent though, far in the north, something is going on that is shaking the world! What could it be? Hope you all enjoyed, and thanks for reading! 'Till next time!