Straw Hats Dive into the Multiverse
Chapter 6 – The Rubbery Vengeance (Part 1)
Lena was on the phone talking to someone and she seemed hesitant about the request. Ultimately, she complied and hung up before rejoining the main group.
"Hey everyone, I got an announcement. I just got off the phone with my "boss". I'll be presenting you something that was requested by a fellow storymaker." Lena said with a sigh.
"You don't seem all too chipper about it." Nojiko said.
"Because while I don't hate the story, it's not really my cup of tea. I had read the tale and found it all right for the most part. Maybe it's because I preferred Renewed Adventure for it being funnier. So, I'll show you the pilot, but be warned that it makes Renewed's look tame." Lena said taking her seat as the Holo-Screen came to life. "I'll need a drink or two."
Chapter 1: A Restart in Life
Luffy finally reached his dream…he reached Raftel and found One Piece. But why? Why was he feeling like he hit rock bottom and beyond? Was it something he ate? Or was it the fact that he lost his entire crew and allies in one night, ONE night before reaching Raftel itself.
"What's with stories of me getting screwed over by the end?" Luffy complained. "I can't ever get the One Piece without getting stabbed."
The crew could not help but side with Luffy on this, and the Marines dare not say a word. Lena was already started a bottle of light sake.
Luffy was now a bitter, hateful shell of his former self, living on Raftel for 5 years constantly training and living alone after the demise of his crew and allies. The only reason he was living was due to his comrades, his 'family' telling him to keep moving forward. However, this is about to change very soon.
"I never thought I've have to see this again." Nami said bitterly.
"At least he's not a prisoner." Zoro said trying to make the situation better.
Luffy took a swig of Lena's sake much to the shock of the crew.
"I see no purpose to be here anymore. Not without them by my side. I just can't stand being alone anymore! Hancock…Nami…Robin…Zoro…Usopp…Sanji…Chopper…Franky…Brook…Jimbei…Law…Sabo…Bartolomeo…Shanks…everyone." A very broken Luffy croaked out in sadness, tears flowing out as he walked towards a cliff for his 'final' moment. He was sad, bitter, frustrated, angry, and confused about what to do now that he was here. Even after annihilating over 90% of the Marines sent at him and wiping out all of Blackbeard's crew including Akainu, Kizaru, Blackbeard himself, and even The 5 Elder Stars which took everyone by surprise when they came at that horrible night, Luffy still felt that that wasn't enough. He was angry at the world, angry that it took everyone around him, angry that he couldn't see his family and friends here in Raftel with him celebrating.
"Damn, we took all that out. Ow, that's super….too bad we didn't live to enjoy it." Franky said with a sigh.
Smoker was muttering something under his breath and Tashigi was still keeping her mouth shut.
"Oh Luffy, if only I was there to comfort you!" Hancock bellowed to Bell-mere's annoyance.
Luffy had a pistol held in his right hand, specially created by Franky as a gift for his birthday that uses Kairoseki bullets (Looks like a Colt .45 ACP in case you're wondering). He looked towards what was left of the Thousand Sunny and with his final tears coming down, pointed the gun towards his heart. "Everyone, I'm sorry but I can't go on. If there's an afterlife, I'm hoping I'll see you soon…" Luffy whispered to himself with a hint of happiness in his tone of voice. Then he pulled the trigger…
*BOOM!*
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Luffy fell from the cliff and landed on the once clean sandy beach that was below said cliff, staining his surrounding area with blood. On that day, the Pirate King died.
"Can I just have the rest of the bottle?" Luffy asked sadly.
Lena gave it up knowing that watching yourself die sucked. Watch your other off yourself was even worse. Even Tashigi felt bad for Luffy to have to see that. Luffy, however, suddenly stopped drinking.
"Wait, is this like Renewed where I go back in time?" Luffy asked.
"Yeah." Lena said.
Luffy tossed the bottle and perked up like nothing ever happened. At that point, everyone decided to roll with it.
Unknown Area…
"Uhhh...Where am I at?"Luffy said to himself as he found himself lying on the floor in a seemingly endless tunnel with blue ethereal light orbs floating around him. He soon got up and right when he started walking, the glowing orbs moved with him as if they're guiding him. At a certain point though, the orbs expanded into his memories that lined up throughout the tunnel. It showed all of his memories, his happy ones, sad ones, and angry ones. He soon saw the end of the tunnel and found himself on what looks to be a sky island. When he reached the entrance to the island, he saw a very muscular looking old man wearing a white tunic and a halo around his head.
"I've been waiting for you, Mr. Luffy." He spoke kindly to the rubber man.
"What's going on? Who're you? Where am I?" Luffy asked rapid firing the questions to the man.
"As you can see with the halo around my head, you're in Heaven Luffy. My identity itself is not your concern, but you can say I'm a messenger of sorts for God. And as what's going on, God has given you a second chance Luffy." The man said nonchalantly.
"Wait a second? Doesn't suicide automatically sends you to Hell?" Bell-mere asked.
Lena shrugged and Zoro rolled his eyes.
"A second chance for what?" Luffy asked not knowing what he means.
"God has reviewed your life Luffy. He's seen the goodness in your deeds, even if you do claim you did them for selfish reasons. He's also seen the changes you have done in the world, which were, for the most part, good changes. So, God is willing to give you one more chance to change your future by sending you back to the past. He's even willing to ignore your suicide, which as a matter of fact, almost always guarantees your departure to Hell, but he was willing to overlook this. So, what do you say Luffy, are you willing to go for another adventure? To save your friends and family from their demise?" The man said with in a gentle and slow tone so the rubber man can absorb the recent information presented to him.
"Why?! How is it that freaking God wants him to succeed?!" Smoker roared irate with that scene.
"Because Luffy brings results." Lena said plainly.
"Where were the Marines when Bell-mere got shot by Arlong?" Nojiko asked Smoker. "Certainly not helping."
"Yes. Yes! I want to do it!" Luffy said immediately once he understood what was going on. He would finally be able to see his friends again, and change his future for the better.
"Okay then. Now before we get started, I need to tell you some things that are going to happen when I send you back. First of all, you can choose which part of your life you can go back to. Another thing is you will keep all of your abilities, knowledge and physical fitness even if you say went back to when you were three. Moreover, you will be given a backpack that has four things that you have had or seen in your first life. Another important thing, when you go back, you will be given a journal that retains what happened to you in your first life in great detail so that way you know what will happen before it'll happen. Now lastly, when you go back, there might be some changes from your original timeline, such as events happening earlier or later than when it was supposed to happen, or events that were never supposed to happen in the first place."
"Okay, I'm ready right now! I have everything planned!" "That fast!" "So when do I go?"
"Right now."
"Wha-?"
Luffy was soon engulfed by the orbs that were following him around and they shot up in the sky along with him.
"I do find it interesting that it's God this time sending Luffy back." Robin said with a chuckle. "Man of D were always assumed to be devils."
Foosha Village: 17 years ago…
"Huh? Was that a dream?" Luffy thought as he got up. He then noticed he was in a far too familiar place, Foosha Village. "Never mind. Let's see if what that old man said was right." Luffy said to himself as he looked over to an olive-green backpack. He went over to that green backpack and found that this was too good to be true. The things that he wanted to bring were actually there: his pistol which is made out of wapol steel that came along with extra magazines (Luffy was considering getting a pistol for emergencies.), A Den-Den Mushi, Nami's Sorcery Clima-Tact and weather eggs along with instructions on how to use it, and Zoro's Shusui. He also found the journal in his backpack, and it he opened it to the first page, which also happened to be today.
"Today, Luffy will attempt to convince Red-Haired Shanks that he is strong enough for him to be a pirate, utterly failing in the process. Later, in Partys Bar, Shanks will continue to mess with Luffy when mountain bandits led by Higuma come inside for some alcohol. While Shanks and Higuma are having a 'confrontation', Luffy eats the Gum-Gum fruit…blah blah blah"Luffy read to himself as he now knew what he had to do. Before leaving, he realized that he had no scars on his body, so he was back to square one. He soon left towards Shanks' ship, knowing he can change his future right now if he so chooses to, but decided to just follow what the book has said. He then thought of something important that was told to him on the second-to-last island before reaching Raftel.
'Don't hesitate to kill, for your enemies give two shits about chivalry and your nakama. They don't play fair, and if given the chance, they can do more harm by being kept alive.'
"I think I should go by those rules this time around." Luffy said to himself as he reached the ramp up to Shanks' ship.
The idea of a Luffy perfectly willing to kill anyone in his way scared everyone except Lena and Luffy. Chopper thought of the bodies of people Luffy would have killed, but Robin had a different reaction.
"I wonder if Luffy will snap spines like I did." Robin asked to Luffy's amusement.
"Please, I rather not think about it." Tashigi said terrified. "I don't need that image."
"Well, the next part is always a favorite of mine. It involves a lot of catharsis." Lena said chipper to Garp's anxiousness.
Later…
Everything happened the same for the most part, right now he was sitting in a chair just finishing to eat the Gum-Gum fruit, watching Shanks get hassled by Higuma. For some reason however, Higuma did something that he knew he hadn't done before, smack Shanks' hat off his head. Just seeing his precious hat get smacked off his role model caused something within Luffy to snap.
"Oy…"
"Huh? What do you want kid?"
"You got 5 Seconds to pick up Shanks' hat, apologize, and have you and your gang leave or else…"
The world around him suddenly froze. When time started revolving again, on the first second, Higuma and his cronies were just silent. In the second, third and fourth second, they were laughing hysterically. Finally, on the fifth second, Higuma reached for his sword…
…At the same time, Luffy vanished.
"This isn't going to end well for him, isn't it?" Smoker asked.
"Nope!" Lena said emphasizing the "p".
Luffy reappeared behind Higuma, who suddenly felt cold and an unfathomable amount of pain to where his heart is…or where it used to be; the gaping hole was profusely bleeding out impossible amounts of blood. Everyone stood there wide-eyed and shocked at these series of events; Makino stood there covering her mouth with both hands while Shanks stood up assessing the situation seriously while not believing what he saw. He looked towards Luffy or what appeared to look like Luffy and saw his blackened arm covered in blood while holding Higuma's heart…wait blackened arm?!
Tashigi hurled her guts out into a wastebasket to which Lena rolled her eyes to. Robin was clapping for a job well done, and Luffy was considering trying that against Blackbeard.
"I did not think Luffy could be more of a monster…" Usopp said fearfully.
Luffy continued walking behind Higuma approaching his grunts with a glare that make even an admiral flinch.
Garp had flinched and recoiled at the idea of Luffy being this strong at a young age.
"G-give it back…" Higuma coughed out as he turned around to see Luffy holding his still beating heart. Luffy turned around to see Higuma clutching his chest while approaching him slowly as if each step only brought him closer to death. Luffy looked at him in the eyes, and surprisingly, gave what looked like a very sincere and kind smile. Luffy then raised up the blackened hand holding the heart as if he was going to give it back.
"Giving it back won't help reconnect it! It's a miracle, he's still breathing or moving at all!" Chopper bellowed taking the wastebasket from Tashigi to vomit in.
*Splat*
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Luffy crushed the heart into a red mush of tissue, still giving that innocent looking smile.
"Damn….I don't even think he would go that far." Nami said under her breath.
"Higuma had it coming." Lena said coldly.
"It's a shame he crushed that heart because I could use one because I'm all bony!" Brook remarked having a bit of humor.
Lena chuckled to that along with Robin.
Higuma went wide-eyed as he knew his death was near. He died. Died against a seven year old kid, who he now believed in his final moments as he plopped on the ground, was nothuman. Moments later, Higuma fell face flat on the ground, still outstretching his arm. Luffy went on to put Higuma's crushed heart into his outstretched hand.
"I think I'm liking this Luffy all the more I watch." Robin said wistfully.
"Of course, you would." Tashigi sniped.
Luffy dropped his smile and turned towards the scared stiff mountain bandits. To the mountain bandits themselves, it looked like they were in the face of the embodiment of both the Devil and Death itself.
"Leave…"
The mountain bandits did as they were told and ran out as if their lives depended on it (which it did). Luffy then walked back seriously towards where Makino was, which caused her to flinch visibly. He then gave the grin that everyone was accustomed to, not the one he gave to Higuma.
"Shishishishshi! Makino! Looks like I earned 8 million beli!" Luffy said while rubbing his head with his bloodied hand sheepishly.
"WAAAIIITT! LUFFY! HOW DID YOU DO THAT?! WHERE DID YOU EVEN LEARN THAT?! WHY DID YOU DO IT?!" Shanks exclaimed to Luffy rapid-firing each question to the rubber boy.
"That's a reasonable reaction, but you'd think Makino would say something too." Lena said.
When Luffy was going to respond, he felt three presences he knew all too well in the same direction. "It's 2 years early for this! He's already there!" His gaze darkened when he sensed the strongest of the three and started walking towards the exit of the bar.
"I'll be right back...There's something I need to take care of..." Luffy monotonously said while he took his backpack.
"LUFFY WAIT! YOU HAVEN'T ANSWERED MY QUESTION YET! AND WHAT'S IN THAT BACKPACK?!" Shanks yelled at to Luffy to try to stop him, but to no avail.
Luffy then exploded into steam as he activated Gear Second, again surprising and shocking everyone in the bar. "I'll explain when I get back." He then proceeded to use a mixture of both the Soru and Geppou techniques to reach the direction of the presences quickly before it was too late.
"I could teach you all to walk on water. It's a technique from the Naruto worlds, and I think you all could make sure of it." Lena said getting the DF users' interest.
The idea of DF user walking on water was a bit frightening to Tashigi however.
In a matter of minutes he was already in front of a group of islands. He could see a ship that is docked on the coast and his anger skyrocketed.
He was in the Conomi Islands, and the Arlong Pirates appeared to have been here for a while. Luffy prepared Shusui to strike when needed.
"Don't worry Nami...I'll make sure your mom doesn't die like before..."
Nami, Nojiko, Bell-mere perked up immensely with Nami cheering for Luffy to gut Arlong.
Meanwhile with Nami and the rest...
"Mommy!" Nami and Nojiko screamed as they ran towards Bellemere to hug her.
"I'm sorry mommy! I didn't mean what I said!" "Please don't leave us!"
"Don't cry girls...I wish I could've...I could've provided for you better. I wish that I could've been a better mother to the both of you."
"Don't say that!" "We don't need anything, just don't die!"
"Please don't leave us" "You need to see the map I'm gonna draw of the whole world!"
"Yes...Your map...Go ahead and make your dreams come true...for me..."
"Bellemere no!" Nami cried out as she doesn't want Bellemere to die.
"So these are your daughters." Arlong questioned menacingly as he towered over the embracing family. The daughters yelped in fear as they realized who were with them the whole time.
"Yeah that's right! And you have to promise me that you'll leave them alone!" Bellemere spat out at Arlong
"Yeah no problem! As long as you die like a good girl!" Arlong retorted back.
"HELP US!" Nami screamed as Genzo brought out two pistols to shoot at Arlong, only to have them be deflected by Kuroobi and get sliced across his torso by him. Nami could only watch in horror when many of the villagers came to fight against Arlong and his fishman crew.
"Well then...Don't kill them boys. Just...Teach them a lesson" Arlong commanded to his crew. "Now then to set an example..." Arlong then began to approach Bellemere and her two children. Seeing this, Bellemere pushed her two daughters inside the house. "Heh...You ready to die?" Arlong said as he pointed a pistol towards Bellemere.
Meanwhile we have a curb-stomp battle involving the fishman and the villagers, it's obvious whose winning.
Time seemed to stop as Bellemere proceeded to say her 'final' words to her two daughters.
"Nojiko! Nami!"
The two girls could only watch in shock and horror in watching their mother get killed.
"...I Love you."
Seeing this scene got the adopted family all a bit emotional and the crew angry at Arlong. Tashigi was feeling useless considering the Marines let this happen to a former captain, no less. Nojiko was hoping Arlong's death was spectacular. Bell-mere was shaking a bit seeing this considering she was taken right before getting shot in the face by him.
Time seemed to stop again right as Arlong was about to pull the trigger to shoot point blank directly towards Bellemere's head with his right hand.
"I can't watch." Bell-mere said looking away.
The next instant, there was blood flying everywhere. No gunshot rang out and all you could see was Bellemere shocked, Arlong shocked as well holding his right arm, and a black-haired boy in between them holding a black sword that's too big for his right was an olive green backpack and right next to his left side, was Arlong's hand, still holding the pistol.
Luffy transcended to an emotion beyond lividness. He got up and stood up against Arlong who was still clutching his amputated hand. Luffy glared at him while giving a controlled haki blast affecting every fishman, Not enough to knock them out (Except for Hatchan, he gave him a stronger dose), but just enough for them to be petrified with fear.
"Ah, Luffy's anger. Always a beautiful constant." Lena said happily.
"Do you know those moments when you know you fucked up? Well, this is one of them, and it WILL be you last." Luffy said in a low tone that can only be heard by Arlong and Bellemere. Luffy sliced off the rest of Arlong's limbs in such a speed that it would even make Kizaru jealous and envious. With Arlong now on the ground screaming in pain and agony trying to wiggle away from what cut off his limbs, Luffy cold-heartedly stabbed Arlong through the middle of his spine through the ground so that way he couldn't move anymore. Seeing the opportunity, Luffy proceeded to walk over the shark fishman and whispered into his ear.
"Dear Oda." Robin said in shock.
"That's some shit Zoro would do." Sanji said dropping his cigarette. "No offense."
Nami and Nojiko were cheering this vicious display with Bell-mere much to the horror of the Marines there. Lena was considering saving that clip and airing it on some random One Piece universe for shits and giggles. Luffy was watching intently to study the fighting style used by his other.
"You tried to take a mother away from her daughters. For what you were about to do to them as well as these defenseless villagers, I will now kill your crew in front of your very eyes. So please, enjoy the show." Luffy spoke sinisterly towards a wide-eyed, trembling Arlong. All fishman were looking at the 7-year-old kid (24 years mentally) who brutally stabbed a limbless Arlong to the ground. Not wanting to leave their captain to his inevitable demise by himself, the fishman mustered up all they can and charged at Luffy.
"Are these fish fucking dumb? If I saw a child do that, I'd run." Smoker said smartly.
"I second that." Hancock said in accordance.
"If only he could have been a Marine!" Garp wailed.
Lena was ready to see more only for the feed to pause and her phone to ring. Angrily, she picked it up.
"What?! I'm bus-Cherie-sama! How good it is to hear from you? Wait, you want my help and to bring my guest with me! Sure, of course!" Lena said before hanging up. "Crap!"
"Who's Cherie?" Hancock said.
"The Pirate Pervert Empress who rules one of the larger One Piece worlds. She actually tore down the World Government and took over." Lena explained.
Smoker paled.
"She wants us for studio audience for one of her shows. She's going to having the Hancock sisters get fucked by 100 men to see if they can last to break some record." Lena said dryly.
"What?!" Hancock said aghast.
"Yeah, Cherie knocked you down a peg. Everyone in her world got bent by her except Luffy." Lena said forming a portal. "Come on, the quicker you move. The better."
The group dragged themselves to go through the better with Lena grumbling about slashing the episode in half.
(A/N: I had to cut it in half, it was so long. And considering that I had two other things to update before the month ends, I had that on my head. I hope you enjoyed it though, thank Forazimo for offering it up. I'm not the biggest fan, but I do respect his craft. I wish something could take over this fanfic. It's a bit stressful compared to my others. Then again, Lena's fun to write. -sighs- Well see you all again soon.)