S/N: Hey guys. This is the first chapter of the rewritten What He Went Through, with Impel Down included. Hope you like it. :) Enjoy!

I don't own One Piece! Oda Eiichirō (or as I like to call him, "Kishi's One and True Rival") owns everything One Piece-related! I only own the plot! PLEASE DON'T SUE ME!

What He Went Through

Chance to See

Zoro had his arms behind his head, and was lying on the floor, snoring lightly as he took his regular afternoon nap. The Straw Hats had just finished their business as Punk Hazard and took off with Law to an island called "Dressrosa" to apparently challenge Yonko Kaido and take down Doflamingo's kingdom. Zoro had nothing against the idea of course, just as long as he got to kick some ass along the way. So to loosen up his muscles and get rested enough for the inevitable battle coming up, he decided to get some sleep. A nice, dreamless sleep was one of Zoro's favorite things, being surrounded by idiots of course (not that he wasn't one himself). He was glad that he could at least get an undisturbed nap after such a chaotic day...

Until a familiar certain someone decided to ruin it.

"...Wak...the fu...Wake up, shitty marimo..."

Eyebrow instinctively twitching at the voice and nickname, Zoro kept himself from glaring or flipping off the cook, despite every inch of his body wanting to do so. He managed to somehow drown out all of Sanji's yelling. And then the witch decided to join him.

"Wake up...already... Stop sleeping... all the time..."

Somehow, Zoro managed to drown out her voice too. It seems that all that training meditating and such wasn't for nothing.

"Hang on, Nami-san... I got this..."

After Sanji said that, Zoro felt his body being ripped from the ground and flying several tens of meters away. A vein popped in Zoro's forehead. Now fully awake, Zoro sat up and snapped at Sanji, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT, LOVE-COOK?!"

"IT'S YOUR FUCKING FAULT FOR FALLING ASLEEP AT A TIME LIKE THIS! LOOK CLOSELY AT WHERE WE ARE, DUMBASS!"

It was then that Zoro realized that he wasn't on the deck of the Thousand Sunny. He wasn't even on an island. Hell, it seemed like he was nowhere. Everywhere, no matter which direction he looked, was an endless, white void. The others were present as well, looking around the void just as confused as him.

Zoro picked himself up, rubbing his head. "The hell? What the hell is this?" he inquired.

"That's what we're trying to find out," Nami said. "That's not everything either, Luffy's missing."

Zoro raised an eyebrow. He looked around and noticed how there was no annoyingly loud yelling from his rubbery captain.

"Zoro, what's gonna happen to us?" Chopper asked the swordsman with fearful tears running down his cheeks.

"We could be trapped here forever, you know. And we could all end up starving to death or something of that sort," Robin said calmly, easily freaking out Usopp, Chopper, and Brook.

"How can you say that so calmly?!" Usopp yelled.

"I wanna be stuck here forever!" Chopper cried.

"Me neither! I'd be nothing but bones by then! Oh, wait. I already am nothing but bones. YOHOHOHO!" Brook laughed.

"OH, SHUT UP WILL YA?" Usopp snapped.

"Guys," Franky said, holding a piece of paper in his hand-in-a-hand, "I think I just found a clue as to why we're trapped here."

Zoro took the paper and read it aloud. "You may be wondering why you are here. That reason is so you may be able to witness something that you all might or might not want to know."

"Witness something? What the hell is that talking about?" Sanji said.

Zoro continued reading. "The room which you are in is the viewing room, so to say. Here, you will be seeing the event that your captain, Straw Hat Luffy has gone through alone." Zoro furrowed his eyes at that part.

"Something that Luffy went through? What does that mean?" Usopp asked.

Nami had a pretty good idea though. "Um... You don't think that 'event' is..."

"...Ace's death, perhaps?" Robin finished, surprising the rest of the Strawhats.

"We're gonna see Ace's death?! I don't wanna see that! I don't wanna see Luffy suffering afterwords either!" Usopp exclaimed, trying to imagine just how much pain Luffy was or still might be in.

"Poor Luffy-san has suffered a lot from that loss," Brook said solemnly.

"Will we really have to see that?" Nami asked, worried.

Zoro kept on reading. "While you are in this room, you'll have no choice but to see that event. However, it is up to you whether or not you will stay in this room. But remember this; once you have decided, you cannot go back on that decision and you will remember everything seen here for the rest of your lives. If you decide to go back instead of stay, you will be returned and have no memory of this place. What is your decision?" Below that question was the words "STAY" and "GO BACK".

"How the hell are we supposed to choose on that?" Sanji asked. Just then, a black pen attached to the same note appeared out of no where with the sentence "With this pen" and an arrow pointing to the pen.

"Whoa! Sanji, how did you do that?!" Chopper asked.

"I didn't do anything!" Sanji protested.

"This thing is messing with us," Zoro sighed.

"Well, what should we do?" Nami asked.

"No idea. We don't know how this thing could go," Franky said.

"I don't really wanna see Ace die," Usopp said nervously. "Right before Luffy's eyes too! Do you know how horrifying it would be to see Luffy in that much pain?!"

The crew fell silent then.

Chopper turned towards Zoro. "Z-Zoro?" he asked nervously. "What do you think?"

Zoro stayed silent for a while before saying, in a voice just above a whisper, "I think... that we should do it."

"Eeh?!" Usopp, Nami, Chopper and Brook said in a panic.

"Why would we do that?! What reason do you have?!" Nami said.

Sanji took in a puff of his cigarette. "I'd hate to say it," he said, "but I'm gonna have to agree with the shitty marimo. While it would be a pain to see what Luffy had to go through, you never know. It could turn out to be..."

"...Beneficial in a way?" Robin finished.

"How could seeing that be beneficial, Robin-san?" Brook asked, curious.

"We could have a better understanding of his mind," Zoro answered. "We could begin to understand how much pain he's been through all these years. Besides, what have we got to lose?"

Usopp stayed silent, taking in his words, before finally agreeing. "Fine! Just please don't let it be painful!"

Zoro circled "STAY" before the writing on the note was replaced with new writing, which he read aloud. "Now that you've chosen, don't end up regretting that decision. What you will be seeing is the entirety of Straw Hat Luffy's Impel Down invasion, the Paramount War, and the aftermath for your captain. Not everything from the war will be seen, but only scenes and moments that will affect Luffy and his actions. Once it is done, you will be returned to wherever you came from. Enjoy the show."

"That note makes it seem like this is some kind of movie or something," Nami said, cringing.

"I'm scared," Chopper said, clinging to Zoro's pant leg like he normally would.

"Don't worry!" Usopp laughed. "I'm sure it won't be so bad! We'll be able to stand it! When is it gonna start anyways?"

As soon as Usopp said those words, the white void began to change. Dark blue, brick walls surrounded the Strawhats, and through the darkness of it all, a bloodied cell came to vision in the eerie atmosphere of it all

"Whoa! Usopp, what did you do?!" Chopper asked, amazed.

"I didn't do anything! I don't even know what happened!" Usopp replied.

"That was amazing, Usopp-san. You must teach me how to do that!" Brook chimed in.

"I SAID I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" Usopp yelled, mostly because of his nervousness.

"Look, someone's coming," Sanji said, pointing to the end of the room. A door opened and closed in a rushed manner. Two people entered the room, one of them was familiar to the Straw Hats, but it wasn't until one of them spoke when they really recognized him.

"Here he is, Vice Admiral Garp. Please be careful," the warden said.

"Yeah," came the gruff response.

"Garp?" the Straw Hats minus Brook said.

"Hm? Who is this Garp-san?" the skeleton inquired.

"He's Luffy's grandfather, who has visited him back in Water 7. Garp is most famous for being a Hero of the Marines and is rumored to be the strongest," Robin said.

"Grandfather? Luffy-san's grandfather is a Marine?"

"His family is a very diverse group of people. You can tell by the fact that Luffy's dad is the Revolutionary Dragon, the most wanted man in the world," Nami explained.

Brook raised an eyebrow...if he had eyebrows. "I see. Luffy-san's heritage is very intriguing."

"Dear me. This is a fine state you've got yourself into," Garp said, gaining the Straw Hats' attention.

They all gazed into the cell before them. The sight inside it...was horrifying. Lying there, bound to the wall by his wrists, was a bloodied and beaten Portgas D. Ace. The boys' body was soaked in blood, the only piece of tattered clothing he had on him was his old black and orange shorts. His ankles and hands were tied by Kairoseki handcuffs, draining his of his already exhausted power. To see such a powerful person be reduced to this type of state terrified the Straw Hats. They didn't know who to be more sorry for, Ace for having to go through this, or Luffy who had to watch Ace go through this and still be unable to save him.

"Is... Is that Ace?!" Nami said, covering her mouth with her hand in shock.

"How... How is he still alive in that condition?" Usopp said incredulously.

"He has so many injuries and sicknesses I can't even count them all! How can they do that to a person, even if he's a criminal?!" Chopper said, crying.

Robin looked at their little doctor in sympathy. "It's probably because of his heritage for him to get in this kind of condition. Because he was Gold Roger's son, the Marines deemed it fitting to make him go through this torture."

"That's not right though! No one deserves this!" Chopper said indignantly, wiping his tears with his paws.

"Tell me about it," Franky agreed in disgust. "This is why I hate the Government. They always come up with bullshit reasons to treat so-called 'criminals' badly. It's just plain bullshit."

The others had to agree. It was just cruel, and the fact that this was their captain's beloved brother made it even worse. The Government didn't even have a good enough reason for doing so.

"Are you still breathing?" Garp asked, "...Ace?"

Ace looked up, his face set in a permanent scowl. "Gramps..."

S/N: That's all I can churn out now. It's mainly the same, as you can see, other than a few minor details and the ending of course, but there's not much change. Regardless, I hope you enjoyed this.

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-Serena