Okay guys, let me tell you what's going on with CRUSH right now. I'm having some difficulties that I frankly hadn't been expecting. Despite the fact that certain events are happening very differently…I just…kinda don't want to run through Krieg and Loguetown again right now. And yet I don't really feel that I can just skip them.. Or at least not the Krieg portion cuz Sanji, which is the part I'm at right now. I just feel like I'm glossing over things, and I really don't want to be the kind of writer who does that. It's a balancing act that I wasn't really expecting here, with how different I've made some of the events. Everything is coming out shorter than expected. In Supernova I finished East Blue in 126k. In Crush it's going to end up taking 30-40k at the most the way things are going. So I'm kind of struggling because half of me wants to add more detail and the other half is saying "fuck off mate."

So in the meantime!

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"What the hell?!" A Marine screamed out as the sky was blotted out, "Why did a battleship fall from the sky?!" The last bit of his screamed sentence was blotted out by the huge roaring of the waves. The ship impacted with a massive splash and the thunderous sounds of large pieces of wood cracking.

As the waves calmed and the dust cleared, Ace and Garp's eyes both bugged out in shock, "LUFFY?!" Garp held his head with his hands in panic while Ace looked on in shock and terror.

"DAMN IT GARP! It's your family again!" Sengoku roared in fury.

"Never a dull moment with you, huh Straw Hat?" Mihawk rolled his eyes as he took in the sight. Luffy, Buggy, Crocodile, Ivankov, Jinbei…more… all of them were standing there on the destroyed ship as if they owned the place.

"Luffy! Thank goodness you're safe!" Hancock swooned.

"That's a nice bunch you have with you." Aokiji deadpanned.

Kizaru pretended like he was excited, "Oh, I didn't think I'd be seeing you again so soon."

"So that's Ace's little brother huh?" Marco looked unimpressed.

Doflamingo had his standard shit-eating grin plastered over his face, "So the Seven Warlords of old and new are here. And how about the Legendary Fruitless Upstart himself!"

"IS THIS YOUR ANSWER, JINBE?!" Sengoku roared furiously at the Fishman.

"That's right! I resign from the Shichibukai!" Jinbei roared back. He would have no part of executing one of the best things to ever happen to the Fishmen people.

Crocodile took advantage of the distraction, "It's been a while, Whitebeard!" He grinned through his cigar. His arm was cocked back with his hook gleaming in the light as he used his sand to skate over Whitebeard. And then Luffy's foot caught him square in the chin and sent him crashing to the Moby Dick's deck. He growled, "I fulfilled my end of the bargain, Straw Hat!" He watched as the Busoshoku: Kōka faded from Luffy's skin.

Luffy glared at him, "This is Whitebeard huh? Ace likes this old man, so you won't be touching him."

Whitebeard himself deadpanned. It had been a while since he'd met a person so utterly unconcerned. The kid didn't even recognize him, "That hat." Whitebeard's voice was deep and rumbled, "It looks quite like the one that Red Haired brat used to wear."

"Eh?" Luffy turned, "You know Shanks? It's his hat. We made a promise over it. I'm to give it back to him some day."

Whitebeard turned back to the Marines, "So you came to save your brother huh? You have no idea what you're up against. You'll be killed for sure." He said, not quite carelessly, but it sure sounded that way.

Luffy snorted, "That's not for you to decide. I know what you're up to!" Whitebeard raised an eyebrow, "You're trying to become the Pirate King! But that's going to be me, not you! Got it?"

Everyone else stared slack jawed at the sheer audacity Luffy displayed. Whitebeard cracked a grin, "Cheeky little brat. You better stay out of the way, you little shit!"

"I'll do what I want! You stay out of my way!"

Whitebeard started to laugh, "Gurararara! Even for you, Mugiwara, this is a bit much. Ace won't shut up about you, you know. He was quite pissed off that your bounty rose higher than his did." Luffy cracked a grin despite the serious situation, "Then again, it's very rare for someone to get as far as you have with no Devil Fruit."

A light went off in Luffy's head, and his grin far outstripped Doflamingo's for a moment, "Hey, giant old man." Whitebeard turned his head, "Did you cause that huge earthquake earlier?"

Whitebeard raised an eyebrow again, "Ignorant little snot aren't you? Yeah, I did. I ate the Gura Gura no mi."

Luffy's grin grew even wider, and he hopped onto the giant man's shoulder and covered his mouth and Whitebeard's ear with his hand. "What…what's that little brat doing?" One of the Vice-Admirals muttered to himself. Why would a man such as Whitebeard allow a brat – even one as strong as Monkey D Luffy – onto his shoulder like that?

Suddenly, they watched as Whitebeard's eyes bugged out and he started to cackle, "GURARARARARARA!" They all sweatdropped as the gigantic man damn near doubled over from laughter. "Alright you cheeky little brat. You've got yourself a deal."

Luffy's grin widened and a brilliant red light started shining from his body before engulfing Whitebeard. The Whitebeard Pirates all began howling, "What the hell is he doing to pops?!"

"What?!" Sengoku's eyes widened in shock, "What is that?! GARP?!"

"I don't know!" The Marine Hero gasped, "I've never seen him do that!"

"What the hell are you doing to pops Luffy?!" Ace gasped.

Slowly, the light faded and crawled back to Luffy, before vanishing entirely. Luffy and Whitebeard were both grinning madly as Luffy hopped off his shoulder, "Shishishi."

"Luffy you little brat!" He heard his grandpa roar at him, "What the hell was that?!"

Luffy smirked at his grandpa in response. He couldn't wait to see the look on the old man's face, "Hey, you ready giant old man?"

"What are they going to do?" Sengoku felt a bead of sweat run down his face.

Luffy and Whitebeard both raised a fist after turning so their sides were to the giant wall blocking the path to the execution scaffolding. "What?!" Several people gasped, "NO!" Was the general sentiment of the Marines. It just couldn't be possible! Luffy and Whitebeard both grunted and slammed their fists into an invisible pane of glass floating in the air. Cracks started spreading from their fists outward in the sky, causing jaws to drop all over. Ace and Garp's faces were even funnier than Enel's face had been, "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" The terrified Marines screamed in panic as the largest earthquake yet rocked through Marineford. Even the three Admirals together weren't able to reinforce the wall this time, and it crumbled to pieces. The building at the heart of Marineford developed a giant crack on its face, with dust and chips of wood and glass raining downward. Both Garp and Sengoku had to reinforce the scaffolding with Busoshoku Haki to keep it from just flat out collapsing.

Finally, the dust settled, and there was nary an unsoiled Marine uniform in site. Practically every lower leveled Marine had shit themselves, and Sengoku was pale and sweating. Garp looked much like the snot-nosed brats he usually trained. "LUFFY!" he roared, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!"

Luffy started to cackle. "Bwahahaha! Your faces!" He was almost crying from his laughter, before he petered off. He let out a last chuckle as the brim of his hat shadowed his face, but the shit-eating grin was perfectly visible, "You can't imagine how many times I almost collapsed in laughter, every time you guys raised my bounty and called me the Fruitless Upstart." He raised his head, "I did eat a Devil Fruit! A long time ago." Garp's jaw was completely unhinged as he stared at Luffy as if he was seeing him for the first time, "It was…fucking useless!" he laughed and put his fists on his hips, "It gave me all the weaknesses, and only a single ability that I couldn't even use freely! It had restrictions on it." He cracked his knuckles once, "But that ability…when you finally activated it for the first and only time…" He switched hands, "Became magical."

The pirates behind him and Whitebeard started to cheer as Luffy continued, "Because as useless as the fruit was, it allows you to break that rule! The Mohō Mohō Fruit allows you to copy one other Devil Fruit, if the original user agrees to it!" He raised his fist, "I was a Mimic Man and now…" He cracked the sky again, "We're both Quake Men!" He yelled gleefully as the Island became to shake again, "SO YOU SIT TIGHT ACE! I'M COMING TO SAVE YOU! Shishishishi!"

"GURARARARARARA!" The laughter following that quake would haunt the dreams of the surviving Marines for years to come.

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Man, I just love the Gura Gura no mi. I've had at least three different ideas for possible stories with this fruit pop into my head.

You guys may be getting a couple more of these smaller snippets soon enough. I've had an idea floating around for the Pika Pika no mi, as well as a time-travel fic. But hopefully I'll be able to focus on the main stories now that I have this one out of my system.