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Jack sat in his uncle Tony's lab in Avengers Tower watching as the Iron Avenger tinkered with his latest project his parents also watched with worry written all over their faces.

"Tony are you sure this is a good idea?" asked Steve Rogers also known as Captain America and Jack's adoptive father. Steve was wearing military camouflage pants and a white buttoned up shirt.

"Steve I've never been more sure of anything in my life. Besides have I ever steered you wrong before?" Tony responded, he was wearing an AC/DC t-shirt, blue jeans and the light from the arc reactor was glowing.

"Yes several times or do we need to bring up Ultron again?" said Natasha Romanoff Jack's adoptive mother and Steve's wife. She was wearing her skin-tight black widow uniform.

"Or when you tried to make your own light sabre," Steve added.

"Don't forget the intelligent cloned chipmunk outbreak," Jack said.

"We promised never to talk about the chipmunks again!" Tony yelled, "I'm still finding acorns and tiny plans for world domination, but there's no chance of evil robots uncontrollable laser fire or very cruel and condescending woodland rodents this time," Tony reassured.

"All this is, is a simple transporter that I based off the one from Star Trek, it's linked to an exact copy in my L.A lab where Rhodes is waiting," as Tony said this a holographic screen appeared behind him showing Rhodes in another lab with a copy of the transporter.

"Hey guys like Tony said everything is completely safe and everything should go a smooth as silk," Rhodes said promoting a smug grin from Tony.

"Ok and why does it require you use my little svetlyak as a guinea pig?" Natasha asked very seriously

"Mom I'm not that little anymore, I'll be fine" Jack said as he walked over to his worried mother Natasha cupped her son's face in her hands.

"You'll always be little to me svetlyak, and I'm your mother it's my job to worry about you." She said.

Steve walked up to his wife and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder "You've got to let the boy make his own decisions honey. He's growing up becoming his own man," he said with a proud grin on his face.

Natasha sighed "I know, doesn't mean I have to like it" she said though the same grin also appeared on her face. Jack placed a small kiss on his mother's cheek before turning to his father

"Thanks dad" he said

"Go get them son" Steve said as he gave a playful jab to his son's chin

Jack smiled as he walked over to his uncle's transporter and stepped on the designated spot and nodded to his uncle.

"Beam me up Scotty." he joked with a smile.

"Enterprise to away team prepare for transportation," Tony pressed some buttons as he and the others watched as Jack slowly vanished into nothing, everything was going fine until.

KA-BOOOOOOM!

The teleporter and its copy exploded sending debris and fire everywhere, and causing everyone to duck and take cover.

"JACK!" Steve and Natasha screamed in unison.

"Rhodes talk to me!" Tony yelled, concerned for his friend and nephew

"I'm ok but Jack's not with me!" Rhodes responded through the video link.

"Tony" Natasha hissed with rage.

"Where's our son Tony?" Steve asked with the same tone of voice as Natasha.

"Ok ok just calm down. He probably materialized somewhere between here and L.A I'll just scan for his communicator and we'll go get him," Tony said and he scanned for Jack's signal while Natasha and Steve silently prayed while holding their breath. Tony stared in disbelief at the screen.

"This isn't possible; I can't pick up Jack's signal." Tony said in slight horror

"What do you mean you can't pick up his signal you idiot?!" Natasha asked, her anger and worry boiling over.

"JARVIS scan the earth for Jack's Avengers communicator," Tony ordered.

"At once sir," a British voice answered. A minute later the voice spoke again "Sir I have scanned the entire planets satellites, communication and radio waves, there is no trace of young master Jack's signal,"

"Tony where is my son?" Natasha asked again in the voice that she reserved for the most dangerous criminals.

Tony turned to face the two angry Avengers "I don't know the only possible explanation is that Jack's no longer on earth I have no idea where he is…Natasha what are you doing with that crowbar?...Steve why are you picking up that wrench?"

Grand Line, Going Merry

It was another usual day out on the Grand Line and on a certain pirate ship it was unusually quiet. This ship was normally rowdy and in good spirts, the Ship's name was the Going Merry and it belonged to the infamous Straw Hat Pirates. The crew itself was rather unique as it only had eight members, but those eight were not to be underestimated.

The Captain of this crew had a attention span of a child and was currently trying to draw whiskers on his sleeping first mate's face. He was just about to do the first mark when a bright light engulfed the ship and when it faded a thump was heard. He looked up and found that a person had landed in the center of the deck on his ship. Forgetting about the prank he was planning, he walked over to the unmoving person and was joined by his first mate and a blond man in a suit.

They stared at the unconscious man. He was tall six foot four at the least, he was wearing a black pea coat over a maroon shirt and silver tie along with black pants and heavy black boots, he had jet black hair that was bit shaggy but over all well kept, his skin was pale almost as if he was dead and had no color to it what so ever, his eyes were sunken in and he had several stress and worry lines in his forehead, he was clean shaven with a triangular shape chin and defined cheek bones.

"Where'd he come from?" The captain asked and began to slap the man lightly on the cheek.

Jack felt something hit the side of his face as he slowly opened his dark forest green eyes; he winced at the bright sun blinding him and the salty smell of the sea drifted under his nose. He could feel he was lying on something hard but didn't know what. There were three silhouettes above him, Jack lifted his hand to block out the sun and when his eyes readjusted he was surprised to see three people standing around him with confused looks on their faces.

The one on the left was a man with green hair and three swords strapped to his waist, on his right stood a blonde man in a nice suit smoking a cigarette and standing between them was a boy wearing a red vest and a straw hat. The straw hatted boy was the closest and leaning over him.

"Uggh where am I? What in the good Lord's name happened?" Jack asked.

"You're on my ship. Who are you and how'd you get here?" the boy who was around Jack's age asked.

"My name's Jack Claymore. I'm not sure how I got here but did you say ship? So does that mean you guys are the Navy or merchant sailors or something?" Jack asked as he looked up at the men from his prone position on what he guessed was the deck of the ship.

"Navy? Does he mean the Marines?" the blonde one asked "think he might be a bounty hunter?"

"If he is I say we toss him over board," the green haired one suggested.

"No we're pirates." the boy answered proudly.

"Oh pirates okay, that's good," Jack responded as he laid his head down and closed his eyes.

"PIRATES!" Jack screamed as his eyes shot open.

Jack suddenly changed into his Rider form, his skin and muscles melted away leaving a skeleton figure with a flaming skull. The three pirates had no time to react to the change because Jack raised his hands and blasted the blond and the green haired men with hellfire, causing them to fly over the railing of the ship and into the sea. Jack then grabbed the boy with the hat by the throat and lifted him up before he could react. Jack completely riderized and pinned him against the main sails mast. Oddly the boy showed no signs of fear or being strangled.

"I lost a lot of good friends to pirates when S.H.I.E.L.D was hunting them in Somalia! They're nothing but cutthroat butchers!" Jack yelled angrily "I hunted each one of them down, and made them suffer for their crimes,"

The boy was only now starting to realize that he was in trouble and began struggling against the skeletal grip.

"The ones who killed my friend's suffered the most and now just like them I'm going to make you suffer for your crimes" Jack leaned in closer "Now look into my eyes!"

The straw hatted boy stopped struggling and gazed into Jack's eye sockets, it was like he was being possessed or something. Jack looked into the pirate's' soul expecting to find the blood of hundreds if not thousands of innocent souls, but instead he found nothing; this supposed pirate's soul was untainted.

"...wait a minute that can't be right," Jack said and he changed back to his human form. He let go of the boy who dropped to the ground, "Your soul is pure, it has no trace of innocent blood. How is that possible?" Jack asked.

The boy tilted his head in confusion; he had no idea what this guy was talking about.

"I'm so sorr.." Jack started to apologize, but before he could finish his sentence something hit him on the back of the head and he slumped on the deck.

Behind him was a native looking boy, wearing cargo pants and an open white hooded Jacket, he was holding a shovel. With the assailant knocked out he ran to the side of the straw hat boy.

"Luffy are you ok?" the boy asked "Who is that?"

"That. Was. AWESOME!" the boy identified as Luffy shouted. "Connor did you see that?! He was on fire! And a skeleton! And super strong he almost broke my neck! We've got to get him to join our crew!"

The boy now known as Connor blinked and stared at the man lying unconscious on the deck. He had seen the whole thing and this man scared him.

"Luffy are you sure that's a good Idea?" Connor asked.

"Don't worry about it, it'll be fine," Luffy claimed.

While Luffy carried on the other two men dragged their soaking wet forms back over the railing of the ship; they walked over to Luffy and Connor. The blonde bent down to make sure that Jack would not be waking up anytime soon.

"What is this guy?" the green haired man asked.

"Zoro! Sanji! He's some sort of transforming flaming skeleton demon thing and he's super cool I'm going to make him our new crew member!" Luffy shouted excitedly at the two drenched men

Zoro and Sanji's faces fell, when Luffy got like this there was no stopping him.

"We're doomed," the two men said in unison.

Sanji picked up the limp body and went to go find Chopper; the ship's doctor. Chopper of course freaked out when he saw Sanji approach him with an unconscious stranger and had Sanji move him into the cabin and Chopper began his examination.

"So who knocked him out?" Zoro asked.

"Connor hit him on the head with a shovel," Luffy claimed.

"Nice," Zoro complemented as wringed out his shirt.

Jack slowly came back to the world of the living; the first thing he saw was a small fluffy creature with a blue nose and antlers standing over him.

"Gahhhh MONSTER!" Jack screamed and quickly sat up.

"GAHHHHHHHHHHH!" the creature screamed louder and ran to hide behind the desk but was hiding the wrong way.

"What the hell is that? Where am I?" Jack panicked he got a wave of pain from the back of his head "and why dose my head hurt?"

Jack then remembered, he was on a pirate ship. He had been planning to use his stare on one of them but it hadn't worked, then the world went black.

'The pirates must've captured me' Jack concluded, he reached for his head where the pain was coming from expecting blood; but felt soft bandages instead.

"Bandages?" he wondered "why would they treat the wounds of a prisoner?"

Jack looked around the room; he was in a bed, it appeared to be a cabin a desk and bookcase filled with books decorated the room. There was a photo of two children with an older woman on the bed side table. Jack also noticed that the creature looked like he was trying to hide behind the desk; his body was out in the open and only a tiny part of its face was actually hidden.

"Umm are you trying to hide?" Jack asked.

The creature shuddered in fear and moved his body behind the desk. Just then the door to the cabin opened and a red headed female teen walked in. She ignored the creature and marched straight up to Jack looking over him with a scowl.

Jack watched the woman carefully, if he needed to fight his way out he would; just because one pirate was innocent didn't mean that the others were.

"Listen up, I don't know who you are or what you are and quite frankly I don't care. But my captain is about to walk through that door," the woman said.

'Right I'm probably going to be interrogated and tortured,' Jack thought 'Joke's on them I'm already dead and can withstand pretty much any type of pain,' Plus his mum was the Black Widow and she taught him how to take control of any interrogation.

"So if you value your sanity you will say 'No' to everything he says," the teen warned.

Jack stared at her in surprise, say 'No' to an interrogation? That was new normally with interrogations they wanted people to talk. But this girl had just told him to say 'No' to everything like he wasn't going to resist already.

Just then Luffy walked in with the two men he'd blasted off the ship, they sent glares at him daring him to try anything. Now that he got a good look at the three he could see why the boy was innocent, the other two were much more imposing. If he had to take a guess at which the captain was, his money was on the guy with the three swords.

Luffy walked up to him, Jack noticed that the blonde and the swordsmen were leaning against the wall close to the straw hatted boy still watching him.

'Ah so this kid is going to be the good cop then,' Jack thought. If Jack was excepting an interrogation he was going to be disappointed.

"You said your name was Jack right?" the boy asked.

"Yes," Jack answered. He'd already given them his name so there really was no harm in confirming it.

"Awesome, join my crew" Luffy demanded.

"Umm…what?" Jack asked. Why had this boy asked him that? Did this kid say his crew?

Jack looked over to the two men and the female; they were all making gestures with their hands, arms and shaking their heads trying to tell him to say No.

"Join my crew," Luffy repeated enthusiastically.

Jack looked back over at the others and they were still making No gestures. Luffy turned his head and they stopped before he noticed what they were doing. Jack hadn't miss heard this kid had said his crew; Jack's eyes went from the straw hatted boy to the swordsmen.

"Shouldn't the guy with the swords be the one to offer that?" Jack asked he really hoped it wasn't the wrong thing to say "I mean a captain decides on who's crew and who's not right?"

"Of course, but Zoro's not the captain," Luffy said and Jack's attention shifted to the blond man.

"I'm the Captain," Luffy claimed.

'What? No way. There is no way that this kid was the captain of a pirate ship; his soul was too pure, so how could he be the captain?' Jack looked at the other three pirates and they nodded in confirmation.

"Why would you think Zoro's the captain?" Luffy asked.

"Ah well he…umm…just seems more captain like…I guess," Jack stuttered out, now he'd done it. He had not only insulted the Captain but also the man who decided his fate.

The man named Zoro smirked at his answer; clearly he took it as complement.

"If we followed him we'd have never left the East Blue," the blonde said.

"That might have been a good thing and then I never would have met the worst chief in the world," Zoro shot back.

"Well at least I don't get lost on a straight path,"

"Yeah well at least I know how to fight like a man,"

"WHAT WAS THAT? MY KITCHEN KNIVES ARE SHARPER THAN THOSE SORRY EXCUISE FOR SWORDS,"

"THAT'S IT YOU ARE SO DEAD!"

"BRNIG IT ON MOSS-HEAD,"

Jack watched as the two men turn on each other, he knew of various ways to get people to turn on each other and had been planning on using them. But these two had turned on each other in a manner of seconds and he hadn't said anything.

Luffy was laughing at them and the female sighed she walked up to them and punched them both hard on the head. Both men were sent flying and crashed on the floor stopping inches from the bed; two very large bumps appeared on the men's heads.

"If you two idiots can't behave then get out," she threatened.

The two men got up and went to stand on the opposite side of the room, Jack heard the swordsmen mutter something about her being a witch. She then turned her attention to Jack.

"Now look here, we don't have all day just give our moronic captain an answer about joining, so we can be on our way,"

"N...No," Jack said hesitantly, he had no desire to anger this woman; she reminded him too much of his mother.

"Awesome Sanji meat for our newest member," Luffy demanded happily "and some for me too,"

"HE SAID NO YOU IDIOT!" Zoro, Sanji and the red headed girl yelled together in anger.

"I know but today is opposite day," Luffy claimed "so No means Yes,"

Jack tilted his head, was this guy serious? Who actually believed in that?

"WHO TOLD YOU THAT?" they yelled together again.

"Usopp did, he also said that the reason his skull turned into fire was because he's possessed by the spirt of vengeance," Luffy said "and if you look him directly in the eye he'll send your soul to hell,"

Jack's jaw hit the floor, how had this Usopp known that? Was this Usopp a Rider too? Although the last part was technically incorrect, what Luffy had just said was pretty much spot on.

"That idiot, why the hell did he have to go and say that," Zoro muttered and headed for the door.

"Oi where are you going," the girl asked.

"To teach Usopp to keep his lies to himself," Zoro answered and left.

"Hold on, I'll help," she said and followed the swordsman onto the deck.

A loud crash was heard followed by a loud scream "SANJI, ROBIN, CONNNNERRRR SAVE ME!"

"KID DON"T YOU DARE TRY TO HELP HIM!" Zoro's voice was heard.

"YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN," the blonde yelled out the door.

Jack could not help but sigh apparently these pirates were worse than his uncle and his dad on a good day.

Avengers Tower, New York

Bruce walked down the hall of the Avengers Tower; he was heading for the medical wing to see Tony. When Bruce had heard that Tony was in the medical wing again, he thought it was a lab experiment gone wrong again. However Clint said otherwise, apparently Natasha and Steve had been the ones to put him there.

Bruce thought that he'd been joking so he'd asked JARVIS and the AI had confirmed it, even showed him the video. So here he was going to see his friend and try to figure out what he'd done to push a super soldier and the best assassin in the world over the edge.

"Brucie, did you come to cheer me up," Tony greeted his friend as Bruce walked in.

Bruce pulled up a chair and stared at the man lying in a hospital bed.

"What did you do?" he asked.

"Excuse me?" Tony replied.

"Clint said that Cap and Nat put you in here and JARVIS confirmed it. So I'll ask again what did you do?"

"JARVIS showed you the video?"

"He e-mailed it to me,"

"Traitorous AI now we just need to wait for Skynet to take over," Tony joked.

"Tony," Bruce warned.

"All right I may have killed Jack,"

"You did what?" Bruce asked in surprise, he could feel the Hulk stir in the back of his mind.

"I was testing out a teleporter, and Jack was the guinea pig. Everything was fine until it blew up,"

"It blew up? Didn't you test it before using Jack?"

"Of course I did," Tony said slightly offended that Bruce would suggest that "I sent all kinds of things through it. Furniture, fruit, clothes, lab mice, one of my Iron man suits and all came out no worse for wear. So the next step was human testing but…"

"But it went wrong and now Jack's dead," Bruce sighed, no wonder Cap and Nat had double teamed him.

"I doubt it, technically he's already dead and you can't kill someone twice. Also there was a failsafe programed into the teleporter, if something went wrong during transit he should have rematerialized somewhere along the way,"

"Re-materialized? Just what kind of teleporter where you designing?"

"The one from Star-Trek of course,"

"Dear lord, where did you send him?"

"Originally he was supposed to reappear in my lab at L.A; Roddy was waiting for him,"

"He didn't make it did he,"

"Nope and I had JARVIS scan the planet for his commutator and he couldn't find it,"

"Can you bring him back?" Bruce asked.

"Not without knowing exactly where he is and if JARVIS can't find his communicator I doubt he's on Earth anymore. Might not even be in our corner of the universe," Tony finished.

"Okay, I'll contact Thor and see if he landed in one of the other eight realms after I let the big guy out in the play room,"

The play room was the nick name for the Hulk proof room that Tony had designed for Bruce. When Jack was still learning to control his powers he had changed the name to sound more friendly.

"You're going to let Jolly Green out? Who are you and what have you done with Bruce?" Tony joked.

"Tony it's taking all of my will power to keep him from smashing you," Bruce said and quickly left.

"Have fun," Tony called out "JARVIS,"

"Yes sir?" the AI answered.

"Scrap the plans to build a working TARDIS and contact Doctor Strange, ask him if he can find Jack's rider energy or something,"

"Of course sir"

Tony leaned back in the bed and closed his eyes 'Jack you had better be alive and safe,' he prayed.

Going Merry, Grand Line

Jack couldn't believe the mess he'd gotten himself into this time. It seemed like such a good idea, testing a Star-Trek teleporter but now he was a prisoner on a pirate ship.

'This'll teach me not to help out Uncle Tony with ANYTHING ever again' Jack thought to himself.

He looked past Luffy and noticed the blonde whom he assumed was the one named Sanji was desperately trying to light his cigarette to no avail. Jack figured that his lighter was soaked form the swim earlier.

"Need a light?" Jack asked and Sanji eyed him suspiciously.

"It's the least I could do since I'm the one who got your lighter wet" Jack said although he just wanted to see how these two would react.

Sanji saw Luffy eyeing him and gave a slight nod; Sanji shrugged his shoulders and walked over to the edge of the bed holding out his cigarette for Jack to light. Jack snapped his fingers and a blue flame appeared around his thumb. Sanji raised an eyebrow but said nothing; he took a few puffs from the cig to get it going before walking back to lean against the door frame.

"Thanks" he said.

"Don't mention it" Jack responded before putting out the flame he was about to say something when he noticed the small critter still trying to hide behind the desk. Jack locked eyes with the creature and it darted from his spot behind the desk to behind the cook.

"What's the deal with the plush toy?" Jack asked as he motioned towards the creature.

"That's Chopper he's our doctor" Sanji answered.

Jack raised an eyebrow at that. He had seen many strange things during his time as a Rider but a small deer like plush toy as a doctor was new to him. He watched as the frightened animal trade his spot behind the desk for hiding behind the cook. And the name Doctor Chopper sounded like a B grade horror villain.

"Your doctor's a plush raccoon named Chopper?" Jack asked with a raise eyebrow.

"I'm a Reindeer," Chopper cried out and shifted into his human form.

"Whoa, talk about a hairy Hulk," Jack yelped in surprise.

Sanji didn't react to the change and neither did Luffy so Jack assumed that they knew about this ability. This crew just kept getting stranger and stranger.

"Chopper don't do that so close to me," Sanji warned.

"What's a Hulk? Dose it taste good?" Luffy asked.

"Taste...what? No The Hulk is a friend of mine, he's a big green guy that looks similar to him," Jack said and pointed at Chopper "just less hairy and more angry ...why are you looking at me like that,"

Luffy had stars in his eyes and it was making Jack uncomfortable. Jack looked at Sanji for help but the blond man sighed and shook his head.

"Luffy if you've got this I'm going to start preparing lunch," Sanji said, he didn't believe Jack to be a threat to Luffy or Chopper. Jack also hadn't done anything to warrant suspicion; Sanji had full confidence that if their guest did try something then Luffy would handle it.

"Okay, I want meat," Luffy restated.

"I know I know," Sanji turned his attention to Jack "You allergic to anything?"

"No... well slight allergy to peanuts," Jack admitted.

"No nuts got it," Sanji said and left the room.

Now Jack was alone with Chopper and Luffy he was not sure what was going to happen. These were pirates terror of the seas and yet the captain didn't have a drop of innocent blood on his soul. How was that possible, no one was ever pure, the only ones that were are children below the age of three. Sure people could be redeemed but he should still be able to see their sins and the path to redemption taken.

"Hey are you really pirates?" Jack asked, he needed to confirm that it was the truth. These people weren't the bloodthirsty cutthroats that he was expecting.

"Yup we sure are. Want to see my wanted poster?" Luffy responded.

"Sure why not," Jack answered and Luffy went over to the desk, he dug into one of the drawers.

'Of course he had a wanted poster, probably some homemade thing...likely drawn with crayons,' Jack thought. Given Luffy's intelligence and personality it wasn't that impossible.

"Here we go, and I grabbed Zoro's as well," Luffy handed the two pieces of paper to Jack.

Jack's jaw dropped when he saw the posters. The green haired man he'd blasted was worth 60,000,000 and the boy in front of him was worth 100,000,000. He compared the picture to the boy in front of him; they were a match.

Jack read the list of crimes under Luffy's picture 'Wanted for: Piracy, Numerous counts of Assault on an Officer, Numerous counts of Destruction of public property, Numerous counts of Destruction of Government Property, Numerous counts of Destruction of Official Navy Vassals, Theft, Three counts of kidnapping, Attempted takeover of a kingdom, Accessory to Attempted Assassination of a Royal Family, Assault on a Shichibukai.

Jack stared at Luffy, how someone who had done so much and be worth so much not have any blood on his hands. He switched to Zoro's poster and read his crimes.

Wanted for: Piracy, Numerous counts of Assault on an Officer, Accessory to Numerous counts of Destruction of public property, Accessory to Numerous counts of Destruction of Government Property, Numerous counts of Destruction of Official Navy Vassals, Accessory to Theft, Accessory to Three counts of kidnapping, Accessory to Attempted takeover of a kingdom, Accessory to Attempted Assassination of a Royal Family, Accessory to Assault on a Shichibukai.

"Wha...how...wha...?"

"Hey you okay?" Luffy asked.

But Jack was too focused on the posters there was only one thing going through his mind 'What the f***?'

He rubbed his temples as he tried to think this situation through. 'What the hell is going on, I know about every wanted criminal on the planet super powered or otherwise it's my job as a Rider and Avenger to know, but I've never heard of these guys and what type of money is a berry? Who pays someone with fruit?'

Jack suddenly got an idea and reached into his pocket and felt his phone Why hadn't they taken it? He pulled it out. 'Okay calm down, I'll just call home and have them pick me up,' he thought to himself but his eyes widened as he looked at the screen.

'No signal! How is that possible this is a Avenger grade communicator I could be on freaking Pluto and still get a signal clearer than crystal! But if I'm not getting a signal then that means...' Jack suddenly became very pale as the realization hit him.

He wasn't on Earth; at least not the one he knew.

"Hey Jack you ok you look a little clammy?" Luffy asked.

"Uhmm yeah..yeah I'm fine just got a bit of a shock is all." the Rider responded, it was a lie of course. But being on another planet, captured by pirates and with no way to contact home; it was just too much to think about.

'Hang on Luffy said something about someone mentioning Ghost Riders. That means that they might be here, they could help me,' Jack thought.

"Hey Luffy what did your friend Usopp say about spirits of vengeance?" Jack asked.

"Usopp said that they're the most powerful beings to walk the earth, that they're the outcome of what happens when someone sells their soul to the Devil in order to save someone they love," Luffy answered.

'Ok so far so true' Jack thought.

"He also said that if you ever commit a heinous act of unspeakable evil they will hunt you down and force you to look into their eyes which will send you to hell." Luffy continued.

'A common misconception but nothing that can't be cleared up' Jack pondered.

"He also said that they're referred to as Ghost Riders, and that he was able to beat up three of them at the same time with one hand tied behind his back!" Luffy said excitedly.

"What?" Jack asked with clear annoyance on his face.

"Yeah he said that he was able to beat them by using a magic tennis racket which was strong enough to knock their skulls off and that he used them as bowling balls!" Luffy finished.

"You know Luffy I would sure like to meet the guy who beat up three ghost riders." Jack said with a sickly sweet smile. "You think you could introduce me,"

"Sure he was on deck earlier, let's go," Luffy agreed.

"What? Just like that? No had cuffs or tying me up or something?" Jack asked, his grin had turned into surprise.

Luffy stared at Jack in confusion "Why would we do that?"

"Um because I attacked you and those other two guys,"

"So?"

"So I'm a threat and your prisoner; shouldn't I be treated as such?"

Luffy put on a big grin and giggled "You're weird you know that? Now are you coming or not,"

Jack was starting to realize what the red headed teen meant by losing his sanity.

"Luffy he can't leave this room," Chopper suddenly spoke up and switched back to his hybrid form.

'Finally someone sane...wait I'm talking about a living size changing plush toy' Jack thought.

"Why not?" Luffy whined.

"Because head injuries are serious he needs to rest and I'm pretty sure Connor gave him a slight concussion," Chopper explained.

"But it's boring down here" Luffy complained.

"Too bad he stays here until I say otherwise,"

"But Chopper..."

"I'm the ship's doctor, when it comes to the health of anyone on broad this ship I have final say,"

'Whoa way to go tiny' Jack thought, he was starting to respect the walking fuzz ball.

"Okay, got it," Luffy said with his trade mark grin.

"Really? You won't try and sneak him out, like you did with Connor when he broke his arm?"

"Nope, he stays here in this room until you say otherwise,"

"Good I'm glad you understand, now I'm going to get some herbs to make some medicine make sure he stays in bed," Chopper said and left to grab the herbs.

Luffy turned to Jack and smiled, there was a mischievous glint in his eye.

When Chopper came back he was expecting Jack and Luffy to be gone, what he wasn't expecting was to find Jack tied up with rope and Luffy standing over him. Choppers jaw dropped and he ran over to Jack and Luffy.

"WHAT THE HELL LUFFY? WHY IS HE TIED UP?" Chopper shrieked.

"Jack told me to do it,"

Chopper looked at Jack for confirmation. "It's true I did," Jack confirmed.

"Why?" Chopper moaned.

"He told me that a concussion happens when his brain didn't have enough blood." Luffy explained "He said if I tied him up the blood wouldn't go into his limbs and will flow into his brain quicker so he'd heal faster,"

"It doesn't work like that," Chopper yelled and turned his attention to Jack "why would you tell him that,"

"To be honest I wanted to see how gullible he was," Jack said "magic tennis racket my ass,"

Just then an older woman with long black hair walked in, she took one look at the scene and smiled. Jack narrowed his eyes at the woman; she was guilty. Jack didn't know what she had done and he didn't care but this woman was not going to get away from him.

"Luffy, Sanji says lunch is ready," the woman said.

"Really thanks Robin," Luffy said and dashed out of the room.

Chopper sighed and began uniting Jack. Jack could have gotten out himself but decided against it, he followed the woman called Robin with his eyes never taking them off her.

"Chopper would you like me to bring yours and your patients' food in here?"

"Yeah that'd be great, thanks Robin," Chopper agreed. Robin gave a smile to Jack before she left.

"Who was that?" Jack asked, trying to keep his voice neutral.

"That was Robin, she's an archaeologist," Chopper said.

An archaeologist on a pirate crew now he'd seen everything "Who hit me exactly?"

"Connor did, but you were attacking Luffy so please don't be mad at him,"

"I think he hit me a little too hard, everyone here seems crazy,"

"Actually this is one of our quieter days," Chopper claimed.

"You're joking right?"

Chopper shook his head "I wish I was,"

Jack couldn't help but smile "Just like home then" Jack said out loud.

"How's that?" Chopper asked, as he continued to untie Jack.

"Well let's just say my family is a bit unorthodox." Jack said.

"What's your family like Jack?" Chopper asked hoping to gain some insight on their unusual guest.

"Well it's big. There's me and my two little brothers Geoff and Nate, then there's my Mom and my dad, they actually adopted my brothers and I when I was six." Jack said.

"What happened to your birth parents?" Chopper asked but quickly regretted it when he saw the despair that showed on Jack's face.

"I'm sorry Jack if you don't want to talk about it that's fine!" Chopper said hurriedly.

"No, no it's ok Chopper I don't mind, they were killed; murdered by a power hungry mad man. You see my father was an agent for this government organization called S.H.I.E.L.D he was working undercover to bring said mad man to justice, but his cover got blown and the man came to our house and killed my father and mother, he would of killed me and my brothers but our parents hid us in a safe room so he couldn't find us. But I saw everything he shot my mother in the head and then beat my father to death with his bare hands, afterwards him and his goons left he set my home ablaze. Thankfully I was able to get my brothers out before it was too late, and for a while we lived in the streets till we were adopted. But I made a vow that day to protect my brothers no matter what and eventually find the man who killed our parents."

Before Jack could continue Chopper jumped on his head sobbing as tears and snot ran like rivers from his nose and eyes.

"Oh Jack I'm so sorry! That's one of the saddest thing I've ever heard!" Chopper wailed as Jack pried him off his face and took out a handkerchief to wipe the fuzz ball's eyes and blow his nose.

"Hey there it's ok fuzzy wuzzy. I think it was sort of a blessing in disguise I still miss them but now I have a new family that I love just as much" Jack said as he slightly chuckle at the plush toy's antics.

"O-ok *sniff* I-is there anyone else?" Chopper asked.

"Yep there's my uncle Tony and auntie Pepper the prior is the reason I'm here, and then my silly uncle Thor and uncle Clint and finally my uncle Bruce. That's pretty much the immediate family but I have loads more of other people I consider family, but the ones I mentioned are the ones who helped my mom and dad raise my brothers and I and turned me into who I am today." Jack said as he stretched out his arms to get the circulation going after being tied up.

"You mean they turned you into a flaming skeleton!" Chopper asked excitedly.

"Ha no no. I mean they taught me right from wrong, to stand up for what I believed in and to fight for those who can't defend themselves against those that mean them harm. They taught me how to be a good man." Jack said.

"You make them sound like superheroes," Chopper said with stars in his eyes.

"They are Chopper in more ways than one" said Jack as a proud smile spread across his face.

"But Jack how did you become a...ah...what'd Usopp call it?" Chopper asked.

"You mean a Ghost Rider?" asked Jack

"Yeah that."

"Well Chopper after my birth parents murder my brothers and I ran into the city where we lived on the streets, we were too scared to go to the police or anywhere for that matter. So in order to survive I would collect bottles and cans and trade them in at recycling plants for money or I'd do odd jobs here and there and sometimes I'd down right beg for spare change. But sometimes it would get bad and I needed the money quick so I would hang out around bars and pubs and wait for the drunks to come stumbling out and pass out on the sidewalk, after I was sure they were unconscious or so drunk they wouldn't notice if they got hit by an elephant I would go up to them and take any money they had on them, I'm not proud of that but I never took more than I needed and I'd do anything for my brothers," Jack said.

"Everything was going fine, or at least as good as it could be considering the situation, but after about two months on the street Geoff and Nate got sick and I mean deathly sick they were pale and covered in sores and were hotter than fire I thought they were going to die and that's when he appeared,"

"Who?" Chopper asked.

"The Devil, he told me he could save them and keep them safe in exchange for my soul, I agreed and signed the contract with my own blood, the next morning my brothers were healthy as ever and knowing I couldn't take care of them anymore I dropped them off somewhere they could be safe and happy, and that night was the first time I became the Rider." Jack said in a sad voice as he finished his tale.

Chopper looked like he was about to cry again before Jack patted him on the head to calm him down.

"That's a great story" said a voice coming from the doorway Jack looked to see a young boy with dark hair and dark skin. "Hi I'm Connor. I'm the one that hit you with a shovel." Connor introduced himself cheerfully.

Somewhere in the USA, The Bunker

A young man was in the kitchen making a cup of coffee. He was rather tall 6'6 at least his hair was brown and shaggy reaching to his shoulders he wore a plaid shirt and jeans.

He sat down at the table and turned on his laptop, suddenly his phone rang. The man checked the number and smiled; he answered it.

"Hey Jack what's up?" he asked.

"Hello Mr. Winchester," JAVIS spoke.

"JARVIS? Sorry I thought you were Jack,"

"Quite alright, I'm afraid I have some bad news. Young Master Jack is missing,"

"Whoa what? What happened?"

"He was assisting Master Stark in an experiment and it exploded,"

"Exploded? What was Tony building this time?"

"A teleporter, I have been instructed by Master Stark to ask for your assistance in finding him,"

"Yes of course, what do you need?"

"Master stark would like you to ask your friend Mister Castiel if Jack has been admitted into heaven,"

"Heaven why there?"

"Young Master Jack is currently not on earth. The Avengers are calling in all their allies to help with the search,"

"Oh okay I'll send Cas a message, keep us updated," the man requested and hung up.

The man sat back and ran his hand through his hair, just then another man waked into the kitchen. The man was shorter but still tall, he had sandy colored spikey hair and green eyes he wore a leather jacket over a plaid shirt that was still another layer over a Metallica band shirt along with a pair of well worn jeans.

"Who was on the phone Sammy?" he asked.

"JARVIS, Dean Jacks missing," Sam said regretfully.

The other mans eyes widened.

"Tell me everything," he ordered.

Grand Line, Going Merry

Jack stared at the boy in the door, he was younger than him, in fact he was about the same age as his youngest brother. He noticed that Connor had a short sword attached to his belt. 'This is the guy who hit me? He's just a kid, what would a kid be doing on a pirate ship?' Jack wondered.

He then remembered the wanted posters and the one crime that had stood out to him 'Three counts of Kidnapping' Jack realized. He had no idea how this kid got on a pirate ship, though he had a pretty good idea, but if this was one what happened to the other two? Perhaps Luffy wasn't as pure as he thought.

Connor was carrying a tray of food, two plates of steaming hot food and two glasses of water. He walked over and placed the tray on the desk. Jack watched him, he could sense the boys' soul and there was something off about it, he couldn't describe it. Every soul was unique but none of them ever felt off like this kids did; it was like there was some dark power attached to it but it wasn't corrupting the soul, the power was just there.

"Connor did Robin make you bring that?" Chopper asked.

"Nah I offered, I also wanted to apologies for hitting this guy with a shovel...Sorry about that," Connor said sincerely.

"That's okay to be fair I was the one attacking, you're not at fault. My name's Jack," Jack said accepting the apology.

"So Luffy told me you joined the crew...is that true?"

"Actually I said no to that offer, Luffy thought it was opposite day,"

"Opposite day? What's that?" Connor asked.

"You're kidding...you are joking right?"

"About what?"

"You don't know? Well basically it's a day where Yes means No and No means Yes. Kids use it to get out of trouble and get stuff from their parents," Jack explained.

"That sounds confusing," Connor commented "So that means you're don't have…I mean you're not a member, you declined right?"

"It dose and I did, can I ask how you ended up on a pirate ship?" Jack asked looking for any type of reaction.

Connors friendly demeanor faded and was replaced with a nervous one, Jack had seen the change; he recognized it for what it was fear.

"Luffy brought me aboard," Connor answered nervously.

"Did he now," Jack narrowed his eyes "What else has he done?"

Connor nodded and took a step back but didn't answer the question. This confirmed Jack's suspicion; Chopper noticed the change and intervened before Jack could ask any more questions.

"Connor thanks for the food I'll make sure Jack eats it. You should get back to the kitchen" Chopper said "if you don't hurry Luffy will eat your share,"

"Right the one on the left is his, nice to meet you Jack," Connor said and dashed out the door.

Chopper gave Jack his plate, Jack eyed the food suspiciously and looked out at the door.

"Sorry about him, he's a bit shy," Chopper said.

"Yeah I'll bet he is," Jack claimed, yup that was defiantly one count of kidnapping. Back Home Jack had made it his business to look into any and all child related crimes, whether it be abuse, kidnapping or simple runaways; he couldn't save them all but he sure as hell tried.

He took a mouthful of food. It was delicious; Jack could not remember eating anything this good in his life and his uncle Clint was an amazing cook. But even his cooking did not compare to what he was eating now.

"Wow, this is really good," Jack complimented.

"Yup Sanji's the best cook on the sea," Chopper claimed.

They ate there lunch in silence Jack was savoring every mouthful. When he was done Chopper gave him some medicine to take, Jack took it without complaints and the moment he did his head felt a lot better.

"Whoa that's some fast acting medicine, did you make that?" Jack asked Chopper.

"Yup, I'm the ships doctor so I make all the medicine on board,"

"I'm impressed; you've got to be the best doctor in the world,"

Chopper started swaying happily and clapped his hooves together "Shut Up, Just because you praise me doesn't mean I'm happy...Bastard,"

Jack stared at the reindeer, "you sure look happy," he commented.

Up in the Merry's kitchen the straw hats were eating lunch, well devouring it was more appropriate. They were shoveling food into their mouths like it was their last meal; if they didn't eat quickly then Luffy would eat their share. Connor had gone to deliver a tray of food to Chopper and their guest, when he came back he sat at the table with the others, he was quite nervous.

"Connor are you okay?" Usopp asked when the boy sat down.

"Yeah, Jack just freaked me out," Connor answered as Sanji put a plate of food in front of him.

"What'd he do?" Zoro asked concerned.

"Nothing, I just got this weird feeling and…"

"And?" Robin leaned in closer.

"Well I think he might think that I'm here against my will,"

"That's not true…at least not anymore," the red haired girl said "Why would he think that?"

"He asked how I got on a pirate ship and after I told him that Luffy brought me aboard he asked what else Luffy had done. His tone seemed dangerous and it kind of scared me," Connor admitted.

"Well he's not the first person to think that Luffy kidnapped you, what's different this time?" Sanji asked.

"The way he looked at me. It looked like he was looking for any signs of abuse or injury and it felt like he could see into my soul,"

"Have you used your second sight on him?"

Connor shook his head "No I haven't had the chance, I'm kind of relived that he's not part of our crew,"

"WHATTT?!" Luffy yelled out, it was only now that the Straw Hats noticed that their plates were empty.

"LUFFY YOU RUBBER BASTARD, YOU ATE ALL OF OUR LUNCH AGAIN!" Everyone but Robin yelled.

"JACK IS MY NEW NAKAMA, HE SAID NO ON OPPISATE DAY AFTER ALL!" Luffy yelled out, spitting crumbs of food.

"Luffy opposite day isn't a real thing," Usopp sighed as Sanji brought out the next course.

"Even if it was my brand doesn't register him as one of you, he asked me a question and when I didn't answer I felt no pain. So until he says yes Jack has no control over me," Connor explained.

"Then I'll make him say yes," Luffy declared "I mean I've made other people my Nakama when they had no desire to be pirates,"

"We know," Nami, Zoro and Sanji moaned.

"Oh Usopp Jack said he wanted to talk to you. You should meet him after lunch," Luffy suggested.

"Sure why not," Usopp agreed.

After Jack had finished eating he had taken Chopper's advice and tried to have a rest, but he couldn't sleep. He was lying on the bed staring at the celling, his thoughtts were on his family. He looked over at Chopper who was grinding herbs for medicine, the little Doctor had not left his side and had no intention on doing so.

'How am I going to escape?' Jack thought 'Is there even anywhere to go?'

Suddenly the door opened and Robin came back down; she pulled the chair out and sat down to watch Jack. Jack was a little confused as to what the woman wanted but got his answer when Luffy came back in, a man with a long nose followed him.

"Hey Jack, this is Usopp. Usopp this is Jack, you know the Ghost Rider," Luffy introduced.

Jack noticed that Zoro, Sanji and the red headed teen we're at the door watching him, Connor's head could be seen poking out from behind Zoro. Usopp's face fell when Luffy said Ghost Rider.

"Hi Usopp I'm Jack," Jack introduced sitting up "Luffy tells me you fought a Ghost Rider? I'd love to hear about it,"

Usopp's knees shook like a tin roof in a hurricane. Jack smirked 'this is going to be fun,'

"W-well you see Mr. Ghost Rider sir, I don't think beat up were the exact words I used" Usopp said his voice faltering with every word.

"No Usopp what you actually said was there were three of them and that you beat them up with a magic tennis racket and used their skulls as bowling balls until they cried like little girls." Luffy corrected his sharpshooter.

"Is that so?" Jack said as the smile on his face grew into a terrifying Cheshire cat like grin, he could see the others trying to hold in their laughter.

"LUFFY!" Usopp screamed in terror.

"Tell me Usopp, when you faced these Riders did their voices grow deep and gravely and sounded like they were filled with the souls of the damned?" Jack asked as his voice did exactly that, as he got out of bed and walked towards the young man who was now frozen in fear.

"And did their eyes burn like evil souls that were stuck in the eternal lake of fire?" Jack asked as his eyes set ablaze in his skull.

"And as they got closer did their skin begin to burn away into white ash and flake off their body like ash in a camp fire?" Jack asked as his skin burned away leaving nothing but bleach white bones and burning flames.

"And did chains of fire and metal slither out from their sleeves and move around you like snakes coiled and ready to strike at a small insignificant mouse?" Jack asked as living chains crawled from his sleeves and hovered in front of Usopp swaying side to side like serpents in a field.

"And when they finally stopped in front of you like I am now did you feel deep down inside your heart that death had finally come and the being before you was going to drag you down to hell for the many many lies that you have told to countless people?" Jack asked as he came nose to nose with Usopp.

Usopp had become white as a sheet. He had never felt such fear in all his life before him stood the incarnation of death and fire, this was it he was going to die and no lie could save him from his inevitable end.

"Mommy," Usopp squeaked out.

"I have only one thing to say to you Usopp." Jack said as he leaned in close to Usopp's ear.

"Boo"

Faster than any of the other crew could blink Usopp ran out of the room like a bat out of hell, leaving a trail of dust behind him and a fowl smelling puddle where he used to stand. Jack chuckled as he called back his chains and reverted to human form.

"Man I love doing that to people" Jack laughed as he turned to see the crew starring at him with wide eyes.

"What?"

Jack looked at the crew each sporting pretty much the same expression shock and fear on their face the exception of course being Luffy who was grinning like a kid on Christmas and Chopper who currently had a death grip around Zoro's head shaking like a leaf. Connor was hiding his face in Zoro's trousers, he was shaking too though not as much as Chopper. Robin sat in her seat with an indifferent expression, she appeared calm but in fact she was just as frightened as the rest.

"Kid...what the hell are you?" Zoro asked in shock.

"He's awesome! That's what he is!" Luffy said as jumped in front of Jack and start to ramble off the various questions in his head.

"That Was so cool! Where did you learn how to do that? Who taught you? Can you teach me? Does it hurt? Can you do it again?" he asked almost faster than Jack could follow.

This was not what Jack had expected, okay he expected the pirates to be scared and for Usopp to run away screaming but Luffy's reaction was just weird. Did nothing faze this boy?

"I didn't really learn how to do it, it just comes naturally, my mentors Carter Slade and Johnny Blaze taught me how to control my powers but my parents taught me how to effectively scare people to death. No I can't teach you and yeah it hurt for the first year of being a Rider but not anymore," Jack answered.

"Awww," Luffy moaned and looked rather disappointed at not being able to copy Jack's powers.

"Oh well better find Usopp," he said, quickly getting over it.

He walked out the door past his crew to go see where Usopp ran to. The other members followed suit giving Jack weary looks as they walked out, except Chopper and Connor who were both still firmly attached to Zoro's head and pants. Zoro was trying to get them both off him.

'This could be it, my chance,' Jack thought and followed Luffy out. However just as he was approaching the door a white sheathed katana blocked his way. Jack looked at Zoro, the swordsman was still trying to pry his two scared shipmates off him; Zoro glared at him.

"Umm…just want some air…" Jack said sheepishly.

"Don't try anything," Zoro warned and lowed his arm and walked out of the room.

Jack was about to follow when the redheaded girl bumped into him on his way out.

"Oops sorry." she apologized before following the crew.

"Ha smooth" Jack said to himself as he followed them out on deck.

As soon as he was on deck any hopes of escape disappeared, Jack found not only was the ship he was on was a sailing ship but it was currently in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight. The strangest sight was the skull and cross bones wearing a straw hat painted on the sail and the black flag.

'That's why he let me out,' Jack thought 'If I had my ride I could easily cross the sea but without it…there's no escape,'

He looked over to Luffy who was yelling up at the crow's nest, Usopp was holed up in the crow's nest breathing heavily and shivering the entire main sail was shaking with his fearful fidgeting. Jack wondered how he was doing that.

"Usopp get down!" Luffy ordered.

"Are you out of your freaking mind!? He'll send me to hell!" he yelled down not even bothering to poke his head over the side of the nest.

"I don't send people to hell Usopp! That's an urban myth!" Jack yelled back up. If he was stuck on this ship he may as well try not to anger the crew.

The Straw Hats looked at him with disbelief.

"Y-you d-don't?"

"No I burn their souls and cause them to live out the rest of their lives in excruciating pain and agony until the day they die" Jack clarified.

"GGGGGAAAAAAAHHHHHHH THAT'S EVEN WORSE IT'LL BE A LIVING HELL PLEASE JUST KILL ME!"

"Usopp I'm not going to do that to you, I promise" Jack pleaded.

"But I'm a no good stinking liar!" Usopp yelled "Isn't lying a sin?!"

"Yes it is, but you're not a liar Usopp. You're more of a tall tale teller, and trust me if you've ever been fishing with my dad and Uncle Tony they would tell you a one-that-got-away story that would even put you to shame"

"So you're not going to burn my soul for lying?" Usopp asked and slid down the main sail and back on deck.

"If I'm not going to burn her soul for being a thief I'm certainly not going to burn yours for telling a few tall tales" Jack said as he pointed to the redhead behind him.

"Hey! What makes you think I'm a thief!?" the girl asked angrily.

"Because you tried to pick my wallet when you bumped into me. Which reminds me here's yours," Jack said as he tossed the girls wallet back to her.

The girl looked shocked at first but quickly grew very angry.

"Didn't your mother ever teach you not to steal from girls?!" she yelled angrily.

"Miss my mom was the one who taught me how to steal from girls" Jack answered; Zoro burst out laughing.

"HA HA THE THIEVING WITCH FINALLY GOT OUT DONE!" he said as he howled with laughter but was quickly silenced by a black shoe to the face.

"DON'T YOU TALK THAT WAY TO NAMI-SWAN MOSSHEAD!" Sanji screamed as Chopper and Connor quickly vacated Zoro in favor of Luffy to avoid the ensuing scuffle.

"YOU'RE DEAD YOU OVER GRANDSIZED FRY COOK!" Zoro said back as he leapt onto Sanji and the two rolled on the deck pounding on each other.

"Uh is this normal?" Jack asked.

"Oh yes, if those two didn't fight at least three times a day then we'd be in trouble," Ronin said with a creepy smile.

"Oh boy I'll go get my bag." Chopper said with an exasperated sigh as he went to grab his medical supply.

Jack turned his attention back to Nami.

"You actually remind me of her, my mom that is. Same color hair, same take no gruff attitude, same pretty face… Oh but where are my manners we haven't been properly introduced, Jack Claymore at your service" Jack said as he held out his hand.

"I'm Nami the ship's navigator" Nami said with a blush on her cheeks from Jack's compliment

"Nice to meet you Nami" Jack said as he turned back to Usopp.

"Usopp there is something I need to know how did you hear about Riders and I would appreciate the truth"

"Wait Riders? As in more than one? THERE'S MORE OF YOU?" Usopp panicked.

"Um yes," Jack confirmed.

"Really let's recruit them all," Luffy proclaimed.

"NO!" Nami screamed and slapped Luffy on the head.

"Oh man we're going to die," Usopp sighed.

"Usopp you do know about us right?" Jack asked hopefully, but that hope was quickly diminishing.

"OF COURSE NOT, HAD I KNOWN YOU WERE REAL I NEVER WOULD HAVE SAID ANYTHING!" Usopp screamed.

"But everything you said was correct except for the whole magic tennis racket and me sending people to hell,"

"Look I love a good story and I'm good at making things up." Usopp said "We're in the most strangest and most dangerous sea in the world, so to relive stress I make stuff up and tell tall tales,"

"So you made everything up then?"

"I thought I did, till you took ten years off my life. Though to be honest, I just pieced together some other horror stories,"

"Other stories?"

"Yeah, you know like a ghost ship with a skeleton crew or a vengeful spirt coming back from the grave to save a loved one and we recently met Luffy's brother who is literally living fire,"

"Your brother is what?" Jack asked Luffy in surprise.

"Yup Ace is awesome," Luffy said.

"Combine that and you've got a skeleton with a spirt of vengeance who can control fire and stories about spirts dragging people to hell have been around for ages,"

"But what about the name?" Jack was getting desperate.

"Ghosts haunt ships, but they still need to ride them like everyone else, Ghost Rider just sounds cooler than a ghost riding a ship wreck,"

"So it was all a coincidence?" Jack asked desperately.

"Umm yeah sorry I had no idea that they were actually real," Usopp finished.

Jack sighed he hoped that Usopp could tell him if there were other Riders here but it looked like there weren't. It was just a set of coincidence.

"So are you really possessed by a spirt?" Luffy asked.

"Yeah I am," Jack admitted, he had no idea how the crew would react now that they'd seen him in full blown Rider form. If they didn't think he was a threat before they would now.

"Do you poop?" Luffy asked.

Nami suddenly ran over and kicked Luffy in the head and Luffy was sent flying face first into the mast.

"DON'T ASK HIM THAT!" she yelled.

"Actually..." Jack didn't get to finish when Nami kicked him too. Jack was not expecting it let alone the sheer force behind it, so he hit the mast as well.

"AND YOU DON'T ANSWER IT!" Nami yelled at him and stormed off.

"Ughh she kicks like a Bilgesnipe," Jack groaned as he picked himself up off the floor.

"What's a Bilgesnipe?" Connor asked as he helped his captain up.

"It's a type of creature my uncle Thor and I hunted in Asgard, they're sort of like a moose crossed with a crocodile except bigger meaner and uglier" Jack answered as he held his side.

"Yep that sounds like Nami." Zoro said as Chopper finished putting bandages on wounds to his head that he got from his scuffle with Sanji.

"What did you just say moss head?!" Sanji yelled.

"You heard me pretty boy!" Zoro challenged back.

"Hey that's enough you two! I just got you both fixed up and I don't want to have to do it again!" Chopper yelled at the two feuding shipmates, the two men settled down while mumbling insults to each other.

"And Jack let me take a look at your side Nami probably broke a rib or two." Chopper ordered.

"Uh actually Doc that's not necessary I'm a quick healer" Jack tried to argue.

"I'm the ship's doctor Jack so when it comes to anyone's health on board what I say goes. You may heal quick but so does Connor and I still look over his injuries, now take off your coat and whatever else," Chopper ordered.

'Connor doses what?' Jacks eyes widened and looked at the younger boy.

"Jack clothes off now," Chopper ordered drawing Jack from his thoughts.

Jack begrudgingly complied as he removed his pea coat maroon shirt and silver tie to reveal quite the shock to the small physician, for not only was there a very ugly bruise that was indeed healing extremely fast as he had said but his entire body was a road map of scars and healed wounds.

Everything from stab wounds, bullet wounds, bite marks of various sizes and shapes, along with several claw marks of various beasts and monsters along with many blotches of skin that at some point in time was severely burned; but out of these the most visible scar was a large Y incision on his torso that made it appear he had an autopsy performed on him. It also appeared that the incision had been reopened and resealed many many times.

"Jack how did you get all of these?" Chopper asked in shock.

"From a life time of fight the evils of the world doc" Jack answered casually.

"But how could you survive? These all look fatal I mean there's a huge bullet scar where your heart is" Chopper continued.

"I guess it would be easier to show you than tell you, here take my pulse" Jack said as he held out his hand to Chopper.

The small doctor grabbed on to the Rider's wrist ignoring the many scars up and down his arm and held on to it for a few moments until his eyes grew to the size of dinner plates and he jumped back in surprise.

"Y-you d-don't have a p-p-pulse" Chopper stuttered out.

"Well yeah that's because I'm technically dead" Jack said

"ZOOMMBIEEE!" Usopp screamed.

"Actually Usopp I believe he's closer to a vampire," Robin joked.

"THAT'S SO MUCH WORSE!" Usopp freaked out and ran to get some garlic, only to have Sanji kick him in the gut for trying to steal from the kitchen.

"That's so cool!" Luffy shouted.

"Not as cool as you would think" Jack said.

"But you can't die nothing can hurt you" Luffy said.

"Who said I didn't feel pain? I still feel it if I get stabbed or shot. I just ignore the pain, and yes I'll live probably for hundreds of even thousands of years but I'll also watch as everyone I love grow old and die" Jack said back.

"That's a downer but look on the bright side; think of all the meat you'll be able to have," Luffy said innocently, while drooling.

Jack for the third time today was wondering why this idiot was the Captain and how he could be a pirate.

"It's all part of being a Rider. Once a Rider does his time in hell and finds his way out he'll walk the earth as a living dead man until the good Lord calls for his retirement where he will guard the pearly gates until he is needed" Jack explained.

"You were in hell?" Zoro asked.

"With demons and the devil?" Connor asked as well.

"Yep for three hundred years I fought against horrors you wouldn't believe, in fact I got a lot of these scars from those bastards but I paid them back tenfold. The worse of which came when I finally figured out how to get out, they sent legion after legion of their heaviest hitters to stop me everything from archdukes to the beast of saint George, they even had the nerve to try to tempt me with Lucifer's own whores on a desperate attempt to seduce me into submitting. But I refused there was nothing that would stop me from seeing the ones I loved again. Of course imagine my surprise when I crawled out of my own grave to find that I was only dead for three months" Jack said sadly.

The crew could not believe what they were hearing after everything they've been through they couldn't even imagine what the Rider before them had suffered through in his lifetime, and all they could do was stare with shock and pity.

"Well fellas this has been an interesting meet and greet but it's been a long day so if you'll excuse me I'm going to get some shut eye" Jack said as he redressed and walked back to the cabin.

Inside he took his coat off and threw it on the bed, he lay down and reached into his pants pocket for something. He shot up when he couldn't find it. He grabbed his coat and searched it but found nothing.

"No,no,no. Where is it where's my phone?" Jack panicked "I had it earlier and then I went outside…"

Jack's wallet suddenly fell out of his coat and he stared at it "Wait but didn't Nami…oh…oh she's good,"

Jack just realized what happened to his phone.

As soon as Jack was gone the crew began discussing his situation. Now that they had seen Jack's scars they needed to decide what to do with him. Luffy of course wanted to keep him and find a Bilgesnipe as well.

"But he already declined your offer," Sanji pointed out.

"Tough I want him on my crew," Luffy said.

"Oh boy he's not going to stop until Jack agrees to join," Nami claimed and pulled a small device out of her pocket; she began fiddling with it.

Luffy had a habit of asking people and creatures to join his crew. Even if they said no, he generally didn't accept it unless there was a good reason.

"Luffy Jack told me about his family back home," Chopper said "He has two little brothers waiting for him,"

"Really well okay they can come too,"

"Luffy we already have one kid on board," Zoro pointed at Connor "I don't think getting two more is a good idea,"

"Zoro is right Luffy," Robin said "the government and everyone else we meet already believes' we're kidnappers. Jack may not like us going after his family,"

"Yeah remember what Ace did to that bounty hunter we met in Alabasta when he said he was going to hand Luffy over to Smoker,"

After crocodiles defeat while the straw hats were recovering a man had tried to take Luffy's unconscious body to Smoker. Fortunately Ace and the others had recovered enough to protect Luffy. Ace even decided to escort the man home; two days later that man was reported missing and his house was burnt down; when Ace was questioned he merely gave a smirk.

"We never did find the body," Connor added.

"Well why don't we just drop him off at the next Island?" Sanji suggested "He can make his way home from there,"

"But I want him to travel with us," Luffy whined.

"Luffy that guy fought his way out of Hell, how is letting him on board our ship a good idea," Usopp tried to reason.

"Hey guys I think we might have a problem," Nami spoke up; she was looking at a strange device.

"Nami what's that?" Robin asked intrigued.

"I stole it from Jack earlier, you know when he thought i was stealing his wallet," Nami smirked triumphantly "he didn't even notice,"

"Ah Nami-Swans skills are unparalleled," Sanji praised.

"What's wrong then?" Connor asked.

"Well the thing is I've been fiddling with this and I found what looks like an address and a map of Jack's home,"

"So we can just drop him off right?" Usopp said relived.

"Actually we can't I don't recognize the name of the city and the island he lives on looks like it covers a good portion of the world,"

"That's not possible," Robin said and came over to look at the device.

"I know what's even more impossible is that if I'm looking at this right it looks like a map of the world,"

"But no one's ever drawn a complete map of the world before," Zoro protested "that's your dream".

"Take a look for yourself," Nami said and brought the device over.

The straw hats all gathered round the small screen and saw the map and Nami pointed out the Island that Jack lived on.

"That's got to be fake; where are the four blues and the Red Line, hell where's the Grand Line?" Chopper asked.

"It could be a fake but it's too detailed for that," Nami said.

"That leaves us with two solutions, one the map's an elaborate joke or two Jack maybe from a different world," Robin said.

The Straw Hats stared at her and looked back to the phone. This was weird even for them.

"So he's a demon shape changing thing form the moon that spent time in hell then," Luffy concluded.

The Straw Hats sighed and decided that it was the best explanation so far.

"I'll hold on to this thing for now," Nami said and took the phone "Who knows what else is in it,"

"Chopper did he say anything else when he talked about his family?" Robin asked curiously.

"Actually he did," Chopper then told the Straw Hats what had happened to his parents.

In Hell

"You'll never leave Jack your soul is ours for eternity," a large formless black mass with red glowing eyes mocked the Rider kneeling before it

"No matter how hard you fight or how many demons you kill you'll never leave we will always drag you back down" it continued to bite at his soul

"You are a disgrace to your father he would of been out in no time but of course you're not really his blood are you? Just some wretch he and his pretty wife felt sorry for and took you in to amuse themselves" it chuckled a deep and sinister laugh

"Or perhaps they wanted to use you as a walking weapon to take care of all the criminals they couldn't get. Were you surprise to find the ones you killed waiting for you down here? I know they were happy to see you. Maybe I'll have a few of the legion go topside and drag your precarious family down here to share in your happiness" it continued

"Leave them alone" Jack said in a way that would cause most men to die from fear

"He finally speaks" the black mass mocked

"If you hurt them I'll."

"You'll what Jack? Kill me.? Hurt me? Face it boy you can't protect them but you never could anyway I'll just be finishing what Fisk started all those years ago. You couldn't protect them then and you can't now. Why did you let them die Jack? Why didn't you save them? Did you hate your birth parents Jack? Is that it?"

"Shut up!" Jack said through gritted teeth

"That's it isn't it? You hated them and you let them die. Face it Jack you belong here and here you will stay. Forever"

"GAHHHH!" Jack screamed as he shot up in his bed.

"Just a nightmare I'm ok their ok they won't get hurt." Jack reassured himself as he looked around the room he was still in the cabin.

"But I can't be sure because I'm stuck in a pirate ship in some crazy world with no idea how to get home" Jack said in frustration "I need some air to clear my head"

Jack was surprised to find his door was not locked; he walked out on to the deck of the ship. It had turn to night while he slept and the stars and the moon illuminated the sea as their glow reflected off the waves; it was quite a beautiful sight. Jack didn't expect anyone to be out on deck so he was surprised to see Connor at the bowel of the ship learning on the railing and starring out into the distance.

"Connor what are you doing out here?" Jack asked causing the boy to be startled out of his train of thought.

Connor whirled around and drew his sword, pointing it at the threat. Jack raised an eyebrow at his reaction.

"Oh Jack it's just you," Connor said as he caught his breath and sheathed his sword.

"Sorry I didn't mean to startle you I just need to get some air" Jack said as he walked up to lean on the railing next to the boy.

"Yeah I come out here for the same reason," Connor answered as he resumed his position next to Jack.

"Nightmares?" Jack asked.

"How'd you guess?"

"I can tell when someone is troubled, part of being able to see people's souls" Jack answered.

"You can see people's souls? That sounds like my second sight" Connor said.

"Your what?" Jack asked.

"My second sight. It's this ability I have, when I use it I can tell if someone is dangerous or if their a friend they appear as different colors, Red, Blue, White and Yellow," Connor answered.

"That sounds useful, what do the colors mean?"

"I only know what two of them mean. Red is bad and Blue is good, I hardly ever see a yellow person and have no idea why or what it means,"

"And white?"

"No clue,"

"So what color am I?" Jack asked curiously.

"Don't know, I haven't used it on you yet," Connor answered.

"Well you can check now if you want," Jack suggested, he was curious about what color he was as well.

Connor looked at the teen next to him and shrugged, he shut his eyes and when he opened them they were glowing a bright yellow. Jack stepped back and almost fell over in shock.

"A…A… Azazel," Jack whispered "It's not possible,"

Flashback

It was during The final battle with Azazel the Winchesters were down and the yellow eyed demon was holding Jack up by his throat with one hand and held the Colt in the other.

"so the Winchesters brought their pet rider along with them how charming" the demon mocked

"Let him go you sick son of a bitch!" Dean threatened though he was currently under the demon's boot

"Quiet boy! I'll deal with you once I finish off your hound, I've always wanted to send a Rider to hell, you know the folks back home view your kind as traitors, always protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty, such a waste they'll have a fun time with you, that is if the Colt doesn't erase you from existence I have no idea honestly but it'll be fun to find out, say goodnight Gracie" the demon mocked as he lifted the gun to Jack's head

This was it Jack had thought he could take him he had killed demons before but this guy was way out of his league, he had even been able to turn Jack back to human, it was all over until Jack saw a shimmer in the back ground suddenly the spirit of John Winchester grabbed yellow eyes from behind and pulled the demon out of his meat puppet dropping Jack and the Colt, the two wrestled with each other until yellow eyes broke free and got back inside his body and turned to see that Dean had gotten the colt and was aiming it right at him, Dean grinned and pulled the trigger.

End Flashbck

Jack was thrown out of his memories back to the present as he stared at the boy with the yellow glowing eyes, could it really be 'NO! You saw Dean kill him you saw what twisted remains of his soul vanish into nothing and you searched all through hell for him making sure the bastard was dead, this boy is not Azazel he is innocent' Jack reminded himself

Connor stared at Jack for a long time as his face scrunched in confusion, he blinked again and his eyes returned to normal.

"Well?"

"It's weird, you're black."

"Black? What does that mean?" Jack asked

"I don't know it's never happened before. People who are dead don't normally have a color so maybe it's because you're a Rider? I'm not sure" Connor said.

"Huh that's interesting but enough about me, tell me Connor how did you become a part of this merry band of outlaws and rogues?" Jack asked.

"L…Luffy saved me from the pirate crew I was with before this one, he stole one of their boats and I was unconious inside of a box on the boat. He took me in and made me part of the crew" the boy answered.

"Why were you in the box?"

"I was their slave," Connor admitted shamefully.

"Wait you were a slave? They have slavery here?" Jack asked surprised

"Yeah I was captured after they killed my mother and burnt my village to the ground," Connor answered with sadness in his voice, Jack laid a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Connor I'm so sorry, is that what the nightmare about?" he asked.

"It was" Connor responded "Chopper told us what happened to your parent. Did you get nightmares after what happened to your birth parents?" he asked

"Yeah I did for a long time but they did get better, you know what helped though?"

"What?" Connor asked looking up at Jack.

"Being around people who care about me, my brothers and my family helped me through it. Connor I do know what you're going through and I promise it'll get better the pain will always be there but it'll lessen as time goes on. If the people on this ship genuinely care and love you they'll help you through it" Jack said in order to comfort the boy in any way he could.

"Thanks Jack" Connor said with a smile.

"Any time kid" Jack answered.

They continue to look out in the distance until Connor got tired enough to go back to bed but as he was leaving Jack spoke up.

"Connor Nami stole my phone didn't she?" Jack asked.

"Uhm yeah she did" Connor answered.

"Ugh I should of known she made going for my wallet too obvious, she's good" Jack responded with a smile "I hope she realize this means war" and his smile grew into a Cheshire grin.

"Well good night Connor I'm going to go get my phone along with something extra" Jack said as he walked towards the cabin with a devious chuckle.

Russian Translations:

Svetlyak= Firefly