I don't own Naruto or One Piece. If I did, censorsip would be way different, more action, more blood, more nudity!

...Actually that would make it all tasteless. Never mind, forget what I said. Just get on with the chapter.

"Talk"

'Think'

It took three hours for the nearest commanders to come to our location. Now why were two other commanders near when Namur was? I honestly don't know, luck? coincidence? Either way we didn't have to wait weeks, Igaram would have died of a heart attack if that happened.

Our first fight was Kotetsu versus Vista the Fifth Division Commander. Now I knew of Vista, he was said to rival "Hawk Eyes" Mihawk in pure terms of swordsmanship. The battle started off great, Kotetsu used his moves, but Vista blocked him every single time.

And I mean Every. Single. Time. He claimed Kotetsu was slow, and unfortunately that proved to be true. Kotetsu held back in order to not hurt the guy, with his Magara situation him getting blood all over him would cause a freak out.

It did not work, Vista swatted him down like a fly. I did the unthinkable, I told him to unleash Magara in order to win. I may have placed a bet on us, but I didn't want to serve under the Whitebeard Pirates, we needed to be free to do our own thing, and I had a promise to keep. And when Magara came free, things went from bad to worse...for us.

Vista was unaffected by his bloodlust. He practically bitch slapped Magara into the forest on the deserted island we used, it wasn't until Magara used one of his ultimate attacks, Blood Sword Style: Blood Stained Lotus. It hit Vista, and it actually moved the man from his spot, made him bleed even. But it was not enough, especially when Vista used the Rose Round Dance. I hate to admit this, but I blinked, and then Magara was down, actually it knocked him out and Kotetsu regained control.

Vista then took him down by slashing his torso, even to this day he has an X-shamed scar on the front of his body from his collarbone to his sides. It was harsh, but it was a permanent reminder for Kotetsu to learn. Hell, the man complimented his swordsman spirit or something like that, so praise from a legend, you don't get that every day.

The next fight was Carmen versus Izo the Sixteenth Division Commander.

I will not describe what happened that day, but it was...a dirty fight. I mean a dirty fight. Carmen won by the skin of her teeth by using some one-time tricks, and a lot of groin kicking. That hurt to watch. Hell, I feel the phantom pain in my balls just thinking about it. But she won our second fight, and all because she wanted to prove a point. Let it be said I never underestimated Carmen ever again.

But the next fight was mine. And the next day...oh man, none of you are going to believe this.

No member of the Ocean Sword Pirates had ever participated in a Davy Back Fight. Gin knew about it of course, how could he not? It was a risky game where one could play as many times as they wanted, two pirate crews played various games, and the loser coughed up a crew member or their Jolly Roger, with the latter never to be raised again.

What they did not expect was the Foxy Pirates to make a festival out of it. Reaching a remarkably flat island the much larger crew didn't waste any time in setting up brightly colored tents, food stalls, and even games. Members of the crew were eating gross amounts of food, or laughing over something they couldn't hear.

Bashura couldn't make any sense of it. They fired the pistols, he fully expected the games to start once they landed ashore. Instead it was a party.

"I don't understand." He said after a long while. "If we are supposed to fight to get each others crew, why are they all hosting a party?"

"Don't get the wrong idea, they are doing this for different reasons." Gin replied as they marched through the aisles of tents. "This is done as a goodbye for someone they could very well lose, or to welcome one of us should we lose." The First Mate stopped by one of the stalls ran by one of the Foxy Pirates and paid for a jumbo burger that had everything on it and began to munch on as they walked. "That's pretty much the situation."

"Did you just pay for a hamburger?" Kotetsu openly pointed at Gin like he was some sort of imposture. "You never pay for anything!"

"You usually just shoot people or threaten them to get what you want." Marianne bluntly said.

"It's tradition, the Davy Back Fight is like hallowed ground. I may not follow the rules like a lot of chumps in this world, but I can respect some honored traditions." Gin snapped at them. Honestly was he really that predictable?

"Are you sure it's okay to do this?" Vivi was right to be concerned, this so-called game could very well separate them forever. She didn't want that to happen, it had barely been a few weeks since she joined them! "What do you think Naruto is going to say when he learns about this?"

"What's going to happen is we're going to win, maybe we'll get three new crew members. A shipwright is what we're looking for, the other two can be either secondary fighters or something else entirely." Gin finished munching on his burger and licked his fingers clean. "It'll be good for us, especially since we're heading towards Water 7 to get our ship fixed up."

"And what if we lose, hmm?" Carmen demanded. "What if we lose Bashura, Kotetsu or even you?"

"Then we better win the person we lost back." Gin simply said. "And make sure we don't lose the last one so we can at least come out on top."

"Gin, you know It won't be that easy." Shizune said.

"Of course it's going to be that easy." Gin protested.

"It's not going to be that easy." The rest of the crew droned out.

"How can it not be easy given who we're fighting?!" Gin yelled at them.

"Fuehfehfehfeh! Do you really think you can do it that easily?" Foxy's obnoxious voice hit their ears like a nail scratching on a chalkboard, and causing Gin to growl in anger.

He was flanked by two people, one was a slender young woman with dark blue hair, blue eyes, and a long pointed nose. She was wearing a pink jumpsuit with extremely puffed pantlegs, which was unzipped on the top to reveal a bikini top beneath it, showing off her generous assets for all to see. Her outfit was adorned by several large, white puff-balls, the most notable one being the one hanging from her hat. She was also wearing the standard Foxy Pirate face mask.

The second was a huge dark-skinned gorilla-like human. He wore the typical Foxy Pirate face mask, a leopard patterned scarf, blue pants, a thick blue sash and long-sleeved gloves that had the word "Foxy" near the top of them. He had his hands covering his mouth, giggling over something or another.

"I don't see why we shouldn't." Gin challenged the shorter man. "Your bounty alone is barely higher than Arlong's and we've already stared down one of the Seven Warlords. You don't even qualify as a warm-up."

"That's what you think! Captain Foxy has won nine-hundred and twenty Davy Back Fights. And after he defeats you chums it'll be nine-hundred and twenty-one!" The woman said in a haughty manner.

Gin dully looked at them, their crappy Jolly Roger, and then back at the threesome again. "He had to of lost one, because no one in their right mind would fly under that thing."

Foxy's previous confidence disintegrated almost immediately, curling up into the fetal position, as he muttered pitifully to himself. "Porche...I don't feel so good anymore."

"It's okay Boss, one loss is nothing, especially since that Straw Hat kid only got lucky!" Porche knelt next to her Captain in order to soothe his bruised ego only for the gorilla man to start laughing at their Captain. "Shut up Hamburg!"

"You lost to Luffy? Oh that is too rich." Carmen lightly laughed. Just after hearing that made her confidence rise.

"The rubber kid? Hmph, seems you're not as cracked up as you pretend to be." Kotetsu scoffed, causing Foxy to sink further into his depression.

"I said it was a fluke! Monkey D. Luffy must have cheated in order to defeat a man as great as the Boss!" Porche protested and continued to console her Captain. "We can beat them Boss! You're the best!"

And just like that, Foxy jumped to his feet and began laughing. "You're right Porche! I am the best," Ignoring the dull stares given to him by the members of the Ocean Sword Pirates he pointed at them. "Now listen you lot, I'm not going to be defeated by the likes of you!"

"...Have you even heard of us?" Marianne dully asked.

"Ha! Of course I have. But I see you're without your fishman captain, did he abandon you all?" Before they could even answer, Foxy cut them off. "It doesn't matter, I know your bounties, and I know your weaknesses and that's all I need to win these games."

"Just...please start the games." Bashura was honestly getting annoyed by this person, and he sensed the man was slimy, like some sort of eel. Only that would have been an insult to eels.

"Ah, ah, ah, first I must inform you of the rules of the Davy Back Fight." Foxy chided them. He pointed at Gin, "He may know about the games, but for those who are unfamiliar it falls a veteran to explain the rules."

Receiving nothing but dull stares that he promptly ignored, Foxy lead them to a stage where he and Gin sat on two chairs facing the entire crew of the Foxy Pirates. "Porche! Explain the rules!"

"Aye aye Boss!" Porche grabbed a microphone and spoke into it. "Hello everybody, it's me your lovely Porche!"

"Yay! We love you Porche!" The members of the Foxy Pirates yelled at the top of their lungs.

"And I love you all too. Now, it's time to vow the three articles of defeat! As you all know this is a contest for crew members. Now we're going to use a three coin event."

"Basically it's three events. It's the norm for this type of game." Gin dumbed it down for his crew.

"That is correct, and the winner of each game gets to choose one crew member from the opponent's ship. That person will instantly become a loyal subordinate of the enemy Captain, and swear upon Davy Jones, the pirate of the deep sea!"

Sighing Gin once again dumbed it down. "As I said before, we lose they take one of you, they lose we take one of them."

Before Porche could open his mouth again, the First Mate interrupted her. "If they don't like anyone from the game they beat them in, they can take our Jolly Roger, and we are to never fly it again."

"Don't interrupt the announcer!" Porche yelled at Gin. "Hmph! Do you swear upon these rules, if you don't then you'll go to Davy Jones as a disgrace to all pirates."

"I swear." Foxy confidently said.

"I swear." Gin bitterly growled.

The entire crew of the Foxy Pirates cheered, after their defeat to the Straw Hat Pirates, they were rearing to get back into a winning streak again. Foxy stood to his feet and fished out three gold coins from his pocket. "Alright, look at these coins." After bouncing them in his hand a few times, he threw them into the sea. "According to the traditional rules, we dictate these three coins to Davy Jones. Let the games begin!"

Gin got off the podium and made his way to his crew, the First Mate had to discuss a game plan with them all. Porche only chuckled and looked at her Captain, "So, who are you going to take first?"

Foxy only looked at the seven. "A swordsman, navigator, chef, first mate, doctor, what I expect is a cabin girl and a mystery woman." He gave Porche a wide smile. "I know who I want."

A respectable distance away Gin turned towards the crew he was responsible for. He had to admit, he was a tad bit nervous about this. Training them all into the ground was one thing, but forcing them into a contest to get a new crew member where they could lose one of their own...it honestly could be a bad trade off. "Alright, well people I'm not going to give you a grand speech, I honestly can't think of a good one regarding this situation."

"Why don't you just come out and say this was a mistake." Shizune said.

"Fine, this was not my best decision. But it was either this or get sunk." Gin really wished he had time to refuel the oil barrels in the bow of the ship, those bastards would have burned otherwise. "So we have to do this, if we lose a match I promise I will do everything in my power to get you back."

"And what if we lost all three?" Bashura asked.

"Or the last one after we won the second one?" Carmen seconded.

"Then I'll shoot Foxy right in his stupid face." Gin said so bluntly that they fully believed him. "Listen, as much as I hate to say this, but we're in big trouble. If we even look at our ship wrong, she could very well sink with all of us on it." He let that sink in, they could protest as much as they wanted, but in the end they knew he was right. Without a shipwright they were screwed. "Now put that out of your minds, we need three people for the first event, three for the second, and finally one for the final. Now the final event is usually Captain against Captain, that'll be me."

"What is usually the first event?" Vivi asked.

"It's called the Donut Race. Basically we race around the island once, and as far as I remember almost anything is allowed in order to win." Gin said, much to the disbelief of everyone present. "Yea, they could easily kill you too, so be careful."

"I'm opting out of this, I can't swim at all." Kotetsu immediately said.

"Same here." Bashura immediately seconded.

Carmen slightly raised her hand. "I'm going to sit this one out, I got a feeling that I'll be more useful on land."

"Don't you have that giant fan?" Marianne dully asked. "Flapping it could improve our chances in the race."

"It doesn't work that way." Carmen protested. "I need dials for the fan, now I got them but I have no idea how to properly put them into the slots. If I wave the fan, they could easily fall out and I would never see them again."

"She's right. That giant fan is nothing more than an oversized club at the moment." Ignoring the dirty look Carmen gave him, Gin continued and looked at the three who could do the first event. "Kujaku, Shizune, Goldenweek."

"My name is Marianne."

"Whatever. I need you three to row the boat around this island. Fight dirty if you have to, I know I would, especially against these guys." Gin commanded them.

"If we must." Shizune sighed. "So, how are we going to exactly do this?"

"Oh, I'm glad you asked." Porche strolled forward with Hamburg trailing after her. The gorilla-looking man then proceeded to casually dump a large barrel that looked like it came an ale house, some various pieces of wood, along with some tools and a large box of nails. "This is what you have to use to build a boat."

All three women glared at them, with Hamburg openly laughing at them, Shizune said exactly what was on their mind. "Oh you all can go to hell."

"You have thirty minutes, good luck." Porche said before skipping back to her Captain.

"I don't think I like her." Marianne dully said.

"I think the feeling is mutual." Kotetsu cracked his fingers. "Alright, let's get to work. This boat isn't going to build itself."

"Hold on, are you allowed to work on our boat with us?" Vivi asked in confusion.

"I don't see a rule against it." Gin pointed over to the five other teams who were already working on the barrels and turning them into remarkable watercraft. "Let's get a move on, we only got twenty-nine minutes left."

The process of the Ocean Sword Pirates creating their barrel boat was...in short, disastrous. Shizune once accidentally whacked, and knocked Kotetsu out with her hammer after the first ten minutes. Bashura did well with the heavy labor, but when it came to using the saws he was more of a cut once and measure never kind of person so a lot had to be redone. Carmen honestly did her best, and made a sturdy section in the stern, it was only a shame that it barely matched up with the rest of the boat. Vivi herself made a sail in an effort to have the wind be in their favor and found some oars in their giant pile of wood to use. Gin disappeared for most of the build and came back with some more wood and nails he "borrowed" from other crews. Marianne tried to be of some use putting the craft together, but in the end she painted the entire thing to look like a lusca.

"Ugh...guys, this boat of ours kind of sucks." With his head wrapped in bandages, Kotetsu stated the obvious.

"We know it sucks. But what the hell can we do about it?" Gin growled irritably.

"How about anything? Those guys have friggn' cannons on their ship!" The sandy-haired swordsman gestured to three boats that had cannons mounted onto them.

"And one of them is pretty big." Marianne pointed out a boat that honestly looked like a gigantic wine barrel that had at least ten people on it. "And they have more people than us."

"They can certainly spare the people." Vivi gulped. They were outnumbered, their boat was a piece of junk, and they didn't have weapons to fire at them. She honestly didn't know how they could win.

"Don't think anything of it." Gin instructed them before he began to shoot off some suggestions for the girls. "Listen, do what you have to do to survive out there. Shizune if you have any poison use it, Kujaku if you can sabotage their boats with your slashers, do it. Goldenweek..."

"My name is Marianne."

"Whatever, use your paints. Make them vegetables, fight each other, be as mean as you can be. Now go out there and kick their asses!"

Gin's motivational speech didn't have the inspiring punch Naruto's had, but it honestly was better than nothing. Shizune, Vivi and Marianne made their way over to their bastardized version of a boat, and looked upon the monstrosity they created.

Their boat was a little larger than average size rowboat, the bow was narrow for penetrating power, the back end was much thicker with a large rudder used to steer the boat itself. They built a mast in the middle of it and fashioned some sails from the scrap cloth given to them, and even had oars just in case that didn't work. It was ugly to look at with patchwork wood, and barely covered up by Marianne's painting of a head of a shark with its lower end looking like that of a squid.

"Why did you paint that thing?" Shizune questioned their cabin girl.

"Naruto told me about sea monsters that he claims exist deep below the ocean." Marianne said, "I don't know if it's true or not, but it makes our dinky boat look pretty cool."

"When did he tell you this?" Vivi asked with some suspicion coating her words.

"It was when I was slacking on my duties, and he berated me with threats of getting eaten by sea creatures." Now that sounded a lot like Naruto, it actually caused Shizune and Vivi to chuckle a bit.

"So, what are we going to name this monstrosity?" Shizune asked.

"...Abomination." Marianne dully said.

"That honestly suits it." Vivi said.

Once they were settled in their boat that precariously rocked in the water, the three women took sight of their competition. There were still three boats that were connected together and had three separate cannons on them, manned by three people on each boat. Apparently it was named The Trinity.

Another was the biggest boat they had ever laid their eyes on. It was as large as a barge in the shape of a wine barrel that had the image of Foxy's ugly mug painted on the front of it. The crew of twenty that manned it called it The Pride of Foxy.

The third boat was painted pink and shaped like some sort of blossom. It was manned by four beautiful women. It was named the Harem Nocturne.

The fourth boat was a crazy monstrosity that was twenty feet in length, had rubber surrounding the barrel-shaped wood, oars, and a giant fan was attached to it with a crew of two manning it. Looking at the squiggly lines, they barely managed to make out the words Gator for the name of the boat.

And the final, fifth boat was manned by six people, it was rather ordinary besides a giant hamster wheel in the middle of it, and sort of half-man, half-cheetah hybrid in a pair of white shorts and purple shirt standing in the middle of it with two other members on it. The boat itself was called Look Special.

"I don't like the looks of this." Vivi said, eyeing the competition.

"Relax Kujaku, remember what Gin said. Do whatever it takes to win." Marianne said.

"Let's try to not cause any casualties, this isn't like Alabasta." Shizune warned them.

"Come one, come all!" Exclaimed their announcer. He was an average size man with very distinct facial features that consisted of a round, pink nose, no chin and a broad mouth that made up most of his face. He wore a purple shirt, yellow gloves, light-yellow trousers, black boots and a striped tuque covering his face down to his nose with eye holes. He also had a bag with a Den Den Mushi that served as his microphone.

And to add to the oddness of this man, he was riding on some sort of big brown and beige sparrow that was several times the size of the average human. Like the announcer he wore a striped tuque that covered half of his head with holes for the eyes in it that had blue and white stripes.

"Ugh...I am visibly disturbed." Kotetsu commented on the man's face.

"Yea, ditto." Gin couldn't help but agree.

"For those who don't know, I am your announcer Itomimizu! And this is the Donut Race, since you've all been informed of what's going to happen, we can start this show immediately!" Taking out a flintlock pistol, he aimed it in the air. "Go! Go! Go!" He fired off the round that started the race before the giant sparrow took flight for him to view the race.

The race started sort of as everyone expected it to, the Foxy Pirates manning their respective boats shoved off with either paddles or in a few cases a fan or that giant hamster wheel. The Pride of Foxy, however, seemed to rumble, the water underneath it churning before nothing happened. The crew of twenty screamed in dismay and went inside the thing to try and figure out what was wrong with it.

That left the three woman crew of Abomination to begin rowing after their competition, Vivi and Shizune were at the oars, and Marianne was at the rudder.

"Can't that thing go faster!?" Gin yelled at them.

"No, what else do you expect, that thing is made out of duct tape and prayers, but mostly duct tape." Kotetsu dully remarked.

Bashura turned to Carmen. "Are you sure your fan won't work?"

"Installing dials is a fine art, you guys would probably grunt like cavemen and beat on them until it fit." She replied. Carmen wasn't trying to be mean, but the men on the ship wouldn't survive without her or Shizune. They were like gorillas, grunting and hitting things until it worked.

"I believe you're thinking of those monkey brothers." Oh bless his heart.

"Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!" Marianne instructed her teammates as she idly moved the rudder.

"We're not going any faster!" Shizune protested before the sounds of cannons caused her to shriek and duck under the seats. The resounding splashes not only drenched the women from head to toe, but rocked them something fierce.

The crew of The Trinity cheered at the distraction, their three cannons smoking, a burly member of the Foxy Pirates pointed at the Look Special. "Ram em!"

Coming up from behind them, the Look Special, the giant hamster wheel containing a cheetah wearing the same white shorts – a Zoan-user of all things, was coming at them at full speed. "Marianne, do something. If someone even touches us, we're going to sink!" Vivi yelled.

"I'm on it!" Marianne cried out. Reaching under her shirt, she pulled out her paintbrush and pallet, how the hell she didn't smear her paint was beyond her crew mates understanding. Wetting the brush with her saliva she smeared it in the red pain. "Red of Bullfighting!" Her usual strange symbol was flung from her paintbrush and actually flew through the bars, and hit the pirate manning the rudder.

In the same move, Marianne used the same technique on The Trinity, splattering one of the boats with the symbol. To the astonishment of the Foxy Pirates, the rudder man steered towards The Trinity, causing everyone involved to start screaming in shock and terror.

"Wow! What an upset, the Ocean Sword Pirates somehow made our guys attack each other. What sort of witchcraft are you all pulling?" Itomimizu exclaimed over the den den mushi, causing a lot of the Foxy Pirates to boo at them.

"Chiqicheetah! Stop running!" Foxy loudly exclaimed.

"Yea, don't let those cheaters pull a fast one on you!" Porche seconded.

"It's a Davy Back fight, anything goes." Gin irritably growled in annoyance.

"You can't just force my men to fight each other!" Foxy protested.

"Shut up pinhead." Kotetsu said.

"Pinhead?" Immediately Foxy went into a deep depression, curling into the fetal position as a storm cloud formed over his head. "I'm not a pinhead...who are you calling a pinhead?"

Inwardly cackling from Foxy's misery, Gin looked back at the race. Chiqicheetah, an apparent Zoan devil fruit-user tried to stop their boat from crashing. He didn't succeed, they crashed through The Trinity, causing the three boats to sink and the nine men to be fished out of the sea.

"Go Marianne! That's my girl!" Shizune cheered.

"We're not out of the woods yet." Marianne stopped any celebration before it could even begin. The Trinity may have been destroyed, and the Look Special was behind them for now, but Gator and the Harem Nocturne were way ahead of them. "Come on wind, please pick up."

Almost as if nature was listening, they were hit by a huge breeze. It inflated their sails and suddenly the women had to hold on for their lives as the wind literally blew them towards their competition. It honestly looked like they were about to catch up.

But then one of the men who was on Gator started throwing something at them. Second later the sea erupted in a large explosion that rattled Abomination and caused several boards near the top to come loose and fall off.

"Ohhh and Gator is throwing bombs, happy defensive sailing girls!" Itomimizu laughed as the girls were doused in sea water.

"So that's how they want to play it. Marianne, try and steer us as close as you can to them." Shizune ordered. "Kujaku, use your slashers to cut the wicks."

"What are you going to do?" Vivi asked as she pulled out her string slashers.

"You'll know when you see it."

"Yeeehaw! Go for another pass Bubba!" The bomb thrower, some creepy-looking, buck-toothed hillbilly screamed at the driver who could have passed as a twin.

"Yew got it Skeeter! Tem girls are toast!" Bubba turned their airboat towards Abomination. He cranked their fan up at full speed to make a quick pass at them, and Bubba who was the best bomb thrower of the Foxy Pirates lit up his grenados and chucked them.

However, instead of them blowing up near, or on the boat, they saw that robed member of the Ocean Sword Pirates move her arms, and the bombs dropped uselessly into the ocean. "What kind of black magic is this!?" Bubba yelled in anger.

"That's what I was going to ask, did anyone see what happened!?" Itomimizu exclaimed.

Carmen placed a hand over her mouth to suppress a giggle when the hillbillies tried and failed to sink their hastily built boat. "Kujaku is as skilled with her weapons as you are with your guns."

"She's been training with them for years, it's no surprise she can cut a wick off while mid-air." Gin had to gruffly acknowledge that Vivi wasn't a slouch when it came to fighting. Her Peacock Slashers were razor sharp, and both versions could be used for two different styles of fighting. Now if only they could utilize something more with her natural flexibility she would be better off for what was to come.

"Quack!" Carue interrupted his train of thought.

"Yea, yea, your owner isn't too bad…wait why the hell are you off the ship you stupid duck?"

The bombs kept being thrown, Vivi continued to cut the wicks to render the grenados useless. For her, this was easy, while undercover she spent countless hours training with her weapons of choice. Gin claimed he could shoot the wings off a fly; well she could cut them off. But the problem was the distance, they were getting closer, and soon they could very well be boarded. "Shizune, whatever you're planning to do, do it fast please!

"I'm at the proper distance, don't worry Kujaku." Thanks to the long sleeves of her kimono, no one saw her palming a pair of senbon needles. Once they were close to the opposing boat, she flung them at the enraged hillbillies. Due to the bouncing waves she didn't hit them in the neck where she wanted to, but it pierced their coveralls and embedded into their bodies.

"Yeow! What in the sam hill is this?" Bubba demanded as he pulled the needle out of his fat belly. "Skeeter, is you alright!?"

"I think I am. Damn wench pricked us." Skeeter tore his needle out of his thigh. "That tears it, I'm getting the big un!

"Ohh the big un! Do it Skeeter!"

To the surprise of the Ocean Sword Pirates, Skeeter reached into the airboat and pulled out what looked like a bandoleer of bombs. He lit the long wicks and began spinning them. "Eat this ladies, no one who took on my bombs have lived to tell about it!"

Before the bomber could throw his explosives, Bubba suddenly went limp. His hand slipped off the handle he was using the make the airboat go faster and collapsed onto the ground. Skeeter turned to yell at his partner before he too suddenly felt himself growing drowsy, the bandoleer of bombs fell from his hands and hit the giant fan. "Oh shit."

A loud bang tore through the ocean as Gator erupted, and the hillbillies manning it went tumbling through the air, both completely unconscious even as they hit the island, they were all on with a loud bang.

"I can't believe it! The crew of Gator is out, what a twist, what a race!" Itomimizu screamed.

"Come on that's no fair, you jerks attacked our guys with poison!" Porche screamed in anger.

"You attacked our guys with bombs." Carmen dully said with a twitch in her eye. She had come to a realization early on when she accidentally stowed away that the current crew she was in was filled with degenerates, psychopaths, and whatever the hell Gin was. But she found herself unable to stand being next for the members of the Foxy Pirates, let alone hearing them talk. Compared to them the people she was traveling with were saints. "Plus, no one said anything about using poisons."

"You're lucky Shizune doesn't like to kill people." Kotetsu commented before pointing at Gin and Bashura. "If these two were in the race, Bashura would have done some crazy savage black magic stuff to have a sea monster eat your guys. Gin would have just laughed when he either shot, blew up, or simply drowned your guys."

Gin watched as the two members of that Gator boat groaned in pain as they were carried away. They were a bit crispy, drowsy, and probably had some broken bones. But they would live, Shizune didn't break her Hippocratic Oath unless she had no other choice. "Yep, pretty much."

"I would do no such thing, I would throw my harpoon, not summon a sea monster." Bashura actually pouted and crossed his arms across his muscular chest. "You insult me with such accusations."

Carmen lightly palmed her face. Yep, she was still better off with them than Foxy.

The small crew of Abomination were in high spirits, already they took out two of the five ships that were gunning after them. With The Pride of Foxy dying at the starting line, and the Harem Nocturne behind them, there was only one real threat out to get them.

"Shizune, we got company." Marianne pointed behind her. The now twelve man crew of the Look Special was catching up to them, Chiqicheetah was doing a fantastic imitation of a hamster running in a wired wheel was going at full speed to inflict some pain on the crew of Abomination.

"Can you use your paints?" Shizune asked.

"Not unless they get close, and I think that is ill-advised."

"Why, if they're close you can use your Color Traps can't you?" Vivi said.

The Look Special was alongside them barely thirty seconds later, the crew of The Trinity, soaked to the bone, and holding clubs and boarding axes. Marianne looked over at them, then back to both Vivi and Shizune. "Not like this."

The nine members of The Trinity immediately disembarked and jumped onto Abomination. The girls, who were probably the most nimble of the crew managed to move before they were hacked to death. Three against nine was not a fair number, but unlike the members of the Foxy Pirates, they had not gone through the hell of Alabasta without learning something new.

The angry pirates who attacked Shizune thinking that the doctor of the crew wouldn't dare hurt them were sorely mistaken. She ducked and weaved from several sword strikes, a remarkable feat for a now cramped boat. She lashed out with her right arm, exposing the metal bracer on her forearm, she twitched her wrist very slightly and a blade that looked to be an inch and a half long sprung from it.

She cut the pirate in the cheek, deep enough to draw blood before ducking under a wide swing and activated the other bracer on her other arm, cutting into the side of her second opponent, the third was set to run her through with a cutlass, but she kicked the guard, driving the blade upwards and stabbed him in both thighs. The wounds however weren't deep, the tips didn't go right into the bone, just the meaty muscle.

"Don't worry, those cuts will heal." Shizune promised them. The three pirates moved to strike at her, but found their bodies locking up. "And don't worry the poison will also wear off, you're just going to be a little paralyzed for the next...thirty seconds." Shizune then promptly kicked them off her boat.

"Marianne, on me!" Vivi ordered the former Baroque Works Officer Agent. The smaller girl blinked once, and she jumped her way. In midair, Vivi threw out her arms and spun on her heels creating what looked like a purple tornado. "Peacock Twister!"

The peacock slasher whipped through the wind like an angry blender. The sharp jewels cut not only the wood, but the attackers, all six of them were assaulted, cut and knocked back by the force of the attack and fell right into the ocean. When the attack ended, Shizune was hugging the bow fearfully, and Marianne landed next to the Princess of Alabasta.

"Careful where you use that technique Kujaku! That is not ally friendly!" The doctor screamed.

"That's why I jumped." Marianne dully said.

"Sorry! I didn't think it would be that effective. These guys are weak compared to the members of the Baroque Works." Vivi exclaimed.

"That doesn't matter right now, we need to catch up to them." Marianne pointed at the Look Special that seemed to have been miles ahead of them. Even with the wind they wouldn't make it in time. "I have an idea, but I need your consent to do it."

"Oh no, not your paints again."

"Yes, my paints." She held up her pallet and brush. "Do you want to win, or not?"

"You bet we do, Marianne I give you permission to do what you need to do." Shizune quickly said.

Vivi barely held in a sigh. Those paints honestly brought up some terrible memories of Little Garden when she fought against her. Luffy was nothing but a mindless puppet under her control, her paints were very powerful, and she didn't want to be under the influence of it either. But it seemed she didn't have a choice, if they lost because of her, Vivi would never forgive herself. "Do it."

"Thank you." Mixing the colors on her pallet she used one of her rarely used techniques on them. "Colors Trap: Variant Shade: Wine Red – The Color of Determination!" Unlike flinging the strange symbol from her paintbrush, Marianne simply dabbed them on the forehead with it.

"Listen, those guys with the cheetah in the big wheel are ahead of us. That can't be allowed, take the oars and row! Row to beat them!" It was uncharacteristic for her to yell, it actually surprised the people watching the race.

"YEAAHH! THEY WON'T BEAT US!" And that scared the hell out of everyone else. Both Vivi and Shizune sounded like a bunch of powerlifters amping themselves up. The two of them grabbed the oars and with a surprising amount of strength, they cut through the water with great speed.

"Uh, folks, I'm at a slight loss at what just happened." Itomimizu said, voicing the confusion of everyone on the Foxy Pirates. "How in the world did they get so charged up?"

"She used the paints on them." Kotetsu dully said.

"Yea...she did." Carmen equally said.

"Paints? What in the world do paints have to do with this?" Porche demanded.

"None of your damn business." Gin growled. "What our cabin girl can do with her odd but admittedly impressive abilities is only for us to know, and you jerks to never find out."

"The hell we won't find out! When we win she'll be one of our new crew members!" Foxy exclaimed.

"You smell like rotten meat and failure." Carmen said.

Gin openly laughed when Foxy curled into the fetal position with a proverbial rain cloud hanging over his head. "Rotten meat and failure?"

"Boss, don't listen to them! They're ignorant to your manly musk!" Porche tried to comfort her Captain, but as always Hamburg was giggling from Foxy's misery. "Shut up Hamburg!"

If people thought the race was strange on their end, Marianne's was much weirder. Watching Vivi and Carmen rowing with intense looks on their faces was unnerving, even by her standards. And with each stroke they shouted at the top of their lungs.

"We're going to get those bastards!" Shizune said.

"Right! No one will beat us, we're the baddest crew on the Grand Line!" Vivi seconded.

"You got it sister! We're the biggest, meanest, toughest crew on the Grand Line! Nothing can beat us!"

"Yeah!"

"Oh yeah!"

"Oh yeah pump it!"

"Fuck you ocean, we're cutting through you like butter!"

Marianne sweat-dropped hearing them. Perhaps it was a bad idea to hypnotize them. But the results spoke for themselves, they caught up to the Look Special and Chiqicheetah looked at them in complete and total shock. It appeared the cheetah man was unused to being chased after let alone caught up to. "Kujaku, used your slasher to make a rope bridge!"

"You got it boss!" Vivi enthusiastically stood up, and in a flash her peacock slasher flew from their boat, and impacted into the hull of the Look Special to create a sturdy, but very temporary rope bridge.

Knowing they only had a minute tops before the rope broke, Marianne left her post and ran along the rope that was tightly held by Vivi. Her dull eyes locked on Chiqicheetah trying to use his speed inside the giant hamster wheel to break the rope with the crashing of the waves. The remaining two crew members on the Look Special moved to intercept her.

But the nameless lackeys of the Foxy Pirates had never dealt with an Officer Agent of Baroque Works. And they never dealt with the likes of her. Her brush went to her pallet and her strange symbol was flung at them "Blue of Sadness!"

The marks hit them right in the face, and the two of them collapsed with proverbial rain clouds hanging over their heads. Marianne looked at Chiqicheetah, and he knew that he was trapped. There were only two ways out, either stick in the giant hamster wheel and git hit by paint, or jump to the side and into the ocean to drown and die. He chose the former by stopping himself and raised his hands in surrender.

Marianne dabbed his nose with the blue brush, causing him to join the fates of his crew mates. The cabin girl then moved back towards Abomination, using the rope once again to get back into their crappy boat.

"Yeaaaaah! Go Marianne!" Shizune patted the younger girl on the back when she returned. "You owned those jerks like they were nothing!"

"That's because they are nothing. Now row, we got a race to win."

"Yes ma'am!" Vivi and Shizune grabbed their oars and with all their strength, they cut through the water. The wind helped them along the way. With the Look Special out of commission, The Trinity and Gator destroyed, The Pride of Foxy broken down at the start of the race, all that left was the Harem Nocturne and they were now frantically paddling to catch up to them.

"Uh-oh, it seems the Ocean Sword Pirates took out the last boat. They are nearing the finish line without any contest! I haven't seen anything like this since...well ever!" Itomimizu did well to hide their last race regarding the Straw Hat Pirates.

"Ha! Take that Foxy, we're going to win." Gin smugly gloated.

Foxy looked in disbelief as the ramshackle of a boat neared the finish line. It was unthinkable that they were going to lose. "No you won't! My pride won't allow it!"

"Uh, pride doesn't have anything to do with something you're no in." Bashura said.

"Bashura, I don't think that's what he meant..." Kotetsu watched as the twenty man crew of The Pride of Foxy jumped off their giant barrel-shaped boat and either swam as their lives depended on it, or ran to the shore as their lives depended on it.

"Oh no...no...no...no...stop!" Carmen screamed at the top of her lungs.

Her warning came too late, just as Shizune, Vivi and Marianne were about to cross the finish line, The Pride of Foxy blew up. Shockwaves tore the finish sign off its posts, tents, sand and grass flew away and bowled people over. But most importantly it broke apart Abomination, causing the girls to tumble into the water with a violent splash.

And the unopposed Harem Nocturne crossed the finish line almost thirty seconds later giving the Foxy Pirates their first official win.

"And the Harem Nocturne wins! The Foxy Pirates have taken the lead in the Davy Back Fight!" Itomimizu screamed at the top of his lungs, every member of the Foxy Pirates cheered from their ill-gained victory.

"What! Are you kidding me?" Carmen demanded in outrage. "We were going to win, and they blew us up? That's got to be against the rules!"

"I am very tempted to let Magara out." Kotetsu grabbed the hilt of Nidai Kitetsu, his body trembling in untapped anger.

Bashura turned towards the members of the Foxy Pirates, his muscles tensed looking at a crew of cheaters. "I don't like them very much."

"Everyone, calm the hell down." Gin ordered them with an irritable shake of his head. "Listen, a Davy Back Fight has rules, but they're more of a guideline. Those sons of bitches may have cheated, but they still won. It sucks, but we're going to have to win the next one."

Gin and the others made their way over to where Marianne and the others were getting to shore. All of them were soaked to the bone and looking downright miserable.

"I don't feel so well, did I do something embarrassing?" Vivi tiredly asked.

"Both you and Shizune got aggressive and swore like sailors." Bashura crossed his arms. "It was very unladylike for the both of you."

"And we lost anyways." Shizune peered at Marianne. "You're not hypnotizing us ever again."

Slowly blinking, Marianne watched as the blotch of ruined paint dribble down their faces. "Noted."

"Fuehfehfehfeh! I hate to break up this little pep talk, but I won, and as the rules of the Davy Back Fight demand that I take a member of your crew, or your Jolly Roger." Rubbing his chin, Foxy gave them all a slimy grin.

"Then don't make a grand show of it, pick one of us and get it over with." Gin irritably growled out.

"Ah ah ah! As the winner I get to gloat for as long as I want!" The glares Foxy got from several members of the crew caused him to backpedal, and he coughed into his hand to regain his composure. "And I have decided who I want. You!" He pointed at the member of the Ocean Sword Pirates he wanted.

"Ah crap." Kotetsu sighed. Running his left hand through his long sandy blonde hair, he took several steps away from the people who put up with him. "Guess I'll see you later guys."

"We'll win you back the next round Kotetsu, try to not get too comfy!" Vivi assured him.

"I don't think that will be too hard." Carmen said as she watched Porche forcefully wrap a black face mask on his head. Now Kotetsu was officially a member of the Foxy Pirates, the poor guy. "I'm volunteering for the next event."

"So am I." Bashura seconded.

"Fuehfehfehfeh! That isn't going to happen, my next win is assured, and I will take another one of you into my crew." Foxy gave them all a smile, and with his face it was disturbing. "I think I might take your chef, maybe your navigator. Or I could be cruel and take your Jolly Roger to hang up on my walls with all the others."

"Fat chance baldy." Gin said, causing Foxy to once again fall into a fit of depression.

"Ah! Boss, don't listen to them, you have great hair!" Porche jumped onto Kotetsu's back, causing him to stiffen from pressing her body against his back. "It's so thick and lush, anyone would be happy to run their fingers through it. Right Kotetsu?"

Kotetsu would have liked to have said that it looked like a cow licked him, but he had to support his new Captain. Even if it killed him on the inside to do it, it also didn't help Porche's breasts were pressing against his back and her face was really close to his. "Uh, yeah Captain, your barber must charge you double because it's so thick...and luscious."

That definitely cheered Foxy right up, because he sprang to his feet and let out his obnoxious laugh. "You're right, my hair is nice. Now onto the next challenge, though I'm afraid you guys might be at a disadvantage." He then left with both Porche and Kotetsu in tow, the latter being used as some sort of horse for the woman.

"Traitor." Marianne dully said.

"I think he was a little too comfortable with that." Bashura commented.

"More like stiff as a board." Carmen remarked.

"That doesn't matter, the rules are the rules, he has to serve Foxy until he is won back. Bashura, Carmen, we need to get to the next challenge now." Gin barked out before following after them.

The next challenge was already built by the time they got there. It resembled some sort of soccer field with two goals on both sides resembling large, circular tubes.

"Contestants!" Itomimizu screamed from atop his giant sparrow Chuchun. "Welcome to the Groggy Ring, the rules are very straightforward. The ring has two goals! Win the game by putting the ball into the ring! But here's the catch, the ball isn't exactly a ball. Each team must designate one of it's players to be the ball. An actual person baby!"

"Oh no, and already we're at a disadvantage." Carmen hung her head. "I'll be the ball Bashura."

"Are you sure?" Bashura asked.

"Yea, trust me, this will be the best for both of us." Carmen's bravery was rewarded when a member of the Foxy Pirates put on an orange and red strap-on ball hat on her head. Everyone on her crew had the decency to not laugh, but she did hear them snickering.

Then out of nowhere music began to play, the mouth of the figurehead on the Sexy Foxy began to open up to reveal three figures.

"Oh I hear the theme song of the Groggy Ring elite! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Groggy Monsters! And they now take the field! Lead by "Full-Dash" Hamburg!"

"That idiot monkey guy?" Gin asked.

"The next is "Tackle Machine" Pickles!" Behind Hamburg was a large husky man that wore green schemed clothes. He had relatively long arms and relatively short legs in comparison to his body. He also had a hippo-like face. On his shoulders, he was wearing round shoulder pauldrons.

"Okay, a somewhat bigger idiot hippo guy." Gin commented.

"And finally bringing up the rear is the half-fishman half-giant, Big Pan "The Wotan"!"

The final person; Big Pan, was a gigantic Wotan that towered over the other Foxy Pirates. From his fishman half, he had tan mudfish skin, sharp teeth, and an orange dorsal fin. From his giant half, he had orange hair and beard, and incredible size. He was wearing yellow swim briefs, boots and gloves together with his Foxy Pirate mask. On his head was the strap-on ball.

"A...what now?" Gin asked.

"How...how is that even possible?" Marianne's normally blank face had a stunned expression.

"Well...if a fishman or merfolk falls in love with a giant...ummm..." Not even Shizune, the doctor wanted to figure out how Big Pan existed.

"Oh my..." If Vivi's face could have been seen, it would have been cherry red.

"Now I've seen everything." Kotetsu's comment was heard by them, he wasn't that far away after all with Porche hanging off of him. And so was his red face, was this really the first time a woman was hanging off of him?

"Opposing our powerhouse Groggy Ring team is "Five-Alarm" Carmen, the chef who was kidnapped from the East Blue!" There was a lot of booing towards Gin, and Carmen herself looked irritated. Kidnapped her ass, it was more of an accidental joining. "And Bashura, the savage navigator of unknown origins!" Bashura looked offended by that, he was not a savage.

"Heeheehee! Since they called us I expected stronger opponents, but all I see are a bunch of weaklings!" Pickles snidely snickered, "Right Big Pan?"

"What?" Big Pan dumbly asked.

"Pupupupupupu! He didn't hear you!" Hamburg laughed.

"These three are idiots." Both Bashura and Carmen commented at the same time.

Carmen soon found herself on the field stuck in the midfield circle after losing a coin toss, surrounded by the Groggy Monsters as the rules were explained. Basically, the rules were to get the other team's ball-man into the opposite ring, and no weapons were allowed. That was pretty much it.

When a gunshot was fired to signal the match, Pickles went into action. "Sling Tackle!" Rolling himself into a perfect ball, he was kicked by Big Pan to flatten Carmen.

Instead of flattening Carmen, she dived to the right and he rolled past her. Big Pan moved to grab her with one of his giant hands, causing Carmen to jump to avoid his hand and tried to run up Big Pan's arm. She barely got to his bicep before she began to lose her footing. "What in the world? His skin is slippery!"

"Ahahaha! There's no surprise there, due to his lineage Big Pan has mudfish blood running through his veins. It makes his fish-giant skin is slick and slippery!" Itomimizu exclaimed with glee in his voice.

"I got you now! Punk Pass!" Big Pan screamed. Throwing back his huge hand he attacked Carmen with all his might.

Instead of trying to regain her footing, Carmen did the only logical thing she could think of. She fully slipped on Big Pan's arm and slid off it, watching as this hand fly past her face, completely missing her by the pink hairs on her head. Rolling on the ground she got to her feet and ducked under a wide swipe from Pickles, only to be grabbed by her ankle and began spinning like a top. "Spinning Tackle!"

Hamburg jumped all the way up in the air and grabbed Carmen. "Gorilla Throw!" He then threw Carmen towards the goal on their side of the field.

Before Carmen would even find herself inside the goal that would have screwed them over. But Bashura caught her before that could happen. She slammed into his body, and they carved a trench into the field and stopped before they hit the white chalk line.

"Ow..." Bashura lowly moaned. "Are you okay Carmen?"

"Yea, that was close." Carmen slowly got to her feet. "We can't let that happen again."

"It won't, we'll score and get Kotetsu back." Rising to his full height, Bashura brought his hands to his vest and took it off. "No one is getting left behind."

"You're not going to get anyone back." Pickles pulled out some hidden weapons. The pauldrons became spiked and he had two swords in his hands that he pulled from his pants. "Boss Foxy is gonna keep your swordsman, and we will take whoever else after we beat you today."

Big Pan actually rose another inch due to spikes concealed on the bottoms of his boots. Along with these, Big Pan revealed a pair of gigantic pans that was thrown to him from the audience.

And finally Hamburg pulled out a pair of iron gauntlets and a pair of iron clubs from his pants. The gorilla-looking man was giggling hysterically.

"What the actual fuck!?" Gin loudly exclaimed. "Hey ref, these assholes are using weapons. Disqualify them!"

"I'm sorry, I don't see anything!" The referee watching the match turned to the side, whistling innocently.

"Cheaters." Shizune said.

"Nah-ah! The ref doesn't see anything, which makes your complaints null and void! If you don't like it, you can forfeit." Foxy snidely laughed.

Marianne looked over to Foxy, blinked once and said. "We're not forfeiting fatty."

The members of the Ocean Sword Pirates ignored Foxy curling up into the fetal position again, and ignoring Porche cheering him up. Gin did find it amusing, but right now he needed to focus on watching the Groggy Ball match. If Carmen and Bashura lost, he would need to do a double or nothing in his match. Maybe even a triple or nothing, he wasn't leaving without a shipwright, or at the very least their Jolly Roger to fuck them all over.

"We're going to hurt you real bad." Pickles cackled.

"Pupupupupupu! Pickles is right, you're stuck in here with us." Hamburg laughed.

"I am not stuck in this ring with you." His yellow eyes flashing, Bashura tapped into his devil fruit powers and morphed into his half-panther form. His height increased to ten feet, ears erupted from the top of his head, a tail emerged from his backside, thick black fur covered his body. His muzzled face grinning like a cat that caught the canary, Bashura flexed his clawed hands and feet. "You're stuck in this ring with me!"

"Gahh! Quick, do the Monster Burger now!" Foxy screamed.

Hamburg began to cackle, and he began beating his clubs on the ground, running forward. Pickles began spinning like a top, his swords slicking the air like a buzz saw. And Big Pan began to follow after them, banging his gigantic pans together. All this was conveniently ignored by the referee who began doing leg stretches facing the opposite way.

This would have deterred any regular person. Hell, a few months ago Carmen would have fled in terror, but she stood her ground. "Bashura, if you can upset them, I can win this for us."

"I'll upset them alright. Elephant Charge!" Bashura launched himself at his enemy; the enemy in question at this time was Hamburg. Grabbing the gorilla-like man by his shoulders, he smashed into his abdomen with a high speed double knee strike.

Hamburg's face went blank as the strike stopped him dead in his tracks, and he lost control of his clubs. Unfortunately for him, Bashura wasn't done yet. Planting on his feet, he delivered a high speed uppercut to Hamburg's already bruised abdomen. He intended to lift his fist up to let gravity damage him more, but he underestimated how light Hamburg was, and his enemy went flying towards Big Pan. "Um...Rhino Thrust!"

"Oh no, not again! Big Pan stop!" Pickles screamed.

This happened just like last time. Hamburg was hit super hard, and he flew right into Big Pan's gigantic pans. The half-fishman smashed him together due to his obliviousness. It was just like the Straw Hat match all over again, and Pickles was pissed off about it.

"You jerks! I'm going to slice and dice you!" Pickles screamed at the top of his lungs. He spun at Bashura, the swords in his hands threatening to cut him up.

Or he would have if he didn't suddenly start slipping and sliding all over the place. He screamed in terror as he toppled over, the swords cutting up the ground in a dramatic fashion, and even broke in half. When he stopped spinning he slowly tried to get up, but found himself all greasy. Holding up his hands he saw oil dripping off of them.

"What in the world is going on here!?" Itomimizu voiced out everyone's thoughts.

"Yea, what is going on...oh." Gin winced when Bashura punted Pickles right into Big Pan's head. He then saw Carmen literally sliding on the field and jumped right up where Big Pan was going to squash her. But to the surprise of many, when the gigantic pans came down on her, Carmen flew out from the other end and struck the half-breed right in the nose.

"She ate a devil fruit." Vivi was at a loss for words. She didn't know when Carmen even ate, let alone acquired one.

"It looks that way." Marianne dully replied.

Shizune rubbed her temples, this development was something she didn't expect. Granted, it wasn't catastrophic either. "I'm going to need to update her chart now."

Gin, however, grinned. It was honestly terrifying and caused the referee to back up several steps. Giving him an actual reason to not pay attention to the match. "Yea! Carmen, Bashura don't hold back. Win this for us!"

As Big Pan reeled back from the blow to his nose, blood spilling from it. Carmen landed on the ground, literally sliding out of her sandals, the bottoms of her feet easily slid onto the ground. Bashura kicked Pickles right at the half-giant again, the hippo-looking man screamed in terror as as greased covered body flew through the air. However, due to the oil his kick was slightly off.

Instead of hitting Big Pan right in the face to further disorient him, Pickles flew right into his groin. It actually made a loud BANG that had every single male clutch their family jewels and wince.

Oil dripping off her body, completely soaking through her outfit, Carmen slapped her hands onto the ground, and gritting her oily teeth a giant puddle of slippery oil completely surrounded Big Pan. "Bashura! Hit him with everything you got!"

"On it!" Clutching both hands together, Bashura bolted forward with every bit of speed he had. Slipping on the oil, it actually helped him with what he wanted to do. Coiling his leg muscles like the hunting cat he turned himself into, he jumped and swung his arms with every bit of strength he had. "Elephant Smash!"

The impact on Big Pan's belly caused him to roar out in agony. Even with the spikes on his boots, he slid back on the ground, lost balance, actually caught on the edge of the oil field and went flying. The entirety of the Foxy Pirates watched as the unconscious Big Pan flew onto the other side of the field, and his head slammed into the goal.

"I...I don't believe it! Not once, but twice the Groggy Monsters were defeated! The winners of the Groggy Ring match are the Ocean Sword Pirates!" Itomimizu's announcement officially ended the event.

"Aha! Take that Foxy, we won. You lost!" Gin pointed at the dismayed pirate Captain.

"That is not fair, you jerks cheated! You're not allowed to use devil fruits in the arena!" Porche angrily exclaimed.

"Says who?" Shizune challenged her. Walking up to the woman, she glared at her. "You guys cheated. You cheated more times than I can ever count, and we followed the rules. So, how can you even say we're the once who cheated."

"We did no such thing, we followed the rules fair and square!" Porche flat out lied.

"How can you look me square in the face and lie to me? Don't you have any sort of shame?"

"Of course not!"

Gin looked at both both Marianne and Vivi. "Am I going to have to be the adult here?"

"I think so." Vivi said.

"Damn it, fine." Gin stepped between the two women and pried them apart. "Ladies, as much as I want to see a cat fight, I think it's best we pick our newest crew member and get on with the last game." The First Mate of the crew looked towards Kotetsu. "Come on lookout, get your ass over here."

"Lookout, watchman...make up your mind already." Kotetsu muttered under his breath before tearing the mask off his face. He then walked back over to his rightful crew. "Later Foxy Pirates."

Foxy was absolutely steaming. This was just like a repeat with the Straw Hats, it couldn't be allowed. He couldn't lose twice in a tow! "Itomimizu, make the announcement in fifteen minutes! I need to make sure everyone is alive and kicking!"

"Yes sir, boss!" The strange-looking man yelled into his den den mushi. "Everyone, we are taking a fifteen minute break. Eat and relax, because I promise you that the next event will be a doozy!"

After Foxy and his henchmen left to take care of the Groggy Monsters, the reunited members of the Ocean Sword Pirates approached a battered Bashura, and a oil-soaked Carmen. Gin looked at the latter with a scowl on his face, and his arms crossed over his chest. "You ate a devil fruit."

Literally wiping the oil out of her drooping pink hair, Carmen gave him a dull look. "Yes, yes I did."

"Carmen, I have to say that was unexpected. But it was pretty awesome, you showed those jerks what you were made of." Shizune happily exclaimed.

"The element of surprise was certainly an advantage. If this was your plan, then well done." Marianne said.

"Where in the world did you even get a devil fruit?" Kotetsu asked. "Actually, how did you get a devil fruit?"

"You can thank Cricket for that." Trying to wipe off the oil on her kimono sleeve, Carmen let out an irritated huff. The oil was completely soaked into the fabric, it would take dunking all her clothes onto the ocean to clean it completely. "Before we left Jack Lee's treasure pit, he gave me a chest containing a giant olive with pink and purple markings and a green core in it."

"That's a devil fruit all right." Bashura rubbed his chin as he slowly turned back into his human form. "It tasted terrible, didn't it?"

"The worst," Carmen's face twisted in disgust. "I don't know much about it, but it's called the Oil-Oil Fruit. I'm basically an oil woman."

"So you can make your body slippery and create pools of oil?" Vivi asked.

"So far, it's only been a few days since I ate it. So far I've only experimented a little bit, I plan on doing it more after getting some rest." Carmen lightly rubbed her right arm. "Ugh, definitely after some rest."

Shizune took a step forward to check her out. There was some obvious bruising, but she didn't see anything serious. "Why did you do it? Eating a devil fruit comes with risks you know."

"Like being weakened by getting submerged in water." Bashura said.

"Drowning." Kotetsu seconded.

"And seastone." Marianne added.

"I know the risks. But considering I'm not a veteran pirate." Carmen pointed at Gin. "Former Marine, or jungle cat warrior." Both Kotetsu and Bashura raised an eyebrow at that. "A former bounty hunter or princess who spent two years undercover." Marianne dully blinked, Vivi's expression couldn't exactly be seen under her cloth mask. "Or a poison specialist or fishman karate master." Shizune gave her an odd look, and somewhere in the sea Naruto violently sneezed. "I am a chef, I never fought until I met you guys. Not only do I need to play catch up, but contend with freaks like Crocodile, I need every edge I can get."

"So you ate a devil fruit." Gin said again.

"Yes Gin, I ate a devil fruit!" Looking at the First Mate straight in the eyes, the smaller woman didn't back down. "Is this going to be a problem?"

"Fuck no." Gin said, a smirk forming on his face. "It just means you need to fight more creatively. I'll make sure that happens."

"Naruto might be a little mad though." Vivi pointed out.

"If Naruto starts griping, we'll handle it." Kotetsu said in response. "Welcome to team devil fruit."

"Quack!"

"You're not apart of it." Bashura said to Carue.

The fifteen minute break didn't last long enough for everyone, Carmen barely managed to wipe the excess of oil off her body and change into her hot pink flamingo dress before Foxy demanded that everyone returned to the field.

The atmosphere was tense, with their game being tied one to one, everyone knew that the next fight would decide the fate of one of the pirate crews. A member would be taken, or the Jolly Roger would be taken. It honestly had a lot grinding their teeth in suspense.

Itomimizu, perched on Chuchun; his faithful Super Sparrow spoke into his den den mushi to ignite the blood of the crowd. "With the defeat of the Groggy Monsters we're once again at an even standstill. This is not acceptable, isn't it?" He got a lot of 'No's' and 'Hell no's'. "No it is not! So, we're going to get to the main event and you know what that means!? Yes, one-on-one combat!"

"Yeah!"

"I've been waiting for this!"

"Choose the field already!"

"Field?" Bashura asked.

"That's right!" Two fishmen carried out a cannon on some sort of odd swivel and flopped it onto the ground between Gin and Foxy. Foxy began to spin it, Gin followed suit shortly after. "The Captains of their respective crews spin the cannon together, and then the direction it points to when it comes to a natural stop will be your battleground!"

The cannon did not naturally stop, instead it came to a stop with a loud clanking noise, and it fired its steel ball right onto the Sexy Foxy. "Well, what do you know, it happened to stop on our ship. That is where the two Captain's will have their fight!"

"Happened my ass. Lousy cheaters." Gin glared at Foxy with ill intent. "I am going to enjoy beating you like a rented mule."

"I would like to see you try." Foxy chuckled.

"Now I will explain the rules for the third round. The battlefield is an area within a fifty meter radius where the steel ball fell. And luckily it landed right in the middle of our ship, lucky you!" Everyone on the Ocean Sword Pirates darn near damaged their eyes by rolling them in their sockets from hearing that. "So that means in other words everything within that one-hundred meter circumference is considered the battlefield. Any weapons within that circle may be used, and no one but the two combatants may enter the circle!"

"Alright, now we're getting somewhere." Gin's grin promised nothing but pain.

"Don't think it will be so easy." Foxy countered.

Itomimizu finished off his explanation not too long after the two men threatened each other. "To win you must force your opponent out of the circle. Any part of the ship can be used, above and under won't disqualify you. Now, Captain's prepare your corner man and get to the changing room!"

"Changing room?" Gin rubbed his temples. It wasn't for the first time that day he regretted taking this Davy Back Fight challenge. "Kotetsu you're with me."

"Do I have to?" Kotetsu asked. The reason he said this was because Porche and a bunch of cheerleaders came out to cheer for Foxy, and some sort of warm up match was taking place between crew members to get everyone pumped up. He watched her giving him a subtle wink before Gin grabbed him by the ear and began pulling him away. "Ow! Ow! Okay already!"

While Gin was getting ready, the rest of the crew were subjugated to watching a boring warm up fight and forced to pay a ridiculous amount of money for snacks and drinks before finding the best seat in the newly constructed bleachers to watch the fight.

"I honestly hate to say anything nice about Foxy, but his crew does work fast." Carmen said looking at the bleachers. In ten minutes flat a crew of fifty mechanics made it from scratch, that was impressive.

"I would compare it to fine art." Marianne said, munching on a rice cracker.

"Even I can't find a bad thing to say about it." Shizune slowly drank tea from her glass. It was surprisingly good for coming from a stall.

"We make sure to do our work fast, but efficient." Said one of the workers. They didn't get a good look at him from underneath the bleachers, his back was to them, and all they really saw was that he wore a black bomber jacket and a leather arming cap. "I love working with my hands, it makes life worth living."

"You seem to enjoy it very much." Bashura commented.

"Enjoy it? Man, I love it! The smell of sawdust and welding, the pounding of hammers, saws of wood, and seeing a project you put your entire heart and soul into coming to life and working!" The figure gave out a boisterous laugh. "I wake up happy knowing I'm going to a job I love!"

"Hey, stop talking to the competition! The event is about to start!" One of the other workers, the boss it looked like yelled at the person they were talking with.

"Oh, you heard the man. Sorry folks, enjoy the event!" The stranger then bounded through the gaps of the bleachers, and out of sight.

"He seemed very nice...for a member of this crew of course." Never let it be said Vivi wasn't a nice person. She was, but even she had her limits, and a cheating pirate crew definitely was testing her patience.

"Agreed." Carmen said. "Come on lets get some good seats before the event begins."

"The perimeter has been marked! Thanks for waiting, folks!" Circling the Sexy Foxy that now had a ring of bright red buoys surrounded the ship to show the boundary lines. Cannons roared, belching out black smoke that blocked the sun and enlarged wanted posters featuring Gin "The Man-Demon" and "Foxy the Silver Fox" showing their bounties and infamous mugshots.

"Introducing the competitors of today's match, a battle between Captain and acting Captain! First, introducing the man who never turns down a fight. A man so brave and bold he would give Gold Roger a run for his money! With a win streak of nine-hundred and twenty matches with only one loss. The man with a twenty-four million beli bounty...entering from the left side of the fox's head...our Boss "Foxy the Silver Fox"!"

Surrounded by three rat-like people who could have been triplets, and throwing off a royal purple cloak, Foxy revealed himself to his crew. He still wore his same pants with suspenders, wooden sword, and boots. But he was lacking a shirt to expose his oddly burly body, and wearing royal purple boxing gloves. The crowd cheered his name so loudly the bleachers shook.

"And his opponent coming from the East Blue, a former member of the Krieg Pirates, currently the First Mate of the Ocean Sword Pirates. A murderous scoundrel with a bounty of twelve million beli entering from the right corner...the infamous Man-Demon, let me introduce you to Gin!"

Throwing off a red cloak, Gin was also revealed to be stripped from the waist upwards. His muscular body had several stitched scars from old wounds, and he was wearing a pair of red boxing gloves.

As his corner man, Kotetsu was dressed in a simple white shirt and dark pants with his swords hanging at his sides. He looked downright annoyed that he was standing next to Gin and not in the bleachers.

The bleachers literally rose with everyone one what was sitting in them to observe the entire ship, surprising the members of the Ocean Sword Pirates. The two opponents were sizing each other up, bouncing on their feet to warm themselves up.

"Now for all you have been waiting for, the final match where our lives hang in the balance. Foxy versus Gin. Ready...fight!" A bell rung on the ship, officially starting the match.

"Fuehfehfehfeh! After my first loss I've been looking forward to creating a winning again." Punching his gloves together, Foxy put up his arms in a boxing stance. "With an entire ship as our battlefield we won't have to worry about holding back. Be as violent as you like Man-Demon, I got plenty of people to fix the ship if things get broken!"

"Good." A dark smirk forming on his face, Gin bounced on the balls of his feet and sprinted at Foxy in a zig-zag pattern.

"Slow Slow Beam!" Punching out with his right arm, Foxy shot a beam of purple noroma photons at his opponent, Gin was hit by it barely a foot away from Foxy himself. He used his technique in a place where Gin was going to be, and caught him mid-stride. "And now...Nine-Tails Rush!" Foxy began to unleash a flurry of punches to his opponent at a rapid speed.

"Gin! What are you doing? Move already!" Carmen yelled at the top of her lungs.

"That won't work, when it comes to fights like this the Boss won't lose." Again at least, Porche was convinced that Luffy won by sheer luck, or cheated. "He ate the Slow-Slow Fruit, he can slow his opponents down for thirty seconds to do whatever he wants to them. Gin is toast."

Bashura watched as the unmoving Gin was struck three dozen times, Foxy may not have looked like much, but he did throw many punches like a professional fighter. When thirty seconds passed, and Foxy walked away so everyone could fully view his opponent, his body began to jerk wildly as the three dozen punches hit him at once. Blood flew from his nose and mouth as he was rag dolled over the deck of the ship and struck the mast harshly. "Ouch."

"Fuehfehfehfeh! How does it feel to receive so many punches at once?"

"Honestly, my Captain hits harder." Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Gin cracked his neck and put up his dukes.

"Well then, how about I raise the stakes?" Foxy trotted up over to the railing of the ship and pulled on a rope.

Gin's ears heard the telltale clicks of crossbows releasing their bolts. He saw several of them flying from hidden positions in the ship and he fell to his belly to dodge all of them. That left Foxy to escape to do something nasty.

And when Gin jumped to his feet, he saw Foxy mounted behind an odd cannon. "Slow Slow Foxy Face Bomb!" The cannon fired with a terrible roar, and to the shock, and disgust of the challengers, multiple cannonballs in the shape of Foxy's head slowly flew from the cannon.

"I have never been so disgusted in seeing ammunition in my entire life." Gin stepped off to the side, forcing them to completely miss his person.

"They're mostly a distraction." One of the cannonballs "talked" and Gin raised his arms to protect his face when Foxy slugged his forearms with now blue spiked gloves, blood spilled down his exposed forearms, causing the Captain of the Foxy Pirates to laugh. "Sorry Gin, but I'm not taking any chances. I did a little Glove Upgrade while you weren't looking! Also...thirty seconds are up."

"Fuck!" Gin ran for his life when the cannonballs began to explode right in midair. It tore apart the deck, destroyed barrels and crates, and tore off the railings. Thick clouds of smoke covered the deck, obscuring the end results.

Within the cloud of smoke, Gin cleared his lungs by brutally hacking. So this was what getting blown up was like on the other end? That was what he had been doing to other people? God, that sucked! "Slow Slow Beam!" Gin dived behind the mast and dodged the beam from hitting him.

"Foxy, when I get a hold of you I'm going to break both your arms!"

"You can try!" Gin saw an outline and punched at it with all his might. He hit it, he broke it, and by it, it turned out to be a cardboard cutout. He had to roll to the side when Foxy fired off his signature attack, and from within the smoke more cardboard cutouts appeared. "Are you fucking kidding me?"

"Fuehfehfehfeh! There are so many of me Man-Demon, you can't possibly get me before my beam hits you!"

Tearing off his gloves, Gin's eyes looked around the deck until he spotted something that brought a wicked smile to his face. "Oh, I got something that will hit you before you get me!"

"I sincerely doubt tha-"

BANG!

The cutout beside the real Foxy erupted into splinters, then the one underneath him. His eyes bugged out of his skull and snot fell from one nostril. Gin found a rack of pistols and began unloading them into his cardboard cutouts without hesitation. "What are you doing!? You could kill me you know!"

"That's the point!" Gin appeared in front of Foxy and smacked him right in the face with the butt of the flintlock pistol. The entire stock broke on his mug, and he was sent flying, and crashing onto the deck. Dropping the useless pistol, Gin cracked his knuckles. "I don't show any sort of mercy. You forced us into the Davy Back Fight, and cheated your assess off the entire time. Well, now I'm going to take it out on your ugly face!"

"Ugly!?" Foxy fell to his knees in despair.

"Yea, ugly!" Gin punched him in the back of the head, and watched as he crashed through the deck.

"How devious! Gin don't you have any shame!?" Itomimizu bellowed, and a lot of people booed the First Mate.

"Hell no! I don't have a drop of shame in me you weirdo!"

"Do you really think that would put me down?" Foxy called from the inside of the ship. "Come on inside Man-Demon, our fight isn't over yet!"

The entirety of the Ocean Sword Pirates looked over the stage with a sense of disbelief. It was no surprise that Gin was fighting dirty, many of them were used to that. But Foxy actually goading him on to run into the ship? That would be a cold day in hell.

"That's not going to work." Kotetsu said.

"Nope, Gin is not even remotely close to being that dumb." Shizune seconded.

"Do you think he is going to wait on the deck?" Vivi curiously asked.

"That seems logical, Gin could easily regain his second wind, but at the same time Foxy could as well." Bashura scratched his head underneath his top hat. "He is also at a disadvantage, this is Foxy's ship, who knows what sort of traps he still has hidden."

"Guys, I hate to say this but I know what Gin's next move is going to be." Carmen said.

"What are you guys talking about?" Porche demanded.

"You're going to want to say goodbye to your ship." Marianne dully replied.

On the deck Gin obviously didn't take the bait, inside the ship would pose a lot of unneeded risks. He didn't survive this long by being stupid, so the first thing he did was make his way around the top of the ship, ignoring Foxy's and his crews taunting until he found what he needed.

Foxy left a lot of cannons on deck, which meant gunpowder, and he also found lanterns and oil. Gin busted them all open, forced them all over the top of the ship, and even into it where Foxy was still waiting. He climbed all the way up to the crows nest, a lit lantern clutched between his teeth.

"Oh no! Oh no! Gin, whatever you're thinking I beg that you reconsider!" Itomimizu frighteningly screamed.

"Foxy said to go nuts on his ship! He said you all could rebuild! Well let us see you do that!" Gin manically cackled. Throwing the lit lantern onto the deck of the Sexy Foxy everyone watched as it shattered on impact, ignited the oil and gunpowder. The deck of the ship violently rocked with the explosions, fire caught on the wood and began spreading throughout the ship.

That set off a series of explosions within the ship itself, causing the Sexy Foxy to lurch from side to side. The right side of the hull blew outwards when the armory caught fire and ignited more gunpowder. A boiler burst up from the stern, destroying the helm, the Foxy Pirates began screaming in terror as their ship was destroyed before their very eyes.

All the while Gin was watching from the crows nest with his arms crossed. The flames danced in his black eyes, so far the ship wasn't sinking, but it was only a matter of time. Foxy couldn't swim, he could. And once the ship sank, it would be his win.

He didn't need to wait long though, Foxy literally blasted from below the ship, his trousers caught on fire and screaming his head off. "Hey Foxy! Your ship is now as ugly as you are!"

"Ugly?" Foxy once again fell to his knees. It didn't matter if the deck was on fire and it burned him, it was a weakness Gin exploited like any sort of self-respecting pirate would have.

Falling from the crows nest, Gin tumbled through the flames, ignoring the minor burns for the prize ahead of him. Without stopping, Gin kicked Foxy right in his ass. He put every single bit of power into that kick, and it paid off. Foxy screamed in pain between the brutal kick and the burns and was launched off the ship and into the sea on the out of bounds line.

"I don't believe it! Gin the "Man-Demon" beat the Boss, the Ocean Sword Pirates are the victors of the Davy Back Fight!" Itomimizu screamed.

"Yeeeaaa I won you cheating bastards!" Gin hollered at the top of his lungs, then seeing the legs of his pants catching fire, he swore loudly and dived over the side into the ocean where the stinging salt water alerted how badly he was messed up.

Still, it was worth the win.

(Thirty minutes later)

The Sexy Foxy was a terrible mess, her once beautiful exterior was charred black, the inside was a wreck. It took almost twenty minutes for the Foxy Pirates to contain the fires ravaging their ship, she was still floating, but able to sail...not so much.

"You literally set their ship on fire." Shizune said. Her voice didn't have any anger in it, just reluctant acceptance as she applied burn cream on Gin's injuries.

"Ow! Is that how you treat a winner?" Gin gritted through his teeth.

"You might of won Gin, but it sure was ugly. I don't know what Luffy did, but it must have been drastically different than what you have done." Vivi looked towards the members of the Foxy Pirates, from the racers, to the Groggy Monsters, to the remaining five-hundred odd members glaring daggers at them.

"Fuck them." Gin's response did not surprise them.

"Gin, you have to learn not to be so...obtuse." Bashura informed the First Mate. "Sometimes being kind goes a long way."

"Would you be kind to these guys if you had a choice?" Carmen asked.

"If they didn't cheat so much, I would." The Cat man replied.

"You're a better man than us." Kotetsu scratched his chest. He looked over at the Foxy Pirates, and then back at his crew. "So who are we going to get?"

"A shipwright or course." Marianne said.

"Well, yes, but who?"

"Hmm...you're right. Hey Foxy, we want one of your shipwrights!" Gin yelled at his former opponent.

Being carried on a stretcher, Foxy looked worse for wear. Several burns littered his body, half his hair was burned off, he had a band aid covering his broken nose, two black eyes, and was covered in gauze.

"You honestly have the nerve to demand something from me after what you did?" Foxy demanded.

"Yes, I do. I won. Now gimme a shipwright."

"Captain Foxy, if I may." Vivi took a step forward to diffuse a potentially volatile situation. "As your announcer declared, anything on the ship could be used as a weapon. And with you using cannons, crossbow bolts, cardboard cutouts, then Gin here could use all the gunpowder, oil and fire he wants since it was on the ship. Which by the way was the battlefield you "conveniently" managed to get. We also heard you scream for Gin to be as rough as he wanted, so if you want someone to blame for the extensive damage to your ship, you have no one to blame but yourself."

The face Vivi said that in such a pleasant demeanor was not lost on her crew mates. It may have sounded kind, but she cut them deep with logic, and they could not dig themselves out of the mess they made. "Now I believe we are owed your very best shipwright."

Gnashing his teeth, Foxy snapped his head to the side, unable to find a way around the girl's flawless logic. "Fine, because you managed to beat me. I will offer you three of my best shipwrights. Come on out you three!"

"The first I have to offer you is Sonieh, the head of the fifty Foxy ship carpenters." Foxy showed off an average sized man, with long shaggy blonde hair on the back of his head, and sideburns. He had a small black goatee, stubble on his upper lip, and a round nose. Attire wise he wore a rope around his forehead, cap on his head, a black mask and a green shirt, black pants and brown boots.

"We also have the sexy shipwright, Gina." Foxy introduced a normal sized, attractive, tanned-skinned woman with short, wavy red hair reaching down to her neck. She also wore the same mask as other Foxy Pirates and a black shirt with straps over the shoulders and grey short shorts with a belt, and long gloves.

"And we finally have our fighting shipwright, Donovan." The final person Foxy introduced was an average sized man, with stubble on his chin, and dark sunglasses. He wore a black bomber jacket with a white shirt underneath it, a leather arming cap, a pair of blue jeans, and a pair of brown boots. Oddly in his mouth were three nails.

"Hold on, isn't that..." Shizune said.

"Yes, I think it is." Carmen pointed at Donovan.

"What the hell are you girls talking about?" Gin demanded.

"We like that guy, Gin pick Donovan." Marianne demanded.

"Are you sure, I mean we got two others..." Gin wanted to weigh his choices. Gina was hot, and Sonieh was the head of the fifty Foxy ship carpenters, he had to of been good. But the three women glared at him, causing him to look at Vivi, Bashura, and Kotetsu, all three shrugged their shoulders in response. "Alright then, Donovan welcome aboard."

Armageddon: Wow. This took a while.

Lt. RasenganFin: Yea, no shit dude. What took so long?

Pvt. Leaf Ranger: Come on now, the Boss does have two other stories. Research, and real life to contend with.

Pvt. Fox: Plus research is a bitch.

Sgt. Shadowtrayster: And originality, I mean seriously that shit is taxing.

Lt. Doom: And the fact Foxy sucks complete ass.

Armageddon: Damn right, but I go the extra mile for my fans. And now...well I bet you're wondering what the actual crap happened with some of this stuff. Alright, well...here we go.

...Shit, I don't got much. I mean the Look Special was introduced but never shown. And Carmen having a devil fruit, that idea has been planned for a very long time. Now basically the Oil-Oil Fruit is loosely based off the Smooth-Smooth Fruit, basically she can create oil to not only make herself slippery (But can still get hit, unlike Alvida's devil fruit), but also create pools of oil to make the ground slippery and hell for opponents...plus more things I got planned for later. The downside is the obvious devil fruit weaknesses, but also ruining her clothes and potentially slipping out of them.

And finally the big reveal! Donovan is their shipwright, I have been waiting for-freaking-ever to reveal him, and trust me he's gonna be so much fun to write! Agurra and I planned so much with him, all which will be revealed next chapter! So stay tuned, I'm not finished yet, this story is getting better each day!