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It was a beautiful day in Beach City, the weather was bright and sunny, but with a few clouds drifting overhead. Steven and his now girlfriend Connie were taking it easy on The Beach, lying down and looking up at the clouds.

"Hey! That one looks like Lion!" said Steven. "Looks more like Amethyst to me...where is she anyway?" Connie asked.

"Oh, she's went to take the bus to that new All You Can Eat place on the outskirts of Ocean Town" said Steven "want to bet on how long before they kick her out?"

"I don't know...my mom says I shouldn't gamble...but on the other hand, it's not gambling if no real money is involved" said Connie "how about we take some of that fake money from Oligopoly and use that to make bets?"

"Yeah! Hold on, I'll go get it!" said Steven "Oh! Hey! Look! That cloud looks like a pirate ship!" A shadow suddenly grew over Steven and Connie.

"Hmm...it's a bit too dark to be a cloud...wait...Steven, that's an actual-" Connie stammered before Steven grabbed her and got her out of the way before the ship could land, making a crashing thud and a huge dust cloud as it made impact. 

Just then, Pearl came scrambling out of the door in a panic "What happened!? Is everything okay!? Did Steven get corrupted again!?" "Pearl, I'm right here" said Steven.

"Oh, thank goodness. Wait, are you okay!? What happened!?" asked Pearl. "This ship came down from the sky" said Steven as he pointed to the ship that had just landed.

"Preposterous! Ships do not fall from the sky" Pearl claimed. "This one did. It crashed right here, see the impact crater it's in the middle of?" Connie pointed out.

The ship appeared to be a sailing ship, with a Lion's head as it's figurehead, it was rather large and sizable, with indoor two crow's nests atop the two masts, and at the top of the ship and on the main sail, was a skull and crossbones emblem wearing a straw hat.

"Hey, Lion, is this your ship? Were you a pirate?" asked Steven. "Steven, be serious" said Pearl. "I was. The ship has a lion's head on it" said Steven.

Pearl, Steven and Connie went to inspect the ship "Hmm, well, there's no trail leading to the ocean behind the ship, and there was that huge impact tremor...so your story of the ship falling from the sky holds true...though it doesn't appear to be too damaged. But what's with this big hole in the back of it? A ship cannot be seaworthy with such a hole in the back, but it looks like it was designed this way."

"Maybe it's a rocket thruster to make the ship go faster" Steven suggested. "Steven, this is a ship for sea travel, not space travel" Pearl scolded him.

Just then, Connie made a scream of horror, catching Pearl and Steven's attention. They immediately came to her side to see what was the matter. 

And on the ground in front of them, was a skeleton, a nicely dressed skeleton wearing orange pants with a floral pattern, a fancy black jacket, a feathery boa, and a fancy hat that looked like a crown. 

"Oh dear, this must have been a ghost ship! I don't know how it came to be in the sky, but it's clear that this poor person must have been part of this ship's crew" said Pearl.

Suddenly, the skeleton began to move and moan. Connie, Pearl and Steven all grabbed each other in a group hug, screaming in horror. "Heeeeelp meee...I neeed...heeeelp" The Skeleton moaned.

Pearl had always thought the human concept of an afterlife was ridiculous, but seeing as how the skeleton was now moving like something out of a horror movie, she was convinced that, perhaps, there might be some truth to the concept.

But if there was such a thing as an afterlife and by extension ghosts, that perhaps this skeleton has one final regret or unfulfilled purpose that requires closure to move on to the afterlife, if there really is such a thing.

"Come closer...I need...I need..." The Skeleton pleaded. Pearl kneeled down to face the skeleton at eye level and asked in a calmer, caring sounding voice "What do you need?"

"I need...to see your panties!" The Skeleton said in a suddenly more cheerful tone. Pearl instinctively slapped the skeleton so hard, its skull was spinning as it made a "Yo ho ho ho ho ho!" sound.

The Skeleton got to its feet and grabbed a hold of its spinning skull and repositioned it properly "Whoa, I feel so dizzy, I could vomit...not that I can vomit because I'm a skeleton! Yo ho ho ho ho!" 

"H-how are you alive?" Connie asked. "Oh, I ate the revive revive fruit, it brings you back to life when you die, but where I died was rather foggy, took my soul forever to find it" The Skeleton casually said.

"Revive-Revive? Never heard of that kind of fruit" said Steven. "Well, that's because it's a devil fruit" The Skeleton explained. "Devil fruit?" asked Steven.

"Yeah, you know, you eat it, you get an amazing ability, but you lose your ability to swim? You know, Devil Fruits?" he asked "By the way, you wouldn't have happened to see my fellow crewmates, have you?"

Meanwhile, not too far from The Beach, at the hill next to the Big Donut, there lay a huge cyborg with a small mini-reindeer on top of it in an impact crater.

"Thanks for shielding my fall, Franky, but you know I could have shielded my own fall with my guard point, right?" said The Reindeer.

"Heh, guess I got all caught up in the moment, what with us falling and all" said Franky "but, hey, at least I still saved ya, eh Chopper?"

"True. Thanks a lot Franky...uh, you can let go of me now" said Chopper, who was beneath Franky's arms. "I...uh, I can't seem to move my arms, Chopper" Franky admitted "in fact, I feel all low on energy, like my cola reserves are nearly depleted...but that's odd, because I just put in full fresh bottles this morning!" 

"Here, let me check!" said Chopper as he struggled to free himself from Franky's now limp arms and pulled them away and opened up Franky's six-pack like a refrigerator door.

"Aaaah! Franky! The impact of the fall has broken all your cola reserves, it's everywhere!" Chopper said in horror. Cola was flooding Franky's compartment, along with bits of glass from the bottles, cola was everywhere, but none of it was getting to where it needed to be.

"Oh, yeah, that'll do it..." Franky weakly said in agreement. "Oh no! What do we do! What do we do! Call a doctor! Oh wait! I'm the doctor!" Chopper panicked.

"Calm down there, Chopper. Look behind you..." Franky said weakly "that building looks like a store of some kind, they might sell cola there..." 

Chopper looked behind himself just as Franky instructed and sure enough, there was a building with the sign The Big Donut in front. 

"Hmm, it looks more like a bakery, but maybe they sell drinks too!" said Chopper "Okay! Hold on Franky, I'll be right back!" "You're a real pal, Chopper!" Franky responded.

As Chopper went into the store, an ambulance pulled in and two paramedics rushed out to Franky's side "Huh? Hey, who are you clowns?" He weakly asked.

"Oh dear god! Look at his body, all that swelling! I've never seen anything like this before" said One Paramedic. "This must be a new type of cancer" The other suggested "we better get him to the hospital stat! Although it may not look like there's much we can do for him at that point." 

"No...you...don't understand!" Franky tried to explain. "Quick, let's load him onto the Ambulance, quickly!" The Paramedics ignored him.

Meanwhile in the store, Chopper was in the middle of talking with the store's clerk and manager, former mayor Bill Dewey. "Thanks for letting me have these bottles of cola for free!" said Chopper.

"Oh, no problem, I saw the whole thing with you and your friend outside" said Bill "don't worry, I already called an ambulance for him. You can give those to your friend once they admit him in the hospital.

"Hospital!? But...Franky's a Cyborg....and the local doctor's probably don't know that! They'll have no idea what to do with him! They'll take him apart" Chopper panicked as he hastily grabbed the bottles and rushed outside.

But it was too late, The ambulance had already zipped around the corner, with several protrusions, the ambulance wasn't built for a man of Franky's build, just putting him inside it misshaped it!

Franky's legs were sticking out the back. "CHOPPER! HELP MEEEEEEEEE!" Franky screamed out the back of the ambulance. 

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In the forest just north of Beach City, Roronoa Zora, was wandering, trying to find the rest of the crew. "Where is everybody? Last I remember we were all caught up in that knock up stream and flung from The Sunny..." he said to himself.

He wandered into a more damaged looking part of the forest, still trying to find his way back to The Sunny, which given that it's Zoro, may take a while or two. 

But little did he know, he was wandering into the territory of a very dangerous and solitary gem, Jasper, and she's not too fond of others wandering into her territory. 

Bursting out of her cave, she spin dashed right towards him...but Shing! Slash! Zoro drew and slashed with his sword faster than the naked eye could see!

Jasper was split in half as he body poofed, leaving nothing behind but a gem which fell to the ground. "Damn, could have asked her for directions" said Zoro as he looked upon her gemstone "oh well, hopefully there's at least a town nearby, somewhere where I can get some booze."

Elsewhere in the ocean, the local Beach City Fisherman, Yellowtail was treating a man who looked like a cross between a whale shark and a human, a Fish-Man named Jinbei, to a nice cup of coffee.

They appeared to be in the middle of a conversation "The Dimensional Knock Up Stream...I've heard of a regular knock up stream, but this is news to me. So we're really in another world entirely?" Jinbei asked. 

"Muh. Muh muh muh muh muh muh muh" Yellowtail responded in his usual dialect. "Your explanation makes sense, but I still can't wrap my head around it" said Jinbei "but if what you're saying is true, than we've got 24 hours before the Return Knock Up Stream that will take us back home will appear. I've got to find our Navigator, Nami, and the rest of the crew let them know! If we don't catch it, it will be twenty years before the next one!" 

"Muh muh muh muh muh" said Yellowtail. "Yes, thank you, I appreciate it. And thank you for letting me on your fishing boat, sorry for interrupting your fishing trip" Jinbei said with a polite bow.

"Muh muh muh. Muh muh muh (Don't worry about it. You're not the strangest thing I've caught in my net)" said Yellowtail as he turned his boat around and set a course back to Beach City.

Meanwhile at The Lighthouse, Usopp, The Marksmen of the Straw Hats was recounting a tale of his adventures as one of the Straw Hats. Of course, given that it's Usopp, the accuracy of the story is dubious at best.

But regardless, Ronaldo, who had invited Usopp in, was hanging on his every word. The oldest son of The Fry Shop owner had his mouth agape, and his eyes were filled with starry wonder.

"And so, as we sailed forth like my masters instructed, but that's when, a giant gold fish arose of the depths with its mouth wide open, ready to eat us! My crew were all scared to the point of wetting themselves, and some of them actually did! But I remained true, as the goldfish swallowed us, the voice of my marksman instructor, Sogeking, rung in my ears. "Trust in The Giants" he told me. And suddenly, a huge hole was carved in the fish! My masters had cut a hole in the fish, setting us free, from miles away!"

"Captain Usopp, you're amazing!" Ronaldo said in a very fanboy-ish tone. "Thank you! Thank you very much" Usopp said in a not so humble tone.

"So, where is this Sniper Island where you trained to be a marksman?" asked Ronaldo. "The Island of Snipers is...in your heart" Usopp said in a poetic tone.

Ronaldo nearly fainted like a fangirl at a concert for their favorite teen idol. 

Meanwhile at The All You Can Eat Restaurant at the outskirts of the next town over to Beach City, Amethyst and a familiar young man in a straw hat were being kicked out of the restaurant.

"Hey! What's the big idea, you jerk!" said Luffy. "Your restaurant is "All You Can Eat", I haven't even had half that!" Amethyst added.

Luffy looked at Amethyst with an annoyed expression "I haven't even had a quarter of all I could eat!" he then said as if competing with her.

"I don't care! I can't afford to serve you all you can eat! Go bankrupt someone else's buffet!" The manager growled as he slammed the door. 

"What's your problem, dude!? You were stealing food off of my plates!" Amethyst accused. "You were hogging all the meat!" Luffy accused back. 

"Too bad! First come, first serve, pal!" Amethyst retorted as she blew a raspberry at him. "I ain't yer pal, grape lady!" Luffy snarled.

Amethyst gasped in shock "I know you didn't just call me "grape lady"!" "Well, I know that I did!" Luffy responded. 

Amethyst and Luffy angrily glared at each other and growled for several seconds until they both noticed a sign for a hot dog eating contest. 

"How about this, a hot dog eating contest! I challenge you!" Amethyst proclaimed. "BRING IT OOOOOOON!" Luffy roared "I can totally eat way more than you, grape lady! I'm way taller!"

"As if I'd lose to a string bean like you!" Amethyst retorted. The two rushed off to sign up for the hot dog eating contest in a flash. 

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On the very outskirts of town, a dark haired young woman is looking at an ancient looking cube with hieroglyphs written on four sides, behind her was Garnet of The Crystal Gems.

"Interesting, I remember when I first saw that cube fall from the sky around 700 years ago" said Garnet "It had bothered me ever since. A language I couldn't decipher, and many of the possible futures I could see provided no answers. And now here we have someone who can read it falling right out of the sky."

"The stars must have been aligned then, Garnet. Thanks again for catching me" said Robin. "What surprised me even more is that ability of yours" said Garnet.

*15 minutes prior* 

Nico Robin begun her initial inspection of the poneglyph. "Hmm..." Robin stared at the text for a few moments "this poneglyph is sideways...better be careful...uno fleurs...bulldozer!"

Around the right side of the poneglyph, five huge fingers sprouted, which were part of a large hand than gently moved the Poneglyph to its correct side.

Robin knew how durable poneglyphs were and that she could have been a bit rougher if she felt like it, but she had too much respect for the hidden history she was trying to uncover to be rough. 

Garnet was completely stunned. She didn't know what to say, this strange woman could summon a huge hand out of nowhere.

"I should have told you earlier, but I have the ability to make any part of my body blossom on almost any solid surface" said Robin. 

"Impressive, I guess I didn't need to rescue you, with that ability you could have saved yourself" Garnet complimented. 

"I could have, but I do appreciate it" said Robin. "I've always been curious about what was written on that "Poneglyph", I was hoping that maybe you could share what's written on it?" Garnet requested.

"Well, this one in particular talks of the existence of parallel worlds...ah! So, he was here too...or at least he was mentioned to be in a parallel world" said Robin "Oh, Joy Boy, is there anywhere you haven't been?"

"Joy Boy...sounds important" said Garnet. "Joy Boy's a historical figure who's often mentioned in The Poneglyphs" said Robin "when I first set out to finish the work of my fellow scholars of Ohara, I thought I would be figuring out what happened during The Void Century back in my world, but the more I find, and the more I learn, I'm beginning to suspect that there's more to it, like there's a great secret that each Ponyglyph tells only a part of."

"I do love a good mystery" said Garnet.

Meanwhile in Beach City, a nicely dressed blonde man was making his way through town when he noticed a personal ad. 

It had a picture of a nice looking dark skinned woman, "Lonely female mayor seeks attractive male suitor" the advertisement read "If interested, please contact Mayor Nanafua in City Hall."

Sanji's eyes turned to hearts "Ooooh! A fair maiden, and a mayor no less! She's calling to me! This ad! It must be destiny!" Sanji happily made his way towards City Hall.

He dashed up the stairs and into the building, headed straight for the Mayor's Office "My sweet Nanafua! Wait no longer! Your suitor is here! You need not be scarred by loneliness!"

"Oh, well aren't you sweet" said kindly old Mayor Nanafua. Sanji had a look of horror upon his face as he fell to his knees.

"You...you can't be Nanafua...the picture on the ad..." Sanji stammered. "Oh! That's just something new the young people came up with, "Cat Fishing". I thought I'd try it" said Nanafua.

"What a cruel, cruel trick..." Sanji said tearfully. "Anyway, I'm flattered, but I was hoping for someone a little more older" said Nanafua "you look younger than my son. But thanks for your interest!"

Sanji moped as he left the office "At least it's not that hell on Momorio Island..." he said, trying to make himself feel better.

At the Hospital, Chopper finally made it "This place is crazy, all these four wheeled vehicles...these concrete roads..." Chopper than noticed the heavily lumpy ambulance Franky was transported to the Hospital in.

"Ah! Good! Franky's here! I hope I'm not too late! The Doctor's here don't know anything about Franky's body! They could kill him without even knowing it!" 

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Jinbei and Yellowtail were headed back to Beach City aboard Yellowtail's fishing boat. Jinbei looked out the starboard side of the boat and noticed the beached Thousand Sunny off in the distance.

"Ah! My crew's ship! Thank you again for the ride, Yellowtail, but as you can see off of starboard side, I can take it from here" said Jinbei "It would have been nice to meet your family, but I have to reunite with my crew and tell them about the Dimensional Knock Up Stream."

Yellowtail simply gave him an assuring and polite nod. Jinbei nodded back as he dove into the sea and swam towards the part of the Beach that served as the Crystal Gem Homebase. 

Meanwhile Brook was arguing with Pearl "I am telling you, there are seven continents" "Nuh uh! There is only one continent, and it circumvents the globe!" Brook retorted. 

"Sure, next you're going to tell me the earth is flat?" Pearl rudely dismissed. "I used the words "circumvent" and "globe", how is that saying the Earth is flat?" Brook replied.

"BROOK! HEEEEEY! BROOOOOK!" A voice familiar to the living skeleton called out from the sea. Pearl, Steven, Connie and Brook looked outwards towards the sea.

Out of it came Jinbei "Oh! Hey Jinbei! You won't believe these people! They've never heard of Devil Fruits or The Red Line" said Brook "I think we're in a far off corner of the world, a real backwater island." 

"That doesn't surprise me in the least, Brook. Because right now, there are no Devil Fruits, and there is no Red Line...these people no nothing about our world, because where we are, this isn't our world!" Jinbei revealed.

"What'chu talkin' 'bout, Jinbei?" Brook asked in a sassy tone. Pearl thought about what this strange looking entity just said "Are you saying you're from another planet?" she asked.

"No! We're from another dimension!" Jinbei clarified. "What? Preposterous, other dimensions are theoretical. In the realm of Greg's silly science fiction movies" Pearl dismissed.

Steven, however, was still in amazement at the sight of a talking skeleton and a strange new lifeform that could possibly be a merman.

"Well, it doesn't seem too far fetched, Pearl" said Connie "I mean, we have a talking skeleton talking about a globe completely different from ours, and fruits that don't exist. Not to mention that fish...man. Oh! No offence sir!"

"None taken, young lady. You are using the correct term, I am a fish man. A whale shark fish man to be precise" Jinbei said politely "allow me to introduce myself, my name is Jinbei, this skeleton is my crewmate Brook."

"Well, Mr. Jinbei, you certainly seem more polite than your friend is" said Pearl. "Let me guess, he asked to see your undergarments, didn't he? My apologies" Jinbei said with a bow.

"Come on, Jinbei, don't apologize for me! You're breaking my heart!...Although, I guess I don't have a heart to break because I'm a skeleton! Yo ho ho ho ho!" Brook joked.

"Ha! More skeleton jokes!" Steven snickered "Oh! Mr. Jinbei! Can I ask you a question?" "What is it?" Jinbei asked.

"You said you're a whale shark fish man...does that mean there are other kinds?" asked Steven "like, are there octopus, starfish and even pufferfish fishmen!?" 

"Yes. There are many kinds of fish man, we're a diverse people" Jinbei explained. "Wow, there's different kinds and you all can live on land or sea!? That's so cool!" Steven complimented.

"That's nice of you to say...but unfortunately most humans in my world aren't as accepting of my kind as you are" said Jinbei. 

Steven's cheerful demeanor suddenly changed "Huh? What do you mean? Why wouldn't people accept you?" 

"It's a long and complicated history, young man. For quite some time, my kind wasn't even accepted as "people", we were just fish to them. They even used us for slave labor. Some progress has been made over the past two hundred years with attempts at reconciliation, but...things are still complicated" Jinbei explained.

Steven, Connie and Pearl couldn't help but feel sorry for Jinbei. "Hey, not to change the subject, but didn't you just say we're in another dimension?" asked Brook.

"That's right! I just heard it from a fisherman I met earlier!" Jinbei remembered "our ship was caught up in a special knock up stream called The Dimensional Knock Up Stream! It's taken us to a parallel dimension! There will be only one that can take us home! If we miss it, we're stuck here for a whole year! We need to find the rest of the crew, especially Nami, with her expertise on weather phenomena."

"Hey, how about we help you find your crew?" asked Steven. "Are you sure?" asked Jinbei. "Yeah, if there's more people searching, it should be easier to find your crew" Connie agreed.

"And if it will help get rid of this creepy skeleton, I will gladly help" Pearl added.

"Thank you, I certainly appreciate it. The rest of my crew shouldn't be too hard to find. They're all very unique" said Jinbei "Our captain, Luffy, is a dark haired young man with a straw hat and a scar under his left eye and an "X" shaped scar on his chest. Zoro, the Swordsman, has mossy hair and a scar over his left eye. Usopp's long nose should give him away. Sanji is very well dressed, his bangs cover his right eye and his eyebrows have a swirl to them. Franky is a Cyborg, easily identified by his unusually shaped body. And our Doctor, Chopper, is a shapeshifting reindeer. Those are the most easily identifiable members of our crew."

"You guys have a Cyborg and a reindeer on your ship! Now I definitely want to help you find them!" Steven said excitedly. 

"As for our two remaining crewmates, they're the most "normal" looking of the crew" said Jinbei "I'll go see if I can get their wanted posters so you know who to look for.

"Wanted posters...are you...are you guys criminals!?" said Pearl as she immediately brandished her spear. 

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In a small factory on the outskirts of the next town over from Beach City, a man with greyish blue hair in a business suit addresses a bunch of high ranking military personnel, police chiefs, and business executives.

"Greetings beloved investors. For those who haven't met me, I am Don Krieg. Founder and CEO of Krieg Arms Welcome to our second annual Investors meeting. As you can see, we have grown quite a bit from last year" said Don Krieg "no longer are we using that small warehouse out in Charm City's outskirts, but a more fully fledged factory. And of course we cannot mention our company's success without the success of our flagship product, The Krieg Arms Battle Tunic! With our top secret steel alloy, no bullet can penetrate it! But that wasn't the selling point, this is!"

Don Krieg reached inside the runic and the shoulder pads and two other compartments opened up, revealing concealed built in guns.

The investors all clapped their hands. "Of course, there has been one common complaint about this product, that being it's too heavy" Don Krieg continued "to address this complaint, we are currently developing a brand new lighter model, for those of more average upper body strength. So far, this quarter, we have made about five working prototypes, and we're getting very close reaching an ideal final product! And with your continued support we might be able to have a final product before this month is out!"

The investors were whispering amongst themselves with great interest in the new lightweight version of the Battle Tunic. 

"Now, how about the foreman show's you all the testing area" said Don Krieg "there you can see what our other products are capable of!"

All the investors seemed very interested and followed the foreman of the factory who guided everyone out of the room. 

Don Krieg breathed a huge sigh of relief as he pulled off his tie, his suit jacket and business shirt, leaving only behind a sleeveless undershirt "Thank god that crap is done with! I can't stand this formal business crap! I just want to make and sell weapons!" 

Don Krieg had come from the same world The Straw Hat Pirates had come from, after suffering a mutiny by Gin, his former Combat Commander, he was left adrift on a lifeboat, before getting hit in a Dimensional Knock Up Stream and winding up here two years before The Straw Hats arrived in this world. 

Since then, he decided to sell some of the weapons he invented on the black market, before making enough money to go legitimate and sold weapons to more legitimate institutions such as the military and local police forces.

"Thanks again for writing up that speech, Aquamarine" Don Krieg than said to a small flying blue gem who fluttered into his office "those chumps were eating it all up!"

"As I thought they would" said Aquamarine. "Heya, Boss, I'm back!" said Eyeball, a Ruby whose gem was placed where her other eye should be. 

"So, how'd you're little rampage go?" asked Don Krieg. "It caught the attention of those anti-gem idiots" said Eyeball "they'll be wanting some of your gem busting weapons, I bet!"

Don Krieg simply laughed "It's good to appeal to all markets and give them a reason to buy from us! And Aquamarines conspiracy articles of anti-gem rhetoric are also doing wonders! Though I must say I am surprised you two are going along with this smear campaign against your own kind."

"Our kind has lost its edge two years ago" said Aquamarine "we've lost our pride! Our Leaders have turned into obsessive fangirls of some stupid hybrid, and now all gems are equal! I don't want to be equal to a stupid pearl!"

"Me neither!" said Eyeball. "Well, stick with me, you two. And we're going to be rich! Not just the rich we are right now, I mean real wealth!" said Don Krieg "when you get real wealth, than you get power! Heh heh heh..."

That's when Don Krieg noticed something on the monitor, one of his security guards out front was talking with a man with three swords at his side.

"No...no, it couldn't be him, could it?" Don Krieg muttered. He then picked up one of the walkie talkies on his desk "Diaz! Who was that man!?" 

"I don't know, probably some weirdo from comic con or something. He was looking for Beach City and I told him he was too far away!" said The Guard. 

"Okay...carry on" Don Krieg sighed "right, just some comic book geek, nothing to worry about..." "You seemed worried boss" said Eyeball.

"Oh, nothing, I just thought the man talking to the security guard was someone from my past...but that's unlikely, couldn't be him. Besides, I've moved on from pirating. I'm raking in more cash than I ever did as a pirate! And thanks to the technology you and Aquamarine are sharing with me, I, no, we are going to become even more successful! Forget the past

Suddenly, the door opened and in came Zoro of The Straw Hat Pirates "HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE!?" Aquamarine, Eyeball and Don Krieg exclaimed. 

"Sorry, must have got turned around again" said Zoro. Don Krieg recognized him this time, Zoro, of what is now known as The Straw Hat Pirates.

"Roronoa Zoro...we meet again" Don Krieg said with a most sinister tone. "I'm sorry, do I know you?" asked Zoro. "What!? Come on, Baratie, remember?" Don Krieg responded in shock.

"I remember Baratie, I remember my Duel with Mihawk and when we recruited that Shitty Cook, but I don't remember you. Sorry" Zoro shrugged as he casually made his way out of the office.

Don Krieg growled "I, the strongest in the east blue, was humiliated by you and your dumbass happy go lucky "captain", and now you rub salt in the wound by not remembering me!" he put on the Battle Tunic "Then I'm going to make sure you never forget me!!!" 

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"Look, pal, I don't know what your problem is, but I've got to get back to my crew" Zoro said with a sigh "those guys have poor sense of direction..."

"You have the arrogance of Mihawk! But you're nowhere near as good as he is! I may not have beaten him, but I can easily beat you!" Don Krieg fired from all guns on his body, with several large bombs being included in the midst.

Zoro rolled his eye and made a few swipes with two of his swords, one blocked each bullet, the other sliced apart the bombs, leaving several small explosions behind him.

"Well...you're right about one thing" said Zoro as he began swiping his sword haphazardly. Suddenly, Don Krieg's Battle Tunic began to fall apart into several neatly cut pieces, and so did his guns!

Don Krieg was shuddering in complete shock. As he looked upon Zoro, he hallucinated an image of Mihawk in the exact same pose as Zoro. 

"And that was your only warning" said Zoro as he turned away and casually made his way towards the exit. "My...my prototype...." Don Krieg mumbled.

Before Zoro could make it to the exit, a red and blue gem with dragonfly wings fluttered in front of him "Hold it right there, guvnah!" It said in a cockney accent.

"Sorry, I'm in a hurry" Zoro said in a dismissive tone. "I will not! You upset my boss and ruined our hard work, we absolutely cannot have that!" said Bluebird Azurite "why, just like what you did to our poor prototype, I'm going to have to slice you to ribbons!" 

Bluebird Azurite summoned two icy swords. "Better swordsmen than you have tried" Zoro passively boasted. "We'll see!" Bluebird Azurite summoned several icy swords all around Zoro, each with their blades pointed at him.

"Well, I'll give you credit for originality" said Zoro as he rolled his good eye. All the swords came flying right at them. In that instant, Zoro drew his two other swords, putting one in his mouth.

"Tatsu Maki" Zoro said as he spun his swords to make a dragon shaped tornado, which became coated in the very ice swords that Bluebird launched at them, which all came firing back towards Bluebird herself, poofing her after several of the swords struck her.

Zoro breathed a sigh of annoyance "I need a drink..." as Zoro wandered off, Don Krieg was lamenting the loss of his prototype.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Franky was being overseen by one Dr. Maheswaran, mother of Connie Maheswaran, who was back in Beach City. She was dictating notes to her notetaking app.

"Patient appears to have large swelling around the shoulder and the forearms, the forearms appear to have an unnatural blue color and square shape..." she dictated "he also has a rather athletic build, although it could be possible that the build could be from some sort of as of yet unidentified steroid of some sort, and the patient's current condition could be a side effect of this hypothetical steroid."

"No...need...I neeed..." Franky mumbled half consciously. "It could also be some sort of drug experimentation, I should have a more clear answer after thorough examination" said Dr. Maheswaran.

"Hurry...help..." Franky continued to mumble half consciously. Dr. Maheswaran then put on a more caring expression and looked Franky in the eye.

"It's going to be okay, sir" she said in a soothing tone. Franky's eyes gently closed. She closely examined Franky's nose "Hmm...patient appears to have some sort of prosthetic nose" she placed her hand on it and after three seconds, Franky's hair began to change style.

"Okay...that's new...and what's with all these metal braces on his legs? Are they a new sort of exercise equipment?" Dr. Maheswaran wondered "but how did touching his nose cause his hair to change.

Suddenly, a huge man covered in hair and wearing a doctor's coat kicked the door open while holding a vacuum cleaner "Hold it! I'm his personal physician!"

"Who are you!? And why are you only wearing shorts under that coat! Where's your scrubs! Were the nurses not vigilant on the eighth floor!?" Dr. Maheswaran stammared.

"No time! He needs three bottles of cola, stat!" said Chopper as he opened Franky's chest compartment as Dr. Maheswaran screamed in horror. 

Chopper than put the vaccum's nozzle in splattered cola and glass floating in the cola reserve. "What!? What is this!?" Dr. Maheswaran asked now that she could clearly see Franky's Cola Compartment.

"Franky's no ordinary man! He's a cyborg, powered by cola!" Chopper declared as he thrust the cola bottles into the compartment and cola.

"A Cyborg!? Cola!?" Dr. Maheswaran stammered "Listen here, Mr, I don't know who you are, but you should be arrested for-" as Dr. Maheswaran ranted, Franky's eyes opened up.

A loud triumphant cry of "SUUUUUUUUUUUUPER!" reverberated throughout the hospital. Franky was back on his feet "Yeow! Franky's back, baby! I am SUPER recharged!" 

"Fraaaanky!" Chopper cried as he was back into his base form, the doctor's coat now being too big for him, and hopped onto Franky's chest in a huge embrace "Oh Franky, I'm so sorry I couldn't stop those paramedics away! If I didn't show up on time, she...she would have taken you apart because she doesn't know you're a cybor-hor-horrrrg!" Chopper cried.

"Hey, dry those tears, Chopper. The important thing is, you made it! And that's all that matters!" said Franky. "Wh-wh-whaaaaaat!?" Dr. Maheswaran exclaimed "what is this!? Cola saved you!? And where's that quack doctor!? Where did this raccoon come from!?"

"I'm not a raccoon, I'm a reindeer!" Chopper growled "and I'm no quack either! I'm a real doctor, dammit!" 

Back at Krieg Arms' Warehouse, Eyeball and Aquamarine reformed as they saw Don Krieg pounding his head against the table "No! I thought I was done with them! Done with that stupid two bit pirate wannabe! Why!? Why does my past return to haunt me!? WHY NOW, OF ALL TIMES!?"

"Boss! What's wrong!?" asked Eyeball. "You'll damage yourself permanently if you keep abusing your head like that!" said Aquamarine "what happened? What's got you so upset!?"

"Aquamarine...Ruby...it is time I told you about my life back in my home world" said Don Krieg "I was once the leader of a mighty pirate armada, that much was true! But I lost it all in a tragic downfall. Me and my armada were headed towards The Grand Line, a notorious stretch of ocean in my world. I was sailing there to get my hands on One Piece, said to be the most valuable pirate treasure in the world, belonging to Gold Roger, a man who gained the reputation of King of The Pirates. And, not too long after me and my Armada arrived on The Grand Line did we run into a man called Dracule Mihawk. Just that one man alone decimated almost my entire armada...:

"And was that green haired human Mihawk?" asked Aquamarine.

"No...If I remember correctly, that guy lost to Mihawk, pretty badly I might add" said Don Krieg "It's that happy go lucky "captain" of his!!! To try and rebuild my already decimated armada, I was going to take over a seafaring restaurant, use it as my new flagship! But my plans were nipped in the bud, by some plucky young idiot pirate wannabe! And then, I got struck by mutiny, by my best division captain no less! And to make matters worse, than pirate wannabe who trounced me had begun making a name for himself in the Grand Line! It was an outrage!!!! I had a full armada with 50 ships! He just had a small crew that wasn't even a fraction of the men I had at my disposal, and a small caravel ship! Yet he made it so much farther down the Grand Line than I did! It's not fair! That happy go lucky dark haired boy ruined my life, became more successful than me, and now, now he comes back to mock me here in this world!!!!"

Don Krieg slammed both his fists on the table, smashing it to splinters. Aquamarine and Eyeball began crying in sympathy "Oh boss! We know your pain! We know it too well!" Eyeball lamented.

"Our lives were ruined by some plucky dark haired boy too! He robbed our once great intergalactic empire of its pride" said Aquamarine "and as if to make matters worse, our Empire's once respectable leaders are now eating out of that boys hands! Worshipping his very footsteps!"

"Aquamarine...Ruby..." Don Krieg said in a more calm tone "when I hired you two, I just needed a secretary and an extra welder...but you two have proven to be bigger assets than I realized. Since our situations are similar, what say you we start plotting out revenge?"

"That sounds brilliant, Boss. But how?" asked Aquamarine. "How about we take a look at our top secret sub-warehouse and see what could be useful?" Don Krieg said with a most sinister tone.

"Oooh! The very same sub-warehouse that serves as an arsenal full of top secret weapons you planned on keeping to yourself, away from investors and customers?" asked Eyeball.

"That's the one!" Don Krieg said as he began chuckling maniacally, with Aquamarine and Eyeball joining in.

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Back on the Beach, Pearl was pointing her spear at Jinbei and Brook. "You two are criminals!?" Pearl said angrily. "Now hold on! Yes, officially we are criminals, but we're not bad people!" Jinbei assured her. 

"Oh really? Then why do you do have wanted posters?" Pearl interrogated. "Mostly for opposing the world government back home" said Jinbei "we've had many run ins with their marine forces."

"Come on, Pearl. Put the spear down, they're rebels like we were!" said Steven. "Actually we're pirates" said Jinbei "and we're really not here to cause any trouble! We just wound up here on your world by the Dimensional Knock Up Stream."

"Pearl, please, put the spear down, they just want to regroup and go home" Steven pleaded. Pearl sighed and put her spear down "Fine...but only because the Fish Man is more polite than the dead man."

"Hey, I have my good qualities! For example, I cannot tell a lie" said Brook "after all, dead men tell no tales! Yo ho ho ho ho!" 

"Okay, let's go find your crew" said Pearl. "Thank you, we only have twenty four hours until the Knock Up Stream that will take us home and we gotta have everyone gathered and the ship in the water before then!"

"Alright, let's take a look around town" said Steven as he led his new friends into town. As they moved throughout the town, Jinbei noticed something about the boardies in town.

"The people of your town, they don't seem to be surprised by me or Brook" said Jinbei. "Yeah, with all that's happened around town, I think people are used to the unusual" said Steven.

"What sort of things happen in this town? It seems peaceful enough" asked Jinbei. "Mostly gem related stuff" said Steven "that's what Pearl is, a gem. They come from another planet."

"Interesting, I remember Usopp staying up late at night reading manga about lifeforms from another planet" said Jinbei "but to think so much stuff involving extraterrestrial activity would allow me to be perceived as normal by human standards, that's quite comforting in a way." 

As they continued walking throughout town, Steven's noticed the guitar slung on Brook's back. "Hey, Brook, are you a musician?" asked Steven.

"Why yes, yes I am. For two years, I was even a huge star" said Brook "I went by the stage name, Soul King!" "Wow! Maybe we can have a jam session when we find everyone" said Steven "I could even invite my dad, he's a musician himself."

"The more the merrier" said Brook. "Now, Beach City's not a big town, but we should still split up and we could cover more ground" Connie suggested.

"Yes, we should" Pearl summoned maps of town for Brook and Jinbei "now this map shouldn't be too hard to read, because as Connie put it, Beach City's not that big a town."

Pearl and Jinbei went off to the east, towards the Amusement Park, as Brook went the opposite direction. 

"Steven, hello" Steven heard Garnet's voice call out. Garnet came down from the north with a dark haired woman next to her "This is my new friend, Robin."

"Robin...Hey, does she by any chance know a fish man named Jinbei and a Skeleton called Brook?" asked Connie. "Oh! Have you met my crew?" asked Robin.

"Yeah, in fact, Brook's right...where is Brook?" asked Steven. Meanwhile, Brook's attention was caught by the It's A Wash car wash.

"Hmmm, this appears to be a bathhouse of some kind..." said Brook "well, my bones have lost their white sheen a bit, a good cleaning ought to do them good!"

Brook casually strolled in to the car wash as his clothes flew out of it, and his guitar was placed gently over his clothing. 

Back in The Hospital, Dr. Maheswaran was in utter shock "So, let me get this straight...you're a cyborg, and you're an anthropomorphic reindeer" 

"Come on, Lady, we've told you that two times. Get with the program already" said Franky. "And you, you're supposed to be a doctor?" Dr. Maheswaran asked Chopper.

"I'm not just supposed to be a doctor, I AM a doctor!" said Chopper "I tried under the two greatest doctors in Drum Kingdom!"

"I still can't wrap my head around this..." said Dr. Maheswaran. She then took a look at the X-Rays of Franky. "Oh dear god, there's nothing left!" she said as she looked over the X-Ray.

"What are you talking about?" asked Franky. "Your body! You say you're a cyborg but...there's practically nothing left of your original body!" She panicked.

"Not entirely true, my skin's original...well, most of it" said Franky "My back's still original because I couldn't reach back there, and there's also my brain..."

"But your "skull" is made of metal...the brain would have to be removed" said Dr. Maheswaran. "Yup. I did that" Franky said with an affirming nod.

"Are...are you saying you made yourself into a cyborg!? The Reindeer didn't do a thing? I can't believe I just said that..." Dr. Maheswaran stammered.

"Nope. Franky's a self-made man! I was a cyborg loooong before I met Chopper" Franky proudly proclaimed. "So you...you removed your own brain while you replaced your own skull!?" Dr. Maheswaran asked in horror.

"The easy part was getting the brain out, the hard part was putting it back in" Franky added "but anyway, there's still a few things left from the original me, after all, my manly pride will not allow me to part with the good ol' Frank and Beans!"

"What are you talking abou-oh...no, I get it..." Dr. Maheswaran groaned "But, how were you able to do this to yourself? What would you even use for anesthetic?"

"Oh, I didn't need any of that, I was already in enough pain when I started" Franky explained "I was hit by a train in the middle of the ocean, you see."

Dr. Maheswaran fainted. "Aaaah! She fainted! Call a doctor! Oh wait! I'm the doctor!" Chopper exclaimed.

Back in Beach City outside the car wash, Greg had returned home with Sadie and Shep. "Wow, that was a great tour you two" said Greg.

"Thanks, Mr. Universe...hey, it sounds like someone's using The Car Wash" said Sadie.

The sound of water running could be heard from inside, accompanied by eerie singing "Yo ho ho ho, yo ho ho ho~ Gather up all of the crew, it's time to ship out bink's brew!"

"Probably a homeless guy using the car wash as a shower..." said Greg "I thought that only happened in big city car washes"

Greg went inside the Car Wash "Excuse me sir, you're not supposed to be..." Greg suddenly froze in terror as a skeleton stood in the middle of the car wash.

It slowly turned its head to face Greg as Greg let out a scream of horror. And The Skeleton also screamed in horror, prompting Greg to scream in horror again, and so on.

"Why are we screaming?!" Brook panicked. "Mr. Universe!" Shep called out from outside as Sadie came in "Is everything o..."

Brook screamed in embarrassment as he covered his bare pelvis "Goodness! How embarrassing...oh wait, I guess it's not, I don't have anything to hide because I'm a skeleton. Yo ho ho ho ho!" 

Brook was then immediately on all fours as it let out a sadder sounding "Yo ho ho ho...." "Did you, uh, just hurt your own feeling?" asked Greg

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Steven, Connie, Garnet and Robin overheard the commotion from The Car Wash. Steven noticed Greg's van was in the parking lot. 

"Dad's back...wait, where's Brook...?" asked Steven. "Oh, have you already met Brook?" asked Robin. "And Jinbei" said Connie. "Wow, looks like you were right on the mark, Garnet" said Robin.

"Yeah. Jinbei is with Pearl over there" said Connie. "Oh, hey Pearl! Jinbei! We found one of Jinbei's Crew!" said Steven. Pearl and Jinbei immediately rushed back to Steven and Connie.

"Robin! Are you alright?" asked Jinbei. "I'm doing very fine, thank you" said Robin "you won't believe this, but a Poneglyph managed to find itself here in this world."

"Yes, which is why it's crucial we find everyone, Robin, we have twenty four hours to get home or else we'll be stuck here for a year!" said Jinbei.

Back at The Hospital, a nurse suddenly came into Dr. Maheswaran's office holding a snail in her hands as a "Peri peri peri peri" sound could be heard coming from it.

"Sorry to bother you, Dr. Maheswaran, but your patient's pet snail seems to be making this strange beeping noise. "Oh! My Transponder Snail!" said Franky as he reached for it and a smaller hand came out of his larger hand.

Both Dr. Maheswaran and the nurse were stunned as Franky picked up the receiver from the snail's shell as the snail made "Ka-lick" sound "Franky and Chopper talking!"

"Hello Franky, good to hear from you, and Chopper's with you too, thank goodness!" Robin's voice came from the Transponder Snail. 

"Oh! You have Robin on the line! Hi Robin! Robin! It's me, Chopper!" Chopper leapt up trying to get in on the conversation.

"Yes, Chopper, I can hear you just fine" Robin said with a chuckle "anyway, the reason why I called you is that the knock up stream that struck The Sunny, it was something called a Dimensional Knock Up Stream, simply put, we're in another world entirely. Jinbei wants to make sure everyone's reunited and to set sail within the next 24 hours if we want to get back home."

"Another world, huh? That makes sense, I was bought to a hospital, if Chopper hadn't shown up when he did, they might have taken me apart" said Franky "and right now, there's this nurse and doctor who are looking at me as if they haven't seen a transponder snail before."

"Funny. I'm with people who haven't seen a transponder snail themselves" said Robin "anyway, don't take too long, Chopper, I'm counting on you to help bring Franky back!"

"Yes ma'am!" Chopper said with utmost enthusiasm "it shouldn't be hard, Franky's nothing like Zoro!"

"Transponder Snails? So that's what that snail is called" said Pearl "and you use these creatures instead of phones? How do they even work?"

"Through telepathy, they're even capable of perfectly mimicking the voices and mannerisms of whoever's on the other end of the call" Robin explained.

"Telepathy...to think that such a thing is possible" said Pearl. "I guess these creatures originally used telepathy as a survival mechanism to warn others of its kind of danger" Connie theorized. 

"No one's ever thought to look into that, but you may not be too far off the mark" said Robin "now, I believe our skeleton, Brook was over there by that place."

"The car wash...Dad!? Is he okay!? I heard a commotion coming from there" said Steven as he dashed towards The Car Wash. 

When he reached over there, he saw his father Greg, his old friend Sadie, her partner Shep and Brook hanging around by the barbeque.

"Hey, Steven, check this out! A living skeleton!" said Greg. "That's Brook, Dad, I met him earlier, in fact we were just looking for him" said Steven.

"Sorry I ran off on you, Steven, it's just that I thought this place was a bathhouse" said Brook "sand really does get everywhere, which is worse when you're a skeleton. Oh! Hi Robin!"

"Hello Brook, it's good to see you're doing well" said Robin "now that I've found you and Jinbei...that just leaves, Zoro, Usopp, Nami, The Captain and The Chef..."

"Robin my love! It's me!" an overly excited voice called from the distance, as a blonde man in a suit skipped merrily towards the car wash. 

"And there would be the chef" said Robin. "Oh Robin, did you miss me? Well worry not, your prince is here!" Sanji said in a charismatic tone.

"Everyone, this is Sanji" said Robin "He's our ship's chef!" "Is he your boyfriend?" asked Connie. "Why yes" said Sanji "yes I-"

"No, he's just flirtatious by nature. But he's a good person deep down" said Robin. "Oh Robin, though you may not return my love, I shall never give up" Sanji responded before noticing Pearl.

"Well, hello there, and who might you be, mademoiselle?" Sanji said in a chivalrous tone. "I'm Pearl and I'm not interested" Pearl said in a disgusted tone "but at least you're not a complete creep like that Skeleton..."

"So, what kind of person is your captain like?" Steven asked Jinbei. "Well, he's got a good heart, but he's also a bit blunt"

Meanwhile, at a hot dog eating contest, the MC called out "Begin!" and Luffy and Amethyst began eating hot dogs at breakneck speed. The current reigning champion just couldn't keep up.

"More!" Amethyst and Luffy kept shouting after scarfing down entire platters of hot dogs into their mouths. The audience couldn't believe what they were seeing.

Amethyst tried more drastic measures by widening her own mouth to fit in more hot dogs. "Two can play at that game!" said Luffy as his body inflated and armament haki began to cover parts of his body.

"Gear 4, Tank Man!" Luffy declared as he began eating more and more hot dogs. Amethyst was dumbfounded. Just who was this guy?

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Amethyst was dumbstruck by Luffy's new form, as was the audience, before realizing she was falling behind. She couldn't lose to this guy, not to that plate thief from the buffet.

It didn't take long for Amethyst to catch up to Luffy's quota until both of them shouted "MORE!" one last time until the judge said "Sorry, but there is no more, you've eaten every hot dog we've made.

"Oh come on!" Amethyst complained. "Yeah, what gives, I'm still hungry!" Luffy growled in an annoyed tone, being back to normal.

"Well, it would appear we have a tie, never in the history of hot dog eating contests, or competitive eating in general, had this happened" said The MC "luckily, we have prepped something for just such an occasion, The Mega Weiner!" 

Two staff carried an extra large hot dog wiener with no buns on a gurney, it was as long as an average man lying down, and twice as wide.

"Here is the only rule, whoever can eat the most of The Mega Weiner, wins!" The MC announced. "Get ready to lose, Grape Lady!" Luffy trash talked.

"Just you wait, boy! I'll have that entire wiener in my mouth!" Amethyst retorted. "I would like to remind everyone to please keep their heads out of the gutter, this is a family event" The MC announced. 

"Aaaaaand, begin!" The Referee announced. As Luffy and Amethyst began eating the weiner from either side. Chomping, gulping. They kept going and going...until their lips touched.

Both Luffy and Amethyst recoiled and retched. Luffy was grasping his throat and gagging. Amethyst was brushing her tongue with a toothbrush.

"Gross, dude! What's you're problem!?" Amethyst said in a disgusted tone. "You're the one who kissed me, Grape Lady!" Luffy said in between gags.

"Even the tie breaker couldn't settle who won..." said The MC "I guess it's a tie!" "No way!" Amethyst and Luffy said in Unison. "I'm not sharing victory with a big talking grape!" Luffy argued.

"Stop calling me a grape!" Amethyst growled. "Well you are a grape! You're round, purple and plump! A Grape!" Luffy pointed out. 

"Oh yeah!? Well...that's a fair assessment, I suppose, but I'm still not happy about it!" said Amethyst.

"Well, you two are going to have to settle for this tie, unless you two have another suggestion on how to resolve it?" The MC told them. 

"I have one suggestion, wrestling" said Amethyst. 

And in fifteen minutes, the hot dog eating arena was turned into a wrestling stadium. "Okay, apparently we've gone from a hot dog eating contest to a wrestling match" said The MC.

Luffy and Amethyst were on opposite sides of the ring, as Amethyst took on her Purple Puma form. Luffy simply did some stretches.

"Alright, kiddo, don't cry if you lose" Amethyst trash talked "the only time I ever lost a match was on purpose. You don't stand a chance against me!"

"Bring it on! I've fought worse than you!" said Luffy "I even punched out a sea monster!" "Heh, I doubt it, I'm gonna knock that stupid looking hat off your stupid looking head" said Amethyst,

All of the sudden, Luffy was silent, it was clear even to Amethyst that she had struck a nerve. "Nobody...nobody insults my hat!!!" Luffy roared.

Luffy crouched down and extended his arms, really far, to the point where he was almost touching the person on the highest part of the bleachers "Gum-gum..." 

Amethyst was in sheer awe of what she had just seen, as if his previous change of shape didn't shock her enough already "Bazooka!" Luffy cried out as his arms snapped back like an elastic band, striking Amethyst and launching her far away from the stadium.

The entire crowd was silent for just a moment "Okay...well, I guess the winner is...this dude in a straw hat!" said The MC as the crowd roared in applause.

"Yes! I am the best!" Luffy celebrated "wait, what were me and that Grape Lady fighting about again?"

Meanwhile, back in Beach City "Robin! Pearl, Garnet! I have brewed some delicious tea!" Sanji said with utmost enthusiasm as his eyes were heart shaped at the moment. 

"Far out, I can't believe I'm talking to pirates from another world" said Greg "the pirates we have in our world aren't anywhere near as robust as you guys."

As Sanji bent over to pour Pearl some tea, something bumped into him, causing him to accidently get some tea spilled on Pearl. "Oh gosh! Pearl I'm so sorry! Please, allow me!" Sanji offered a napkin.

"Oh no, It was an accident, that careless man behind you bumped into you" said Pearl as she pointed to the tall man behind Sanji...a man Sanji immediately recognized.

"WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING, MOSS HEAD!!!!" Sanji roared. "GIVE ME A BREAK, YOU WERE BENT OVER, SWIRLY BROWS!" Zoro roared back at him.

"MAYBE YOU SHOULD GET A BETTER SENSE OF DIRECTION, YOU SHITTY SWORDSMAN!" Sanji barked. "Language!" Pearl interjected. "HEY, MY SENSE OF DIRECTION'S PERFECTLY FINE, CRAPPY COOK!"

The two continued back and forth in this matter. "Hey, guys, come on, aren't you on the same-" Steven tried to interject before Robin stopped him.

"It's alright, Steven. They're like this all the time, it's just best to let them finish" said Robin. 

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Sanji and Zoro were still in the middle of their usual bickering, and off in the distance, they were spotted by Jasper. Jasper had a bone to pick with Zoro, who easily poofed her before she could even make her first strike.

She wanted revenge for that scar upon her dignity. Jasper stormed up to Zoro, still in a shouting match with Sanji. "Jasper?" asked Steven.

"It's not you I'm here for, My Diamond. It's him" Jasper growled as she approached the bickering men "Hey! You! We have unfinished-" "SHUT UP, WE'RE BUSY!" Zoro and Sanji snapped at her.

Jasper backed away with both her hands raised in sheer shock "Okay. Some other time" 

"And that's why it's best to just let them finish" said Robin as she sipped her tea "this tea is delicious, Sanji!" "Thank you, Robin, help yourself to some more!" Sanji cheerfully said before going back to his shouting match.

Suddenly, a familiar scream could be heard coming from the sky. "Is that...Amethyst!?" Pearl yelped as he held up her hands to catch her. 

Amethyst landed right on top of Pearl, as she lay flat on her back from the impact "Whoops! Sorry P, didn't mean to drop in on ya" Amethyst joked.

"Amethyst, what are you doing falling out of the sky!?" Pearl scolded. "Yeah, weren't you going to that buffet place?" asked Steven. 

"I was, but it went south real fast, first this dude in a stupid hat who kept taking food off my plate" Amethyst grumbled "and than that jerky manager kicked us out because his "All You Can Eat" place couldn't handle my appetite..."

"Dude in a stupid hat...?" Brook repeated. "Stealing off of other people's plates?" Sanji added "you don't think she's talking about...?" "There could be only one person" Zoro confirmed.

It was then that Amethyst noticed The Straw Hats. "Hey, what's with this freakshow? The Circus in town?" asked Amethyst. "They're pirates from another dimension, Amethyst" said Garnet.

"You mean like in that show with the stargate....erm, what was it called again?" Amethyst guessed. "Yeah, at least, that's how I understand it" said Greg "they're pretty far out. Especially this skeleton, did you know he's a huge music star back in his world."

"My stage name was Soul King" Brook added. "Man, that is the coolest sounding stage name I ever heard" Greg chuckled with delight.

"Oh stop, you're making me blush...except I don't have cheeks because I'm a skeleton!" Brook joked. Steven, Greg and Amethyst all laughed.

"Oh man! He makes skeleton jokes! I can see why you like him!" Amethyst chuckled. "Excuse me, I couldn't help but overhear, but you mentioned a guy with a hat taking food off your plate" said a familiar voice from above.

Everyone looked up, and there was a blue winged gem, Lapis Lazuli. On her back was a green gem named Peridot and a orange haired woman hanging on to her arms.

"Nami!" Robin, Sanji, Jinbei, Brook, Jinbei and Zoro all said happily. "Sorry to keep you waiting, I was helping these two with their garden" said Nami. 

"Nami, you still have to tell me how that baton of yours was able to generate individual rainclouds like that. "Sorry, but that's a trade secret of Whetheria's research" said Nami.

"Nami! It's so good to see you! I have brewed some tea, there's still some left if you want some" Sanji said in his usual simp ways.

But Nami ignored him as Lapis let her down and she went straight to Amethyst "Now, about that guy who took food off your plate..."

"Yeah, he looked something like this" she said as she shapeshifted into a purple Luffy. "Captain!" The pirates all said in unison. "Captain?" asked Amethyst "that string bean's a pirate captain? You gotta be joking, who's the real captain? I bet it's this scary looking shark dude, right here, am I right?"

"Nope. I was a captain of a different pirate crew at one point, but now I serve Luffy. He saved my homeland and my people" said Jinbei "I will follow him to the end of The Grand Line."

"Uh...what about this dude with three swords, he looks very authoritative?" Amethyst said. "Nope. I'm the first mate" said Zoro. 

"So...that string bean is seriously your captain and you all seriously follow him as his crew, seriously?" Amethyst interrogated. "Yup" The Straw Hates all said unapologetically. 

"Can I ask where you first saw him again?" asked Nami. "At "Al's All You Can Eat" place, it's in the next town over just north of here" said Amethyst "he took all the food off my plate, then we got kicked out, then we competed in a hot dog eating contest in the park across from the restaurant...which we tied and we settled with a wrestling match...then his arms got all stretchy and he flung me all the way back here."

"Yup. That sounds like Luffy alright" said Sanji. "North of here huh?" said Nami "hmmm...does anyone have a local map of this island?"

"Actually, we're on a continent, Nami, we're in a parallel world" said Jinbei "which reminds me, there's something Important I have to tell you once we find everyone! It requires your navigational skills!"

"Thanks Jinbei! So, is there a map of this general region then?" asked Nami. "I have a map app on my phone" said Connie as she entered the name of the restaurant and showed it to Nami.

"Amazing...maps seem so advanced in this world..." Nami commented as she familiarized herself with this new technology, which didn't take long due to her navigational genius. 

Once Nami was able to make out where Luffy most likely was she decided to take Robin's transponder snail and make a call to Franky. 

"Franky talking!" said Franky's voice coming out the transponder snail. "Franky, are you anywhere near a town called Ocean Town?" asked Nami. 

"I just passed a sign that says we're now entering it" said Franky. "What do you mean we? Is another member of the crew with you?" asked Nami.

"Yup! I'm with Chopper. We're on our way back to The Sunny as we speak!" Franky answered. "Good. Do you mind making a pit stop by a place called "Al's All You Can Eat" on the southern outskirts of that town? Luffy will be nearby." 

"Not to worry! The Franky Tank's got room for one more passenger!" Franky answered "Over and out!" 

"Heh, the phones from their world look like snails" said Amethyst. "They are snails, actually" said Garnet. "Whaaaaaaat!?" Amethyst exclaimed. 

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Steven, Connie, The Gems and The Straw Hats were all making their way to the main road out of town to meet up with Franky and Chopper after they picked up Luffy.

"So, that string bean is seriously your captain?" Amethyst asked Sanji. "For the fifth time, yes" Sanji responded. "Hey, where's Zoro?" asked Brook. 

Everyone looked around and saw Zoro going the opposite way "Hey! Where are you going, Moss head!" Sanji barked at him.

"I wasn't going the wrong way!" Zoro growled as he caught up with the group. "Oh honestly, this is the fifth time you wandered off, it's like you have no sense of direction" said Pearl.

"You have no idea" Sanji agreed "I remember him trying to find the bathroom, he almost went in the kitchen sink if I hadn't caught him." 

"I did not! Stop making up lies like Usopp, crap cook!" Zoro growled. "Well, if this swordsman's wandering is going to be a problem, I may have one solution" said Pearl as she reached into her gem.

And before Zoro knew it, Pearl was strapping a child's leash on him. "Hey! What the hell is this!?" Zoro exclaimed when he finally noticed. 

"It's only until you learn, Mr. Swordsman" Pearl said in a authoritative motherly tone. Sanji on the other hand was snickering at Zoro's predicament "That's a good look for you, moss head."

"Sh-shut up!!!" Zoro growled. "It's okay, Mr. Swordsman, you're not alone, I too suffered this indignity" Peridot said in a sympathetic tone. Meanwhile, Steven and Connie were talking with Nami.

"So, you can really control weather with that baton, like Peridot said?" asked Steven.

"Well, it's not really controlling the weather, it's more like generating small localized weather events that have no effect on local weather patterns" Nami clarified.

"That's amazing, how did you build it?" asked Connie. "Actually, it wasn't me who built it. It'd be more accurate to say I commissioned it" said Nami "it was another crewmate, Usopp, who built the original version of the Clima-Tact. Several tweaks were added over time, adding new functions to it."

"It's still very impressive" said Connie. "Well, what Lapis and Peridot have seen is just small fraction of what my Clima-Tact is capable of" said Nami. "So, how did you meet Lapis and Peridot?" asked Steven.

"Lapis caught me right before I hit the ground" said Nami "that knock up stream came out of nowhere. There's usually warning signs before one happens. I was kind of still rattled for a little while, but Lapis and Peridot were so understanding..."

"Yeah, and then she took out her Clima-tact and helped water all our plants with those mini rainclouds! That was the coolest thing ever" said Peridot "I must meet this "Usopp" he sounds like a genius of the highest caliber!"

"Steven! Steeeeven!" Steven heard a familiar voice call out. "Oh god..." Steven rolled his eyes. "Ronaldo?" asked Connie. "Yup" Steven nodded.

"Who's Ronaldo?" asked Nami. "Someone my therapist said I should have avoided from the very beginning" said Steven. 

"Steven! You've got to come meet this new guy I met! He's a pirate! From another world!" said Ronaldo as he introduced a long nosed companion.

"Usopp!" The Straw hats greeted their crewmate. "Oh! Hey! There's my crew!" said Usopp as he pointed to them. "No way! They're just as you said they'd be!" Ronaldo said with utmost glee.

"Nice to see you're fine, Usopp. Not telling any funny stories to your new friend I hope?" Nami asked. "No, he was telling me the amazing tales of your great adventures" said Ronaldo "and you must be, Nami, Right."

"Why yes, of course" said Nami. "Well, if that's the case. I think you better get over Usopp. His heart belongs to Kaya" said Ronaldo. Usopp yelped and began making shushing noises, signaling for Ronaldo to stop. 

"Oh? And what exactly did Usopp tell you?" said Nami, hiding her anger behind an obviously fake smile. "Yes...I too would like to know" said Sanji with an equally fake smile masking his fury.

"He told about how you, Robin and many other girls are always hopelessly fawning over Usopp and his masculine charms" said Ronaldo "But you've got to accept that his heart belongs to Kaya, and Kaya alone. Usopp is a one woman man, as much as you and Robin wish to be his harem, his words not mine, it's just not happening."

Usopp was now shivering in fear, as he could practically feel the icy stares coming from both Nami and Sanji.

"Uh, okay, Ronaldo, real talk? I may have embellished a few things in my retelling of my adventures" Usopp nervously said. "No, The Usopp I know could never embellish!" said Ronaldo.

Nami was cracking her knuckles and Sanji had his hands in his pockets as the two were ready to give Usopp a peace of their mind.

And then all of the sudden the sound of manly singing could be heard from the road "Hey hey hey hey ~ Franky!" accompanied by a younger sounding man singing "Hey hey hey hey~ Tank!"

"Clear the way, clear the way, Super the way!" A childish male voice than sang. The singing was coming from a man who was on his knees and yet moving forward.

On his right huge square forearm sat a young man in a straw hat, on the other huge square forearm sat a miniature anthropomorphic reindeer.

"We'll run you over if you stand in our way!" The three then harmonized "but we avoid running over flowers!" And it ended on a solo "I'm kind of sweet, Franky Taaaaank!"

"Three!" said Chopper. "Two!" said Luffy. "One" said Franky. Chopper and Luffy got off of Franky and struck a dynamic action pose with him as they cried out a harmonious "Suuuuuuper!"

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"Hey everybody! Thought us three should arrive in style" Franky greeted. "Oh my gosh! The Cyborg!" said Ronaldo. "Connie, did you see that? He had tank treads coming out of his legs" said Steven in amazement.

"Looks like the gang's all here" said Luffy. "Good. Now that everyone's together, there's something important I need to tell all of you" said Jinbei "It regards how we'll return to our world!"

"Huh? What do you mean?" asked Luffy. "Luffy, we're in a parallel world" Jinbei explained. "Parallel world? What's that, some sort of amusement park?" asked Luffy.

Robin instantly imagined an amusement park with that very name where all the attractions were perfectly parallel to each other.

"No. It means that knock up stream was a rare one of a kind knock up stream that sent us to a world entirely different from our own" Jinbei clarified "we're not in our world, Luffy. This is a world with seven continents, no red line and no grand line."

That last part stuck with Luffy as the epiphany managed to pop up in his head "A different world...no grand line...that means...no One Piece!" Luffy leapt up onto Jinbei and began shaking him violently "We've got to get back to our own world, Jinbei! The One Piece isn't here in this world!" He then leapt to Nami "Nami! We've got to find a way back home, or we'll never get Roger's Treasure!"

"Hey hey hey! Watch it with those hands, Luffy!" Sanji growled. "Captain, please, get a hold of yourself, I was just getting to the part where we go back" Jinbei assured him. 

"I'm guessing this is also the part where I come in as well?" asked Nami. "Precisely. There is a way to go home" said Jinbei "but we need to be at the exact right place at the exact right time...within three years there are three dimensional knock up streams, with a following return Knock Up Stream in the parallel world appearing twenty four hours after the one in our world happens, three dimensional knock up streams, three return ones. According to a fisherman I met earlier, there was one two years ago. Now, we don't know if there was one before that, but if we assume there are two yet to happen, then that means we have twenty two hours before the return stream, or we'll have to wait a year if we miss that one, and if we miss the one for next year...it'll be twenty years before the cycle resets."

"But if that fisherman said he saw one two years ago, then there must have been one he didn't see" said Nami "so, we only have one chance...I'll have to talk to that fisherman, if we can find him."

"That's probably Yellowtail, Jinbei was talking about" said Steven "he's usually over by the docks or at his house."

"Oh, thank you...uh, sorry, what's your name?" Nami asked. "Steven, I'm Steven" said Steven "this is Connie, over there is Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl...and you already know Lapis and Peridot."

"Well, Steven, I may be an excellent navigator, but I'm not familiar with this place, you wouldn't mind helping me look around town for this "Yellowtail" person, do you" Nami requested.

"Yeah, I'd be happy to" said Steven. "Well that's all well and good, but I gotta check up on Sunny! Need to see if she needs any repairs" said Franky.

"Sunny? Oh, do you mean your ship?" asked Pearl "It looked fine to me, although there's an odd perfectly round hole in the back of it, you might what to check it out."

"Oh, you mean the huge thruster for the coup de burst?" asked Franky. "Coup de what now?" asked Pearl. "The Coup de Burst! A huge blast of air comes out the back of Sunny, making her temporarily airborn for quick getaways."

"Ah! So it is a booster for making the ship go faster! I knew it!" said Steven. "But...how? How can you make a wooden sailing ship do that?" asked Pearl.

"Because The Thousand Sunny is a Franky Original!" said Franky "she's no ordinary ship! She's made from the most premium wood you can find in our world, and I've designed her with tons of surprises!"

Both Steven and Connie were curious "What kind of surprises?" they asked. "It's better to show than tell, kiddos! I'm a guy who likes to show off!" said Franky. 

"By the way, what's with this horned racoon?" asked Peridot. "I'm not a racoon, I'm a reindeer!" Chopper raged. 

"Oh, by the way, thanks again for saving my bacon back there, Chopper" said Franky. "Oh, did Chopper come to your rescue, Franky?" asked Robin.

"He sure did. Those doctors in that hospital don't know how my body works, who knows what they might have done if Chopper hadn't shown up" Franky said as a smaller hand came out of his huge hands and pat Chopper on the head.

"Well, looks like you were today's big hero, Chopper" Robin praised. "Oh shut up! It's not like I enjoy your praise or anything, you idiots" Chopper said all bashfully as he did a little dance.

"A talking mini reindeer...so cute!" Steven cooed. "Chopper's not just a talking reindeer, he's also our doctor" Usopp said to Steven "he can also change his shape depending on the situation!"

"Whoa! A triple threat!" Connie said. "Oh stop! I don't care about your praise one little bit, dummy!" Chopper said, still doing his bashful little dance.

"So, we meet again, string bean" Amethyst grumbled. "I thought I was done with you" Luffy grumbled "I won the match, you know."

"Wouldn't have won if I knew you were going to that gum-gum thing" Amethyst grumbled. "You're just sour because you lost" said Luffy as he stuck his tongue out and blew a raspberry

Pearl guided Franky to where The Thousand Sunny was. On The Beach, Bismuth was inspecting the Thousand Sunny. Pearl had called Bismuth earlier about the ship.

"Heh, well, this ship don't look too bad, but, nothing falls onto the ground without getting a little damage" said Bismuth " good thing I've already patched up that huge gaping hole."

"Heeeeeeeeeeeey! Get your hands off The Sunny!" Franky said, dashing towards Bismuth. "Oh, I was just fixing your ship" said Bismuth.

"Fixing her!? Without consulting the shipwright, me!?" Franky exclaimed. "Yeah, and don't worry about that hole in the back, I plugged it up" Bismuth proudly proclaimed.

Franky looked to the back of The Sunny and screeched in horror "That's supposed to be there!" he leapt up and tore off the patch work."

"Well sorry, Mr. Franky, but I thought you'd appreciate it if I called in someone to help repair the ship" said Pearl.

"But you don't know anything about Sunny, how she works, her schematics!" said Franky "if you want to help, that's fine, but I'm the guy who built her, so I'm in charge!"

"Okay, but I don't see what's so special about it, it's a sailing ship" said Pearl "It has a unique design and everything, but, what else could be so important about it?"

"Fine! How about I show you the true scale of Franky's genius!" Franky said. "Oh! Oh! Oh! Me too! I am interested in Franky's work, the way his body works! Everything! I haven't seen humans have tank treads grow out of their legs!" said Peridot.

"Heh! First time seeing a Cyborg huh? Well, wait until I show you what The Thousand Sunny's all about and then I can show you what Franky can do!" Franky bragged.

Meanwhile in a top secret underground warehouse in Krieg Arms. Aquamarine and Eyeball were in total awe "You've had all this buried beneath our feet?" asked Eyeball.

"You could have sold those and made millions" said Aquamarine. "I could have, but where would be the fun in that?" said Don Krieg "sometimes the best toys, you got to keep to yourself."

"Oooh, I see. Yes, brilliant..." said Aquamarine "so you had all these made in case you ever got bored of being a legitimate businessman, did you?"

"Heh heh...you know me so well..." said Don Krieg "heh heh heh...you may have humiliated me back at that seafaring restaurant, but now? Now Don Krieg shall finally have his revenge, he and his Pirate Armada 2.0! AH HA HA HA HA HA! 

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Franky recruited Bismuth, Peridot and Usopp to help fix the sunny. Franky was giving lectures on the inner workings of the Sunny.

"And so, these are the schematics for the Channel Docking System" Franky presented as he showed them around. Peridot was in utter amazement. 

"I can't believe this! You were able to add all these features for a mere wooden structure!?" Peridot said in amazement. 

"Yup! I wanted Sunny to be the greatest ship ever built. Better than Gold Roger's ship, The Oro Jackson, which was built by my mentor, Tom" said Franky "I even used the same kind of wood my Mentor used to build The Jackson."

"Since you're from a different world, I'm assuming the wood you used is not of this Earth" said Pearl. "Yup! This ship is made of the toppest of top quality wood, cut from Treasure Tree Adam!" said Franky.

Pearl than noticed Nami on the ship "Oh, Ms. Nami, are you helping us?" asked Pearl. "No, just reorganizing a few of my maps, thankfully not too many of them are out of place" said Nami.

"Oh right, Jinbei did say you were the ship's navigator" said Pearl "and a good one at that. "I have been in practice since I was a kid" said Nami "in fact, it's second nature to me now."

Pearl examined all the maps and was deeply impressed by the amount of detail and care Nami put into making them, but then she noticed a strange map where the landscape was drawn all puffy.

"What's with that puffy looking island?" asked Pearl. "This? Oh, this is Skypiea, it's an island in the sky" said Nami. "You have islands in the sky in your world?" asked Pearl.

"Yeah, it's amazing how it works, some cloud masses are so dense you can swim in them, others are even denser that you could walk on them" Nami explained "I never thought it possible myself, but you know the old saying, seeing is believing." 

"Wow, your world sounds so fascinating" said Pearl. "We even went under the sea" said Nami. "Under the sea!? Are you saying this ship is also a submarine!?" asked Pearl.

"No, there's this special resign in the Sabaody Archipelago that makes it possible to sail a ship under the sea if coat the ship in it" said Nami "I have all sorts of notes on how it works under my desk."

"And what of these notes on the other end of the room, are they yours too?" asked Pearl. "No, those are Robin's" said Nami "she's our archaeologist. She investigates these stone cubes called Poneglyphs. She's probably the only person in our world who can decipher the ancient language written on them. As far as we know, The Poneglyphs are our strongest clues as to where to find One Piece."

"One Piece, I heard your captain mention it. Is it some sort of pirate treasure?" asked Pearl. "It's exactly what it is" said Nami "It was discovered by Gold Roger, King of The Pirates. But he didn't take it with him when he found it, he just left it where it was."

"But why leave something so valuable where it was? Humans don't normally do that" asked Pearl.

"Yeah, that is the oddest thing, there's probably a reason for it, but I can't make sense of it" said Nami "but whatever it is, I kind of want to see what it is just as much as Luffy does."

"I know Amethyst was asking out of some sort of childish rivalry thing, but...your captain...how exactly did he become a pirate captain...he doesn't seem very...capable" said Pearl.

"Okay, look, I know Luffy is an idiot, but, believe it or not, he's been more than just capable, he's also very reliable even" Nami explained "he's been there for each and every one of us when we were at our lowest. We're all sort of...drawn to him. You might even say he's the heart of our crew."

"The heart of your crew, huh?" said Pearl as she thought back to all the adventures she's had with Steven and how he had proven to be The Heart of The Crystal Gems.

But the tender moment was broken by Peridot "Pearl! You gotta see what Franky does with his hands! He's got a smaller hand inside his huge hand!"

Peridot started dragging Pearl out of the room "There's also a mini submarine on the ship! There's also a tank and a motorcycle that combine into a giant robot!"

Pearl noticed some of the wanted posters in the dining room that Peridot was leading her through, but she noticed one bearing the captain's name.

But there was something off about that wanted poster. The face seemed right, but the hair and clothing weren't.

The Captain's hair was black...but in this wanted photo, the hair was all white! Before Pearl could even ask a question, Peridot had dragged her all the way to Franky.

"Franky! Show her that thing you did! You know, with your nose!" Peridot requested. "Of course, Franky is happy to show off his body to whoever asks! That's the pervert way!" Franky proudly proclaimed.

"Well, technically that would be more exhibitionism" Pearl pointed out "and most perverts don't usually wait for consent..." 

"Nah, you don't get it. Being a pervert is feeling! Down to your soul" said Franky as he began tapping his toes and snapping his fingers as a funky rhythm began playing out of two speakers in his knees  "come on! Follow the beat! Swing those hips to the right!"

Peridot and Bismuth immediately followed along with Franky "Put your right hand on your hips and thrust your left arm out! Slide to the left!"

Bismuth and Peridot were following along "Yeah! That's the beat! Now come on! Right! Left! Right! Left! Right! Left! One! Two! One! Two!"

Pearl was simply just staring in utter confusion as to why they started dancing...but then she thought about how this spontaneous dancing was no different from the many spontaneous musical numbers her and The Crystal gems broke out into randomly.

It wasn't long before she found herself doing the very dance Franky and the others were doing.

"Yeow! Bring it home now!" said Franky as he, Bismuth, Peridot and Pearl began rolling their arms and ended on a dynamic pose "SUUUUPER!" they cried as a pink puff of smoke exploded behind them. 

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The crew of Bismuth, Franky, Peridot and Pearl were continuing their repairs of the sunny. "So, how goes the repairs to the ship, Mr. Franky?" asked Steven.

"Well, first of all, It's just Franky. The "Mr." takes the wild out of me. As for the Sunny, thankfully, all the damage is minor and easily fixable" said Franky "The problem is, there's a lot of minor damage, it might take more than one day to fix all the problem, bro." 

Chopper went past Steven and went up to Franky "here, try this new type of cola!" Franky examined the bottles of "cola" Chopper gave him "Uh, Chopper, you sure it's Cola...it looks all...Red?"

"Uh, it's a special red colored cola" said Chopper "It's made using a harmless food dye!" "Okay, you're the doctor, I could use a fuel up anyway" said Franky.

Steven then noticed the dozens of empty cans of the energy beverage Sugar Shock Shut Down and what appeared to be cola stains in the sand. 

Franky opened up his abdominal cavity and installed the bottles of "cola" and shouted out "EXTREEEEEEEEME! HAHAHA! Ihavethepowerof1000Frankys! Gottarepairfast!"

Franky zoomed around the ship faster than the naked eye could see as he murmured "Hyperrepairhyperrepairhyperrepairhyperrepair!" 

"That wasn't Cola, that was Sugar Shock Shut Down" said Steven. "I know, but the can said it was an energy drink, so I thought it would power up Franky even more" said Chopper "you see, different drinks all have different effects on Franky! I discovered that back when we were rescuing Robin at a place called Enies Lobby. It was the funniest thing I ever seen.

All of the sudden, Franky was in front of Chopper "DammitChopperIknewthatwasn'tcola! I'llletitslidethistimebecauseyou'relittletrickisimprovingefficiency! ButdothatagainI'llkillyou!" 

"Franky..." Robin said in an icy cold tone from a beach chair she was reading a book on "do not threaten Chopper, even if you're angry at him...." 

Steven and Connie both had a sparkly look in their eyes "And Don't you dare get any ideas, you two!" Franky said as the effects of the energy drink were starting to ware off "I can see that "I wonder what will happen if I give him different drinks" look in your eyes!"

Meanwhile, Nami and Jinbei were with Garnet and Amethyst, talking with Yellowtail. "Wow, so you're actually a fish man?" asked Nami.

"Muh muh muh (Half Fish man, on my father's side)" Yellowtail. "I should have known, you speak language of the South Sea Artic Fishman Nomads a little too well" said Jinbei.

"I thought all fish men lived on Fish Man Island" said Nami. "Most of us do, but some chose a more tribal nomadic life in the arctic, where Celestial Dragons don't wish to go" Jinbei explained "far too cold for them."

"Anyway, thanks for telling us the signs to look out for" said Nami. "Muh muh muh muh muh muh? (You sure you don't want any more information?)" Yellowtail asked.

"Don't worry. I'm an excellent Navigator. If I know what to look out for, I can get our ship back to our world safely" Nami said with utmost confidence. 

"Amazing, to think Yellowtail came from another world entirely" said Garnet. "I mean, it does explain a lot about Onion" said Amethyst. 

"I'm surprised your wife hasn't figured that out" said Jinbei. "Muh muh muh muh muh muh (She just thinks I have a rare mutation, and I cover them up with my beard)" Yellowtail shrugged.

"Pedapedapedapeda" Nami's transponder snail rung "Hello?" "Hey, Nami! Good news, Sunny's all repaired, and in record time too" said Franky on the other end of the line. 

"Really? That fast?" asked Nami.

"Yeah, Chopper sneaked me some energy drink, telling me it's Cola. But, it turbo charged me and I managed to repair all the minor damage quickly and efficiently" said Franky "anyway, those crystal gem people invited us to dinner."

"Sound's good Franky, we'll be with you shortly.

Back at the Beach House, both Amethyst and Luffy wanted a pre-meal snack, but were fighting over the fridge, yelling and growling at each other, similar to how Zoro and Sanji would bicker, but a bit more savage.

Pearl, meanwhile, was trying to scold them, but to no avail. Nami had just arrived at The Beach House as soon the fight was happening, and she giggled as she saw Pearl struggling to get the too grumpy gluttons to calm down.

"Stop it! Please, you're behaving like animals" Pearl said. "Then why are you trying to reason with them?" asked Nami. Pearl was confused.

"If Luffy and Amethyst are at all similar, then the best thing to do when they act like animals is to treat them like animals" Nami said in an instructional tone.

She then clapped her hands really loudly at Luffy and Amethyst "Stop! Stop it right now!' she said in an authoritative tone. "But he-" Amethyst stuttered.

Nami took out her clima-tact and summoned a small rain cloud which she squeezed on to spray water at both Luffy and Amethyst. Amethyst was growling, and Luffy was whimpering because he knew how scary Nami could be.

"You two going to get along now?" Nami interrogated. Both Luffy and Amethyst both angrily shook their heads. "Fine then..." said Nami, feigning giving up, until she turned around with two dark red squares in her hands.

"Who wants a piece of jerky?" she said in a more cutesy voice. Both Amethyst and Luffy began grinning, with sparkles in their eyes. "Ah ah!" Nami snapped the two pieces of jerky back "I want to see you two get along now, apologize to each other."

"Sorry" Both Luffy and Amethyst said to each other. "I mean a real apology" Nami corrected herself. "Fine! I'm...I'm sorry I made fun of your hat" Amethyst.

"Good girl" Nami praised as she tossed her a piece of jerky. "Now Luffy, you" Nami then said. "I'm sorry for taking food off of your plate at the buffet..." said Luffy.

"Good" Nami put the remaining jerky piece on Luffy's nose "Now wait...waaaait" Nami instructed "Now!" Luffy moved swiftly as he chomped down on the jerky.

With that commotion out of the way, everyone was at the big outdoor table on The Beach "Is the food ready yet? come on..." Luffy said impatiently. 

"I know, I'm so hungry, I'm practically skin and bones...oh wait, I guess I'm just bones! Yo ho ho ho ho ho!" Brook joked. 

"I hope you don't mind, we ordered in pizza" said Pearl. "You know, my dear Pearl, if you mentioned that you were inviting us to dinner earlier, I would have cooked up something..." Sanji said in his usual flirtatious manner "I am the head chef of The Sunny after all!"

"It's easy to call yourself head chef when there's no other chefs on the crew" Zoro chimed in. "Who asked you, moss head!?" Sanji growled.

Pearl opened the pizza boxes and Luffy noticed something "Huh? Where's all the meat?" he asked. "Sorry...but, I'm vegetarian" Steven admitted. 

"V-v-vegetarian!? I don't know the meaning of that horrible word!" Luffy complained. "And that's why I got mad about you taking food from my plate" said Amethyst "I hardly get to eat meat at home anymore." 

"What? Come on, you call yourself a man and you don't eat meat?" Luffy complained to Steven. "But...I...I just can't eat anything with a face anymore" said Steven "but, come on, this plant based pepperoni tastes just as good."

Luffy picked a piece of the plant based Pepperoni and tried it, and immediately gagged and spat it out "Gross! This tastes nothing like pepperoni! I can't eat something pretending to be something it's not! Sanji! I want meat!"

"Luffy! You're being rude! We're guests here! Eat what's put in front of you! I'll make you something later, if you're good!" Sanji scolded.

"Connie...is...is he right?" asked Steven. "I wouldn't take the captain's comments too seriously, he doesn't seem to be the brightest tool in the shed" said Connie.

"Yeah, I'm starting to see why Amethyst doubts his leadership of this crew" Garnet agreed. "Yeah, how come you guys follow this straw hat fellow?" asked Peridot.

"You wouldn't get it" said Zoro "hey, do you guys have any booze?" "I think Amethyst might have a few bottles of wine in her room. Do you still have them?" asked Pearl.

"Yeah...but they're kind of old, like, 200 years old" Amethyst confessed. "Even better" said Zoro. "Alright, old booze, coming right up!" said Amethyst.

"How about a song to go with our meal?" Brook suggested "I take requests!" Steven raised his hand and asked "Do you know-"

"Yo ho ho ho ~ Yo ho ho ho" Brook began. "He's just going to play a song anyway..." said Steven. "Yeah, he does that...but he's a pretty good singer" said Robin "and what he's about to sing is an oldie but a goodie."

"Gather up all of the crew, It's time to ship out Bink's Brew..." Brook sang on. 

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After dinner, Steven decided to talk to Brook "Hey, Brook, that song was amazing! Did you write it?" he asked. "Nope. Bink's Brew is eight hundred years old or so. The Lyrics to the song aren't even the original lyrics. Apparently The World Government at the time had something against the original lyrics and their meaning" said Brook "but even so, the song carries on, being passed down from seafaring musician to seafaring musician."

"It really is a nice song" said Steven "it makes me feel, hopeful." "A lot of people feel the same way, this song actually helped me when I was wandering the Florian Triangle for 50 years" said Brook "my original crew had long since passed, I couldn't join them due to the revive-revive fruit. It wasn't until my current crew found me that I was no longer lonely."

"I can't even begin to imagine what it's like being alone for so long" said Steven. "I know, I did everything I could to maintain my sanity" said Brook.

"Maybe you can teach me to play, Bink's Brew?" Steven asked. "Well, I did promise a jam session, and it's not a hard song to learn" said Brook.

Brook took out his violin and Steven took out his guitar "Now, follow along with me" Brook instructed "A one, a two, a one two three!"

Meanwhile, Luffy and Amethyst, thanks to Nami's intervention, have gotten along better and realized what they did have in common.

"So, that hat's important to you, huh?" asked Amethyst. "Yup. Belonged to a friend of mine, a pirate named Shanks. He gave it to me when he left on his journey to find One Piece" said Steven.

"One Piece, I heard you mention that a couple of times, it's a treasure belonging to the dude who was King of The Pirates in your world, right?" asked Amethyst.

"Yup. And Shanks may have had a long head start over me. But I know I will beat him to it" said Luffy. "So, what exactly is the One Piece that so many pirates in your world are after?" asked Amethyst.

"I don't know. I remember my old teacher Rayleigh asking me if I wanted to know what it was" said Luffy "but I figured it'd be much more fun not knowing, it will make things more exciting when I do find it!"

"So, the Laugh Tale Island, you're trying to reach...you say it's at the end of the Grand Line" said Pearl "but, wouldn't that be near Reverse Mountain?"

"Hypothetically yes, and I get what you're trying to say" said Nami "by all accounts, someone could have had a specially designed ship that could cross the calm belt by Reverse Mountain and get to Laugh Tale from the end of The Grand Line...but, I doubt Laugh Tale would be that easy to reach. I have this hunch that says Laugh Tale is going to be the least normal island on The Grand Line, and that's saying a lot."

"It would have to be, after everything you've told me about the island's you've been on" said Pearl "so, I'm guessing Laugh Tale could officially be classified as a "Phantom Island" of some sort."

Pearl was helping Nami make the right calculations for returning home. Pearl was impressed by how well Nami understood a great deal of things.

Robin was chatting with Garnet, interested in learning more about gem culture.

"Robin! Robin! You got to come see this TV thing! It's got these moving drawings called cartoons and they're really funny!" said Chopper as he was tugging at Robin's skirts

"Okay, okay, I'm coming Chopper, let's see what's so funny" Robin said with a giggle as she sat next to Usopp on the couch.

Robin lifted Chopper up and placed him on her lap. Sanji looked on, wanting to feel jealous, but couldn't. He knew how innocent Chopper was. Anything Chopper wanted to do with Robin was mostly with the purest intentions.

He felt at ease seeing the more "mother and child" type of relationship Robin and Chopper had, mostly because it increases his chances with both her and Nami.

Zoro was busy napping the rest of the night away, empty bottle of wine in hand. 

Franky, Bismuth and Peridot were doing final checks for the Sunny before putting her back in the water for the trip home tomorrow.

That night, off in the distance, Don Krieg looked through binoculars at The Thousand Sunny, recognizing The Jolly Roger waving proudly on the main mast

"There you are, Straw Hat" Don Krieg said sinisterly. "And 'ere's some more good news, I got someone else here to help us" said Bluebird Azurite, introducing a Lapis Lazuli with curly hair.

"Hey, she told me you're in the middle of plotting a revenge scheme of some sort. Mind if I get in on that action...I have control over water" she said as she gave a demonstration of her power by forming a giant buzzsaw with it.

"Well, you know what they say, the more the merrier!" Don Krieg said with malicious glee

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It was morning, The Straw Hats were all eating Breakfast, accept for Jinbei, who was helping Bismuth get The Sunny back in the water.

Bismuth went back to The Beach House to tell everyone the good news when all of the sudden a loud BOOM! interrupted the peaceful morning.

And then, the clinking of glass bottles coming from outside before anyone could react "Straw hats...come out and play!" an ominous sounding voice called from outside.

All the members of The Straw Hats who were in The Beach House peered out the window. And there stood Don Krieg with three beer bottles on his fingers, repeatedly clinking them.

"Straw hats, come out and pla-ay" Don Krieg called again "straw hats, come out and play-ay!" 

Luffy peered at Don Krieg as he went out to the patio "Hey, who's this guy?" he asked. Don Krieg was in total shock "You...don't remember me? You utterly humiliated me, made what remained of my armada abandon me and you don't even remember me!? We fought at Baratie! Don't you remember!?"

"Well, I remember meeting Sanji at Baratie" said Luffy "but I had a lot more stuff going on after that. Who can remember all that stuff?"

Don Krieg was growling in frustration "You dare disrespect our boss!" Bluebird Azurite. "Bluebird!? What are you doing here?' asked Steven.

"Our boss is here for The Pirates, we're here for you" said Curly Lapis who had Jinbei beside her, his head covered in a huge sphere of water conjured up by her. 

"Pirates, Steven Universe, you will surrender to us, or your friend drowns" Curly Lapis threatened. The Straw Hats all broke into laughter.

"What? What's so funny!?" asked Curly Lapis "I have your friend under my watery grip...he will drown!" "No he won't" said Luffy in between laughs.

"Lazuli...that crewmate of theirs...is a fish man!" Don Krieg growled in anger. "Fish man...?" asked Curly Lapis. "Yes! A Fish Man! They're amphibious!" Don Krieg explained.

Curly Lapis still didn't understand, prompting Krieg to elaborate even further "They can breath on land and underwater! They literally can't be drowned!"

Curly Lapis looked nervously at Jimbei, who she now noticed was looking directly at her with a mischievous grin as The Straw Hat Helmsman punched her right in the face.

"Nice one, Jinbei!" Luffy cheered. "I actually like it when a foe underestimates me, It makes it more satisfying when I beat them" Jinbei said, all proud of himself.

"Well, my teammate's plan may have been a dud, but this isn't" Don Krieg snapped his fingers, summoning a legion of what appeared to be a robotic version of himself.

"Behold! My Kreigdroids! Autonomous arsenals capable of traversing virtually any terrain!" Don Krieg presented "your victory over me two years ago was a fluke! Let's see how you fare against a hundred of me!"

"Again, who are you?" asked Luffy. Don Krieg was trembling with both fury and depression.

"Come on! You don't have take that from him! Take out one of your weapons. Hit him with poison suction cups or something" Bluebird tried to assure him.

"Poison suction cups? I don't have those. That's a stupid idea, how would that even work?" Don Krieg criticized "but you're right! Kriegdroids attack!"

The Kriegdroids fired a swarm of bullets towards The Beach House. But Luffy was quick to react "Gum-Gum Balloon!" he cried as his body inflated to gargantuan proportions.

As the bullets struck Luffy's inflated body, they all bounced back. "Ah! Duck and cover!" Don Krieg coached Curly Lapis and Bluebird Azurite as he dove down out of the way of the bullets.

Some of the launched bullets struck the Kreigdrones, decimating them by the sheer velocity alone. "Hey, no fair, captain, save some for me" said Zoro, with his hands on his swords.

"Alright! Go on Zoro!" Luffy encouraged. Zoro happily leapt from the deck of The Beach House with all swords drawn.

Despite being vastly outnumbered, Zoro had no trouble keeping up with the Kriegdroids "Not bad! Tougher than Pearl's Holo-Pearl's at least!" said Zoro.

"Did you train with Zoro, Pearl?" asked Nami. "Well...before dinner, I asked him why he carried three swords and then he told me he was master of "The Three Sword Style", and I didn't believe him" said Pearl.

"You didn't believe him?" asked Nami. "I mean, carrying three swords just seemed so impractical" said Pearl "so, I challenged him to duel my Holo Pearls, projections of myself with all my sword combat experience....and..."

*Last Night*

Pearl was completely stunned by this sparring session as Zoro stood over her in victory "Okay, maybe I was too hasty to doubt you"

"So, they have new tricks up their sleeves, do they?" Don Krieg monologued "but then again, so do I!" 

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Off in the distance, Ronaldo was sitting on a beach chair with a bowl of popcorn, watching the battle between the Crystal Gems, Straw hats Alliance vs. Don Krieg and his Kriegdroids.\

Sour Cream and the other cool kids happened to be coming by and asked him "Uh, Hey Ronaldo, are Steven and the Gems having another Beach battle?" "Yup" said Ronaldo.

"What's the fight this time?" asked Sour Cream. "Pirates versus robots" Ronaldo answered. "Very funny. But seriously, what is this battle?" asked Jenny. 

"I am serious, look" Ronaldo pointed to the battle. The cool kids looked off to the distance and noticed the fight going on with a pirate ship in the background.

"Whoa. Pirates versus Robots...wicked" said Buck.

Nami took out her Climatact "If they're machines, than I know what to do!" said Nami as she waved it "Weather egg!" An egg flew out of Nami's Climatact which immediately hatched as soon as it was high enough in the sky.

Coming out of the egg was a huge thundercloud that covered all the Kriegdroids. Lighting rained down from the cloud, striking all the Kriegdroids...but nothing happened.

"Ha ha ha! I don't know how you managed to create a small thunderstorm like that, but I designed my Kriegdroids to be weatherproof to all kinds of hazards!" Krieg boasted. 

The Krieg droids stared straight at Nami and had all their weapons aimed at her. Sanji leapt out from behind Nami and kicked all the Kriegdroids that would dare aim at Nami.

"Let's not let our guests do all the work" said Garnet as she summoned her gauntlets. "And since they're all a bunch of machines...we don't have to go easy on em!" said Bismuth.

Bismuth jumped into the fray, smashing the heads of Kriegdroids with her hammer hands. "Don't worry, we can provide back up for your weapons!" said Curly Lapis as she conjured up a buzzsaw made of water and sent it hurling towards The Beach House. 

Jinbei leapt up and caught it with both hands and sent it hurling back towards her. Curly Lapis screamed and dodged it. "Trying to attack a fish man using water is ill advised" Jinbei advised.

Usopp drew back his Kuro Kabuto and launched a green pellet "Green Star: Bamboo Javelin!" as the green pellet hit the ground and several bamboo spears grew out of the ground, impailing several Dondroids.

"So, the mark 1's are proving to be easy for you, huh!? Well let's see how you try The Mark 2s!" Don Krieg said as he pressed a button, causing several tanks to drive up onto The Beach, opening up, revealing bigger, stronger, more menacing looking Dondroids.

"And let's not forget The Mark 3s!" Don Krieg pushed another button, causing the tanks that were just carrying The Mark 2s to transform into giant Dondroids.

Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, Steven and Franky were all in utter astoundment. "Whoa! You have transforming robots! That's so cool!" Franky complimented. 

"Heh, thanks, got the idea from one of this world's "cartoon" shows" Don Krieg boasted "say, that body of yours...are you a cyborg!?" 

"Yup! And not just a cyborg, I'm a self made cyborg" Franky answered "but just so you know, I also got my own giant transforming robot!"

"You do!?" asked Don Krieg. Franky leapt to the deck of The Thousand Sunny and changed the channel on the soldier dock system. On Channel four, out came Kurosai FR-U IV 

Out of Channel 5, came Brachio Tank V. "Alright! Now watch these babies combine!" Franky proclaimed as the motorcycle and tank that came from the Sunny came apart and combined into one big giant robot "General Franky!" Franky shouted out with pride.

"No way! That's so cool!" Don Krieg praised. "True, but yours look so high budget!" Franky also praised. "Whoa, how did you build all this?" asked Don Krieg.

"I found Dr. Vegapunk's old lab, looked through some of his old stuff and decided to recreate it, but added my own personal spin on it" Franky explained.

"Vegapunk! When I got to the Grand Line, I was hoping to find Vegapunk and capture him, forcing him to make new weapons for me!" Don Krieg said.

The two got all engaged in a back and forth geek out over each other's inventions and weaponry. "Hey! You two are enemies, aren't you?" Bluebird growled.

"The little fairy thing is right, we should get back to fighting" said Franky. "Indeed. Too bad I didn't meet you before The Straw Hats, we might have been friends" Don Krieg agreed.

Both General Franky and the Kriegdroid Mark 3's moved in for combat. General Franky began punching several of them, while others teamed up on him.

"Stop! No! Giant robots aren't supposed to fight!" Steven called out. All the giant robots on the field paused and looked at Steven.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAT!?" Don Krieg and Franky both exclaimed. "What do you mean "Giant Robots aren't supposed to fight"!?" Franky scolded "why else would anyone build them if not to fight?!"

"No point in building robots this big if they aren't supposed to fight" Don Krieg agreed. "I don't know, you can maybe build stuff with Giant Robots?" asked Steven.

"Aw, where's the fun in that!?" said Franky "come on, Steven, you're a guy aren't you!? Haven't you ever wanted to see a giant robot take down an evil monster or something!?"

"Maybe you should have him pilot your General Franky, give him a taste of the pureness of giant robot combat" Don Krieg suggested.

"STOP GEEKING OUT, THEY'RE THE ENEMY!!!" Bluebird growled in fury

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"Take this! General Left!" Franky declared as General Franky raised its left hand and fired a few bullets on few of the Kreigdroid MK 3s.

"Two can play at that game! Try this!" Don Krieg had the MK 3s fire several missiles at General Franky leaving a huge explosion behind.

"Franky!" Steven and Peridot cried out in horror. When the cloud from the explosion cleared, General Franky remained unscathed "General Okay!" Franky called out.

"What!? It's undamaged! How did you do it! What is that robot made out of!?" Don Krieg asked. "I don't share trade secrets with bad guys" Franky declared.

"That's it!" Don Krieg hopped into one of The MK 3s "Piloted mode, engage!" "Alright! Robot battle, mono a mono!" Franky said with a grin.

The two giant robots headed towards each other and engaged in fisticuffs. "Bluebird! Straw Hat is vulnerable to bladed weapons!" Don Krieg said from within his cockpit.

"Bladed weapons, eh?" Bluebird Azurite said with mischievous glee as she flew towards Luffy with an icy blade in hand.

"Oh straw hat...I know your weakness!" said Bluebird. "Meat?" asked Luffy. "No" Bluebird said coyly. "Franky's cool robot stuff?" asked Luffy.

"No" Bluebird said coyly. "Being in the ocean?" asked Luffy. "No, but I'll be sure to tell our lapis lazuli that" said Bluebird "your weakness is THIS!!!"

Bluebird tried stabbing Luffy in the chest, but something black covered Luffy's chest, protecting it and shattering the ice blade. 

"What the!? I thought you were vulnerable to bladed weapons" Bluebird said in shock. "I am. That's why I learned armament haki" Luffy casually said.

"Arma-what!?" Bluebird yelped "what is that!? What does that mean!? Who are you!?" "I'm Monkey D. Luffy...so, are you going to grant my wish yet?" asked Luffy.

"What!?" Bluebird asked. "You're a fairy, aren't you? Don't you guys grant wishes?" asked Luffy. "I'm not a fairy, I'm a gem!" Bluebird pointed out.

"Oh! Should I give you to Nami? I'm sure she can pawn you off for lots of money" said Luffy. "No! I'm a gem! A sentient alien lifeform! You should know, your new friends are gems!" Bluebird shouted.

"Oh...HEY GUYS! DID YOU KNOW THE CRYSTAL GEMS ARE ALIENS!?" Luffy shouted to his crew. "WE ALREADY KNEW THAT, YOU IDIOT!" The straw hats and The Gems all shouted back at him.

Meanwhile, Franky and Don Krieg continued their neck and neck battle of giant robots. "You are both skilled and talented, Franky! But you could put that to better use" said Don Krieg "why do you waste away all that potential you have on that young idiot's crew!? With me, I can offer you chance to refine your craft, to be the best that you can be!"

"I appreciate the compliment, but I don't think so, I'm happy where I am!!!" General Franky let loose a punch that was caught by Kriegdroid MK 3, and then it tried punching with its other hand, but it also got caught by Krieg's Kriegdroid.

"You are wasting your talent away on that idiot's crew! I can help you put it to better use!" Krieg responded "why would you want to stay on a ship with an idiot for a captain!"

"Because I built that ship! And as for Luffy, he's gonna be King of the Pirates some day!" Franky answered.

"King of The Pirates!? Him!? You honestly believe he's anything close to Gold Roger!? Don't make me laugh!" Don Krieg said in an almost insulted tone.

"You're damn right, I believe in him!" said Franky "Luffy may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but he's got follow through like you wouldn't believe! When he says he's gonna do something, one way or another, he'll make it happen!" 

The Drill on General Franky's head began to spin "So when Luffy says he'll be King of the Pirates...you bet your ass I've got a front row seat reserved for when it happens!!!"

General Franky did a headbutt on the Kreigdroid Mark 3, damaging it to the point where it was no longer functional! 

"Nooooooooo!" Don Krieg lamented, climbing out of the cockpit "Do you know how much money it cost me to build these things!? It cost me billions to get the materials alone."

"Really? Then you got ripped off, I built this rig here from scrap metal" said Franky from inside General Franky.

The Crystal Gems and The Straw Hats seemed to be holding their own against Don Krieg's robots. Bluebird Azurite flew away from Luffy and onto Jinbei, stabbing him in the gills with her Ice Sword.

"I've got this fishy guy, you go get the rubber one!" said Bluebird Azurite "he's the one who's weak to water!"

"Thanks for the tip!" said Curly Lapis. "Not so fast" said Lapis of The Crystal Gems. "Ugh, the disgrace!? You're the one who made my friend leave me!" Curly Lapis said in a cold tone of voice.

"That's right. Ready to be humiliated again?" Lapis said. On the Beach, several Kriegdroids began hovering in the air from Peridot's magnetic powers.

"We're doing good everyone, but you might want to be quick about winning this!" said Nami "we need to get out to sea and catch that return knock up stream!"

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Curly Lapis began fighting Lapis Lazuli "Out of the way, you shame of a Lapis! I've got work to do! Then I'm going for the one who corrupted you!" Curly Lapis threatened.

"All the more reason to stop you" said Lapis. The two then formed two Avatars out of the ocean and fought each other using them.

"AAAAAH! SEA MONSTERS!!!" Usopp screamed. Meanwhile, Zoro and Sanji were making short work of the remaining Mark Ones. 

But they soon found themselves struggling a little with the mark twos. "Mil Fleur: Gigantesco Mano!" said Robin as she got into a positon where both her arms formed an X and conjured up two giant legs.

"Whaaaaaat!?" Pearl screamed. "Oh, I forgot to mention Robin could make parts of her body sprout like flowers" said Garnet. "Stomp!" Robin then said, as the giant legs flailed about on the ground like a toddler with a tantrum.

All the Kreigdroids around her, mark 1 and mark 2 alike, were completely decimated.

"Man, there are some weirdos on dark corners of the internet that would pay money to have her use that attack on them" Amethyst commented. 

"Why would anyone pay to be crushed by someone's giant feet!?" asked Pearl. "What can I say? There's a market for everything" said Amethyst. 

While Lapis was fighting Curly Lapis, she noticed her foe grinning! "Heh heh heh! While you were focusing on me, I got straw hat all wet!" Curly laughed.

She was managing to multitask, focusing on Lapis while she she struck Luffy with one or two waves of water "Hey! Quit it! Knock it off" said Luffy in a more annoyed than weak tone.

"Gum-Gum Pistol!" Luffy said as he flung his fist, via his rubbery body, which hit right in Curly Lapis's face. "OW! What the!? He hit me!?" Curly Lapis said in an almost insulted tone.

"Well, yeah. You were splashing me, it was annoying" said Luffy. "But Bluebird said you're weak to water!!!" Curly Lapis argued. 

"Oooooh. Well, I can get wet. That's no problem. I just can't swim, being fully submerged underwater, that'll do it" Luffy explained. 

"DON'T TELL HER YOUR WEAKNESS, YOU IDIOT!" The rest of the Straw Hats shouted. "Damn it, we get through all these robots before this water witch gets any ideas" said Zoro.

Curly Lapis controlled her water avatar to try and grab Luffy, but Lapis blocked her attempt "You're not tricking me this time."

"Luffy! Why would you tell the enemy your weakness!?" asked Sanji. "What difference does it make? Almost every enemy we've met so far seems to know devil fruit users can't swim" Luffy answered.

Sanji was at a loss for words, what Luffy said was true, a vast majority of the foes they've come across were familiar with the weakness of all devil fruit users.

It was practically unlike Luffy to be factually correct like that. There have been many foes, marine and pirate alike that have tried to use this weakness to their advantage, even using sea prism stone imbued objects.

"Pearl, we're gonna need to double up our strengths here, if you catch my drift!" said Amethyst as she was frantically lashing her whip. 

"Oh don't worry, I wholeheartedly agree!" said Pearl, as she leapt towards Amethyst with her gem glowing, Amethyst caught Pearl as their bodies began to meld together, a process known as fusion.

Together, Pearl and Amethyst formed Opal, much to the amazement of Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, Sanji and Franky. But of course Sanji was amazed for...different reasons.

"General Franky...go into Autopilot!" said Franky as he pressed a button in his cockpit. 

Franky then stepped out of the cockpit and analyzed the position of Zoro, Sanji, Chopper, Usopp and Robin and smiled "Hey! You guys! Get ready! We're gonna try again!"

"Oh no, not this shit again..." Zoro said with humiliating memories flooding back. "Oddly enough, I wouldn't mind doing this again, nowhere near as bad as that hell I spent two years in" Sanji thought to himself. 

Franky's feet landed exactly on Zoro's left shoulder and on Sanji's right shoulder, Usopp docked onto Franky's left hand, Chopper docked onto Franky's head, which was covered by the top of his shirt.

Franky felt something that he assumed he was Robin dock onto his right hand. "Pirates Docking Six!" said Chopper. "Giant Robot Warrior..." Usopp added. "Biiiiiig..." said Franky.

"...Emperor!" Franky, Usopp then said in Unison.

Chopper than noticed something "Franky! The right arm is a bit stunted!" "Naaaaaani!?" Franky said in shock when he noticed a small red gem docked onto the right arm, Ruby.

"Huh!? Sapphire!? Why did you split up from me!? They need Garnet to complete the right arm!" said Ruby. "No!" Sapphire said. "Huh?" Franky, Usopp, Chopper and Ruby were equally confused.

"I love you Ruby, but we can't be together like this, not for something so...humiliating!" Sapphire lamented. Franky, Chopper, Usopp and Ruby all gasped in horror.

"It would..." Usopp stammered. "Hu-hu-hu" Ruby also stammered. "It's too humiliating to bare" Sapphire said. "She rejected us!!!" Usopp, Ruby, Franky and Chopper lamented in unison.

"Come on, Sapphire, pleeease?" Ruby said with the cutest face she could muster. "Yeah, come on, Sapphire, pleeeeease?" Steven joined in, also trying to make a cute face.

"Oooh! Steven...even with your more mature appearance, I can't say "no" to that face....or yours, Ruby! Fine! But just this once!" said Sapphire as she reunited with Ruby and formed Garnet once again.

"And now our fusion is complete! Big Emperor, let's move out!" Franky proudly said. 

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Franky, with Sanji, Zoro, Chopper, Usopp and Garnet clinging to him like parts of a robot, as he charged forward smashing apart each Kreigdroid in his path "How do you like this Fusion!?" 

"That's not fusion, that's just a combat oriented cheerleading routine" said Opal. "Oh yeah, can a cheerleading routine do this!? Weapons Left!" Franky twisted his wrists as guns popped out of his knuckles.

"You could have done that without the robot routine" said Opal. "Come on, Opal, let him have his fun" said Steven. 

"Thanks 'lil bro!" Franky said as he had his "Big Emperor Left Arm", AKA Garnet pinch a Kriegdroid and used it like a club against others.

"Zoro kick! Sanji Kick!" Franky and Chopper in unison as Franky kicked a Dondroid with Zoro and another kick with Sanji.

"Kicking's my thing, Moss Head!" Sanji said in the middle of the action. "Like I had any choice in the matter!" Zoro barked back. 

"No...all my Kriegdroids are being decimated!" Don Krieg growled "Oh I know! My good ol poison gas!"

Don Krieg took out a shield which bore his fleet's old Jolly Roger! The mouth opened up, and the hourglass also opened up, but before he could fire, Luffy punched it.

"Not doing that again!" said Luffy. "Ah! So you DO remember me!?" Don Krieg said expectingly. "Nope. I remember the gas, but not you" Luffy shrugged. 

Don Krieg was now down in the dumps, similar to another pirate Luffy faced that got depressed when Luffy said anything negative about him. 

Meanwhile, Bluebird Azurite was getting a sound thrashing from Jinbei "Trying to clog a fish-man's gills!? Of all the cowardly tactics!" 

Bluebird was all beat up from Jibei's superior Fish-Man Karate attacks. "I...I...." Bluebird couldn't even struggle before getting stomped on by Jinbei.

Aquamarine and Eyeball's gems were left on The Beach as Jinbei walked away "Hmph, It's unlike me to get my temper flared up that much"

In the sky, Lapis had shot down her curly haired counterpart onto the Beach. "Ready to give up?" asked Lapis. "Did you know the human body is sixty percent water" Curly Lapis said between breaths.

"What?" asked Lapis. Curly Lapis outstretched her hand towards Luffy "What? You want a high five or something?" asked Luffy. 

Meanwhile, General Franky in autopilot mode had been easily taking down the Mark 3 Krieg droids "No...no...no...no!" Krieg lamented. Big Emperor Franky leapt right up onto the right shoulder of Krieg's piloted Kriegdroid.

Big Emperor than came apart "Give it up...It's over" said Franky. "No! I had all upgraded more powerful weapons! I couldn't possibly had lost this!" Don Krieg growled.

"It doesn't matter how powerful the weapon you wield is, a weapon is a tool" said Zoro "It's only as good as the one who holds it. You rely too much on your weapon, that makes you weak."

"I'll show you who's weak! Battle Spear!" Don Krieg suddenly pulled a spear he had placed behind him, which Zoro blocked with his swords.

But when the swords made contact, it blew up in Zoro's face with a small explosion. Zoro wasn't expecting this.

"I am not weak! I am the strongest man in this world!" Don Krieg declared as he waved around his battle spear with wanton abandon.

Meanwhile, Luffy suddenly was convulsing, as Curly Lapis began messing around with the water in his body.

"No! Stop it!" said Lapis. She wanted to stop Curly Lapis but was worried that her intervening might damage Luffy more than Curly Lapis was already. 

Steven quickly threw his shield at Curly Lapis, poofing her due to the sheer velocity in which he threw it. "Oh no! Is he alright!?" asked Steven as he looked over Luffy's unconscious looking body. 

Steven kneeled down to try and hear Luffy's heartbeat...it sounded weak. "Steven, can't you heal him with your powers?" asked Lapis.

"I think I can...he's still got a heartbeat!" said Steven "and it sounds like it's growing louder..." "Hey...I hear it too" said Lapis. The sound of drums could be heard across the beach.

"What is all this? This couldn't be his heartbeat, could it?" asked Steven. He then noticed a grin appearing on Luffy's face. And suddenly, his hair began to turn all white and cloudy.

Even Luffy's clothes had began to turn white as Luffy began cackling. "Wh...What's going on!?" asked Steven.

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Luffy began uncontrollably laughing as his clothes and hair turned all white. "What's going on?" asked Steven. "Is White Diamond controlling him?" asked Opal "No. This is different"'

"What the!? How are you alive!? I gave you a heart attack with my powers!" Curly Lapis growled. Luffy then made a sound as if he had an idea.

The center of Luffy's chest began to concave as his heart stretched from the back, similar to how Luffy winds up his basic Gum-Gum Pistol

The erratic nature of Luffy's heartbeat could be visible as the drums of liberation played louder "Gum-Gum...Heart Attack!"

Luffy's heart then flung forward from within his body, striking Curly Lapis in the face, causing her face to contort along with the direction Luffy's heart struck her. There was an added impact from The Drums of Liberation heartbeat.

The impact sent Curly Lapis's head spinning around so fast that her neck looked like a corkscrew, and then immediately spun back to normal.

Curly Lapis was so dizzy from all of this, her pupils were stars bouncing around in her head, and a big bump coming out of her forehead, as small starts hovered around her swaying head.

Luffy laughed his ass off at his own antics, laughing so hard he was flailing about on the ground. And all that flailing caused ripples to appear on the ground.

Pearl and Amethyst had split up from being Opal as they saw what had unfolded. "Is he...making ripples in the ground!?" asked Pearl.

"We don't understand it ourselves" said Brook "Luffy acquired this power back in Wano. According to Dr. Vegapunk, this form is that of a god."

"Whaaaat!?" Amethyst and Pearl exclaimed. "You're kidding, you're the pirate crew of a deity!?" asked Pearl.

"Well, I'm not full on the details myself, but apparently, the true nature of the devil fruit Luffy ate gives him the abilities of The Sun God, Nika...at least that's how much I can understand" Brook answered "so, now that I told you all that...will you let me see your panties now?"

"No!" Pearl shouted. "Pearl doesn't really wear panties" Amethyst added "none of us do...our clothes are technically parts of our bodies. We're basically naked if you think about it."

Pearl noticed creepy leers from Brook and Sanji. Of course Sanji was alternating between leering and dodging Don Krieg's attacks.

"THEY didn't need to know that!" Pearl scolded. "Okay, yeah, I'm beginning to notice that myself" said Amethyst "how do the two women on this ship survive with those two pervs?"

"We know how to defend ourselves from them" said Robin "Sanji has too much respect for women to actually make a move on us and Brook, well, he's a skeleton, not like he'll be able to do anything to us."

"Aaaaw, don't remind me, Robin..." Brook lamented. "As for the others, we have nothing to worry about from them" said Nami "Chopper's a reindeer, he's probably more interested in someone of his own species. Usopp has a girl he's interested back on Syrup Village. And Luffy, well, give him the choice between a supermodel and a giant ham, he'd go for the ham."

"And as for Franky, he knows what I'm capable of..." said Robin in an ominous tone. Franky suddenly shivers "I've got chills all through my body" he said before dodging Don Krieg's Battle Spear Swing!

"And this guy's losing all control!" Franky continued. "Die! Die! Die!" Don Krieg growled, hacking at the Straw Hat's wildly. 

Zoro, Franky, Garnet, Chopper, Sanji and even Usopp weren't even bothered by his wild attacks, as he was swinging around his battle spear blindly.

"We didn't even fully beat him this time" said Sanji "Last time this guy freaked out like that was when Luffy kicked his ass at Baratie."

Meanwhile back on the Beach Curly Lapis regained consciousness "You...Prepare to get washed away by the tide!!!" Curly Lapis summoned a huge wave.

Luffy's head enlarged and his eyes popped out of his head as his jaw dropped, screaming in shock. He leapt up into the air, getting out the way, leaving the ground rippling like a huge kid jumped in a bouncy castle.

Curly Lapis then noticed Steven, who was close to Luffy "You'll do!" said Curly Lapis "you took my friend away from me...I'll take great pleasure in shattering your gem, Steven Universe."

When suddenly, Luffy's giant fist came down from the sky, directly onto Curly Lapis's head, flattening it, some of her teeth were sticking out, all squared shaped.

The pressure from the sudden impact caused Curly Lapis to poof. Franky, Garnet, Usopp, Chopper, Zoro and Sanji then noticed Luffy coming towards them.

"I never thought I'd say this but...abandon Giant Robot!" he commanded as everyone except Krieg leapt off the last remaining Kriegdroid, as Don Krieg still raged about. 

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Don Krieg was laughing maniacally when he noticed all the Straw Hats had ran off from remaining Kriegdroid Mark 3. "Ha ha ha ha! I knew it! I AM the strongest! Ha ha ha!"

"Hey! Mr. Weapon Head!" Luffy childishly said with a mischievous giggle. Don Krieg looked in Luffy's direction as his jaw dropped and his eyes popped out of their sockets.

He then pulled out a chain gun and fired continuously at Luffy. But Luffy was quick to open his mouth wide, catching all the bullets in his mouth.

Don Krieg kept firing until his weapon was all out of ammo...which Luffy was now full of. Krieg was sweating nervously as Luffy gave him a nasty looking grin.

Luffy puffed up his cheeks and spat out bullets like they were seeds from a watermelon all over the Kriegdroid Mark 3.

The bullet spatter left the Kriegdroid so damaged, it could barely hold itself together, before falling apart. Don Krieg moaned as he pulled himself from the scrap heap his robotic weapon was now reduced to.

A small part of his armor opened up, and a small white flag popped out. But Luffy was having none of it, he grabbed Krieg from the scrap heap, leaving behind an after image of his stunned eyes.

Luffy began swinging Krieg around in circles before flinging him far out into the ocean. Luffy laughed triumphantly before the Gear 5 transformation seemed to ware off.

As it wore off, Luffy seemed a bit aged in appearance, by a few decades it looked like. "I know what can help!" said Chopper "Sanji! Whip up some food for him!"

"On it!" Sanji leapt aboard Sunny and ran right into the kitchen. "Alright everyone, we don't when the Return Knockup Stream" Nami said in an authoritative tone.

"Oh that's right, you have to go soon" said Pearl. "We appreciate you letting us stay the night" said Nami "but as much as we'd to get to know you more, we don't usually stay in the same place for long."

"If Luffy's going to be King of The Pirates, we've got get going as soon as possible" said Zoro. "Anyone got any injuries or wounds?" asked Chopper. 

"Oh! I can help with that! I have healing powers!" said Steven. "Really?" asked Chopper. "Yeah, I've even bought someone back from the dead" Steven elaborated "I can be your helper or something."

"Oh shut up, you moron! It's not like I want to be in charge or anything!" Chopper said in his usual bashful tone as he did his little dance.

And so, The Straw hats mad all the final preparations to set sail for The Return Knockup Stream. The Gems followed the Thousand Sunny on their sailboat, The Gem Sloop, as the Sunny made its way to the predicted coordinates.

"It was great meeting you guys!" said Steven. "Likewise, I hope one day the humans of our world will be as open minded towards fish-men as you are, Steven" said Jinbei.

"Hey Luffy! If I ever find myself in your world, we're gonna have an eating contest rematch!" said Amethyst. "Sounds like fun!" Luffy answered.

As the Crystal Gems and the Straw Hats were saying their final goodbyes, Don Krieg was paddling towards the Sunny in an inflatable liferaft he got from...well, somewhere.

Nami examined the sudden calmness of the sea "Here it comes guys! Hang on to something! Now!" all the Straw Hats grabbed on to a sturdy part of The Sunny.

"Heh heh heh...I will have my revenge! I shall sink their ship without them notice...why is the sea rumbling?" Don Krieg wondered.

BOOOM! A rainbow colored Knock-Up Stream shot the Sunny, and Krieg's raft way up into the sky and into a strange portal that appeared in it.

"Those guys were odd...but fun" said Garnet. "I wonder what their next amazing adventure will be once they get back to their world" said Steven.

"From what they told us...every adventure they go on, is bound to be an exciting one" said Garnet "my future vision only limits my predictions to our universe, but I have a feeling that even after everything Luffy and his crew have gone through, they're bound to find what they're looking for.

"I wonder if we'll ever see them again..." said Amethyst. "Probably not" said Pearl "but let's wish em luck."