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Shachi and Penguin
"You're kidding me."
Shachi could not keep himself from laughing when he saw Law's disgruntled face, coupled with Mugiwara just stuck to Kidd's metal arm. The three had gone to have an adventure, as Mugiwara put it, scout the island according to Law and make sure the idiots don't get in trouble per Kidd's grumbling. When Shachi had heard no explosions or earthquakes ten minutes later, he had assumed, foolishly enough at this point, that perhaps they had not gotten in any trouble.
Half an hour late, blue had shimmered through the foliage and Law arrived in a snit, shamblesing both Kidd and Mugiwara along. Kidd who seemed oddly rubbery.
"What happened this time?" Penguin groaned at Shachi's side, seeming as if he wanted to turn around and hide in the farthest room of the Coral.
"This idiot," Law pointed to Mugiwara, "ate the wrong thing and enraged a tribe that lives on the island. This other idiot," this time to finger was pointed to Kidd, "decided to join in and made them even angrier. So now we're cursed until we supposedly appease the gods."
"You seem to have gotten out of it," Penguin pointed out. Even if the other two captains had their powers switched, Law was still able to use his own fruit.
"Only for now," Law snapped. "The curse is that our devil fruit powers switch completely by the end of this day and will remain so until the curse is lifted. I am not sure how I got away, but it probably won't stay like this for long."
"We dunno how to lift it 'cause they refused to tell us," Mugiwara pointed out, finally managing to demagnetize himself and drop back to his feet.
"That's why I told you not to touch anything in the village," Law hissed back at him and the younger captain simply stuck out his tongue.
"Shouldn't have had tasty food around if it wasn't meant to be eaten!"
Shachi rolled his eyes as the three developed into the usual squabbling they got into whenever they met. For once he did not actually want to see their bickering, no matter how familiar and comfortable it had gotten in the several months that had passed since kicking Blackbeard's ass, ever since the three had decided to renew their alliance and start sailing together.
THUD
Suddenly a ripple shifted in the air and this time Law's legs gave up under him, bending at unnatural angles, while Mugiwara got stuck to Kidd's arm once more. It wasn't hard to realize, the three powers had switched again, completely this time, especially given the blue light flickering over Kidd's palm.
"Tag, you're it, Peng," he said and dashed below deck before his best friend could keep him back. That was one headache he did not want to get involved in right now.
Marines
Captain CannonFodder had not been having a good day. Honestly speaking, he had not been having a good several months now. Ever since the Fleet Admiral started pushing more and more troops in the New World, several people stationed in Paradise had been assigned over to the New World, including himself. Which meant as opposed to managing to somewhat stay alive with minimal losses, now CannonFodder was looking at several reports in which he needed to justify sunk ship and lost men whenever one of the heavy hitters of the New World caught wind of them.
Honestly speaking, when he had seen the Strawhat Pirates' Jolly Roger in the distance he had been somewhat relieved. It was a known thing you did not go around attacking Emperors willy-nilly. Surely, surely his superior would not be dumb enough to try and attack the man who had brought down Kaido, was rumoured to have killed Vegapunk and Seas knew what else he had done in the meantime.
Allied himself with the Surgeon of Death and Eustass Kidd if rumours were to be believed.
Unfortunately for CannonFodder, his superior this time round was the unfortunate brand of all brawns and no brains, which meant he did not even stop to realize whose Jolly Roger was in the distance, he simply attacked.
CannonFodder did not whimper. Truly he did not.
What happened next was a whirlwind of cannonball explosions and steel clashes. For one, the rumor that Mugiwara was allied to the other two Supernovas did prove indeed to be correct. For another Roronoa Zoro was as terrifying as papers made him out to be and CannonFodder did the only sane thing he could do when the swordsman noticed the sword in his hand and lunged at him.
Which was jumping overboard.
For third, away from the fight/massacre as he was CannonFodder could see there was something off about the three Captains. Mugiwara was not using his famous rubber powers, instead opting to fight with Armament coated fists.
CannonFodder could not help but shudder remembering training with Garp in his youth.
Eustass Kidd was handling a rifle that seemed to be powered in some strange way and offering mid-range support, while Trafalgar was deep in the fray, his sword clashing against those of the marines. None of them were using their devil fruits. That in itself was odd.
What ended up being even more odd was the moment the three of them got distracted for one reason or another. Trafalgar lunged and his arm simply - elongated? The marine in front of him was as shocked as Trafalgar himself was annoyed. Mugiwara slipped on a puddle of blood and instead of falling he was simply drawn back - and propelled in the canon as if attracted by a huge magnet. Perhaps Eustass Kidd was weirdest one when his rifle disappeared in a blue Room similar to Trafalgar's.
CannonFodder did not get to try to dissect the matter further, because in the next moment a piece of beam flew from the ship and knocked him out.
Ikkaku
"Why are you here?"
It was a well-known fact that Ikkaku did not allow most people in her workshop. She allowed even less people in the engine room - the Polar Tang was hers in a way that nothing else was and so was the Coral now - but that was besides the point.
In the beginning, when they had the Tang, she had to make do. Wolf's creation was a beauty, but it was not meant for the crew of twenty Law had managed to gather. It was definitely not meant to give all of them their space to tinker. The Captain had the infirmary of course, and Shachi and Penguin shared a workshop. Bepo had the navigation room and Clione preferred the book room that was too small to be called a library. Ikkaku had had to share her workshop with Uni and Hakugan from the get-go, and it had irked all of them something fierce, even if they had come to live with it.
Then they lost the Tang and no matter how much she loved the Coral, it was still an ache in her soul, a hollow void that nothing could fill, - hearing her Klaubatermann cry out, the metal groaning, the engines exploding - not even having her own space to tinker and do whatever she wanted in peace could sooth that ache.
Or at least, relative peace, because for some reason she could not shake off her Captain's situationship. Or at least one third of it.
"Gotta figure out how to use these powers," Kidd shrugged as he tried to pull up a Room again and Scan the rotor in front of him. " 's not like I can do it like doc does on actual people. Don't know shit about medicine and Quincy would have my hide if I tried."
"Does it even work on mechanical pieces?" Ikkaku asked before realizing she did not want to know. She just wanted him out of her space. "No, never mind that, why are you not on your ship?"
"It's more fun to annoy you. Plus you have better spare pieces than mine."
Ikkaku merely picked up a wrench and debated throwing it at his head. She could just fix whatever she broke if he didn't duck fast enough.
"OI! Don't you fucking dare!"
Shanks
Shanks had long decided, ever since he had seen Luffy stab himself in the face to prove that he was brave, that nothing the kid would do could possibly surprise him.
Sure, Luffy eating the devil fruit the Red Haired pirates had gone to great lengths to secure had tried that conviction.
Feeling the kid die years later as he was getting close to the shores of Wano, his Voice sputtering into nothingness had driven Shanks to his knees, just to make him laugh through his tears moments after when he heard Luffy's Voice again screaming alivealivealive freefreefree, his Haki blazing as far as the Red Force and the echo of drums loud in the air.
However, he didn't think anything could have quite prepared him to see the kid thrown at their ship, close to the shores of Elbaph, not from the deck of his own ship but from the punk's ship, Luffy screeching his head off and - getting magnetically attracted to the steel box Yasopp had left of deck.
"Ow," the kid whined, a red indent on his face where he had collided with the corner of the box, before his eyes went wide upon seeing Shanks and jumped behind the box to hide.
"What?"
Honestly, it was the only question Shanks could ask. Not about Luffy hiding - that was somewhat expected knowing his kid. But about the powers that definitely should not have been magnetic.
"Dahahahaha, so let me get this straight," Shanks laughed, ignoring the glare the punk was throwing at him and Trafalgar's rolled eyes. Anchor was still hiding behind his hat, but at least he had started scooting a bit closer to the Emperor, tossing him looks from under the brim of his hat.
"Anchor ate the wrong thing and enraged a tribe that lives on the island. Meanwhile the punk," Shanks pointed to Kidd, "decided to join in and made them even angrier. So now you all are cursed until you figure out how to break it. And you're so bad in over your head that you actually came to me for advice."
Shanks could not deny the situation was hilarious. Between Eustass that still tried to take his head whenever they met, Trafalgar who usually acted like a prissy cat and Anchor who had refused to meet him, even if he was always around to keep an eye over Shanks' duels with Eustass, having the three of them on his ship asking for advice was the most amusing thing to happen to him since Buggy was a kid and kept putting his limbs the wrong way around.
"See, Anchor, this is why we told you not to eat everything you saw when you were a kid," Lucky Roux guffawed somewhere behind him.
"Knew the habit would come to bite you in the ass one day, kid," Yasopp heckled him and ducked when a green missile came from on board the Thousand Sunny, making a Elbaph sized venus-fly come to life behind him. Huh, seems Usopp was still mad at his old man.
"MISSED."
A rifle suddenly flew from Building Snake's hands and knocked into Yasopp full force, sending the sniper toppling over the railing.
"Really, Anchor?"
"Meh, he can swim," Luffy finally showed his face from under the brim of his hat, rolling his eyes as the other Red Haired Pirates kept laughing. Shanks could not help but grin and pulled his kid in a one armed hug.
"I see you're doing well enough with Eustass' powers," the Emperor smiled and mussed the kid's hair until Luffy started to squirm to get away.
"Gizao's powers are fun, but I miss rubber."
"Yeah and I'd rather give doc's power back." Eustass groused. "He gets fidgety when he can't scan us after a fight."
"I do not," Trafalgar snapped, before admitting. "Being made of rubber is just weird."
"Torao's bad at it," Luffy whispered conspiratorially, soft shishishi echoing before he got jumped by an irate Trafalgar.
It took about ten more minutes for the ruckus to calm down, before Shanks looked again at their annoyed faces and dropped the bomb.
"You ate food left as an offering on an island where natives worship a fertility deity. What do you think needs to be done to lift the curse?"
"EHHHH??!!"
Thousand Sunny
"We are never talking about this, ever again."
"Come on, now, princess, don't be a prude. Admit it, you had fun. And we got our powers back."
"Torao made all kinds of pretty noises, shishishi. Wouldn't mind making him do them again."
"Ugh, just shut up."
Nami smirked to herself as she left the hallway, simply making her way towards the rest of the crew who were having a leisure day on the grassy deck. It was time to cash in on some bets after all, and considering the conversation she had just heard, her Captain would be keeping Torao and Gizao busy for a while longer so they would have some more time before they had to sail again.