Tales from Elseworld Vol.1

Perfect Strangers

A/N: My own personal spin on a marine/pirate story that was requested by Like A Pro 42. It took a couple months but I finally had time to sit back and write your request, really hope you enjoy it buddy.

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The New World had been equally ruthless on both Navy and Pirate crews; each faction took numerous losses with every battle fought. The territories of the emperors crushed the hopes and dreams of many aspiring newcomers that sought to make a name for themselves.

The straw hats gripped the world in feverish tension after receiving significant bounty increases after escaping Totto Land standing among some of the highest in the seas. None other than straw hat Luffy himself was given the coined title "fifth emperor." He was approximately another billion away from catching Blackbeard. Still, having the estimated fifth highest bounty in the known world and becoming an emperor was not his goal. He wanted to obtain the One Piece and become King of the Pirates, allowing him to sail freely until his death.

Basil Hawkins and X Drake both became allies with Kaido over the two year separation and undercover agents in his crew under the oath of the established straw hat name after Doflamingo's defeat. Trafalgar Law, Eustasd Kid, and Roronoa Zoro went ahead to Wano to check on their progress a week earlier and hadn't reported back since. Jewelry Bonney the only female of the crew that infiltrated the domain of the Celestials' striking an alliance with the Revolutionary Army making sure to update whenever possible. And finally his ally Capone Bege requested an ingenious assassination plot to take down Big Mom, by using her thirty fifth daughter, Charlotte Pudding's wedding to unable to resist the urge the team consisting of him, Killer, Scratchmen Apoo, 'Mad Monk' Urouge and two mink honorary crew members Pedro and Carrot invaded Totto Land to join their comrade.

The assassination plot had been more complicated than anticipated; Luffy and his crew battled through Big Mom's forces managing to make it to the rendezvous point by the deadline. Through unknown means the bride and groom to be met with the captain of the straw hats privately asking their help to escape. The third eldest Vinsmoke siblings named Sanji told him whether he went through with the wedding or not he and his family would be dead anyway. While the bride Pudding mentioned that her, Sanji, and Capone's wife Chiffon who happened to be her sister made the wedding cake specially to distract their gluttonous mother in order to make an escape. They only requested to be taken from the fighting and given the chance to live normal lives away from the chaos—Luffy agreed.

Unable to defeat Big Mom even in her vulnerable state the straw hats escaped with help from the Germa kingdom. Although there were casualties along the way, Luffy managed to defeat Charlotte Katakuri significantly weakening the enemies' forces creating a window for everyone to go their separate ways. In exchange for his help Sanji carried Luffy back his ship thanking him profusely wishing he could've journeyed with him from the beginning before departing into the world with his beautiful fiancée.

Roughly a week later Monkey D. Luffy became separated from his crew on the way to a refueling island being pursued by the Navy on the way to the land of Wano. Without anyway to contact his crew he needed to find a way to the civilized part of the land, eventually the crew would come looking, they needed to refuel for the next leg of the trip anyway. The captain couldn't understand why a lone Navy platoon would pursue his crew for stealing some food from a Navy base near Zou. It had been nearly month since then and they were still on his tail waiting for them to emerge from Totto Land's seas colored seas; then again with his newly acquired bounty increase nothing was off the table now.

One thing he couldn't deny about the persistent Navy platoon was their exceptional navigation. Day and night the ship kept a comfortable distance to stay out of canon fire range while drifting close enough to anticipate the crew's next move. Whoever their navigator was his crew mate Scratchmen Apoo said it'd been the best he'd seen on their voyage so far which was a mouthful from the veteran pirate. After dispatching of the Navy's ships handily an explosion on board the vessel sent many overboard, he luckily managed to inflate his body being carried by the wind to the island he stood on now.