Supreme Swordsman Zoro

Out of the sand near Alubarna a bloody and battered Crocodile appeared, he coughed up a mouthful of blood then cleaned himself, he sighed as he looked at his c.h.e.s.t then he put his hand over the injury and mumbled:

"A strong armament Haki, fighting him head-on even in the desert... He is too strong for me right now, unfortunately, there's no time to take care of him, I will have to change the plan a bit."

He took out a mini den-den mushi from his coat and tiny blue=rimmed glasses appeared on the snail's face as it took the features of the one you talked to, quite the interesting little creatures they were:

"Mr 3 change of plans make sure King Cobra is secured I'm near Alubarna and I will need to get the king myself, get the bombs controls and stop the timer, you will need them for the next phase of the plan, Demon Blade Roronoa is too strong for me, I will have to put princess Vivi in a crisis here, even though Roronoa is strong he shouldn't discard the princess opinion as it's her people and her father."

Crocodile smiled as the plan was made in his mind, he knew what to do now.

Zoro was staying on the giant crab that Chopper talked to, it seemed Chopper could talk to any animal and understand their speech, with the help of the crab they could get to Alubarna quicker than they could get on foot after all Zoro was just a lone person and he needed the whole crew to take care of Crocodile and his crew, who knows what he did in Alubarna?

Zoro didn't know what Crocodile planned to do but he was sure he could take care of him easily, his strength wasn't that high even though he had an advantage because the island was his natural environment Zoro was now on, however, he knew how to take care of him after his first encounter.

Zoro watched as the crab started to speed up as they closed in Alubarna and they could see the rebel army clamoring around the gates ready to storm into the capital and attack, Koza stood in front of the army and started a speech about how the king deprived them of their water and needs and how he needs to go down and abdicate!

Vivi watched everything happen and nodded her head it was just like planned, suddenly one of the imperial army guards shot at Koza!

Fortunately, Koza was expecting such a thing and dodged in the nick of time but the bullet still grazed his left cheek making it bleed slightly.

The rebel army immediately went into a furor and attacked but that was only on the surface, the same could be said about the imperial army like the one who shot Koza was already being apprehended in secret.

Crocodile watched everything happening from the tower clock of the city as he smiled to himself, his plan was getting to its last phase Zoro found his aura immediately and scaled the tower clock meeting him face to face.

Crocodile scoffed as he saw Zoro then he looked down and spotted the rest of the straw hats and Vivi.

Crocodile smiled at Vivi then motioned with his hook at someone and King Cobra was thrown into the air directly into Crocodile's hand!

King Cobra looked at Vivi and shouted:

"Vivi do not do anything they tell you to its a trap!"

Crocodile sneered at King Cobra and used a bit of his power to take away some of his moisture making him look dehydrated in an instant

Vivi gasped as she looked at her father's body and started shedding silent tears, Chaka and Pell the guardians of the king were nowhere to be found, unfortunately, they got taken care of by Mr 1 and Mr 3, their devil fruit powers would have been useful in this situation but alas.

Zoro looked at Crocodile with narrowed eyes, he couldn't attack him or he would make Vivi's father into a makeshift scarecrow mummy, he looked down at Vivi but a rasped voice was heard from Cobra:

"Roronoa... don't the king can die but the country has to live on!"

Cobra was a king that put his citizens over himself he was a model for all kings out in the world, Vivi tears started to multiply on her face as she looked at her poor father then she shouted:

"WHY DO YOU DO THIS CROCODILE!"

Crocodile chuckled at Vivi's shout then said:

"For a single reason, and that's getting my hands on the ancient weapon pluto!"

King Cobra's eyes widened as his now wizened face realized why Crocodile targeted his country, there were some records on the poneglyph of the Nefertari royal family about the whereabouts of the pluto weapon, unfortunately, no one knew how to read them and King Cobra thought it was the best outcome.

Nico Robin made herself present by staying on the roof of a nearby building, King Cobra wizened face started to whiten at the presence of Robin, he knew about her, he knew that she could read the poneglyphs, if Crocodile got his hands on pluto everyone would be doomed!

Zoro was ready to cut Crocodile in two while he was monologuing but Crocodile tightened his hand on Cobra's neck and he said to Zoro:

"Don't even think about it Demon Blade, you are strong, yes, but you have connections and emotions that hold you back."

He pointed towards Vivi and laughed:

"Hahaha, you think if you do what she wants to you will win? You need to discard the weaklings and promote the strong if you struck me down now and King Cobra died you wouldn't have lost noting Demon Blade! at most, the king dies but that's not all."

Nico Robin took a controller with a big ominous red button on it and Crocodile continued:

"You see this remote controller? If Nico Robin presses it the whole plaza will go down along with all the citizens! Do you want to know where the bomb is hidden? Good luck on trying to find out!"

Then he shouted:

"Mr 1 Mr 2 Mr 3 Mr 4, take care of our friends here while I and Nico Robin go with King Cobra to have a little chat!"

Mr 1, 2, 3 and 4 made their presence known along with their partners and they suddenly attacked the straw hats

Mr 1 attacked Luffy with his steel-steel fruit creating steel blades out of his arms and trying to hack Luffy into pieces, here is where Luffy's Haki training shined, fortunately for him even though he didn't unlock Observation yet his instincts and senses increased by a lot from the training.

Luffy's only weakness was sharp attacks so all he could do was dodge when he tried to counter-attack a blade would pop out the place he would try to attack and almost slashed his fist.

Sanji looked at the weird Mr 2 as he was attacked by him and his new kama Kempo techniques, Their legs crossed as Sanji suddenly landed a kick in his torso sending him flying a bit.

Sanji lit a cigarette then took a long puff before he pushed both of his legs on the ground and followed him to continue his fight.

Mr 3 and his partner attacked Kuina and Kaya unfortunately for them Kaya made easy work of Mr 3 who didn't know how strong she was, a sudden:

"One sword style: One thousand sword blooms!" Defeated Mr 3 while Kaya slowly approached the twin tails red-haired girl and knocked her over the head, the physical training Kaya went through along with the crewmates made her faster and stronger than the average paradise pirate.

Chopper and Usopp fought the mole woman Miss Merry Christmas and Mr 4

Nami took out her trusted staff and easily parried one of the blue-haired woman's spike attacks, she knew Observation Haki and trained a lot with Zoro and Kuina even before they met Luffy so she was quite strong even though not new world standard for a navigator she was quite strong.

Zoro looked towards the direction Crocodile flew with Nico Robin and King Cobra and looked down at Vivi, fortunately, both armies stopped fighting and captured all the Baroque Works spies.

Zoro looked around before he could go and follow Crocodile he needed to find out where's the bomb, they had to either defuse it or throw it somewhere where it couldn't hurt anyone.

Zoro started to stretch out his Observation Haki to the maximum but unfortunately, he didn't have such a high mastery to completely feel how inanimate objects were like.

Suddenly his eyes glowed as he felt the Bazooka Dog of Mr 4, it was both an inanimate object and an alive one at the same time!

He started to dissect its aura and he had a breakthrough!

Since the bazooka dog shot out explosive balls that fortunately Usopp knew how to avoid along with Chopper, Zoro got a feel on how explosive things should feel.

He stretched out his Observation again but immediately he realized that they were standing on the bomb!

It was under the clocktower, Zoro narrowed his eyes what should he do?

Since he didn't have a response slashing it was the best answer!

Zoro took out Yubashiri and Kashu then he entered a horse stance:

"Two sword style: half a demon slayer!"

The tower was directly cut into two along with the bomb as it collapsed into rubble, fortunately, Zoro hit the weak point of the bomb, defusing it instead of making it explode prem.a.t.u.r.ely, Zoro nodded to himself, he now realized that problems he didn't know the answer of could be fixed with one thing:

Slashing it!

Since he couldn't get Vivi's father hurt he only had to slash Crocodile faster than he could drain him of his water!

A lightbulb appeared above Zoro's head, this was the best solution!

He looked down at the fight's of his crewmates and realized that none of them needed his help, he knew that to make a crew strong he needed them to go through live combat as well to temper their fighting techniques, he couldn't only let them train their muscles.

Of course, if one of his crewmates seemed like they couldn't hold on and they would be heavily injured he would step in and take care of the opponent, however minor injuries were a must, he couldn't let them grow sheltered or else they would turn weak.

Koshiro taught him about this as well, it was in his guide book How to train a crew 101 after he failed both his daughters and his wife he wanted to find a way to get himself stronger so he started to study about how pirates were ranked in strength, and he realized that most pirates had crews, Mihawk was an exception as he was a freak of nature.

Zoro watched as Sanji defeated Mr 2 swiftly, after his defeat at Van Augur's hands he started to train harder and harder, he didn't want to go through the same thing again.

A rather quick hit to the head and Mr 2 was down for the count, Mr 4 and Miss Merry Christmas didn't have an easy time against Usopp and Chopper as Usopp trained quite hard and become quite strong, he took out a big hammer from his pouch and hit the mole woman directly on the head knocking her out.

Mr 4 was quite slow so he still didn't know what happened as he aimed his dog bazooka at Usopp but Chopper transformed into his horn point and started pushing him backward, unfortunately, he was very sturdy and Chopper could only push him for a bit.

However, in that bit of time, Usopp shot a newly made ammo which exploded in contact with Mr 4 and created a big fire on him, Mr 4 slowly rolled on the ground trying to extinguish the fire then blacked out.

The gun bazooka started to growl as Usopp wanted to pick it up and see it, he liked the concept of the dog bazooka and he wanted to take it with him.

The dog started barking at Usopp while Chopper came forward and started to talk with the dog bazooka.

Chopper nodded his head at the dog bazooka barks and he said to Usopp:

"His name is Roory and it doesn't seem he likes you Usopp."

Usopp flinched at Chopper's words, the dog bazooka looked so cool and practical, he wanted to wield it as well!

But the dog bazooka seemed to like Chopper as it walked forward to him and started l.i.c.k.i.n.g him, Chopper laughed as the dog's tongue tickled him.

Usopp looked at Chopper and made a plan in his mind, with the help of Chopper he would tame the dog bazooka and make it his partner!

Luffy had the hardest time, fighting Mr 1 as he was his total counter, every time Luffy wanted to go in and attack Mr 1 would protect himself with his steel-steel fruit, Luffy narrowed his eyes as his arm started to twist like a rubber band then he threw it forward with quick momentum shouting:

"Gum-gum sling!"

The sling was quite fast and it hit Mr 1 directly on the head unfortunately for Luffy the man's whole body was affected by his devil fruit so a steel blade grew on his head and cut Luffy's arm.

Luffy grunted as his arm snapped back and he looked at the cut, blood started to pour out of his arm as Mr 1 said in a monotone voice:

"Even though my comrades got beaten I will take care of you and your friends, my devil fruit is just stronger than yours, give up now."

It seemed Mr 1 got bored with playing with Luffy and decided to land a finishing blow on him!

Luffy chuckled to himself then said:

"Let's see it Mr steelhead!"

Mr 1 frowned at the nickname and he created a circular saw that started vibrating at high speeds in his right hand then he quickly approached Luffy ready to saw him in two!

Luffy dodged by jumping in the air where he grabbed a nearby building and flung himself away from the steel man. Luffy started to think about how to defeat his opponent, the only way to defeat him would be to knock him out before he would bleed out.

Luffy nodded his head, what if he was made of steel? he would badger him into a steel ball that he would kick around!

He quickly threw his arm behind him as it twisted making it look like a spring combined with his momentum from flinging himself he threw himself in the direction of Mr 1 and attacked him directly:

"Gum-gum flying rifle!"

The saw and the flying rifle hit each other as Luffy's arm unfurled and slipped past the saw hand to hit him directly in the c.h.e.s.t where sparks started to sputter, Luffy strength was nothing to joke about, hitting him directly in the c.h.e.s.t, his c.h.e.s.t caved in even though he protected himself with a steel layer, however, the steel saw cut into Luffy's c.h.e.s.t as well almost reaching his torso and his ribs.

Fortunately, Mr 1 got knocked down as his lungs started to fill with blood from his c.h.e.s.t caving in.

Zoro nodded his head as Nami hit the blue-haired spike woman over the head with her staff and ended the fight.

The fight didn't take more than a few minutes and Zoro prepared himself a bit then he quickly jumped away from the rubble and started to run towards Crocodile's aura.

He needed to take care of him, and it was now or never!