When Justice Watches

To start, this series was already different. As soon as the video started, music began playing, with the screen showing ‘One Piece’, before a scroll opened up, showing people at the execution of a man.

“Whoa what is this” said Flash, sitting up straight. This was a completely different way of well, the series.

“An execution” dryly stated Batman. It was only the fact that he recognized this seemed to be a retelling that he contained himself.

The heroes felt the same. The more experienced and military oriented ones, however, noticed that this person had to be important, because it looked exactly like terrorists assassinating a political leader.

"Wealth, fame, power... Gold Roger, the King of the Pirates, attained everything this world has to offer. The words he uttered just before his death drove people to the seas." Started a narrator, the scroll moving to show the event that would change the world.

"My treasure? If you want it, you can have it! Find it! I left everything this world has to offer there!" said the pirate king. The words, combined with the fearless grin? Man, no wonder people were so moved

[‘Gold’ Roger]

[The man who managed the impossible]

And so men headed for the Grand Line in pursuit for their dreams! The world has truly entered a Great Pirate Era!" countless ships with jolly rogers set sails, to the quest for the treasure of the pirate king.

[Error-Error] [Spoiler-Heavy protection activated] (You don’t know how much this hurts me)

Silence. This guy…he was the kind of special ‘villain’ they had. To start with, he was dead. But it was probably more about the fact that he had changed the entire world with just some words, he was like the biggest freaking influencer of that time.

The Aquafamily was even more surprised. To be named ‘King of the pirates’ was no small task, specially in worlds with superpowers. And to see this man, smiling in his death?

And the detectives, specially, looked in suspicion. Was it possible that Roger had masterminded his death? Was that his objective? If so, then that took real guts. But there probably were more factors at play

We move to the sea. It is a clear day, numerous seagulls squawking in the sky. It then moved from that peaceful image to a fricking giant whirlpool!. Fortunately, the ship near it seemed to be safe from danger, which was thankful, as the ship was, compared to the whirlpool, tiny.

“’Whistle’, damn that’s a huge maelstrom” said Artemis (T), her leader reassuring Megan that Atlantian cities had measures to safely deal with ‘underwater tornadoes’

Two marines were on the ship, both of them amazed at the catastrophe. "Whoa..." murmured one of them. Then they heard a bumb, looking down to see a barrel floating in the sea

 “I'm Luffy! The Man Who's Gonna be King of the Pirates!" said a voice, whine the screen focused on the barrel.

“Oh My God” said Kyle, standing up quickly, nearly dropping the popcorn if not for Raven grabbing it “It’s…. AN ANIME!” he cheered, making Beast Boy, Cyborg and Thea celebrate.

The same was happening with the Batcave, where Damian was shaking his best friends (Jon and Arthur Junior) and pets (Titus, Alfred, Batcow & Goliath) in what clearly was not excitement. Definitely not. Anybody who says the opposite will be stabbed.

We move to the inside of the ship, where a ball is happening. The ship’s captain was talking to a passenger who was worried about the whirlpool. “No worries! A whirlpool of that size poses no problem to this ship!"

The camera zoomed in to show a beautiful, redheaded beautiful woman in a dress. A man in a green suit then walked up to her but she didn’t notice him, thinking deeply about something. “Miss. May I have this dance?" asked a man, making the woman snap up and decide to accept.

“Hummm….” Thought Question, looking at the redheaded woman with intensity.

“Careful Huntress, your man seems very interested in that girl.” Joked Batwoman good naturedly, knowing that her friends relationship was super stable

“Oh hush you” responded Helena, shoving the laughing Bat member away.

Outside, the marines from before were trying to fetch the barrel.

"Alright!” said one of the marines, trying to catch the barrel, buuut… it wasn’t to be “Not again..." yeah, he didn’t manage it, and the other marines laughed.

"Batter out!" saud his friend

"What're you doing? You suck!" said a marine in the crow’s nest, mockingly. He then seemed to be confused when he looked at an island the boat seemed to be moving away from.

Down on board, the barrel was finally caught and both marines pulled the barrel up onto the ship, celebrating. "This thing's heavy! Must be filled with booze then! It's all ours now!"

Up there, the marine in the crow's nest was now looking horrified. The reason? From behind the island, a pink ship with pirate sails (who had hearts for some reason) and a swan figurehead was appearing. He quickly began warning his coworkers in fear "Ship off the starboard stern! There's a pirate flag on its mast! It's a pirate ship! Enemy raid! Enemy raid!"

“Well, we should have expected to see some pirates soon” stated Martian Manhunter, tense from the danger that the cruise was now in.

This was, however, not focused on by the supers, because they were distracted by the pirate ship. Even Batman was.

“It’s like something Kitten would make up” said Nightwing, having (haunting) flashbacks of the supervillain’s daughter who forced him to date her. He squirmed.

“I-I can’t…”stuttered Shining Knight, being speechless at the sight of the pirate ship. This world…it was already testing his mettle.

“I want to kill it” declared Artemis, gripping her lovers hand so hard he was struggling to not show his pain. The sentiment was shared by most of her team.

“I have never been so thankful for the Waverider than now” muttered Zari. It was one thing for a ship to be decorated, but that? Yeah no, give her her time travelling ships design everyday.

The marines carrying the barrel looked at him in shock before dropping it and running off.

The pirate ship started shooting cannonballs at the cruise, causing the ship to tremble, just from the impact the cannonballs had on the water. The passengers screeched in fear, including the man who had asked the redhead lady, while she however seemed very quiet, almost as if unaffected

The two marines then opened the door in a hurry. "Captain! Pirates!"

"What?!" was the response from the ship’s leader, before deciding to try to calm the passengers "Everyone, stay calm! Stay calm! Follow instructions in a calm manner!" Yeah, nobody cared, they were too busy running in fear. All of them instead of the redhead, who was standing apart from the mass of people, and smiled as she realised something.

“Ah hell, they are going to get captured so hard” groaned Garth, watching how the officials were unable to properly respond. Well, it was a cruise.

On the enemy ship, the pirates were reloading the cannons, being then directed by a female voice "Fire!" The cannons went off, the cannonballs going towards the marine ship, some missing the target while others hit it.

The back of a female woman was seen, one with a hat and long black hair. "Koby!" she shouted, to which a small, scrawny pink haired guy with glasses to answer scaredly "Y-yes, ma'am?!" Dear god, I forgot how much he screamed ‘Neeeeeeerrddddd’ (I love Koby but holy shit pre-development he was…)

“That’s… that’s a civilian. Well, he isn’t, but come on, he has to be the less pirate- pirate to exist” said Stargirl.

“Oh Rao I can’t help but imagine Clark as him” breathed Supergirl. The posture, the glasses, the timid attitude… and it was worse because Clark used it as a disguise while this kid had it happening for real.

Those who also knew Superman’s identity got angry, reaching the same conclusions as Kara.

"Who's the most beautiful of all on these seas?" asked the pirate, to which the guy responded "T-this ship's captain, Alvida-sama, of course!" hearing this, Alvida smiled and laughed. She put her spiked mace down and rested her hands on it. The camera then revealed her full body, which was fucking humongous!

[‘Iron Mace’ Alvida (Pre-devpmt)]

[Oh, the first of the many villainous gonks in One Piece]

[Koby (Pre-devpmt)]

[At the moment, From Zero...]

“MY EYES!” shouted many people, like the more immature lanterns, the Flashes, many of Young Justice, the Outlaws and the Legends.

“:.. EH, Tobias is fatter” meh’d Black Lightning, thinking of his mobster enemy. Through he understood the point, it was probably more the fact that she was a criminal. And that smug smile didn’t help her hideous face.

“Well done!" she said, overjoyed, to which her subordinate timidly answered “T-thank you!". Another one of her subordinates proceeded to talk "Alvida-sama. This is our first prey in a while." This, of course, made the woman happier "That's right! All Right! Start pounding the ship!"

One cannonball finaly impacted one of the masts, the people inside shouting in fear. The barrel, thanks to the movement, decided to embark on its own journey, falling into a room. The redhead was instead trying to get out of the ship, but watching the pirate ship arrive made her return inside in fear.

The pirates used ropes to hook onto the marine ship. "Men! Show them the terror of Iron Club Alvida, the woman pirate!" shouted Alvida, to which her subordinates cheered, coming onto the cruise either by the rope they hooked or swinging onboard

Back on the pirate ship Koby was holding onto a rope in fear, which Alvida noticed "Koby! What're you doing?!"

"I- I'm not good at this sort of thing..." he stuttered, making the pirate captain angry  “Hmm?! Are you tryin' to give me backtalk?!"

 “P-please, anything but the club!" he squeaked, to which Alvida “Then get yer ass in gear!” proceeded to kick, shooting him to the cruise headfirst, Koby groaning in pain, before he had to duck else Alvida crashed into him

“She can’t be seriously  the only female pirate in that entire world.” Deadpanned Hawkwoman, not being impressed at the epithet she had given herself.

“wait what’s she… Holy shit!” shouted Green Arrow, watching the pirate throw the small kid to the other ship, and then jumping to it.

The Batfam frowned, seeing that this pirate was exhibiting strength far from a normal human.

In the ball, showed the marines trying to protect the citizens from the pirates by using their own body as shields. “We won’t take yer lives, but we will take all yer valuables.” Said the ‘main’ subordinate

“Anyone who tries to fight back will wind up at the bottom of the ocean!” said the pirate captain as she entered.

All the pirates laughed, and hidden, the redhead woman took off her dress to show what looked to be a pirate outfit.

“Well, good news, they’re just low riff-raff” relaxed Roy. Considering how pirates could be, that these guys only wanted to steal riches was very lucky.

“Whoa, we have a third party on the inside!” noted Mal, with Dick and the Batfamily having the suspicious feeling that this girl was similar to Catwoman.

Koby, meanwhile, was exploring the ship. “Hello… There’s no one in here, right? What a relief…” he said, noticing a very big barrel which had crashed into others “That’s a rather large barrel…”

“Please somebody help that guy, he’s so… defenseless” pleaded M’gann, because watching the shivering guy be relieved was breaking her heart.

In the watchtower, on the other hand, Question suddenly started laughing like mad, spooking everyone on the room. The only one who had an inkling of what was happening was Batman, who suddenly felt the need to facepalm.

But he wasn’t going to do that. He was Batman. He had an image to maintain.

The redhead then went onto the pirate ship, going to open the door but… the door opened itself. “Who’re you?! Never seen you before! OOOF!” said the pirate, before… ‘CLINK’

She kicked the man straight in his crotch, and he then fell on the ground in pain. The woman just awkwardly smiled, as if she hadn’t committed a forbidden technique.

“OOOOOHHHH” cringed every male hero, holding their kintamas in fear.

The females, on the other hand, snorted and some even outright laughed at how this new element handled herself well.

Koby was meanwhile rolling the barrel out when his ‘crewmates’ came over.

 “Hey, coward! Are you hidin’ in a place like this again?!” one of them said to Koby “N-no! I thought I’d haul this big barrel of alcohol over…” which was the wrong thing to say, as the pirates become excited

 “We’ll lighten it for ya!" "I was just feelin’ thirsty!”

 “You can’t! Alvida-sama will kill us if she finds out!" said Koby, fear seeping into his tone “Then you just need to keep yer mouth shut! Right, Koby?” one of them threatened, keeping the pink-haired guy shut “Y-yes! You’re right!”

 “Thing’s pretty heavy!” “Can’t wait!” one of them stopped, however, cracking his knuckles “Hold yer horses! I’ll bust it right open!”

“Ok, I know this doesn’t sound nice, but this child  needs to grow a spine. Or use his smarts to give them payback, because at this point he’s never gonna get better” grumbled Wildcat, being reminded of some students he had that needed to break their shyness “All it takes is one punch, come on kid”

Just as he went to smash the barrel, the unbelievanble happened.

To the sound of triumphant music, a teenager emerged from the barrel, shouting in glee while involuntarily punching the pirate right in the chin. He looked like a simple guy, wearing a strawhat, red sleeveless jacket and blue shorts, with a notable skin right under his left eye.

“… Well the punch wasn’t his” said Wildcat, gobsmacked.

The flabbergasted expressions quickly gave in to some laughter, in particular the Outlaws, the chaos trio from the Legends (Sara, Mick and Constantine), and the less serious heroes.

Even Batman was dumbfounded at the sheer ridiculousness of the situation. Except Question. Question cheered for another confirmed theory. Honestly this guy is discovering everything.

 “I slept great!” said the guy with the Straw Hat, before noticing the guy he had just knocked out “Huh?” he then looked at the other two bullies who were scared shitless. “Who’re you guys?”

Inmmediately, many people, all of them possessing a, let’s say high cerebral capacity, felt scared of this guy. Because he was their enemy. The worst enemy a smart person could have.

A simple man.

“No, who are you?!” shouted the other two bullies, with shark teeth. The strawhat guy didn’t care, he just stepped out of the barrel nonchalantly “That guy’s gonna catch a cold if he sleeps there, y’know.” To which the two pirates kept on, not being able to believe the new guy “You did that!”

A blade was then put in front of Luffy's face. "Are you toyin’ with us even when you know we’re pirates?!” said one of them, angry at the newcomer, who…

 “Man, I’m hungry! You got any food?” just ignored them and proceeded to talk to Coby.

“Hrnk, oh my god he doesn’t even hear them!” laughed Stargirl, with Kara quickly falling in laughter with her.

“Punch one of them unconscious and then ignore the others. That’s some aura” chuckled Khalid.

In the Outlaws, most of the team was currently on the floor, quickly finding their new favourite viewing person.

“Listen when people are talking!” “You damn kid!” both shouted, and finally their temper got the best of them and attacked Luffy.

Koby looked at them in fear while covering himself, putting his hands over his eyes. On the other hand, Luffy just looked at them. “Die!” the pirates shouted, before punches were heard and the ends of the blades flew to the ceiling, getting stuck. Coby opened his eyes to see Luffy standing unharmed, while the pirates were kneeling on the ground in fear

 “What’s the big idea?” Straw Hat asked, not even caring that these guys had tried to kill him. What a Chad.

“He’s strong” noted Donna, smiling at the innocent attitude of the guy. She had many, many times fought people who hid their personalities (cough Ares cough, cough Circe cough), so to see someone so open was refreshing.

“He’s such a Shounen MC” Kyle cried in happiness, Thea patting his back, while Flash passed him some tissues.

“W-who are you?!” the pirates shrieked in fear, to which the teen just responded smiling “Me? I’m Monkey D. Luffy. Nice to meetcha!”

[Monkey D. Luffy]

[Future King of the pirates]

“He wants to what?!”

“I can’t see it” stated Jon Stewart. He had seen many, many pirates, both in his time as a marine and as a Green Lantern. This kid? He was unlike every of those pirates.

“Maybe… He just feels like a good kid wanting an adventure” said Diana, smiling at the kid.

“We have our main character everyone!” cheered Kyle, getting howls from his friends, Beast Boy going as far as turning into a wolf.

The pirates screamed and then ran, dragging their knocked out coworker

 “What the… What just happened?" asked Coby, while Luffy still didn’t understand what was happening “What’s with them?” Coby snapped and tried to warn Luffy of the ‘danger’ “R-run, hurry! If they come back with their friends, you’ll be killed!”

“But man, I sure am hungry!" though Luffy still didn’t care “How can you be so carefree?! There are still lots more of them up on deck!” Coby shouted, while Luffy started walking to search for food, Coby deciding to try and stop him “C’mon! This way! H-h-hey! Not this way!” Luffy then closed the door of the pantry, at the same time accidentally bashing Koby’s head.

 “Food! Food! Food! Yes! Food!” Luffy celebrated, while Coby closed the door “Actually, they might not find us in here!” he then went to see Luffy, who was helping himself to the food.

“This guy really has his priorities set” deadpanned Traci, seeing him ignoring all dangers for food.

“Scares mooks, ignores everything else, goes for food. That’s Chad energy right there” praised Static, taking a moment to stop designing his new metallic weapon he would use. Should he go and ask Steel for help with a hammer or choose another weapon.

“Which should I choose? This box? Ooh, jackpot! These look great!” Luffy said, opening a box and starting to eat apples.

 “M-my name is Coby. You’re Luffy-san, right? That was incredible just now! How did you do that?!” Coby asked, only to be ignored by Luffy “These things are great!” “Is this a pirate ship?”

“No, it’s a passenger ship that’s being raided by Alvida-sama.” Answered the pink haired boy, while Luffy kept on eating and focused on his goals “Well, it doesn’t matter. Do you know if there are any boats onboard?” to which Coby tried to answer “I- I think so…”

 “My ship got swallowed by this giant whirlpool…” recounted Luffy, trying to give some information to his new friend.

Coby, however, couldn’t understand how carefree this guy was “You mean that whirlpool?! No one could survive that!” even worse, the guy continued laughing! “Boy, was that a real surprise!”

“How lucky is this kid?” asked surprised Aquaman. Surviving a whirlpool wasn’t unheard off, but doing so when you were inside a barrel and without it taking any damage?

“Maybe he has some kind of power to survive?” offered Gary, because this kid shouldn’t have escaped so unharmed.

“Are you one of those pirates, too?” Luffy then asked, confused by the, there’s no other words, cowardly ‘pirate’. The pink haired boy tried to explain “It was on that fateful day. That day, I got in a boat on the outskirts of town to go fishing… but it turned out the boat was actually headed for a pirate ship. It’s been two years since… In exchange for my life, I’ve been forced to be a chore boy.”

The heroes winced, knowing how easy it was for kids to be trapped in the criminal life. Even if some thought that he had been dumb for not looking into the boat, but they weren’t going to say that openly.

“Man, you’re dumb and stupid!” laughed Luffy, without remorse. Yeah, no wonder he called him that. And the following actions are justified.

“Snrk” chortled Hal, nearly letting the laugh escape because of the suddenness. Don’t look back at Jon Hal, he can’t harm you here.

“HAHAHAAHHAH” others, like Mick, had no issue with laughing out loud.

“Hey, thinking about it, a pirate is technically an outlaw” added Cheshire, already finding the dumbass more likeable than 90% of the League of Assassins.

“All in favour of making him honorary Outlaw say Aye” brought up Red Hood.

“AYE!” was the unanimous response

 “You’re brutally honest…” gloomily said Koby, while Luffy tried to help him “If you don’t like it, then run away!” but this didn’t work.

“I- I can’t! No way! No way! Just the thought of Alvida-Sama finding me .. frightens me and makes me weak in the knees-“spiralled the captive

“I’m losing any sympathy I may have held for that pink-haired wimp” criticized Damian, his friends sweatdropping.

“C’mon man, not even an attempt?” asked Stephanie. She could understand having fear, but to not even think of making the attempt?

 “Oh you’re a wimp, too? Man, I hate you!” shamelessly said Luffy, Koby crying at hearing this weirdo’s words.

“I’m currently liking this pirate more and more” smiled Damian.

“Oh Athena this kid is a riot” laughed Artemis, this kid was blunt and didn’t mince their words, exactly what that pink-haired wuss needed.

On the deck, Alvida was directing the pirates to steal all the valuables, the crew using pulleys to steal things. “Hey, now! Quit dawdling! Haul it all off before the navy gets here! Anyone caught dawdling gets a taste of my iron club!”

 “What a haul!” “Seems like a pretty rich ship!”

Meanwhile, Nami was inside the pirate ship, taking advantage of the fact nobody was there to steal… well, the treasure.

“So another thief. Reminds you of anyone, Bats?” asked Hawkgirl, smiling teasingly.

“Someone whose a very big cat lover?” joined Dinah, smirking

“Someone who your children love and get along with well?” added Diana, the rest of the heroes trying to keep their laughter down.

“Someone who you keep going on and off even when you both want to keep on but do not do it cause of fear?” Goddammit Bruce, Clark wanted to be a best man. But with his best friend being Batman… yeah fighting Zod was easier.

Batman only looked at them, because trying to look at the tablet meant getting bombarded with his students(children) teasing messages.

He puffed, inwardly groaning at how interested the League was in his dating life.

“Hey! You’ll get the club if she catches you slackin’ off!”

 “Oh, whoops!”

 “Yeah, one hit from that and you’re a goner!”

Then the two coward bullies emerged from a scuttle, getting caught in it because of their fear and hurry

“Alvida-sama! It’s bad!” they called, to which the captain answered pissed at her useless crewmembers “What is it?! You’re annoying me!”

“A b-b-barrel! M-m-monster!” this was the wrong thing to say, however, because the lady somehow managed to make it everything about her, again.

 “Huh?! Who’re you calling a monster?!” she shouted, throwing her club at the stooges. The two who called her dodged it, the club hitting the now woken up pirate, beign knocked out again, and then the club flew and hit the pair, though thankfully they weren’t knocked out.

“WHOA! That’s some temper!” wowed Tim, looking at the pirate striking her own subordinates

“And how the heck did she understand those stutters as referring to her? Does she have such a big ego?” said Spoiler, gobsmacked. She knew many gothamites with a big ego (Cough Riddler cough, cough Cobblepot cough) but even they didn’t get so angry at being easily insulted

“…I mean, we have seen her call herself the most beautiful in the sea…” offered Jessica, speaking up, trying to get past her major mutism 

“Yeah, you’re right.” Sighed Spoiler. Damned criminals and their big ego. “Thanks Jess” she told the lantern, making the latter blush in shyness, but the message was received.

“N-no… Some weird guy popped out of a barrel… He might be a bounty hunter…” one of them said, which shocked the ‘big’ pirate “What?!”

The screen changed, showing a dock. There were about 5 persons and a ship in the distance, though they couldn’t see it very well. Flying posters came by, one stucking to the screen, showing that it was Luffy’s wanted poster.

“The heck?”

“So… what are these?” asked Lilith, not being very knowledgeable with anime. Thankfully, her friend and resident weeaboo Kyle was there to help

“It’s basically like our shows cuts to black. Only, here we see the characters doing things or happening.”

Batman had instead quickly tried to draw everything, from the other 4 shadowed figures and the ship at the end, but the blurred images made it impossible.

Down in the pantry, the two new acquaintaces were still talking “Yeah… That’s right… If only I had the courage to drift the ocean in a barrel… there’s actually something I want to do, too… “Umm… What compelled you to set out onto the sea, Luffy-san?” asked Coby, wanting to know about his saviour

 “Huh? I’m gonna be the King of the Pirates!” declared Luffy, shocking Koby to the bone

“Title drop!” laughed Superboy, liking Luffy’s earnestness

“I will withhold my judgement, but I don’t feel like he can as he is” noted Aquaman. Some of the other heroes nodded. To be a pirate king was to be the greatest, the best at it. This meant also being better than every other pirate or wannabe who wanted to take your place. And for the moment? Luffy didn’t give that feeling.

 “K-K-King of the Pirates?!”

 “Yep.”

“Are you serious?!”

“Yeah.”

“Wait, you’re a pirate Luffy-san?!”

 “Yep.”

 “What about your crew?!”

“Don’t got one. Just about to look for one.”

Through the whole conversation, Koby stood in shock, mouth open. Luffy moved his hand in front of him to see if he was alright (lmao). Fortunately, Koby was alright, standing up while proceeding to be the audience surrogate

“Oh god this just gets better and better” snorted Kimiko, they were reminding her of the boke and tsukkomi comedians.

“Just look at poor Koby’s face” laughed Artemis(Crock), the captive was looking like he had lost his mind.

“K-K-King of the Pirates is the title given to the person… who obtains everything in this world! That means seeking the great treasure of wealth, fame and power… the One Piece!” he shouted, to which Luffy nodded and smiled “Yup!”

“Yeah, but what’s the One Piece?” asked Vigilante. He had seen many people coming to search for lost treasures, and they ranged from sentimental objects to material riches. What was the treasure considered “The best in the world”?

“If it ends up being that the adventure was the real treasure, I’m gonna be pissed” declared Hank, and honestly, his team agreed

“Yup?! Pirates all over the world are after that treasure!” was this guy serious? Didn’t he understand what he was saying?!

“Me too!”

“No way! No way, no way, no way! Absolutely no way! There’s no way you can stand at the apex of this Great Pirate Era! No way! No way!” spiraled Koby, pissing Luffy (and me too, honestly). Luffy hitting Koby so hard he fell to the ground? Well, he should have expected that when he called his dream impossible.

Silence. Nobody wanted to be the first one to laugh. But it was getting difficult. Someone was gonna burst.

“Why did you hit me?” seriously dude?!

“Just because.” Understandable Luffy.

And the dam burst.

“HAHAHAHHAAHAH” laughed Mick and Sara, with Constantine currently drowning because he had laughed while drinking his beer. But nobody helped him, cause he was Constantine.

In the Batcave, Damian laughed like a guy who had gotten sweet vengeance, his friends just… watching him, sweatdropping.

“Oh god, I needed that!” Cyborg wiped a tear.

The sheer amount of laughs they were having with just this first episode was unreal.

"But it's all right. I'm used to it now..." dude, that’s not alright. Thank god you have help

"It's not whether I can or not. I'm gonna do it because I want to." With this sentence, he snapped Koby, and everyone whow as watching. "Huh?"

"I've decided to be the King of the Pirates, so if I die fighting for that, that's fine with me!" Now this, this guy is someone you can get behind, what a good shonen protagonist

The laughs got silenced by the young man’s statement. He came across as kind of a simple, easy-going guy, but suddenly a new facet had been revealed, of a person who was ready to die for his dream.

“Perhaps I judged him prematurely” admitted Aquaman, seeing that Luffy wasn’t some innocent kid who didn’t know what he was talking about.

“Now, then! My belly's full- guess I'll go get myself a boat! I wonder if they'll give me one if I ask. Hopefully they're generous." And like a good protagonist, he was too trusting/dumb.

“Goddammit he’s still an idiot” facepalmed Arthur, Diana patting his back.

"I've never once thought about it... Do you suppose I can do it, too? If I'm prepared to die for it?" see how he has made this coward decide to change? This is aura, this is rizz.

"Do what?" asked Luffy cluelessly

"Do you think.. even I could join the navy?" asked Koby, kneeling on the ground.

"Navy?" asked Luffy, surprised at the big dream this little guy had.

“He wants to be a leatherhead?” Asked Jon in surprise. With how much the kid had been… a scaredy cat, the fact he wanted to be someone whose job consisted on physically fighting… was unexpected

“Oh, he’s like me!” thought Jessica. A scaredy, timid person who nevertheless wanted to be a hero? It resonated deeply

"Yes! Catching bad guys is my dream! It's been my dream ever since I was little! Do you think I can do it?!" Koby asked, to which Luffy unashamedly responded "How should I know?"

"No! I'll do it! If I'm gonna be a chore boy for the rest of my life, then I'll break out of here and even catch Alvida-sama- no, Alvida!" but Koby wouldn’t be stopped. This guy, this straw hat wearing pirate, had given him hope that he could escape his captors, stop being a slave and become a hero! (eh, eh, see what I did there 😊)

But glasses boy tempted destiny. As if she was summoned, the whale-sorry, Alvida fell down from the upper room, and she had heard everything her cabin boy had said "You're gonna team up with him to catch who?! Huh, Koby?!" All the courage he had gained in those 5 seconds? Gone in the same time.

“Ah shit, this is what you get for tempting fate” said Metamorpho, only for Dr. Fate to turn to him, his unnerving stare scaring him to the point he used Tornado as a shield, drawing a surprise from the robot.

Fate finally stopped looking at them, Nabu giggling behind his helmet, while Kent deadpanned at the immortal spirit immaturity.

Behind Luffy 4 swords pierced through the door and wall, just missing stabbing Luffy. Luffy and Alvida locked eyes, Alvida grinning, because this teenager was an unknown.

"You don't seem to be Zoro, the pirate hunter." She ruthlessly chuckled, while Luffy wondered who she was taling about "Zoro?"

“New… name” wrote down Cassandra, knowing that, if a series presented a name, unless they said they were dead, they would appear. Damian and Steph had gotten her into it.

"Koby!" she shouted, making the cabin boy flinch in horror "Who's the most beautiful of all on these seas?!"

"O-of course that would be-" he began nervously, only to be interrupted by Luffy.

"Who's this big chunky lady?

“He really has no filter!” laughed Hawkgirl, falling into her husband to hold herself.

Nobody got on Luffy’s case, because the innocent tone he had used in the question made it impossible to get mad with him.

Everyone stood silent, not believing that this kid had just decided to say that. The sheer balls to say that.

"Chunky?" "Not good..."

Alvida, well, no wonder she was pissed, even if she deserved that and more "You runt!"

Luffy jumped to Koby, missing the hit from Alvida's club. "Let's go!" he said, taking the pink-haired boy and jumping onto the deck.

“ohhh boy, let’s get on with the action!” excitedly said Superboy, many of his team hanging on the edge of their seats for the fight to start.

Many heroes were also hanging, specially the Atlanteans, who wanted to see how this young pirate measured up to their pirates.

"Why, you..." the pirates, however, were all there, and so decided to attack him, lest he escaped, and the captain took her anger on them.

One swung, missing as he moved back, before Luffy used his head and knocked down the pirate. Another pirate tried to hit Luffy from behind, but he noticed him, and Luffy’s punch threw him flying. Even four pirates couldn’t catch Luffy, as the Straw hat jumped onto the air dodging all of them "Whoops!"

Luffy landed back down, away from the pirates and taunted the pirated by caressing his unseeable muscles. Koby, shocked at how his new friend was so strong, suddenly noticed a pirate coming down from behind Luffy from a higher area, but Luffy wasn’t affected as he just moved to the side.

"It's not fair to attack from behind!" he chided and grabbed his head to throw him into the other pirates, getting a STRIKE!

“Woohoo!”

“Kick their ass Luffy!”

“He has good instincts” praised Orion, looking at the earthling’s? (was this planet earth?) moves

“They’re pirates Straw hat, they don’t care” deadpanned Garth, refusing to consider the former a pirate.

Luffy then looked up, noticing that the rest of the crew was behind him. So he did the only sensible thing, run. "It's not fair to attack all at once!" he yelled, being chased by the pirates. He then latched onto one of the masts, and the unbelievable happened.

His arm stretched. Luffy continued running while his arm kept growing, the pirates shock turning into fear, running away shouting "Gotcha!" Luffy said, before he prepared an attack. "Gomu Gomu no…. ROCKET!" Luffy shouted, barrelling into the entire crew, to the shock of everyone who was watching him, like Alvida

“WHOA!”

“So this world has metahumans” noted Flash, knowing that now the stakes got higher with the inclusion of superpowers.

Now everyone wondered about Roger. Had he been a metahuman too? If so, what powers did he have?

“Another PLASTIC MAN” celebrated, well, Plastic Man, seeing another hero with stretching powers. Oh he was probably going to get so many ideas from this kid. The Bazooka attack was already a nice start.

"What?!" yeah, neither standing person could believe what they had seen.

"L- Luffy-san... What are you?" asked Koby, approaching his friend with a little fear.

"Me? I'm a rubber person!" answered the pirate, stretching his smile to prove the point.

“Well that’s just semantics” said Plastic man, though this got him thinking about the extent of Luffy’s power. Was he able to also transform, change shapes…?

"A rubber person? You can't be serious!" he said, before realising that Alvida was behind him. He yelped, running behind the good natured pirate.

"You've eaten a Devil's Fruit, haven't you?" Alvida asked the teen, to which Luffy chirped "Yeah! The Gum-Gum Fruit!"

‘Record Scratch’ “A what?!” snapped Zatanna, hearing Devil and fruit in the same sentence.

“Wait, so he got his powers… from eating a fruit?” asked Thea, gobsmacked

“I mean, it isn’t weirder than me gaining powers because a magical monkey bit me” responded Beast Boy.

"I see! I'd heard rumors, but I guess they really do exist! You also seem pretty skilled. You a bounty hunter?" she continued, receiving a negative response from her enemy "I'm a pirate!"

Which made the overweight criminal laugh "A pirate?! Hah! All yourself?!"

"It's just me right now, but I'll find some more sooner or later! "Yeah... 10 crewmen sounds good to me!" Luffy explained, while away from the chaos, the redhead ran away with all the treasure she had stolen.

“10?! He wants to become the pirate king… with only ten members?!” exclaimed Aqualad, that had to be one of the wildest ideas he had ever heard.

“I mean, if they were gods or something like that it could work” noted Khalid. If the crew was composed of guys like Superman, Wonder Woman, Dr.Fate… it could be possible.

"Ah, so you're a pirate too, huh?! Then that means you and me are enemies, huh?" Alvida laughed, while Koby whimpered in fear

"--L- Luffy-san! Let's get out of here!" dude, you should know Luffy enough by now to realise this wasn’t going to work.

"Why?" see!.

"You saw how powerful her club is! In these waters, she's the most-" he started the wrong statement (yeah, this woman would have died against any of the East Blue bigshots), before he paused, remembering Luffy’s words ("I've decided to be the King of the Pirates, so if I die fighting for that, that's fine with me!")

"I'm the most what?!" asked the pirate captain, in a mocking tone.

“C’MON KOBY!” shouted Jessica, surprising her teammates so much some fell to the floor.

“Forget sometimes she was chosen as a Lantern for a reason” murmured Impulse, Tim nodding his head

So, finally tossing away his fear, Koby released what he had always wanted to say "T-t-the...The most ugly, cragged old hag ever!" Again, everyone was shocked, specially because it was from Koby of all things. Everyone except two. Alvida, who looked like she was blowing a fuse… and Luffy, who started laughing uploud

“That’s how you do it Clark2!” cheered Supergirl, making her cousin sputter and those who knew his identity to laugh.

"What did you say?!" asked the fat bitch, but she had this coming

"I...I'm going to join the navy! And then I'm going to beat up pirates!" Koby began, adrenaline coursing through his veins. Meanwhile, Luffy was still laughing like crazy.

"Do you even know what you're saying?!" Alvida, woman, do you not realise that your fear only goes so far?

"I do! I'm gonna do what I want to do! I'm gonna...I'm gonna join the navy... and catch your lousy ass!" Koby shouted, finally breaking Alvida’s temper.

“Well that’s a good start” praised Jon.

The kid was scrawny, wimpy and looked like a breeze would make him blast off. And yet, he had with just a gentle help stood up for himself.

He just needed to work for it.

"You damn pipsqueak!" she shouted, raising her mace to struck down the rebellious captive. Koby screamed in fear, but to him, he was finally being true to himself

“No regrets! No regrets! I said it! I fought! For my dream!" he thought, before seeing Luffy put himself in front of him.

"Well said!" Luffy smiled, Alvida’s mace coming down right onto his head, only… "That doesn't work!"

"What?!"

"'Cause I'm rubber!" he said, before using a punch to knock away the mace. He then proceeded to stretch his arm very far, everyone looking on silently "Gomu Gomu no… PISTOL!"

“Well, at least he seems to know his powers” noted Terrific, immediately realizing that the description “Idiot Savant” fit Luffy perfectly.

“Oh god he’s gonna have the whole arsenal” said Patrick, giddy at thinking of all the attacks the pirate would have.

And with that, with numerous snapshots before the impact, Luffy’s attack hit Alvida right in the center, punching her out of the ship into the sky.

On the sea, the stooge who had been knocked by Alvida’s mace was seemingly relaxed, floating serenely "The sky is so blue..." Then, with much more strength than the cannonballs they had used to attack the cruise, Alvida fell down, causing a giant explosion. Rest in Peace unlucky stooge.

“Oh my god!” came the shouts after the cheers, when they saw Alvida fall like a cannonball on her minion.

“F for the unlucky henchmen. Always fucked up by their bosses” said Red Hood, raising his hand in respect.

“F”

“F”

“F”

“F”

“F”

“F”

Back to the ship, everyone was still shocked at how Luffy had beat Alvida.

"Hey!" Luffy called, making the pirates spring up "Yes?!"

"Give Koby a small boat! He's gonna join the navy! Keep your mouths shut and let him go!" he ordered, the pirates doing whatever he said, cuz no way in hell they wanted to be next.

"R-Right!"

"Luffy-San!" said Koby happily, before numerous cannonballs struck the sea near the ships, making the two friends’ stumble. The ones responsible seemed to be three battleships with the word “Marine” in their sails.

“What the heck, they’re firing even with the hostages!” shouted Simon in anger, seeing this incredibly reckless action.

“If this happened here any tribunal would have their hides” frowned Jon in anger, already having a sour view from the ‘good guys’. If they already did actions like this, what else would they do? (Ohhh boy, you better prepare yourself)

"It's the navy!" said Koby happily

"Oh perfect timing! You should go see 'em!" Luffy, dammit, not everybody is as trusting as you "But I'm a pirate! I'm outta here!" at least he has some brains

 "Get serious! I can't just join the navy like this! I'll be captured instead!" snapped Koby.

The redhead girl meanwhile was tying a knot, hearing the cannonballs go. She was then surprised by another boat falling down next to hers. The culprits? Who else but Koby and Luffy, the latter sharing glances with her.

“Yeah, redhead for crewmate. I’m calling it everyone” declared Kyle.

“Ohoho, them’s fighting words, wanna bet?” challenged Thea, making the Lantern turn to her.

“Loser has to be the next one to fight Control Freak.” Kyle stated, making everyone gasp, like customers in a Western saloon waiting for two people to shoot each other.

“Deal” poor girl.

Thankfully, they were able to escape the Navy, Luffy and Koby drifting in the sea, far from the conflict zone.

"Looks like we managed to get away...'" said Koby, acting like a lookout, while Luffy cheered "Whew, that was fun!"

"Umm, Luffy-san. If your heading for the One Piece, that means your going to the Grand Line right?" Koby asked his saviour, who simply responded "Yeah!"

"That place is also referred as a pirate graveyard, you know." He tried to reason with him, but c’mon, that wasn’t going to work.

"Yeah. That's why I need a strong crew."  Said Luffy, looking at Koby "What about that pirate hunter guy? What's he like?"

"You mean Zoro? I heard he was being held prisoner at a navy base." answered Koby, unsure why his new friend was asking

"Aw, he's a weakling?" groaned Luffy, making Koby incredulous and ran over to Luffy to dissuade him from that line

"Nothing of the sort! He's as terrifying as a demon!" he said in fear, before suddenly being struck by a realization "Why are you asking about him?"

"Thought I might have him join if he's a good guy!" Yeah, it was as Koby feared. His new friend was insane

“So our next ally is going to be a rubber-made kid who wants to become the king of pirates by finding the lost treasure of the previous pirate king” mused Kal” well you don’t see that every day.”

“Honestly, I’m excited for what adventures he’s going to have” mused Karen, having grown an appreciation for the pirate comics (who in their earth had substituted hero comics) when she was young with Helena “he’s probably going to rescue a princess”

“Or finding a lost city of gold” laughed Hawkman

“What about fighting zombies or vampires?” joined Steel, making people start presenting weirder situations.

“He goes to Atlantis!”

“Nah, he goes to Wonderland!”

“Yeah, a futuristic wonderland”

"You're being reckless again!" he stated, to Luffy’s shock

"C'mon he might be a good guy!"

"He's been caught because he's a bad guy! No! No way, no way, no way! Absolutely no-" you should have expected the same result as before Koby. “Why did you hit me?”

“Just because.”

Out there, on an island, with a city and a navy base, someone is in the navy's base tied up on a wooden pole, in the scorching heat. The guy with the bandana looked up, his gaze straight into the camara.

“Hurray Foreshadowing!” cheered Damian, already liking the new character for looking, in his words, ‘badass’.

“Damn, he was really something different from the heroes” Said C.Atom, while stretching his back.

“Yeah, but do you think he would not want to fight with us? He’s technically a pirate” asked Shining Knight.

Everyone got silent, before answering in unison

“Nahhh”

“Universe known as ONE PIECE peeked. Temporal return to MARVEL universe. Next episode, THE ANGRY MONSTER.”

“… well that’s not ominous at all” said Booster.

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