One Piece: Reborn and Skypiean

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Chapter 258

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In New Marineford, a meeting is underway where Fleet Admiral, New Admiral, and several important Vice Admiral are present.

"The news came from a reliable source," Sengoku said as he stood in front of everyone. "In the Pirate Festival that took place a week ago, both the Celestial Emperor and the Sins of Anger were seen to hold a lot of fruit power. Pika-Pika no Mi by Admiral Kizaru, by Amon. Along with Gura-Gura no Mi Whitebeard, held by Raki." 

After observing the faces of the shocked and disbelieving officers, Sengoku continued speaking. "The latter, on the other hand, is seen in a different dragon form than before. That fits the description of Kaido we have, except for the fact that he still has his wings."

Previously, with the exception of the snake's body shrouded in millions of feathers, Raki also had three pairs of wings, two pairs of his fruit and one pair of his Skypiean bloodline. But now, he only had a pair of wings.

“We cannot confirm it,” continued Sengoku. “But with the deaths of Kaido and Amon known to interfere with the devil fruit, there is a possibility that the previous Raki fruit is replaced with Kaido fruit, while it could also be the two fruits instead. Anyway, that's not good news for the Marines."

"...What about the Eternal Log Pose of Laughtale?" One of the new admirals, Ryokugyu, who had taken Tokikake's place at the last moment, spoke. "Does the Celestial Emperor have it?"

Sighing a long sigh, Sengoku nodded. "Yes. From the looks of it. We may soon see the rise of the 2nd Pirate King."

The room became very quiet because of this.

—★—

"Hm..."

Amon was in his office in Alabasta, his back resting on a chair. But his mind wanders around the world.

All over the world, dozens of his clones are at work— controlled by his brain at the moment.

One of them is at Gion headquarters. Amon watched through his eyes as Gion walked inside his office with her back bent. Immediately after, he controlled his body to follow him, knocking on the door, before going inside on the grounds of the heavenly massage technique.

By lowering the gravity around the room, thus giving Gion the feeling of floating on the high seas, she then used a little of her electricity to calm her mind slowly. 

The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to make them feel better. In the past month, Amon has done just that with his clone. Although he needed to push a little further to get the entrance that led deep inside him ...

Amon drew a little of his attention from that body and instead focused on a few other important things... But honestly, nothing important happened. He is still focusing on some parts.

In Dressrosa, she tells Monet that she has a way to get Sugar's devil fruit out of her body without hurting the girl. So, he took the woman trapped in the body of a little girl to a different room.

Amon had ordered Sugar's clone from Germa-66, and when Amon brought Sugar into a room, one of them brought Sugar's clone to Dressrosa.

...There, he killed the original Sugar who needed a few minutes to reincarnate—but when that happened, his body did not look like a child anymore. She soon grows into a full-grown woman, though still dead. 

Then Amon simply evaporated his body into nothingness using extreme heat.

After that, he placed Sugar's clone, which had an adult body as well—because he didn't have the original devil fruit since the beginning of— in his original place. This is not a mindless imitation, just like Urouge. It even had a soul, which he confirmed with the fruit of his Souls. It was still Sugar, having the exact same personality, except she did not have any Toy-Toy fruit and she was loyal like a dog to Amon and his words. 

For reference, it was the same for Urouge as well. The old and new souls are different, but they have the same memories. To be honest, that's all Amon cares about people he doesn't really care about.

Furthermore, Monet is certainly happy to see his sister is not attached to the child's body anymore. But Amon did not care about that and focused on his other clones.

Now, the real important part begins.

Except for Luffy, who Amon could not reach, the Straw Hats in this timeline had 8 more people.

Honey Queen, Zoro, Nami, Ussop, Sanji, Alice, Franky, and Bartolomeo.

The others were all original members of the Straw Hat pirates. Except for Honey Queen and Bartolomeo, who joined the Straw Hats only out of luck. However, along with Honey Queen, now Amon has another spy there—Franky.

As Amon had said before, he had brainwashed Franky back when he took the Pluton blueprint, so now Franky was just a puppet. Even the Queen of Honey did not know about this, because Amon wanted to see how loyal he was.

Fortunately for him, from the reports the cyborg gave him, he became the perfect little spy for the past 10 months he was with the Straw Hats.

That's why he was given a gift in another room in Alabasta.

However, the spy was not important anymore. Not now, when Amon has killed Ace and made Luffy an enemy. Overall, the Straw Hats are no problem at all . This time, the commanders of the Revolutionary Army were the ones who told them about "3D2Y", but Amon planned to take over the world in less than two years. In other words, the Straw Hats would never meet.

Except for the Honey Queen, whom Amon had taken from the remote island where he was sent by Kuma, the other Straw Hats were on the exact same island as where they were not sent in the canon.

The only other changes were the new recruits, Alice and Bartolomeo.

Alice is sent to an island filled with monsters that look like teddy bears, while Bartolomeo is on an island where earthquakes happen every hour.

Amon had brought them both from there. Bartolomeo was killed for his useful devil fruit, and the spoiled boy – who was Alice – was taken prisoner. Amon will need it if by chance, he needs to blackmail Sengoku.

Zoro is where Mihawk is, Ussop is on a large insect-filled island, and Sanji is in the Kamabakka Ivankov Kingdom. Nami.. on the other hand, was on the same Sky Island as the one she sent in the canon.

He was on Sky Island ...

There were hundreds if not thousands of sky islands present in the world, and the island where Nami was sent was far from Skypiea. That must be the reason why Kuma even dared to send him to Heaven, but still. Dragon dares to think he can put one of his son's friends under Amon's nose and unless he does nothing to her…

'Again, it's not like putting him somewhere else after all to be a problem. It just helps me get a little angry.'

Amon had decided beforehand when his Goro-Goro woke up, he did not need Luffy's plot armor anymore. That's why he even killed Ace, to begin with. That's why he also hunted Shanks. In that case, removing the hurdle in the future that is the Straw Hats is not a bad move at the moment.

But he saved them so he could lure Luffy out of the hole, because it brought Shanks and Dragon out as well.

In that plan, poor Nami who happens to be sent to the Sky due to bad luck, will play the same role as the Sky Dragon prostitute who died in the destruction of Skypiea. That is, he needed to build a brothel in Alabasta, where the King was too good to build it before.

–Suddenly, Knock fell on his bedroom door.

"Lake in." He said just as the door opened and a crying Vivi ran in. 

" Amon !!" Vivi's hair was messy, as she cried. Her cheeks were wet and her eyes were red. " W-can't you feel what's going on around the palace?!"

Of course, he could, but he didn't leave. Because it's...

"My father's dying!"

...He had planned it himself.

—★—

Then, he crouched down next to the sleeping King Alabasta, Cobra.

"Please, heal him." He begged Amon with watery eyes.

Amon stared at the scene with a well-preserved surprised face. 

"This is at the last stage ...?" tanyanya did not believe. "I saw him last night, he's fine. Then how did things get so bad in less than a day?" 

Over the years, Amon has been plotting Cobra's death so that Vivi can ascend the throne. But now that he was in Alabasta, he needed the throne for himself. And he needs it as soon as possible. Just by asking Cobra might have worked, but Amon would have felt much safer when the Nobles and every other citizen saw him as the sole ruler, instead.

So, he's been tinkering with Cobra's drug for the past month he's here. Cobra has been really distressed with recent developments around the world, so its deterioration of its health from the high pressure and the things that the medicines are enhanced are multiplying, reaching its peak over the past few days.

Today, from the looks of it, the man will die. And it won't be suspicious at all.

Amon squatted down with a frown on his face. He placed his palm on the man's forehead as his frown deepened. "My mind is busy with clones all over the world, so my Observation Haki couldn't see this before, but. It's too late Vivi." Then in a low and regretful voice, he muttered, "If only I had been told 5 minutes earlier..."

"But-but!" Vivi grabbed her shoulder, her tears suddenly flowing like a fountain. "You made the Skypieans regrow limbs, regrow their entire bottom. A - actually, you brought Raki back from the dead, didn't you?! W-why can't you do something to help dad?!"

Amon looked at him with a hidden vexation before sighing in regret. This is why the resurrection is not a force that everyone should be aware of.

"First of all," she slowly pushed Vivi's hand from her shoulder. "Raki has already prepared the clone, I just need to transfer his consciousness to that clone. Your father, on the other hand, did not prepare such a clone. I can transfer his consciousness to another body, but it won't happen.Your father again because his consciousness will be fused with another presence in the body."

The last part is lies. But Vivi's mind was so messed up that she couldn't see it.

"Then just heal the body." She cried. "As I said, you heal Tsumi's entire lower body, don't you?"

Amon breathed. "Re-growing body parts doesn't mean I can cure disease." That's another lie. "If I can do that, why do you think Marco, the previous Phoenix fruit user, never cured Whitebeard's disease?"

He did not know Amon had awakened the fruit, only he and Sins knew about it.

"Then ..." Vivi's wide eyes flowed tears as she bit her lips. "Is there no other way?"

Amon remained silent before sighing deeply and hugging Vivi. 

"Vivi, nothing is eternal. One day, you, me, everyone will die. Of course I will make sure you live as long as the people of that Giant race, but even you will come to see the end someday." Amon's tone was sincere. "Sometimes, you just have to accept the inevitable."

After a long silence, from Amon's chest, Vivi's cry broke the blanket of silence that enveloped Alabasta's cold night.

On the other hand, Amon…

'I think it's time to build a brothel for everyone's favorite thief.'

…planning the next step.

—★—

It's been 2 months since then, but Amon hasn't brought Nami to Alabasta. If she did some things immediately after Cobra's death, Vivi would probably be suspicious. That would be troublesome since he had no one else from the Nefertari bloodline to run Pluton.

So, he focused on other things in the meantime.

The outside world is in chaos, but the target has shifted. After the destruction of Skypiea, the Enherjars were suppressed, killed, and slaughtered. However, after only 3 days when Amon defeated Kaido, the tide had changed dramatically.

It's been 3 months since then. The chaos had not been completely calm even now.

After all, even with Skypiea destroyed, Amon was the richest and strongest person in the entire world. So, after he had defused enough chaos for his people to take a breather in the first month, he ordered his people to use chaos as a weapon.

With the Pirate Festival incident, as the news that Amon was now holding the Log Pose to Laughtale spread across the world, everyone noticed it. 

People joined him like Beehive, and in just three months, he now had 250 thousand people under his wing.

30 Thousand of them were once Kaido people. Almost all of the pirates in the Beast Pirates, along with the Flying Five, had changed their allegiance to Amon immediately as he requested. He knew they were not really loyal, but he did not need all the people who were ready to give their lives for him.

However, even though he was rumored to be the strongest person to have ever lived in history, many still chose his opposite side as well.

Pirates are just starting to appear, the number of Revolutionary Army exceeds millions — even though the majority of them are normal humans — while the Marines are starting to get new recruits as well.

So, after the Ammonites began to retaliate to a great extent, there was a sudden war going on all over the world. But today, on Ammon's birthday, he will inaugurate the war.

Amon never cared about birthdays, but it seems very sophisticated to do something special today.

But the question is—how?

It took him three full seconds to think of the best option, so, he surpassed Impel Down.

Bzzt~

Teleporting in the sky, Amon observed the tower hidden under the sea for several minutes. Then knowing that the lives of the criminals were not important at all, he raised his hand into the air.

Ordered by him, lightning began to crackle in the clouds before the entire sky darkened. Slowly, but surely, rain began to fall while Amon gathered lightning at one point above his raised hand in the form of a ball. He pushed his own lightning inside, which worked to strengthen the ball many times, before he poured out many Conqueror Haki as well.

Like that, the ball took 30 seconds to form as the Marine guards below started screaming in horror and fear.

As if excited by their cries, the bright purple ball spun and spun, as it began to expand. A few seconds later, the ball reached the size of the entire city as it was still wandering in the sky above Amon's hands. At that moment the purple color had turned into pure black as well.

This technique is «Raigo» version Amon . Able to destroy the island in one shot, and Amon could send spam for days if he wanted to.

With a quick wave of his hand, Amon threw the ball of destruction at Impel Down.

It slowly descended from the sky towards the sea where the entrance of the prison peeked out from the sea.

Amon was just watching.

Almost half a minute later, the ball slowly sank into the sea upon coming into contact with the tower hidden underwater, slowly swallowing it all over. 

There was a long silence for a moment before a huge explosion of purple and black lightning occurred. Only after the minute-long explosion subsided can Amon ensure that the world's heaviest prison, Impel Down, has been removed from existence.

Before leaving, Amon uses his extravagant lightning powers to manipulate the clouds to form a message that will remain floating for days.

"Let's play the last game, okay?"