Canon Fodder

CHAPTER 316 COMPANION

"What is wrong?” Hancock asked. 

“Nothing,” I said. 

“I can feel it, husband,” she said, looking up at me as she laid her head on my shoulder. 

“I hate this Link,” I mumbled again. Able to feel their emotions more clearly, she, Nami, and Robin were able to feel mine as well. It was rather annoying. 

A couple of days after the attack on Amazon Lily things had finally calmed down. A few deaths on the Kuja pirates side a large funeral pyre had been formed for those that were killed. Dozens of marines and lackeys of Blackbeard petrified, their bodies were moved to line the walls of the city. Acting as future hostages for attacks that might come Hancock thought it best to keep them in case she was attacked again. 

A day after I arrived, Silvers Rayleigh showed up to help against the marines. When he found everything was okay he left but promised to come back. His girlfriend, Shakky, would most likely stop by as well. The official news of ending the Shichibukai hadn’t happened yet, but we expected the headlines any day now.  

After spending a day with my still young children I couldn’t help but become worried once more. “I wish you would come with me,” I admitted. 

“The sea is nowhere for children,” Hancock said. “I…wish you would quit.” 

“I know,” I said, ashamed. “I know but I can’t yet.”

“I know,” Hancock said. Her thick lips pursing as she stared up at me we were at an impasse. Both of us wanting something from the other. I had been putting it off but it was time to see what would happen. 

“I would like to try something,” I said. “I don’t know exactly what it would do. But I think it would keep us closer.” 

“What is it?” she asked. 

“I can’t tell you,” I admitted. “I’ve tried, but it doesn’t work.” 

“Is it a sex thing?” She asked, confused. 

My bad mood pushed back a little as I barked a laugh. “No, I don’t think so,” I said, shaking my head. She frowned but nodded. 

“Whatever you want, you can do to me,” she said. I could feel the truth in her words through our Link. Her feelings far more clear than with Haki. I was thankful she trusted me. Pulling up my status screen I tried to think on what to use first. 

I pulled up the Summon Choice. 

I had originally wanted Mei Terumi from Naruto, but to be honest I had spent the most time with Hancock. I had been with many women since taking on the challenges. The most time I had spent with any was Toru. She was locked away from me for now, but I didn’t think she was strong enough even if I could pick her as my summon. Hancock was willing to kill. Could petrify anyone that found her beautiful. And was strong in chakra as well as Nen. I clicked Y. 

“Anything happen?” I asked. 

Hancock frowned but shook her head. Her name added to the summon line I decided to test it. Moving off the bed Hancock sat up. Looking at me confused, she waited patiently as I pushed Summon. 

Instantly a white light appeared beside me and Hancock teleported from the bed to next to me.

“What happened?” She asked, fear in her voice. 

“I…summoned you. I was able to teleport you to me,” I said. “Let’s try more.” I pushed the Summon button again. She was turned into light and appeared back on the bed. I smiled wide. “Awesome.”

“What is it?” She asked, her beautiful rack drawing me in I turned away. 

“I have a skill to teleport you to me.” I looked over the status screen. There was now a 1 hour timer counting down where the summon button should have been. “We won’t have to be apart as much as I thought.”

“What? How?” She began but I raised my hand, stopping her from speaking. 

“I am not from this w-” My voice cut out and I cursed. “Fuck, I had been hoping it would make it so I could say something,” I grumbled. Breathing out I knew that I would have to risk pushing further. I brought up the Companion Fusion. My fingers shaking over the button I hesitated but clicked it anyway. 

More information than the Companion Link I wasn’t sure what the difference was, but I had already made my decision. I clicked Y. Nothing happened right away, then Hancock turned her head to the side as she stared at me. 

“What’s this?” She asked, confused. Pointing at nothing I knew what it was. Her very own Status Screen.

I let out a long breath, nervous, but resolute in the path I was choosing. “Before that.” I clicked Weakness Eliminator. When asked who or what to use it on I said, “Hancock.” She looked up at me, growing more scared but I focused on the new screen. 

I hadn’t seen Nen Impurities before. It had been a long while since I used a Weakness Eliminator on myself, for all I knew I had it too. Love Sickness, I didn’t think would show up, but there it was. But this Eliminator was saved for the more important weakness. I clicked Hydrostatic Weakness. It disappeared from the list and I let out a sigh as I faced Hancock once more. 

“What is going on?” Hancock asked, scared. 

“I am not from this world,” I said, and for the first time I was able to say the words. Whatever had happened with the Companion Fusion allowed me to talk to her about it. 

“Weston, speak sense, what is this screen in front of my eyes?” She asked. 

“I have no idea how to explain this, Hancock,” I said. “So I will talk and please just listen for a little bit.” She hesitated from speaking. Her throat constricting she settled back down and sat on the bed cross legged. 

“This here, in One Piece World,” I said, unsure what the hell to call it but that. “This is not my first life. This Weston Watanabe in front of you, I am a real person. But my mind has traveled from another world. I don’t know why or how. But I am here now to fight and get stronger. I have the ability to travel to other worlds and other versions of me. This…fuck this is confusing. I see now why they want the relationship to be high. There is no way you would believe this otherwise. Just trust me. I have a lot going on that I haven’t been able to tell you about until just now.” 

Hancock was quiet for a long while. Looking between me and the status screen as she tried to process my words. 

“Walk me through it,” she said eventually. “From the beginning.” I took a deep breath, and did just that. Talking about my past life. I didn’t bring up the fact that these were all fictional worlds in my original life. Just random worlds that I existed at and had the power to make me stronger. 

I didn’t speak of the girls I had been with, mainly focusing on the fighting, drama from the worlds, and power systems. But she was a smart woman. “Are you married in these other worlds?” She asked. 

I almost said no, but remembered Hinata. “To one other woman,” I said with a nod. 

“So you already broke your promise,” she said, biting her lip as she grabbed onto her knees. I could feel the sorrow in her. 

“I broke that promise a long time ago. I had a wife and kids long before I met you, Hancock. I have met other women and fallen in love with them. But you were the only one I have made kids with.” 

“Kids that neither of us meant to make,” she said. 

“I-” I didn’t have an answer to that. She wasn’t wrong. “I love you, Hancock.” 

“Do you?!” She yelled. Tears in her eyes as she got off the bed. “Do you really? Or did you feel some chivalrous need to step up?” She mocked. “I asked you 2 things, Weston! I am your only wife, and no one else has your children! I wouldn’t have cared if you had a million women! But you already broke your promise! I-I how many-. No! No! I am not okay. My people were almost enslaved the other day. Enslaved like I had been. And I won’t have it again. I won’t let my life be controlled by anyone again. So you do whatever you must. Go to your other women. I need time to figure things out.” 

With that she got off the bed and walked around me. Going out of the palace I felt her fade away as she stormed out. Naked as the day she was born, uncaring who saw her as she went somewhere. I could have tried to stop her, but she had every right to be angry. The problem was I had no way to explain it to her. 

Dying in my original life had changed me somehow. Making me callous to the feelings of others as I did what I wanted. I had tried to stick to some of my old morals, but I was able to disappear with a few words. I might have been more than a little lax on right and wrong. 

But I was in the fight for my life. I was trying to make these worlds a better place. 

“Or was I?” I asked. “Following the canon I have taken what I wanted and damned the consequences.” I let out a long defeated sigh. “Maybe I don’t want to be a pirate.” 

Shaking my head I wasn’t sure what the hell to do. In My hero Academia World I had turned into a murderer. In Naruto I had everything I wanted. Beautiful women, married the girl I had hoped to. But hell she was 16. The place was a hard one to live in, but there were things I probably shouldn’t have done. I just didn’t want opportunities to pass me by. 

I had originally come to One Piece world hoping for Nami. I happened upon Hancock and ignored everything else. One of the most beautiful women in any world. I had been lucky to happen upon her when I did. She had opened up to me. Telling me her life story. I really had fallen for her. And her sex drive was one of only a few that could keep up. She and I had connected on many levels. Making 2 beautiful children out of it. 

Then I kept on. Seducing Robin, continuing my relationship with Nami. Uncaring of their thoughts or feelings. Living my life to the fullest with no regrets I might have taken it a little too far. 

I was sure Hancock would forgive me, despite everything she would just need time. I wasn’t sure what the Companion Fusion had done to us, but she was my wife and the mother of my children. If she could forgive me I hoped to tell her the full truth. If I could summon her to other worlds and maybe introduce her around. Show her my other lives. Hell maybe she had her own lives in the worlds. 

My heart aching, I resolved myself to try to do better in the future. So many other worlds to beat the canon I still had a very long road ahead of me. 

Walking to my children’s nursery I studied them as the night turned to day. 2 sleeping babes with no worries in the world I had to do better for them. I had to make sure that they didn’t grow up fatherless. Their mother hating me. I had to try to turn back into the man I used to be. Those were the promises I left them with as it all turned black.