Journey to One Piece

101. Ace

Luffy and Usopp were both loud and noisy when they walked in. Their noise broke the silent tension among the two when the trio walked. Luffy first noticed Smoker. At first he didn't recognize Smoker but after a few seconds of looking at his face, everything came back to him. The guy who was after him in LogueTown and on whom his punches didn't have any effect.

"Yaaa. You are that Smokey..."

"Luffy!!!!! Ken!!!!"

Another loud voice came from the side. It was then Luffy saw Ace. His eyes sparkled into stars when he saw Ace. Ken had already noticed Ace and just smiled at him. Ace looked quite different from when he last saw. He now had complete white eyes and his hair had grown quite a lot just like Neji.

"Ace!! You are here...." Luffy shouted and ran to Ace to give him a hug. Smoker was left standing with none of the brothers paying any attention to him. Ken too followed Luffy and came up to Ace to give him a hug. But after the hug a strange situation occurred. Without any warning, Ken clenched his fist and punched Ace right at his face.

The restaurant which had sturdy walls couldn't stop Ace from stopping as he flew away destroying consecutive walls. It was just like when Luffy flew in and had hit both Smoker and Ace, sending them flying. Only in this case, Ken had sent Ace flying.

The eyes of the people had gone wide seeing this. At first they thought that there would be a fight. Then two random people came in and gave the Captain of the Second Division a hug and then he proceeded to punch him in the most brutal way possible.

What the hell was going on? Even Usopp was confused by what Ken did just now and Luffy too had a puzzled look. Ken didn't bother answering him and looked at Smoker.

"You have quite the guts for coming after us with what we did to you." Ken said as he brought out the weapon of Smoker himself. This weapon was taken from him and it was a humiliation for him. Smoker looked at Ken with sharp eyes and said

"Punisher Kenny, only you have the power to stop me but what about your crew members? I knew that you and Straw Hat Luffy would come here and I have already sent marines in disguise all over the town. You have nowhere to run."

Smoker seemed a little proud of himself with that. He had known that he might not be a match against Ken or maybe even Luffy who seemed to have many tricks up his sleeve. But this didn't mean that everyone in the crew would know how to fight.

"Oye Ken..I thought you took care of this smokey?"

"I thought too. Seems like I underestimated him." Ken replied not bothering with the threat to his crew. They were powerful on their own and they would be just fine. Smoker couldn't take this nonchalance of these pirates anymore and flew to deliver a punch to Luffy. But as he was inches away from Luffy, Ken slammed him with his own weapon in the ground.

He hit Smoker right on his neck with the edge of the weapon and pinned him with a huge force. Smoker almost cried out in pain and spat at the spot. It was good that he was alone and Tashigi was somewhere else, or else they would have seen their ferocious Captain lying down like a dead fish.

Smoker got beaten! Again!

Meanwhile, Ace, who had just been blasted away by Ken, came after getting up. He wasn't badly hurt or something. Ken didn't use Haki in this attack and Ace wasn't using his Observation Haki either. Unlike the original story he was much more proficient in his Haki but he didn't expect to get hit by Ken.

After coming back to the restaurant, he looked at Ken with some anger in his eyes. Like others, he too didn't care how easily Smoker was pinned on the ground. The people around had already left in fear. They had heard Smoker call him Punisher Kenny and Straw Hat Luffy, so they could already guess who these people were.

One was the 2nd division Commander and now two 'supernovas' had arrived. It was better to run for their lives. Only the restaurant manager was hiding behind the counter. He couldn't just leave his restaurant. This was his life.

"What is the big deal Ken? Why did you hit me?"

"It's because Whitebeard wasn't man enough to beat the shit out of you when he had the chance."

"What?"

"Who is Whitebeard?" - Luffy

"Better question who the fuck is he?" Usopp said while pointing at Ace.

"Ah.. This is Ace. Our brother. We were brought up together."

"Nani? Another monster!" Usopp was taken aback. Smoker who was listening was also surprised. There had never been a specific mention of the brothers before and this was the first time he had seen another brother pop up.

"Ask him who is Whitebeard." Ken said as he answered Luffy. Ace had really followed his original story and joined Whitebeard. And now he was searching for Marshall D. Teach. Before Ace could use more expletives on Ken, there was a huge noise outside. Some of the people who ran had gone to the marines and narrated the whole scene to them and thus many marines had come running by to save the old Captain.

Listening to the noise of the marines, Ken let go of his hold on Smoker. Ken might mock Smoker but he wasn't cruel enough to let Smoker be seen by his own subordinates in such an embarrassing situation. He was one of the few navy that was good in the whole of marine and he didn't want to change that.

Smoker was surprised by this. Meanwhile, Ken caught Ace and Luffy by their collar and took off. Usopp was spacing for a second and shouted when he saw everyone had left him. He also made a run a second later cursing at Ken