Chapter 100: The Old and The New

“Where...am I?”

Lucas looked around him in confusion.

The last thing he remembered was Nami cornering him and dragging him to a room. After that, she...ahem.

Anyway, he could still remember doing it. But it seems when both of them got exhausted, he fell asleep.

The next thing he saw when he opened his eyes is that he’s now in a strange room...or rather, a theater.

The theater didn’t look like the one in Gran Tesoro, now named City of Dreams.

He tried to stand from the seat but found himself strapped with the seatbelt.

Lucas tried to turn into water but that also didn’t work.

“Impossible...even if the entire seat is made of sea stone, that stuff doesn’t work on me…”

Maybe this was just a dream…?

Lucas looked around and saw Luffy and the rest of the crew minus Hancock, Kaya, and Kuina. They were also strapped to a seat on his right.

He looked to his left and saw Luna beside him, still asleep while also strapped to a seat.

Just what is going on?

Seeing as nothing was happening, Lucas could only wait it out.

After a while, the rest of the gang started to wake up.

“Mm...Daddy? Where?”

Luna asked while still quite drowsy.

“Luna. I’m not sure where we are...don’t worry, I’ll make sure nothing happens to you.”

“Un!”

Luffy and the rest also started to wake up.

“Hm? Huh? Where are we!? I was holding my meat just a while ago! Mm? How come I can’t stretch!?”

“Eh? Where is this? Did we get kidnapped!? No way!”

Nami freaked out immediately upon seeing the unfamiliar place.

Lucas tried to calm her down.

“Nami! It’s alright. Calm down.”

“Huh? Who are you?”

“...Huh?”

Lucas was shocked.

“Where is this!? Did you kidnap us!? I-I’m warning you! I have ten thousand men waiting for me!”

“Waaa! Don’t kill me! My bounty is just 100 berries!”

“Oi! You dared to hit on our Nami-swan!?”

“Zzzzz...”

“What an interesting place. It seems we’re about to get sold. The men will be forced to labor while the women-”

“O-oi Robin! I’m SUPEEEER freaked out now because of what you said!”

“Don’t kill mee!!! Ah, but I’m already dead though. Yohohohohohohoho!”

“...”

Lucas looked very confused. He simply can’t understand what was happening.

These guys are acting as if they’ve never met him at all…

Before he could say anything else, a spotlight shone on the stage in front of the huge screen.

Below the spotlight, there was a man who stood wearing a white faceless mask.

On the mask, there is a word written.

[AUTHOR]

“...”

“Ehh. Hello. I’m the Author of Ultimate Fruit! To celebrate the 100 chapters, umm, and also since I want to do it, we’re having a special chapter!”

The Author spoke as if he wasn’t used to being the center of attention all of a sudden and looked quite awkward.

“Hey! I’m not awkward!”

Suuuure…

“Ahem! Anyway, let me explain the situation to you all.”

The Author looked over at Luffy and the others first.

“I’m sorry for pulling you out of your world but this will only take a moment and I’ll return you all back where you came from. To put it simply, err, someone suggested it would be interesting to have the original characters from One Piece to watch the fanfiction that I wrote which is called Ultimate Fruit!”

“...Hah?”

Lucas’ jaw dropped to the ground after hearing such a thing.

Wait...does that mean...that Luffy and the others are the ones from the original timeline!?

“Yes, Lucas. They are from the original One Piece world.”

“What the heck is going on!?”

“Err, didn’t I just explain? Well, whatever. I used some of my Author Author no Mi powers to turn the novel into an anime so enjoy the show! Oh, you won’t be able to move from your seats so just tell me if you need popcorn or something…”

Right after he finished speaking, Luna jumped out of her seat and ran towards Nami.

“Mommy!”

“Eh? Ehh?? EHHHH???”

“...”

Lucas turned towards the Author and asked.

“What is it about not being able to move again?”

“...Luna is OP as ever...maybe it was a mistake to write her character…”

At that moment, the Author regretted creating such an OP existence.

Meanwhile, Nami was still confused when a little girl suddenly came to her calling out ‘mommy’...

Sanji looked like he’s about to puke blood. Oh, nevermind, he already started to cough up blood…

The Author coughed in embarrassment and waved his hand.

“Anyway, the show is about to begin! Enjoy!”

Like that, he disappeared and the huge screen lit up.

A baby was crying in a dark room and there were a young boy and an old man standing by his side.

[“Master Bruce, you still have young master Lucas. You have to be strong.”]

[“...I know Alfred...I know…”]

Lucas looked confused seeing this.

Suddenly, the Author appeared again.

“Oops! Hehe. Wrong fanfic!”

He waved his hand again and made sure it was the right one this time before disappearing again.

“...”

The first opening song of One Piece played out and everyone looked amused hearing it.

“Yohohoho! What a good song!”

“Zzzz...mh? Where are we?”

Only now did Zoro wake up…

Since no one else apart from Luna was able to leave their seats, they could only look at the screen and watch.

The first scene was Luffy grabbing Lucas off the sea while using his Gomu Gomu no Fishing…

Luffy tilted his head in confusion.

“Huh? I don’t remember doing this?”

“Look, Vivi is there too!”

“Hm, from that guy’s explanation earlier. This seems to be an alternate world where that guy Lucas exists…”

Robin had pretty much understood what was happening now.

The story continued to unfold…

“Oohh! That guy helped out with Crocodile huh!? Impressive!”

“Hmm, it seems dealing with Crocodile was smoother than back then.”

Nami muttered while still hugging the cute little girl claiming to be her daughter…

After the Alabasta arc was the Skypiea arc.

“Shishishishi! So he joins our crew huh!?”

Then, a huge turtle appeared and everyone was frightened. Nami had clung to Lucas and felt something poking her from below...

“E-eh? Ehhh? Ehhhh??? Why am I hugging him!? No way!? His...his…”

“Waaa! Don’t look!”

Lucas tried to get out of the seat to cover their eyes but he still couldn’t leave.

Luna looked at the scene and only tilted her head in confusion.

“DAMN YOU AUTHOR!!!”

“...”

Then, the large shadows appeared.

The Lucas on the screen started to speak and the Lucas watching it started to turn pale.

[“Nami...whatever happens...remember that I am here.”]

“GAAAAH! Stop it! This is too embarrassing!!!”

Lucas felt like wanting to die…

Ahh, the things he had done in the past...the dark past…

Lucas started to tear up as he felt like he was being punished in hell or something.

He looked towards Nami and the others and saw them looking back at him with empty eyes.

“...”

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! AT LEAST BLUSH OR SOMETHING! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT ME WITH PITY!!!???

“Daddy! So cool!”

“Huhu...at least my Luna is still the best…”

“Hold on, what did you call him!? T-then...that means…!?”

Nami’s face turned pale when she heard Luna call Lucas her daddy.

Anyway, the story continued.

On the screen, Robin and Lucas were talking.

[“What?”]

[“Nothing...I’m just very curious about you.”]

[“Heh, careful there, you might just fall in love with me.”]

“...”

Robin watched this and turned to Lucas with empty eyes again.

“GAAAH!! STOP IT! STOP IT ALREADY!!!”

Lucas felt pain in his heart every single time.

Nooo! My darkness! My darkness I locked up in my heart is being unsealed!!!

Author: “Chuuni.”

“Fuck you Author! This is your fault!”

“...”

The story continued.

They saw Nami take countless pictures of herself in various positions.

Nami blushed furiously when she saw this.

“Ehh!? Why would I do something like this!?”

“Nooo! Nami-swan!!! Why did you have to hit me!?”

Next, they saw Lucas kill Blackbeard and was surprised.

Luffy looked a bit shaken.

“If that guy is dead...then...does that mean...Ace…”

“...Yeah, Ace is alive in my world…”

Lucas sighed as he revealed that.

The Author reappeared again and waved his hand. The next moment, Ace appeared on one of the seats.

“Huh? What? What’s going on here?”

“ACE!!!”

“Luffy?”

Luffy wanted to leave his seat and give Ace a hug but was unable to leave.

As a result, he could only cry happily while in his seat with his arm stretched out.

Ace was confused with how Luffy was acting and turned to Lucas.

“Umm...it seems that Luffy is from a different timeline where you had died…”

“Huhu! Aceeeee!”

“I don’t really get it but stop crying already! Look how ridiculous you look right now!”

“Uuuu! I don’t care! I get to see you again!”

Looking at Luffy acting like this, Ace could only sigh and shake his head with a wry smile.

Everyone looked on the two of them warmly then looked back on the screen.

They met up with Montblanc Cricket, trashed Bellamy and his crew, and flew to Sky Island.

They saw Lucas push everyone away and was blown by the lightning along with Merry.

They saw him gain wings and helped Luffy defeat Enel.

Then, they left Skypiea and returned to the surface...that’s when they encountered the Foxy Pirates.

While everyone else dealt with the Foxy Pirates, they saw Lucas encounter Aokiji instead and how he nearly died fighting him just so Aokiji would not attack the others. Ultimately, Aokiji struck a deal with Lucas to become a part of the Shichibukai. In return, the Admirals won’t target the Strawhats personally.

“Uuuuu! What a real man!”

Franky cried out his manly tears when he saw this. However, Luffy was glaring at him.

“What the hell Lucas!? You’re supposed to be part of my crew! I can’t forgive you for this!!!”

...It seems after watching Lucas, he had already considered him as his nakama for real...even though he’s not the Luffy in his timeline.

Robin looked at Lucas in deep thought.

“I see…so that’s why...”

Lucas was confused about what she meant by that but he could only ignore the others as he didn’t really have any explanation for them.

They then saw Lucas arguing with Zoro and Sanji about the same thing on the screen.

That was when Lucas told them about his plan.

Luffy was still angry as he couldn’t understand, but the others seemed to understand what this was about.

They knew from their timeline that the Marines were planning on taking on Whitebeard and that Lucas’ plan must be related to that.

Then, Lucas saw that Robin had actually eavesdropped on their conversation and couldn’t help but smile wryly.

In the next scene, they saw Nami dragging Lucas by the ear to the cabins.

Lucas’ face started to turn red.

“AUTHOR! AUTHOR! GET BACK HERE, YOU BASTARD! LUNA IS HERE! DON’T SHOW THISSSS!!!!”

Everyone looked confused by what he meant.

Only after they saw Lucas being pushed to the bed and Nami straddling on top of him did the others finally understand.

“KYAA!!! WHAT!? WHAT AM I DOING!? STOP!!!”

“GAH-!? N-NO...MY NAMI-SWAAN…!”

Nami was blushing and Sanji had spat out blood.

“Ahem, I’m just going to fast forward this…”

The Author appeared and waved his hand, the next moment, it was the scene where Lucas took Nami to the skies with his wings.

[“One day...someday...I will take you to see the whole world.”]

[“Promise me.”]

[“I promise.”]

[“I’ve sealed this promise. You can’t take it back! Otherwise, you will have to pay with your life!”]

[“I won’t break it even if I die.”]

“...”

GODDAMIT AUTHOR! CAN’T YOU JUST SKIP THIS PART AS WELL!?

Lucas’ face was burning from embarrassment and Nami was also blushing furiously.

Lucas remembered what he said and noticed something.

Huh? Come to think of it...isn’t this a death flag!?

No wonder…

Lucas really wanted to smack his past self and teach him to think about his words properly…

They then entered Water 7 and Lucas started to confront Luffy.

[“Fight me! If you win, you’re not leaving, Lucas! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!!!”]

“...”

Usopp felt this scene was quite nostalgic...didn’t something like this happen to them as well? Only, it was him and Luffy that time…

Lucas blew Luffy away and won the duel.

[“Goodbye...Luffy. Thank you for picking me up…”]

“...”

Lucas felt awkward recalling this scene.

He looked at Luffy and the others cautiously and saw they were all crying!

“Uuuu! Lucas is a really man!”

“To save his crew, he had to go against his captain and become his enemy!”

“Waaa!”

“...”

Luffy was silent as he watched this. Lucas didn’t know what he was thinking.

On the other hand, Ace was still confused with what was happening.

The following scenes happened similar to what they remembered.

They faced the Aqua Laguna and they went off to Enies Lobby to take back Robin and Franky.

They saw Lucas defeat the rest of CP9 with ease and someone called in the denden mushi to report about Luffy and the rest.

[“Stop wasting time. What’s the report?”]

[“A-ah! Yes sir! Strawhat Luffy has defeated half of our people! We request for immediate backup! This man...can’t be stopped!”]

[“Un, keep up the good work.”]

[“.....Eh?”]

“Ahahahahahahaha!”

“Hahahaha! Keep up the good work!”

“Hahahahahahahaha!”

Lucas smiled bitterly when he saw everyone watching and laughing out loud.

The Strawhats fought the CP9. Buster Call was made. And Lucas managed to protect everyone.

When the crew left Enies Lobby, Lucas met with Aokiji again and showed them that he could swallow an entire island with his water abilities.

He took in Lucci and the rest as part of his crew, the Guardian Wing.

Then, Lucas and the others returned to Water 7 secretly without Luffy and the others knowing.

When he was about to leave, Nami and Robin met with him again.

“AUTHOR! FAST FORWARD! NOW!!!”

Nami and Robin flushed when they saw what was about to happen. Thankfully, the Author managed to skip it again in time before Luna saw anything…

Sanji’s eyes had started to bleed…

Chopper saw this and panicked.

“SANJI!! HANG IN THERE!!! DOCTOR! IS THERE ANY DOCTOR HERE!?”

The next scene was Garp appearing.

Lucas had also left along with Hina who was monitoring Lucas on behalf of the Marines as they go towards Alabasta.

On the way, they met Belo Betty who started to follow along as well.

Sanji’s eyes had already turned to hearts when he saw her.

[“...Are you really not gonna button up your jacket?”]

[“Do you want me to?”]

“...”

Seeing as Lucas didn’t say anything, Sanji, Brook, and Franky turned to him and gave him a thumbs up.

GOOD CHOICE!

“...”

They were welcomed by Vivi and Carue. Lucas took Vivi for a spin with his wings and carried her as they flew.

When King Cobra saw the guests, he looked surprised.

A Shichibukai, a Revolutionary Commander, a Marine Captain...it was certainly an odd combo.

Lucas waved at him and said.

[“Don’t mind them. Just think of them as a statue and a pervert.”]

“...”

The others laughed again when they watched this.

In the next scene, they saw Vivi kissing Lucas, Lucas giving Betty a massage as she let out erotic sounds...and Hina barging in and starting an argument. It was a night full of trouble…

Sanji was coughing up blood again while Nami had started to glare at Lucas.

Luna saw Vivi kiss her daddy and clapped.

“Waa! I have another mommy!”

“...”

Lucas wanted to say something but he didn’t know what to say!

They continued to watch the ‘anime’ in front of them with varying emotions.

They saw how their adventure had changed so much even though only a single man had been added in the story.

They couldn’t help but wonder how exciting and fun it was if they had also met Lucas.

They saw Lucas make changes that were simply unimaginable to them.

He recruited their friends in the past who were in East Blue and also dealt with a hidden enemy that almost destroyed their homes.

Then, they saw how Lucas returned, saved Ace in Impel Down, and reunited the three brothers, Luffy, Ace, and Sabo.

...Then they saw how Lucas stayed behind in Marineford along with Whitebeard to save everyone.

[“...Say...how does it feel?...To be a father?”]

[“...Gurararara, better than being a Pirate King.”]

When Nami heard what Lucas asked, she felt like Lucas must’ve known that she was pregnant with Luna at that time.

He knew...yet he is still going to sacrifice himself…

“Stupid Lucas…”

Lucas pretended not to hear what she said and looked at the screen.

They saw Lucas and Whitebeard unleash their powers...and how Lucas shattered into a million pieces.

Luffy turned into a crying mess once again.

“Uuuuu! Lucaaass! Huhuhuhu!”

“Uhh, stop crying already. Don’t you see that I’m still alive…”

“Stil!!!”

Suddenly, the scene showed Lucas dropping in a room where they saw a white-haired woman, a brown-haired woman, a blonde guy, a reindeer, and a snowman.

The Author reappeared again and waved his hand.

“Ahem, nothing to see here. This isn’t canon.”

“...”

Lucas was confused.

Was that...Elsa? From Frozen? What did the author mean by its not canon!? Tell me dammit!

The scene changed again and they saw Lucas appearing before Roger, the Pirate King himself!

Ace looked surprised as he didn’t think he would see this man here.

“So this is...my father…”

Everyone watched in surprise as they saw Lucas going back in time and actually meeting the legendary Gol D. Roger!

What was more surprising...was Robin seeing her mother, Olvia!

When Robin saw how close Olvia was with Lucas, she couldn’t help but turn to him in suspicion.

Lucas avoided her gaze and pretended not to notice.

They then saw how Olvia left them, Lucas started to be trained by Roger, and how he met Whitebeard and Oden.

“Oh! Oden is also here!”

Usopp exclaimed.

Oden went along with Roger while Lucas traveled with Whitebeard as they sailed for Wano.

When Lucas reached Wano, he stayed there and waited for Toki and the others to return so he could use Toki’s power to be sent to the future.

But since Toki was unable to do it, he stayed there and fought Kaido.

The battle lasted for a long time and everyone was quiet as they watched.

Finally, before they could have their next decisive battle...Toki sent Lucas away back to the future.

They watched as Lucas arrived on Fishman Island and waited for them to enter the New World.

Lucas and Nami got married and Lucas also gave a ring to Robin.

After watching everything, Luffy and the rest didn’t know what to feel about it.

Everything seemed so...surreal. Like even though they knew it wasn't them, it still feels like they had lived the same lives.

They all looked back at Lucas with complex emotions.

Finally, Zoro spoke.

“...Give my regards to Kuina and sensei.”

After that, he closed his eyes and no longer spoke.

The others also chatted with him for a while.

Luffy grinned at him.

“I’m not sure about the Luffy of your world, but I’m glad to have you as my crew!”

“...Thanks, Luffy.”

Nami pouted and hugged Luna for the last time.

“Lucas! You better take care of Luna! Otherwise, I’ll find a way to get to you and send you to hell!”

“...”

Aa...Nami is still the devil alright…

The Author reappeared again and clapped his hand.

“Well, that was fun. This was a long chapter but it was amusing enough! See ya next chap!”

“Hey! Wait a second! Explain to me what the hell is that Elsa doi-!”

…

See ya next chap!