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Title: The Next Level
Characters: Luffy, Ace, uh, everyone at Marinford
Pairing: Luffy/epic!
Beta:

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The Next Level

He’s fighting through a bunch of weird guys and making sure he doesn’t get caught in Smokey’s smoke when he catches, out of the corner of his eye, a blur of red moving towards his brother.

“Shit. Akainu goin’ for Ace! Somebody stop him!”

Akainu. One of the Admirals then, like Aokiji…and the Light-Guy.

“ZORO! This is bad! Zoro’s gonna die!”

“I sliced and sliced at him but my blows simply went right through his body. Yet Rayleigh just stopped him…how?”

The Admiral moves through the fighting quickly, and everything he touches in his red-earth-molasses form bursts into flame.

“It’s only natural for arrows to have such strength when imbued with Haki.”

Luffy can see the blue Bird-Guy trying to get around the Light-Admiral; Whitebeard is holding off some weird Marine machine-thing.

“Why the heck does it hurt!? I’m made of rubber!”

“But you cannot use Haki, can you?”

And Ace, Ace looking quiet and empty and not even fighting anymore.

“I TOLD YOU TO STOP!”

“I have never seen anyone other than our sister who can use that power…!!”

“Get out of my way!”

Luffy steps in front of his brother just before the red Admiral reaches him, and strikes out with both arms.

“LUFFY!”

His fists are warm, hot almost, but he isn’t burned.

Luffy grins.

“Hey Lava-Guy, leave my brother alone.”