One Piece the Movie
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Some of the characters found in this story and / or universe do not belong to me, but are intellectual property of their respective owners. Any original characters in this story are my intellectual property.
Story nonprofit created fan and fan without compromising the original work.)
Not the ideas for this chapter were inspired by none other than the Great DogmanSP Who is a deviantART creator of super brothers the Mario comic fan series which I believe is one of the best iterations out there and I truly believe you should go out and give it a look
Chapter 16:Let's see what you're made of
Toad almost instantly stopped running and quickly turned around to get a full view of what had just occurred in front of them.
His jaw slowly started to drop to the floor as he then took a few steps forward, letting go of Peach's hand, staring directly at where Luffy was standing.
He couldn't believe it, no he wouldn't believe it, there was no way that his new friend could meet his end, not like this.
Peach put both her hands over her mouth and watched in total shock, she had never seen anyone die before, especially in such a brutal and cruel way.
Just the sight of seeing someone she barely knew a few hours be crushed like a bug made him want to vomit right there on the spot.
Now without him here to assist who else other than her would help rid the mushroom kingdom of the koopa threat.
Though she could try to go for the power ups, she would need to be able to get to them before
And speaking of which.
Trython and the other Koopa Troop (who had used this distraction to gather and wake up their fellow koopa in order to continue their "capture the princess" mission) had been just staring and watching what had just happened from where that had unleashed the chain chomp and stood there wide eyed before beginning to celebrating the win they were just given.
Hey even the Koopas who had just woken up from being knocked out were cheering at their sudden victory.
Well all except Bryce the sledge hammer bro, who was taking his loss against Luffy a little personally.
With the crazy strong straw hatted boy out of the way, there was no one (other then the princess herself) that was strong enough to stop them from taking over the kingdom and getting it ready for the troll empire, killing all of those little mushroom freaks, or kidnapping the prince and bringing her to their Koopa king.
They knew this backup plan was full proof from the start and now that the hard part was over, they could just sit back and…..wait a minute.
What's wrong with Chompy?
Everyone who had seen what had just happened were looking right at the chain chomp and noticing something was off with it.
Its eyes were completely wide and its body was starting to shake violently as it made this scared yelping sound as if it didn't know what was going on either.
All the Koopas stopped cheering once they noticed that the chain chomp wasn't moving at all, but instead it was acting a little weird, well weird to their standards anyway.
Even Peach and Toad, who were still trying to process what had just happened to Luffy, were just staring at it with both shocked (because you know they still think Luffy died) and confused expressions.
Peach took a step closer to the Chain chomp to try and get a closer look at what was wrong with it,"What the….."?
Little did she know, peach was about to witness something that was going to absolutely blow her and everyone else's minds completely.
(RUMBLE)
Suddenly out of nowhere the chain chomp starts shaking even more violently than before, causing debris to start falling off the nearby damaged buildings and it to yelp even louder than before too.
Everyone was wondering what the hell was going on with this change chain chomp and why is it was acting so weird and what it did to Luffy.
Seeing this, Peach and Toad both turn around to take a step back away from it, not wanting to get hit by any of the falling debris.
But as the were stepping back,she caught something in the corner of her eye, causing her to spin back around to look and make sure that it was exactly what she was thinking.
And it was exactly what she was thnk…..
The chain chomp was slowly being lifted off the ground and into the air as if it was being pulled up by strings.
Except it wasn't quite that at all…..
(Well it was but….you know what you'll get it soon)
Peach saw that something or someone was underneath the chain chomp was slowly pushing and lifting it up in the air.
Both Peach, Toad, and all of the Koopas squinted their eyes to see who exactly that was, and it wasn't until the chain chomp was fully hoisted up into the air that they were all able a full view of the assailant.
And believe it or not, once they saw who it was, not only did all of their eyes go so wide that they might as well have had no pupils, but their jaws hit the floor fast and hard too.
IT WAS LUFFY!!!
Seeing that Luffy was alive and well, Toad's face goes from surprise to happy real quick as he then starts cheering and celebrating that his new friend was alright,"LUFFY YOUR ALRIGHT"!!!
Peach ,though not as crazy happy to see that he was alive as toad, was at least relieved to see that he wasn't killed, mainly so that he could continue to fight.
And not only that but now she saw that he was pretty strong for someone as scrawny as him too.
So it was sort of a win-win thing.
Well at least for them it was….
For the Koopas….we'll…..not so much.
They were completely freaking out ( though it was mostly Trython) about what they were seeing and just how it was possible.
Bryce walked up to Trython and said,"Okay so now not only could this kid stretch himself but was good at fighting and now we're super strong"!, he said, angrily pointing out the obvious,trying is best to make sure they had everything down to a p,"How the hell are we supposed to get on with the plan if we got this kid here foiling everything we do"?!
Trython however didn't answer the question, he was too shocked about what was happening to be able to focus or talk about anything else.
And even if he wasn't, at this point there wasn't really much he could say in that moment that could possibly make things better.
He wanted to see if he could make another plan of attack against them, but that kid would probably shrug that off and beat them down again.
And if they tried to sneak around him and get to the princess it's not like kidnapping her would be a walk in the park either, they would just get their asses handed to them.
There was only one option left for them at this point.
They had to get the hell out of there (or mainly he had to get the hell out of there) and go bring back some reinforcements, or else that kid would beat them to death.
As the Koopas stood in place watching with fear, Luffy loudly gritted his teeth and shouted as he single-handedly hoisted the chain chomp up into the air with all of his might.
(We'll actually barely any of his might really )
"ALRIGHT TEETHY NOW YA MADE...…ME...…MAD"!!!, Luffy shouted as he practically threw/tossed the chain chomp up into the air.
Everyone else who was watching eyes popped out of their heads seeing this.
A few seconds later the chain chomp crashed ,mouth first, onto the stone statue in the center of the town
In the process of this happening, a loud cracking sound could be heard from where it landed, almost seeming as though the chain chomp had crushed it with its teeth .
Though unfortunately for the chain chomp, that wasn't the case, as once it had let go of the statue and fallen to the ground, everyone who had gotten a good look at the chain chomp saw exactly what happened to it.
All of its teeth were completely cracked and broken, the statue had broken its teeth!
The chain chomp yelped and teared up in pain as it rolled over onto its side, passing out from the shock.
It all kinda goes to show that though the chain chomp's teeth might be strong, the stone statue is much stronger than they could ever be.
After successfully defeating the chain chomp, Luffy quickly glanced over and spotted all of the koopas standing right where they were earlier when they had released the chain and gritted his teeth angrily as he glared at them.
Seeing that he had spotted them from where he was standing made them all flinch and take a step back, well all of them but Bryce, who had instead gripped his sledgehammer tightly as he then took a step forward.
Though he could always just beat them up again, Luffy wasn't really trying to let them think up another plan to continue destroying the Kingdom, and he didn't want them there any longer either.
He needed to come up with an idea that would get them out quickly and without causing anymore destruction than there already was.
But he had so many tricks up his sleeve that he could use on the Koopas, that he wasn't really sure which ones he should use to get the job done.
Well...…..that was until he suddenly saw the still unconscious chain chomps chain lying around under some debris a few feet away from him
Luffy, seeing this, grew an almost evil grin on his face ,knowing now what he was going to do next, as he grabbed hold of the bottom of the giant chain.
And In the process of running while pulling on the chain, he started dragging the chain chomp from where it laid, unconscious.
Though due to its massive size, the process of moving it was slow and difficult.
But luckily, due to Luffy's immense strength and capability, it became easier for him to pull it out of its current position.
And the farther he went and the harder he tugged and pulled, the less difficult it was to move the chain chomp with its chain.
But it wasn't fast enough for Luffy's liking, so he took a deep breath with one and started tugging and pulling at it even harder than he was before, which helped it succeed in easily moving it from where it was.
He then turned around and started running in the direction of where the Koopas were standing while tightly holding the chain in his hands, he took a deep breath, placed the chains in one of his hands, and with one final pull, he yanked the chain chomp up from off the ground and into the there for everyone (even all the other toads who were hiding out as well) to see.
Causing their eyes to practically pop out of their skulls in shock...
Once he had done that Luffy once again placed both hands on the chain and started twirling and spinning around in a swirling circle, pulling the chain chomp (who was now semi-conscious due to the spinning) along with it,"NOW GUM GUM...."!!!
And due to the size of the giant chain chomp, the constant spinning started creating large hurling winds that blew away anything that wasn't heavy enough to stay on the ground.
Peach and Toad had to quickly run over to one of the fruit carts (that was thankfully screwed down to the concrete) and practically barricaded themselves underneath it to avoid being blown away by the winds.
Thankfully for the Koopas the he was still far enough away from them that the winds didn't really hit them that hard if at all.
But that was likely to change soon, because he was coming in hot right at them with the giant ball, and the more stronger winds.
One of the Paratroopas pointed right at him and shouted,"Wait...oh no, HE'S COMING RIGHT FOR US"!!!
Seeing this, some of the Koopa troopa started to back away slowly, while others stood frozen in place, unable to move.
"HE'S SO FAST","HOW IS HE SO STRONG",A couple of the Koopas were yelling as he got closer and the winds got stronger.
One of the hammer bros turned to Trython and shot him with a desperate look,"COMMANDER, WHAT DO WE DO?
Unfortunately for them though, Trython wasn't really in the right condition to give them an answer.
Considering that he was amongst the few who were too frozen in fear to even move a single muscle, much less say anything in response to his troops.
All he could do in those moments was stare frighteningly at the same straw hatted assailant that was commright for them, unable to even turn to look at his subordinates.
exactly something that they needed right at that moment.
And Bryce, seeing this, decided to take matters into his own hands and try to fix this situation.
He quickly grabs his sledge hammer and starts running past Trython and the other Koopa Troop and right towards Luffy.
While running, he starts screaming in madness and shouting,"YOU THINK OUR KING IS GOING TO LET YOU GET AWAY WITH GETTING IN HIS PLANS?! DON'T COUNT ON IT!", as he winds his hammer back.
And once he had gotten close enough to Luffy, he then jumps up into the air and lunges forward, preparing to throw another swing,"THIS TIME I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE I BASH... YOUR... BRAINS….. OU-"!!!
Unfortunately for him however, he wouldn't get the chance to make good on this threat, because Luffy with one last powerful pull of all his might, he swing the unconscious chain chomp forward and it collides right into the sledge bro, Luffy gritted his teeth as he then shouted out,"WRECKING.....BALL"!!!!!!!!!!!!
The force and impact of the ball-like creature was so powerful that it almost instantly knocked the giant Koopa out once he came into contact with it.
That wasn't all either, because once Luffy had hit the sledge bro with the chain chomp, he loosened his grip on the chain before letting it go, practically throwing it off into the distance.
But not just anywhere, Luffy made sure to time the throw just right and aim right at where the rest of the Koopas are.
The Chain Chomp flew across the toad town like a gigantic bullet going for its target, which in this situation, would be the Koopas, who (in reaction to seeing this) started screaming and running in the almost exact opposite direction.
Not that doing that would do them any good, they weren't nearly fast enough to outrun the flying chain chomp ball.
And that becomes proven when the the chain chomp comes zooming in, and with its broken teeth filled jaw hanging open, it basically swooped in and scooped up all of the Koopa Troop one by one, (and the ones that didn't get caught in its mouth like the Paratroopas, got caught and hit by the it's face like flies on a window) all except for Trython, who thankfully for him was able to duck in a different direction out of the way of the incoming flying chain chomp.
Once it had successfully all of the Koopas (save for Trython) it had then started to fly off into the distance for a few seconds until everyone suddenly heard a loud (CRASH) sound and saw a bunch of mushroom trees flying up in the air and falling back to the ground.
Everyone, including Trython, stared off at where the chain chomp landed, jaws dropped, trying to process what Luffy had just done.
Trython shook fearfully as he slowly picked himself up off the ground as stared out towards the area where his comrades were thrown, causing him to stumble and almost trip.
He expected a lot of things that could possibly happen that day, like the princess agreeing to come with them to see their king, them massecuring all of the mushroom toads if she didn't, or maybe even doing both just for the shits and giggles of it, screw it maybe even fight someone who that fixes toilets for a living, the possibilities were almost endless.
But this was not of those endless possibilities he expected....not in the slightest.
And there was only one thought that really just clouded his head,"What….the…..fuck…..JUST HAPPENED"!!!
all of that planning....
All of the preparations.....
All of the meetings....
It-it all went to shit, just like that
All because the mushroom kingdom... got some new muscle to protect them.
Powerful muscle at that…..
Where the hell did he come from and how the hell did he get so strong.
He beat all of them again for the second time even, less time than before
He slowly turn his head and look towards the Monstrous straw-hat creature to look and see that once he had thrown the chain chomp and quickly checked to make sure he had got them all, he let out a loud sigh of relief as he then fell and fell on his back,"hehehehehehehe, Looks like I got em all"!, he said as he chuckled in his victory.
That last action alone sent a chill down Trython's spine causing him to shiver and Shake as he tried to slowly back away and leave unnoticed.
But in the mix of doing that his foot accidentally Kicked away a small pebble, causing the noise that dough would be too low for a normal person to hear, it was enough to catch Luffy's attention .
Luffy had set up from where he was lying down and quickly scanned the area till he spotted Trython.
Luffy's face almost instantly went from a goofy smile to an angry gritted sharp teeth look just as instantly hopped up from the spot,"Eyepatch you coming back to fight me again huh"?!, He shouted as he then got into another fighting pose and shouted,"Well come on at me just know I'll send you flying"!
Trython's face went pale seeing that his new enemy still had room for more beatings to give them.
This had almost made him want to run away and scream like a coward.
hell actually he was going to do that just so that he wouldn't get beaten down again.
But just as he was about to take off running he stopped and thought about how it might look if he would have run so cowardly away from the enemy and how much shame he would bring upon the Koopa kingdom if he were to show that there was cowardice within their ranks.
If anyone found out at best he would or might get demoted and then none of the soldiers or kingdoms would ever let him live it down.
At worst he'd be killed and fed to the trolls as an appetizer or torture or thrown in lava honestly the possibilities of punishments were endless there Kingdom.
One thing he was definitely sure of was that the punishment would be Swift and painful either way.
But he knew for a fact that there would be no way that he'd be able to take on this monster, at least not without stronger soldiers even stronger than the Koopas themself.
And if he stays he will only just continue to be beaten senseless by that stretchy beast and this time with no one to back him up .
So fighting him was definitely a no-go but he wasn't going to leave without giving him one last morning.
Trython quickly took a deep breath in order to calm himself down stood up tall and turn towards Luffy and pointed right at him, and in a daring declaration he said," I don't know who you are or where you came from, but know this straw-hatted Warrior, this will not be the last time you hear of the Koopa Kingdom! And if we aren't able to beat you, then our king surely will",As he says this he points his finger at himself,"And when he does he'll carve you open and burn you to a crisp from the inside out"!He then slowly slides one of his fingers downward over top of his stomach, signaling and basically showing what will happen to him.
Luffy simply snarled in response before shouting," Yeah, well if you want a piece of me tell himThat one I'm done with Bular, I'M COMIN AFTER HIM NEXT", he declared as he balled his fist.
Trython Slowly grew a wicked and evil ring as he readied himself to turn away but not before saying," Well then on the half of the Great three kings, we shall wait for your arrival".
And just like that he turned around and ran off out of the city and back into the mushroom Forest, signaling the official end of the battle in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Luffy simply stood Up straight and started watching as the eye patch turtle went out of view into the forest.
Only the Silence of the wind remained as Luffy picked up his hat from his back and placed it on his head.
All who were left standing there was Luffy, Princess Peach, and Toad.
Speaking of whom....
Peach after what she had seen and heard, mostly stood there in worry.
(In her head) "Great three kin- wait! No it can't "
If she had heard what she thinks she heard and is thinking, then they might be in a lot more trouble than she originally assumed.
But before she could think of it further Toad, after what he had just witnessed, instead of being worried and fearful like his princess, instead he was too busy excitedly jumping up and down cheering, quickly snapping her out of her thoughts.
How could he not celebrate, Luffy had done the one thing none of them had the kind of courage to do.
He beat down the Koopas and saved the Mushroom Kingdom!!!!
She watched as Toad started running towards Luffy as fast as he could,"LUFFY"!!!!, he called out, celebrating loudly as he made his way towards the pirate.
Luffy, still looking out at the direction where Trython just left, heard the call of his name, causing him to turn around and see none other than Toad coming right for him, laughing and cheeri ng his head off.
Seeing that toad as safe and unharmed, Luffy smiled brightly as he then stood tall and proud,"Hey Toad, glad to see you alright".
Toad stopped running about a foot away from Luffy and was practically shaking with excitement as he then started pacing back and forth while either looking up at his nelly inspiring hero or looking down at the ground,"You did it, you actually did it! You actually beat those assholes and sent them running from us! And Keyword, I repeat", he then suddenly jumps up into the air, (but obviously not too high) slightly startling Luffy,"YOU SENT THEM RUNNING FROM US! For once it's not the other way around, Ha Ha! Finally we showed those cold blooded d-bags not to mess with the MUSHROOM KINGDOM, especially not when Luffy's around, Ha Ha! Just wow, you're awesome"!
Luffy's smile grows larger as he giggles in response to all of Toad's praise,"hehe, Yup".
After that reply, the two of them started having themselves a good old celebratory laugh, making a worried princess a tiny bit at ease watching, almost making her want to go over and congratulate him as well.
Almost...
Instead she spun around and cleared her throat,"Ahem, MY TOADS, THE KOOPA THREAT HAS BEEN NEUTRALIZED AND IT IS NOw SAFE TO COME OUT"!, before she then started calling out to all of the Toads that were hiding away.
A few moments after she had called out to them, Peach started to spot a few of the Toads slowly coming into view from where her castle was.
And it wasn't just her castle either...
Some were poking their heads out from underneath food carts, others were peeking through some of their curtains of their houses and buildings, and even a few of them were poking their heads out of some of the pipes around the kingdom.
And once they were given the all clear and made sure to check for themselve, slowly but surely the masses of toads started to unveil themselves from their hiding spots and made their way towards their princess, all while looking around and taking quick glances, just to be safe.
Luffy, once he had finally noticed the growing crowds of the mushroom toads starting to show themselves again, stopped laughing and looked on in awe as they all slowly walked towards them.
Toad however, like the princess, didn't really have much of a reaction to seeing them again, considering that he'd seen them all of the time.
Though there was a particular toad that stood out that caught his attention...
That toad as Bernie!!!!
Who was trying his best to push through the crowds as fast as he could until he suddenly ran out of the crowd and made a b-line right for Toad.
Toad's face had lit up, seeing that his friend was safe and alright, as he then ran towards his best friend before practically tackled him to the ground, giving him a tight bear hug.
Though slightly caught off guard at first, Bernie quickly responded with a tight hug of his own,"Glad to see they didn't hurt you too bad", He said in relief as he then let go of Toad taking a step back.
Toad chuckled,"Yeah no thanks to you getting Luffy to come back", he said, lightly punching his shoulder,"How the hell did you know if he could put up a fight against them"?!, he asked curiously
"Oh well...….., he said before pausing and looking off into anything other than Toad's,"If I'm gonna be honest, i as kind of planning on using him as a distraction and or bait so that it take their attention off you ad the prince while they may or may not have possibly killed', he said, lowering his tone as the explanation went on.
Toad's eyes went wide in shock as he heard the explanation,' wait what?.
"But hey! Turns out he has superpowers and is super strong too"!He said quickly trying to change the subject before then realizing something,"Which is also kind of weird if you think about itDid you know we could do all that stuff? Why didn't you tell me I would have definitely vouched for him if I knew he could do all of that", he asked Toad.
"To be honest, I didn't know either and I was just as surprised as you were when it happened . But if you want to know more about it, then you'll have to ask him yourself", he suggested before turning his head to Luffy, who had been standing there watching the two talk.
Bernie then stepped past Toad and toward Luffy and shot him a thankful though almost curious look as he began questioning him,"Y-you really went out of your way to fight for us? even when we didn't even know who you were or bother to help you that much"?, which as a result, started getting the attention of all the other toads around them.
This caused them to all turn towards Luffy, in order to await his answer.
Even the princess, who had been standing a few meters away from them trying her best to calm the obviously frightened toads, heard enough of the questions being asked to become quite curious herself, as though she didn't turn to look at them she still listened carefully from the distance.
Even though there were a bunch of little eyes staring Intensely at him, Luffy however didn't seem to mind the attention much at all in fact he even giggled a tiny bit and smiled gleefully as he simply shrugged his shoulders.
"Toad helped me out when I came here even when he didn't have to. So of course I was going to have his back against those guys,that's what friends are for. And why would I need to have much of a reason to help other people out when they're in trouble? It's just my way of doin things' ', Luffy casually explained, surprising all of the Toads, and even the princess, around him.
This young man didn't do it for any recognition, special gain, or even a reward that the kingdom might give him….
He did it simply because he believed it was the right thing to do and simply because he wanted to do it no two ways about it.
This very explanation alone surprised and shocked the toes around him.
The only other person they knew to be this kind, generous and genuinely caring for their well-being was their princess (and maybe a few other I like kingdom leaders),Who she herself was also surprised by his response.
He was one of the first human beings that she had ever met, and it turned out that he was genuinely kind and caring of other people's well-being and would be willing to endanger himself and even risk death simply to protect them.
And what was even more surprising was how he was so casual about it, as if it were just something in his daily life.
No she did not trust him very much ( if at all really) she definitely did grow a tiny bit of respect for him and his determination to protect people.
And best believe she wasn't the only one either.
"A way of which I find most admirable", a familiar voice addresses the straw hat captain.
Everyone including the princess, Luffy and Toad turn to see who it was that said that.
And they saw that it was none other than The Royal Adviser: Toadsworth.
For the sake of his health and old age, he had been ordered by the princess to stay and hideout in the castle until she had successfully dealt with the situation.
The old mushroom fellow used his Cane to slowly walk towards the young pirate with the help and support of another fellow toad.
"Boy, when you first step into our Kingdom, I had you for and honest to God rude, filthy, disrespectful, common, little foolish scoundrel", he started off obviously indicating that he didn't think much of Luffy," I see now however that I was more than a fool for thinking that of such a kind and honorable soul such as yourself',He said sadly before slowly picking his head up to stare with an almost puppy dog like expression," And so why Toadsworth the Third, on behalf of the Mushroom Kingdom and the princess herself, I- I am truly sorry for my Behavior towards you, young Straw hat Luffy".
And just like that, Toadsworth had successfully apologized for his (And the princess though let's be honest she's not ready for that character development just yet) earlier conduct.
All of the residents of the Mushroom Kingdom had stood there in silence after witnessing what their royal advisor had just done in front of all of them apologizing which was something he hadn't usually done and was a rare commodity for situations that he knew was his fault or his doing.
This was something not even the princess who had been raised by him would have ever expected him to do, and without even truly knowing anything about this strange boy to begin with.
Though not everyone had the same shocked and surprised expression on their face, all but one in fact.
Luffy Simply smiled brightly in response to the apology as he took a few steps forward and gently padded the old Mushroom on the head.
Toadsworth rows a brow and picks his head up the stairs, the young straw hat in utter confusion.
"Don't worry about it old guy, I just wanted to help you guys out", Luffy said in response before once again starting to giggle loudly.
That last act, though confused toadsworth at first, then soon made him smile and start chuckling loudly himself.
Which was also something else that surprised most, if not all, of the people of the mushroom kingdom, who before rarely, if ever, saw him so much as crack a smile or even chuckle.
Not even the princess herself ever made him so much as crack a smile this easily before.
And it wasn't as if he couldn't or wasn't able to, he just didn't find much of a necessary reason to.
Yet here he was, having a good old laugh with a complete and honestly idiotic stranger who just so happened to be strong enough to help stop some of the Koopa soldiers.
This was a sight that definitely surprised the young princess…..
Amd Toad, who had been watching the two interact, felt a small celebratory urge brewing up inside him as he then suddenly appeared in between Luffy and Toadsworth and shout,"LET'S HEAR FOR THE SAVIOR OF THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM, MONKEY D LUFFY"!!!!!!
After he said that, all of the massive amounts of other Toads around them began to clap and cheer loudly for the straw hatted man before them.
Some of them even walked up to Luffy, grabbed him and picked him up and hoisted him up and down into the air.
And this was happening while they were chanting,"LUFFY, LUFFY, LUFFY", over and over again while Luffy himself only continued to giggle and laugh at what was going on.
Luffy, you were their hero!!!!!!
Though not everyone in the kingdom was having the same exact happy and cheerful opinion as everyone else in the kingdom about him.
And surprise surprise, it was the princess herself.
Though it wasn't out of jealousy or anything petty and dramatic like that, those kinds of things weren't really her style at all.
The main reason why she wasn't celebrating him was because she was too busy focusing on all the damage and debris that was around them.
if there was a before or after image for the Mushroom Kingdom there would definitely be a noticeable significant change.
Some of the buildings were caved in others had fully collapsed altogether well some had only half the building remaining.
Numerous food carts and other stores were destroyed, the streets and concrete littered with enormous craters and cracks.
The only thing that remained untouched in the entire kingdom was her castle which lay at the tallest mountain in the mushroom land.
And there was one thing she was a hundred percent sure of: all of this damage wasn't only done by the Koopas, but by the same Straw Hat individual that stood before her.
Now maybe it was something wrong with her because she herself couldn't possibly see any of the needless destruction he himself calls as admirable and the slightest bit.
And yes though she is grateful that her kingdom is saved she also wanted it in one piece as well not in piles of rubble.
And the worst part was that he didn't even consider the possibility that any of his senseless ideas That he was so prone to using during the battle would happen to have any negative,Or quite possibly dangerous, effects on the people keyword her people around them
Now because of his senseless fighting and Reckless ability, her kingdom would have to spend weeks, not maybe even months trying to rebuild their kingdom and figure out how to sort out all the damages and get things running again.
Just another taks she can add to her list of things to do at the worst of times during an actually very serious worldly crisis.
The very fact that he can giggle and stand so proudly at what he had just intentionally accomplished was beyond her.
Earlier he was actually having the audacity to ask her if he could come along on her very important Journey.
How could she ever trust him with such an important task and role, when he was such an idiotic and honest to God sociopathic Man Child.
Just based on what she had seen from him so far he was Reckless, loud, obnoxious, idiotic if she hadn't said it before, childish, A complete lack of self-control, no awareness, oh did she already say idiotic.
For one of the first of many humans that she had heard/read about and was hoping no praying that she would be able to meet one day he was already starting off with a horrifyingly bad impression.
How could her people so blindly thank him after he caused all this destruction to their Kingdom especially when he was so well like himself.
Though the princess didn't despise him, if she didn't trust him before she certainly doesn't trust him now, especially not the lives of her citizens.
No wonder his friends were in dangerIt's not possibly dead, if they were around him most of the time imagine what would happen to her kingdom if they kept him around.
Hell imagine what the other kingdoms would think of her if she brought this incredibly strong idiotic man with her-
Suddenly a light bulb went off in her head.
Wait a minute...….
She suddenly started glancing around at all the debris and destruction he had created while fighting before taking a quick glance over at him.
What if.....what if she did actually bring him along to help her...
Ok well maybe she wouldn't need him there to help her as much as she would just need him as some extra muscle, cause the journey to each kingdom is as long as it is dangerous.
Not that she wasn't more than capable of taking care or defending herself, but as strong of a princess she is, at the end of the day she is still just that, a princess, and one with quite a few enemies too.
And as a princess with enemies, she would need to be protected on this journey, and though she loved all of the Toads and trusted them like family, they weren't really one for bravery, or combat, or anything related to physicality so bringing any of them along was definitely a no go.
She may not have been much of a fan of him but come on, she saw how he was able to almost effortlessly use a goddamn giant chain chomp as a ragdoll with nothing but his bare hands and was gonna just send him on his way earlier.
If that wasn't a practical sign and or miracle from whatever god was out there then she didn't was, and she would be entirely fucking stupid to let someone as useful as that go to waste.
Though she wasn't too crazy about it, she knew that trusting this straw hat to come along and aid her on this journey was definitely the right card to play.
Now the only real problem was how she was going to convince him to come along with her on this journey.
Not that he'd probably want to anyway, considering early that very day, she had refused to help him find his lost friends or even have him come with her beforehand.
So she doubted that he would be all that jumpy about helping here, even if he had a somewhat empty headed personality.
And even though he decided to come back and help them, he only did that because of his own morals and personal relations with one of her subjects.
Otherwise he doesn't have any real reason to go out of his way to assist her, .....well not unless she gave him one that is.
And she knew just how to do so...…
Peach turns away from him and quickly starts wiping off dust from her pink dress, then she straightens and fixes up her hair to make it look nice.
She then starts to stand up tall and stern, takes a deep breath before exhaling, and turns around to face Luffy, who was still being lifted up into the air.
The princess begins to slowly (well actually like she does in the movie) and elegantly walk towards him.
Which catches the attention of all the mushroom toads (including our Toad and Toadsworth) which causes them to stop cheering and give her their full undivided attention.
Which also causes them to forget to catch Luffy, and a few seconds later he falling to the ground before landing face first right on the pavement right in front of the princess.
His fall caused her to jump back into a short of shelf defense pose because of how much he startled her by how quickly it happened, (and some of the toads too) not knowing it as him as she stood there, wide eyed.
Once she did realize that it was him and not someone else she slowly started walking towards him to see if he was all right but before she could he suddenly sprung up from the ground and gasped loudly, startling her once again,"(GASP) Oh, hey princess", he says as he picks himself up off the ground and places his hat back is head.
Princess Peach Tried her best to just shake off that weird moment and continue with the conversation,"Ok, (Ahem) Mr strawhat Luffy, I princess Peach toadstool of the Mushroom Kingdom what like to thank and commend you On defending our home against the Koopa threat With your fairly impressive skills",She complimented.
Luffy simply smiled brightly in response," Yeah thanks, you know you're pretty strong too",He said back to her as he patted her a tiny bit too roughly on the shoulder, Making her wince a tiny bit on the inside as she slightly rubbed on her shoulder.
He obviously knew absolutely nothing about how to talk to royalty, that was for sure.
"You know if me and you were to work together I think that together we would make a pretty good team", he confidently suggested.
He pretty much took the words right out of her mouth, so she knew very well just which ones should be coming out next,"Hahaha... yes... thank you... and speaking of teaming up," Closes her eyes and takes a deep breath before opening them again,"After much thinking and much consideration, it has been decided that since you were so willing to go out of your way to protect my kingdom. I in return will help aid you in the search for your lost friends, if...… on .....your..... end ....you...… help.... aid me..... and...… my...… kingdom in the upcoming battle against our mortal enemy,The King of The Trolls: Bular The Butcher and his army of allies', she formally (but excruciatingly) offered.
This sudden and surprising offer that their princess just made caused all of the toads, even Toadsworth himself (but except Toad, who was actually pretty happy that his friend was offered such an important role), to gasp in shock and surprise.
Peach was surprised herself that she was actually even thinking about going through with this incredibly risky and strange plan, but she tried her best to remind herself that she had no other option but to go through with this.
So her and all of the toads turn towards the straw-hatted boy to see what his answer was, preparing themselves to see if he would refuse out of anger or not.
But to their surprise he didn't refuse, instead his face lit up and smiled brightly as he then suddenly grabbed Peach by both of her arms and pulled her up close to him, almost to the point where their noses touched.
"DO YOU REALLY MEAN?! YOU'LL HELP ME FIND MY FRIENDS"?!, he loudly asked, shaking her back and forth excitedly by the arms.
Peach, whose face was bright red from being so close to his, quickly and nervously nodded her head in response as she was being shaken.
And at that note, Luffy let go of her arms and began hugging her tightly,"HA HA THANK YOU PRINCESS, YOU THE BEST, HA HA"!, and started laughing in victory knowing that she was going to help him.
All of the other Toads began to clap and celebrate the new alliance that their princess had just formed with their strong alli.
And the sight of the two people he most admired getting along and hugging it out made Toads heart flutter and skip a beat.
Although the site wasn't fully how he thought it was at least not for everyone…..
Luffy may have been enjoying the hug he was giving her but the Princess felt as if she was Being squished and was having a hard time breathing.
(In her head)" I guess personal space isn't something they know about where he's from",She uncomfortably indoors the tight hug.
She wanted to punch him in the face and shut him off, but she didn't want to set a violent example in front of her subjects, especially if a person involved in a violent example just helped save their Kingdom.
So out of the necessary kindness of her heart she gently patted him on the back not really giving him a hug back but not exactly looking as if she was rejecting it either.
And unfortunately for her not a lot of the Toads noticed how uncomfortable she was, only that now the new straw had a stranger who would be staying to help them so they were a little more focused on that than her.
The only person who was able to notice this was toadsworth who knew when the princess was feeling uncomfortable or not.
And though he wanted to help her out he figured since she was the one who made the offer to him she's going to have to be the one to deal with the aftermath of it.
Though after a few moments dealing with it Peach was just about done with the hug and poked Luffy in his back,"Um…..Straw hat, can you let me go so that I could be able to breathe".
After hearing that Luffy happily obliged,"Oh yeah sure", quickly letting her go and taking a step back, giving the princess some air, but she could tell that he was still jumpy with excitement.
Once she finally had some space and time to catch her breath, she fixed herself up ,again, she quickly took a step away from him, just so that she wouldn't get caught in another bear hug before calmly saying,"Yes, me and my subjects are willing to do our best to help aid you in find you (quietly under her breath), probably dead finds. But only under the condition that you give me your aid on my journey to one of the allied kingdoms".
She saw that Luffy was about to say something, she rose a hand to stop him,"And before you say anything, yes on the we can ask around to see if anyone had seen you friends", she then lowered down and held out her hand for a mutual interest kind of hand shake, preferring that over another hug,"Do we have a deal".
Luffy stared at her hand for a few seconds before suddenly growing a wide and determined grin across his face as he took her hand and shook it a little harder than she expected, startling her a tiny bit," Yup"!,Luffy said, now with a huge goofy smile growing across his face.
And with that The alliance between the Mushroom Kingdom and the straw hat Pirates has officially been formed.
The crowds of mushroom toads went wild and erupted in cheers and claps of celebration sitting at the newly formed alliance.
Toad and Bernie both clapped and whistled for Luffy,"YEAH YOU GO LUFFY", Toad shouted out towards the two.
The princess let go of movie's hand and wiped it off on her dress before turning to look around at the mushroom crowd that surrounded her, Bring that there was damage to their beautiful kingdom she knew that they were going to have to get started on WE building and fixing up all the damages,"ALRIGHT MY TOADS, IT FILLS ME WITH GREAT JOY TO SEE THAT YOU ARE ALL SAFE AFTER THE ATTACK FROM THE KOOPA EMPIRE, AND NOW THAT HAVE SUCCESSFULLY FOUGHT OFF THE ENEMY FOR THE TIME BEING, WE MUST NOW WORK TO REBUILD AND REINFORCE OUR KINGDOM FOR THE UPCOMING BATTLE THAT AWAIT US! AS OF RIGHT NO YOU FIRST PRIORITY IS TO FOCUS ON FIXING UP ALL OF THE DAMAGE AND HELPING OUT ANY TOADS THAT WERE HURT IN THE ATTACK! THE ROYAL COUNCIL AND MYSELF WILL HANDLE SOME LAST MINUTE AFFAIRS IN ORDER TO PREPARE FOR MY DEPARTURE TOMORROW, THAT WILL BE ALL"!, she then nods her head towards her subjects, signaling for them to go and get started, before turning to look back at Luffy.
The Toads happily obliged, bowing their heads back towards their princess before they sall started quickly walking off in different directions.
Well all except Toad, who was about to make his way towards Luffy when he suddenly felt something grab his arm.
Ther turn to see that it was his friend Bernie,"Where are you going Toad, the hospitals over, come on so we can go get you patched up", he said, pointing towards one of the hospital buildings in the Kingdom.
"But I want to go with Luf", Toad was about to plead when Bernie suddenly held up a hand to stop him from continuing that sentence.
"Toad please don't start arguing with me on this one, you've got injuries everywhere and you were just a hostage not thirty minutes ago. You need treatment and you are not going anywhere else until you get it", and when Toad was about to speak up and say something else, Bernie hit him with his stare, which was a secret weapon that he had to use on some customers who liked to get out of line with him,"And I dare you to argue with me on this. You can see your friend once you're all patched".
And with that Toad quickly shut his mouth and pouted, which made Bernie smile, as he was pulled by the arm towards the hospital, but not before shooting one last glance towards Luffy, who was standing behind the princess.
Peach then grew a slice grin as she turned towards Luffy and said,"Okay, now that this situation has been handled, let's see what you're made of", she then turned away from him and started walking towards the castle, but not before Looking towards Toads and signaling him to join them,"Come along Toadsworth, we'll need you for this as well".
Toadsworth, hearing this, nods and starts walking up next to her.
Luffy, not confused about what the princess was doing, runs after her until he is up to her right side, "Soooo are we gonna go now?" Luffy asked.
Without turning to look at him Peach clarifies"No not yet, if you remember I said we were going to see what you're made of.", as she continues to walk towards the castle
"Well I'm made'a rubber obviously", he Jokinggoofily as he grabbed one of his cheeks and stretched it out.
While Toadsworth thought it was funny enough to start chuckling, Peach was more than unimpressed, rolling her eyes in annoyance.
With his new friend going out of view as they walked further apart from each other, Toad lowered his head in sadness as he walked with Bernie towards their hospital.
(In Peach's Castle)
Luffy continued following Peach and Toadworth's throughout the halls of her castle, this time getting a better chance Actually admiring inside of it, without being chased at least.
This however did cause him to get a little more distracted from everything that was inside of it more than he needed to be.
There would be times where he stopped to look at one of the paintings on the wall for a little too long or wander off to different rooms of the castle.
He'd been gone for such long periods of time that the princess and toadsworth quite a few times had to go off looking for him.
Much to say the princess's tolerance of him wasn't exactly getting stronger every time she found out he walked off, and there was actually starting to get worse when she found him every time.
Toadsworth, though fond of the young straw hat, wouldn't have been so annoyed with him if he hadn't been asking him different types of random questions every few minutes.
"Hey what's this painting on the wall mean"?
"Why's everything here so pink"?
"Ya guys got more food in here"?
"Aren't we going to go find my friends"?
"Is there a good place here to take a nap"?
Over and over again the questions came And went out of his mouth as if he was just breathing out useless questions at that.
To make things worse Toadsworth had to show the utmost form of hospitality to visitors so he had no other choice but to answer these questions.
Was almost as if he was babysitting a man sized child at that.
The same couldn't be said for the princess. Whenever he tried to ask her any question she would simply either ignore him or tell him that she would answer them later which was basically another way of saying " I don't care enough to answer them".
The agreement was that she would work with him not to befriend him or even really conversate with him at all unless it was for something important.
However it wasn't really one to take the hint that she wasn't interested in any conversation if anything he was pretty blunt During the fact that he continuously tried getting her attention.
He continuously wandered off around the castle, which in return made them continuously have to look around in order to find him.
And guess what it irritated her even further, Almost to the point where Toadsworth had to step in and make sure that she kept her composure so that she wouldn't tear him limb from limb, for that wasn't how a princess should behave.
But oh she was starting to wish that it was.
Unfortunately for her but fortunately for Luffy, she didn't know of a certain Navigator that knew all too well how to get him back in line whenever he started to act out of line, otherwise he wasn't really getting the point.
Thankfully after about 20 minutes of chasing him around and dealing with his wandering, the princess and Toadsworth were finally able to get Luffy to come with them.
Though while on their way to the back entrance of the castle toadsworth couldn't help but wonder one thing.
What was the princess doing making that kind of deal with an almost complete stranger at a time like this in a life or death situation like this.
She as basically putting the safety of not just their kingdom and their people, but the other kingdom's safety in the hands
He had to know why.
He then turned towards Peach,"Your highness if I may ", he politely asked for her attention.
Peach turned towards him and nodded.
Before he said anything though he turned to look to see if Lucy could hear them thankfully however he was still a little distracted with the pains on the wall and was a little ways behind them so he wouldn't be able to hear.
though just in case told worth lean towards the princess and whispered," What in the world are you thinking putting the safety of our kingdom in the hands of this young man".
Peach, knowing what was about to come next, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath before opening them up and looking at him," Toadsworth look I know how you feel and I completely understand why you feel this way, believe me I'm not any happier about this decision then you are either. But you can't sit here and tell me that I should have just let this Trump card for our kingdom just walk out of our hands', she quietly explained to him while pointing towards Luffy.
Of course my lady I completely understand but you can accept me to accept the fact that we're giving such a high responsibility to an obviously "specially needed person", Toadsworth quietly argued.
Peach quickly tilted her head to the side," I know he's not exactly the most competent person here (If at all really) but it would be fairly useful to have someone strong like him on our side especially to show off the rest of the royals at the meeting".
Toadsworth then pointed towards Luffy," Your highness he has the education of an 8-year-old".
"That may be true but he's well adapted to his own fighting style that could presume to be helpful to us. For God's sake he was easily able to overpower Koopa troopa when have you ever seen anyone in the Mushroom Kingdom be capable of that", she pointed out.
Toadsworth then pointed out into the distance," fighting off a handful of Koopas is one thing but fighting off the Troll Army is something entirely different and much too difficult a responsibility to leave in the hands of this young boy that we have. Now I'm not saying that I do not understand your judgment, if anything I think your judgment is brilliant but perhaps we could think of a better way to use his vitality rather than simply throwing him out to the wolv-".
Peach suddenly held her hand up to stop him from continuing,' First off Toadsworth I'm not simply throwing him out there to help fight the upcoming battle. Do you think I trust him that much? He's far too much of a liability and irresponsible to allow out in the battlefield. All I'm simply doing is bringing him along as extra muscle in case we run into any obstacles and in case the other kingdoms think we're too weak to work with we can use him as a way of bargaining with them Purpose is nothing more and nothing less than that".
A wave of relief fielded toadsworth's heart, what was he thinking he knew his princess knew better than to make that kind of drastic decision at least not without thinking it through.
He blew a sigh of relief but then realized one thing that suddenly came to mind,"What about the missing friends that he was raving on about? Surely you aren't intending on going back on your word to find them because if you are then I strongly advise against that intent. You gave him your word and believe me you are not to go against it, that is not the way I raised you".
Peach looked appalled that her own father figure would think that she would be capable of something so heartless,"What the no of course I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do the best that I can to help him find his friends believe me I don't want him in this Kingdom any longer than he needs to be.Anything I'm hoping that we find his friends so that we can make that happen",She would never do anything like that even if it was to someone that she didn't like, it be far too cruel to do to anyone.
But she also knew that she had to prepare herself and him to quite possibly Realize that his friends may be lost in that they may not ever find them.
And if that time came she had to make sure to handle it correctly so that it doesn't cause any issues for them later.
She stared down at Toadsworth with a determined look in her eye," Don't worry I'll be sure to handle that correctly when the time is right, I promise".
Toads were scared at her for a few moments not sure whether or not his princess was being truthful or not but he really had no way of telling and did not wish to doubt her either.
So he simply closed his eyes and nodded to her,"All right princess I trust you", he said as he started turning to continue forward.
That last thing he did sort of brought Peach's mood down a tiny bit, Causing her to frown and look down at the ground.
It saddened her that her own father figure didn't really trust the decision she had to make at that moment not knowing if he understood just how much pressure she was under to make sure that the Kingdom remained safe.
The last thing she wanted to do was disappoint him but she knew that she had no other options but to go along with this plan and this plan was the only way that could save their Kingdom.
So she quickly snapped herself out of it and began to look forward and continue towards their destination.
Luckily for them they had just about made it to the back entrance of the castle, Giving Peach a tiny bit of relief knowing that they won't have to keep wondering if he's going to wander throughout the castle or not.
Luffy, who was about to do just that, stopped himself when he saw the giant doors that led to the back entrance of the castle.
Caught his attention as he began to instead follow the two towards the two open doors rather than away from them
Once she was in front of them Peach pushed open both the doors leading to what looked like a back porch of some sort.
Luffy began to follow Peach and Toadsworth as they walked outside to see, to Luff's surprise, a huge waterfall that poured and descended from behind the castle.
Luffy did remember seeing a pawn on the outside of the castle entrance, guess that's where the water was coming from.
Once they stepped outside the three continued until they were on top of the balcony that hung outside of the castle.
.A moment or two have gone by before the castle section suddenly broke off from the castle and began to floatTowards the waterfall.
Luffy about the cover himself up from his weakness to water When suddenly the waterfall began to split into and break away from itself creating an opening for them to float right through.
A result of this gave way to a beautiful sight of a Huge heart-shaped leg sitting at the back of the castle that Luffy couldn't help but be mesmerized by.
The castle section continued to move towards the center of the lake as Luffy looked down upon it.
And judging by its more than familiar smell, he could tell it was sea water.
Even though one of his main weaknesses were right below him, he remained calm and excited for what the princess had in store for him.
He knew what water would do to him, so he was more than careful on how to handle himself around it.
"If you can finish this next part successfully, you're coming with me, understand"?, Peach said as she stepped forward next to him.
Luffy, confused with the order, turned to her,"Finish what?" He asked.
Peach used her eyes to motion his attention back towards the lake, which he happily obliged to.
Though once he did, his eyes went wide
A giant block begins to emerge from the water and stands in front of them.
(forgot to add toadsworth in the image so just pretend he's there)
The trio watched as the box then began to split into pieces, separating blocks and other objects, and in turn, it became a training ground with floating blocks, robot flowers, spikes, bullets, and firewalls. Finally, a flagpole with light pink cloth on top appeared next to Luffy in the balcony where he floats in the middle of a lake. So basically, the block opens, the Training Course appears, and is filled with what looks to be many replicas of objects that might have appeared in a game or two.
Luffy was amazed.
Toadsworth cleared his throat as he stepped forward,"Mr straw hat Luffy, may I present to you, our kingdom's royal training course! It is used for the sole purpose of keeping all of the residents active and in shape in case of an emergency! But for today, it will be used to see how you are against obstacle courses", he explained.
"Wow", Luffy said in amazement.
Peach then grinned as she then stepped forward.
"And if you can finish this obstacle course efficiently and without getting knocked off and falling into the water, you're coming with me. Now watch and learn" she said, before running off.
Jumping over a small gap and spikes, the princess jumped onto a couple of blocks of floating mid-air before performing a perfect mid-air backflip. She then jumped over a couple of mechanized Piranha Plants, running towards several Fire bars. She managed to slip under them and avoid another mechanized Piranha Plant. Flying through the air, the princess landed so she could run and perform a perfect flying kick to a weird cut-out of some sort of spiky red headed turtle monster (Luffy didn't really get a good look at it and he honestly didn't care enough to get one), destroying it. Once she landed, the block turned red and fell rapidly. As she ran, missiles were pointing in her direction and fired. Seeing this, Peach narrowed her eyes in determination and smirked. Hoping off the last black, she jumped off the missiles one by one until she jumped out to grab the flag pole. Spinning around a couple of times, she let go and used her dress as a parachute to land on the ground safely. Dusting her gloves off, she panted slowly as she looked at the shocked face of an amazed Luffy.
"Wow, That was amazing, and even in a dress you can do all that too"?Luffy praised.
Although Toadsworth didn't say anything, he did show her a look of pride, causing her to quickly and briefly smile at him, that was all the praise she needed from him.
She then to Luffy and motion him to the course,"Alright your turn Straw hat, but don't worry, if its too much for you, ill give you a power up just to give you a bit of a boost", she offered.
Luffy shot her with a confused look.
What the hell was she talking about?
Power ups, where they like this world's devil fruits?
If that's the case then Luffy can't accept any of them, otherwise he'll die.
Peach notice the confused look on his face and decided to show him what she was talking about
She then points above them, revealing a floating yellow box with one white question mark on each side, and jumps up and hits it which produces a small red mushroom in her hand.
(Warning ahead: I'm going to add a rule or two to this next explanation just because it plays into the story later so don't trip out if its not what you know from the games)
"This is one of the many power-ups of our world, the super mushroom. It allows any person who uses it to grow to a bigger size, thus making them heavier and harder to launch, while also increasing their run and fall speed. There are other powerups like this one that give us different kinds of special abilities and powers alike. You can find different and random ones from question mark boxes just like this one. But be warned, once you get hit you automatically lose the power, and never use more than one, it's power can be unstable", Peach carefully explained, before holding out the mushroom to Luffy.
Unfortunately for her, Luffy wasn't really listening much to her explanation (if at all really), all he heard coming out of her mouth was,"Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah".
The only thing he really did here from it was that it was meant to make him stronger, and if you knew Luffy, you'd know that strength wasn't really much of a problem for him.
So he did what any reasonable person person in his shoes would've done, he put hand up and gentilly pushed the mushroom in Peach's hand away from him,"Na I'm good, I'm pretty strong myself", Luffy brags as he then jumps up and breaks a brick floating above him with a punch,"So I won't need one".
Peach rose a brow to this…..
Looks like someone was quite overconfident in their skills and ability weren't they.
"Oh well, so I see you think that you can go through this course without using a single power up", she asked curiously.
Luffy responded by simply nodding his head.
"Well then if that's the case then you'll have no problem Crossing this entire obstacle course without getting hit or so much as messing up once",Be slightly smugly challenge I wanted to see just how good he thinks he is," And you can't use any power-ups and you only have one try to do so of you fail the test".
Toadsworth nodded his head in agreement," Oh yes I do believe that's very fai- wait what"?, She asked soon realized what the princess was suggesting.
Luffy turned to Peach,"Only one shot", he asked.
Peach nodded her head," Yes only one,And I don't think there's any point in me giving you a rundown of the course,that's not a problem for you is it right",She answered in confirmation.
Luffy simply shook his shoulders and punched his fist into one hand as he grew a determined grin on his face,"All right bet, I got this No problemo", He happily obliged as he started walking towards the start of the course.
Toadsworth stepped up in between the two,"Now hold on to a moment your highness, you know that isn't fair on him", he objected.
Peach then looked at him with a pretentious shocked expression,"Well now how is that not fair, I got it on my first try and since he's so confident I picked success why not up the stakes a tiny bit".
"But my princess, he wasn't raised here like you were, that's an unfair advantage", he brought up, Trying to get her to see how much of a bad idea this was,"And the boy is obviously not in his right mind, there's no possible way he could be focused enough to be able to finish this course".
Peach turns to him with a serious look on her face."Toadsworth this is not up for discussion, we are in a time crunch here and if we do not prepare him for the journey ahead we will surely struggle and fail. If he cannot measure up to my expectations and he will not be allow the company that is the condition", She said sternly before turning to look back at Luffy.
Toadsworth wasn't willing to drop this though stepping forward to plead with her,"My princess if you would jus-".
Suddenly he felt Someone his shoulder, he turned to see that it was Luffy,"Hey it's alright, Old guy I got this", Luffy said confidently with a smile.
Toadsworth was about to say something else but once he saw the determined look on the young straw hats face and the serious look of his princess's face, he just couldn't bring it in himself to say anything more.
So he quietly lowered his head and took a step back letting everything proceed as it was.
Though the site was saddening for her Peach knew what she had to do and knew that this had to be done no matter what.
So she turned to face Luffy and said,"And now, you can jump".
And with that Luffy turned around, got into a running stance, and took a deep breath before running off. As he jumps over the same gaps and spikes Using his stretching limbs unlike Peach did before him, he jumps over one of the mechanized piranha plants before grabbing the next one by its neck and tearing it out of the pipe and using it as sort of a hammer to beat down the third one so that it would get stuck in the pipe. He then landed on the ground and opened the mechanized plant's mouth and threw it at one of the fire bars, basically using it to trap it in place as he went underneath it just as Peach had done. He then jumped down and proceeded to Punch and break through some of the brick wall standing before him before jumping up and Spotting the cut out of the strange red-headed Turtle creature cut out from earlier. Luffy ,seeing this, starts twists his arm around as he stretches it behind him,"NOW GUM GUM...."!!! (which causes massively increasing the velocity of the punch as twisting the arm stretches the arm even further without having to draw it back any longer which also saves the amount of time the kick-back takes.) and hits close range right through the turtle monster cut-out,"RIFLE"!!!!!!!!!!!! shattering it to pieces. He then landed on and started running on the same yellow blocks that turned red. He then grew a determined grin on his face as he saw the air-filled missiles fire at him. He stretched his arms out to grab each of the missiles as he jumped on each of the missiles before smacking face first on the flag pole as he slowly slid down to the ground. After a couple seconds of lying there he hopped up and stood in a victory stance as Luffy was met with a shocked Princess Peach and a pleased Toadsworth.
Luffy shot them with a goofy smile,"So how was that"?, He asked innocently as he then started to walk up towards them.
A moment or two of Silence passed by before toadsworth suddenly started clapping," Well done Master Straw Hat Luffy splendid show jolly good splendid show", he loudly applauded.
Plotting from the old mushroom made Luffy smile goofully as he then stepped forward and patted him on the head.
It was clear that the old mushroom was more than proud of the young lad for being able to pass through the training course as quickly and as easily as he did.
The princess however Didn't actually have that same prideful feeling for the Young pirate as her advisor did.
If anything she was a little more shocked that he was able to complete it at all at least in one go.
She just stood there simply staring at the course and him wide-eyed in shock at what she had just witnessed with her own two blue eyes.
(In her mind)"He did it….", She blankly thought,"He actually did it".
The sentence repeated in her head like a broken track record only repeating itself constantly.
Don't get her wrong she was more than pleased that the fact that he was able to clear it's showing that he can handle any obstacles in his way, she just didn't think he would get the hang of it so fast.
To be honest she wasn't just going to let him only try once before giving up on him,.....Well okay maybe after about 5 or 6 times she would have given up on him maybe seven or eight if she was really feeling patient and believing.
Hell, due to just meeting him, she had a feeling that if she really was forced to, she would have had to wait all night before you had possibly gotten most of the training course down.
But to see him complete it so quickly and so effortlessly was a bit of a surprise, even for her.
She staring at him for a few more moments until something snapped her back to reality and she realized that the both of them were watching her waiting for her next answer
"So princess how'd I do",Luffy asked hopefully.
Peach sword of struggle to answer that question right off the bat.
Well that was until toadsworth shot her a cocky that said "Well princess aren't you going to answer" look, Snapping her out of her hesitation, but not before she shot him back with a "I know what I'm doing towards worth" look
"Well um... now that it's confirmed that you can handle yourself with obstacles, we have to prepare for the long journey ahead of us if...we're going to find your friends, Straw hat", she said in her best congratulatory tone she could use.
With that final bit of confirmation, Luffy almost instantly started hollowing as he began hopping up and down around the training course and dodging most of the attacks and obstacles flawlessly in Victory.
With it now being confirmed that the princess would be helping him, Could finally focus on looking for Zoro and Vanellope wherever they may be
Peach and toadsworth watched him from the balcony as he went jumping around the entire obstacle course as if it were some sort of playground to him.
The site made towels worth starting to chuckle a tiny bit,"Now that is a young manThat is full of life and energy. And that is exactly what we'll need if we wish to save our kingdom", He said admiringly as he slowly turned to the princess with a warming smile.
Peach herself shot him back with a warm smile at home but it quickly faded us she then stared not at Luffy but out into the distance which he happened to be in front of.
It wasn't that she wasn't happy about helping the young pirate with his troubles as much as how this would affect her mission of gaining the alliance later on down the line .
Though her plan is to use Luffy as a means of maybe showing off some of the strength Mushroom Kingdom might have if they happen to find his friends before she can make that happen, who knows what he might decide to do once they've crossed that bridge.
It definitely was something that had her worried but she knew that it was something she would have to Worry about when the time came right to.
She snapped herself out of her trance and stepped forward to call out to Luffy,"All right Straw Hat come on we have a mission to plan for"!
Luffy , hearing her call out to him, turned back to them preparing to jump on over back on the Balcony, when he suddenly stopped to turn back to look at the sun setting in the distance in his mind thinking," Zoro, Vanellope don't you worry I'm on my way to come find you guys, stay safe till then".
"Straw hat"!Peach called out to him yet again.
Luffy clothes the size before turning back and began jumping off towards them, in order to prepare for what comes next.
But unbeknownst to Luffy, it's going to be a far harder Journey than he ever would have expected
(End of chapter)
Hello everyone yes I know it has been quite some times since the last chapter but as I remind you I also do have a life of my own and I have to get a lot of things done in real life as much as I don't want to and to be honest I kind of like taking my time in these chapters just so I can make sure I put the right amount of love and decency into each one if I just rush the production of making each one by week by week it'll only really make it look bad in the last thing I want is to put out bad work for everyone to read the best thing I can do right now is take my time and make sure everything's all good so that each chapter is worthwhile some chapters I might be able to get out faster than the others otherwise this is kind of going to be the new Norm at least until I get more people to help me work on this but just as a reminder I mainly doing this for fun and because I believe I can make a good story but that doesn't mean I don't think this is important and believe me this journey is far from over so keep tuned for the next chapter
and don't worry it's already in its early phases of production it might be a while though so prepare for the wait