The Devil-Devil Club

It was pouring down rain on the ruins of a city. In the distance a large building was on fire, flames poured from the windows, and armed soldiers were trudging through the streets while tanks patrolled the streets. A man under an umbrella and in a commander’s uniform spoke through a megaphone, ensuring each soldier heard him.

“Stay vigilant men, we’re in one of The Devil-Devil Club’s Playgrounds! These places are littered with traps! And I’m not talking about some trap you’d put up to catch a squirrel! I’m talking bamboo sticks or 40 lbs balls covered with spears made of pipes and rebar, traps that shoot your feet off, and pits filled with crazed and rabid animals! This place is full of guerilla warfare booby traps!”

Then one of the young soldiers on the side of the Tank the commander was in, looked at his higher up, and said, “Sir, might I ask why we’re searching for...”

“Jake Law, but to understand that private, you’ll need to know about The Day Of Devils.” the troop’s leader put down the megaphone and put a cigarette in his mouth before lighting it, staring off into the distance as the end lit up.

“About 3 or 4 years ago, Devil Fruits, mystical and mysterious fruits found throughout the world that, when consumed, grant the eater a special super-human power, at the cost of the eater's ability to swim, and supposedly fictional creations of Eiichiro Oda, began to appear all over the world. What was thought to be just some otaku’s prank became the spark for World War 3, as each fruit granted powers to people across the globe... Because of this, each and every country declared war against each other. It didn’t matter who it was - if they had a Devil Fruit, they were killed. The Devil-Devil Club, a resistance group made from orphaned children both with and without Devil Fruit abilities, was born from the ashes of this war. This whole area used to be their base, and we’re only able to get in because we found the safe way in. That burning building used to be their headquarters, but by now they are all dead… except one.” The commander took one final puff of his cigarette before flicking it away, “And that is Jake Law, eater of the Op-Op Fruit and the Leader of The Devil-Devil Club.”

“Okay, so why did we attack The Devil-Devil Club and not someplace that we know has Devil Fruits?” the private asked, nervously glancing about as they passed several more bombed-out buildings.

“Because Devil Fruits have started to become a rarity now. Previously the body of the eater, when buried, would act as a seed and grow a tree, called a Devil Tree, that would later give a Devil Fruit. But as of late, the-”

He was cut off as several bloodcurdling screams rang out.

The private and commander alike looked to see several of the front line soldiers, their stumps gushing blood as their arms now lay on the ground in front of them.

“What happened?!” The commander yelled.

One of the now soldiers lucky enough to have avoided the attack shouted, “Jake Law! He appeared out of nowhere, cut their arms, off then vanished before most of us could even react!”

“What?!” The commander yelled before mumbling to himself, “That means… We’re in a ROOM, the Op-Op Fruit’s necessary technique! But I’ve never heard of the user appearing and vanishing without anyone noticing, or without the use of Shambles, and I haven’t heard of the Amputate technique actually harming the victim!”

“Amputate; Bonesaw and Emergency ROOM.” the voice of a young man echoed throughout the ruins. The Soldiers who were still able to fight glanced about in terror until they all looked up, spotting a young man with an athletic build, short black hair, tan-ish skin, and green eyes, wearing a black jacket, a white baseball cap with a few scorch marks that seemed to be in a spotted pattern, a black handkerchief scarf with the words [Surgeon of Death] on it, blue jeans, and black sneakers, sitting on the edge of a building. He was holding a katana in a wooden scabbard and was wearing a hiking backpack with a wooden box, marked by a slightly tattered flag with a demonic skull and crossbones and the words [Devil-Devil].

“Jake Law… How… HOW?!?!” The commander yelled, scrambling to pull a rifle from inside the tank.

‘These jarheads just copy the character’s from One Piece, The Devil-... I worked on adding custom Techniques to my arsenal. Amputate; Bonesaw is a lethal variation of Amputate that cuts like the original technique but harms the target and also drains me as much as making a bunch of ROOMs. That’s where Emergency ROOM comes in, a second ROOM I form with the original ROOM that’s about half the size of the first, but all it does is extremely enhances my speed and recovery rate. So I recover faster than I can drain myself even if I’m moving faster than the trained eye can see, it takes a while to set up though,’ Jake thought.

“FIRE!!!” The commander yelled and the tanks took aim and fired.

“Takt,” Jake said, swiping his hand to the side before the tank rounds abruptly turned 90 degrees and continued, this time flying away from Jake. “I’m sorry, were you doing something?”

“Y-You’re in trouble when the Elite Units get here!” the private yelled nervously, his knees knocking together in terror.

“Huh? You mean them?” Jake asked, pointing toward the end of the path, where the many deceased bodies of soldiers and the chunks of sliced apart tanks and planes laid. The soldiers stared in fear and shock before Jake spoke up again, returning their attention to him. “While you're at it, look what’s beyond those jarheads,” Jake said, and as soon as they did, they spotted 2 transparent domes that spanned the entire city. “For 2 years, since I formed The Devil-Devil Club, I’ve been slowly increasing the size of my ROOM until it covered every part of this city!.” Jake said before suddenly vanishing and reappearing in front of the soldiers. “There is one move of mine that spans as far as my ROOM could span, but I couldn’t control who it hurts so I never used it…” Jake clenched his fists, “But they’re all gone now… I’m the only one left… So there is no reason for me to not do it.”

Suddenly the 2nd inner dome vanished and Jake then put his hands together, intertwining his fingers together before saying, “Radiotherapy!”. Then then the air itself turned green, soldiers began falling over before vomiting blood and their bodies beginning to dissolve, ‘Radiotherapy, causes the current ROOM to release lethal amounts of radiation, to where an organic body’s internal organs will melt into goop just before the rest of the body disintegrates at the Cellular Level, although I can’t use it as a normal ROOM. I can’t use an Emergency ROOM either, which sucks given that it's extremely draining on me. But given how it spans the whole city… Hmm, I wonder how many jarheads I’ve killed in such a short time,’ Jake thought.

“Approximately 435 soldiers and counting.” said a monotone male voice, Jake turned to see an enormous man, standing around 689 cm tall, his hair was a black and tan skin, he wore a black jacket with grey paw-like prints and a white crosshair, a grey hat with black paw-like prints and bear ears, brown gloves, grey with brown spots, and black boots.

Jake gasped, taking several steps back and gripping his sword more tightly, his shock deactivating both Radiotherapy and ROOM. “Bartholomew Kuma?! B-but you’re-”

“Fake? Imaginary? I assure you I am real.” Kuma’s mouth dropped open as a glinting light appeared before a laser burst forth from his mouth that just barely missed Jake - but instead hit a soldier that wasn’t as dead as Jake thought, scattering pieces across the road. “That alone should be proof. As for why I’m here, well.... to put it simply you’re no longer needed in this world. Thus, I am here to send you somewhere else.”

“I’d like to see you try! ROOM!” Jake yelled, the faint bluish color of his ROOM forming a bubble around both him and Kuma, the latter of who took off his gloves to reveal he paws on his hands. Wary of the Tyrant’s hands, Jake kicked a rock at Kuma’s face, which he easily dodged, though it gave time for Jake to announce “Shambles!”

Kuma started moving as Jake’s body began to vanish into his own technique.

‘This might be dishonorable, but you’ll have to forgive me. When you use Shambles, there is a brief moment just after you vanish and begin to swap places with your target, that Space-Time and reality shatters and a rift between worlds opens for but a moment and you enter that point,’ Kuma thought as he brought up his palms, readying his pads. Jake vanished as Kuma swiped at the air and hit something… incorporeal, that momentarily broke reality and revealed Jake in a space between dimensions, seemingly frozen. “But if I were to use the Paw-Paw Fruit’s powers, you won’t end up where that rock is... You’ll enter a world where you’re needed, the world where the Devil Fruits had gone to… I was built to be an instrument of this war but then I found who I always was, through the acts of The Devil-Devil Club… I am Bartholomew Kuma…” Kuma smiles “A revolutionary like you! Goodbye and good luck!” Kuma said before his paws readied effect went off. There was a loud POP as reality fixed itself - and Jake was nowhere to be found.

It was a normal day in Ponyville. The Mane 6 was sitting at a cafe, enjoying the weather and the calm before the storm scheduled for later that day.

Twilight had a slim hourglass body and stood at 6'9, wearing a baby blue button-up shirt just barely concealing her C-cup bust. Her cutie mark was on her shoulders, a short skirt the same color as her eyes that does little to hide her plump bubble butt, black stockings, and black high heels.

Applejack, the tallest of the group standing at 7'1", had a very muscular body, her mane, and tail with both being tied off by red bands. Her attire is an open red plaid shirt showing off her EEE-cup bust, blue jean overalls hugging her body showing her toned curves and big thick flank, an old brown stetson hat resting atop her head, and light brown Cowgirl Boots.

Rainbow Dash, the second tallest standing at 6'11", had a slim athlete's body and was wearing a blue hoodie with yellow sleeves, zipped up to hide her DD-cup breasts, dark blue biker shorts showing off her toned legs and flank, and blue and black running shoes.

Pinkie, the second shortest standing at 6'6" with a slightly chubby yet curvy pear-shaped body. Her attire is a long-sleeved bright purple shirt with white rings on the sleeves and a cut in the middle showing the cleavage of her EEE-cup boobs, a pale violet skirt, knee-high blue and yellow ringed socks with pink strapped shoes.

Rarity, standing at 6'10" with a smooth curvy apple-shaped figure. Her attire was a ruffled light blue blouse barely concealing her FF-cup bust, a shin-length black skirt with a split showing off her legs and thick flank, thigh-high black lace stockings with black high heels, and some blue eye makeup on her already beautiful face.

Fluttershy was the shortest of the group, standing at 6'4" with a butter yellow coat, teal colored eyes, her normal long pink mane and tail, and her pegasus wings on her back. Her attire is a large green sweater covering her EE-Cup bust, blue jean pants that hug her wide shapely hips with a picture of her cutie mark on said hips, and a pair of brown sandals on her feet.

Twilight stretched in her seat before speaking, “I’m so happy for Shining and Cadence, their wedding was crazy but everything turned out alright… But right now, I think it’s time for some R&R.”

Rarity spoke as Twilight leaned back into her chair, “I agree, although I wish we could’ve stayed in Canterlot - I hear the hotels there are just divine!”

“You’d believe anything those magazines tell you,” Rainbow said while picking her nose.

“I believe it because it's true! And stop picking your nose, it’s unsanitary!” Rarity yelled before RD flicked a booger at her, causing her to scream and fall out of her chair just to dodge it.

Pinkie pouted and said, “I ain’t that happy about the wedding, that wedding was missing a cake, YOU CAN’T HAVE A PARTY WITHOUT CAKE!!!” Pinkie then spotted a crack in the air above the clouds.

“I was honestly hoping for some more changelings to show up, get a real exercise going!” Rainbow said while punching the air.

Fluttershy hid behind her mane when Rainbow’s punches started getting close to her before saying, “I’d rather we’d not solve things with violence…“

“Hey... Twilight…?” Pinkie said, only to be ignored as the crack in the sky grew and her friends’ conversation continued.

“I still can’t believe I didn’t see past Chrysalis’ illusion before I got captured, I didn’t even consider the possibility of Changelings!” Twilight said as she buried her face in her hands, ashamed.

“Twilight.” Pinkie said, reaching out to poke her friend’s shoulder, only to be ignored again as the crack in the sky grew even more.

“Don’t be hard on yourself, darling, Chrysalis even had Princess Celestia fooled.” Rarity said.

“Yeah, besides you found Princess Cadance after getting caught… Hold on, wouldn’t she be Queen Cadence now that she’s married?” Rainbow Dash said.

Pinkie suddenly grabbed Twilight’s ear and yelled into it, “TWILIGHT!!!”

“Gah! What is it Pinkie?!” Twilight yelled back, flinching as she rubbed her ear. Pinkie pointed upwards, finally drawing their attention to the crack in the sky as it then blew open and a fireball came hurtling through.

“A meteor?!” Rarity gasped though Fluttershy was quick to point out the odd shape - the fireball resembled a paw print. The paw-shaped projectile continued until it landed in the deeper parts of the Everfree Forest.

Rainbow Dash then huffed and said, “Let me guess Twi. You want us to wait until Celestia sends us a letter to go and check it out after her guards already search the place.”

“No, actually, I want to go and check it out,” Twilight said as she stood up, shocking her friends.

“Wait, really? You want to do something dangerous?” Applejack asked.

“Chrysalis was never caught and could still be out there, biding her time. If this meteor could hold something dangerous, we shouldn’t give Chrysalis any chances!” Twilight said.

“Alright, let’s go!” Rainbow yelled before getting pulled back into her seat by a hand gripping her hoodie.

“We still need to pay for our meal, Rainbow, and to do that we need to wait for the waiter to give us the bill,” Applejack said with a stern tone as she let go., Rainbow huffed and sunk in her chair, sinking further down when she noticed how busy the cafe was.

Deep in a clearing in Everfree Forest, the paw-shaped projectile touched a single blade of grass and popped open, revealing Jake and leaving a paw print shaped crater. A moment later, Jake’s eyes snapped open before he began glancing around, trying to take stock of where he landed.

“Where… Wait!” He took the hiking bag off his back and took off the box, “ROOM!” Jake swiftly made a small ROOM around him before picking up a stick - “Shambles!” - and suddenly the keyless wooden lock had swapped places with the stick in Jake’s hand. Jake yanked the stick out and opened the box, to which the contents made him sigh in relief, “Good, they’re all still here.” Jake said.

Inside the box were 3 odd fruits;

• A violet, spherical shaped fruit with a swirled stem sprouting out of the top, and with swirls that go in a curly "S" like-pattern along the skin of the fruit.
• A round orange fruit, the skin of the fruit composed of many flame-shaped components with swirl patterns on each one, and a swirled stem on the top.
• A cyan pear-shaped fruit with a swirled stem sprouting out of the top, and with swirls that go in a curly "S" like-pattern along the skin of the fruit.

And beside them, all was a book that was the size of an Oxford Dictionary with the words, [Big Book Of Devil Fruits] on the cover. Jake then heard a twig snap behind him, he closed the box and put the stick back, “Shambles.” the wooden lock and stick swapped places again, Jake put the box and backpack back on his back, “ROOM - Scan.” Jake greatly increased the size of the ROOM as he unsheathed his sword, the blade colored black with a distinct reddish-purple reverse wave Hamon (hardening line) down the entire length of the blade. Imbuing it with energy, he did a full 360 turn before sheathing his sword, though he didn’t let go just yet.

“I know you're there and what you're pretending to be. You can either come out now or die where you hide, your choice.” Jake said, his eyes narrowing as he gripped the hilt of his blade tighter. A second after he spoke, several plants, bugs, and even trees glowed green before changing into insectoid anthro ponies with horns and limbs with holes in them, cobweb hair, and transparent wings.

“Well… Aren’t you ugly as fuck” Jake said with a grossed out look on his face.

To Be Continued…