One Emperor Down

"Do you know haki" Percy asked as they were sailing on towards Chop Stick Island

"I do" Aokiji confirmed.

"How much? Do you know advanced techniques or are you still learning the basics?"

"I know enough" the future admiral said as he laid on the battleship

"Well, your going to show me soon" Percy said as he stared out at the sea.

Orange frowned and pulled Percy aside,

"Percy, why are you so nice to him?" she asked in a low voice.

"Because, he is strong." Percy responded. "Can't you feel it?"

"A little" she admitted, "I think he's about as strong as I am"

"No, he's stronger" Percy said definitively. When she was about to protest he explained, "he ate the logia ice- ice fruit making him the ice man. That's one of the most dangerous fruits to wield on the seas."

"But I can manipulate pain..." she started

"He can freeze you before you start activating your ability" Percy said.

"Fine, he's stronger than me. That doesn't explain why you are so nice to him though. If anyone else gave you that kind of answer, you would have torn his ass a new one or would have given him manual labor as punishment. Instead, you ignore his attitude. Why?"

"Because Orange" Percy said in a lower voice, "he's strong. Therefore, he is allowed to get away with things I would not normally tolerate with. Everyone is allowed to do anything around me as long as they are strong enough to back up their actions. That is my justice."

"Justice this, justice that. You are starting to sound like the other admirals" Orange said as she rolled her eyes at Percy.

"See, if you were someone else, I would have made you be an errand boy for rolling your eyes at your superior officer. But because you are in fact strong, I'll allow it" Percy said as he smiled.

"Haha" Orange said as she tried to put some pep back into her step, "you wish you could force me to do anything"

[you have no idea] Percy said as he walked away not answering the unspoken question.

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"Orange, you will provide back-up in case of an emergency" Percy said as he looked around the makeshift conference room. Seated there were 5 vice admirals and 2 rear admirals. He thought these numbers would be satisfactory to take down an emperor plus any surprise guests should someone appear.

"Is Orange going to be the only one?" vice admiral Take asked as he looked at Percy's secon-in-command.

"Yes. We do not expect anyone else to interfere with this military operation. We need all hands on deck to arrest the emperor."

"I thought admirals fight alone?" Aokiji asked as he started at Percy.

"Normally that's because the other vice admirals and other officers are off trying to apprehend other cadre members while I'm engaging the captain. But since it's just Attun, all hands on deck."

"Oh..." Aokiji said, "I thought you wanted the credit"

"For what?" Percy scoffed "to be fleet admiral, no thank you. That job sounds terrible if you ask me. Controlling every single marine, plus Garp. HAHAHAHAHA."

The other vice admirals and rear admirals laughed at Percy's joke.

"I have no pride at stake here Aokiji. All that matters is that this is the best opportunity we have to arrest one of the most dangerous criminals in history right now. That's all. The rest will come naturally with our success."

The other officers nodded, they were too busy worrying about surviving the upcoming battle to care about accommodations at the moment.

"I see" Aokiji said in understanding, "then what do I do?"

"You will fight with us" vice admiral Arlene said as she motioned to Aokiji. "We need your ability to freeze the ocean so that we can fight on solid ground and prevent Attun from escaping."

"That's right" rear admiral Yamakaji said. "Some of us have devil fruits and if Attun fights in the water, it will dramatically cut down our fighting force."

"Okay ladies and gentlemen" Percy said to gather everyone's attention. "Here's the plan."

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Attun finally had some alone time. It's been almost 4 years since his crushing defeat at the hands of Kaidou and the disbandment of his crew. He recalled vividly what happened next. He swam away as fast as possible for a day and a half before resurfacing. He was beyond tired and needed time to recover properly. In order not to arouse suspicion, he found an abandoned island and rested there for a year. When he regained his strength, he sought to reclaim his former glory and tried to create the trident pirates once again.

It wasn't happening. After the world's newspaper reported what happened to him and how he abandoned his crew, no pirate was willing to join Attun. He was running out of options. Every time he forced someone to join, they escaped the first opportunity they found leaving him crewless once again.

[There needs to be a better option] Attun thought as he swam from island to island. Finally, after months of searching, he thought he found it. There, a primitive tribe of humans. Attun thought that his best option would be to make himself appear like a god so that they will worship him and provide him with everything he needs, including manpower.

His scheme worked at first, he was treated like a god, but he never realized how much they worshipped him. At first, they only asked simple questions and asked for assistance with things like fishing or catching enough prey for their village. Attun was more than happy to do this for them since he needed them. His transformation into a leviathan and subsequent roar was enough to make any predator faint, let alone animals such as deer and rabbits.

What happened next was unexpected, the villagers started to rely on him; a little too much. They kept requesting Attun to grant their every wish. Day after day, week after week Attun tried to convince them to sail with him, he even one time ordered them sail. In the end however, the villagers were fine living on their little island and so Attun set out again,

[experiment failed] he thought to himself as the villagers were pleading for him to stay, [I need a vacation].

Attun found the next deserted island and decided to take a month off from conquering the world to relax and gather his thoughts.

He was lazing around when he felt it. His battle instincts were screaming at him to move.

Attun instantly dashed away, just in time to see a dark spear hit just where he was sitting. Attun looked up furiously at the wielder and... his brain stopped.

There, standing 50ft. away was Kurosai, admiral of the marines and behind him were hundreds of men and women. Kurosai had a wide grin on his face as he stared at the once prominent emperor,

"It seems like vacation didn't dull your senses. Good for you" Percy said as darkness seeped from his body.

"Kurosai" Attun said in a heavy voice.

[Of all people. It had to be him].

It was no secret in the pirate world that Kurosai had the ability to negate any devil fruit. He was the worst match-up for any devil fruit user.

"Why are you here?" Attun asked..

"Isn't it obvious" Percy said and stuck his hand out.

[Kurouzu] he thought as everything within sight started to be attracted to Percy's outstretched hand.

Attun coated his body in haki and started to resist the pull. He knew the moment he touched the admiral, it was over. He would lose his strength and his powers.

"Like I haven't see this trick a million times" Percy said as he used dark travel to move throughout the darkness that was quickly covering the battlefield. He reappeared behind Attun and pressed his hand on the emperor's neck.

Attun felt the strength leave his body. It was like being surrounded by sea stone. He could barely maintain his haki, but for sure his devil fruit was out of the question for now.

Percy smiled and slammed the emperor into the ground. Attun spit out blood as he had no protection to the attack. Percy did this a couple more times before he thought it would be a good lesson for Aokiji to learn how to apprehend an emperor.

"Aokiji. Come here and freeze Attun"

"Yes sir" the future admiral said as he rushed forward. He started to turn into ice and nodded his head as Percy let go of Attun. He could not hold onto Attun while Aokiji turned him into an ice sculpture at the same time.

The split second difference was all it took for Attun to find an opportunity and he coated his leg with haki before kicking Aokiji away. The ice man flew back and crumpled into pieces of ice before reforming a second later.

Attun took that lapse in judgement to jump into the water and shift into his zoan form.

"Sh*t" Take said as he stared at the growing monster.

"It's never easy" Arlene said as she started to shift into a mountain lion.

"Sorry admiral" Aokiji said as he appeared next to Percy.

"I never expected that we would arrest him that faster either. He isn't an emperor of the sea for nothing." Percy responded. "Now, go freeze the sea and remember the battleplan."

"Ice age" Aokiji yelled as ice formed on his hand and shot to the ocean. It started to freeze the surrounding seas around the island and Attun was startled. He could no longer escape.

[Dammit] he thought as he glared hatefully at the logia user.

[All crush] Percy thought as a black wave rushed out of the darkness and started to head towards Attun.

Everything it touched was being crushed under the sheer pressure exuded from the darkness. Normally the attack would be enough to crush the ice age, but Aokiji was constantly resupplying it with ice.

"Roar of Kings" Attun yelled and imbued his attack with haki.

The two attacks met and the sound attack dispersed the incoming darkness.

"Interesting" Percy thought as he looked at the leviathan.

"Artillery" Take yelled as he started to turn nearby rocks into cannons. Percy remembered that Take ate the ute-ute no mi turning him into a gun man. He can make anything into a gun.

Attun looked at the attacking mountain lion and the artillery fire and scoffed,

[ants] he thought as he summoned a large tidal wave to wash the marines away.

"How about this!" Attun yelled as he sent his attacked falling towards his opponents.

Percy merely looked at before sneering at Attun,

"you need to keep up with your intel, Mr. emperor" he said before he waved his hand in the air. The tidal wave stopped and shrank in front of everyone's eyes.

The marines expected this so they continued to attack. Regular soldiers kept firing missiles or bullets, while sword users trying to cut open flesh.

Attun noticed none of this as he gaped at Kurosai,

"H-how?" he asked.

"I'm strong" Percy responded. "Therefore, I can"

He then preceded to form a dark dome around Attun's body. The leviathan started to thrash around and try and break free, but was unable to. He even roared at the black smoke like last time, but no success.

"Sleep" Percy said as he started to absorb the oxygen from inside the black dome. It took a couple of minutes, but when he was finished, Percy opened it up to reveal Attun, passed out and barely breathing.

"Now Aokiji. Try again" Percy said as he beckoned the rear admiral over.

"Okay" Aokiji said as he stumbled forward. His strength plummeted because of much effort it took to maintain an ice covered ground, especially with Percy's ability to crush everything around it.

He walked forward and touched the emperor, a white mist covered Attun's body and a couple of seconds later, he was completely frozen.

"Good" Percy said as he sat on the ground.

"Someone call Kong. Tell him the good news. The rest of you, get ready, we're going home"