Pan starts backing away as the Longleg hybrid approaches him. With his sword bare, he attacks her, but she parries the first two blows and retaliates with three of her own, which Pan blocks.

"You ruined my revenge, boy! You hurt my family, you saved the Cat Burglar, the lying sniper and Vinsmoke, you kept me away from Mama and threw me off a cliff twice!"

She keeps attacking the young man, forcing him to remain on the defensive. "So, I am going to squeeze you until all your bodily fluids come out, and then I will drink them!"

Pan's face gets red as he blocks yet another strike. He infuses his sword with Armament and retaliates, but Smoothie blocks the attack easily, then she keeps taunting him. "I am going to enjoy sucking your man juices dry!"

Oh god, she is worse than Tashigi Pan thinks as he avoids more sword strikes. Suddenly, Smoothie stomps the deck hard, which makes her create a shockwave of water all around her and catch Pan by surprise, knocking him down.

He quickly retaliates with bullets, but she just hardens her body and blocks them all. Pan throws a grenade at her. "No matter what it takes, Smoothie, I won't let you kill any of my friends, especially not my nakama!"

"Oh, really? Don't think I will not get my hands on your seamen, boy!" Smoothie taunts as she jumps away from the grenade.

Pan looks at the unconscious Kalifa and nods. "That's sexual harassment!"

Smoothie is taken aback and blushes. "Oh, did I say something wrong? I am so sorry!"

Pan gets up and avoids the next sword strike, which damages the Queen Mama Chanter due to its strength. One of the Big Mom Pirates is about to open fire at Pan, but Smoothie glares at him. "No. This boy is all mine."

Then she blocks two of Pan's strikes and attacks with a flurry of slashes, one of which gets her opponent and draws blood.

Pan recovers fast and barely dodges the next strike, feeling the wind it generated brush his blond hair. Quickly he dashes at her and slashes her right under her midriff, drawing blood from her.

Then he winds her with a hard Thunderpunch, but she still is standing on her feet.

The tall lady retaliates with an overhead swing, but Pan avoids it by tilting his head backwards and jumps at her, performing three quick slashes. Smoothie blocks all of them and performs a thrust, but Pan rolls around her and gets behind her. He jumps and performs a spin attack counterclockwise, but Smoothie places her sword behind her and casually blocks it before turning with a mighty swing, which Pan barely parries.

Smoothie attacks twice with her mighty blade, but Pan jumps back and avoids the strikes, then jumps and performs a horizontal slash while in mid-air.

However, Smoothie jumps back and swings her blade just as gracefully, parrying Pan's attack.

Winking at him, with a coy smile, she retaliates with an aerian spin clockwise, which strikes Pan hard and sends him crashing through a wooden wall.

"You are one of the most fun opponents I ever fought. Shame you are so weak."

Pan struggles to get up as Smoothie strides towards him.

Quickly, he draws his bazooka and fires a rocket at her, but she catches it in mid-air and juices its fuel before absorbing it. However, Pan switches to the Sword of Truth again, aware now that his sidearms won't do much, and strikes her belly with a Sunlight Beam, sending her skidding backwards and allowing himself some breathing room.

"Whatever happens, I will not let you get the Straw Hats!" Pan declares with pride.

Smoothie narrows her eyes. "Change of plans. I will be satisfied if I just get you, outsider... remind me your name, it was on a bounty poster."

"The name is Pan. And I know you very well, Charlotte Smoothie!" the outsider tells her.

"Very well, Pan. Please, make my journey here eventful."

And both bow to each other before the second round.

Inside Black Maria's brothel, Nico Robin uses Demonio Fleur, becoming a massive attractive red demoness.

Black Maria had restrained her beforehand with her webs and beat her down with her brass knuckles.

Being reminded of what she was put through in Enies Lobby, she was determined to make her foe get what she had coming to her.

Having learned Fishman Karate, she freed herself and now she towers over the other giantess.

Black Maria is terrified. "What are you? A demon?"

Nico Robin approaches her menacingly. "Dereshishishishishishi!"

However, the spider lady regains her composure. "You might have become a demon, but you still haven't experienced hell! With my poison and Oiran Knuckles, I can destroy everything!"

As she combines poison, Haki and her brass knuckles, she prepares her strongest punch. "I shall sit on a throne made of your bones, with Black Leg as my foot cushion!"

However, as she throws the punch, Robin grabs her arm. Then she catches all of her limbs and stretches her violently.

"You are wrong about me. You are the one nobody wants. And you said something about me not needing arms and legs. Well, someone doesn't."

"I was talking about yours, not mine!" Maria declares, attempting to get the last laugh. However, her spirit breaks when Robin, roaring, snaps her limbs. Then she bends her back brutally until she snaps it in half.

"Above all else, cowards like you... do not need spines. GRAND JACUZZI CLUTCH!"

Vanessa is fighting against Shepherd, who fires his Eagle Launcher at her. She dodges all of his beams easily.

"Hold still and let me shoot you!" Shepherd barks as she tricks him into hitting Charlotte Compote, a formidable Big Mom Pirate who is distracted while beating up five CP-5 agents at once.

Compote marches towards the ship of Shepherd and uses her massive size and Armament Haki to bust a hole in it, then takes down many of Shepherd's Marines with her bare hands. Shepherd fires yet another beam, but that only makes Compote reel for a moment and he runs away.

Only to encounter a very pissed off Vanessa. "Hello, Condoriano. Do you remember Captain Almoth of the Marines? He had black hair like mine, a similarly white skin and a Moth Fruit."

"Yes. That incompetent buffoon that failed to protect a base from pirates," Shepherd replies. "He couldn't beat that fool, Scratchmen Apoo."

Vanessa glares at the Inspector, making him flinch. "Almoth got fired that day indeed. He still has a scar on his back from the Eagle Launcher. You sabotaged his efforts and then fired him so you can look like a good Inspector. Oh, I am sure everyone will be so happy when they learn what you did."

"It's no problem, some of my superiors approve of underhanded methods. I am sure my boss does too," Shepherd replies.

Vanessa chuckles. "Well, your boss is the Spandam my captain told me about? If so, I see why. He framed my captain for a mass murder. Though I wonder if he will approve of you helping a pirate escape..."

"Take that back!" Shepherd fires his Eagle Launcher a couple of times, but Vanessa dodges them and turns the weapon around, making him shoot himself.

"My turn! Monarch's Breath!" Vanessa blows Shepherd away and sends him back to his ship. Humiliated, Shepherd tries to retreat, only for Compote to wreck his ship and throw him to Vanessa again, who knocks him out with a single slash of her daggers.

Daifuku is looking for the downed Raging Thunder Pirates to finish them off, but Gin rushes at him with his twin tonfas and strikes him several times.

However, Daifuku closes his right fist, which turns black, and punches him hard in the face, knocking him down on his back. Then he makes his genie swing his halberd to decapitate him.

Gin barely parries the halberd strike with his Haki-infused tonfas, then rolls away from the next attack and points his duck foot gun at Daifuku. "Surrender! This time, Smoothie will not save you!"

Daifuku points at Smoothie and Pan still fighting, jumping all around the Queen Mama Chanter and trading aerial slashes. "Maybe you should worry more about your captain, who is currently occupying the Sweet Commander. He seems to have caught her eye, and once someone does that, they never escape."

Gin smiles. "Good. Because my captain is not planning to escape."

He makes a fist raise from the ground, made of mercury and infused with Haki, and uppercuts Daifuku, knocking him down and hurting his jaw.

Daifuku rubs his stomach and the genie gets right in front of him, growing to giant size. "You are as good as dead!"

He sends a massive blade with his halberd. "MAJIN SAIDAN!"

The massive blade cuts down a few Big Mom Pirates and Cipher Pol agents, who have been fighting each other. Its massive range allows it to hit Gin while he has split in three mercury masses and knock all of them down.

As Gin barely reassembles, Daifuku attacks again with a Maji Giren, wounding Gin gravely. "My genie can strike fear in the hearts of entire crews of the New World!"

Gin draws his duck foot gun again and infuses four bullets with Haki. "Too bad... few have heard of you at all!"

He fires through the genie and its smoky body, and would have struck his foe's head and chest if the Big Mom Pirate didn't sense it with his Haki, which means he only gets his right arm paralyzed. "Ha! Smoothie will deal with it once more!"

Gin, however, attacks by throwing a tonfa like a boomerang, which is not only infused with Haki, but with mercury as well. Then he fires his duck foot gun, which Daifuku's genie blocks, allowing the tonfa to connect.

Then Gin creates a massive hammer out of mercury, which then turns pitch black due to Haki. The hammer is five times Gin's size.

"You are done for! Hammer of..."

A certain dark blue genie stabs him in the chest, with blood coming out, but Gin still does his best to fall forward.

"... Hermes!"

The attack buries Daifuku into the ground, knocking him out instantly.

Gin himself follows, collapsing after his difficult victory.

Vanessa uses her Butter Cutter and takes down a Chess Knight in one strike, then lands a flying kick on a Cipher Pol agent, knocking her out.

Then she slashes four agents with her daggers.

However, Snack throws Hardscale through a rock and turns to Vanessa, who lands several dagger slashes on him. Even though all of them have Armament Haki, they fail to even scratch him.

"Snakakakakakakaka! Your Haki isn't half as strong as mine, little girl!"

But Hardscale recovers and blasts Snack with a strong thunderbolt from his mouth, scorching his back. Then he jumps high and lands on him, making a shockwave.

"You let your guard down! You will live up to your name, Snack! And as for you, little butterfly..."

He sends a powerful orange tornado and strikes her, making her dizzy and sending her to the ocean.

Pan, who is still fighting Smoothie, parries one of her slashes and electrocutes her with a quick lightning bolt.

However, he senses Vanessa being thrown into the sea and interrupts the battle to dive and save her.

"No! Wait! Don't leave me behind!" Smoothie tells him. But he doesn't listen.

"Coward," Smoothie snorts. "Running away when it starts getting good."

Pan quickly swims towards the drowning butterfly woman and gets her out of the sea, barely dodging a few shots from a Chess Bishop.

Once he gets her to safety, he is confronted by Hardscale and Snack, who are busy fighting each other.

Quickly, he avoids them and gets Vanessa and Gin to the safe hideout, then goes back to the battlefield and raises the Sword of Truth.

He uses his strongest, but most draining and slow attack, the mighty Angelic Storm. Multiple, very very dense rays of heavenly light rain upon the two experienced duelists and wound both of them severely, knocking them down.

Both of them spit blood and struggle to get up. Once they recover, both glare at Pan and are ready to beat him up.

But a whip made of juice wraps him by the waist, catching him off-guard as he tries to recover from his attack, and yanks him back to the Queen Mama Chanter.

"We two haven't even started yet. Don't leave a woman hanging!" Smoothie tells him.

As the outsider duels the Sweet Commander, Snack and Hardscale keep fighting ferociously.

The raid is getting to its climax as Zoro and Sanji protect each other from King and Queen, fighting the Calamities to a standstill.

Pan's choice to let Dogstorm personally deal with Jack has turned out to be the right one. The moment the Mink leader saw the moon and became Sulong, he turned the tables and defeated Jack in one mighty strike, avenging his tribe and protecting its honor. However, he is exhausted from the hard fight.

Gazelleman, a renegade Gifter, headbutts one of the slavers while leading a squad of rebel Pleasures and Waiters. Catching another force of Kaido's men by surprise, they force them to run away.

Inside the palace, Usopp has trapped Batman with a Devil Pop Green.

"Be careful!" a Waiter warns Batman. "He has Conqueror's Haki! We saw it."

Batman defeats the plant with his sonar waves. "Good, he is even greater than I thought. Leave, this is the best fight of my life!"

He fires a storm of arrows at Usopp, but he uses the turns of the corridors to take cover behind a wall, fully avoiding the attack. Then with a Pop Green he sends an invisible plant that fires seeds rapidly, grazing the Headliner, but he uses ultrasound and by the reflection of the sound spots the plant. "Armament Arrow!"

He defeats the plant and uses a soundwave at the wall, which rebounds and hits Usopp, stunning him. Batman quickly flies at him and gives him a hard punch to the jaw, forcing him on his knees.

"You might have ruined fifteen years of the Joker's planning, but even you have your limits. You deserve to meet my strongest attack, one that I saved for you and only you!"

With a supersonic scream, he further stuns the pirate. "Be thankful I give you the ultimate respect an enemy can show! NIGHT RAIN!"

And a storm of arrows, all with a shape of a bat and black in color, are infused with Armament Haki. Fifteen of them penetrate Usopp and all draw blood.

However, for all the damage Usopp gets, he doesn't fall down.

Mortified, Batman is no longer concentrated and doesn't seize the opportunity to finish the long-nosed sniper off. "How? How are you still standing?"

Usopp starts recovering. "I have survived the headbutts of Ulti, which could match the fists of Luffy, the future Pirate King. Your pitful attack was not enough for me."

Usopp's POV

I have no idea how I survived that, one more blow like that and I am done for. But I can't fall down.

I have to strike fear into his heart by standing up to him, or I am not a brave warrior of the sea!

Third Person POV

Batman is shaking and fires a desperate arrow, but misses because his hands tremble.

"No... no... this can't be happening!"

The CP-0 agents continue their way.

Maha attacks three rebel Waiters and cuts all three of them down.

Then he slays two Udon prisoners who had just beaten four of Orochi's troops, but Izo stops him. The two end up defeating each other.

Guernica mourns his comrade's defeat for a bit, but then continues his way forward, aiming to assassinate Luffy, no matter the cost.

Pan and Smoothie keep crossing swords viciously.

The Sweet Commander jumps above the outsider and gets behind him. She quickly thrusts her sword, attempting a backstab that will enable her to drain Pan's bodily fluids. Nevertheless, the man from another world jumps forward and avoids the powerful attack, then turns and with an aerial slash parries the second thrust.

The tall, white-haired lady stomps the deck, making a shockwave of juice all around herself, but Pan jumps over it and lands a Leap Attack before hitting her with his sword twice.

The statuesque Yonko Commander jumps at the prow of her mother's flagship and raises her sword to the heavens as lightning crashes behind her.

She sends a vertical wave of compressed juice, which Pan barely dodges by jumping to the right. Then he has to jump to the left to dodge another massive wave of juice, which damages the hull of the ship.

Smoothie sends a third powerful wave of juice horizontally, but Pan jumps over it and creates a Lightning Spear with his left hand, which he viciously hurls at her. As it strikes home, Smoothie's entire body jolts as she moans loudly and falls on her knees.

Pan quickly dashes at her and slashes her four times with the Sword of Truth before she recovers and performs a roundhouse kick. That hits Pan and sends him airborne, where Smoothie lands nine rapid front kicks on him, which send him flying overboard.

But Pan uses his Hookshot and grabs hold of the mast, which allows him to dodge a mighty wave of juice and get back to the ship quickly.

"Ready for another round?" Pan asks.

"Born ready!" Smoothie nods.

Usopp has recovered just enough to walk, but Batman has taken a position with his bow, aware that if Usopp steps into the corridor right in front of him, the Headliner can land a free hit.

When Usopp doesn't do that, Batman prepares a soundwave. But Usopp uses a Pop Green that makes a sponge plant, which absorbs the soundwave entirely.

When Batman sets an arrow on fire to burn the spongy plant, Usopp sends another Pop Green, the Bouncer, which bounces around on walls, blocks an incoming arrow and hits Batman. The third Pop Green is one that makes ultrasounds, and while it can't affect Usopp, it makes Batman go crazy.

The liar of Syrup Village slowly strolls up to him, which, coupled with the many wounds Batman inflicted, makes him look like an intimidating survivor, but is actually as fast as he can walk right now. He draws a fake ten-ton hammer.

"Batman! You have angered the savior of Dressrosa, who has eight thousand followers under his command! And now you pay the ultimate price!"

As the hammer connects, the scared Gifter falls unconscious out of fear, as well as the pop of the fake hammer, which is deafening for humans and six times worse for him.

Hardscale and Snack are still fighting ferociously, even after the grievous injuries they got by Pan.

The humanoid crocodile lands a left hook on the former Sweet Commader's face, then lands three jabs with his spear. Quickly, he strikes his belly with a mighty swing of his tail and sends him flying.

As Snack recovers, an orange tornado comes at him. However, Snack dashes out of the way and infuses his katana with Armament Haki so powerful it cuts through the reptile's armor in one blow.

Then he lands a few punches in the giant crocodile's face, but Hardscale bites him hard in the left arm and makes blood come out, even when Snack uses Haki to protect himself.

The monster seizes the opportunity and stabs him in his gut, but a jab at his shoulder makes him go away.

"You really live up to your name! You make a great snack!" Hardscale taunts.

Snack barely keeps his cool and retaliates with a technique that can cut steel, just like the one Zoro used to beat Mr. 1 in Alabasta. With that, he makes a few gaps in the hard armor of the enemy general, making him somewhat more vulnerable.

Hardscale, enraged, breathes a powerful electric current, zapping him, then lands three spear jabs and sends the Sweet Commander close to the sea with a tornado.

Snack barely stays on land, but he is now clearly focused and his katana is filled with Armament Haki. "One Sword Style! Bread Slicer!"

With one strong strike, he cuts through the heavy armor and leaves his foe's scaly chest exposed. However, Hardscale sends his most powerful attack, a orange tornado three times as big and strong as the usual ones, which blows Snack away.

Victorious, he jumps to Snack's direction, sending many Big Mom Pirates flying with a shockwave. Then he stabs a Chess Pawn with his spear. But Snack recovers with some effort.

"One Sword Style... Dinner Cutter!"

And with his blade filled with his willpower, Snack decapitates Hardscale instantly.

Pan and Smoothie are still fighting on equal grounds.

Smoothie attacks with her Human Mixer, but Pan wisely gets as far from the vortex as possible and raises his sword to the heavens, charging it up.

Then he makes an aerial sommersault and sends a Strike of Truth, which makes a deep cut in her left arm. Seeing an opening, Pan thrusts his left fist forward and sends an energy fist, which strike Smoothie in the face.

In response she attacks with an aerial spin clockwise, infusing her sword with Armament, and breaks Pan's guard, then lands a jab at his left shoulder. She quickly crouches down, extending her left hand to snatch him up, but he slides between her long legs.

Then he gets right behind her and looks up. "Nice view!"

Smoothie narrows her eyes. "Why you little pervert!"

After stomping the ground and forcing him to jump over a shockwave of juice, Smoothie turns and attacks with her sword clockwise, but Pan parries it and pushes the woman back. Then he dodges three slashes and dashes at her, attemtping a quick slash.

But she exploits her sword's longer range, a result of both her and the blade being bigger than her foe, and stops the fast slash. Then she effortlessly blocks five more attacks before retaliating with three powerful sword strikes, breaking Pan's guard.

With a mighty thrust of her sword, she wounds Pan right under his lungs, but he keeps standing up.

He retaliates by infusing the Sword of Truth with Armament Haki and attacking with a Free Will Slash, but Smoothie infuses her sword with Haki as well and completely stops Pan's attack. "Something wrong with your Haki, Pan? Can't your sword become hard enough for a woman like me?"

Pan attempts two more Free Will Slashes, but he fails to make her sword even budge due to her superior Haki. "Yet I am the little pervert?"

Smoothie retaliates with a mighty two-handed slash that knocks the young man down. "Well, do I look little to you?"

Pan shrugs his shoulders. "Touche!"

~0~

Far, far away, in the Saber of Xebec, a third Emperor is about to make his move.

"Zehahahahaha! Have you understood the plan? Me and most of the forces will interfere in the battle between the Marines and Hancock, I want her fruit for myself!

This time, we will try to catch them by surprise like when we assembled in Marineford. So, I will not use the candles on my beard to scare my enemies, they will get me spotted too soon.

At the same time, Kuzan and some more of us are already moving to get Pudding. She can read the Poneglyphs, so with her we can get to Laugh Tale! Any objections?" the Emperor asks.

One of the lower-ranking pirates has a question. "How exactly will Hancock's fruit work at all if it's based on the user's beauty, Captain Teach?"

Teach smiles for a moment, his teeth looking a bit like a chessboard. Then he draws his flintlock and shoots the pirate dead. "I heard a lot about this Fruit... and I know it can make me pretty effective."

"But, captain," Burgress interrupts "why aren't we after Kaido and Luffy? We could finish them both in one attack."

Blackbeard shakes his head. "There is also the Government and Big Mom. And unlike Whitebeard, Kaido was entirely healthy before the raid of Onigashima. No, no, too risky, we will go for the less protected targets first."

~0~

Vanessa, unlike her friends, has fully recovered from the injuries, as she was still conscious when she nearly drowned. She wants to escape the safe place Pan has made for her, but she can't punch through rocks.

What she can do is find a hole in the ceiling, or anywhere. While her daggers are too weak to do damage on stones, Haki allows them to scratch them.

"No! It takes too much time! There must be an easier way!"

Outside, the last Cipher Pol agents lose to the Big Mom Pirates, and Snack is about to enter Onigashima. With Pan having to entirely focus on Smoothie, Snack is entirely uninhibited.

Balloon Homies allow him to climb up the floating island.

A small squad follows him this way, ready to retrieve Perospero and help their mother, who is currently still fighting Kid and Law.

Big Mom has exploited Kid getting hit due to Killer slashing a voodoo doll of his made by Basil Hawkins, and she now uses Advanced Conqueror's Haki to slash at Law with her giant sword, who barely dodges the attack. However, a punch coated in Conqueror's Haki strikes the Worst Generation captain and sends him flying far away.

When Kid attempts to slash her with a giant sword made out of metal, Big Mom parries, and as they clash, she uses her new Homie of lightning, which she replaced Zeus with. Hera, who fills Kid's sword with electricity, and exploits how good conductor it is, zapping him.

"Mama Mama! You need to try harder than that, brats!"

But shortly after, the next hit Kid gets is in the mechanical left arm, so he doesn't get hurt at all... but Killer, who landed that hit, still damaged his true target, Hawkins.

"Good thing my captain has a mechanical arm!" Killer taunts his foe.

Then he quickly cuts down the once proud pirate who sold himself to Kaido.

No longer getting cheap shots and enraged, Kid Awakens his fruit, making a vortex of metal swirl around himself, while Law does the same.

That allows them to turn the tables on Big Mom.

At the same time, the Nine Red Scabbards have finally taken revenge on the traitor among them, Kanjuro.

But Kanjuro also has something to fight for. He supported Orochi's quest because he was once persecuted just for being part of a criminal's family.

And now he carries with his will the wrath of the Kurozumi clan, and is ready to set everyone ablaze!

Smoothie makes a rain of water balls come from above, two of which hit Pan and weaken him.

After soaking himself dry, Pan quickly parries three sword slashes and makes a small cut in her left leg. Smoothie reaches down to grab him with her free hand, but he jumps to the right, gets to her left side and lands a Free Will Slash on her.

Then he quickly jumps at her and with an electric flying kick he sends her flying to the rear of the ship.

Smoothie raises her greatsword to the sky and a thunderbolt falls behind her again as the waves at the sea start getting bigger.

And the Sweet Commander sends two horizontal waves Pan jumps over, two vertical ones that make him jump first to the left and then to the right, and finally one aimed high that forces him to duck.

Once the waves are done, Pan jumps high, as high as the top of the ship's mast, and hurls a successful Lightning Spear at her, making her scream loudly and fall on her knees.

Quickly, he fires a Lightning Rocket and hits her in the face, then wounds her torso with a Strike of Truth and finally with a Golden Wave he nearly throws her out of the ship.

Seeing this, the Homies inside the Queen Mama Chanter get out en masse, ready to defend their beloved Sweet Commander. Floating swords, hopping chairs and tables, two fridges that launch shards of ice, living burgers, suits of armor, living mounted guns, even a couple of statues charge at Pan all at once.

They are about two hundred in total, in close formation, and ready to destroy everything in sight.

Pan raises a wall of electricity that blocks the ice shards and the arrows from the statues, as well as a barrage of bullets. Then he raises his hands and sends a mighty Thunderstorm.

The storm of yellow thunderbolts bombards the entire deck in front of its caster, turning everything inside it into dust instantly. Not a single Homie survives.

However, due to using too much of his magic in such a short time, Pan falls on his knees, trying to recover.

"SPACE RIPPER..."

Pan realizes he has to drain himself further if he wants to survive, as he sees Smoothie's eyes getting pink.

"STINGY EYES!" Smoothie sends twin mighty streams of pink, compressed juice, which Pan barely dodges. In fact, the wind of the stream grazes him and makes his already graceless jump to the right end with him landing on his back.

As he struggles to recover, he hopes he can distract her with his words, remembering where else he saw such a move. "Space Ripper Stingy Eyes, huh? You know, I have seen this before somewhere. It was used by someone who wanted a heroic gentleman's body very, very much."

Smoothie smirks. "You are quite insightful, aren't you? I would absolutely love to have your body as a prize!

JUICY GENERAL!"

With a mighty burst of juice, Smoothie strikes Pan hard, sending him crashing to a wooden wall of the ship, but he bounces and ends face first on the deck.

As he struggles to get up, his opponent's long legs approach him until they are right in front of him. Smoothie extends her left hand again and picks up the small man by the waist, smirking confidently as she brings him to eye level.

"You were the hardest prey I ever had to catch, but now you are all mine! I will make you my pet, outsider. And now that I dealt with you, I am going to protect Mama and make the efforts of the Straw Hats come at a price."

A tiny blue butterfly is watching the two and approaches them as Pan fills his body with electricity, attempting to make his captor release him. But the tall lady, unlike Cinnamon, is not bothered much, and she tightens her grip until Pan starts struggling to breathe.

As his face swells, the woman watches in amusement and squeezes him even more.

In the end, the man gives up and Smoothie uses a finger to stroke his chin. "Clever move. You had a plan even for this occasion. Unfortunately, my gloves are made by leather and protected by a little rubber, why do you think I don't squeeze others with my bare hands?"

The left glove has got some burns, but neither of them notice them due to Pan being tightly clutched in the hand wearing it.

The butterfly gets to the two combatants and turns into Vanessa, who draws two daggers and infuses them with Armament. "Two dagger style...

Pygmy Blue Flurry!"

She attacks faster than the human eye can see, ready to save her captain at all costs. "Let go of him, monster!"

Despite Smoothie's mighty defense, she gets enough pressure to be forced to drop her prey, but Vanessa's daggers are shattered.

Smoothie backhands her foe and sends her flying, forcing her to retreat.

However, before she can finish her off with a wave of juice, Pan takes a deep breath and rams her with the Shield of Hope, making her miss her shot.

Then he uses a new sword attack. The Free Will Razor, which is a ranged attack that is weaker than the base power of the Sword of Truth, having three fourths of its strength, but is fast and hard to avoid. It strikes Smoothie, catching her off-guard.

Smoothie turns to Pan. "I have misjudged you. Your Haki got stronger while defending your friend, whom you saved from drowning earlier. That tells me what kind of person you are." She points her sword at him, her face dead serious. "Now, should we continue our game of cat and mouse?"

Pan nods. "Meow."

Smoothie gives him a coy smile. "Oh, you know foreign languages too? My, my, this is getting fun!"

Snack and his forces are approaching the place where Big Mom is fighting Kid and Law. However, they are halted by the Kid Pirates and the Heart Pirates.

"We won't let you attack our captains!" Penguin declares as he uses a scissors flying kick and knocks out two Big Mom Pirates. Then he uses a new move, Penguin Slide, silently and slides with his belly under a candy bullet from a soldier and an energy razor from Snack himself. Then he stabs another enemy with his spear.

Shachi, Penguin's best friend, is wielding his katana and blocking two cutlasses at once. He repels both of his attackers with a strong push, then uses a fying spin attack and cuts them both down in one strike.

After Panguin and Shachi land a flying kick on one soldier each at the exact same time, the latter attacks the heavily injured Snack, but Snack simply shoves him into the swimming pool nearby, hoping his enemy is a Fruit user.

Bubblegum, a Kid Pirate, uses his saber and disarms an enemy, forcing him to flee, then parries a bullet and severs an enemy's right arm clean off. However, his next attack is parried by one of Snack's men, who wounds him with a riposte. As Bubblegum falls on his knees and the enemy is about to get his head, his friend Pomp draws a gun and shoots the enemy in the head.

Bepo is attacked by a Gifter from behind. The Gifter attacks with a sword, but Bepo catches it with two fingers and wrestles it out of the Gifter's hands. The Gifter swings his lizard tail, aiming for the Mink's legs, but the Heart Pirate jumps over it and takes him down with a hard flying kick.

Then he attacks Snack with a kick infused with Haki, but Snack blocks it with his sword, using up some Haki himself.

Bepo presses on the offensive, but Snack, despite the injuries from Pan and Hardscale, keeps blocking until his Haki runs out. Then Bepo finally sees an opening.

His feet fill up with electricity and he sends a powerful electric blade, using the Electro the best of the Minks can use. The blade is known as Bear Battery and strikes Snack's sword, electrocuting it and him with it.

So, Snack sheathes his blade and pulls out a gun, which is fiery orange. "You are finished, Mink. This is my last trump card!" The gun fires and sends a burning potato, which wounds Bepo.

This makes Snack fire a second shot, now sure about his victory, but Shachi has shallowed an incredible amount of water and shoots it at the potato, stopping it, and the gun, getting it wet. One more Bear Battery on the now wet Snack and he is knocked out.

The rest of the Big Mom Pirates take him and run away as the two crews of the Worst Generation fight through Gifters and Homies.

Marco the Phoenix appears and heals the new generation so they can keep fighting.

Final Showdown

Pan and Smoothie keep crossing swords. Smoothie attacks with a massive stream of water, which goes horizontally for one hundred and eight degrees, but Pan rolls under it and uses his Hookshot to latch on her neck, then gets on the back of it and slashes her twice before she throws him off.

Then she wraps his waist with a whip made out of juice and is about to drag him closer, but he fills himself with electricity. Due to being wet, he gets hurt a bit, but since Smoothie is connected to the whip, she gets electrocuted as well and gets forced to release Pan. Then he jumps and performs a spin attack with his sword clockwise, but Smoothie swings her blade downwards and parries his blow, then attacks with several rapid jabs of her blade.

Pan dodges them and jumps behind her, but Smoothie turns quickly and nearly hits him with a spin. Then she infuses her legs with Haki and hits him with a hard roundhouse kick. The kick causes a shockwave that makes the nearby Big Mom Pirates lose their balance and damages the nearby terrain, while the direct hit sends Pan flying.

And Smoothie has a genuine smile on her face. "Ahohohohoho! This is the best fight of my life!"

Then she thrusts her longsword forward. "Smooth Criminal!" She sends a barrage of water shots forward, three of which hit Pan and make him wet.

Then she raises her sword high and makes massive spheres of water rain on the entire ship.

Pan dashes at her, dodging them all by feeling them with his Observation, but when he tries to throw a Lightning Spear he electrocutes himself due to being too wet.

Stunned, he is open to a powerful wave of juice coming from the Sweet Commander's sword, which knocks him down on his back.

As he struggles to get up, she stomps the ground three times, making it crack as three shockwaves come one after the other. But Pan uses his Hookshot and latches on her right arm, then he launches himself away from the shockwaves and wraps the chain all around her arm. Seeing an opening, he jumps at her head, charging his sword with as much Armament Haki as possible. She tries to grab him with her free hand, but it's too late, as he hits her hard in the forehead.

As blood comes out, Pan sees an opening and, after he lands on the deck feet first, charges the Sword of Truth with bright yellow energy. Then he uses Heavenblade to knock Smoothie down on her back.

Some Big Mom Pirates watch in awe as Smoothie is on the pavement.

"Did he win?"

"Smoothie! Are you alright?"

Smoothie struggles to get up. Blood comes from her mouth as she gets to her feet.

Pan throws the water off himself and prepares himself for any incoming attacks, but Smoothie simply jumps far away from the ship and onto the beach. Pan follows her with a long leap.

Smoothie glares at him. "You have pushed me too far, Pan. I guess your world has quite powerful fighters, just like mine. I moved the battle here for one simple reason.

If I fought to my fullest, I would sink the ship, we already damaged it enough. It's a shame we have to fight to the death. I would love to keep you alive."

Pan throws sand at her face, blinding her for a moment. Then he sends his strongest regular thunderbolt and sends her flying. "When the fate of the entire Grand Line is at stake, I won't hold back against someone stronger!"

Then he raises his sword and sends a Strike of Truth straight at the center of her mass. If not for her exceptional Observation Haki, Smoothie could have been bisected, but now she avoids the attack entirely and raises her sword high.

"I can't lose now! Not to an outsider!" She sends a massive wave of water, which Pan barely dodges. It makes all the sand wet and limits the man's movements.

Pan barely avoids a grab and sends a vortex of lightning at her, making her yell in pain. As she raises her sword for another attack, Pan quickly interrupts her with Thunder Drop and electrocutes her once more.

When she sends two more blades of water, Pan creates and sends a huge lion out of electricity in response, which roars loudly and charges at the Minister of Juice. Absorbing the liquids and getting stronger, the magical beast rams Smoothie and injures her heavily with an electric burst. As she struggles to stay up, her adversary attacks with the Double Cross Thunder, making a double stream of lightning that strikes the target exactly where the two bolts meet and brings her down on one knee.

Quickly, he rushes for a Thunderpunch, but Smoothie sends a strong stream of juice from her mouth and knocks him down, getting him all wet. Then she gets up as he is soaking himself dry again and attacks with her sword relentlessly, faster than the human eye can see. Pan senses her with his Observation, but she still moves very fast for him. He starts slashing faster than the human eye can see as well, but her Haki allows her to sense his every move.

Pan pretends to go for the gut, but he is bluffing, as he switches at the last moment and slashes her right leg, drawing blood. However, Smoothie uses a circular move vertically, upwards, and knocks the Sword of Truth away from Pan's hands.

Then she prepares to stab him, but he draws a spare melee weapon, a yellow laser blade. It's got only a tenth of the strength of the Sword of Truth and no special abilities, but Pan always kept it for emergencies or cases where the enemies weren't worth the Sword of Truth. The blade parries Smoothie's strike and dents the blade a bit, allowing Pan to jump on the blade and land a flying kick on Smoothie's chest.

As she reels, Pan attacks with the laser blade, but Smoothie uses her Armament Haki and blocks all of the slashes, then jumps away and narrows her eyes.

"You are getting between my family and their dream of a utopia. And you prove to be tough enough for me to not fear breaking you too much. JUICY SABERS!"

She sheathes her sword and makes large sabers of juice appear, one from each finger. Then she makes them float by her side and coats them all in her strongest Armament Haki.

Since her Fruit hasn't Awakened yet, she can't make these swords appear from everywhere or shoot them all at once. But she still fires them one by one with terrifying precision, and Pan has to use his Observation to his fullest to barely deflect each of them with his saber. While he does bat away the first seven, the eighth one makes a cut in his left leg, the ninth one knocks the saber away and deactivates it, and the tenth one stabs Pan in the chest, knocking him down.

Desperate, Pan fires a couple of rockets, only for Smoothie to juice them with her bare hands and soak him with some juice when he tries to throw a thunderbolt.

As he tries to run away, she grabs his legs and drags him closer to her before picking him up by the waist like the last time. And this time, there is no Vanessa to save him.

The Sweet Commander holds him above her head, smirking as she looks at him.

However, this time Pan is soaked with juice, and makes her gloves wet as well. Seeing this, he pulls a risky move. He coats himself in electricity, aware that he is also hurting himself since he is wet.

Screaming in pain, he unleashes a current five times as strong as before, and due to the juice conducting it, he actually electrocutes Smoothie this time, forcing her to throw him next to his weapons.

Heavily injured, both of them struggle to recover.

"Goodness, you surely surprised me!" Smoothie tells him, panting.

"I admit it, you are the toughest foe I have faced in a long time. And I clashed with Jack the Drought and Snack not long ago," Pan admits while he is panting too.

As both struggle to keep their balance, they see Queen getting launched off Onigashima after royally pissing off Sanji in every way possible.

"Looks like we might have a chance!" Pan comments. "And to think Queen was most likely fighting one of the people you would have taken out if left alone... or tried to anyway."

Pan regains his weapons, both the Sword of Truth and the laser blade, and avoids a stream of juice while doing so.

Then he smiles as he points his legendary sword at her. Smoothie does the same, her face dead serious.

The two charge at each other as their blades fill with all of their remaining Armament Haki, their will to end the raid in Wano in favor of their side. Smoothie will do anything to protect her mother and family, Pan will do anything to save the Grand Line from a devastating war and the Straw Hats from the Big Mom Pirates.

And so, they lock blades. Unable to use electricity for now, Pan has to purely rely on his Armament Haki, and he shows enough power to overpower a Tobi Roppo. However, Smoothie has been using Haki for several years, and she is towering over Pan.

The clash is so powerful it sends all the wet sand flying around them, and a barely noticeable quake happens because of it.

Joseph of the CP-0 notices the clash, while he is on Onigashima, and notes to investigate this after Guernica assassinates Luffy.

The soil is getting lost beneath the feet of the two warriors, up until someone finally gets overpowered.

Unfortunately for the raid forces, it's not the ruthless Yonko Commander.

Pan's strength and Haki have failed him, and with one punch he falls unconscious.

Smoothie checks his pulse quickly. His heart is still beating. She breathes a sigh of relief.

"Thank you. That was the most fun I had in several years. But now I have something more important to do. I have to protect Mama!"

Alas, she also falls unconscious, on her face, once she takes five steps away from him.

Pan's efforts are not in vain. After Zoro has barely beaten King, Kid and Law have outsmarted Big Mom. The former is blasting her with a massive railgun, while the latter silences her and prevents her from communicating with any of her Homies.

Their efforts result in Big Mom being defeated and thrown out of Onigashima, into a lake of magma. When she needed help the most, it never came.

However, as much as the Raging Thunder Pirates did against Big Mom's crew, they still couldn't stop too many Beasts Pirates.

And Kaido still has the upper hand over Luffy.

Worse, Guernica, despite injuries from X-Drake, has reached the rooftop, and he slows Luffy Down, allowing Kaido to finally win the battle.

Nevertheless, remembering how he beat Oden, Kaido is pissed at what the agent did and smashes him to a pulp.

Then he gets ready to take on everyone else. "I will turn Wano into an industrial paradise of piracy! Nobody shall defy me!"

Momonosuke is desperate. "No! I can't hear Luffy's voice!"

"WORORORORORORORO! Straw Hat Luffy is dead! Unless Momonosuke surrenders, I will take you down one by one until I find another challenge!" Kaido boasts.

"I don't believe you!" Nami declares. "Luffy won't die so easily!"

Kaido takes his dragon form and is about to burn her with a Bolo Breath, but Marco shields her with his wings, using both his Haki and Fruit.

The exhausted Law and Kid are surrounded by a horde of Waiters and Pleasures, led by some Gifters, but with Big Mom down, their crews can now help their captains.

Heat cuts down three Waiters with his katana, but a Gifter with the head of a wolf attacks him with his brass knuckles. Heat breathes a powerful stream of fire and burns the Gifter, defeating him in one hit.

At the same time, Shachi has shallowed another stream of water, and when some Pleasures attempt to throw blazing bottles of rum, he douses them all off.

Cat Viper and Carrot take down several Waiters, despite their injuries, ready to defy Kaido.

But as the strongest creature prepares to burn everyone, Momonosuke hears Zunesha in his head. He is telling him he is hearing the drums of liberation, the voice of his oldest friend.

"Don't be afraid. Joyboy has returned."

And as everyone is hearing the drums, Luffy's body is smiling more brightly than ever.

The sound makes Pan himself snap awake for a second and look at his surroundings. Realizing what he is hearing and seeing Smoothie too exhausted to do anything, he allows himself to smile before losing consciousness again.

"Looks like... I made... a difference!"