At Luffy's announcement, Yukiko was urging to battle again.

"Now, come, Flying Fish!" Luffy declared.

"They're here!" Usopp raised the signal.

"Right!" Chopper in Heavy Point, Zoro and Sanji all jumped from the ship per the strategy as the flying fish escaped from the water.

"Let's even the odds a bit..." Yukiko said as she rode on Monstro. "Crystal Garden!"

That's when her hands created vines made of crystalline materials catching every flying fish within fifty metres of the Sunny's hull.

"How beautiful," Robin commented as red roses sprung onto the Sunny.

"A deadly but beautiful trap, just like you Yuki-chan!" Sanji praised.

"We're stuck!"

"Let us out!"

"Well, well, who's got the freshest fish here?" Luffy commented, looking at the few schools that had escaped the thorned vines. "Alright, him!"

"What?" the pilot of the fish Luffy grabbed yelled.

"I got him!" Luffy screamed as he reeled himself on the fish. "My turn to drive!"

"Uh, wait... Ahh!" he was thrown overboard, crashing into a crystal-laden sea around him.

"This is awesome!" Luffy cheered from his stolen ride. "Whoo! I'm flying!"

"Luffy's riding one of those things?" Chopper panicked.

"Just leave him alone," Sanji mumbled.

"Take this!" the riders threw something down at them.

"Bombs!" Usopp yelled.

As Robin prepared to use her powers, Sanji lashed out with his foot to kick them all away.

"Damn!" Sanji swore before he did the noodle-dance again. "Nami San! Robin Chan! Are you alright?"

"That was close!" Usopp sighed.

"Geez... If they had hit a lady like that, I wouldn't have let them live."

"Pull in the sail! It'll get in the way!" Nami called.

Yukiko then turned to Suicune. "Suicune, stay with Luffy and help anyway you can. Melborne, you stay with Caimie and her friends, protect them. Pachi, you and the others on battle standby." Then as a couple more fish flyers were coming. Yukiko looked at them and focused.

"Diamond.....Storm!" She yelled as diamond projectiles rained down on the enemy getting them battered.

"Wow! Yuki-chiin is amazing!" Caimie said.

"But still.....how did she find the Guardian of the Sea?" Pappagg asked as Suicune kept Luffy from drowning.

"We did it, Chopper, now take this!" Usopp fired one of the cannons they got on the deck, the cannonball striking its target true.

"Bullseye!" Usopp cheered. "Did you see that, you damn fish?"

"Usopp, you're amazing!"

As Zoro freed Hachi and Melbourne protected Caimie, all the fish suddenly deserted as one lone squad flew straight for the Sunny.

"A really huge guy is coming!" Chopper warned. "And he's swinging a massive club..."

"He isn't steering at all..." Sanji commented. "Don't tell me that's he's just going for a collision..."

"Luffy, you take care of the fish," Sanji commented.

"Yosh!" Luffy yelled as he expanded into a balloon to cushion the fish Sanji kicked. Luffy grabbed the flying fish, body-slamming it in a bridge onto the Sunny's deck as he and Sanji landed safely.

"This'll be our dinner tonight!" Luffy declared.

"That's so cool, you two!" Chopper declared.

"Looking at it up close, it really is big," Robin held up a fin to make her point.

"It is about time we reduced the number of those Flying Fish..." Brook muttered, drawing his sword. "Leave this to me!"

Brook then leapt up and out to the sky, violin in hand. "Lullaby Song!"

"Wow! They all fell asleep..." Chopper fell asleep mid-sentence.

"You too?" Nami yelled at them.

"Music is... power!" Brook declared as he fell to run on the water. "Excuse me!" two flying fish fell to his sword.

"Impressive. Varian, Shadow Ball! Monstro, Chilling Water! Crystal Beam!" Yukiko said as they took down more flying fish!

"Nice one, Brook, Yukiko!" Luffy cheered.

"Damn him, what was that?"

"He used some sort of dirty trick!"

"It is no trick!" Brook sheathed his sword. "It is music! Yohohoho!"

'He's good, that guy!"

Then Luffy grabbed onto a passing flying fish, that soon crashed straight into a random house on the floating island as Brook got to the island. Suicune followed after him.

"I have reached my limit!" Brook babbled, sprawled on land. "I have a muscle cramp! Though I do not have any muscles to have a cramp in!"

"Brook, you're pretty enthusiastic, huh?" Zoro growled. "You took out quite a few of the Flying Fish, good job."

"I am glad to have been of help!" Brook declared, before slumping. "But please... let me rest for a while..."

"Oi, Yukiko, got anything to help injuries?"

"Zoro San," Brook sighed. "As I thought, your injuries from Thriller Bark still haven't healed..."

"I do have one help. Varian! Refresh!" Yukiko said as Varian shook his mane as a wave of energy went to Zoro and Brook curing their fatigue and Yukiko gave Brook a bottle of Moomoo Milk.

Zoro sighed in relief. "That was good."

"I feel like my energy has returned now!" Brook declared, jumping to his feet. "And this milk is delicious! What kind of vitamins are in this?!" He asked as his bones shined.

"I won't let these fish beat me! Don't worry about it!" Zoro answered, getting to his feet.

"You let down your guard, Roronoa!" Hachi ran with six swords to aim at the flying fish behind Zoro. "Six Sword Style: Octopus Arm Danger!"

"You saved me, huh?" Zoro grinned.

"Nyuu, that's right! You guys were spacing out and all..."

"Hachi! You were really cool!" Keimi called from the sidelines.

"Just what I'd expect from you, Hachi!" Pappagg cheered.

"Thank you, Hachi." Yukiko smiled.

"Really?" Hachi turned his back to the ocean, hiding his face just as a Flying Fish Rider bearing a harpoon appeared.

"Lugia!"

The rider was swatted away with a massive wing at the same time another leapt out. "Die, Fishman!"

"Right, excuse us!" Brook defended Hachi from the harpoon as Zoro cut the man down. And Melbourne also countered with Aerial Ace.

Hachi looked at them with wide eyes. "I thought I was gonna die! Thanks!"

"You are quite welcome!" Brook replied.

Zoro just sighed. "I told you to watch yourself, didn't I?"

"Don't take them one by one... get in formation*!" one of the riders ordered.

Franky looked up. "Pervert*? You called?"

"Attack in flying formation**!"

"Delinquent pervert**?" Franky stated, confused. "You mean me?"

"It's not you!" Sanji and Usopp yelled at him.

Meanwhile, Robin and Nami stood ready on the crow's nest.

"Here I am, here!" Nami called. "Welcome!"

Falling into the trap, the riders crashed into the thundercloud that was awaiting them.

"Too bad, Mirage Tempo. Beware of thunderclouds!" Nami called from where her actual self was on the deck.

"Dos Mano... Clutch!"

"Kokutei... Diamond!"

"Don't break formation!"

"I knew it, they're calling for me," Franky remarked.

"No, they're not!"

"Huh? They didn't mean me?" Franky commented as bullets bounced off his steel chest. "Hm? Strong Hammer!" Franky punched the fish carrying the person shooting at him off the deck and into the water.

"Amazing! They're all really strong, Pappagg!" Keimi cheered.

"-.-...To think they'd go this far... we were just gonna grab Hachi and run..."

Back on the ship, Usopp was cursing. "Franky, we gotta get this ship ashore! They're at an advantage out here in the ocean!"

"That's probably why they reside out here, you know," Franky commented as he used his machine gun. "They're not gonna give us a chance to steer the ship!"

"But I have an advantage too. Pachi! Shock Wave! Lugia, Aeroblast!" Yukiko yelled as Pachi strikes the fish with a quick jolt of electricity. Then Lugia launches a strong vortex of air which blows the enemy away.

"Great job!" Usopp and Franky grinned.

It was then that Luffy and Suicune crashed through a wooden wall, panting and running.

"Luffy!" Zoro exclaimed.

"Run! A huge guy is coming!" Luffy yelled.

"Is it Iron Mask?" Brook yelled.

"The masked guy and a cow!" Luffy answered.

Yukiko had her Pokémon on standby to await orders.

"A cow?" the others turned to look towards the direction Luffy ran from. Crashing sounds could be heard as a giant figure crashed through the rest of the wall.

"Getting yourselves knocked down in droves..." a voice growled.

"What's that? Something showed up!" Usopp panicked even as the Flying Fish Riders were losing.

"You're not just bugs, y'know! Flying Fish Riders!" The rider of the large bull that crashed through wore black denim and black leather under an armoured fur-lined cloaked, and on his face was an iron mask. In each hand he bore a harpoon-gun.

"H- He crushed his own house..." Usopp muttered.

"I don't need this base anymore, as long as I can kill the Straw Hats! Especially THAT man!" he declared.

"We're so sorry, Head!" the Riders exclaimed as they pulled into the water. "We'll draw them out to sea and finish them off right..."

"Move it!" The bull stepped forth, sending tremors through the ground as Duval turned to the three fish-related sapient people around. "I have no need for a Fishman, mermaid or glove! If you wanna run, then just get lost!"

"I'm a starfish!" Pappagg argued even as they crawled off.

"I didn't enter the slave-trading market 'cause I wanted to!" Duval continued his monologue. "You guys understand that, right?"

"Of course, head!" the Riders cheered.

"What a great day this is!" Duval looked to the sky. "The man whom I wanted to kill so badly that I even saw him in my dreams, is right here. I'm so grateful! I guess there is a God, huh? One day, I was suddenly thrown into the depths of hell because of that man!"

"Hey, isn't he looking at us while he's talking?" Usopp commented.

"Today, I'll kill ya right here, even if I die myself..." Duval cursed. "Pirate... Black Leg Sanji!"

On the Sunny, the cook started.

"I really wanted to meet'cha!"

"Oh, crap! The head's really pissed-off!"

"Me? That guy wants to kill me?" Sanji blinked.

"Sanji, who's that guy?" Franky asked. "It seems like he's got some sort of grudge against you..."

"Could it be something that happened at the restaurant or something?" Nami suggested. "Try to remember!"

"If it's something from back then, I did a lot of things that people might be mad at me for..." Sanji mumbled.

"Let him shoot you!" Usopp cheerfully suggested. "You've deserved it!"

"Quit playin' dumb, Black Leg!" Duval roared. "We're talkin' about something recent here!" he fired a volley of shots at them.

"Crap! Those are harpoons!" Usopp yelled as Lugia deflected them with Psychic.

Then Yukiko noticed why Lugia didn't let the harpoons fall into the sea.

"Be careful! Those harpoons have poison!" She yelled.

"These are my scorpion venom harpoons!" Duval boasted as he reloaded. "If they hit'cha, you'll be headed for the afterlife in three minutes! Know the depths of my fury!" He fired again.

"Nami San, watch out!" Sanji kicked away the bolts headed for Nami. "Damn bastard, I can't remember at all! Who are you?"

"I'm gonna kill ya and yer crew!"

"I saw what was under the mask," Luffy muttered.

"Really?" Yukiko asked surprised.

"Who is he?" Zoro asked.

"Don't be surprised," Luffy stated as he ran off. "You've seen his face too!"

"Huh?"

Luffy made a flying kick at Duval, kicking the mask away.

"That bastard!" the riders chorused. "He kicked away Duval Sama's iron mask!"

"Very well... take a close look at my scarred face!"

Usopp's jaw dropped. "What the-?"

Nami stared. "No way!"

Chopper's eyes widened in shock. "EEEEEHHH?"

Sanji looked more.. wrathful.

"He's...!" Zoro stared.

Robin blinked. "My..."

"Oh, my..." Brook chuckled.

"How is this possible?" Yukiko asked in shock.

"Pach!" "Eeeeee?!"

Franky began sobbing. "I wanna cry!"

"I've been waiting for this day..." Duval continued. "I decided to murder ya, and so I set out to sea! But looking for ya would be a problem, y'know..." he held up a bounty poster. "After all, yer wanted poster and yer true face didn't match! Even if the marines or bounty hunters run into ya, they just might not notice ya! Nah, there's no way that'd happen! Those guys would definitely find ya!"

"Head...!" the Riders were crying.

"They'd find ya, and then they'd say... 'I found you! Black Leg Sanji!'"
Duval was crying already. "And then I told 'em... 'I dunno anyone like that!'" The man's face, though marred with scars, was an exact replica of the sketch featured on the poster of Black Leg Sanji. "'I ain't even a pirate!'"

Sanji began to blaze with anger.

"QUIT SCREWING WITH ME!"

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Another cliffhanger and another chapter done!

I need some name suggestions for any future attacks from Yukiko and a description of the attack or move.

Plz comment!