An Ton's Journey

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Two and a half years. This is not nearly enough for me to collect the energy. And I wouldn't hope for System to save me again. I need to get stronger and get people stronger rapidly. I wouldn't be able to run this time. I'll have to fight.

Uhh... but how do I fight against a godly being? Even system ran away from it.

Well, I better prepare a hiding places and a fighting force.

Sadly, AI is still malfunctioning, making me do and order everything by myself.

Yea... work again.

" Ughh. I hate my life. " I said, slamming my head against the table.

" What happened? " Asked Zoro from the other side of the ship, as he heard the impact.

" We all are fuċkėd. " I replied, turning my head to Luffy.

" Luffy. I have bad news. And good news. Which one would you like to hear first? " I asked, looking at him.

" Why do you say so? " Asked Zoro, who came closer, covered in sweat after his training session.

" What is it about? " Luffy. asked, as I Changed previous subject of our talk.

" ... " I looked at him for couple of seconds.

" I will start from good news. " I said.

" I can make you and all your friends stronger. " I said, already thinking about injecting them a serum based on my blood.

" And what are the bad news? " Zoro asked, hearing what I said.

" Enemy will arrive in two and a half years. " I replied.

"What enemy? And what exactly is the bad thing in this? " Asked Luffy, thinking about my previously said words.

" Enemies that are approaching us are not simple enemies like pirates or anything like that. " I said, standing up.

" They are extremely technologically advanced " I said, taking couple of probes out, ordering them to bring this ship to the closest island. fast.

" What are... " Nami asked, as everyone already surrounded the table, listening to what I am saying.

" They could destroy planet like this easily, if it wouldn't have been protected by shield. Like this one " I continued, knowing a little bit about their possibilities, and thanking my luck that there was a shield and some kind of being outside this place.

I don't know if it will protect this place, but I suspect that this being wouldn't just allow another higher being to intrude upon it's planet.

" What are you talking about? What shield? How could they destroy the planet easily? " Nami asked, as she was getting scared.

" Luffy. You remember what I could do when you saw the war? It's nothing compared to anything they could do. " I said, continuing to explain anything I knew to them, as I needed people for inevitable war.

Also, I was thinking about my next actions. I would need to approach strongest beings in this world: Admirals, strongest pirates, and anyone else who are promising and find a way to make them believe that enemy is coming. And they don't have time for their small fights.

Obviously I understand that they won't believe me just like that, so I will need to show them what I alone could do, and that there are billions, if not trillions possible enemies.

Obviously, I don't know their numbers. They are unknown to me, just like their current advancement.

But, remembering as System said that couple of hundred of years was needed at least, for my protoss and zerg to defeat Borgs and a higher being with help of system with it's abilities, I would think that the main major problem is the being itself, as system only warned me about it, and nor Borg themselves.

Let's hope that the being that I felt out there would be able to fight off the one that is going after me.

Everything I can do is hope. And plan.

So, first things first. Strong people that are in immediate vicinity need to get stronger. Taking out some special syringes, I began mixing my blood with an existing serum. It was the only way that I know, except for just giving them my blood, as it could bring unwanted results. Even though my body changed, I hope it will work.

Taking out ampules with resulting concoction, as it could bȧrėly be called medicine, I proceeded to show it to Luffy's crew.

" This thing will make you stronger. Much stronger, but it is not really a choice that I give you. I'm just giving you time to accept the reality. Tomorrow I will inject everyone present with this stuff " I said, leaving them to think and talk about it, as I left the ship, flying up and looking around.

Arriving at the closest island, at which Luffy's crew would arrive in a day, I proceeded to establish a base.

Yes, I took out another probe and began digging the hole for resources - metals, crystals, oil, and other stuff that I could dig out.

Obviously, I did not find oil, but possibly existed. I mainly dug out chunks of ore that were crushed by me and used by probes for the first few buildings. Now, I continued digging and searching for quartz, or any other crystal that would be used in probe creation.

After arduous search, I finally located one small crystal vein. Thankfully sea not on the red line is not that deep, so I could easily dig below the sea floor, creating tunnels while searching for resources.

Finishing my search and bringing crystals, Probes were getting finished, as the only missing material was brought out.

I didn't need such an extensive self destruction parts anymore, I had no time for it, so no chemicals or acids were needed in self destruction parts. I still didn't want these things to be taken by Borg in a battle, as it would be troublesome.

And Time was running out. slowly, but surely. Knowing that Luffy's Death would bring reset to the world, I began creating a stretchable armour for his head and body, has he mainly stretches legs and hands, these parts would not require insane stretching.

Arriving at the island, Luffy and his crew saw a construction site of unimaginable things. Flying probes, metal structures, and much more that they knew nothing about.

" welcome. This was the closest island, so it is not much for the start, but it is the fastest I could go with." I said, receiving them as they saw the growing factories and robots doing their work. Yes, they worked in overdrive. Fast, and to the point where they could just overheat.

" So, what did you choose? do you want to become stronger? " I asked.

" What is the catch? I don't think you are just that selfless. Why would you choose us? " Zoro asked, as he didn't remember past lives.

" Because Luffy must be kept alive, it is important, and you are his crewmates. Also, you have some potential, Maybe you could affect the incoming war " I replied, as I walked them to the room, where I could let them sleep. It seems they talked a lot, and didn't have time to sleep.

Obviously, we talked about more things, but It doesn't really matter.

What matters is that they agreed, even Zoro, who was convinced by Luffy... And a possibility of better katanas for his style, katanas with good handle that wouldn't break after placing it in his teeth.

You know, he is strangely sure that his style is stronger and better than any other. I understand that it would be hard to fight against someone so unusual, but he requires so much more control than any other classic style to master it.

As they all they injected the serum, they fell asleep.

I wouldn't risk just randomly injecting real serum without laboratory and few tests. I just placed them to sleep and then proceeded to take some blood from each one of them.

After that, getting to the only completed lab part, I began mixing and testing. After a day, and making sure that serums adapted to their blood, as it is one of requirements, I injected ampules in their bloodstream. These ampules will gradually release the serum and dissolve, activating it when serum would spread in their whole body.

Now, as I wait, I began giving commands and planning for the rapid expansion.

Now, after factory, laboratory and mine would finish, I will begin mass production of probes. I will drop them on every island I can and create more and more factories, mines, and warp spires.

I'll have to try and warp in my World sized Leviathan, as it grew in those years and became a whole world for my hive.

Why would I even attempt it? Because I had no other chance to survive. I needed to strengthen my psi energy through hive connection, and their technology would be needed for me to have a chance for survival not below the seafloor.

I could hide below the seafloor, and I plan to create a safehouse on the side of the crack that allowed me to escape. It would require me to go down there and manually dig out a cave, as I don't know if I could create a transport that would survive the pressure that was there.

Only if AI was fully functioning, I might've created something like that, but my only chance is to create a small tunnel, lock it with thick wall, and create a room in there, where I would place a pylon and a hidden house with everything necessary for survival.

Yes, I don't think it would work just like that, but I have to try.

Currently, I watched as Luffy was changing, his already strong muscles were getting denser and better, his race changing from just human to something stronger. His face didn't really change much, except hair growing rapidly, as in the process of change his body was getting remade, and as everything changed, hairs were no exception. Obviously, such a change required a lot of energy to be put in it, so they were being constantly fed with a mixture that provided the needed energy, just like the Khaydarin crystal that provided energy for my base, this mixture provided energy for their bodies to change with as little trouble as possible.

As for where I've got it? Fabricator and many previous experimental tries in the past. I don't really want to talk about what things were being made at that time.

It was awful. Like, potato that tastes like shit. Literal shit. Concentrated at that. How do I know? Well... Fabricator and experiments...

Ugrgh..

Bad memories. Why don't they just disappear...

Well, after pitying myself for couple of minutes and shedding tears of pain, I left the island to place first group of probes on to the walls of red line, where they would begin creating massive expansion, trying to cover them all in two years,l and establishing a defence perimeter.

As red line is encompassing the whole planet, it would be the best place to establish the protection line. After placing first group, I just killed couple of animals that tried attacking me, and waited for first small turrets to be installed, as they would be protecting this warp point.

After making sure that this defence was enough, as I was allowed to use the most advanced schematics in my arsenal, I went back to Straw hat pirate crew that should be waking up soon.

I should let them to travel as they were supposed to, and bring me all if their crew that I will modify, except for a certain skeleton that would require different procedure. He is skeleton.

As for why I am sure Luffy will survive? He is already hard to kill with my serum, without even talking about when he will adapt to changes, but I will provide them all with escape crystals that would warp them out whenever they will get hurt too much. And I mean dangerously hurt, as they have a tendency of getting in trouble.

As for ensuring that they could warp out anytime, I might create warp prism with invisibility. It would provide me live recordings and a way to help Luffy at any point.

And no, I won't just lock him somewhere deep, I don't know if it would lead to the restart, and I need him to get stronger. I don't want the world to restart in the middle of the war.

As I was thinking about it all, I heard one if the pods open, it means someone is waking up.

" Good morning " I said to Luffy, who looked around and then at himself.

" Where am I? What is going on? " He asked, turning his head in my direction and looking in to my eyes.

" It is a part of transformation. All of you needed a lot of energy for the process to not have troubles, so I just supported it " I replied, giving him a hand and pulling him out of there,.

" And man, I should've thought about getting new clothes for all of you " I said, looking at his clothes that were bȧrėly holding him in. He didn't really get buff, clothes were ripping at seams with every move.

" wait a second. I'll be back " I said and apparated to random island I previously visited and took some clothes. Obviously I left payment, but I was too fast for the owner to realise what happened, so I left a note with things I bought.

" Here, wear these for now " I threw some clothes at Luffy, as he looked at me appearing in front of him.

" How did you... " He began asking, as he began taking his clothes off.

" Magic. You know, you shouldn't really Change here, as everyone else is waking up. " I said, pointing at Nami's pod that opened.

At that moment I just threw clothes and they flew to everyone, covering their changed bodies, obviously they would have to wear them, but at least they wouldn't be half nȧkėd.

" Good morning everyone. Yake your clothes and find a place where you will change. There are no living human on this island, so don't worry and just find a room. " I said, as laboratory was already finished. Building was finished, not labs.

" Whe... " Zoro and everyone else began asking, but I interrupted them: " Wear your clothes and then we can talk. " I replied, going out of the room with Luffy, who was almost nȧkėd. He definitely has no shame.

When we walked out of the room, I just moved my hand and clothes began moving by themselves, making Luffy struggle. But still, it was faster than if he would've done it by himself. Who knew that he was bad at this?

" Wha.. why did you do this? I could do it by myself! " Luffy grumbled, as we walked to the buffet, where probes would lead everyone.

" You were too slow. I just got bored. " I replied, sitting behind the table, waiting for everyone, while probes were bringing food and drinks on it.

" So, how do you feel? Any problems? " I asked, as I expected troubles with control. But, he didn't even stumble once when we were walking. So, either no troubles, or he is just that good.

* Boom *

* Crash *

Came the sound from the lab, where everyone was trying to wear clothes, obstructed by sheets of fabric from each other. They didn't have time to move out, as Nami shouted at everyone and probes had to bring it for everyone.

" Seems like they have some troubles. " I said, looking at Luffy, who was looking at food with extremely hungry expression.

" Wait for everyone. There are enough for everyone. " I said.

" And we will need to talk a lot about what is going to happen next "

" So, what should we do? I remember that these Borg outnumber us to ridiculous degree, what is your plan? " Luffy asked, as he salivated at the food on the table.

" I am still thinking, but for now - create a defence perimeter on the red line, hide all civilians who are unable to fight on the seafloor with fishmen's help, enchant strong people who would agree to protect their planet, and build a ridiculous number of robots that would act as our army. " I replied, as I saw door open and everyone else came in.

" You are slow. What happened? " I asked, looking at their half torn clothes and disheveled hair.

" What have you done to us, exactly? I can bȧrėly walk " Said Nami, as she had difficulty not lifting her legs extremely high while walking, as her strength exceeded her control.

" I changed you all. I will explain in details later, now let's eat. You must be hungry. " I said, even though I saturated them in transformation, but they still physically didn't eat for a long time, so hunger was obvious reaction.

As we ate, I explained that they now have extremely fast restoration and regeneration rate, allowing them not to get physically tired for, most probably, years without stopping. Also, their bodies were stronger and didn't require breathing anymore, as they were based on mine. Their height mostly increased, just like their muscles. Last, but not least, extreme resistance to any kind of illness or poison.

What they didn't get was my body structure and extreme protection. With time, they would get something resembling it, but not to a degree such as mine. Obviously, they could get to this point by Training, but not just by living.

After that, and after giving them some protection like shields and escape crystals, I let them travel. We agreed that they would call me whenever they find more crewmates or good friends for our war.

Now, as they went out on their ship, I began giving more orders and spread probes on more islands.

Lastly, I had to stop them from working in such a hastened pace, as some things were not made for it and broke under pressure in such a small amount of time.

~ Month Later ~

I upgraded Luffy's new crewmates and sent them back. Not surprisingly, he began finding them earlier than expected and it brought no trouble, just like in any other universe - world corrects details for things to go as close to plan as possible. Obviously there is a limit to such things, but it existed.

In this month I spread all around the uninhabited Islands and created factories and mines on them, producing probes and gathering resources at ridiculous rates, not leaving any veins untouched for the future. It was not good for the future generations, but there would be no future generations if I don't do something like that.

Under the ground, where sea was not very deep - in calm seas, I planned the creation of tunnel network that would be mainly used to mine everything out. Even earth was used. Fabricators were placed mainly below the surface of the earth, converting resources to the ones I needed. Yes, my main resource was earth and stone. The thing that was in abundance on this planet, just like sea water that was used too, but at less efficient conversion rates.

On the walls of red line I had around ten outposts that were spreading out and not touching wildlife that didn't care about robots and metal constructs.

Whenever I appeared there, though, I would get attacked as a potential food.

You should understand the result.

Luffy in the past month almost reached red line. Thankfully I didn't upgrade his ship, so they happily got it wrecked and found themselves a new ship creator. When Zoro and others asked to make ship for them, I replied with : " It's your adventure. Your fault. I have other, more important things to do, find new ship by yourself ". Or something like that

Obviously, Luffy looked at me with thankful eyes, as he struggled to explain reasons for my involvement.

Just like that, time to spread the news arrived. I can't just quietly build bases on Grand line walls and not use this world's strongest beings for war.

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