204 Much improved ship is on the way

Iceburg and the others were curious, so they didn't let go of the changed Franky and pestered him about why there was such a huge change in him. Iceburg could tell that it was something of a secret for the Straw Hats after seeing the huge change in Franky, so he didn't ask anymore.

So did Paulie and the others. But after understanding that it might be some kind of secret for Franky as he had joined the Straw Hats, they didn't pester for more than 5 minutes. Franky seemed to feel bad that he couldn't share his secrets, but he did show them what he could do. Since he was at 50% completion of the character, he didn't have access to all the things that Cyborg was able to do, but Franky was able to evaluate things and calculate much faster than a human mind and was just like an AI.

And Franky was also able to shoot lasers from his hand. This made both Paulie and Luffy lose their sh*t. They wanted him to show this once more, and of course Franky indulged them. He himself was happy with his transformation.

Nami finally saw these men fooling around for such a long time and gave them an earful.

"Repair Merry. It's been a long time she has been sitting away in the dock." Nami shouted.

"Yes. Yes. We will go." Franky and Iceburg both went off to work, seeing Nami angry. The women in One Piece really seemed to have a temper. Both went off to work, with Franky taking the motherbox in his hand. He was going to use this box to transform the ship into something special.

He was going to make a ship that would surprise everyone. A ship that could both sail in the air and under water with normal capabilities. He was going to make a ship that could also deflect canons and attacks from other ships and have its own arsenal. He already had his own ideas in mind that would be a combination of their world and the previous world.

Living in that world made him realize that his previous world seemed to have less color. He couldn't let Merry have fewer colors and wanted to remodel the ship in such a way that it was a combination of both worlds perfectly joined together.

Iceburg had already brought Adam's tree trunks in order to make the ship, but Franky also suggested using a new kind of metal alloy that would be more durable and stronger. Iceburg had never heard of such an alloy, so Franky had to assure him that he himself would make that alloy.

The straw hats had been left for Franky and others to do their own work. But Ken did say that if they needed help making it, they could always ask him. And thus a long wait started for the straw hats.

Franky took over a very large port, and that too booked the whole thing in order to remodel the ship. Ken had specifically asked not to destroy the parts of Merry and could only add things to them. Franky understood the job he needed to do and started working towards it.

Meanwhile, the Straw Hats lived their lives in the Galley La company quarters and went on with their work. They practiced and worked hard on their new powers. Nami was finally able to do water bending after days of practice.

Chopper was trying to both increase the size of the insects he was transforming into and also diminish the size of the normal animals that he was transforming into, like transforming into a small elephant. This was a novel thing that Chopper was trying to do with his character, and everyone supported it.

Ken was trying to get his powers on the mangekyo sharingan, but somehow this thing alluded to his calls. Luffy and others were progressing fast with Zoro in the last stages of the completion of Yoriichi's character. The Slayer mark had already appeared on his forehead.

But whenever Zoro activated his mark like Tanjiro does, his green seemed to turn yellow like Zenitsu. This was a very weird thing, as everyone thought that after the lightning attack from Enel, he would have yellow permanent hair.

Of course Sanji made fun of this, but whenever he had yellow hair, he used to shut up about it because at that time both had yellow hair. But Zoro was able to control his slayer mark. At this time, Ussop was also able to bring his own weapon. The huge ass bow that could shoot reishi arrows from multiple sides

It really went against everything a sniper should possess, as the weapon was a big one, and honestly speaking, as a sniper, Ussop didn't like the bow, but as a coward, he loved it because this bow would mean that he could now shoot multiple targets and be safe.

Ebern's bow was really one of a kind.

Among the straw hats, Vivi was the one who visited the port where the ship was made quite often because, at many times, the ship needed some parts that only she could produce at the fastest speed possible, and her food intake went above Luffy's for the first time. But this was also a good thing for her, as she was able to control her powers more and progress in her character faster.

After almost 20 days of tough work and making adjustments to the ship, the Merry was finally ready to set sail again, but fate again played tricks with the Straw Hats. Because one of the days the Straw Hats had decided to leave Water 7 was the day a marine ship showed up.

There was a special marine ship that was used by only members of the navy, and if someone had some knowledge of the marines, they could recognize that ship as belonging to a hero of the marines.

In other words,

Monkey D. Garp

Just like in the original story, he had shown up!

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