9 Dr.Vegapunk

As Nyx and Mihawk were following the large robust robot from behind in the snowy atmosphere, they both were thinking the same thing.

'He's strong.'

While the robot wasn't doing it on purpose, you can practically feel the power that was oozing off his body.

'He's not stronger than me or Mihawk but he's quite close, that's for sure.' Nyx thought inwardly as they finally reached a large metal facility in the middle of nowhere with a 50 feet tall/wide garage door in front of them.

They walked up to the door and the robot put his hand against the large garage door until it suddenly started sliding upwards for them, the robot entered as its metallic footsteps resounded on the cold metal ground.

'Devil fruit?' Nyx and Mihawk looked at the robot weirdly before deciding to enter as the large door was already closing.

They looked around curiously and noticed it had a bright interior silver/blue interior, there were many lights and weird-looking large objects, and it was over 100 feet tall.

"W-what the hell?" Mihawk has never seen such futuristic materials before in his life as he stared with widened eyes.

"*Whistle* No wonder this guy is the so-called smartest scientist in the world." Nyx whistled as he glanced around.

The robot had a slight smile on its face because of the compliments but continued to walk, as they followed him into a metal hallway.

Once in the large hallway, there were windows on each side that showed the contents of each room which seemed to be filled with small robotic figures/parts handling experiments of some sort.

Mihaw's mouth was practically agape as he continued to walk.

Nyx himself was simply flabbergasted but they quickly both composed themselves, once reaching a human-sized door.

The robot stopped in front of the door.

"Give me a second." It suddenly spoke before its body started to transform.

Clink!

Clink!

His body slowly started to decrease in size as his metal transfigured down until he was around 7 feet tall, he was still towering over them but now he could enter the door comfortably.

'That's definitely a devil fruit, maybe Kid's devil fruit. But how does a robot even assimilate with a devil fruit?' Nyx questioned inwardly before deciding to follow after the robot who opened the door and entered.

As Mihawk and Nyx entered behind the robot, they looked around curiously.

This small room seemed to be the only normal room, with a wooden interior and multiple shelves filled with books, there was a desk at the center filled with papers, with a peculiar man in a chair and a female robot beside him.

The peculiar man had a tip of an apple protruding from the top of his head which was very large, a gray mustache, a white lab coat with a pepperoni-type designed shirt, and black boots.

The female robot beside him had a humanoid figure with blonde hair and silver metallic skin with some gold.

The man himself was paying attention to his desk, he seemed to be muttering some jibberish while writing something.

"Yes if E=X, then in this equation, aha! I see now!" The man suddenly exclaimed before noticing the guests at his door.

"So you're the visitors who wanted to see me?" The man questioned curiously as he jumped over his desk and appeared in front of Nyx and Mihawk as he circled them.

The robot who guided them simply stepped to the side and watched the interaction with the other female robot.

"You seem to be a devil fruit user, judging by your lack of weapon and you seem to be a swordsman. Let's see if my new creation works." The man muttered before running back to his desk and picking up a gun-like object, he approached Nyx and Mihawk again before circling them while pointing the gun at them.

Nyx and Mihawk watched curiously as they noticed there was no hostility from the large-headed doctor.

"Hmm... This brown-skinned fellow seems to excel in speed, maybe your devil fruit is related to speed also? And this swordsman... he has strong upper body muscles but weaker legs." The doctor whispered as he looked at the screen of his gun.

"Pfft-"

Nyx was trying to hold in his laughter as he looked at the blank-faced Mihawk who was trying to hide his embarrassment with a serious expression.

"Hmm, was I correct younglings? This thing is still a work in progress so I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work." The man questioned with an interested expression as he stood in front of them and stopped circling.

"Ahem! Yeah but my devil fruit isn't related to speed or at least not directly." Nyx replied with a mysterious smile.

Nyx's answer interested the scientist.

"Where are my manners, you may call me, Dr.Vegapunk." Vegapunk introduced himself with an amicable smile.

"The names Nyx and he's Mihawk." Nyx introduced himself and pointed toward the silent Mihawk.

"I see, I know you have already met but that's P-19 and the female robot is my assistant, M-7. M-7 dear, would you mind bringing those two chairs in front of my desk." Vegapunk introduced the two robots before sitting behind his desk.

M-7 brought two chairs from the back of the room and placed them in front of the desk.

"Thank you my dear, P-19 and you can leave now, I'll handle the rest." Vegapunk nodded gratefully toward the two.

The two robots were slightly conflicted to leave Vegapunk by himself in the room with two mysterious strangers but left without complaint since they trusted him.

"Now what may I do for you? You seemed to have come here with a specific goal in mind." Vegapunk leaned back in his chair and crossed one leg over the other as he stared at them interestedly.

Nyx and Mihawk sat down in front of the desk and promptly replied.

"Well, to be frank, I want to make an alliance with you." Nyx bluntly replied.

Prior to Nyx's expectation of Vegapunk laughing at them, he in turn had a curious expression on his face.

"You don't come off as someone stupid, young Nyx, so what is it that you can offer me that will make me want to align myself with you? And judging by your attire, I can only assume you're a pirate, so why would I make myself the enemy of the marines?" Vegapunk questioned.

"Everyone always assumes we're pirates but we're not-" Nyx was cut off as he relaxed in his chair.

"We plan on becoming something more akin to Mercenaries, which does include fighting marines but not for the reasons you would think." Mihawk finished Nyx's sentence as he also confidently sat in his seat.

"I see, I see, I apologize for assuming. So what is it you have to offer that will supposedly convince me?" Vegapunk looked at the two youngsters who seemed to be oozing confidence.

"Simply put, knowledge, the knowledge you never knew about." Nyx smirked as looked directly into the doctors eyes.

"Knowledge I never knew about? Isn't that a bit arrogant of you?" The scientist looked at the two with a dangerous glint.

"Before you skip to conclusions, let me demonstrate my powers." Nyx put his hand out in front of him with his palm facing upwards.

"Watch."

A sphere of air appeared in the palm of Nyx's hand as it continuously spun at high speeds.

"So? You have air powers-" Vegapunk stopped talking as he noticed a small piece of wood was peeled off from his desk and started to spin with the air in a circular manner.

"Wha-" Vegapunk cut himself off once again when noticing the small candle on his desk which was lit on fire, suddenly the fire disappeared.

Vegapunk looked up and noticed the fire was now circling with the other two elements in a sphere above Nyx's hand.

Nyx wasn't done as a small amount of water disappeared from Vegapunk's cup and appeared to be circling with the rest of the elements in a sphere above his hand.

Nyx and Mihawk smirked simultaneously once noticing the doctor's gobsmacked face.

"Air, earth, fire and water!? Did you eat multiple devil fruits and still survive!? No that's impossible, maybe a devil fruit that is versatile in all those aspects!? How would that even work!?" The doctor immediately started muttering things under his breath as he continuously wrote multiple things in his journals trying to figure out how it was possible.

Eventually, Nyx simply dispersed the sphere and watched the frantic doctor write, after a few minutes the doctor calmed down and looked at Nyx eagerly.

"Was it some sort of fruit that grants you the ability to manipulate all elements? Or maybe-"

Nyx mysteriously smiled at the doctor before picking up a paper from his desk and holding it straight in front of him.

Surprisingly the paper did not roll down as he was holding it, it stayed straight as if their was nothing pushing it down.

The doctor's eye's widened in realization.

"Wait.. No gravity!? If you can also manipulate gravity, then you must be able to manipulate the vectors themselves!! Now it makes sense! No wonder you could manipulate all those elements, you're simply manipulating the vectors surrounding them and making it seem as if you're controlling the element in its self, when your simply just controlling what's around it!" The doctor excitedly spoke.

Nyx nodded in confirmation.

"But when you did that to the paper, it seems you had to touch it in order for you to negate the gravity that was pressing on it, so it still has some certain restrictions, interesting. This type of ability could make my research go leaps and bounds, beyond what anyone could ever imagine!!" The doctor exclaimed as he flamboyantly stood up and spread his arms out in delight.

Nyx just chuckled at the doctor's behavior, while Mihawk was staring inquisitively at the doctor, wondering what his decision was going to be.

"Ahem! As for the proposition you have made...." The doctor thought for a few seconds before shrugging.

"Ah fuck it! I'll gladly align myself with you guys if I have access to such power!" Vegapunk's greediness for his science side seemed to have overpowered his logical side.

Nyx and Mihawk smiled as they heard his words.

Vegapunk extended his hand out for a handshake.

"We can set the terms for this agreement later, now you and Mihawk can rest since you guys must have had a long journey. P-17 should be in the hallway waiting, he will lead you guys to your designated rooms, feel free to explore if you want." Vegapunk shook hands with Nyx and Mihawk as they nodded in appreciation before leaving.

Once they left, Vegapunk relaxed in his chair with a smile.

"Seems I'll have to warn all my creations on this island to deter any marines that wish to enter." Vegapunk nonchalantly shrugged, he wasn't a big fan of them anyways, so he didn't mind allying himself with Nyx and Mihawk.

"Especially with a power like that, even that swordsman exuded quite the powerful aura, they should become quite the powerful allies, maybe even the marines will fear them one day...." Vegapunk thought aloud with a smirk.

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If you guys think explaining the setting of where they are, takes too much space, I can write a simple thing as "They arrived in the metallic research lab." and then just provide an image, or should I should keep it the same?

And for those who don't know, I slightly changed the past few chapters, so it makes sense that he has Vector Manipulation but there's no need to reread. In the next few chapters, I'll be explaining his powers in more detail and his limits, etc.

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