Chapter 7

With Ace out of the way, stuffed in an abandoned house in the middle of the desert, I quickly returned to Nanohana for my rematch with Smoker. Typical for the Strawhats, I found them being chased by Smoker and his Marines throughout the streets of Nanohana.

"Strawhat is mine, Whiteblow!!" shouted Smoker as his now healed arm turned into smoke and blasted for Luffy.

"Yikes, here he comes!" shouted Luffy as he sped up some more, but this time he couldn't outrun the smoke. Luckily for Luffy, I needed him to escape with Vivi and head for Crocodile, plus I needed a rematch with Smoker so I decided to intervene before he was caught.

Pulling out Zapper, I shot a blue lightning bolt straight for the Smoker's arm. Even though it wasn't real lightning, the beam still traveled several hundred times faster than a bullet and intercepted the attack before it could reach Luffy. 

*BANG!*

Smoker's attack was dissipated and the Smoke quickly transformed back into his arm which was now pink and riddled with 2nd-degree burns. The sudden explosion caused the Marines and the Strawhats to stop their running and look for the source.

"You?" exclaimed Smoker as he glared at me. Even though I was wearing a cloak, he immediately knew who I was, "I finally found you, Jinx."

This caused a visible reaction among the Marines and Strawhats, especially amongst a certain blue-haired individual amongst the Strawhats.

'It seems she got the gift.' I thought before I looked away from the Strawhats and focused on Smoker.

"Let's go while they're distracted," shouted Usopp and the whole crew started running again, even though Luffy looked somewhat reluctant.

"Go after them!" commanded Smoker and his Marines quickly ran past me and went after the Strawhats. He remained standing before me, his expression continuously darkening with anger.

"Let's end this right here." He said while unsheathing his Jitte from his back.

Without responding to him, I swiftly pointed Zapper at Smoker and fired without any hesitation. Smoker didn't get the chance to dodge as the lightning bolt hit him square in the chest and threw him back with so much force he smashed into the building behind him.

The neat thing about my enhanced Zapper is that I can adjust the power I get from the Hex crystal by how you press the trigger. If I didn't do that, Zapper would explode as it can't handle all the power contained in the crystal. The shot I fired right now was about 15% of the maximum power Zapper can handle and I can only fire about 50 more of those before I overheat Zapper and it literally melts.

As expected, Smoker slowly walks out of the rubble, the chest part of his clothes gone and the skin under that was a dark shade of red and brown. That blast had cooked his skin and because of the OP One piece body, he was somehow still conscious and angrier than ever.

Seeing his expression, I smiled and pressed the trigger again. Unlike before, he reacted just in time, probably from monitoring the movements of the finger on the trigger and he jumped out of the way. But his coat was burnt through and the blast continued and blew apart the already destroyed house into shambles.

'That was 30%, this time how about 50?' I thought. Smoker blitzed the distance between us in a fraction of a second, his left unharmed side instantly turning into smoke as it surrounded me.

I waved my gun while pressing the trigger creating a few feet thick arc-like beam that tore through the smoke giving me an escape route which I immediately took. It was basically a Getsuga Tenshou copycat.

'I need to learn those Six styles.' I thought doing a couple of backflips evading clumps of smoke that kept following me. Smoker utilizing Soru, appeared behind me while thrusting his Jitte with lethal intent. I contorted my body to the side, narrowly avoiding the pointy end of his Jitte which brushed past my waist drawing some blood. I retreated a few meters back and this time he didn't follow me.

The street we were fighting in was now basically empty, except for the two of us not that I cared for casualties. I pointed my gun at him again, but this time with the intention of ending the fight.

"Heads up, this one's big," I said as I pushed Zapper to its limit with a 100% blast. The split second before the beam was shot, the gun heated up rapidly up to the point the metals on the gun were red hot. Luckily the handle was made from a very heat-resistant material so I wasn't cooked immediately.

A beam I could only describe as a 'cero' blasted from the tip of Zapper and bathed the street in a bright blue light that was followed by destruction. The street looked like a scene from Transformers after having Optimus and Megatron wrestle in it. Some patches of the sandy ground right in front of me had turned into glass due to the intense heat.

The recoil from firing had pushed me a few meters back leaving a deep trail as I was now imbedded a few feet into the sand. I somehow managed to pull my legs out of the sand and walked towards what I assumed to be Smoker's corpse, but against all odds, this guy was still alive. He now looked like Might Guy after Night Guy.

I stood over him, contemplating finishing him off but before I could come to a decision, I heard some footsteps of a small army approaching.

"Captain Smoker?!!" shouted the Marines as they approached the street.

"Lucky guy," I muttered as I quickly walked into an alley before the Marines showed up, "At least I got to properly test Zapper out."