Chapter 123: The Blue Horde and the Blue Eyes White Dragon

The crew was exhausted. Their breathing was heavy, and their bodies were covered in bruises and cuts from the long battle against Dr. Indigo’s mercenaries.

Law pulled a card from his coat. The others followed his lead. They held up the Breath of the Archangel cards. A warm, golden light washed over the ten crew members. The magic soaked into their skin. Deep cuts closed up seamlessly. Bruises faded away. Their lungs filled with fresh air as their stamina returned in a sudden, powerful rush. They were ready for the final round.

Law turned to look at the Skypiean and Shandian refugees behind them. “Line up behind us,” he ordered. “Get your Reflect cards ready. Form a shield wall in case this thing breaks past us.”

The refugees scrambled into position, holding their copied cards out, ready to defend the Giant Jack.

A deafening roar shook the trees. The Armored Acid Kaiju stomped out of the glowing green fog. The beast was a walking nightmare of bulging muscles and thick bone plates. Sickly green acid dripped from its massive jaws, sizzling and melting the dirt beneath its feet.

“Take it down!” Jacob yelled.

Bepo moved first. The mink sprinted forward, leaping high into the air. He spun, driving a heavy heel kick directly into the monster’s knee. The strike landed with a heavy thud, but the moment Bepo’s fur touched the bone armor, the highly concentrated acid sizzled.

Bepo yelped in pain, kicking off the beast and landing several yards away. He frantically patted his leg, putting out the burning patch of fur. “I can’t attack it! The acid burns too fast!”

Koala rushed forward to cover him. She planted her feet and threw a powerful Fish-Man Karate punch. A shockwave of pressurized water slammed into the Kaiju’s chest. The water hit the armor, but the acid immediately ate through the moisture, turning the attack into a harmless cloud of toxic steam.

Maria charged in from the side. She swung her heavy kinetic club with all her Zoan strength and her Star Rage working overtime to add as much virtual mass as she could. The club smashed into the beast’s ribs breaking them and cracking the bone plating at the same time. However, the acid coating the monster instantly melted the top layer of her metal weapon. The metal hissed. Maria quickly pulled her club back before it dissolved completely.

The Kaiju swung its massive arm. Gwen fired a thick web to pull Maria out of the way, saving her from being crushed.

Law stepped forward, casting a massive blue Room over the clearing. He gripped Kikoku and swung his blade in a wide arc. The surgical cut easily sliced through the beast’s left arm. The massive limb fell to the dirt.

The crew watched in horror as thick green gas shot out of the Kaiju’s stump. The muscles violently wove themselves back together. Bone plates snapped into place. In exactly three seconds, the arm grew back completely.

“Physical attacks are useless!” Gwen shouted, swinging back to the group. “We can’t touch it, and it heals too fast!”

Jacob and Peter stepped up to the very front of the group. “We need to hit it harder,” Jacob said.

They activated their Buso Renkin powers. The power flared around them. Jacob’s gauntlets glowed brightly, shifting as energy stored in the bandages from the recoils from throughout the fight gathered at the gloves. Peter starts gathering the ambient heat from the surroundings through his weapon to form a glowing ball of energy in front of his chest, the ball emitting so much heat that it starts distorting the air around it.

“Clear the path!” Peter yelled.

The rest of the crew quickly scattered to the sides. Jacob and Peter aimed their weapons directly at the Kaiju’s chest. They fire their individual attacks.

Two massive beams of blinding, one energy and one heat shot forward. The blasts struck the monster dead center. The incredible force lifted the colossal beast completely off its feet. The Kaiju roared as it was launched backward through the air. It flew over the ruined barricades and crashed deep into the opposite forest, snapping massive, ancient trees along its path until it was buried in the brush.

The crew finally had a few minutes to breathe.

“We need to destroy the whole body at once,” Law said, keeping his eyes on the dust rising from the forest. “If we leave a single piece behind, I’m pretty sure it will grow back.”

“The Burst Stream of Destruction cards,” Koala suggested, looking at the others. “If we all use them together, we can wipe it out completely.”

Penguin frowned, scratching his head. “We have to charge those cards with a lot of Haki to make sure the attack is strong enough. That will take time. We need bait to hold the monster in place while we get ready.”

Shachi raised his hand. “I can distract it.”

Perona groaned and rolled her eyes. “Why use yourself? We have the blue boxes.”

Wyper walked up to the group. He carried his heavy bazooka over his shoulder. “I want to help, If I change the dial in the bazooka to a Breath dial I should be able to launch a strong attack,” the Shandian warrior said firmly.

Isa and little Aisa followed close behind him, bringing four other Skypiean women from the refugee camp. “We can help with the boxes,” Isa offered, looking at the crew.

The Crew looked at each other before Law could object, Koala gave him a nod suggesting that they should let the people around them help, after which Gwen pulled five cloned Mr. Meeseeks boxes from her supplies and handed them to the women. She gave them quick instructions. Press the button on top, give a simple command, and let them work.

A terrifying roar echoed from the broken trees. The Kaiju stomped out of the forest, enraged and dripping with fresh, burning acid.

“Now!” Gwen yelled.

Isa, Aisa, and the Skypiean women started slapping the buttons on the boxes as fast as their hands could move.

Poof. Poof. Poof. Poof. Poof.

Bright blue creatures popped into existence all around them, wearing massive, cheerful smiles.

“I’m Mr. Meeseeks, look at me!” “Ooh, yeah, I’m Mr. Meeseeks!”

“Hold down the giant monster!” Aisa screamed, pointing directly at the charging Kaiju.

“Ooh, can do!” the creatures chirped together.

The women kept pressing the buttons rapidly. A massive wave of blue bodies flooded the clearing. Hundreds of Mr. Meeseeks sprinted directly at the Kaiju without a single ounce of fear.

The beast clamped its jaws down, snapping three Meeseeks in half. The acid dripping from its armor melted five more into blue puddles. The Meeseeks simply did not care. They kept their wide smiles. They climbed up the beast’s legs, grabbed onto its massive arms, and pulled tightly on its tail.

For every single Meeseeks that melted or died, the women spawned three more to take its place. The sheer volume of bodies started to weigh the giant monster down. The Kaiju thrashed, roared, and sprayed acid everywhere, but it was completely buried under a mountain of cheerful, screaming blue creatures. Its advance stopped entirely as it struggled to take a single step forward.

“Get ready!” Law ordered.

The crew lined up. Law, Koala, Jacob, Maria, Peter, Gwen, Perona, Bepo, Shachi, Penguin, and Wyper stood shoulder to shoulder. They held their Burst Stream of Destruction cards out in front of them. Wyper aimed his bazooka squarely at the pile of blue creatures.

They pushed their Armament Haki deeply into the cards. The air around them began to hum loudly. White lightning started to crackle and spark from the cardboard edges. The energy built up quickly, glowing brighter and brighter until the light hurt their eyes.

“Fire!” Law commanded.

Everyone activated their cards at the exact same moment.

A massive white dragon with blue eyes materialised above the crew giving off a menacing aura before firing a solid beam of pure white lightning. The blast was as wide as a galleon, tearing through the clearing with a deafening roar.

The Kaiju sensed the overwhelming danger. It violently shook off a layer of Meeseeks and tried to jump away to safety. It was too slow.

The white beam hit the beast head-on. The light consumed the Kaiju entirely. The corrosive acid, the thick bone plating, and the mutated muscles all burned away instantly. The monster was erased from existence in a single second, leaving absolutely nothing behind to regenerate.

The attack continued forward. The combined Haki and power of ten powerful fighters pushed the beam far beyond the forest. The massive pillar of white light shot diagonally upward into the western sky. It flew straight toward Shiki’s remaining floating islands.

The beam slammed into the main floating fortress. The stone plazas, the castles, and all the surrounding smaller landmasses were instantly swallowed by the brilliant white light. The islands melted away into nothingness. The beam kept flying upward, punching a massive, clear hole through the clouds before finally fading away into the upper atmosphere.

A heavy, dead silence fell over the Giant Jack.

The remaining Mr. Meeseeks cheerfully popped out of existence, having fulfilled their purpose.

The crew stood completely frozen in place. Wyper lowered his bazooka slowly, his eyes wide. The hundreds of refugees behind them stared upward with their jaws hanging open.

They all looked at the empty patch of sky where a legendary pirate’s fleet used to float just seconds ago.

The quiet stretched on for a very long time. The wind rustled the leaves of the beanstalk.

Penguin swallowed hard. He slowly lowered his glowing card. He looked at Jacob, then looked over at Law.

“You know,” Penguin said, his voice shaking slightly in the quiet clearing. “Next time the Captain tells us that combining certain magic items is too dangerous to attempt… we should probably take him seriously.”

Jacob nodded slowly, staring at the empty sky. “Yeah.”

The entire crew nodded vigorously in complete agreement. They vowed silently to never, ever try that combined attack again.