Mashira and Shoujo didn't mind that. They had already seen that only one ship could go up and that a ship could only hold so much. The three of them instantly went to gather their belongings. That took a few minutes, and soon everyone was ready to leave. The other crew members, Shoujo and Mashira, were asked to leave since there was nothing here and they could carry out their salvage businesses around and look for interesting things in the sea.

With that, everyone went on their way. The Bifrost started to extend up while the Theran form Caroo started pulling the ship. Nami had also used her magic to make the ship lighter for the journey. Caroo started pulling higher and higher, and everyone was excited as they were going up.

"The air will be lighter up there, so please preserve your energy." Ken reminded everyone. Though Luffy didn't understand what Ken meant by that, the others did, as oxygen would be scarce up there.

But their flight to Sky Island wouldn't be uneventful. The Bifrost didn't go up vertically, the road was loaded in a spiraled way so that the people in the ship didn't have to hold on to things to go up. For this reason, the ship didn't actually go very high in a short amount of time.

It was at this time that everyone heard from the ship.

"Je..Hahahaha...."

Everyone turned to look at the man who had laughed quite an ugly laugh.

"Zoro, look, it is the broken teeth-Ossan." Luffy shouted.

"Broken teeth-ossan? Ah, him.. Why is he here?" Zoro asked. Nami, who had seen the man, was also confused.

"Jehahaha! Muguwara no Luffy! Punisher Kenny... Sorry that I didn't recognize you before. I see that you have quite the devil's fruit to be going in such a grand way... Jehahahaha.."

It was Blackbeard. He had come alone, almost as same as in the original story, he had shown up. Ken had creases in his eyebrows. One of the main reasons he had gone to so much trouble to deal with this man's crew was that he didn't want any problems while leaving the Jaya Island, but this guy and his half-dead mates still showed up.

"Ossan, why are you here?" Luffy shouted back at him.

"Mugiwara Luffy.. I didn't recognize you before because of your eyes and new hair, but now I do. You are someone who has more than a 100 million-dollar bounty. If I can catch you and your vice captain, I will be a Shichibukai." Blackbeard shouted back. Those words instantly brought the faces of all the people around down.

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"Did he say he wants to capture us?"

"Yes, I heard that too."

Blackbeard laughed once more, and before any warning, he shouted while pointing his hand at Merry from the ground.

"Kurozu: Dark Whirlpool"

Instantly, Caroo, who had been flying away on the Bifrost, felt a serious tug on the ropes. At first, it was nothing, but within seconds, the ship became much heavier, and it had already started to go down, or rather, pull away from Caroo.

Everyone felt the pull at that moment. This was gravity. Even the ship was getting pulled with a high force. Ken didn't act confused and took out his Mjolnir. He couldn't bring the Stormbreaker because it was working on itself.

The clouds formed high above, and it turned dark. Blackbeard, who was concentrating on pulling Merry, looked up, and he had a serious face for the first time. He had a very bad feeling about it. And Blackbeard was right. Loud thunder was heard around

Ken lifted his hammer and brought it down in the air. Lightning came down without much of a hint, and it struck on the body of Blackbeard with pinpoint accuracy. Ken used his godly powers with full force on this guy and didn't hold back.

The lightning made the debris and dust burst up from the place and destroy quite a bit of the surroundings. The pull from Blackbeard stopped, and Merry got stable on the bifrost.

"I wonder if he was fried to crisp with only bones remaining." Robin commented.

"Robin doesn't say such spooky things." Ussop said.

"Ken, you used quite a bit of power. He is probably dead." Luffy said.

"If he had died so easily, I would have been the King of the World already." Ken said as he was looking at the place.

"Huh?"

Before anybody could realize it, the dust had already settled, and Blackbeard was shown lying on the ground. He was twitching in pain, but slowly that stopped too. There were two burn marks on his hairy body, but that didn't stop him from getting up on his feet.

"How is he still alive?" Cricket, who was also watching the drama, was more surprised. When Ken brought down the lightning with a move of his hand, he couldn't believe his eyes, but seeing that this guy was fine and even go up on his feet gave him more surprise.

Who are these people? Monsters in human skin?

"Punisher Kenny, jeez, you have surprised me today." Blackbeard said. Though he could hardly talk and almost coughed, he had excitement in his eyes. Now the Straw Hats crew became serious. A man who could stand up after taking the lightning to his body was not a simple man.

"You used the Devil Fruit powers to negate the lightning at the very last second. Didn't you?" Ken shouted. There was still a distance between him and Merry.

"Oh! You seem to know of my Devil Fruit?" Blackbeard asked.

"Teach. You should go on your way and let us go on ours. It won't end well for you." Ken warned.

"Teach? So you do know me. All the more reason to take care of you." Blackbeard said.

"Teach? He is Blackbeard.." Nami came to this realization just like the others. The one Ace had been searching for

"You asked for it, Teach." Ken said, and then his normally black eyes started changing. Not to a red tomoe sharingan one but to a gray colored limbal rings type eye.