Luffy and Ken both returned to the shore at extreme speed. All this time, they had been fighting and having fun with their opponents, but once their friends got threatened, they went into 100% mode.

Within seconds, they were back at the shore and stood opposite the agents, who had pointed their guns at Robin, Vivi, Iceburg, and Franky. Since Franky was a cyborg, he was held by a hand that was made of tekkai.

A tekkai that was at least as powerful as Lucci and Franky had no way of getting out of it. Robin was put on the sea stone chain so that she couldn't use her devil fruit. She wanted to use her stand and change the settings of the man who was holding her at the moment, but she stopped.

It was because if she did this, the secret that Jabra was a spy would be speculated about by them, and they couldn't afford it at the moment. She chose to believe in her friends. She wasn't alone anymore.

"Hahahha.. You filthy pirates. You thought the CP9 were the only people being sent here." Spandam spoke over the mic. He had been beaten down from afar by Ken using a little bit of lightning. Ken wanted to keep him for the last act, but it seemed like his lightning wasn't enough, and he wanted revenge on Ken.

"You filthy pirates. I allowed you to surrender before, and now you will lose your crew." Spandam shouted over the mic.

"Robin.. Vivi.. Are you alright?" Nami asked as she was pointing her staff at the people who had caught her friends. Behind each of them were two CP agents, all wearing masks and normal dresses. By that time, Zoro, Sanji, Ussop, and Chopper had also gathered.

"The rats have come out, it seems."

"I will shoot all of them down," Ussop said.

"I haven't used my feet at full power yet." Sanji said.

Luffy and Ken, who had just arrived, looked at the CP agents with menacing eyes. Spandam was still spewing bullshit over the microphone, but they didn't care. The Strawhats just looked at the CP agents like they were dead.

"Straw Hat Luffy.. I hope you will not take any bad decisions at the moment or you will lose one of your precious friends." One of the men in masks said

"Leave them, or I will kick your ass." Luffy declared.

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"It doesn't work like that here. You took down CP9, and that is commendable, but we are not the same as them. Any movement from you and I will blow their heads off." Another CP agent said

"What do you want?" Ken asked.

"Let us go, and the world government wouldn't come after you. Even the Buster Call will be taken away." The CP agent said

"Oh!" Ken was surprised that the World Government gave the CP agents that much power.

"What if we refuse?" Luffy asked.

"Then we will kill your friends, and then you." Another CP agent said

"They said the same thing before, and we still took them down." Ussop said as he slowly pointed his bow at the head of the CP agent who declared war on them.

"So if I understand correctly, you will leave with the ships once we let you go?" Ken asked. The CP agent nodded.

"Luffy, what should we do?" Ken asked. Since he was the captain, he needed to make the decision.

"Take them down. Of course." Luffy spoke it loud and clear, with no hidden agenda. He had always been the one with no plans and straight action. If there were no plans from the get-go, the enemies wouldn't be able to know of the plans at all. At least that was Luffy's logic.

"Of course."

"There was never a doubt."

"Straight away, think carefully about your decision. You will not only lose your friends but also the city. I am sure the mayor wouldn't be okay with that." The CP agent who was holding down Iceburg while keeping his mouth shut said

"Oh, you mean the Buster Call? I am not worried about them at all. I am more worried if you will be able to go back alive if you even put a scratch on Robin or Vivi." Ken said.

"Gear Second."

Luffy and others were ready to take the fight to the CP agents and the ships. But Ken came and spoke a few sentences in Luffy's ears, whose body was giving away steam, turned around and looked at Ken.

"Are you sure that it is what you want?" Luffy asked. Ken nodded.

"Then go nuts." Luffy gave him the green signal.

Ken moved away from the group suddenly and was back at the sea. The CP agents didn't care about stopping Ken as he wasn't going after them and concentrated on Luffy and the others. They were contemplating whether they should kill their prisoners at the moment and make an escape. That was the last-ditch effort, but of course they were confident about taking down these new pirates, who seemed to think that they were some kind of new force.

The CP agents loved to parade over their achievements. Meanwhile, Ken was already on the ocean again. He was going to make a move that he had been thinking about for a long time but never got the chance to make. Here, there was enough motivation and space to do it. All this time, Ken was being bombarded by cannons, but they were getting missed as Ken was able to judge the cannon balls landing.

This move would definitely instill actual fear in these people, who seemed to think that they were untouchable. He clapped his hands loudly and made the necessary hand seals.

"Chibaku Tensei." (Planetary Devastation)

A small sphere whose color was pure black and seemed to be sucking all the light around slowly rose off from between the hands of Ken towards a higher altitude. The vice admirals who were flying towards Ken and the navy men who were firing canons at him stopped and witnessed the weird sphere slowly rising up.