Lightning + Sand = Glass

Smoker wanted to hit Ken but seeing that Luffy had already started fighting Crocodile, he started running away along with the Straw hat crew because he saw nobody was paying attention to his words after Ken broke he prison.

Crocodile wanted to stop them but in return he was stopped by Luffy who had used his stretchy arms to hit Crocodile from the side. This time he didn't let Luffy do the same manoeuvre and caught Luffy's arm with his own hands.

And in the next seconds he sucked away water content from the arm of Luffy. Luffy had to pull away his arm in order to save his body from losing all the water from the body/

"Yaaa.... That was scary." Luffy shouted seeing his deflated arm where only the skin covering the bare bones could be seen. Luffy was of course warned about this too by Ken. He pulled out the pouch hanging from his waist and took out a jar of water.

He then proceeded to drink water from the jar and his deflated arm was back in the original shape. Crocodile seeing this small thing creased his brows. It seemed like this guy knew all of his weaknesses.

"Straw-Hat Luffy, you have surprised me." Crocodile said as half of his body elementalized and flew towards Luffy with his golden hook.

"I am not here to surprise you, baka banana." Luffy said.

Since sand wasn't helpful for him it was better to use physical force. His golden hook was laden with poison and thus he could use it on Luffy easily. And thus epic battle started. Crocodile started using the golden hook to hit at Luffy and make sure that his attacks could put a scratch on his body so that the poison could affect his body.

But somehow Luffy knew this too and always avoided the golden hook. And that wasn't all, Luffy was making water around and made sure that his body was doused with water. Crocodile was still very confused about how Luffy was able to do that but the attacks continued.

Then one of the surrounding glass broke and water soon started pouring in. Crocodile looked a little crestfallen seeing the glass break, though the place was made to flood it when required but it was made for the purpose of holding down his enemies. And from the looks of it, his whole investment turned out to be useless.

Crocodile knew that now he too would have to run or else he would be a deadweight in the water soon. Luffy seeing that shouted

"Where are you running you coward?"

Crocodile pad no heed and almost flew upstairs towards the open casino. Since this guy was so good in the water it was better to go to his 'home'.

The desert.

The desert would help him a lot and also neutralise the water power of this guy. Luffy also came running after Crocodile. While Crocodile was gliding towards the direction of the desert and Luffy was running after him, it was Ken who stopped in between Crocodile and his home.

"Punisher Kenny? Are you going to stop me?" Crocodile asked as he stopped near Ken. Ken had his Stormbreaker in his hand while he looked at Crocodile like someone looking at an ant. Those eyes infuriated him, because those were the same eyes Whitebeard once looked at him when he challenged him.

He would never forget the feelings that those eyes gave him.

"You know what happens when lightning strikes sand?" Ken asked in return with a smile. Crocodile was perplexed and asked in return.

"What?"

"Glass!!" Ken shouted as he summoned lightning in Stormbreaker and struck Crocodile. He couldn't react because Ken attacked at insane speed. Crocodile was thrown away quite a distance before stopping on the wall of a building. Crocodile felt like he was hit by some kind of train as he got pushed away and felt immense pain in parts of the body.

He was hurt. And that too very badly. On the side of his abdomen there was a small black hole which had outgrowths of crystallized stone that shone in light. This was glass in a very raw state.

And this happened due to his elementalization in the last second. The sand in his body got converted into glass and his abdomen wasn't the only location where it converted. His arms and legs too had holes and outgrowths out of it.

Luffy who had just arrived was taken aback seeing Crocodile in a pathetic state on the other side of the road. But he didn't let his opportunity go away and proceeded to beat the shit out of Crocodile. The people in One Piece had a very tough body so Crocodile was still conscious and crying out in pain when Ken had hit him.

"This is for the people that have died due to your selfish reasons...."

"This is for the tears you gave to Vivi..."

"This is for forcing Igaram-ossan leave the capital.."

Luffy was delivering the punches and kicks while explaining the reason. Luffy had really changed over the time as he had never beaten the shit out of anyone while explaining the reason. This was new for him. Luffy had changed a lot over the years and now it was visible.

Crocodile wanted to defend himself but he couldn't elementalize and glide away. But he still had fuel in his tank. He dodged a few attacks and was able to conjure a small distance between himself and Luffy and then in extreme anger, he made three huge blades with the sand manipulation and threw them at Luffy.

Luffy, who had already guessed the attack, shouted.

"Gum Gum No. Gatling."

He started throwing continuous punches at the incoming blades. At first the hits bounced back, but then Luffy with a louder shout applied more pressure on his attacks and after a millisecond, the punches tore through the blade and struck at the body of Crocodile.

A flurry of punches landed on his body which made a huge crater on the ground due to the strength Luffy had applied. Finally, after so many hits Crocodile was bloody all over his body and coughed up blood.

And in the next moment he lost consciousness. By the time Luffy finished the fight, Ken and others had come to see what had transpired. Even Smoker came with the crew to witness what Straw Hat Luffy had done.

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