Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance

The Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance, originally Straw Hat-Heart Alliance, was an alliance first formed between the Straw Hat Pirates and Heart Pirates, but later on expanded to the Kozuki Family and the Mink Tribe. Their goal was to take down Kaidou of the Four Emperors, which succeeded during an all-out battle and put an end to Kaidou's master plan.

Upon the conclusion of their mission, the alliance officially disbanded with the groups going their separate ways: The two Worst Generation crews left Wano and continued their quests of finding One Piece; the Kozuki Family regained their shogunate over the country after twenty years; The two kings of the Mink Tribe decided to stay at Wano and pass the leadership to Carrot.

Members
With the goal of reaching 5,000 strong, the alliance managed to gather around 4,200 men. Shortly before the raid on Onigashima, Denjiro brought 1,200 men with him from the Flower Capital, exceeding Kin'emon's goal.

Preparation Works
Before the attack, the alliance divided its forces into teams.


 * The Ship Repair Team (船整備班) was responsible for repairing the ships at Itachi Port with Franky and Usopp as members.
 * The Weapons Prep Team (兵器準備班) was responsible for preparing weapons in Udon with Hyogoro as a member.
 * The Katana Retrieval Team (刀回収班) was responsible for recovering swords in Ringo with Cho as a member.
 * The Yakuza Rousing Team (反逆者統率班) was responsible for the commanders in Kibi with Yatappe as a member.

Invasion
During the Raid on Onigashima, the forces split into four groups, according to Law's plan. With the entrance of the Nine Red Scabbards to the Skull Dome, the alliance reassembled for the war against Kaidou and his forces.

Attacking Force
The alliance has over 11,457 men, not counting their occasional allies and non-fighting support.

Alliance Strength
The alliance includes three crews from the Worst Generation, the Kozuki Family, the Mink Tribe from Mokomo Dukedom, numerous allies from Wano Country, a marine rear admiral undercover as a pirate, and a Super Rookie. The Pirates have a combined bounty of at least 4,763,000,600, the Kozuki Family is a noble family in Wano Country, leading a legendary group of powerful Samurai, and the minks are all born warriors with the ability to produce electric shocks known as Electro.

Additionally, during the raid, the alliance gained three former members the crews of two emperors: Marco and Izou from the Whitebeard Pirates and Yamato from the Beasts Pirates. Also, while not strictly apart of the alliance the Kid Pirates fought alongside them, against the Beasts Pirates.

Samurai and Mink Origins
Shortly after the death of Kozuki Oden, his son, Kozuki Momonosuke, and some of his retainers were sent 20 years to the future, to the current time, and began recruiting allies for their counterattack. Though there were some loyal retainers of Oden still around, it was far too small to contend with the Beasts Pirates and Orochi's forces. As such, they headed out to sea too look for more allies, with their first destination being Zou, to recruit the Minks. However, due to a betrayal leaking their plans, and the samurai inexperience in sailing, the time-traveling warriors ended up splitting out at sea. Raizo made it to Zou, where the Minks hid him, from the Beasts Pirates who raided the island in search of him, even using poison gas to defeat the Minks. Kanjuro ended up on Dressrosa, where he hid himself in the scrap heap, and waited until he was found by his allies. Kin'emon and Momonosuke found themselves on Punk Hazard, with Kin'emon being split apart by Law, and Momonosuke, having been mistaken as one of Caesar's 'guinea pigs' for his Gigantification experiments, though the boy escaped, ate an Artificial Devil Fruit, and then fell into the garbage dump.

Punk Hazard Arc
After landing on Punk Hazard, and several incidents occurred, the Straw Hat Pirates encountered Trafalgar Law who had wished to form an alliance with them in order to take down Kaidou (though secretly, Law's target was 'Joker'). Luffy agreed and the Straw Hat-Heart Alliance was formed. The first part of Law's plan, was to have the Straw Hats kidnap Caesar Clown, while he destroyed the SAD production facility. This was necessary so that the production of SMILE's, mass produced artificial Zoan Devil Fruits, would cease. The alliance managed to succeed, and during the task the Straw Hats encountered Kin'emon and Momonosuke, befriending them and helping them out of their predicaments.



They then left Punk Hazard with Law, Kin'emon and Momonosuke, where their new ally explained his plan enroute to Dressrosa, the kingdom ruled by Donquixote Doflamingo (a.k.a. Joker). Law planned to negotiate with Doflamingo for the return of Caesar, in return for his abdication of his position as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. If Doflamingo complied, he would become a normal pirate and be targeted by the Marine Admirals, though if he refused, the Heavenly Demon would instead be targeted by Kaidou, for no longer supplying him with SMILE's. However, Law planned it so that during the hostage exchange, some of the Straw Hats would infiltrate Dressrosa, locate the SMILE Factory and destroy it, thus halting the production of SMILE's, and provoke Kaidou into attacking Doflamingo, with the confrontation hopefully weakening the Emperor.

Law then negotiated with Doflamingo while sailing to Dressrosa, which the Heavenly Demon seemingly complied to, publicly announcing his abdication.

Dressrosa Arc
After landing on Dressrosa, the alliance started to carry out the plan, with Kin'emon going out to search for his friend Kanjurou. However, things quickly go awry, with the Straw Hats being split up by various circumstances and Doflamingo's scheming. The alliance soon learnt that Doflamingo used his influence as a former World Noble to manipulate the news, and fake his abdication. In order to prevent things from going his way, Law left Caesar with Nami, Sanji, Chopper, Brook and Momonosuke, and had them sail to their next location, Zou. However, the Surgeon of Death was then abducted by Doflamingo, who had assistance from Marine Admiral Fujitora. In order to stop the Donquixote Pirates, the Straw Hats ended up working with the Tontatta Tribe to carry out Operation SOP, which ended up getting them more allies in the form of the Riku Family, the Revolutionary Army, as well as several pirates and warriors the Donquixote Family enslaved as toys with the Hobi Hobi no Mi. The Straw Hats managed to free Law, and with Doflamingo using his Ito Ito no Mi ability to trap everyone on the island in Dressrosa with the intent to kill them, the alliance switched their objective to personally defeat the evil king. The final result was that the SMILE factory was destroyed, the Donquixote Family were defeated and arrested, and the alliance managing to escape Dressrosa thanks to the newly formed Straw Hat Grand Fleet formed under Luffy (against his will). The alliance then set sail to Zou, on the Barto Club's ship.

Zou Arc


After the Straw Hat Pirates and their traveling companions reached Zou, it was revealed to them that the minks were allied with the Kozuki Family and that they risked their lives to protect Raizo. The Mink Tribe willingly revealed this to the pirates thanks to the trust gained from the samurai during their travels, as well as due to the Heart Pirates assistance during the battle against Jack, in addition to the crew on the Thousand Sunny saving the country from the poison gas.

The Straw Hats and Law were taken to see Raizo, and the samurai told the Straw Hats about Oden's death and Kaidou's occupation of Wano Country. After being encouraged by Luffy, Momonosuke begged the pirates to help them in the fight against Kaidou, which Luffy agreed to, officially forming the Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance. Law felt somewhat neglected at first as Luffy did not even ask for his opinion on the addition of two new branches into the alliance.

The alliance made plans as to their next course of action: Luffy planned to go to Whole Cake Island with Nami, Chopper, and Brook to rescue Sanji, guided by Pekoms, with Pedro later joining them, while Zoro, Usopp, Robin, Franky, the Heart Pirates, and the samurai would head to Wano Country. Meanwhile, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi planned to search for Marco in order to increase their alliance's strength.

The elephant carrying Zou, Zunesha, came under attack by Jack and his men, but on Momonosuke's command, it wiped out his entire fleet. With everything settled, the alliance split up and began their missions, with Momonosuke and Inuarashi staying on Zou to communicate with Zunesha and defend against any future Beasts Pirates attacks.

Wano Country Arc
Nekomamushi and the Guardians have traveled to an island, and while the Guardians stayed behind, Nekomamushi entered a secret village behind a waterfall, where he met Marco. Marco was shown caring for the villagers as he believed that the village is Whitebeard's keepsake and he wished to protect it. After they talked, Nekomamushi concluded that Marco would not come with him, and Marco asked Nekomamushi to deliver a message to Luffy.

Meanwhile in Wano Country, as instructed by Kin'emon, the Straw Hats (Zoro, Usopp, Robin, and Franky) disguised themselves in order to hide their infiltration from the Shogun, Kurozumi Orochi, guards, and subsequently the Beasts Pirates. However, Zoro was caught and falsely accused of a series of murders, forcing him to go on the run after attacking the magistrate.

Kin'emon's group worked on gathering allies and after Luffy's group arrived at Wano Country, Kin'emon met up with them at the ruins of Oden Castle and revealed a plan to attack Onigashima, the island where Kaidou resided, in two weeks. However, a drunk Kaidou arrived to take down Luffy and Law after finding out they had caused trouble on the island. He attacked the ruins of Oden Castle and then fought Luffy, whom he swiftly defeated and had imprisoned.

During Orochi's private prelude party before the Fire Festival, Robin infiltrated the party under the guise of one of the dancing geishas and discovered the shogun's scheduled for the day as well as his company number and weapons. After the chaos at the palace, the Beasts Pirates discovered Kin'emon's secret message and started arresting every person with the mark of the Kozuki Family, a crescent moon, on their ankle. During their search, Hawkins and Drake encountered Nami, Robin, and Shinobu, though they managed to escape with Sanji's help. Meanwhile, several members of the Heart Pirates were captured. When Kin'emon was informed about the leak, he began to worry about his allies and their plan. Meanwhile, Zoro encountered Kozuki Hiyori and swap information with her regarding the members of the Nine Red Scabbards and her brother. Luffy met Hyogoro in the Udon Prisoner Mines and started training his Busoshoku Haki under his tutelage, preparing for his next battle against Kaidou.

After learning about the alliance's plan, Shimotsuki Yasuie volunteered to join the fight. When the alliance's plan began falling apart due to Orochi and the Beasts Pirates discovering Kin'emon's secret message, Yasuie sacrificed himself by taking responsibility. After Yasuie's death, the Straw Hats started a fight at the execution area and blew their cover to the authorities. Meanwhile, Law faced against Hawkins in an attempt to free his crew. Desperate to recruit Ashura Doji, Kin'emon framed him for theft, which resulted in Holed'em setting fire to the Mt. Atama Thieves' hideout. Ashura was angry when he found out about this, but after seeing Yasu's actions, the two calmly talked their issues out and Ashura agreed to fight alongside them. At the same time, Chopper led a plan to free Luffy from prison by using an amnesiac Charlotte Linlin, which resulting in Luffy taking over the prison and gaining the support of the inmates, including Kawamatsu, a member of the Nine Red Scabbards, and the yakuza bosses loyal to Hyogoro.



After escaping the Flower Capital, Sanji and Shinobu tried to devise a plan to free their captured allies, while the freed Heart Pirates informed Nami about Yasuie's alteration to the alliance's secret message to their allies, before the Straw Hats returned to Kuri to meet up with Kin'emon. With their new allies, the alliance increased their numbers drastically, and after Kawamatsu returned to Ringo and reunited with Hiyori, they acquired a vast amount of weapons for the upcoming battle. Several key members of the alliance gathered in Amigasa Village to begin a strategy meeting.

Two days before the Fire Festival, Kin'emon rallied the alliance teams for the final push before the battle. However, a day later during the night, Orochi sent his men to destroy several bridges across Wano, preventing the major forces from arriving to the meeting port. Desperate, the Scabbards head out on a small boat, preparing to continue the fight by themselves. On the boat, they faced the unavoidable conclusion that there was a spy among them, who is revealed to be Kanjuro. Kin'emon angrily beheaded him, only to learn that it was a copy and the real Kanjuro remained on the coast and that he had captured Momonosuke. As this was happening, the Scabbards' boat was confronted by three Beasts Pirates ships. The Scabbards were saved by the arrival of the Straw Hats, Heart Pirates, and Kid Pirates.

The Raid on Onigashima
The Alliance infiltrated the Beasts Pirates' celebration on Onigashima. After Kaidou unveiled his New Onigashima Project, the Red Scabbards ambushed him, and the Alliance removed their disguises, causing war to break out throughout the Skull Dome. Through the night, the Alliance's forces fought the Emperors' forces. After defeating the Emperors, the shogun, and the officers of the Beasts Pirates, the Alliance brought an end to Kaidou and Orochi's 20-year reign.

Aftermath
With the defeat of Kaidou and Big Mom, the Beast Pirate's regime over Wano was officially over and the rightful Shogun Momonosuke announced to his overjoyed subjects the end of their days of misery and despair. Due to his humility Luffy asked Momonosuke not to give his name to the public and so the people of Wano came to know him as Joy Boy and are forever grateful to him for putting an end to Kaidou and Orochi's oppression.

While celebrating their victory, everyone was beyond amazed when they read in the newspaper that Luffy and Buggy had taken Big Mom and Kaidou's places as Emperors. Luffy's new status as an Emperor also involuntary helped increase his sworn brother Sabo's influence on to his increasing number of followers. Robin and Law were shown the third Road Poneglyph by Kozuki Sukiyaki who was revealed to still alive and living under the alias "Tenguyama Hitetsu" with this the Straw Hat Pirates became one step closer to claiming the One Piece. Law made rubbings of the Road Poneglyph for his crew and the Straw Hats then gave one to the Kid Pirates for all of their contributions during the raid. Inuarashi and Nekomamushi decided to stay in Wano and continue to serve as retainers to the Kozuki Family and asked Carrot to take their place as ruler of Mokomo Dukedom much to her shock.

With their objective of taking down Kaidou achieved, the alliance officially disbanded.

Trivia

 * Luffy was the one who came up with the alliance's name, causing Usopp to state it was too long and Nami to question if the "Ninja" part was needed as the ninja, Raizo, was affiliated with the samurai. However, the consensus was that it was needed, mainly due to Luffy's enthusiasm for ninjas.
 * In Chapter 973, a waning crescent moon was shown, implying that Oden's death, and subsequently the Fire Festival, occurred at the end of the month. This matches Hawkins' prediction in Chapter 913 regarding Luffy's future.
 * In Chapter 987, however, a full moon is shown during the event.

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