One Piece: Invasion of the Heavens

When all members of the Straw Hat Pirates were entangled by Scorpion's army of puppets, the battle on Luffy's side also became intense.

Luffy jumped into the sky countless times, but he failed to hit Deidara every time. Instead, he was blown up many times by Deidara's explosive clay.

Deidara controlled the giant clay bird under him to rise suddenly, avoiding Luffy's huge fist.

"Damn it, can't you increase the attack range?" Luffy retracted his arm and couldn't help but screamed in secret. And he himself fell down due to gravity.

This is also the reason why Luffy has never touched Deidara until now. The excellent jumping ability allows Luffy to attack Deidara. But he doesn't have the ability to stay in the air, so he only has one chance to take action at a time, and he can easily be dodged.

Deidara sneered and threw down three clay birds with his backhand. Three palm-sized clay birds quickly grew in size in the air, then flapped their stiff wings and flew together towards Luffy, who was falling to the ground.

"What! What!" Luffy waved his fist randomly in the air, trying to drive away the three clay birds.

But these three birds spun around Luffy flexibly, and finally seized the opportunity to hit Luffy together.

A huge cloud of gunpowder smoke appeared in the air, and then a figure fell down from the cloud of gunpowder smoke. It was Luffy who had already rolled his eyes.

After falling heavily to the ground, Luffy stood up unsteadily, puffing out black smoke.

"Damn it, there's no way we can defeat that bomb bastard if we continue like this!"

Luffy gasped, his eyes sharpening as he looked at the giant clay bird hovering in the sky.

"In that case...!"

As he said that, Luffy swung his legs to throw aside the sandals under his feet, and then bit his arm wrapped in armor-colored Haki.

The black arm expanded rapidly, and a large amount of steam was generated. Finally, Luffy's entire body was hidden in it.

In the steam, there was the sound of something bouncing around. After the steam slowly dissipated, a changed Luffy appeared again.

His body had more than doubled in size, and his limbs were covered with red-black luster of armed domineering energy, and special patterns gathered on his chest.

Luffy's expression also changed, his eyes became dark, and steam continued to spit out from his raised mouth.

Compared to his swollen body, his legs, which were much slender, were constantly bouncing on the ground. Luffy had already entered his strongest state at this time. The most important thing is that in this state, Luffy has the ability to fly.

"Fourth Gear·Muscle Balloon, Elastic Man!"

As soon as Luffy finished speaking, he was already flying into the air. In just one breath he was beneath the clay bird.

"Rubber...Ape King Gun!"

The fist that had been compressed into a tight spring suddenly punched out, directly destroying the giant clay bird Deidara was riding.

The explosion blew Deidara away, but luckily he threw another one in time to catch him.

Although the injury on his body was still hurting, Deidara laughed and said: "The best is pretty good, but it's still far from being comparable to my art!"

Luffy did not fall behind this time, but instead opened his arms and chased Deidara. Luffy's feet kept retracting and popping out, creating a jet-like effect.

"It's so annoying!" This time it was Deidara who had a headache, and he quickly distanced himself from Luffy.

Although Luffy's flying method is very explosive, it is not as flexible as Deidara's clay bird. Although he approached Deidara several times, he still could not catch him.

Luffy stopped and estimated how quickly his Haki was being depleted. If you procrastinate any longer, you will be the first to fail. Therefore, the battle must be resolved as soon as possible. Fortunately, he has such a move.

"Rubber...Orochi Fist."

Luffy punched out his fist and flew after Deidara. Clay Bird deflected his body and dodged the punch.

Unexpectedly, the fist bent in mid-air and hit in a different direction. After bending several times in the air, it hit Deidara from below.

Deidara controlled the clay bird to pull up, just in time to avoid the punch. But Deidara, who was looking up, saw that the fist in the air bent twice and then struck downwards.

Deidara gritted his teeth, waved his hand and threw two bird-shaped bombs.

"drink!"

The explosion blocked the fist, and Deidara was not hit by Luffy's punch.

The fist retracted Luffy's body. Although this blow missed, it was the closest to success. This also gave Luffy a little more confidence, at least his moves were useful.

This time, Luffy stretched out his two hands and punched out two fists at the same time.

The two fists kept changing directions in the air while hitting Deidara in the air. The two fists worked together to block all the directions Deidara could avoid.

The giant clay bird closed its wings and flew out through the gap between the two fists. And where Deidara flew out, he left a gift for Luffy.

The two giant centipedes said that the arms that Luffy had hit directly crawled towards Luffy's body.

"Ahh! It's a bug!"

Luffy said in a disgusted tone, and quickly retracted his arm to throw off the two centipedes on his arm.

But these two clay creations were much faster than normal centipedes, and they were in front of Luffy before he could fully retract his arms.

Deidara smiled triumphantly and raised his fingers in front of his mouth.

"drink!"

Following Deidara's command, the two-day centipede in front of Luffy almost exploded close to Luffy's face.

Luffy rolled and flew out in the explosion. He turned over many times before regaining his balance.

After shaking his head, Luffy's face didn't look very good. In the fourth gear state, his whole body was covered with powerful armed Haki, so even though the explosion happened almost close to his face, it didn't cause much damage.

But the problem is that the explosion just now really consumed a lot of his domineering energy and greatly shortened his fourth gear maintenance time.

"It's not enough! It needs to be...faster!"

With that said, Luffy fired the Orochi Fist again. Compared to the previous attack, Luffy's attack this time was obviously faster.

It was obvious that Luffy was having a blast. The more critical the situation, the brighter the protagonist's halo. This is also the reason why countless villains clearly had the advantage at the beginning, but later fell to their knees.

The Orochi Fist, which was more than twice as fast, made Deidara unable to react at all. By the time he saw the fist that was constantly bending in the air, the fist had already arrived in front of him.

Just like when he first met Luffy, he was once again knocked out of the giant bird's back. This time the attack was obviously heavier. Deidara spurted out a mouthful of blood in mid-air. It was obvious that he was seriously injured.

Luffy was panting slightly, but his face was full of pride as he said, "How about it, bomb bastard, now you know how powerful I am!"

The sound of broken bones sounded, and Deidara stood up from the ground with a grin.

"Damn you brat, it hurts so much! But you did piss me off, even more than that bastard Itachi Uchiha did!"

What Deidara didn't notice was that when he said that name, two red lights flashed in the smoke and dust of the ruins!