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Wyper's POV
Where'd he go?
The pigeon guy came back down from roof but Steve wasn't with him. The suit he was wearing was soaked in rain and blood, just like his right arm.
"Where is he?!" Luffy asked.
"Dead on the ground."
"RAH!" Luffy charged at the man.
"I'll send you flying."
With a flick of his wrist Lucci threw our captain across town.
"Luffy!"
Zoro slashed at the man but he blocked it with just an arm, and then flung the swordsman right out the window.
What are these guys?
I looked over and saw Nami trembling in fear and did the only thing I could, I fought back. I absorbed the fire in the room with a dial and shot it.
"Flame Dial!"Â The inferno blasted towards the cat man and singed his suit.
"Tempest Kick!"Â He kicked the air and a shockwave formed only it wasn't aimed for me.
"Nami run!" I pushed the girl out a door and down to the ground. Then the blast hit me and threw me back through a series of walls.
"AGH!"
Dammit Robin.
Steve's POV
It's so hot…
"Ugh." I opened my eyes and was surrounded by various men from Galley-La.
I saw Nami, Wyper, and Chopper were all on the ground and in bad shape. The mansion was on fire and I was covered in blood.
Where are Luffy and Zoro?
"Iceberg don't move yet."
"Leave I want to talk to him, alone."
I sat up while Iceberg took a seat across from me, everything was so sore and aching.
"First of all I'm sorry. I accused you of a crime you didn't commit; I'll make it up to you somehow." He told me.
"No, I tried to choke you I owe you the apology."
"I want to ask you something, Nico Robin did her attitude change once you got to this island?"
"Yeah, once we got here she disappeared. Then she tried to kill you and when three of the crew found her this morning, she said she wasn't coming back." I told him "That's why I came here tonight, to find her and ask why she wanted to leave us behind. I still can't believe her; I don't want her to go."
"You really care about her, don't you?" He asked me.
"Yeah, ever since I met her I started feeling that way."
"Then I'll tell you what I know and do the best to fill in the gaps in your knowledge" Iceberg explained "I expect that the government's plan started when you got to this island. I know her reason for doing this, but first I want to ask you to think about this, Nico Robin has the power to revive an ancient weapon, one that can destroy the world."
"So it comes back to those damn bricks only she can read." I groaned.
"Exactly. Now her reason for leaving you behind."
"How do you know this?"
"It was right before you came into my room…"
Iceberg's Flashback Start
"I won't give up those blueprints even if it kills me. I have to stop you; you can't keep searching for the Poneglyphs and lending your assistance to the government."
"I'm not looking to resurrect the ancient weapon; I just want to know history."
"That is a useless sentiment. If your study of history put the whole world in danger then you should just die! You still want to chase history even after what happened to Ohara."
"What do you know?! You have no idea how much our lives were ruined by the World Government."
"Then why are you helping them if you hate them so much?!"
"Because, I want my wish to come true even if I have to give everything up for it. CP9 gave me two conditions, to have the assassination blamed on them, and then give myself up."
"You've been running for twenty years why give yourself up now."
"CP9 has permission to use a Buster Call against the Strawhats."
"Buster Call?"
"It is a military assault that summons five vice-admirals and ten warships. Once you're the target there is nothing more you can do. Normally only the admirals can do it. CP9 has been given permission by Aokiji. That is why I ran, in the past I never had anything to protect, but now I can't do that."
"Then your wish is?"
"I have shipmates who care about me. He saved my life when I wanted to die, when my dream had died. That's why my wish is for all nine of the Strawhats except me to leave this island safely. He has shown me too much kindness…too much love for me to drag him down with me."
"You don't care if you're forced to resurrect the weapon and doom the whole world."
"I don't care! I will do anything to save him! He…He's too important to me; he's the only person to make me feel this way. An emotion I haven't felt since I was just a little girl, love."
Iceberg's Flashback End
"And I couldn't pull the trigger. Out of all things she chose you over the lives of everyone in the world."
For me…she really does care. Love?!
"Even after almost giving up the blueprints I still can't blame her."
"HeHeHe!" I laughed as I fell to the ground with tears pouring out of my eyes "I'm so happy, she really didn't betray us, and she really does fell the same."
I hopped up off the ground and made my way over to my sleeping friends.
"Where are you going?"
"I have to get the others and tell them about Robin."
"Wait Strawhat and the others are finished."
"Bull! Now that we know our true goal, that she did it to save us, our strength just tripled." I walked over to my passed-out friends "Get up you three! Nami! Chopper! Wyper!"
Rose's POV
We were hiding in a shadowy corner at the train station. We had followed Robin to the only way out of town, the Sea Train. Sanji lit a cigarette in the in the small space we were hiding.
"Put that thing out you'll give us away." I told him.
"We need to find a way onboard." Sanji said.
"Are you even listening to me?"
"No matter how you look at it those guys are the only enemies. If she was just being taken away she'd be able to take them. Does she have a reason for not running? Or does she want me to save her?!"
"Knock it off Lover-boy."
"Let go of me! Where are you taking me?!"
I know that voice.
"Usopp?"
"What the hell is he doing? So much for not causing trouble." I groaned.
A group of four people of high importance boarded the train behind Robin, I recognized one of them.
"That's the guy who inspected the ship?"
The doors on the train closed and steam blew out the top.
"The train will be leaving now!" the attendant said over the speaker.
"I wonder how the others are doing." Sanji said out load.
"Well we don't have time to wait for them so let's go!"
Sanji scribbled down a note for Nami telling her we were getting on the train after Robin. I jammed the note to the wall with one of my knives and he left I tiny Transponder snail with it and told her we'd be in touch.
I'm starting to get low on knives I better make a mental note to get more.
"Let's go Sanji!"
"Coming!"
We ignored the protests of the train attendants and hopped aboard the Sea Train.
Enies Lobby here we come. Just you wait Steve; I'll take care of this.