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Steve's POV
"So you wanna go Luffy?" I asked after telling him what Iceberg had told me earlier.
"There's no choice, come on let's go! Rope guy lend us a boat! Or do you have a Sea Train that's good too."
"There's only one Sea Train in the whole world and that's the Puffing Tom." Paulie explained.
"Then give us a ship!" Luffy yelled.
"He already said no." Nami explained.
"Wait till morning when this subsides and I'll give you a ship then."
"We can't wait that long." I told him "That train was going to Enies Lobby, I know what happens to people who get sent there! The Gates of Justice are there, if I can't stop Robin from going through those she'll be sent to Impel Down or Marine Headquarters.
Every second I spend here complaining to you she gets one step closer to that gate. If she steps through it I will never see her again, and you just want us to wait till tomorrow!"
"I'll remind you again, don't go to Enies Lobby. You're pirates too. Enies Lobby is the front door of the government. No matter who you are you can't get someone out of there successfully." Paulie said "Knowing what will happen do you still plan on waging a war?!"
"In that case…" Luffy said walking past me "We'll steal a ship."
"Then you'll have to go through me." Paulie said.
"Stop it now! All of ya!" Kokoro yelled at us "Paulie is right you aren't think clearly."
"You gonna get in our way too lady?" Wyper asked.
"Shut up and listen." She said "The only thing that can make it through Aqua Laguna is a Sea Train."
"That's great and all but there's only one." I said "We don't have a choice we need a ship."
"If you're that determined to put your lives on the line follow me, I'll take you to the Sea Train."
Rose's POV
In the few minutes since we got in the train we had cleared out the last two cars. In the second car we went to we found Usopp and the blue haired guy tied up.
"What are you two doing here?!" Usopp yelled.
"I'd like to ask you the same thing? What was your name again?" Sanji said.
"Wow real subtle." I mumbled as I fiddled with the chain holding the Transponder Snail down "We can call Nami with this."
"So are you guys Pirate friends?" The blue haired guy asked.
"Were" we corrected.
"Who are you?" Sanji asked the man.
"The most feared man in water Seven, Franky."
"You bastard!" "You're the one that beat up Usopp!" Sanji and I yelled as we beat up on the man.
"Hey knock it off a lot has happened since then, besides he saved the Merry." Usopp said getting depressed "Oh yeah Merry…"
"Hey now's not the time to be getting all depressed." Franky told him "Can you get me out of this thing?"
"Why should I?" I asked "I'm not feeling very friendly right now!"
"You're taking advantage of me in my weakened state!" Franky yelled back "When I get outta here!"
"Will you two knock It off we're gonna get caught!" Usopp said.
Steve's POV
Kokoro had taken us to some old abandoned warehouse in the middle of town.
"This warehouse has been abandoned for twelve years, and the Sea Train hasn't been touched in eight. It might not run anymore."
It better!
"Wow! It's so cool!" Luffy yelled.
"No, it's not." Kokoro explained "This is Rocket Man, the runaway Sea Train."
The door on the train opened up and Iceberg came out.
"So you're all still alive. Did you bring them here?" He asked Kokoro.
"What are you doing here?"
"I must've had the same idea as you. Can't let foolish children run around like that can we?" Iceberg laughed wiping oil off his hands with a rag "It's all set, I loaded it up so use it."
"You got this ready for us?"
"You can celebrate after you get back. Rocket man is a failure, a prototype. You can't control the steam so you can't slow down. You'll easily lose control. I can't guarantee you can make it back." He warned.
"We leave as soon as Nami gets here!" Luffy yelled jumping onboard and falling flat on his face.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm hungry."
Nami came down into the Warehouse with some guys carrying a big bag.
"Nami let's go!"
"Oh wow another Sea Train."
"What's in the bag?" Luffy asked.
"Food and beer."
"Sorry we complained." Luffy and Zoro said stuffing their faces.
Wow real gentlemanly.
"Hey Strawhat!" We looked to the entrance for a second time and saw the Franky Family was there.
"These guys again." We all grumbled.
"Please let us come with you!"
Huh?
"Our Bro Franky got taken to Enies Lobby. We want to go help him but we can't get through the storm."
"Luffy." I said waving the boy over.
He skipped over to me "What is it?"
"This is gonna be a big showdown. We need all the help we can get, let's bring them along."
"Okay, I was gonna let them come anyway." He laughed shoving meat into his mouth.
"Please we're begging we just wanna save our Bro."
"Hurry up and get on." Luffy told them.
"Thank you! We don't have to get on thought we'll just attach our King Bulls to the train." They said as they ran out the door.
"Let's get going!" Kokoro said.
Everyone but Luffy climbed into the train and got set to leave.
Idiot will fall into the water if I don't go up there.
I climbed up onto the front of the train and stood there with Luffy.
"You ready?" I asked.
"Let's go! We're gonna get everything back!"
"That's the spirit." I joke rubbing his head.
Just hang in there a little longer Robin
"Luffy we're going to have to fight those guys from Iceberg's mansion again, I'm sure of it." I warned.
"Uh huh. We need to be stronger."
"You read my mind. I compared my memories of our fight with Kuro to that attack they used. I think I can pull it off if I try, but it won't be as fast as theirs. What are you gonna do?"
"I don't know." He said "but there has to be something, you're smart think!"
Rubber can do a lot of things, but what…That's it!
"Luffy have you ever heard of Blood Doping?"
"No."
"It's the process of holding blood, usually from a transfusion, and then reintroducing it to the body. It ups the oxygen in the blood and helps muscles do more work." I explained "Your body is rubber, you might be able to hold the blood back just by compressing parts of your body. I want you to try it out before we get to Enies Lobby. It probably won't kill you."
"What'd you mean probably?!"
"We can worry about that later here comes the end of the tunnel." I smiled.
We hit the ramp at the end and the train flew into the air.
"We're flying!"
The Franky Family's boat was being pulled by two huge Bulls. They connected harpoons to the back of the train and got tugged along by us.
"Thanks for letting us come with you Strawhat!" The man at the front yelled.
"We'll be connecting to the track now, so speed will increase exponentially. Please brace yourself as to limit injury." Kokoro said over the speaker.
She wasn't kidding, the second we hit the track the train jolted forward and started getting faster and faster.
"Luffy can we go inside now?!"
"Yeah I think that's a good idea!"
We went back in through a window and collapsed to the floor.
"Why did we do that?" I asked shaking my hair dry.
"I thought that would be the good seat." He said.
We looked around the cabin and saw there were an awful lot of people inside it.
"Some of these things don't belong." Zoro pointed out.
That guy with the cowlick and Tilestone had come on with Paulie and the girls and the guy who had taken temporary leadership of the Franky Family were also inside. Not to mention the little girl and the rabbit.
Everyone introduced themselves and asked any questions they had.
"Paulie I'm not stupid." Lulu said "You know who the enemy is, and I'm pretty sure I do but why don't you give us the whole story."
"You probably figured it out since there nowhere to be found but Lucci, Kaku, Kalifa, and Blueno tried to kill Iceberg."
"WHAT?!"
"You didn't know!" He gasped.
"So." Luffy said getting everyone's attention "Galley-La, Franky Family, we may have been enemies in town but now our goals are the same."
"In the coming fight the strongest person there will be Lucci." I remarked and Chopper wrapped bandages around my chest, the wounds from Lucci had started to ache again "Leave him to me and Luffy. No one else engage him understood, he's mine."
"Where's the fun in that?" Wyper joked while fiddling with a bazooka her had borrowed from the Franky Family.
"The reason for this fight is to get back what was stolen from us." Zoro remarked "We don't leave till we take back what's ours."
"We're all going to the same place." Luffy said "So there's no point in fighting separately."
We all had our hand in a circle "From now on we're allies."
"We need to do something about that wave." Kokoro said.
"It's ringing!" Nami yelled as she picked up the receiver on her small snail "Hello?"
"Nami is that you!" Rose yelled over the snail "So listen my life is pretty complicated right now. Will you boys stop screaming?!"
Nami told me she was going to explain the situation our members on the other train while Luffy Zoro and I dealt with the impending tidal wave.
"What are you doing?" The Franky Family asked.
"Just keep firing." Zoro told them
We went back to the front of the train.
"We have to make a hole." I told them.
"How much is three times 108?" Luffy asked.
"324" I told him.
"That's too long let's just do 300."
"Fine then." Zoro said.
"Gum-Gum"
"Three Hundred Caliber"
"Whip"
"CANNON!"
Our attack slammed into the wave and cut us a path through.
"Amazing!"
"Thank you, Thank you." I said waving.
We hopped back into the train and Nami called us over.
"It's Sanji and Rose."
"Howdy."
"That you little brother? Nami filled us in." Rose said.
"They've still got Robin but now we know the whole story." Sanji explained.
"Okay." Luffy said "Then go kick their asses."
"Don't do that!" I yelled "Sanji listen closely you are not to fight them wait for us."
"I won't-" Sanji said as the snail hung itself up.
"Won't what? Won't fight or won't wait for us!" I yelled.
"Make the train go faster!" Luffy yelled.
"The train is already way past a safe speed." Kokoro explained "I don't know if we can even stop."
Just a little farther.