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Rose's POV
"What the hell did you break the snail for? How can we call the others now?!" I yelled.
"Oh, that was an accident." Sanji said.
"So much has happened since I left." Usopp added
"Robin doesn't know what happened between you, Luffy and Steve" Sanji pointed out "in order to ensure the safety of the nine of us, including you Usopp, Robin turned herself in."
"Wahhhh! That's so sad!" Franky cried.
"Robin is right here, within reach." I said "and we will save her."
"Super!" Franky yelled "Then I'll lend you a hand, if the government gets their hands on Nico Robin it will be bad for me as well." Then he started crying again "And that story was so moving. Let's go Long-Nose!"
"I'm not going." Usopp said.
"Huh?"
"This has nothing to do with me. You'll be going to the judicial island to fight the government; I don't want any part of that. Besides you'll be meeting up with Luffy and Steve so while I'm grateful for what Robin has done it's not my job to rescue her. I can't face the others after the things I said." Usopp said walking off "Bye."
"What the hell? Get back here!" Franky yelled.
"Usopp wait." I called after him.
"Let him go." Sanji instructed.
"I see them!" a marine yelled while peaking his head outside the train car.
"Lead Star!"Â The marine got hit by a small metal marble and fell off into the water.
"Who's there?!" Sanji yelled out.
We saw a figure standing on the car behind us "I was told you're going to rescue a defenseless maiden, so I shall assist you free of charge. You may call me Usopp."
This is not really happening.
"Ugh. Get over here." Sanji grumbled.
"I have no idea what's happening right now." Franky added.
"Just play along, don't hurt the poor guys feelings." I told him.
"Listen up let's talk about our plan." Sanji said "There are five cars left on this train and Robin could be inside any of them."
"So are you strong?" I asked Franky.
"I'm the fricken best. I'm felling especially Super~ this week."
Why'd he put so much emphasis on the Super?
"If we rescue Robin we'll win." Sanji said "but there are a lot of enemies between us and her. We need to avoid major fights, so that leaves us with one strategy. We'll search for Robin car by car and decouple the ones she's not in."
"Seems pretty straight forward. But why not just get them all in the back car and detach that one?" I remarked.
"WellâŠbecauseâŠYou're so smart Rose!" Sanji yelled hugging me.
"Please let go of me."
We made our way to the back car and opened the door.
"Hi!" I smiled.
"We found them!"
"Hurry seal the door!" Sanji yelled.
"Wow you're hammering skills suck." Franky told UsoppâŠerr, Usopp.
"Hurry next car!" he yelled as he finished his work on the door.
We sprinted to the fifth car and pulled the pin and disengaged the lock, separating the cars from each other.
"Now that I think about it what about the others, they're riding on the same rail." I pointed out.
"They'll manage." Sanji said "I'd wager they might even like the appetizer."
"Two down." Franky said "Five to go."
We opened the door and headed into the next car. The men inside weren't too happy about us separating the cars.
"Knife Shower!"Â A hail of shimmering metal rained from the air and eviscerated most of the men in the car.
"Strong Right!"Â Franky's fist detached from his hand and punched some of the men.
How'd he do that!
"Fire!" the men in the car shot rifles at us and Franky stepped in front and took the bullets.
"He's hit."
"That tickled." Franky said.
Franky picked up one of the seating booths and threw it at the men shooting him.
"What the hell are you?" Sanji said dumbfounded.
"Oh I'm a cyborg. I'm made out of steal and metal so that stung a little and I still bleed sometimes but bullets don't really bother me."
"How peculiar." I said running my hand through my hair.
"OW!" Franky yelled as Usopp stuck a needle in his back "What I said before doesn't apply to my back! I had to do all the surgery myself so my hands couldn't reach back there. Oh and my stomach is sensitive to cold."
"Why's that?" Usopp asked.
"Because there's a fridge in it." He said moving his abs to reveal a fridge stocked with cola.
"How useful!" Sanji remarked.
"That would be great for a day at the beach." Usopp added.
"Can you boys focus?!" I yelled smacking all of them in the head "This isn't the time for chitchat let's keep moving."
What's so special about being made out of metal?
"Fourth car's next." Sanji said.
We entered the next car to find a kitchen and an odd-looking man spouting weird mumbo jumbo about ramen.
"I'm Wanze!"
Good for you?
The man ate some flour and made a weird face and Ramen came out his nose.
"GROSS!"
"Yeah Uhh, Wanze were in a hurry so see ya." Sanji said stepping around the man.
"Wait! If you want to get through this car you'll have to go through me."
"You're gonna stand in our way?" Franky asked.
"If you want to free the prisoners you'll have to get passed my Ramen Kenpo."
I leaned over to Sanji "He's gonna fight us with noodles?"
Franky's left hand moved to reveal a gun of some kind, he shot at Wanze but the man didn't get hurt.
"That should have at least nicked you or something, but you didn't even twitch!"
"I almost died!" Wanze replied with a wheeze.
"What the hell?!" Franky yelled.
"Don't let him work you up." Sanji told him "I'll handle this guy. I can't believe you'd call yourself a chef."
"You two get to the next car Sanji and I can handle this." I told them.
Wanze spit more Ramen out of his nose, when it hit the wall it exploded into more Ramen and flour.
"You're so gross!" I yelled slashing at the man but he skated around the attack.
"Alright we'll leave this to you two." Usopp and Franky said leaving the car.
"They got away. No matter the man in the next car, Nero, is a member of CP9. He may be new but he loves to kill." Wanze said.
"Flanchet Shoot!"Â Sanji kicked at the man but missed again.
Wanze slid down the wall and his skates lit on fire "Ramen Kenpo: Noodle Slicer!"
"The skates are on fire!" I yelled out
"Fire Skate!"Â we ducked under the midair leg sweep and Wanze crashed into the dishes on the counter.
"How?"
"I kicked you twelve times while avoiding your attack" Sanji told him.
"And I cut at your arm." I told him.
"You're both secretly strong." Wanze said.
"No you're just weak." We deadpanned.
"Then I'll have to show you why I was selected for this job." Wanze said as he surrounded himself with Ramen.
"What is he doing now?" I wondered aloud.
"Ramen Kenpo Secret technique: Men's Formal Suit!"Â Wanze was now sporting Ramen battle armor.
This is not really happening. What has become of my life, CyborgsâŠmen wearing ramen like clothesâŠevery second gets weirder and weirder.
"How dare you waste food like that?" Sanji told him "I'll make sure you eat your dinner."
"Being in the same breathing room and this thing makes me feel insecure." I mumbled.
Wanze ran forward and punched but when Sanji tried to kick him away he just got stuck in the noodles and ended up being thrown around the car. The arm slammed into me and sent me across the room. Sanji broke free and tried to attack the only non-noodled point, Wanze's head, and got shot by the Ramen form Wanze's nose.
Sanji can't touch him as long as he's inside that suit. I guess it's up to me.
I saw the knives on the counter next to me and picked them up, after all a dagger isn't built to cut food.
"Ramen Spank!"
I slid under the swing and with a flick of my wrist cut off the whole arm with the knives. I caught the falling noodles on a plate.
"It's impolite to let food hit the floor." I said with a smile "These knives are so pretty I feel bad using them to cut your gross nose noodles."
Wanze attacked with a wave of slaps that I jumped over.
"Bratty girl how dare you touch my knives!"
"I didn't realize I had been so rude. Please allow me to make up for it by showing you a how a blade-master handles her knives." I smiled cutting another chunk off.
He swung more of that nasty Ramen at me and I cut it apart chunk by chunk until the only the body was left.
"You made me look like an onion." Wanze complained.
"I thought you said you were unbeatable." I told the man.
"Noodle Nail Knockout!"Â Wanze kicked forward at me.
"Grain Shank!"Â I cut the legs off in one swing.
"Ramen Beam!"
I ducked under the flying noodles but something clipped my beautiful hair, I slowly moved my hand back and felt my locks.
"AHHHH! You got your snot noodle in my hair!" I started having a panic attack "This can't be happening! This is so gross! My hair!"
"Rose take a breath." Sanji said.
"This can't be happening. My hair can't have been sullied by this freak!"
Why'd it have to be my hair, it could have been anyplace else.
"Rose you need to relax."
I started drowning Sanji out and crying "Mama, they ruined your hairâŠmy beautiful hair."
Flashback Start
"What are you crying for Rose?" Mom asked.
"Luffy and Steve were making fun of my hair."
"Why?"
"They said it's blue and that looks dumb." I frowned.
"That's not as bad as my hair, look mine's green." She smiled.
"Hey Mama? How come if daddy and Steve have red hair and you have green hair why is mine blue?"
"Oh well my hair wasn't always this lime green color it is now. It used to be the pretty aqua blue yours is."
"Why is it green now?"
"Well after I ate the Dryad-Dryad Fruit it turned that color. Sometimes I miss have that blue hair." She looked off.
"You do?"
"Yeah my mom had blue hair too. I miss having it."
"Well you can always look at mine to remember." I told her "Since this hair so important to you I'll make sure to keep it looking pretty for you! I'll make sure it stays clean and is long and flowing so you can remember when you had it. It'll be the prettiest hair in the whole world!"
"That's nice of you sweetie but you don't have to do that for me." She smiled "It's just hair."
"I wanna though, cause it makes you smile." I said "and I love it when you smile Mama!"
Flashback End
"Rose please stop crying, I took care of that guy."
"My hairâŠ"
"I see. Come here." Sanji said picking me up off the floor "We can wash it in the sink."
Sanji turned on the water and washed my hair because I was too busy acting like a baby to do it myself.
"There all clean." He said drying his hands.
"Thank you." I said wiping my eyes off "Sorry about the way I acted."
"It's fine, I remember you saying that your hair was very important to you."
"You remembered. That was before we entered the Grande Line." I said surprised.
"I always remember the things that are important to a lady." Sanji said as he made heart faces and tried hugging me.
"And now you've ruined what was a touching moment." I sighed.
Wyper's POV
"What are you doing?" one of those girls from the Franky family asked me.
"I'm turning you pathetic Bazooka into a piece of real firepower." I said screwing a nozzle onto the front "I left mine in the hotel back on the island so this will work fine if not better as my new Burn Bazooka."
"Why put a nozzle on it you can't get the cannon ball out that way." Zambai said.
"Watch" I said turning the outer ring on the nozzle making it big enough to get a ball out of "See this thing's shaping up to be better than the one back at the hotel. I dub thisâŠThe Burn Bazooka MK 2!"
"Wow you're almost as good as Big Bro."
Is that a compliment?
I looked around the room and saw everyone else had changed outfits like I had a few minutes ago. Nami had a jacket on, Luffy had changed to black shorts and Steve had changed out his red flannel for a green one. Even Chopper had put on a jacket and Zoro was wearing a yellow shirt. I had put on gray cargo pants and a long sleeve orange long sleeve thermal with a popped collar. I had to cut holes for my wings but I still looked good.
"Don't stuff meat in your pockets Luffy!" Steve scolded.
The other kept arguing as I screwed a scope onto the side of the bazooka.
"Hey there's another Train in front of us." Luffy yelled.
"Did we catch up already?" Zoro asked
"It's too soon for that." The old lady said.
We all headed up to the roof to inspect this new sight. It was just two cars hanging on the track. Luffy flew over and checked it out. He sent us a signal saying that no one we needed was inside.
"We'll dismantle it before we hit it." The Franky Family said.
"No you won't." I told the "Leave this to me."
"You're not gonna use that thing, are you?" Steve asked.
"What about the people inside." Zoro said "They don't need to get disintegrated by that gun of yours."
"Don't worry. I'll only miss them by a hair."
The car got closer and closer; I turned the ring and shrink the nozzle as small as it would go and looked down the scope.
"Burn Bazooka: Precision Saw!"
The laser cut through the car right down the center, and just like I said I missed by a hair. Worse case I hit a man's hat. Luffy hopped back on as we drove past the wreckage.
"That was so cool, how'd you do that?!" Luffy begged.
"Just Shandorian ingenuity and elbow grease. After all you brought me down her to make you badass weapons didn't you?" I looked forward and saw the track was surrounded by Dead Sea Kings "Something's coming."
"There's someone on the track." Zambai yelled out "That's T-Bone; he's a famous Marine who can cut ships in two."
"Leave it to Wyper." Steve told them.
"Get me a cannon ball." I yelled.
Someone dropped one into my hand in I loaded the bazooka.
"Last chance old man, get out of the way or die!"
"This is a path of justice. I'll cut you in half."
"So be it, but we need to get passed."
"You will stop now!" The man yelled
He can cut ships then he can cut cannon balls, I'll need to aim low and time this shot so it explodes at his feet.
"Burn Bazooka: Wide Burst!"
The shot collided with the man's leg and exploded sending him flying off into the water.
"Wow he beat T-Bone."
"That guy came from the cars. He ran all this way trying to catch up to the train. That's impressive." I said.
I climbed back inside to get out of the rain.
"We're almost there." Luffy said "I can't wait to kick that pigeon guy ass!"