Iron petals - part 1
Thriller Bark had only recently been left behind by the Straw Hat Pirates, their ship, the Thousand Sunny, had been at sea for just under two weeks and Franky was working on a new set of designs for the next generation of battle Frankie's. His glasses were glaring in the sun as he worked, trying to think of how you could calibrate a cannon bigger than a house, without it blowing up, again.
The rest of the crew were casually doing what the straw hats do, relaxing. Ussop was tinkering, Chopper mixing medicines, Nami was drawing maps, Sanji was cooking, Brook fishing and Zoro was sleeping. As for the captain, well Franky didn't actually know where Luffy was, probably bugging Sanji for food.
Franky carried on working, not bothering to wonder about where the other crew member was, he would only get distracted from his work. That and he was still angry at Nico Robin for calling him an embarrassment back on Thriller Bark when he attempted his 'docking'. "That was definitely not SUPER" he mumbled to himself grudgingly.
Dammit he'd started thinking about her again.
"She definitely is SUPER though" he laughed. The woman was definitely a catch he thought carrying on with his plans, being still young, well young enough anyway he thought, she was 28 so six years younger than the cyborg. Of course being a self-confessed pervert Franky liked any good looking woman, like Nami for example. Yet there was something about the archaeologist that just worked for him, she was definitely good looking, she was extremely intelligent, she had to be with her past he thought, and there was an exotic feel about her.
You want to watch out or you may get too obsessed he thought with a grin.
"Silly woman or silly me"? He thought out loud.
"Who's silly"? A voice came from behind him.
He jumped a mile, having not heard the woman's approach "What"? He asked abruptly.
"Who are you calling silly"? Robin asked patiently.
"Myself" The big man lied quickly, perhaps a little too quickly, she seemed not to believe him. This is strange he thought, usually the woman would stay as far away from him as she could whenever possible.
"You said silly woman first" she pointed out with a smile, calm before the storm the shipwright thought worried, "so who were you talking about"?
"Kiwi" Franky said "and Mozu" he added, after having composed himself a little.
"Why silly"? The woman smirked, trying to catch him out.
"They always wear their hair funny and had to walk sideways in the wind" he laughed then, only somewhat forced "they have no idea about what practicality is when it comes to style", he was quite impressed with himself for thinking so fast on his feet.
"Fair enough" Robin sighed turning around, she'd lost the chance to catch the man out. She started back towards the door.
"Not like you" Franky carried on, not realising he had said it aloud "not as nice either".
"Thank you Mr Shipwright" she smiled at him.
Franky had gone completely red, matching his shirt, "did I say that out loud just now"? He asked her.
"Yes" she confirmed "and so I said thank you".
"No problem girly" Franky quickly replied falling back on his pervert persona to cover his mistake, and calling her his pet name for Nami "You look SUPER", he laughed, posing.
"Ok then" The woman smiled and walked out slowly.
"Dammit that was way too close" he sighed. "I really need to stop and think before I open my mouth, now she's gonna think I'm hitting on her, and think I'm not SUPER". The thought had crossed his mind beforehand but he had thought she would just take everything he did as a personal insult. He looked at his plans and diagrams he had been working on beforehand and started putting them away, his mind was too far gone now to focus so he thought he might go find Chopper "The little Tanuki might be able to help me take my mind off this, maybe he could give me a tranquilizer" he smirked.
He heard Robin laugh from the deck outside, looking towards the door he didn't notice the petals behind him as the archaeologist cancelled her devil fruit ability.
"Women" he muttered, clueless.