Well, it's April in Seattle, and you know what that means! You don't? Fine. See, April is pretty much the rainiest month of the year, and here in Seattle, we get rain just about every other day. So this month just brings rain nearly every day. Fun times, fun times.

By the way, England/Luffy refers to England in Luffy's body, and Luffy/England refers to Luffy in England's body.

The One Piece part of this is set between the Baroque Works saga and the Skypiea saga.


Arthur blearily opened his eyes. Stretching, he smiled as he remembered his dream of his golden pirate days and of destroying Spain's 'invincible' armada. As he sat up, he noticed something different about his body. It felt... thinner... and stronger. Frowning, he looked down and saw that he was wearing a pair of blue shorts with a red vest on top. Starting to think that this was some kind of joke played by America or France, he looked around to find that he was surrounded by several empty hammocks (upon which he observed that he was lying in one) and wooden walls almost as if he were... on a pirate ship. Now much more alarmed than before, he leapt out of his hammock and ran to the nearest mirror, nearly screaming at what he saw. Looking back at him was a skinny teenage boy, wearing a red vest and blue shorts. He had a small scar underneath his eye and rumpled black hair.

Could it be...?

England waved his hand. The boy in the mirror did the same. He made a fist and punched the air. The boy copied his movements.

Well, he thought. Now what happened here? When that moron America messed up my spell, did it change my body? No, if that were the case, I would still be in my room. Let's see...

"Luffy!"

England whirled around, eyes widening at this new voice. He looked around the cabin before thinking that he must have imagined it. Turning back to the mirror, he saw something by his feet. He slowly turned his head to see a tiny... what was that, exactly?

"Good to see you're up, Luffy!" The thing said in a high-pitched voice. "Hurry up, or all the meat's going to be gone by the time you get in there!"

Luffy? "Ah... right... um, sorry... you."

"You? Eheheh! Luffy, you know my name! It's Chopper!"

"Chopper! I knew that! Uh, listen, Chopper... I'll be down in another minute, okay?"

The tiny creature gave him a quizzical look before shrugging its shoulders. "Okay. I'll let Sanji know!" It walked toward a pole in the center of the room and climbed up the rungs attached to it, opening the door in the ceiling to leave.

England sat down on the bed. Alright... it looks like I've switched bodies with some teenage boy. But it also looks like this is another universe, as far as I know. If that thing was a reindeer... well, talking ones certainly don't exist in the world that I know. So I may have to play the part of this Luffy character until I can gather up everything I need for the counter-spell. He sighed and started walking out of the room.

Following the scent of food, England/Luffy found the dining room and sat down. Looking at his companions, he found that his crewmates were the reindeer from earlier, a green-haired grumpy-looking guy, a tanned woman with a certain air of mystery about her, a pretty redhead girl, a long-nosed weirdo guy, and a blond man with a cigarette who was standing over the stove.

England/Luffy sat down at an empty seat and said, "Will someone please pass me a drumstick?"

...

"Hm? What's wrong?"

Zoro cleared his throat. "Luffy, just get it yourself. You can reach it."

"I'm sorry, but it's on the other end of the table. I don't think I'll be able to reach that from here."

"Luffy, you know perfectly well that you can just-"

"It's all right, Swordsman-san," said Robin. "I'll do it." She crossed her arms, making an X-shape in front of her torso, and said "Diez Fleurs!" Almost instantly, an arm sprouted out of the table and snatched a drumstick from the plate. Several more arms sprouted from this one, leading the drumstick over to England/Luffy, whose eyes rolled back into his head as he fainted.

"...ffy? Luffy? LUFFY!"

England/Luffy blinked a few times and sat up. Getting his bearings, he apologized for fainting on everyone.

"Luffy," said Zoro.

"Wh - oh, yes?"

"Did you, by any chance, injure yourself yesterday?"

"No, not that I recall. Why?"

"Can you at least tell us why you fainted?"

"Why I - right." He pointed to Robin, who had a look of mild surprise on her face. "Can someone please explain why there were several bloody hands sprouting up from the table!"

The room went so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. He looked around. "What?"

Usopp spoke up. "Luffy, could you stay here and get some rest? We'll come back and check on you in half an hour. Just stay here until you can get up and walk around, okay?"

England/Luffy pushed himself up and started to straighten his legs. "But I can walk right now-"

GONG

He fell back to the bed, unconscious. Nami stowed the Clima Takt away and smiled. "Well, it doesn't look like he'll be getting up any time soon."