uh-huh~ guess who popped up with a new chappie!...A chappy...Oh gosh too much Bleach. Glory, I really need to...I dunno do something. That sentence was going somewhere I swear! Anyway, check out my profile! I started posting some of my christmas list on it! Some of the ideas are totally detailed and others are quite vague. I'll add more as the days go by. Guess why I'm typing! I finished my math! (sorta) Woo! I really got into the emotion of this chapter, so you'll have to forgive me if I rushed. Some of it I wrote a week ago, and the rest was done right after math. Also, I have this wierd habit of changing tenses...IM WORKING ON IT!

I DO NOT OWN ONE PIECE!3

That night, Iceburg was attacked. The newspapers the next day boomed with the story. When workers found him barely alive, he was immediately treated. The citizens of Water 7 needed someone to blame. When Iceburg woke, he could only remember one thing. Nico Robin had been there. Immediately, people began the search for the remaining Whitebeard pirates. They didn't dare harm them, but they would send them away. The rest of the group couldn't afford to leave without Robin. Why did she attack Iceburg?

They were going to attack again. Lucci wanted the job done "right" this time. Those who wouldn't be "guarding" Iceburg were sent to hide in the nearby forest.

Robin was standing next to Luffy. It was a bit surreal really. Her old captain and his brother had always talked about Luffy. When they met on the Grand Line, they would exchange notes of places where a boy who fit his description had been spotted. After both ended up joining Whitebeard, their search grew even more frantic. Apparently, Luffy was going to turn 17 soon, and for them, that brought a lot of memories rushing back. Here she was sitting next to the boy from those many stories. Should she talk to him? No, they might never let him be near her again. She would need to be careful. Luffy stands completely still next to her. He seems tense.

The signal is given. Without saying a word, CP9 rushes the building. Blueno, wearing a bear head, leads Luffy and Robin to Iceburg's room. Iceburg doesn't seem surprised when they enter. Rather he seems prepared to confront them. Luffy goes and stands in a corner to watch Robin and Iceburg. He tries to ignore the sound of the gun. Really, Bull-eno didn't have to shoot Ice-ossan. Shouts of surprise and screams echo outside the door, and come up from the window. Luffy closed his eyes and focused his Haki. Yup, they hadn't listened this time. Ace and Sabo and their nakama were here.

"Stay here and guard Nico Robin and Iceburg. You know what to do." Blueno ordered Luffy. Eyes still closed, he nodded. Blueno left the room, probably to help take care of the Whitebeard group.

"Right," began Luffy, "I know you have some mystery blueprints. Do you think you could give them to us?" Unlike the rest of CP9, Luffy wasn't prone to delicacy.

"What are you tal-

"Don't pretend you don't know. I know who Franky really is, I spend enough time with him. I also know that Tom left you those prints. There's no way you destroyed them." Luffy watched barely controlled emotions flit across the man's face. It was even harder to lie because he was probably in a lot of pain too.

"I'm sorry, I can't help you." Iceburg finally said. Luffy closed his eyes. "You sure?" The man nodded.

Luffy made a face and plopped down. "Fine, I tried." He closed his eyes and went back to following his brothers with Haki.

Robin raised an eyebrow. Luffy hadn't even tried to get any information from Iceburg. "Are you sure Lucci will be okay with you not even trying?" she asked with a straight face.

"Don't care. He hates me anyway. They're a really weird group of people."

"That's sexual harrasment," came a voice from the door.

Lucci and the rest walked in. They looked a little bruised from the fighting, these were Whitebeards after all, but none the worse for wear.

"Your nakama came looking for you Robin," said Lucci carelessly.

"Unfortunately, they fell for a few traps," added Blueno.

Ace was furious. Of all the things to fall for! Here he was, laying, stapled, to the ground with seastone. Marco was in a net hanging from the ceiling, Sabo was hanging upside down from a rope, and that Paulie dude was fuming about the traitors who came in to talk.

"Wait! Oi! You, where is Luffy!" The CP9 person, bull-head, turned. "That's none of your concern, Firefist Ace. He's one of us now." The two figures left, leaving three very frustrated pirates.

Sabo pulled a knife out of his boot and began to saw. Five minutes later, the four men were free and storming to the room where they could sense everyone. They broke into the room just as the satisfied CP9 members were wrapping up their own interrogation. Ace blasted the door open and ran through, startling Robin and Iceburg.

"Robin, what are you doing? Come back!" Sabo called. Lucci sprang forward, but Ace intercepted and began to fight the man. Robin's face became a mask of indifference. "I cannot accomplish my dream if I stay with you."

Lucci's warning just before the attack rang in her head.

Give them any reason to suspect that you aren't doing this willingly, or that their idiot little brother is in danger, and I'll personally take care of your nakama and Luffy, and I'll make you watch.

Robin drew her shaking hands into her cloak.

"Whitebeard was merely a stepping stone for me. I'm going with these people. Don't try to stop me."

The three other Whitebeards in the room stared at her in shock.

"Robin, you don't mean that-

"I DO!" she yelled.

"What's wrong with you Robin!" Sabo yelled. Robin turned for the window and Kaku jumped in front of Sabo. The three men were all fighting now, trying to get to their friend.

"Luffy, get Robin to the train." Luffy stood and quickly walked over to Robin to help her leave. Meanwhile, Ace and Sabo had frozen and watched the figure they hadn't seen for almost a decade walk past them from where he had been hiding.

"Come on," he urged, "I really don't want to be here right now." Robin looked at him and nodded, before jumping. Luffy turned to follow.

"LUFFY!" shouted the brothers. Here, Luffy hesitated, and his head began to turn, but Lucci threw him a look that made him stop.

"Luffy, please talk to us!" Sabo begged. Luffy turned back to the window and began to climb out. Just before he jumped, he inclined his head, looking up at the sky.

"Oi, didn't I tell you to leave me alone? I'm the same as Robin. I've chosen this. So," he turned and let himself fall while looking at the two. "So, stay away,"he begged. Luffy fell out of sight, and the two pirates cursed.

"We need to finish this up!" shouted Ace.

"I don't think so" said Lucci. Suddenly he was behind Ace, and the young man felt a prick in his neck.

"What- what did you do?" Ace suddenly felt groggy.

"Ace!" someone called, but Ace was unconscious before he hit the ground.

Yup, Lucci just drugged Ace. Don't question it.

Have a good weekend, and a merry Christmas!

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