Ch. 4: Attack
It had only been a day, but Luffy was still just a knocked out as before. Zoro had never known of a type of medicine that could keep someone like him out cold for so long. Chopper had said he'd developed it while at Arabasta using the medic books from the palace library.
Currently, Zoro was on deck, training, against Chopper's orders. He had just finished when Usopp yelled from the crow's nest that there was a marine ship. Zoro unsheathed his swords as they waited for them to fire. Instead they piled into smaller ships and started toward them.
"What are they doing?" Nami asked.
"Trying to take us by force instead of sinking the ship?" Usopp suggested.
"Well, we have two notorious Devil's Fruit users aboard. They might just want to take us alive instead of killing us by sinking the ship," Robin suggested.
As the marines boarded the ship and they started fighting, a few slipped away below deck.
"Where do you think Straw Hat is?" one asked after silently shutting the door.
"I didn't see him. Let's just get some treasure and get out of here before they find us."
As they tried to find their way through the ship, they opened each door they came upon, but weren't having luck. "Where do they keep it?"
"Be patient, it's not that big a ship," the biggest one said. He opened another door and saw Luffy sleeping on the couch, one arm hanging over the edge. He froze in the doorway and immediately shut his mouth.
"What?" the other asked. He peered in and almost slammed against the hall's wall. "What do we do?"
"Quiet, you might wake him up," the other said. He peered in. "Actually, you're shout should've woken him up by now."
"The scout ship said he got pulled under the water. Does it usually affect them this long?" the bigger one asked.
"Nah, but they did say he was injured, too. Look, there are the bandages."
"What do we do?"
"... This could be our ticket to getting farther up in the ranks! Pick him up, we'll take to the captain," the other stated, patting the biggest on the back.
"Me?"
"You're the biggest."
"But... what if he wakes up?"
"That's a risk we're willing to take," he said.
"We?" the other mumbled. The biggest marine gulped as he picked Luffy up and slung him over his shoulders.
"Let's just get him to the ship before he wakes up, I don't wanna die," he said, quickly but carefully making his way down the hall and back up deck to their ship.