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Day 11- Impatience

After the failures of Zoro, Sanji and Chopper that day, the crew felt a little deflated. Though Luffy had gone more than a week without speaking on his own, never had they thought that he could hold up so well against their efforts. They all went to bed that night a little downtrodden, but with high hopes for what the coming day would bring, after all, their had their trump card to play.

Try three: Robin:- Laughter

It was easy to assume that the one thing Luffy did most of all was laugh. It was extremely easy to make Luffy laugh, and the crew knew that it was this that he was having the most trouble in controlling. The only difficulty however was making it seem like an accident. So, this was handed over to the most logical person out of them all, Robin.

This was actually the emotion she was looking forward to most, asides from pain of course, but that had been Zoro and Sanji's speciality after all. Anyway, she had got onto the crew by making Luffy laugh had she not? The toughest part was tricking Luffy into believing and going along with her plan, as he had always seemed to see right through people when they least wanted him to.

At around eleven, she called Luffy over near Nami's mikan trees to sit in front of her on the floor.

Turning to him she gave him a slow smile.

"Luffy-San, you seem a little bored, do you want to play a game?"

Luffy looked shocked at first, but then his face split into his usual grin. Robin wanted to play a game with him without him asking her first, this was turning out to be a really good day!

"I wanna play too! Can I play Robin?" Chopper, who conveniently walked past at that moment looked at them both with wide, hopeful eyes.

Luffy nodded his head vigorously and Robin smiled. "Hai Chopper-San"

Since Luffy wouldn't, Chopper broached the question to Robin. "Ne, what are we playing?"

Robin tilted her head so that it rested on her hand. "A game of wits."

Chopper gasped and Luffy bounced up and down on his heels.

"What do we have to do?" Though Chopper was in on the plan, he couldn't help but get himself get exited, the way Robin said it made it sound like a great adventure battle or something. He way he was acting, Luffy obviously thought so too.

"Well Chopper-San, this game will show who has the most control and self restraint over themselves. Obviously I can't hurt you, so how about laughter?"

Chopper and Luffy exchanged confused looks.

"How about I try to make each of you laugh, and the one who holds out the longest will have been proven to be the champion."

Robin knew that Luffy was very competitive, so the mentioning of the word champion would get him to play if nothing else. She hoped.

Luckily for her, Luffy seemed non the wiser to her true plans, he was too intent on winning and becoming champion to actual take in and think about what he had just heard. He nodded a vigorous 'yes' and started rocking again.

Chopper had now completely forgotten the plan, he was too swept up in the promise of being a champion to think clearly. Robin knew this, but took it as a good thing, now Choppers reactions were more realistic, not as stiff and nervous as earlier. Everyone knew that he didn't like lying, especially to Luffy.

"Okay then, shall we start? The last to laugh will be the winner."

With that, four arms each sprouted on the limbs of Chopper and Luffy, quickly pinning them down. Another two grew out of their sides, which the moved in fast to tickle their ribs.

It was apparent straight away that Luffy was having trouble. He still had not cottoned on to what Robins true intent was, as he was only concentrating to trying not to laugh. His face had started to turn red with the effort and his eyes watered.

Chopper on the other hand was doing no better. The fact that he was covered in thick fur and Robin was going easy on him helped, but he hadn't known he was that ticklish.

Moments passed.

He had to control it, had to control it, control it, control....

"HA HA HA! Robin! Stop! Please! Stop!" Chopper suddenly burst into uncontrollable laughter, wiggling desperately trying to get away.

Robin released him and Luffy at the same time, allowing them to both catch their breath. Chopper looked over at Luffy, whose face was a very interesting shade of purple, eyes now streaming heavily. He was also panting hard, clutching at his sides.

He had been so close! Luffy was almost about to crack, if only he held on just a bit longer...

Just then Chopper felt a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "You were very close Chopper-San."

He looked up into the smiling face of Robin. Yeah, they could always try again! They had loads more things that they could try!

Try three: Laughter- Failed

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Try four: Franky:- Helplessness

Franky had decided to go with tweaking one of the original ideas so that it would be less dangerous or life threatening, for the ship or crew. First though, he had to make it so that the ship would not be affected by Luffy, not that much at least. He started doing this before and during Robin was carrying out her plan, so all morning he was seen carrying boards back and forth accompanied with hammering from below deck soon after.

He honestly knew Robin's was going to fail. Mugiwara wasn't that stupid. If he was going to do something, he was going to stick his heart and soul into it, therefore it would take a lot to force him to stop.

Nearly straight after 'playing' with Robin, Luffy was called down into Franky and Usopp's inventing room below deck.

Almost just after entering, he found himself being pushed onto a stool directly in front of Franky.

"Okay Captain-Bro, this water tank behind me has been playing up recently. To much pressure is building up inside so it could explode at any moment. Got that so far?"

Luffy cocked his head on one side and smacked his hand into his palm.

Franky sweat dropped. He knew just what Luffy was thinking and it made him worried.

Oh, so it's a mystery boiler!

Franky shock his head a little to relive some of the worry. Nothing was going to go wrong.

"What I want you to do is call me if this dial changes into the red zone. I've got to go check on one of the pipes in the other room so I wont know if it does. So call me if that happens, okay?"

Luffy put on a serious face and nodded.

"Cool Bro, I'll be back soon!" Franky called out, exiting the room quickly. Shutting the door behind him, Franky groaned inwardly. This was going to be a huge mistake.

He walked into the room adjacent to it which contained mostly pipes and cleaning materials. Luckily, if anything did go wrong, it wouldn't affect the water in the ship at all, the tank in there was just for heating water that could be used in inventions, not the actual main water system. Everything important of fragile was packed and locked away too, just in case.

Bending down, Franky turned a knob that controlled the pressure in the boiler from the room that Luffy was in so that it was a little higher than safe. Here goes nothing, now all that was left was to just wait and see what happens. It was his hope that Luffy would realise that he couldn't fix it and call for help, without breaking anything.

. . . .

Luffy looked around the inventing room. He rarely ever came down here, Franky and Usopp didn't like to be disturbed when they were working. However he could have sworn that it was never this tidy normally or not noticed that the windows had been nailed shut. Was this new or had they always been like that?

A small clicking noise alerted him away from the strange windows towards the boiler in front of him. It was coming from the small dial that Franky had pointed out to him earlier. What was he supposed to do? Stop it going into the red?

Luffy looked over to see that the small needle was just in the red. Yosh! All he had to do was turn it green right? This was going to be easy!

He tried tapping it a few times first with his finger, but no change. Luffy pouted. Okay, not so easy. He moved to look around the back of the boiler hoping to find something that could turn it off or green again. Ah! A knob. This was it right? Luffy thought for a minuet then shrugged. Worth a try.

The dial started to click louder and faster, the needle was now turned right the way around into the red so that it was bouncing against the sides, causing the clicking to gradually get faster and faster. Luffy stared at it confused. The knob didn't work then. Must be broken.

Suddenly steam started to seep from the joints of the boiler and hiss quietly. Luffy frowned. He would have to tell Franky that the knob on the boiler was broken. How about if he shook it...

. . . .

Franky shut the door of the room and sat outside in the corridor. The dial should be showing red by now, Luffy should call him or at least come out to get him.

After five minuets however, Franky was worried. What was going on in there? Opening the door to the previous room, he leant in slightly to look at a dial that also showed the boilers condition. He paled. The dial was cracked, the needle pointing in the danger zone.

Shit.

He charged along the corridor and burst into the inventing room. When he opened the door he was greeted with the sight of his boiler somehow inflames and Luffy running in a panicked circle around the room.

Ten minuets later, a burnt and beaten up Luffy was thrown onto the lawn of the Sunny with the sound of Franky swearing from down below being carried up for all to hear.

Try four: Helplessness- Failed

The crew now realised that making Luffy talk again would be harder than they had first thought. And a lot more dangerous.

I actually like this chapter and it was a hell of a lot of fun to write as well ^-^

Let me know if you liked it!

Author note: The plan Franky was referring to is the one where Luffy would supposedly cry for help if someone fell overboard. That was thought to fail as well though, Franky really should have thought a bit more before leaving Luffy alone in a room.

Why the boiler catches fire, I do not know. XD

Thanks for reading! *waves*