A/N: Since you guys are reading this far, I'm going to guess you guys are all caught up with the whole Punk Hazard arc. If not, I'm about to go into a little spoiler alert so be warned!

As an FYI, since Law had switched Sanji/Nami/Franky/Chopper around, I'm going to refer to them as "Personality-Body" so "Sanji-Nami" would mean Sanji in Nami's body (Franky-Chopper = Franky in Chopper's body, etc).

Now back to the story!


Chapter 7 - Reunion

"Hey! I see them!" Usopp cried. He and Luffy sat on the shoulders of Brownbeard as they made their way to the back of the laboratory, per Law's instructions.

Robin, Zoro, Rei, and Brook, who remained seated on Brownbeard's back, peaked over Usopp and Luffy's shoulders and saw what Usopp was referring to. They spotted the rest of their friends. Nami, Chopper, Franky, and Sanji were standing there with warm black coats on and behind them were a group of children of various sizes.

"There you are!" Luffy yelled waving his arms excitedly at his nakama, "Guys!"

Brook climbed up to get the same view as Usopp and Luffy. "Hey!" the three of them shouted.

"Are you guys okay? Yohohoho!" Brook called out to them.

"Why are they holding a severed head?" Rei asked.

"Why is that jackass cook jumping around?" Zoro scoffed at the same time.

Robin and Rei turned to see what he was looking at and the swordsman was right. Sanji was not acting like himself. He was dancing and wiggling his arms as if they were boneless.

"Did he go nuts from the cold?" Zoro guessed with a hopeful tone in his voice.

Rei recognized the arm movements and she put back on her mask to hide her smile. They'll figure it out eventually, she thought.

Nami had started to unbutton her coat to reveal her cleavage and she stared down at it with drool coming out of her mouth. A shadow loomed over her and the Straw Hats watched in shock as Franky viciously punched her to the ground, rendering her unconscious.

Oh no! Law got to Nami and Franky too!, Rei thought with a gasp.

"What is going on?!" Luffy cried, "Franky! Don't do that!"

Rei then examined the group of children standing behind their friends. Each of them wore a green jacket and matching mittens. They were all around the same age but they were in various sizes. Some were as tall as trees. Rei figured she'll find out more about the children sooner or later but they definitely shouldn't leave them out in the cold.

"Luffy, We need to find a place to hide from the snow," Rei called out to her captain, "They have children with them! We need to get them to someplace away from the wind!"

"Why are there giant children?" Usopp asked to no one in particular.

"There's an abandoned building over there," Robin said pointing towards the side, "Some of it looks buried in the snow but there's an opening that we can go in from."

"Yosh!" Luffy cried, pumping his fists in the air, "Everybody! To the building!"


The Straw Hats spread out around the abandoned building. Zoro sat on a giant metal pipe in the center of the room. Usopp sat on the floor with Brook. The body of Nami was lying down on the floor, still unconscious from the blow to the head from Franky. Sanji leaned over the body of Nami with concern in his eyes, while Luffy was busy playing with the kids. Robin had tied Brownbeard to a pillar near the back using some chains she found. Rei stood in the back silently, contemplating their situation.

"This building has a similar style as the other one," Chopper said in Franky's voice as they made themselves comfortable in the warehouse.

"You mean the building where the masked gas men took you to?" Rei asked.

"Yes, that's where we found the children and they escaped with us," Franky said in Nami's voice.

"But this one is crumbling," Robin commented and stared up at the ceiling, "It looks like this went through a huge explosion or something."

"It's fine for now as long as it keeps us away from the outside," Rei said

Suddenly a cry rang out through the abandoned warehouse and they turned to see that the severed head was attached to the hind legs that were previously on Luffy. "I got my legs back!" the head cried happily.

The head had a black beard and a topknot. He must be a samurai, Rei thought.

"How surreal," Robin commented coolly as she stood with her hand on her hip.

Nami woke up and she propped herself up with her arms. "I had the weirdest dream," she groaned in Sanji's voice, "I was crossing a river of boobs."

"It's not the time for that!" Sanji with Chopper's voice yelled.

"What is going on?" Luffy asked, scratching his head.

Rei sighed, "Law has the ability to switch people out of their bodies. I guess he switched the four of them around so now they're in each other's bodies."

"So who is who?" Usopp asked, "Can we do a roll call?"

"I'm Franky!" said Chopper, "Don't come to me when you get wounded!"

"I'm Chopper!" said Sanji, "I'll treat your wounds."

"I'm Nami," Franky said, "I'll never shoot the laser beam."

"And…" Nami said with a puff of smoke, "This is our NAMI-SAN!" Nami ripped open her jacket and pushed up her breasts, making her cleavage even deeper than usual.

"Yeah! There you are!" Brook and Usopp cheered.

"Was I always that indecent?" the Nami-Franky hybrid raged with fire in his eyes.

"Stop, Nami! You'll hurt your own body!" Rei shouted as she used her chains to pull Nami-Franky away from the Sanji-Nami hybrid.

"I won't do it again!" Sanji-Nami cried terrified of the enraged Nami-Franky.

"Don't, Nami!" Chopper-Sanji shouted, jumping in between them, "Nami's body will die!"

Nami-Franky pulled out a red notebook and started to scribble furiously into it.

"If you touch my body, I'll make you pay 200,000 bellis. 100,000 bellis for peaking!" she said as she wrote in Sanji's debt.

"That's so cruel!" Sanji-Nami protested

Usopp and Luffy were dying of laughter on the side.

"Stop laughing!" Nami-Franky yelled, "It wouldn't be funny if it happened to you!"

Rei couldn't help but glance over at Zoro, who was watching all of this with a small smirk on the side of his lips. I wonder what would happen if we switched bodies, she thought.

"Guys, I think we need to update each other on what's going on on this island," Rei said as she stood up from her seat.

"I agree," Usopp said, wiping away tears from his eyes.

He quickly drew a sketch of the Thousand Sunny, a centaur stick figure, and a dragon onto the wall of the warehouse using some pens Rei carried in her utility belt.

"Okay!" he said pointing at his drawing like a school teacher, "Everyone pay attention."

The Straw Hats and the samurai head/leg hybrid gathered around for the briefing, while the children continued to play in the back with Luffy.

"Let's start from beginning," Usopp pointed at the samurai first, "He is the samurai from the Wano Kingdom. The signal that we received on the Sunny was meant for the Alliga-taur (Brownbeard), who they call 'Boss'. The signal was from one of his men. It all started when this samurai started to slice up the centaurs."

"I just wanted to rescue my missing son, Monosuke, and cut those people because they were standing in my way," the samurai explained, "In fact, look! Many children are held captive in this facility. I'm sure my son is in the building somewhere."

The Straw Hats turned to look behind them and watched as the children tossed snowballs at Luffy. Some were giant and reaching heights of 7 to 10 feet tall, while others were normal sized children.

What are these children doing on Punk Hazard?, Rei wondered.

Some of the children overheard the briefing and wandered over. "Yes, there are more of us. We don't even know the newcomers that well yet," one of them said.

"But the question is what happened after the signal?" Zoro asked, directing the attention back to Usopp.

"It's the man that we just saw," the samurai said, "People were saying that he is a Warlord."

"Yes," Rei said, "Trafalgar Law is one of the Shichibukai."

"He became one of the Seven Warlords in the past two years," Robin said.

"I was there when they made the decision," Rei said softly, "That's how I know him."

"WHAT?!" the Straw Hats gasped, "You were there when he became a warlord?!"

"I was asked by the Gorosei (Five Elder Stars) to weigh in on the decision," Rei said, "I've never had to advise on things involving the Warlord before but given the unique circumstances, they weren't sure what to do."

The Straw Hats were speechless. They knew that Rei was a legendary tactician and had been asked to consult in World Government affairs but they never knew just how far up she was able to reach.

Rei glanced over at Zoro to see what his reaction was to this piece of information but he had his head down and his arms crossed. Was he napping?!, Rei thought.

In fact, Zoro was wide awake. He was playing close attention to Rei's explanation. He just didn't want the rest of the crew to see how interested he was in the subject.

"You said something about unique circumstances," Nami-Franky said, "What did you mean by that?"

"Law is still fairly new to the pirate world, especially compared to the other Warlords. He's the most inexperienced pirate to vy for a position. It was a big risk for them to take," Rei said.

"What made them decide to accept him?" Usopp asked.

"He sent 100 still-beating pirate hearts to Marine headquarters to prove his strength," Rei replied.

"What?!" the Straw Hats gasped.

"That's his ability, remember? Like what he did with Smoker?" Rei said looking at Robin and Usopp.

"He chopped me into three pieces before I knew it!" the samurai interjected, "My head was kept in the facility. My torso was thrown out into the cold and my legs were taken to the fire side."

"Rei-san, you were right. It was his torso that we saw," Brook said looking at Rei.

The samurai gasped and ran over to Rei. "You saw my torso?! Where?!"