"Huff huff, GUYS! Usopp...ROBIN!" Chopper huffed.

The day was now now completely gone. Chopper, dawned in his deer form, was running all over town looking for his crewmates and after considerable amount of searching. He started to rush back to the Going Merry. "This is no good, who was that guy?" Chopper thought to himself as he ran towards the docks. He had been following drips and dabs of blood but they had ended a while back. "I can't just run after them myself, I've gotta warn the others"

"Whoever they were they were strong if not even Robin and Usopp could..." Then Chopper remembered another important detail. While he was in the shop, why did he feel so faint? "Some sickness I'm not aware of?" Chopper slid to a halt. He noticed there was blood on the side of the street. "What...is this?" Chopper approached the scene, wanting to get a closer look.

"This is...Ah!" Chopper noticed by the small blood puddle there was an unlit cigarette. Chopper sniffed at the cigarette a few times. "SANJI?" Chopper whirled around to see if there was any danger to be wary of. He started running again for the Going Merry, but still on the lookout."Sanji!...Sanji!"

"Chopper!"

Chopper heard the familiar voice and immediately ran in the direction of the origin. With a little relief he spied another one of his crewmates. "ZORO!" He quickly caught up to Zoro, who was also running. "I'm so glad! ZORO!"

Zoro slowed his pace a little so he could speak to the upset reindeer. "Chopper! What happened?"

"I'm so glad I found you Zoro!" Chopper was in tears as he ran beside Zoro, trying to keep up. Zoro kept the pace he was at and tried to calm Chopper down a little.

"Chopper, why are you running too? What's happened?" Zoro said without looking at Chopper.

"AHHHaAAA! Usopp and Robin were taken!" Chopper continued to scream and cry, a failed attempt to calm himself only made him more loud.

"Shit. Usopp too?" Zoro increased his pace a little, spotting the Going Merry. Chopper attempted to calm himself again, sniffling as he kept up with Zoro.

"Yes...sniff...A bounty hunter took them! I couldn't do anything to save them! Which is why I'm so happy I found you Zoro!" With much force he managed to stop himself from crying again.

"Chopper." Zoro said, he had stopped. He was trying to get Chopper's attention.

"They were taken!" Chopper was still running, tears blurring his eyes.

"Chopper!" Zoro tried once more to get his attention.

CRRAAASH!

Too late. Chopper ran full force into the side of the ship. "Ahh...ahha...they were..." Naturally a little disoriented Chopper stumbled a few steps backward before shaking it off. "... Merry!"

Zoro glanced over at Chopper to see if he was okay, after confirming his little crewmate's safety he jumped onto the Going Merry. "OI! Is anyone here?" He looked around the ship, checking all the rooms. "Shit...OOOOIII! LUFFY, NAMI?" The last place he looked, was the women's quarters. "OI...ah?" He spotted Luffy sleeping soundly on one of the beds. "...Wake up, YOU MORON!" Zoro gave Luffy a swift kick to his side, sending luffy flying off the bed, hitting the wall.

"AAHH!..EH? EH?...Zoro?...Zoro! What the hell are you doing? Why'd you kick me?"

"Usopp and Robin have been taken!"

"EEEEHHHH?"


"Lila, I told you we can't kill him just yet."
Giman. A.K.A. "The Collector Hunter" Sat in a wooden chair on the deck of his ship, calmly arguing with...

"That little son of a bitch! WHY THE HELL NOT? My eyes are burning, he should have to suffer too Gi-kun!"
Lila. A.K.A. "Thousand Identity Lila" She was across the deck from Giman, rinsing her eyes out thoroughly with water.

"We have to find out if he's useful or not..." Giman calmly said while throwing a rag to Lila to dry
her face.

"The little bastard burned my eyes!" Lila caught the rag and shot Giman a look and needless to say, it was not a pleasant one, on top of being incredibly angry, her eyes were bloodshot, it was hard to tell whether or not her face was wet with water or tears and she was grinding her teeth at him. "I went blind, for an hour!" She dried her face off and threw the rag at him in a huff, storming her way across the ship.

Giman sighed in defeat, taking the rag off his face and started to polish one of his knives. "Look, when we have no use for him anymore, I'll let you kill him yourself."

Lila pouted for a little in silence before giving up, strolling happily over to him, still looking slightly terrifying with her eyes still red. She walked over to him with her hands behind her back, apparently forgetting her bad mood. "Oh, but I'd love it if you killed him for me...You know I love how you do it." Lila said as she sat in his lap, putting her arms around his neck.

He was a little more annoyed than he was pleased but he stopped polishing his knives and feeling defeated he put his arms around her waist. "Yea, I know...geez."

"A slow death I think, Gi-kun?"

"Is there another way to do it?"


"Robin...are you mentally and physically prepared?"

"Hai...Long-nose kun." Robin rubbed her forehead with a little frustration.

The two prisoners, Usopp and Robin had been determined in finding a plan of escape. They talked in the complete pitch black, thanks to the fact, that Usopp's Lantern had run out of gas or had too much "gas."

"Then it's time for...'Usopp Escape Plan # 7!'" Usopp exclaimed in a loud whisper. Robin had rejected Usopp's other plans on account that they were...

"Usopp Escape Plan #1!...Huuhuu, it's ingenious. First, I pretend I'm sick but it won't actually be me who's sick...We'll need some papier mache to make a replicate of myself. Second, I'll strip naked and dress the replicate so it'll look exactly..."

"..." Robin just stood there, it was obvious by her face that she didn't enjoy Usopp's "Ingenious" plan. Since it was pitch dark though, she put her expression into gentle words. "I'm sure that's way too idiotic a plan to even consider, Long-nose Kun."

" Ah! so blunt." Usopp said in another loud whisper. Again, if it wasn't dark Usopp's face showed utter disappointment, but being as determined as he was, he came up with 5 more "ingenious" plans.

Usopp Escape Plan #2!: "Okay Robin, Step 1. We wear our shirts over our heads and pretend we're ghosts!"

"That will never work in a thousand years, Long-nose Kun."

#4!: "Hehe, this'll work for sure, We yell at the top of our lungs that we have delicious candy that they don't have.."

"Just mentioning it, is a failure plan."

"Eh..was that necessary?"

#6!: "If we tell them that we aren't pirates maybe they'll let ...Aa...Robin, are you listening?"

"Then it's time for...'Usopp Escape Plan # 7!' I'll pretend that I'm dead, then when they dispose of my body I'll spring into action and..."

as Usopp kept explaining the rest of Plan #7 Robin was having a tough time trying not to lose hope with every plan Usopp made up but having no plan herself she appreciated that he at least was thinking. "Long-nose Kun, We have to..think of something else." Robin said trying not to lose her cool.

"Ah, right." Usopp put his hand to his chin, thinking hard. "Aaaaa...I'm all out of idea's." Usopp sat back, trying to think. When...

"Long-nose kun..." Robin covered her nose with her hand.

"Robin...?" He replied confused before suddenly doing the same.

"Robin, did you?"
"Long-nose did you?" They overlapped eachother in saying this before Usopp realized it was neither of them. "Ahh...wait." Usopp shifted slightly and pulled something out of his back pocket. "Sorry Robin, it's just 'Usopp Stink Bomb" He felt around for the button and turned it off.

Robin began to get frustrated again with her hand still over her nose but suddenly a thought occurred to her. "Stink...Long-nose Kun?"

"Yea" Usopp replied, putting the dial away.

"Could you repeat Usopp Escape Plan #7?"