"Marines!!" Franky yelled just as the sound of cannon fire could be heard to the side of the Thousand Sunny.

ZOSAN

The cannonballs hit the water, just missing the ship, yet creating waves that hit the sides with force. Sanji and Franky staggered as the ship swayed over the waves.

The cook quickly picked himself back up again and hollered to Franky.

"We have to get out of here! We need to get to the deck!!" Franky nodded frantically and scrambled to his feet and out the door of the infirmary. Sanji was about to follow the cyborg until he heard a cough from behind him. The cook whipped around to see that Zoro was on the ground with his legs crossed and an irritated scowl on his face.

"Umm, you forgetting something?" He asked sarcastically. Sanji had to actually take a moment to process what the swordsman had said before the pieces fell into place. The cook sighed. He had forgotten that Zoro could not walk. The swordsman raised his eyebrows in a condescending manner.

"You know I'd rather not die sitting on the floor here, and I'm sure you wouldn't like to die with that stupid look on your face, so could you please just hurry up!" Sanji glared at Zoro, but knew his was right (well, partially). If they waited around any longer they would get bombarded with cannon fire. They had to get out of there.

"Alright, don't go falling off damn Marimo." Sanji hissed as he hoisted Zoro up in his back, wrapping his arms around his legs and securing him by tying a bedsheet around both of their waists.

"I won't fall off if you don't drop me shitty cook." Zoro hissed back. Sanji ignored him, noting that the swordsman seemed to be getting better if he could argue, and quickly ran out the door just before more cannon fire was heard.

As Sanji ran out to the main deck he realized just how light Zoro was. The cook had carried him many times before before and knew his weight by heart, his illness must have been causing him to lose weight faster, not to mention the fact that Zoro had not eaten anything the whole day. Sanji just hoped that the others would be back soon with the medicine because Zoro felt a whole 20 pounds lighter after just one day.

More cannon fire rocked the ship, reminding the cook that the more important thing he should worry about was being killed by Marines. The rocking ship made Sanji wobble to the side, but he held his ground. If he went tumbling over, so would Zoro. Sanji was not about to let that happen.

The cook hurried over to Franky who was busy manning the cannons and fueling everything up in cola. His concentrated and stern until Sanji arrived at his side.

"Franky!" Sanji called, running over to the cyborg. Franky beamed as he saw the cook.

"Hey Sanji-bro!" He called over in a strangely cheerful manner. Sanji cocked a curly brow.

"Why are you so happy all of a sudden. You were frantic a few minutes ago." Franky shrugged.

"I was, but that was before I learned that these Marines have really bad aim." Sanji pondered this. Franky was right. If the Marines had good aim they all would have been dead the first time their cannons went off, but they were still standing and the ship was still in one piece.

The Marines fired off another round of cannons, that time hitting further than they had before, making the ship only rock ever so slightly.

"Wow." Sanji muttered. "They really do have bad aim." Franky nodded and smiled at the cook.

"If they keep missing I'll be able to get the cannons ready and blow them all away!" He said cheerfully. Sanji nodded to Frankys plan, but for some reason something felt off to him. Why would the Marines be so bad at aiming? They were trained to man cannons and aim properly, so why was that fleet so bad? Sanji spend a few seconds pondering this as Franky fixed up the cannons, but the cook was interrupted by Zoro sliding off his back.

"Shit." Sanji muttered as he swiftly adjusted the swordsman. His breathing was shallow and his body was limp, indicating to Sanji that he was out cold. Sanji could even feel Zoros warm face against his back, sensing that his temperature had gone up. Sanji needed to tend to him immediately.

"I'm gonna go bring Zoro back the the infirmary." Sanji announced. "Let me know when you've gotten rid of them." He cocked his head at the Marines. Franky nodded to the blonde cook.

"Take good care of him bro." He smiled and Sanji nodded back before making his way back to the infirmary. The whole way there the uneasy feeling stayed with Sanji. He felt that something was amiss, but had no idea what it was. The Marines were the ones causing him to feel uncertain, Sanji knew that much, but he had no idea why.

The cook made it to the door of the infirmary and went to open it, but was stopped by the feeling of being watched. Sanji turned around and was met with the face of a Marine Officer.

Sanji had no time to react. He was quickly pinned down by 4 other Marines and Zoro was grabbed from the cooks back and slammed against a wall. He woke up immediately with a surprised groan and gave an angry face to the person above him.

"Oi! I said don't drop me you-" he froze when he saw that the person who had been so careless with him was in fact not the cook. Zoro grimaced.

"Shit." He muttered. His eyes then fell on the cook pinned to the ground and he went from surprised angry to downright pissed. He tried to stand, but was pushed down by the foot of the Marine standing over him. Zoro grunted, but otherwise remained quiet. He did not have the strength to fight and he knew it. He would just get himself killed.

Sanji struggled against his retainers as they had his whole body pinned to the ground. Securing his head, both him arms, and both his legs for no possible weapon against them. He was trapped. The cook even tried to call out to Franky but was stopped by a Marine kicking him in the side of his head with a hard-toed boot. Sanji felt his head erupt with pain and his concentration grow fuzzy, but he tried to shake it off and regain focus.

He hated that he had not seen that coming. The Marines with the bad aim had just been distractions for other Marines to board the ship and ambush them. Sanji cursed himself out in his head for being so oblivious to the obvious distraction. At the moment him and Zoro were in terrible danger, Franky included if others had gotten to him.

Sanji heard footsteps to his left and he struggled to lift his head to see who it was, but the Marine holding his head shoved it back down to the ground, making Sanji bite his tongue hard and his mouth fill with blood. The footsteps became louder until they stopped right over Sanjis head.

"Well, look what we have here." A deep voice spoke in a snarky manner. Sanji felt a cold chill travel down his spine at the sound of the man's voice. He knew the face that that voice belonged to, and it did not bring back any pleasant memories.

Sanji lifted his head slightly to get a good look at the man standing before him, and sure enough, his suspicions were true.

Marine General Hanic stood over Sanji with a shit eating grin on his face. He looked older since the last time Sanji had seen him, but it had only been a few days.

"It took my men a few days to finally catch up with you, but here we are now, here to take back what is rightfully ours." Sanji heard Zoro growl animalistically at the Marine General.

"Seems you haven't changed a bit Roronoa. I like that about you." Sanji heard a struggle and then Zoro grunt in pain after a loud thud. Sanji felt his blood boil with anger. Hanic hummed in a confused/amused manner and slowly walked over to the swordsman.

"What's this? Where's that infamous Godlike strength I witnessed before." Hanic said smugly. Zoro struggled again, but Sanji knew that he was still in the grasp of the Marines. Hanic walked around for a bit, examining both the cook and the swordsman, but stopped and hummed.

"Looks like that gunshot to the foot affected you more than I thought Demon." Hanic jeered.

"Shut your damn mouth asshole." Zoro hissed dangerously, but Sanji could hear the weakness in his voice, and so could Hanic.

"Silence!" He barked. Sanji heard a loud thud and Zoro grunt in pain once again, the cook could not help but tense up.

"You are in no position to talk so boldly swordsman. Tsk! I should just kill you right now." Those worse made Sanjis body flinch and his blood boil hotter than the sun. His struggling turned vigorous as he tried to remove the hands of the Marines from his limbs just so that he could kick Hanics ugly face in.

"Looks like your friend here is trying to defend you Roronoa. How kind of him." Hanics voice was full of sarcasm and condescension, only making Sanjis anger grow.

"Now, I hope you two will finally listen to me." Hanic sighed after a few seconds. "I'm growing tired of the excuses." Hanic knelt down in front of Sanji so that he could see the horrible man in his full glory. Hanic smiled, showing off his crooked teeth.

"Where is Monkey D. Luffy." Zoro snorted a laugh at Hanics words. The Marine General was not amused by this.

"Find something funny Demon?" He asked, his voice full of poison and death.

"We never told you at the base, so what makes you think we'll tell you now?" He asked in a snarky tone. Hanic growled dangerously.

"Oh, I'll make sure you tell me. You see, we already know that he's not on the ship, but there is someone else who is." Hanic cocked his head to the main deck. "If you tell us where your Captain is, we'll let you and your big friend out on deck go. How does that sound?" Sanji could practically hear Zoro roll his eyes.

"We'd rather you kill us." Hanic chucked in surprise and looked back to Sanji.

"Would you look at that Blackleg. The Demon is putting the life of his friends at risk for one person. Not very compassionate of him I must say." Sanji felt his anger levels begin to reach their limits. There was no way in hell he would let that Marine asshole call his friend uncompassionate. Not in a million years. Sanji gritted his teeth and glared up at the Marine General. His eyes full of rage.

"Like he said," Sanji spoke, trying to keep his voice as level as possible, "we'd rather you kill us." Hanic seemed slightly surprised by Sanjis response, and slightly disappointed that his plan of causing friction between Sanji and Zoro did not work. Of course it did not. Sanji knew that giving away Luffys location to the Marines would be catastrophic. So he knew that Zoro was right. He would rather die than sell out his captain.

Hanic gave Sanji a sly smile that told the cook that he was up to no good. He then stood up quickly and turned around.

"Take them to the boats." He barked to the other Marines. The ones on top of the cook began lifting him up, but still preventing his movement. Sanji struggled again, but to no avail.

The cook turned around frantically to see that Zoro had been dragged to his feet as well. Though he looked weak and was forced to lean on one of the Marines due to his foot. Only two Marines had to hold him.

Sanji then quickly looked back to the Marine General only to see a deadly grin on his face that made Sanjis anger finally go over the edge.

"Oi! Where the fuck are you taking us asshole!?" He barked at Hanic. The Generals smile grew wider. He then leaned close to Sanji so that his mouth was next to the cooks ear. He then whispered slowly into his ear, the feeling of his breath making Sanji flinch.

"Like you said, you'd rather be killed then sell out your captain." He whispered. Sanji could feel his lips curl into a wide smile.

"I hope you live up to your word."