Here's the preview for Chapter 10! Although it's more of a Prologue to it! Please review! I don't only want views! I need reviews! And please send questions to mfor the Q+A story! Please! I beg of you! And finally, I forgot to say in the last chapter but the poison Bert used, which was in the test tube was arsenic! Gets you worried, doesn't it? OK! Here's the disclaimer:

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece. Eiichiro Oda does.

Prologue to Chapter 10: Healed! A Disease Spread In 20!

'Heat Heat Pistol!' Volk punched through the stone floor upon arriving at the top of the tower. There was nothing to be seen at the top.

'Arkbar! Where are you!' Volk yelled in confusion. He noticed a very large blimp flying in the sky and pondered, 'Hmmmm...'

Rinnnnngggggg~

Volk took out a device from his pocket- it resembled a Transponder Snail and an iPhone.

Note: The new version of the Transponder Snail-a TSP!

'Volk, we need your help back at town!' Zara requested through the phone.

But Volk wanted to fight Arkbar, replying to her request, 'But Thalia! I have to go confront Arkbar-'

'Just hold that off for now! Zara's in danger!'

'Alright, I'll be on my way,' he said, before ending the call, and jumping off the top of the tower, using Geppo to get to Vic. Central.

Marshall landed on the ground, nearing Thalia and the unconscious Zara, asking, 'OK, so what's wrong with Zara?'

'She's got burn marks, and she got poisoned,' 'Gun Slinger' told him.

The 1,000 Degrees Man came over and bent down examining Zara, looking at her health bar with the status ailment 'badly poisoned' at the top, 'Well, that health bar's gonna keep depleting if we leave her like this..let's let to work.'

'Heat Heat Ball and Heat Heat Sap...' he engulfed both him and Zara in a ball of heat, and put his hands on Zara's stomach, 'Done!'

'The hell?! That was like...1 second!' Thalia stammered.

Actually, that was 10 seconds to be precise.

'Anyway here's the good news: My Devil Fruit powers allow me to manipulate heat, so I sapped the heat from the burns, so they could not make her feel anymore pain by them. The poison I used an Antidote on.'

'What the, how is that even..'

'I saw a Poke Ball on the way, and it contained a Antidote, ' the young man explained, 'It's good to pick up items you don't need so if in the future if you need-'

'OK, so what's the bad news?' the young woman cut him off.

'The burns won't go away.'

'Not bad,' Thalia replied.

As Krute was fighting off an agent, he asked Volk, 'Volk. Burn Scar-'

But Volk already used Heat Heat Sap again to sap away the heat and the pain from the attack, 'Is that better?'

'Yes, thank you.'

'I'm always here,' the pirate told him, before remembering something and asking Thalia, 'Oh yeah, Thalia! Where's Dell and Ijin?'

'Ijin is resting from his battle against one of the officer agents,' she explained, 'Dell, I don't actually know where he is.'

Marshall told her, 'He went to go fight that Harakārā guy. Let me get my Game Boy Advance out-'

Who owns a GBA these days?

He continued, 'And see where we are-oh! Dell defeated Harakārā, we're in front of Giovanni!'

'OK, then! Thanks, Volk!' Thalia expressed forgiveness.

'No problemo, and what is that in the sky?!' he looked at the sky, seeing a big blimp come out of nowhere: it's shadow covered the whole of the Central.

'Hmmm..I wonder 'ow Volk 'n 'em lot 're doing?' Bartender pondered as he looked through the window.

He noticed that a blimp was in the sky and thought to himself, 'That's weird. We never get blimps here...'

A voice that spoke through a mic (the source of sound coming from the blimp's large gondola) informed the island, 'Good afternoon, my fellow subjects. This is Taindu Arkbar speaking. I am talking to you now to inform you of the disasters that lie 20 minutes beyond-since I can't own the island myself due to a stupid, stubborn group of pirates, I won't let the island own itself, and so-in 20 minutes, the bombs we have implanted into the grounds will detonate-this will destroy the island, and everyone with it.'

'W-What!?' Thalia said in shock, along with Zara who finally woke up. Ijin also woke up as well upon hearing the message.

'Zara! You're awake!' Volk grinned.

'Shut up and listen!' she scolded the pirate captain, as she got up, albeit still fatigued from her recent battle.

'And before you ask, the bombs are real. One of you can check them for yourselves.'

'That bastard! H-He couldn't-' Volk, Dell, Ijin, Krute and Zara gasped simultaneously. Dell was running to the Central.

'And don't try disarming them, as I will also unleash a bouquet of missiles onto the island from space! So ta ta~! Try escaping this in only 20 minutes!'

'Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!' the dictator laughed mechanically for a long time.

The citizens in the complex screamed, along with the town and the population of Hosthold Town, which reverberated through the island. The Sniper Pirates were panicking, Korah even stopping as she heard the message, gasping and covering her face with her hand.

'Arkbar...' 'Gun Slinger' cursed the man, and broke into tears, 'ARKBARRRRR!'

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