Just for the fun and curiosity of it, I tried a whole day with talking without the use of my tongue. And my research has proven correct; it does annoy anybody I talk to.

I don't anything of One piece

3rd P.O.V

"Oh, Luffy came back!" Ussop said in surprise as Luffy flung himself over the ship's railing and landing on top of Sanji.

"Yeah, the hard way." Zoro groaned, annoyed, into his hand at the front of the ship, looking away from the commotion in disdain.

Back with they rest of the crew, with the exception of Chopper and K03 who were in the cabin working on K03's injuries, Luffy laughed happily as he sat himself up off Sanji and then held his hand on his hat. "Hehe, sorry about that." He said cheerfully, not knowing the anger that would come to him soon. "Sorry guys, my bad."

Jumping up, Sanji gripped Luffy's red vest and started shaking, plus scolding, him harshly as if he was going to kill him. Luffy screamed in what seemed like fear as he shook rapidly. No one around them did anything, seeing that their captain was an idiot a deserved the almost fitting punishment.

"Yeah, you're sorry!" Sanji growled angrily as he shook Luffy. "You're a sorry excuse of a Captain whose ever sailed the seas, you moron!"

"Any idea how much trouble you've put us in." Nami rhetorically asked as she stepped up behind Luffy with an annoyed hand to her hip. "Can you at least try to act like a Captain sometime?"

Luffy, when Sanji stopped his unrelenting shaking, craned his neck back to look somewhat apologetically at Nami, "I'm sorry." Then he sat up straighter and looked around. "Oh, where's Ace?"

Luffy stood himself up eagerly and then out himself almost over the edge of the railing to try to find his brother.

"Ace? Sanji confusedly asked, not remembering the fact about Ace and his relations with Luffy.

"You were with your brother, huh?" Zoro asked nonchalantly as he walked up to where Luffy and the rest f the crew were. "Let's hope he's here to take this girl away."

(O.O)

"You don't know her?" Nami asked aghast as she widened her eyes toward Ace.

"Nope, she fell from the sky, I saved her, and then she just started following me around." Ace shrugged simply with a slight grin placed on his face. "The only thing I know about her is that she doesn't talk."

"So we could be harboring a fugitive this whole time?" Ussop asked ruefully as she shook his head slowly. "I told you we shouldn't have let her on the boat."

Nami and Zoro both nodded in agreement, but Luffy and Sanji disagreed whole-heartedly with them and voiced out their opinions on the matter.

"I don't think she's a fugitive," Sanji said almost adoringly with big hearts in his eyes. "She's too clean and beautiful to be one."

"I don't think she is either." Luffy said smiling goofily. "And since Ace doesn't have her, I bet we can ask her to join the crew! She seemed really skilled with her knives."

"Can you two be any more stupid!" Nami yelled and slammed her hand down on Luffy's and Sanji's heads furiously that they both smacked face first to the ground. Then she calmly patted herself and spoke a little bit calmer for her next words. "Honestly, we can't just go around trusting people for their looks or because we think they are good."

"And lets not forget that she most likely is an Agent, which has to be a different race from all of us." Zoro spoke up from his position which was leaning against the balcony. "They are never good people."

"What makes you say that?" Luffy asked curiously. "What are Agents?"

"I've only heard of them in passing," Princess Nefeltari Vivi, usually known as Vivi, wondered out loud. She put her fingers to her chin and thought carefully of where she had heard them before, trying not to let any information pass her mind. "I've only heard about them from my father, and all he did say was that they are very segregated and very troublesome at the most inopportune, and opportune times."

"Yeah, that's because they plan it like that all the time." Zoro replied sternly and looked at his crew mates with fierce eyes. "When something huge, like something so important it can't be missed, happens, you can always count on the snow-like people to be there doing something to make it go their way."

"What's their goal?" Ussop asked Zoro with a dauntless smirk before boasting on himself. "I mean, they can't be any match for me, Ussop, great warrior of the sea!"

"They can, because they aren't like us." Zoro announced gravely to everyone. "With all the technology they've been seen to use, they can just come and go as they please without anyone interrupting them. No one knows where they come from or what their goals are, it's just one of the many mysteries of this world."

"How do you know all this?" Nami questions with a raise of her brow. "You sure seem to know a lot about them when the rest of us don't have the closest clue."

"I wandered around a lot before I joined the crew," Zoro replied, leaning his back onto the wall and crossing his arms over his chest with a serious look as he thought. "And I met one once."

"That's it?" Sanji growled out at Zoro. "There has to be more than what your telling us, moss head."

"No, that's just it! I just met one once, a long time ago!"

Nami thought to herself, ignoring the yells in front of her for a whole minute before a mischievous grin spreads across her face and she naps her fingers together like she won something.

She smirks broadly woth her eyes closed and hands on her hips. "Zoro must've been beaten by one. He must've saw one of them, fought them, lost, and tried hunting him down because he was a lot stronger than you. Am I right?"

"What," Zoro stuttered out and pulled his angry fuming face away from Sanji and to Nami. "No, of course not!"

(O.O)

K03's P.O.V

The first thing, or color you could say, I saw when I woke up was the bright color of brown. It was literally right above me and beckoned me to reach out and touch it, so I could feel it.

Yes, it sounds really disturbing, but I had forgotten where I was at the moment. I was completely taken away in awe by that color of brown and thinking how its rough texture would feel on my fingertips. It looked like wood, like the same type of wood I saw in the screens so long ago. It was nothing like the smooth, hard, grey tables and walls I was supposed to be seeing.

It felt like I was on a bed of some sort, a stiff, lumpy, and really back-breaking kind. It felt like I was lying on this bed for ages, and that could mean that I was going to be late for work.

Work. That's right, I don't have a job to be late to and get myself ended as Restricted. The last 10 hours, or so, to me came by in a rush of memories and aching emotions.

I was in a criminal world with too many Anomalies to count, right. I was considered to be a Nothing in my world, which is less than Restricted. I'm something called 'Project C' and was experimented on, right. I watched in horror as my tongue was taken out, with all the pain and burns to follow, right. I was saved, along with the too happy Y08, by the golden teeth Reboot, JJ5, and my short haired friend, Z33. Then I was forced to hide in a world that I never knew or Analyzed before, a very frustrating part there. Am I missing anything too important now?

Wait, I'm missing the part of where I was now.

I was now on some ship with these people called 'pirates', I think that's what their called. A little bit ago I was with a Code, with one of the weirdest of names that are considered normal, 'Ace'. He caught me from falling from my death by using his fire 'Devil' powers that are seemingly given to him by a fruit.

Great, still wondering how the imaginary 'Devil' gave powers through fruit, but now that I got us all caught up, let's move on.

I stiffly sat up and stretched my sore, aching limbs, ignoring the fact that my shoulders protested by cursing at me with every little movement I made. It smelled like leaves of some sort on my darkened shoulders, maybe some aloe. I looked around the room that I could vaguely remember being called a 'cabin', even though I doubt we are in a 'forest'. In the back of the room I spotted the furry beast, Chopper, trying to hide behind the desk, but rather poorly, because instead of his body hiding behind the desk, his butt stuck out. The only real thing hidden was half his shocked, scared face and one antler.

To try and gain his trust so he would go big and scary again, I smiled an almost closed eye smile and waved warily. The sleeve of my shirt fell down and revealed my daggers strapped to my wrist, so that meant my wave was a stupid move. I quickly stopped and covered it up, embarrassed at the move I had just made.

Chopper gave a little jump and gasp in shock, shaking the table and knocking the various papers and ink off, clattering messily on the floor.

I waved my hands wildly in front of me, hoping that he would take that as a 'I mean no harm' sign.

He stood there quietly for another few seconds, cautiously analyzing with his wide brown eyes. "You didn't have severe burns like I thought you did. It was more of a mild, blackened sunburn."

"Oh," I said, but it sounded airy and strained and as a pronounced my lips to form a 'O'. Embarrassed, I looked down at my hands in my lap. What else could I have said to save my butt from whatever trouble I'm in.

That's when I thought popped up in my mind. I could try some simple sign language I learned in school.

I didn't remember everything on sign language, or the different variations in each world, but I think I had enough to get by. I brought my head up to face Chopper and touched my fingers to my lips, then dropping my hand with my palm up. I smiled kindly, with crinkled eyes, as I gave him my thank you. I mean, what kind of Medical wouldn't be smart enough to know this, right?

I watched as Chopper brought his one hidden eye out to look at me, not exactly getting the message at first. I softened my grin and did the thank you motion once again, hoping he had the smarts to know this.

"Are you signing thank you?" I heard him mumble confusedly under his breath to himself.

Excited, I clapped my hands together and gave him some thumbs up. He yelped in surprise and back anxiously farther into the corner behind the desk. But I didn't exactly notice, I just knew he had he smarts. Was I ever wrong?

Then everything just went crazy a second later. You should guess why, since he usually is the main craze who causes all the ruckus.

That's when the door bursts open with a loud crashed and in tumbled, um, I'll have to get back to you on that, but he was the one with the straw hat and a relative of Ace. He looked happily around the room, barely glancing at the Medical, Chopper, and then locking his goofy gaze with my wide one.

"Did you really come from the sky!" What's his name, ah Luffy, asked with childish eager with equally childish, dark-colored big eyes.

I leaned back in slight disgust, but mostly some unexpected fear for some reason, and put my hands up to shield myself from the guy. Even though he wasn't slobbering over me like a total fool, he was still too close for comfort and gave me too many ideas of what would come.

He babbled off a few more loud questions eagerly before more footsteps sounded as they entered the room behind Luffy, and Ace was one of them, which filled me with great relief I could've been drinking some, cold, sweet artificial H2O on a hot and muggy day filled with endless rain showers.

"Luffy, you're scaring the poor girl!" I heard one of the few friends in his group.

I watched, practically paralyzed, as one if them pulled Luffy's shoulder back to give me room to breath. I turned my head to the side and saw that it was the Medical, Chopper, who came to my rescue. I silently thanked him while I smiled nervously at the people before me, hoping it would ease the tensions that could be before us.

After Chopper said a few things to his friends, which I couldn't quite hear because of the headache starting to pound on the side of my skull, which seemed to calm them and their tension from me just a little. They all turned back to me and I put my hand up in a salute, which is the sign language for hi.

"Why did she just do that?" The orange haired one, which I think is the navigator, asked as she was taken back at what I just did.

"She says hello," Chopper informed them and I gave my thumps up in approval. "She's using sign language, but I don't know much."

I smiled widely at them once again and scratched my shoulder. then doubled in pain as I scratched my 'sunburn', or whatever the Medical said I had. It was not the best idea I had, and now I paid the price by holding my breath and banging my forehead off the wall for relief till the pain had subsided from my shoulders.

"You shouldn't scratch your shoulder like that," I heard Chopper fuss and warn as he came over to me. "You skin is damaged and fragile, you'll only make it worse by scratching at it. Aloe can do only so much."

"Chopper, stay away from that girl!" The darker skinned one, Ussop I think, warned in a wavering tone and hiding behind the green haired swordsman. "She could be dangerous! Did you even think to remove her weapons?"

I jolted a little bit in my seat in worry and put my hands behind my back rather guilty and averted my eyes to look away from them. I tried to push my hat down, but it wasn't there and was on the floor by the bed, but I made no move to grab it. I made a mental note, though I'll most likely forget it, that I really shouldn't lift up my arms to mean no harm when my sleeves are loose-fitting, right. Also not to tuck in my shirt, as the belt is a dead give away as well.

"You didn't, didn't you?" Nami sighed into the palm of her hands, not worried at all that I might attack at any second. Guess she has confidence when she is in league with a bunch of criminals, hopefully they are strong. But either way, I'm still not going to fight them, as I would rather just run and hide at that moment. "Well, what now, Captain?"

I looked around the room for the Captain, which would most likely the boss, and my eyes immediately shot to the green-haired swordsman in the back corner. He was the one who looked like the Captain to me, and he probably was, since no one else looked qualified for the job. Well, Chopper maybe, but he seemed to shy.

"I want her to join my crew."

I looked over and saw Luffy confidently at with a goofy grin on his face. Then I could literally feel the static tension rise up in the room when his friends looked at him like they were about to murder him where he stood, except for the blond, Sanji, who didn't look like he was in here to voice an opinion.

'That's great, Luffy,' I thought boredly to myself, 'But I believe the Captain get to choose my fate. Or maybe Z33 will use her skills to let me move around happily, but that may be too much to ask, right?'

"I think she should too."

I swiveled my head over to the voice, the voice that belonged to Ace. He stood a little farther back from everyone, but I could easily tell that these people respect him. Everyone, including I, looked at him with major confusion planted on our features, but he didn't seem fazed. Maybe he was the Captain.

No, that couldn't be possible, because that smoker said that he was what, a division something or other. I could really be confusing myself right now, and these Codes brought me no help.

"See!" Luffy shouted out with glee that made me lean back a little farther away from him. "Now she has to join our crew!"

"Luffy, can you just think about it for a second?" Nami badgered at Luffy as she stepped up behind him with her hands on her hips. Her, and Vivi next to her, outfit now changed out of the skimpy clothing into more of the usual blankets I've seen around here.

I crossed my hands over my chest and exaggerated a sigh while blowing my white bangs out of my eyes at the same time. Jeesh, they were talking about me in front of me like I wasn't there? Just because I can't talk doesn't mean I don't have feelings of people talking in front of me. Or am I using the no tongue excuse a little too much? Nah, I'm sure I'm good as long as I don't voice it to others and make them think I'm needy.

Wait, I think I just got ahead of myself. Dang it, I don't remember what I was made about, great. Oh, and it was such a trivial matter as well.

I was lost in thought for the next minute as I tried to figure out just what I was thinking about. I hated not knowing it and it was frustrating because I knew that I just had it in my head that minute ago.

That's when a tablet of thin white paper slapped itself on onto my lap, shocking me out of my train of thought. I looked and saw the Codes looking down on me, and Nami holding out a stylus with a point on it. It was sleek like a stylus, but it didn't have the hard, rounded bud on its top, it had a soft, and sharp point that reminded me of my daggers.

Should I have touched it? Yeah, it probably wouldn't hurt as long as I didn't stab myself with it. Did I want to touch it in fear of its unfamiliarity? Well, my brain said no, but, cheesy enough, my heart wanted to touch it.

"Here, we can ask you questions and you can tell us who you are. Can you do that?" Nami said as she looked at me. Her face smiled down at me, but there was something more serious because her smile didn't reach her eyes.

I took the stylus hesitantly. What language did I have to use? I only knew two different ones, and that's the one I speak and the old world I analyzed. It was tempting to use my natural language words, since it was known as common language between every world, but something told me they used that other world's language more.

"Okay," The dark skinned Code with black curly hair said as he grabbed a stool. He ushered Nami back and then sat the stool across from me. "What's your name?"

Weird question. I can't just tell them K03 when they don't have the same name scale as we use. They just use random name that anybody could have and confuse each other with so many same names.

I took the stylus and examined it closely, figuring which end I was to use to write. I must've looked like an absolute imbecile, or worse, an idiot, when I touched my finger tip to its point.

I watched, mystified, when I removed the tip and it left a black mark on my contrasting white fingertip. I looked back at everyone, who were watching me with confused looks, and I showed them my dotted fingertip in excitement. I didn't mean to do that, acting like a little Coder on her first time out, I just got caught up in the moment.

"Are you dense? It's a pen," Ussop, I vaguely remember, informed me with a drop of sweat suddenly, and comically, running down his temple and forehead. I held back my urge to touch it, seeing it as wrong and gross. "You use it to write stuff down, like on a piece of paper to answer our questions."

I looked at him with a confused tilt of my head. Why was he acting all tough and smart when I saw him not too long ago quaking behind various people in fear. Why was this called a pen? Is it like a mechanical stylus that uses lead to work on the obsolete tabs of paper.

I guess I'll play along and call this a pen, even though a pen is where domesticated animals belong. Another thing I'll do is write in the magic world's language as best as I remember.

I nodded at them briskly and out the 'pen' to paper and thought about my name. In my mind, the name K03 had only one letter and two numbers. I could use the K and the 0 because it's a zero is close to the letter 'O' and will match up better with other words because it's a vowel in my language. Then I thought of the 3 and wondered what I could change that to. I could use that as a 'E' if I reversed it. So that meant my name would be KOE, which in this would it would be pronounced as 'Ko' and then 'A'. Koe. Good enough for me to remember.

I quickly scribbled that down with the tip of the pen on the thin paper and showed it to them with a big, most likely unconvincing, wide smile. They all took a second to read it before all coming together in a synchronized droplet of sweats to run down their faces.

Then the swordsman laughed out loud, as if accusing me of being stupid, and then spoke, "Your name is voice and you can't speak? Whoever gave you that name must've had some premonition about your future!"

I deflated and looked down at the paper I just scribbled my made up name on. I had totally forgot that it was a direct language switch in writing that I didn't even think to check. I was very ashamed at myself for being so careless; names mean a lot in other worlds and I must've made myself look ridicules.

"Oh, don't look sad. He didn't mean it like that!" Vivi apologized strongly with an urgent plea in her voice, I think. "You have a beautiful name that has nothing to do with-" She then slapped her hand over her mouth, embarrassed on what she was about to say.

I reached out and patted her softly with my hand and smiled, telling her that I meant no offense. She smiled back at me and then I looked at Ussop again so he could ask more of his questions.

"Alright, here is an easy question. Where are you from?"

I bit my lip uncertainly as I contemplated my actions. I can't just carelessly give away anything, and I don't like lying either, so what could I do to be vague.

I slowly lifted the pen up with my left hand and wrote in careful writing, 'I can't tell you, sorry.' and then I showed it to them with averting eyes, not wanting to look at them.

When I did choose to look up at them, rather guilty I was feeling, I saw on their expressions that they knew that this was coming. They didn't seem as surprised, or as shock, or as mad as my mind was picturing them as.

Ussop sighed and continued on, "Are you what they call an 'Agent'?"

Ah, this I could answer more easily, because I wasn't a Field Agent, never was. But another thing was that I wasn't a Code Analyzer anymore, so what could I say other than nothing? I could say that I had my old job, but I thought they were considering that 'Agents' were their own race all together, so saying I am a Analyzer would just confuse them and most likely throw me off this thing and into the H2O below.

I thought for another few seconds before finally writing, 'I was once with them, but now I am considered as a Nothing to them.' That was the truth, and I am labeled as a literal Nothing now, even though I'm their precious 'Project C'.

The Codes in front of me looked at each other with a look I couldn't decipher, silently in their own conversation for a second.

"Is Nothing some type of label for your kind?" Ussop asked when he turned back to me.

'Yes.'

"What does it mean?"

'I am considered less than Restricted, as I hold too much information that could compromise my people.'

They read my words and all had another chat with their eyes. I wondered fleetingly if I could do that with my eyes and told myself that I should try it later, but then a sense of sadness flooded over me. It made me think of the number of people who died not long ago because of them just being there and not doing a thing wrong. They did nothing wrong, and probably would never have, not even the Regulators who died just by listening to a few petty words that were spoken.

This time Nami asked the burning question on everyone's mind, except for me and probably Luffy who just sat there with a happy grin and dazing off in space. "Are there others considered as these 'Nothings'?"

Uh, did I say too much? I gripped the paper between my hands uncertainly and hit the inside of my cheeks while rolling the stub of my tongue side to side. Then I looked at their expecting eyes and knew that I wouldn't leave here if I told them the truth, and I still haven't got the urge to lie.

'Just another, and the rest are all dead. Can we stop talking about this?' I showed them and then wiped away a few oncoming tears that fought their way to be shed.

"Alright, we'll stop. I guess it was pretty inconsiderate of us." Nami sighed in mock regret, but I could tell she didn't want to hurt my feelings and make me cry any more. "How about you tell us why were you following Ace when he chased after Luffy?"

They all seemed to soften their eyes just enough for my tears to stop. I breathed deeply and wrote, 'I didn't have anywhere to go. That's why I followed Ace for that little while, because he saved me and seemed nice. Sorry Ace, sir, I meant no disrespect.' Glad I finally remembered my manners.

"Hahaha, nah it's alright. It's not like you freeloaded off me or anything totally major." Ace chuckled and waved his hand dismissively at me.

I breathed out a huge breath when he said that. I was so glad that they didn't decide to do away with me yet, or other worse things I could imagine in my imaginative head of mine.

But then I had to bring that breath back as Luffy jumped right back in front of me and asked, "So how were you able to fall from the sky? Can your people fly?"

I sputtered and laughed wildly at the latter part of the question. Flying was so out of the question for homosapiens like us, as we didn't have a lightweight bone in any of us. This is basic stuff we learned when us Coders were all 10-ish, because learning the basics of flight was mandatory for all Coders if an Evacuation process happened. His mind was even dumber than a regular Restricted, and that's no lie.

I clutched my side because it hurt so much as I continued to laugh furiously while Luffy asked another stupid question, "What's so funny?"

I slowly started to stop laughing and then look up at everyone, wiping my eyes with laughter filled tears. My smile faltered slightly when almost all of them gave me a type of dead look as if they don't know why I was laughing.

I took the pen and paper and wrote, 'It's funny, is it not?'

"Ah..." Everyone said baffled and a few scratched their head and turned away. Then they gave me a synchronized answer, "No."

I dropped my head down lowly, very sad to hear that they had no clue why I laughed. I had thought that people would actually join me in my laughs, but I guess not, and they decided to hurt my spirit. I guess these Codes aren't as smart as I had once thought, which was such a shame because I'm not the brightest and I'm brighter than them.

"Oh, don't be sad!" I think Vivi deplored to me worriedly as she waved her hands over at me frantically. "It was funny, really!"

My head perked up happily at that, a small smile gracing my face. Yes, I did feel better after she said that. It made me feel like I was special and had my own inside joke after I thought about it. I saw Vivi sigh a breath of relief before I saw Luffy in the corner of my eyes make a command that would really change the course of my life.

"That settles it," He said with a big grin on his face that made me raise an eyebrow in question. "She has joined my crew and is now one of our friends!"

The first thought that traveled through my mind was, 'Don't I get a say in this?'. The next thought was more on the lines of, 'I still don't know what pirates are yet either. Maybe they're people who reproduce the work or invention of another without their authorization; or plunderers. Yes, they could be either. As I thought this, I scratch my fingers to my cheek and looked distantly up at the ceiling, barely registering what was happening right in front of me.

"Luffy, we don't even know if she wants to join or not. You can't just say she has joined." Nami exasperated and almost looked close to slapping him upside the head. "Jeesh, for a Captain, you're such an idiot."

Wait, did she just say Captain? Okay, how can that Coder be the leader of this group of people when he himself is such an imbecile? I bet I could probably take him down in a fight of words if this was some type of comedy. I wondered how he came to be a Captain, and leader, to this small band of criminal Codes.

See, at that time where I was thinking about if he was the Captain or not, I never saw him in action or as determined as the others have seen him before. But I don't have to tell you all about that, now do I?

That's when I got to thinking more deeply about what I would do know that I'm stuck in this world for the time being. I only had my daggers, for safety precautions, and the clothes on my back. How did JJ5 expect me to survive when I'm by myself in a criminal world, and in a desert no less. Maybe I should take Y08 on his offer to meet him at the meeting spot. Or I could always use this map I have downloaded into my palms to an advantage to locate Y08, because he is wearing a tracker that I could probably gain access to, or for when nearby enemies are around and I need to hide. Right, I just went off topic, great.

Back to the thoughts of what I should do then, right. I look up at the 'crew' as mentioned before many time by the Captain, Luffy, and see them all squabbling at him rather comically that I couldn't help but giggle quietly. They do seem to be friends alright. Or maybe its something different; like the best kind of friends? I didn't know the right word to name them, but it sure wasn't a crew that barely knew each other.

I took the now crinkled paper and scribbled down two words that at the time I thought I might regret; but in the end I wouldn't.

'I'll join.'

I hope I got everyone's personalities correct! Please tell me of any bad workings of their personalities!

Another note- I got Koe's name from another One Piece fanfiction right here on this website! It's called Voice by frostmoon13 and I really enjoy reading it.