Ever since the other Straw Hats had run off to join whatever fight Luffy and the others had gotten themselves into, Safaia had been left alone on the Sunny. For a moment she considered running for it, but all she knew about the island was that it was controlled by another gang of pirates, pirates who most likely weren't as friendly as Luffy and his crew. She spent most of her time in the library, until she heard the sound of someone jumping onboard. She came up to see that it was Chopper carrying Sanji with a broken leg. She helped Chopper carry him down to the sick bay where he made a cast for him. Chopper gave her instructions on how to care for him while he returned to the fight, a few minutes later he returned with Zoro, who had been bleeding out from various wounds. Soon after the other members of the crew returned to the ship, but their captain wasn't among them. They quickly filled Safaia and the others in on the situation.

"This guy beat all of us like we were nothing and now Luffy is taking him on by himself?!" asked Sanji.

"If anyone can do it he can."

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"What the hell was that?!"

"That was a cluster of bombs, obviously." said Franky.

"Looks like they just went off all over the island."

Moments later lava began spewing out of the volcano, frying everything in its path.

"We've got to get out of here!" said Usopp.

"We're not leaving without our captain."

"For all we know he could be dead already!"

"Don't you dare talk like that!"

"Nami, can you see anything?!"

It was hard to see anything through the storm and the rising smoke that covered the island, but Nami kept looking. Suddenly something came soaring through the rain and smoke at great speed.

"Oh my god… Chopper!"

Luffy crashed onto the deck of the ship clutching his chest, blood was spilling out.

"Someone ran him through with a sword." said Chopper "He's losing too much blood!"

"What do we do?"

Chopper was trying to think. Luffy was turning pale. He was going to need a transfusion, but first he had to stop the bleeding and he needed to do it fast.

"Franky, get me a flat metal surface!"

"Wait!" exclaimed Safaia "Let me try something."

Safaia knelt down before Luffy's head.

"Luffy, can you hear me? I can help you, but I need you to promise me that once you've found Black Hook Bart's treasure you'll take me home."

Luffy opened his eyes and smiled.

"Of course I will… we're friends aren't we?"

"Okay… Hold still."

"What are you doing?"

Safaia's whole body started glowing, and then she placed her hand over Luffy's wound. Suddenly his wound started to close on its own. When it was done it was like Luffy had never been wounded at all.

"He's probably still going to need a… need a… transfusion."

Safaia collapsed.

"What the heck just happened?" asked Franky.

"She must be a devil fruit user. Luffy's wound just healed like magic!"

"Then why didn't she heal Sanji and Zoro earlier?"

"Probably because we're pirates." said Nami "Maybe she thought that if we knew she had an ability like that then we wouldn't take her back home. Remember when I was double-crossed by Arlong?"

"I guess you're right."

"Besides, it looks like using that ability takes a lot out of her."

"He still needs a transfusion, someone help me get him down to the sick bay."

"Guys… we need to leave now… The Reaper's still out there… I couldn't even hit him."

"You heard the captain, pull up anchor! Let's get the hell out of here!"

Back on the island, the Reaper was just now being woken by the sound of his transponder snail ringing. He didn't answer it because he knew it was just one or more of the Celestial Dragons calling to yell at him. He tried to use his devil fruit power, but his limit must've passed because nothing happened.

"Stupid and careless! I should have made sure I killed him first. Now the whole world just saw him escape."

He immediately terminated the connection with the Celestial Dragons and raised The Revenge.

"Bring the ship around to my location, get here fast or there will be the devil to pay!"

Once Chopper had given Luffy his transfusion he told the others about what had happened.

"This is insane." said Zoro from his bed "Even if he was trained to use observation haki there's no way he should have been able to dodge all of our attacks."

"He didn't. I managed to get off one hit after he stabbed me."

"Did you knock him unconscious?"

"I must've, otherwise there's no way he would have let me get away."

"You said that he talked about having a devil fruit that was unrivaled. Maybe that's how he was able to beat us, but he wouldn't have been able to use it if he was unconscious."

"I can't think of any devil fruit powers that would let him do what he did, unless he ate a Dodge-Dodge fruit." said Brook.

"Wow! I've never heard of the Dodge-Dodge fruit." said Luffy.

"That's because there's no such thing." said Sanji.

"Then what kind of devil fruit did he eat?"

"We can figure that out later, we've got company! Ship off the port stern!"

All the members of the crew that were able to walk went out onto the deck. There was a large black ship with a skull with three horns for its figurehead gaining on them.

"It's the Reaper!" exclaimed Nami while looking through the telescope.

"Guy's, normally I'd never back down from a fight, but we can't beat this guy!"

"Stop the presses, it's a miracle." said Nami under her breath "Franky, Coup De Burst!"

"You got it!"

Franky hit the button, but nothing happened.

"Uh… why aren't we soaring through the air?" asked Usopp.

"Franky, check the engines!"

Franky went down below and saw that the engines had been sabotaged.

"Someone must've gotten aboard while we were fighting the Komodo Pirates!"

"From now on when we tell you to stay with the ship you stay with the ship!"

"Let's just hope there is a next time!"

The Reaper stood at the bow of the ship with a transponder snail in his hand.

"Attention all ladies, things are about to get a little bumpy. I strongly suggest you head down to the ship's bunker and strap yourselves in. The rest of you get ready to blow that ship to hell."

While the hired marines were running about the ship preparing for battle, the Reaper turned back to the visual transponder snails.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard my personal flagship, Charon's Revenge. The Straw Hats think they can outrun me, but earlier they made a critical mistake by leaving their ship unprotected. There will be no quick getaway for them this time."

Safaia was woken by the violent rocking of the ship and the sound of cannon fire.

"What's going on?" she said trying to shake off her fatigue.

"Uh yeah, all those cannon shots, that means we're in the middle of a fight." said Zoro trying to get out of his bed.

"Don't even think about it!" said Chopper transforming into his kung-fu point and knocking Zoro in the head "You're in no condition to fight!"

The Revenge was firing at the Sunny from the triple-barreled chase guns inside the figurehead's eyes. Nami and the others were doing the best they could to evade the shots, but so far there had been far too many near misses. The fact that there was a fierce storm going on wasn't helping. Wave after wave crashed against the Sunny's hull.

"I count thirty-four cannons, eighteen on either side! If they catch up to us we're in big trouble! Franky, what's the situation down there?!"

"Whoever tore up the engine sure didn't want us getting away!"

"Can you fix it?!"

"Of course I can! But it's going to take some time!"

"Do us all a favor and work faster!"

"If we survive this we really need to put some weapons on the stern!" said Usopp.

Back aboard the Revenge, the Reaper felt that it was time to test out the ship's latest addition.

"Fire the laser!"

The Revenge fired a huge laser from the mouth of its figurehead; the blast struck the side of the Sunny.

"I love this thing. Fire again!"

The Reaper waited for two minutes, but nothing happened.

"Why is there no laser?"

"Sir, it takes at least ten minutes for the thing to cool down and charge back up." said one of the engineers.

"Err… Then fire the shrapnel bombs!"

Down below in the ship's bunker, the Reaper's slave girls were strapped up tight in chairs that were bolted to the floor. It was the only thing that kept them from being thrown about by the waves that were rocking the ship.

"I think I'm going to be sick!"

"This is why I hate the ocean!"

Lilly couldn't believe she had once dreamed about a quiet life back on her home island. She had long since grown accustomed to the sound of banging footsteps, the splintering of wood, the roar of cannons, the clanging of metal; but she still hated listening to these noises in-between sessions with her master as much as the other slaves.

"Is this all my life is ever going to be?"

"Damage report!" yelled Nami.

"We're still sailing, but I think we just lost half our cannons!"

"When I get my hands on that guy I'm going to kill him!"

"Franky, concentrate on fixing the engine!"

Usopp took aim and shot a fire bird at the Reaper, but he just sidestepped and it struck one of his subordinates instead.

"Damn it!"

"Just be glad he can't charge over and destroy your jewels this time."

The Reaper pointed his sword at the Sunny, just like that two more shots were fired from the eyes of the figurehead, but this time the shots exploded in midair.

"Take cover!"

Dozens of tiny metal fragments dug into the deck and hull of the Sunny. Nami, Chopper, and Brook were all unscathed, but Usopp had a large shard sticking out of his shoulder.

"Why is it always me?!"

"Don't rip it out, you'll only bleed faster!" said Chopper.

Back on the Revenge, the Reaper ordered a ceasefire.

"What is it sir?"

"I just remembered that there are two lovely young women onboard that ship. We're changing tactics. Prepare the spears."

Two compartments on the bow of the ship opened up to reveal two huge spiked spears. The Revenge immediately began to pick up speed.

"Hard to port and do a Chicken Voyage! They're going to ram us! Ussop, get to the Gaon cannon!"

"Why?!"

"Just do it!"

Chopper hugged the ship's mast.

"Come on Sunny; show us what you've got!"

The Revenge was coming up fast, when suddenly the Sunny shot backwards and evaded it. The only problem was that they now had sixteen cannons pointed at the bow of the ship.

"What the hell are you guys doing up there?!" bellowed Zoro.

"Attention, assholes!" said the Reaper over a transponder "Surrender immediately and only some of you will die! Refuse and you'll all be blown out of the water!"

"The guy really knows how to motivate you, doesn't he?" said Brook.

"Usopp, would you care to deliver our rebuttal?"

"Oh yeah!"

Fortunately for the Straw Hats, when the Reaper sabotaged the ship he had only made it so they couldn't make a quick getaway. He hadn't successfully disabled all their weapons.

"Fire!"

"Take that you creepy… person!"

Vivi's friends weren't out of this just yet, but from the looks of things neither was the Reaper. She only prayed that Luffy was still alive. With all her heart she wished there was something she could do to help him, but he and the others were far off in the New World. To others they were just another band of pirates hell-bent on finding the legendary treasure of One Piece, but she would always remember them as the brave people who saved her country, and as her friends.

The Gaon Cannon severely damaged the Revenge's starboard side, taking out most of the cannons, but the Reaper designed the ship to take a beating.

"You do realize how many barrels of cola that uses!" said Franky.

"Chopper, get down there and refill the barrels, we're going to need them if Franky can get the engines going again."

The Reaper was really becoming annoyed. Not only had Monkey D. Luffy managed to get one lucky shot at him, but now his very expensive ship had been damaged.

"Hard to starboard! Prepare the laser!"

"Hard to starboard! Chicken Voyage!"

The Sunny barely dodged another shot from the Revenge's laser; the Marines that were onboard took out their rifles and started to open fire.

"We could really use Robin right now!"

"No good, she's still out cold! And Luffy isn't back to a hundred percent either!"

Nami was about to take her Clima-tact and attempt to blast the Marines with some lightning, but then she saw something on the side of the ship.

"Oh no…"

"Don't tell me…" said Usopp poking his head out "We're about to get hit by a huge tidal wave, aren't we?"

"Franky! Is it working yet?!"

"Ask me again in a couple minutes!"

"We might not have a couple minutes!"

Nami could see that they had two choices: continue to take a beating from the Revenge, or risk the wave.

"Everyone grab onto something! We're going to have to try and ride this wave!"

"Are you insane?!"

"It's no crazier than the stuff we usually do, and they'd be crazy to follow us, wouldn't they?"

The Sunny slowly made its way towards the oncoming wave.

"Are they nuts?!"

"Sir, what are your orders?!"

If the Straw Hats were killed by a tidal wave the World Nobles would probably use it as an excuse to not pay the Reaper his bounty, but if he pursued them then odds are he wouldn't live to collect. He cursed his inability to effectively utilize his devil fruit power in situations like this.

"Cut the transmissions! Break off pursuit!"

It didn't matter if the World Nobles saw what happened next or not, the Reaper knew that sooner or later he was going to end up with a very big headache.

"Look at the size of this wave!" exclaimed Brook "I can hardly believe my eyes! Even though I don't have eyes… YOHOHOHOHO!"

"Now is not the time!"

The Sunny was slowly beginning to climb the wave.

"Franky…"

"Just a minute…"

"Franky, we are going to die!" yelled Usopp.

The Sunny was nearly at the top. It would have capsized by now if not for Nami's instructions.

"That's it! Punch it guys! SUPER Coup De Burst!"

From the top of the wave the Sunny soared off into the horizon. For a moment the Reaper just stood there against the deck's railings staring out at the wave as it came crashing down.

"Tell me no one saw that…"

"All the transponder snails were terminated sir."

"Good."

It took no time at all for one of the unfortunate marines standing next to the Reaper to realize that one of his limbs was missing.

"MY ARM!" he screamed.

"Be thankful it's not your neck." said the Reaper sheathing his sword "Set course for the nearest port so we can make repairs. I'm going to my quarters… Disturb me, I kill you."

"When did he draw his sword?" said one of the marines.

As soon as the Reaper was inside his quarters he picked up the transponder snail that connected him to his slave girls.

"EVERYONE GET IN HERE, NOW!"

All of the Reaper's slaves were quickly inside.

"Take it off, now… If you do not abide to my commands for the foreseeable future… you will take turns receiving the most unpleasant beatings of your lives, before being locked in a box filled with worms and rats… Is that in any way unclear?"

All the girls immediately undressed.

"Good answer."