Sanji was on the roof again. God-dammit not another stupid dream, he walked forward as he suspect grey-hoody was there. This time he sat next to him.

'So why am I here this time?'

'I'm guessing cause we need to talk' the teen responded

'Hmm your name would probably be a good start'

'Everyone just calls me Cole'

'Ok so how do you know Zoro then?'

'We we're in the same foster home as kids, until Koshiro adopted him'

That made Sanji pause he had always thought Koshiro was his dad.

'So your dream invasion deal, you a devil fruit user?'

'Sorta but look Sanji I'm only here because you want to fix things but right now he's on the wrong path, I need you to help him'

Sanji looked confused

'He's going to end up joining the marines' Cole sounded anxious

'So what? The Marines aren't that bad'

'The ones here aren't but Zoro's going to end up joining Vegapunks experiments because he has nothing to lose and he'll have given up on his dream'

Sanji still looked confused.

'Dammit you're going to wake up soon it'll be easier to show you'

The roof faded and instead he was in an arena he couldn't work out which one it was. It was sunny and had bubbles floating everywhere.

'This is the Saboady Arena the Marines run it and it's the last arena before you enter the New World Tournament. This is the fight your team will draw when they get here.'

Oz led him towards the arena and they walked in, the smell of copper hit him as he went in.

He sped into a run as he heard a gut wrenching cry that could only have been Luffy.

In the arena there was only two opponents a giant with bear ears on his hat and a bible and the other was Zoro. Zoro's damaged eye was healed over leaving him with a clean scar through it, his other eye showed no emotion at all as he stared down a battered and bleeding Luffy. He heard a noise to the side and saw himself coming out from under some rubble, what the hell was he crying? Where was everyone else?

'How could you do that to my nakama?' Luffy was shaking and it was only now he could see that he was crying to.

It was only then that Sanji noticed the amount of blood mixed into the piles of rubble near where Luffy and other Sanji were fighting. The arena was large and Sanji started walking closer to Luffy and the destroyed section of the arena.

'Don't look too closely Sanji, believe me' Sanji jumped he had forgotten the teen was there

The bear man leant forward and opened his mouth, light building in it. Zoro had his good eye shut as an aura built around him, it suddenly looked like he had three heads and six arms. The ground shook around Zoro, as he launched himself at Luffy with nine swords the bear released the built up energy at Sanji. The dust settled after the attacks bear-guy and a now normal Zoro stood still no emotions visible on his face at all.

'The Strawhats have been defeated by the Marine defense team, any survivor's will move no further in the competition' Zoro sheathed his swords, he turned with the bear-guy and began walking out the arena.

Sanji felt queasy his head began to spin, just as his knees buckled. He felt a hand on his shoulder, he automatically kicked out launching the person into the wall.

'Sanji relax, breathe you're on the roof again, none of that happened and you can stop it ever happening'

He tried to force himself to focus, not real his friends were alive…..but all that blood.

'How can I stop that happening?' Sanji whispered hugging his knees.

'I don't know know, just right now he's all alone and he blames himself for everything, he'll agree to give up control of himself to Vegapunk because he doesn't believe he deserves anything better than that.'

'Why can't you do it? You clearly know him better' Sanji accused

Cole looked pained 'I already failed him'

Sanji could hear the ring of alarm clock, the rooftop and the guilty looking teen disappeared and he woke up safely in Luffy's house. He ran to the bathroom as his stomach betrayed him. After his stomach had settled , he showered and got his suit on, he lit a cigarette and headed for the kitchen. As he walked into the kitchen he noticed everyone was already there, he'd been so lost in his own thoughts he hadn't heard them.

All the anxiety from his dream left him there they were safe and sound, he made them the most amazing breakfast he could and enjoyed the usual pointless conversations and bickering round the table.

'Hey Sanji can I come with you?' Luffy asked as Sanji was getting ready to leave.

Sanji thought about it.

Luffy in a graveyard. Nope not a good idea. He just got stuck with an image of Luffy pushing zombies back into the ground because where Luffy went so did chaos.

Luffy meeting Zoro. Nope Sanji would never get to have the talk he needed to have with Zoro, though knowing Luffy he could probably get Zoro to join his team. Though if Cole was telling the truth that seemed like a good backup plan.

'Luffy I thought Garp told you to stay out the city'

Luffy stuck his lip out 'But Sanji I want to meet your friend and I'm bored'

'Look Luffy how about this if you behave and I sort this all out. I'll bring him over'

'Yea and then he'll join my team and I'll have a complete crew' Luffy cheered

Sanji left and got in his car before anyone could ask too much about Luffy going on about a new member.