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Day 11. Ace woke up and went through his usual morning routine until he could finally get out of his room. He followed After his group to go at the C-Section's lunch table. Luffy looked up at him and they both mentally agreed. Something bad is going to happen today. Why did they feel like that? The felt at the same time heavy and tense, like the universe knew of today's bad providence and every time the two boys felt that way, something bad happened. The day Luffy's mother disappeared. The day Rouge died. The day Luffy was captured. All those times, they had woken up with a dread feeling that today would change everything, but not in a good way. They ate in silence and looked around, more like scanned the entire room in search for possible clues of their future misfortune. Some of the people in the facility sent shivers down their spines, but the two Portgas brothers knew none of them were related to the problem.

"Ace-ya, Luffy-ya, what are you searching for?" Law asked as he looked at their curiously odd behavior. The two were always pretty relaxed while eating in the morning, well, usually.

"Nothing, just, if you notice anything out of the ordinary, tell us." They responded in perfect unison. They seemed so focus that Law dropped it but kept an eye out for whatever the two Portgas were searching for anyway.

Robin looked at Chopper. He had regained a little of his childish attitude, but the fear, the dread and the sickness didn't leave the reindeer's eyes. "Chopper?"

The tiny blue-nose kid looked up from his plate. "What is it, Robin?" He said with a fake smile.

"If you want to talk to someone, you can come to me." Chopper looked down and nodded as tears starting to gather in his eyes and blur his vision. He smiled a little, knowing his friends were there to support him.

"What do you think will happen today?" Luffy whispered.

"I don't know and I hate not knowing!" Ace whispered back, almost angrily. They were so focused that they barely noticed their friends' questioned looks as they talked in low voices to each other.

"I just know it's going to be bad for one of us." Luffy continued.

"I hope it's me, you have been through enough already." Ace said.

"Well, this isn't something we can just pass over, it is going to happen no matter what."

"Still would be better if we knew..."

"We just have to let it happen anyway, since it wont change anything."

Ace huffed. "I am not going to let anything happen to you!"

"It's okay." Luffy stayed calm, to calm for Ace's liking. It was as if he couldn't see there was a problem anymore and just forgot about it, but in reality, he was just as worried as Ace. Maybe even more.

"What do you have for me today, yoi?" Akainu ignored him and readied a needle to use on the Phoenix.

"Another drug? How original, yoi! I didn't even see that coming."

"SHUT UP!" Ignoring people wasn't really Akainu's strong point.

"It gets kind of boring if you always use the same tricks, yoi." Akainu set the needle back on the plate and prepared a second one.

"Why two?" Marco asked curiously. Akainu chuckled darkly. "The second one is more concentrated. It would kill a normal man twice over. I am just keeping it for the end... Maybe by the end of it you will have your conscious mind smashed to bits. That would be useful to get information out of you... not that we need it now, sadly."

"What the hell?!" Akainu took the first needle.

"This is simply a foretaste of your experience for later today." He punched the Phoenix across the face and plunged the needle in his arm.

A few seconds passed as Marco stood perfectly still before he started to scream in agony.

They all walked in line and made their way to the public room. Ace was still on edge and Luffy was trying to hide his worry. He was actually wishing himself the 'bad thing' would happen to him because he had an idea of what was a bad thing in this facility. He went in the room and when they were free to walk around, Luffy went to sit in a corner while Ace stood next to him almost protectively. Last time he had felt like that, he lost his little brother. It would not happen again.

Luffy just looked at the rest of the room with no real interest. A noble kid with a round head and brown hair with a yellow bow in them came close. She wasn't really pretty she was just looking like any other noble, but Ace and Luffy had a really bad feeling now.

"You two filth, show me your powers. Luffy stood up and obliged, while Ace continued being reluctant.

"I was talking to you too, weirdo! I am a noble, do as I say!" Ace uncrossed his arms and set his hand on fire. The noble brat came closer to the two and started grabbing Luffy's skin to see it stretch. The said boy started getting annoyed, but didn't say a thing since he didn't want to get in trouble. But looking at Ace on his side, he felt like it wouldn't even matter, his brother seemed furious. What made Ace snapped was when the kid noble hit Luffy and started to hurt him.

"Quit it!" Ace pulled the noble by the arm to get her to step back, but the noble glared angrily at him and punched him too. Ace pushed her away, making her fall back.

"Don't hit my brother!" Everyone in the room turned to the trio in the back. Sabo, who had just come in cursed under his breath and started looking nervous. "The idiot." He muttered.

Two guards came running to the scene. One was helping the noble up and get her back to her parent and the other went to hit Ace hard on the head.

"Wait!" It was Kizaru. He had entered the room a few minutes sooner and, as one of the head scientists, he had a say so on everything.

"This boy can't take a punishment." Ace paled. He remembered the words spoken to him a little over a week ago. Luffy was responsible of him. If he caused trouble, he wouldn't be punished, Luffy would.

"He has been with us for less than two weeks. Go get his file." Luffy felt his legs go numb. He didn't want this. He fell to the floor and started breathing heavily. His friends gathered around him to help him but he sent them away. When the guard came back with Ace's file, Kizaru looked through it.

"How interesting! Where is the younger Portgas?" The scientist looked around the room before his eyes landed on Luffy, who had stood up again and taken a few deep breath to calm himself.

"Take the boy to Akainu in the fourth district." He ordered two guards.

Sabo had been looking at the scene without saying a word. He than slowly turned to Ace and sent him the most furious glare he could muster. Ace looked at the door where Kizaru and the two guards had come out with the most terrified expression.

"You idiot!" He shouted as he punched Ace square on the Jaw. Ace fell back, but didn't even seem to have registered it. Sabo then proceeded to beat the older raven haired boy up until tears threatened to fall. His punches became less and less powerful and Ace continued to look at the door with eyes that looked so dead.

Sabo stopped. "You know Luffy is my brother too..." He whispered. Ace didn't move.

"I didn't know that would be it..." Ace said as he bit his lips.

"What?"

"Me and Luffy, we knew something bad was going to happen. We were both on edge, so I snapped. I didn't know it would be my fault. We couldn't have passed over it. It was bound to happen..."

"Luffy is going to be alright."

I hope he will

Two guards who were dragging a small boy entered the torture room. Akainu and Marco turned to watch their way. Marco had finally fought back the effect of the drug after an hour, but right before they entered, Akainu was about to give Marco the stronger dosage. The two guards strapped Luffy to the second chair.

"He is to be punished too. The boy he was responsible for caused trouble." Marco gulped. Luffy was only ten, but Akainu wouldn't care about that. He was to pissed and delusional to take the kid's age in consideration. The scientist smirked evilly.

"I will say this. Tell me everything I want to know or this needle will be in the kid's arm, not yours." Marco's eyes widened This was pure madness. Akainu was a psycho for thinking that was a good idea! Then again, he was crazy.

"Don't. The kid would die, yoi!"

Luffy looked at Marco with sad eyes. "It's okay. It will happen anyway." Both men looked at Luffy like he had said the weirdest thing. Maybe they were all getting delusional.

"Don't say anything he is asking you. Akainu is a mean guy!" Luffy said as he stick his tongue at the scientist. Marco than really started to panic.

"Shut up or he'll kill you!" Akainu punched Luffy in the face.

"Plus he looks stupid and is always angry." Akainu growled and punched Luffy even harder as Marco tried to get out of his shackles and straps as fast as possible, but failing.

"He is always loud and annoying..." Marco continued to struggle until he got one leg free.

"And he is booooriiiiiinnnggg." Luffy said quite loudly. Akainu growled.

"I'll show you boring!" He took the needle and put it in the boy's arm. The liquid transferred from the syringe to his vein as Marco kicked Akainu away, breaking the syringe in the process. But the damage was done. A little more than half of the concentrated drug was in Luffy's system. The boy will die. Marco thought.

Luffy felt his heart pounding in his chest, like it was going to jump out of it, but he was still happy. If he hadn't done that, he knew Marco would have said everything Akainu wanted to hear. If there was one thing he learned from Ace about the Whitebeards, they felt protective of everyone on the planet except their enemy and themselves. If a child was taken hostage against information, whatever the information was, they wouldn't think it through, they would say everything.

Marco was staring at Luffy with a horrified expression while Akainu was wearing a smirk. He knew terribly well what that drug did. It would switch your conscious and unconscious mind at an extremely fast rate you couldn't understand what was real anymore then it would show you horrifying images of the people you cared about the most being ripped apart. The only way to get out of the illusion was to fight through it and get out by yourself or die. The high concentration just made the pounding in your body more painful, the rate in which you switch from consciousness to unconsciousness even faster, the illusions more realistic and the time it would take for you to die would be shorter.

Warning, graphic/gore scene. (hallucination)

Luffy's eyes started to blur. His thoughts couldn't even form a full word. The painful throbbing in his entire body was driving him mad. He looked up only to see Law and Robin looking at him with concern. Well, they would never show their emotion that clearly, but Luffy recognized it as he had often seen this expression on their face when anyone would have been in a traumatic or dangerous situation. He was about to scream their name and ask them to help but his throat was completely dry and parched. He could see a shadow behind them. Before Luffy could warn his friends, the figure behind them punched a whole through Law's chest. Law looked down before he coughed some blood and fell forward limply on the floor. Robin turned around with a terrified shriek and screamed in terror as the shadow ripped her arms off. The pain Robin and Law must have felt went through the young boys body as he felt himself being torn apart, but the pain was nothing compared to what he was seeing right in front of him.

"STOP IT!"

Marco looked at Luffy in worry and guilt clearly showing on his face. He had never been a really expressive guy, but the circumstances changed his usual calm demeanor.

Luffy's breath started becoming more elaborated. He sharply turned to his side where Chopper, Sanji, Galdino were standing. They smiled at him and started walking towards him before blood started coming from their mouth and eyes. The three of them continued to walk until they came to a stop right by Luffy's side. They started coughing more blood until Chopper and Galdino collapsed. Sanji went forward and whispered in Luffy's ear.

"You deserve it you know that?" Before the blond collapsed as well. Luffy started bleeding from his eyes and ears as well as the blood pumping through his veins became harsher and faster. The images continued. Everyone he knew were ripped to shreds. Some even killed each other. One even pierced another's chest and took his heart before he started eating it. Luffy gagged a little as he saw the scene. He wanted to scream, yell and also vomit, but his body wouldn't respond correctly. Blood was everywhere around him. The bodies weren't even recognizable as they were ripped apart and some were even put back together with someone else's part, as disturbing as it looked for the boy.

"Luffy."

Everything around him disappeared. He wasn't in the room anymore and everything around him was pitch black. He turned around and saw Sabo and Ace standing a few feet from him.

"Don't die please! Not you too!" The boy sobbed slowly as he moved forward. When he was right in front of them, Luffy reached to them but their image started melting like it had been touched by lava before it was sucked in by the darkness.

"ACE! SABO!"

Akainu started clutching his ears, trying to block the boys scream, but the voice felt like it was resonating in his head. Marco was completely immobile as he looked at the boy. Time had seemed to slow down around them. One after the other, the glasses in the room started to break and the one-way mirror in the room was shaking until it cracked and looked like it exploded.

In the whole building, some of the lights started to flicker until they broke. Everyone was yelling and clutching their head as a voice resonated in their head or had passed out. In the public room, Everyone was on the floor except two of them. Sabo and Ace.

"What's happening? Why are they all on the floor?" Ace said frantically.

"I am sorry. Please tell me you are still alive. Tell me this wasn't real..." Sabo turned sharply to Ace's direction.

"Did you hear that?"

"Yeah! That was Luffy!" Their little brother's voice was coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Everyone else in the facility could only hear his screams, but the two boys could clearly hear Luffy talking softly, as if he was thinking in their heads.

"Luffy! We are okay!" Ace shouted.

"I don't think he can hear you. How can we hear him?" Sabo was confused. He didn't really get what was happening and he started to think hard until it hit him.

"It's telepathy!" Ace turned to look at him.

"Are you an idiot?"

"Please... tell me you are both safe and okay. Tell me everyone is okay."

"I read it in a book somewhere. Some people with really powerful conqueror haki can reach the minds of people they are really close to. They can share a telepathic link or something like that and even more things like that. But I heard the condition for someone to unlock it have to be really traumatic or terrible. No amount of training can do that!" The two started to get nervous.

"Is he going to be alright?" Ace asked.

"Not if we can't calm him down! We need to reach him back!"

"Luffy!" The two boys started to yell again and again, out loud or in thoughts, trying to reach their scared little brother.

Luffy started to get delusional. His mind was racing and his heart was pounding. The white room in which he was currently sitting seemed like an unrealistic dream world while the strange assortment of colors and shapes his mind was trying to put together seemed to be reality to him. He felt as if his mind would melt.

"Luffy!"

The words came from two voices he would recognize anywhere. His thoughts seemed to regain a sort of order as he listen to his brothers' voices.

"Ace? Sabo?"

The two boys sighed in relief. The screams everyone was hearing seemed to stop in a second.

"Don't worry. We are alright. Everyone is."

The world regained his original colors and Luffy found himself to be back in the torture room of the fourth district. Marco and Akainu were staring at him in disbelief as the raven haired boy was smiling with tears tainted in blood started to drip on his cheeks.

"I'm happy you are all alright, but we wont see each other again until we escape."

Ace and Sabo frowned as everyone in the room started to stand up slowly.

"Why?"

Luffy looked down.

"You know why..."

Done! So this is the eleventh chapter of headache! Hope you liked it! There will be a few more until the escaping arc, but I don't think the story will end there.

Thanks for reading as always!