Usopp looked at his heroes and back at the pile of men behind him, "You guys are that strong?" Luffyko nodded seriously in response.

"You guys are way to slow." Nami scolded.

Zoro glared at her, "It's thanks to you, dragging me down that oil slick."

Nami started to stand up, "That was an accident. There was nothing I could do about it. Rather than both of us slipping, it's better to have one us make it through."

"Than why not you!" Zoro yelled.

"Go north, don't go north…you never even told me which way was north!" Luffyko yelled at Usopp.

"What?! You're the one who ran off, full of confidence!"

Luffyko sighed, "That happened unconsciously…out of whim." She paused off as she saw Jango talking to his men, "Eh? What's he up to?"

"Hypnosis. Making them believe that they're strong…that's just stupid." Nami said as she watched the men line up in front of him. She watched as he finished his one, two, Jango and then the men were suddenly stronger. One broke the cliff with one punch. "No way!"

"The clidd's totally destroyed!" Zoro said in shock, "What power!"

"They're really hypnotized." Nami said in amazement.

"That's just one of them, and there are so many!" Usopp said worriedly.

Zoro watched as the men began to charge, "You two get out of the way! We'll take it from here!" He waited for Luffyko to respond, but when she didn't he tried to get her attention, "Hey Luffyko!" He looked at her and saw her jaw was clenched, "Luffyko?" Suddenly she started screaming like she was mad, "You're hypnotized too?!" He yelled. He watched as the girl charged and sighed, no one would be able to stand a chance against her. She really was an idiot. He watched as she began to punch all of the pirates out of her way easily knocking all of them out of her way.

Nami sighed as she watched the girl, "What a simpleton."

Zoro sighed and watched as she began to growl, which he thought was as terrifying as a kitten, and then chase after the pirates running away from her. After she out ran them and passed the hypnotist, Zoro questioned what she was doing, "Where's she going?" Then proceeded to watch in amazement as she began to rip the mast of their ship.

Meanwhile, Nami was helping Usopp while cheering for her female comrade, "Go Luffyko!"

Zoro shook his head in disbelief then saw Jango doing another trick. Before he could try to call out a warning Luffyko had fallen asleep, dropping the large mast on top of her and towards a few pirates. Zoro forced himself to remember she would be okay, 'She's made of rubber; she will be fine. I just need to defeat these guys so I can get her out from there.'

"Looks like they are all wiped out." Nami commented on the other girls work.

"Looks like it."

Usopp couldn't believe the uncaring attitudes they showed towards the crushed girl, "Hey, we should be more concerned of Luffyko being under that thing."

Zoro just smiled to the boy, "She's not gonna die. You had better worry more about your own injuries." He looked over the beaten boy and couldn't help but hold back a laugh, he was worrying about his captain when he couldn't handle a couple of lousy thugs. Luffyko was way out of his league. He got pulled back from his thoughts when two new people came before Jango. He waited when he heard they were ordered to move him and watch as they insisted they couldn't.

Usopp looked at them in surprise, "What's this? Aren't they supposed to be their trump card?"

Nami looked at them suspiciously, "He looks completely different…what are they up to?" She watched as the slimmer guy charged, running like a weakinly, "How can he possible fight like that?"

The man running towards him began to cry out, "Hey you! Be prepared, cause I'm going to tear you apart with these very claws!"

"What am I supposed to do with this guy?" Zoro asked out to anyone who would listen. He looked down the slope at the man and yelled, "You! If you don't stop, I'll kill you!"

"That is if you can kill me." He said seriously as he pounced.

Zoro barely blocked him, "What?!" He glared at the man in front of him, 'This bastard.'

"You took me too lightly." The strange cat man grinned then jumped way holding two of Zoro's swords on his back, "You blocked it well. I was acting so well too. I may be tiny, but you'd better not take Sham of Meowban Brothers lightly."

Zoro noticed his swords on his back and looked down to see they were indeed missing. "Lose something?" Sham asked with a grin. "I wouldn't know anything about it."

"Return those swords to me."

"Return it? Isn't your sword in your hand?" Sham grabbed the swords and gave a cruel grin as he threw the swords away, "These will only get in the way. Now…I feel much lighter."

Zoro charged, "How dare you throw my precious belongings!" He cut the man down and ran towards his swords when he heard a meow, "What?" Before he could do anything Sham had both of his wrist and was sitting on his back.

"What were you trying to cut? I'm a cat after all." He said as Zoro landed skidding on his face and chest. "Come Buchi! Your turn!"

"Gotcha, Sham!" Buchi yelled as he ran and jumped high into the air. "Watch this! Got him!" He yelled as his foot destroyed the rock around him.

Zoro took a deep breath as he had rolled away right before the attack. "Damn! He got away." Sham said as he wiped some dust off from his roll away.

"Hey! Hold him down properly Sham!"

"Sorry, my bad. I didn't expect him to have such brute strength."

Zoro stared at the two, 'You gotta be kidding me. If he had actually hit me with that, all my bones would've shattered to pieces.'

"He won't get away this time!" Sham said with a grin.

"Of course not."

Zoro stood up and readied his own sword. "I'm not too familiar with one sword techniques, but…" He readied his sword. He had to win, Luffyko was under the mast asleep. The sooner she was freed the better.

"Let's go Buchi!"

"Gotcha, Sham!"

Nami watched as Zoro managed to deflect everyone of there attacks, "This is bad, Zoro's under heavy pressure." When she saw Usopp prepare to fire his slingshot she turned to him, "What're you trying to do?"

"If they keep attacking him like that, there's no way he can win. I'm covering him. Lead Star!" He yelled as he released the small lead ball. He watched then in horror as Zoro put himself in front of it giving the Meowban brothers a chance to strike.

Nami watched as Zoro took the blow and got rolled back till he returned to his feet, "Why are you hitting our own people!" She demanded.

"That's not what happened. He's the one who moved to get hit."

"He did it on purpose?" She looked down to see the swordsman cut up who was now glaring in their direction.

"You moron! Usopp! You wanna die?"

Nami watched as the attack continued on Zoro and she realized what he had meant, "Maybe…we're the ones who were saved. If you had hit them with the slingshot, then those two would've probably directed their attacks toward us instead."

"That guy…This is no time to be worried about us!"

Zoro clenched his teeth as he continued to block their attacks, 'Damn, if only I had one more sword.'

Nami stood up, she knew the swordsman needed his swords. "I'm going to fetch his swords. If Zoro gets them back, then he can defeat them!"

"Then I should!" Usopp said unwilling to see another girl go into the battlefield.

Nami just turned and grinned, "Don't push yourself, you can't even stand up straight." With that said she jumped down onto the slope and began to run towards the swords. Right when she got to them she saw a foot standing on them then a sharp sting, of the metal ring Jango used, in her shoulder. She felt herself fall to the ground and put her hand on her wound.

"What do you want with these swords" Jango asked then screamed in terror. With the scream everyone looked up to see Kuro standing at the top of the hill. "There's a good reason for this…" Jango stammered out.

Kuro readjusted his glasses and looked up at the sky, "The sky's been bright for a long while. Why didn't you act according to plan? What the hell's going on?!" He yelled as he looked down the battlefield. "Never would have thought that you guys would be tripped up by these brats. The Black Cat pirates aren't what they used to be, Jango!"

Jango looked at his angry captain and tried to get him to understand, "But, didn't you say that these pesky kids wouldn't be a problem?"

"Yes, I did. So what? I knew they would come and try to stop us. But what I did not expect was…that you fools would all be so damn useless!" He yelled in fury.

"We are…useless?" Jango asked angrily.

"Who's useless?"

"How dare you say that, Captain Kuro!" The Meowban brothers said as they sharpened their claws, "It's true that you were strong once before…but that's a three year old tale." Sham said as he glared at his former captain. "When you were fooling around in this village, we weren't just hanging around doing nothing!"

"That's right!" Buchi said, "We've pillaged countless villages and defeated many pirate gangs."

"What are you implying?" Kuro asked giving them a chance to think about what they had said.

"After these three years, do you…have enough skills left to win against us?!" The Meowban Brother's yelled as they charged him.

Zoro watched as they ran past him and Jango tried to call them back, "Stop! Buchi! Sham!"

"You're not our captain anymore! Sorry, but we're gonna attack you now." They said as they got ready to kill their former captain. However, there attack just struck a bag he had been holding, Kuro himself was gone.

Zoro watched shocked as Kuro appeared behind them wearing gloves with long swords attached. "When did he get behind them? And that weapon…" He watched as he disappeared again then reappeared with his swords around them, ready to kill in a seconds notice.

"You guys were right, I'm not as fast as I once was. I've become more humble after staying on this island for three years. I'll give you five minutes." He moved the swords away from them, "If you don't finish them off in five minutes, then all of you here will be killed by me." He warned as he stepped away to watch them.

Jango nodded, "Five minutes, we can do this. If we beat him, then we'll be able to get past this slope!"

Zoro looked back to see Nami standing holding her injured arm. He heard the Meowban brothers charging him and he turned to see them, "The guy who's barely able to fend off our attacks, we'll finish him in five seconds!" They yelled as they drew closer.

"I'm counting on you Meowban brothers!" Jango said as he saw red hair go past his vision.

Nami marched up and placed a foot on the end of his swords then kicked them towards him. "Zoro!"

Zoro turned and saw his swords, "Why you! Don't go kickin' my swords!"

"Where's my thank you?" Nami asked with a smirk.

Zoro leapt up turning to see the swords. He grabbed them before he landed making a full turn around to face his opponents, "Thank you." He said as he bit down on his sword.

"Useless even if you have three swords!"

Zoro got ready to attack, "You guys just don't get it. Tiger Trap!" He yelled as he cut the two.

"Four minutes to go." Kuro reminded from the top of the hill.

"Using three swords and three sword techniques are totally different things." Zoro stood up as he saw his enemies fall then turned to Kuro, "Don't worry, in less than five minutes, there won't be anyone left. I'll take care of them all."

Kuro just adjusted his glasses, "Three minutes." He saw Buchi move and ask to be hypnotized, "He's still alive. Guess you're a bit soft."

Zoro looked at the living pirate, "He's probably saved by all that fat." He dropped his sword from his mouth when he realized he was being hypnotized and his muscles were growing. Buchi would take a step and the ground collapsed underneath of him. "Hypnosis again, eh? He's gunna be more of a pain now. He tore the ground apart in his original state." He flipped his sword up into the air with his foot and grabbed it as he twirled around and readied his swords. "What is able to do after powering up?" He watched as Nami ran off and then saw Jango throw a disk at her. "Nami! Watch out!"

Nami had just stepped on Luffyko when she turned to see the disk coming straight at her. Right before it his she felt someone grab her foot and knock her to the ground.

"Nami! How dare you step on my face!" Luffyko yelled as Nami fell.

Nami watched in horror as the ring went into Luffyko's face knocking her head back. Nami closed her eyes the girl couldn't survive that.

Zoro's heart skipped a beat when saw Luffyko sit up. He relaxed when he saw she had bitten it, "Was it just bad timing or a mere coincidence?"

Nami saw the ring hadn't moved and began to see cracks forming, "Luffyko?" Luffyko broke the ring and stood up. Nami gave a huge grin, relieved the girl was still alive. "Luffyko!"

Luffyko held her cheeks, "That hurts!" She looked down at Nami and glared, "Nami, that hurt you bastard!"

"That wasn't me!" She yelled back then looked at the girl with relief, "It wasn't-" the pain washed over her and she fell back and held her shoulder.

Luffyko looked at the girl in shock when she realized she was injured, "Nami, your shoulder's hurt?"

"It's nothing. I'm fine." She said as the blood on her shirt was spreading out from under where her hand could cover. "Anyways, I've done all I can. I'll leave the rest to you. This battle…we can't lose to them!" Luffyko nodded and then Nami continued, "For the sake of my treasures."

Luffyko pouted, "I shoulda known." However the reference to the money made her feel better, Nami would be fine.

"Go for it for the sake of my treasure."

Luffyko picked up her hat, "Okay! That is your style." She walked forward, her face serious. She held down her hat as she walked towards the pirates who ran away from her.

Zoro watched as his captain walked forward and couldn't help but smile as the pirates ran away from her. She sure was terrifying, breaking that metal ring with her jaw.

"You with the straw hat!" Jango called out causing Luffyko to stop and look at him.

Luffyko looked up the slope and saw Kuro, "What? That evil caretaker's here too?"

Kuro saw the girl and his eyes narrowed, "That girl…didn't she die when she fell from the cliff?"

Luffyko watched him as she saw Kaya come up from behind him and almost got cut down. She watched Usopp save Kaya and then as Kaya tried to convince Kuro to stop. She clenched her teeth as she listened to what Kuro said and watched as Usopp tried to kill him only to have the swords surround him. She pulled back and punched him from down the beach, crushing his face. As her arm returned to her she smirked and held onto her upper arm. "Since you hate getting punched so much, I'll give you a hundred more for free."