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One Piece Earth
Chapter 14
Attack of the Clones
Jessica was looking through her collection of movies. A lot of them were comic book movies. She had loved comics as a kid and the movie versions of them were great. As she scanned her movies, she saw Sin City. A light bulb lit up in her head. Logging onto her laptop, she typed in Sin City on the search engine. She found the picture she was looking for.
"Hey guys, I want to show you something." she called to the Straw Hats. The first one to come in was Luffy. The others came in after him.
"Why is Kuro on there?" the captain asked, pointing.
"It's not Kuro, it's a character named Kevin from a comic book called Sin City." their host answered.
"It sure looks like Kuro." Usopp commented nervously. The thought of there being two Kuros scared him.
"Believe me, it's definitely not him. Can you imagine Kuro wearing a Charlie Brown shirt?" the college girl inquired.
"Charlie Brown?" Luffy questioned, tilting his head sideways.
"Character from a comic strip." she replied. "You know, there's a saying that somewhere in the world, there's a person that looks exactly like you."
"So there's somebody that looks like me?" the Straw Hat captain asked.
"There may be someone that looks like you, but they're not as stupid as you." Nami muttered.
"Then there must be another Nami-san somewhere!" Sanji exclaimed.
Zoro stood there silent. This saying had truth to it. Tashigi looked a lot like Kuina... And it tortured him. Kuina had been very important to him, they had both promised to one day become the greatest swordsman in the world. The moment he saw Tashigi, it felt as if he was seeing his old friend again. The marine may look like Kuina, but her personality was very different and she was clumsy. At times he found it attractive, but quickly shrugged those feelings off. He discovered that there was a pro and con about being stuck in Manhattan. The pro was that he wouldn't have to see Tashigi again and the con was that he would never fulfill his promise.
Is there something wrong, Zoro?" his host questioned.
"Nothing, I was just thinking." he responded.
"Oh." Jessica said. He left the room.
"What are all of you staring at?" she heard Kuro ask. The crew apparently directed him to their host's bedroom, because he walked in a second later. "You didn't show them any of that fanfiction did you?" He glared at her.
"No I didn't. I did show them something else, though." Jessica stated. She brought up the same picture on her laptop.
"Why does that look like me?" he demanded.
"His name is Kevin. He's from a comic called Sin City and unlike you, is a cannibal."
"I would never wear a shirt like that." he commented, fixing his glasses.
"Don't slice me with your claws, but what about your outfit?" his host asked, pointing to the two weird symbols on his jacket.
"Long story." he replied. "So, have you thought of any more theories?" Jessica stared at him, surprised.
"I never thought that you'd ask that. I really haven't had time, term papers."
"If you would just tell the Straw Hats, you might have an easier time thinking of a solution, even with your term papers." He pushed up his glasses.
"What are you, my conscience?"
In the One Piece world, Chopper, Robin, and Ace had adjusted to living secretly in Zorde's fortress. They changed their sleeping spot daily as a precaution in case someone might be on to them. All of them took turns stealing food from the kitchen. Robin was the best at it because of her devil fruit powers. Obtaining information on where the others went hadn't been going well. Durin was the one they followed mostly since he was Zorde's right hand man.
"Robin! I think I may have found something that will help us!" Chopper exclaimed.
"And what is that, Doctor-san?"
"A library!" the reindeer answered.
"I figured that this place had to have some type of library." Ace said.
"Do you remember where it is, Doctor-san?"
"I'm pretty sure I do."
Ace and Robin followed the doctor up a flight of stairs. They found themselves on a new floor of the fortress. It was more elaborate than the main hall was. It appeared to be a residential floor. The doctor led them to a pair of doors that had gold trim. He opened the door a crack and peeked in. After making sure the coast was clear, he opened the door all the way.
The library was huge. There were two winding staircases to go up to the second level. In the middle of the room, was a large desk with a single chair. On the desk was a large map of the One Piece world. Underneath it was another map of the world, but had different names on it.
"How did you find this place?" Ace questioned.
"I was trying to hide from some guards and ran up the stairs and found this floor." Chopper replied.
"Good work Doctor-san." Robin said. Chopper started doing his signature dance.
The archeologist went over to the table and inspected the maps. She stood there studying the map with the odd names on it. She never read anything with names like these in it. Looking closer at it, she realized that it wasn't the world, but a map of a country.
"What do you make of this?" she said gesturing to the map. Ace and Chopper studied the map.
"I never even heard of any of these places." Ace commented.
"I remember Doctor Kureha told me a story about a country that secluded from the rest of the world." the reindeer said.
"How would she know that?" Ace wondered.
"She's over 100 years old. Who knows what information she has." Chopper responded.
"What else did she say about it?"
"She said that the country was so secluded, that it's like they are from a different time period." Robin was very interested now. The thought of a secluded country sounded exciting.
"There has to be a book about it somewhere in here." Robin said. She walked to a bookshelf and began scanning it. She went from one bookshelf to the next, and didn't have any luck. On the second floor, she had better luck. She found books that had the names of cities on their binding.
"What does it say?" Ace called.
"I can't read what it says, the text is smudged."
"Does it say anything about that Zorde guy?" Chopper asked.
"I think there use to be something in here, there's a page missing." Robin replied.
"At least we know where he's from." Ace said.
"That still doesn't help us figure out what happened to the others!" the reindeer cried.
"Wait, here's something. It's a book of spells." Robin said. She started flipping through the pages. "I know what happened to the others." She showed her companions the page.
"They're in another world?" Ace and Chopper said in unison.
"That's where we're going to be, too if someone finds us. We have to figure out a way to bring them back." the archeologist said.
"Who knows how long that will take." Ace sighed.
"Couldn't we just get Zorde's staff?" Chopper suggested.
"Too risky. That'll be our last resort." Robin said. "Where did Ace go?" Both Robin and Chopper turned and saw that he had fallen asleep.
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