I'm not proud of this chapter, but I also can't think of where to send our favorite crew next. Sorry the chapter isn't that great for a while without posting, but I promise I'll make up for it in later chapters. So, enjoy this pointless chapter and give me some hints as to what should happen next. Thank you for your patience and I really will make up for this chapter.

"So let me get this straight," Nami drawled out as she gave Luffy a look that clearly stated she didn't believe a word he just said. "You're going to help the princess of this nation because your friends, whom you cannot name because you were sworn to secrecy, asked you to?"

Luffy nodded, "That's what I said."

Nami sighed, "You don't see the problem, do you." Luffy shook his head, causing Nami to hit him upside his head. "You should have asked for payment you idiot!"

"But Nami-" Luffy whined but cut himself off when the orange head gave him a glare.

"I don't see what's so important about money," Ace stated while leaning back against the wall, hat covering his face.

"Right," Sanji breathed out cigarette smoke as he gazed at Luffy, "you didn't even know what money was until you met us, right?"

Luffy pouted, "I still don't 'cause you and Zoro never answered any of my questions. I still want to know what a pass is too!"

Usopp chuckled nervously, "He's joking, right?"

Garp laughed, "They didn't need those things out in the desert and if they ever needed something from town, all the marines knew their faces from when I brought them to Marine Ford."

"What type of grandparent leaves his grandkids in the desert!?" Nami demanded as the old man listlessly picked his nose.

Sabo yawned, "I'm thankful for it to be honest."

Ace and Luffy both nodded as Zoro walked into the room with Franky following behind. Luffy jumped up and pounced onto the swordsman's back and wrapped rubbery arms around his torso, "Zoro, its later."

Zoro gave the teen a quizzical look before sitting down and leaning against the wall, using Luffy as a cushion, "So what's the plan?"

"How about we start with you getting off our brother before I roast you," Ace growled out and received a glare from Sabo in response.

"You should know as well as him that Lu's not going to let go until his questions are answered," Sabo stated as he stepped in between his older brother and the swordsman. "Now Luffy, what were the questions you had?"

Luffy smiled up at his blond brother, "Thanks Sabo, so what's a pass thingy?"

"A pass is a slip of paper that is required to travel the desert and enter towns you weren't born in," Vivi stated as she walked in with Chopper and Brook. "While marines and royals don't need them, outside of the immediate royal family needs one and you have to be a marine to not need one."

Sabo looked at Garp, "Or be related to the most known marine for not following regulations."

Garp stuck his finger back up his nose, "All the forms needed are too much of a pain to fill out. Besides, Sengoku agreed to it so no harm done."

"There is harm since there's probably no record of the three of them anywhere," Vivi muttered but Luffy's enthusiastic, "So what's money," overshadowed her voice.

"Money is the one thing in the world that is necessary in order to survive and be taken seriously!" Nami exclaimed with a glare at the marine. "Of course, some people seem perfectly capable of not being tied to it."

"Heh," Garp shrugged, "They didn't need it."

"You do know that living without having a registered birth place is grounds for execution, right?" Usopp asked in a wavering voice.

Sabo hummed, "I believe I heard that from the people who claimed to be my parents. I think it has to do with a possibility of being related to bandits or something."

"Pirate King actually," Garp stated with a yawn, "but the old geezers don't want that term used so they use bandits as a scapegoat."

The room became silent with the new information just sitting in the tense silence. The only ones who didn't seem affected were the three Ds. Luffy, who had let go of Zoro and was currently raiding the cart of food that a servant just brought in, seemed to just not care that his grandfather just revealed information that could get someone killed. Ace had fallen asleep sometime between yelling at Zoro and Vivi walking in. Garp didn't seem to actually understand that wasn't something any of them needed or wanted to know.

"Garp-san-" Sabo sighed out while pinching the bridge of his nose.

"I told you to call me Jii-chan," Garp basically pouted at his blond grandson.

"I believe we've had a talk about this before," Sabo continued without acknowledging the marine in the slightest. "There is information that is shareable and information that is not. Sengoku told you when he told us that pirates aren't suppopsed to be talked about lightly."

"Ah," a light seemed to appear over the old marine's head, "I forgot the Old Seabird said something like that. Sorry 'bout that. Just forget what I just said."

"We can't just forget on a whim!" the entire room looked over to their host, save for the sleeping Ace, with equal amounts of confusion and shock. Vivi didn't seem to realize that the outburst came from her own mouth until Luffy patted her on the back while happily saying, "You're not hiding anymore," with a mouthful of food that sprayed bits of it onto the princess. This earned the child-like teen a punch to the face and a room full of laughter.