(A/N- Sup? Ah, man are we already on this chapter? Kuso... I've had a huge plot bunny infestation lately. Specificly those of the Flying Mint Bunny variety. -cough-Hetalia fan fic-cough- I don't have anymore pre-written chapters in this ff... This means we're getting close to the end, I guess. Anywho- thanks to Karasu-archer and Leixym for reviewing 3 Glad to hear your doing alright, except for the whole oral surgery thing (hope all went well with that (: ) I shower you with cookies~! I gotta hurry up on this chapter, it's rather big and I should probably get started on the next one, so here we go! I hope you don't get too confused with my whole philosophical outburst there... he he... I don't own One Piece.)


Deep Thinking Hurts My Head

Emma's POV

The ones who chose to stay home were (me,) Gabby, Franky, Robin, Nami, and Chopper.

"What'll we do now?" Chopper asked.

"Work on the machine I guess." I shrugged.

"I'll be reading." Robin said, already setting up the pile of library books to bring upstairs.

I went back to sketching everything I remembered from the dream. I remembered a lab, but it was dark so I couldn't see much. I saw the machine. Three people. One, obviously the boss, and I guess the other two were henchmen or something. The portal opened, but it was more violent that usual. There was electricity coming out of it. Lots of wind. So much that things started falling off tables. Papers whipped around in tiny tornadoes and I was blown out of the lab.

I paused and looked up at the others.

We had made a pretty good replica. It was important to finish it as soon as possible. Whenever we get sucked into an anime, we come back and not a minute had passed. And we were gone for quite a few days. When the Bleach characters came to this world, a few weeks had passed here and for them it had only been a few days. But when the One Piece characters came, I know for sure it was longer than a few weeks that had passed for them. When I saw The Going Merry, it wasn't as beat up as it was after Sky Island, so we must've dropped in just before they went there. The time between before Sky Island and after Water 7 was definitely longer than a few weeks. Just think of all the movies and specials that took place then. And they must've had more adventures than just that. Our adventure with them didn't turn into a chapter or an episode, so just imagine everywhere else they went that wasn't included in the anime or manga. So who knows how much time had passed so far in their world.

Which made me think of something else. If Odachi draws One Piece and makes the plot line, he creates the One Piece world, right? So then he sort of controls the characters and shapes their lives. But what are we? He's never even heard of us, and we're friends of the Strawhats, we had an adventure with them. Why, how did we meet them? So a really weird, kinda silly thought popped into my head. Did Oda create the One Piece dimension? Not like the manga and everything, but when someone draws a manga, do they create an actual, physical world? If not, then where did we go? Inside a manga/anime? In to a book? That's not very reasonable. The idea that we went in to a dimension is a lot more logical. You might argue that One Piece is not a physical world, just something someone thought up. So did we go inside an idea? A thought? What's that person walking around right in front of my eyes? A thought? No, it's a real person, a human. And a reindeer and a cyborg, but you get the point.

Fall asleep yet? If you didn't get any of that and just skipped it (I know I would've) then here's what I'm thinking-

Do the necklaces let us travel though time as well as dimensions? What if manga artists create an entire dimension when they write manga, and that's where we've been traveling to and from? Or what if that dimension/world already existed, and the writer is just telling its story? What if I'm crazy? What if I just think too much and I'm making a fool of myself on the internet for the whole FREAKING WORLD TO SEE?

Ok, fourth wall. Let's back up a sec.

My thoughts were interrupted by my stomach growling. I sighed and stood up. "I'm getting something to eat." I said and walked upstairs.

Robin was at the kitchen counter reading a book. "Hello." She smiled.

"Hi. I'm just here to steal some of Gabby's food."

Robin laughed softly. I rummaged around the snack drawer and decided on a granola bar thing. I glanced over at the book Robin was reading. I did a double take as I realized something. It wasn't a history book. Or even a normal book. It was a comic book. But not a normal comic book. It was a manga volume. But not just any manga volume. It was a One Piece volume! Kuso...

The fourth wall doesn't even exist anymore, does it?

My eyes traveled to my backpack that was sitting on the chair next to Robin. It was open. Tyler's manga was in there! I thought. I borrowed it and forgot to put it in my room! I borrowed tons of One Piece! Curse my otaku-ness.

"R-Robin..." I said slowly. "Um..."

"Don't worry. I'm not reading past Thriller Bark." She said, not looking up from the page.

"Oh. Um... right... How do you know about that?"

"You didn't want us to read that one, correct? Back at the library? You stopped us from reading it."

"Oh."

"One Piece is an anime, too, yes?"

I swallowed. "Yeah."

"Interesting."

"D-don't watch it! At least not past the 300's!" I said, waving my hands. I glanced at the laptop sitting on the far side of the counter. She could easily get episodes online. "When people know the future they try to change it and-"

"-it goes wrong." She finished my sentence and turned a page.

"..."

"I'm just curious as to how Mr. Eiichiro knows our lives so precisely."

"He's one heck of a psychic, huh?" I said nervously. Thankfully Robin was to into the book to notice my bad lying.

"And how he knows our futures."

"Actually," I said, "I've been wondering something similar myself."

She nodded. "The world is full of mysteries, isn't it?"

"Yeah." I paused. "I-I'm gonna head back now. Promise not to read past volume 45?"

"And episode 300. I promise." She smiled at me. "I know it will only make things harder for us in the future if I do."

"Thanks. See ya." I went back downstairs, thinking, She will won't she? She's smart. Probably the smartest one on the crew. Yeah. I trust her... right? I shook the worries away and unwrapped my snack bar.

I joined Chopper and Nami in front of the TV. Gabby was helping Franky build the portal machine.

"Anything good on?" I asked.

"I don't know." Nami said, flipping through channels. "I'm just looking at this. How does it work?"

"Uh.." I thought for a second. "Well... there are businesses that specialize in hiring people, actors, to make each one of these channels. They video tape them and when they're done, they show it on here. That's the simple version, anyway."

"I see." Nami frowned in confusion and stopped at one show. "The hell?"

A pirate with a parrot on his shoulder was surrounded by puppets and a girl with bright pink hair and a balloon sword. They were all smiling a bit too much and were crammed into a small boat, which looked even more fake then the puppets.

"Yar har fiddle di dee,"

The pirate dude sang,

"Being a pirate is alright with me!

Do what you want because a pirate is free

You are a pirate!"

"Um..."

Gabby cracked up. "I can't believe you guys found that!"

"We'll dig up the box (the box!)

We know it's full of precious booty

Burst open the locks

And then we'll sail AWAY!"

The pink haired girl started dancing on a small island.

"Yar har fiddle di dee

If you love to sail the seas

You are a pirate!"

"The heck are they on?" Nami muttered. Chopper hid behind her (the wrong way, of course). Gabby kept laughing. Franky tried to make sense of the show.

"Let me explain." I said. "This is a show for little kids. Very little. It's one of the... the weirder ones. And this is not how our society views pirates!"

The "captain" started dancing in a way that looked very suggestive to my messed up mind. I snorted with withheld laughter.

Chopper took the remote and changed the channel quickly, his eyes wide.

"How does your society view pirates, then?" Nami asked.

"Hm... definitely not like you guys. Oh! Here." I looked through the stack of DVDs. I pulled out Pirates of the Caribbean. "It's one of my favorite movies. It's about pirates."

"Sounds interesting."

"It is!"

"Let's watch it!" Chopper cheered.

Saffron's POV

"Run!"

"Hurry!"

We got to the bus stop just as the bus was pulling in. Kelly was there, and on the ride over we split up the free pass coupons and whatnots. There was exactly enough for everybody. I started feeling less sleepy when we left the house, and was bouncing with excitement when we reached the bus. Half way there, I realized I wasn't such a good idea to bring both Zoro and Sanji along. I hope nothing gets broken... I thought.

We reached Pacific Pier and filed out of the bus. The roller coaster roared, echoing across the Pier. Not many people were there, luckily. I could smell the carnival food and heard seagulls calling out above my head.

"Woo-hoo!"

"Yay!"

"Let's go!"

"Not so fast!"

"Wait up!"

We stopped at the ticket booth and got wristbands for everybody. The lady working at the booth looked strangely at the pirates' clothes, but shrugged it off, muttering something about crazy kids.

"What should we do first?" Luffy asked.

"Let's go from one end to the other!" Jackie suggested. "That way we can do everything."

The first one was Top Shot. The line was unbelievably short, so we got to get right on it. They strapped us into a line of cold, hard seats that formed a circle around a single column of metal that reached into the sky like a skyscraper. I looked up nervously. I twitched as the ride jerked and it started to climb. I squeezed my eyes shut.

Luffy laughed. "Wow! We're so high up!"

"I knew I shouldn't have gotten on this." Ussop moaned.

"Well you're here now, no use complaining." Zoro said.

"Easy for you to say." Kelly whimpered.

"It's all right, Miss Kelly. I'll be with you the entire way." Sanji cooed.

I heard Jackie swinging her feet through the open air. "You can see pretty far, huh?"

The ride suddenly stopped. I opened my eyes and my stomach did a flip. So high up... I thought. I waited for a moment. Nothing was happening.

"Did the ride break?" I asked nervously.

"Nah, don't worry." Jackie said. "It always does this."

"You sure?" Ussop asked. "I hope it's not-"

I let out a scream as the ride plummeted down in free fall. I felt my self start to rise out of my seat. I clung to the safety restraints for dear life. My scream was cut off as the ride jerked to a stop and started to rise again. I managed a laugh before the ride fell again. I yelped and my head was lashed down. The ground got closer, then farther and farther away. We got to the very top and suddenly fell again. I felt like a giant yo-yo. Just as we were about to become splats on the pavement, the ride rose up again. Over and over again the ride brought us up then dropped us.

What's the point of this? My brain screamed.

Finally we stopped and were lowered to the ground. The restraints opened and I got out of my seat. I walked to the exit slowly, my stomach still rising and falling. Jackie fell over.

"Who-o-oa..."

"That was crazy."

"Ugh."

"Hahaha you look so funny!"

After that near death experience, we decided to have another. And another. And some more. No ride was the same, but they were all intense. And fun. Very fun. When we all agreed with Ussop that we had caught his I-can't-go-on-anymore-rides-disease (it's very contagious) we went to the arcade. Nothing nor no one had been broken so far, hopefully it would stay that way.

(A/N- If you didn't know what that whole TV pirate show thing was about, look up Lazy Town pirate song... *shivers* So yeah. Yep. Nothing else to say. Other than review and subscribe, pretty please? Oh... just something you should know... um... this ff might be ending next chapter. Quite probably. Either next or the one after that. On that nice note... PEACE OUT, HOMIES~!)