Approach

Getting Fox into a new shirt was fairly easy: it turned out she carried a small bag in the small of her back inside her coat where she kept useful things that weren't weapons, including four spare bandannas, a flowery navy halter top and a number of other female accessories Zoro didn't look too closely at as Nami emptied it out. The navigator was very careful not to fiddle with any of the many, many knives fitted into the coat lining, though she grumbled lightly about Fox holding out on her when she found a thick wad of beli in one of the coat pockets.

"Fox never asks you for money," Zoro pointed out, "and has her own source of income. I know she regularly contributes towards food and all the clothes we got in Alabasta were bought with her funds."

Nami growled, but put the money back. Fox' coat was barely damp, being oiled and mostly waterproof, so Zoro used it as a shield as he eased her out of the torn, sodden tank top and into the clean, dry halter top after using his own discarded shirt as a towel. Her trousers were dry enough as they too were waterproof so Zoro's main problem was dealing with Fox' hair. It took him ten minutes of careful thought and repeated failures to get her braids pinned to her head properly again but once he had done so and got a bandanna over them the result was almost as tidy as when she had done it herself the previous morning. Tying another clean bandanna around her neck to obscure her jawline and fitting the hat on her head, Zoro then let the coat drop onto her shoulders and put on the orange jacket he had been offered to replace his ruined shirt. He didn't do up the front as it was slightly too small, but other than that it was comfortable enough.

Nobody had really been paying attention to him changing Fox' clothing as Nami had stripped in the middle of the cabin and put on a whole new set of clothes, not caring that she had an audience. Zoro didn't care either; it meant nobody had got a good look at Fox' face. He tucked her sunglasses in her coat pocket so she could put them on once she woke up, which hopefully would be spontaneous rather than forced as she was lethally unpleasant when she hadn't had enough sleep. Thankfully his presence had the effect of making her a very heavy sleeper; otherwise she would have woken up by now as the people who weren't Straw-Hats had forgotten she was there.

As Fox had settled down a little and seemed content to rest with her head on his shoulder, Zoro was calmly preparing himself for the fight to come and making sure the rest of the clowns kept the noise down when one of the Frankies –Zoro thought his name was Zambai– spotted two sea-train cars on the line ahead.

"Luffy, what do we do now?" Chopper asked.

"I'll check it out!" Luffy said, using his rubber arms to propel himself ahead down the line. Zoro sighed and carefully lifted Fox off himself onto the floor, making sure there was a folded sleeve under her head. Luffy would probably want him to deal with the obstacle once it had been checked out, so he climbed out onto the front of the train again. He did have a few techniques that could do that now; he'd gotten more interested in Iaido after seeing Fox' alter ego use it to cut that lock in Crocodile's headquarters and experimented a bit.

Luffy did indeed want Zoro to cut the train cars in half, so the swordsman did it. He then took out Captain T-Bone a little further down the line, who was pursuing the Sea Train on foot. Zoro did offer him a chance to get out of the way, but the marine didn't take it and was defeated. His job done, Zoro returned to Fox, pulled her on top of him and let himself drop off.

Sanji sat in the detached carriage, broken and bleeding, thinking about what a shitty day this had been so far. Oh, it had started out well enough: he and Fox had made it down to the station long before the train was due to leave so the chef could stake out the place, then the erratic-acting assassin had gone back to find the rest of the crew. She had not returned with them in time to catch the train, so Sanji had leapt on the back of the final carriage after leaving a letter and a Den Den Mushi for Nami so he could stay in touch.

He had fought his way through the first two carriages with ease and found Usopp –who he pretended not to know since the bastard had left the crew– and Franky, the guy who had stolen their money. Nonetheless, any help was better than nothing and Sanji had freed them and with them managed to whittle down the numbers on board the train by about fifty through a cunning bit of subterfuge and Franky's help separating the train carriages.

Sanji had then defeated a crazy who believed himself a chef and used ramen of all things to fight with and finally reached the carriage with the people who had taken Robin away. Then things had gone really downhill, as Robin had been most reluctant to be rescued and the two guys who actually fought him were both ridiculously strong and resilient. It had taken Usopp –wearing a silly mask and claiming to be a guy called 'Sogeking'– using a smoke pellet and Franky detaching the carriage couplings to get them away with Robin. It had been a futile effort however as the woman had used a thorny whip to catch the departing carriages and the guy with the cow hair had pulled them back again.

Franky had sacrificed himself ripping the carriage in half to give them a second shot at escaping, but the cow guy had a Devil Fruit Power that let him open doors into anywhere and he came to get Robin, who went willingly. Said Cow then injured both him and Usopp further and explained exactly why Robin had left them, which made the chef very, very angry indeed. However there had been nothing he could do about it so here he was, stuck in a train carriage most of the way to Enies Lobby, waiting for the rest of his crew to catch up with an injured Usopp in a silly costume and no Robin.

A really shitty day thus far; Sanji lit a cigarette and promised himself he would kick the shit out of at least one of those guys once he reached Enies Lobby with the rest of his crew.

Fox remained asleep until Sanji finished his story of why Robin had abandoned them, at which point Luffy shouted,

"I don't care! I won't forgive them!"

at the top of his voice. He had just taken a deep breath so he could go on ranting when a brown booted foot caught him squarely in the gut and splattered him against the ceiling. All present quailed at the murderous aura emanating from the very disgruntled woman in the black cowboy hat.

"Who is dying?" she growled.

"Nobody!" Chopper squeaked, hiding behind Sanji.

"Then why is Fox awake?!" it was practically a roar.

Everybody pointed at Luffy, who had just extricated himself from the ruined ceiling and let himself down to ground level. Fox turned her gaze to her captain, who snatched off his hat and apologised profusely before hurrying into an explanation of why he'd been shouting.

Fox snorted. "Fox knows all this. Fox looked up why Blackbird had a bounty; Fox is no fool. And Fox wants to kill people."

"We're nearly there now," Zoro assured her. Fox snarled.

"Fox means now. Fox is awake and Fox is unhappy. Fox needs to kill things until Fox feels better."

Paulie took advantage of the abrupt, nervous silence to call everyone over to look at the map he had made of Enies Lobby and explain the various features. Rather than hanging over Zoro Fox stood right behind the seated Luffy, who seemed oblivious to the crushing cloud of killing intent billowing around her. When Luffy was about to leave to begin his assault on the island, not paying much attention to other people present after deciding on a course of action, Fox caught his shoulder.

"Fox is coming with you," she said quietly; "Fox will keep stupid Seagulls from slowing her captain down."

Luffy nodded agreement and the two of them set out.

Arriving at Enies Lobby...