A/N: Wowee, I nearly forgot about posting this chapter up! That was a close one, wasn't it? But anyway, read on dear readers :)

Prison Break: Phase 1

"We've hit a little bit of a bump."

Lin was sat in his cell and Doctor was leaning on the wall outside of it, ready to start walking should anyone decide to stroll around the corner. It was the latter who had spoken and he turned his head to see Lin's reaction, which wasn't there.

"He's not in the 8th Leg." Lin muttered, resting his elbows on his knees and then his head on his hands.

"No. According to Heller, the 8th leg is for the Devil Fruit users of the prison. Each member is locked in a single cell, and locked to the wall with sea stone cuffs. It must be one of the biggest collections of users in any of the blues, I'm actually quite impressed."

"Impressed you may be but that means it just became a lot harder to find him."

"What, you think I risked coming to talk to you just to say I hadn't found him yet?"

"So you've found him?" Lin looked rightly confused.

"Not as such but I have a sneaking suspicion of who it might be, and it might not be an inmate."

"What?"

"Not only that, but I'm even convinced that he's one of the Rear-Admirals that control the legs."

"How the hell does someone like him get a position in the marines?"

"It's been a long time since we last saw him and he could've of easily done the same thing that you did. A change of looks, a change of heart and a marine he could become; you could have become a marine if you wanted to." Lin snorted "But it's true nonetheless. I've managed to 'procure' a list of all the Rear-Admirals with pictures, I'll start on them." If I can't find a way of making him one of them, I'll pass on the list to you and you can take a look."

"Fair enough, when are you getting the list?"

"As soon as I am back in my room."

"Then why the hell are you still talking to me?"

Doctor smiled and nodded a farewell as he walked down the hallway and disappeared around the corner. It didn't take him long for him to reach the quarters Heller had given him and as he walked in a found two sheets of paper lying at the base of his door. Good, he didn't chicken out. He thought as he picked the paper up with a sweeping motion without slowing down. As soon as he was in the room he closed the door and moved across to the desk, placing the papers face up. One sheet was a list of 9 names, while the other was 9 pictures with numbers by them; presumably matching up to the names with the same number. The first thing he did was look at the list of names.

Jodeson Chiketta

Rodney Lodestone (first leg)

Lucy Feath (second leg)

Jordane Frieman (third leg)

Avery Odder (fourth leg)

Sarah Heller (fifth leg)

Pidar Iskin (sixth leg)

Jason Karnel (seventh leg)

Oskar Riddle (eighth leg)

That's a nice hand Doctor thought idly as he read. Picking up a pen from a pot he instantly crossed out Chiketta, Feath and Heller since he knew the one he searched for wasn't a fishman and wasn't a woman. Next he crossed out Pidar Iskin as his skin was as dark as the darkest chocolate and then he wrote a new list excluding those names. So that gives me a pool of 5 people to investigate but that'll take more time then Kai wants…I'll see what he thinks later. With that thought he turned to the pictures and gave them a scan but none of them jumped out at him, not that he was expecting them too since it was many years ago that he had last seen the man.

So he folded the two bits of paper away, the pictures and the new list he had made, and tucked them into one of his sashes around his waist for safe keeping. Then he spent the next couple of hours making up different medicines and the like, until he was sure the prisoners' lunch break had finished. So he packed his kit away and made his way back to Lin, who was lying in the centre of his cell with his hands behind his head, staring up at the roof.

"Prison…" he paused as if in thought "…is infinitely boring dear Doctor." He said before bending his neck to smile at his old friend.

"Yes it is, so I suspect you don't want to be waiting around here too long. Take a look at these." As he spoke he pulled out the paper and slotted it through the bars so it floated down to Lin's feet.

Lin pulled himself to a sitting position and grabbed the paper, instantly going to the list of names. "Why are there only 5 names, there should be eight." He asked before moving onto the pictures.

"Two of them were woman and one was black, so it can't be any of them unless he either got a sex change of he got one hell of a tan." Doctor smiled in response.

"Fair enough…wait a second!" he flicked back to the page of names and his eyes locked onto one in particular.

"What?"

"The cheeky bugger, the cheeky, cheating, little bugger. I would never have noticed him if I had looked him in the eye, stared at him for hours, he is good at disguise. But what an idiot, he must think it's a total secret."

"I'm sorry, you seem to be having a conversation with yourself but I'd rather like to know what the hell you're talking about." Doctor interrupted with a frown.

"Jason Karnel…that's him."

"What the hell are you talking about, the names not familiar in any way and the face hardly looks like him; even if you removed all those piercings."

"And that's the genius of it, you can't properly imagine him without those piercings because he has so many, it's distracting you from the face at the same time as it draws attention to the face to give them impression he's not trying to hide his face!"

"Right, that made sense…"

"But the clincher is the name, Jason Karnel. As you keep reminding me it has been many years since then, many years indeed. Do you think I've been sat on my arse, wimping about and moping because my crew was dead?" Doctor raised an eyebrow. "Let's just answer no to that anyway. Jason Karnel is his real name, the name he was born with, the name he had for about an hour until it could be changed. Is he getting sentimental now?" Lin shook his head as he jumped to his feet. "It doesn't matter, now we just have to get his attention, the problem is that he is head of the 7th leg, which is…Doctor, where is the 7th leg."

Doctor had a smile on his face now and was actively leaning on the bars to talk to Lin. "its right next to us, right god damn next to us. I think we can throw our elaborate plan out of the window, I've just thought of a much better one."

"What?"

"A riot…" the smile grew wider as he explained.

"It's easy, we start a riot." Karnel said, leaning against the central table.

"And you don't think that's dangerous at all?" Feath said, her long blonde hair nearly touching the back of her knees.

"Not at all, if we limit it to releasing the prisoners from legs 1 -5. That way we keep the only guys who can cause us a real problem locked away but enough average guys for the excuse to hold up when someone comes investigating."

"And how do we stop anyone escaping for real?" This came from Lodestone, the bearded Rear-Admiral with the axe at his waist.

"Just before we start the riot, we'll lock down the perimeter with a training exercise, as if we were practicing for a riot, and then we will be prepared when the actual riot occurs."

"That all sounds a bit too convenient, and it'll sound that way to anyone investigating it." This time it was Iskin's turn to speak, his low rumbling voice matching his dark skin.

"Not if we all say the same thing. We could also ask one of the inmates to instigate it for us so all we have to keep secret is that fact that it was all our idea."

"Where the hell are we going to find an inmate that would voluntarily start a riot?" Lodestone said.

"You don't get it Lode, you've only been in charge of the 1st leg, and you haven't been to our ones because you have so many in yours. There are quite a few people who would gladly start a riot for the hell of it, especially if we let them outside."

Heller hadn't said anything throughout the meeting; she had other things on her mind. Like how using the riot could help her with the mystery of Doctor and his friend Lin. IT was because she was thinking so hard that she missed the question directed at her. "Sorry, what?"

"I said, what do you think of the plan; you've been bloody thoughtful for the last hour." Karnel said.

"It's a good plan…in fact, I know exactly the best person to start this thing; leave it to me."

"Good, so the only thing left is to decide who is going to kill Chiketta."

"Kill!"

Karnel looked around incredulously "Oh come on, you didn't really believe the whole 'arrest' thing that Sentomarou was talking about? He obviously meant kill him, if we arrest him all kinds of trouble will arise; killing him will be the best thing."

"And…you think one of us can kill him?

"Of course, as long as we don't let him near the water."

Heller turned around and half opened the door leading to her leg, turning back at the last minute. "Give me a yell when you decide, before then I'm going to convince my guy to start a riot. Bye for now then!" she said before she disappeared down the stairs to her leg.

"A riot? That actually sounds like a good idea, but what about whats-his-ma-face? The guy I beat up specifically to get this mission to work"

"Oh I'm sure we can find a use for him, especially if you plan on escaping after I've finished him off."

"Sorry, when you finish him off?"

"Yeah, when I finish him off. You don't think I'd let you have the privilege would you."

"But this is my plan, my goal. You would never have even known he was here if I had not begun my search."

"Yeah but as soon as you heard we were still alive, you didn't even think to continue your search for them."

Lin paused for a moment before answering. "But I'm your Captain and thus you have to listen to me!" he had a look of triumph on his face.

"Really? I don't remember ever being a pirate under a man named Lin, so I've never been under you I'm afraid." Lin frowned as Doctor continued "Of course, we could always fight for the right, and I believe I won the last round."

"That hardly counted…"

"I think it did, but anyway we'll need to start the riot around lunch time then."

"That sounds about right…" Doctor whirled around as Lin snapped his head across to see Heller appearing around the corner. Doctor started to slink away but Heller waved him to stop. "No point, Dr Umbra. I've been watching your little conversations with Lin here for a number of days; didn't I tell you I was pretty intelligent." Doctor looked like he was about to say something but Heller pointed up to the wall where a snail was stuck to the wall.

"A visual Den Den Mushi, well fancy that." Was all Doctor said before leaning back against the wall again, hooking his thumbs in one of his sashes.

"However it seems that that little tree has bloomed earlier then I was expected while bearing unintended fruit; so I have a question for you, both of you." She moved her head between the two and both Lin and Doctor raised an eyebrow. "If I let all the prisoners free, would you be able to start a riot? From the sounds of it, I'm sure you can."

Lin thought about any sort of trick Heller might be playing but he couldn't think of one that could harm him very much, if at all. "Yeah, I can do that." He said with a smile as Doctor shook his head with disbelief.

A/N: So the plan starts, well the new plan anyway. Doctor and the Rear-Admirals come to the same conclusion, the best course of action would be a riot. This should be fun, hope you enjoyed this chapter and keep your eyes and ears peeled for the next chapter heading your way!