O.N.E. P.I.E.C.E.

"Law."

"Annabeth."

"Was getting yourself, Luffy, Robin and Franky stuck in a cage part of the plan?"

"…not necessarily."

The demigods (plus Sanji and Chopper) gathered in a huddle underneath a large, iron cage suspended several hundred feet above them.

"Luffy!" Sanji called up to them, "What are you doing? Bust out, already!"

"I'm trying!" Luffy whined. The demigods and the miscellaneous Strawhats had to strain to hear him; the cage was so high up that the wind barely carried Luffy's voice to where the others were standing.

"The cage is seastone," Law told them, "I can't cut seastone."

"And what are we doing about that?" asked Sanji, pointing at the wave of purple growing ever closer.

"Breaking the others out then running like Hades," said Leo, "It's gotta be what made all these corpses."

"Can you break us out?" Law asked Leo.

"Not without burning you to a crisp," said Leo, "Percy might be able to though."

Annabeth glanced at her boyfriend's tensed back. Percy didn't seem to hear a word the others were saying, leading Annabeth to realize exactly what he was doing.

"He's busy," she said at last, "The purple wall must be poison; he can keep it at bay for a bit, but we should hurry."

Sanji cracked Nami's knuckles, preparing to jump up to the cage, "I got this."

Annabeth jabbed a finger at the giant hologram of a piece of candy behind them, "And anyone know what that's about?"

"The candy's somewhere else on the island. When the purple thing hits it, it's supposed to explode and spread poisonous gas all over the island," said Law.

"Effectively killing all of us," Annabeth finished, "Poseidon's pistons, this is bad."

"Hey, it stopped snowing," Leo said anxiously as Sanji, Luffy, Robin, Franky, Law, Smoker and Tashigi dropped to the ground, "Why'd it stop snowing?"

An inhuman roar filled the air.

"What the hell was that?" demanded Sanji.

Percy, who up until now had been focused on holding back the poison, pointed at said poison, "That thing did it."

"Can you get rid of it, doctor-san?" asked Law.

"Gas is… harder than liquid poison," Percy grunted, his eyes closed in concentration, "The purple thing ate the candy. Now it's gas. Like Annabeth said…all I can do is slow it down a little."

"Caesar is watching," Robin informed them, "So is the rest of the world. He's got transponder snails broadcasting our every move to a live audience."

Annabeth cursed, "We can't show our hand that easily. We need to get inside without anyone seeing."

"Scrawny one," said Law, "Can you set that ship over there on fire?"

"Still working on that one, creepy dude," said Leo, "Gimme like half an hour; I can't do more than light a candle right now."

"Leave that one to me!" Franky said proudly. Before anyone could register what he was doing, Franky shot a fireball from his mouth at the shipwreck. Smoke billowed forth, blanketing everything in a grey haze.

"Smoke screen," said Annabeth, clearly impressed, "Nice."

"Traffy!" Luffy said impatiently, stamping his feet in the snow, "I wanna go find Zoro and the others!"

"I'd like to go keep the Sunny safe," said Franky, "Robin, you coming?"

"Sure," Robin said easily, "That ok, Traffy?"

Law sighed, defeated, "Fine, go do what you want. Not you, Strawhat," he said, grabbing ahold of Luffy as Franky and Robin took off into the air, "Your boyfriend and your crewmates will be fine; we have a job to do here."

O.N.E. P.I.E.C.E.

Even while stuck in the body of one of the strongest of her crew, Nami had never felt so powerless.

"Master!"

Pale, sweaty, giant children staggered and stumbled towards the 'master', moaning for candy, and Usopp and Nami were helpless to stop it. Nami screamed herself hoarse at children who weren't listening and the ones who couldn't listen, but in Sanji's body, her voice meant nothing.

It was just as useless as she was.

Nami scowled at the gaseous man towering over them like a bad dream, "You're a despicable man. Where is our captain?"

"I made him suffocate!" Caesar laughed, "Just as I'm about to make you suffocate!"

Nami clutched at her throat and sank to her knees as Caesar sucked all the oxygen out of the air. She felt as if she'd been punched in the gut and choked all at the same time. Usopp collapsed, and Nami knew that in a body with the lungs of a smoker, she would soon follow.

"I will bring candy to all the good boys and girls who crush these pirates with rocks and pipes," Caesar said gleefully. Nami watched, helpless from the ground as the poor, helpless children shuffled at her like zombies, clutching rocks and pipes that would surely crush her and Usopp if she didn't do something.

"Mom," she gasped. She hated asking Aphrodite for anything, but she was desperate, "Give me a way out of this."

She closed her eyes as Sind held a rock over her head. It was too late.

"CAESAR!"

Brownbeard, who was very much alive, stood over them with his own pipe. With another roar, Brownbeard swung his pipe through Caesar's vaporous form. Suddenly, Nami could breathe again.

Caesar chuckled as he reformed into a red, churning mass, "Shirourourou, who were you again?"

"Strawhats!" shouted Brownbeard, "I'm sorry it took me so long, but now I see the light."

"Shirourourou," said Caesar, "Oh that's right; I remember now."

He turned to the children, a fake, tortured look on his face, "Children! It's not safe here! You must go quickly to the gas balloon waiting outside; I will join you as soon as I take out the trash."

"Nami, let's go after the kids," Usopp said urgently as Brownbeard threw himself at Caesar again.

"Thank you," Nami whispered to Brownbeard, and also to her mother, as she and Usopp sprinted out of the lab. They'd barely cleared the entrance when the entire lab exploded.

"Aaaahh!" Nami screamed as the blast knocked her and Usopp into the snow.

"Do you think he's ok-," Usopp barely got a chance to ask this before two solid hands wrapped around Usopp and Nami's throats.

Gastanet

The explosion threw Nami through the air. Sanji's head hit something hard and metal.

Darkness enveloped Nami before she had a chance to blink.