Love is an amazing thing. Zoro didn't think it mattered, and she's heard people, enemies, say that it weakens people. But they got it wrong.

It may be a weakness but it makes people stronger. When you love something you protect with all your being, you get stronger to protect it.

Zoro blushed. "Sex must be amazing between you and Sanji huh?" Nami smiles at Zoro. They sat at a small cafe eating snacks while the other go sight searching. It was girl times so here she is. That comment came out of the blew.

It had been months since she and Sanji went on a date. Everyday is fun and full of love. After getting caught in bed together, she and the cook were more open about their relationship together. She liked where things were going with him. And she was excited for something else to come. It was time.

"Why do you always say that?" Zoro blushed. Nami pointed to her neck but Zoro just stared at her. She shook her head. There was nothing there. Nami rolled her eyes.

"Not me you." The navigator hands her a compact mirror. Zoro takes it and looks at it. There on the side of her neck is a small bruise. "You didn't know? I guess sex was that amazing." Nami says taking her tea cup and bringing it to her lip to get a drink. Robin just smiled as she too took her drink.

Zoro just blushed and groaned. She should tell them. "I'm still a virgin." Zoro says lowly. Nami cough into her tea cup. Her eyes wide and she looks at Zoro with wide eyes as she set her cup down. Robin looking equally as shocked.

"What? But you always have hickeys on your body." Nami says. "We caught you both in bed naked." She points out.

"I know but that night Sanji had invited me in it was going in that direction. But I let it slip that I'm a virgin and Sanji stopped. We talked about it. He said he didn't want just take my virginity. Not yet anyway. That night all we did was touch each other and make each other feel good."

"So he didn't enter." Robin says to make it clear. Zoro shook her head.

"That's all we've been doing. But we'll go all the way soon. We've been talking about it." She says with a blush and a smile. She could tell that Sanji has been getting inpatient. More desperate and a little rough. Not that she minded, she apparently likes it a little rough as she and Sanji had learned.

Nami nods. He's really treating Zoro like a lady. He really like Zoro.

Zoro smiled as she walked down the street. Her and the girls went their separate ways. Zoro sticks her nose in the air and sniffs. It smells good and like food. If that's the case then maybe she'll find Sanji.

She follows the scent into an alleyway. The end gets block by a couple big and muscular dudes. Zoro frowns, they are blocking her way. It didn't take her long to get rid of them but then another group came.

During her fight someone punched her side, it didn't hurt but she did feel a prick.

Then she started to get drowsy. Her eye could stay open. She fell back into someone's arms, someone random person held her. As her eye closed she saw someone stabbing her with needle. Then everything went into blackness.

Zoro groaned as she woke up. Her body was feeling weird but it wasn't the first time she felt like this. She tried to move her hand but felt restrained and heard the clicking sounds of chains. "They're waking up." She heard being said. Zoro tried her best to open her eyes but they just wouldn't stay a wake.

Zoro felt like she was drowning. She opened her eyes and felt herself breathing heavily. Something felt and looked off. One she wasn't being drowned and two she was in a cell. Zoro looked around until she saw other people. Male. Female. Older and younger. They all looked tired and beat, worn out. They were tied to the wall and stared at her.

"You're wake." One person said, Zoro looking at them. He smiled at Zoro.

"Where-?" Zoro starts but stops. Her voice sounded really rough. Zoro cleared her throat but it was a little dry. Zoro shook her head. "Where am I?" She asks not caring about her voice at the moment.

"You're at the research facility."

"It's run by an ex-marine scientist."

"His name is Ned. He isn't that important." A girl says rolling her eyes and frowning.

"More important is you. Are you okay? It must be a shock." A man says. Everyone nods. Zoro stays quiet and stares at them having no idea what they're talking about. If it's about being taken and chained to a wall then no it's not. As a pirate it's happened before. Zoro then noticed them all looking at her face then down. Damn it are her breast exposed. Zoro looks down to something different.

No breast, just muscled chest. No slim waist, well not that slim anymore. Hips are still rather wide.

"I'm a man." Zoro says not knowing how to feel about it. "How did this happen?" Zoro looks at them.

"Ned has been trying to make strong soldiers." One person starts. All a little shocked by how calm he is. Everyone freaked when they first learned what happened to them.

"So he kidnaps people who he thinks are strong and chances their appearance"

"Gender."

"So no one find them. It would be hard to find a woman when they're a man now." One person explains.

"He uses some sort of mushroom as the key to making it. Then putting into a syringe and stabbing us with it, injecting it inside of of."

"I'm shocked you aren't freaking out about it as much."

"You must be worried about how your boyfriends is going to react if he were to learn the truth." A man says sadly.

Boyfriend? How could they know?

The hickey. Zoro touches her-his neck. Sanji. How would he react. Zoro's sure it's fine right?

"So why aren't you freaking out?"

"I was originally a guy, I actually ate that mushroom a long time ago and living as a girl until I got here." Zoro explains. They all looked shocked. "Why are you all tired and hurt?" Zoro asks.

"Ned has been training us to be stronger."

"Ever planned to get out?"

"Tried. The guard are like us. But stronger." Zoro just nods.

"We can't do it." Zoro just nods. He shakes she shackles around his wrist. He could get out of here. Maybe he could find one of those syringes to go back to being a girl.

But... is that the right thing to do?