A few weeks after Orses...
Trinity Sayu
"Ahhhh, this is nice, isn't it?" Sayu looked back to see her petrified crew mate. Bepo was in the back seat of the mini plane and they were currently flying over the sea while circling the sub. Bepo had never been in the plane as of yet and this was his first time. Least to say, the bear would much rather be on the sub or on land.
"I'm scared Sayu." Bepo muttered to the first mate. "I want to go back!"
Sayu chuckled at how cute Bepo looked when scared. "You wanted to see what it was like, so here we are. It's not that bad, Bepo. Besides, the chances of us crashing and dying a horrible death are slim to none...almost."
Bepo choked on his breath. "That's not helping at all..." Bepo glanced over and saw the sub beneath them, but it looked like small ant. Bepo's face suddenly turned greenish. "I...I don't feel so good."
"NOT ON THE PLANE!" Sayu pulled a bag from beneath her feet and tossed it back to Bepo. "Use this!"
"Urp..." Bepo retched in the paper bag and Sayu grimaced at the sound. "I'm sorry..." Bepo continued to throw up in the bag.
Sayu giggled. "It's okay Bepo. How was I suppose to know you would get airsick?" Sayu flipped her headset on and adjusted her mic. "Law, Bepo's gonna need something for his stomach. I don't think he likes this very much."
Trafalgar Law
Law was lounging on a chair on the deck of the sub while sipping on his black coffee from his favorite mug. He was fiddling with the headset his mechanic had given to him and trying to figure it out. "We've got enough medicine for Bepo in the sub. Take some pity on him and bring him back." Law spoke into his mic.
Shachi, Penguin and Haken were playing cards a few feet away from him as all the chores for the day had been done with so there was really nothing for anyone to do. "Alright boys, ready for your end?" Haken smirked and gazed at his cards.
"Ha! Not this time Haken!" Shachi was confident that he had the cowboy now. For the straight past few games, Haken had been on a winning streak. Which was expected of the gambler. Haken was a pro at card games. Shachi revealed his hand to hold a straight suit. "Beat that!"
Penguin chuckled darkly and Shachi had to look over to his friend. Penguin showed his hand. "Full house boys, read it and reap."
"Ughhhhh, no!" Shachi placed his head in his hands and grumbled. "Fuck man...how?"
"Better luck next time my friends." Penguin reached for the pot of beli they placed in the middle.
"Hold on a minute, sento soldiers." Haken pulled his cards down. "Best flush." Haken smirked and took all the beli and added it to his stack of winnings.
"Every time! I can't play with this guy any longer!" Penguin stood up and threw his hands up. "You have to be cheating!"
"Yeah, cheating!" Shachi added on, pointing at the cowboy.
"Now now, sento soldiers. No need to be sore losers...get good." Haken grabbed his winnings and carried them off back to his lab.
Both Penguin and Shachi were fumming with red faces.
"That's what you get for challenging him back to back after the first lost." Ryu came out of the kitchen without his coat on for once. He had tattoos littered all over his arms, making him look more depressing then with his coat on. Ryu refilled his Captains cup when Law held it out to him. "You guys know that he's a gambler, with skill at that." Ryu put the coffee pot down on a table and sat on a chair next to his Captain. He pulled out the daily news co and started to read it.
Shachi and Penguin glared at the cook. "You should've stopped us!" They both shouted at him.
Ryu smirked and flipped a page casually. "Now why would I do that, when I can watch you two fools make even bigger idiots of yourselves?"
Music was playing in the background on the lower deck as the twins had a music magic box that Sayu had given them, saying that it would play music to the lyrics they were singing. All they had to do was time the lyrics right to match the songs. She has lyrics for every song and would give them to the twins. She called it...karaoke.
"If I were to wake up and say, 'Everything is an illusion',
Yet I want you to make my miracle delusion to come true."
Yuki and Yuri were practicing their lyrics for a song that ironically is called from one of the towns that were on Orses. Katharsis is what she called the song. Sayu said it was one of her favorites songs from an...anime as she called them. It would be the first song they would perform as the Heart Pirates musicians.
Yuki had a softer and lighter tone of voice when singing, making him be the main singer. Yuri had a deeper yet strong voice, where he would be back ground singing or performing a fast paced verse that Yuki couldn't.
"I will miss you, I will miss you, will my sins come to an end?"
But when the twins sing at the same time, it's like magic to the world.
Shachi and Penguin were nodded their heads in the twins direction. "They're good, very good." Penguin said.
"I can't wait for our next party! I really want to hear them at their best!" Shachi started to gush and sound like a fanboy and it was creeping Penguin out a little.
"Everyone, clear the front deck. Ms. Mechanic is coming back." Law announced from his seat on the top deck. The sub's lower deck let out a ramp just as Sayu was pulling in her plane and the deck opened up.
"I've returnedddddd!" Sayu stood up from her seat in the plane and took off her headset and tossed them in the seat once she jumped off. Sayu turned around to help Bepo out of the cramped plane. "There there, it's okay Bepo. I'll never take you again." She rubbed Bepo's back and held his paw with comfort.
Bepo sniffed with tears in his cute little eyes. "She did a loop and I just died right there, Captain. I don't ever wish to go back." Bepo collapsed on the deck while holding his stomach.
Law chuckled at poor Bepo. "Don't worry Bepo. You won't have to ride that device ever again." He took off his headset and placed it on the table next to him. "Ms. Mechanic, come here for a minute."
The deck had closed after taking in the tiny plane and Sayu took off her mini jacket and tossed it aside somewhere. "It's really hot today...what can I do for you, Law?" Sayu skipped up the steps and stepped up behind Ryu and Law. Both of them were reading the news. Sayu's eyes caught onto something instantly. Sayu squealed and got closer to the paper over Law's shoulder. "Oh my jashin! Our bounties went up! Trafalgar Law...110,000,000 beli...Trinity Sayu...98,000,000 beli...and oh wait, no way! Monkey D. Luffy...100,000,000 beli. Holy shit! That means he must've beaten Crocodile! And look, there's Zoro! 60,000,000 beli!"
"That kid took down a Shichibukai?" Ryu glanced over to the picture in Law's part of the news. "How do you even know that, shrimp?"
Sayu froze slightly and then thought of the first thing she could. "Sanji sent me another letter, he's part of the straw hats and that they were in Alabasta from the time of the letter. Talking about taking down Crocodile the Shichibukai. So I only assumed it was him." Sayu said to the cook who just took the answer without debate. The lover boy had still been sending letters to the first mate even though she never wrote back.
Of course Sanji didn't actually tell her where they were at the time, so Sayu twisted the truth a little. Law paused in drinking his coffee and glared darkly at the newspaper. It was no secret that the love struck cook from the straw hats was still sending his letters to his first mate. After weeks of shredding every letter that got into her hand, Law still wasn't satisfied and personally can't wait to meet the blonde haired pervert. Educate the man on what is not his.
"What did we do to even get our bounties up?" Sayu read the news down underneath their wanted pictures. " 'Harboring the wanted criminal, Haken the Mercenary.' Wow...I didn't know Haken was that famous that even the marines want him." Sayu read on the paragraph. " 'Haken the Mercenary is wanted for numerous hate crimes against Marine affiliations and the world government.' Jashin, what did Haken do?"
Law tuned out his first mate as she continued to read aloud and turned to his cook. "Ryu, how are we for food stock, it's been awhile hasn't it?"
Ryu pushed his fringe down as it was getting sweaty from the heat and falling apart. "Well, we could definitely go for a stop as soon as possible. I've got enough food for maybe, five more days top."
Sayu clapped her hands together. "While I was circling the sub, I saw an island about 80 kilometers to the east. Only bad part is, it looked like the heat waves were...I don't know, like the waves were kinda just...coming from the island. Not the sun so much. It was kinda weird looking at it." Sayu scratched her head in thought.
"Heat emitting from an island?" Law tossed the paper on the table and stood up from his seat. He glanced over to his navigator who was on the deck fanning himself. "Bepo, what's the log post doing?"
Bepo, still fanning himself, took a look at the log post on his furry wrist. "It's pointing east, Captain."
Law nodded and looked off towards the east. "Guess we're heading to that island anyway. Make speed for it, Bepo."
Bepo stood up and dragged himself inside the even hotter submarine. "Yes, Captain."
"Hey Law, guess what?" Sayu giggled to herself as she moved to stand in front of Law.
He gazed over his first mate wondering what the hell she was planning. "What?"
"Notice anything...different about me lately?" Sayu twirled herself around, with her belts clinking against each other. "Well, do you?"
Law tapped her head with his nodachi. "You've gotten taller and more prominent breasts now. I can see this clearly Ms. Mechanic."
Sayu's mouth dropped on how he knew what she was referring to. "How do you know me so well?!" Sayu's eyes sparkled in joy. "It's fate! Has to be, that we were meant to be best friends!" She clasped her hands together in a praying form. "Thank you Jashin-sama, thank you."
Law inched away from his overactive imaginative first mate and towards the railing off the sub, looking over the ocean.
Ryu scowled at the red haired girl. "Quit your idiotic mumbles!"
"Oh go screw off Ryu!" Sayu shouted at the emo cook and fire spewed from her bite.
Ryu's eyes widened at how fierce she looked. Something clicked in his head and then he smiled evilly. "Oh shrimp...you're a lady now! Welcome to womanhood!"
Sayu blushed furiously and tears prickled at her eyes. "Shut up idiot! Don't say that so loudly!"
"Sayu-chan got her period!" Both Shachi and Penguin had tears of joy in their eyes. "This is so wonderful Penguin!" Shachi rubbed his eyes of the tears.
Penguin choked back a sob. "Sayu-chan...she's growing up..."
Sayu's face got even redder if possible. "J-Just a minute, now!"
"Eh...Sayu, would you like us to get you some chocolate?" Yuki asked with a concerned face. "Mother always said chocolate would help her out."
"Idiot! Chocolate won't make her happy! She needs a bunch of blankets and junk food! But not chocolate! Mother would always break out after eating all the chocolate!" Yuri scowled at his brother's suggestion.
Sayu was seriously on the verge of throwing a fit. She was already embarrassed enough when she woke up two days ago with her sheets all...red. She had marched straight to the med bay and luckily enough Law was there as he always wakes up first. She had been crying after she realized what had happened to her sheets and Law understood as soon as she walked into the med bay. Being a professional, Law gave her the necessities he had purchased a while back as he knew this day would come soon. After she cleaned herself up in the shower of the med bay, Law sat her down and gave her...the talk. All that shit about her becoming a woman and what to expect and bullshit. The whole while Sayu was blushing and fighting back tears as the cramps were killing her. Law gave her some pain pills and then told her to rest for the morning.
"Oi, what are you guys doing to her?" Haken marched up to Sayu and she rubbed her eyes of the angry tears she had been holding in. He placed his hand on her head and rubbed it. "Captain, they're teasing the little soldier."
Law had been hearing the whole thing and wondered how childish his crew could be sometimes. He should've stopped it, but he thought Sayu would talk back to them like she usually would. Could be her emotions are a bit more sensitive when she's like this. "That's enough you idiots. If I hear another comment like that, you'll be on the dissecting table." Law threatened his subordinates.
"...Thank's Haken..." Sayu nodded gratefully to the cowboy and he smiled.
"No need to worry little soldier. They'll be on the end of my jackpot the next time they want to make trouble for you." Haken glared at the others.
"Everyone, get ready. Our next island is in sight!" Law commanded his crew.
Trinity Sayu
"It's so hotttttttt..." Sayu was in nothing but a skirt and her tank top. She had taken her leggings off and tied her long hair up into a messy bun.
"I feel like I'm melting..." Bepo was practically baking in the heat.
Law stepped onto the island and had shed his hat, and sweatshirt. Tying it around his waist, he took a glance around. The heat waves seem to be coming from further in land. Now that they were on the island, it was more noticeable to say that the waves were pulsing. Something was pushing out this heat from further in the island. "Well, we need to stock up. So let's see whats on this land. Bepo, just stay on the ship and in the water. I don't need you passing out on me." Law ordered his polar bear navigator. "Shachi, Penguin, you two stay as well. The rest of you with me."
Haken and Ryu had taken off their respective coats. It left Ryu in a tight black tank top and his black cargo pants with three chains wrapped around his waist line. Haken had removed his shirt and changed into some shorts. He revealed in his toned six pack and the sweat that dribbled down into unknown territory. Sayu didn't know who was more gorgeous out of Law, Ryu, and Haken. Ryu's own defined six pack really showed in his tight tank top. And then Haken had his gorgeous metal arm done perfectly into his down right sinful body. The arm is really what got Sayu hot and bothered. But what was really killing her was all the tattoos over Law's body. It should really be illegal to be this hot. Sayu's nose dripped with blood.
"Ah, we're ready!" Yuki's voice called out as he and Yuri excited the sub. Both Yuki and Yuri had dawned swim shorts and straw hats. Yuki had a beach ball with him. Sayu thought it was adorable.
"What are you two doing?" Law questioned the twins who looked like they were ready for fun in the sun.
"Well...it's hot...and sweating is good for the skin they say." Yuki said and held up the beach ball.
"Mh. We thought we could work out here." Yuri said as he looked away.
Law pinched his nose and sighed. "Put the ball away and come on."
Trafalgar Law
Law and his crew mates were heading towards where the heat kept getting stronger.
"I can't take this kind of heat..." Sayu fanned herself with her hands while whining.
Haken was fanning his face with his hat. "Mmh. This heat is a bit over the top for me as well." He ran his metal hand through his hair.
Law wiped his brow of sweat and took a sip of water from his canteen. "We're getting closer, hang in there."
Ryu sighed and glared at everything. This heat was just pissing him off so he's been keeping his mouth shut in case he says the wrong thing.
"It's not so bad. Really." Yuki grinned. He and Yuri were perfectly okay with the temperature. It reminded them of Wano, where it got really hot like this in the Wano country sometimes.
"Yeah, this isn't even close to being hot for us." Yuri grinned and Yuki nodded along with him.
"You two...keep it quiet. My brain is about to fry from the heat." Sayu glared at the twins who seemed to be totally unaffected by the heat. "What is sending out these heat waves?"
Law pushed through the foliage and came across a sight he wouldn't have thought to see. "...That's..."
"Portgas D. Ace..." Sayu was in awe at seeing the second commander of the Whitebeard pirates. But it wasn't all it cracked up to be. Ace was in some type of machine that had him sweating bullets. Generators were circled around him and the extreme heat that they felt was coming from the generators. Sayu had to guess, that by looking at Ace and seeing his hands trapped in some kind of metal balls, that they were forcing Ace to use his devil fruit past his limits.
The Heart Pirates were crouched behind a bush watching this take place. Then they noticed the number of marines surrounding a panel.
"He seems to be holding out pretty long. Amazing." One of them commented looking over some charts.
"It's been two days now, right?" Another one asked.
"He's been in that device for two days?" Sayu muttered with an angry look. "These heathens will be sacrifices for Jashin-sama. You don't hurt one of my favorite people and get away with it." The Heart Pirates all looked at her strangely except for Law.
"What makes you think we're going to save him? We just don't go around saving people at a moments notice, Ms. Mechanic. We're not heros, we're pirates." Law said without looking away from the situation in front of him.
Sayu pulled on Law's sleeve and gave him the best puppy dog eyes she could muster up. "I don't know how but I've realized something Law...things are changing..."
Law's eyes widened as he heard her. So the future that she knows of this world is changing to be something else entirely...because of her presence here. She wasn't suppose to exist in this world.
Sayu continued and pleaded with Law. "I don't know how he got there but I can't just leave him. He's important to someone, just like you're important to me! He's somebody else's Law!"
Ryu cringed at the first mate. When did she become so filled with sappy lines and bullshit? It disgusted him to no end. "I'm gonna barf."
"Shut the fuck up Ryu." Sayu whisper shouted at the cook.
"Shouldn't we focus at the task at hand?" Yuki asked his crew mates.
Sayu turned back to Law and put on her sad face. "Please Law..."
"...I hate when you get that look. It's just sickening...I guess I can see some advantages to saving one of Mr. Whitebeard's commanders." Law sighed and wondered when did he become such a pushover for his first mate?
Sayu got all sparkly eyed at Law and grinned. "Thanks so much Law, I have so much to talk to him about."
Haken sucked in his breath and then mumbled. "I feel like I'm being upstaged. I need the spotlight back on me..." Haken put a hand on Sayu's shoulder. "I'll go and rescue him for you, little soldier."
Sayu shook her head. "Nah, it's just a couple of low ranking marines. I don't think I'll need much help. But thanks though." Sayu pulled out her twin pistols and jumped out of the bush.
Portgas D. Ace
Ace had been on this island for two days now, while those freaks had caught him in one of his narcoleptic sleeps. When he woke to, he had a sea stone collar around his neck and was trapped in this machine. It was forcing him to use his devil fruit powers even though he was already weakened by the sea stones. Ace was drained...what were they even doing by making him power these generators? Ace glanced up with a little strength and saw them crowding around that panel again.
"We should up the voltage amount another twenty percent shouldn't we?"
Ace doesn't think he could take another charge. When will it end?
"Hey idiots!" A girlish voice shouted and Ace looked away from the marines to see a red blur rush past him. She had red hair like Ace's flames. Vibrant and strong, just like him. Ace blushed when the girl started to really rip apart those marines like they were nothing. She shot a few of them and then knocked out the others with the butt of her guns. "Don't lay your ugly hands on Ace again!"
"Little soldier!" A silver haired guy came out of the bushes and rushed over to the short girl. He looked her over this way and that way. "Oh good, no scratches on you. I would've had to kill them all."
The girl blushed and looked away. Ace suddenly felt even more tired then before. The girl was taken if he could tell by that blush on her face. Suddenly the generators powered down. The red haired girl had turned them off from the panel. She let out a cute little smile at Ace himself. Ace felt his heart skip a beat. She was really cute. "Hey, you okay?" She jogged over to Ace and started to work his arms out of the device.
"Ah...the collar...it's sea stone." Ace managed to tell her.
"Oh...one second." She pulled out a screwdriver and worked on his collar.
"Impressive display Ms. Mechanic." A man with a spot hat on his head came out of the bush with others following him. "Good work."
"Oh stop it Law...hehehe..." A click was heard and the collar drop from his neck and suddenly his arms and legs were free, as the cowboy had been working on them.
"...Thanks..." Ace rubbed his wrist and everyone except the twins sighed. They could feel the heat slowly coming down now that those pulsing generators were off.
"No biggie! I'm Trinity Sayu...it's ah..." Sayu blushed as she tried to form words, but it felt like she was going to have word vomit any minute. "...it's...a pleasure to...to meet you!" Was this word vomit or...actual vomit?
Trinity Sayu
Sayu was nervous while talking to Ace. This was the man that meant so much to Luffy and the one who did so much for Luffy and Sabo when they were little. The man who gave his life to protect his little brother. Why was everything sibling related lately? Sayu felt Ace take her hand and place a gentle kiss on in it.
"The pleasure is all mine actually." Ace said in a sexy voice.
Sayu promptly fainted on spot.
"Sayu!" The Heart Pirates called for their fallen first mate. Upon closer inspection though, she had blood dripping down her nose and little hearts in her eyes. She's just fine then, they all decided. But that didn't stop Haken from grabbing his handkerchief from his pocket and holding it against her nose, then placing her head on his lap and fanning her.
"My poor little soldier." Haken catered to Sayu's sleeping form in every way possible. "I need to repaint her fingernails for her." He rubbed his thumb over one of her scratched yellow nails.
Law sighed heavily and turned to face the Whitebeard commander. "Portgas D. Ace, Second Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates. What are you doing so far from the New World?" Law questioned Ace.
"Oh that, well. I'm looking for somebody but I stumbled upon this place. Heard he had traveled here looking for Dr. Vegapunk. By the way, who are you guys?" Ace asked the people as they knew his name but he didn't know who they were.
"We're the Heart Pirates." Yuri said to Ace. "And that's our Captain, show some respect for him..." He scowled at Ace.
"Dr. Vegapunk is on this island?" Law wanted Ace to clarify. If the Marines head scientist was on this island, then something big was going on.
"I'm not entirely sure, but I did discover an underground door a few yards back. That's when my narcolepsy kicked in and I guess those marines found me." Ace grumbled and cursed his narcolepsy, it could be a pain sometimes.
"Vegapunk on this island..." Law gazed around in thought. It's too tempting to pass up stealing some of Vegapunk's research. Who knows what they would find? Even if there is a secret marine base hidden on this island, it's better for them as well. They could steal all the supplies and food they need from this base. "Mr. Fire fist, do you have a way off this island?"
"My boat should be still on the south side of the island. I can't leave just yet though, if the man I was chasing was here, I need to find out where he headed off to next."
"Team up!" Sayu shouted as she came back to. Everyone jumped back from her sudden awaking except for Haken. "We should team up and help each other out for the time being. We need supplies and you can take us to that entrance you found! We'll help you find information on your target! A temporary alliance!"
Law smirked and nodded to Ace. "What do you say for an alliance, Mr. Fire Fist?" Law held out his hand for Ace.
"I do have to pay you back for helping me out. Who knows how long I would've been stuck there?" Ace shook Law's hand and the deal was done. An alliance for the rest of this trip on this new unexplored island.
