Wow. Sorry about that. I had a brief (that means one-day) encounter with a book I've read before and still love. My brain had been screaming premonitions about it for a while now.

Good news on DDCCNN(Darkday Chaos' Cheery News Network): You know how plot bunnies, like real ones, either get run over, eaten by something, die for the heck of it, or else they multiply into infinity? Mine had a healthy life, but then was left outside in its cage for a bit too long and ran away, almost got shot by an AT&T gunslinger from outerspace, then I found it laying on the street, and so picked it up and hightailed it to the hospital, tried to rejuvinate it but it was slipping away fast, then out of nowhere it started having babies like crazy and thus its odd legacy lives on.

To make a long story short, (or to make a good story long) my train of thought went off track then righted itself with a vengance. Enough. Read on.

Weirdo Base Strikes Back

Chapter 5. Sanji Finds Out the Lie

Sanji would never cook again if this is all he could use for ingredients.

He ripped the bag of flour open and calmly poured all its contentents out onto the kitchen floor, watching the falling powder intently. One by one, he spilled out every peice of food from the grape juice to the rice crackers to the spices. It all fell, one by one, into an ever increasing pile of inedible sludge.

He dropped in all the relatively small kitchen apliances for good measure, then stuck a paper in the middle and perched upon the now empty counter.

'Evil Poison
DO NOT EAT -Sanji'

He lazily swung his legs back and forth, hands in his lap, eyes on the ceiling. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

He wasn'y very used to being by himself, having lived his entire life in places where things happen. Sanji sighed. It was so incredibly boring.

He considered singing to pass the time.

"He stayed hungry for eighty days, eighty days, eighty days,
he stayed hungry for eighty days and almost went crazy.

"A ship had finaly come his way, come his way, come his way,
a ship had finaly come his way and took him out to sea.

"When he was a teenager, teenager, teenager,
when he was a teenager new pirates blew the roof.

"He sailed away to find All Blue, find All Blue, find All Blue,
he sailed away to find All Blue, but his captain was a doof.

"He traveled with them anyway, anyway, anyway,
he traveled with them anyway, no finer dream he had.

"And now he's stuck inside a cage, 'side a cage, 'side a cage,
and now he's stuck inside a cage where all the food is bad. Yup, that about sums it up, don't it?"

"Nice song. You should get it copywritten."

Sanji just about fell off into the sludge.

"Z- YOU! You weren't listening the whole time?"

"You betcha. Look what I found." he added, giving Sanji only enough time to sputter indignantly.

Zoro raised his fist into the air as if he was holding something.

'Hi, Sanji...!' said a familier voice from the direction of Zoro's fist. 'OOH...! MEAT...! Can I have some...?'

"Luffy," Zoro said in mild amusement, "You'd die if you ate that. It's clearly marked 'Poison'. Besides, it's all gross."

Sanji really did fall over in shock this time. "That's Luffy? And he's not dead?"

"Spot-on, Wattson! Alive and kickin'! Seriously, Luffy, stop kicking around."

'It's fun...! Why don't you just put me down...?'

"Because then I'd have no idea where you were."

"Here." Sanji had gotten over his shock-induced coma enough to hand Zoro his jacket. "Have him wear this."

He and Zoro watched almost intranced as the jacket made a few strange movements before settling over a torso shape.

'How do I look...?'

"Invisible." "With your eyes." Sanji and Zoro answered at the same time.

'Hahahaha...!'

Zoro joined in the laughing, then suddenly looked a bit solemn as he turned to the cook. "I'm really sorry, Sanji."

Sanji was starting to wish Zoro would stop saying things that made him fall over.

"For leaving by myself for a long time."

Sanji shook his head as he got back up. "There's no reason you should be sorry, unless you wen-"

"I went flying."

"Damn it, Zoro! I told you to stop doing that! You freaking masochistic punk!"

Zoro raised his hands in mock self defence and backed up. "Hey, I got a good reason this time!"

Undeteced, Luffy smiled. The way they acted remined him of how Ace used to protect him when they were little. They fought almost constantly, but in the end they were, every second of the day, caring brothers.

"Isn't that right, Luffy?"

'Yup...! It's really cool, Sanji...!"

"Alright. Let's hear it. What's the excuse?"

"The song you were singing earlier, the last line. 'And now he's stuck inside a cage where all the food is bad.' How did you know all that, " he gesured to the mound of spilt food, "was poison?"

"I..." Sanji's eyes glazed over in deep thought. "I'm not really sure, but I think I started to guess when you got sick yesterday. I don't ever remember you getting sick before, and the food didn't seem to be bad. Being the cook and all, I kind of got suspicious when things happened after meals."

Zoro's eyebrows rose in suprise. "What kind of things?"

Sanji exhailed slowly and reclaimed his perch on the counter.

"I started forgeting things temporarilly. I think you did too, but it was hard to tell. Stuff about before- about being pirates. It also did other things, like I forgot my fighting style, and couldn't control my strength or anger like I used to. And I couldn't cook as well or as fast as before."

"And the seagoing tiger grew wings, for flying was the only way to return to the sea."

"Right, and the tiger- What? You mean you?"

"Yeah. Like you said before, eveything is wrong here. It's a cage. I found the bars. That's my reason for going flying. I got a glimpse of the outside, Sanji, and everything is right there. I saw the world as it really is. I saw myself as I should be. I just plain saw Luffy."

Luffy, who had (aparently) been sitting quietly, watching them talk, now gave an enthusiastic 'Uh-hum...!' of agreement.

'By the way, guys, when was Zoro flying...? Does he have wings...?'

"No. Luffy." Sanji shook his head. "'Going flying' is just what we call it when Zoro jumps off stuff for no reason. He never did it before we lost our memories."

'Oh...' His voice paused for a moment. 'Can we go back to the beach, Zoro...? I wanna see stuff again...'

"That reminds me!" Zoro turned to Sanji and grinned wryly. "Sanji, if I cut your hair out of in front of your face with my sword right now, you wouldn't even notice. Until we got to the beach."

Sanji was regretting even being able to fall over in shock.

"But..." There was no hair in his face! There was no sword, there was no beach! Oh yeah... That wasn't correct, was it?

'Zoro...!' prodded Luffy, 'Can we go to the beach now...?'

"We have to find Nami and Usopp first. You don't want to leave them behind, do you?" Zoro asked the floating jacket.

'No way...! Follow me, I know where they are...'

To Be Continued...

I acctually cut part of Sanji's song out because I didn't like it. Mleh. Anyway, There they go- off to find Nami and Usopp!

A secret from me to you: The shortness of this chapter depressed me. Even though it's not acctually that short. I'm just weird today. I quote: "Go fry a tomato and slap it with a dark lightbulb." and, "Jones, look out! It's an octopus!" See what I mean? Anyzway, Tell me what you think.