Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks.

Steve's POV

We had made it to an island, just barely. The Sunny was in bad shape but I had to put my faith in Franky to fix it up. Nami, Chopper and Robin were a different story; we needed to find a way to get them back to normal. For the time being Nami was able to wear an old dress of Lil's. It was a little baggy on her but it was better than nothing.

"This should cover the docking fee." Nami said counting out the money she had on hand "And this will cover lodging."

"I'm sorry you guys." Chopper pouted "If I hadn't insisted on helping out Zed this would never have happened."

"Don't go talking like that." I told him "I need to be able to trust you as a doctor so I need to stand by your decisions, alright?"

He shook his head "Yep."

"Who was that guy anyway?" Usopp asked "And what's a Neo-Marine?"

"He seemed nice enough at first." Chopper told him "But once he found out we were pirates he lost it."

"That Plant guy was a problem to." Lil added "He was so fast even Nasus slowing spell didn't hinder him."

"It's hard to believe that there are two Devil Fruits that allow for manipulation of plants. That guy's Mosa-Mosa Fruit…" Rose said.

"And Mom's Dryad-Dryad Fruit." I finished.

"They caught us off guard is all. We'll get them next time" Zoro said "Besides we gotta avenge the Sunny."

"Yeah she took a lot of damage." Nami said "We got pretty lucky…"

"First thing we need to do is find these Neo-Marines." Robin said.

"You mean right now?!" Usopp asked "I'm in no mood to fight those guys again. Let's just lay low here and get over it."

"We can't just get over it." Nami told him "I need to get back to normal. This body…is ridiculous."

"I think you and Chopper look adorable." Lil said squeezing the deer like a doll "You can keep wearing my clothes…and how about you start calling me Big Sis?"

"I thought you'd sympathize with me." Nami pouted.

Lil squealed "You're so cute!"

"I don't want to be stuck like this either." Robin said.

"I don't mind being the older on in the relationship, and don't most women want to look younger?" I asked "You know have everything back where it belongs…all soft and tight."

Robin then used her hands to twist and contort my body.

"OwOwOw!" I yelled "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Robin released her grip on my body and I dropped to the ground.

I rolled over "Sorry."

She just turned her head and walked off "Hmph."

"Robin~" I whined "Come back!"

"Way to go." Sanji shook his head.

I got up to start and follow her.

"I suggest you stay there." She said out of view.

I lowered my head and sighed.

What did I just do?

"You should have some respect." Sanji said "The girls are in trouble…but wait."

Sanji suddenly got a weird look in his eye.

"If they don't get fixed, I'll be able to watch Nami grow from this little caterpillar into the beautiful butterfly I know!"

We all gave him a look and Lil stood in front of Nami protectively.

"Don't be weird." Zoro mumbled.

"My Love is perfectly innocent!" Sanji yelled back "And how come you didn't get turned into a kid Mosshead."

"What does it matter I could kick your ass regardless, even if I was three years old."

"Well I could kick your ass as a newborn baby!" Sanji yelled back.

"Oh yeah! Well I could kick your ass as an unborn baby!" Zoro countered.

"Oh yeah! Well I Could-"

"Will you two SHUT UP!" Rose yelled separating them "Get serious."

When the two of them started their usual screaming match I wandered off to go find Robin. I knew she had said not to follow her but I wanted to make sure she was okay.

I went up the hill and found her not too far off in a field, sitting in the grass.

"I thought I said not to follow me." She said not even looking at me.

"I just wanted to apologize." I told her "I was just messing around and I got out of hand."

She didn't respond.

"Robin talk to me."

"Do…do you really think I look better like this?" she asked finally looking at me.

"I guess." I shrugged.

Why did I say that?!

"That's not what I meant." I quickly sputtered out "you just…I…UGH! Look Robin you know how I feel and nothing will ever change that, no matter how old you look…within reason of course if you were looked like Nami does now that might be a problem."

Robin just laughed and walked up to me.

"I tell you all the time Robin, you aren't old." I said placing my hands in her waist "30 or 18, who cares, Robin is Robin. Besides I like having you as the older one in this relationship. You're like a cougar or something."

"Do you really think I'm…saggy?" she asked.

I playfully squeezed her butt "Nope."

Robin let out a little yelp when I had touched her. We fell back onto the softness of the grass; Robin was laying on top of me. I looked into her eyes. At first, I thought the only noticeable change since she was regressed was her height and to some extent her more attractive bits had shrunk, but now that I was looking closely her face looked younger, and cuter. She looked fresh faced and her skin seemed shinier and silkier.

I slowly moved my lips towards her and kissed her softly. Robin didn't hesitate to kiss me back. Even her lips felt different as we kissed, it wasn't wrong…just different. When Robin broke the kiss she looked down and smiled at me.

"I'm sorry I got so angry." She said.

"It's fine…I was out of line." I said giving her another quick kiss "I love you."

Robin just gave me a faint smile "I missed hearing you say that."

"I missed saying it to you." I said.

"I love you." She whispered back.

I kissed her again and let her rest against me on the grass, sometimes I wished we could just have times like this together not having to worry about marines or other pirates, just the two of us.

"Well, I guess we should get back to the others." I said "After all we need to get you back to saggy thirty-year-old Robin."

Robin giggled a bit as I helped her up from the grass and we started to go back to meet the others. Along the way she wrapped her hand around mine and laced our fingers together.

When we got back the crew they were discussing where to look for information with the woman who helped run the dock we were staying at.

The old guy from the dock was telling them about how all the pirates to come here before us had given up after being defeated by Zed.

"But you guys are different, you picked yourselves back up and now you wanna go back at him." He said "That's why I'm gonna give you guys the powerful weapons I've been collecting."

"Powerful Weapons!" Wyper said perking up.

"Don't get ahead of yourselves." Nami told us.

"But they're powerful." Wyper said "What else do I need to know other than which direction do I shoot?"

Nami told him we needed information.

"First Clothes, then information and then the powerful weapons got it." Nami said.

The woman from the dock told us that we could get to a nearby island to go shopping by taking the sea train set up nearby. Franky was staying back to fix the Sunny and Wyper was gonna lend him a hand. The rest of us boarded the train and headed into town, Nami said that only inconspicuous and people who don't pick fights were allowed to go into town to look for information.

"Alright then we can hit up the hot spring." I told the guys "and you guys can look for information."

The train docked at the station and we all got off and headed our separate ways.

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