Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Rose's POV

"HMPH!" I laded gracefully on a balcony and brushed off my sleek skin tight pants "Hurry up boys, before you get spotted."

Luffy, Franky and Wyper eventually got as high as I was, but then we had an issue.

"The next half is one big gold cylinder." Wyper said "It's too slippery for us to climb."

"I can't stretch far enough." Luffy said.

"Leave it to the professional." I smirked "Franky you have something we can use as foot holds?"

"There's these plunger rockets Usopp made." He said.

"Good enough." I said "Now watch and learn as I demonstrate my ninja training."

"Actually I can just shoot them." He said.

"Oh come on!" I groaned "You guys never let me do any of my cool ninja tricks!"

Franky shot the plungers out to make holds for everyone to climb with.

"Stupid rockets." I mumbled jumping up them "I coulda ran up the side of this you know."

The others made it up, but seemed spent.

"Trouble?" I asked.

"No problems." Luffy and Franky panted.

I used the glass cutter in my one finger to slice the window open and let us sneak in.

"Sneaky like a ninja." Luffy laughed.

"Whatever you say." Wyper sighed.

We got to the main vent system and used it to get close and once there Franky unscrewed the cover.

"Okay, we're about to turn off the feed." I told Nami as I slipped my fake hand off "Hold this."

I handed the hand to Luffy and made sure the chain was connected before jumping off, just before I got too low from the freefall, I twisted my arm and the chain pulled taught, allowing me to slip my foot into a circle of it and stand in the air.

"Too easy." I smiled up before I reached into my bag to get the snail.

Suddenly I felt a lot of wind, then I quickly realized that in an attempt to give me a thumbs up Luffy let my hand go, meaning I had no anchor point anymore and was in free fall again.

"OUF!" I groaned landing hard on one of the connector pipes, a responding thud reverberating into the room and alerting everyone I was there.

My once chance to be sneaky and use my sneaking skills and I get caught!

"HMPH!" I reconnected my hand and turned it into a blade to started blocking bullets "A little help down here!"

The others dropped down; the whole covert part of the plan now totally scrapped.

Franky used his front to block most of the pellets shot at us.

"Outta the way!" Wyper held up his gauntlets and blasted most of the guards away with his laser.

"I figured you'd be audacious but this is something else." Tesoro floated up through the floor after smacking away another light blast with a golden tendril "Your friend's life is at stake and this is how you choose to act, we've built quite the extravagant stage for the execution."

He snapped his fingers and a projector showed Zoro on a tall tower, mostly encased in gold.

"I find it entertaining, come on laugh." He smiled.

"Tsk." I sneered at him "It's gonna be hard for you to laugh when I rip out your throat later."

"HRA!" Luffy blew by me and tried to attack, only to be blocked by a golden shield and then get his arms locked as well, but those few seconds were enough for me to get behind him.

"Ninja Assassination Technique: Midnight Crimson Downpour!" I smiled swinging my arm into a blade.

Contract complete!

I was sure I had him, but them my arm stopped dead in it's tracks on his neck.

He blocked it?!

"Bottomless!" The big-headed guy smacked the floor and dropped us down into a darkness, Tesoro walking away.

He's a pain in the ass alright.

Steve's POV

"Sending Luffy on the sneaking team was my first mistake." I pulled the old bandages off my right arm and pulled back "So guess I'll just have to do it the hard way! Hellfire Fist!"

I sent a wave of dark purple flames to crash over the guards that came into the room.

I made my fist burn more "Come on is that all you've got?!"

"You think that was a bit much?!" Nami yelled when I blew a door off with the force of my punch.

"You got a better idea!" I yelled back.

"This way." Carina pointed at a path.

"Snow Wall!" Monet erected a thick white wall to block them from the other path.

Rose's POV

"So he's like…the weirdest old dude ever right?" Wyper asked.

"I don't know we did meet a guy who lived inside a whale once." I hummed looking at some dude down here.

After falling for a while we ended up in the last stop for Tesoro's enemies, the Golden Prison, a seemingly endless golden desert under the city. Gold is valuable, as long as there are things to spend it on, if everything is gold like it is here, it's just a sick joke.

"Wait a sec I know this guy!" Franky said "He's Raise Max."

"Is he famous?" Luffy asked.

"Kinda." Franky shrugged "He's a legendary gambler who they say has never lost a single bet. I heard he joined the Revolutionary army a while ago."

"I am Raise Max, and I am an undefeated gambler…mostly." He said "You see-."

"If you're gonna give us the speech about how the only game you lost is the game of life can we skip it?" I asked pointing at make believe watch on my wrist "We're on a bit of a timer."

"Yeah which way do we go to get out?" Luffy asked, his arms still covered in gold.

"We could beat him." Wyper hummed "If the gold wasn't on us we could fight back, but how can we get it off."

"Well his gold is weak to sea water." A man said "It's like any Devil Fruit, so you can wash yourself off in sea water to remove it, but there's none on the ship, Tesoro isn't stupid."

"There is some, in the pump room." One made said "They use it to convert sea water into fresh water for drinking and pools and stuff, after its pumped and cleaned then it's treated with gold to make it dangerous again, so you'd have to wash it off in the pump room before the treatment plant gets it."

"Getting down there's impossible, there's only one pipe down and it's full of Golden Bats that will tear you apart." The first guy said.

"So we kill the bats then." Wyper said "Seems doable."

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