It was hard to believe that just yesterday, Lisa was still under Coil's 'employ', the brains of the Undersiders, and helped ruin Panacea's family life...mostly. The Dallon and Pelham family had a lot of problems. Brockton Bay's celebrity family was a bomb ready to go off any second. Lisa smirked after taking a right. This was more entertaining than manipulating Alec into an argument with Brian.

Speaking of the two Undersiders, Brian had apparently taken Armsmaster's offer and was immediately shipped off to Boston. Good for him. Alec also accepted the offer, but with a long list full of demands. Trainwreck rejected it, most likely waiting for Coil to organize a breakout. Rachel was about to be shipped off to juvie, when she finally broke and asked about her dogs.

How did Lisa know all of this? Thinker bullshit mostly. Now she had a slight headache though. It was a lot of information to take in at once. Rubbing her forehead, Lisa took a left. Tashigi was strolling behind her, having some talk with Miss Militia. Both are ranting about their gruff superiors. Gunderson and Kazuki were probably talking about some game. This time, she forced her power back down.

"Here we are." Their small group stopped after hearing Miss Militia speak. They stopped in front of a simple door that said PR Department. It looked...painfully plain.

"Gunderson and Kazuki wait out here. Miss Militia and I will be just around the corner." Tashigi wants to meet the Wards and check on Seer. Here comes her headache again. With that, Lisa walked in and was greeted to a messy room. Mannequins covered in half made costumes were thrown everywhere, action figures were placed on cabinets along the wall.

It was disgustingly colorful. Taking a step forward, Lisa felt something squishy under her shoe and looked down. Five day old pizza. This room was just plain disgusting.

"Heyyy! I was going to eat that...eventually." Said an extremely annoying voice. Looking up, Lisa caught sight of the creator of this mess. Glenn Chambers, Head of Brockton Bay's Public Relations office. Dressed in the ugliest Hawaiian shirt plus shorts Lisa had ever seen, along with a giant pink mohawk with half of his face coated in makeup, Lisa really doubted that this was the same man who managed to make Armsmaster marketable. His public appearance is to get people to underestimate them. He only dresses like this at work and actually has good fashion taste. Glenn Chambers is a shrewd man. That...actually made sense.

"Come here." He motioned a fat, stubby hand to a foldable chair in front of his desk. After Lisa sat down, Glenn pulled out a sketchbook.

"Lisa Wilborn with the Marines." His grating voice mumbled under his breath. Glenn started flipping through some pages before stopping.

"Yup." Lisa replied, making sure to pop her P.

"Ok ok. Pick a name." Glenn handed the sketchbook to Lisa. Slowly grabbing it, Lisa's eyes widened. There must have been over a hundred names here! Lets see, Insight sounded a bit too basic. Ooo Jabberwock sounded really interesting. That would definitely be a hard maybe. Still, Lisa wanted a name that was more...uniqueish.

After a few minutes of searching, Lisa found the perfect name, Cipher.

"I choose this one." Lisa said pointing at it. Glenn looked over and shrugged. He's mad he doesn't have much creative control this time, but will still do his best.

"Eh, that one of the alright ones. Now about your costume." Glenn turned his computer screen to Lisa showing off different costumes. "I'm thinking of a sailor girl theme." The first costume was...extremely girly. It was essentially a sailor outfit, complete with miniskirt and all. While Lisa did have the legs to pull that off, that was a bit ridiculous.

"Yeah no. I'd rather not have half the Bay trying to look up my skirt."

Glenn laughed at that before shaking his head.

"It's not that different from a skintight purple outfit." Touche Mr-I-Have-An-Ugly-Hairdo. Glenn changed the picture to a different one.

Lisa grinned. "I'll take it."

She was so going to kick Coil's ass.

"Miss Wilborn is here for hee appointment with the PR department." Colin heard Dragon say as he worked on his latest project. He had been working on his newest halberd. It would go well with the prediction software he was also working on.

"I see. Thank you Dragon." Colin looked up from his workbench. Now it was Wilborn's turn to hold up her end of the bargain. With the thinkers help, Armsmaster would slowly begin the purge of traitors in the PRT. First, he needed to know which villain held a high position in the PRT. He just needed to know who was trustworthy, and who wasn't.

Not long after leaving his lab, Armsmaster came across Miss Wilborn on her way out of the PR department. Judging by her grin, she had gotten what she wanted from Mr. Chambers. Two other Marines were with her, standing out with their uniform.

"Armsy!" She exclaimed as he walked up to them. The younger Marine stared at him in amazement, but remained silent like the older, blond one

"Tattletale." Armsmaster used her previous cape name. He wasn't aware if she had chosen another, and it was too risky to use her real name here.

"As of two minutes ago, I'm Cipher now." The black domino mask did nothing to help hide her smile. Armsmaster nodded and turned to her two guards.

"May we have a moment to speak privately." The older one seemed to hesitate for a second before nodding.

"We plan on leaving in ten minutes." That was more than enough time.

"Thank you."

"You don't need that much time Armsy." Cipher patted his back. External armor sensors indicated she placed something on him.

"Tata Halbeard." She sauntered off in the other direction, leaving behind the two confused Marines who started chasing after her.

"All bugs and cameras are disabled for now Colin. My sensors don't detect anyone in hearing range." Dragon said. Quickly grabbing the sticky note on his back, Armsmaster's eyes widened.

Thomas Calvert is Coil.

Taylor decided that she liked Amy. It turned out that they had plenty in common. They liked the same book series and had an absent parent among other things. They moved to the mess hall after a while, and were now playing UNO.

"So how did you meet Smoker?" Taylor placed down a red card with a four.

"The PRT called me in to check their immune systems since...well you know." A sailboat full of soldiers from another world? That sounded like a comic book Greg would read. Amy placed down a blue four. Shoot, she didn't have another four or a blue card.

"Sounds fun." Taylor grabbed a card from the stack in between them. Blue seven! Taylor placed it down.

"Not really, but I got to meet Smoker, Tashigi and the other Marines. So that's a plus." Amy winced and grabbed another card from the stack, then another, then another, and another one. She placed down a yellow seven.

Taylor nodded in agreement. "I never thought I would have ran into Lung on my first night out. I'd probably be dead right now if it wasn't for Smoker." Taylor placed down a plus two yellow card.

"I'd probably be stuck at home with...nevermind." Amy sighed as she grabbed two cards from the deck. Taylor didn't push her to talk about it. "It's...nice to have another girl to talk to. That isnt my sister, her friends, and Tashigi." Taylor never brought up how much of an honor it was to meet the world famous Panacea, so that was probably why. Amy raised her hands. "Tashigi's nice and all...but she can go a bit overboard sometimes."

That was true. If you asked her about Shigure, Tashigi would erupt into a rant about swords and stuff, even pulling out a small notebook about them! Somewhere along the way she would mention someone named Zoro and freeze up.

Amy placed down a yellow three card. Taylor placed a red three.

"I like your hat." Amy laughed at that. Taylor smiled under her mask. Her own Marine cap said Weaver with a scarab on the back, which was nice. It made her...feel wanted...and important.

After a few minutes of battle, Taylor smirked under her mask.

"UNO!"

A/N

The plot slowly advances with some more filler. I've been doing some thinking and I realize that this being a One Piece crossover scares away a lot of people. Smoker and crew being the MC scares away even more since he's not exactly the most popular character.

Maybe I would have had more readers if it was a Taylor altpower with Smoker's logia, but where's the fun in that! I'm happy with what I have so far.

How's my characterization of everyone? Am I doing a good job? If not, who am I messing up so I can improve.