SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 52 out, this is Chapter 53 of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors, myself included, sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Ace/Sasha, sibling Luffy/Sasha and Sabo/Sasha, patriotic-retainer Law/Sasha

Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC.

Chapter 53: Arc 4: It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's... Luffy!

"You fought well, young lady." Robin told the sobbing Vivi, the fighting having resumed due to the Baroque Works agents' interference. "But your voice will no longer reach them."

"Well, it would seem we're at a stalemate." Crocodile mused, his sand clashed with another of Sasha's water attacks.

"If I stop the attack that's scheduled to happen in 15 minutes," Vivi stood up. "I can still reduce the number of casualties."

"If we do this, the rebellion will stop." Crocodile mocked. "I can't stand how annoying your idealistic theory is. If you wanna talk about ideals, you have to be able to make them real."

"On this, I do agree." Sasha drawled.

"15 minutes until the Square is blown up." Crocodile reminded.

"And more than enough time for me to overwhelm your sand with water and render your Devil Fruit completely useless." Sasha fired back. "And yes," she smirked at Crocodile's expression. "I can do that. Cascading Water Waves!" the sheer force of the immense water wave had Crocodile make good use of his 'Desert Spada' technique to split the water wave. "Crushing Wave!" Sasha took advantage to the split wave to crush Crocodile with the two water waves. "Water Dragon Bullet!" her water projectile slammed the Warlord into a nearby wall. "Well, look who showed up." she grinned and Pell landed on the palace roof with Luffy on his back.

"Crocodile!" Luffy shouted.

"Straw Hat...!" the thoroughly drenched Crocodile growled.

"Luffy-san... Pell.." Vivi wept. "There isn't much time left before the Square is blown up. My voice... no longer reaches everyone. At this rate, the country will..."

"Don't worry." Luffy assured. "I won't lose again."

"I think I drenched him enough for you, aniki." Sasha supplied. "Think you can take over?"

"Sure." Luffy grinned. "Sorry, Sasha." he told his sister. "I lost against him once. So I won't lose again. I'll leave the rest to you."

"Roger, captain." Sasha grinned. "Now," she glanced down at the swirling sandstorm that covered the battlefield below. "To deal with this dust devil."

"No matter how hard you try, you can't even hit me." Crocodile mocked. "Looks like you want to be skewered again."

Luffy's enraged fist slammed into Crocodile's face, sending him flying to the ground. "Gum-Gum..." his outstretched arms pinned Crocodile to the wall. "Buzz-saw!" he drew close to Crocodile and headbutted him.

"Look who decided to show their collective asses." Sasha joked, the rest of the crew were gathered at the Square at the staircase that led to the palace.

"Sasha..." Chopper threw himself into the older healer's arms. "Luffy... Luffy is..."

"Aniki's up there." Sasha pointed to the palace.

"Luffy's alive?" Usopp caught up with the reindeer.

"Vivi's here too!" Chopper looked over Sasha's shoulder.

"Usopp!" Nami whacked Usopp on the head with her Clima-Tact. "Who asked you to create a prop for parties?"

"It did have a powerful attack, didn't it?" Usopp reminded.

"Nami, didn't I remind you to test-drive your weapon first before going into a battle?" Sasha deathpanned.

"Vivi, what's going on?" Nami asked. "What's with this dust devil?"

SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.