SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 79 out, this is Chapter 80 of this fic and I am finally back on the On Piece bandwagon. 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.
To the Guest reviewer asking about Merry's Klabautermann, she'll be reincarnated as Thousand Sunny's Klabautermann; she refuses to abandon her big brothers and big sisters.
Pairings: Ace/Sasha, sibling Luffy/Sasha and Sabo/Sasha, patriotic-retainer Law/Sasha
Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda EiichirÅ-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC.
Chapter 80: Arc 7: CP-9 Exposed!
"Here you are." Sanji opened the door that led to the roof the crew were currently residing in. "We rented a room and no one's using it. I guess no one have been able to sleep. Where's Luffy?"
"Up there." Usopp and Chopper glanced up at the taller building Luffy was perched on.
"Sanji, where did you go?" the sniper asked.
"I spent the night keeping watch on the rocky cape." the cook replied. "I thought Robin-chan might come back. Where would she go without telling us?"
"We had nothing but trouble on this island." Chopper admitted. "Our money was stolen and then the whole thing with Merry."
"I'm gonna search around town today." Sanji stated.
"Do you think we'll find Robin?" Chopper asked.
"I'm not sure." Sanji admitted. "She must still be in the city. We just don't know where. Let's meet back here if anything happens."
"I wanna help you look." Chopper voiced.
"Me too." Usopp added.
"Luffy!" Nami flung the door open. "Something's happened! Everyone in town is talking about it. Luffy, last night, something happened to Iceburg-san from the shipyard."
"The Ice Ossan?" Luffy frowned.
"They say he's still unconscious." Nami related, after explaining that Iceburg was found shot in his room the previous night.
"Why would they do that to a guy everyone loves?" Luffy wondered.
"Who is he, Nami-san?" Sanji asked.
"He's the one who showed us around yesterday." Nami replied. "He's the president of the shipyard company and the mayor of Water 7."
"He seems to be quite an important fellow." Sanji noted.
"This is the worst thing that could happen in this city." Sasha added.
"I'm gonna go check it out." Luffy stood up.
"Wait, Luffy!" Nami shouted as Luffy jumped off. "I'll go, too."
"Well, we'll go look for Robin-chan." Sanji was prepared to set off. "How about you?" he looked at Zoro.
"No," Zoro rested his head behind his cupped hands. "I'm gonna see how things play out."
"First the appearance of CP-9, then Robin goes missing, and now this..." Sasha mused after Sanji took off with Usopp and Chopper. "It can't be a coincidence. Could it be..." she recalled that the first Pluton was designed and built in Water 7. "If that's the case..." she hurried off to find Water 7's registry office.
"Rope Action: Half-Knot..." Paulie retaliated, wrapping his rope around Luffy's neck in response to Iceburg's confirmation that Robin was one of the two who had attacked him the previous night. "Air Drive!" he tugged at the rope, sending Luffy onto the ground.
"You bastards!" Franky roared, angry that his fight was interrupted. "I told you not to interrupt! I'm the one who's pissed at him!"
"Why are the shipwrights suddenly our enemies, too?" Nami panicked.
"Wait a minute!" Luffy protested. "I have no reason to fight you guys!"
"Come on, guys." Franky chided. "Don't you know how to listen? That guy..." he fired off his machine gun. "Is mine to fight."
"I don't have time to deal with you right now, Franky!" Kaku dived towards the cyborg.
"That's far enough!" Sasha cut in, tackling Kaku to the ground, a crystal sword poised at the agent's throat once they landed on the ground. "CP-9!"
"CP-9?" the gathering crowd echoed.
"The World Government assassins?" Nami was shocked.
"What are you saying?" Kaku feigned ignorance.
"Don't even try to bluff your way out of this." Sasha drawled. "Blueno was very forthcoming after some... persuasion on my part. Him, you," she cast a disdain look at Kaku. "The second-in-command of CP-9, Kalifa, and of course, your leader, Rob Lucci."
"So, these five years..." both Paulie and Lulu were taken aback.
"Everything was a sham." Sasha revealed. "Their real objective is the blueprints of Pluton; which by what happened last night, wasn't with Iceburg. Of course," she continued to twist the knife. "It's only cowards like you Cipher Pol would threaten a 'Buster Call' in order to get Robin to cooperate."
"You..." Lucci tried to attack the girl from the back, only to have the water elementalist dodge his attempted back-stab.
"It doesn't take a genius to figure out." Sasha easily dodged Rob Lucci's punches with her Observation Haki. "Given Robin's character, she would rather submit than to see Water 7 undergo the same nightmare Ohara did. As to what Spandam intends to do with it once you people deliver it to him, I'll hazard a guess and say, if he is half as ambitious as his old man, he'll use Pluton to force the World Government to abdicate."
"He wouldn't..." Kaku gaped.
"Wouldn't he?" Sasha threw the question back. "So, what would it be, Rob Lucci? Complete your mission or return to Enies Lobby to put an end of Spandam's ambitions before the entire CP-9 gets dragged down with him?"
"The World Government..." Kaku voiced.
"Guilty by association." Sasha stated flatly. "Isn't that how the World Government always did things? Isn't that what Spandam Sr. did to Ohara?"
"She's got us cornered, Lucci." Kaku admitted.
"Fuck off." Lucci snarled.
"Not to question your judgment, boss, but what if she's right?" Kaku asked.
"Wasn't disagreeing with you." Lucci replied. "Grab Blueno, I'll get Kalifa."
"We will back down today." Lucci informed Sasha as the two CP-9 agents departed. "But I swear, one day, we'll bring your infernal crew to ruin."
"Now," Sasha looked up at Franky after the CP-9 agents were out of earshot. "About the blueprints of Pluton..."
SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.