SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 101 out, this is Chapter 102 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, the pairing and the fic idea.

Chapter 102: Arc 8: The Straw Hats Reunited!

"I shrunk again." Luffy looked at his shrunken self. "Third's a cool idea and it's powerful, but the side effect's pretty bad. I was big for about a minute, so I'll probably be small for a minute. I'll turn back to normal first, then rescue Robin."

On the Bridge of Hesitation...

"I never thought this day would come." Franky admitted. "If I had the power to, that day..." he recalled the day when Tom was sent to Enies Lobby. "I wanted to save Tom-san, no matter what. People who knew the stories of Enies Lobby's impenetrability, people who knew the size of the World Government: the Straw Hats ignored them all and pressed on. In order to save a single nakama, every one of them faced the World Government without hesitation. Even now, I've never forgotten Tom-san's death or his instructions. When Iceburg left me with the Pluton blueprints, he passed on Tom-san's instructions that whomever inherited the blueprints of Pluton will offer his services to the the weapon's true owner. And after that explosion of power, I now know without a doubt. You are the one Tom-san, Iceburg and I have been waiting for; the Ocean Dragon, Selena."

"Now, the former convoy ship is now an escape ship." Franky looked around the empty ship deck. "Now, we just wait for the Straw Hats." hearing something bubble in the sea below them, the cyborg ran over to the deck side.

"Don't you..." Grandma Kokoro burst out from the water with her passengers in tow. "Die on me!" she presented herself before Franky in full mermaid form. "Oi you guys!" she slapped her passengers awake. "Wake up!"

"It must be a miracle." Franky noted. "I just can't believe it. They've must had a real shock. It looks like they've stopped breathing, meaning they didn't swallow too much water."

"Good." Grandma Kokoro chuckled. "I wonder what shocked them so much."

"You." Franky deathpanned.

"Is Nami-san okay?" Sanji asked, coughing out the water he swallowed as Sogeking and Zoro awoke beside him.

"You guys're as lively as ever." Franky remarked.

"I'm glad you're alive." Grandma Kokoro noted.

"It's true!" Sogeking exclaimed. "Mermaids really don't exist!"

"Seems like what they always say is true." Zoro gaped. "If you think you saw a mermaid, it's really a dugong!"

"Idiots." Sanji muttered. "She didn't say if she's a mermaid yet. Don't ruin my dream."

"I'm an icefish mermaid." Grandma Kokoro confirmed.

"Stop it, no more!" Sanji wailed.

"But I've never heard of a mermaid with feet before." Sogeking wondered.

"I object too!" Sanji whined. "Mermaids should be... mermaids should be more... just like the sailors say; beautiful white skin, beautiful flowing hair, shining brightly... stop it!" he wept, his mermaid imagery was shattered because of Grandma Kokoro.

"When a mermaid turns 30 years old, their tail splits into two." Sasha supplied. "Afterwards, they're able to live on land."

"In two?" Sogeking echoed. "It's like those cats that live to be 100, then their tails split into two."

"Ah, bake-neko?" Sanji realized.

"Don't mix us up with them!" Grandma Kokoro chided. "Where's your gratitude?"

"Thank you very much, Kokoro-san." the three males chorused.

"Don't mention it." Grandma Kokoro laughed.

"Where am I?" Chopper blinked.

Sasha just sighed when Sanji smashed into the ship's mast after Nami tackled Robin into a hug.

"Baa-chan, you're amazing!" Chimney gushed. "You were a mermaid? I always thought it was weird that you have a fin and scales."

"So, is King Neptune doing well?" Sasha turned to Grandma Kokoro.

"Oh, that old geezer..." Grandma Kokoro reminisced.

"Chopper?" Nami turned to the immobilized reindeer.

"Huh?" Chopper blinked. "I can't move."

"Yeah, I'll explain later." Zoro assured, exiting the ship and walking back to the Bridge of Hesitation.

"Where's Luffy?" Sogeking hurried after the swordsman.

"It seems he's fighting over in that first tower." Franky supplied.

"Sogeking, go get him." Sasha instructed. "Aniki should've ended his fight with Lucci by now."

"Got it." Sogeking nodded and took off.

"I've thought about this sometimes." Chopper admitted on the ship's deck. "From the beginning, Luffy always seem to know which person he has to fight."

"He just goes by instinct." Nami replied. "Even more than you."

Arriving to the tower where Luffy was lying on his back, Sogeking removed his mask and jumped beside his Captain.

"Usopp?" the exhausted Luffy tilted his head up.

"Yeah." the sniper nodded. "Now, let's get out of here." he slung Luffy over his shoulder.

"Go!" Luffy cheered as the hijacked Marine vessel sailed off. "Let's leave with a bang!"

On the Puffing Tom, Paulie, along with the rest of the Galley-ya crew and the Franky Family, left Enies Lobby via sea train.

SailorStar9: With this chapter, we officially end the Enies lobby fight. And well, yeah, I kinda of gave Lucci a pretty lame death last chapter. Deal with it, people! Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.