SailorStar9: We hit Chapter 190 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, Background Protector!Law/Sasha
Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda EiichirÅ-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC, the pairing and the fic idea.
Chapter 190: Arc 13: Chopper's Fury! The Master's Inhumane Experiment!
"You're awake, aniki?" Sasha looked at her awakening sibling who had fallen asleep in the midst of Brownbeard's rant.
"It's a fur-ball!" Luffy gushed, seeing Franky in 'Guard Point'.
"That's Guard Point!" Chopper exclaimed.
"This body isn't very stable." Franky complained.
"What did you say?" Sanji retorted, the children playing with 'Guard Point' Franky. "The samurai left? I thought that it's been too quiet!"
"Just a short while ago, I told him about a fellow I met who's nothing but a torso." Brook explained. "He wanted to know where I had met him and I told him we parted ways near the lake. Then, he ran out of here."
"The one who took him outside when he was just a head and couldn't move was me." Sanji admitted. "It might have been uncalled for, but it was what I had to do. If he gets killed now, it'll be my fault."
"I see." Brook mused. "Even though he's a samurai, he doesn't have a torso to hold a sword with, so all he can do is run away from battle. Well then, shall we go and do what we must?"
"Luffy, I'm gonna head out for a bit, okay?" Sanji shouted.
"Yeah sure." Luffy replied, he and the children were using Chopper's body as a trampoline.
"Zoro, go with them." Sasha instructed. "To keep those two out of trouble."
"Sasha, we'll start investigating the disease." Chopper informed the older medic.
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Nami offered.
"Try to get us a sample of the children's sweat." Chopper requested.
"So what should we do about your bodies?" Usopp asked, both the crew's healers were hunched over a table as they waited for the results in the tubes.
"The most important thing right to do now is get our bodies back." Nami insisted. "I don't want to be in this pervert for another millisecond."
"Are you trying to kill me with praise?" Franky gushed.
"Please don't make that face with Chopper's body." Robin requested. "Ever."
"The real problem is those damn kids." Franky complained. "They're a real pain the ass."
"Franky, I'd appreciate it if you didn't speak with that face." Robin insisted. "Ever."
"Chopper, this reaction..." Sasha breathed, the pair of healers watched as the solution in the test tube turned red.
"Yeah..." Chopper gasped. "This means..."
"What happened?" Franky hurried over to the suffering Sind with Luffy.
"It hurts..." Sind clenched on fours, writhing in pain.
"Mocha!" Nami gasped, the giantified girl had also collapsed. "What's happening to all of you?" she looked around as the children crumpled to the ground, one by one.
"All the big kids are collapsing." Franky noted.
"Sasha, Chopper, what is it?" Nami asked. "Are the children really sick?"
"No." Chopper replied and walked towards Sind. "Sind, is there anything that you want right now? What do you usually do at times like this?"
"Usually?" Sind heaved. "After the examination... then..."
"Then what?" Chopper pressed.
"Then, they gave us candy." Sind replied.
"Candy?" Chopper echoed.
"It's delicious." the pig-tailed girl supplied. "Everyone loves the candy."
"It's really great." the brown-haired boy beside her added. "It's all fizzy and smoke comes out."
"That's right..." Sind gasped for breath. "We eat it... and when you eat it, you get this happy feeling. It might make me feel better."
"Brownbeard, is it?" Chopper hissed. "What do you know about this? These kids aren't sick."
"What are you talking about?" Brownbeard retorted. "I patrol outside, so I don't know what goes on in the laboratory, but these kids have a serious disease."
"Hey, you two!" Franky turned to the crew healers as even the smaller children had fallen over. "Even the little ones look like they're starting to hurt."
"What's this 'Master' been doing?" Chopper demanded.
"What do you mean?" Brownbeard asked. "Are you doubting Master? The ever-compassionate Master went out of his way to gather those kids and he's been donating his medical knowledge to treat them. He's a tenderhearted scientist. Look, there's your proof." he looked at the suffering children. "After missing a single day of treatment, those kids have already started to collapse from pain."
"No!" Chopper snapped. "NHC-10; that's what I found in the kids' bodies. There were only faint traces, but it's a narcotic! Throughout the world, only a few scientists in select countries are allowed to have it. I know about it because Doctorine used it. There are some legitimate uses for the drug, but only in the smallest amounts. It's extremely addictive if you take too much. The children have been taking the drug every time for a long time now. They've become chronically addicted to it. Their bodies crave for the next does in order to stop the pain. Why?" he spat. "Why would they have this in their system? It's so that they can't run away from the lab, isn't it? What is this 'God of Salvation' of yours really doing to these kids?"
"If you speak ill of Master, you'll pay for it." Brownbeard threatened.
"Sasha, what do we do?" Luffy turned to his silent sister. "They're all collapsing one after another."
"Candy!" one of the overgrown blond kid reached out to Luffy.
"You need candy?" Luffy asked. "Should I get some from the building?"
"No!" Sasha insisted. "They must never have those candy again."
"They've been using it to give the drug to the children without them knowing it." Chopper added.
"Why?" Sind hissed, suffering from the withdrawal. "You said you'll bring me some!" with a swipe of his hand, he slammed Luffy into a wall.
"What strength." Robin was shocked.
"Giants are pretty strong, I guess their children are too." Usopp reasoned.
"Sind's not a giant." Ally revealed.
"We were all normal size when we came to this island." the navy-haired girl added.
"I thought the disease was making us get bigger." one of the boys admitted. "Nothing else is wrong with us."
"There's no disease that makes normal humans grow into giants." Chopper argued. "Giants are always giants."
"The longer a kid has been here, the bigger they become." Ally supplied.
"Just as I suspected." Sasha frowned. "Chopper, it's the worst case scenario: 'Master' has somehow reactivated the Government's 'Gigantification Research'. The children's pituitary glands have started producing an abnormal amount of growth hormone."
"On other words," Chopper swallowed. "Are being experimented on."
"Usopp, put the kids to sleep." Sasha instructed.
"Right." Usopp readied his 'Burst Sleep Star'. "Sure-Kill Knockout Star!" he fired his Green Pops, the sleeping gas putting the rampaging children to sleep.
"I knew they were kidnapped." Nami remarked.
"Luffy," Chopper knelt beside one of the dozing kids. "It's tragic, they've don't even know that they've been manipulated. They want to go home. They want to be with their parents. We have to help them."
"Luffy, I want to save them, too." Nami implored.
"Well then, I guess we'll take them all home." Luffy decided.
"Stupid, it's not that easy!" Franky scolded. "There's a mountain of problems!"
"That's right." Robin agreed. "Besides, this is all just our interpretation. Unless we ask the ringleader directly, we won't know any of this for sure."
"Isn't it that Master guy?" Luffy wondered. "But Zoro, Sanji and Brook went to find that samurai. Well, whatever. Let's go back to the laboratory to find the Master."
"Sasha and I should stay here." Chopper voiced.
"We can never forgive the Master." Sasha agreed. "But we are worried about these kids. Chopper, can I count on you to develop a counter-agent for NHC-10?"
"I can try." Chopper nodded. "Sasha, what are you planning to do?"
"NHC-10 is a narcotic, right?" Sasha asked, already drawing an alkahestry purification ritual circle on the ground after setting up her barrier array. "I'll just have to extract it out of the children's bodies."
SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.
