SailorStar9: With Chapter 191 uploaded, I present Chapter 192 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 Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC, the pairing and the fic idea.

Chapter 192: Arc 13: Formed! Luffy and Law's Pirate Alliance!


"Nami's been kidnapped?" Usopp echoed.

"It's my fault." Chopper admitted. "There were huge, but I still didn't notice them until they were right in front of us. We took for granted that Sasha's barrier would protect us."

"Sasha, what about the runestones you used?" Luffy looked over at his sister.

"No use." Sasha sighed. "They're all totally fried. Well, at least now we know what the runestones' limits are."

"First, it's centaurs, now it's beastmen?" Usopp exclaimed. "This island's crawling with weirdos."

"Maybe, they're testing us for weaknesses." Robin suggested.

"So they didn't come to rescue Brown-gator?" Luffy inquired.

"Their real objectives seems to be the children and our lives." Chopper explained. "But it sounded like Master hired them to silence Brownbeard first; even though they're supposed to be friends, even though Brownbeard admired Master so much. Luffy, Master is really a twisted individual. We would never let the children go back to such a cruel person. I'm also worried about Nami-Franky, who got kidnapped. Who knows what they could be doing to her?"

"Yeah, we're definitely going to get her back." Luffy nodded. "I'll leave the kids to you." he instructed and took off.

"Hold it, Luffy." Franky voiced. "It was my body they took. Chopper, I can't fight in this body. Gimme some of those beans that you use to transform; the beans that make you a monster."

"Beans?" Chopper echoed. "The Rumble Ball is a dangerous drug. It'd probably be impossible for you to control it."

"I'll super-overcome that with fighting spirit." Franky insisted. "Just hurry up and gimme 'em! We don't have the time for pointless talk."

"I guess we have to." Chopper relented and removed Rumble Balls to Franky's coat. "But just one. You can only be a monster for three minutes. After that, you won't be able to fight. If possible, just use Kong-Fu Point which I showed you earlier."

"Yup, I knew he would do that." Sasha sighed, Franky having interrupted Chopper and bit down on the Rumble Ball, turning into Monster Point. "Are they going to be alright?" she wondered, as Franky went on a rampage.


"What?" everyone else, minus Sasha, exclaimed in shock when Luffy returned with Law in tow. "We're forming an alliance with the Heart Pirates?"

"You just went to get Nami back, so how did it come to such a crazy deal?" Usopp pleaded. "I won't be able to sleep at night if we form an alliance with such an enigmatic, unpredictable bastard."

"Come on, Luffy." Nami pointed out. "Everyone's against it. We don't have to do it. There's no reason to do something so dangerous. We should continue our voyage at our own pace."

"That's right, Luffy." Chopper agreed. "It's far too soon to try to take on the Yonkou. There's no way we could fight them."

"So what about this raccoon dog?" Law held up Chopper's body.

"Wha?" Chopper exclaimed, seeing his beat up body. "That's me! What happened to me?" he wailed, fanatically trying to patch up his body.

"Luffy," Robin turned to her Captain. "I'll follow your decision, but pirate alliances and betrayal go hand in hand. They might not be suited for someone as overly trusting as you."

"You gonna betray me?" Luffy turned to the older 'D'.

"Nope." Law replied. "The honor oath I made to Thalassa-ya two years ago won't allow me to do that."

"See, even Sasha trusts him." Luffy beamed. "Anyway, I think a pirate alliance sounds like a lot of fun. You have have trained a lot in the past two years and can back me up."

"I really hope you know what you're getting yourself into." Sasha looked at Law. "Because, well..." she turned to the gushing crew. "As you can see, we aren't a very conventional pirate crew."

"Right..." Law muttered, already starting to regret his decision. "Room." he activated his bubble. "Shambles." he swapped Nami, Chopper and Franky back into their own bodies.

"I'm back!" Franky cheered. "Back in my perfect body!"

"That's great, Franky." Robin smiled. "I hope you never wind up back in Chopper's body, ever again."

"I'm also back to normal." Chopper muttered. "But how can you leave my body all broken?" he roared at Luffy and Franky. "What the hell were you thinking treating other people's bodies like that?"

"Sorry." Luffy and Franky muttered. "It's all his fault." they pointed to the other.

"You're both just as bad!" Chopper snapped.

"Isn't it enough just to be in your own body, Chopper?" Nami sighed. "Why am I the only one who has to bear this pain? First Franky's body, now Sanji-kun..."

"I see..." Sasha nodded. "Since we have both Franky's and Chopper's bodies with us, their souls can return to the right places. But since Sanji went to find the samurai in Nami's body, the last remaining soul had to go into Sanji."

"Can't you do anything?" Nami begged Law. "Come on!"

"It's impossible without a body." Law explained. "So these are the children?" he looked at the dozing kids.

"Yeah, I wanna save these kids." Luffy replied.

"They're more trouble than they're worth." Law remarked. "Leave them. Apparently, they're addicted to drugs."

"We know that!" Chopper snapped. "Sasha and I examined them. That's why we want to take them back to their homes."

"But it'll take me some time just to extract the drug out of their systems." Sasha added. "Not to mention, they've been turned into giants."

"What a terrible experiment they performed on them." Usopp agreed.

"They've been researching how to turn humans into giants for centuries." Law pointed out. "The project was run by the World Government."

"The Government?" Robin echoed. "Why would they do such a thing?"

"Most likely to make soldiers." Law answered. "Nobody can stand against the Government if they turn their soldiers all into giants. If Caesar successfully perfects the process, then he would trump the Government and Vegapunk, but of course it isn't an easy thing to do. You really want to save them?" he questioned. "They're just some random kids from here and there."

"Perhaps." Sasha admitted. "Maybe we've never met or even seen these kids before, but they cried and begged us to save them. Master might have done a good job in tricking them just to bring them here, but some of the older kids have already realized that the facility isn't what it seems." she knelt beside one of the sleeping kids and rested a hand on the child's palm. "Until I ensure the safety of these kids, I'm not leaving this island."

"Sasha, Nami and Chopper want to do it, so I'll help them." Luffy told the older 'D'.

"I knew you had no idea what is going on." Usopp sighed, seeing Law's stunned expression. "The 'alliance' he asked you to form only means that we're working together for a sole purpose of achieving a certain objective, right?"

"Naturally." Law replied.

"That's what you meant, but when Luffy hears the word 'alliance', he thinks of something else." Usopp explained.

"Like friends, right?" Luffy grinned.

"If you thought you're going to get him to follow some plan, that's not gonna happen." Usopp cautioned. "Once he gets some wild idea, he won't budge. That's the problem with Luffy. It's always like this. In terms of self-centered stubbornness, Luffy's in par with the Yonkou."

"Still want to go through with this?" Sasha asked the shocked Law.

"Oh, all right." Law relented. "Since Thalassa-ya's mind is made up, I don't have a choice. I'll investigate the drug that was administrated to the children. Which one of you is the doctor? Come with me, we'll distract Caesar."

"About that, there's two of us." Sasha supplied. "Which one do you want?"

"Super-cute!" Franky teased, Usopp having tied the immobile Chopper on top of Law's hat.

"It should be clear from the actions of the two assassins." Law reminded the Straw Hats after retying Chopper onto the string wound around his blade. "Caesar plans to kill both you and White Hunter's G-5 and then take the kids back. He'll keep coming until he gets what he wants. Four years ago, as a former Government scientist, he was judged as a criminal after the accident. If words gets out that there are people on this island, which is supposed to be off-limits to everyone, then he'll lose this perfect hideout. That's why he'll do everything he can to kill you. He has a bounty of 300 million Beri. He possesses weapons of mass destruction as well as the powers of the Gas Gas Fruit, a Logia type. That's the Caesar Clown we're dealing with. People who can't wield Haki should definitely stay away from him. He isn't your average scientist."

"Out of all of us, I think only Franky and Brook can't use Haki." Luffy supplied.

"That should be more than enough." Law admitted. "I'll head to the laboratory first."

"Then, when we get there, we'll all kidnap the Master together." Luffy added.

"But, what do you mean by kidnap?" Franky asked.

"For ransom?" Usopp guessed. "But wouldn't Master have the money?"

"The objective isn't money." Law corrected. "It's confusion. There's no point in talking about it until we succeed. Focus on capturing Caesar Clown. It won't be easy. When the time comes, I'll lay out the entire plan to everyone. But once we succeed in capturing Caesar, the situation's naturally going to be chaotic. When that happens, there's no turning back."

"It's fine." Luffy assured. "I'll work with you."


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