Zoro awoke to the feel of something hard and cold on her forehead. She sat up immediately, her hands moving to her swords. Chopper jumped at her sudden movement but grinned at the swordsman.

"You're awake! That sucks! It seems like we were poisoned…" The deer said gesturing to the other captured crew members. They were inside some sort of prison, though Brook was absent from their group. Zoro patted the doctor's head.

"Thanks. How long were we out?"

"Not too long I think. It looks like we're no longer on the sea though. I think we're on the island." Nami said, walking to the bars of the prison and trying to look out.

"I'm not sure who it was that captured us, but I don't think they are very bright." Sanji added, offering a hand to help Zoro up. She ignored it and stood, reaching for her swords.

"I still have my weapons."

"And we have Luffy." Sanji gestured to their captain who was asleep next to them. Zoro nudged her captain with her shoe.

"Well, let's get out of here then." Nami pointed towards the door then looked at the others expectantly. Zoro and Sanji glanced at one another. After a round of rock, paper, scissors, Zoro walked over to the door and swiftly cut it open while Sanji picked up their captain and slung him over his shoulder.

"Let's go." Nami, Sanji, Zoro and Chopper made their way down the long hall of the industrial building searching for a way out.

They found something, but it wasn't an exit.

"Kids!?" Nami gasped as they entered some sort of nursery for children.

"Huge kids…" Chopper watched, wide-eyed. The room was full of kids of various sizes, ranging from a bit larger than normal to full giant sized. The kids also took notice of the newcomers and approached curiously.

Nami and Chopper stepped over to talk to some of the more mature looking children.

"Are those swords, mister?" One of the kids had waddled over to Zoro.

"Yeah." She replied, pulling out her sword for the child to see.

"Wow, can I see it?" The child reached for it and Zoro flipped it around, the hilt facing the child.

"Ah! No, stop!" Sanji grabbed Zoro's arm and pulled the sword away from the child. The child started crying.

"You're terrible with children." Zoro said.

"You can't give a child a blade!" Sanji replied, whacking Zoro over the head.

"He's old enough."

"He can barely walk!"

"That's when I learned."

"Me too, it's too young." Sanji said a bit sternly. Zoro's eyebrows rose at that nugget of information.

"From your father?" She asked, watching his face.

"Right." He ignored Zoro's eye and knelt next to the child, patting his head.

"Guys, we have to save these kids…" Nami said, biting her lip as she walked over to the other two. Chopper nodded.

"They're in bad shape… they're being experimented on." Chopper said, his face still a bit in shock from the information.

"Then let's go." Zoro said, pointing to the bright red exit sign on the far wall. They rounded up the kids and headed out.

"Back off." The crew heard the familiar voice as they walked out of the hallway exit.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Sanji asked as they came up behind a familiar black haired swordsman. Law looked over his shoulder in surprise.

"Strawhats?" Law asked, glancing them over and then noticing the giant children following them.

"Traffy!" Luffy exclaimed, finally awake and looking around just as surprised as Law.

"Strawhat-ya, I'm in the middle of something." Law turned back to the outside. The straw-hats all looked outside to see a large army of marines all gathered together and facing down the pirate.

"Ahhh! Retreat!" Chopper yelled, turning around quickly.

"Run back!" Nami called to the children.

"Kids first." Sanji told Zoro and Luffy who had both paused to say something to Law. Luffy waved excitedly as they hurried back inside.

Law turned to face the marines. He paused and glanced behind his shoulder and shot his hand out.

"Shambles." With a twist of his fingers, the straw-hats felt something tug at their hearts.

"Getting rid of your back up, eh Law? Doesn't seem very smart." Said one of the marines, a man with dark blue hair and carrying a sword at his hip.

Zoro skidded to a stop and looked over her shoulder.

It couldn't be. The voice was so familiar to her. The taunt was a perfect copy. Her body started turning and before she realized it she was back at Law's side. It seemed to take her longer than she had thought to get there though.

"Kuino…" Zoro muttered under her breath as she looked at her childhood tormentor standing in front of the marine army. She stared at the scene before her in shock. Kuino looked just as she had remembered, only older. He still had the cocky grin on his face she remembered though he was much bigger than before. He seemed to have filled out considerably and it was obvious from his muscles that he hadn't stopped his training even the slightest.

"Go back." Law commanded, looking down at her. Zoro shook her head and reached for her swords. A thousand feelings were welling up within her. She had to confront him. She felt nothing at her side. Confused, she looked at her side. It was then she noticed her hands, or lack of. She had two hooves.

"What?!" Zoro started feeling herself. She had fur, antlers, and a stunning blue nose. It was no wonder everyone had suddenly seemed so big to her. She heard someone laughing and looked up to see the marine snickering at the two of them.

"Is that your backup? I would at least choose something human… raising a pet, eh Law? Didn't peg you as the type. Maybe I'll stuff it and use it as a rug." Kuino taunted as he drew his sword as his pony tail flapped dramatically in the wind.

"I've turned into a monster!" Zoro exclaimed, distracted and pulling at her fur.

"I told you to get back!" Law groaned and stepped in front of the little Zoro. She latched to his leg and shook her head.

"Law-guy! I need to borrow your sword!" Zoro said and tried to reach his sword. Law tried shaking her off his leg.

"H-hey! Stop it! I'm in the middle of a battle!"

"I have to fight that guy!"

"You're currently not exactly able to fight, just let me handle it!"

"No! He's mine!" Zoro started crawling up Law's body in the body of Chopper.

"Get off! That body can't even hold a sword!"

"Just watch me!" Zoro jumped from his shoulder and grabbed onto the sword. Law dropped it out of surprise and watched horrified as Zoro in Chopper's body, holding his long sword, fell to the ground and started rolling towards the marines from the momentum of the fall.

"How cute." Kuino stopped Zoro (in Chopper's body) with his foot. He reached down to pick up the little deer, but instinctively stepped back when the sheathed sword was swung in his direction.

"Hey Law-guy, I can't get the sheath off, it's too long." Zoro said, posing with the ridiculously long sword clamped unstably between her tiny hooves.

"Oh god…" Law watched in horror.

"Wait, I've got an idea." Zoro swung the sword with all her might. Due to sheer velocity, the sheath came flying off and whacked a random marine in the head.

Kuino laughed heartily and in a flash swung his sword, ramming it into Zoro's. Zoro grit her teeth and found the Law's sword being smashed out of her hooves. It was obvious that Chopper's body wasn't made for gripping a sword nor did it have the strength to do so in this form.

Her eyes widened as she stared down the length of Kuino's familiar sword. It was a sight all too familiar to her, the only different was it was nearly ten years later.

"This is a joke, right?" The marine asked, pressing the tip of his sword into her now blue nose. Blood started trickling down from the small cut. Zoro froze, looking up at the man who had tormented her as a child, useless.

She wasn't alone, however.

"Room."

The sword was quickly battered away as they were suddenly surrounded in a large dome and before she knew it she had been snatched up and stuffed under someone's arm.

"You just can't stop causing trouble, can you, Zoro-ya?" Law asked. "Get on my back and don't let go." Once Zoro had done what was commanded, Law moved his arms and jumped into action. Now armed with his sword and his arms free to use his devil's fruit ability cleanly, Law made quick work of the army of marines. He smashed their ships and scattered the bodies of the soldiers.

Kuino proved a bit harder than the army, but after some quick thinking, Law was able to transport both he and Zoro back to the entrance and they entered the building. Zoro watched wide-eyed from her perch on Law's back.

"…Is he dead?" She asked, her voice low. Law shook his head.

"No, but I think he was also hit with the ship with the others." Law started walking back towards the building. Zoro sighed and suddenly exhausted from the whole exchange, rested her head on Law's shoulder.

"I didn't expect to see him here."

"You know that guy?"

"Yeah." Zoro replied.

"The captain is acting really weird." Nami said as they gathered inside, pausing as they looked at one of the floor maps posted throughout the building.

"I have no idea what you mean." Sanji replied, his voice was thick with sarcasm. Luffy was currently running around on the floor on all fours, sniffing the children.

"I have hands!" Came Zoro's voice as the swordsman was admiring them. Sanji and Nami both looked over at her slowly.

"Yes… you do… are you feeling okay, Zoro?" Nami asked, frowning at the girl. Zoro was waving a hand in front of her missing eye. She looked over at Nami.

"Are you talking to me…?"

"Of course…"

"B-but I'm Chopper!" The voice squeaked. Sanji frowned and suddenly looked around, noticing that Chopper was nowhere to be found.

"If you are Chopper… that means that Zoro is… you?" Sanji surmised, looking back the way they came.

"They switched bodies? How is that possible? Wait, what about—AH!" Nami screeched as Luffy's body had crawled over and was trying to crawl his way on top of her. Sanji quickly kicked the captain's body off.

"The hell is he..?" Sanji watched as Luffy's body recovered pretty unphased and continued sniffing the ground. A soft squeaking caught their attention. A little rat was standing on his hind quarters and waving its paws.

"The Captain's a rat!" Chopper exclaimed.

AN: As always, thank you all for your lovely reviews and for reading this story! Law finally returns. Kuino finally makes his appearance as well!