Here's another chapter of SCP: Tides of Bonds! Now, you will probably despise me for what will happen later, but I assure you, it is not what it seems! So please no flames whatsoever! I have had enough of that from Xion... She was especially scary when this idea came to be. I think I saw life flash before my eyes a number of times... or were those flames? But other than that, let us forget all that scary stuff and start this chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or Kingdom Hearts. I do not own Guthrie and I kind of own Allen.
*OPENING*
(Lala intro)
(Xion Guthrie come down sliding panels one at a time, followed by Nami next to Xion Ussop next to Guthrie. Nami shows the Log Pose to Xion, telling her where to go, while Ussop looks pompous while Guthrie shrugs his demeanor. Nami Ussop are replaced by Zoro Sanji respectively, and glare daggers at one another as Xion Guthrie push them away from another. The two are replaced by Chopper and Robin respectively. Chopper dives into Xion's arms as she does a spin hug with him, while Guthrie observes the book Robin is reading with interest. The two are replaced by Allen Chirithy, with Allen patting Xion's back, grinning at her as she blushes a bit, while Chirithy stands on a barrel, both he and Guthrie causing sparks to shoot at each other from their eyes. The two disappear, and Luffy appears between Xion and Guthrie, grabbing their shoulders and pulling them in as he grins. The two look at one another, and grin, as the background scene shifts to them being on the Going Merry, with the rest of the crew behind them.)
Hello, goodbye to repetition
We cannot be stop
Time to go around to our
Happy days, happy days
(The scene shifts to the sky, with the title of the story appearing)
Hello, goodbye, it cannot be stopped
Because there is desire
(Scene shifts to the Straw Hats on the ship, with Luffy Ussop fishing, Nami looking at the Log Pose, Zoro sleeping on the crow's nest, Xion helping Chopper with medicine while Chirithy watched, Robin reading her book, Allen practicing his dancing, and Sanji cooking with help from Guthrie.)
It's a journey that does not endKeeps going, going!
(Xion steps back, wiping her forehead, then looking ahead to the endless sea beyond, wondering what lies ahead.)
You, are
Being shaken by your ragged feet
(Panning through a screenshot of Kokoro, Chimney and Gonbe and Yokozuna, to the Galley-La crew, to the members of the Franky Family, with Franky in front of them, to the masked members of CP9.)
Still, still
No one has much of anything!
(Nico Robin turns and walks away to the tower in Eniss Lobby, with Jabra, Kumadori and Fukuro silhouetted above, followed by Spandam, then Xaldin and Saïx. This shifts to the angered faces of Guthrie, Luffy and Xion.)
I feel like I can fly
I can fly anywhere
Whenever I'm with you
(The trio run through the town of Eniss Lobby, striking numerous marines in their way, while the screen circles around the trio, ending with them standing in the middle of their Straw Hat crew (and Sniper King) on top of the building, facing Robin, Franky and CP9.)
No matter where we are
I feel like I am
Shivering everywhere
(The two Keyblade wielders thrust their Keyblades up at the villains, only to be interfered by the two Organization XIII members. They leap towards them, with Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hats following in pursuit. CP9, led by Saïx, Xaldin Leopard Lucci, leap at them, ready to clash.)
Together when I am with you
If you clench strongly
(Through all the battles of the Straw Hats, Second Gear Luffy starts fighting Leopard Lucci, with Xion fighting Saïx as hard as she could.)
No matter what happens
I'm moving forward
(Guthrie fights and parries off Xaldin, calling out to Robin with a free hand raised to her, as she stands there in the pitch black darkness.)
Together when I am with you
If you clench strongly
(Robin looks back at him, then closes her eyes as she recalls the memories of Ohara. A tear falls from her eyes, hitting a ground, which turns the darkness into the open sea and sky. More teardrops fall, forming white birds that represent each Straw Hat as they soar in the sky together.)
No, no
No matter where we are
I feel like I can fly
(The birds fly over the Going Merry, as it sails into the sun, with silhouettes of the Straw Hats smiling and grouped together as they prepared for their adventure.)
Last time:
"She was with someone wearing a mask. But that can't be any of us. He has to be the reason why Robin suddenly changed."
"That'd be fortunate," Zoro said. "But if this guy's Robin's real friend, that'd be misfortunate."
"So then, what is our goal?" Nami asked.
"We'll capture Robin," Luffy instantly decided. "Otherwise, we won't know anything."
"Okay. I'll do my best too!" Chopper decided.
"I'll help out any way I can too!" Allen followed.
"Let me join in!" Guthrie interrupted and requested Luffy and Xion. "This is not something I can just ignore! I want to help, too!"
As much as the female Keyblade wielder wanted to instantly give the okay, it was this kind of situation that the captain has the last say.
"We need all the help we can get right now," he said. "Now let's go. To the Galley-La Company!"
That night, as they agreed upon, the Straw Hat crew were at the Galley-La Company. To be exact, they were hiding in a tall tree a distant away from the place, looking down at the group of shipwrights right by the entrance.
"How is it, Chopper? Does it look like something is happening?" Zoro asked the Zoan Devil Fruit user of the group, as Chopper was the one with the binoculars.
"For now, nothing," he answered. "But... they're all carrying weapons, and they look strong."
"I wouldn't be surprised," Nami said. "The shipwrights here even beat pirates."
"We have to be real careful and take action when the time is right. We wouldn't want anyone to get hurt," Chirithy said.
"Yeah. If we carelessly plunge in, we'll be in big trouble," Luffy agreed.
Both Nami and Xion sweatdropped and cringed at their captain's words.
"This coming from the one guy who always gets us into trouble in the first place," the female Keyblade wielder questioned.
"Just this afternoon, he jumped in without any plan at all," the navigator pointed out.
As he said that, Allen joined the group. The Shandian left the crew earlier to do a small recon around the building.
"How is it, Allen?" Xion asked.
"Those guys are everywhere. Even the backdoor is heavily blocked by these shipwrights. And the roof is no better. I could've sworn at least one of them spotted me while I was looking around," he answered. "Although, I didn't see any of the ones you described, Nami. I could only guess they were stationed right by Iceberg-san's door."
"Sounds like a possibility," Nami agreed.
"Chopper, we don't know what will happen. Don't miss even the slightest movement," Zoro advised the man-reindeer.
"Yeah," the doctor of the crew nodded, looking back at the group of shipwrights.
"Let us know immediately if you see any movement," Chirithy told him.
"Yep. Got it."
"We'll need eyes around the perimeter as well. Allen, any chance you can keep watch around the building?" Xion asked him.
"Sure. I got enough Breath Dials on me to make several rounds around the place," the dancer answered.
"You should leave some with us, so we can help you refill their juice," Guthrie suggested. "We'll need constant update, so after you go around the building once, come back here. And if you see anything suspicious during your round, return immediately."
"Leave it to me." With that, Allen left some empty Breath Dials with the Keyblade wielders and left the group once more.
"It'll be a long night, so we best not let our guard down. If we miss our chance tonight, we'll have to say goodbye without knowing what happened," Zoro said. "Think that we won't have a way to go after Robin anymore. This is where we find out what we're made of."
"Yeah... We'll definitely capture Robin," Luffy declared.
Some time later, an explosion suddenly occurred at the front entrance!
"An explosion!" Chopper announced to his shocked friends.
Each and every single one of them was speechless at the scene that had occurred, as the shipwrights down below did what they could to put the fire out. As if that was bad enough, a handful of the shipwrights broke away from the group, chasing after someone who was definitely not one of them. The person they were chasing was doing well evading the shipwrights and even taking down some on their own. Not only that, two others appeared, in which other shipwrights chased after. While none of the pirates knew who the cloaked people were, they had a feeling that Robin may be one of them.
"Ahh... The craftsmen are in a frenzy," Chopper stated, watching the whole thing through the binoculars.
"Yeah. It's gotten quite noisy," Zoro agreed.
"Where's Allen, though?" Chirithy asked. "Wasn't he suppose to come back once he saw something suspicious?"
"It must've happened just after he checked that part of the building. Then again, the explosion seemed to have occurred from the inside," Guthrie guessed.
Xion, on the other hand, was worried. For some reason, she had this weird feeling that something happened to their missing member, and that was worrying her a lot.
"What do we do? Shall we go in soon?" Zoro asked.
"I would think so with this big of a commotion going on," Guthrie said.
They heard nothing in response to the pairs' suggestions. Both Chopper and Chirithy turned to the spot where Luffy was... only to see him gone. "Huh? Where's Luffy?" the pair casually asked.
The rest of the crew turned to where their captain was to be, only to gasp wide-eyed and jaw-dropped in shock to see the rubberman actually missing! "EEEHHHHHHH?! Think thoroughly before you take action! You dumbass captain!" they shouted in unison.
"... Are you just realizing that?" Chopper asked them.
"How did they not hear that?" Chirithy wondered, looking to the frenzy shipwrights at the entrance.
After noticing that Luffy had gone missing, the crew decided to take action and ran straight to Galley-La Company, Chopper in his Walk Point. Xion broke away from the group to find Allen, unable to shake off this horrible feeling she was having about his situation.
"Seriously... why can't he listen to people's advice?!" Nami questioned.
"If I didn't know how much of a headache he was to you guys before, I most certainly do now," Guthrie said.
"But that's nothing new," Zoro pointed out.
"But... Robin might be in that commotion, right?" Chopper asked. "What are we gonna do?! We have to act carefully!"
"He's right. Not only do we have to avoid the other shipwrights, but we also have to be careful around that group she's with. Who knows how strong they are," Guthrie stated.
"But depending on how you look at it, we've lucked out," Nami said, confusing the guys.
"How so?" Chirithy asked.
"When Luffy marches into enemy territory, do you think he'd go around to the back or the side?"
"Not a chance," Zoro and Guthrie answered.
"Not at all," Chopper and Chirithy followed.
"I bet by now he's marched in from the front by either jumping in or running and now he's getting chased around with no idea where to go, although he made it inside the residence, don't you think?" Nami asked them.
"Yeah, sure do."
"Sounds like it."
"Definitely."
"No doubt."
"Right? From the shipwrights' perspective, Luffy is the ringleader of the culprit group. Once he jumps in, I bet everyone's attention will go to him! In other words, there's no doubt that the guards in the front of the residence has lightened up for now! So we'll be able to go across the opening and mix in with the crowd of shipwrights who're in an uproar!"
"I see. So thanks to Luffy, the best chance to infiltrate is right now, huh?" Zoro asked, catching on to the idea.
"That's convincing! Then, it should be okay to jump in, right?" Chopper asked.
"Reckless our captain may be, that part of him is useful in times like this. It should work!" Chirithy said.
"We'll get to Robin in no time, then!" Guthrie exclaimed. Looking up ahead, he noticed a fence on their right side. "Looks like we can jump over that fence! We going in from there?"
"Yeah! Are you guys ready?!" Nami confirmed and asked.
They gave positive responses and leapt over the fence. However, what they saw once they landed... was not at all expected... The reason? The front is heavily guarded by tons of shipwrights!
"What part of this is light?!" the five pirates questioned, half of them shedding tears at the sight while the other half irritated that things did not really go as planned.
With their missing captain, he has found himself in a terrible situation...
"Dammit... I can't get out. I wanted to jump into the building, fast and furious, but I'm stuck and can't move!" he complained, as he was stuck between two buildings... Seriously, how in the world did he get himself in that situation?! "I have to hurry... Just wait... Robin!"
On the other hand, with the vice captain of the crew, she took the return route Allen was to come from to meet up with them, hoping to bump into the Shandian along the way. The female Keyblade wielder even called out Fang and Gunma to help her with the search, the former being used for the Fly-By Knight Link Action. Unfortunately, the missing dancer has yet to be found.
'Allen... Where are you?' she wondered in worry.
Just then, a hoot was heard. Xion and Fang turned and saw Gunma returning to them.
"Did you find him?" she asked. Gunma nodded in response, and quite frantically at that. Seeing this worried her even more. "Take us to him!" The Peepsta Hoo flew to where Allen was, with Xion and Fang following him.
What she saw when she found him left her horrified and speechless. There Allen lied on some destroyed crate, in a puddle of blood, a hole in his chest. Xion shakily walked to his fallen body and fell to her knees, unable to make any sort of noise. She felt tears forming in her eyes, and began to cry.
'Are you feeling okay?' she heard. 'You know whose fault this is, don't you? Those guys Robin is with? There's no doubt this is their doing. Why are you wasting your time here, crying?' Xion ceased her sobbing at those words. 'You don't have time to waste of tears. What you should be doing... is going in there, find those fools who did the job... and kill them.'
'... Kill...?' she mentally repeated.
'That's right. Kill those monsters who took the life of the one person you hold dear. Show them the lack of mercy they clearly did not show him. Do to them what you failed to do last time when Aokiji was close to killing off the two. Unleash the power hidden inside you and do what is right!'
As he spoke, dark wisps appeared around Xion. The girl was seriously and clearly, really considering actually doing that deed. It was not just her; dark wisps also appeared on Fang and Gunma, the pair seemingly struggling with their headaches, as they tried to regain control of themselves.
'Do... what's right...' she repeated once more in her head, as her eyes started to change color.
At a distance away from where she was, on top of a building, there stood a pair of figures in similar, familiar coats. Both had their hoods up to conceal their faces.
"It seems the plan had worked," one of them said to the other. "Hopefully our leader is right about the amount of time spent for this."
"He is never wrong. Surely you know that," the other figure said. "Still, I do find it ridiculous that we have to go so far for it. I understand this is crucial to his plans, however that does not mean I will completely comprehend with even the mere thought of it returning to our cause."
"Orders are orders. Still, to think this plan actually worked. We really must give that woman some credit for the idea. It's too bad her fate is sealed in this world."
"She matters not. Now then, let us rejoin our acquaintances in the rendezvous." With that, the second figure raised a hand, calling upon a dark portal in which the pair went through.
Back to the majority of the crew, after jumping to conclusion that Luffy got the shipwrights distracted and deciding to act on that moment, as it turns out, the guy was not around to give the distraction they hoped for. As a result...
"We found them!"
"It's Roronoa Zoro!"
"They showed up at last!"
"Don't let them get away!"
Yeah... Basically they jumped right into a one-sided war zone, with the shipwrights all shooting their guns at the pirate crew. The latter group hastily ran away from them, avoiding the bullets.
"I saw that woman this afternoon, too! After them!"
"That guy was with Starlight Blade Xion! Stop them!"
"Hey! Why isn't Luffy here?!" Nami asked the guys.
"How should I know?! I wanna ask the same question!" Zoro retorted.
"This was your plan, Nami! You tell us what happened to him!" Guthrie pointed out.
Chopper was running and screaming alongside them on two legs in his Walk Point, with Chirithy on his head and screaming alongside him.
"What should we do?!" Chirithy asked.
"Now that it's come to this, it's like we're already caught in the act!" Guthrie exclaimed.
"If we go on the offensive, there's a way to get in," Zoro suggested. He then turned and skidded to a stop, prompting the others to also come to stop as they turned to him in shock.
"What?! Hey, Zoro! What are you gonna do?!" Nami questioned.
"Running around the building won't get us anywhere. We'll openly plunge in from the front and look for Robin."
Those words shocked his friends.
"But they're shipwrights! They're not our enemy, you know!" Chopper tried to reason with him.
"Don't worry. I'll use the back of my swords," he said.
Thinking about what the three-sword-style swordsman said, Guthrie knew he was right. Besides, if Luffy was in their shoes, he'd still be able to get to Robin despite the odds. That thought in mind, he joined Zoro, as the pair prepared their weapons.
"Wait! You too, Guthrie?!" Chirithy questioned.
"If we want to get to Robin, this is the fastest way!" he said. "Stupid as it is, Luffy would've done it and still get to her, wouldn't he?"
"He would," Zoro answered.
The pair rushed towards the shipwrights, to everyone's shock. "Out of our way!" both shouted, easily knocking the guys out and into the air.
"But you're inflicting fatal wounds on them!" the remaining trio shouted.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the building, shipwrights were also getting beaten left and right. Those remaining were all shaking in fear, as the person who knocked out their allies slowly approached them.
"Hey... What happened?" one of them asked.
"I don't know. A few of them charged in at her at the same time, and yet... She didn't even raise an arm against them!" another shipwright exclaimed.
"And what's with that dark wisp around her?" another questioned.
The one approaching the group was none other than Xion, completely cloaked in darkness, eyes shadowed by her bangs.
"It's their fault... Their fault he died..." she muttered out. "How dare they..."
"We have to stop her! No matter how strong they are, we still have to protect Iceberg-san!" a shipwright shouted. The others let out roars of agreement. Those with firearms shot their guns at her.
As the bullets neared, the wisps around her body extended and whacked them all away; not a single one even landed a scratch on her. Xion raised her head, revealing her now-yellow eyes.
"You're in the way..." she said, finally summoning her Fire of Shandora Keyblade. and the wisps wrapping themselves around her free arm in the form of a claw. "Out of the way!" She rushed in at tremendous speed, knocking the people away in one fell swoop. Once they were rendered unconscious, Xion resumed her leisurely approach into the building.
'I will make them pay... For what they did to him...' she thought, thinking back to Allen's dead body. 'Allen... I will have my revenge... None of them... will be left alive.' With each thought going through her head, the darkness around her slowly grew.
Unknown to her, on the barely noticeable reflection of a window was herself, mirroring her movement. One noticeable thing about the reflection, however, was an odd smile on her face.
Back with the others, after dealing with the shipwrights outside, the others finally got to the inside, where there were more shipwrights waiting. Guthrie and Zoro made quick works of them all and knocked them all out.
"Whew... Now that was a work out..." the male Keyblade wielder stated.
"Did you guys have to knock them all out?!" Nami questioned.
"Well, if they didn't, those conscious would either go after them or get reinforcements..." Chirithy pointed out.
"Wow, they're so strong!" Chopper said in awe.
"Oh well. Let's go already!" Nami said, leading the way in.
"Right!" Chirithy nodded, following her.
"Zoro, Guthrie, this way!" Chopper called.
"Yeah," Zoro said, as he and Guthrie followed the trio. Well... Guthrie was.
"Hey, Zoro! Chopper said this way!" the counselor said, shocked that Zoro went to a whole other direction.
"How could you go the wrong direction with us leading you?! A miracle?!" Nami questioned in shock.
"That is nowhere near a miracle!" Chirithy exclaimed, just as shocked.
"Oh. That way," Zoro said... before going off to a completely direction again.
"What the-?! Zoro, get back here!" Guthrie called.
"Nami! Zoro's disappeared!" Chopper informed.
"Miracle!" Nami shouted in disbelief.
"How in the world can he ever get lost?!" Chirithy questioned once more. Just then, he, Chopper and Guthrie sensed something nearby. To their surprise, Heartless appeared around them, consisting of Neo Shadows, Sergeants, Barrel Spiders and Armored Archer.
"Heartless?! Here?!" Guthrie gasped.
"From the shipwrights?! But that can't be!" Chirithy exclaimed.
"What should we do?!" Chopper asked.
"Isn't that obvious?!" Zoro exclaimed. "It's going to be hard to go between kill and not, but hopefully the shipwrights here are the last of them." With that, he charged in, fighting the Heartless with the bladed part of his swords.
"He's not wrong about that. The faster we take these out, the faster we get to Robin," Guthrie agreed, charging in with his Follow the Wind Keyblade.
Higher up in the building, a group of people gathered in one room. Most of them stood before one lone, injured Iceberg, who stared back at them. He still couldn't believe who these figures, the real culprits behind his attempted assassination, were. How could he? After all, with the exception of Robin, they were his precious shipwright friends, his secretary, and an acquaintance who owned a bar.
"We were undercover for five years. Please don't worry. We didn't cut corners with our work," Lucci spoke. "I do understand how dispirited you are. However, since we can't spend any more time on this matter, we're going to try our best to achieve our goal. If you're thinking of putting up an unwise resistance, I suggest you don't. You know the name 'Cipher Pol', don't you? It's the Government's supreme intelligence agency, with eight bases around the world called CP1 to CP8 by the people. When the Government orders it, they dig up any kind of information in any place."
"I know about them, but only up to CP8," Iceberg said.
"Right. However, we are CP9, the ninth Cipher Pol, a supposedly non-existent unit. Since we possess a certain privilege, we cannot reveal ourselves to the public."
"Privilege?"
"That's right. This is in the name of justice to the end, but where there're citizens who are uncooperative toward the Government, we have permission to kill them."
Iceberg narrowed his eyes at the job description. "How selfish...! Justice cannot be a reason for killing! The World Government has partially changed their thinking."
"Rather than remaining in fear of the weapon's restoration, they decided to awaken it, to make it into a force of justice that can end this Great Pirate Era," Lucci continued. "However, you don't want to help them. You're saying that you don't want to 'save' those people who keep being victimized by pirates around the world."
"Nonsense... If the weapon is restored, the world will only fight over its power. The damage only keeps growing!"
"It seems you don't trust the Government, Iceberg-san."
"I just know the nature of humans, lad."
Unamused with the response, Lucci kicked Iceberg in the face, knocking him down. "Restrain yourself. Just how long are you going to keep acting like you're my boss?" he questioned.
Iceberg lied there, panting as he tried to cope with the pain. Just then, a dark portal opened up near them. While the Cipher Pol members remained indifferent at its appearance, Robin and Iceberg were slightly shocked to see it appear.
"It seems everyone is present," came a voice, as the two figures walked into the room. As soon as they both exited the portal, it closed and disappeared.
"You took your time," Kaku said to the newcomers.
"We found some adversaries that needed to be distracted for you to finish your work here," one of them said. "You seem to have underestimated those pirates. They made quick work of those shipwrights. Not enough to kill them, however."
"That doesn't matter," Kalifa said. "We will get what we came for soon enough. And what of the two of you?"
"I must say, I underestimate her work," the other figure said, looking to Robin. "That plan of yours did wonders to that puppet. Now is only a matter of time until she submits, and will be brought back to our leader. But still... To think you went as far as to kill one of your own. I see that title does you wonders."
Robin can only stay silent at his words, as she thought back to what happened earlier.
*FLASHBACK*
It was before the explosion happened. Robin and Blueno, the big guy with bullhorn-like hairstyle, were stationed on top of a building near Galley-La Company, waiting for the plan to start. The Den-Den Mushi started ringing, and Blueno answered it.
"Are you ready?" came Kalifa's voice.
"Yeah. We're ready," he answered.
"Then I'll cause a distraction."
"Robin?!" came a voice familiar to the present female of the pair.
Both turned and saw Allen a few buildings away from them. The dancer looked on with wide-eyes, seeing the archeologist with the masked individual. "So you're the one who forced Robin to do what she did! Give her back!" He rushed towards them with his Jet Dial-equipped shoes.
"Is something a matter? I thought I heard a voice on your side," Kalifa spoke though the Den-Den Mushi.
"It's nothing. At least soon enough it won't," Blueno answered, getting ready to attack Allen.
"Please, allow me," Robin spoke, crossing her arms in a familiar pose.
As Allen was closing in on them, he suddenly felt something grab his leg, causing him to trip and fall on his front. "What the-?!" He looked down and saw one of Robin's sprouted arms grabbing hold of him. "Robin! What are you doing?!" he asked, looking back at the woman.
Robin did not answer his question. She simply approached him and used her powers to quickly sprout a chain of arms that landed a punch to his face. The force behind the hit was enough to force him back a few feet, right by the edge of the rooftop.
"Oh... Now I am really starting to hate Devil Fruits..." Allen muttered out, holding his nose. Looking back up, he saw Robin standing over him. She used her Devil Fruit powers to force him back up and held him up, choking the guy. "Robin... What are you...?" he breathed out.
"I'm sorry. But I cannot allow you to follow us any further," she said, pulling her arm back. "This is farewell..."
Next thing Allen knew, she thrusted her arm forward, and he felt immeasurable pain in his gut. Robin pulled her arm back and canceled her powers, causing the guy to fall to the ground below, right on top of some crates.
Blueno joined her, looking down to see if the deed she had done was completely done. From what he can see, there was a hole in Allen's torso, the boy had his eyes closed and did not seem to be breathing, and a trail of blood was seen on the corner of his mouth.
"With this, the two who are with you can also have what they want," Robin said. "I've seen how Demon-san sees him. This may help awaken what they claim was in her this whole time."
"Perhaps so," he agreed. In the Den-Den Mushi, he then spoke, "In any case, we are prepared here."
"Good. Now please carry out your mission after the signal," Kalifa said.
"Understood. In the name of CP9... Ready, Nico Robin?"
"Yes. Anytime," she answered.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
Robin does feel quite guilty for what she had done, but it was for a good cause, one that no one in that crew would ever understand.
"It's only a matter of time now, until she submits to the darkness, as we have, and comes back to us. Our leader will be pleased when she makes her return," one of the figures said.
"Kaku, check his pulse," Lucci ordered.
The long-nose member of their team obliged and grabbed Iceberg's wrist. "Pardon me for this," he said to Iceberg, placing two fingers on a pulse, and they began their interrogation.