We are here for another chapter! Here, we have the great, speedy train who knows no bounds, Rocketman, facing off against the deadly... massive... dangerous storm, the Aqua Laguna! What will happen here? What sort of dangers lie beyond? Read and find out!

Ahem, but before that, to all of you fellow JRPG people out there, a poll has been put up on the profile of a good friend of mine, Jacob Pendra-Huth, regarding the American Switch version of 'Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore'. What is the poll of exactly? Whether the game should be censored, not censored, or have the option to. To those of you who don't know of the game, the censorship is basically about how much skin is being shown. While I, as a female, am not that comfortable with showing much skin myself, the amount of skin being shown on here is not that big of a deal for Nintendo to panic over. I mean, there are these group of people called gymnasts who some times show just as much skin, swimmers who sometimes show more, and let us not forget some famous signers out there. To this day I still remember that one live show a female singer had done that I want to forget. So yeah... Please do give your vote on Jacob's poll in his profile!

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 and Guthrie come down sliding panels one at a time, followed by Nami next to Xion and Ussop next to Guthrie. Nami shows the Log Pose to Xion, telling her where to go, while Usopp looks pompous while Guthrie shrugs his demeanor. Nami and Ussop are replaced by Zoro and Sanji respectively, and glare daggers at one another as Xion and 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 and 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 end
Keeps 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:

"Then we'll steal a ship and go!" Luffy shouted at the top of his lungs. As he shouted those words, as though agreeing with him, Aqua Laguna struck again, reaching the many shipwrights and nearly taking them back to the sea. "We're gonna sail out now! Our friends are waiting! Don't stand in our way!"

Kokoro sighed at their insistence in leaving. "If you're prepared to die, then come with me. I'll give you a ride... on a sea train!"

"Xion! We finally found you!" Allen said in relief, as the girl returned her Dream Eaters back to their card forms.

"Xion! Where the hell were you this whole time?!" Luffy asked, though happy to see his missing crew member. "Allen has been searching all over for you before he, Chirithy, Nami and Chopper found us!"

"Xion-nee... What's wrong?" Chopper asked.

"God! Now you're acting like a scared little girl!" Guthrie snapped. "You think after one encounter like this, you think they'll overtake you that easily? You're freakin' Starlight Blade Xion! I have seen you overcome opponents when they put you down, and you still get back up, becoming better than what you were before."

"Except this time, this is something I can't overcome!" Xion grimaced, sending Fire spells out at Guthrie, who ran around to avoid the fireballs. "This is not the first time this darkness took over me." Both Guthrie, Allen, and Chirithy widened their eyes when they heard that. She knew? "I may not know what happened those previous times, but what I do know is before that time in the mansion, I always black out whenever that darkness took over! You and Allen both... You both pretend that nothing happened, when something did happen during those times, did it?! I cannot allow myself to affiliate with the people I almost killed! The power I used... it still dwells within me. There's no doubt it will come again, and whether I want to or not, I will kill you!"

"You are our beloved friend, and we can't stand seeing you like this. We wanna help. So trust in us to help you..."

Xion looked down for a moment, the words of the ship's counselor ringing in her ears. She looked up again, her eyes watering as she not only looked to Guthrie, but to all of her crew mates behind him. She tried to stifle the tears, but Guthrie's words hit her so hard, causing so much joy at how they were not gonna give up on her, even after all she done to them. They saw her at her worst, and a couple almost got killed because of it, but they still stayed with her.

Without warning, Xion began to bawl. Her wails as tear fell down her face could be heard all throughout Water 7. The crew could only stand there, watching her as she cried with all her genuine heart.

"Oh, by the way Allen." The dancer turned to her, wondering what she called him out for. Next he knew, she slapped him in the face, with the sound effect echoing in the hall and grabbing the others' attention again, as he fell to the floor. "That was for making me think you died!"

"This again?! It's not my fault Robin-!" Allen was cut off, as Xion pulled him back to his feet, and pecked her lips on his. This swift action caught the guy so off guard, he was speechless.

"That's for being alive," she muttered, rushing over to the door.

On the other side of the doors was a large room. And within it, as promised, was a sea train.

"Whoa! There it is!" Luffy excitedly called. "This looks cool!"

"What's with the face, though?" Zoro asked.

"Sorry it took so long!" came a familiar voice.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" Luffy demanded. "Where have you been, Nami?! Who was it that said we didn't have time?! And what the hell is that stuff?!"

"Meat and beverages." As soon as the navigator put removed the bag out of the cart and answered his question, not even a second later, it was dragged to the door and both Luffy and Zoro began to consume whatever was in it, especially the captain.

"Sorry I complained!" he apologized, stuffing his face with meat.

"That was too fast!" Xion, Guthrie, Chirithy and Allen shouted.

"Starlight Blade!" came a voice. "Please... Take us with you!" Zambai requested.

"Get on," Luffy told them. "Hurry!"

"Now, pirates! Don't go getting thrown off, okay?! Now departing Water Seven for Enies Lobby... Here comes the sea train, Rocketman!" Kokoro announced.

"All right! Depart!" Luffy cried out. "We're gonna go! To get everything back!"

Rocketman's steam whistled blew in response to the claim.

It took not even a minute for the Rocketman to be out of the tunnel. The crew looked out and found themselves going out an underground tunnel.

"We're coming out at a place like this?!" Nami gasped.

"It's an underground canal," Kokoro said, as Rocketman landed on the water and continued on forward at high speed.

"Luffy! Are you okay?!" Nami asked.

The captain coughed as he hung on to the top of the sea train. "I got some water in my nose..." he said.

"Of course you would, standing out there!" Xion shouted.

"Boy, I didn't see that coming. But... it's getting fun!" Just as Luffy said that, the group suddenly felt the sea train descending. "H-H-Hey! Monster granny! Hey, aren't we falling?!"

Kokoro was just drinking her bottle of wine away, laughing. "The exit is real close now. We'll keep on going and go down in one shot!"

Those words caused Nami to panic, as Rocketman went straight down the steep slope, with her screaming.

Not long after, the sea train shot out of the canal, and into the sea. However...

"Hey! We're slanting to the side!" Chirithy informed, noticing how close the ocean was getting on his side, the right side of the train.

Instantly, both Guthrie and Xion went to that side, and pointed their Keyblades out the window. "Aeroga!" Both casted their wind magic and managed to slowly set the Rocketman right up. As they casted their spells, both Keyblade wielders could've sworn they heard something from behind them, but paid no mind to it, as they assumed it was just the wind and rain.

"Starlight Blade! Straw Hat! Thank you for helping us, the entire Franky Family!" they then heard loud and clear.

"Huh?" Xion turned to look behind them and saw the Franky Family following behind them with a pair of King Bulls. "Fire the connection cannons!" Next they knew, cannon fires were heard and the back of the train was suddenly hit, much to Zoro, Nami and Xion's shock and surprise, as they were closest to the back.

Rocketman hit the sea and continued on along the waters. Luffy hung on to the top rails and noticed the pair of King Bulls behind them. "Whoa! Cool!" he exclaimed.

"Those must be the highest-grade bulls," Kokoro noticed.

Meanwhile, in the passenger section, Zoro, Nami and Xion coughed from the dust that was picked up by the connection cannon hitting the back of Rocketman.

"Those bastards..." the three-sword-style swordsman muttered, going to a window. "You idiots! Don't be reckless!" Sadly, the Franky Family disregarded that and thanked Luffy and Xion once more for letting them come along.

Kokoro let out a laugh at this. "What a cheerful bunch."

"Hey, monster granny!" Luffy called. "Is this the fastest it can go? It's not fast at all."

Indeed, the speed the sea train was moving at didn't even seem to be as fast as the Puffing Tom. If anything, it was moving at twice the speed of a ship.

"Well, just hold your horses. Once it gets on the railway, you'll see."

"Railway? Where the heck is that?" Luffy asked.

"Looks like it's drifted quite a ways ahead. But I've observed the sea train since its development. Don't underestimate me!" Kokoro stared at the sea waters, trying to find out where the railway was from the raging waters. In the eyes of normal people, no one would be able to see the railway. However, as Kokoro said, since she had been around since it was first developed, she had eyes for where the tracks are. "I see it! Let's go!" At that, she steered the sea train right to where she saw the railway tracks.

"Urgent message from the engine room!" she spoke through the speaker for those in the passenger cart to hear. "The train will get on the railway shortly. Once it does, it will rapidly accelerate! Hold on tight to something so that your injuries won't be severe."

"So we'll get injured regardless?" Nami questioned.

"Oh come on. How fast will we get?" Chirithy asked.

As he asked that, the train rocked a bit roughly, no doubt hitting a wave. But that didn't stop Rocketman, as it continued its way towards the underwater tracks. Unfortunately, because of the wave, it missed and didn't get to its destination.

"Tsk! I missed. But I'm just getting started!" Kokoro said, redirecting Rocketman to the tracks once more. While she managed to get the wild sea train right on top of the tracks, it was connecting the two together that was tricky. Especially with the sea being strong enough to prevent the two from coming together and the train itself being a crazy one, as Kokoro had said before they got on. "Hey! Behave!"

"Grandma! That was close! That was close! A little to the right!"

"Nya!"

"Just wait and see! I'll make it next- Huh?!" Kokoro stopped herself when she noticed who those pair of voices belonged to and looked up on top of Rocketman. "Chimney! Gonbe! You guys came with us?!"

Chimney let out a laugh at the question. "Yep, we did!" she answered, with Gonbe meowing in agreement.

"For God's sake! Hurry up and come inside! Or you'll be blown away!"

"We're okay! We're okay!" Chimney spoke a bit too soon about that, as Rockeman hit another wave and she and Gonbe almost fell off the sea train. Thankfully, she was fast enough to grab onto the top rail. "I'm gonna fall!" she said with a laugh.

"D-Don't let go!" Kokoro called out.

"I'm getting blown away!"

"H-Hold on a sec, okay? I'll stop the sea train right away!" As she tried to pull the brake to stop the Rocketman from moving, it was then she realized one important thing. "Oh! That's right! The brake doesn't work on this train!"

Xion poked her head out the window upon faintly hearing a commotion outside. "Hey! What's wrong?" she asked. Her eyes widened in shock as she saw Chimney and Gonbe hanging on to the train's rooftop. "Wha-?! Chimney! Gonbe!"

Her shout got the other Straw Hats' attention, as they also looked out the window and saw the girl and her pet hanging on. "Huh?! What the hell is she doing up there?! It's way too dangerous!" Guthrie exclaimed.

"Man..." Xion started to climb out of the train, much to her crewmates shock.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" Nami asked.

"What does it look like?!" The vice captain made it to the top of the sea train and made her way over to the pair. Due to the rain She summoned her Keyblade out and pointed it at Chimney and Gonbe.

She saw Luffy shakily making his way to the dangling pair and thought for a moment that she didn't have to help after all.

"Oops! Hm? What the heck? That looks kind of fun." Until she heard that.

'Is he for real?!' she thought, regretting ever thinking Luffy would know a kid in that sort of danger when he sees one.

"Ah! Straw Hat brother! Hi!" Chimney greeted, with Gonbe meowing.

"Straw Hat! Hurry and get Chimney and Gonbe inside!" Kokoro called. "Once we're on the railway, they'll be blown away!"

Now realizing the danger the two are in, Luffy reached out to them. Unfortunately, it was at that point Rocketman successfully got on the rails and, as Kokoro had promised, rapidly accelerated. It was so fast, Xion stabbed her Keyblade down to prevent herself from being blown away.

'What the-?! This really is fast!' she thought. A familiar scream was heard, and she looked up to see Luffy, Chimney and Gonbe getting blown away.

Xion thought fast and raised a hand up. "Collision Magnet!" A force of sort appeared around her hand and shot some kind of light at the trio. Good news, it hit Chimney and Gonbe. Bad news, Luffy wasn't included. "Luffy!"

Thankfully, the boy noticed his vice using the spell and stretched his arm out to grab hold of her. Next they knew, Luffy withdrew himself all the way to her at the same time as her Collision Magnet spell brought Chimney and Gonbe over to her. The combined force collided with Xion, who didn't think that far in the rescue, and got herself tumbling off the side of Rocketman.

'Damn it! We're gonna fall!' she thought.

Next she knew, a hand grabbed her wrist, saving her, Luffy, Chimney and Gonbe from falling into the ocean, the latter three who latched onto the Keyblade wielder.

"You okay, Xion?!" Allen asked, managing to get the girl in time, with Guthrie holding on to the dancer.

"Allen! Guthrie!" the female Keyblade wielder called in relief.

"We're getting you guys inside!" the male wielder said.

"Yeah! Thanks, you guys!" Luffy gratefully thanked.

"Thanks a lot, pirate guys!" Chimney followed, with Gonbe meowing.

Minutes later, after some struggling against Rocketman's newfound speed, the Straw Hats successfully managed to get the rescued inside.

"Ah... I thought I'd die..." Luffy and Chimney sighed in relief, with Gonbe lying on the floor unconscious.

"Well, obviously! Geez, I told you, didn't I?! I said you'd get blown away!" Kokoro scolded, joining the pirates in the passenger cart with a Zambai and the twins, and a few others.

"The idiots..." Xion sighed, taking some time to catch her breath from the experience.

"What does that make you?" Nami asked, referring to how she let her habit take over to save their captain, the child, and her pet.

"Shut up."

"Anyway, that acceleration sure was crazy," Luffy stated.

"Yeah, really. That scared me."

"I hit my lower back..."

"Just a second... There are weird guys in here," Zoro spoke, sitting down with arms crossed as he refers to the elephants in the room.

"What?! Who's that?!"

"You guys!"

"You too!"

Somehow, someway, before any of them noticed at all, Paulie, Lulu, and Tilestone snuck onto the sea train without anybody knowing at all.

"When the hell did you guys get on? I don't remember seeing you guys with Iceberg-san when he was working on this thing, nor did I see you guys passing through the Heartless to get to that warehouse," Xion questioned.

"Yeah, and we left Paulie back by that bridge when Kokoro was leading us to Rocketman," Chirithy added.

"A secret," all three answered.

"So why are you guys here?" Allen asked, passing Luffy one of the leftover meat they have.

"I decided to go with you guys," Paulie said. "No matter how hard I tried to stop you, you didn't stop. The enemy you'd go this far to rescue your friend from is also the culprit who tried to kill Iceberg-san. In addition, there are lots of things I wanna say to them!"

Tilestone let out a short laugh. "Paulie! We're not gonna let you steal all the glory! Thinking that we'd be able to find Iceberg-san's assassins if we followed you, we hid in the tender together!"

"So it seems we were right. Let us join you guys in this battle," Lulu requested, pushing back some of his hair that's sticking out... Only for it to somehow pop out from the back of the hand pushing it down.

"Wait, how the hell does that work?!" Guthrie asked, shocked to see hair popping out of the guy's hand.

"Huh? Oh, I'm used to it," Lulu simply answered.

"That's not what I asked..."

"In any case, don't forget the foes you're gonna get revenge on took Big Bro Franky as well!" Zambai added.

"That's right- waina! And we clearly know who they are- waina!" Kiwi, the pink twin, added on to that.

"Hey, Galley-La! How are you gonna take responsibility if something happens to Bro- waina?!" the yellow twin, Mozu, demanded.

"Shut up! It's Iceberg-san who's endured the most!" Paulie begged to differ.

"What are you guys going on about?! Paulie! First, explain it to us! What's going on?!" Tilestone asked, for he and Lulu still have yet to know the culprits that framed the Straw Hats.

"He's right, Paulie," Lulu agreed with the big guy. "You know the true culprit, don't you? Just tell us. We're not that dense. We have a rough idea as to who it is. We're not gonna be surprised."

The rope user sighed, as he himself knew it was a matter of time until the pair found out the truth. He couldn't keep it from them like he did to the others back on Water Seven. "Well, I guess you could guess if they suddenly disappeared for no reason. Then I'll tell it to you straight. The true identities of those masked men are... Lucci, Kaku, Kalifa, and Blueno from the bar. It was them who tried to kill Iceberg-san."

As he looked up to meet them in the eyes, instead of neutral expressions of any kind, both Tilestone and Lulu went pale in extreme surprise, jaw threatening to drop to the floor!

Paulie was speechless at their expressions. "What?! You never even guessed that?!"

"B-but you said they went back to their hometowns!" Lulu pointed out.

"Why would they, during an emergency situation like this?!"

"We thought it was Michael and Hoychael from the backstreets!" Lulu reasoned.

"That's right!" Tilestone nodded.

"Who the hell are they?!" Paulie, clearly unfamiliar with the names, questioned.

Allen leaned towards Xion's ear and whispered, "Are humans in the blue sea usually this...?"

"Stupid? Ridiculous?" she finished the question for him, in which the dancer nodded to. "Then yes."

"All right!" Luffy called, bringing all attention to him. "Man, I sure ate a lot. I'm finally full." He stood up on his feet. "Well, then... Although we got into fights back in town with both the Franky Family and the Galley-La shipwrights, we're all going after the same enemy now. Besides the two in black coats, the strongest one among the guys we're gonna fight is the pigeon guy. He's mine; I'm definitely going to beat him up."

"Yeah. This is a battle to get back what those four took from us," Zoro agreed. "In any case, if we don't reach them, nothing will end."

"What about those two guys in black coats?" Paulie asked.

"Leave those two to me," Xion answered. "They're part of an organization I once worked with. The very same organization I ran away from for a reason. I may not remember why, but I definitely don't want to go back. And if beating them is the only way I can make them see that, then I have to."

"Not alone. We're helping you out," Chirithy spoke.

"By 'we', you mostly mean 'me', don't you?" Guthrie asked, lightly glaring at his Dream Eater.

"Not true. I'm helping out, too," Allen spoke, causing everyone, mainly his fellow Straw Hats, to look at him in shock.

"Allen, you can't! We're talking about the organization that Xion worked with! Did you forget what happened back on-?!"

"I haven't forgotten!" Allen interrupted Nami. "That's why I want to help! I'm not going to throw my life away, but I'm not going to lose those I care about to people like them! Not again. I'm not the same Shandian as I was back then. Besides, I made a promise. And I'm seeing to it until the end."

Xion knew what he was referring to in those lines. From when she was defeated by Larxene the first time to the promise Allen made to her just before they left the island. And let's not forget when they were facing against Aokiji. She could tell he really didn't want the same thing to happen on his watch.

"Grandma! Grandma! It's Aqua Laguna!" Chimney called out.

"Oh? It's already here?" Kokoro simply asked.

"Chimney. Let me see," Nami spoke. The navigator opened a window and poked her head out. Her eyes widened in shock at the sight of what's ahead of them. "Kokoro-san! Is it okay for you to leave the engine room at a time like this?! We somehow need to dodge that huge wave!"

The old drunk let out a laugh. "Didn't I tell you? We can't control Rocketman. Even when we want to operate it, nothing works, including the brake. My job ended when we got on the railway. Hence, the train is always running at full throttle. No one can stop it anymore."

Chirithy climbed up on a seat and looked out the window Nami opened. His eyes bugged out at what they were heading towards. "What the-?! How are we suppose to get past that?!" he asked.

"Luffy! If we don't do anything, the train will crash into a big wave!" Nami warned.

The captain ignored the warning, as he simply raised an arm. "When we have the same goal, it's senseless to fight separately."

"Yeah," Zambai nodded.

"You're right," Paulie agreed.

The pair did what Luffy did and also raised an arm, grabbing each other's forearms to form their alliance with each other.

"Listen. We're comrades. Out friends are also in the train that left before us. Our fighting force will still increase," Luffy continued. "Guys! Don't let that big wave stop us! We'll all achieve our goal! Let's go!"

"Yeah!" everyone shouted in agreement.

"Now guys! Show me what you can do against this wave!" Kokoro told the fighters.

"All right! Fire all the cannonballs we have at that wave!" Zambai ordered his guys.

"When it comes to cannons, leave it to me!" Tilestone assisted.

"Franky Family! Don't be intimidated by the wave! Prepare the cannons!" The called group all let out shouts in agreement as they grabbed with weapons to stop the oncoming wave.

Just then, a familiar ring tone was heard from Nami. The girl pulled the top part of the shirt and looked down at her chest. "Ah! The portable Den Den Mushi is ringing!" she said.

"Why'd you put a Den Den Mushi in there?!" Guthrie asked, turning away from the navigator.

"It's from Sanji-kun!" Nami took out the snail and answered it.

"Nami-san! Nami-san, can you hear me?" came Sanji's voice.

"Yep. Is that you, Sanji-kun?" she asked.

"Things are taking a turn for the worse here."

"Turn for the worse?" Just then, the snail made a small scream, in a voice that wasn't Sanji's. "Sanji-kun! What was that voice?! Hey! What's going on, Sanji-kun?!"

"Yeah... Because of that idiot..." came Sanji's voice.

"Huh? Idiot?" Just then, the snail made another screaming sound, in another different voice. "Again! What? What's going on?! Are you okay, Sanji-kun?! Who's the idiot you're talking about?!"

"How is he going to answer if you're not giving him the chance to?" Guthrie questioned, slightly annoyed with Nami's constant questions.

"Actually, there are two idiots," Sanji corrected.

"Replenish the cannon balls!" a member of the Franky Family shouted.

"Got it!" shouted another.

"Aim at the front! Focus on one spot!" instructed another.

"Go! Focus pocus!" Chimney cheered.

"Do your best. The railway surfaces a little, but we can't go over Aqua Laguna," Kokoro said. "If we directly hit it, even Rocketman will be easily destroyed."

Chopper screamed at that last part. "Are we going to die?!"

Kokoro chuckled at his panic. "I told you to prepare yourselves, right?"

Both Chimney and Gonbe blinked at the old lady's words, slowly processing them in their heads. Once successfully processed, even they had their eyes bugged out like Chopper's. "What?! That includes us?!" the child gasped, with the pet meowing.

The three of them then went on a panic, as they ran around the compartment in fear.

"I see... Then Robin is still..." Nami spoke, hearing from Sanji what happened on his side of things, as the young trio continued to run around in fear.

"At any rate, it sounds lively over there," the kicking cook noticed.

"Say, Sanji-kun-"

"Ahhhhh!"

"I'll tell you the reason for Robin's actions-"

"Ahhhhh!"

"and our current situation, so..."

"Ahhhhh!"

Having enough of the screams and the running around, Nami turned to the young ones and shouted, "SHUT UP!" Instantly, Chopper froze, prompting Chimney and Gonbe, running behind him, to stop and be silent. With everything now silent, Nami faced the Den Den Mushi once more. "Listen, Sanji-kun. I'll tell you everything about the reason for Robin's actions and our current situation. So please listen carefully."

As she explained to Sanji the truth about Robin and what is going on with them now, Zoro, Xion, and Guthrie looked up at the ceiling. No, not the ceiling; the situation above them. From the sound of the cannon fires and the shouting, it didn't sound like things are doing good up there.

"Luffy," the green-headed swordsman called.

No words were needed for the Devil Fruit user to know what they were thinking. "Yeah. Let's go, guys," he said, with the trio following.

"Ah! Before I forget and die, you two, come on over here," Kokoro called to them, specifically Xion and Guthrie. The pair of Keyblade wielders walked over as she was shuffling through her pockets. "I want you to have somethin." She pulled a set of something from them, and held them out for the two to take. In one hand was a keychain, with a black chain link, ending with a dark red, flowery, sun-like medallion on the end. In the other were three pieces of paper. Three familiar pieces of paper.

"A Keyblade Keychain?!" Chirithy gasped, disappearing and reappearing on Guthrie's shoulder in seconds, causing the guy to nearly fumble and fall at the sudden off-balance in weight. "And those... are Dream Eater recipes?!"

"Where did you get those?!" Xion asked.

Kokoro was still smiling as she looked sadly at the pair. "They belonged to Tom, the same man who created Rocketman and the Puffing Toms. He always considered this chain as his lucky charm and these papers as motivations to build the sea trains... And these were two of his most prized treasures. He gave them to me after the Puffing Tom was created, though he didn't give a clear reason tell me why." The drunk placed the keychain in Guthrie's hands and the recipes in Xion's, both who were surprised at how she parted with them so easily. "But if I had to guess, he knew his life was coming to an end. So he wished for me to hold onto them until they could be properly used by someone who actually knows these things."

Guthrie looked at the keychain for a moment, then looked at Kokoro and asked, "Are you sure it's okay for us to have these? I mean, they all belonged to someone you knew well. Why not give it to Iceberg, or Chimney?"

Kokoro let out a short laugh at the question as she took some sips of her red wine. "Well, I thought of that at first, but Tom told me to give the keychain to 'the one whose key is full of Don'. I never understood what that meant... until I saw those Keyblades of the two of yous."

Guthrie, Xion and Chirithy looked at one another, surprised. So it seems like even Tom knew something about the Keyblade. But where did he learn something like that? And where did he obtain the keychain and the Dream Eater recipes? Could it be that...?

"Considering what I saw during the Aqua Laguna, and how you tackled the wave to protect your friends, I could see he was waiting for you to come along. That keychain has a name to it, too. He always called it his 'Great Gusto'!"

"Great Gusto..." Guthrie echoed, looking at the keychain. He took out his Keyblade, and swapped the keychains. The weapon shined, and transformed into a new Keyblade. The handle was red and gold, and the guard was green, with a gold exterior trimming and a red underbelly, wrapping around like a curved box, reminding Guthrie of the train cars on the Puffing Tom. The front of the hilt had a train light on it, glowing slightly. The shaft looked like a narrowed and elongated version of the Puffing Tom itself, green and gold, with the end shaped like the nose and golden front guard of the train. The teeth was the smokestack, with gray smoke curving about, going back to the shaft.

"Cool..." Guthrie muttered, seeing the Great Gusto Keyblade.

"But, what about the Dream Eater recipes?" Xion asked. "Are you sure I can take these, too?"

Kokoro gave another short laugh. "Believe it or not, he was hoping to give those to Franky." This surprised everyone in the compartment. "Ever since he found that boy, Tom saw how much he cared for the things he make. Said those things should best go to the one who has the biggest heart of them all. But, that guy rarely ever comes visit me these days. And when he does, I often forget about giving those to him."

"Hey, hey..." a few in the room spoke with a sweat drop.

"But... Meeting you guys, seeing how much you care for your crew, your friends, I think these things are better off with you. Besides, I don't even know any of these items that's listed on here."

Xion smiled at this. "Thank you, Kokoro-san. Although... Tom-san wasn't a Keyblade wielder, was he?"

"Nope, but I remember when he got that keychain," Kokoro recalled. "It was during the time when he was making the Oro Jackson, the ship he made for Gol D. Roger."

Now this bit of news stunned everyone listening in on the conversation. Did that mean the King of the Pirates, or one of his crew members, was the former possessor of the keychain? Did that mean someone on his crew was a Keyblade wielder? There was so many questions, but they had very little time to get an answer, as from the sound of the desperate shouts up above, Aqua Laguna was coming closer.

Chirithy suddenly realized where he was at, and pushed himself off of Guthrie's shoulder, turning away from him. He was still being ignorant and angry to his partner as he informed him, "By the way, you need to know that your medals don't transfer over to your new Keyblade. They are still locked in your other keychain, so you'd better transfer those over."

Guthrie looked down at his partner, surprised at this new info. He guessed he didn't need to know this until he gained a new Keyblade. However, the way Chirithy phrased it showed his irritated attitude towards him, so he simply answered, "Thanks.". As he followed Xion and the others out, he touched his Follow the Wind medallion, revealing the medals attached to it, and transferred them over to the Great Gusto Keyblade.

The vice captain glanced at the pair, and sighed in disgruntlement. She was tired of their quarreling, but this wasn't the time to speak of such thing at the moment.

The four pirates were finally out and on top of the sea train, facing the large wave ahead of them.

"Hey! Keep firing the front!" Zoro told the shipwrights and the dismantlers.

"What're you guys gonna do?!" Paulie asked. Despite the question, the firing didn't stop.

Luffy stood on his feet, cracking some bones in preparation. Xion produced her Keyblade and called out Terra. Guthrie had just finished swapping over his medals to his new Keyblade and stood ready. With Wado Ichimonji placed in his mouth, Zoro answered, "We'll fire a cannon."

"What's a hundred and eight times four? No... With Xion's Dream Eater, make that five," Luffy asked.

"Four hundred and thirty two with four. With five it's five hundred and forty," Guthrie answered.

"Four hundred and thirty two and five hundred and forty... Both of those are mouthfuls."

"Then pick whatever," Xion told her captain, as she formed a Link Style with her Cera Terror Dream Eater and Zoro drew out his other two swords.

"W-What are they doing?!" asked one of the tallest guys of the Franky Family.

"One is weaponless, one is using a sword, and the other two are just using those huge keys," another big guy pointed out. "Not only that, but one of those two called back her pet and is now glowing a weird aura."

"They told us to keep firing," another big guy reminded.

"Enough talking! Just back them up!" Zambai ordered.

"Okay. Then six hundred!" Luffy decided for his trio of crew mates, swinging his right arm.

"Aye," the three replied in confirmation.

"Gomu Gomu no..." Luffy began his gatling punch.

"Six Hundred Pound..." Zoro got into position for his long-range sword attack.

"Ultima..." Xion prepared her link's finisher move as her Keyblade enlarged itself to the massive.

"Spark..." Guthrie raised his Keyblade up and charged up three balls of electricity via Spark Blast. As the balls came together, he held the attack back and gathered more electricity to them.

"We're gonna crash!" the shipwrights and ship dismantlers cried out.

The pirates held their ground, waiting for the right moment to unleash their combo move. Once the wave and Rocketman got close enough, all four fired their prepared moves at one spot. "Cannon!" All four moves soared onwards to the wave and struck. One can easily tell how strong the attack was as a large, perfectly, circular-shaped hole had formed.

The large group behind the pirates gaped jaw-dropped at the sight before them, as Rocketman rushed on towards the hole. Once it rose up, those inside began tumbling down from the lack of balance, minus Kokoro and Allen, the former who remained seated and drank more of her wine, and the latter who was managing to keep his balance on the slanted train. After spending most of his life dancing, the Shandian had gained the perfect sense of balance.

"It's finally time," she spoke.

Back up above, Luffy, Zoro, Xion, and Guthrie did all they could to keep the hole as it was, and resumed to form a tunnel from within the wave for Rocketman to travel on through. The ride was shaky, and there were some close calls, especially with the turns and the rise and falls, but by some grand miracle, they made it out; they passed through Aqua Laguna!

"We... We got through! We got through Aqua Laguna!" they all shouted and cheered.

"I... I thought we were gonna die!" Zambai cried out, his fellow ship dismantlers cheering in joy while the shipwrights were simply awestruck by the pirates' power.

Luffy turned and gave them a fist pump and a peace sign, while Zoro and the Keyblade wielders sheathed his blade or called away their Keyblades, with Xion also undoing the link and returning Terra back in his card.

Back with the passengers, Chopper, Chirithy, Chimney and Gonbe fainted from their rolling spin that had occurred during the run-through. Nami regained her bearings from the ride, holding her head in slight pain as Sanji asked if she was okay through the Den Den Mushi she had dropped. Kiwi and Mozu regained themselves as well, getting themselves slammed to the back of the train, and luckily did not get themselves pierced through by the connection beams.

"All right! They did it!" Allen cheered.

"That was really something. They don't call themselves pirates for nothing," Kokoro stated, extremely impressed with the feat.

"If they were our enemy, they'd be fearsome, but if they're on our side, no one is more dependable than they are!" Kiev said.

"Straw Hat/Starlight Blade!" majority of the members cried out in cheer.

"Naturally, I was prepared to die. What incredible guys and gal..." Paulie commented.

"Don't let your guards down. We're not through the storm yet!" Kokoro called out to them.

"Yeah!" the ship dismantlers cheered.

"There's nothing to fear now!" one of them exclaimed.

With the wave over, the pirates went back to the passenger box, Luffy opening one of the windows to get in. "That was fun!" he said.

"Straw Hat, you're amazing- waina!" Kiwi complimented.

"That was beyond human power- waina!" Mozu followed.

Luffy, who stayed by the window, got kicked in by Zoro, who didn't know his captain was still there. "Oh sorry," he apologized, moving away for Xion to get through, who then moved away for Guthrie.

"Luffy! Come over here!" Nami called. Getting back to his feet, the pirate captain walked over to his orange-haired member. "It's Sanji-kun."

"Hey, is that you, Luffy?" Sanji asked.

"Oh, Sanji! How's it going over there? Where's Robin?" Luffy asked.

"Robin-chan is still in their custody. Nami-san just told her the reasons for her actions. Yeah... I heard everything."

"I see... Yeah, well... That's what's going on. Go ahead. Give them hell." Hearing that order from their captain shocked the crew.

"You shouldn't be reckless, Luffy!" Xion told him. "It's best if you tell him to wait until we catch up!"

"Oh, Xion-san! Hi! I was getting worried about what happened to you when I didn't hear your voice," Sanji said.

"Your worries are unnecessary..." the girl muttered. In a normal voice, she then said, "Sanji, look. As you know, there are dangerous guys on that sea train you're on. WHatever you do-"

"It's fine," Luffy interrupted. "Xion... Deep down, what would you do if it were you?" Xion raised a brow at the question. "After hearing that Robin lied and was taken to custody in order to save us, could you really just stay put?"

Xion looked down, her eyes wavering to show that she, in fact, wouldn't stay put, even if she was told to. And it wouldn't be because of her habit to help people.

"It's no use trying to stop him."

"You know me well," Sanji confirmed. "Xion-swan~! Are you worried about me~! Don't worry, I'll be back in your arms soon~"

"When has he ever been in her arms...?" Allen asked in a whisper, feeling quite annoyed with that statement.

"It's just his womanizer personality talking," Guthrie told him.

"But sorry. After hearing what Robin-chan was thinking, even if the captain orders it, I'm not gonna stop!" Next they knew, they heard something break and the line went dead.

"Did he just hung up on us?" Xion questioned.

"I don't think that's what it sounds like..." Chirithy said.

"I wonder if he'll be okay," Nami said in concern.

"Granny! Have the train go faster!" Luffy requested. "Like, more woosh!"

"Don't worry. It's already going faster than the limits of its speed. So fast that it can't stop by itself," Kokoro assured.