Happy New Year, everyone! Today, we push 2019 behind us, and look forward to 2020! And with the start of a new year is another story update from yours truly! Not much action, so to say, I know. But! You can't say that this is not a good chapter, still! I hope you all enjoy it and will be enjoying the lovely new year!

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:

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

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

"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.

'What the-?! This really is fast!' Xion 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. The combined force then collided with Xion, who didn't think that far in the rescue, and got herself tumbling off the side of Rocketman. 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.

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

"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.

"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!"

"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?!"

"All right!" Luffy called, bringing all attention to him. "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."

"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."

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

"Oh? It's already here?" Kokoro simply asked. "Do your best. The railway surfaces a little, but we can't go over Aqua Laguna. 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.

"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."

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

"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.

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 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.

"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."

"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.

After the call with Sanji... well, let's just say that another crisis had occurred for the group on Rocketman. Specifically for a good majority of the guys, who had gone and witnessed the thing most men would not ever had witnessed.

"Okay! Now I'm ready for battle!" Nami exclaimed, wearing a different set of clothes.

Gone was her violet camisole with the number "3" imprinted on it in white, her white pleated mini-skirt and her usual sandals. Now, she had on a black high-heeled gladiator sandals, a brown blouse with cream-colored liners, which was also revealing her abdomen, a blue denim jacket over it, and a pale blue, pleated mini-skirt.

Tilestone, Lulu and Zambai were on their knees and holding their bleeding nose, looking away from Nami in embarrassment. Paulie was looking away from her the whole time, but his face was quite pink.

"Huh? What are you guys doing?" Nami asked the shipwrights.

"Don't 'what are you guys doing' us!" Paulie shouted at her. "How dare you openly change in front of everyone, you shameless girl?!"

"Nice shamelessness," the nose-bleeding trio stated with a thumbs-up, before all three got knocked out completely from blood loss.

"I can't help it. We only have one car," Nami reasoned.

"Hide your belly! Your belly and legs!" Paulie demanded. "You guys, too, Square Sisters! People like you corrupt society!"

"Shut up- waina, you shy man," Kiwi said, pointing at the rope-user.

"Shy man," Mozu repeated, doing the same.

Paulie was extremely embarrassed and angered at their claims, to the point where he breathed his cigar to ash in an instant.

"If you like, I'll change too," Kokoro teased.

Recovering almost instantly, the once-downed shipwrights immediately bowed to her and replied, "I'm sorry, but please don't! Seriously!"

"What rude guys. Although, you don't seem to mind Starlight Blade changing right now."

"Because unlike her crew mate, she's changing in the engine room!" Paulie reasoned. As he said, rather than changing in the very car they all were in like Nami had, Xion went to the engine room to change into the clothes Nami brought instead. (When did Nami even get those clothes and where was she hiding them? Her and the rest of the Straw Hats)

"Which brings us to question why Nami didn't go there to change, too," Guthrie pointed out, looking away from the navigator like Zoro and Allen were, the latter who was also covering his eyes with his palms.

"But it's so hot in there!" the navigator answered.

"Just for that reason?! Just tough it out then! Don't change in here with us guys!"

As it stands, Nami and Xion weren't the only ones with a wardrobe change; the boys did as well. Luffy just changed his usual short jeans for black shorts with more pockets in them, Chopper had on a red leather jacket, and Zoro swapped his usual shirt for an unzipped yellow jacket. While they had a slight change of clothes, Guthrie and Allen wore completely different outfits.

For Guthrie, he wore a green, open collar, buttoned-up long sleeve shirt with an open brown vest with silver-trimmed pockets over it, black pants with a brown belt hanging loosely from his right side, with a black satchel hanging on the left side, green and black boots, a vambrace on his left arm, and a black fingerless glove on his left hand. He also had one a new earring on his right ear, which has an amethyst embedded on it. As for Allen, he had on a grey, long sleeved, cotton-ripped shirt with thumb-holed cuffs and red multi-pocketed cargo pants. The back of his shirt had small sleeves for his wings, and, like Guthrie, he also wore fingerless gloves.

"Why do we have to change out of our clothes again?" Allen asked, not looking up from his hands.

"Apparently to show those CP9 bastards that we're not the same pirates as back then," Zoro answered. "And you can look now."

"I wish they made the pockets in these black shorts bigger," Luffy complained, as he tried to stuff in some meat in his pockets.

"Don't pack meat in your pockets!" Nami shouted.

The door leading to the engine room opened, revealing Xion in her new attire. "Sorry for the wait," she apologized. She now had on a white tank with a black and dark blue unzipped hoodie over it, white skirt, and black boots.

"Looking good, Xion-nee!" Chopper commented.

"Thanks, Chopper-kun," Xion thanked.

"You guys seem refreshed. You're full of enthusiasm," Kokoro stated.

"Of course! This is to rescue Robin! We'll beat them all up this time for sure!" Luffy claimed.

"You better! If you get stuck somewhere again, I'm not helping you!" Nami told him.

"'Get stuck somewhere'?" Xion repeated in a questioned tone.

"You don't want to know," Chirithy told her.

"It'll be fine! I got a reason to not lose this time!" Luffy told Nami.

It was then, Zoro noticed something else different about the navigator. "Nami, did you change your weapon?" he asked.

"Hm? No. After we came back from sky island, Usopp improved it and made it stronger using dials. It's the Perfect Clima Tact," she informed, holding up her upgraded weapon.

"Oh. So that thing is Usopp's..." Allen stopped there, quickly realizing what he was going to say and not wanting to complete it.

"Yes. This is Usopp's-..." Once the name was out and heard again, Nami and Luffy went into a depressed state, with the former crying. "Yes... This is his last work..."

"Don't go bumming people out!" Zoro shouted.

"I'm sorry!" Allen apologized.

Some time after the wardrobe change, Luffy went back on the rooftop right on Rocketman's head to be on lookout for Puffing Tom.

"Aren't we catching up to Bashing Tom yet?!" he questioned.

"It's 'Puffing'! Hey Luffy! Stay inside!" Nami scolded. "You just changed, but you're soaking wet again!"

"It's fine! I like this place!"

Knowing that there was nothing to change his mind, Nami went back in the car and closed the window. Meanwhile, in said car, everyone else was doing a replay of Luffy, Zoro, Xion and Guthrie breaking through Aqua Laguna. And really, it was getting quite annoying for some people.

"This is no time for playing!" Zoro shouted at them.

"We're bored," Lulu and Zambai answered.

"Then polish your weapons or something, you idiots!"

"Well, um... I tried to tell them that earlier but..." Paulie trailed off, for it was clear that he failed to stop the guys from doing what they were doing.

"Although, you should take this time to make those Dream Eaters, Xion," Chirithy told her. "The sooner you revive them before we arrive, the better."

"I did, though. While I was changing," the female Keyblade wielder answered.

"While you were changing?" Guthrie asked.

"Well it's already cramped up in here as is, and I didn't know how big the new Dream Eaters will be."

"She's not wrong," Allen supported.

"Hey, guys! I see a train up ahead of us!" Luffy informed.

Almost instantly, the shipwrights and ship dismantlers were armed with their weapons.

"It's gotta be Puffing Tom, right?!" they all claimed, rushing out to battle, with Zoro following.

"Isn't it too early?" Kokoro questioned, as they all got stuck on the window.

"They do realize there are other windows, right?" Allen asked with a sweat drop.

"Come on," Guthrie said to him and Xion, as the trio went out the other window. Chirithy also went along, as he climbed onto Allen's shoulder.

Once they were up, Guthrie looked through a telescope to see the train ahead of them. He let out a gasp at the sight before him. "Huh?! That can't be right," he said.

"What's wrong?" Allen asked, as the others finally made it up with them.

"It's only a pair of cars ahead of us! No engine room, or other cars with it! Not only that, it's just sitting motionless on the railway!" he informed.

"What?!" Xion gasped out.

Zambai looked through his goggle and saw it to be true. "He's right! It's just a dead car!"

"What's going on?!" Tilestone questioned.

"Does this mean they got detached?!" Lulu guessed.

"Ah! Sanji and Usopp may be on them!" Chopper pointed out.

"Franky-aniki too- waina!" Kiwi added.

"This isn't good! If we keep going like this, we'll collide with them!" Paulie added. "Granny! Where's the brake?!"

"I said it doesn't work, didn't I? Do something," Kokoro reminded, drinking some more wine.

"We're gonna crash!" Chimney cried out, with Gonbe meowing in fear.

Luffy took a step back, in which Chopper had noticed. "Luffy! What are you gonna do?" he asked.

Chirithy noticed how the guy was stretching his arms out as he moved back and caught on to his plan. "Hang on... Are you thinking of...?"

"I'll go check inside! Gomu Gomu no Rocket!" And just like that, the rubberman of a pirate slingshotted himself to the discarded cars.

"He's not going to miss, right?" Allen asked in worry.

"He'll be fine," Xion waved off.

"He's closing in," Guthrie added, watching from the telescope, as their captain struck the cars. "He made it." Seconds later, he noticed the cars were shaking quite strangely, with Luffy coming out and standing on the rooftop. "Oh! He's out!" He flinched as he saw the guy get shot at, as the bullets bounce off him. "They're not in, and he's getting shot at! Man, that's going to take some time to get used to..." He muttered the last part to himself.

"Meaning everyone in there is government personnel," Xion said in understanding.

"Then what do we do?" Kokoro asked, drinking more of her wine.

"In any case, unless we move those cars out of the way, we'll crash!" Paulie pointed out.

"It's the Franky Family's turn to work now," Zambai said. "We'll demolish them right before we collide!"

"All right! We'll give you guys a hand, too!" Tilestone shouted.

"Guys! It's time to work!"

"Yeah!" the Franky Family cheered.

Just as they were heading for the dismantlers place, behind Rocketman, Luffy was calling out for Zoro. "Hey! Zoro! Cut it! It's in the way!"

The non-pirates looked at Zoro, simply waiting for his negative response to the ridiculous request. After all, no one could just cut a car in half.

"Sure," the green-head swordsman replied.

"'Sure'?!" they repeated with a slight anime fall.

While they were dumbfounded with the response, Zoro walked to Rocketman's head to get in position.

"Need help?" Guthrie asked.

"I got it," he declined. Once in place, Zoro blocked everything out. Every sound, every feeling, everything.

'The ego of the entropic world... can be slashed into pieces,' he thought, crouching down and positioning his sheathed swords.

"Nitouryu Iai:..." he spoke. Next everyone knew, Zoro drew his sword and quickly sheathed them, sending an air slash at the pair of cars... and cut it cleanly in half. "Rashomon."

Everyone, excluding the pirates minus Chopper and Chirithy, gasped in great shock at the scene they had all witnessed. Somehow, some way, this pirate successfully cut up the cats in half before Rocketman collided with it! Such a thing should not be humanly possible, and yet! Zoro went and did the impossible!

Before both halves of Puffing Tom's cars could hit the sea, Luffy jumped back on Rocketman, as it continued on its way.

"Hey, you guys! If you were going to do something like that, you could've at least told us!" Lulu reasoned with Luffy.

"You heard me saying 'cut them', right?!" Luffy argued.

"Who would think he could?!" Chirithy retorted, joining on the argument.

"We would've collided with them if we didn't cut them, right?!"

"Well, that's true, but we needed to be prepared too," Lulu tried to reason still.

As the pair were arguing, Zambai, the twins, and Tilestone just stared at Zoro in shock.

"A monster like that isn't even the vice captain of this group?" Zambai questioned.

"He's something else- waina," Kiwi stated.

"Anyway, you're amazing!"

Immediately after that, like before, Zambai, Tilestone and Lulu started to role play that one scene, only to then argue about who would play the role of the cars. Sighing at the scene before her, Xion was about to return back in the car, only to sense something ahead of them and looked up, but saw nothing in the open sea. Not only that, Zoro still stood on Rocketman's head.

"What's wrong, Zoro?" she asked.

"Hey, guys!" Zoro called to the group. "We're not done yet."

At that, those still out took a few steps forward to get a good look of what Zoro was seeing and saw something in the sea.

"What the hell is that?!" Zambai asked.

"It's a Sea King!" Tilestone identified.

As Rocketman passed it, though, they realized that the 'Sea King' was cut in half by someone, and it was not Zoro.

"That cut doesn't look fresh," Guthrie noticed as they passed. While everyone was on guard with the cut, Luffy was the only one excited to see a possible meal for them.

"A huge monster like this was..." Lulu trailed off in shock.

"Sashimi!"

"It's been split in half!" Chopper cried out.

"Grilled fish!"

"This is not the time to think about food!" Xion shouted at Luffy.

"But man... That Sea King was so huge, it could swallow Rocketman whole!" Chirithy exclaimed. "Just who or what did this?!"

Suddenly, Zambai, who was peering through his goggle lens, let out a gasp, grabbing everyone's attention. "Huh? What the...?! There's a guy out there!" He then took a step back in shock. "It's the Ship-Cutter!" The members of Galley-La and Franky Family all vocalized their worry at this bit of news.

"Ship-Cutter?" Luffy questioned.

"He's a captain from the Marine Headquarters, Ship-Cutter T-Bone!" Zambai explained. "His slices up pirate ships like a knife cuts through a steak!"

"Whoa! That pretty cool!" Luffy stated.

"Are you seriously admiring something like that?!" Xion questioned. Turning to Zambai, she then asked, "And why did you have to make that description so appetizing, for that matter?!"

"Doesn't matter! I don't wanna die," Zambai stated. "Alright, men! We only got one shot at this! Prepare the cannon! Hurry!" The Franky Family roared in response, and readied themselves to fight against the admiral from afar.

"Hold on!" Luffy stopped their preparations.

"What's the deal?! If we don't hurry, he'll cut Rocket Man in half!" Zambai exclaimed.

"Were you all sleeping just a minute ago? Just leave it to Zoro."

"Actually, I would like to handle that guy," Guthrie intervened, walking forward. "Leave it to me. I got this!"

"You serious?" Allen asked, surprised that he would volunteer for fighting a supposedly strong swordsman.

Guthrie didn't respond, as he just came to Zoro's side. The two looked to one another, then ahead, where they could see the figure starting to appear off in the distance.

"He does feel pretty strong. You sure you got this?" Zoro asked.

"Nothing and nobody is gonna get in the way to my path to Robin," Guthrie answered, his glare turned straight ahead. "I will win this fight, and we will keep going forward!"

Zoro said nothing at first, then smirked as he turned and left Guthrie's side, knowing he had this in the bag. Everyone saw the scene, and wondered if Zoro trusted the Keyblade Guardian enough to beat T-Bone. They were just gonna have to see this battle for themselves.

Guthrie stood in front of the train light and shouted out to the Navy swordsman, "If you don't want to be defeated shamefully, then get out of our way!"

T-Bone, who stood off in the distance, must've realized that the Straw-Hat Pirates were on the sea train, but didn't recognize Guthrie. However, he guessed he was responsible to what happened to his fellow men in the train cart before.

He drew his sword and shouted, "I am a proud captain of the Navy! I shall not let you pass! Be it wood or steel, I'll slash your ship in two!"

"If that's how you wanna play it..." Guthrie growled, summoning his Keyblade. "Just to let you know, I am not gonna let anyone or anything get in my way! Not my doubts, not any enemy in my path, and certainly not you! Now let's see who's resolve is stronger!"

"Come!" T-Bone shouted, ready to strike. Both had their blades at the ready, their duel about to commence. The Marine Captain then dashed forward. "I hate crooked swordplay! Right Angle Flying Bird..."

In response to his charge, Guthrie launched himself forward with his Keyblade out in front of him. "Sonic..."

"...Bone Pheonix!" T-Bone unleashed a slash that sent a beam of energy with the face of a bird, bouncing along the air and taking sharp angles as it came at it's target.

"Blade!" Guthrie then made his own thrusting dashes in the air, matching with the beam as he did so. They seem to dance about each other, with every contact being Guthrie destroying the beam as he got closer to T-Bone.

The Navy captain made a slash at him, sending a point-blank slashing beam. Guthrie came out of his Sonic Blade as did a spinning slash, destroying the sword beam before it got him.

'He saw through it!' T-Bone mentally gasped, looking down at the pirate, who glared fiercely back up at him.

"And now..." The Keyblade wielder thrusted his Keyblade forward, aiming closely at the captain's chest. "Spark Blast!" From a distance, everyone saw a blast of electricity that stormed across the ocean ahead and above them. When it died down, the Galley-La and Franky Family members, and even Chirithy, were shocked and amazed as they saw T-Bone's electric-charred body, his gaping mouth, and his blank eyes as the guy flew past them, falling into the ocean behind them. Guthrie would've landed in the water, had Xion not reacted fast enough to bring him back on Rocketman via Collision Magnet.

For a moment, there was silence. Then the non-pirates cheered for the Keyblade wielder's victory against the Ship-Cutter. Guthrie sighed from the energy he used in that fight, then smiled at his win, as well. "Gotta say, that was pretty awesome." That statement earned him a hit to the head by the vice-captain, in which he rubbed in pain. "Ouch! What was that for?!"

"That was for being incredibly reckless! What were you thinking?! Taking on a guy like that in this storm!" she scolded.

"I didn't think; I just acted." Guthrie looked to his shoulder guard and found something strange.

This didn't go unnoticed by a few people.

"What's wrong?" Allen asked, joining the Keyblade Wielders with Chirithy still on his shoulder.

"Well, it's just... Even though I defeated that T-Bone guy, no darkness was seeping from him for me to absorb to turn into a medal," Guthrie answered.

"Huh?! But that guy's a navy!" Chirithy exclaimed.

"True as it may be, not everyone in the navy is corrupted. I should know; I know some people there whose heart are in the right. And if he was the one who cut up that Sea King back there, I'd say it's more to protect his men than anything else. Just because we all have light in our hearts, just because we're in the same group, doesn't mean we're all on the same side."

While Allen simply nodded in understanding, Guthrie and Chirithy both stared at Xion and her strangely wise words. They never thought they would ever hear her say anything like it, especially not in the tone she used. If anything, it sounded like she was speaking from experience.

Noticing their stares, Xion asked, "What?"

"Well, I just never thought you'd say anything so wise," Guthrie said.

A bit ticked with the response, she questioned, "Hey. What is that suppose to mean?"

Before things could get ugly, Allen intervened between them. "It's nothing! He meant nothing with what he said."

Thankfully, Xion had decided to let the matter slide, as she headed back into the car. Before she slid in through the window, though, she sensed something from up ahead again and looked. Like before though, there was nothing to be seen in the open water.

"Something wrong?" Allen asked.

"... Not really," she answered.

'I must be imagining things,' she thought.

Once they were inside, the group relayed the information to Nami, who remained inside the whole time. Once she got the whole story, she came up with the accurate conclusion that Sanji detached the cars from the Puffing Tom, which would mean they were on the right track and were nearing their target. That being said, the group continued on with their own activity, as they waited for Rocketman to arrive at their one destination. That is... until...

"TURN BAAAAAAACK!"

"... Oi. He said to turn back," Lulu informed everyone, as none of them, not even the Straw Hats, reacted to the shout.

"Is that right? What a relief," Tilestone replied, having some relaxing tea.

"Well, we'd better get ready to go home."

"Give us a second here. I'm still learning how to play this game you Blue Sea Dwellers play," Allen said, having a game of Poker with Chirithy, the Keyblade wielders and Nami, with Chopper, Chimney and Gonbe watching.

It took the very next second for them all to realize what Luffy, the guy who shouted those words, ordered out. "WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!"

"But why?! We've come so far!" Nami exclaimed.

"What about Robin?! And what are we going to do about Usopp?!" Chopper questioned. As he kept questioning about what they should do, Zoro woke up, oblivious to the situation at hand.

"What the hell's he thinking?!" Paulie questioned.

Taking it upon herself as vice captain, Xion opened the window and quickly climbed out and up to the roof. "Hey, Luffy! What's the big idea, telling us all to go back?! I thought you wanted to save Robin! Why are we going back now?!"

"Yeah, yeah! Tell us why- waina!" Kiwi and Mozu demanded.

"NOOOOOO!" Luffy shouted, now confusing the group. "THE FROG FROM BEFORE... JUST JUMPED... ONTO THE TRACKS!"

"It's Yokozuna!" Chimney gasped in realization.

"Him again?" Kokoro casually asked.

"What the hell's up with that giant frog?!" the Franky Family demanded, apparently familiar with the amphibian as well.

"Turn back! Out of the way, frog!" Luffy shouted.

'COME!' Xion heard the frog challenge.

"We'll hit you!"