Weeks had gone by since Kalifa's birthday and the attacks. Every day since then, Kalifa had picked Lucci to help her become stronger than she already was. With Fukuro's ability, he was able to rank each CP9 member judging by their strength and strength alone without devil fruit powers. Before, Kalifa was the lowest member to be ranked aside from Spandam who ranked lower than that of a typical Marine guard. With her recent training she had become stronger and moved up a whole rank. This resulted in Astrid, to become the weakest member of the team. However, what she had lacked in strength, she made up for in manipulation, craftsmanship, and speed.

Astrid and Kaku were training as they normally would. However, she had decided to change her fighting method. She had gone from using her typical sword to using a whip much like what Kalifa had been using. At first she stumbled on the whip or cracked it on herself. She seemed to not be able to develop a technique with the whip that best suited her. That was until Kaku charged at her with one of his blades. She ducked down in time, sliding behind him while flying the whip. The whip had coiled itself around the blade. It took a second for Astrid to realize that she was finally able to get a hang of it. She finally was able to pull on the whip to yank the sword out of his hand. As expected, the sword came out and swung down to the ground off to the side. Unfortunately, it was only that one move that Astrid was able to do at that one moment of time. She was not able to recreate the move nor was she able to defend herself properly. Just as usual, Astrid had lost the match against Kaku. Just as they were putting their weapons away and getting ready to clean themselves off, Spandam walked into the court.

"Gather around, I don't want any delays," he yelled as they all began to walk towards him. "It is time for a select few of you to go on a very important mission. A mission that will require you to develop all your cunning skills to deceive and conquer those who get in the way."

"Sir, what do you mean by a select few," asked Blueno.

"Three of you will be staying here with me, in case all else fails, they will be the back-up," he responded. "The World Government wants a set of blue prints. This blueprints will assure the perfect world that we have so longed for. But in order to get our hands on it, I need people to go in undercover to retrieve the information on where they might be and get them. Lucci, Kaku, Blueno, Kalifa, and Astrid, I want all of you in my office now. The rest of you will enjoy a lovely vacation here while the others run off to play."

"Wait, you're keeping me here?! This is absurd!" Jabra yelled, "Of all people, you're letting this long nosed freak join the little secret team!"

"Jabra calm down, there is no need for shouting," Lucci said putting his hand on Jabra's shoulder causing a great amount of tension to fill the air as he stared directly into his eyes.

Jabra growled and murmured something under his breath as the others all gathered into Spandam's office.

"You will be going to Water 7 and finishing where my father and I have failed. I man named Tom was known as one of the most powerful shipwrights in the world known for building the ship of Gold D Roger and the creation of the sea train. It is believed that this man had held onto the blueprints of a powerful creation called Pluton. I want you all to figure out what happened to this blueprints and grab them."

"What does the World Government want with blueprints such as this?" Astrid asked.

Spandam glared at her, "To create a world of justice, now shut up or I'll make you shut up you insufferable woman!" He yelled at her standing up in his as if to threaten her.

Once seated he continued, "Now, it is believed that the man known as Iceberg, the mayor of Water 7, was one of the boys I saw claiming to be one of Tom's workers. He has become well known for his shipwright company Galley-La. Lucci and Kaku will go in as shipwrights for the company, Kalifa will be his new secretary for Iceberg and whatever he does. Blueno, I want you to become close to the citizens and earn their trust by becoming the bar owner, owned by a man who will die of natural causes," he said pulling out a small vile from his desk.

"But sir, isn't that killing an innocent man that has no relation to what we are doing?" Astrid asked.

"It is just one man," he responded.

"But isn't that going against the form of justice that we represent?"

"SHUT UP!" he yelled throwing a tea cup at her head. The tea cup shattered leaving small cuts to line her forehead and cheek.

"Yes sir," she replied allowing the blood to trickle down into her eye.

"You will listen to me, you are lucky that I am allowing you to be a part of this in the first place. I needed a woman like you to get close to Iceberg. Closer than anyone else in this room, understand?"

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"Figure it out. You will all be sent at different times to avoid any form of suspicion. Starting off with Blueno tonight. Now all of you…GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!"

Once they had left the office they were ordered once again not to talk amongst each other just in case the other three were around to here. Allowing them to know what the mission was could damage the overall cause of the mission.

That night, Astrid couldn't help to be bothered by what Spandam had told them. A helpless old man was about to die for justice. Growing up she was brainwashed to believe that every action she had done was under the mean of creating a world of justice. Every place she had been, every item she had stolen, every life she had taken, where all under the belief of justice. Now that she was older, now that she has been under more stressful situations, she began to wonder who the real bad guy was. While in her room she sat down with a pen and paper, trying to come up with a way she was comfortable with to get close to Iceberg. Kaku was walking by when he noticed her repeatedly banging her head lightly on her desk.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

"No, I can't figure out a good way to do the thing, when I don't know the guy or how he reacts to the thing," she said trying to discretely talk about her portion of the mission.

"Well getting to know the guy is a start, perhaps taking it to the next levels are the best options."

"But I don't want to, you know me, I'm not a romancer!" She proclaimed once again banging her head on the desk.

"Well you're not wrong. First just try being yourself, but in this case not yourself. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?"

"Just be his friend?"

He winked at her and started to walk away.

"Hey wait, come back!" Astrid called getting up from her chair and rushing towards the doorway.

One by one each member chosen for the mission where set off to Water 7 during the span of the month. As expected, Astrid was the last one to arrive.