Franky was up in the Crows-nest staring out into the ocean deep in thought, It wasn't about Zoro's transformation or Chopper's injuries that truly bothered him. Although those aspects did bother him quite a bit, he was mainly bothered about how the others adjusted to it so quickly. He had been with the crew longer than Brook, who was still pretty new to the craziness of the Straw Hats,and he adjusted to it almost as quickly as the others. In truth, franky was still somewhat in awe of the others, especially thier loyalty to each other. The fact that Zoro had protected Chopper from the wolves and now had to deal with the consiquences as a result yet it didn't seem to phase him all that much. So there he sat, pondering these things when the hatch opened quietly, Two green wolf ears poking from the hole revealing who it was.

Zoro wandered into the room with a towel, which he hung on a hook on the wall, shedded his t-shirt and picked up one of his over-sized weights. He chose one of the lighter (but not by much) dumbbells and threw it into the air, perfoming a hand-stand with the weight landing gracefully on his feet. The barely audiable hiss being the only suggestion that it had somewhat hurt him. The sound of the dumbell landing jolted Franky from his thoughts and he turned to the sound. Only to see the swordsman balance the huge wieghts with only one foot and look up in curiosity.

"Yo, bro. You sure its a good idea to do that?"

At this Zoro looked to see Franky staring at him, a thoughtful look still in his eyes.

"I'll be fine. These things are way too light anyway."

At this, Franky's jaw dropped. The weights were huge! To demonstrate how easy it was for the green haired wolf to weild the dumbbell, he started flipping the weights around with his feet, then doing different flips and gymnastics while throwing the object around like it was nothing more than a plaything. Seeing the cyborgs expression, Zoro grinned, flashing his canines. It would have maybe been a nice sight had it not been for the long hair flopping over his eyes. He really needed a haircut.

"Bro, those things are fucking massive! its a miracle on its own that those things could have got in here, but for you to just dance around with them like it was nothing is ridiculous! And another thing, no offence but that creepy grin of yours is definitly NOT super."

At this, the wolf boy only laughed, a rare sound to hear but it made everyone happy none the less. Then Zoro turned around, a slight mischevious glint in his eye which began to worry Franky a little bit.

"Have you ever tried to lift them?"

Franky looked at him incrediously, he had to be kidding.

"What?"

"Have you ever tried to lift them?"

"No."

At this, the glint in Zoro's eyes became more evident and his grin turned a little feral. The cyborg was getting scared now.

"Then how do you know how heavy they are?"

Franky was beginning to work out where this convorsation was going, especially since the swordsman began digging around his weights, shifting them onto different wracks in order of size and weight the cyborg supposed.

"Then try lifting some, see how many you can handle."

Franky guessed right, looks like there was a competition on thier hands and being Franky, he wasn't one to back down.

"Fine, your on wolf boy. Watch the SUUUPER Franky lift more weights than you can handle!"

At this, Franky confidently strode over to the smallest weights and lifted the smallest weight, which was actually pretty heavy, in one hand. He then went on to the second one, only for Zoro to speak;

"Are you sure those ones are such a good idea?"

"What are you talking about?! Think the SUPER Franky can't handle these tiny things?"

"No, Those are the ones that tend to go in my mouth during warm ups."

Thats when Franky dropped the mass onto his foot. Hopping around in pain he yelled:

"Why the hell didn't you tell me before?! Thats disgusting!"

"... You didn't give me an opportunity."

"...Oh."

So Franky skipped the others, and went straight to the next shelf, when he looked at the mass he dropped, he noticed tiny teeth marks all over them, there were also scratches scattered along the bar. He should have checked. When he reached the next shelf, he turned to Zoro, silently asking if these were for his mouth also. After recieving confermation that they were not. He began to work his way through. He had a little more trouble with each passing mass. By the time he had reached the end of the shelf, his muscles were feeling a little bit tight and painfull and he had to hold each one by two hands already.

Zoro was silently observing, making sure he didn't drop his weights anymore, the noise it made when it his foot almost made him cringe. But what really got him was when the weight hit the ground with a loud bang, that went really hurt his head, he had a feeling that he was going to get alot more headaches now that he had sensitive hearing. But, he was enjoying this.

"Done already. Is that all the super Franky can handle?"

Judging by the look of utter pissed off-ness that he recieved from the cyborg in question. It looked like he had more to give, so with a look of unwavering determination. He marched over to the shelf with the largest weights that Franky had ever seen. he picked up the biggest, one so huge that it left small dents in the ground despite the fact that the entire ship was made from Adam Wood. He lifted it mere millimetres from the ground, sweat flooding from his pores, making his hands slippery as he tried with all of his might to lift up the ginormous mass. However, he didn't even get it above his Cola fridge/stomach before his arms gave out and he fell back. Only for Zoro to grab both the giant weight with only one hand and caught Franky by the arm with the other.

Zoro put the weight back in its place on a reinforced shelf where his heaviest weights belonged. By the time he turned around, Franky was laying flat on his back panting like a dog. He had enjoyed watching the cyborg try to lift the largest of all his weights, but when he was about to drop them, so save another headache and possibly the shipwrights life. He grabbed them. When he first got that particular weight, three men had run into him, causing him to drop it, thinking that it was only big, he grinned to himself when he remembered the looks on thier faces when the mass caused a huge crater to appear with the object at the centre.

It was only a few minutes later that Franky finally spooke up. "Hey bro, how the hell do you do that every day? you really are ~SUPER~ strong! Anyway, listen, I wasn't worried about your current situation or anything like that. It's ju-"

"Don't worry about it. I only came up to train anyway. I wasn't concerned about your opinion. Luffy and the others accept it, it's no suprise you haven't exactly adjusted yet. We aren't exactly your average bunch. But think on this. Whats the point in having an ambition if you can't protect your captain or your other crew members?"

At his statement, Franky looked at Zoro with shock. He was right, although he hadn't been with the crew for as long as the first mate who stood proudly infront of him he felt the same way towards his nakama. Even though it may not have been as strongly as the wolf that stood infront of him. Maybe, he shouldn't have been so quick as to judge these kids.

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Authors Note:

Sorry for not updating this in such a long time but i've had a tone of other things going on. Life just gets in the way sometimes ya know? I've also taken the time to edit the previous chapter. I'm also going to apologize for any out of character-ness in this, but sometimes you need to change things for the purpose of the storyline. But please enjoy this fanfiction and I will try to update this aswell as my other fictions as soon as possible. Reviews are alsways appreciated as they help me to improve my writing in general.

Sayomi Ookamichi