Alright welcome to chapter 13! First and foremost, this chapter covers the last bit of Alabasta including the recruitment of Robin, if you can't tell by the title. As I said before the fight scenes aren't amazing or good but hey, at least I attempted it. Next, concerning those of you who read To Save A Brother's Life, I have yet to write the chapter for it. So, come Friday if I don't update then give me until next Friday and I should have a chapter because I'll have to ready Donquixote Prince Chapters anyways cause I only have one left. But to be honest I'm going to attempt to write TSABL's chapter today. In other news I need to stop getting plot bunnies because I got an idea for a Gamer!Luffy story which I like the idea of. I'll see what I can do with it in the free time I have. Er, Lastly I do apologize as a lot of this seems like dialogue. Anyways, onwards we go!

Disclaimer: Don't own HP nor OP

Death's Gift to His Master

The night before their journey to Rainbase consisted of them all pitching in to help old man Toto dig up some water. Of course said process ended up exhausting them to where they all fell asleep. When they woke up the next morning Toto presented them with a gallon of water for their journey and they promptly thanked him.

It didn't take much longer for them to actually reach Rainbase, about maybe five hours at most. When they arrived the look of the city itself made Luffy feel really suspicious. Why one may ask? Well Rainbase was thriving compared to all the other cities of Alabasta. It had lush trees and plants and also seemed to have a giant pyramid-like casino in the middle with a weird looking crocodile on the top. This made Luffy even more sure that Crocodile was the reason behind the droughts and not the King, as the rebels seemed to think.

They made their way to a bar to gather some information but were shocked when they saw who was right next to them.

"Straw hat!" Smoker yelled.

"Ah! Pirate Hunter Zoro!" A female with black hair and glasses that seemed to know Zoro.

They quickly ran out of the bar and split up, as to confuse the Marines. Chopper and Goldie stayed behind, mostly because Smoker and that woman had never seen the two of them and didn't believe young kids, Chopper was in his Perfect Human Point at the moment, to be with the Straw Hats. Usopp and Nami went in a different direction as did Carmen, Gin, and Alvida. Zoro went with Vivi, Luffy was the one leading Smoker away, and Sanji went off with Kaya on their own. Somehow though, all of the ones running but Sanji, Kaya, and Vivi ended up at the Rain Dinners Casino in the middle of town.

"Why did we run here again?" Usopp asked.

"Because this is Crocodile's base, I mean did you miss the pretty obvious crocodile mounted on the top of the pyramid?" Luffy asked.

"That was a crocodile?" Nami asked.

"I think so. I mean the only difference was that banana on its tail." Luffy muttered.

Next, something extremely suspicious happened, the employees of the casino gestured for them to go through the golden door at the back of the casino, saying it led to the VIP room. Nevertheless they ran through the door and was stopped by two different paths with two signs. One said pirates and the other said VIP.

"The pirates sign is clearly a trap but…" Luffy trailed off.

"You think it's the only way to get to Crocodile." Nami said, before seeing Smoker gain on them.

They then chose to fall for the trap where they fell into a trap hole that dropped them, including smoker, into a cage. Luffy saw Nami go to bars to try breaking them before he yelled.

"Don't touch it!" Luffy yelled, making Nami jump back.

"Why not? I can easily get us out of here." She asked.

"Because that's seastone Storm Witch." Smoker spoke up.

"Seastone?" Alvida asked.

"It's a mysterious metal that negates the powers of Devil Fruits just like the sea does. The Marines recently discovered it about ten years back and have been using it on criminals." Luffy said.

"I'm surprised you know that much. The only ones who know about seastone are the ones in the New World or have been caught by the Marines." Smoker said.

"Eh, did you ever really look at my name?" Luffy asked.

"What does that have to do with this?" Smoker asked.

"I'm Monkey D. Luffy." Luffy said, emphasizing his last name, getting a reaction from Smoker.

"You're Vice Admiral Garp's grandson?" Smoker asked.

"Yeah, he told me about seastone one time when he was threatening me for disappearing on him. Said it'd keep me from using my powers to disappear." Luffy said.

"Speaking of powers can't you use that thing that you keep using to disappear from me to escape?" Smoker asked.

"Not exactly. The power is very similar to Devil Fruit powers so if I were to use it I'd just bounce off the seastone." Luffy said

"The what about the other ones?" Nami asked, remembering Luffy had a spell that could explode things.

"I mean I could but seastone is a really really strong metal. It'd take an explosion that would hurt us too. If I was on the outside, then I could do it from a safe distance. And the one that unlocks things would only work on seastone cuffs." Luffy said.

"Why only cuffs?" Smoker asked, as that was very specific.

"Because, the amount of seastone in the cuffs is small enough for it to work. This cage is too much for it to work." Luffy said, gesturing to the thick bars of seastone.

"Not that this isn't amusing but I'm surprised you haven't noticed me." A deep voice said, originating from outside the cage.

They all turned towards the source and saw a black haired man with a big cigar in his mouth and really fancy clothing.

"Crocodile." Smoker said, scowling.

"Wow, you really are a stray hound Smoker, you never trusted me from the very start." Crocodile said.

"Of course I never trusted you, Shichibukai like Jinbe, Kuma, and Mihawk I trusted. People like you, Moriah, and Doflamingo I never trusted." Smoker said.

"Oh no words for our illustrious and beautiful Boa Hancock?" Crocodile asked, raising a brow.

"She's… different. She doesn't interact with anyone much and pretty much hates men and any men that gets near her she turns to stone. However, I do respect her, she became a Shichibukai to protect her people." Smoker said.

Hates men and turns people to stone? Luffy remembered what the giant on Little Garden said about the three woman who visited the island annually and smiled.

'Looks like I found one of the women, a Shichibukai to protect her country huh?' Luffy though with a smile before he spoke allowed.

"Hey, you you're Crocodile right? When I get out of this cage I'm going to kill you." Luffy said, causing the man to roll his eyes.

"I actually didn't expect you to get this far Straw Hat. But don't worry, you'll be dead soon. After all, the guest of honor isn't here yet." He said with a smirk.

Not ten minutes later did the doors to the room open with Miss All Sunday having Vivi hoisted over her shoulder. Miss All Sunday then tossed her onto the floor where Crocodile smirked.

"And it looks like she's here! So Miss Wednesday, you've been avoiding my assassins pretty well yet you come straight to me." Crocodile said.

"Of course, I'd come for you! After what you are doing to my country!" She shouted, before charging at Crocodile and throwing her chakrams at him.

The chakrams hit Crocodile's face and went through it, his head turning into sand. Crocodile reappeared behind Vivi one hand gripped to her mouth.

"Are you satisfied Miss Wednesday? If you had lived in this country you would have knew about my Suna Suna No Mi fruit." He said.

"He's a sandman? A logia type user?!" Usopp said in shock, realizing their point of attacks won't work on the man as Logia type users were immune to most damage.

Usopp was damning the fact that none of them had managed to master Armament Haki yet. Sure, they could get short bursts of it so far but nothing for long periods of time. The most they could do was land a few hits on him before they'd be exhausted from using it. Crocodile tossed Vivi into a chair.

"Sit and stop glaring at me, it's time for the plan to start isn't, Miss All Sunday?" He asked.

"Of course, it's past seven." She said with a smile.

"What do you mean plan?!" Vivi shouted in outrage.

"Right now my agents are setting up an event that will throw Alabasta into right out war. How does it feel Miss Wednesday that you were part of the plans that leads to the destruction of Alabasta? If you listen I bet you could hear the shouting all over Alabasta!" The man said laughing.

All of the prisoners were grimacing in disgust at the man's depravity.

"And what do you think they'll believe? That we'll protect them!" Crocodile said, still laughing.

"Stop this! Why are being so cruel?!" Vivi shouted.

"Kuhahaha! Isn't that a tearjerker, love for one's country is what'll destroy Alabasta." Crocodile said, laughing.

"Trust me Crocodile, we'll get out of this cage." Luffy growled, everyone else nodding with him.

"I can remember how difficult it was to get here. First, I had to scrape up members for everything, then I had to get the money needed for the dance powder, then stirring up destruction in the cities, teaching my employees how to carry act faked acts of army corruption, and slowly eroding the trust the citizens had in the king. Do you know why I went through all the trouble for this?" Crocodile asked Vivi, ignoring Luffy.

"How can I understand what's going on in your fucking rotting mind?!" She yelled.

"Wow, what a foul mouthed princess." Crocodile muttered.

"No, I'm actually curious, why did you do all this?" Luffy asked.

"I'm glad someone's interested. It's all for a certain thing hidden in this country, protected by the royal family of Alabasta for generations, ever since the birth of the Twenty Kingdoms, a Poneglyph detailing the whereabouts of the weapon Pluton." Crocodile said.

"Pluton?! You want that monstrous thing?!" Luffy shouted.

"Wait, you know what Pluton is?!" Crocodile shouted, Luffy's exclamation also seeming to catching the shock of Miss All Sunday.

"Of course I fucking do! Pluton is something that should never be brought back! It has the potential to destroy the entire planet if used wrong!" Luffy yelled.

Luffy remembered the day from Harry's memories when they had discovered the Twenty Kingdoms had created Pluton. Over five hundred million people died that day, and over half of that were innocents who weren't involved in the rebellion. It took about five hundred million more to capture and hide Pluton from the Twenty Kingdoms. That warship's destructive capabilities were beyond horrific.

"But isn't that perfect?! With the power of a weapon like that I could rule the world! I could make the perfect Utopia!" Crocodile shouted, Luffy catching Miss All Sunday's wince at that.

Luffy scoffed at the man before glaring at him.

"You're utterly insane. A utopia cannot be created because by definition it means no crime, no deaths, no hate, and no fear. But what you're planning to do is incite fear the complete opposite of what the is definition." Luffy said.

"I don't particularly care how it comes about." Crocodile said.

Suddenly there was a thud and everyone saw Vivi trying to escape.

"Oh? What do you think you're doing Miss Wednesday?" Crocodile asked.

"We can still save them! If we get to Alubarna before the rebels we can end the war!" Vivi shouted.

"Isn't that odd? We were just going to go there as well. Straight to Alubarna. To ask your daddy one question." He sneered

"What have you done to my father?!" Vivi yelled.

"Well princess, who do you value more? Your father or your people?" Crocodile asked before pulling out a golden key.

"Of course, you'll have to get this key first." Crocodile said before opening a trapdoor and dropping the key in.

Vivi gasped immediately after that.

"What happened?!" Nami asked.

"One of the bananadiles ate the key!" She yelled.

The gang looked at the windows and saw the weird looking crocodile that was mounted on the casino swim around, realizing that those were the bananadiles

"Oh I'm sorry, they think that anything I drop in there is food." He said with a shrug as he began to walk out.

"This place is set to get destroyed in twenty minutes, if you think you can then defeat the bananadiles and retrieve the key." The man said before there was a ringing sound

Crocodile pulled out a tiny den den mushi and answered the call.

"Ah? Is this thing working? I've never used one of these baby den den mushi's before." A voice said.

"Yes it's working, what is it?" Crocodile said, getting irritated.

"Okay, this is the shitty restaurant." The voice said, making the Straw Hats realize who it was.

"You're the one who answered the call at Little Garden, who are you?" Crocodile asked.

"You can call me Mr. Prince." Sanji said.

"Mr. Prince! We need your help!" Usopp yelled.

"That sounds like my crew…" Sanji said.

Suddenly there was sounds of a struggle before a different voice took over the den den mushi. It reported asking what they wanted Crocodile to do with Sanji and then they reported their location. Crocodile and Miss All Sunday headed off to go pick up Sanji as the bananadiles started entering the room and water to start pouring in. One started to attack Vivi and she managed to dodge but dodging caused the attack to crash into the window, causing more water to pour into the room.

"I'll see if I can go find someone!" Vivi shouted as she dashed off to the Casino's entrance.

"I really hope that shitty cook isn't dead." Zoro muttered.

Thankfully not three minutes later did Vivi come running back into the room with two familiar people.

"Goldie!" Nami yelled.

"Sanji!" Zoro yelled before closing his mouth and turning his face to hide his blush.

"Yo marimo." Sanji said, though Luffy could hear a bit of fondness in the cook's voice.

"Good job Vivi!" Luffy said with a smile.

"Thanks!" She said with a thumbs up.

"Now kill those stupid bananadiles!" Nami shouted, getting antsy as the water was getting closer and closer to above her thighs where she'd be rendered useless.

"Get the third one that entered the room, it has the same growl as the one that ate the key." Smoker said.

"We don't have time for that! Sanji kill the bananadiles but Goldie have you perfected that color?" Luffy asked.

Sanji nodded and went to kick the shit out of the bananadiles. Goldie however nodded furiously and broke out her palette filled with paint that she always kept on her in her bag. She quickly had the paint float in the air before a lot of red mixed with a medium amount of yellow and she smothered it on the front of the seastone cage.

"Get back guys cause bright red-orange is the color of lava!" She shouted.

The effect was instantaneous, the paint started changing before it became molten lava and melted the front of the cage until it was nothing. The remaining lava hit the water and created steam before hardening.

"Great job! Now we need to get out of here." Luffy said.

"I have an idea, each of you people who don't have devil fruits grab someone who does. We're going swimming." Usopp said before grabbing Luffy and jumping into the water.

Zoro grabbed Sanji, Gin grabbed Alvida, Carmen grabbed Smoker, Vivi grabbed Nami, and Kaya grabbed Goldie before they all dove into the water as well. They swam for a while before they successfully made it outside, everyone panting from exertion. Smoker however stood up and gave them a weird look.

"Why did you save me?" He asked, confused.

"Smoker, did I ever give you the inclination that I wanted you dead? You have a decent sense of honor, which is far and few in the Marines." Luffy said.

Smoker seemed to think for a second before he sighed.

"I'll let you go this time. The next time we meet you're all dead." Smoker said before turning around.

Taking that as what it was they started running off, heading towards Alubarna.

"Do you expect us to run all the way there?" Usopp asked.

"I actually have an idea. Nami-swa- I mean san, put that perfume you bought at Nanohana on." Sanji said, cutting off his usually suffix for Nami when Zoro gave him a look.

Nami gave him a curious look before pulling out said perfume and putting it on.

"What's the point of that?" She asked, the smell of the perfume hitting everyone's noses.

"That." Sanji said a few minutes later, pointing to Chopper who was sitting on top of a giant crab, waiting for them.

"Oh yeah! I forgot the perfume was so strong it hurt Chopper's nose." Carmen said, having remembered Chopper running away from the perfume section in Nanohana.

"Hey guys! Get on, my new friend here said he'll take us to Alubarna, especially if it's to save the country." Chopper said, waving his hand.

"Even the creatures of this country want to help…" Vivi said with a wistful smile.

"I mean it's their home too after all." Luffy said, matching her smile.

They got on and the crab and it started running. However, two minutes later Vivi was grabbed off the crab by a cloud of sand.

"Vivi!" They all shouted before Luffy jumped off the crab.

"You guys go without me! I'll be fine!" Luffy said as he grabbed Vivi and tossed her back onto the crab as it was still running.

As the crab ran off into the distance without him, Luffy was staring down Crocodile who was glaring at him.

"Your games have gone on long enough Straw Hat Luffy." Crocodile said with a glare.

"She's strong you know? She's holding the burden of her country on her shoulders and refuses to back down. I won't let an asshole like you tear that away from her." Luffy said, causing Miss All Sunday to laugh.

"What's so funny? Do you want to die Nico Robin?" Crocodile said, revealing Miss All Sunday's true name.

"If that's what you wish, what happened to you not calling me by my name?" She asked as she was walking away.

"Where are you going?" Crocodile asked gruffly.

"Ahead to Alubarna." Robin said before she headed off.

"Crazy woman." Was Crocodile's comment before he turned to Luffy.

Crocodile then seemed to pull something out of his pocket before tossing it at Luffy's feet. Luffy took a look and saw that it was an hourglass.

"I'll give you three minutes. That's all the time I have to play with you." Crocodile said.

"That'll be easy then." Luffy said before dashing forward.

Luffy began punching at Crocodile, his punches going straight through the man. Luffy knew it wasn't going to work because as a Logia-type user attacks would go straight through him. Luffy then decided it was time to try something, jumping back.

"What are you, afraid?" Crocodile mocked.

"Nope, just getting ready for something." Luffy said.

Luffy quickly centered him to find that ball of fire before he grasped a hold of it. He then charged forward before flipping really high above Crocodile before threading the fire into his right food.

"Gomu Gomu… HEELDROP!" Luffy shouted, whiplashing his foot up then down, slamming the now black coloured foot into Crocodile.

Crocodile was probably surprised when the attack actually hit him and slammed him into the ground, creating a massive crater in the sand. Crocodile struggled to get up, probably not bothering to physically train himself and just rely on his Devil Fruit. Letting the Haki fade from his foot Luffy stood up right and dusted off his pants.

"How the hell did you hit me?!" Crocodile yelled.

"Oh? You're a Shichibukai yet you don't know what Haki is? I'm disappointed in you Crocodile-chan." Luffy said, mocking Crocodile.

"Haki?" Crocodile asked, clearly confused.

"By infusing my will into my body, I can hit Logia-type users. Of course, I can't use it much and only in short bursts but it should be enough to kill you." Luffy said.

"You can forget those three minutes…" Crocodile said before the sand started to pick up.

A full-blown sandstorm formed in mere seconds, buffeting Luffy with the sand. Luffy ignored the pain and charged forward, slamming a haki-infused kick into Crocodile's stomach, knocking him away and onto his back. Luffy knew he couldn't keep this up for long as the Armament Haki would drain his energy as long as it was active. He could already feel the exhaustion coming. Crocodile however didn't waste any time as he slammed his hands into the sand.

"Desert Girasole!" He yelled, causing the sand to sink inward, turning it into quicksand.

Luffy was quickly getting dragged under by the quicksand but refused to let it end there. He jumped up out of the quicksand and flew at Crocodile with another Haki-infused punch. Crocodile however managed to grab Luffy's other arm and suddenly it shriveled up.

"My powers can dry up anything. Your so called 'Haki' is useless if I manage to grab you." Crocodile said with a sneer.

That however, gave Luffy an idea which prompted him to quickly take a drink of the water that the old man in Yuba gave him. He was surprised and happy when he saw that the water caused his arm to regain its moisture. Luffy then quickly jumped back and materialized his wand and pointed it at Crocodile, saying a word that he hoped Crocodile would come to fear.

"Aguamenti" He said, causing a giant jet of water to burst out of the wand, hitting Crocodile in surprise.

The jet of water caused Crocodile to tumble back and fall on his ass, stunned. Luffy took that time to punch Crocodile in the face. What Luffy didn't expect was Crocodile to take the punch and use it to stab him in the stomach with his hook before throwing him into the sandpit.

"You may have fought well but there is a difference between the rookies and the elite in the Grand Line." Crocodile said before walking away.

As Luffy was slowly drifting out of consciousness he felt feminine arms pick him up and take him out of the quicksand. He then felt his wounds being treated before a voice he recognized as Miss All Sunday spoke up.

"Pell-san, this man is responsible for the safety of Princess Vivi. Please make sure that he gets to Alubarna." Nico Robin said.

'Is she saving me? Why? We're enemies…' Luffy thought.

"Alright Miss Nico. I don't know what your motive is but I'll trust you for now. For Princess Vivi's sake." A male voice, probably the Pell guy, said before he was lifted onto the back of something with feathers.

Quickly Luffy felt himself being rose into the air as if he was flying once more before he quickly blacked out.

Everyone else's journey was a bit more hectic. They were all worried about their captain and brother, Luffy, but Nami told them to put their trust in their captain. Of course their first obstacle came when they reached the river and found out that the crab couldn't swim. Of course that inspired a speech from Vivi which in turn inspired the crab to attempt to run across the river. That worked, until about halfway when the crab started to sink and they got attacked by a giant fish. Thankfully the Kung Fu Dugongs that had went with them to Rainbase appeared and beat up the fish, convincing it to carry them across. When they got to the other side they were met by a group of ducks and Carue that Vivi informed them was the Spotted Bill Duck Squad who were the fastest animals in Alabasta. When they reached Alubarna they split up, all wearing cloaks to throw off the Baroque Works members who were more than likely waiting for them to catch Vivi and stop her from ending the war.

Usopp ended up getting attacked by Mr. 2 who stole his goggles and ran off, transformed as him but Chopper managed to fix him up while Goldie guarded them. They were then attacked by a pair who called themselves Mr. 4 and Miss Merry Christmas. Mr. 4 had something that shocked the two, a gun that seemed to have 'eaten' a Devil Fruit and was a dog. Whereas Miss Merry Christmas seemed to be a mole person. For Usopp and Chopper this was a disadvantage as Miss Merry Christmas would dig underground and attack them from below and drag them into the gunfire of Mr. 4's gundog Lasso. For Goldie it was an irritant because parts of her kept turning into paint with each attack. It was putting a drain on their energy because they were resulting to using Armament Haki to block the bullets and reforming put a drain on Goldie's energy. Chopper then had the bright idea of turning into Brain Point where he promptly figured out that the weakness for Miss Merry Christmas was the fact that all the tunnels were connected. Usopp then promptly shot a bomb into the tunnels, exploding the entire thing and knocking out Miss Merry Christmas. In turn Goldie used one of her new colors, bright silver, which she dubbed the color of reflection. That caused the bullets that flew at her to suddenly bounce back and hit Mr. 4, hurting him and knocking him out.

With Sanji and Carmen they were currently facing off against Mr 2 who seemed to have failed at capturing Vivi. The duo were managing to defend well against Mr 2 until the man turned into Nami. That prompted Sanji to outright laugh at the man.

"I guess shitty captain was right. One of my opponents would one day use my appreciation of females against me. I'm sorry to say this but, I've had my honor beat out of me by my crew." Sanji said before kicking the Nami-imposter in the face with a steel leg, sending him/her flying towards Carmen who swung her fan in response, completely closed, which knocked the okama out.

Zoro and Kaya were currently facing Mr. 1 who seemed to have eaten a devil fruit that allowed him to turn into blades. The man proceeded to mock the two saying unless they could cut steel then they couldn't beat him. That caused Kaya and Zoro to give each other a look before nodding. They centered themselves and focused their Haki into their weapons rather than their body and charged.

"Onigiri-" "Surgical-" They started, swinging their swords back.

"Slash!" "Precision!" They shouted, moving behind Mr. 1.

Mr. 1 began to laugh, saying they failed. That is until he suddenly fell into pieces, clearly being cut by them.

Nami, Alvida, and Gin were fighting against Miss Doublefingers who seemed to have eaten a fruit that was very dangerous. Her fruit allowed her to create extremely pointy spikes from her body which was causing Alvida and Gin trouble holding her off while Nami was preparing. Thankfully though before the woman could attack them again Nami finished, a small thundercloud in her hands. She quickly tossed it at the woman.

"Liten åska!" She shouted, causing the miniature thunderstorm to go off and fry the woman, knocking her unconscious.

Elsewhere Vivi had finally managed to reach the Royal Palace and had asked the Royal Army to blow up the place as a distraction as the Royal Army and the Rebels had already started fighting. That caused mass refusal until the current head of the army said that Vivi must have a reason. However they were met by a sound outside which turned out be Crocodile and pinned to the wall with nails was her father.

"What have you done to my father and where's Luffy?!" She yelled.

"What if I said he was in hell?" He asked with a smirk.

"You're lying!" She shouted

"I guess I don't have any proof of that fact. But you know it's sad that you sacrificed yourself to end the war and failed. So King, answer me this… where is Pluton?" Crocodile asked, seemingly shocking the king with that question.

"I don't know how you know that name but I don't know if it exists or not." The king said.

"Tch, but you are hiding something that does know. But I don't see the point though, I have a special cannon aimed at the square down there designed to blow up everything within five kilometers. It's special because it is made so that anything blown up by it cannot grow anything." Crocodile said.

"We won't let that happen!" Four voices yelled.

Suddenly though four warriors jumped onto the building, each of them having strange marks on their arms. The soldiers on the ground shouted something about them being the Duck Claw Squad. Said squad then quickly charged at Crocodile who scoffed and dodged them easily.

"Weaklings who drank that so called Hero's Water just to get stronger. I won't even bother fighting you, just die from the water." Crocodile said, dodging for five minutes before the men dropped dead, clearly from the water.

That enraged the head guard Chaka who turned into a jackal and attacked Crocodile. Crocodile simply glared at the man and slammed him into the ground before throwing his damaged body off to the ground.

"Being weak is a sin." Crocodile said with a sneer.

"What the hell is happening here!" A new voice shouted.

Vivi turned and she was shocked to see a blonde haired man wearing a cloak.

"Kohza!" She shouted.

"Why is the king of this country being hurt by the hero of this country!?" He shouted.

"Kuhahaha! You're so funny! I didn't think that in the most problematic time of clashes between two forces that you'd be here. It's like a lizard fighting with its head cut off." Crocodile laughed.

"Think of the worst possible situation and that's this." Robin said, leaning against the wall.

"The person who took the water from this country! Who was it?!" He shouted.

"It was…" Vivi started.

"Me! Everything that you thought was the King, Kohza. Was traps set by my country! It was so easy to herd you into dancing to my tune all these years. Even though the royal family and the army were trying so hard to reveal our shadows! I think you would have died easier had you not known this Kuhahaha!" Crocodile gloated.

"Don't listen to him Kohza! You have to go stop the war! The square will explode soon!" the King yelled.

"What?!" Kohza shouted.

Chaka however struggled to get up, slowly standing.

"Hurry!" He shouted, causing Crocodile to comment his surprise at him still being alive.

Kohza started to run but Vivi tackled him to the ground.

"Get off me Vivi!" Kohza yelled.

"No! If you tell them that the square's going to explode then there'll be mass panic! You have to stop the fighting and you're the only one who can do that!" Vivi yelled.

"That's good judgement but do you think I'll do as you wish?" Crocodile said, getting ready to attack them.

Chaka however blocked the attack, taking the brunt force of it.

"I am the Jackal, the Guardian Spirit of Alabasta! I will protect its citizens! Vivi-sama Kohza-san do as you were!" He yelled.

The two dashed down to where the fighting was and Vivi was shouting for them to put up the white flag. The soldiers were questioning her as to why but then suddenly Kohza climbed up holding the white flag, declaring an end to the war. However, quickly after that he was shot in the back by two royal soldiers who turned out to be Baroque Works spies but the army and the rebels didn't notice that and thought it was treachery which started the fighting again. Vivi collapsed, crying over Kohza body, a sandstorm suddenly hitting.

"Please, stop fighting!" She yelled, but it wasn't heard, however her hopes were brought up when she heard a familiar voice.

"Don't worry I got this." Luffy said, jumping down right next to her.

"Luffy?!" She yelled, happiness in her voice.

"Yup, now let's see.. a Sonorus should work." Luffy said.

He quickly pointed his wand to his throat and muttered the word "Sonorus" and then spoke.

"Nami! You know what to do!" He yelled, his voice carrying over all the fighting.

Somewhere in the crowd a voice rang out.

"Aye, Aye captain!" Nami yelled.

Suddenly the sandstorm started dying down as a raincloud was appearing over Alubarna. Up on the roof the exertion was clear on Crocodile's face as he attempted to keep the sandstorm going. However, soon he gave it up as a lost cause and let the sandstorm go. He then jumped off the roof with the King on his back and Nico Robin behind him and started running away. Shortly after that it started downpouring, shocking everyone and pausing the fight temporarily. That was until someone, who Luffy suspected was a Baroque Works officer, shouted that they must have used Dance Powder again. That irritated Luffy to the point he jumped on the roof of the palace.

"Would everyone stop fucking fighting!" Luffy yelled, unconsciously drawing on the power of Conqueror's Haki.

The effect was instantaneous as an invisible wave of pure unadulterated power rang throughout the entire square, knocking out a lot of people which included the traitorous Baroque Works spies and the two Office Agents who were hiding in the clocktower with the bomb. When those two agents got knocked out they fell forward, pushing the clocktower open and revealing the cannon, shocking everyone.

"Now that I freaking got your god damn attention." Luffy said before pulling Vivi up there and enchanting her voice with Sonorus while removing his with Quietus.

"Now give them a speech worthwhile Vivi, I need to go after Crocodile." Luffy said, heading off in the direction he saw Crocodile and Robin head in.

Vivi gave a smile in the direction Luffy left before looking forward and steeling herself.

"This war is pointless! This fighting is pointless! Do you want to know why?! Over the past two years I have been undercover in a certain organization ran by someone you all trust and love." Vivi started, pulling up her sleeve to reveal a Baroque Works tattoo on her shoulder.

"While in that organization I have been ordered to do many things. At first I didn't understand what it was all for. However, recently I have learned that it was in order to decrease your faith in the King! And the culprit, the leader of that organization? It is none other than Crocodile! He has been using the powers of his Devil Fruit to create sandstorms and droughts! He has admitted it himself!" She shouted.

Everyone was surprised when they saw Kohza slowly get up, using the flag as a crutch.

"I believe her, Crocodile admitted it right in front of me." Kohza said.

"Then shouldn't we take care of Crocodile?" One of the rebels said.

"No! A friend of mine is taking care of that! We need to get that bomb out of this city somehow! If we don't it'll kill everything within five kilometers!" Vivi yelled.

Everyone agreed and began to get to work, the Straw Hat crew helping as well. Over with Luffy however he managed to follow Crocodile to a secret area in the royal family tombs. There he saw something he hadn't seen in forever, a poneglyph, and Crocodile seemingly threaten Robin, saying that she has failed him and was going to die.

"Not if I have anything to do with it!" Luffy yelled, flying at Crocodile with a Haki-infused kick, causing him to be sent flying into the wall.

The destruction to the wall caused the underground chamber to start to fall apart. Crocodile responded by creating sand which made the ruins even more unstable. Luffy responded as well but with a high powered Aguamenti that completely negated the man's powers.

"That's it brat, I'm going to take care of you right now." Crocodile said, unsheathing his hook revealing it was coated in a purple liquid that was obviously poison.

The man charged, trying to hit Luffy with the hook countless times. However, Luffy dodged every attack, but Crocodile was dodging his attacks as well. Knowing that he wouldn't land another hit in without doing something, Luffy willingly took the attack and whiplashed his haki-infused fists into Crocodile's face. That knocked Crocodile back, looking severely damaged. The man pulled out a knife and was ready to end Luffy who was panting on the ground. But Luffy then did something that he knew would only work if Crocodile was severely weakened, as otherwise he'd shake it off.

"Stupefy!" Luffy yelled, sending the known red bolt of light at Crocodile, knocking him unconscious.

Luffy then collapsed to the floor, breathing really hard as the ruins were coming down on them. He saw Robin walk over to him and poured a liquid down his throat that seemingly made him feel better. He then saw her sit against the wall, apparently accepting her death. With a scoff he hoisted himself up and walked over to her. With her protesting he threw her over his back before grabbing the King with one hand and Crocodile with the other. He then quickly made his escape, making sure to hit Crocodile's head on each of the stairs.

When Luffy returned to the square he saw that the bomb was gone and everyone was partying. Vivi then explained that everyone helped move the bomb out of range, even the various animals. They managed to get it away from town and escape out of range from it in time. She then led the entire Straw Hat crew into the palace to a room they could sleep in where they promptly fell asleep in exhaustion.

The next few days was filled with drinking and eating. It was actually around that time that they discovered Igaram was alive, which made them all happy. The Marines had tried to arrest the Straw Hats but the Royal Army and the citizens lied to them saying they weren't even here, despite the fact that they saw some of the Straw Hats going into the palace with supplies. Soon though it was time for them to leave, and the day of Vivi's speech. Luffy gave her an ultimatum. He told her that if she really wanted to join them then she was to meet them at Nanohana in an hour. But even if she didn't join them she would always be a part of their crew and Alabasta would forever be under the Straw Hat Armada's protection, proven by the fact that the Royal Palace now also flew their flag.

When they reached their ship they met with all their subordinates and did a damage assessment. To their joy only thirty were dead, and forty injured, out of the three hundred plus members they had. They then set sail for Nanohana to wait for Vivi. It was there that they heard Vivi make her speech and start to think that she wasn't coming with them.

"Everyone! I'm here to say goodbye!" A voice shouted from the coast.

They turned and saw Vivi standing there with Carue. Vivi seemed to do something and then her voice rang out with the speakers.

"I.. I can't go with you! Thank you for what you've done! Even though I still want to go with you.. I, I really love this country!" Vivi shouted, her voice broadcasting all over Alabasta.

"Even though I want to stay here… If there comes one day that we meet again! Will you accept me as your family once more!" She shouted.

"We shouldn't answer them, if we do the Marines here will mark her as a criminal." Nami said.

"Not exactly, if you didn't know, Vivi's family, the Nefeltari family, is part of the founding families of the World Government. Even if they wanted to they can't attack her or her kingdom, why do you think I put our flag up?" Luffy said.

"Really? Then alright, we do this together." Nami said.

They all undid the band of cloth they had on their arms to reveal the X's. Originally only a few had them but Goldie later suggested they all get them as a sign of friendship. They turned to face Vivi and smiled, showing the mark.

"Of course we will! For we are forever family!" They all shouted, as they sailed away, Vivi and Carue raising their marks too.

However as they were sailing away they heard a familiar voice.

"That was wonderful work." Nico Robin said as she appeared on deck.

"What?! When did you get on board?!" Nami shouted, everyone but Luffy preparing for an attack.

"I've been sitting here reading a book and taking a bath the entire time." Robin said with a smile before leaning up against the wall.

"Monkey D. Luffy. You remember what you did right? You better take responsibility." Robin said.

"You mean saving you? Why?" Luffy asked.

"I was fully prepared to die there you know. But then you come in and save an enemy of yours. I have no clue what to do now… So let me join your crew." Robin said.

"What?!" They all shouted.

"Ok." Luffy said, shocking everyone even more.

"WHAT?!" They screamed.

"Why are you letting her join?" Carmen asked.

"Because, I can tell she's telling the truth and being sincere. Heck I've been confused the entire time as to why she's been fighting with us yet not really wanting to kill us." Luffy said.

Robin however started to do various things that won each Commander over. From giving Nami jewels, to offering books to Kaya, to making Chopper, Goldie, and Usopp laugh, to offering a few personal recipes to Carmen, to Sanji… just being Sanji, to offering to spar against Gin and Alvida. Of course Zoro still was hesitant to trust her but Luffy was generally never wrong when it came to his judgement on people.

"Alright Robin-san. With joining us means you're part of our family, meaning you're our sister. So my question is… what is your specialty?" Luffy asked.

"Ah, I learned and became an archaeologist at the age of eight where I was hunted down by the World Government for 20 years. So I guess you could say I specialize in Assassination and Research." Robin said, causing Luffy to smile.

"That's perfect, we've needed a Commander for an Assassination Division and a Research Division. Well then, welcome to the crew Commander or should I say sis." Luffy said with a smile.

Alright for those who are very aware of canon, there's going to be some time before the gigantic ship falls from the sky. I found it odd that right after Robin joined it fell from the sky. That couldn't have been not a few hours after they left Alabasta. Next, ah we're almost getting to the chapter where I ignored an entire part of canon, Long Island Arc. I skipped the Davy Beck stuff in that arc and just went with Aokiji. That is because I feel like it was nothing but filler because nothing serious happened in that storyline besides the ending. So, I believe the Long Island Arc deals with Aokiji and goes straight to Water 7. As usual I enjoy your suggestions!