At morning time on the west coast in Raftel, Tilestone was just driving up to the race track.
Kaya was at the racetrack too, saying, "We're here live at the Raftel International Speedway, as the first competitor, Rob Lucci, is arriving at the track!"
As Tilestone parked and pressed the button to open up the trailer to let Lucci out, reporters started to crowd around it asking questions like,
"What did you eat for breakfast?"
"Are you doing a photo-shoot for Playgirl magazine?"
"What's your strategy?"
But when the doors fully opened, Lucci was nowhere in sight, making everyone gasp in shock.
"What?" Tilestone asked as he got out of his truck and walked over to the trailer and got a mortified expression when he saw it was empty. At that moment, several reporters started to talk about the incident with Lucci missing.
"Rob Lucci's driver arrived but Lucci was missing," Reuder stated.
"There is no sign of Lucci or his vehicle and his whereabouts are unknown," Rocky Hattari said.
"I just hope Lucci is okay, I'd hate to see anything bad happen to him," another racer named Hatchan said.
"I don't know what's harder to find, Rob Lucci, or a crew chief who will work with him!" Buggy the Clown joked.
"Rob Lucci must be found at all costs," the governor of Raftel, Akainu said.
"They're all asking the same question; where is Lucci?" Absalom said.
Lucci started to wake up to feel the sun on him. He sat up drowsily, looking at his surroundings, until he noticed a slightly muscular, dark-skinned teenage boy with long black curly hair that was pulled back into a ponytail of some sort, a small goatee and had a long nose. He wore a pair of goggles around his neck, some ear protectors on his ears, a white sun cap, a pair of rolled-up yellow pants with red suspenders, a pair of boots, and a blue and white striped wristband.
There was also a dark-skinned teenage girl that was shorter than the boy with long black hair tied into a think braid, a white headband with the Japanese character for cat written on it, and bright green eyes. She also wore a pink t-shirt with a hibiscus floral pattern on it, khaki shorts that reached just an inch away from her knees, black boots, and a small pink wristband-watch.
"Morning, Sleeping Beauty!" the girl exclaimed, making Lucci jump and move away from them.
"Man, we were wondering when you were going to wake up!" the boy exclaimed.
"Take whatever you want! Just don't hurt me!" Lucci shouted, as he moved back more to hear a clank.
Lucci looked down at his hand to see he had a chain tied around it, and he looked around him to see he was trapped in some sort of outdoor cage and he saw his car had a parking boot on it.
"What? A chain? A cage? My car? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, PLEASE!" Lucci freaked out.
The boy and girl looked at him for a few seconds before bursting out laughing.
"You're weird, I like you already," the girl said.
"I'd say!" the boy added. "My name's Usopp."
Lucci stopped panicking and said, "Usopp?"
"Yeah, the Uso part of that name means to lie in Japanese," Usopp explained.
"And his name doesn't lie. He's the biggest liar and prankster in town." The girl said. "I'm Sekhmet. I live around here too. My parents live here too. You might meet them. Now, what's your name?"
"You-you don't know my name?" Lucci said confused since he assumed everyone in the world knew who he was.
"Uh…no? Why? Are you famous?" Usopp asked, confused.
Lucci did an annoyed sigh and said, "Look, I got to get to Raftel and fast. Where am I?"
"Where are you? You're in Galley-La, the greatest town in this freaking county!" Sekhmet exclaimed, jumping onto the gate and glaring at Lucci.
"Down Sekhmet, down," Usopp said, grabbing Sekhmet and yanking her off the gate like someone would do to a cat that was trying to climb on the curtains.
"Great, just great," Lucci groaned.
"Well, if you think that's great, you should see the rest of the town," Sekhmet said.
Then, Lucci got an idea. "You know, I'd love to see the rest of the town," he lied, grinning. "If you just let me out of this cage, take this chain off of my hand, take the parking boot off of my car, we could go around and check out the scene. You two and me."
Usopp and Sekhmet looked at Lucci for a few seconds before they smiled and said, "Sure."
"Idiots," Lucci thought.
"Cool, we'll have lots of fun," Sekhmet said as she was about to pull the lever to open the gate, until Paulie shouted, "Sekhmet! Usopp!"
The boy and girl went stiff and stood there, saluting as Paulie walked over.
"What did I tell you about talking to the criminal?" Paulie asked, a little ticked.
"…To not to," Sekhmet and Usopp sighed.
"Well, quit talking and take this delinquent to the court," Paulie ordered.
"Sure thing, Paulie," Sekhmet said as she opened the gate, walked into the cage and took the chain Lucci's hand was tied to and proceeded to drag Lucci toward the firehouse, with Usopp and Paulie following close behind.
Inside the court, Lucci saw several of the townsfolk inside the courtroom already, yelling at him as he entered. Lucci recognized, Kumadori, Jabra, the raven-haired girl, Chopper, the skeleton, Laboon, the cyborg, and the square-nosed man. There were a few others he didn't notice, like the old lady, an orange-haired girl, a blonde man, a green-haired man, and a little girl with blonde pigtails holding a blue rabbit.
"You scratched my paint and nearly ran over Robin!" the cyborg man shouted.
"You nearly ran over Kaku!" Jabra snapped.
"Yeah, what in blazes is your problem?" the square-nosed man Lucci believe was Kaku shouted.
"You ruined some of my stack of wax and destroyed Chopper's flowers," the raven woman who Lucci assumed was Robin scolded as she comforted a crying Chopper still.
"Did you see what he did to Tom's statue!" the old lady shouted angrily. "Because I didn't!"
"You hurt Tom's statue, you big meanie!" the little girl shouted.
"Nya! Nya!" the rabbit meowed.
"You broke the road! You're a very bad man!" the skeleton jeered, scaring Lucci a bit since skeletons weren't supposed to be alive the last time he checked.
Lucci stood at the desk with the word Accused on it.
"Hey Sheriff, can we make this quick? I need to be in Raftel," Lucci said.
"Where's you're lawyer?" Paulie asked.
"I don't know. Tahiti maybe," Lucci said.
"When the accused is without a lawyer, the court will assign one to him," Paulie quoted, then he shouted, "Hey! Anyone want to be this guy's lawyer!"
Everyone took a step back, except for Usopp and Sekhmet.
"I'll do it, Paulie," Usopp said, going over to Lucci.
"All rise. The honorable Iceberg is presiding," Paulie said. Everyone rose from their seats. "May Iceberg have mercy on your soul," Paulie said, glaring at Lucci.
At that point, a tall man with blue hair and crimson colored lips stormed into the courtroom. He wore a red and orange striped jacket over an unbuttoned orange shirt with a wide collar, black suit pants and black shoes. Lucci also noticed there was a huge mouse wearing a collar and a small vertically striped suit following close behind. He was surprised that nobody was frightened by it because he sure was.
"Alright, Paulie! I want to know who wrecked my town! I'm going to put him in jail until he rots! No, check that. I'll put him in jail until the jail rots, then I'm going to move him to another jail, until that jail rots, I'm-," the man ranted as he went to the judge's stand where he saw Lucci.
Lucci got a terrified expression on his face as Iceberg glared at him.
"Throw him out of here, Paulie. I want him out of my courtroom! I want him out of our town! Case dismissed!" Iceberg exclaimed.
Everyone cheered and Lucci muttered, "Yes."
"Wow, Usopp, you're good a being a lawyer," Sekhmet said.
"It's a gift," Usopp stated, even though he didn't do anything.
Then, the doors to the courtroom opened. "Sorry, I'm late, Ice Pops," a voice said.
Lucci turned around to see someone else enter the courtroom.
It seemed to be a boy with short black hair, a scar under his left eye, and had a straw hat. He also wore a red t-shirt with red buttons, black shorts with big pockets, a yellow sash around his waist, and sandals.
"Holy Kami," Lucci muttered. "He must be from my attorney's office!"
When the boy walked by the accused desk, Lucci said, "Hey, thanks for coming, but we're all set. He's letting me go."
"He's letting you go?" the boy said, surprised.
"Yeah, things have pretty much worked out. Sorry about that. Hey, how about I take you to dinner to make up for it," Lucci said and then doing his signature flirty growl, which made the stranger jump a bit.
"Um, that's a little weird," he said.
"I'm sorry, did I scare you?" Lucci asked.
"Well, a little, but I'll be alright," Sekhmet said from behind.
"Okay…I'm going to go talk to the judge," the boy said.
"Okay, but be careful, not many people seem to be friendly here, and some have intelligence below average," Lucci warned the boy. He looked over at Sekhmet who was in front of a window, looking at her reflection before she did a growl at her reflection and ended up scaring herself.
The boy looked at Lucci, a little annoyed, until he said, "Hey Usopp, hey Sekhmet."
"Morning, Luffy," Sekhmet and Usopp greeted.
"Hi guys!" Luffy greeted the other townsfolk.
"Hi Luffy."
"Morning, Luffy-bro."
"Good day, Luffy-san."
"You know him?" Lucci said, surprised.
"He's the town attorney," Usopp said.
Sekhmet then whispered into Lucci's ear, "And my fiancé."
"What!" Lucci gasped.
"I'm kidding. He just likes me for my body," Sekhmet said.
"Don't say stuff like that Sekhmet. Your dad might hear you," Usopp warned the girl.
"Ice Pops, you look great today. Did you do something a little different with your hair?" Luffy asked.
"What do you want, Luffy?" Iceberg asked, a little annoyed.
"Come on Ice Pops; make this guy fix the road. The town needs this," Luffy said.
"No, I know his type. Race car driver. The last thing this town needs," Iceberg said, glaring at Lucci.
Luffy sighed and said, "Okay. I didn't want to have to do this, Ice Pops but you leave me no choice. Fellow citizens!"
"Here he goes again," Iceberg muttered.
"Galley-La, the gem of Route 66. The mother road! It's our job and our pleasure to take care of the travelers on our stretch of Highway Route 66," Luffy stated.
"Travelers? What travelers?" Jabra asked.
"Yoi-yoi! Ignoooore him Luffy," Kumadori said.
"But how are we to take care of those travelers if there is no road for them to drive on? Brook, what do you sell at your store?" Luffy asked the skeleton.
"Tires," Brook stated.
"And if nobody can get to you?" Luffy asked.
"Then I won't sell any…tires. I would lose everything!" Brook cried.
"Nami, what do you and Robin have?" Luffy asked the orange-haired girl.
"Well, we run the café," Nami said. "And we have gas. Lots of gas!"
Usopp, the cyborg, and Sekhmet were biting their lips, snickering, until they burst out laughing.
"Franky, Usopp, Sekhmet, as funny as it is, please stay with me," Luffy told the three.
"And Nami, what will happen if nobody comes to buy gas?"
"Well, we'll go out of business, and we might have to leave town," Robin said.
"And what happens if Robin and Nami leave town?" Luffy asked.
"No gas for our cars and no food!" everyone else said.
"And if Robin goes, I have to go," the cyborg named Franky said.
"And I'll have to leave to if there's nowhere for me to work," the blonde man said.
"Are you sure it's because of that or because you don't want to be without Nami and Robin, ero-cook," the green-haired man said.
"Shuddup, Marimo!" the blonde snapped.
"So what are we going to do?" Luffy asked his friends.
"Fix the road!" everyone shouted.
"Cause we are a town worth fixing!" Luffy exclaimed.
Everyone in the courtroom cheered loudly.
"Order in the court!" Iceberg shouted, banging a mallet on the desk.
"My jurisdiction has been changed. The accused will stay and fix the road."
"Yeah!" everyone shouted.
"NO!" Lucci cried. The race car driver glared at Luffy and hissed, "I am so not taking you to dinner!"
Luffy laughed, "Shishishishi, that's okay, leopard man, you can take Bessie."
"Oh, you get to take Bessie. I'd give my Black Kabuto to be with her," Usopp said.
"Bessie? Who's Bessie?" Lucci asked.
Well, Lucci just saw Luffy and Lucci liked him briefly until Luffy talked Iceberg into making Lucci fix the road. yeah, I had two characters for Mater's role because there are some stuff Mater says that I can't picture Usopp saying and I had to have someone say the lines I can't picture Usopp saying, so I chose my OC Sekhmet.
I own Sekhmet
Oda-san owns One Piece
Disney Pixar owns Cars
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