~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter 7 / Tears
When the group got back to the ship Nami was on the deck waiting for them.
"Chopper they are back!" Nami called out and by the time the group made it on the deck Chopper was out there to greet them as well.
"What happened to Robin and where is Dr. Morin?" Nami gasped moving to Franky to lay a hand on Robin's shoulder.
Franky was still holding Robin as the woman clung to him, one of her hands having made its way to wrap its self in a twisting grip on his open shirt.
"She got away and made a Buster Call." Zoro said matter of fact like.
The words made Robin flinch as if she had been hit. Franky turned his head to Zoro and even through his sunglasses covered over his eyes it was clear he was glaring at the swordsman.
"What?! But if they come now how are we sups to get Dr. Morin's research?" Nami asked.
"They might not be coming." Franky then said and all eyes drew to him. "When we where fighting I saw Morin spray something in Nico Robin's face and soon after she started acting like this. As well I didn't see Morin make any call did you guys?" Franky explained and asked.
Both Luffy and Zoro shook there heads no. They had not known nor had seen Robin get sprayed. They where happy that chances now looked slim to none that a Buster Call was coming but worried now for Robin.
"A spray?" questioned Chopper.
Franky nodded. "Ok bring her in to the med room, if it's a spray I can treat that right now." Chopper said then hurried back to the med room.
"So then we don't have to worry about a Bust-.." Nami's words died on her lips as Franky shot her a look and she quickly cupped a hand over her mouth and nodded.
Franky then took off carrying Robin to the med room. The others followed and hung back in the hallway keeping there eyes to the open door. Usopp soon joined the others in the hallway whispering a soft, "Kitchen's clean."
Inside the med room Franky sat Robin down on Chopper's chair at the desk since the bed was in use by a struggling Sanji. The blonde had been tied up with robes to keep him from bolting off for when the sedative started to lose its momentum. Clearly the sedative was already losing its hold on the man as he wiggled his body desperately to try and get free. Muffed sounds where as well coming from his mouth but being gagged no one would be able to make out what he was saying. That had been the point of course. There where only so many pleads for death Chopper could stand hearing from the cook. So for his own sanity he had gagged Sanji as well.
Franky kneeled down by Robin's side since she still clung to him even now her face buried to chest as she sobbed. He kept his arms around her in a comforting hug trying to give her as much support as he could till Chopper could help her.
Soon enough the little doctor turned to Franky handing him a basin of water mixed with some clear cleanser treatment in it. "Here Franky wash her face with this." ordered Chopper then started to get the breathing treatment ready.
Franky lifted his sunglasses to rest on his head and then sat the basin on the desk. Taking the rag from the tub he rung it out and gently used his other large hand to place under Robin's chin to guide her face to look up at him. She had tears and snot streaming down her face making the normally clam unbreakable woman look a wreck. Her lips trembled as she whispered out again, "B-buster call."
Franky frowned and shook his head no while biting his bottom lip to keep himself from crying. Carefully he eased the cool rag to Robin's cheek and wiped clear some of her tears. He shook his head no once more, "Its coming. I promise it won't come." Even if that bitch had called them Franky assured himself he would find a way to make his words true be it him having to stop them all himself as long as he didn't have to see Robin like this anymore.
Robin's big blue eyes held fearfully to Franky's eyes but her lips stop trembling and no longer whispered out in fear as they held there gaze to each other. Franky only now and then looking away to rewet the rag so he could return it to Robin's face in slow tender strokes. By the time he finished cleaning her face she had even managed to stop crying. One Franky's large thumbs caressed the side of her face. She still looked terrified but seemed to have a better control on it then she had.
"Here Robin." said Chopper and Robin's and Franky's gaze into each other's eyes broke as the little doctor put a breathing mask over Robin's face that covered the woman's mouth and nose. "Breathe in deeply, if you feel then need to cough up do it in here." He put another basin that was empty in Robin's lap. "The more you cough up the better." assured Chopper.
Robin leaned forward as she breathed in the treatment Chopper had prepared and with in minutes she was coughing lifting up the mask to spit up into the basin. Chopper had her breath in more and repeated doing so for while as Franky stayed by her side the whole time rubbing soft comforting circles in her back.
From the hall Nami offered, "I will get her some water." With a nod from Chopper Nami was off to do just that.
Luffy was staring down at the floor his hands balled in fists as Usopp chose to look away from it all and too the wall. Both seemed to be deep in thought.
Zoro stood there as all he could look at was nothing but Sanji laying in the bed struggling in vain to get free. That one visible blue eye twisting in desperation of pleads for his own death. Then that eye turned to him and him alone as if he Zoro would do something to help. It made the words the cook had spoken come back and hit him full force and he had to lean back to the wall to keep to his feet.
"No don't you see Zoro it's what you wanted it's what's best for the crew!" Sanji's cry echoed threw Zoro's mind.
How, even if drugged, how could that baka cook ever think Zoro wanted him dead? Zoro promised himself when this was all done and over with and once they had his Sanji back he would make sure Sanji never thought that ever again. He was not sure he was ready to admit his feelings to the cook or if he would ever be ready for that but dammit to hell he would at lest make Sanji know he was needed here and Zoro wanted him alive.
Nami came back with a glass of water and moved into the med room, Franky got up and let Nami take his spot as he moved into the hallway.
Robin gratefully took the water and first washed her mouth out before taking a drink. Robin then lifted her face and smiled to Nami, "Thank you Nami-san." Chopper looked pleased as his treatment had given Robin a full healthy recovery.
Franky put a large arm over his eyes and leaned to the hallway wall and started to bawl. Robin turned her head to look at this and smiled all the more her head tilting to the side. "Franky-san it's ok now. I'm fine now honest you don't need to cry." She coached.
"I'm not cry! I just have something in my eye." bawled on the large man.
Robin kept the smile to her face though a little sweat drop appeared on the side of her head. "Of course." she mused.
"Alright now with Robin all better we take on the marine training base!" Luffy said, stepping up to take charge.
"B-but Luffy! Robin should rest and someone needs to stay and take care of Sanji!" gasped out Chopper.
"It's ok doctor-san I feel much better now and I very much want to go and meet Dr. Morin once more." said Robin in way that promised much pain for the other woman.
"And I can stay here with Sanji-kun. They will probably need you with them anyways Chopper in case anything else happens along the way." Nami stated.
"Erm… ok but Robin you have to tell me if you feel any of the effects returning and let me set out some sedatives for you Nami in case Sanji gets any worse." Chopper agreed yet stating terms to the relinquish of his patients.
Robin and Nami both agreed, and then after Chopper got Nami set up with what she might need the little doctor started to prepare his backpack for what he might need against Dr. Morin.
Zoro narrowed his eyes at Sanji as tears started to leak once more from his visible blue eye still silently pleading with Zoro. Just the mere thought of what the cook might be thinking now had the swordsman turning on his heel muttering, "I'll wait on deck."
Dr. Morin was going to pay for doing this to Zoro's nakama and making his Sanji, turn those kinds of looks to him. Of all the attention Zoro wanted from the cook he never wanted something like that, something to make Sanji such a shell of himself. The bitch had robbed Zoro of one of his treasures and you just didn't do that to a pirate and get away with it.
The others got themselves ready and soon they where heading out to cut threw the forest to make a direct route to the marine training base.
The crew had split into two groups once they reached the base. Team one Luffy, Chopper and Usopp. Team two Zoro, Robin and Franky. There main goal was to get Morin and her notes and with her already having ran away once they where worried she would do it again. Team two would cause a distraction getting full focus on them by the marines so team one could sneak by and quickly get to Dr. Morin's lab where she was most likely to be found and capture her before she had a chance to run again.
For once Zoro's plan of go threw the front door and attack anything that moved worked out well. The marines they found in the courtyard where not even as tough as the ones in the hotel had been. So Robin was about to Clutch attack till her hearts content. They kept them selves back to back making a kill zone around them as the masses kept swarming down on them like they had upset an angry hive of bees.
Meanwhile team two snuck in over the wall…well more like flew over the wall as Luffy grabbed Chopper and Usopp and lunched them and himself over the wall to come crashing down in the medical ward. The racket had caused a few marines to come but Luffy made short work of them with slight help from Usopp.
After Luffy knocked out the last marine to charge at them Usopp realized Chopper was on the other side of the large room with a medical chart in his hooves looking over the condition of one of the many marines that occupied the beds in the ward.
"Chopper what are you doing?!" hissed Usopp in a whisper scared if he was any louder more marines would come in.
Chopper put down the chart he had and picked up another from the next bed and then the next and his eyes started to water. "These are all Dr. Morin's failed experiential test subjects." He explained.
Luffy and Usopp gazed over the numbers of men that lay in bed bandaged nearly from head to toe looking a bit like mummies.
Usopp noticed a man near him in bed that had his foot unwrapped and it looked like his skin was boiling up on it. One of the bumps as well had ruptured and was leaking yellow like pus. Usopp's cheeks expanded in a puff as he put a hand to his mouth and quickly look away as he started to sweat from what he had seen.
Luffy frowned "We will come back if we can Chopper but we got to help Sanji first." The captain reminded.
Chopper nodded and they all headed out of the room though Chopper gave one last look over his shoulder before he made his exit wordlessly promising if he could come back he would help them all somehow.
After a few wrong turns and few pissed off marines, group one finally found there target and hurried into Dr. Morin's lab. It was huge cold metal room with some tables with various dry and liquid ingredients on them and equipment for the use of making medicines or some of the doctor's wacky evil drugs most likely. There were also desks and bookshelves, file cabinets, however along one of the walls there where a few large glass tubes with some bodies submerged in light green clear liquid. Chopper could not even till if they where alive or not but with the way there where dressed it was easy to tell they where pirates.
"Morin!" Luffy yelled out.
The doctor herself emerged from behind a large curtain screen in the back of the room. She looked slightly different this time. She still was in her black clothing with wooden sandals but now had on a white lab coat over her clothing. As well her hair was now down free flowing along her back to her waist as her thick rim glasses still sat on her head.
"You're coming with us Morin or I'm kicking your ass!" Luffy threatened.
She smirked, "I will admit you had the advantage last time but that is hardly the case this time. As for this time I have prepared for you arrival."
"Good then your not gunna run away again." Luffy grinned and cracked his knuckles.
"No I will not be." smirked the doctor all the more and pulled out a remote control. "This is really not my forte but security for one's lab is important and when doing something might as well do it right." She snickered and used the joy stick.
A large metal saucer from the ceiling then moved over the head of Luffy making the captain look up at it. "What's that do?" he question.
"Let me show you!" She laughed and hit a switch on the controller.
The action suddenly made Luffy drop to the ground and indent to the floor as pressure pushed down on the rubber man making it so he could not even lift a finger.
"Luffy!" Chopper cried out then turned anger eyes to the woman. "How?!" He cried out. "How can you call yourself a doctor? Doctors are meant to help heal not cause harm to people!"
"How naïve." She sneered. "It's about power. It's always about power and I can make plenty of it or take it away anytime I like!"
"You are not fit of the title of doctor!" Chopper yelled with conviction and pulled out a rumble ball.
Morin was quick to act tossing back one side of her lab coat like one might see in a show down in a western and pulled out a five needles from the hidden belt she was now wearing with many other things hanging from it. She threw the needles at Chopper just as he was biting into the ball. He had been able to dodge some but not all and now wobbled to his left then his right then back to his left. "I'm going to…" hiccup "kick your .." hiccup "asss!" then the little doctor fell forward in a drunken stupor.
"That will keep you busy for fifteen mins or so while I take care of this last goon." Her eyes flashed then to Usopp.
Usopp paled and pointed to himself.
Morin nodded smiling.
The long nose gave a nervous laugh. "You might want to surrender yourself now…cause huh… I the mighty Captain Usopp have 8,000 men surrounding this base waiting for my command to attack!"
She scoffed and pulled out more needles and threw them at him not willing to give time to make up more lies.
Usopp yelped in fear and curved his body in 'S' shape then 'C' shape and lifting his nose up and panted as he had by in luck somehow dogged all of her needles. "Whew…that was dangerous."
"Arrrgg! I will not be made a fool of!" and with that she ran at Usopp and turned so she could skid to the man the rest of the way sliding on her wooden sandals as she flicking back the other side of her lab coat and pulled out the spray bottle she has used on Robin earlier.
"Ha!" she gloated in glee as she sprayed Usopp's face as she came to a stop in front of him.
Usopp blinked and just looked at her. He had been scared shitless of what she might do but she just sprayed water in his face, what the hell?
Morin blinked in confusion then tried again "Ha!" and sprayed Usopp in the face again.
Usopp blinked and stared.
She stared back and nothing happened.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" she yelled repeatedly sprayed him in the face.
Usopp's face was now dripping wet and he looked a bit annoyed. "Cut it out already!"
She blinked dumbfounded. "Why are you not scared?!"
Usopp gave another nervous laugh, "The great Captain Usopp fears nothing!" Though his knees where still knocking together in fear and had been ever since the battle started.
"Usopp is always .." hiccup "..scared even of his own…" hiccup and Chopper sat up swaying in place. "shadow. .. Its only..log-log-loga…makes sense your spray would not work on him." And Chopper fell backwards with a drunken giggle.
Morin blinked at what she was told then suddenly was flaming mad. "That's just stupid!" she yelled with a tick forming on the side of her head. "No one is that much of a coward!"
"Usopp." Luffy strained to speak. "Get her."
"Huh…oh right!" Usopp then grasped his hands to one of her arms. "The mighty Usopp has once again -... owe owe owe" Usopp yelped in pain as Morin started to stomp down her foot to his.
"Get your hands off me you filthy pirate!" she growled and stomped all the harder till Usopp had no choice but to let go and hold his now aching foot. He hopped around on his one good one foot as he blew on his injured one as it throbbed in pain even through his shoe.
At being let go she made a run for it and turned skidding backwards on her wooden sandals again. "I will find your weakness!" she promised and as she came to a stop in a crouching position with one leg extended and pulled down her glasses to her eyes so she could scan over Usopp with them. "Ah so that's it!" She smirked and reached behind her back pulling out a small bag. "This time I won't fail!"
With that said Usopp took out his slingshot and gulped but readied himself in what would clearly be a show down.
Morin pushed up and ran at Usopp then turned to skid on her wooden sandals.
Usopp fired at her with Kayaku Boshi but she shifted skidding off to the right to dodge then the left as Usopp fired again but each time she got out of the way just in time skidding along the smooth floor.
Then she was there in his face again and before he could throw up his hands in time to defect it she was throwing white powder in his eyes from the bag. She skidded past him and jerked around to come to a halt to watch her victory.
Usopp blinked as his eyes started to water and he rubbed them with the backs of his knuckles but that only made them worse.
"Usopp!" gasped out Luffy in worry.
"Luffy!" gasped the snippier. "I….I …" he rubbed his eyes more then let his hands dropped to his sides and fell to his knees in defeat. "I can't see Luffy!" Usopp cried out with tears and snot trailing down his face as he looked around blindly.
"That's right…and you can't beat what you can't see." Morin mocked as she pulled out a needle and syringe and flick tapped the side of the tube that held light yellow liquid in it. "Now you have caused me far too much trouble long nose…time for lethal injection and to put you out of your misery!" she laughed cruelly and moved to Usopp.
Meanwhile on the other side of the island on the ship Nami had her hands full with trying to take care of Sanji. She had already used two of the three sedatives but they didn't seem to be doing any good anymore. It was as if his body was adapting to it something. It was highly frustrating but she was trying to keep her cool and his by applying cold rags to his forehead.
"Sanji-kun please try to relax." Nami begged as she dipped the rag in the cold water bowl by the bedside and rung it out then put it to rest on his forehead once more.
She jumped then as she herd thumps on the deck. "That's weird no one would be back by now." She thought out loud and got up as Sanji became frantic now. She looked down to him and smiled. "Shh it's ok Sanji-kun. I will be right back." She promised and then picked up her staff (Perfect Clima-Tact) and stepped out the door softly shutting it behind her and headed on to the deck.
As she got there she was faced by two very large men. Each three times the height and size of Franky and built like walls. They wore black hooded masks that looked like black leather bondage masks with zippers over the mouths and everything. There rest of there clothing where stretch shorts and ankle boots and tank tops all in black. Though each of the two had something different printed on the tank tops. One had 'S1' on his and the other had 'S2' printed on his.
S1 pointed to Nami and unzipped his mask with the other hand over the mouth area. "We are here for the cook's head and you." He then zipped the mask back up.
Nami gulped but there were just two of them. Surly she could take them. She held tightly to her staff. She just had to plan this just right.
"Oh well then if that's all…" she then jerked left and ran to get away from them calling Rain then Cold, then last Heat with her staff just making a cloud when S2 reached her and before she could do anything more the wall of the man slammed a hard brick like punch to stomach making her cry out in pain then another fist catching her just under the jaw as she bent forward this hit making another scream rip from her throat as she went sailing through the air to land on the sandy shore of the beach near by.
Nami rolled to her side in the sand and coughed sputtering up blood and looked up to see S2 jumping down from the ship but S1 was starting to walk to the door to the med room. She could not let them get to Sanji-kun!
Nami got to her feet using her staff to help her in the task finding it painful and she called out, "Thunderbolt Tempo!" making lighting crack down from the cloud she had made and fry them both at once.
It paused them both in action for but a moment then S1 looked over and started to join S2 in the hunt for her.
"Yes." She whispered in celebration for that small victory. She had hoped it would do more damage to them but if she could at lest get them away from going after Sanji-kun it was something. Nami looked around and quickly formulating a plan as her eyes set on the cliff that was near the ship acting as cover for it.
Wincing she held a hand to her stomach as the other held to her staff she ran for the rocky cliffs with S1 and S2 on her heels.
The path up the cliff was steep and she found herself having to climb up the side of the cliff as her bare knees and hands got cut into by sharp jagged rocks. As she then clawed her upper half to the top flat surface she felt something grab her foot. Shrieking she turned her head back to S2 had grabbed hold of her foot. She struggled and pulled and only managed to get free from his tight hold by slipping her foot from her sandal and scramble quickly to get the rest of her self up onto the cliff top.
She rolled and jumped up and put her plan to action calling Mirage Tempo and many different versions of herself now stood in different spots along the edge of the cliff spaced out. As the real her did a quick set up for Thunder charge to her staff and she waited for the duo to come.
S2 was the first to get up top and went right for the normal looking Nami and grabbed at it only to find it a counterfeit. At once Nami lunched her attack of Swinging Arm while the oaf was confused. It was probably not much to do damage to S2 but it was enough to knock him off the cliff edge he was so near and fall into the jagged rocks below.
There was one big draw back with this and that was S1 was now already up on the cliff and had seen which was the real her and before she could launch another attack S1 had grabbed her by one arm and grabbed her weapon with his other hand pulling her weapon from her grasp to toss to the beach below. He then proceed with an attack on her jerking her by the arm he held her by and throwing her to the more spacious side of the cliff.
A scream poured from her lung as she landed on the arm S1 had gripped her by. She could swear it was dislocated and it throbbed painfully.
The horror of the man now loomed over her reaching for her again as she lay there in pain, helpless, weaponless, bruised, dirty, bloody, and so very afraid.
Suddenly there was a dark shadow above S1 that seemed to block out the sun and a long leg in black pants kicked S1 over away from Nami as the owner of the said leg yelled at the man, "Don't you dare lay a hand on Nami-Swan!"
Sanji landed gracefully in front of Nami acting as shield now for any attack that would come her way. "Don't worry Nami-Swan! I will protect you with my life!" He declared just like he always did but this time Nami knew things where different as he looked back at her with that one visible blue eyes of desperation. The same look he had, had laying there tied up in the med room just a few moments ago.
Sanji gave her a sad smile then turned back around just in time to block an attack by S1 with his leg.
She jerked up into a sitting position looking now at his Sanji's back. "Sanji-kun!" Nami screamed her eyes going wide in fear while tears trailed down her face as she worried at what this could mean for Sanji protecting her in his state of mind at the moment. Things most defiantly had just gone bad to worse.
A/N: Yay all my packing is done! Well besides the last few things I will pack on move date. Bad news is Friday / early Saturday morning will be the last time I will be able to post anymore for this story till I get net turned on at my other place. Which will take a few days cause they need to do some rewiring. Though there is only one or two chapters left tot his story I think… maybe am wrong who knows xD No promises but I will try to get out another chapter before am net-less for a bit.
Anyways about this chapter I didn't hear any complaints about the little taste of fighting I gave you all last chapter so hopefully since this chapter is almost nothing but action/fighting you guys will still like it. As well I gave you more RobinxFranky in there ... like it? Yay for longer chapterness.
Gasp is that two cliff hangers I did? Oh crap…hey one of the cliff hangers is on a cliff lol…sorry I'm amused easily. Sooooo yeah! What you guys think? I'm review whore give me attention! xD
Chapter Review Replies:
tazx x x – Thank you so much your encouragement and praise! You all don't know how happy it makes me to be able to write something others enjoy.
AllBlueChaser – Thanks! Yeah when I started with this idea I thought it would be no fun if Sanji had to be guilty for it sooo guiltless Sanji ftw! xD
As for Dr. Morin yeah I could not let her get caught so easily, if so we would have not had this chapter.
Annnnd for the Buster Call I tried to trick you guys and make ya think twice but you clearly saw through it though …rats and as you see in this chapter it was only Franky that saw Robin get sprayed. *snickers* of course out of all the women in the room Franky's eyes would be on Robin, but yeah I will work on my trickyness xD
Sorry for the boo-boo would fix but can't find *hides behind a rock* told ya I suck at the edit stuff lol sorry.
datErdbeerschn – Tee hee I fully understand what your saying and thank you very much for the compliments. As for Sanji no worries see we didn't leave him like that…now he is on a cliff …talking about risking his life for Nami…yeah … that's better right? *sweat drop*
Lol that show freaks me out …the baby in the sun …really creepy o.o!
*snickers* as for that last question … huh wait till 'Your Mine' comes out and that should answer it for ya in very detailed ways xD