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Of Aftermaths and Missing Agents

At eight in the morning, the World Government Head Quarters had been bustling with activity. Hallways and offices were overflowing with agents and their staff more than the usual everyday scene. Sengoku arrived in his office with a giant mug of coffee in his hand sighing. The old man entered his office, nodding at the agents that greeted him.

Mondays... damn, how Sengoku hated them and it just became even more intolerable, even his weekend seemed like a 'Monday'. Made sense when he had to deal with the aftermath of events that transpired three days ago. He could've spent more time with his goat but work just had to come first, when you're dealing with a criminally insane stupid brat and his equally insane friends' antics, a man like Sengoku wouldn't be having a break soon.

He walked behind his desk and glanced out of the window in his office, he saw the pack of hyenas camping outside the Head Quarter's gates. "Goddamn media" he muttered, they just love to stick their noses into matters of the WG. Though the old agent already expected the place to be more chaotic, more packed with curious bodies trying to find out what the hell happened. The cover-up story he released made order out of the madness, well at least that had seemed to work a little. It would be bad for the WG if the story spread like wildfire, the trust of the populace and their sense of security would go down.

Various emotions appeared over the man's face as he recalled the moment he laid eyes on the stupid brat. It didn't take a person with precognition that all hell would break loose. The World Government Head sat stiffly his office chair scanning an open file that lay in front of him. He rubbed his eyes, then his temples, then his eyes again, he needed a whole lot of coffee for this, he thought as he stared at the face that he came to get accustomed to - Monkey D. Luffy - the reincarnation of Satan.

His elbow accidentally hit the ceramic resting on his desk spilling coffee as the mug hit the ground, the old man hissed. Seriously, his day couldn't get any worse he thought. That, in the same moment, his office door opened and its hinges begged for attention, Sengoku's eyebrows twitched as he heard his 'lovely' friend entered humming a song without a care in the world like his fucking grandson didn't just break in the most guarded facility in the world. Sengoku may genuinely have a bit of a tension headache going on.

Garp casually plopped himself down on the office couch opposite of Sengoku's desk, crossing his legs and stretching his arms on the back railing. Sengoku realized he needed a counseling psychologist before he broke past the barrier of his sanity.

"Something seems a little off today," Garp calmly said and Sengoku swore he would do his best to control his anger towards the Chief of Staff because the thought of not receiving his pension due to murder didn't taste good on the man's tongue. Sengoku chooses not to answer and proceeded to press a button on his desk that would call his secretary.

The Chief of Staff huffed and crossed his arms over his chest. "Can't believe that brat didn't even care to meet me!" Sengoku noted that was the 76th time he heard Garp said that and that was it, Sengoku finally fucking snapped.

"That's your problem?!" Sengoku bellowed, he stood up and leaned forward on his desk. "We have a stolen archive, a mole in the agency and a missing agent whose father had been calling me for god knows how many times. I can't even sleep because of the nonstop calls. Do you even have any idea what that man can do?!" Garp shrugged.

"And-" Sengoku paused composing himself before his brain exploded from anger " and all of it- all of it is because of your grandson! And all that concerns you is that he didn't meet you?! Are you fucking out of your mind?!" Garp looked at his friend it has been a while since he heard Sengoku actually curse, maybe he ought to get serious but did it even matter now? His grandson had gone and fuck it all. Garp had to hold on the hope that the brat didn't kill Trafalgar Law (he knew the brat wouldn't but that little shit can be unpredictable, he probably hung the guy somewhere or made him a shark bait) because like Sengoku, he didn't want to deal with an angry business tycoon.

There was a knock on the door and Sengoku sat back down on his chair. Garp's secretary entered bringing a flask and box, placing them on the table beside the couch and hastily leaving as Garp nodded at the young man. Garp opened the box. "Want some donuts?"

"No. I don't want a donut." Sengoku rolled his eyes and facepalmed at the question. What did he expect from Garp actually? He was better off training a jellyfish than getting a sensible answer from his colleague. Sengoku contemplated on resigning soon-before he gets an aneurysm. "What I want is your grandson in custody, Garp. I cannot deal with more trouble coming from that brat. God knows what that lunatic is planning next."

Garp sighed, he thought he should be offended by Sengoku calling the brat a lunatic, but the man really could not deny it cause Luffy did act like one. "Me too, Sengoku. Me too."

Penguin, Sachi, and Bepo had been hauled up in their office checking all the possible sites that the straw hats would hide. It had been three excruciating days since their boss had been missing. The last information they got was from the call that the tattooed man did inside the Archives and he was after Straw Hat Luffy.

Out of the commotion, no one really bothered to find him until the strawhats escaped from the HQ after the havoc they had caused. Bepo had to run to the Archive to check on their boss but there was no one there, the albino ran to the infirmary but it had the same result. Their boss was nowhere to be found.

Now the trio dug into their tenth donut box and sixth refill of coffee. "Do you think Straw Hat Luffy kidnapped him?" Bepo asked.

Penguin pondered for a bit and shook his head as he leaned against his chair. "It seemed impossible, the boss can fight Bepo. If we compare boss and Straw Hat Luffy, he would totally own Straw Hat."

"Unless someone else was with him," Sachi added as he stretched his stiff hands from typing relentlessly.

"Which was exactly the case." Bepo sighed. "Man, I can't believe Barto works for them.."

Penguin pulled his hat and ran a hand through his hair. "Dude, its either he is a fucking genius or we're just pretty fucking dumb that we didn't see through the act. Hell, he wasn't even acting for fuck sake, he blatantly proclaims his views on them. I bet he even preaches in alleys or some shit."

"Dude, we assumed he was just delusional, you know like those movies when the detective eventually takes the culprit's side... what's the word... Brainwashed. That but shit... now that you say it, we really look dumb huh, we got played big time man. " Sachi said rubbing his chin.

Bepo shook his head, Bartolomeo was not brainwashed, he had been like that since they first met him. There was a big possibility that he was, in fact, a mole from the straw hats and his acting skills were impeccable that even their boss didn't find out that the man worked for Straw Hat Luffy but it didn't make sense, the man's background didn't show any lapses. He worked for the World Government ever since he graduated the academy, the man even gained an award for exposing a drug cartel and was promoted due to exceptional service to the WG. Bepo rubbed his temples, no matter how many times he tried to decipher Bartolomeo, it just didn't make sense.

"Speaking of Barto, did they get anything from him?" Bepo asked. Penguin and Sachi both shook their heads.

"Man, three days and he said nothing. NOTHING. It's either he is fucking scared of what the straw hats might do to him or his loyalty towards them is just beyond human understanding. Do you guys even know how fucking scary that bastard Akainu could be when he's interrogating suspects?" Sachi rubbed his arms as his skin crawled just thinking of Akainu's despicable ways of getting answers.

"Shit. Good thing I'm not Bartolomeo." Penguin added returning to his previous task. He stared at the huge monitor in front of him, biting a donut as he scanned the list that appeared on the screen. Bepo dragged a chair and sat beside him a stack of printed reports on his hands, which he had covered with a highlighter pen.

The three of them jumped out of their chairs unmanly screaming as someone's phone started ringing. Bepo and Penguin glared at Sachi, they had the policy to keep their phones on silent when working imposed by their boss but now that the man was missing the idiot had been taking advantage. Sachi rubbed his nape sheepishly and grabbed the phone from his jacket pocket.

Penguin stared intently at Sachi. "Dude, you can stop glaring now, I made it silent again. Sheesh, Boss really did a good job on you guys, you almost act like him now." Sachi complained.

Suddenly Penguin ran to Sachi and hugged the man, lifting him off the ground and spinning him around. "Shit. I fucking love you man! Gimme a kiss." Penguin exaggeratedly protruded his lips on top of a contorted face slowly closing into Sachi lips. Sachi squirmed on Penguin's bear hug, stretching his neck as humanly possible as he can to avoid Penguin's disgusting lips. "Fuck off man!"

"Stop sexually harassing Sachi, Pen," Bepo said smacking Penguin's head as his way of helping the struggling Sachi.

"Ouch! That hurt man!" Penguin frowned letting go of Sachi. "Sorry." Bepo lowered his head.

"Don't fucking apologize Bepo, I should sue his ass." Sachi retorted wiping himself as if Penguin was contaminated by an incurable disease that could make him impotent.

"I-i just wanted to express my gratitude, okay?! D-don't assume it's more than that!" Penguin stuttered as he lowered his hat covering the color that spread on his cheeks. He may or may not have a slight crush on the other man. He cursed himself internally, he almost let his real intention slip off.

Bepo tilted his head. "Gratitude for what?"

Penguin quickly recovered and grinned, he ran towards his station where his monitors were placed motioning Bepo and Sachi to sit beside him. Bepo immediately followed suit while Sachi was still traumatized by the guy's previous actions, wary of another sudden 'attack'. Penguin started typing on his keyboard furiously with a grin on his face. Several boxes appeared on the screen as he typed commands and a map appeared.

"Holy. Shit." Sachi gaped looking at the image displayed on the screen.

"Is that what I think it is?" Bepo added leaning forward, rubbing his eyes making sure he was exactly seeing what he was seeing. Penguin couldn't stop grinning, he thought he was a fucking genius. He was fucking proud of himself for remembering that detail.

"D-d-do you think boss is still alive? Sorry." Bepo gulped. Penguin paused from his musings while Sachi's eye widened.

"O-of course Bepo, it's Trafalgar D. Water Law we're talking about. Even his glare can cause a heart attack." Sachi tried to console himself because fuck why else would be their boss' last location coincidentally be in Goa where Bartolomeo took the latest photos of the straw hats. But could they even trust that information from the green hair? Sachi cursed internally, shit's getting out of hand.

"I'm sure he's still alive. He just probably lost his phone or something." Sachi added and forced a chuckle.

Penguin rolled his eyes. "Lost his phone in Goa? That's hours away from here dude!... And-and why the fuck would he be there? Vacation?"

Bepo gulped hard. "Or they found his phone while he was trying to contact us, then they took it. They have a pretty damn good tech dude, he could easily tell that the GPS was on. Which means they have him. I was right all along, he was taken, hostage."

"Then..then we should go and save him!"

Penguin stared at Sachi like he just ate a sinful amount of doughnuts. " Are you out of your mind? You do know this is 'the' straw hats we're talking about, right? The people the World Government tracked for god knows how long, the people who pulled off the most ridiculous shit ever recorded in history!" Penguin bellowed flailing his hands.

"Then what should we do? We can't just wait. The longer we wait the fewer chances we'd end up finding his body...or even his lifeless body.." Bepo cringed, Sachi and Penguin glared at him. They couldn't just kill off their boss in their heads. "Sorry."

Sachi nodded. "We can't really tell anyone, what if they're like Barto." he paused and looked at Bepo and Penguin, narrowing his eyes in suspicion. "What if you guys are like Barto..."

Both Bepo and Penguin rolled their eyes. "Dude, can you not? We could say the same to you, you know." Penguin sassed.

"Then what do we do?" Sachi sogged in his chair.

"We go there ourselves," Penguin said firmly. "They mess with our boss, they mess with us," Penguin said cracking his knuckles.

"So how do we do this?" Bepo asked as he saved the map on his phone.

The airstrip shimmered in the heat of the noonday sun as the plane from Raftel landed on Goa. Bepo looked out from the window, at the far end of the airstrip he could see Goa's lively High Town where the rich and famous lived. He woke Sachi and Penguin who had been sleeping the entire flight like they were just going to take a vacation.

Bepo didn't know why the two seemed so relaxed when they didn't even file a leave of absence nor asked permission to travel when the World Government was on its wits end on the straw hat's case. In short, they went AWOL and most probably wouldn't have a job to return to, worse case scenario they would return in black body bags and their deaths would be listed in the Top 10 Most Brutal Anime Death Scenes .

The trio exited the plane and proceeded to process their arrival. They already had called a rent a car shop to use for their 'trip' way back in Raftel, they were prepared for the infiltration they were going to do to save their boss from the clutches of the evil straw hats. The trio left the airport making their way to the car shop to take the car they rented.

Bepo rolled his eyes as Sachi and Penguin started to take selfies, posing like idiots. He sighed, he only did this for their boss, he tried to tolerate the two idiots as they continued not giving a fuck about their future endeavor.

After a couple of minutes of walking, the trio got their car and started heading to where their boss' last GPS transmission was located. The last signal recorded was thirty miles away from Goa International Airport outside of Gray Terminal. Bepo pinpointed it to Mt. Corvo, one of the multiple mountains of Dawn Island. He thought the straw hats were pretty clever to pick the most biologically diverse mountain full of complex forests, the said mountain was pretty much isolated, not even properly charted and explored. He looked into the distance and saw serrated mountains looming.

The trio assumed that the straw hats had been hiding in the mountain and their boss would be there. Or at least what remained of their bosses body, Bepo thought, he mentally slapped himself, he needed positivity, at least get to see their boss' body before they lose their own lives maybe? He sighed, he should stop worrying about that and be like Sachi and Penguin who basically gave up worrying and tried to enjoy the last moments of their short-lived existence.

Bepo took a deep breath as the car he was driving left the concrete road and reached the base of the mountain. He took a quick glance in the rearview mirror just to see if the idiots were still sleeping, huddling against each other. He pressed a button to open the window beside the driver's seat, the scent of woody air flowed into the car. Bepo thought, he would've appreciated how fresh the mountain air felt if only they were in better circumstances.

The car started climbing slowly to the crest of the mountain. Bepo already memorized the path he would take, the mountain might not be fully charted but Bepo was goddamn good at navigating. He saw a path made up of gravel, fresh car tracks were embedded on the damp road. He could see a few cars parked together and a bunch of kids running around. It was surprising how the people living in Goa started making camping areas around such mountain.

The mountain started to get steeper and steeper, Bepo positioned the car correctly, changing gears as the car shook passing over huge roots spread out on the ground. It didn't take long for them to reach a sharp turn and then an endless line of massive trees snaked back and forth up the steep slope. Juggling with maneuverability especially when the condition of the 'road' was not favorable would lead to disaster, Bepo had to make a decision, they had to walk a couple of miles.

He shook his head as he stopped the car in a small clearing, flat enough for the car to park. How the straw hats reached their base was a huge mystery to Bepo, but he had to give credit to whoever made their path, though it was most probably the Cat Burglar, the woman had mad skills. The albino man woke the two bodies huddled in the back seat. He explained the current situation and they had no other choice anyway, either way, they couldn't just barge in the straw hats territory with their car blazing.

Bepo, Sachi, and Penguin started walking through the thick foliage. Penguin started taking pictures -again- with Sachi as the model. Bepo just shook his head and continued maneuvering through the vast forest until he could see a wooden cabin in the middle of a flat surface. Right there and then he knew that it was the straw hats base as he checked their current location with his phone. He tilted his head, was that all of the straw hat's base? A damned wooden cabin? Bepo didn't even know if all of them could fit in there much more if they actually took their boss as a hostage.

A fluorescent fixture flickered alive with a slight buzzing sound as Franky changed the bulb in his workshop. It had been abnormally flickering since the past thirty minutes and the blue haired man cannot focus on his newly invented contraption. He lowered himself from the ladder and pushed it on the corner of the room. Several..no.. tons of metal strips scattered all over the floor, the man cringed, he needed to clean the goddamn room again before his black haired beauty girlfriend deem him worthy of severe punishment and the blue-haired man knew how scary Robin can be.

He started picking up the cluttered pieces and placed them on his working desk. He kicked aside some of the scattered metal, letting them roll under the desk. Franky nodded as he checked the room once more, it should be enough, he thought. He went to the surveillance room to check if there were suspicious movements around their base. Their raven-haired leader had been terribly upset as the news of their aircraft being bombed reached them. It was always unsettling for the crew to find Luffy sad and gloomy when the man himself was the epitome happiness. It was outright creepy and wrong. At least food and good company made the younger man act normal again.

Franky sighed, he made the aircraft himself and the crew had used a huge sum for the materials for the plane. He tried to cheer himself up, adding himself to the count of distressed members would just make things worse. On the bright side, no one was hurt and they haven't been tracked-so far. Guess they just need to finish their current expedition and find the treasure Luffy had been wanting to find since he started his adventures and Franky would create the most supppeer aircraft for the raven.

He tossed some tools that he picked along the way to the surveillance room. He bet Usopp forgot about them again, the techie had been acting less and less human since they arrived from Raftel. The guy would evade Luffy like he was Death in human form and would look around like dope dealer. Franky even wondered if the guy slept for three damned days, if Luffy was weird and all that shit while upset, Usopp was the exact image of a person who made a pact with a devil in a crossroads and it was about damn the devil took his soul. Franky wouldn't judge the man if he started drawing devil's trap inside the base.

Franky paused in the doorway of the surveillance room which was barely opened. He could hear someone muttering something inside. He 'squeezed' -or at least tried to - himself through the door, trying not to scare whoever was praying intently. Through the monitor lit room, he could see a figure crouching on top of one of the black office chairs place inside the room. Franky swore he saw Smeagol from The Lord of the Rings, he yelped and a pair of glinting eyes focused on him, letting out an audible screech. What the hell? Franky fumbled along the wall looking for the switch hoping the light would banish the demon crouching on the chair. Goddamn it, Luffy should've chosen a less secluded area, who knew what kind of supernatural creatures dwell in this forest, he thought.

As the room lit up from four lights placed strategically along the corners of the room, Franky could see Usopp covering his eyes with one hand and protectively hugging a bag on the other. "What the hell Usopp? Watchu doin' man?" The man seemed to lower his guard as he heard Franky's voice and plopped on the chair.

"Close the door." was all the curly haired man could say with his hoarse voice. Franky did what he was told not giving Usopp the reason to claw out his eyes cause the way the man looked, Franky guessed Usopp could even eat him raw and use his blood for drawing the devil's trap.

"Dude, you're currently winning the No Sleep Marathon," Franky said as he saw the dark circles under Usopp's droopy eyes as big as damn Jupiter. Usopp hugged the bag tightly and sighed heavily. "How's Luffy?"

"Eh? He's good, he was eating earlier before I left the lounge." Franky dragged a chair and placing it beside Usopp. "Why? Did you guys fight?"

"No. no," Usopp started shaking and Franky instinctively patted the man's shoulder only for Usopp to swat his hand "Sorry, instincts," The man sighed. "Remember how upset he had been with the plane?" Franky nodded. "Well, I was helping him in HQ right?" Franky nodded again, urging the man to continue hoping it would ease the man's discomfort. "You see, he did some things that he thought were awesome and he promised me that he would break some of my gadgets if I didn't take the footage." Franky nodded for the third time, his mouth shaped into an 'o' as he put the puzzle together.

"So, that's why you're hiding here and had been avoiding him cause you haven't gotten the footage yet?" Franky asked and Usopp nodded letting out a whimper. "I see, I see... Dude, Luffy's all better, I'm sure he already forgot about that and you're his best friend, I'm suupper sure he would forgive, it's not a big deal." Franky thought he deserved to go to hell, he really didn't know if Luffy was a-okay with the whole footage fiasco. But hey, he wanted to comfort Usopp, guess that got him a ticket to purgatory.

Usopp rummaged his bag for his phone, he tapped the device and scrolled through tons of pictures, he looked directly into Franky's eyes and showed an image of Luffy with his famous deadly puppy eyes. "Look at him..and- and tell me..convince me- that he is not the devil." Franky tilted his head, Luffy actually looked like puss in boots in the image, he didn't see the 'devil' that Usopp was talking about. "Huh? was all that Franky could muster to reply.

Usopp swallowed hard. " He- he had that face- when he asked me for the lock combination of my vault... where all my gadgets are hidden... from his destructive hands Franky!" Usopp started sobbing and Franky... Franky could sympathize with the man. He placed an arm around Usopp's back and patted the man.. "Hush Usopp, it's okay." As Franky was comforting his anguished friend, he caught a glance of three human shaped shadows on the monitors. He stood up and took a closer look, Usopp looked up too and rubbing his teary eyes.

"We have guests, Usopp." Franky pushed a button that sent a resounding alarm inside the closed underground. Usopp immediately sat down and started fiddling with the keyboard.

Franky put his hands on his hips checking the monitors for more shadows. "This is the first time we have visitors, right?" Franky said as he looked at Usopp who seemed to have recovered from his post-traumatic experience.

"Well yes, whether we like it or not, Luffy and the others are basically freaking celebrities with their last act at the World Government HQ." Franky nodded, that act had blown out of proportions, Sengoku must have pulled strings to make it sound like a simple encounter, he thought.

"Oh, there goes Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy with their suppper tranquilizer guns." Franky beamed.

"Man, look at Luffy, and convince me again, that he is not the devil himself," Usopp said as both him and Franky stared at Luffy's face-splitting grin, jumping up and down like they were playing hide and seek with the intruders.

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As i mentioned, i will post two more chapters, i just have to edit them cause they're reallllllyyy cheesy.

I blame 'The Greatest Showman' for it. I was listening to the soundtrack while writing and it just inspired me to write the ultimate cheesy moment with Law and Luffy.

But if you guys don't mind the cheesiness, I'd gladly post them A.S.A.P.

(I don't have a beta reader and i only consult my partner but sadly he won't be reading the future chapters anymore cause it's full blown bxb stuff :( )

Special thanks to DeadlyMind-07 for always leaving a review on every chapter. Thank you so much, you make me happy! Bless your pretty soul :D ❤ ❤

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