FFN's been down for me since midnight on Tuesday so I wasn't able to post this until now. Sorry!

EDIT: WOW I'm dumb. I thought I'd updated the story with this chapter this morning. I'M SORRY!

"Where's the damn ship?" Zoro growled, turning his head left and right in desperate search.

Robin tapped his shoulder. "Port's this way."

His eye twitched and he did a 180.

"Great," he said, staring out to the open sea. "So where's the ship?"

Robin shrugged.

"Why did you point me this way if the ship wasn't here?!"

"I just thought you should know where you were supposed to be looking," she said.

Zoro sighed. "They must've moved it to evade the Marines," he muttered. He glanced at Luffy and shifted her in his arms. "How you doing?"

"I'm okay," Luffy said stubbornly, rolling out of Zoro's grip and standing. "It's just my stomach."

She immediately doubled over, but bit back a groan of pain. "I'm fine," she repeated.

Zoro sighed and scratched his head. "Alright then."

"You're going straight to Chopper when we get back," Robin said sternly.

Luffy looked away. "Anyway, let's look for them." She ran on ahead, albeit a tad slowly. Zoro and Robin followed, keeping an eye on her, ready to grab her and keep moving should she collapse again.

She glanced back and yelled, "Zoro, this way!"

Zoro doubled back, checked himself, and got back on track.

"That's why I told you to keep your eyes on me," Robin said quietly. "And speaking of eyes . . ."

She crossed her arms as they ran. A moment later she said, "Luffy, I found them. Keep going this way until you see Sunny. Are you up for getting us over there?"

Luffy grinned and nodded. "Always!" She winced, but refused to acknowledge the pain and pressed ahead.

"Getting us—? Oh, great," Zoro muttered apprehensively.

Just a couple hundred meters later and Luffy was yelling, "I see Sunny! Guys, hold on tight!"

Zoro and Robin latched on to her waist and hips and held on tightly as she stretched out her arm, reaching for the ship.

"Do you see them?" Sanji asked desperately as Nami peered through the telescope, scanning the shore.

"No," she snapped. "Stop asking. Those three can take care of themselves."

"But Robin-chan and Luffy-chan—!"

"Are strong and don't need your protection," Nami completed, not bothering to give him the grace of looking at him. "If you're going to insist on being like that, Zoro's there, too."

Sanji muttered something about how he would be a much better protector than that swordsman.

"I see them," Nami announced. Ignoring Sanji's relieved sigh, she frowned. "Luffy's kinda hunched—uh-oh."

She lowered the telescope and quickly shuffled several feet to the right.

"Nami-san, what—?"

Sanji's unspoken question was answered as Luffy, Zoro, and Robin flew to the ship and bowled him over. All four crashed into the railing and fell to the deck.

"That was exhilarating," Robin said, smiling as she stood and brushed off stray specks of dirt.

"Robin-chan, Luffy-chan, are you okay?!" Sanji cried, leaping up and ignoring the huge lump on his head.

Zoro scowled as he and Luffy stood. The others started coming to the deck where they were. "Since when was Luffy ever hurt from something like that? You do realize he's made of rubber. Thought you would've known that by now, swirly."

Sanji barely spared him a scowl before turning to Luffy and Robin. "My dear ladies, are you hurt anywhere?" he asked reverently. "Perhaps you should see Chopper, just in case?"

"I think they're fine," Chopper said.

"Well, actually—" Robin began, but Luffy interrupted her.

"Sanji, we're not weak," she said firmly, glaring at him. "You should know that."

"Strong or weak, I have a duty to protect ladies!" Sanji exclaimed.

Luffy's hands curled into fists. "Stop that."

"What?" Sanji said, backing up a step nervously.

Luffy sent him a scary glare and he seemed to shrink. "Having a body like this doesn't mean I'm a woman!" She yelled. "I've been telling you, all of you, all this time, I am . . ."

She winced and doubled over. "I'm a . . . ma . . ."

Luffy collapsed to the deck, groaning in pain.

"Luffy?" Usopp cried.

"That's what I was going to say," Robin said. "He's been having bad stomach pains. It even stopped him from fighting back when he was captured."

"Someone get a doctor!" Chopper exclaimed.

"That's you," Brook said quietly.

Chopper slapped his forehead, turned big, and hurried forward to scoop up Luffy. Without a word he brought his patient to his office and shut the door behind him.

"Well," Sanji said after a moment. "I'll get started on dinner . . ."

"Are you two okay?" Franky asked.

They nodded. "Those Marines were wimps," Zoro said. "I'm surprised they can survive on this sea."

"They hardly put up a fight," Robin added.

"Alright, cool," Franky said, giving them a thumbs-up.

The crew was forced to have dinner without their captain, who'd been sternly ordered bedrest by their doctor.

"You worried about Luffy?" Usopp asked Sanji curiously, who'd been rather quiet since Chopper had taken Luffy to the infirmary.

"I'm trying not to be," he admitted. "I'm sure it'll be fine."

Zoro gave an almost imperceptible nod of approval, but said nothing.

When the sun rose, Luffy sleepily sat up and was surprised to find the stomach pain completely gone—it must have vanished in the night.

"Cool," he said happily, and then looked down at his body and cried out in surprise.

The crew, minus Sanji (in the kitchen), was hanging out on the deck as the sun hovered above the horizon.

Suddenly, any semblance of sleepiness was sharply jerked away with the banging of the infirmary door flying open and hitting the wall. Swift footfalls met their ears, and suddenly Luffy came running around the corner. He promptly screeched to a stop, placed his hands on his hips, and grinned.

His chest was flat again, his waist and hips back to his normal ratio, and his smile was as bright as ever.

"I'm back to normal!"

One more chapter!