I'M BAAAAAACK! did ya miss me? I've had major writers block... jk I've just lazy. Sorry. Well enjoy the new chapter! Also check out my other story- Meet the Kuja's.

I sincerely apologize for those who have been waiting since mid november.

for those of you who haven't seen it yet I redid some of the Arabasta section in chapter 4!

now enjoy!


Just then Lucci began to discover the secret behind Luffy's gear second. The crew was surprised to hear the explanation about how much strain Luffy's technique actually put on his body. Acting like a steroid and putting so much pressure on his heart.

"Why would Luffy do this if it causes him pain?" Chopper asked, he often wondered what the gear second was all about. As a doctor he knew how painful and dangerous using the technique must be. Luffy answered Chopper's question in a timely manner: if he didn't stop Lucci here, he would go kill his nakama. The crew smiled, typical Luffy mindset. They continued to watch the fight, until the crew could hear their own voices echoing from over the broken bridge. Telling Luffy that everyone was safe. The crew watched as Luffy smiled and then stared at his opponent with renewed determination. They kept watching the fight, with a few ooh's and ouch's from the audience. Eventually Luffy looked completley exahusted. He fell over, lying face down on the floor.

"Luffy..." Nami gasped "I didn't know he was pushing himself so hard for us." Robin put her hand on Nami's shoulder. Usopp kept looking up expectantly up at the bridge of hesitation, finally he saw what he was looking for.

LUFFY! GET UP!

The crew looked up to see Usopp standing there, his Sogeking mask removed. They watched as Usopp yelled at Luffy and then at Lucci.

"That pretty brave of you Usopp, challenging the strongest member of CP9 to a fight." Zoro said

"It was nothing to a brave warrior of the sea! hahaha." Usopp responded

"I still don't understand how you got there Usopp..." Chopper asked

"Uhm... I'm just awesome like that!" Usopp answered

"AMAZING!" Chopper said all sparkle eyed. Zoro face palmed. Usopp truly was proud though, he was proud that he was able to help Luffy find the strength to fight on.

THEN WE'LL ALL GO BACK TOGETHER!

...NO MATTER WHAT!

The crew saw Luffy yell as he got back on his feet.

"Go Luffy!" Franky yelled like he watching a sports match. Luffy then let a huge jet gatling on Lucci which seemed to go on forever until it finally knocked the pigeon man out. The scene faded once again to white.

"Luffy-san is very strong." Brook commented

"He's a monster." Zoro said

"You're one to talk!" Usopp responded, The scene faded back to color. They were at sea. Luffy was standing with torch in his hand looking up at the broken Merry Go. Usopp started bawling.

"...M...MERRY!" he cried. The crew realized where they were this time, most of them started fighting back the tears. Brook once again confused.

"You don't like the Sunny?" Franky asked

"No that's not..." Usopp trailed

"It's fine. I know it's from your girlfriend." Franky said slapping Usopp on the back. Usopp wiped his eyes and smiled at Franky.

"It's not just that Franky, Merry was our nakama and...and..." Usopp started crying again. Then Merry's voice came out of nowhere.

...sorry...

Usopp started crying harder.

"Wait! What was that!? The ship?" Brook questioned

"Yes..." Usopp said underneath his sobs. They watched the Merry Go slowly burn to ashes a second time. The scene faded back out of focus. Then the scene came back and they were standing on the deck of the newly built Sunny. Luffy was standing on the edge with his arm in the air holding Franky's favorite speedo.

"Humph." Franky muttered "You guys are some stubborn people."

"Got that right." Sanji responded. Then Robin grabbed Franky's balls. The boy's winced, Franky lowered his hands down to his crotch and shuttered.

"What's going on here?!" Brook asked "That looks like it hurts! Even I can tell, and I don't even have-"smack*" Nami hit him.

"TOO MUCH INFO BROOK!" she yelled

"The suuuuper me is joining the crew!" Franky said. He paused for a while then turned and began to cry seeing his followers waving goodbye- "WAAA! you bastards!" He sniveled "I miss you guys!"

"Chin up Franky." Zoro said, slapping his back. The scene fadded back to the white blur.

"So do we get to see Brook or not because we've all already seen it?" Sanji questioned

"Not sure." Nami answered "Guess all we can do is wait." Sure enough the scene showed the few minutes when Luffy, Nami and Sanji were on the deck of Brook's ship.

"Why does he ask everyone if they can poop?" Usopp wondered out loud. He then turned and looked at Brook. "Speaking of which how do you..." Usopp stopped when saw Nami give him the look. Maybe she was right, somethings about Brook are better left a mystery. "...never mind." The scene changed back to white then into color. The crew were now watching themselves- minus Nami, Usopp, Chopper and Brook- easily subdue Cerberus on Thriller Bark.

"Uhh guys?" Nami asked, the others turned to her. "How'd you do that?! We were terrified of that thing!" Chopper and Usopp nodded in agreement.

"Well we weren't." Zoro answered. Nami was about to respond wen she realized his point an kept silent. The members of the 'weak trio' sat and watched as the scenes flashed and all the other members easily defeated the zombies in the graveyard and the zombies in the paintings and the zombies in the hallways etc. Usopp was starting to feel pretty pathetic until he remembered he had done a ton of training... but so had the others. Usopp hung his head in defeat. The crew just looked at him oddly. The scene then changed into what appeared to be a room somewhere in the mansion. Luffy was hanging from the ceiling of the oddly lit room surrounded by many familiar faces from Thriller Bark.

"Eeeekk! I remember this!" Chopper yelped

"Uh huh...me too... Moria's gonna take his shadow!" Usopp also yelped

"How were you guys seeing this?" Franky asked

"Over there." Nami pointed over to where the three of them were hiding being Bearsy.

"ack -That bear..." Zoro mumbled as he stared at bear with the blue and white hat in the corner, remembering something unpleasant about it. "That girl, one day..." He mumbled again. Sanji looked at him funny and Zoro just glared back. The crew watched as Luffy struggled against Moria's grasp, a quick snip and Luffy's body went limp and the scene faded to black.

"I remember that." Sanji commented. "Not the best feeling in the world."

"For once we agree." Zoro responded

"I wondered if when we were cut- blood would start gushing from our feet... too bad." Robin said

"Robin..." Chopper squeaked. The scene changed once again. The giant Oz was frozen and chained with a gash in his stomach. Luffy came down on top of him with his gear third, snapping Oz's spine. Everything seemed to calm down until Moria became what resembled a giant frog that couldn't hold its lunch.

"Here we go again." Chopper said "He really is too reckless sometimes." The crew nodded in agreement. They watched as Luffy used the rest of his strength to defeat Moria, and everything faded to white.

"He lost consciousness again." Robin noted

"Yeah, It's a good thing he did too. Who knows what he would have tried to do to Kuma, even with his body in that state." Nami mentioned. The crew silently acknowledged Nami's point. Zoro kept staring at the now white area where he had last seen the image of Luffy. He smirked, and then looked over at Sanji who was giving him a serious 'I know what you're thinking about' look. Zoro rolled his eyes then noticed that Robin was watching them. He looked at her but she just smiled, let out a little chuckle then turned back towards the others. Zoro glared at Sanji with a panicking 'Did you tell her?!' but Sanji just glared back with a dead serious 'no.' Their little silent conversation was interrupted by the scene fading back into color. Luffy was laying on top of the piano Brook was playing, noise and laughter filled the air.

"Still can't believe you guys had a party without me." Zoro said

"What were we supposed to do? You wouldn't wake up and we needed to party!" Franky responded

"Don't be mad, we kanpai'd again later remember?" Usopp reminded him, Zoro just grunted back. They watched as Brook joined the crew in an instant after hearing about Laboon. Brook then slapped his wanted poster on the ground and pledged his loyalty to Luffy.

"Nice speech Brook." Zoro said, it was his first time seeing this.

"Yohohoho! Thank you Zoro-san!" Brook laughed. He was glad that they had gotten to a point where he wasn't the only one left out anymore. The music began to fade and the world changed back into that all too familiar swirling whiteness.


Apologies to anyone who wanted to see Zoro's badass moment but unfortunately Luffy was unconscious. If anyone couldn't figure it out- the silent conversation was about said badass moment.

Also if you ever want to see how much of the next chapter I have done just look at my profile under 'current update speed' I wrote what percent of the next chapter I have done for all my stories. Seriously- every time I write more of the chapter I update my profile.

another thing- I put my fanfic into wordle and made a word cloud for it- check it out here: post/45938797546/

(for some reason It won't let me put a link in the chapter so... the link to my blog is in my profile just add that on the end.)

Next chapter will be Sabaody! Might take awhile because of overflow of feels but I'll try to get it out as soon as I can! (faster then this one hopefully)

REVIEW PLEASE! I LOOOOVVVVEEE HEARING FROM YOU GUYZ!

suggestions warmly welcomed!

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... does Brook have balls? I have NO idea 0_o