"You knew about this!" Ace growled, pointing accusingly at Kailee.
Kailee cocked her head innocently, a smug smile playing on her lips. "So I did! Isn't that just wonderful? Lighten up, Sunshine!"
"We're in a Seastone cage," Ace said lowly, pointing to a limp Luffy who was leaning against the bars.
"Are you an idiot?! Why are you touching them if them if they make you weak?!" Smoker hissed.
Kailee chuckled. "Oh, if anything was going to actually happen, I would have said so! Besides, if push comes to shove, I'll just 'teleport' us out of here."
"Why don't you do that now?!" Ace barked.
"Don't want to!" Kailee giggled playfully.
Ace groaned, but knew it was no use in convincing the angel otherwise. She was going to let this play out for the sake of the future and her own amusement.
"You fell for such a stupid trap!" Zoro growled at his captain.
"You followed him~" Kailee sung mockingly.
"Be quiet!" Zoro barked.
"So, I've caught the Strawhats, a Whitebeard Commander, and a marine. How lucky," Crocodile drawled, coming into view.
"Hiya, Stitch! Where's Lilo?!" Kailee cheered happily, clutching the bars and trying to stick her face through.
"I think you've got the wrong person," Crocodile said irritably.
"Nope! You're definitely Stitch! Isn't Lilo supposed to be taking care of you? Where is that little girl?! You've been a very bad alien!" Kailee scolded.
A tick mark appeared on the Shichibukai's head. "You're irritating me."
"Good! That was the point!" Kailee laughed, sticking out her tongue and spitting at him. "I'm assuming it worked?"
Crocodile growled. "Bitch..."
"You know, my mom calls me that all the time! It's not going to hurt my feelings!" Kailee smirked. "I am immune to your petty nicknames!"
Crocodile snarled, leaping forward and grabbing her head through the bars. "I don't know why, but you severely piss me off!"
"Ow!" Kailee whined. "Let go! You're hurting me!"
Ace growled behind them, stepping forward. "Let go of my little sister, bastard!"
Luffy, too, stood up and glared at him. "Hey! Let her go!"
Crocodile smirked. "How about, no?" His hook came up and impaled her skull, a sickening crunch echoing in the empty room.
A scream escaped her lips as the crew was sent into an uproar. "No!"
"KAILEE!"
Kailee felt a blinding pain go through her skull. Oh yeah, Crocodile had impaled her through the head.
Wasn't she supposed to be dead?
Kailee pulled back, the hook sliding out of her forehead. Kailee put her hands to the bleeding wound. "Motherfucker! Penis, tits, balls, racist pricks, and fucking Mexican food, this hurts like a bitch!"
They all gaped at her as she took her hands off her forehead, watching the wound close up quicker than Marco's regenerative powers could have done so. Her hands were still bloody though, so she wiped them on her shirt. "Well, that was anticlimactic! Guess I can't die! Isn't that lucky? Still have a major headache though..."
"Moron! Don't fucking scare me like that again!" Ace hissed, pulling her away from the bars and towards him, checking for any lasting damage.
Crocodile blinked away the shock. "You can't die, mmh..."
"Now, don't go getting any ideas, Stitch! It will only end badly for you!" Kailee smiled cheekily at him, even as the leftover blood still trickled down her skin.
So, shit happened...
Kailee whistled innocently as she tapped her foot on the ground, eyes averted from Ace's.
"You've got to be kidding me..." Ace growled.
"Heh," she laughed, voice high and cracked. "Sorry?"
Ace gulped, gritting his teeth and closing his eyes. "Little sister, how I wish I could hurt you..."
"I'm sorry!" She shrieked.
"You could have told us we would almost drown!" Ace barked.
"It wasn't important! If I told you, we could have avoided it!" Kailee explained like it made sense.
Zoro turned to her, eyes dark with shark teeth on the side. "We wanted to avoid it, idiot! Damn, you're just as bad as Luffy!"
"Am not!" She objected childishly. "Besides, if we had avoided it, you wouldn't have saved Smokey's ass, and he wouldn't of let us go! You should be thanking me!"
Nami glared at them. "This is not the time to be arguing! I get it, Kailee's fucked up, but it doesn't change the fact that we need to go! Now!"
"I'm not fucked up!" Kailee screeched indignantly.
"It's okay!" Luffy cheered, smiling brightly at her. "I love my little sister, even if she is fucked up!"
Kailee smiled happily, her inner fangirl squealing silently. "Awe! Thanks, Luffy! You're the best big brother ever!"
"Shishishi!" Luffy laughed happily.
"Hey!" Ace squawked. "What about me?!"
"You said I was fucked up!" Kailee bawled anime tears.
"Lu did, too!" Ace whined.
"But he also said that he loved me!" Kailee huffed.
"I love you, too! I'm sorry!" Ace apologized. "I don't care if you're fucked up! I still love you!"
"Swear?" Kailee asked quietly in a childish way.
"Swear!" Ace nodded.
Kailee immediately brightened, smile wide. "Love you, too, big brother!"
Chopper picked them up on a moving crab named Scissors. "Get on! We have to go!"
They all leapt on, the crab scrambling away, but a sand hand came flying toward them, reaching for Vivi.
"Oh no you don't!" Luffy called, pushing Vivi and getting caught himself.
"Luffy!" They yell.
"I'll be back! Wait for me in Alubarna!" Luffy cries.
"We will!" They all chorused, continuing on somberly.
Kailee's mind flashed, the memory of Luffy almost dying to Crocodile in the fight he was to engage in just a few mere minutes.
She remembered her reaction as she watched, her body tightening and her teeth clenched. The only reason she hadn't cried was because with over 500 episodes to go, she knew Luffy would live.
Now that she knew Luffy and the One Piece world was real, it made it that much more painful.
"Luffy..." She whispered.
"What's wrong with you?" Usopp asked.
"Are you sick?!" Chopper panicked.
"No," Kailee murmured, rubbing her eyes. The memory was only a shadow, literally, but she could imagine the gore that really transpired. "I'm just worried about Luffy..."
"You know, with your future knowledge, you being worried about Luffy is a problem," Ace frowned.
Kailee shook her head, eyes wide. "No! It's just me changing events, even the small ones, could change any outcome. Luffy might get hurt this time."
"Oh," Ace breathed. "That makes me feel a bit better and a bit more worried at the same time."
'Lie,' she thought. What she said was a lie. She knew she'd get an earful from Ace if he discovered she had lied.
Kailee smiled at him, but the voice in the back of her head telling her to, 'Tell the truth! Warn them! Save Luffy!' had her swallowing thickly, yet she pushed it away.
'I'm sorry, Lu. I don't deserve to have you smile at me, nor to be called your little sister. If it was you, you wouldn't care about the future. You'd just want to save your family. I just can't risk anything worse happening.'
'Please, Luffy, don't die!'
War is coming, and Kailee fears for her brother. Bye my doggies!