A/N: Sorry for the lack of updates folks, but due losing my PC(stolen), not having money for another, and since I'm studying hard to be a radiologist , I pretty much lost any time possible to invest on updates. I'm really sorry for this disappointment...but I'll try all I can to deliver something for you all. Thank you all for the support and again I apologize for the delay.

Things were going bad enough after Trebol launched Monet through the wall, the add of Usopp in the mix made things more complicated than it should. The simple fact that the marksman couldn't do any better than Monet in a fight against Trebol was enough for Chopper to grew extremely concerned. Having another person to worry about around you made things much more difficult to handle properly.

The reeinder glanced worriedly at the harpy. The new add of injuries that Monet received, including the previous injuries back at Punk Hazard, made her exhaustion visible as she took deep breaths while doing her best to focus at the task at hand. It was clear as cristal that she wouldn't stand much of a chance in this fight, her body was screaming in protest at each move she made to keep on the fight, the pain a constant reminder of how much she could take.

"Monet, you should let us help you...you don't have to do this alone..."

It's not that she held any kind of distrust regarding the reindeer or the marksman, but Monet knew how less powerful both were compared to her, besides having more people to worry about wasn't too comforting.

"Hopefully not. You two must be careful, if we can't bring him down I'll use ten-layer Karakuma to trap him for few minutes," She said while still panting heavily. Chopper nodded despite having no idea what ten-layer Karakuma was.

Monet underestimated her previous wounds, perhaps Tony was right when he said she should not have overextended herself. An explosion outside shook the ground they were currently standing.

"What was that?" Chopper asked looking at Usopp straight away. "You set anything to explode Usopp?"

"It must be Robin, she would provide a distraction in the mean time we would take to reach Sugar," He replied while keeping his staff aimed at Trebol.

Before anyone could reply Trebol launched another attack, some sort of jelly mass came at incredible speed towards them. Monet managed to deflect the attack by ironing one of her wings on an slope angle. The attack bounced off her wing and went into the wall creating a visible hole that reached outside.

"*gulp* This guy is no joke, we better do something quick or we won't stand a chance in here," Usopp said while checking his backpack. "Any ideas Chopper?"

Before the reindeer could reply Monet flew ahead without hesitation and converted herself into a wave of snow. Chopper's mind screamed with panic, what the hell did she think she was going to do at such poor condition?!

Before anyone could realize what was going to happen huge spirals of white formed around Trebol, but this time their foe was much slower to react. It seemed the cold was finally having an effect on his body and his abilities . Before he could try anything the snowstorm got much thicker and an incredible gigantic white sphere slowly converted around Trebol.

Chopper and Ussop stood flabbergasted while admiring the incredible display. After few seconds, once the wind finally calmed down, they couldn't see anything else aside a wall of snow. Monet came at them few seconds later, after she finally converted herself back to her original form she collapsed.

"M-Monet! Are you alright?" Chopper came to aid her with Usopp not too far behind. He slowly observed as she struggled hard to breath, her shape even worse than before. She was just baring at her limit and he knew she couldn't go any further.

"Y...yes...I...think...this will do...for now," She said, taking slow pauses to catch her breath. Her muscles were already sore from the amount of effort made back at Punk Hazard, this new engagement only made things much worse to bear with. "This will bought us...time...we better go..."

With certain apprehension Chopper slowly reached an arm around to help the harpy to stand. She didn't complain about it, therefore Chopper felt safe to assume he was free to carry her along if necessary. Small muffed sounds were coming from inside the snow doom, indicating that Trebol was trying to break free.

"We better go, with him trapped that way we can get out without any problems. I'm sure Robin must've handled everything by now," Usopp advised with a hint of nervousness.

"Hopefully Sugar set the people turned toys back to normal aswell..." Chopper said as he took slow steps towards the exit while dragging Monet at his side.

She wasn't totally depleted, but even walking had become a difficult task for her. Her Karakuma ability took all the energy necessary she had in her body to be performed, she just had no way to do anything for the next hours. For now the reindeer's concern was to get her away to a safer area.

"She definitely did...I known her well enough to know she did..." Monet said still breathlessly, right after she let out a chuckle. "Joker will be mad..."

Which was enough of a reason for Chopper's desire to run away from this place immediately, and Usopp was definitely sharing this feeling with him.

They finally reached outside to see the what was left of the secret port area, now turned into the remains of a battle zone, with small engagements here and there, whatever plan Robin was up to ended up pretty well, most of the secret facility was turned into ruins, pillars of smoke coming from several wreck ships and few huge crates. Many unknown pirates laying around dead or injured, a mix of both Joker's troops and outside foreigners.

"Wow, Robin and the Tontas did a great job!" Usopp commented after a low whistle.

Without stopping to appreciate the state of devastation around them the group went to the furthest corner possible. They managed to pass by unnoticed for few minutes before a voice called for them.

"Hey, wait up!Usoland!"

"Leo! Are you guys alright?" The marksman replied while stopping and turning around to greet someone.

Chopper's eyes blinked while looking around for the voice owner, whoever called sounded like a child, but at first sight he saw no one. With further attention he managed to spot a small being right next to Usopp.

For a moment Chopper thought his mind was playing tricks on him. Whatever that thing was it seemed like the absurd miniature of a chubby person wearing a very extravagant costume. Not sure what to make of this he stared at Usopp with the intent of questioning him about this whole deal.

"It's one of the 'fairies' I've heard so much about," Monet said after a quick glance at the small creature. Chopper blinked a couple times before looking at her questioningly. "They're very popular among Dressrosa culture, it's said once a Fairy takes something that belongs to you there's nothing you can do about it, it's forever lost. I never encountered one before, but I've heard stories that they're actually a tribe that resided into the depths of the Green Bit. Not that I ever cared to research more about it."

With an understanding nod Chopper carefully proceeded to take them further away from the castle, but not soon enough they took few steps Usopp came after them joined by the Fairy and, surprisingly, Robin.

"Are you two alright?" The archaeologist asked while examining them with visible worry. Her eyes detaining themselves for few seconds over Monet, both filled with worry and wary.

"We'll be fine, I just need to lay down for few minutes," Monet replied not minding much her own injuries. "Did you saw Sugar?"

"Yes, it was quite a surprise when she came outside. Me and the Tontas were about to engage her, but all hell broke lose as all the toys suddenly transformed themselves back into persons. Before we could ask anything Sugar fled away and we couldn't reach her." Robin said sounding apologetically. "We would've gone after her, but since fights were breaking through all over the place it was just chaotic for us to pass by."

"Wait...you're that green haired lady!" Leo said suddenly appointing an accusatory arm at the harpy. Chopper and Monet glared back at him wondering what was the big deal about it.

"That's an story for later, we have other concerns now Leo," Robin gently advised.

The Tonta complied with certain reluctance, his eyes carefully observing the harpy as if expecting the worst to suddenly come out of her.

"What I wish to know is why Sugar randomly decided to change the people back to normal."

"I suppose we can be blamed for it," Monet said grimacing a bit while feeling the waves of pain that came constantly from each of her wounds. "We actually managed to get in and talk with her before Trebol could get in the way too much," Robin was definitely surprised.

"So you actually found a way to get in?" She asked with pure curiosity. "It must've been difficult since we came from a long way to get here. Many things happened out there since we last saw you two."

Chopper let out a snort at the intrigue. Apparently he still was upset with the way Monet tried to handle the situation by herself, both Usopp and Robin stared at the reindeer surprised by his reaction. Monet seemed wary of saying anything, regarding how they got in, once she saw Tony's reaction to it.

"Yes, thankfully we found little issues until we faced Trebol. I managed to trap him at the castle, but it's only a matter of time for him to break free."

"I see..." The archaeologist glared thoughtfully at the harpy as if debating over something. "...Chopper, you should go outside and reunite with Violet. Usopp will take you back to the rest of our group. There's a lot of commotion going up there right now. This certainly will bring Doflamingo and his crew after us. Make sure you two stay out of trouble until we can clear this out," She advised severely.

The reindeer was okay with getting out of the way, but he noticed how the harpy's face hardened all of sudden.

"Violet..." She said to herself in a whisper, as if the name wasn't anything of good.

"Do you known her? " Chopper asked carefully after hearing the way the harpy whispered the name.

"In a way... I do, " She replied with the clear intent of not wanting to discuss it anymore.

Clearly understanding the undertone on her voice the reindeer decided to change the subject quickly. He looked around while Robin and Usopp were exchanging information.

The devastation that ran across the Port was astonishing once analysed miniciously. It was easy to conclude that some of the toys were previously powerful people, judging by how badly beaten Doflamingo's soldiers ended, all scattered across the area with some mercenary pirates among them.

"Ei Chopper! Robin told me to take you two back to the others outside. Can you make it outside?" Usopp asked staring intently at the harpy.

Monet wasn't too thrilled about getting on her feet(or talons) so soon after laying down. Chopper provided her a support to get up by placing his arm around her back right beneath her wings.

While not being pleased by being literally dragged around by the reindeer, Monet had to recognize there was no way she would walk out of this one with her own legs.

Again.

"We won't be that fast to keep up Usopp, so I hope you don't mind if we take our time," Chopper said feeling his own set of injuries to be difficult to deal without adding Monet's weight into him.

Thankfully the painkillers he brought were proving their value, even if temporary. Usopp nodded on understanding.

"That's alright, don't push yourselves too much. At least the other warriors cleared a path to the surfice, we won't be expecting any real problems for now," He said while taking a lead to the crumbled structure nearby, whatever it used to be before now turned into a way to exit the Port.

Judging the ammount of debris it was quite logical to imagine that a huge group of people made their way outside through this ,previously covered, set of stairs. At each step he took Chopper made quite an effort to make sure Monet wouldn't fall over.

It astonished him to see how badly depleted she was, even breathing was taking her quite the effort.

How didn't he realize this before? As a doctor he never would've let one of his nakama go into battle at such poor condition as this. How did Monet's exhaustion passed by without him even noticing?

Her struggling to keep the pace was making Chopper's consciousness heavier at each step. She should've stayed on the ship, though her stubbornness to go after Sugar probably would have prevented such from happening.

The ascension through the stairs was slow and tiresome, Usopp made several stops waiting for the duo to catch up. Despite the emptiness of the area the marksman kept himself into a guarding stance, awaiting for danger to pop up at any moment.

"There's a lot of commotion going outside, we better be careful on our way out. Sanji, Nami, Brook and Momonosuke departed with the Sunny towards Zou, we c-

"Wait, what? They left us?!" Chopper interrupted Usopp abruptly while being at shock of such event. Usopp's expression hardened on a very uncharacteristically way.

"Captain's orders. Not that they had much of a choice, they ran into enough trouble from what I could recall."

"If you're saying so. Can we find somewhere safe to stay? I don't think there will be any fighting for us to withstand," The reindeer said while staring discreetly at the harpy. Monet has been awfully quiet ever since she heard about Violet, whoever she was.

"The tower platoo maybe, you wouldn't believe how many crazy stuff happened ever since, I hope Luffy, Law and Zoro are alright, haven't seen them yet. Franky is helping to rescue the imprisioned Tontas and their princess."

"How exactly can we fight Doflamingo and his crew with this few nakama?" Chopper was alarmed at how weakened their crew got in a matter of hours.

"Heh, you would be surprised. Let's say the people that were imprisioned aren't exactly friends with Doflamingo, and seems that most these toys were arena competitors. So I imagine they're quite mad."

Chopper nodded slowly, trying to understand what the possible outcome of this whole situation would be. It was hard to figure if those strangers would be willing to help them out against Doflamingo. Maybe not side by side, but they shared the same goals somewhat.

Once they finally reached the outside area they had a good view of the arena nearby, though it seemed that part of the structure had crumbled. The street was currently empty, even so it was possible to hear disturbances all over the places, few pillars of smoke slowly rising at distance. It was incredibly chaotic just as Robin mentioned previously.

"This way," Usopp went straight into a wider street that seemed to lead to some sort of castle.

Ocassionally some people would appear out of nowhere, but most times they were just townsfolk. None of them gave the trio more than a glance, though they stared longer than usual due the exotic nature of seeing an harpy and an incredible tall raccoon walking over two legs.

"I'm not a raccoon!" Chopper yelled angrily at two people that were passing by, both whispering about the reindeer's appearance, though screaming only managed to scare them away.

"I don't really get why that upsets you," Usopp said while watching the people fleeing away on fear.

"How the hell do I look like a raccoon?! Did these people ever saw one before? I'm sure as hell I don't resemble one even by far!"

Usopp was a bit taken aback by the level of harshness coming from the reindeer, even Monet raised an eyebrow at his sudden attitude. Chopper let out a heavy sigh.

"Sorry...I'm just a bit stressed out."

"Then get ahold of yourself, this is not the time to lose your head over silly nonsense," Monet said with a matter-of-fact tone.

"It's not silly..." Muttered Chopper while pouting.

"What was that?" Monet asked with a smile.

Chopper was about to retort but stopped after he saw her expression. Monet's smile could be taken as kind and perceptive, but when looking at her eyes he saw exactly what they were saying;

'Shut up or I'll murder you.'

"Eehh...nothing. I didn't say anything," Chopper quickly replied before things could get any worse.

Usopp stood nearby watching their interaction while sweatdropping.

"Good, we better keep moving. No more nonsense, do you two understand?" She asked severely. Both Chopper and Usopp gulped audibly, they nodded without hesitation. "Very well, I'm afraid there will be more complications once we met with the others. Chopper, how many painkillers you still have?"

The reindeer couldn't help but gasp at shock.

"You can't b-

"How many?" She asked again but more forcefully. Chopper growled frustrated before answering.

"Enough for a couple hours, but that's it. I was hoping not to waste any." He replied with a bit of anger since he knew exactly what the harpy had in mind.

Monet seemed to stare apologetically at him for a second, but that faded in the blink of an eye.

"The real battle starts now, and I just can hope we all survive this, no matter what the choices we make."

A/N: First of all I want to thank FF net mobile development for making documents manageable through theirapp, this was a HUGE improvement!It pretty much saved me, now I only wish to be able to update stories directly through it and then this will have reach perfection. Also I finally will be able to get on track, even if making stories with cellphone is annoying at least now is fairly manageable. Also thanks for all the suppory all of you readers gave me. The chapters may get a bit smaller but on a more regular update schedule, I do have other stories to work on. Some corrections were made due a glitch with the editing upload.