Law was uncertain as to how long he had been unconscious, but it had been long enough that the sound of a fight going on around him was now gone. It was replaced with an eerie silence instead, and Law immediately knew he would have preferred to have the sound of a battle raging on. Quiet mean that there was something not right. The dark haired pirate's eyes opened slowly and blinked as he drowsily took in his unfamiliar surroundings. It took his still waking up mind a few minutes to piece together what had happened. Then it hit him all at once.

He had been captured.

That much was certain. And Law knew that he had been captured by people on the island, though the Heart Pirate captain was unsure whether they had been marines or if they had been locals of the island. It didn't matter either way, until those people's intentions were presented to them. Law let his eyes slip close as he let out a long and drawn out sigh. It was times like these that he really wanted nothing more than to be aboard his own ship and safely beneath the waves, out of marine eyesight…

"You awake, Trafalgar?"

Law titled his head to the side at the sound of Kidd's voice before he froze at the sight of Penguin, who currently stared down at him. The rest of the events leading up to his unconscious state rushed back to him. Right. The dark haired pirate remembered now. He had swapped their bodies. It kind of disturbed Law for Penguin to be looking at him as if he wanted to jump him, because Law knew for a fact that his crewmate was not interested in him in that way. But as it was Kidd, Law was somewhat all right with it, though he hated to be eyed in the way he was by his crewmate's body.

"Seriously, say something. You look like someone hit you over the head." Kidd leaned over, his expression showing traces of concern, which the other man normally hadn't bothered with when he'd run into Law in the past few months. "They didn't hit you over the head again, did they?"

Law figured out Kidd's intentions as the other man leaned over him more closely, and hastily reached up with a hand to cover Penguin's mouth.

Kidd made a muffled grunt of annoyance around Law's hand, but didn't try to do anything else. Instead, he settled for giving Law an annoyed look.

"I told you before, do not try and do any of that while you are in my crewmate's body, Eustass-ya." The Heart Pirate narrowed his eyes at Kidd as if warning him off. "You obviously weren't struck over the head, so there's no way you could have forgotten that fact already."

"Fuck, you are so damn annoying. Isn't it technically my body for now?" Kidd wore an irritated frown after he'd moved Law's hand away from his temporary body's mouth. "Shit, why the hell did you swap us all in the first place? And don't say it's 'cause we were irritating you. You coulda done a lot of other things than this." Kidd waved a hand at himself in Penguin's body to make the point.

"Do not speak so loudly." Law said as he settled on the ground more heavily with a sigh. "I have a headache after being batted around so much." Law added, though he couldn't protest when Kidd dragged him up and wrapped his arms around his waist and chest. Law shifted irritably within Kidd's grasp, though there wasn't much he could do to free himself as worn out as he was. "I believe this counts as something I do not want you to do with Penguin's body."

"I'm just holdin' you up. What's wrong with that?" It was clear that Kidd did know what was wrong but was deciding to play dumb.

"The fact that you are breathing against my throat is another problem." Law pointed out as he tried and failed to free himself from Kidd's grasp. Law managed to slap the other man's hand away from his thigh. "Control yourself."

"Law. Change me back. Now." A low growl sounded from nearby, cutting off whatever response Kidd had been about to snap back at Law with.

"I can't without another body." The dark haired doctor said calmly in response as he causally cast a glance in the direction that Doflamingo's voice had come from. Law swiftly remembered that he had switched the former warlord with Straw Hat's body. After taking in the sight of the shades still in place, Law's lips curved up in a smirk.

"Something amusing you, Law?" Doflamingo asked, still in the same low, gravelly voice. Like he was restraining himself from doing anything that might prevent getting his own body back.

"How does it feel to be short, Joker?" Law asked conversationally, which in turn caused Kidd to snicker.

Doflamingo bared his teeth in return, which looked quite strange on Luffy, coupled with the shaded glasses that had somehow stayed on during their capture and subsequent kidnapping to where ever the hell they were now.

Law noted from his upright position that all three of them were in a makeshift cage, and in the middle of nowhere on an island they knew little about. Funny, Law didn't remember being taken anywhere, but then again he had been just about unconscious after he'd switched Kidd and the others with his Devil Fruit powers. That really didn't seem to have been a good idea now, but at the time it had made perfect sense in order to get the other men to stop arguing over who he was going to leave the island with.

"It's really fucking weird to see Straw Hat like that." Kidd commented as he rested his chin on Law's shoulder to stare at Doflamingo.

"Those are sea prism stone, I take it." Law stated as he ignored Kidd in favor of the sight of the handcuffs around Luffy's wrists. Why they cuffed them in front of the body instead of behind his back was a mystery. Law felt that Doflamingo wouldn't pass up the chance to try and choke one of their captors if given the chance. Or him. A worrying thought, that, and one that the other man appeared to be considering despite the fact that Doflamingo needed him alive to swap his and Luffy's bodies back.

"Do you think I would be just sitting here if they weren't?" Doflamingo grumbled irritably. "I would have shaken your pathetic body awake if I had the energy to do so." Doflamingo turned an irate glare on Kidd. "Why the hell did they take the handcuffs off f you?"

"Dunno. Maybe cause I don't have Devil Fruit powers right now?" Kidd said, not as interested in Doflamingo right now as he was the pirate he currently held up against him.

"Change me back, Law." Doflamingo said as he pointedly ignored Kidd as he leered at him mockingly.

"I still couldn't change you back without your body around." Law said, and let out a sigh as he discovered that he was handcuffed as well. Though he vaguely remembered that being done to him before he had passed out. No wonder he felt worse than before. Law was aware of Kidd's presence behind him, but the other man caught him off guard by sneakily kissing the side of his throat. Law immediately elbowed him in the gut, which drew forth a sharp gasp from Kidd. "What did I just tell you?"

"You're no damn fun, Trafalgar. You sure you don't have any interest in your crewmate?" Kidd asked, his voice a little pained from the retaliation that Law had laid on him. "And fuck, that hurt. You do realize that your crewmate's body is still battered as hell, right?"

"That doesn't change the fact that I told you to not do such things in his body. Penguin will not appreciate it, and I doubt that you would approve if he were to do similarly in your body." Law growled in return. Shitty feeling or not, there were some things that the Heart Pirate captain was not going to put up with.

"But it would be my body, wouldn't it?" Kidd paused a moment, obviously thinking, before he said, off handedly, "You know, if you two did it while he was still in my body, that's be kinda hot to watch my own body while it fuc-"

"Shut the hell up, you damn brat!" Doflamingo sniped from where he was seated as he turned his head to glare at the pair of them. Doflamingo's expression became thoughtful. Another weird expression to see on Straw Hat. "But this means that you have met before this island, yes? I suppose you were on Sabaody together fighting with Straw Hat against the marines two years ago." Doflamingo focused on Law, apparently doing some quick thinking over this new piece of information. "Hm, I should have been more cautious. Were you planning on having him take you away from this island?"

Kidd slapped a cuff free hand over Law's mouth as he replied. "That's right, I told ya before I was going to do that, with or without Trafalgar here being fine with it."

Doflamingo lapsed into silence as Law freed himself and dug into Kidd angrily.

"I am not going to be going anywhere with you. Who knows if you'd ever let me back to my crew or not." Law said firmly. He did not need this while still feeling so worn out. The whole point of swapping these idiots bodies around was to get them to lay off of him for a second about who he was going to leave with. Law did not want to think about this right now. Not when they didn't know their captors intentions.

"Having you on my ship 24/7 does sound tempting." Kidd said as he hugged Law to his chest snugly, breathing against the side of the dark haired pirate's neck again. "But having you talk my ear off is a problem. It's too bad that you ended up getting that sea prism stone clip to come off your ear. Then we wouldn't be in this position." Kidd grinned wolfishly. "I wasn't expecting you to do that early this morning, you know. I was kinda surprised that you broke my concentration with that little stunt."

"You are impossible." Law grumbled as he tried and failed to free himself due to how shitty the sea stone cuffs were making him feel. Law somehow found a burst of energy after the other man snuck in a kiss despite Law's earlier protests about doing so with Penguin's body. "What the hell did I just say?" The Heart Pirate snarled as he elbowed Kidd again harshly to make the other man let go with a hiss of pain.

"Shit. Watch where you're poking that bony elbow of yours, asshole." Kidd held still as he made sure that the body he was in didn't sustain injury, and was about to snap at Law again when the dark haired pirate laid backward and across his back.

"Shit. Move your head. It hurts there." Kidd all but whined, as if Law were being the difficult one.

"Do not kiss me again in Penguin's body. Do you know how awkward it'll be if he finds out?" Law demanded, letting himself turn slightly so that he could glare down at the back of Kidd's head.

"Oh come on. Your crew practically fawns over you all the damn time. They're certainly overly protective of you anyway. I bet a lot of them would cop a feel if they could." Kidd grumbled into the ground.

Law cuffed the other man over the head without a word. The dark haired pirate felt that none needed to be said in response to that.

"Fufufu. You do realize that some people have captured us and are likely to turn us over to the marines?" Doflamingo asked, torn between amusement and annoyance with what he was witnessing.

"So what? It's not like there are any marines on this island." Kidd said dismissively.

"It is a rather gaudy place, much like yourself Joker." Law added, as he reluctantly moved off of Kidd to let him nurse his bruised chest. "I doubt the marines would have a presence here."

Doflamingo was going to say something snide in return when they all heard voices.

Things rapidly went downhill from there.

"Oh yes, we caught some high bountys. One of 'em doesn't seem to be all that high of a bounty, but I think he's part of one of the other's crew."

"I still can't believe you caught Straw Hat Luffy."

"I know, right? Though I think that Surgeon of Death did something to him. He's acting kind of strange, and he sounds different than what I thought he'd sound like."

The three pirates in the makeshift cage all exchanged alarmed glances, before they caught sight of the people that had come into the clearing.

"Well, now, what do we have here?"

A bad day had begun for them all, as the voice's identity was immediately recognized by the pirates, and the situation couldn't be worse with the impediment of the sea prism stone. The marine that had just come into view was Admiral Kizaru. And behind him were a lot of marines ready to take them away.

"Bet you wish you didn't swap everyone's bodies now. Right, Law?" Doflamingo asked jokingly as he grinned at the sight of the marines. It was clear he wasn't happy, however, being mistaken for Luffy.

Kidd was steadily cursing up a storm under his breath as he held Law tightly, as if to prevent the marines from taking him anywhere.

The Surgeon of Death was stunned, but there was nothing he could do as the marines took them out of the cage and began to usher them back to shore. Law stumbled along, strong enough from the brief bout of unconsciousness to stand on his own, but weakened enough that he didn't have much say in which direction he would go. Law wasn't sure how he felt about Doflamingo having more marines around him, but decided that they figured that 'Straw Hat Luffy' was more of a threat than him, as exhausted as he was and cuffed with sea stone prism. The Heart Pirate captain supposed that, even though it hadn't been outright stated to them, that they were being brought to a marine ship to either be transported back to Impel Down, or to be held elsewhere to be executed at a convenient time.

Kidd, despite the situation, couldn't help but laugh at the sight of Doflamingo giving all the marines around him hell as he lashed out at them in Luffy's body. Kidd would have done similarly if he hadn't been handcuffed out of the blue and had blades up against his throat warning him against doing something similar to Doflamingo. Kidd really didn't like that some of the marines had gone to whisper to Kizaru as they indicated Penguin's body. Kidd tensed when the Admiral glanced at him, before Kizaru muttered something back to the marines near him and waved them off. Before Kidd could give thought to what that was all about, Doflamingo drew his attention again as he managed to get Luffy's body to kick one of the marines a few feet away into a tree, which caused the other marines that were dealing with Doflamingo to be more wary of him. They milled around Doflamingo as they called out to one another.

"Whoa! Hold him still, Straw Hat's still got a lot of fight in him!"

"Watch out, those kicks hurt!"

"Even with the sea stone?"

"I'll kill you all!" Doflamingo snarled as he tried to take out the marines nearest to him. He failed terribly and only had more restraints put on him to move him along with minimum fuss. It didn't stop Doflamingo from continuing to show his displeasure about being treated in such a way, though he had stopped talking and was currently trying his damndest to bull rush the nearest marines so he could get some slack in the restraints. It didn't work very well either, as tethered as Doflamingo was now. But all the while the glasses remained in place, though no one gave it much thought as to why they were there in the first place as they steered Luffy's body toward the now in view docks.

"You there! Take half the force and check the rest of the island for Straw Hat's crew, and Trafalgar Law's. Take them into custody if you find them."

Law watched marines disperse back the way they'd come, and felt that while he had been resistant to Kidd's offer to 'kidnap' him and take him back to his ship and away from Doflamingo, that perhaps he should have swallowed his pride and allowed the red haired captain to do so. It was a much more attractive offer now than what was currently happening to them.

The dark haired doctor eyed the marine ship with trpadation, though now that he realized fully what was happening and what could happen, he too joined in on trying to resist. It did just about as much good as Doflamingo's tries, and both he and Doflamingo were forcedfully dragged onto the marine ship before they could put up any more attemtos at resistance.

Kidd was about to be brought onto the ship as well by the marines that were menacing him along when Kizaru held out a hand to stop them.

"Keep him separate from the other two. We're going to put a call in to the Celestial Dragons and see if this is one of those 'workers' they were yammering on about some years back that put a hamper on one of their constructions by taking out the other 'workers' and the people that were there overseeing things."

"Sir!"

Well fuck, that wasn't something that Kidd expected, and again wondered where the hell Law had picked Penguin up from.

And why.

At the very least, Penguin being a former slave (Kidd scoffed at the term 'worker') might explain some of the violent outbursts that Kidd had witnessed. He figured most people that got out of that kind of life would have had to be hardy to survive such brutal conditions. Kidd didn't bother trying to escape anymore once he was on the ship. Not to mention he still had a blade to his throat until he was put in a separate cell across from Doflamingo and Law. As soon as the marines left them, Kidd immediately put the question to the dark haired man.

"So, Trafalgar, why the fuck do you have a former slave on your crew that those pompous Celestial Dragon assholes are looking for?" Kidd didn't expect to see the color drain from Law's face.

"How...where did you hear that?" Law asked, his tone clear that he didn't like Penguin to be referred as such.

"The marines. Why the fuck do you think they put me in a different cell?" Kidd muttered in return crossly.

"You have to get off the ship." Law insisted, as he looked around desperately as if to locate some means of escape. "They want to kill Penguin for what he did all those years ago. He doesn't talk about it much anymore, but I know that Penguin was still worried that they might locate him after all these years."

Kidd looked around the cell he was in, and highly doubted there was any escape right now. Which meant that he was fucked, and all because Law had decided to swap their bodies and throw them all off their game by placing them in bodies they didn't know what to do with.

Doflamingo had started to laugh as if he found the whole situation highly entertaining.

"Shut the hell up, asshole! They're probably gonna execute you cause they think you're Straw Hat!" Kidd snarled, pleased when it got Doflamingo to stop laughing as a peculiar look of dawning realization crossed the other's face.

"Shit."

-x

Back on Fiesta Island, opposite of where the marine ship was anchored, Zoro paused in his run as he glanced around. He was now alone, as the green haired swordsman had defeated many of his attackers as he'd went along, and none of them had been able to put up much of a fight. Zoro shook his head before he turned back and headed for the center of the island, muttering under his breath as he went.

"Where the hell did everyone else go? Did they get lost or something?"

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A/N: And now for a sudden shift in plot.