There were a heap of unconscious bodies that now littered the streets after Penguin and Luffy had gone through them on their way to find Kidd, Law and Doflamingo.

"Are there any more of them?" Luffy asked as he relaxed his stance. He couldn't quite figure out how to use Doflamingo's power to stop people in their tracks. But he didn't want to cut them to pieces by accident either. So, Luffy had decided to punch and kick the enemies around him as he would in his own body. The difference in power was obvious, and Luffy looked around at all the groaning and unconscious bodies around them.

"I think you took care of them all." Penguin responded as he tried out Kidd's powers. He made a piece of a broken blade hover over his right palm. "I wonder why they were trying to capture us."

Luffy wasn't paying attention as he was currently crouched to prod the bodies on the ground in an attempt to find one that was still conscious. Or perhaps he was just checking to see how punching and kicking people in Doflamingo's body compared to his own.

"Straw Hat." Penguin said firmly, though he wasn't sure he had made himself clear because the other pirate seemed distracted.

"Yeah?" Luffy lifted his head from what he was doing, and it struck Penguin as odd to have Doflamingo's expression be one of puzzlement.

"We need to go and find-" Penguin cut himself off as he caught sight of Nami, Franky and Sanji, as well as Bepo and Shachi run around the corner of the building, and almost right into them. Interestingly enough, Penguin saw Kidd's crew mate Killer turn around the corner not a moment later, and he wasn't sure if the head shake the long haired pirate made was in relief or exasperation.

"Oh, Nami, Franky, Sanji! Hi!" Luffy said immediately, not giving thought to his appearance at all as he waved to his friends.

The three other Straw Hat Pirates all looked at one another, before they all grew uneasy.

"It sounds like Luffy…" Sanji said as he lit a cigarette. "I guess Law is responsible, but why would he bother swapping Luffy's body? Aren't we still allies?"

"That's a problem, but there's a bigger one now." The orange haired navigator clearly didn't like the sight of her captain in Doflamingo's body, but turned her attention on him anyway. "We need to get off this island, Luffy. There are a lot of marines."

"There is a navy admiral here as well." Killer added as he approached Penguin. "I was looking for my captain as soon as I heard the explosions and fighting." He didn't sound pleased to have to run all over to locate Kidd because his red haired captain had run off with Law out of the inn and left his crew behind.

"A navy admiral?" Nami abruptly turned to Luffy. "We need to leave. Now."

"I guess I do want to get my body back soon. Mingo's too tall." Luffy waved a hand and Doflamingo's body jerked as if it had caught something in the air. "Oh, I hit the clouds again!" Luffy tugged his hand again to free the strings and accidently took a corner of the nearby building off. Luffy frowned at his hand before he perked up at the sound of a transponder snail went off.

"Hello?" Nami tried to put aside the idea of a navy admiral, and which one it was, that could be on the island.

'The navy has Luffy, Law and his crewmate on their ship! They're sailing away right now!' Usopp's voice was frantic and full of disbelief.

"Ah! Body come back!" Luffy shouted as he started to turn in the direction of the shoreline, only to have Franky and Sanji stop him.

'Was that Luffy?' Usopp sounded confused now.

"Yes, it was. Law swapped Luffy and Doflamingo's bodies." Nami informed her crewmate. "We need to be ready to sail when we get back to the ship."

'Er…right. The navy is attacking us, but it is more like they're trying to stop us from following them.'

"That would make sense since they think that they have Luffy. We'll be there soon." Nami hung up and caught sight of Luffy as he attempted to get the former warlord's large frame to go into the sky. Nami sighed heavily in exasperation. "Luffy, you don't know Doflamongo's powers well enough to give chase to them through the sky. We need to go now, before the navy gets too far away." Nami said after she handed the slumbering transponder snail over to Franky, who had held out a hand for it.

"Right!"

"Young master! The navy is here! We should…" Diamante, who had been the one to call out to Luffy, paused as he realized that something was wrong. "What are you doing with our enemies?"

"They aren't my enemies." Seeing the confused looks on the faces of Doflamingo's crew, Luffy picked his nose and added. "I'm Luffy."

Diamante and the others of Doflamingo's family looked utterly baffled as well as put off at the sight. Perhaps because Doflamingo himself never would have dared to pick his nose, in public or otherwise.

"Law swapped Luffy and Doflamingo's bodies with his Devil Fruit powers." Nami said impatiently. "And Law is currently on a navy ship with Doflamingo, who is in Luffy's body, and both of them are getting farther away the longer we delay." At this point she didn't care that they were enemies. She just wanted to get her captain's body back so something didn't happen to it.

"Everyone back to the ship!" Diamante shouted, and suddenly there was a lot of activity as Doflamingo's crew raced off.

"Luffy!" Nami shouted as she realized that her captain wasn't standing there anymore. She looked around and then after Doflamingo's crew and realized that they had taken Luffy along despite his protests.

"Hey, my ship is that way!" Luffy protested.

"We need Doffy's body so that we can have Law switch him and you back." Diamante responded.

"Eh? We can do that after we beat the marines up." Luffy said, and it was clear that he was not happy that someone was trying to separate him from his friends.

"Our ship is faster than yours!"

"No, it's not! The Sunny's the fastest!" Luffy turned his head as he was being ushered along, since it appeared that he was having a change in plans. "Nami! Follow that ship and get Law back!"

Nami groaned at the headache that was soon to occur now that they had to give chase to a navy admiral's ship. The orange haired woman waved Sanji off as she turned to Franky. "Is the Sunny ready for another fight?" Nami wasn't so sure because there had been damage to the ship from when Doflamingo had attacked before, and the navy right after that.

"She's super ready." Franky struck a pose. "I upgraded her during some down time. The Sunny will take less damage in battles now."

Penguin tried to follow after Luffy as Doflamingo's crew vanished around a building, but Killer blocked his path.

"Where are you going, Kidd?"

"I'm not your captain. My captain switched my body and Kidd's." Penguin said as he frowned at the blond haired pirate. "My original body is still injured, and I am guessing that if Doflamingo was captured in Luffy's body, that Kidd was also captured in addition to Law. All three of them were separated from us in a blast from our attackers earlier."

"…It's strange to see Kidd look so thoughtful." Killer said after a brief moment of silence, clearly taking the bizarre change in stride.

Penguin gave Killer a dark look for such a trivial thing, as he felt that Kidd's crewmate should have been more concerned about what was happening to the others being taken away from them by marines.

"That's better."

Penguin followed after Killer without complaint, but only after the Kidd pirate had agreed to let Bepo and Shachi come along. Penguin was calm enough as he reached Kidd's ship, until one thought settled in. It was all it took for him to feel sick to his stomach at the implications if noticed.

"Penguin? Are you all right?" Shachi questioned.

Penguin gave a shake of his temporary body's head. "No, but since there's nothing that can be done about it right now, leave it. Our priority should be finding the captain." Penguin followed his crewmates onto Kidd's ship, as a troubling thought took root in his mind.

What if the marines recognized Kidd in his body? Penguin wasn't sure if the marines were still after him for what he had done some years previous before joining Law's crew, but if what Doflamingo had threatened some weeks ago had any truth to it, then Doflamingo wasn't the only one in trouble in another body.

Kidd was too.

-x

Kidd was sick and tired of Law's near constant insistence that he needed to get off the marine ship as soon as he possibly could. And it didn't help that Doflamingo was back to being amused by the whole situation, and was poking fun at Law and Kidd.

"It's too bad that you didn't just leave the island quietly, Law." Doflamingo said as he settled against the back of the cell he was in. "None of this would have happened and we would be long gone from the navy's sight."

Kidd still found it weird as hell that Doflamingo had Luffy's body wearing those weird shades but the unsettling smile was the worst. It wasn't the kind of smile he expected to see from Straw Hat.

"Eustass-ya, don't just sit there. Try and find a way out." Law said again after completely ignoring Doflamingo's words. "You do not want the navy to hand you over to the Celestial Dragons."

"I kinda get the idea that would be bad, but unless you're somehow gonna slice the ship in two, there doesn't seem to be a way out." Kidd said in return. It was frustrating that he was in Law's crewmate's body, because if he had been in his own, he might have been able to bust a hole in the side of the ship with his powers. Unless the navy had decided to shackle him and the outcome would still be all three of them being dragged off to who the hell knew where.

Well, other than the fact that there wouldn't be the looming threat of being handed off to assholes who thought they were above everyone else.

"Didn't you say you used to be a Celestial Dragon, Joker-ya?" Law asked suddenly.

"I don't see how it matters as 'used to be' means former, and therefore there is no power to be gained from claiming to be one." Doflamingo said, after a moment of studying Law.

"That wasn't what I asked." Law said. "I just wanted to confirm that you used to be one."

"I don't see why it matters." Doflamingo grumbled. "I did say so before, didn't I?"

"How soon do you think they would be able to show up in any given spot in the New World?" Law asked, casting a quick glance Kidd's way.

Doflamingo cracked up at that, and the laughter coming out of Luffy's body seemed very wrong. "Why would they bother showing up themselves? The navy will just deliver your crewmate's body to their door. Why work for something when you expect others to give to you?"

"I knew they were lazy ass bastards. No wonder Straw Hat and his crew clocked them so quickly in Sabaody." Kidd commented, grinning in amusement.

"Don't make that expression with Penguin's face." Law demanded. "And those people were only one family and I don't think they were the ones that Penguin angered. It had to be another family, because they didn't react to anyone in that auction house."

"You never know, it could have been them. They wouldn't have looked too hard at the peasants." Doflamingo said, still entertained by the whole conversation.

Law gave Doflamingo a nasty look. "You should be more concerned about the fact that the marines and the government are going to have a field day thinking that they have captured Straw Hat Luffy. I wouldn't be surprised if they make a big deal out of it and announce your execution."

Doflamingo's smile vanished.

Law wasn't sure which expression on Luffy's face was worse, but he forced himself to turn his attention to Kidd again. "Look around the cell one more time. I don't know how long it will be before they put you in another ship. I doubt we're going to the same location together."

"Fine, fine, I'll look." Kidd said. "But don't be surprised if there isn't anything."

"Try kicking the walls too." Law said.

Kidd rolled his eyes and sighed heavily in exasperation. "I'll try not to make your crewmate's body fall to pieces because I think I can kick harder than he does."

"It's his body, so it'll be about the same." Law pointed out.

"Fuck you." Kidd said as he started to pace the small cell again.

"You did that yesterday but most unfortunately, you can't repeat that performance while you're in my crewmate's body." Law said dryly.

"Ah, c'mon, I bet you fantasied at least once about having a threesome." Kidd said as he started to kick a particular spot on the wall.

"If you weren't in Penguin's body, I would find a way to beat you." Law said coldly.

"Love you too. Now shut up and let me look around." Kidd said distractedly as he started to kick the same lower wall that he'd just previously kicked. "And don't tell me to not tell you what to do. You do realize you're going a little crazy, right?"

"I am perfectly sane." Law said tartly.

"Both of you could shut up and that would be very useful." Doflamingo cut in.

"Fuck off." Kidd growled as he kicked the spot again, and it gave way.

Law ignored Doflamingo again and gripped the bars of the cell he was in despite the pull on his wrists from the cuffs and the fact that the bars were made of sea stone. "Can you get out that way?"

Kidd kicked the spot a few more times before he lowered himself to the ground and took a peek. "…yeah, I think so."

"Then go, quickly, before they come back." Law said as he turned his eyes on the nearby stairs as if the marines would show up that very instant.

"Like hell I'm gonna just go and leave you here. I said I was gonna kidnap you and that still stands." Kidd said as he tested to see how easily he could fit Penguin's body through the hole he'd made.

"No, you are going to go and meet up with my crew, Straw Hat's and yours." Law said firmly. "The more of you there are, the better chance we have to get out. If you try now, you'll likely just be recaptured."

Kidd would have argued some more had footsteps not been audible, as well as the voices that accompanied them that let Kidd know that Law was right.

"You captured him?"

"That slave that killed all those workers and guards years ago? Yeah."

"Where had he been hiding out?"

"With pirates."

"I'm not surprised, I guess. Might as well get this over with and send him on his way before we get any more complaints about taking too long."

"Eustass-ya, go." Law hissed, as he moved away from the bars of his cell and settled on the ground.

Kidd hesitated for a moment before he squeezed through the hole that he had made, and started to make his way along the thin wall that was there. Fervently, he hoped that the marines weren't just going to randomly start shooting holes into the walls of the ship in an attempt to locate him. But from the raised voices, that wasn't out of the question.

"Where did he go?"

"The other two are still here."

"Hey, the wall is caved in."

"Someone get in there and go capture him before he gets too far! The Celestial Dragons won't like to hear that he escaped just as we were bringing him in."

"Sir!"

Kidd moved as quickly as he could in the darkened space and cursed his luck when Penguin's body decided to give out on him. It really just wasn't his day with all that was going on, and if Kidd couldn't haul ass out from where he was currently, he was going to be caught. "Dammit." Kidd hissed under his breath as he got Penguin's body, his, whatever, to his hands and feet. He couldn't delay. He'd only gotten a bit of a head start and he needed to keep that distance. He had no excuse to not get out of there.

"I think I see him!"

"Shit." Kidd said as he rose and blindly moved forward in the dark. He didn't get far because one of the assholes chasing him shot him in the fucking leg. Kidd collapsed again with a curse, but since he wasn't in his body, he wasn't going to try too hard to continue on. Mostly because he had no Devil Fruit power to aid him.

"Did you get him?"

"I think so. It's hard to tell because it's so dark."

Kidd pressed Penguin's body against the side of the small space and thought himself incredibly fortunate to avoid detection because the fools hadn't brought a light source. His luck might be turning around.

And then there was a large blast at close range and Kidd was nearly knocked unconscious as he fell through the hole that was suddenly in the side of the ship.

"Idiot! I told you to capture him, not kill him."

Kidd agreed with the scolding voice but it didn't help much because he was still falling into the sea beneath him. Kidd hit the water and flailed for a moment, utterly disoriented, and found that he wasn't quite as down and out as he had thought he was. But the shot to the leg still hurt like hell and Kidd couldn't do much but flail around despite the fact that Penguin wasn't a Devil Fruit user and he should be able to swim. Kidd surfaced with a gasp and heard people on the marine ship clamoring and arguing amongst themselves by the hole that had been made in the ship. Kidd immediately tried to swim away, but he didn't get far because a few of the bolder marines braced the potential sea kings in the water to capture him.

So much for Law's hope that Kidd could get Penguin' body away from the marines.

Kidd really missed his powers. He would have beaten the shit out of them all and been on his way with Law by now if he had been in his own body. Kidd's sour mood wasn't improved when he was hauled back aboard the marine ship, a different one, and was locked in one of the navy's upper cabins. Kidd would have laughed at the sight of one of the marine medics treating his leg wound, mainly because he was being pinned down by two of the marines that had jumped into the sea after him.

The treatment was done and Kidd was bandaged and declared fine with rest as the two marines brought him to another cabin and set him up on the bed. Even if they left Kidd's hands cuffed behind his back. Kidd let out an irritated sigh and wondered if Law knew that he had been recaptured and was now on another ship, as the dark haired pirate had feared would happen.

"You captain seems like a nice person. I wonder why he is a pirate." One of the marines commented as she plopped down onto a chair in the cabin.

"You are one of his crew, are't you?" The other marine asked, as he sat down on another chair similarly. He indicated the outfit that Penguin's body had on with a wave of his hand. "You have the same insignia on."

Kidd was silent, not sure exactly what to say or why these two marines were suddenly deciding to be chatty with him. It was suspicious.

The other marine eyed her companion before she frowned a little. "I thought pirates were supposed to be loyal to their captains, but I guess not?"

"Or maybe his captain told him to go do something." The male marine said.

"This guy seems too nice..." The female marine began.

"...to be a murderer like the reports say?" The male marine finished.

"Is this some new kind of marine torture technique?" Kidd ventured after a moment of staring hard at the two short, brunette haired marines.

The two marines looked a little embarrassed. "We have been told to tone down the whole finishing each other's sentences thing."

"But it can be amusing." The male marine grinned. "I'm Mac and she's Jen. We're twins."

Kidd figured these marines had to be new or they wouldn't go volunteering their names. Kidd felt that a nap sounded great but with these two he doubted he would be getting any decent rest. However, he saw an opportunity to get some information, and went with it for now. "So what, the marines are now keeping an eye on prisoners instead of just locking them up?"

"You already escaped once." Jen pointed out.

"We're supposed to make sure you don't try again." Mac added.

Great. Just what Kidd didn't need. A double teaming of marines that were obviously quite happy to do their job. But the longer they yammered between one another about pirates and the Celestial Dragons and such, Kidd wondered if he might not be able to manipulate the situation at some point. It would work out in the end, but not before Kidd found himself in danger again. And this time around, Kidd would have no one but himself to blame for the situation.

All that Kidd knew at that moment with those chatty twins irritating the hell out of him was that he wanted to clock someone for this insult of mistaken identity. Kidd was definitely going to find a fitting way to get back at Law for this.

-x

Zoro looked around the ship that he was on and all the marines that were milling about. He crossed his arms, one hand loosely gripping a katana. "This isn't the Sunny." All the green haired swordsman had done was board a ship as he avoided a cluster of marines, but apparently he'd made a mistake and had gone south instead of north. Zoro figured that Usopp must have given him the wrong directions when he'd spoken to him with the transponder snail.

"Carlos said he saw a pirate sneak on board."

"A stowaway?"

"Find him before he helps Straw Hat and Law escape!"

Zoro leaned in the shadows and watched the marines quietly. It didn't seem like any of them had sensed him yet, which meant that perhaps the admiral that he had caught sight of before was not on board this particular marine ship. Or if he was, he was being ignored. The green haired swordsman noticed a ship sailing after this one in the distance and recognized it as the Thousand Sunny. Zoro smiled. He figured that he could create a diversion to allow his crewmates to catch up, as that was what it sounded like the plan had been.

It seemed that getting on the wrong ship this time around worked in his favor.