As years go by, Nami grows up to become a navigator for the Straw Hat Pirates, while Elly grows up to become a Solaris soldier.
A reunion is about to occur.
The former is taking a walk with the crew by the canyon as they look for something new.
"I think we should be able to have the next adventure in Solaris," Luffy instructed his crew. "What do you guys think?"
"I say that would be a good idea," Sanji replied in a romantic way. "I would like to see some girl soldiers in uniforms!"
"Good idea, anyway," Zoro added.
"Same here," Nami smiled at the idea, thinking this is going to be a great reunion between her and Elly. It's been a while since they last saw each other when they were kids.
"Hey, what's going on?" Luffy asked as they all stopped walking to see a confrontation between a dark Gear and a team of Gears fighting against it.
"What the...?!" Usopp yelped as his eyes bugged out and jaw dropped.
"No way!" Nami gasped while Chopper looks shocked as he makes the same reaction.
Among the Straw Hat Pirates reacting on seeing the fight, Nami seems to be stunned at what she is seeing. The truth is, she only cares about the pink mecha, not the dark mecha nor the mechas that are sided with the former, as if she suspects on who is piloting it. Not only that, but also the fact that she has a bad childhood memory connecting it to a psychotic drug ten years ago.
"That's..." Sanji muttered.
"Oh no," Zoro knew there's trouble ahead.
"My..." Robin muttered and not looking surprised.
"Oh my... It's a fight between mecha pilots," Brook is looking excited. "This I gotta see!"
"But it's awful that the Solaris are fighting us land dwellers!" Franky started to cry.
The one who seemed to be most shocked of all, and seemingly the most angry, is Nami as she started gritting her teeth to see if her suspicions are true.
It was then the pink Gear steps in to fight the dark Gear.
"Ooh, it looks like the pink one is about to fight the dark one," Robin chuckled.
"I hope the pilot is a girl!" Sanji exclaimed happily with his eye changed into a heart-like shape for romance.
"If that's the case, then you should be careful when she's using the 'Drive'."
"Huh? What's the 'Drive'?"
"It's a drug from Solaris that can enhance the performance of a Solaris soldier. However, it can cause addiction and violent behavior," Robin answered the question.
"If that happens, I wouldn't want to fight her. Besides, I won't kick a woman," Sanji looks down on the matter.
Upon seeing what is going on just now, Nami is staring to lose her temper as she has her fists clenched tightly as the fire burned her body, and her eyes flaming with the heat of her rage.
"IF THAT'S YOU, ELLY, AND YOU HAVE TAKEN THE 'DRIVE', QUIT SCREWING WITH ME!" she bellowed out.
"If I didn't know any better, the Gebler has some serious insubordination from a Lamb," Robin stated with a smile.
"Huh? What's a Lamb?" Luffy asked like an idiot.
"Lamb is what Solarians call people that are living in the planet's surface. In other words, people that are living in Earth. You could say this term is used as a racist insult, along with 'surface dwellers'," was her reply.
"Amazing," Chopper croaked out while Nami is burning behind the crew. "This is the first time I saw a Gebler soldier fighting someone who is living in this planet."
"That voice?! Elly? Elly, is that you?!" asked the manly voice from the dark mecha.
"Fei... What're you doing? You shouldn't be here!" exclaimed a feminine voice from the pink mecha.
Hearing what the pilot of the pink mecha just said made Nami snapped as her suspicions are confirmed and her eyes shined like star-crossed. A similar reaction to how Sanji snapped after Duval yelled that it was all his fault that his life was ruined by the fact that the drawing resembles his face. Like Sanji, Nami started running towards the battle to do something about this.
"Hey, Nami, where are you going?!" Usopp asked.
The girl brings up her weapon, a bo-staff known as the Perfect Clima-Tact, while she started running to the fight. After the two mechas exchange blows, a conversation comes up.
"Elly, snap out of it!" Fei begged. "Your emotions are being controlled by the drug!"
"This is my true nature! There is no other!" the woman inside retorted.
Nami runs in front of the pink mecha as she jumps up high and is ready to strike it with her weapon.
"WHO CARES?!"
And she successfully did it.
"Elly!" the Solaris soldier's squad exclaimed upon seeing what damage the navigator pulled on their leader with the Perfect Clima-Tact.
"Nami? Nami, is that you?!" she asked, recognizing her immediately after recovering from the attack.
"Geez, who do you think it is, Elly?!" Nami exclaimed.
"Listen up, Nami!" Elly bellows from her mecha. "If I'm not gonna take responsibility for this, then who will?!"
"Shut the hell up!" the redhead pirate yelled back. "I'm more pissed off at what you're trying to do on our reunion!"
The two then are locked into a glaring contest.
"You know, if you're so powerful when you use the 'Drive' on yourself, get out of that giant tin can of yours and face me in person!" Nami exclaimed.
"If that's what you want, then here I come," the pilot agreed on the condition.
The pink Gear's center opens up and a girl landed on her feet. She has red hair and blue-violet eyes. That is Elly, and the two childhood friends got their reunion after all these years. If that wasn't enough, Sanji is beginning to have his fantasy of falling in love with her.
"Just as I thought. You have taken the 'Drive'," Nami stated as she gets a good look at Elly's face, which is not normal, it's much more aggressive and impassionate. Her expression is so contorted it makes her look almost like a zombie. Then, she shifts her focus to Elly's outfit from head to toe. Elly is wearing a black and white long-sleeved minidress with a complex design, brown pantyhose, and black and white light boots. This means she is a Gebler soldier, and that turned her into an object for Sanji's affections. "I see. I heard rumors of a female redheaded Gebler soldier running around, and to think you, of all people, are that soldier."
Meanwhile, the Straw Hat Pirates are taking quite an interest in seeing the battle between them.
"What?! Nami knows who is piloting that thing?!" Usopp looks surprised.
"Unbelievable. To think she has some history with a Gebler soldier," Chopper added. So things like this can really happen, huh?"
"What a surprise. This world is so big to get this kind of reunion," Brook commented.
"Was Nami born under kind of miracle star or something?" Usopp asked.
"I think she might have a good strategy to snap that Solaris soldier from the influence of the 'Drive'," Robin added.
"Hey, guys. Do you think we can be friends with Elly?" Franky cried in tears.
The comparison between the two redheads like their hair color, eyes, and mouth which they have an aggressive impression is quite obvious.
"Those two do look the same, don't they?" Usopp commented.
"Especially the part where that female officer has gone crazy from the 'Drive'," Zoro added.
"For once, I agree with you on that one, Moss Head. Two peas in a pod," Sanji also added.
Hearing that last comment just made Nami look shocked in a bad way with her teeth gritting as if her pride of being beautiful or sane was crushed. It's a combination of being depressed and disgraced. To her, it's such a huge insult she couldn't handle with. Besides, comparing her to an old friend from childhood who went crazy from some drug is really bland. A similar reaction as Sanji's when he heard Zoro said the same thing when it comes to being compared with Duval. If that wasn't enough, Brook is reduced to laughing at this as he falls down on the ground and beats his fist against it.
"When I'm done with this woman, I'm gonna flatten you!" Nami snapped at the skeleton.
"Well, you go ahead and take care of things," Luffy commented while raising his hand in farewell. "We'll sit this one out."
"Don't act like it's my fault!" Nami then yells at her captain, being outraged by this idea, while pointing her finger at the drugged Elly. Then, she turns her attention back to the latter. "Elly, like Fei here... Fei, isn't it? Is that what she called you?"
"Yes, she did," replied the man as he got out of his Gear.
"Like Fei, I know what the real you is like. We've been best friends ever since we were kids. I know how you truly feel, so if you didn't want use the Drive to fight me nor Fei, then why didn't you just run away from here and report this little failure to your boss instead of what you're doing right now!"
Elly looks angry for a few seconds, especially her personality has changed from nice to hostile since she used the 'Drive' on herself. Nami just loves to state the most obvious solution to this problem. Then...
"Ah! I didn't think of that!" she pounded a fist to her palm.
"IF YOU'RE THAT STUPID, YOU CAN ONLY BLAME YOURSELF!" Nami roared in disbelief.
"Just shut up and listen to me!" Elly yelled back. "You know, Nami, I was just doing my job for my allies, and you're interfering! If that's a problem for you, then how about you just kill me right now and get it over with?!"
Nami's eye twitched from hearing such statement. She appeared in front of the drugged soldier, and grabs her throat with her hand.
"I'm being killed!" the latter croaked.
"You're telling that you put me and Fei in danger, even if we have nothing to do with this, just because of your profession as a Gebler soldier?" the former snarled.
"That is my purpose of my life since I was born!" Elly continued, despite being at Nami's mercy. "I don't know what else I can to do! Now that you're here, you can die with Fei!"
She pulls out her weapon, a rod, and started swinging it to Nami, freeing herself from her grip.
"Then, let me just knock some sense into that thick skull of yours by beating the crap out of you!" Nami readies the Clima-Tact. She jumps to her, and the latter blocks it in response. "Elly!"
"Hahaha! So, it really is you, Nami!" the redhead soldier laughed from insanity due to the influence of the 'Drive' while blocking the attack with her rod.
"And I say it really is you, Elly!" her long-time friend replied back.
The two then jump far away from each other. Nami runs to make another swing from her weapon, but Elly jumps out of the way, and the latter tries to make a swing from her rod. Luckily, the former dodges that as well.
"Cool Charge!" Nami uses her weapon to cool down the temperature of the surrounding for her next attack.
"Playtime is over," Elly has her rod charging with electricity and strikes it down to Nami, but as she did, the latter just disappeared, putting her in surprise. "What the...?"
"I call it the Mirage Tempo!" the redhead pirate appeared from behind her. "I'm over here, by the way!"
Her long-time friend continuously attack her, ranging from her rod to kicks, only to find out that each attack is only done to mirages. While this is going on, Nami has decided to talk to her.
"Elly! Some guy named Bart told me everything. Everything makes sense to me. The 'Drive' is used to bring out a potential on Gebler soldiers, but it makes them insane! To think you would use it to fight against Fei when you don't want to. I know what the real you is like. After all, we've been best friends since we were little kids together. We spent that time together in a cave, sharing everything we know ourselves. But, look at what we're doing at this moment! What you've become when you use the 'Drive', that's not the real you! I know you better than anyone. You're my best friend! If you have the courage to snap out of this, then lend your power to me and my friends! It is not too late for you!"
"You talk as if you would know, yet you know nothing!" Elly stated as she sends a kick to her gut, throwing her from a distance by the wall of the canyon, having found where the real Nami is.
"Right. I forgot. Even under the influence of the 'Drive', there is still the same Elly. You do not listen to my advice!" Nami exclaimed.
"Nami, isn't it? Is that what she called you? You don't have to do this!" Fei protested. "It's me she wants to kill because it's her duty to show earth dwelling 'Lambs' like me of their place, so let me handle this!"
"I got a better idea. Let's handle this together. We both know what the real Elly is like. She wouldn't want to hurt us or kill us, for that matter. What do you say?"
"Yeah, I agree. Two heads are better than one..."
"Right. I just met her, so she's already bothering me for resurrecting that bad childhood memory."
"Okay..."
"Finish it? As soon as these Lambs commit insubordination, I'll never find peace! I'm the one who's sick of all these disobedience from them!" Elly demanded with outrage.
"That's enough. How do you think I feel when I see this drugged face again from ten years ago? A stupid face like that shouldn't exist in this world," Nami said in a deadly way.
"I agree with you on that one, Nami," the man added.
"If you don't wanna see it, then I shall put you out of your misery now! Fear not! In return for treating me so kindly, I will kill both of you painlessly. Farewell, Fei, and you too, Nami," the Gebler soldier readies her rod and pointing it at their direction.
"Not if I can say anything about that..." the navigator readies her Clima-Tact, pointing it at her direction.
The two long-time friends charge at each other with their weapons, rod and staff, locked on one another. Fei then attacks by trying to make a punch at Elly, but she dodges that. Next, Nami has her weapon charging with electricity on its end.
"Thunder Charge! Swing Arm!"
Not only that, but also she twirls the piece on its connecting socket with the rest of her staff. She swings this to the Gebler soldier, but the latter dodges this by jumping into the air.
"Fei, now!" Nami exclaimed.
Fei nodded as he jumps into the air and lands a punch to Elly's face.
"Sorry, Elly, but this is for your own good!"
He grabs her by her ankles, then he tosses her down to the ground as he landed with Nami behind him.
"You two think this is over? You think wrong!" Elly got up and pulls out another rod for her to use. To make this even, Nami pulls out a piece of her staff to make it even. The former makes the attacks on the latter, along with Fei, but she blocks them. After a few seconds of trading blows, Elly is about to send a kick when Fei punches her to stop this. Once that is done, he gets a hold of her.
"Here's your chance, Nami!" he exclaimed.
Nodding at this, the navigator pulls her next trick as a dark cloud is hovering on the soldier.
"Is that... a cloud?" Elly is puzzled by this.
"Now, get out of here, Fei!" Nami exclaimed and he follows her order by leaving the area that is covered by the cloud. "Thunderbolt Tempo!"
She throws a small speck of lightning to the dark cloud and a large amount of lightning strikes down at the drugged soldier, electrocuting her.
Despite of the damage that has been done to her, Elly is still standing.
"Is that all you can do? I'm still standing! Prepare to die, you two!"
Before she could make an attack with her rod, she suddenly felt pain on her head is in pain so she grabs it with her two hands, dropping her weapon.
"Uhh! Aagh... Ah... M-my head..."
"I think the effects of the drug are wearing off," Nami stated.
"I was thinking the same thing," Fei added. "I'll handle the next part."
"Okay, go ahead," was the reply while she puts back the peace of her weapon.
He tackles Elly down to the ground.
"Elly! Wake up and snap out of it!" he begged.
"That's right! Listen to him!" Nami exclaimed.
"Ugh... Silence! Impertinent fools! I will not listen to Lambs..." Elly is still drugged, but shows signs of fighting the effects. "That's... not... true... I... No... I... don't want this... Guh!"
"You're right, Nami. The effects of the drug are wearing off," Fei realized.
"Sh-Shut up! I've no need for outward appearances of compassion..."
"Then you don't have to," Nami said with bitterness, turning Elly's attention to her. "Let me tell you something. We're the same. When I first joined Luffy's crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, I look compassionate outside, but inside, I was only using him for what he's worth before leaving. As time goes by, I feel like I'm part of his crew when I joined him. Eventually, I betrayed the crew, and went off on my own. I thought I was happy of ditching them like that with their ship, Going Merry. However, when I'm alone, I broke down and cried. So, I gave them their ship back, they easily forgave me for betraying them, and I decided stay with them as part of their crew for the rest of my life."
As the Straw Hats saw that, they broke down in tears, never forgetting that moment regarding her.
"Nami..." Luffy cried.
"Even though she betrayed us back there, I still like her!" Sanji exclaimed with tears.
Back on the fight...
"N... Nam... i... F... Fe... i... H-Help... Th-This... isn't... This isn't... me..." Elly is beginning to fight back from the influence of the 'Drive'.
"Hang in there, Elly! Don't let go of your true self!" Fei begged.
"I got a better idea," Nami drops her Perfect Clima-Tact as she stands on the edge of the canyon. "Elly, over here! I'm going to let myself fall off from this canyon!"
"WHAT?!" Usopp is against the idea.
"Nami, have you gone crazy?!" Chopper cried.
"Don't worry, Nami! I'll save you!" Sanji is about to make his move.
"No, just stay there, Sanji!" the navigator exclaimed.
"Why?!" the cook cried.
"I knew it," Robin muttered.
"Huh?"
"Nami has a plan to bring her friend back to her senses, and the way for her to do this is to get her to choose between her duty or her friend," the black-haired woman explained.
"So, what will she choose?" Sanji asked her.
"Watch and you'll see what I mean," Robin replied calmly.
"Now, Elly, which is more important to you; the mission to kill land dwellers if they commit insubordination or the friend you earned from childhood despite the fact that she is a land dweller, a Lamb?" Nami stated the decisions while putting her foot off the ground. "I know you're in there, Elly. I know the real you isn't a drugged, insane Gebler soldier I'm fighting against, but a gentle, strong old friend that I grow up with. Make your choice!"
She started to fall off the ledge.
Seeing this happening to her friend has caused Elly to have a tear come out of her eye. In fact, tears are starting to come out from both of her eyes from this moment.
"Nami!" she screamed.
Childhood memories started to flow into her mind. The times she spent with Nami. It includes sitting together in two chairs inside the cave where they first met smiling at each other, and the pinky swear they made together, signifying of their friendship.
This gives Elly the strength to fight off the influence of the 'Drive'. She got her true self back; the self that both Nami and Fei know of.
"Fei, let me go! I need to get Nami!" she exclaimed desperately.
"Right!" Fei agreed.
That is when he frees her from his grasp as she comes running to the ledge.
"Nami! NAMIIIIII!"
Just as Nami is about to fall, Elly grabs a hold of her hand, saving her life.
"Nami!" she cried.
"Elly!" the redhead pirate smiled at her decision, and her friend smiled back at her decision to save her life.
Suddenly, the edge broke and the two started falling down from the canyon.
"NAMI!" the Straw Hat Pirates exclaimed.
"ELLY!" Fei exclaimed.
"Let's go look for them!" Luffy shouted on his next move.
"Right!" the man agreed to it.