Zoro was the first to notice the foreign objects that were falling from the sky, but this was only because one of them landed on his stomach as he was taking his customary afternoon nap.
The glass jar hurtled out of the clear blue sky at what was likely terminal velocity and landed squarely on Zoro's green haramaki before bouncing harmlessly off onto the grassy deck of the Thousand Sunny and rolling for a few inches before coming to a stop.
Zoro grunted as the jar made impact and his good eye snapped open. Are we under attack? Was Zoro's immediate thought, though upon spying the projectile, he scowled. Tomato sauce. It was probably the work of that damn curly-brow cook. So he was throwing perfectly innocent jars of sauce at Zoro now, hm? Zoro wouldn't put it past his rival to do that.
...But the more he actually thought about it, the more Zoro realized that this wasn't the cook's style. First and foremost, it was against the shitty cook's moral code to use food like this: it would probably be akin to the idea of him throwing one of the female members of the crew at Zoro, though probably a slightly less severe transgression. Second, it simply wasn't the cook's style to attack Zoro in his sleep. It wouldn't prove anything if he were to beat Zoro like that.
So where had the jar come from?
"Hey, what's this box?" Usopp's voice filtered over from across the deck, from where he was fishing with Luffy, Chopper, and Brook.
"It looks like food!" Luffy exclaimed, pouncing on the blue cardboard box and shaking it, rattling the contents.
Zoro stood, and, scooping up the jar of red sauce, strode over to his captain. "I found some, too." He announced, holding the jar for Luffy to see.
"Wow! It must be my lucky day!" Luffy laughed, snatching the jar from Zoro's hands before he could protest.
"Where is it coming from?" Usopp asked wonderingly. "Look, there's something else." He walked over to the object and picked it up. "Italian Sausage," he read the label wonderingly.
"Luffy-san, Zoro-san, Usopp-san, don't look now, but I think I see more strange objects falling from the sky." Brook interjected, pointing upwards at a few black specks far above the Sunny with one skeletal finger. "Though I have no eyes to see! Yohohoho! Skull joke!"
"You're right." Zoro said, ignoring his fellow swordsman's ridiculous (and not very funny, in Zoro's opinion,) joke.
"IT'S RAINING FOOD!" Luffy shouted joyously at top volume. "THE NEW WORLD IS SO AWESOME!"
"Somehow I don't think that's the case." Usopp said.
"What do you think it is, Usopp?" Chopper asked, abandoning his fishing rod as well to join the conversation.
Usopp squinted up at the specks in the sky, trying to think up a possible explanation. Then he noticed something. "Hm?" he pulled his sniper goggles up to his eyes to get a better look.
"Oi, losers! Caught anything yet?" Sanji poked his head out of the kitchen to yell at the four who were supposed to be fishing for dinner. Seeing them all on the deck, plus the idiot marimo swordsman, Sanji couldn't help but be irritated. "What the hell are you idiots doing?!" He shouted, and swung over the railing to join the five on deck and give them a good kicking, including the marimo, who was doubtless the instigator of this flagrant laziness.
"I think that's... a girl... falling from the sky..." Usopp said, in awed disbelief, and that was all it took for Sanji to completely forget about kicking some sense into those five as he looked up into the sky as well.
"Holy shit, the sniper's actually telling the truth! There is a lady up there!" Sanji was shocked at this development, but not too shocked to project the path in which the mysterious falling girl was falling. It wasn't good.
"She's going to fall into the sea!" Usopp yelled, apparently thinking along the same lines as Sanji.
"Do you think this is her food, Luffy-san?" Brook asked, apparently ignoring the disaster that was at hand.
"Maybe if it is she'll share it with me!" Luffy said cheerfully.
"If she survives the fall." Zoro pointed out. Sanji scoffed. While those three were busy having a calm discussion, a lady was about to die a horrible death! Well, not if Sanji had anything to say about it. He hadn't spent two horrible years in Hell just to let an innocent lady plunge to her death in the cold, unforgiving depths of the New World waters.
"Sky walk!" he shouted, and launched off of the deck, running as quickly as he could through the air, up to the ever-nearing figure until...
Sanji caught the girl neatly in his arms, slipping down several yards before regaining his balance and stopping himself so that he hung in the air. He was immediately rewarded for his chivalry by getting a strange pinkish and extremely cold drink spilled all over his head as it sped downwards. But he didn't mind: he was also being rewarded with a vision of loveliness. Well, more or less. Certainly, she wasn't nearly the beauty that Sanji's beloved Nami-san and Robin-chan were, but the girl he had saved wasn't bad looking either. Her wavy dark brown hair spilled in unruly curls over her face, loose strands escaping from the twin braids she wore tucked behind her ears. A pair of fragile-looking rectangular glasses were perched on the girl's nose, and behind them, her eyes were closed, as though she was sleeping peacefully. Odd jewelry clinked together at the girl's neck, and her short black dress ruffled in the breeze that made the girl shiver in her sleep. Aware of her discomfort, Sanji hugged the lady closer to him, willing that his warmth would keep her not quite slight enough to be called slight form from shivering again as he walked back down to the deck.
"Nice work, Sanji!" Luffy yelled, grinning and stretching his arms out above him, the blue box of pasta in one hand and the jar of tomato basil sauce in the other. "Now we can ask her to share her food with us!"
"I think a better question to ask her is why she was falling from the sky." Zoro pointed out as they watched Sanji alight on the grassy deck and carefully lay the strange girl down.
Chopper took one look at her before he began to screech for a doctor, momentarily forgetting that that was his own job.
He was fairly justified in this reaction: after all, the left side of the girl's face was a bloodied mess, along with her left arm, though the wounds seemed to be mostly superficial scrapes. However, dark purple, very serious looking bruises had blossomed on both arms, and were probably the result of some sort of large object crashing into the girl at high speed.
"Doctor! We need a doctor!" Chopper shrieked in panic.
Sanji kicked him lightly in order to get him to stop hyperventilating. "That's you, Chopper. Get to work." He frowned at the girl who lay unconscious on the Sunny's deck. Just a moment before, he could have sworn that her face had been angelic and completely unmarred by any of the injuries that now covered it.
"Oh! Yeah!" Chopper recollected his wits and pulled his medicine bag off of his tiny shoulders. "Let's see... These should stop the bleeding, and this will be good for the pain..." He mumbled to himself, then turned to the rest. "Would one of you go and get some bandages out of the infirmary?"
Sanji sprang to attention. "Wait just a moment, Chopper and I'll be back with the bandages you need to help this lady!" He promptly dashed off to belowdecks.
"What's all that noise?" came a feminine voice rather harshly from the mikan deck where she and the other female member of the crew had been tending to their plants.
"Some girl fell from the sky!" Luffy looked up at Nami and Robin, looking curiously down at them from over the railing, and grinned.
"From the sky?" Robin repeated, and Nami looked upwards.
"I didn't notice any sky islands floating by. Are you guys sure of this?" she said dubiously.
"The love-cook had to use that 'sky-walk' thing of his to run up and catch her. Didn't you notice?" Zoro said infuriatingly. Nami scowled at him.
"Excuse me for not noticing every little thing you boys do down there when I'm trying to have a decent conversation with Robin." She snapped back.
"Whoa, these glasses sure are weird!" Luffy grinned obliviously, temporarily abandoning the mysterious food and snatching the glasses off of the unconscious girl's face and placing them on his own nose. "Everything's all blurry! I wonder how she can see anything with these on!"
"Luffy, that's probably not the best idea-" Usopp began as Luffy began hopping around rather drunkenly, his world distorted by the strong prescription lenses.
"Hey, Usopp! You're a big blob! You look funny!" Luffy grinned, then turned to his musician. "And Brook! You're a big blob, too!" the captain laughed.
"Luffy put those glasses down before you break them!" Nami ordered as she made her way down the stairs. "She probably can't see without them if everything's so blurry for you."
"But I'm having fun, Nami!" Luffy whined.
Nami was about to answer firmly that Luffy seemed to have a natural talent for breaking things, when the Sunny lurched suddenly, making a good number of the crew lose their footing, including Luffy, who fell flat on his face.
"Oi, Franky! What's all that about?!" Nami picked herself up off of the lawn deck and turned towards the helm, where the cyborg seemed to be having some difficulty with the wheel.
"Weather change, I think, Nami-sis!" he yelled back. "Get up here!"
"Okay!" Nami called, and spared a glance at the rest of the crew, who were all picking themselves up as well. "Get ready for trouble, everyone." She ordered, and headed up to the helm to help Franky navigate.
"I'm back!" Sanji announced his presence loudly as he burst from the door to belowdecks, arms full of clean white bandages. "What was that lurch about just now?"
"The weather is changing again, Sanji-san." Brook explained readily. "At least, that's what Nami-san and Franky-san told us."
"Thank you, Sanji." Chopper nodded, taking the bandages Sanji had fetched for him, and began expertly wrapping the worst of the mysterious falling girl's wounds. He worked quickly, because Chopper knew that changing weather would likely mean that the seas would be rough and dangerous for a person in a delicate condition, such as this girl. When he had finished the preliminary bandages, Chopper stood slightly away from her and said "Heavy Point!" Immediately, his tiny form grew and shifted into a rather monstrous bipedal creature. "I'll take her to the sick bay and keep an eye on her." Chopper announced, picking his patient up easily and cradling her gently in his arms, so as not to injure her further. "Luffy, she's going to need her glasses when she wakes up, so give them back."
Luffy, who had risen only to his knees, didn't seem to be hearing any of the conversation that was going on around him.
"Oi, Luffy, what is it?" Zoro asked, sensing something was wrong.
Luffy looked up, his expression horrified, and wordlessly held up the mangled pair of glasses.
"Luffy you idiot!" Sanji screeched immediately, kicking his captain on his rubber head with full force. "How could you break her glasses?!"
"I d-didn't mean to!" Luffy blubbered, eyes and nose running. "Oi, Usopp, can you fix them?" Luffy turned to the mechanically minded sniper and offered him the pieces of the broken glasses.
Usopp took them and inspected them pragmatically. "Maybe. It's going to take some time- WHICH WE DON'T HAVE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THE SEA'S CHANGING! PAY ATTENTION, LUFFY!"
"Yosh! I owe you one, Usopp!" Luffy nodded, his tears stemming themselves a little too easily.
Chopper rolled his eyes and headed as quickly as he dared towards his infirmary.
"Hey everybody, brace yourselves!" Nami yelled from the helm.