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Chapter 12 - Suicide Squad part 1
Lucy - 14, Ace & Sabo - 17, Coby - 16, Law - 21, Zora & Sanji - 15, Nami & Usopp - 14, Chopper - 12, Koala - 19, Robin - 18, Franky - 20, Brooke - 21, Vivi - 14
Ace didn't like too much attention for him. He really didn't. He was introverted before but then Lucy entered his life and ruined everything. Well it was a beautiful chaos so he didn't mind.
But really how did this happen? He already accepted that he was famous because Lucy and him are the official face of the Whitebeard corporation. Their faces are everywhere. They even have a fan base. That was a given because his friends are not exactly hiding their intention in shipping them. Even Lucy's friends are earning money by selling merchandise for their fans.
Sometimes he really wonders if Lucy's friends are just using her because of how innocent she is. But then he went on one of their travels, specifically in Alabasta to visit one of their friends, Vivi and realize how patient and understanding her friends are in her stupidity and right there and then accepted that using Lucy to earn money was their payment for all the stress the girl caused.
Their visit to Alabasta was so chaotic. The whole country was in a civil war and the peak of that war was exactly the time of their visit in the country. He really shouldn't be surprised that apparently, it's not Lucy that seeks chaos but it's chaos that follows Lucy.
But to be fair, he should have known that the country was in chaos when Pops formed a group to visit the country to back up the people because apparently one of the mafia Crocodile was manipulating the people to start a revolution against the royal family.
The whole vacation was so chaotic that he found a lot of secrets in their small family. Because apparently Sabo was a revolutionary, the 2nd in command in the Revolutionary. But what was more shocking was that Dragon, as in uncle Dragon, Lucy's father Dragon, was the head of the Revolutionary. His eyes almost popped out when they met each other in the middle of the war. Sabo almost killed him when he told him that he was looking for Lucy in the middle of the war because apparently she got lost and probably kidnapped.
And Lucy, dear Oda! Traveling with Lucy was a different kind of stress.
They were sightseeing on the edge of the town because Lucy said she wanted to meet with a friend. Ace wished that it was a girl because heavens know that Lucy has enough male friends.
Meeting with the friends Lucy was talking about, he wasn't sure if the Gods heard his prayer or just wanted to mess with him so badly. Because Lucy's friends were Dugongs. Kung-fu Dugongs.
At first he really thought that the Dugongs were going to fight them for trespassing their territory, and as the only one in the group that knows how to really fight, as in fight not self-defence fight, he was ready to fight. But to his surprise the Dugongs didn't fight but ran towards Lucy and hugged her legs. They were making sounds and Lucy kept nodding her head and replying with every sound the Dugongs made. It really looks like they're having a conversation. He was ready to just sleep now and there because this is just completely ridiculous to be real. Then Lucy decided that they should camp there and have a feast with her friends.
He was going to protest that they're not ready for camping and they can just rent rooms in the hotel in the nearest town, just a 2 hour walk. When suddenly her friends were suddenly fixing up all the camping equipment they pulled somewhere when he wasn't looking. Because as far as he could remember they were not carrying any camping equipment.
Nami was drawing a map of something while discussing with Vivi. They were whispering a lot so he really couldn't understand anything. But he really didn't care since it might just be a girl-talk.
(It wasn't, he should have tried harder to eavesdrop)
Zoro was cleaning his swords that he never saw him carrying. What is more horrifying is that it's not just a single sword but 3 swords.
Ussop was making pellets with a huge ass slingshot strapped behind him. There were a bunch of ingredients surrounding him. Hot sauce, pepper, needles, and even paper. It must be a party trick.
Chopper was checking his stock of medicine and bandages. The boy was 12 years old but he acted too mature for his age.
Sanji was cooking the meat the Dugongs gave them. He really wants to know how the Dugong caught a sea king. And the big duck that Vivi told him named Karoo was trembling in fear staring at the sea king and Sanji. He's not sure why but when Sanji said something along 'bait', 'sea king', 'good job', and 'next time.' Karoo fainted.
Robin was silently reading a book in a corner with a beach chair he didn't know where it came from.
Franky was setting up the tent. It was not a simple triangle tent, it was a huge tent that will fit all of them. When he entered there were mattresses enough for all of them. He really wanted to know how and where they get these things.
Brooke was playing the violin while the Dugongs and Lucy were singing along. They were partying with the Dugong! By then Ace was sure he was already asleep in their hotel room and was just dreaming all this. So he let Lucy pull him into the chaos and just party with them.
But to his horror, he woke up the next day on a mattress inside the tent hugging a snoring Lucy.
Sabo really wants to just end this war and find her precious little sister.
That damn Ace let Lucy out of his sight. They're not even sure if Lucy was just lost or was kidnapped again!
If it was a normal situation he wouldn't be this stressed, but Lucy let herself be kidnapped in the middle of a civil war. What is worse is that a mafia was involved in this war.
But what stresses him the most is that Lucy and her friends were here on vacation! Who the hell goes on vacation in a country when a civil war is just moments away from happening. It wasn't helping that the trackers he gave Lucy, the one bracelet he gave her with permission of tracking her and the first bracelet with a tracking device he gave her, was not working. Dragon-san said that maybe it's because of the signal being jammed by Crocodile because they also couldn't use any of their devices.
Another thing that stresses him the most is that Ace found out that he's working for the revolutionaries. There is nothing really wrong with that, they grew up together and they're best friends and he trusts Ace with his life. But he just doesn't want to hear from Ace how dangerous for Lucy is being involved in the revolutionaries is -as if he'll really say that out loud with Dragon also in Alabasta.
He snorted at that. As if being a member of the Whitebeard mafia any better.
Sabo and his team -Koala and Hack- meet Ace in town. He was kinda glad to see Ace. They were about to greet him when he notice that he was in distress and was panicking. He quickly ran towards him to ask what's wrong.
To his horror Ace told him that they were just camping on the edge of the town and on their way there, when Lucy got a bright idea of drinking the juice from the cactus and hallucinated.
She then yelled about seeing a town made of meat and proceeded to run towards the direction she pointed -which is the direction of the town. Before anyone can move, Chopper declared that he'll follow Lucy's direction to inject the medicine in her, so he hopped on Karoo. Karoo then ran very fast.
When they were starting to head back to the town, a perverted camel that would only let Nami and Vivi ride him, showed up. After Nami and Vivi settled on the camel, the camel ran very fast in the opposite direction of Lucy.
The group split into 2 groups. Ace would obviously go with following Lucy. So with Robin, Zoro and Sanji they went to follow Lucy's trail. Ussop, Franky, and Brooke followed Nami and Vivi.
Only 10 minutes into walking a huge alligator suddenly came out from nowhere. It was a weird alligator, it had a banana on its snot and a banana tail. The alligator dragged Robin by the back of her shirt away and into a different direction from Lucy or Nami's group.
And dear Oda, Robin just giggled saying "Oh, dear it seems that I'm getting kidnapped." before disappearing in a completely different direction from Lucy and Nami's group.
Before any of them can speak, Sanji, traumatized about seeing all the ladies get kidnapped before his eyes, was already running after Robin. He was yelling about cooking the damn alligator and feeding its bones to Momoo, whoever that is.
By this time Ace wanted to cry so badly, not only did he lose Lucy but then he lost all of her friends except Zoro. Still Lucy is Ace's priority.
Ace glances at Zoro who is now walking in the opposite direction of where Robin and Sanji went -which is a completely different direction from Lucy. Before Ace could call him out, he felt his narcolepsy kick in. His last image was Zoro walking away before blacking out.
"I know it's rude and all, since we just met and we really don't know each other." Hack paused as he stared at the wild looking Ace "-but are you high? What kind of drugs are you using?"
"I'm not lying! It really does sound like a lie. Even now I still don't fully believe it because of how ridiculous it was, but it's all true!" Ace yelled frustrated.
"Ace-kun, maybe you just need some sleep." Koala said with concern in her eyes "You look like you had a long day."
"I did!" Ace yelled. He really did, it's not even lunch and he's too exhausted with all this shit.
"No." Sabo stopped them, all 3 looked at him. He has this dark and dangerous look in his eyes "I believe Ace."
"Come on Sabo-kun. You can't be serious." Koala complained
Sabo just gave her a dead look, "Remember the boat ride from Drum Island to East Blue with Lucy and her friends?"
"Yeah?" Koala asked
"Then remember the bird? The sea king with wings? The cow sea monster? and the Kung-fu Dugong?" Sabo asked
Both Koala and Hack paled as they clearly remember the events that broke their minds.
"What happened?" Ace asked since he just met a bunch of Kung-fu Dugongs yesterday. Honestly he still believed that he was just hallucinating everything. Maybe he also drank the cactus juice without realizing?
"Oh no!" Koala screamed "Ace-kun's story can be possible since it's Lucy!"
"I didn't join the revolutionaries to be pulled into this kind of mess!" Hack yelled. He still hasn't personally met the girl but she already traumatized him.
Ace was now confused when both Koala and Hack fell on the sand crying and breaking down again. He looked at Sabo asking for confirmation but before any of them could talk Koala quickly stood up, a new found fire within her eyes.
"Okay, our top priority is to save Lu-chan!" Koala yelled "Nothing else matters!"
"Koala, our first priority is to stop the mafia in killing both the revolutionary and the royal family." Hack begged still on the sand crying
"No! Lucy-chan is too adorable and innocent for the world!" She roared "She must be protected at all cost!" She ran towards somewhere. Hack cried louder
"What?" Ace asked no one in particular. Sabo's friends are as weird as him.
"Alright Ace, our first priority is finding Lucy, then her friends, then stopping this Crocodile." Sabo said but before he could even agree in helping the revolutionaries, he was already being dragged by Sabo to follow Koala
"No! Sabo don't follow Koala! Damn it! Where here for the people! Sabo this is just too much for you and Koala! Damn it all!" Ace could hear Hack cry louder. He kinda pity the fish man.
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