Alabasta!
Ace Appears & Straw Hats Vs. Baroque Works
{No PoV}
After a few days of sailing towards Alabasta with Mia and Sanji staying below deck during the day resting or in Sanji's case cooking, they found a strange man drowing in the sea and rescued him.
Only to befriend him and soon find out he was Mr. 2 Bon Clay.
So after Bon Clay left they called up Sanji and the now grouchy but awake Mia.
"What the hell is so important you disrupt my precious sleep?!" She questioned coldly.
"We ran into Mr.2 Bon Clay, and he has devil fruit powers that allow him to turn into any single one of us. You and Sanji and Rena are the only ones who didn't get touched by him so we need to find a way to know its really us and not just Bon Clay in disguise." Explained Nami calmly.
Mia then yawned and relented.
After some discussion and a lot yawning from an exhausted Mia they finally decided to have Mia who was the better artist make two different tattoos on the bodies of all her friends and of Vivi and Caroo.
And X on the wrist which they bandaged to hide the mark and on the left thigh of everyone she tattooed the straw hat pirates' pirate mark which then everyone covered up.
After a while they reached their first stop in Alabasta and Mia fell asleep standing up.
"I feel kind of bad having woken up Mia-san when she had stayed up all night every night this week on watch." Vivi said awkwardly as she looked at the sleeping woman that was now being picked up by Luffy.
"I'm sure she doesn't mind. She'll wake up soon enough for food. She hasn't anything since breakfast so she'll wake up in a while hungry." Nami said kindly.
Then they all left having noticed Luffy had run off with Mia into the island screaming about food.
-With Luffy and Mia-
After finding themselves in the desert Mia woke up and her stomach growled. They found a hut and beat up the criminal after burning all the bags of powder at Mia's request.
'Rain Dance Powder... This shit is best gone permanently from this country.' Mia thought to herself as they began moving quickly back to town.
Once there they ran right into a restaurant to eat. Mia however was shocked as she saw the figure sitting next to Luffy that was asleep with their head in their food.
She decided to approach but was stopped when the door was slammed open into her knocking her straight into the man she had been studying and out of the restaurant.
When they got up, they locked eyes.
"Mia..." He muttered.
"Ace.." She muttered back before they remembered who exactly had burst into the restaurant. They ran back in time to see Luffy run out of the restaurant with Smoker right on his tail.
Mia turned to the restaurant owner and handed him a bag of money and picking up her food and downing it in one go.
"Thanks! Sorry for the damage! The bag should have enough to cover the damage and our tabs! Let's go Ace!" She shouted dragging Ace with her.
They then ran side by side.
"So you've joined Luffy's crew?" He asked as they ran.
"Yes, I'm one of the two vice captains of the crew! So you're related to Luffy?" She said.
"He's my little brother! The one I told you about when we were 15." He answered.
She smiled. "Well, that certainly explains why he reminded me of you so much!" Said Mia happily as they finally caught up to Luffy and Smoker.
"Water Queen! Fire Fist! I get why Water Queen is protecting Straw Hat but why would you Fire Fist."
"Fire Fist? That's your nickname?" Mia questioned holding back laughter.
"Okay... They could've done a better job with that... But I have a huge bounty! That has to count for something!" Ace said as he flushed in embarrassment.
Mia smiled bright and took his heat off with her hand and placed it on her own head.
"Why don't ou show me why you earned the bounty?" She said challenging him.
He smirked and created a fire wall.
"How's that?"
"Devil Fruit Powers huh? Fire looks like... Not bad..." She said with a smirk.
"Like you can do better?" He challenged.
"Want to bet on it?"
"Of course! What're the stakes darlin'?"
Mia smiled mischeviously.
"I win and I get a kiss and this cool hat of yours at the end of our time together in this country." She answered.
He hummed in thought as Smoker stared at them in shock having gotten rid of the fire wall and seen them interacting.
"Okay... and If I win I get a full make out session in private and I get a special present from you to remind me of you once I leave this country. Deal?" He asked.
"Hmm... Deal!" Mia answered.
"Show me what you've got?" Challenged Ace.
Mia then smirked and raised her hand.
Then it glowed blue as she suddenly made four barrels of water on either side of them explode and led the water to soak Smoker weakening him as it was sea water and they smirked and ran after Luffy.
"Okay! You win! But your reward will have to wait until we get to safety, is that okay?" Said Ace.
Mia smiled, "Of course." She answered.
Soon catching up with Luffy, Mia and Ace told him of how they were connected and they easily took out all the baroque works agents that had chased after them for their bounty. Mia easily knocking them out with a blast of water from the ocean. Ace easily knocking them out with hand to hand combat moves, Luffy easily taking them down with a Gum Gum Pistol.
After a couple minutes they continued on their way to the ship with Mia guiding the way so they wouldn't get lost.
Once they found the ship, Mia jumped onto it landing gracefully on the railing and Ace catching up with them landing effortlessly behind Luffy who had been bragging and knocking him upside the head lightly.
"Hey there!" He greeted getting down onto the ship with the help of Mia.
"I believe, you owe me a hat, Fire Boy..." She said with a mischevious grin as he pulled away from kissing her forehead gratefully.
"Ah, right! Almost forgot about that, here you go gorgeous." He said a little flame heart lighting above his head as he lovingly placed his heat on her head.
"Ace! So what brings you all the way to Alabasta?" Asked Nami curiously.
"Oh! I'm just here on some business for a few days and I'm taking the chance to see my little brother and my little shorty while I'm at it... You guys are his crew right?" He said hugging Mia from behind as she smacked him lightly on the head with a watery hand putting out the flame without weakening or harming him.
He chuckled and cuddled her tighter making everyone smile at the sight happy for their Vice Captain.
"Yes, we are... So you're Luffy's brother and the man who Mia loved but left her?" Asked Sanji curiously causing the air to grow tense as Mia went to defend Ace and got stopped by Ace himself.
"It's alright Mia... He's not wrong... You loved me and I left you... It's sounds horrible because it was horrible. I loved you too when I left and I still do. Which is why I'll always be eternally grateful that the woman I love is you, because you are the most understanding and caring woman I will ever know aside from Makino... Leaving you behind on the island is something that I have always regretted and will probably always regret... I was shocked to see that you forgave me for that before I ever even left the Island..." Ace said letting go of Mia to hold her hands gently as if she was the most priceless treasure he would ever have.
Mia began to tear up as he spoke and when he finished the tears flowed freely down her face as she smiled brightly at him.
"The reason... The reason I forgave you was that I... Love you.. I always have. I watched ou closer than I did Sabo, than I did the bandits, makino everyone... You've been the only thing I had left that I loved ever since we lost our child. You kept me sane when I was so close to loosing my sanity... You gave me all you could never asking for anything in return... So when you wanted to go out to sea, I saw the opportunity to give you something you wanted... So i let you go never asking to go with you or anything like that because I understood that I would only be holding you back if I didn't... So don't you dare regret leaving me behind!" She said getting a fierce glint in her eyes as she suddenly grabbed him by the shoulders revealing that he'd begun crying too.
"Don't you fucking dare regret chasing your dreams! I won't fucking let you! You hear me?! Our child in the afterlife would be heartbroken if you hadn't so stop crying! Stop crying and smile dammit!" She shouted in his face drying her tears with one hand and drying his with her other.
He was shocked and so was everyone as she grabbed him by the collar of his open shirt and kissed him right on the lips chastely.
When she pulled away she turned away from them all with a smile and began to walk to the rear deck.
"Catch up properly with Luffy and the others! I'll be taking a nap! I'm still tired as hell! Ja ne!" She said waving back at them aimlessly.
"Sanji..you...JERK! GO APOLOGIZE!" Said Rena angrily at Sanji slapping him.
"Y-yes Dear!" He shouted rushing an apology at Ace who took his actions in stride and let him run off to apologize to Mia.
As they all chatted Sanji came back and joined the conversation as they all chatted aimlessly until Ace excused himself and went to go find Mia.
Finding her fairly quickly he hugged her from behind making her smile brightly at him.
"So what do you think of the crew? Interesting bunch huh?" She said turning around in his arms to face him.
He smiled brightly at her and hummed in aggreement bring his face closer to hers.
"Very interesting but never as interesting as you..." He said.
"Is that so? Well I believe you owe me something...don't you?" She said bringing herself closer to him.
"Ah! Yes! That's right! I owe you a kiss..." He said mischeviously before sealing his lips against her.
Both of them quickly craving more and more, but holding back as they were out in the open.
Then he pulled away from her completely holding her hand and taking her to the others with his brightest smile.
Then once with everyone he got down on one knee and pulled out a small box from his pocket.
"Mia... I know it's been three years since we were last together face to face... But I know that I can't let you out of my sight again without first making you completely mine... So what I guess I'm trying to say is.. I love you with everything I am and will ever be, so... Will you marry me? Please?" He asked.
She teared up a bit and smiled her brightest smile yet!
"YES! YES! A MILLION TIMES YES!" She screamed tackling him to the ground and kissing him passionately.
When they pulled away they hugged and stood up only to get hugged by everyone else on the ship.
Soon they found themselves being legally married by the Princess Of Alabasta. The paperwork being gathered and turned back into the town hall of the city they were docked at by Sanji. After rejoicing they let the couple go off into the next town they docked at in disguises to have their couple fun while the rest of them worked on making the preparations to go off through the desert.
After some time, Mia and Ace met up with them at the edge of town. They had a glow that spoke of their love and one of their activities as they walked to them.
Mia was carrying a puppy in one arm and in the other she was carrying bags that blatantly were from a pet shop. Ace was carrying a puppy that looked exactly the same and a similar amount of bags. They looked to be regular puppies but as the two got closer the others finally noticed why the townspeople that saw them ran away scared. It was white wolf pups that had strange purple eyes. The two also were feeding them each a half of a strange looking fruit.
They were also chatting happily.
"Wait! The mayor really did that?! I never would've guessed he'd be capable of something like that!" Ace laughed.
Mia giggled and nodded.
"Really! He really did that! It shocked everyone in the village and let's just say... The ladies his age that were widowed or single would not leave him alone for more than five minutes!" Mia finished.
Ace and her laughed harder as they came to a stop in front of them and calmed themselves.
"Hey Ace! Hey Mia! Who are the dogs?" Questioned Luffy gushing over how cool the dogs were.
"These are two wolf pups we found in a weird shop. A man was selling them along with a devil fruit. Appearantly these wolf pups were found near here on a boat out at sea with no parents or anything of the sort. Just them and the devil fruit. So they put them up for adoption and decided to give whoever adopted them the fruit. We decided to adopt the pups because of how cool they are but we already have a devil fruit and no one in the crew particularly needs a devil fruit so we decided to feed the pups each a half of the food. They seemed to like it. Now all we have to do is wait and see what powers they get." Mia said.
Everyone was shocked and Luffy, Usopp, Chopper and Rena got excited and tried to figure out what powers the pups had gotten when suddenly the pups spoke.
"Will you stop looking at me straw hatted human! I'm tired... I just want to sleep in our new mama's arms!" Said the female one annoyed.
"What she said! I want to sleep in our new papa's arms!" Said the male.
Everyone was shocked and smiled excitedly as Mia and Ace picked up their respective pup in their arms.
"Say you two, what should we name you two?" Said Ace causing the pups to perk up.
"Hmm... For the male how about... Comet?" Mia suggested.
"I like it!" Said the male suddenly transforming into a baby boy in Ace's arm.
"Another human human fruit?! How is that possible?!" Freaked out Chopper.
"They actually aren't rare. None of the zoan types actually... But regardless now you have another nakama to play with Chopper." Mia said petting the reindeer lovingly.
"For the female how about... Midnight?" Proposed Ace.
Mia's pup turned into a baby girl in excitement and nodded cuddling cutely and happily into Mia's chest who was smiling happily.
Then they all began their treck into the desert, Mia and Ace soon starting to train Midnight and Comet into using their devil fruit powers with the help of a suffering Chopper.
Thankfully, the pups were fast learners and warmed up quickly to the rest of Mia's nakama.
After a while it became nght and the pups fell asleep in between Ace and Mia as the two slept. The others all asleep around them. The next morning the treck continued difficulties and all, the pups dragging Chopper's sled to keep training with the help of the reindeer when Ace went off to face Scorpion and Mia turned to them with a sad smile.
"Midnight... Comet..." She called.
They were surprised but listened closely.
"Your Papa, Ace, is a pirate affiliated to the Whitebeard Pirates. He'll probably leave after we pass the desert or sooner. Comet, Midnight, one of you'll probably end up going with him, so I just want to take the chance to tell you i'll miss you and try and communicate with you two as much as possible. But i'll be busy being part of my own pirate crew. I'm a Straw Hat Pirate. I'm not going to quit this crew to be close to you two. I'd only be doing something I regret. So one of you will stay with me and the other will go with Ace. The choice of who stays with who will be up to you, but you need to decide soon." Mia said hugging them both.
The pups turned human and jumped into her arms crying but nodding understanding this wasn't easy for them either.
Then Ace finished his business and joined them.
Scorpion noticed and then grew shocked beyond belief.
"YOU TWO ARE TOGETHER?!" Scorpion said in his shock.
Then Mia showed her wedding band and engagement ring both being present on her finger.
"Yeah, we just got married today actually... We're hoping to have a kid someday too but for now we have plenty with our newly adopted wolf pups that now have devil fruit powers." Mia said with a proud smile hugging her husband.
Scorpion and his kids then fainted causing Mia, Ace and the pups to poke and prod to see if he was okay.
"Hey Captain, you think they're still alive?" Mia questioned to Luffy causing Chopper to rush to the aid of his new patients.
He sighed in relief when he noticed they had only fainted.
"Thankfully they are still alive but you two need to stop being so blunt when people are likely to respond like this when they hear of what you two have accomplished!" Chopper scolded.
"Sorry Doctor-san!" Said Mia guiltily.
Then she seemed to remember nothing and pulled out some cotton candy.
"Cotton Candy?" She asked handing it to him.
Chopper quickly devoured the cotton candy and smiled letting go of his anger instantly.
'He's so easily persuaded!' The crew gaped before they all continued the trek once Comet and Midnight announced that after Mia and Ace bought them human clothes for when they go into human form Comet would be going with Ace and Midnight would be staying with Mia and the others.
Soon reaching the next town the couple said goodbye and Ace left with Comet at his side to go do his mission leaving Mia and Luffy each a piece of his vivre card.
Then they finally got to work.
~ And So! ~
Battles broke out all over Alubarna and for Rena it was no different as she found herself and Sanji facing off against Bon Clay himself.
As they fought he cloned Nami and Rena when up against Sanji, so Rena grew pissed and literally threw Sanji out of the fight taking his place quietly.
Her expression reading murder didn't face Bon Clay but he only realized it should have concerned him when the moment he charged an attack in Sanji's body at her she effortlessly used it against him and broke one of his legs. He tried again, of course, but she broke his other leg and left him there on the ground as she began to walk away.
"Aren't you going to finish the fight?" Asked Bon Clay making her pause.
"I don't kill mine and my nakama's friends..." Rena said calmly with a warm smile making Bon Clay cry as he saw her and Sanji suddenly kiss with all the love they carried for each other.
-With Usopp, Chopper and Midnight-
As Usopp and his friends fought, he got injured badly which made Midnight furious enough she grew into a gigantic size and suddenly howled so loudly at Mr 4 and Ms Merry Christmas that the earth beneath them shook dangerously and surprisingly, out of Midnight's mouth came a large spiral of golden light that hit both of their enemies and knocked them out cold at last.
Chopper was heavily injured as well so he was thankful that Midnight had managed to defeat their enemies on her own.
So instead he began patching them all up.
'What was that? Midnight breathed some kind of golden light... What kind of wolf are these pups?' Usopp questioned mentally as Midnight shrunk back down into her real size and passed out.
'I've never read or even heard of a species of wolf that could do something like that? Just what are these pups?' Chopper thought as he worked on patching up Midnight.
-With Zoro Nami -
Zoro kept dodging each attack Mr 1 threw at him while Nami tried her hand to hand combat skills against Miss Double Finger.
Nami was NOT doing very well until she got lost in her anger when Miss Double Finger offended Luffy.
"Is this the best that boy's crew has? Pathetic! The boy has no taste and no skills! Absolutely worthless." The woman had insulted.
Suddenly Nami's ClimaTact turned black and so did her arms as her eyes developed a murderous glint to them.
Nami first struck the shocked Miss Double Finger with a cpinning climatact, followed by summoning the black coating to her legs with sheer willpower and roundhouse kicked the woman's face with each of her legs doing a spin in midair.
When she stopped her onslaught of attacks it was because Zoro had stopped her physically having quickly seen Nami's momentary intentions and defeated Mr 1 to stop her from committing murder.
When she was stopped she smiled viciously at the out cold barely breathing figure of Miss Double Finger before passing out with only a few words.
"Take that bitch." She had said passing out.
Then Zoro picked her up in piggyback and began his treck to go find Chopper, Usopp and Midnight.
-With Luffy Mia-
Mia stood next to Luffy as Crocodile stood with Nico Robin by the Poneglyph.
As Robin read the poneglyph Mia turned to her captain.
"Captain?"
"Yeah?"
"Do I have permission to help you take down Crocodile?"
"Yeah."
"Awesome!" She said excitedly.
He did his signature laugh and nodded before they both turned serious as Crocodile stabbed Robin with his hook hand. Luffy charged at the enemy while Mia raced to Robin's side and immediately got to work patching her up.
Once she spared Robin from deaths door she stood up deathly quiet and stepped in front of her captain her hair shadowing her eyes and a look over murder conquering her entire being.
Crocodile thought nothing much of it but noticed the woman was releasing a deadly aura and she would not hesitate to kill him should the opportunity present itself for her.
"Captain..." Mia spoke
"Y-yeah?" Asked Luffy slightly nervous.
"Permission to do as I see fit with this enemy on my own? I promise not to murder him. I just feel my friend deserves retribution. Besides this place is about to collapse and neither you nor she are in proper fighting shape." Mia said.
Luffy analyzed the situation carefully and nodded his approval grabbing Robin quickly and running.
"What can you even do little lady? You've got nothing! Do you even have a name?!" Crocodile mocked thinking she was small fry since she was ranked under the straw hatted boy.
Big. Mistake.
She then glared at Crocodile fiercely.
She then stretched her arm out in front of her and held her hand open in front of her. She smirked as she made a very small orb of water be pulled out from her dry hand flawlessly.
"Do you know what 60% of the human body is made of?" Asked Mia.
Crocodile took a moment to think about it but by the time he realized the answer it was too late. From the orb in her hand about 500 darts of water were formed. And she easily threw them at him and it perforated his skin harmlessly which left him confused because something didn't feel right.
"What did you do to me?" He asked suspiciously.
"I increased the amount of water in your body. It's not an attack, but if you move even a muscle, your body and organs will completely shut down. Meaning, If I so much as poke you anywhere, you'll be put in a coma for who knows how long. You are frankly lucky I am not aiming for the death. Otherwise I already could have done so rather easily." She said giving a yawn.
"How are you so sure your little trick will work against me?" Asked crocodile trying to rile her up.
Her face became cold and calculating.
"Three reasons." She began stedily and slowly stepping towards him.
"One is that the water I added to that in your body is pure ocean water from the twin capes here in the GrandLine, so honestly, transferring it to you really helped me feel a lot better than I have since we entered the GrandLine. Ocean Water is lethal to devil fruit users if it infiltrates their bodies in any possible way. Even two tiny drops of it can kill a devil fruit user. I know so because you aren't the first devil fruit user I have fought and won't be the last." Mia explained calmly taking his coat which she decided she would steal and clean for her own use later on.
"Second is that I made sure that my Ocean Darts hit specific parts of your body that my Captain had already struck in a way that made for easy perforation of the water." She said stealing his wallet knowing he knew better than to try and stop her from stealing from him.
"Not much money... oh well, Nami must have already collected the rest of the money you could offer and I have plenty as is for now." She said with a bored sigh.
Then she refocused as she walked towards the exit.
"The third and final is your own devil fruit powers. You ate the Suna Suna No Mi which grants you sand powers correct? When sand and water clash, water will conquer if it is used properly... Water has the ability to weaken sand and in the case of devil fruit users like ourselves, it can considerably weaken its opponent or even kill them, depending on the intent of the user of the powers. Anywho. Ja ne!" Mia said leaving at last leaving crocodile to be knocked out by the rubble allowing Smoker to later on capture him easily.
~ 2 Days Later ~
Mia smiled warmly as she and Midnight waltzed through the streets of Alubarna openly as she honestly didn't care about running into the marines.
Which she inevitably did when she walked into a restaurant to eat.
"Water Queen..." Smoker said lazily.
"Water Queen Mia..." Said Tashigi darkly causing the atmosphere to tense.
Mia just smiled.
"Order what you'd like. I'll pay. It seems like you two would like to talk and I prefer civil conversation over violence. Surprising as that may be. I do hope you two can respect that. I don't want to damage any property here." Said Mia calmly and warmly as sh petted Midnight who was munching happily on the food in her plate in her human form.
"Why did you and the rest of the Straw Hats come to this country?" He asked.
Mia continued to smile warmly and politely.
"Our Captain wanted to help this country survive the civil war caused because of Crocodile's Project Utopia in order to get his hands on Pluton. So our crew decided to do what we do best, burst in and kick ass before heading on our merry way on our ship to continue our journey. That simple. If anything you should be more concerned that Crocodile of all people was able to learn of the existence of such a deadly weapon of mass destruction that normally only the World Government should know about. I only know what Crocodile managed to learn about it when he spoke of it when I and my Captain were battling him. It seems pretty dangerous for humanity to get their hands on it. Our crew has no interest in that sort of thing so you can rest easier with that. However you should quickly report the fact you likely have moles in the government quickly. Because who knows what else the government is hiding that a person worse than Crocodile could get their hands on. Information can be as deadly as any ordinary weapon." Mia said quickly finishing her food and cleaning herself and Midnight up before picking up the pup in human form in her arms and placing a bag of money on the table.
"Remember what I told you and don't worry about the cleanliness of the money. It's money I earned when I worked an honest job in my home island. So just enjoy yourselves a good meal." Mia said waving lazily as she left.
When she reached the room in the castle where her crew rested she was happily surprised to see Luffy up and about. But concerned when he noticed her and stopped suddenly standing in front of her looking serious.
"You took longer than it should have back in the fight with Crocodile. What happened in there once I left?" He asked.
Mia sighed and smiled in relief.
"If you are trying to ask if I killed him, I didn't. I very much wanted to but I didn't. All I did was paralyze him in a way that if he moved even the slightest he would be knocked out cold for about 6 days." Said Mia calmly and honestly in response.
"That doesn't cover all of the time you spent down there. You did something down there that you aren't telling me. As your Captain, I order you to tell me what else you did down there." Luffy said darkly.
Mia sighed.
"May I tell you in private Captain?" Asked Mia.
Luffy paused thinking it over before nodding.
Then the others stepped out of the room to give them privacy.
"What did you do?" Asked Luffy once more.
"I made sure to access his memories to see exactly who had given him the information on Pluton, because it was clear that Robin herself didn't even know of it's existence until Crocodile mentioned it." Mia said darkly.
Luffy was surprised the pieces clickling in his head.
"So who told him?"
"Former Marine Fleet Admiral Kong. Who is now the Commander in Chief up in the World Government." Mia answered grimly.
Luffy's expression turned Grim.
"We have to warn the Marine Admirals somehow without giving away you read Crocodile's memories." He said.
"I already took care of that Captain, I apologize for getting ahead of myself. But i hinted it to Smoker and left him a note under the bag of money I handed him to cover our quaint lunch chat earlier in town. He should've already found my note and looked at it by now. I have no doubts his judgement call will be the correct one on the matter." Said Mia calmly.
Luffy relented and nodded before they began chatting about happier subjects as they went and joined the others for dinner.
Soon after a lively dinner the Straw Hats packed up and left to go to their ship.
~The Next Day~
As the Straw Hats said goodbye to Vivi and Carue [Just realized I was spelling it wrong, my bad] Mia snuck away to the rear deck and used an ability she had never used before.
"Water Water No One Way Mirror..." She said at the ocean water in the bucket she had collected ocean water with before they left Alabasta.
She was currently inside of the bathroom.
The water than glowed and sparkled before rippling into an image of Ace on his pirate crew playing with Comet.
"I miss you Ace, Comet... Hopefully i'll see you again soon enough." She said quietly before draining the water out and heading back outside in time to see Usopp interviewing Robin.
She approached them and smiled at Robin warmly.
"So you've decided to join our crew?" Asked Mia.
Robin smiled back softly.
"Yes... It seems even more wonderful than you described in your last letter to me." Said Robin.
Then the two women hugged and began chatting disregarding the antics of the others as Robin quickly won almost all of them over easily.
Unaware of craziness soon to happen.
TBC