Finally, I finished this chapter and I am so sorry it took so long. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for Chopper and I rewrote this chapter a couple times before I was satisfied. I hope it was worth the wait.

Disclaimer: Still don't own anything. Just in case there was confusion.

There are very few changes to this chapter. I liked my original too much to make any major changes. Chopper is just too cute.

Mr. Freeze

Alone in his cold, quiet laboratory, Victor Freis, known to the world as Mr. Freeze, contemplated the injustice of life. Once he was a respected scientist, doctor and beloved husband; now he was a wanted criminal, a super-villain on the gallery of Gotham's rogues. In a fit of pique, he swept the arm across his table, scattering the beakers and vials he had been working on. He despaired but in this body he couldn't even weep.

He welcomed the distraction of the proximity alarm. Something was wandering in the halls of the abandoned frozen food factory, his current base and another victim of society's injustice. The building had been left to rot when the owners were forced to close by bigger corporations. A little rewiring turned on the cold without alerting the authorities to the electricity usage. He kept it so cold inside the building that no one should have stayed longer than a few moments.

Maybe the Batman had found him again. Victor put on his helmet and grabbed his freeze gun. If that was the case he would put the bat on ice.

He stalked the intruder, a difficult task in his bulky suit, and soon he had it cornered. However, the intruder wasn't one of Gotham's vigilantes; in fact it probably wasn't from Gotham at all. A tiny little animal with reindeer antlers and a blue nose, wearing shorts, and a blue hat with a pink "x" hid behind one of the support beams. Or tried to hide behind one of the support beams. It hid the wrong way, leaving its whole body out in plain view.

"Aren't you hiding the wrong way?" Victor asked in his robotic voice.

The thing squeaked and slowly hid the right way this time. Victor sighed and put away his gun. He didn't have time for this.

"Leave, creature, or I'll freeze you," he threatened. It didn't move. "I have too much work to do." No reaction from the furball. "Fine, do what you want. I must find a cure for my Nora."

"Cure?" the thing asked, coming out from its hiding place. "Are you a doctor?"

Victor turned on the creature, feeling cold anger burn in his chest. "I used to be, until I was betrayed and became this!" he said with malice. "You wouldn't understand. I'm a monster now."

The creature smiled and even Mr. Freeze felt his heart melt a little. "Yes I would. People used to call me a monster and it hurt." He put his small hooves behind his back and kicked the ground. "But because of Luffy, I don't care anymore. I just want to become the best doctor in the world so I can support my friends. And I will too. You just watch."

Victor considered this and thought of his Nora, his reason for living. It was true that he wouldn't care what anyone else thought as long as she remembered him as the man he was. He looked back down at the small animal. "Who are you?" he asked.

"I'm Tony Tony Chopper and I'm a Strawhat Pirate," he said proudly. His smile was adorable.

"Come, Tony Tony Chopper. I will show you my lab," Victor said decisively. Who knew, maybe this strange little person would have some use. At lease he was amusing, something that had been missing from Victor's life since he lost his wife.

In the lab, Chopper scurried around, looking at everything with growing excitement. He read through Victor's notes with surprising speed and even seemed to understand them. He reverently touched the bottled samples with his little hooves, and seemed the most entranced by the new cryogenic pod Victor was creating. Current models were too hard on the subjects' system; Freis himself was an extreme example. He wanted to create one that would not strain his poor Nora's immune system and maybe find a way to reduce the effects on his own body.

"Did you make all of this?" Chopper asked with stars in his eyes. "I bet Franky and Ussop would appreciate this place."

"Yes," Victor said, looking at his musical snow globe that was all he currently had of his wife. She was currently in the custody of Wayne Enterprises. "I have devoted my life to the study of my wife's illness and cryogenics."

"It's all so amazing, far beyond anything I have ever seen," the little reindeer said honestly. "In fact it's beyond anything I've ever heard of. Some of this technology is more advanced than even Dr. Vegapunk." He turned to stare endearingly at Freis. "I know if you put your heart into it you will succeed, just like my Dr. Hiluluk."

"And who was he?" Victor couldn't stop himself from asking. It had been so long since he had held a conversation for this long.

"Doctor took me in when everyone else was afraid of me because of my blue nose," Chopper said as he looked closer to the pod. He transformed into a large ape-like creature with a thick ruff of fur around his neck, using his increased height to get a better look. Mr. Freeze figured it wasn't the blue nose that turned people off.

Chopper continued his story without noticing his companion's surprise. "He gave me my name and my hat. He taught me what it meant to be a doctor and a pirate."

"Pirate? You mentioned that before."

"Uh huh. I'm the ship's doctor and Luffy is our captain. He's really strong but he always gets hurt so I have to be strong so I can take care of him. And the others to, though usually it's Luffy, Sanji and Zoro who get hurt the worst." He turned to look at Victor and shrank back to "normal". "Well, Ussop to, but he at least listens to me when I tell him to keep his bandages on. Zoro never does." He looked annoyed, which was even more adorable than before.

Victor felt like he was losing control of this encounter. He decided to ask a question maybe that would help clear things up. "Your Dr. Hiluluk, was he a great doctor?" That seemed innocent enough.

"No, not really," Chopper shrugged, but he was smiling. "Everyone called him a quack, but he had a dream to cure a country."

"A country?" He was lost again.

"Yes, my home island was sick because of our cruel king so Doctor decided to use the same cure that saved his life when he was a young thief with a fatal illness." Chopper held a hoof to his mouth and dropped his voice like he was sharing a secret. "Do you want to know what it was?"

"Yes," Victor answered. He couldn't say anything else when the little guy looked so intent.

Chopper looked over his shoulder and motioned for Mr. Freeze, the man who almost put the Batman on ice, to lean down so he could whisper. "Cherry blossoms."

"Huh?"

Chopper clapped his hooves with happiness. "Yes! Cherry blossoms saved him so he spent years developing a way to make cherry blossoms bloom on our winter island. Everyone thought he was crazy but he did it. I saw the cherry blossoms when I left with Luffy to go on our adventure. And you know what? I think it did cure the country. He was right all along."

Victor Freis stopped to think before he responded. Yes the idea seemed insane, but all doctors know the power of positive thinking. Maybe seeing cherry trees in bloom could help someone recover from an illness and seeing them for the first time could inspire an ice bound country to recover from a poor ruler. He regarded his little friend for a moment.

"I believe you," he said finally. "You must be very wise."

"Shut up, you bastard," Chopper exclaimed, a blush glowing through his fur. "Just because you compliment me doesn't make me happy."

Victor thought that he certainly looked happy, if the dance was anything to go by. He felt his lips crack. Startled he turned to the shiny surface of his pod. It wasn't cellular degeneration at fault. No, he was smiling. How long had it been since he smiled? He looked at Chopper in awe.

"Do you," Victor paused. It would sound stupid even juvenile but looking at the small reindeer he decided he didn't care. It wasn't like a mutant reindeer with a blue nose had the right to judge him. "Do you think your cure would help me?"

Chopper stopped his dance in mid wiggle and turned very serious. "Depends what your suffering from," he said in full doctor mode.

Victor gestured to himself. "I am trapped in this cold, unfeeling body. I feel nothing not even emotions. Everything is cold to me."

Chopper at least seemed to take him seriously. "I can't promise that Doctor's cherry blossoms would help your body, but your mind and your heart? Of course they can. But we need two things."

"What are they?"

"First, a bunch of Doctor Hiluluk's red powder. It will turn snow pink, like cherry blossoms. All of your equipment here can make the snow," Chopper said and pulled off his little blue backpack. He dug though it for a minute before pulling out a vial of red powder. "I learned to make the same powder while I was studying these last two years. We just need to make more of it."

Victor was confident so far. "What is the other thing?"

"A pirate flag! Because…" Chopper was just about to explain that bizarre necessity when Victor's cop radio crackled. He always kept it on to keep tabs on the police and Batman.

"Joker spotted at the Gotham Concert Hall!" the desperate man on the air shouted. "He's taken dozens of hostages and is with two henchmen and a walking skeleton. Please be aware that Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn have also been seen in the area with a dark haired woman who can grow arms out of the walls. SWAT is mobilizing!"

"My crew!" Chopper shrieked. "I need to get back to them!" He turned to Victor with teary eyes. "Will you help me?"

Final notes:

1. I know Mr. Freeze is a little OOC. Hopefully that doesn't distract anyone from how cute Chopper is.

2. I had the idea that Chopper would know how to make the powder and perfected it during the time-skip as a tribute to Hililuk. I hope people like it.