A.N I own nothing.

Sorry about the wait, I had to send my computer away for repairs and when I got it back all the editing I had done had been lost along with a good 1/3 of this chapter had been lost. But i finally got the motivation to do it again and this is actually better than what i originally had.

I did back up my files so only this chapter was lost.

Vivi watched her people enter the final battle, she cried and begged for someone to help Koza and stop the fighting, but no one listened. Ether they did not hear her or they did and did not care. Suddenly a large sand tornado picked up that engulfed the entire square and both armies, but it did not do anything to quell the fighting if anything both armies fought harder.

"No…this can't be happening…" Vivi said with tears forming in her eyes.

She quickly wiped them away and stood up.

"I'll make them see…If I can just find Koza's second in command...I can still stop this," Vivi said.

She turned around and found herself face to face with a very annoyed looking Crocodile; he grabbed her by the throat. Vivi grabbed his wrist trying to loosen the Shichibukai's grip, she looked behind him to see both Jacob and Evie had been knocked down and were slowly getting up again.

"If I do this it will stop the war, if I do that it will stop the war. Face it Princesses you have done nothing these last three years. Your weakness and in action has only increased the body count," Crocodile sneered as he heled Vivi over the battle field.

"Your wrong…I can still save everyone," Vivi cried.

"Sorry princess but death and War go hand in hand; you couldn't save anyone and your ideals make me sick to the stomach,"

"I don't care what you say, I will never stop trying to end this and you," Vivi said with fierce determination.

Crocodiles growled in irritation.

"Then I will put an end to you," Crocodile said and began turning into sand.

"NOOO!" Evie yelled and threw one of her knives at Crocodile, the Shichibukai dissolved his torso just before it hit and Vivi fell from the palace wall.

Jacob and Evie ran to the wall and looked down; due to the sand tornado they could not see anything. Suddenly a giant Falcon swooped down, it was wearing a whit desert Robe with brown Stars decorated the front and a matching hat.

The Falcon then soared back up into the sky, leaving a wind trail behind it and on its back was Luffy holding on to Vivi. Jacob and Evie watched the falcon circle the palace and then it headed back down to the ground.

Crocodile began to reform, Jacob and Evie looked at each other they put they're weapons away and stood on the edge of the wall.

"Well it's been fun Croc but we need to fly," Jacob joked and Preformed a leap of faith off wall into the sand tornado bellow, Evie followed him.

They landed in conveniently placed hay baskets below.

The falcon landed, Luffy and Vivi got off it; the giant bird then shifted into a tall man. Vivi held onto Luffy who had a large barrel of water strapped to his back with a hose. Jacob and Evie walked over.

"Hey Luffy, what took you so long?" Jacob asked.

"Sorry I got held up," Luffy answered and glared up at crocodile.

"Pell…Luffy you're here," Vivi said happily.

"We are not the only ones," the man now known as Pell claimed.

"LOOK THERE HE IS!" Usopp's voice was herd.

Vivi turned around to see Usopp, Chopper and Sanji heading they're way; Usopp was wrpped up in bandages that he looked like a Mummy. Sanji and Chopper were both clarly injured but as well, it was clear they had been through some hard battles.

"VIVI! OVER HERE!" Namis voice called out.

Vivi turned to see Nami and Zoro running in her direction, Zoro was carrying Nami despite his injuries. Ace was with them and he was carrying Connor.

"Oi stop moving and run by yourself," Zoro demanded.

"No way, I'm can't walk," Nami claimed.

"I'M MORE INJUED THAN YOU!" Zoro shouted.

Zoro had seral cuts across his torso and his clothes were dirty with blood and sand. Connor was still injured and could not walk yet, he needed more time to heal. In fact all of the straw hats looked like they were on the verge of collapsing and it was only by sheer force of will they were still standing.

The only one who was unharmed was Ace.

Vivi could not believe it all her friends had survived and they were here, seeing her friends gave her the strength she needed.

"Everyone listen Crocodiles hidden a bomb and is going to blow up the square with everyone in it, we have to find it right away," Vivi explained.

"Hey Vivi why did the fighting start? I thought you were supposed to stop it," Usopp asked, looking at the battle that was currently taking place.

"I couldn't stop it…I tried but my voice no one hears it," Vivi said sadly, she was on the verge of tears "No one can hear me anymore,"

"What are you talking about?" Luffy asked "We can hear you, loud and clear,"

"He's right, and that is all you really need. So what if your country can't hear you, the important thing is we do," Jacob agreed.

"Everyone…thank you," Vivi said with tears pf happiness.

"Save the thanks until after we've saved this country," Evie snapped.

"Your right, when this is over I'll give you anything you want," Vivi promised.

"Good, then throw me a feast. Because I'll be hungry," Luffy said and stretched his arms up reaching for the top of the castle wall.

From the top of the wall Crocodile looked down at the Straw Hats with pure anger.

"How did they survive? How did Straw Hat escape the quick sand with those injuries?" He hissed.

Suddenly Luffy launched himself at Crocodile and Crocodile watched with a board expression as the younger pirate pulled back and let lose a punch.

"Useless," Crocodile said and began to dissolve into sand. However Luffy's punch connected and sent the Shichibukai flying back.

Crocodile hit the side of the main entrance of the palace; he looked up at Luffy in shock. How had he hit him, he was a Logia type user physical attacks should have gone straight through him.

"How…" Crocodiles started and his eyes widened as Luffy grabbed him and threw him across the yard, blood flowed from where Luffy had hit him.

"When we last fought water got on your hand and you couldn't turn it into sand, I realised then that you're afraid of water and that's why you stole the rain," Luffy said seriously and squirted some water on his fist.

"I won't let you beat me again," Luffy claimed.

The Final Battle, Alabastion Palace Square

The Straw Hats were running through the streets, desperately trying to find the bomb that Vivi had mentioned. Pell has taken to the sky to search from above, Nami and Chopper had run off together as had Jacob and Evie. The rest had split up and Connor still had to be carried by Ace as his leg had not healed enough yet.

They had ten minutes to stop the bomb from destroying this country and that time was quickly counting down.

"Damn it where is it?" Jacob hissed angrily.

"Calm down, getting angry won't help us have to find it," Evie reasoned.

"I know, this would be so much easier with our sight,"

"We can barely keep our eyes open in all this sand, let alone use Eagle vision,"

"What makes you think it's in the sand tornado?"

"Simple that way no one would notice it,"

"Hiding in plain sight huh…Crocodile stole that from us," Jacob joked.

"Just pay attention," Evie sighed.

Nami and Chopper ran through the streets, they had left the main battle field and looked in all the large buildings in the area, but there was still no sign of the bomb.

"Chopper can't you smell the bomb with your nose?" Nami asked.

"This whole city reeks of gunpowder and death," Chopper answered gravely.

"Then sniff out the bombers,"

"What do they smell like?"

"I don't know just do it," Nami ordered and they kept running.

Sanji had dashed off out of the Sand tornado; he figured a bomb would be indoors because the fighting was in the streets. He checked every house that looked big enough to hold the bomb.

"Dam it where is it?" He hissed.

Suddenly he stopped running.

"Hold on if the targes the square than it would be closer to the battle field," Sanji realised.

He then realised how far he'd run and started kicking down building walls to get back to the Square as fast as possible.

Ace and Connor were still in the battle field; Ace had predicted that the Sand tornado was to cover the bomb up. He had tried using his Observation Haki to locate the bombers but with the constant attacks form both armies he could not concentrate properly.

"Ace behind you," Connor warned.

Ace quickly delivered a swift back kick into an attacking Rebels face.

"This is useless I can't concentrate," Ace hissed irritably.

"Ace can't you blow this sand away with your fire powers?" Connor asked.

"Yeah and then this sand storm becomes filled with tiny glass shards that would hurt or kill everyone," Ace claimed.

"Where would the Glass come from?"

"Glass is made from superheated sand…I'd be doing more harm than good," Ace said.

Pell flew over the city but nothing looked like a cannon or a bomb, he had seen the royal army cannons but they were too small for a blast the size that Vivi had described. Pell noticed Vivi and flew down to her, he did not land though, she was with Usopp.

"There's nothing on the rooftops," Pell warned.

"It must be inside a building then, but witch one?" Vivi asked looking at all the buildings.

"We don't have time to search them all," Usopp argued.

"I'll check the biggest ones around the square," Pell said and flew off.

"Damn it…we're out of time," Usopp cursed.

"Time….that's it," Vivi realised and stopped.

"Vivi?" Usopp asked.

Vivi turned and looked at the clock tower.

'It couldn't be hidden in there…could it?' She thought.

Vivi thought about what they knew, she knew that the bomb had to be big, she knew that it had to be somewhere hidden but in full range of the square and if it was to go off at 4:30pm exactly…it had to be somewhere it could detonate on time.

"THAT'S IT! IT'S IN THE CLOCK TOWER!" Vivi yelled.

"The clock tower?" Usopp asked and looked to where Vivi was looking "You sure?"

"Yes, there is a massive unused space at the top behind the clocks. Koza used it as a secret club house, we all hung out there every day," Vivi claimed.

"Okay, I'll call the others," Usopp said. He reached into his bag and pulled out a red smoke bomb an fired it into the air.

It exploded leaving behind a trail of smoke. Usopp and Vivi made their way to the base of the clock tower, on the way they met up with Nami and Chopper.

Zoro was on the outskirts of the city looking at the vast dessert in front of him. He was quite perplexed as to how he got here; he was at the square a few minus ago.

"Damn how did I get out here?" Zoro asked irritably.

He ran back into the city but a few second later he was back in the same spot.

"Agghhh this city is too complicated," Zoro complained.

Suddenly he heard an explosion he looked back at the city and saw Usopps signal.

"Damn how did they get over there?" Zoro asked and ran in the direction of the signal.

He ran through the streets as fast as he could looking for where the signal had come from but was having trouble, he turned down a street that lead him to a squad of Marines, they recognised him instantly.

"Crap Marines, I don't have time for this," Zoro stated and drew his swords.

"Roronoa Zoro? What are you doing in the back streets?" one of the marines asked

"I could ask you the same," Zoro hissed.

"Honestly we were told you had no sense of direction but this is ridiculous," another marine said.

"Wait…What?" Zoro asked in surprise.

"Turn back, take the first street and follow it north and you'll get to the square," a Marine pointed out.

"Ummm are we not going to fight?" Zoro asked still unsure what was going on with these marines.

"Of course not, we have a bomb to find…what are you stupid? Just go north," the Marine answered.

Zoro stared at the marine squared in shock, since when were the Marines helping them?

Alubana Clock Tower, 2 minutes until detonation

Ace and Connor had seen the smoke signal and ran towards the clock tower, however there were Marines setting up a perimeter in front of them. Ace was fully prepared to fight however as they approached Tashigi came up to them.

"The others are at the clock tower…hurry," she said.

Ace cautiously moved passed her and none of the other marines made any move to stop him…it honestly disturbed him a bit. They ran towards the clock tower to find that the rest of the straw hats plus the Frye twins were there.

Zoro, Sanji and Luffy were missing though.

"Did you find it?" Ace asked.

"Yes it's in the clock tower…but we'll never get up there in time," Vivi said.

"We have just over a minute left," Chopper began to panic.

"Could we make it?" Jacob asked Evie.

"Not without our Zip lines and they were damaged in the fight with Crocodile," Evie said.

Then how are we…" Nami started but was interrupted.

"OI NAMI-SWAN, VIVI-CHAWN, EVIE-SWANNNNNN UP HERE!" Sanji's voice was heard.

The group all looked up to See Sanji about one third of the way up the tower waving form a window.

"How did he get up there?" Jacob asked.

"SANJI WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE?!" Vivi yelled out.

"Well with my deductive reasoning…" Sanji started but was interrupted.

"OH THERE YOU LOT ARE!" Zoro yelled form half way up, he was higher than Sanji and on a balcony.

"ZORO!" the group on the ground yelled in surprise.

"OI MOSS HEAD WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE?!" Sanji yelled angrily.

"What are you talking about? The marines kept saying go north, so I claimed this tower!" Zoro yelled back down.

"NORTH AND UP ARE NOT THE SAME THING!" Sanji shouted angrily.

"HEY YOU TWO! THE BOMBS AT THE TOP!" Ace yelled out.

"They can't get there from where they are. The only way to the top is by a stair case on the first floor," Vivi claimed.

"We don't have time to climb it," Connor urged.

"We won't have too, I have an idea," Nami smiled.

Suddenly the front Clock opened wide; two figures were seen in front of a very large cannon. Nami looked at the time; they had less than 60 seconds left.

Nami quickly had Chopper change into his reindeer form and had him stand on Usopps back with the Snipers legs wide open, Vivi was on Choppers back.

"Nami we don't have time for this," Usopp urged.

"Shut up do you want to save this city or not?" Nami shot back.

"How will this help?" Usopp asked.

"You'll see now…Cyclone Tempo!" Nami shouted, she launched her boomerang attack at Usopp.

It him square between the legs, suddenly a large gust of wind was created and Usopp was sent flying upwards.

"AGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" Usopp screamed in both pain and terror.

"Chopper Jump onto Sanji's leg!" Nami ordered.

"WHATTT?" Chopper yelled back.

"Wait your plan is for us to fly all the way up to the top?" Vivi asked in disbelief.

Deciding that it was too late to argue Chopper jumped off Usopps back sending the sniper crashing to the ground. Sanji saw them coming he had figured out Nami's plan he jumped out of the widow and held his leg out.

Chopper landed on it and Sanji kicked him and Vivi towards Zoro, Sanji fell towards the ground. Zoro drew his swords and feel backwards off the balcony, Chopper was unsure about jumping off his swords but Zoro was using the back of his blades.

When Chopper landed on them the swordsman launched him into the air for a thirds time, and Zoro's strength was enough to send both Chopper and Vivi above the tower. Unfortunately the two numbered Agents guarding the cannon had seen Vivi and Chopper fly up, they raised their pistols at the princess.

BANG! BANG!

Two shots rang out but it wasn't from the numbered agents, it came from the ground. Vivi's eye widened as both agents now had fresh holes in their foreheads and they fell out of the tower towards the ground.

Chopper changed into his human form and threw Vivi into the clock tower, Vivi drew her spiining slashers and launched them at the fuse. She cut it just in time as the clock reached 4:30.

The bomb had been stopped, but Vivi heard an ominous ticking noise.

On the ground both Jacob and Evie held a smoking rifle that they had borrowed form two marines who had come to see what they could do to help. The twins tossed the rifles back with a satisfied smirk and the numbered agents crashed to the ground.

"Nice shot," Usopp complimented.

'EVRYONE!"

The group looked up upon hearing Vivi's voice she was looking down at them in tears.

"IT'S A TIME BOMB…IT'S STILL GOING TO EXPLODE!" Vivi cried out.

The straw hat stared up at her in shock, they hadn't stopped the bomb they'd only delayed it; the city was still in danger.

"A…A…A time bomb…" Ace whispered.

"That's not right… that can't be right," Jacob claimed.

"We can't stop it…can we?" Connor asked.

"Hey is that…that bird guy?" Zoro asked as a large falcon flew into the clock tower.

Vivi was crying in despair, despite all her efforts to stop the war, despite the straw hats taking down all the numbered agents and Crocodile would still win. Suddenly Pell landed behind her.

"Well this brings back memories, the secret base of the Sand Sand gang…" Pell started.

"Pell…the bomb, it's got a timer. I don't know what to do," Vivi cried.

"You gave me know end of trouble back then, honestly what was the king thinking," Pell reminisced with a smile.

"Pell…" Vivi said in confusion.

"Vivi I have no doubt you will make a great queen one day, but for that to happen you need a kingdom to rule. I have watched you grow and I have never been more proud to be in service to the Alabastaen royal family," Pell said.

He changed back into his falcon form and gripped the bomb with his talons, he then dragged it out of the cannon and the clock tower and flew up into the skies above the city. He ignored Vivi pleas for him to come back and to stop.

Once he was above the City the Bomb exploded, but the City of Alubana was out of the blasts range and Pell was gone.