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On Rocket Man
Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Chopper, and Connor were sitting around a big pile of food that was in the centre of the car eating there fill. Luffy was scoffing down as much as he could while Zoro was focused on the booze and was quickly going through all the Alcohol bottles. Connor Nami and Chopper were a bit more civilised but not by much. After all they had to be quick or Luffy would eat it all.
Paulie, Zambai, the square sisters and the two Galley La Formen sat against the wall watching the pirates eat and devour weeks' worth of food. Kokoro was sitting on the one long chair in the carriage of the train drinking from her own beer bottle that she had grabbed from the pile.
"I can't believe they eat this much," Paulie commented.
"Yeah, they like monsters," Zambai agreed.
After Paulie had saved the crew from Aqua Langna's first strike the Straw Hats had begged him for a ship to follow Robin and Puffing Tom. Paulie had naturally refused stating that no ship would last longer than a few seconds on the sea during Aqua Laguna. The crew were ready to fight him for it however Kokoro; the station master offered another solution.
She led them to a secret hangar where a second sea train was kept, however unlike puffing tom this one was built for speed and was much faster than the one that had left water 7 already.
The second Sea Train was called Rocket Man, it looked like Puffing Tom except for the fact it had a scary looking a shark-faced head. Iceberg was there as well, he exited the engine car and informed Luffy and Kokoro that he had already done the required maintenance and started the furnace having anticipated that the Straw Hats would come here as it was the only hope. Kokoro thanked him and warned the straw hats that even this sea train may not be able to withstand Aqua Lagana but he wished the straw hats luck none the less.
Nami had caught up and was followed by the two conductors, at Nami's request they had brought a comically enormous sack filled with food and beer; much to Luffy's and Zoro's delight.
As the Straw Hats were loading the food onto the train the Franky family arrived and begged Luffy to let them come with them in order to save Franky. Luffy agreed without hesitation but warned them not to touch his meat as he had no interest in sharing it. The Franky Family agreed and left to get their own ship ready stating they would attach themselves to the train once it left the city.
Once everyone was on board Kokoro who had volunteered to drive the train asked Iceberg to look after her Granddaughter Chimney. After Iceberg agreed Kokoro started the train and the crew set off through the tunnels of Water 7.
It had been a wild ride and once out on the ocean the Franky family attached their ship; which was a giant floating house pulled by two king bulls and Connor once again felt sick from the wild ride.
Once out on the ocean, Luffy complied about the speed as the train was not going as fast as he expected it to. Kokoro assured him that once they were on the tracks Rocket Mans speed would increase dramatically. Unfortunately, while Kokoro was trying to get Rocket man on to the tracks she and Luffy discovered a stowaway in the form of Chimney who was riding on the front of the train with Luffy. Kokoro immediately tried to stop the train but then remembered that the breaks didn't work on this particular type of Sea Train and she and Luffy had nearly been blown off when Rocket Man had hit the tracks.
Fortunately they were blown back into to Franky's families ship and after some struggle, both of them made it back to the single passenger car of Rocket Man where Kokoro scolded her granddaughter for doing something so dangerous.
As it turns out Chimney was not the only stowaway as Paulie and the other two Galley-La Foreman; Peppy Lu and Tilestone. They had all hidden in the area where Coal was stored and had to be brought on board as well.
Paulie claimed he had something important to tell Kaku, Kelfia, and Lucci as well as get revenge for Iceberg and his attempted murder. Peppy Lu and Tilestone on the other hand had snuck aboard simply because Paulie had and they wanted to support him. They were very shocked to learn that it was, in fact, the people they had known and trusted these last five years were responsible for all the trouble over the last two days.
Sanji also called reliving he was on the sea train ahead of them and with Luffy's permission, he would start the rescue by himself.
Since there was no way to turn Rocket Man around Luffy, the Galley-La company and the Franky family formed an alliance to get back their missing friends and make Lucci and the rest of CP9 pay. Zambai had decided to cement their alliance with a group meal and eagerly eyed all the food and drink Nami had collceted, but Luffy adamantly refused to share the food. Though Nami was able to convince Zoro to part with a bottle or two to give to Kokoro as payment for driving the sea train.
Once the crew had eaten just over three quarters of the food and booze they pushed the rest into the back corner of the car.
"So you lot done eating now?"
"For now," Zoro answered and he sat down
"For now?" Zambai asked.
"Truth be told I could eat more," Luffy anwnsed "but I'm saving that for later. Never know when you're going to need emergency meat,"
"Or booze," Zoro added.
The Galley La and Franky Family members who were in the carriage blinked in confusion at both Luffy and Zoro.
"He's joking right?" Zambai asked.
"No he's really not," Nami responded.
Connor walked over to Kokoro.
"Um...shouldn't you be in the engine room driving the train?" he asked.
"there's no point," Kokoro responded "My job was just to get the Roketman on the tracks. once it's on there is no stopping it. Besides, you have bigger issues to worry about,"
"Like what?" Chimney asked.
"Like Aqua Laguna, we still have to go through that if we want to catch up to Puffing Tom,"
"I wouldn't worry about it," Puile announced.
The straw hats looked at him.
"Why not?" Nami asked.
"We're going pretty fast, it's possible we may outrun it before the next wave forms," Paulie claimed.
Suddenly the train jumped and everyone fell to the back of the car as it began to shake violently and it sounded like the train itself would not be able to stay on the tracks.
"What's going on?" Chopper asked worriedly.
Everyone ran to the windows and opened them to look out. In front of them was a ginormous tidal wave that was getting bigger and bigger by the second.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!" Nami screamed in panic.
"That would be the eighty-foot tall tidal wave that we did not outrun," Kokoro stated as she poured more alcohol down her throat "Also known as Aqua Laguna,"
"but didn't it already hit water 7?" Connor asked.
"The first wave hit. the whole storm lasts 12hrs and in those 12hrs we get hit by six or seven tidal waves," Paulie explained "each one is bigger and more violent than the last,"
"So what number is this?" Nami cried.
"I'd say number two, we're actually pretty lucky it's not bigger," Paulie claimed.
"Yeah the biggest one is number three," Zambai confirmed "after the third hits the tidal waves become significantly smaller,"
"WHO THE HELL'S IDEA WAS IT TO SETTLE IN THE MIDDLE OF A TIDAL WAVE MONSOONS AREA!" Nami yelled.
"FORGET THAT, IT'S GOING TO HIT US!" Chopper panicked.
"Don't worry the Franky Family has got this," Zambai declared "Oi Galley-La give us a hand,"
Zambai climbed out the window and on to the top of Rocket man, the Galley-La foremen followed and Paulie used his ropes as safety lines to secure them so they would not be blown off the train. Zambai turned
"Alright Franky Family, let's show nature what we've got. OPEN FIRE ON AQUA LAGUNA !" Zambai ordered.
the Franky Family cheered and unleashed all the firepower they had. They also gave a couple of high powered bazookas to the Paulie and the Galley-La foremen. However, their shots were merely being absorbed by the wave and bearly left a splash. They even unleashed the newly repaired Franky Cannon but even it did nothing against the might of Aqua Laguna.
Inside the car Luffy, Nami, Chopper, Connor, and Chimney still had their heads poking out of the windows and were watching them shoot into the wave. Zoro was sleeping against the front wall of the car.
"What are they doing?" Connor asked.
"Looks like they're trying to punch through the tidal wave," Nami said.
"Well it's not working," Chimney complained.
"That's because they're doing it all wrong," Luffy reasoned, he then pulled his head in and looked at Zoro "Zoro lets show them how you really punch through something,"
Zoro opened one lazy eye and looked at Luffy.
"Sure," Zoro responded in a bored voice.
He got up and followed his captain out onto the top of the sea train.
"Hey, how was he sleeping through all this?" Kokoro asked.
"Because he's an idiot," Nami huffed.
On top of Rocket Man
Luffy and Zoro climbed up and stood at the very edge of the front of the train, the Franky Family and Galley-La foremen stopped firing when they saw them. Despite the violent storm, Luffy and Zoro seemed to have no trouble standing perfectly balanced on the wet metal that was the top of Rocket Man.
"What are you two doing up here," Paulie yelled in worry "you'll fall,"
"Nah, it's just a little wind," Zoro responded and he drew his swords "Keep firing straight ahead and focus on a single point,"
"Why what will that do?" Zambai asked.
"Give us our mark so we know where to aim," Luffy answered seriously.
"You're Mark? What are you two going to do?" Paulie asked.
"We're going to fire our cannon," Zoro answered and he placed his white Katana in his mouth.
"Cannon?" Paulie wondered. Nither Luffy or Zoro had any ranged weapons on them so he was very confused about what they meant.
Zambai ordered the Franky Family to do as the Straw Hats said and now all of their fire was focused on a single spot. Zoro got into a crouched stance and Luffy started to swinging his right arm around in a circle building up the momentum.
"Hey, Zoro, what's 108 times two?" Luffy asked as Rocket Man approached.
"216," Zoro answered.
"216, that's way too long to say and way too small," Luffy complained "It should be shorter and the number should be more impressive,"
"Then say whatever you want," Zoro said as he drew his other two swords. the train was now extremely close to Aqua Laguna.
"Then we'll go with 300 hundred," Luffy announced.
"Whatever you say," Zoro agreed.
"WHY ARE THEY DISCUSSING THAT NOW!" the Franky family yelled.
"Hey you lot, make sure you pay attention," Luffy called back "This is how you deal with tidal waves,"
"Gomu-Gomu..." Luffy began and stretched his arms all the way back.
"San-Byaku..." Zoro said. (300 in jap)
The train was now only a few inches from touching Aqua Laguna and any second it would hit and Rocket Man would be destroyed.
"WE'RE GOING TO DIE!" the Franky family screamed.
"CANNON!" Both Luffy and Zoro cried at the same time unleashing their attack. It struck Aqua Laguna mere seconds before the train did. Rocket Man followed the tracks up the wave but it did not fall back down to the ocean.
Instead, the force of Zoro's and Luffy's combined attack created an open pathway through the feared tidal wave and with the train so close it was able to pass before it reclosed up with water. Rocket Man sailed behind the staggering strength of Zoro's and Luffy's cannon and out the other side where it fell out of the wave and landed safely on the tracks.
Once Aqua Laguna was at their backs Zoro sheathed his swords and Luffy turned to face the shipwrights of Water 7.
"See that is how you punch through things," Luffy said, before climbing back into the car leaving the awestruck inhabitants of Water 7.
"They just..." Zambai started.
"Defeated Aqua Laguna," Paulie finished.
Neither group could believe what they had just seen, but the fact was they had gone through the centre of the most dangerous tidal wave in the Grand Line in the heart of the storm and survived.
They started to cheer.
Inside the car
Luffy and Zoro climbed back inside the single passenger car. Chimney and Chopper were in awe of what they just did. Nami merely sighed muttering how this was typical behavior and Connor merely smiled. Kokoro just stared at Luffy and Zoro with wonder in her eyes but did not say a thing.
Zoro and Luffy heard the cheering from the roof.
"What are they making a fuss about now?" Luffy asked as he looked up at the roof.
"Who knows," Zoro shrugged "I'm going back to sleep, wake me when we get there or something interesting happens,"
Zoro walked over to the spot he had been in before he got up to help Luffy deal with Aqua Lagana.
"Oi," Kokoro said, getting the swordsman's attention as he walked past "If we survive this, I'm taking you all out for drinks,"
"Sounds fun," Zoro grinned. He sat back down and closed his eyes.
Chimney ran to Luffy in excitement.
"You guys are amazing," Chimney said with stars in her eyes.
"Aw, it was just one tidal wave. Not really a big deal," Luffy bragged "wasn't even that tough,"
"So does that means you
"No but that's a great Idea," Luffy agreed. He then looked at Nami.
"Nami let's stop avoiding storms. Let's sail right through them from now on so we can show the ocean whose boss," Luffy suggested.
"NOO!" Nami yelled and smacked Luffy so hard he was sent crashing to the ground "WE ARE NOT MAKING A HABIT OF THIS!"
Connor sighed and shook his head as Nami tried to beat some sense into Luffy.
"Is this normal?" Kokoro asked.
"Yeah, it is," Connor confirmed "it's also a good sign,"
"But she's hurting him," Chimney pointed out "how is this a good sign?"
"Don't worry, she won't hurt him too much. you watch as soon as she's done Luffy will spring back unfazed by it," Connor assured "and it's a good sign because if they're messing around like this it means that they're confident and not worried,"
"You lot do realise who you will be facing once we catch up with Puffing Tom right?" Kokoro asked.
"Yeah, but once we catch up and get serious...then those fake shipbuilders won't stand a chance," Connor claimed in a serious tone.
Kokoro looked at the boy, and then and the rest of the pirates. She hoped he was right because one wrong move and it would mean death for them all.
Once Everyone had come back inside Zambai, the Square sisters, Chimney, Chopper, Tilestone and Peppy Lu began re-enacting Luffy's and Zoro's amazing feat of punching through Aqua Lagana. All but two of them grouped together to be the wave while the other two pretend to be Luffy and Zoro. They were taking it in turns to be the wave and the two pirates.
Zoro got annoyed at them because their antics were preventing him from sleeping.
"Oi would you all keep it down," Zoro shouted. But his request fell on deaf ears, he then turned and looked at Paulie for help.
"Can't you make them stop?" he asked, "You're their boss right?"
"Um...well..." Paulie responded sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.
Paulie like the others had been truly amazed at the power the Straw Hats had displayed and he felt nervous awe that Zoro was even talking to him. Truth be told he wanted to go over and join the others with their re-enactment of beating Aqua Lagna however at the same time he did not want the Straw Hats to think he was not capable of taking their situation seriously.
"I'll...I'll scold them later for it," Paulie promised.
Zoro sighed, he supposed that would be the best he got given the current situation.
'I guess it's better they get it out of their system now,' Zoro thought 'Just wish they would keep it down a bit,'
After a while, Zoro wanting to get away from the noise decided to go back up on top of the train to keep a lookout. Soon he was joined by Luffy Zambai and the two Galley-La Forman; who had thankfully calmed down. The sea was still fairly rough, the wind and rain was still strong, but now they had passed Aqua Lagana there was a significant change in the weather and it was not as dangerous as it was before.
Zambai used his spyglass to see further ahead and it was not long before he spied something on the tracks in front of them.
"Hey there's a light up ahead," Zambai announced, "I think it might be the other train,"
"Great I'll tell Kokoro to hit the brakes," Peppy Lu said.
He was about to climb back into the passenger car but Zoro stopped him.
"Didn't she say this train had no breaks?" Zoro asked.
"Wait no breaks...WE'RE GOING TO CRASH!" Peppy Lu yelled.
"Calm down, you've got the best Ship Dismantlers in the business on board," Zambai declared "We'll just take the train apart before we hit it,"
"YOU CAN'T TAKE PUFFING TOM APART!" Tilestone yelled.
"I agree," Zoro added.
"See,"
" Especially since Luffy just sling shotted onto it," Zoro finished.
"Right we can't take it apart because Straw Hat is now on...HE'S WHAT!" Peppy Lu cried out.
While they had been talking, Luffy had launched himself onto the train in front of him; as soon as he landed he ignored the marines and started looking for Sanji and Robin. Unfortunately, it was not the whole of Puffing Tom, it was only two passenger cars that had somehow gotten detached from the rest of the train. Luffy looked through both cars thoroughly but determined that his Nakama was not on board. He climbed up onto the roof and called out to the approaching Rocket Man.
Thankfully Zambai had been keeping his spyglass up and saw Luffy's signal.
"I see him...he's making a cross sign with his arms," Zambai explained "I don't think your friends are on that train,"
"How can they not be on the train?" Zoro asked.
"Hmm looks like there are only one or two cars," Zambai said "not the whole train itself,"
"Great then we should start dismantling the cars before we hit it," Tilestone said.
"Didn't you just have a problem with that a few minutes ago?" Zoro asked.
"Puffing Tom is a marvel of engineering," Peppy Lu claimed "It is a key part of our Islands history and we should respect it,"
"However the Passenger cars are not and can be replaced...in fact we replaced them with new ones every few years," Tilestone added "it's the engine and the front of the train that we care about,"
Zoro nodded in understanding and then looked towards the two cars that were stranded on the track ahead of them.
"Better hurry," he said.
"Right let's get to it," Zambai declared.
"Oi Zoro!" Luffy's voice called out over the storm.
Zoro and the others looked over at Luffy.
"This is in our way...Cut it," Luffy said with a big grin.
"Okay," Zoro said without hesitation.
"HUH!" the rest of the group cried out as Zoro walked up to the front and got into position.
At that moment Paulie came up on to the train to see what all the noise was about, his jaw dropped as he saw Zoro effortlessly cut both train cars into two perfect halves and they fell away from the tracks allowing Rocket Man to pass through safely. Luffy jumped off one of the halves and landed on Rocket Mans roof.
"What the hell was that?" Tilestone demanded.
"What? The train was in our way," Luffy said simply.
"Warn us next time you're going to do something like that," Zambai shouted.
"Didn't you hear me tell Zoro to cut it?" Luffy asked.
Meanwhile, Paulie merely stared at Zoro, he had only come up to see what the commotion was about and was not expecting to see such a display of power and skill a second time.
"He's so horrifyingly strong and he's not even the captain," Paulie said.
This was the second time in an hour that the Straw Hats had pulled off another miracle. Just after Rocket Man passed the two passenger cars two halves of a Sea King corpse floated to the surface, like the Puffing Toms cars it was cut perfectly in two.
"Oops, looks like I put too much power into my strike," Zoro commented "my bad,"
Zoro was about to go back inside when he sensed something else out in the storm. He looked
"Hey, go back inside," Zoro warned.
"Huh why?" Luffy asked.
"Something's out here," Zoro answered and he tied his bandana on his head.
"What?" Paulie asked.
"Don't know, but I'll handle it," Zoro assured as he drew his white sword.
Luffy stared at his first mate for a second and then smiled.
"Okay, have fun," he said and climbed back inside the Rockets Man passenger car. Zambai retreated to the Franky Family's house and the Galley-La Foremen followed Luffy.
Zoro was right about here being something else out in the storm because no sooner had they gone inside a man was seen on the tracks head. He was tall pale, wearing a Marine Captains coat and held out a large sword. Zoro grinned, eager to fight this marine. The fight did not last long as Zoro was on a high speed moving train, the marine captain managed to get one good technique off and Zoro blocked it.
The Straw Hats Swordsman e then launched himself off the train straight at the Marine and prevented him using a second Technique before knocking him off the tracks.
Zoro jumped back onto Rocket Man just before it hit him.
Unfortunately, the Marine was able to launch another attack at the Sea Train from beneath the waves and with no way to defined the train it hit it square on knocking it off the tracks and severing the Franky house from it.
Rocket man sped out of control away from the tracks and back into the storm. Thankfully the Franky Family's king bulls were much easier to calm down and they were not thrown far from the tracks nor did they sink in to the oceans depths.
Once they were under control Zambai pulled out his spyglass and desperately looked for Rocket Man but the runaway sea train was nowhere in sight.
"Well...this isn't good," Zambai said.
On Puffing Tom
Sanji sat defeated against the wall of the carrage of Puffing Tom, he Franky and Sogeking had gone through all the marines and the cars of Puffing Tom. Franky had fought and won against one of the newer members of CP9 and they had made it all the way to Robin. They had even managed to separate the car they were in from the rest of Puffing Tom and CP9.
However, despite the fact that it looked like they had saved Robin and gotten away from the government, Bluno of CP9 reviled his Devil Fruit Powers and despite Sanji and Sogekings best effort Robin refused to go with them and willingly went with Blueno. Franky in one last attempt to save her sacrificed himself but in the end, it had all been for nothing.
CP9 still had Robin, Sanji and Sogeking were left defeated, exhausted and stranded on in the middle of the ocean. Sanji knew Luffy was on his way so they just had to wait for his Sea Train to catch up. Sanji hoped the rest of the crew would arrive soon as he knew the rough sea could capsize the train car or they would be perfect bait for the Sea Kings who were always more active and closer to the surface during a storm.
After a while Sanji heard something approach, he weakly pushed himself up and carefully opened the back door of the carriage hoping to see Luffy Sea Train. The cook frowned, it was not a sea train but a house being pulled by two very large creatures.
"Great now what?" Sanji sighed. He really hoped they were not here to fight as Sanji was too tired and hurt to at the moment.
The creatures stopped and Sanji recognised the men's clothes form Water 7. This was Franky's group.
'Oh it's these guys,' Sanji thought 'they probably are out for revenge,'
The Franky Family swarmed the cars looking for Franky and anything they could use. Sanji watched them definitely wondering what they were doing out here and once the Franky Family had finished they forcefully ushered both Sanji and Sogeking onto their ship while the rest of the family dismantled the train cars so it would not block the tracks.
Once they were finished the Franky Family started on their way again and Sanji figured they'd take advantage of his and Sogekings weakened state and he was very surprised when the Franky family started fussing over them.
"Hey are your hurt, oi get some badges and medicine over here," Zambai ordered.
"Here you go," one called out.
"Move away, I've got first aid training," another cried as he pushed to the front.
"They're soaked, get find them some fresh clothes,"
Sanji watched confused as the Franky family brought him and Sogking towels, dry clothes and treated their injuries. They were even offered tea and other hot drinks to warm them up. Sanji expected them to hold a grudge or use them to get to Luffy, not help them. Once the cook and his masked companion was dry in a change of clothes and were warmed up Sanji looked up as Zambai.
"Thanks for all this...but why are you helping us?" Sanji asked "we didn't exactly part on friendly terms,"
"You helped Big Brother Franky and we made peace with Straw Hat," Zambai explained "The government came and took our big brother Franky away so we teamed up with Straw Hat to get him back along with your friend,"
"So we're allies now?" Sanji asked.
"Sure are,"
"Okay,"
"That's it...just Okay?"
"Yeah Luffy does this stuff from time to time. You get used to it," Sanji shrugged "But there is something I need to know,"
"What?" Zambai asked.
"Is Nami-swan alright? Was she scared for me or of the storm?" Sanji asked.
"Umm...she's fine," Zambai answered.
"She's fine...how can she be fine without me?" Sanji cried.
"Shouldn't you be more concerned about Robin-san?" Sogking asked.
"Ah...Robin is waiting for me to save her," Sanji remembered "Where are Luffy and the others?"
Zambai explained what happened and how Rocket Man had been knocked off the tracks. The Franky Family had been separated from the Sea train but they were near the tracks. Their plan was to keep following it until they reached Enis Lobby and meet up with Luffy along the way or wait for them near the government Island.
Sanji agreed that this was the best course of action.
It took some time but eventually, the Franky Family caught sight of Rocket Man, the sea train was gliding across the ocean. Thanks to its high speed and the skills of Kokoro the Sea Train was able to continue on its journey and still cross the ocean without using the train tracks. Once in sight, the Franky Family was quick to reattach their house to the train and Kokoro got the train back on tracks and Rocket Man took off once again heading for the Government Island of Enis Lobby.
Sanji climbed into the passenger Car and with Sogeking, the Galley-La foremen and Straw Hats were introduced to their new ally.
"Greetings brave and fellow Warriors, my Name is Sogeking. King of the snipers," Sogeking introduced confidently "I have come all the way from Sniper Island to aid you in writing the great wrong that has befallen you and your crew,"
Luffy and Chopper were instantly taken by the man and failed to notice that not only was he wearing Usopps clothes and gear under his cape but also he had the exact same long nose as well.
However, the similarities were not lost on anyone else.
"Is that...Usopp" Zoro whispered to Sanji
"Yep," Sanji answered.
"Why is here?" Nami asked.
"He was on the Sea Train with Franky," Sanji explained, "I think he got caught up in all this by mistake,"
The crew watched as Sogeking not only sung a low theme song while talking to Luffy and Chopper but also gave them an autograph.
"Should we tell them?" Connor asked.
"He,y where is Sniper Island?" Chopper asked before Sanji could answer.
"Sniper Island..." Sogeking started but paused for dramatic effect "Is in your heart,"
WWWAAHHHHHH! SOOOO COOOOLLLLLL!" both Luffy and Chopper swooned.
"Nah, just go with it," Sanji advised.
"It would be too much of a hassle to explain it to them anyway," Nami agreed with a sigh.
Paulie looked at Zoro.
"Your crew keeps getting stranger and stranger," Paulie commented.
Zoro nodded and then looked at Sanji.
"Oi Nami stole some food before we left. Make sure you eat your fill before we hit the Island," Zoro said.
"Don't tell me what to do Moss' head," Sanji responded irritably.
"Well you either eat it or Straw Hat will and feed the rest to the giant Frog," Paulie said.
"Giant Frog?" Sanji asked confused.
"That one," Zoro said and gestured to the front of the carriage car.
Sanji walked over and opened the door; he looked out and up and saw there was a familiar giant brown frog sitting on the coal trolley.
"The hell is that doing here?" Sanji demanded.
"He attacked the train while we were off the tracks," Connor answered.
"Really?" Sanji asked in surprise.
Connor nodded.
"Yeah turns out that he's an old friend of Kokoro and he thought she was being taken by the government," Connor explained "Once she cleared everything up he eagerly agreed to join us,"
"Luffy then asked him to join the crew," Zoro finished "before he tried to feed him some meat claiming it would make the frog stronger,"
"Of course he did," Sanji sighed.
Sanji walked back into the passenger car and walked over to the small pile of food that was left, it was even smaller than before because Luffy had apparently fed the Frog. Sanji told Sogeking to have some as well but the sniper king politely declined claiming he fed off his targets fear; this got amazed reactions out of both Luffy and Chopper.
While Sanji was eating his share of what little food and drink remained Kokoro made an announcement over the speaker.
"Oi Pirates, if you look out the window you can see Enis Lobby on the Horizon," Kokoro's voice came through.
Everyone in the passenger car raced for a window and looked out. they could not see the Island but there was a bright patch of sunlight coming through the dark storm clouds up ahead.
"Wait...is that sunlight?" Nami asked, "It's the middle of the night, why can we see sunlight?"
"Enis Lobby is also known as the Never Night Island," Kokoro answered "the government believe that the sun will forever shine on their justice, so they set their HQ up here,"
"Huh, that's insane," Nami cried back.
"Ha Ha Ha, if you think that's insane just wait till you see the geography of the place. That will really do your heads in," Kokoro laughed.
"It doesn't matter what the Island is like. All that matters is that Robin is there and we are going to get her back,"
"Then you lot had better be prepared for the fight of your lives," Kokoro responded.