"So you lost the ship?" Vegapunk asked for confirmation, "Yeah, I have no idea how that happened either, I fell asleep and the next thing I know, I'm told I'm thousands of years in the future." Zoro recounted, "That reminds me..." Vegapunk started, "How are you still alive!?" He yelled at Zoro who put his hands up in surrender, "Apparently there's this thing called time stone-" Zoro started explaining before Vegapunk interrupted, "Oh that explains it! We're using them here too." He explained, "So that's what Lilith meant when she said you guys became immortal." Zoro understood.
Hearing Lilith made Vegapunk remember something, "Also... Pythagoras communicated something about a girl strangling Lilith." Vegapunk brought up, "Oh yeah, that's going on..." Zoro remembered too, "Did you bring her here?" Vegapunk questioned, "More like she brought me here." Zoro corrected, "I see, so she must also be the one who activated the time stone that brought you back to life." The scientist deduced, "That's correct, she said her name is Nika." Zoro told him, "Nika!?" Vegapunk remained buffled, "That's about the same reaction I had." Zoro commented, not realizing that Vegapunk was shocked about something else.
He quickly moved over to a monitor and started typing something, "What are you doing?" Zoro asked, "...This Nika... She wouldn't happen to look like this?" He asked as he turned the monitor to Zoro, on it each of the Seraphims, "Why are you showing me- Hold on..." Zoro stopped as he realized something, the markings on their face, the dark skin, the star eyes, the only thing that was missing was the white hair, "Nika looks almost exactly like them, the hair is different..." He described, "I knew it!" Vegapunk cheered as he stared typing something else, "Would you mind telling me what you're getting at!?" Zoro exclaimed very annoyed.
"This 'Nika' is S-Sun!" Vegapunk explained, "S-Sun?" Zoro repeated, "Wait, I thought the Seraphim were clones of the Seven Warlords." Zoro remembered, "Yes! But some time after Straw Hat became Pirate King, someone requested another Seraphim to be made, one that couldn't be matched, I named it S-Sun." Vegapunk explained further, "Why would you-" Zoro was about to ask, "I don't know why, but this person gave me everything I could need! Lineage factors of the world's strongest fighters and the materials necessary! With all that, I just had to try my hand at it!" Vegapunk clarified.
Zoro decided to take a look at the screen and his eyes widened at what he was seeing, a list containing the genetic data and who it belonged to, Luffy, Sanji, himself, Nami, Robin, Franky, Jimbe, Chopper, some from the Big Mom Pirates, the Beast Pirates, the Warlords, the Admirals, "WHAT IN THE WORLD HAVE YOU CREATED!? AND WHY IS IT SO NAIVE!?" Zoro screamed, shaking Vegapunk wildly, "I was asked to make her naive!" Vegapunk defended himself, "Why!?" Zoro questioned further, "How should I know!? I was also asked to put her containment pod on a random spot on a random island! But you don't see me questioning it!" Vegapunk responded.
With Nika.
"I think I asked too soon earlier! How did we get to THIS!?" Shaka yelled seeing Nika jump around in her awakened Zoan form, "How should I know!?" Pythagoras yelled back avoiding some bullets flying his way, "I think I came at the wrong time!" "Me too!" Atlas and Edison yelled in succession, "I think I should call this... Imagination Drive!" Nika exclaimed as she bounced from building to building chasing after Lilith, "I didn't sign up for this!" Lilith cried out as she ran away from Nika, using every security system avaiable to try and stop her.
Seeing as the chase wasn't really going nowhere, Nika decided to spice it up a little, so she grabbed a piece of a wall, twisted and stretched it well before, "Fantasy... Topspin!" Nika exclaimed, letting go of the twisted wall which started spinning all over the place, and the pieces that broke off also started spinning around, "Oh my Shiva Samba, this is more hilarious than I imagined!" Nika said before busting out laughing, "You're insane!" Lilith stated, making sure Nika would hear that.
Nika stopped laughing as she wiped off a figurative tear from her eye, "Insane?" She asked, "Let's try LOCO!" She exclaimed before diving into a building, not bouncing off, but crashing through, a few seconds and a whole train came out, running after Lilith, "Is this loco-motive enough?" Nika joked before starting to laugh again, and she wasnt on the train, so there was an unmanned train just going wild, "Lilith is going to die..." Atlas paled at the chaos that was ensued.
"Three Sword Style: Rengoku Oni Giri!" Someone said outloud as the train got cut up to bits, the one who did it was Zoro "What in the world is going on here!?" He demanded as Nika bounced down to him, "Oh come on! I was just about to get her!" She lamended, at leeast before Zoro hit her on the forehead with the hilt of one of his swords, "And you went overboard!" He scolded, "You think?" Nika asked genuinely confused, "YES I THINK SO!" He screamed at her, "S-Sun!" Vegapunk exclaimed from the entrance to the archives, "Yes?" Nika asked in response, "Wait! Hold on a moment!" Lilith exclaimed peeking from her hiding spot behind Zoro, "You mean that this is S-Sun!?" She asked in a frenzy, "More importantly. You knew you were S-Sun!?" Zoro asked, but directed to Nika.
A Few Minutes of Explaining Later.
"Let me get it straight: You." Zoro points to Nika "Are a test tube baby created with the purpose of being the world's savior, and your creator, him." Zoro points to Vegapunk, "Created you on request of what I can only assume is the Goddess that was mentioned so much, is there anything I'm missing or is that all of the insanity?" He asked sarcastically, "Uhh... No that's pretty much it." Nika confirmed, "Greeaat... Is there a place here where I can get some booze? It might make it easier to wrap my head around this." Zoro requested, "There's no time for that, I managed to locate the ship." Vegapunk responded, "Really!? That's great!" Nika exclaimed.
Vegapunk proceeded to hand Nika a compass, "This will point you in the direction where the ship is, but it'll only work in a time stone's range of action." He warned, "Better than nothing." Nika shrugged, "By the way, I was preparing something in case you ever decided to come back here, but it's not ready yet, it'll be soon, but it's probably best if you go look for the ship first, if you have time come by." Vegapunk offered, "Sure." Nika replied, "Well, it was nice seeing ya, I guess? Sorry about calling you a bimbo by the way." Lilith said, hoping Nika wouldn't send a train after her again, "Don't worry, I pretty much emptied out my 'anger tank' during the chase earlier, besides." Nika activated Imagination Drive, "I'm starting to figure out how this thing works!" She finished.
They kept on talking for a while, until Angel got annoyed, so it jumped out of the blade and grabbed Nika's collar to drag her back to the boat, "I think we ran out of time here?" Nika said confused, "It is kind of getting late." Zoro said looking up at the sun which was setting by now, "It would probably be better if you went on your way." Vegapunk agreed, "You should watch out though, the thing that caused the sea to turn red might still be going around in the past." Atlas warned getting both Zoro and Nika to be quite worried, "Duly noted..." Nika responded.
Three Hours Later In the Middle of the Sea.
"Are you sure we're going the right way? We've been sailing for quite a while now." Zoro asked, "Look, it may be a little outta whack due to your lineage factor giving me your sense of direction, but I still got your navigator's skills." Nika rebutted, "Besides, if this compass thingy actually works, then the ship should be right-" Nika got interrupted by the boat bashing into something, and that something was the Sunny, which was as covered with dust as it could be.
"I guess I was underestimating you." Zoro admitted, "Is that a time stone on top of the mast?" Nika asked seeing the familiar purple stone on top of the wooden pillar, "That wasn't there before..." Zoro replied confused, "...I think there's someone on there." Nika said worried.