A/N: Okay, maybe not much, but here you go.
Vivi just stared in shock as a few guards sealed off the entrance while Whetton grinned at Vivi. While Whetton was speaking, a few sets of eyes were watching from outside a nearby open window.
"Don't look so surprised Princess." Whetton said. "Your kidnapping's been front page news. Of course, according to my son Phillip, the kidnapping seems like a bit of a stretch since you're captors let you roam free with them."
'Oh no!' Vivi thought while some of the eyes narrowed.
"Guess we've been found out." Gin whispered as he reached for his pistol.
"Hang on." Valerie said as they listened in.
"Now, one of two things are going to happen, Princess Vivi." Whetton said as he walked closer to her. "One is that you help us make it look we rescued you from the Straw Hats while you tell them to stay away. That way, they can get away, you can go home, and I can squeeze anything I want out of your kingdom." Vivi narrowed her eyes at him, wanting nothing more than to test her now powers out by kicking his ass.
"And if I refuse?" Vivi asked. Whetton's grin got darker again as he was now a foot away from her.
"Then we out you and the Straw Hats to the Marines." Whetton said. "It shouldn't be TOO difficult to convince the townsfolk to say what I want to say. And I'm sure you'll be very cooperative. I mean after all, this wouldn't look good to your kingdom. The World Government would react to this, right?" Vivi stared in horror at his words. If she went home, she'd have to say goodbye. And if she refused, the World Government may hurt her country and people. Either way, it was a lose-lose for her and her friends.
"My Father's proposition is a very reasonable one, Princess Vivi." Phillip said before Whetton smacked him with his cane.
"That's Mayor Whetton!" he shouted.
"Right." Phillip said as he nursed his head before he turned to Vivi again. "So, what's your decision?" Vivi just stood there as both men awaited her answer with grins on their faces.
"How about a third choice?" someone shouted before an iron mace flew through the air and smashed into Phillip's face, sending him into Whetton and both men flying towards the wall. Vivi watched the two men go flying while the mace that had bounced off of Phillip's flew back and landed perfectly into Alvida's hand. Vivi looked to see Alvida and Valerie standing next to an open window and smiling at them. "We beat the shit out of you, then run for it!"
"Alvida? Valerie?" Vivi said in shock as the two men guarding the doors went to help Whetton and Phillip.
"Run Vivi!" Valerie shouted as the doors burst open with another guard flying through. Vivi looked out to see Gin, Johnny, and Yosaku fighting against the guards before Carue ran in. "Get on Carue and get out of here!"
"Don't worry about us! We'll handle these guys!" Alvida shouted just as the sound of a bell went off from the town.
'An alarm already?!' Vivi thought before her expression hardened and she jumped on Carue and fled through the crowd as more men ran up the hill, one of which looked like a younger Whetton.
"Grandfather! There's someth-" he said before Carue ran right over him.
"AHH! REIK!" screamed the patrolmen as Reik sat up in a daze with Carue's footprint on his face.
"What happened?" he asked in a daze as Carue kept on running. He didn't even stop when he saw Sanji, Nojiko, Chopper, and Nami running up the hill.
"Vivi-swan!" Sanji sang out before Carue ran right past them. "Huh?"
"Vivi? What's going on?" Nami shouted. Carue began quacking loudly as he kept on running, with Vivi holding on tightly to the reins.
"What'd he say?" Nojiko asked.
"'Vivi's in a lot of trouble. We gotta help Vivi!' Is what he said." Chopper translated just as a group of men came running down the hill. The one in front, Reik, was now inside what looked like a suit of armor with two black and yellow poles sticking out of the arms.
"Out of our way!" he shouted as they all came to a stop, with Sanji standing defiantly in the middle of the road.
"Sorry," he said, though he didn't sound sorry at all. "But I'm not moving. Not so long as a shithead like you plans to hurt Vivi."
"Heh. Alright then." Reik said as his suit started to crackle with electricity. "Then I'll deal with you first!
-Earlier with Luffy-
Henzo was leading Luffy, Robin, Luffy through the town while Usopp was groaning about the taxes.
"Large Serving Tax? What kind of nonsense is that?" Usopp said.
"I'm sorry." Henzo suddenly said. "For what happened before."
"You don't need to apologize." Luffy said.
"What are you talking about?" Usopp demanded. "Didn't you hear what those guys called him?"
"You said your friends disappeared into that Rainbow Mist that you're researching, right?" Luffy said.
"That's right." Henzo said. "They can insult me or say whatever they want. I will find the Rainbow Mist again. I will get my friends back." Luffy smiled at him before they heard a bell going off and people running towards the harbor.
"Did you hear? A huge galleon appeared out of nowhere!"
"A galleon?" Usopp said in confusion.
"It can't be!" Henzo said before running off, the others quickly following behind. The made their way to the front of the crowd of people that had gathered to see a massive ship in the harbor.
"That is a rather old ship." Robin commented.
"The Tyrielshin!" Henzo said.
"Tyriel-what?" Usopp said before he noticed Henzo run off. "Hey! Wait a minute!" Henzo didn't stop as he pulled a tarp off a tiny vehicle that he was now pedalling out on the harbor before it hit the water and turned into a raft.
"I want it!" Luffy said with stars in his eyes, still loving that invention since he first saw it.
"How'd I know you were gonna say that?" Usopp said as Henzo sailed out towards the Tyrielshin.
-Gin's group-
Gin, Johnny, Yosaku, Alvida, and Valerie, with the help of Sanji, Nami, Nojiko, and Chopper, were doing there best to keep Whetton and his goons away, even with Whetton and Reik wearing Mech-Suits that shot electricity and fire at them.
"You assholes aren't getting anywhere near Vivi!" Sanji roared.
"Just give it up." Whetton said with a smirk as his Mech-suit shot fire at them. "We know she's not a hostage. She's a crewmate of yours." Nami, Nojiko, Sanji, and Chopper's eyes widened, while the others narrowed their eyes in anger. "How about we cut a deal?"
"A deal?" Chopper said in confusion.
"Leave Vivi with us and let us return her to her country, and we'll let you leave." Whetton said. "Just like that."
"Like we'd leave her behind." Sanji said, making Phillip smirk.
"Then we'll just sit back and see what happens to her country after we inform the Marines that you all are friends, and that she left to be a pirate of her own free will." Phillip said. The Straw Hats were now glaring at them, hatred clear in their eyes.
"You bastard!" Nojiko growled as she and everyone else on both sides looked ready to kill the other side. Each side was waiting for the other to make a move before Reik noticed something happening in the harbor.
"Is that the Rainbow Mist?" Reik asked. Everyone looked out at sea to see the Rainbow Mist out in the distance.
"It is!" Phillip yelled. "Father, the Rainbow Mist is there! Now we can get in and acquire every scrap of treasure that it has!"
"Treasure?!" Nami said with Berry symbols in her eyes.
"You and your big mouth!" Whetton yelled as he had Phillip in a choke hold while Nami ran off towards the harbor.
"Nami? Wait!" Nojiko yelled before she and all the other Straw Hats ran after Nami.
-With Luffy-
Luffy, Robin, and Usopp had taken the Going Merry and sailed alongside the Tyrielshin so Luffy could jump up there and ask Henzo to give him the H-1, which he refused. Henzo, Luffy, Robin, and Usopp searched around the ship, seeing no sign of people even though there were signs that someone was there. Zoro was still sleeping on the ship, and Grace had come up on deck when they started sailing. Henzo explained that this ship disappeared into the mist 50 years ago and never came back since.
"Doesn't look like it." Robin said. Luffy said nothing, knowing what was going to happen real soon.
BZZT! BZZT! BZZT!
"That signal!" Henzo said in shock as they all stared his radar, which was going ballistic.
"Guys!" they heard Grace yell. "Something weird just appeared out of nowhere!"
"It can't be!" Henzo said as the four of them ran out to the deck and saw the Rainbow Mist in the distance.
"Is that the Rainbow Mist?" Robin asked.
"The H-1 can't sail out that far!" Henzo said in frustration. "I gotta get out there!"
"Luffy!" came a shout from the shore. Luffy looked to see Vivi riding along the shore on top of Carue.
"Vivi! What's wrong?!" Luffy yelled back as Henzo hopped onto the Going Merry.
"No time to explain!" she yelled. "I need to get off this island!"
"Hang on!" Luffy shouted before he threw his arm out to her while Usopp and Robin jumped on the ship after Henzo unfurled the sails and was now sailing towards the mist. Vivi reached out and grabbed Luffy's hand before he pulled her over the water and to him before they both jumped onto the Going Merry, leaving Carue behind. Usopp began yelling at Henzo for taking their ship while Grace was looking at the mist and gulped.
"Are we really sailing into that?" she asked. "And who's the old man?"
"Didn't you say that anyone who's gone in has never come out?" Usopp asked in a nervous tone.
"We're going in." Henzo said. "All my years of research have been for this day."
"Scared?" Robin asked with a smile.
"Don't be a-absurd!" Usopp said with sweat on his face. "I'm the greatest man on the seas! Captain Usopp!"
"Here we go guys!" Luffy said from the figure head as they entered the mist.
-With Nami-
Nami was running towards the harbor at full speed. The mere thought of getting the treasure in the Rainbow Mist set her blood boiling before she got to the harbor and saw the mist in the distance.
"There it is!" she said with a big smile on her face. "All that treasure in there's gonna be mine!" Her happy mood faded slightly when a frantic Carue came running towards her, sweating and quacking like crazy. "Carue?" Nami said as the others joined her one-by-one.
"What's wrong with Carue?" Valerie asked.
"AHHH! Where's Vivi?!" Sanji yelled when he noticed that she wasn't there. Carue began to quack as he pointed his wing out at sea towards the mist.
"He said that Luffy stretched his arm out and grabbed her, pulling her onto the ship before she and everyone on it disappeared into the mist!" Chopper translated.
"That idiot!" Nami yelled. "How am I supposed to get the treasure without the ship?!"
"That's what you're worried about?" Nojiko yelled. "We've been left here to deal with a crazy mayor and his goons! Or have you forgotten that?"
"I knew it!" came Whetton's voice. All of the Straw Hats looked to see Whetton sitting in his chair with his men gasping for breath after running down the hill carrying him. "You all want my treasure! Well, not only are you not getting any of it, but you're all going to pay a 10,000,000 berry tax for knowing the secret of the Rainbow Mist."
"SAY WHAT?!" they all screamed in outrage.
"Plus an extra 50,000,000 since your friends entered the Rainbow Mist without my permission." Whetton continued.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Nami roared as she tried to get at him, with Nojiko holding her back. "THERE'S NO WAY I'M PAYING A TAX THAT HIGH!"
"Ease up Nami!" Nojiko said. "First we figure out how to get our friends out of there! Then you can kill these morons!"
"How are you even gonna get in there?" Alvida asked as Nami ranted. "We heard that anyone who enters never comes back."
"The Rainbow Tower over there was built to link both our world and the world inside the mist forever, letting us grab all the treasure inside and bring it out here." Reik explained, earning a fist to the head from Whetton.
"Don't tell them that, you idiot!" Whetton yelled.
"Is it operational?" Valerie asked.
"It hasn't been fortified to withstand heavy attacks, but it can be used now." Phillip said, making Whetton break his cane over Phillip's head.
"SHUT UP ALREADY!" he roared as the Straw Hats took off.
"Thanks!" some of them called back as they ran off towards the tower.
"Stop them!" Whetton yelled as his men started running after them while he stayed behind to get into his Flame-Suit. "I'll roast them to a crisp!" he yelled as he started running after them, his men carrying the pump right behind him.
-Inside the Mist-
Luffy, Vivi, Robin, Usopp, Grace, Zoro, and Henzo sailed on inside the Mist until they came upon the sight of many sunken ships at every turn.
"Where in the world are we?" Vivi asked.
"Ape's Concert." Henzo replied.
"Ape's Concert? You don't mean...?" Robin said.
"I don't like the way you said that." Grace said.
"Ape's Concert is a place you can never leave once you've entered. A ship graveyard." she said.
"A WHAT?!" Usopp yelled in panic.