A/N: Fic of the month... one I haven't updated in more than a decade... that will happen sometimes as I sometimes have a poll where all five are the ones that I haven't updated in the longest amount of time so the last one was one of those polls. So yeah, if you haven't yet! Vote in the next poll! Enjoy...

Also I came up with the plot a long time ago... I'm not riding the coattails of the recent movie...

Chapter 6: If There's Something Strange in the Neighborhood

A strange monster that was big and evil looking was attacking the ship. Of course with the ship being haunted it made sense.

Half of the crew were doing something.

After all it was obviously a ghost in nature.

IT very much was a supernatural magnet after all.

Though the fight was rather interesting.

However Usopp, Chopper and Franky ended up hanging around in the back as they watched the fight going on.

After all none of them had any abilities to fight ghosts.

"Wait… is Robin helping them?" asked Chopper.

Indeed it was true, Robin was helping fight the monster despite not having abilities like the others…

"Seriously!" yelled Usopp.

They was as the hands surround the monster holding it down somehow.

"HOW!" yelled Usopp.

"Magic?" asked Franky.

"Magic?" asked Chopper.

"Magic can't be the answer!" yelled Usopp.

"We are on a haunted ship…" said Chopper.

Usopp slammed his head into a nearby wall.

They could just get answers later but for now it was just… yeah../.

Sometime later all of them were in their little corner of whoa.

"You saw the fight didn't you?" asked Robin.

"Of course we did." Muttered Franky.

"I did research and found a purifying substance that won't harmed the hand I created." Said Robin.

The three looked at her.

"Salt is unsubtle." She explained.

"That makes sense." Said Chopper.

"I can't blame you." Said Usopp.

"Wait salt?" asked Franky.

"It's connected to the sea…" explained Robin, "It also purifying abilities…"

"I see…" said Franky.

"If you want to help do it your own way." Said Robin.

That was when it hit Franky.

See if the problem can be done with technology.

"Let's make something to bust ghosts." Said Franky.

"You think that will work?" asked Usopp.

"I think it's possible." Said Robin.

"Let's do it!" cheered Chopper.

"All right…" said Usopp rather nervously.

They went to the workshop and shooed away any ghosts that might be in there.

It was easy telling them they were going to create an intention to help deal with ghosts.

Though they got some comments from the ghosts leaving the room.

"Seriously!" said one ghost.

"You seem like a nice ghost." Said Chopper, "We don't want you get hurt."

"Okay… that fair." Sighed the ghost, "Just tell you me when you're done."

And so it began.

The first thing they tried was a camera like device to de-materialize the ghost…

Tests began… however it wasn't working.

It in fact the device kept exploding with Chopper in his heavy point having to toss it out before it exploded which didn't always work.

It also left Chopper covered in soot and other things.

"Maybe we should try something else." Said Usopp.

"Maybe you shouldn't go with the obscure thing and go with the popular thing." Said the same ghost from earlier.

"What?" asked Usopp."

"What?" replied the ghost who then left.

"Maybe we should try something else." Said Chopper.

"It's not like we can trap the ghosts." Said Usopp.

"Or can we…" said Franky.

They began to work on way on how the traps works and how to get them into the traps.

In the garden Natsume suddenly shuddered.

"What's wrong?" asked Nami.

"I felt like there was a reference to something to my childhood and it's going to be real." Said Natsume.

"Aren't you from a world where we're all fictional characters?" asked Nami with a sweat drop.

Natsume didn't respond as she realized Nami was right.

Back in the work rom they counited the testing of the devices. There were explosions and other such bangs.

But it was clear to everyone what it was something that seemed to be working for sure.

Of course eventually another horrible ghost would showed up. This one was massive.

IT was very large and had spindly limbs.

However everyone was having not hard time, even with Nami's powers and managed to get Sakurako to help.

"Whatever this is very powerful." Said the Chairman.

IT began to crackle with energy.

"Hey!" yelled Franky.

That was when he, Usopp and Chopper all showed up with some sort of big mechanical back packs.

"Is that what you've been working on?" asked Luffy.

"Everyone get back!" yelled Natsume.

"Wait do you recognize those things?" asked Nino.

"Yep… I shouldn't even be surprised to see them be honest… this is my afterlife is like and freaking weird!" said Natusme.

"Remember don't cross the streams." Said Franky.

"We know." Said Usopp.

"You warned so many times." Said Chopper.

It was clear the energy used would cause problems… but it's probably for the best that it wasn't said…

Though those who heard has a bad feeling.

Still they grabbed someone attached to the backpacks.

They all flipped some switches and the machines hummed.

And soon they aimed the strange weapons as the ghost.

They watched as energy streams hit the ghost.

They warped around the ghost.

"Oh wow." Said Mirror Girl.

"Whatever they created is powerful." Said the Chair Men.

"All right it's holding!" said Franky.

It clear that Chopper cut his stream as he was the only one of the three to no use guns regularly it made sense he would be the one to set the last part of it.

He grabbed a box and pushed it towards the ghost.

"Don't look directly into it at it when it's open!" yelled Franky.

Everyone heard this.

They heled the ghost tightly and Chopper stepped on a petal that opened up the box.

The ghost was sucked into the box.

"it worked!" yelled Usopp.

"I told you would work." Said Franky.

"WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS!" yelled Luffy with his eyes sparling unable to keep his excitement.

"I haven't come up with a name yet…" said Franky.

"Proton packs." Said Natsume.

"What?" asked Franky.

"You accidently ripped off something from my old world so why not call it what it is." Said Natsume, "A proton pack."

"What is it with your world?" asked Usopp.

"Don't ask…" said Natsume, "Sometimes I wonder if this is all a dream when I got hit by that truck."

"Still that useful for the things that will cause problems." Said The Chairman, "But what are you going to do until Nami is able to exorcise it?"

There was an awkward silence.

"I haven't built anything yet." Said Franky.

There was an awkward silence.

"That's going to take forever for me to figure out how to exorcise that thing." Said Nami, "And I don't think that box can hold it for long… so figure out something to keep in for longer."

Franky nodded.

And that was how those three could now be useful against the ghostly threats on the ship… And Franky would eventually build a containment unit for the harder to deal with ghosts.

And yes… somehow they were powered by cola… though it's best not to think about it too hard… no one quite figured how the cola power worked after all.

Next Time: Something invisible tries to attack Sanji... but the real question is why? Why do they have a grudge? Find out next time!