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Bold is for Attacks

Steve's POV

We were finally on our way to Alabasta. I had decided to take this opportunity to talk with Vivi.

"Vivi let's talk." I said ushering the girl into the cabin.

The girl followed me inside "What do you want to talk about?"

"I wanted to apologize for how I acted earlier." I said "I let my emotions get the better of me and lost my temper."

"No it's oaky you were right I shouldn't tell you how to do your job." the girl explained.

"Don't worry we will stop Crocodile." I told her patting her shoulder.

We both accepted the apologies and went back out onto the deck where Sanji was attacking Luffy for eating all our food, he was begging Nami for a fridge with a lock.

"You idiots better catch something so we don't starve!" I told Usopp, Chopper and Carue.

"So what's this Crocodile guy like?" Rose asked Vivi.

Vivi explained that in Alabasta, Crocodile is a national hero. Vivi went on to explain how Baroque Works operates. There are teams of male and female agents. There are officer agents and frontier agents and hundreds of smaller agents.

"So if the takeover of Alabasta is Crocodile big plan…" Zoro mused.

"Then reason would lead that the officer agents will be there as well." Rose finished his sentence "Well the ones that are left at least."

"Exactly." Vivi responded.

LATER

We sailed for a few more days and still Luffy and the others had yet to catch anything, we were running out of food quickly. The journey was relatively uneventful and that was part of the problem, we passed over an undersea volcano at one point which was a bit fun. One day though something interesting happened.

"We caught an Okama!" Luffy and Usopp yelled.

I walked to the lower deck to find that Luffy had fished a very odd man out of the water, the guy was dressed up like a ballerina and had a ton of makeup on his face.

"You can't swim? Did you eat a Devil Fruit?" Luffy asked the man.

"Yes I did. This is my power." The man reached out and slapped Luffy in the face.

"I'll kill you!" I said pulling out my weapons.

"Wait!" a familiar voice said "It's all part of the show."

The man turned his face and Luffy's face was on his body.

"What am I doing over there?" Luffy said standing up.

The two looked identical, right down to the scar on Luffy's face.

"And if I touch my face with my left hand I go back to normal." The man demonstrated "That is the power of the Clone-Clone Fruit."

The man showed his powers to everyone else on the deck. He proved that he could easily imitate anyone. Right down to the smallest details on your body. He tried to show us Nami's body but she incapacitated the man before he could.

"There's a ship coming is it yours?" Nami asked the man.

"Yes, it is. It is time for me to depart. Don't fret my friends distance and time mean nothing to true friendship." The man said jumping onto his own ship.

"We'll miss you!"

What a weirdo.

"Let's get going!" the man said to his crew.

"Yes Mr.2, Mr. Bon Kurie sir!"

WHAT!

The man's boat sailed away leaving us all in a state of shock.

"THAT WAS MR.2?!"

"How come you didn't recognize him?" Luffy asked Vivi

"I've never met Mr.2 or Mr.1 and his partner. I had only heard rumors; like that he was a huge Okama and wore a swan coat with Okama written on the back.

"How did you not notice?!"

"I mean the guy can change how he looks so it's not that surprising he'd be hard to find in a crowd." I shrugged.

"One of those faces. It was my father's" Vivi said with a terrified look.

"It'd be really bad if he uses those memories against us." Nami explained "We might not be able to trust each other if he can appear as us."

Luffy didn't quite understand what Nami was talking about, but I did.

"Don't worry there's no need to panic. Meeting Mr.2 was actually a stroke of luck. No we can plan for his powers." I smiled.

LATER

We kept getting closer and closer to Alabasta by the second. But still we had yet to find any food, fortunately, a giant Sea Cat appeared as we got closer to our destination.

"FOOD!" Luffy and Rose yelled.

"Don't let it get away!" Sanji screamed bursting out of the kitchen.

The three that were planning to kill the cat were swatted away by Vivi who said Sea Cats are sacred animals in Alabasta and you can't kill or eat them.

"We're getting close to Alabasta. The climate and the Sea Cat prove that." Vivi said looking excited to finally be home.

"That's also proof." Zoro said gesturing behind the ship.

There was a fleet of ships behind us that Vivi said were probably the Billions, servants of the officer agents. Usopp wanted to shoot them and Luffy wanted to fight them but Sanji stopped them.

"You have to remember there are only ten of us. We can't lose sight of our true objective."

We continued to sail towards the nearby island avoiding the other ships. I went inside Chopper's make shift infirmary and stole some of his bandages.

"Everyone come here and get one of these!" I yelled assembling the crew.

"Are those my medical supplies?!" Chopper yelled

"We can buy more relax. Take one and tie it around your arm." I instructed.

"I get it." Nami said "This will show us who the real versions of us are."

"We need a symbol as back up." Zoro suggested "In case they catch on the wrapping idea."

"Let's make it an X" Luffy suggested "Cause X means treasure!"

We all painted the symbol on our arm and tied the wrapping over it as our indicator of who was who.

"No matter what happens." Luffy said sticking his arm out "These things on our arm…it's a sign of our friendship! Now let's get on land!"

As soon as we approached the island Luffy jumped and ran off looking for a restaurant.

Damn idiot can't stay still.

I hopped off the ship and ran after Luffy ignoring the protest of the others.

"I'll bring him back; you guys get what we need from town." I yelled over my shoulder.

I ran through town looking for Luffy and found him about to barrel into a restaurant.

"Not another step Luffy." I said latching my whip around his ankle.

"Gum-Gum Rocket!"

We launched into the restaurant and crashed into somebody, by the time I pulled myself off the floor Luffy was already at the bay asking for food.

"What is wrong with you?!" I yelled "How many time were you dropped as a baby?!"

"Strawhat! Torturer!" I looked over and saw the familiar face of Captain Smoker form Loguetown.

"Oh you're here." I said" Stop eating Luffy!"

The surprised Luffy saw Smoker and shoved all the food on the counter into his mouth and followed me out the door. We ran through the streets and came across Smoker assistant Tashigi. We avoided her by jumping up to the roof, but Smoker followed us.

"We can't fight him so just keep running." I told Luffy running.

Rose's POV

Sanji returned from cloths shopping with outfits for the whole crew. Nami enjoyed the dancer outfit that Sanji had bought for the girls but Vivi and I weren't too thrilled.

"We look more like dancer girls than normal citizens." Vivi told the chef.

"Mine is too big, it barely stays on my chest." I said with a pout.

Stupid small chest.

"Zoro give me your shirt I don't want people seeing me half naked!" I yelled in a whisper.

"Why mine?!"

"Because I need it, and it's too hot to wear my leather jacket. That's what good boyfriends do, they let their girl wear their clothes." I said as he slipped off his shirt and passed it to me "Thank you."

"ROSE!" Sanji screamed falling to the floor "Why didn't you ask to barrow my clothes."

"Because you're not my boyfriend"

"Neither is the Moss Head! What did you do to her you green haired freak!"

"Something you never will." Zoro said picking a fight with the chef.

"Stop fighting you two." I said breaking up the fight "Now where did I put that dagger set I need to hide them in this oversized robe…"

"Since when is Zoro your boyfriend?" Nami asked.

"Since always. Just don't tell my brother. I'm not sure how he'd react." I said rather nonchalantly "Oh…probably shouldn't have said that out loud."

Sanji fell on the floor in a deep despair about how Zoro was defiling his precious flower.

"We've got Marines." Usopp said peeking out over the wall we were hiding behind.

"Hey Zoro!" Luffy said running our way while chased by Marines.

"Don't go that way!" Steve yelled from behind him.

"You're not getting away!" I looked behind the two men and saw Captain Smoker chasing them.

What's he doing here? I hope Tashigi isn't with him. I don't know if I can bare to face her after our fight.

"White Blow!" Smoker's arm turned to gas and flew towards my brother and Luffy.

It was about to connect when it was interrupted by a wave of fire "Heat Haze!"

I saw the fire from into a man I knew very well.

What's he doing here? Steve won't be happy about this.

"ACE!" Luffy yelled out

"You're here?" Steve said, you could feel the sourness in his voice "Just great."

I ducked behind Zoro to hide from the fire man.

"Why are you hiding?"

"Don't let him see me. I don't want to deal with him right now."

"Why?" Nami asked crouching next to me "who is that guy?'

"His name is Ace. He's a childhood friend, only as he got older he developed a huge crush on me." I groaned "Thankfully he's older so he left town before I did."

I felt Zoro's back tense up and saw a frown appear on his face.

"Run!" Steve said barreling past us dragging Luffy.

We ran back to The Going Merry and raised the anchor. Vivi sent Karoo ahead to deliver a message to her father, the king.

After we had set sail for a different city on the island everyone wanted to know how Luffy knew Ace.

"He's my brother." Luffy said like it was no big deal.

"Ace is two years older than I am." Steve said "He left home three years ago to look for the One Piece."

"I've never beat him in a fight. Even before he ate a Devil Fruit." Luffy told the others "But I can beat him now!"

"Just who can you beat?" Luffy fell off the railing and Ace jumped aboard.

"Thank you for taking care of my brother" Ace addressed the crew.

"Why are you here?" Steve said getting to the point.

"Luffy, how'd you like to join the Whitebeard Pirates? Your friends can come too. Especially Rose." Ace smiled.

I visibly shivered behind Zoro.

"No!" Luffy responded.

"I will make Whitebeard the king of the pirates. Not you or Steve." Ace said frankly.

"So what. I'll fight him." Luffy told his brother.

We talked for a little bit longer. Ace reveled he ate the Flame-Flame Fruit, making him a fire person.

"Here." Ace threw Luffy a scrap of paper "This will allow us to meet again one day."

Ace jumped off the ship and onto a small skiff powered by his Devil Fruit. He rode past five Baroque Works cruiser and pulled his fist back.

"Fire Fist!" In a few sounds Ace had easily destroyed the ships and rode off.

"Good he's gone." Steve said walking into the kitchen.

"I get the feeling they don't like each other." Nami asked me.

"You don't know the half of it." I sighed "Those two have bickered over what's best for Luffy since they were kids. As you've seen my brother is a bit…overprotective."

AN

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