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Steve's POV

"Oh yeah." I groaned "That's the spot."

"Fufufu." Robin laughed rubbing my shoulders "Are you feeling better?"

"Yeah." I sighed "My shoulders are killing me, I threw so many punches and finger pistols that my arms are sore."

"The Six Powers take a toll when used for prolonged periods of time." Robin commented "Similar side effects would have likely happened to an even more experience user given how much you were using."

"It's been a long few days." I groaned "Luffy's still out cold, Franky's still repairing himself, and my arms are killing me. By the way how's your back?"

"I'm fine." She smiled "I do appreciate your concern."

"I just wish you hadn't gotten hurt." I frowned.

"A necessary evil to protect Rebecca." She explained "I'll be okay."

"That whole day was a pain, even Lil had to fight." I said.

"Yes." My girlfriend sighed "I wasn't too pleased when I saw her face on that bounty star list, she's even been tuckered out since."

"Mhm. Bringing out those animals is exhausting I bet." I nodded and looked over "Still Monet wasn't joking, her and that other girl do look a little alike."

"The hair is similar." Robin said "Their faces are different enough."

"Yeah." I nodded.

I looked around the room, Kyros had given us his house to relax and recover in, the place was pretty packed, what with members of the crew left on the island, Law, Bellamy, Monet and her sister and Kyros were all here. Most of the gladiators that had helped us were recovering inside the palace.

"Hello." Sabo walked in.

"Hi." Arbell smiled following.

"You two." I nodded leaning to stand up.

"Don't" Sabo held his hand up "We just came to say our goodbyes."

"You're leaving already?!" Lil jumped up and hugged Arbell.

"I'm sorry, I have to go now." Her sister smiled "You keep doing your own thing."

"Yes, I will."

"What's your rush?" Rose asked.

"CP0 is coming back." Sabo said "And we're the target so best to get going. It's been a messy few days for Dressrosa, you guys ought to go soon too."

"Yeah we will once Luffy wakes up." I nodded "We actually have to catch up with a few members of our crew that left before us."

"Still." Zoro places his bottle down "To think there was another one like Ace."

"Yeah he's the real deal." I nodded.

"Still." Rose smiled "I bet Luffy was the most excited of all."

"He was…" I remembered that face Luffy made "something."

"Still we really thought you were dead the whole time." Rose commented "Man seeing you takes me back, I used to have both arms then."

"We were all pretty wild as kids." I nodded "Always playing pirates and driving Garp, Makino and Dadan up a wall."

I looked at Sabo "Then you had your accident and it all went down from there. Luffy got pretty depressed, a few years later I started drinking."

"Sorry for all the trouble I caused." Sabo sighed "I lived but ended up losing my memories."

"Then I couldn't have been helped I suppose." Zoro shrugged seemingly blowing it off.

"There was one thing I did remember." Sabo nodded "I knew I didn't want to go back to my parents."

"Amnesia is a tricky disorder." Monet said looking up "I suppose that since you're here the memories did eventually return."

"Yes but with the worse possible timing." He sighed "By the time I remembered who I really was it was too late for Ace. Well I've really gotta go."

"Are you sure?" Robin asked.

"I got to see him so the reason I came here is done, and Arbell saw her sister so we're really out of reasons to stay." He shrugged before digging into his pocket "Oh yeah I had a Vivre card made of Luffy, just in case."

"When did that happen?" Zoro asked.

"I'll take the corner." Sabo said ripping a piece off and avoiding the question "Take good care of Luffy."

"I always do." I rolled my eyes "Cause unlike you and Ace I'm always there for him."

"Bye-Bye!" Lil waved as they left.

"You know Ace said something like that too." Zoro laughed.

We all laid about and relaxed for a bit, looking out at the moon.

The navy hasn't attacked despite us just sitting here, what is going on?

Wyper's POV

"HYUP!" I flipped into the air and kicked off a tree.

I spun in the air to adjust my hover boots and aimed my gantlets "Blinding Blast!"

I shot at some woman who was attacking us. We had finally arrived at Zou and the place was a mess, not to mention crawling with people out to get us for some reason.

"I'll blast her sky high!" I pulled my Bazooka around "Wide Burst!"

There was an explosion as my blast hit the ground, no one came out of the smoke or crater so I skated back over to Nami and the others.

"Something is up with this place." I said "Are you sure we're at the right place?"

"The Vivre card led us here." Nami said "Law's crew must be on the island somewhere, this is Zou."

Steve's POV

"Staying up late again?" I asked Kyros sitting at the table by the window with him.

Everyone else was asleep but I was just observing the horizon with him.

"Worried about Rebecca?" I asked.

"Yes, is that wrong?" he asked.

"No, if anything I'd be more worried if you weren't." I looked over at Lil, sleeping all snuggled up with Robin "I mean, it's a Father's job to worry about his daughter right?"

"Yes." He laughed.

"She's a strong girl." I said looking at him "No reason to worry so much."

"Hmm." someone hummed.

"GAH!" we both gasped as Sugar leaned on the table.

"Shouldn't you be asleep?" I said "I mean it's late."

"I'm in my twenties." She said "I can stay up as late as I want to, sides I'm only up for a reason."

"Hmm?" I raised an eye.

She mumbled under her breath "Sorry about uhh, turning you into the toy soldier."

"It's fine." Kyros said "There's nothing to hold a grudge over."

"Yeah, yeah." Sugar walked off towards the bed "The Marines arrested the rest of the Donquixote pirates, so I'll be staying around here to make sure there are none of my toys lying around. Don't worry about Rebecca so much, someone who essentially grew up with no memories of her family and lived in the coliseum is tough, she won't need you to baby her."

"You know what they say." She said "This country is full of strong passionate women."

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