To Live

"You stupid pirates! Get it in your heads that putting on a brave front doesn't change anything! You're going against the power of the assassin CP9 and the weight of the Gates of Justice can't be opened by human strength. And above all things, right now.. I have the authority to exercise Buster Call by using this golden transponder snail!" Some guy with a weird metal mask and purple hair laughed out, holding up a gold snail in one hand.

"Buster call.." I heard Robin mutter, and I could see the fear in her eyes as she looked at it.

"That's right! It's the power that wiped out your hometown exactly twenty years ago, Nico Robin. I remember that the following year, the name 'Ohara' had been wiped off the map. 

I could hear Sanji and Chopper muttering about it, and Robin told him not to use it. "Ohh I like that reaction. It gives me a chill. What? Does it mean that you want me to press this button to activate Buster Call? Hm? Does it?"

"Do you really understand what'll happen when you press it?" she growled at him.

"I do. It'll eliminate the possibility of the pirates escaping from this island! Just with this single button," he chimed in amusement. 

"It won't be that simple!"

"Are you remembering something? If you like, shall I try pressing it? Right here, right now?" Oh my god can't I just kill him. She yelled at him to stop, and then he accused her cocky.

She gritted her teeth and her cuffs clinked. "You said that 'Ohara' had been wiped off the map. Can you see humans on a map?! Because you guys see the world that way.. you can do such a cruel thing! Buster Calls are a heatless power that even make you lose sight of your goal." She fell to her knees. "So you musn't use it. Never. Not that! If.. you exercise a Buster Call righgt here, right now, then together with Enies Lobby.. you guys, too, will disappear."

"D-Don't be ridiculous! There's no way we'd be eliminated by our own people's attacks! What're you saying?!" dunce face yelled, throwing his arms out in emphasis of his words.

"Twenty yeas ago, everything was taken away from me and many people's lives were ruined. It was caused by a single attack- Buster Call. That attack is now.." Robin stood up to look at u over the ledge of the balcony they were on and continued, ".. targeted on the friends I was finally able to find, whom I can be myself with. The more I wish to be with you, the more my fate will show its fangs to you! No matter how far I go on the sea, I have a huge enemy that I can't shake off... because the world and its darkness are my enemy! The incident with Aokiji, as well as this time.. I've already dragged you into my troubles twice! If this continues forever, even though you guys are good natured... you'll eventually feel that I'm a burden! I'm sure you'll betray me one day and abandon me! That's what I'm most afraid of! That's why I didn't want you to come to rescue me! If I'm going to die someday anyway, I want to die right here, right now!"

I clenched my fists, and maybe if I my power wasn't activated, my nails would have dug into my palms and made me bleed. To think she would have that idea planted in her head after such a long life of running away. I couldn't imagine the pain. A cackle ripped through the heavy air, and my eyes made their way to that purple haired fucker. "I see! That indeed is a sound argument! That's true. No one is stupid enouogh to think that having you isn't a burden. Look at that symbol, you damn pirates!" he sneered, pointing up at the World Government flag that waved above us all. "That logo indicates the unity of over 170 member countries spanning the four seas and the Grand Line! This is the world! Do you realize how completely powerless you guys are to fight against it?! Do you realize how huge of an organization this woman has been pursued by?!"

"I understand well the identity of Robin's enemy. Sogeking," Luffy called, not looking at the man. "Shoot through that flag."

"Roger. This is my new weapon, a huge slingshot.. named Kabuto! Have a good look at its power! Special Attack.. Firebird Star!" Usopp stretched his new slingshot back and fired straight through the flag, earning a surprised gasp from both purple man and Robin. "Mission accomplished. 

"Are you insane?! Don't think you'll be able to survive after making the entire world your enemy!" the partially masked man shouted.

"BRING IT ON!" Luffy yelled, his brows furrowing. This got a yelp from that annoying man. "ROBIN! We still haven't heard you say it! SAY YOU WANT TO LIVE!"

Tears fell down her face as she stared down at us. She seemed to be contemplating what she should do as she continued to cry, until she leaned toward us to scream, "I WANT TO LIVE! Take me to the sea with you!"

A grin spread across my face, and I could hear Franky behind the ledge crying, "You guys..! I love you guys, damnit!" 

"Let's go!" Luffy shouted with a wide grin while he cracked his knuckles.

I kicked a piece of the roof I was standing on off and then grabbed it, throwing at the purple haired guy with as much force as I possibly could, watching blood spurt from his forehead as he fell back against the wall behind them. "I was waiting for you to say that!" I huffed with a smile. I saw one or two of the CP9 members look away, almost laughing. The building beneath us shook and the drawbridge started lowering right on time.

"Robin! We're gonna rescue you for sure!" our captain stated, taking a low stance. The drawbridge stopped halfway which caused Sanji to announce it. "How dare they get in our way?! Damn bastards!" Luffy grunted as we looked down at the bridge. "Who's doing this?!" 

The purple haired guy started to talk about going to the Gates of Justice after he got up wiping blood from his face and glaring at me, but Franky cut them off by showing the blueprints they have been looking for this entire time. Apparently he hid them in his body. And then after a lot of "Spandam" telling Franky to give him the blueprints, he just straight up breathed fire on them. I held my stomach and laughed when I saw the look on his face as he tried to grab at the ashes of the papers. This had to be the best thing I've seen. I could hear Zambia yelling from the lower rooms of the building we were on, and Frany started crying again, calling them idiots and bastards. Ah man, this is great.

"Shut up you bastards!" Luffy shouted, stopping the cheering from the Franky Family.

"What're you, a demon?!" Nami, Zoro, and I all yelled together.

"Robin's waiting for us!" he yelled, very irked.

"Oh, yea, right. Hurry up, you bastards!" Zoro yelled, with Nami joining in. I scratched the nape of my neck. Jeez, I can't believe I got caught up in the moment. It all went downhill when Spandam pushed Franky off the balcony.

Kokoro told us to jump towards the falls through the snail in Nami's shirt after that, having heard it all, and I felt my soul leave my body when our captain wrapped his arms around us all and forced us to jump. I held onto his arm for dear life as we descended downwards. We landed on Rocket man as it jumped the bridge that now acted as a ramp, and I could hear Franky slam into the front of the train. He crawled over to the side, and I held onto my closest train part in order to not fly off into my watery grave.

"We're gonna collide!" Luffy shouted. A moment later, we did exactly that. I could hear Luffy break out of the rubble and then tell us to do it too. We all stood up at the same time, with the others yelling that they had regular flesh and bones in comparison to him. Franky called us weird and we walked toward the nearest exist, only to be stopped by a weird guy with a zippered mouth who was in a corner of the ceiling.

"Wait. Chapapapa.. We got invaded. Even if you go to the room you saw earlier, Nico Robin isn't there anymore, since Lucci took her to the Gates of Justice. Oh, and our chief did, too," he said. Nami hummed and thanked him for the information, making the strange man mumbled that he spilled the beans. "Oh well.. they're headed there right now, but I won't tell you how to get there, and we, CP9, won't let you go there, either. We have an order to annihilate you guys chapapa. Unless you guys defeat us, you won't be able to set Nico Robin free."

"Yea, you don't have to tell us that. We're gonna do it anyway," Luffy responded.

The zipper man then pulled out a key, somehow staying in the ceiling corner with only one hand holding him up with his legs. "Ah, let me say one more thing. Look at this! This is the key to unlock the Sea Prism Stone handcuffs on Nico Robin! Even if you guys can rescue Nico Robin by some chance, since the Sea Prism Stone is hard like diamonds, the handcuffs will be on her forever. Chapapa... I spilled the beans again.. Anyway, if that's ok, keep on going to rescue Nico Robin. Chapapapapa!" 

Luffy threw a punch at him right after that, but the guy dodged it and landed a bit away from us on the ground. He then continued to say that all six of CP9 left in the building have a key, including him. I don't know why he was singing it like it was a song, but Franky was jamming out to it in the back of the group. We came to the conclusion that they were just trying to buy time for Robin to escape. Then the guy just took off.

"Ah! Wait you jerk!" Luffy called out, only to have his face grabbed by Zoro who told him to wait for a plan to be formulated. He continued to struggle though, and Usopp pitched in as well. 

We all ignored him and began conversing about what we should do. "If Lucci's with Robin-chan, we should at least let Luffy go on ahead. Luffy," the cook looked to our captain. "At any rate, you just beat the pigeon guy." Luffy didn't really seem to be listening, but Sanji continued anyway. "There ae seven of us excluding Luffy. He said there are six CP9 members here. We'll get the five keys for Robin-chan's handcuffs from them and go after Luffy."

"If Robin goes through the gates, it'll all be over. It's a race against time!" Usopp piped in.

"If we lose against them, that means we'll lose time!" Zoro grunted, letting go of the captain who ran off right away. "Everyone! Take them down, even if it costs you your life!"

"Yea!" we shouted and then took off.

We all spread out in different directions to find the keys, and I ended up running down a hallway with a bunch of doors lined up. I already deactivated my devil fruit since its hard to move fast with it, and stated opening and closing doors in a hurry. Where the hell are the CP9 guys?! I smashed a door off it's hinges and saw nothing yet again. I dragged a hand down my face and ran to the opposite side of the hall, finding some more huge double doors. Yea that should be good. I kicked the door down and looked around, spotting a hammock hanging from the ceiling. I activated my power.

"Anyone up there?" I called, throwing a nearby chair at it. The chair hit the hammock and I watched as someone wiggled around in the cloth. "Ah, someone is."

"Why would you throw a chair?!" a masculine voice shouted, and then a dark figure jumped down. He looked at me and we both seemed to recognize each other. "You're the woman I caught in the shipwright city. This should be easy."

My eyebrow twitched and I folded my arms. "Oh really? Continue to think that when I bash your head in," I grumbled, shifting arms into longswords. I would have ran at him if I didn't hear a bunch of crashing through the building. I was about to duck but the damn slash already hit my in the back of the neck and I was sent flying forward as the walls around me got slashed too. I did a whole flip and my back landed against the wall I was facing, and I groaned. "What the fuck, instincts.. you should have told me to duck faster.." My eyes refocused and I looked at the man I saw before.

"Thanks for taking the hit, I wouldn't have seen it coming if you didn't," he chirped, giving me a little two finger salute.

"Just die," I groaned, getting up and brushing myself off.

He chuckled at me and shrugged, "You should have moved. Anyway, one point for me. You got hit. All that aside, let me try out this new devil fruit." I watched as his body slowly shifted into a.. lizard? He grew scales over his skin and his eyes turned yellow.

"Wow, very good job," I said, giving him a thumbs up with sarcasm dripping from my tone. He kind of looked cool, but I won't tell him that.

He looked down to me, now being probably twice my size. This must be why the ceilings are so tall. "Whether you be a bitch or not, I'm still supposed to take you down, so let's just do this shortie," he sighed, taking a low stance and jumping at me at an incredible speed. I ducked, rolling out of the way, only to see him jump in the air and smash his foot into my gut. Oh yea, that's gonna leave a dent. The air in my lungs escaped, but I grabbed his ankle before he could jump away, punching it with a spike shifted fist. He didn't even flinch, though, because I didn't get through his damn scales. Instead, he leaned down to me with his foot still lodged in my gut and grinned, "Oi, I just needed to stop you from advancing, so I don't really have to kill you. I'm sure Lucci wouldn't mind if I had a handy pet~!" he hummed.

I scrunched my nose in disgust, "I think living with you guys would be worse than dying." I brought a foot up and kicked him in his other leg, making him trip, quickly rolling away and getting up. I spit out some blood and made one hand into a spiked ball while the other shaped itself into a hammer. "Come at me, garbage."

He kicked some wind blades at me, and I took them head on because I'm so manly, only sliding back with my feet planted into the floor. He seemed surprised, but went on to slash at me with his new lizard claw things. I dodged, knowing that air slashes were different from the real thing with how strong these guys were. I slammed the spikes into his back, throwing him into a wall. Looking at the spikes I sighed in relief when I could see blood on them. I got through the spikes. Just need more momentum for power. 

"You know, you could always just be my pet," I hummed in amusement, smirking widely as he came back through the hole in the wall.

"What was it you said? You'd rather die than be my pet? I have the same sentiment," he sneered before looking down on me with a sinister grin. "Anyway, that just gives me all the more reason to live through hell while I keep you on a leash. You deserve the worst, and if that isn't death, then so be it."

I grabbed a nearby couch and threw it at him before he could say anything else, making sure to hit his head, "SHUT THE HELL UP YOU CREEP!" The dust from the collision let up after that, and I saw that he caught the couch with a hand. "Goddamnit."

"You're very a very persistent woman," he hummed, and then he grabbed the couch from my clutches, slamming it over my head. I blinked, my arms now trapped my the couch. I must have gone straight through it. "Got ya," he grinned, jumping behind me and slashing his claws over my neck, where I was already hit while unprepared earlier. 

"You-" I didn't get to finish that sentence due to him kicking me, effectively breaking the couch and the wall that I crashed into. I held my head and moaned in pain, looking at his cocky face. "Cheap shot."

"A point is a point," he shrugged, then ran at me again, using an air slash as a distraction as he tried to punch me from the side moments later. I moved my head and jumped out of the hole in the wall, striking his stomach with my speared hand. He coughed up some blood and I kicked the back of his head, only for him to flip out of the way, air walk right back to me, and then shave off some of my side with his claws. I gripped it, gritting my teeth together to not yell in agony. Blood was seeping out of the cracks made in my skin, and he came at me with another slash but to the head this time.

I moved my head out of the way and kicked his chest, sending him onto his back. I quickly jumped on top of him, grinning widely as I formed a large clamp with my hand, smashing it around his neck to trap him onto the floor. "What? This isn't fair!" he started sweating.

"A point is a point," I repeated, smirking down at him while creating the spiked ball on my free hand. "Now stay still, you prick."

---I needed the reader to accomplish a feat already, and here is the opportunity. Kind of sad that we couldn't witness Zoro coming up with really dumb plans with Usopp, though. WHATEVS. Imagine not hitting 3k words every chapter