A/N: More for you! Hopefully we'll keep up this pace!

I found a seat on a nearby set of stairs and the others joined me. This looked like the simple task of dropping this idiot off was going to be an ordeal. "Oyabin is quite confident isn't he?" Nami observed.

"Well, he's got that stuff so…" Usopp began from where he was sitting a few steps up above where I was. Zoro was playing at entirely uninterested about halfway up the stairs where he was laying back.

"Is he gonna use that?" Luffy asked, looking over at Usopp.

"Well, what else would he use?" I asked back. Split-Head didn't have any skills besides being a tricky bastard. I doubted he knew how to do any fight without using his backstabbing tricks.

"Here I come! Noro Noro Beam!" Frippy shouted as he pointed his weird hand sign at the other captain. Suddenly several other pirates ran forward and used their swords to reflect the beam back.

"Whaaaa…?!"

"Guys! Take him down!" Fang-Frog ordered, and his lackeys quickly ran forward to start beating on the now nearly frozen in time captain. "That beam of yours is no threat at all once I reflect it! I already know your trick!" The Fang-Frogs started punching ol' Split-Head hard, but of course, he didn't react at first.

Hamburg pulled one of his maces out of his pants with a dark look on his face. "Oyabin!" He started beating the ones attacking his captain out of the way, but the Fang-Frog captain grabbed Porche and held a knife to her throat.

"Hey! What're you doing!?" Porche shrieked.

"Stop right there!" Fang-Frog demanded, and Hamburg immediately did so with his arm still raised for another swing. "Drop your weapon." With some reluctance, Hamburg did as he was told and let his massive club hit the deck. One of the other pirates picked it up. Just as the timer was running out on Split-Head, the pirates turned their attention to beating up Hamburg.

Brutal. At roughly the same time, both of them fell over to the ground. Fang-Frog started laughing and turned to the others of the contested crew. "Guys! Did you see how stupid your former boss looked?" he asked. "You don't have to be loyal to a guy like that! Got that!?"

Luffy, of course, took issue with what had just happened. He jumped up from his seat and pointed an accusing finger at the leader of the Fang-Frogs. "Hey, you! Wasn't it supposed to be a duel!? That's dirty!"

Fang-Frog took a step back but only one. "You're an outsider, so shut up!" he yelled at Luffy. "To start with, I never said that I'd accept the Davy Back Fight."

I shrugged a little and reached for my cigarette case. He had a point there. He hadn't accepted the challenge. "That bastard…" Luffy growled, still obviously more than willing to go punch his face in, but managing to restrain himself despite that.

"Don't," Zoro said before Luffy could completely lose it. "It's their fight. It has nothing to do with you."

"Zoro-kun is right," I said. "If he wants his crew back he's going to have to deal with this without your help. If you help him beat that asshole up, it won't actually fix the problem." A captain had to keep control on his own, not with outside help.

Frape gave his own creepy laugh and started pushing himself up off the deck. "He's right," he said. "Just shut up and watch, Strawhat… Watch the proud Silver Fox Foxy fight! Ah! What the hell is that!?" he shouted and pointed straight up into the sky. I rolled my eyes 'proud' indeed.

"The fox guy is gone," one of the frogs said dumbly when they had looked back down.

"Where did he go!?"

Fraggy popped back up with a wig and dress and terrible mask on. "That way!" he said in a false high voice. "I saw him go that way! It's true!" he said pointing off in some random direction.

"Oh, that way, huh!?" the Fang-Frogs started running but then stopped and turned back. "You think we'd fall for that!?" They broke apart to reveal a cannon pointing at Forgie.

"Oh… cannon," I said, a little surprised. Where had that sucker come from? No sooner had I said that though than the fuse hit the cannon and it went off loudly. I flinched a bit despite not really caring if Split-Head was alright or not. When the smoke cleared, Frippy was on the ground looking a bit worse for wear.

The Fang-Frog pirates began laughing. "One roasted fox, coming up!"

Those still wearing fox masks though were significantly less amused. "Oyabin…" One even ran forward to try and help, but the Fang-Frog captain was having none of that. He pulled out a whip from inside his coat and lashed the poor guy hard across the back. The crewman fell to the ground with a cry of pain.

The Frog Captain brought his whip back, and it wrapped around his arm. "Get back here!" he ordered. "I'm your boss!"

Everything was dead quiet, and I played with my cigarette uneasily. I suppose it still wasn't our business and all but that display really left a sour taste in my mouth. Good captains didn't need to whip their own damn crew. "Hey…" Fox-boy said as he started pushing himself back up again. "Aren't weapons something you use against your enemy? Why do you hurt your own subordinate!?"

Frog Captain sounded confused by that. "If you rely only on power, you're nothing but the head of a group of thugs," Split-Head continued. "You don't have the caliber to be the captain of a ship. Just give up on this ship and my subordinates as well." Harsh but true words from the rotten little cheater. Imagine that. I guess there were stranger things. "I won't give you anything. Not a single thing," Foxy said firmly.

The other captain didn't seem to like that. "Shut up!" he shouted as he used his whip to hit Split-Head hard across the face. Ouch.

"Oyabin!" Porche cried.

Luffy ran over as Foxy hit the deck hard. "Hey! Split-Head! Hang in there!"

After a short minute, Foxy looked up at Luffy. "Oh… it's you, Strawhat… I guess that was pretty pathetic, huh? Say… would you do me a favor?" He reached into a pocket and pulled something out. "This… would you take this…? That match was the best stage of my entire life."

Luffy looked down at the afro that he had been given with wide eyes. "Oh God…" I muttered before taking a drag. Luffy threw his straw hat over to us, and Usopp caught it, sounding a little surprised. Luffy then put the afro on his head, and I swore something weird possessed that thing because Luffy's whole demeanor just changed.

"You're super groovy right now!" he said to the prone Foxy. Then he stepped forward to face the other pirates. "I'm your opponent! Now, bring it on, Fang-Frog Pirates!"

"Hey, hey, this has nothing to do with you," the Frog Captain said nervously.

"It does!" Luffy declared.

"I don't wanna fight a guy with a hundred million Beri bounty on his head," Fang-Frog said. "What good will it do me to fight you?"

Foxy laughed his stupid laugh and got up. "What do you mean? If you defeat the Strawhats, you'll get the one hundred sixty million Beri bounty," he pointed out. I frowned, still a little annoyed I hadn't been given a bounty at all. I had never before cared, but now it seemed a little unfair. "And, that's not all. They have a mountain of gold on their ship."

I nearly choked. How the hell had they found out about that!? "I bet that's worth quite a bit," Foxy continued. That absolute ass! Porche nodded adamantly, and I had half a mind to go kick her head in. "Are you shocked!? Just take it, you thieves!"

"Geez… when did they…" Nami began, obviously horrified.

"Why is he talking proudly about it?" Zoro wondered. He made a wonderfully good point like he usually did. It wasn't as if Foxy had gotten all the gold. That was our work.

"A-a mountain of gold…" the Fang-Frogs repeated. "Seriously?"

"Prepare to fire!" Captain Frog shouted, obviously quite convinced at the notion of lots of gold. "The target is Strawhat!"

The idiots got their cannon with a shout of enthusiasm. I rolled my eyes and leaned back. This was going to go poorly for them. They pointed the cannon right at Luffy and fired. Luffy, predictably, wasn't in the least bit phased and grabbed hold of Foxy's ship to stretch back and the bounce the cannon ball back at the Fang-Frog pirates. Luffy pulled his limbs back to him and then shot all four down at the group of pirates, probably with a hell of a lot of force.

"We should probably help him," I said as I got up. Well, we didn't really need to, but I was kind of bored just sitting around watching.

Usopp, surprisingly, lit up with excitement. "Yeah!"

As I was walking away, I heard a scream and looked behind me to see Nami had been pushed out of the way by Zoro who had ducked an axe aimed for his head. "Oi! You better be careful, Zoro-kun! You get hurt I'm gonna be very unhappy!" I shouted at him.

"Pay attention to your own fight, woman!" he shouted back.

I scoffed and flicked my head to the side to get my bangs properly situated. Like these idiots were really so hard to fight I had to 'pay attention.' I could do this in my sleep for gods sakes. "Just hand over the gold nice and-"

The pirate that had been threatening Nami got Zoro's foot in his face, and he hit the deck hard. "I guess this won't be settled unless we take them all out, huh? Good grief…"

"This of it this way, baby, it's a light workout before dinner," I said as I ducked under a sword and then kicked up into the offender's jaw, sending him flying backwards.

Luffy cracked his knuckles and gave a rather evil sounding laugh. The Fang-Frog guy looked suddenly very worried. "Ha! We've got five hundred crew members!" he said a bit desperately. "Take them down!" he shouted at the ones still wearing fox masks. They covered their ears and turned away.

"We weren't listening!" they lied. Well, it was nice to see that done to someone other than us this time. "Hey!" the captain was now officially freaking out.

Luffy cracked his knuckles a bit more. "Too bad they weren't listening, huh?" he asked.

It was at that point the Frog captain took a page from Foxy and pointed up. "Hey look at that!" Luffy, being Luffy, did so and the other captain took off running. I shook my head but then kicked one of the Fang-Frog pirates in the gut.

"So, how is it, Fang-Frog? My brother is strong, isn't he?" Foxy asked from where he suddenly was up by the main mast. Why the hell did he move up there? The fighting was down here on the main deck. "After all, he's so strong you can't find anyone –besides me- who can defeat him."

"Oh, please challenge Luffy to a rematch… I would love to see him beat you again," I muttered to myself.

"You guys, go easy on them. You don't wanna kill them," Nami called from where she was again sitting on the stairs. "They're just ordinary humans."

I dodged around a guy and kicked him in the back. He went flying and crashed into a guy that had been attacking Zoro. Zoro looked over at me with a bit of annoyance. "I had that, cook!"

"Yeah, well I helped," I said. "You're welcome."

"I can fight my own fights!"

I scoffed a bit and put my hands on my hips. "Alright fine I won't ever help you again. Not ever. Deal with your own problems by yourself. All your problems…" I said looking away from him.

"O-oi… that doesn't seem fair…" he said.

I looked back out of the corner of my eye and smirked. "Nope. You said you don't need my help."

"Sonya! Don't be like that!" he shouted.

"Be like what?" I asked innocently.

He looked unimpressed and practically marched over to me. Someone with a sword came running up but Zoro punched him right in the face, and I kicked him off the side of the ship. He was just in the way. "What's the matter, love-muffin?" I asked lightly.

"I thought we were past the nicknames…" he grumbled.

"Never."

Suddenly there was a slam nearby, and we both looked over to see the Foxy Pirates cheering. "Oh, I guess he beat up the captain guy," I said blandly. "That took about as long as I thought it would."

"Didn't even have to draw a sword," Zoro said with a derisive snort. "Not worth our time. Come on." I followed him over to where the others were. Luffy was still wearing his afro instead of his hat.

Foxy and his two closest lackeys came up to where we had gathered. "That was splendid, Strawhat," Foxy said. "You're as marvelous as ever."

"I was just pulled in by your passion," Luffy said, still with a strange tone to his voice. We really did need to perform an exorcism on that afro wig…

"Let me tell you just one thing," Foxy said holding a hand out.

"Oh stop it. We're friends. You don't have to thank me," Luffy replied with a smile. After a second he reached out to take Foxy's hand anyway.

Instead of taking Luffy's hand, Foxy lifted his own into a familiar sign. "Noro-Noro Beam!" The beam hit all of us, and I felt the very unpleasant sensation of trying to move and nothing happening. The rest of the Foxy Pirates cheered, and if I could have gotten my mouth to move, I would have cussed them out something serious. But as it was I could only watch with no small bit of rage as they cheered and congratulated themselves.

Foxy laughed his stupid ass laugh. "Remember this good, Strawhat! I am Silver Fox Foxy, a man who obtains whatever he wants!" The floor started opening and very slowly we all began to fall into it. "Your luck ran out when you got on this ship, you fool! Just clearing up the humiliation of the Davy Back Fight wouldn't satisfy me. I'll take the hundred and sixty million beri along with the gold."

"Yoooouuu… iiiiddioooot…"

We all fell down the pit into the dark and as we fell the slow beam finally wore off. It seemed like a lot longer than thirty seconds. "Damnit! How dare you trick me!?" Luffy growled once we all managed to get untangled from one another. Not that there was any way out, so we all just found a place on the floor to sit. "Come out, Split-Head!"

Usopp got up and went over to Luffy. "Hey, cool down a bit, Luffy. That afro is getting you all worked up…" He pulled the wig off of Luffy's head.

"Yeah, no doubt about it… that afro does something funny to you," I said as I leaned back against the wall and brought a new cigarette up to light.

"Like I said, what's up with that thing?" Nami demanded.

"How the hell should I know?" I asked back.

"After we went through the trouble of saving them… to think that he returned our kindness with malice…" Zoro grumbled beside me.

"No good deed, Zoro-love," I said as I leaned over to rest my shoulder against his.

"Yeah! And he's trying to take our gold, too!? That's unforgivable!" Nami snapped. I glanced over at her in the dim light and then shook my head. I thought being dropped in a pit a little more serious of a situation but whatever.

Usopp waved his finger in the air. "At any rate, that guy is too optimistic," he said loftily. "If we get serious and go on a rampage, a ship like this will be shattered into pieces in an instant. If the five of us do it…" I raised an eyebrow. What was with this 'we' stuff? "If the four of you do it…" Oh, there we go.

I sighed and lowered my head. At least he corrected himself before he continued. Almost as good as not lying to being with. Nami got to her feet and put her hands on her hips. "Anyway, for now, we have to figure out how to get out of here. Considering how that boss is, I bet he's up to something sneaky!"

She had a point so I turned and put my cigarette in my mouth so that I could lean close to the wall and start tapping it with my knuckles. After a few knocks, I figured that it sounded like nothing but air behind the wall. "It seems like we can get out from here," I said around my cigarette. I got to my feet, and Zoro quickly got out of the way as I kicked the wall.

The wood shattered, and we came face to face with something I definitely wasn't expecting. "What the hell is this room?" I asked as I looked at the very disturbing wavy stripes of different colors. It wasn't even like a rainbow it just looked like random ass colors splashed on the walls. Huge stuffed animals were scattered about, and nothing matched anything else.

Suddenly from behind a dresser, a very obviously not Porche came out with 'her' back to us. "Choppy! Where is Choppy?" 'Porche' said in the same fake voice that Frappy used earlier. He turned and sure enough it was their idiot captain pulling a really bad disguise. "Where are you hiding!? Geeze… if you don't come out, you… will… be… punished!" Foggy said shaking his hips.

I shuddered and backed away to cling to Zoro's arm. "I'm gonna have nightmares…" I whined. "And I think I'm gonna be sick." I swallowed hard and managed to shake it off. "Listen, you jerk! You may not be the best looking guy but goddamn don't make it worse! I can't stand bad cross dress-"

"Wait! Sonya!" Luffy said cutting in front of me.

"Luffy…"

Luffy walked forward several steps to stop in front of Frappuccino. "Hey, you!"

"Yes?"

"Where's Split-Head?"

My eyes nearly popped out of my head. Did he really not see the obvious here? Even Fatty didn't seem to believe it at first. "I-I don't know!"

"Oh, you don't know?" Luffy echoed.

"His cluelessness knows no bounds," Zoro muttered as we just stared at the display of stupid going on in front of us.

"Why can't he see it?" Nami demanded.

"Even for Luffy, this really takes the cake…" I said, still rather horrified by the entire interaction.

Luffy turned back to us. "Looks like he's not here," he said. Split-Head pulled out a sword and started to swing it at our Captain.

"Luffy!" We all shouted. Zoro was quick to dart forward and catch the blade with his own sword. "Luffy, take a closer look at the face," he said.

"What about the face?" He looked closer. He suddenly seemed to realize something. "Are you… Split-Head's little sister!?"

We all took a header at that ridiculous question. Even Froppy hit the ground at how utterly stupid it was. He got back up and seemed annoyed. "Argh! Enough with the disguises!" He pulled it off and was wearing his own (although still not very good looking) outfit.

"Aah! You're Split-Head! I got fooled again!"

I just stared. "This has happened more than once to you?" I asked.

"I don't even feel like making a comment," Usopp drawled.

"Take this, Strawhat! Noro-Noro beam!" He sent out another of those annoying as hell beams, but this time we all managed to dodge it. "Don't you guys get it!? No one can escape the Noro-Noro Beam!" he said as he turned to face Luffy again.

"Seriously, that beam's a real pain," Zoro grumbled.

"Yeah, seriously," Luffy agreed.

Just then I realized something. Luffy was standing in front of a mirror. Another Noro-Noro Beam was fired off, and Luffy jumped out of the way. The light bounced off, and Zoro was suddenly running for Nami. "Nami!"

"What!?"

I suddenly realized what was going on and couldn't quite stop my instincts from kicking in as well. Nami was no longer in the way, but I couldn't stop in time. "Sonya! Don't!" I tried to change directions, but the beam washed over both Zoro and me, slowing us down to an absolute crawl.

"Sonya! Zoro!"

"Oh, shoot! It hit them!" Usopp cried.

"Hmph! You dodged it well, Strawhat! You play dirty!" Split-Head said before running out of the door.

Luffy was right behind him. "Hold it, you jerk!"

"Does he know what 'dirty' means?" Usopp wondered as he stared after them. "Hey, Nami! Let's go!"

"Okay!" she agreed before turning to look at where Zoro and I were. "Both of you, be patient for thirty seconds!" she said before running off.

The momentum was bringing us closer together although with the most annoying slowness ever. This was actually worse than before. Finally, the thirty seconds were up although Zoro stopped moving. He was looming over me, and I realized he'd managed to catch his weight on his leg before we met. Our faces were only a few inches apart. "Well, that's a tease…"

"Don't be weird," he said.

I smirked. "A bit late for that, don't you think?"

He sighed and straightened, but I wrapped my arms around his neck quickly. "Hold on now," I said. "Let's not waste such a perfect opportunity…"

"Is that all you ever think about?"

I smiled and nodded. "Yeah, pretty much."

Zoro shook his head and continued to straighten even though I had my arms around his neck. I smiled wider and leaned up to give him a kiss. He wrapped an arm around my waist and gave in for a moment before pulling back. "Sonya, we really should be helping the others."

I pouted some. "Oh, fine. We'll go help the others," I said. "But I want this to be made up to later," I said.

"Yeah, yeah," he said as he let his arm drop. "They went this way," he said pointing to the hole I had made.

I hummed. "Of course you meant this way," I said pulling him towards the door. His eyebrow twitched, but he didn't say anything. We walked for several minutes before we reached a door into blackness. Beyond the door, I could hear Usopp screaming incoherently. "Huh… that's ominous," I muttered as we walked in. "But I guess we better go save him."

Weird noises seemed to fill the room, and once my eyes adjusted, I could see why. The floor was really a grate with people below it. Several of them had caught Usopp and were touching him all over. I took a half step back. "Let's um… you save him, Zoro."

"Why me?" he asked.

"Well, unless you want your girlfriend groped by strange sailors," I said in annoyance.

There was a moment where he was quiet. "Right. I'll get him," he agreed before starting to walk towards Usopp. I noticed he didn't exactly avoid stomping on the men's hands and arms as he went and he easily pried Usopp up off the floor. The poor sniper seemed to be severely traumatized and just hung limply over Zoro's shoulder as my boyfriend came back. "We should find another way out."

I nodded and led the way out of that creepy ass room. If I understood anything about ships at all I figured it wouldn't be that hard to find a way out. There were plenty of hallways and stuff to go through.

After a few minutes of walking, we reached what seemed to be a room that had noise coming from it. When we went in though, it was empty. "Noise must be coming from the other side," I said as I went to the wall where it was loudest and kicked. The wall shattered instantly. Zoro walked out first with Usopp over his shoulder, and I followed him out onto the main deck. "Oh, seems they handled it," I said as I looked over and saw Frippy and his two idiots tied up at Luffy and Nami's feet.

"We missed all the action," Zoro grumbled.

"Pretty sure it wouldn't have been much action," I replied.

"Hey, Strawhat!" Foamy shouted. "I lost in a fight between pirates, so I won't whine. Do what you want with us!"

Luffy just smiled. "Yeah… then… why don't you let them be in your crew again?" he asked, pointing at the tied up Fang-Frog Pirates. Oh, that seemed like a terrible idea.

"What?" Fritters demanded. "After they tainted the pride of pirates!?"

"You don't want to?" Luffy asked with a wide grin still in place.

Fraggy closed his eyes. "Strawhat… you're such a…" Idiot, I supplied mentally. "Okay, then! For Strawhat's sake, you go scot-free!" he shouted at them.

The Fang-Frogs seemed moved almost to tears. "O-Oyabin…"

"Now, go talk to them," Luffy said and untied the other captain's ropes.

"Thanks, Strawhat," Floppy said before walking across the distance to stand in front of the people who'd taken his ship and crew from him.

"Wow… I don't think I've ever seen mutineers taken back before," I muttered as I brought my cigarette up again.

Zoro shook his head. "Only with Luffy…"

Flopsy stopped in front of the Fang-Frogs with only his really ugly boxers on. "Will you guys work for me again?" he asked with his hands on his hips.

"Oyabin!" they cried as the others still wearing fox masks cheered.

"At least, his charisma is something else," Nami said as they all rushed to surround their captain and their new again members. This was all just crazy, and I was super glad I wasn't in the Foxy Pirates. Strawhat Pirates were crazy enough, but at least we weren't some weird fox mask-wearing cult… "It pisses me off for some reason," Nami added in a near growl.

Finally, with everything taken care of, we made our way back to Merry without the idiot Foxy and his lackeys. And with all of our gold still intact. "Take care, Strawhat!" Foxy yelled as the two ships pulled away from each other.

"You take care, too!" Luffy yelled back as he waved.

Foxy tossed the afro wig back, and it landed on Luffy's head. They exchanged an 'oh yeah!' and a thumb's up. I rolled my eyes. "Stop it already!" Nami snapped as she tore the wig off Luffy's head.

Chopper was tending to a still passed out Usopp, and I leaned against the railing. "That was the most difficult drop off I think I've ever been a part of. Should it really be so hard to kick people off your ship and onto theirs?" I asked nobody in particular.

"At least it's over with now," Zoro said.

"True. And you owe me some sugar, sugar," I said as I moved over to him.

He rolled his eyes. "You're getting weird again."

"If I weren't 'weird' you wouldn't love me like you do," I told him confidently.

He snorted. "You're delusional cook. I think there's something extra in those smokes of yours."

"Nah, you're just shy," I told him confidently.

"I am not shy," he said.

I smiled widely at that and hooked an arm around his neck. "Prove it, Zoro-love," I said.

"Sonya! I wanna snack!" Luffy shouted.

I groaned a bit and let my head fall back. "Alright," I shouted back before opening my eyes to look at Zoro. "Wanna join me in the kitchen then?"

"Are you gonna assault me?"

"Only in ways you like," I said teasingly.

Zoro sighed a little and shook his head. "You're impossible, woman."

"I'll take that as a yes."