~Y/n pov~

"I have the pass." The woman wearing a red cloak told us.

Why was she helping us??

"Oh! Then..."

The lady cut Kin'emon off, "But you shouldn't take the lift."

"What? Why?"

She turned back to stare at the lift, "It does take you to the entrance of the palace but if they find out who you are it's all over."

"Like I said, let's kick the guards' asses and bust in!" Luffy exclaimed.

I sighed and turned to the woman, "Is there another way in?"

"Oh, now I remember. You took our chef away earlier." Zoro told her as he seemed to recognise her.

"He took off to save your ship." The woman answered, "I can show you the other way in."

"Wait a minute, who are you?" Kin'emon asked.

"I'm Doflamingo's subordinate."

"I knew it." Wicka exclaimed before rambling about how she was trying to trick us.

~*~

She led us to a wall and pressed down on it, the wall moving away.

"A hidden door?"

"Are you a ninja?" Kin'emon asked a stupid question.

She ignored him, "This way, you don't have to take the lift to the entrance. Follow me."

We walked in and there were a bunch of stairs.

"This is an emergency passage kept secret by the King Riki family." She smiled at us, "Not even Doflamingo knows it's here."

Kin'emon jogged over to a basket, "What's this for?"

"It's a pulley system to lift heavy loads."

We looked up and saw the chains attached to it went so far up.

The lady told us to go to the stairs.

"Take that boulder to the top so we can be pulled up." Zoro said to Luffy, completely ignoring the lady.

The lady looked at us in surprise as Luffy's arm stretched and wrapped around the boulder multiple time.

He picked it up and grabbed the chain, running to the top.

We all climbed into the basket and waited.

I almost stumbled because of the stupid looking costume.

Zoro wrapped his arm around my waist to steady me.

I held onto the basket tightly as we were suddenly launched into the air.

We had made it to the top.

We all climbed off the backseat and waited for Luffy to come back up.

The wall opened again, letting up out of the passage.

Kin'emon poked his head out and looked around, "Alright, we made it."

"Wait." The woman called after us, "Can you close the door?"

We all lifted the door back up so it closed and then snook around to find the entrance.

It seemed like we were in the garden.

There was a massive wooden door.

Luffy leaned around the wall we were hiding behind, "Is that the entrance to the palace?"

"It's guarded." I stated as I observed the people stood in front of it.

"No, it's the entrance of the Rampart Tower which stands under the palace." The woman informed us.

I don't know if she's already told us her name but if she did I forgot or I wasn't listening.

"To reach the palace, we still have to climb up. The Rampart tower also has a secret entrance, let's go." She led us away from the door and towards the secret entrance.

Why exactly was she helping us?

I stared at the back of her head as she walked in front of us.

Zoro smacked my head, "Stop staring.. it's weird."

"Hush." I retorted, pushing his hand away from my head.

We turned around to see Luffy gone.

"Where'd he go?!" I whispered yelled as I looked around for him.

He was running towards the people in front of the gate.

This is bad.

He threw a giant punch at them, flattening them and breaking the wooden door in the progress, as well as some of the wall near it.

"This is bad." I sighed.

He never thinks.

Luffy turned back to face us, "It's open."

"That's not the issue here!" Zoro yelled at him angrily as he looked at the destruction Luffy had caused.

"I can't believe it." The woman exclaimed, "Let's just go. There's no choice now."

She quickly led us up the stairs.

We all pulled off our costumes.

Finally, I can get rid of this ridiculous suit.

I set my hands on fire and burnt the monstrosity.

"Let's go." Violet told us.

She had noticed my blank look after a while and realised she hadn't told us her name.

We ran through the corridors, beating up anyway in our way.

"Where are you, Mingo?!" Luffy yelled after punching another guy in the face.

~*~

"I need to find the place called the Toy house." Kin'emon stated.

"I want to go there to take part on Operation SOP!" Wicka added.

"Then, we'll go to the Toy house together." Kin'emon concluded as Wicka led the way.

"Good luck." I called after them.

He ran down the stairs.

"Up the stairs and to the left." Violet told us, leading us up the stairs.

"No one's here." Luffy stated as we ran through the empty corridors.

Zoro smirked, "The security can't keep up with us."

The candle on the wall suddenly went out on after the other as the whole hallway became darker.

We stood there as everything went silent.

The wall then seemed to warp.

"There's something in the wall."

"A face?"

Something seemed to be coming out of the wall.
Some sort of creature.

Or more like the wall was a creature.

It's body seemed to be formed out of the wall.

"Oh no! It's Pica." Violet yelled in horror.

Apparently he had eaten a devil fruit.

He ignored anything we said and moved to stop on us.

We all ran out of the way, avoiding the big stone foot.

Luffy started rapidly punching Pica.

His body crumbled into rubble and fell to the ground.

The stone came together again as a giant hand that tried to squash us.

I guess there's no easy way to defeat him.

His body has formed again.

~*~

Rubble fell on top of us.

Luffy acted quickly, "Gum gum balloon."

The rubble stopped falling as Luffy held it in place.

We were surrounded by it.

Zoro slashed it and Luffy punched it all away.

The rubble cleared and in front of us stood the stone man.

The floor titled sideways and Zoro started to slip down it.

He cut the wall.

No matter what attacks we threw at it, nothing seemed to work.

"Go on without me." Zoro stated as he held his swords in front of him.

~*~

We ran the opposite way from the stone man.

There's so many hallways so there must be another way up.

"Enjoy being blown to pieces."

We turned to see a man wearing black about to destroy a toy solider.

Luffy raced towards them, "Gum gum stamp."

He kicked the man hard in the stomach, making him fly back.

The man was wearing a helmet and a mask, concealing his identity.

I still had my hood up so my identity was slightly hidden.

"Violet." The man exclaimed when he saw her.

She looked surprised, "Gladius."

"How could you betray young master!"

Violet grabbed our hands and dragged us along, getting away from him.

"I've been watching over you and Rebecca with my clairvoyance." Violet told the soldier.

The man's helmet expanded and then there was an explosion.

Violet fell to the ground.

I wrapped my arm around her waist and lifted her up before she could fall.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"I'll be fine."

"Out of the window." Luffy stated.

He's crazy...

We both jumped through the window, the glass shattering.

I shielded Violet as some of the glass pierced my skin.

Luckily, there were no deep cuts.

Luffy grabbed onto me and stretched his arm upwards, taking us to a higher floor.

Violet led us to the room Doflamingo was in and then pulled us down so we were out of sight of the window.

"Be quiet and stay here." She instructed, "We don't want to disrupt the operation."

"How did they sneak into the basement?" Doflamingo asked Law.

Law was tied up opposite him.

Doflamingo bit his finger, "Why do they wanna attack Sugar? I don't know why but they keep doing things that cause me a lot of grief."

Law stared at him silently.

The lady stood next to Law smacked him over the head, "Answer! The young master is asking you questions, Law!"

"I told you. I have nothing to do with them anymore! Our alliance ended. I don't know what you're talking about." Law answered bluntly.

"Are you trying to fool me? Or do you really not know?" Doflamingo smirked, "If Violet were with us, she could tell what's in your mind easily."

I glanced at Violet. She can read minds?

Luffy moved to get up.

I grabbed his hand and held him down.

"I said wait." Violet whisper-yelled to him.

The soldier looked down and became quiet as if he was lost in thought.

"Soldier." Violet called to get his attention.

"Oh yes, Lady Viola." He replied.

"Are you alright?" Luffy asked.

His question was ignored as Violet continued talking, "We have a problem. There are some enemies on the first floor."

There was a loud yelling noise exhorting down the hallways

"You guys are pirates, right?" The soldier brought up.

Luffy turned to look at him blankly, "Is that a problem?"

"No, I'm a notorious criminal, too. If we have a common goal, it's nice to work with you."

~*~

Violet looked at the soldier in surprised as he turned into a huge man with a sword.

We leapt through the window towards Doflamingo.

"Brother Kyros."

"Who?" I asked Violet.

"Even I lost my memories of him. The toys were originally human but they were erased from our memories." Violet cried.

I looked at the man and then back at the spot where the soldier was, "That's horrible."

"We got our memories back now. He's the former commander of the King Riku Army - Kyros!"

Everyone was astonished when he cut Doflamingo's head off.

There were screams as his underlings looked at Kyros with anger and surprise.

While they were all distracted with Kyros, we jumped on through the window.

Law look at us with an annoyed look.

"Tra-guy, I'm here to save you." Luffy grinned at him.

"You have no business here, Straw hat! What about the factory?"

Violet handed me the key.

"Oh thanks. You really planned everything."

She smiled in response.

"Thanks, but the alliance between us is over." Law stated.

"Huh? How selfish. I'll make those decisions, not you, so shut your mouth!" Luffy responded bluntly.

Law was stunned.

I unlocked his handcuffs.

"If you set me free, I'll kill you." Law retaliated as I undid them.

"Too late." I smiled at him.

Doflamingo's body stood up.

He laughed, "We need to do something immediately."

"Creepy." Kyros charged towards him, "How are you still alive, Doflamingo?"

Doflamingo appeared behind him and aimed a kick at his head.

Luffy pushed Kyros down.

The building was sliced with the kick as the top of it went tumbling down.

"There are two."

I watched as two Doflamingo's attacked Luffy.

Is that his power?

Doflamingo used armament haki to protect him from Luffy's flurry of punches.

He slashed at Luffy and then punched him in the face.

One of the defeated men got back up and tried to attack Luffy.

I held him back and fought him.

I would intervene but Luffy would get angry and tell me it's him fight.

The whole floor started to shake.

It's that stone man again.

It grabbed us and threw us off the building.

I grabbed onto Violet as she screamed.

Luffy breathed in and cushioned everyone's fall before they could hit the ground.

"We can't get near Doflamingo as long as Pica is there!" Violet stated.

"Where's Zoro?" I asked as he had been fighting Pica earlier, "Don't tell me he got lost."

Threads appeared and formed a cage around the island

"He's trapping us in." Law stated, "He gonna kill everyone."

The palace lifted up off the ground and began to float away.

"Wait! Palace." Luffy yelled after it.

A screen appeared with Doflamingo on.

"After finding out the truth, I bet a great number of you want to kill me now. That's why I prepared a game for you. It's a game to kill me. I'm in the royal palace. I won't run or hide. If you can take my life, the game ends there. But there is another way to finish the game. You kill all the people I'm going to name now. Also, I will award a large prize for killing time. Kill or be killed." He smirked, "Everyone in this country will become hunters."

So he's getting other peopl to get rid of us so he doesn't have to.

So we have to defeat him before that happens and we get outnumbered.

~*~

"Is this Robin?" Luffy snatched the transponder snail away from Zoro, "Did you see it? Mingo's such a jerk, isn't he? But Usopp's bit was hilarious."

"What did you say, Luffy?!" Usopp voice yelled back in response.

Luffy laughed, "Rebecca was also on the list. I hope she's alright."

"I'm here! Lucy??" The pink haired girl responded.

"The solider is here... Where did the solider go?" Luffy looked around in confusion.

"He's ran off." I sighed.

"He turned back to a human, too, didn't he?" Rebecca asked, "What kind of man is he?"

"What are you talking about?! That one-legged soldier was your father!" Luffy stated, "He's the old man the statue is of."

I heard the sound of crying over the transponder snail.

"I promise I'll kick Doflamingo's ass for you!" Luffy yelled before hanging up.

~*~

Pica appeared in front of us again.

"Now, those of you who rebel against our family.. I'm gonna fight you." He spoke in a high voice.

I bit my lip to stop myself from laughing.

Luffy burst into laughter and pointed at him, "His voice! It's so high!"

Others tried to shush him but he just kept laughing.

Pica glared at him, "Straw hat!"

He smashed his fists onto the ground, the ground shook and buildings fumbled to the ground.

He raised his fist and punched the spot we were standing.

Some people tried to run but there was no escape as they were also blast away from the punch.

We went flying straight to the colosseum, even though we tried to run away it was no use.

A shockwave was sent out because of the punch.

The ground crumbled and buildings were destroyed.

I coughed as my back hit a wall.

Luffy laughed as if he hadn't just gone flying.

"Get off me." Law grumbled pushing him away.

I stood up and went over to them.

Luffy and Law started arguing again.

"Where are we?" Luffy asked.

"Near the colosseum." I stated.

A blonde haired man appeared behind us and tried to slice us, "Give me back my glory, you scoundrels of the Worst generation!"

"What are you doing?!" Luffy yelled at him, "Do you still hold a grudge against me?!"

"No, I'm not gonna go after the Straw hats anymore. One of your crew, God Usopp, saved my life." He smiled.

"Usopp did?"

"I ain't forget him, sacrificing his life to save thousands." He said before handing Law back his hat, "I've decided to kill Doflamingo to return you guys the favour!"

"What?!" Luffy exclaimed in response, "No thanks, I'm gonna do it."

"Cut it out! You plan on stealing more attention by killing Doflamingo, don't you?" The blonde accused him.

"What are you talking about?!"

We ran away from the strange blonde man and ran straight into the man who tried to kill Luffy earlier.

He told us he didn't hold a grudge anymore and he was saved by Usopp.

Was everyone saved by Usopp?

This is strange they all want to take down Doflamingo.

Well, it'll work in our favour if lots of people want to take him down.

The ground suddenly tumbled as a giant appeared.

He also wanted to kill Doflamingo.

What is even happening anymore?

We all sweatdropped as more and more people appeared who wanted to thank us by killing Doflamingo.

"Where are all the idiots coming from?" Zoro asked with an annoyed expression.

~*~

All the others followed behind us as we ran.

Pica lifted his hand up and aimed it at us.

Everyone then started to argue about who was gonna take Pica down.

At least it doesn't seem like we have to worry that much about Pica anymore.

Pica spoke again and everyone started to laugh.

I internally sighed.

"I'm gonna crush you all at once." Pica's hand flew towards us.

"Let's leave them to deal with Pica and continue to run towards Doflamingo." I told Luffy.

He nodded in agreement and we began running until we reached the palace again.

~*~

After defeating Doflamingo, the cage started to disappear.

I watched as the cage vanished and we were finally free to leave.

There was rubble everywhere.

I wondered around until I found Luffy, Usopp and a few others.

Luffy was asleep as he always is after a fight.

"Oh, Y/n!" Usopp grinned when he saw me.

~*~

We finally met up with everyone else and found somewhere to stay the night before we left.

"So you lost your memory until two years ago?" Franky asked Sabo.

"Yeah." Sabo sighed.

"If it was that serious, how did you get your memory back?"

I leaned back into Zoro's chest, resting my head comfortably on his shoulder as I listened to Sabo.

It must've been hard.

Luffy was unconscious with his head resting on my lap as he slept.

"Ace helped me. That's what I think now." He clenched his fists, "The timing couldn't be any worse. I wish I knew sooner."

It's strange that Sabo's been with Luffy's father the whole time.

I'm glad he survived.. I think he helped Luffy feel better about Ace's death.

All this time he's been blaming himself.

Sabo explained what happened when he remembered.

Franky started to cry as always.

"Wait a minute." Zoro stopped him.

"What?"

He pushed me away and got up to grab Kin'emon's collar, "Why did you drink all the alcohol?!"

"I can't listen to such a story without drinking." Kin'emon responded warily.

"Both of you... calm down." Kin'emon's friend stated.

Kin'emon had managed to rescue him earlier.

"We'll be in trouble without food when Luffy wakes up." Robin stated.

"All of our crew eat too much." Franky complained.

"Luffy's friends are funny." Sabo smiled.

"You'll never get bored." Robin added with an amused expression.

Sabo stood up, "I'm leaving now. Here have this vivre card I made for Luffy."

"When did you have time to make this?" Zoro asked with a confused expression.

Sabo tore a piece off for himself, "He may be a lot to handle but take good care of him."

He turned and left.

That's similar to what Ace said in Alabasta.

It's natural for a big brother to worry about his bungling kid brother. He might be a bit too much for you to handle, but take good care of him.

After Sabo left, a few of us stayed up longer but most of us just went to sleep.

~*~

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Kin'emon apologised while pouring the big sack of food onto the table.

The smell instantly woke Luffy up, he shot up in bed and looked at the food.

He dragged himself over to a chair and started to eat, his body slumped with exhaustion as he was almost falling back asleep.

Usopp screamed in surprise, "I thought you were asleep!"

We all ignored him.

"The navy might come at any time." Zoro commented, "Let's hurry and eat."

Luffy shoved an unbelievable amount of food in his mouth as Usopp watch in horror, his mouth open as he just watched Luffy.

I sighed and started to eat some food myself before Luffy ate it all, even though there was a huge amount of it.

"The only people who know about Rebecca's birth are some people in the royal family." The man who used to be a soldier stated.

"Why?" Robin asked curiously.

"I have a criminal record. I'm thinking about leaving this country when you guys do."

Robin calmly sipped her tea, ignoring the chaos surrounding us as the food was devoured.

Bartolomeo shoved the door open, "Luffy? You're up? Good morning."

He stared at us all in surprise and then tried to shield his face as if he was being blinded by some sort of light.

"When there are six members of the Straw Hats gathered together, they're too bright to even look at! It's like a laser beam of greatness."

What the hell?

"What are you here for?!" Zoro glared at him in annoyance, fed up with his weird antics.

"There's a lot of commotion at the navy camp!" Bartolomeo told us, "They're gonna be here anyway minute."

Law lifted his head up front his spot in the corner.

Has he been awake this whole time? It didn't look like he was.

I guess we should leave it the marines are coming.

"There are a lot of navy soldiers in town." Usopp pointed out as it would make it hard to escape.

The blonde from yesterday appeared with a rose in his hand, "We'll clear the way for you."

"There's a ship at the east port."

"That's good. Thanks." Franky sighed in relief, "We let Nami and the others take the Sunny so we didn't know what to do."

"Don't mention it." Bartolomeo laughed as we all stood up and got ready to go.

Luffy shoved the rest of the food in his mouth and carried anything that didn't fit.

We ran out of the door.

Some of the marines were already running towards us.

Usopp screamed as they shot at us, bullet barely missing us.

Bartolomeo created a screen that blocked the bullets as we continued to run.

I noticed Luffy slowing down and then stopping.

"What are you doing?" I asked him.

"I've got something to do:"

He ran off before anyone could respond.

"Zoro, we're heading south." Bartolomeo yelled as Zoro started going in a different direction.

I grabbed his hand and pulled him after us.

At least I don't get lost while following someone...

We ran straight through town even though fights were taking place there.

"Keep running. We'll be there soon."

The steps were right in front of us.

Around us were collapsed buildings and unconscious navy.

Law stopped once he saw Sengoku.

It seemed like he wasn't after us.

We continued to run and left them to talk.

The blind navy officer stood in front of us, stopping us in our tracks.

The ground started to rumble as the rubble was lifted into the air.

Oh shit.

All the rubble started to gather above us.

He was suddenly hit by a giant fist.

I turned and saw Luffy had made it to us.

We can leave now.

~*~

We all managed to escape and get on the ship.

Although, we still need to meet up with the others and get back to the Sunny.

The other people who helped us fight Doflamingo before wanted to work under us.

It'll be good to have more people on our side.

I watched as Luffy's eyes sparkled at the thought of having a fleet as he started talking to them excitedly.

Then they started to celebrate.

I swear they try to celebrate anything and everything.

Zoro sat down beside me and sighed tiredly, "Wake me up when we get there."

He rested his head comfortably on my shoulder and wrapped an arm around me to pull me closer and use me as a pillow.

"Sure." I replied absentmindedly as I watched the waves crash back down into the sea.

~*~

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A/n there are some many episodes for this arc. This took a while to write but I feel like I'm getting close to catching up to Wano arc now.