Another one

"Good!" Zack smiled and immediately took out a few notes. He passed them to Mikita and said.

"These are Marine Six Styles and Haki Notes. You can practice them after you leave the waters of Alabasta. I suggest you settle down on a barren island for a few months and train vigorously."

"At the same time, try to invite trustworthy and talented newcomers to your fleet and slowly develop the second fleet."

Taking those notes in her hands, Mikita wasn't surprised but Mr. 2 and the others were surely stunned.

"Are you sure you want to give these to us so soon? We just joined. Aren't you afraid of our betrayal?" Mr. 3 immediately opened his mouth and asked.

Zack shook his head and said.

"Although you guys are not good people, you are not betrayals. Besides, Mikita is stronger than all of you. And, Mr. 2 is a loyal shemale. Even if you try to betray, they can suppress you."

"But, the reason why I chose you guys is that I know you won't betray me that easily. By the way, Can you do me favour and have a suggestion for you guys."

"What?" Seeing that others didn't speak a word, Mikita asked.

"After you leave here, search for Buggy Pirates. Buggy might still be with them or maybe not by the time you find them."

"No matter what, just defeat them and ask them to let pass the message to Buggy to meet Straw hat at water 7 if possible."

"Also, tell Buggy that I have news from wano and new world that he will like to know." Zack answered.

"Is this Buggy guy really that good of guy that you want us to pass this message to ? If I remember correctly, isn't he just a 15 Million Bailey-worth pirate?" Mikita tilted her head in confusion and asked.

Zack chuckled and answered.

"Yes, he is indeed weak from your prospective as I sure he is laying low and up to something in the weakest sea but he has the same charm as my Captain. And, more importantly, his Luck and Charm are even more exaggerated. Just wait for a few months, he will definitely show you his true worth and power. He may act as a clown for most part but is highly unpredictable. He can kill you."

"Of course, he also has a powerful background. He was an intern on the Gold Roger ship. And, he is still a brother in arms to Red Hair Shanks."

"What?" At this moment, everyone screamed in shock. Their voice was so loud that even Straw Hats easily heard them.

Although everyone was shocked, they quickly calmed down. But, Mikita couldn't calm down for a moment. After spending a lot of time with Straw Hats, she truly understood Luffy's charm.

She had never felt this good after being a pirate. Right now, she would never betray Luffy even if someone forces her. So, hearing that someone has even more charm than Luffy made her stunned.

Zack continued to chuckle as he said.

"Not only that I believe if Buggy show his true colours, he might also even be stronger like Luffy or even more . After all, if Luffy isn't afraid of Blunt attacks, he isn't afraid of sharp attacks. They exist like oil and water."

"Anyway, we will leave soon and you guys also find a ship and leave Alabasta. Soon, this place might be hard to leave."

Hearing his words, everyone nodded their heads together.

[ Name - Zack D Snyder

Race- Human/???

Devil fruit -Gamble Gamble fruit(Beginner)

Rank -7.5 [ tap for further information]

Observation haki ( beginner 23%)

Armament haki ( beginner 15%)

Conqueror haki( beginner 12%)

Vitality -15000/15000

Status - Tranmigrator , recovered

IQ-210

Achievement - Marine 6 style user, all rounder, Theorists, I&T rookie

Skill - Recarniator benefits, thermoskin, night vision, gymnasts, manipulation, actor' s pride, martial body, learner's swordsmenship and gunsmenship, silver tongue, Gambler, risk taker ,etcs

Possession- x3 of the x9 pieces of Jack sparrow desire compass, x2 Query cards, wave wave fruit, needle needle fruit,bomb bomb fruit,dice dice fruit

Luck- 1867]

Sometimes later ,

Zack was sitting inside the carriage sipping some water. The desert of Alabasta was really scary with frequent desert storms even through it just rained a day ago , its still hot. One such desert storm was actually going over them and Nami had to use climatact to make a protective guard over themselves.

Vivi wasn't in a good mood because according to her such storms weren't common before but after Crocodile was messing up the weather with his Dance powder which could bring rain, it changed the weather of the country and was now suffering.

Nami went over and told to calm down and that everything would be alright. Luffy and others were busy looking at the storm which was passing above them. It was both a dangerous and beautiful sight to behold from inside the cover.

The storm at last blew over and the sky was again visible from the naked eye.

"The desert is scary." Chopper was a little scared seeing such harsh and hot weather even though they were in a carriage.

"Your winter island was more scary." Usopp retorted. This invoked an argument between Chopper and Usopp and everyone had fun looking at both of them. They started moving again and crossed over massive sand dunes. Zack in his previous life had never visited a desert. And actual desert with no vegetation and just sand dunes.

So this was new for him too. After hours of travel they finally saw a huge black mountain from afar. As they came close to the small mountain, they got to see that it was eroded by wind for ages and on the bottom of the mountain was hollowed in one part. Probably because the winds on the lower level carried heavier sand and thus eroded the lower part of a rock or a mountain more heavily than the upper part.

"Let's take a break under the mountain. Banchi had been walking in this hot weather for hours." Robin suggested as her pet had been in the scorching heat for some time. Though the turtle was made for a desert environment, Robin always felt a pity for her pet that had been out in this weather while they were just sitting in a carriage enjoying the sights.

Everyone accepted the proposal and just and just went under the half hollowed mountain. After stopping everyone got out and everyone was welcomed by a strong burst of hot wind in their face.

"This is hot!!" Chopper almost fainted sensing the heat and others too wrapped their bodies in clothes so as not to be burnt from the hot winds. Luffy wanted to have fun, but was stopped by Nami.

As they sat under the shade, out of nowhere a huge quicksand appeared underneath them. The radius of the quicksand was almost the size of the mountain and before they knew it many were sucked in. Zack and others didn't expect that and shouted at each other.

Sanji, who could float for few seconds, immediately jumped up his feet and went scurrying over to Vivi and Robin to save them but it was already too late. The quick sand had already eaten them up. Sanji was enraged and had tears in his eyes. Vivi and Robin weren't the only ones who got sucked in quicksand. This included Chopper and Nami too.

Zack, Luffy and Zoro looked at each other. At first they thought that this was some kind of trap but it wasn't. The quick sand was a natural phenomenon and the earth was hollow inside. Their senses told them that the people who got sucked in were alive and well.

"Cook, stop crying they are alive." Zoro spoke out to stop the incessant cries. Sanji, who was ready to go inside the quick sand to be the savior, stopped and looked at others. He was happy to know that they were alive but he needed to save them and thus he dove into the quicksand.

"I guess we should go and see what the big deal is." Zack said.

"Yosh. I wonder if we found the location ." Usopp said. Luffy already had stars in his eyes and just dove into the quicksand. Followed by Zack and others. They had been stopping themselves from falling because they were making sure that there was no enemy and thankfully there was none.

The quick sand just proved to be a hole underground that had been covered by sand over years. They didn't have to pass much time in the sand and landed on solid ground after falling for about 10 feet.

Zack and others saw that the women were on their butts and Sanji was trying to take care of them. Chopper, being the doctor, came forward and checked if there were any injuries. Everyone was relieved to see that nobody got hurt and were alive and well.

"That hurt. What was that all of a sudden?" Nami shouted.

"It was a quicksand, Nami-san."

It was then, Zack saw the surroundings. The quick sand had thrown them into a huge space that was definitely man made. There were pillars in this open space that held the ceiling but some of these pillars seemed ancient and were already on the verge of destruction for some reason weathered with erosion similar to the caused by sea and wind.

"is this place we are looking for ?" Zoro asked as he looked around.

Luffy and Usopp had already started running around exploring the space while Zack's eyes were on the far end of this huge hall.

" Yes it is one of them."

"This place does looks like it was built in ancient times. These pillars look so old. Vivi, did you have any previous Knowledge of this place?"

"No, I have never read about this place in the books before. But they say that the old palace of the kingdom was somewhere here." Vivi replied as she joined others in looking over the place. None of them panicked as they knew that they could get out of this place easily.

Meanwhile, Zack and Robin went to the other side of the huge hall and laid their eyes on something that was shining from afar. Robin stiffened at the spot when she realized what the eyecacthing thing was.

It was a Poneglyph.

Robin was dumbfounded seeing this. She had been searching for Poneglyph for such a long time and she had been with Crocodile just so because she could read one and now here they were with Zack's help landing into just so because they fell down a quick sand.

Destiny! It's tricky!

Robin had shaky legs as she touched the Poneglyph while Zack was a little surprised. In the anime there was an episode where Zoro and Luffy came across a slab of Poneglyph but this was not canon and people have forgotten about that. And Zack too had forgotten about that episode as it didn't matter but the map have just guided them to it.

But in this case, the truth was different. Despite the fact that it was not supposed to be at the canon, they had unintentionally discovered this ancient site now. According to a rumor, Oda always gave the go-ahead for the creation of One Piece's fillers, which implied that he had no objections to including this element in the plot.

Luffy and others who were busy exploring the huge hall around came and looked at the huge square slab that Robin was reading very attentively while Zack was looking at the painting on the wall .

"What is this?" Vivi asked.

"This looks so cool."

While everyone was busy speculating what kind of thing it was, Luffy said

"This thing speaks about an ancient kingdom and the kinds of people that lived in that kingdom..." It was Luffy who spoke those words.

"I see " Zack asked.

Sanji asked Luffy.

"What does this word say?"

"Uh... This speaks about three ancient weapons. Pluton, Poseidon and Uranus along all the races, even few extinct rases one such as Lunarian, Onikuto , Buccaneers ,etcs who were once allies with ancient kingdom and Nefertari family." Replied Zack

"So Vice-Captain,are you sure that you can't read it?"

"Do I look like someone who can read?" Zack answered.

"But you didnt have a surprised look on your face each time I looked at it ,when you saw them." Robin replied.

Though she was taken aback by him owning a map of all Ponelglyph, it didn't mean that she wasn't paying attention to others. Only Zack didn't had a surprise reaction, just like her.

"That doesn't mean that I can read.Sure I know quite many things but this is not my speciality. I just decipher them from the painting on the wall as you can see and put a blind guess on it ." Zack pointed at others to which they nodded. Robin could see that Zack was speaking was truth.

"I am sorry. There are too many memories associated with it." Robin apologized.

"I know." Zack said as it seemed she was in a little bit of tears. Everyone was perplexed as to why Robin had suddenly become agitated and had mood swings straight out of an ancient texts . Zack went forward and hugged her. Chopper, who was a little bit close to her, came forward and also gave her a hug.

"Vivi, you wanted to know why Robin changed her association again and again. Didn't you?" Zack asked after he let go of Robin.

"Uh.. Yes..." Vivi had once asked Zack what Robin worked for since Zack trusted her, and at that time Zack had replied that she worked for something different.

"Robin works for this and had her bit of history with it ." Zack answered, pointing at the Poneglyph.

Everyone was confused for the latter words except for Robin. She had a vague feeling Zack had always known about her, as he had always shielded her. even against Vivi, to whom all the crewmates were very close.

Zack always treated her as equal to Vivi which was very weird, assuming the fact that she belonged to the enemy camp now their very own member. Zack didn't answer Robin but just took out a bottle of water and sat down.

"Sit down. This is going to be a good story. You had heard Robin decipher the previous poneglyph.To fully understand it ,you need know this story."

Everyone was curious about what the had to say and thus sat down eagerly.

"There was once an ancient kingdom. But 800 years ago, it fell. We don't know what exactly happened to that kingdom. All the history related to that kingdom was deleted from all the books, and whatever we have has been recorded in these square shaped slabs known as Poneglyphs and the century between 900- 800 years ago that we don't have knowledge about is known as the Void Century."

"Void Century?"

"What a weird name."

Robin was surprised that Zack here knew of the Void Century, because knowing about it was itself taboo, and a person would be arrested if they spoke about it.

"It was called so because we don't have any knowledge of that kingdom but it was almost allies with all races. These Poneglyphs are all we have right now. After the Void Century ended, 20 kingdoms came together to form the current World Government. The people belonging to those 20 kingdoms settled at Marijoa. And until now, their descendants enjoy the privilege of establishing the World Government and hold absolute power over the world. Over the course of time, 170 kingdoms joined the World Government and holding absolute power they did whatever they wanted and exploited people around the globe."

"I have heard of this somewhere. I don't remember where." Vivi replied.

"You have probably heard about this from your father. Because your father's ancestors too belonged to those 20 royal families who had established the world government, and for that reason your kingdom had special privileges in Marijoa. But as deciphed in previous one ,they were betrayed them. Queen Lily, the ruler of that time went missing after refusing to join and was pressurize by them to hand 'Pluton' . So her younger brother following her gave up their privileges to remain in Alabasta hidding all its secrets. For 800 years the world is sinking slowly in the ocean."

"What?"