Chapter 43. Size matters

The last tied up, hooded person looked pale. He remembers what Trebol said but he can't remember who the two toys before him were.

But he now understood why his commanders found it weird that they hadn't sent any spies to Dressrosa before.

They had, but they had forgotten!

"You won't get away with this Doflamingo, at most, a few years later the revolutionary army will realise that something is amiss and some big shot will come here..." When the last revolutionary spy realised he was doomed, he stopped fighting his fate and accepted what was about to happen.

His face was relaxed as he awaited sugars touch.

She reached for his face but halted as Doflamingo shouted at her.

"Wait." He said in a cold voice.

Doflamingo enjoyed watching hopelessness flash by his victims eyes, before they turn into toys.

But this rat dared to be confident in his last moments and threaten him.

"I need to tell him something before his existence is forgotten." Doflamingo said as he stood up and walked towards the last spy.

"Even if your little rebellious army comes, they won't dare to go against us... I'm a Warlord of the sea, but I'm not alone..." Doflamingo said.

*Step step step* he silently walked forward.

The spy frowned, not understand what Doflamingo was getting at.

When Doflamingo was standing above the spy he continued.

"My underworld business is backed by Kaido,

And we have dealings with big mom... I'm deeply connected with two Emperors, Your leaders know about this." Doflamingo dropped a big info bomb on them..

The last spy's face looked horrified.

"You still think that they'll come for you?"

Doflamingo said as his face gained a big, evil grin.

The two toys started struggling as they became hopeless and tried to escape so they could relay this information somehow.

"Sit" sugar commanded and the two toys listened to her even thought their minds didn't want to.

Doflamingo started laughing as he once again saw the hopelessness in the eyes of the last spy.

"Fufufufu Continue" he said to Sugar.

She reached for his face once again.

*Poof* and he was turned to a doll and forgotten.

"You three are to work in the facotry." Sugar commanded as they walked out, following a servant.

On green bit, the Devil Ace Pirates sat around a table with lots of Tontatta Dwarfs, they looked quite serious.

"That's our situation." Leo explained.

"Hmmm, I think I got it, the gnome is sad because someone smiled!" Ace summarised.

"YOU DIDN'T GET IT AT ALL!" Everyone shouted.

"And I'm a dwarf not a gnome!" Leo corrected.

"Don't worry captain, I didn't get it either!" Urouge said while patting Ace on the shoulder.

Ace looked at Urouge's supportive smile and didn't feel any better.

"Explain again, I'll try harder this time!"

"Grrr fine! Doflamingo took over this island 7 years ago and falsely blamed our former king Riku to be a traitor. He took over as king and created a secret factory that creates SMILE!!"

"I think I get it now, what's a smile?" Ace said.

"It's an artificial devil fruit." Law explained with closed eyes.

"Ahhh, okay, but why is it sad?"

"No, the chemical used to create SMILE is called SAD."

"Hmm... Okay okay I get it! " Ace said with his arms crossed. They all looked at him, hoping he got it this time.

"Domingo has a factory..."

They all nodded with hope in their eyes.

"And he's sad because he can't smile!" Ace finished proudly.

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"No, sir Ace, there is a fake devil fruit called smile, Doflamingo is creating those and selling it in the underworld." Another Dwarf explained.

Ace looked at her with a brow raised.

"Hmm, that doesn't sound right, I think you got it wrong, listen harder next time and try using your brain a bit!" Ace adviced her afterall, it isn't good for the brain to be stupid.

"THAT'S IT I'M GOING TO OPEN HIS SKULL TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING IN THERE!" Nami exploded and tried use fists instead of words to knock some sense into her captain. Luckily, Gaga and Spikewards reacted fast and held her back.

"WAHAHA YOU GUYS ARE FUNNY." Ace laughed, truthfully, he understood half an hour ago, but he found it funny to play with them.

"In the end, what we need to do is to beat up Dollymingo?"

"Sigh, yes " Nami relaxed and nodded.

Although sometimes Ace acted a bit dumber than he truly is, he did have a hard time with names, for some reason he couldn't remember them properly, especially those that didnt sound important.

"We'll leave Donquixote Pirates to you Demon Ace Pirates, Leo will go with you to guide you their palace. But we'll need one of you to lead us down to the factory so we can free the toys and dwarfs taken as slaves." The chief of Tontatta said.

"Hmm, Cavendish, you'll go to the factory, and find out if they are sad or if they are smiling so we can get to the bottom of this mystery!"

"Finally, Captain I see what you did there!" Cavendish stood up while putting his backhand against his forehead, looking fair while tilting his head upwards.

"What did I do?" Ace tilted his head.

"You chose me because the hero saving the slaves need to be the most beautiful so that the victim will feel a sense of calm when they see me. You're smarter than people think!" Cavendish told everyone how brilliant his captain was.

"Good job Cavendish, you're the only one that understood my deep planning!" Ace did a thumbs up."

"DON'T LIE, YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY SUCH PLAN, YOU JUST CHOSE HIM RANDOMLY!" Nami exploded once again

"Wahahaha, who knows." Ace laughed it off.

"Then it's settled, Leo will lead the Demon Ace pirates to the Donquixote pirates while Cavendish will lead us to save the slaves!" The chief stood up and summarised.

The Demon Ace Pirates all turned to Ace to see if he agreed.

Ace gave them a thumbs up.

"Then we'll proceed with this plan in two weeks!" The chief said.

"NANI? Why wait two weeks, we wanna go now!" Ace showed his discontent with waiting.

"But we just came up with this plan, we need to plan further and find out their routines so that we can execute the plan flawlessly." The chief explained.

"No, there's no need for thinking, it's all about the size of your fist!" Ace explained.

"No no no, it's not about the size, but how you use is that counts." The chief tried to defend, after all, he's a dwarf so he is under avarage when it comes to size. He has to consider the techniques.

"Scheming is for weaklings, look at my big black Ship, do you think I use techniques when escaping from Marines? No, I just use brute force and speed!" Ace explained.

The chief put his finger on his chin and thought about what Ace said.

"But they are stronger than us!" The chief then responded after thinking about it.

"Im stronger." Ace disagreed.

"NO WAY?! That's impossible!" The dwarfs didn't believe him.

"It's true I'm super strong!" Ace explained.

Gaga shook her head, just because you claim that you're strong doesn't mean that other will believe you.

"YOU'RE STRONGER THAN DOFLAMINGO?! WOW AMAZING!!" The dwarfs started surrounding Ace with stars in their eyes.

"Look at this!" Ace said while flexing his bicep."

"Ooooooh"

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