Sanctuary in the Sand: Chapter 5 - Desperation

Even now, trudging through the desert towards what would assuredly be the most dangerous situation of her life, Princess Nefertari Vivi still occasionally tingled in delighted memory of the previous night. After her tryst with Nami that moonlit evening, the two had spent around another hour draining the orange-haired pirate's milk-swollen tits into the water barrels that had been emptied throughout that day. Vivi took her time as she slowly milked Nami's engorged nipples, often letting only brief spurts of the cream pass out of her, teasing her with only partial relief from the pressure her breasts were under. Much of the milk ended up in or on Vivi rather than in the containers, but Vivi knew that Luffy's earlier assertion was right; with her around, dying of thirst, even in the desert, wasn't even a concern.

As Vivi thought about that, she suddenly realized that, had she received her Devil Fruit powers just a little earlier, this entire mess might have been avoided. Of course, Vivi briefly blushed a bright pink just from thinking about what she would have had to do; as Luffy's near reveal the previous day had demonstrated, she was embarrassed enough at just the idea of feeding a single ship's crew that way, and a fairly small one at that, let alone the vast majority of an entire country's population. Still, if it came down to doing that for Arabasta, she'd be able to bear it, right?

...Right?

Luckily, the male portion of the crew didn't question the origin of the milk that had replenished their liquid supply, Vivi's greater experience with the desert heading off any suspicions that something unusual was involved. Vivi was slightly worried about Luffy letting something slip, but he was surprisingly tactful about it; of course, that mostly led Vivi to think that Nami had confronted him about the issue while she wasn't looking.

The trek through the desert thankfully went by quickly and uneventfully, with Alubarna coming into sight just after sundown. Robin had told them that Crocodile's plan to rile up the rebellion and push them to charge on Alubarna would begin a week from then, which meant they would need to find a place to stay for that long without attracting too much attention from either Baroque Works or Vivi's subjects.

A shadow flitted though the back streets of Alubarna, silent as it swept purposefully through the city. It disturbed nothing it passed by, and it completely avoided the few people still out at that hour, almost as if it could somehow see everything around it, including around corners and behind itself, all at once. The stealthy form eventually came to an inn near the outskirts of the city, creeping past each window before finally settling on a specific one.

Robin looked in through the window of the inn, her face brightening as she found Monkey D. Luffy lounging on a bed, lazily looking up at the ceiling. She had been worried when the news that Vivi and the Straw Hat crew was in Alubarna had reached Crocodile before she could intercept it, but the Warlord was fortunately too confident in his plan to see it as a concern. Still, she decided that she could take one night to visit her new allies and not be missed, so here she was.

The historian could have entered the room right away, but she stopped for a moment as she considered the pirate captain before her. For some time, Robin couldn't bring herself to think about the straw hat-wearing young man from all of the memories of Jaguar D. Saul that came up, but now it was slowly becoming easier. It was strange; most of the time, it seemed like the crew were the ones watching over the captain and keeping him safe, but when Luffy declared that he was going to defeat Crocodile, every one of them had accepted it without question. While it was possible that some of them just weren't quite aware of what the Warlords were capable of, she knew now from Zoro that that was definitely not the case with him.

Resolving to learn more about the rubbery captain, Robin sprouted an arm on the other side of the wall in front of her, using it to unlock the window from the inside and open it. She slipped into the building, the movement catching the notice of Luffy, causing him to spring up from his relaxed position. Upon whirling to face Robin, the captain's face brightened in excitement.

"Hey, Robin! What are you doing here?" Luffy had moved so that he was sitting with his legs curled in front of him, his feet clapping together in excitement of having someone new around to talk to. Even after having already spent some time with Luffy, Robin still couldn't help but smile at receiving such a good-natured greeting from a wanted pirate.

"I figured I could manage to spend a night here with all of you without being missed, so I did." Robin paused for a moment as she looked at the door leading out of the room. "Where is everyone else?" A sour looked crossed Luffy's face.

"Eh, they're all out there talking about boring stuff." For a moment, Robin's thoughts drifted to Vivi. While before capturing the princess, the archaeologist had only looked ahead as far as finding Arabasta's Poneglyph, now she was beginning to entertain thoughts of what might happen after that, and experience told her that any place to stay she could think of would end just the same as every other. Robin felt that a night with the princess would help ease those depressing thoughts, but now that she was alone with the Straw Hat captain, she decided to spend some time with him instead for the time being. After all, there was a question she wanted to get an answer to.

"Captain, I was wondering: the 'D.' in your name, what does it mean?" Luffy only looked at her blankly, his head tilting to the side as though that might somehow help his thinking process.

"I dunno. I never thought about it." Robin sighed inwardly; she was certain that there was something significant about that initial, but neither person she met who carried it knew anything about it. Robin brushed off the disappointment as she carried on the conversation.

"So, how did the trip here go?"

"Kinda boring. For some reason, I wasn't supposed to say anything about Vivi's Devil Fruit power. Even with her ability, they wouldn't let me just drink when I wanted, and the desert was dry and hot. That sucked." Robin giggled at the grumpy look Luffy's face took on as he recalled those events, and quickly got an idea of what the issue was.

"Vivi isn't used to people seeing her in a sexual way, so she's probably just too shy to use her powers like that in front of so many people." Luffy only looked confused, clearly oblivious to the concept of embarrassment. With that in mind, Robin suddenly grew curious about the pirate captain, turning her thoughts of him in a more lecherous direction. Vivi had told her before she had split from the rest of the group that Luffy had apparently been with Nami a number of times already, so he was no stranger to sex, so what was the rubber man truly capable of?

"I, on the other hand, am not shy at all." Robin's lips curled into a sultry grin as she stepped onto the bed, settling herself down onto the pirate captain's lap. Luffy looked up into Robin's face with a cheerful smile of his own, the unmistakable intent in the historian's actions and expression appealing to his own upfront nature. Instinct already driving the both of them, their faces grew close, and their lips mashed together.

Robin gasped as she felt strong hands clamping onto her breasts, rough, but not so far as to be painful. She reveled in the sensations as Luffy's dexterous fingers explored her bountiful chest, giving out a delighted moan for each sensitive spot he found. It wasn't long before Robin couldn't stand having the cloth barrier of her blouse between her and Luffy any more.

"Mmmm... Hold on, hah, let me get this off." Luffy seemed like he was ready to simply tear the purple shirt off of her form, but then, Robin wasn't far off from that point herself. She took a few moments unlacing the front of her top, but quickly grew too impatient for that, and just pulled the garment down, hearing a couple small snaps as she did, but ignoring them in the lust that was already overwhelming her.

Luffy stopped for a moment to admire the now topless woman squirming in his lap. His recent encounters with Nami and the even more recent one with Vivi had given him more of an appreciation for the female form, their breasts in particular. While Robin's boobs didn't reach the sizes Nami's and Vivi's had when they were enhanced by Vivi's powers, Robin's chest was thrust out with more brazenness and confidence than theirs. The thick, dusky pink nipples before him quivered with arousal as Robin waited for the pirate captain to continue. The nubs absolutely begged for attention, and Luffy didn't bother to wait before he leaned forward to oblige them.

"Mmmm... ooh, nngh." Robin hummed and cooed as Luffy ran his tongue along her breasts, occasionally stretching it across her generous endowments to better stimulate more of the pliable flesh at once. With so much of her focus going to her chest, Robin's thoughts also wandered to Vivi and her abilities more and more frequently, and she quickly decided to get the princess to join in on the action.

Managing to gather the concentration to use her powers despite Luffy's constant, single-minded stimulation, Robin formed an eye on the opposite side of the nearby door. Upon finding a hallway, Robin sprouted more eyes on the walls of the passage further and further from the door they started from, searching for the rest of the Straw Hat crew as only she could.

It was only moments later that Robin found the room containing Vivi and the other Straw hat pirates. Nami, Ussop, and Chopper were discussing some of the things they had seen in Alubarna, with Vivi sitting nearby offering little bits to the conversation every once in a while. Sanji occasionally emerged from a nearby room - the kitchen, most likely - to offer a few over-the-top declarations of love to Nami and Vivi, and Zoro simply napped off to the side.

All of Robin's eyes briefly rolled back as Luffy started rubbing at her already lust-swollen pussy, but she managed to recover quickly. The historian moved to get Vivi's attention by forming an arm on her chair directly behind her back and tapping her on the shoulder. The princess whirled around in surprise, but calmed down when she found a disembodied hand that was clearly a product of Robin's power.

The hand gave a quick wave to Vivi, then gestured in the direction of the bedroom that Luffy had decided to stay in. Already guessing the raven-haired beauty's intentions, Vivi's body started to tingle in anticipation. She promptly excused herself from the conversation and slipped out of the room, her breath going heavy as her almost reflexively hardening nipples pressed into the simple t-shirt she was wearing.

Vivi soon came to the door Robin had directed her to, rushing through it as she did her best to restrain herself from acting so eager that she'd be noticed by the Straw Hats in the nearby room. When she stepped into the bedroom, as expected as the scene that met her should have been, Vivi couldn't help but gasp. Robin's curvy form was squirming in Luffy's lap, the rubbery captain enthusiastically mouthing one breast as his hands worked over her other breast and pussy.

"Ah, Vivi, I'm so glad you could make it. After all, how could I come over to visit all of you without making some special time with my favorite princess?" Vivi's heart fluttered as Robin gave her an inviting wink, and her trembling legs carried her to the older woman's outthrust rear. Robin noticed where Vivi was going and turned to address Luffy, who had already guessed from Robin's reaction that the princess's arrival was nothing to be concerned by.

"Ah, Luffy, that feels really good, but with Vivi here, I think it's time to change things up a little. How about I do something for you now, eh?" Once Luffy released his grip on the historian, Robin slithered down his body, rubbing her sweat- and saliva-soaked breasts against him on her way south.

In moments, Robin was between the rubber man's legs, face to face with the front of his ever-present jean shorts. In one fluid movement, she pulled the waistband down, and Luffy's already fully hard dick sprang free. After a lust-filled glance into Luffy's eyes, Robin moved in, closing her pillowy lips over his cock. Immediately, her raven-haired head began bobbing up and down on the throbbing rod, the air filling with the slurping sounds of Robin putting her unique talents toward pleasuring the pirate captain.

Luffy's already heavy breathing grew still more ragged once Robin began working her oral magic on him, shudders going through his deceptively wiry body in response to the historian's ministrations. After a few moments, Luffy began to notice the more subtle sensations, the soft, slick pressure against far more places at once than Luffy was used to. The rubber man eventually realized that there was something distinctly different about the blowjob Robin was giving him from those he occasionally received from Nami.

"Hey Robin, how are you doing that cool stuff with your tongue?" Robin stopped for a moment and gave a small chuckle, accompanied by Vivi's small giggle coming from behind the historian. She slowly withdrew her mouth from Luffy's cock, causing all of the extra tongues she had sprouted in her mouth to vanish as she looked up at the pirate.

"I ate the Bloom-Bloom fruit. I can make any part of my body bloom on any nearby surface I wish." Luffy's eyes quickly lit up in excitement before he seemed to drift off into daydreams, obviously thinking about uses for the ability he had just learned about. Amusingly, Robin didn't see even the slightest hint of pervertedness in Luffy's expression, despite the fact that he had just spent the last couple minutes getting a blowjob that was truly unique as a direct result of those powers. Odd as it was, it was a bit of a relief to Robin, who was used to people either seeing her as a freak because of her Devil Fruit powers, or instantly realizing the sexual potential of those abilities and trying to use her to take advantage of those possibilities - the key word being 'try', of course.

Besides, Robin was confident that she could bring Luffy's wandering attention back to what she was doing easily enough. Her hands came up, encircling Luffy's dick while leaving a small amount of space between her flesh and his; Robin quickly filled that void with the numerous copies of her tongue that she sprouted from her hands, which quickly went to work lapping at and sliding across the throbbing rod. The historian suddenly froze as she felt silky hair tickle her back and warm lips brush against her earlobe, having briefly forgotten about the third person present in the bedroom.

"Oh, did you forget about me?" Vivi breathed into her ear. "Don't worry, you won't be able to ignore me in a moment." Once the princess was finished speaking, the warm breath against her cheek went away, replaced by twin massive, fleshy pillows being pressed between her shoulder blades. Stiff, oversized nipples prodded Robin as Vivi's tits slid tantalizingly down her back, the historian wondering at times if she was actually feeling the blue-haired girl's milk dribbling onto her, or whether she was simply imagining it.

Soon, Princess Vivi's breasts were resting on top of Robin's curvaceous ass, with the younger woman giggling lightly as the historian, still busy with Luffy, could only guess at what she planned to do. Without warning, Vivi snatched Robin's skirt and yanked it down to the floor, leaving her body completely bare and squished between the pirate captain and desert princess.

Robin was only momentarily distracted at being stripped of the last of her clothes, and she was focusing on Luffy again when she gave another gasp. One of Vivi's throbbing nipples caressed her still-sensitive nether lips, setting Robin to squirming as Vivi tantalized sensitive spot after sensitive spot. Robin, fully aware that the princess's ability could let that throbbing bud swell up and fill her in the most satisfying of ways at any time, shifted her hips back, urging Vivi's nipple slightly into her puffed-up slit.

"Mmm, you really want it, don't you?" Satisfied by the desperate moan from Robin, Vivi focused her power into the nipple already prodding its way into the historian's pussy. Within moments, the nub began to swell, the rubbery pink flesh working its way further and further into Robin, bloating into ever-greater thickness inside her.

Growing ever hotter from the intrusion, Robin turned her full attention on Luffy, leaning forward and ensnaring his lower head between her luscious lips. Immediately, a myriad of tongues began to stroke the confined head, and it was all Luffy could do to restrain himself from cumming right there. After a few moments, Robin decided to turn her assault against Vivi as well. Sprouting an eye on a nearby wall so she could see what she was doing, the historian sprouted an arm just under Vivi, allowing the hand to rear back and swing forward against the princess's butt with a sharp 'smack'.

"Ah!" gasped Vivi, though her shocked face quickly turned into a sly smirk, even as the hand turned its attentions toward her pussy. "So, that's the way you want to play it?" A low gurgling began to emanate from behind Robin as milk began to pour into Vivi's breasts, going on for a few seconds until she began releasing it from her free nipple. The thick cream steadily erupted into a semi-solid tentacle easing its way toward Robin's wriggling rear. Vivi's new milky appendage unceremoniously thrust itself into Robin's ass, prompting a delighted moan.

Over the next few minutes, Vivi and Robin continued one-upping each other, each to the increasing delight of the other. Robin sprouted additional arms and tongues to tease Vivi in ever more varied areas, from her pussy and ass, to her breasts and nipples, to areas like her earlobes, a certain particularly sensitive spot on her belly, and her thighs and feet. Vivi responded by unleashing more of her milk in increasingly different ways. First, she began releasing more milk into the tentacle in Robin's ass, both to widen and lengthen it, and to pour the milk up deep into Robin herself. Vivi also began spraying milk from the nipple imbedded in Robin's pussy, pumping the liquid into the raven-haired beauty there as well. Robin's puffy nipples and stretched asshole soon began to quiver as the effects of Vivi's Devil Fruit-enhanced milk kicked in, causing her breasts and rear to start swelling up.

Robin was near lost to her muffled moans as her swelling boobs and bum gurgled with the milk that was filling them, but Vivi wasn't satisfied with that. Her free nipple began spraying at an even greater pace, quickly producing a wave of cream that swept toward the historian's squirming form. The milk swirled around Robin's thighs, her ass, her back, her tits, surging around her form until it formed a semisolid white sphere that encapsulated Robin from her breasts down to her thighs.

Robin was too far gone for any hint of coherent thought as her flesh was being doubly stimulated, being pleasantly stretched and filled from the inside and massaged by the milk churning around her from the outside. Her engorging nipples and widening areolae led her breasts in their charge forward, growing bigger and heavier by the moment. Robin's butt was swelling with equal enthusiasm, her hips and thighs widening as well to accommodate her new globes, already approaching twice the size of her head each.

"Ahn.... oooh!" The soft, warm pressure of Robin's pussy around her nipple and the constant attention from the extra hands and tongues on the rest of her grew too much for Vivi, and waves of orgasmic pleasure reverberated through her form before centering on her pussy and nipples. Her thick, pink nubs tightened, and milk flooded out with more force than ever, draining into Robin's form through her pussy and ass.

"Mmm... ah!" The milk pushing its way into Robin's lower holes felt good enough, but as the liquid began surging even harder into her, the cream surrounding her breasts began forcing its way in as well, pushing into the milk ducts of her nipples in a way that somehow evoked nothing but pleasure. The new source of filling caused the swelling of her breasts to redouble in speed, the great pillowy masses lifting her upper body into the air as they became packed with more and more flesh and milk.

Luffy had been managing to keep himself under control, even under the duress of Robin's skilled mouth and hands, and was content to watch Robin and Vivi have fun with each other. However, hearing and feeling the two woman orgasm was too much for the pirate captain, and he came as well, unleashing a jet of hot cum across Robin's face and the now massive expanse of her chest. With that, he fell with Vivi onto Robin's massive, plushy breasts and butt, the trio deciding to rest awhile before returning Robin's body to normal and letting her return to her post in Rainbase.

The next few days passed almost distressingly quickly, and now Vivi was already rushing not only for her own life, but the lives of everyone in her country. As they had figured, the remaining Officer Agents of Baroque Works were stationed just outside of Alubarna, ready to pounce on anyone who might try to meet the oncoming rebel forces before they reached the city. Of course, that's where the Straw Hat pirates came in. Without even a second thought, they rushed in, baiting Crocodile's minions to chase after them, luring them into Alubarna's walls and leaving Vivi's path unhindered.

Perched on Carue, Vivi raced onward to meet the oncoming army, intending to convince them to stop their attack and see reason. However, she only got a short way before she and the spot-billed duck were thrown back by an unnatural gust of wind. The princess and her unusual steed fell back into the sand, only able to watch in horror as sand streams whirled about in a column of wind, collecting into a man-shaped pile of sediment.

Within moments, the sand metamorphosed into a tall, powerfully built man dressed in sophisticated garb. Sunken-in eyes gazed out from under black, slicked-back hair, and his arms were folded in front of his chest, one arm with its hand adorned in a spectrum of rings, and the other arm ending in a large, golden hook. Vivi's blood went cold as the intimidating man stared impassively down at her.

Without warning, the side of Crocodile's head exploded in a shower of sand, a rubbery arm stretched from the point of impact all the way back to a certain straw hat-wearing pirate standing some distance behind Vivi. Luffy's arm whipped back to him, the limb making a resounding rubbery snap as it returned to its original length. Despite missing half of his head, Crocodile's expression remained impassive, and sand began to lift up from the ground, swirling around Crocodile's head as it started to reform itself. Luffy faced down the Warlord with a massive grin spread across his face, obviously excited at being able to fight the man he had been looking forward to beating since arriving on the island.

"Stay away from Vivi, Croc; you're fighting me." He briefly turned back to Vivi, who was still frozen in place. "Get going already, you have to stop that army, don't you?" Fortunately, Luffy's attempt to get through to her worked, and Vivi promptly got back to her feet, returned to her seat on Carue, and set off. Crocodile, whose face had fully reformed by that point, didn't move as she left, only his impassive eyes briefly following her retreating form. He soon turned back toward Luffy, his expression part bored, part irritated.

"So, you're going to fight me? A rookie from the East Blue?" Crocodile asked.

"No," Luffy replied, his grin growing wider, "I'm going to kick your ass!" Crocodile's face grew even more annoyed at the declaration.

"You must not have spent much time on this ocean if you're saying things like that." Crocodile growled. "You and I are entirely different levels of pirate. Someone like you doesn't stand a chance of even hurting me."

"Says you!" Luffy shot back, "I'm the man who's going to be the Pirate King!"

"Very well..." Crocodile suddenly relaxed somewhat, reaching into his coat and pulling out a large hourglass with a spike fixed to one end before tossing it into the desert sands around them, the spike jamming into the ground to hold the hourglass upright. "Fortunately, at this point Princess Vivi still doesn't stand a chance of stopping the Rebel Army. That means I have three minutes to spare for the time being, and I think I'll use it to show you how misplaced your confidence is. Attack me as much as you like; I won't retaliate until the sands in the hourglass run out. Then you di..."

"Gum Gum Pistol!" Crocodile was cut off by a rubber fist flying through his midsection, plowing a small hole through it before coming out the other side.

"Gum Gum Pinwheel!" Luffy's body twisted to the side, carrying the still-stretched arm along with it and horizontally through half of Crocodile's torso. The elongated arm went all the way around, coming back to slice through the Warlord again, fully splitting him in half at the waist.

"And..." Luffy started as his arm return to normal with a rubbery snap, "Gum Gum Battle Axe!" His leg shot out this time, going straight up into the air before coming down on Crocodile's head, shredding through his form and separating him into vertical halves as well, finally causing him to crumble down completely into a cloud of sand.

Luffy's leg snapped back to it's original length just like his arm did, and the pirate captain grinned at the swirling sand that had previously been his opponent. However, the dust cloud soon pulled together into a pillar of sand, which steadily formed human features until it had returned to the form of Crocodile's body, which looked none the worse for wear after Luffy's assault, the only lasting change being that Crocodile's face looked slightly more annoyed.

Seeing the lack of lasting damage from his attacks, Luffy's face took on an air of seriousness as his fists went back up, preparing to try again.

Vivi and Carue raced towards the oncoming Rebel Army, Vivi mentally preparing what to say to explain to them what she had discovered about what had been going on the last few years. They came into view almost immediately, first as the massive dust cloud they were creating, and soon after as a swarm of men on horseback spreading rapidly from the horizon toward Alubarna. Vivi steeled herself as the fighting force came closer and closer, and scanned the oncoming army for a particular man.

Sure enough, she quickly spotted him at the very head of the pack, and was unable to imagine him being anywhere else. Vivi's gaze quickly fixed onto her childhood friend and leader of the Rebels, Kohza. Waiting until they had closed in to the point where Vivi judged that they should be able to hear her, she took a deep breath and began to shout into the crowd.

"Koh..." Suddenly, all went silent for Vivi as a cloud of sand obscured her vision, until after a couple seconds, when the roar of the explosion that hit several feet away filled her ears. Her voice effectively drowned out and her body obscured, Vivi had no choice but to duck down next to Carue as the men on horseback began to race past, all unaware of the princess standing in their path.

Kohza raced toward Alubarna, a single-minded desire to rescue his kingdom having driven him through a several hour long ride on horseback. As the city came within view, though, a voice began to yell out, one that he was sure sounded familiar. A sudden explosion prevented him from thinking on it any more, though, his attention divided between keeping his steed on target and doing the same with the men he led.

"Don't hesitate! Charge straight into Alubarna!" Kohza yelled. He did the same himself, directing his horse toward the city, going around a strange, white rock as he did so.

Several yards away, of the many cannons lined up on the outer walls of Alubarna, only a single one was smoking. Next to it were two soldiers of the Royal Army, one of whom was clearly angered.

"What are you doing?" half-shouted the higher ranked one, "No one gave the order to fire!"

"Ah... sorry. My hand slipped," stammered the other soldier. Despite the contrite face he put on, the man was inwardly pleased that his lie was apparently accepted, allowing him to continue working toward his true allegiance, the one indicated by the Baroque Works tattoo on his arm.

A few minutes later, the Rebel army had all gotten past Vivi, and with the danger of being trampled gone as well, she was riding back toward Alubarna on Carue before the dust had completely settled. Her mind raced as she went, trying desperately to determine what to do next. The Rebel Army was already making its way inside the city walls, so it was clear Alubarna would soon be filled with chaos that she would never be able to single out Kohza in. On the other hand, it was also clear that she had the best chance of making a difference from the Palace. That in mind, she set off.

"Don't worry, Carue. We can still stop this." Vivi said, though more for her own benefit than that of the spot-billed duck.

Meanwhile, next to some ruins just outside the walls of Alubarna, Usopp and Chopper stood amid a field of large holes, all leading deep into the ground. The two pirates glanced from side to side anxiously, fixated on the pits spread all about them. Suddenly, a dog's head popped out of one of the holes, it's body mostly obscured save for a few mechanical-looking bits. A small stream of mucus oozed briefly from the dachshund's nose, before a sneeze erupted from it. The sneeze caused a massive baseball to launch from the part-dog, part-gun's mouth, forcing Usopp and Chopper to scramble to avoid it.

Across the field from the dog, a giant of a man with blond hair emerged from a different hole. As the dog's projectile raced towards him, his rather dull-looking expression fixed onto it as he lifted a massive baseball bat into the air. Mr. 4 swung, slamming the ball straight back towards the two Straw Hats.

"Usopp, look out!" The sharpshooter heard Chopper's screamed warning just in time, and leapt out of the baseball's path. However, just as the ball reached the spot where Usopp had been, it promptly blew up, catching him in the explosion and hurling him aside.

"No! Usopp!"

Some distance away, within the city walls, two men were locked in fierce combat. One dressed in a stylish black suit, his black-shrouded legs lashing out powerfully at his opponent. That opponent was clad in a pink overcoat, a pair of full-size swan ornaments decorating his shoulders and bowl-cut dark hair belieing the intensity of his own attacks, his long, gangly-looking legs jabbing with equal strength.

After a few intense moments of back and forth attacking, Sanji and Mr. 2 each launched another kick at the other, putting in all the force they could muster.

"Mouton Shot!" Sanji called out.

"Swan Arabesque!" Responded Mr. 2.

The blows collided in midair, and both were effectively halted as they reached a stalemate. The force of the attacks reverberated throughout the area, setting trees into swaying and causing windows to rattle. After a moment's delay, the two men were hurled backwards, sent crashing through the walls of the buildings behind them.

"Santoryu, Bull Horns!" Came a shout from elsewhere in Alubarna, where Zoro charged a muscular, dark-skinned man, all three of his swords at the ready. His target seemed to have no concern for the mass of muscle and steel that was intent on cutting him down, and, sure enough, as Zoro unleashed his attack, the clanging of metal on metal rang through the air as his strikes all bounced harmlessly off of his opponent's body. Zoro eventually came to a stop several feet behind Mr. 1, sheathing his swords before turning back around to face him.

"So, your whole body's made of steel, right? And since I can't cut steel, I can't hurt you, either." Mr. 1 had moved only enough so that he was back to facing Zoro once more when the swordsman spoke, and he kept a slightly bored expression on his face.

"All true." Mr. 1 replied. "So, what do you plan to do, then?" Zoro's face broke out into a wide smirk as he grabbed the edge of his cloak, pulled it off, and tossed it aside in one swift movement.

"I'm going to pity you." Mr. 1's eyebrow quirked up at Zoro's declaration as he continued. "I've been waiting for a predicament like this to come up. Now I have an opportunity to become even stronger." Zoro unsheathed two of his swords and lifted them into a fighting stance, his grin becoming predatory.

"When I beat you, I'll have become a swordsman that can cut steel."

"Gum Gum Gattling Gun!" Luffy's rapid fists sent gouts of sand constantly flying through the air as he knocked several holes through Crocodile's body per second. However, the gouged-out bits of the Warlord reformed as quickly as they were bashed away, leaving him as unharmed as ever.

"Well, then," Crocodile started, "I believe your three minutes are up." Before Luffy could stop his barrage, Crocodile swung his hook at the incoming arms. Luffy responded by turning his body and shoulder to the side, whipping his arms away from the attack, but not before it tore into Luffy's forearm, leaving a wide cut a few inches long and leaking blood.

"Desert Spada!" Crocodile followed up his call by thrusting his arm toward the ground, causing a blade of sand to rocket forward, ripping a large gouge through the desert on its way toward Luffy. Though briefly distracted by his injury, the rubber man still saw the unorthodox blade coming just in time to sidestep it. However, he was too late to notice the approaching cloud of sand before it reformed into Crocodile.

Crocodile's hand thrust out, promptly grabbing Luffy by the throat and lifting him into the air. Quickly running out of air, Luffy swung his bloody arm up toward the one holding him in desperation, his reddened hand grabbing Crocodile's wrist and squeezing as hard as he could. Though the Warlord's eyes briefly flashed with pain, anger wasn't far behind.

"It's too late for that; you've already lost." Sure enough, within moments of Crocodile saying that, Luffy's body began to wither from head to toe. Skin rapidly went from healthy to pale to gray, limbs went from muscular to atrophied twigs, and eyes went from bright and rebellious to dull and lifeless. Before long, little more than a dried-up husk dangled from the Warlord's grasp, prompting a brief smirk.

"Nothing more than a rookie." Crocodile affirmed, letting Luffy drop to the sand. "If you'll excuse me, I believe that I'll pay a visit to my future home." Crocodile's form broke up into a cloud of sand once more, leaving what was left of Luffy to the elements as it swirled into Alubarna.

Vivi was still on her way to get past Alubarna's outer walls when she noticed a cloud of sand flowing away into the sky directly ahead of her. As she continued, she soon found a familiar straw hat lying on the ground. From there, it was only a few seconds before coming across the owner of that hat.

"Oh no! Luffy!" Vivi rushed to the side of the desiccated pirate captain, forcing herself to not look away from the unsettling spectacle and try and think of a way to help.

"He's been... completely dehydrated. Wait, that's it!" Vivi tried not to think about where she was as she pulled open her top, letting her already swelling breasts to bounce free. Milk poured into the alabaster mounds, causing them to continue growing until they had become a pair of huge globes perched on Vivi's chest, large pink nipples already directed at Luffy's prone form. With a soft gasp from the princess, her breasts began to let down, hosing Luffy with warm milk. Long, tense moments passed, and Luffy's skin slowly began to lose its gray tinge as some of the moisture soaked into it, his limbs steadily beginning to fill back out.

Suddenly, Luffy's head lurched forward, Vivi resisting the urge to yelp and pull away as the still-withered man latched onto one of her fountaining nubs and began to suck for all he was worth. Vivi shivered at the sensation of her breast suddenly being drained much, much faster, as well as the powerful suction on her nipple. She couldn't help but gasp sporadically, but she remained still, noticing that Luffy's recovery was speeding up noticeably. His form was quickly approaching its usual musculature, his skin was on its way to a healthy color, and even an open gash on his forearm was closing up slightly. Suddenly, Luffy's eyes shot open, and began taking in his surroundings while continuing to drain Vivi's continuing supply of milk. Eventually, he pulled away, leaving Vivi flushed and breathing heavily.

"Woah, that was close!" Luffy commented as he turned towards his savior. "Thanks, Vivi!"

"Your... welcome." Vivi replied, blushing lightly as she pulled her top back into place. Suddenly, Luffy bolted upright.

"Oh right, Crocodile! I gotta go find him!" He then turned toward Vivi, his face suddenly gone serious. "Sorry, I let him beat me. It won't happen again." With that, Luffy shot to his feet, and broke into a run toward Alubarna. Vivi could only watch him go before managing to recompose herself and starting off towards the city as well.

Nami scurried through the back alleys in Alubarna, panting from exertion as she wound around obstacles, her eyes casting about in fright. Eventually, she began to slow, and came to a stop while still glancing about at her surroundings. Backing up until her back was flush against a wall, Nami pulled out a small batch of papers and began examining them.

"Alright, it's time to stop running. I got Usopp to make this weapon for me, and it's time I actually try and use it." She pored over the contents of Usopp's instructions for the weapon in between bouts of scanning the area around her, committing what she could to memory.

Suddenly, a large, brown spike stabbed out of the wall next to Nami's head, causing her to yelp and leap away from the wall. As she hit the ground, she turned toward the wall, just in time to find spikes stabbing more holes through it. The breaches soon formed an archway in the barrier, until the chunk of wall was knocked forward, leaving an opening that a woman was emerging from.

The newcomer had curly blue hair spread in a large afro style, and was dressed in an all-brown outfit consisting of low rider pants, a bikini top that was connected to those pants via a spider web-like pattern of fabric strips, and a short, fur-lined jacket. As she strode forward toward Nami, her wide hips swiveled from side to side exaggeratedly with each step in an odd strut.

"So, there you are, little kitten." Miss Doublefinger said, grinning at the look of concentration Nami took on as she obviously tried to figure out what she had done to the wall. The agent lifted up her arm, causing several brown spikes to sprout from the wrist by way of demonstration as she continued. "Ah, I know what you're wondering. I ate the Thorn Thorn Fruit, and so I've become a Thornwoman."

Nami slowly rose to her feet and faced down Miss Doublefinger, Clima Tact in hand. She was still uneasy, having only had a matter of moments to examine the instructions to her weapon. However, she had come across a few of the techniques Usopp had designed, and could only hope that they would do the job here.

"Okay then, time to see what the Clima Tact can do." Nami said as she began manipulating the three blue rods that made up her weapon into a triangle shape. "First, clear weather! Fine Tempo!" The untested weapon reacted, a cloud of smoke blossoming from the space between the rods...

...as a pair of doves emerged, flying harmlessly into the distance. Nami stared off at the birds, frozen in shocked dismay for several seconds, before finally flying into a rage and hurling the Clima Tact parts to the ground.

"What the hell was that!?" After growling to herself for several seconds, Nami remembered Miss Doublefinger's presence, and turned to find the Baroque Works agent simply staring incredulously. Okay, Nami thought to herself, she seems to be off-guard now, maybe that was the point of that. Using one of the other formations should get me somewhere. With that, Nami quickly gathered up the Clima Tact, rearranged the rods into a rifle shape she had noticed on the instructions, and stood up to face her opponent again.

"Try this! Cloudy Tempo!" The attack was called, and there was a flurry of activity at the 'barrel' of the weapon as a... bouquet of flowers popped out. Nami could only chuckle in near hysterics as she saw the useless results of her attack.

"Oh! Look at those pretty flowers!" However, Nami quickly burst into rage again, gripping the device in her hand as if trying to crush it as she yelled, "How am I supposed to fight with this stupid thing!?" Fortunately, when Miss Doublefinger started to move, Nami caught the motion in the corner of her eye. Not waiting to see what the agent of Crocodile was doing, she bolted, screaming in fright all the way until she had a building between her and her pursuer, her back pressed to a wall and her chest heaving with shuddering breaths.

"Okay, this is ridiculous," Nami started as she pulled out the instructions again, "there's gotta be something useful in here!" She pored over the papers in search, only just noticing a shadow falling over her. Nami looked up, and found Miss Doublefinger seeming to loom above her.

"Now, where did you think you were running off to, little kitten?" Miss Doublefinger grinned down at Nami, the assassin's eyes suddenly going from slightly amused yet deadly to simply lecherous. She pointed two of her fingers forward, which both suddenly lengthened rapidly until they had punched through the material of Nami's robe at her shoulders. With the navigator's arms at her sides as they were, the tears caused the garment to slide down Nami's body, pinning her limbs in place and leaving her upper half clad only in the revealing top Sanji had purchased when they first arrived in Nanohana. As much as Nami normally loved showing off, though, she was less than thrilled about her bouncing cleavage being laid out on full display before this opponent.

Before she could do anything, though, one of the assassin's fingers, lengthened and ending in a point using her powers, swiped out, slicing the front of her blouse from bottom to top. The colorful cloth fell away, and her ripe breasts tumbled out into full view. Doublefinger's hands quickly came forward to grasp Nami's tits, pushing her further against the wall behind her as the agent's hands began roughly exploring the navigator's feminine mounds, kneading them like bread dough and harshly tweaking her nipples. Nami squirmed under her ministrations, the forceful treatments slightly painful to her, but oddly somewhat pleasurable as well.

"Oh, these are nice." Miss Doublefinger offhandedly mentioned, still squeezing the plump flesh between her fingers. "You know, you're too cute for me to kill like the boss wants. I think I'm going to keep you instead. Wouldn't you like to be my slave, kitten?" For emphasis, Doublefinger grabbed one of Nami's breasts, squeezing it harshly from base to end, prompting Nami to release a half-pleasured, half-pained groan from between clenched teeth.

"Now then," the assassin said through her widening grin, "we're going to have to test how resilient you are." Nami's eyes widened as the ends of Doublefinger's fingertips began to lengthen and narrow, quickly growing into a quintet of long, thin needles. The older woman briefly brandished her now-pointy digits for a moment, and then all at once sank them into the soft flesh of Nami's breasts.

Nami struggled to hold back a yelp at the penetration, only just managing to do so. Fortunately, the finger-spikes didn't pierce much past the skin, but the target being her sensitive tits, it was still enough to cause pain to lance through her chest. After a couple seconds, Doublefinger pulled her needle-like digits from Nami, only to jab them back in in different places. She repeated the process one more time, finally eliciting a small whimper from Nami, before stopping.

"Good, you may be a little tougher than I thought." Miss Doublefinger observed, taking the moment to reach out and take a teat in each hand. As she did so, it became clear that, despite the numerous pinpricks inflicted on Nami's breasts, the agent had avoided actually drawing blood from them. Instead, blood only rushed into them in reaction to the injuries, causing the navigator's boobs to steadily grow red and swollen as Doublefinger mashed them about in her hands again.

"Okay, I'd say you're pretty satisfactory up here." Doublefinger eventually concluded, giving one of Nami's breasts a harsh smack, getting another yelp from the girl as the large mound was set to jiggling, not slowing to a stop until after several long, wobbling moments. "Now, let's see what you have down below." The question Nami was about to ask was lost as she was shoved down onto her hands and knees, her reddened, puffy breasts jutting down towards the ground and her ass sticking up in the air, albeit still covered by her robes.

"Oh, that's no good!" Doublefinger immediately exclaimed upon seeing Nami's new position. "My slave can't go covering herself up like this!" With a few practiced slices with finger-spikes, Miss Doublefinger effectively tore away all of Nami's lower garments, leaving her body adorned only by her high-heeled sandals, her Log Pose, and a smattering of jewelry. The agent then bent down, taking a few moments to examine Nami's now-bare ass. Liking what she saw, Doublefinger softly caressed the flesh before her, taking several moments of gentleness to put Nami off guard, before suddenly rearing a hand back, a cruel grin returning to her face.

Smack!

"Yah!" Nami yelped as the agent's hand slammed against her ass. Miss Doublefinger was far from done though, and her hand swung back against Nami's plush rear again, and again, and again. The navigator's cheeks wobbled about as the constant spankings rained down on them, the force of the blows quickly rendering them just as red and swollen as her tits. Nami held her position on her hands and knees, whimpering slightly as her now tender butt continued to endure smack after smack. She didn't exactly enjoy taking the abuse from Miss Doublefinger, but the agent had greater physical prowess and more experience than her, and a Devil Fruit power on top of that. Nami's only real advantages were her thief-like ability to sneak around – not much good now that she was already cornered, and her Clima Tact – which she was already starting to reconsider the usefulness of, considering how the current fight had gone so far.

Nami looked around as best she could as the spanking went on, searching for something she could use to turn the situation around. It wasn't long before she noticed both the Clima Tact and the instructions Usopp had written up for it, the two items not having moved far from where she initially dropped them. She didn't want to pick them up yet, sure that Doublefinger would notice if she tried, so she settled for reading what of the instructions she could see from where she was. Ignoring the constant stinging and the continuous impacts inflicted on her reddened and puffy rear, she frantically looked over the paper, searching for something in it that was actually useful.

"Mmm... I think I'm going to enjoy having this ass around." Doublefinger said as the spanking finally ceased, caressing the reddened flesh lovingly. "Now then, it's about time to see what you can do for me, don't you think?" Again, Nami was being moved before she had registered what was going on, being pulled sideways until she was facing Doublefinger again, who had moved into a seated position with her legs spread and pants open, leaving her already moist pussy exposed to Nami's widened eyes.

"Well? Get over here, kitten; you're going to have to get used to doing this, after all." Nami, who had just noticed something promising in the instruction book, considered grabbing the Clima Tact and trying to make use of it immediately, but Doublefinger was already pointing lengthened and sharpened fingers at her. Deciding it would be wiser to wait for a better opportunity, Nami grudgingly crawled between the agent's legs, coming face to face with her dripping nether lips.

Nami heard a low, approving hum from Miss Doublefinger shortly after putting her tongue to work on her opponent's pussy, and briefly looked up to see what she was doing. However, Doublefinger seemed to still be watching her movements intently, so Nami could only continue eating out the assassin, caressing her inner folds with her tongue and licking up her juices with partially-faked eagerness.

Miss Doublefinger was thoroughly enjoying herself, her pleased hum soon upgrading to moaning as Nami's mouth continued to work on her pussy. However, the agent never pulled her gaze away from the navigator, and so Nami had to keep on going and hold off trying to retrieve her weapon. It didn't help when Doublefinger's moaning escalated, and she grabbed the back of Nami's head, holding the piratess's face to her groin. Eventually, Doublefinger yelled out as she came, and Nami could only ride out the gush of juices from the other woman's nether lips as she waited for the grasp on her head to relax.

No such luck though, as Miss Doublefinger grabbed Nami immediately after coming down from her orgasm, flipping the younger woman over, putting her in a seated position against the nearby wall, a pained hiss coming from Nami as she landed squarely on her still sore and swollen ass. As Nami looked down, she realized that Doublefinger had reversed the situation they were just in; Nami was now seated with her legs spread, and the agent was on her hands and knees with eyes locked on Nami's glistening mound.

"H-hey, hold on, n-yah!" was all Nami managed to get out as Miss Doublefinger dove between her legs and immediately began eating her out in return. The navigator could only squirm as the assassin enthusiastically worked over her heated sex, the pleasure coming from it contrasting with the pain coming from her tender bottom. After a few moments, Nami's arousal began to get the better of her, and she brought her hands up to begin caressing her breasts, using gentle touches to accommodate how puffy and reddened they still were.

As Nami massaged her breasts in her aroused haze, a sudden glint of light off of a reflective blue surface caught her eye. She looked over, finding the Clima Tact just within reach, and Miss Doublefinger fully occupied between her thighs. Working as quickly as she could without tipping the agent off, Nami grabbed her weapon and arranged it in the formation she had noticed earlier, just in time to feel her orgasm approaching. Suddenly, Nami's body stiffened as her climax flashed through her, and she could feel more than hear a pleasured cry erupt from her mouth as moisture gushed from her pussy. After several long moments, the piratess came back to herself, just as Miss Doublefinger disengaged herself from between her legs.

"Well then, how did you lik... eh?" Miss Doublefinger started, stopping when she found the wryly grinning face of Nami accompanied by the odd device she had been touting since their fight began.

"Sorry to disappoint," Nami said, "but I've had enough of slavery for one lifetime. Plus, after what we promised Vivi, I think I should just beat you now." An ominous whirring came from the end of the blue, T-shaped gizmo as Nami's eyes narrowed.

"Tornado Tempo!" Twin small explosions issued simultaneously from the device, launching a pair of projectiles from both ends of the top of the T-shape toward Doublefinger. As the smoke cleared, the unleashed objects were revealed, and both women's eyes widened, Doublefinger's in confusion at the oddity, and Nami's in horror at the true identity of the "ultimate attack" that she had been relying on to win the battle. Twin harmless-looking clockwork doves slowly hovered back and forth on wires leading from the Clima Tact, appearing like anything but a devastating final blow.

However, as the two women sat frozen, the doves began wrapping the wires around Doublefinger's limbs, holding them in place as the top of the T-shape began spinning, increasing the tension in the wires. Without warning, a shot like a rifle issued from the Clima Tact as the top of the T launched itself off of the rest of the weapon, carrying Doublefinger along with it and sending her hurtling through a nearby building, the impact producing a cloud of dust and debris.

Nami could only stare in shock at the chaos inflicted by her attack as the dust slowly began to settle. In an alley, across from a stone wall with a woman-shaped hole in it, Nami sat, naked save for her sandals, her Log Pose, and some random jewelry, with sore, swollen breasts and an ass in a similar condition, her pussy puffy and glistening from recent attention. After a moment to take in her victory, Nami worked her way back to her feet, already attempting to work out what she was going to do to retrieve the part of the Clima Tact that flew off with Miss Doublefinger and to cover herself up before returning to the fight.

It was only a couple seconds before Nami spotted an abandoned clothing shop just outside the alley, and an outfit not unlike the one she had just been wearing lying in plain view. Well, Nami thought, that was convenient. She immediately got moving, though her sore rear reduced her to a somewhat slower pace.