Thriller Bark II & On route to Sabaody

Viper flew into the air and saw Zoro was wrapping up his fight, he flew down and hovered there watching.

Zoro charged at the zombie and cut him, the wound caught fire and the zombie said "The sword will be happy with you." as he handed the sword over to Zoro and sighed "I'm ashamed to let this samurai's body experience defeat." as he crumbled and Brook got his shadow back.

Viper approached the two and scooped them up, then flew away looking for Robin and Chopper. After flying for a bit he found them in Hogback's mansion, which was now in ruins. Robin and Chopper were standing in front of a giant.

Viper flew down and said "Hey need any help?" as he let down everyone and stood up behind them. Robin smiled and said "Yeah, actually." Viper chuckled and said "Oi! You giant idiot! You're not going to be the pirate king! I am!" The giant's eyes widened and said "NO! IT'S GONNA BE ME!" and punched at Viper, who moved out of the way and flew around him slamming his tail at the giant's head, sending the giant smashing to the ground.

The giant got up and said "That hurt!"

Franky yelled "Tactics 15!" Viper flew down as Franky stepped on Zoro and Sanji's shoulders, Ussop was in his right hand and Chopper was on his head. Viper reverted to his human form and fell into Franky's left hand.

Franky said "Docking complete! Giant Robot Warrior! Big Emperor" Robin, Nami, and Brook were stunned. Fran- Big Emperor ran forward and punched forward at the giant with his right arm. The right 'fist' smashed into the giant's face and sent him flying. Big Emperor jumped into the air and his left hand grew wings as he flew towards the giant.

He was above the giant and did a flip mid air before losing his wings and stomping down with his 'Black Leg'. His 'Black Leg' crushed the giant to the ground as Big Emperor hopped off. Big Emperor said "Left arm, Sword! Right arm, Slingshot! Head, Horns!" A sword came out of his left arm, a slingshot out of his right arm and his head grew horns "Big Emperor armed!" as he slashed his 'sword' at the giant, cutting him before ramming him with his 'horns',sending the giant flying and shooting at him with his 'slingshot', setting him on fire.

Big Emperor said "Mission accomplished! De-docking." all of his parts jumped out and revealed 6 figures, each of them did a pose and freezing.

Robin, Nami, and Brook walked over and said "What the fuck was that? And why are you still posing?" The 6 went back to normal and said "I don't know what your talking about" and did they own things.

Robin sighed and said "Whatever. Viper how's the sword?" Viper said "Good. Under control now, it was only at the beginning of it's curse so it wasn't very strong." Robin smiled, relieved. All of a sudden Moria showed up and said "What happened to Oars?!" he turned to the crew and said "Did you do this?" Viper said "Yeah, sorry. We broke your toy." Moria said "TOY?!" and attacked Viper, who transformed and blocked Moria saying "A bit rude just to attack people don't you think?"

Moria seethed "You took out my strongest zombie! He's ruined! Do you know how long it took to get him here?!" Viper said "Uhh three months and four days?" Moria said "Exactly! Wait what?!" Viper chuckled and said "So are we gonna fight now? Or do you want to talk?"

Moria snapped "Who wants to talk with you?!" and attacked, Viper blocked him with his tail and shot forward biting at Moria. Moria dodged and punched Viper in the side, Viper sent the recoil to the tip on his tail and whipped it back at Moria, while sending a wind blast. Viper blew Moria away, flying into a bunch of rubble.

Viper blinked and said "Woah, I didn't think that would work!" he turned and said "I think you guys should get out of here befo-" Viper was sent flying by a giant Moria.

Giant Moria said "Say goodbye to your crew!" Viper screamed "STOOOP!" as he shot forward at an incredible speed. Moria got hit by Viper and a giant blue Luffy at the same time, he smashed into the ground and rolled away smashing into a bunch of rubble. Viper looked at Luffy and said "Your blue now?" Luffy grinned and said "Nightmare Luffy." Viper chuckled and reverted to his human form and sat on the ground "Take care of him, Captain." before he passed out, he had been fighting all day and that last burst of speed was the last of his energy. Luffy chuckled and tossed Viper towards the crew and went to fight against Moria.

Viper was having a beautiful dream "Ah my beautiful princess will you marry me? You will?! That's great!" he kept spewing nonsense in his sleep. Sanji said "I can't take it anymore!" he stomped over and heard Viper say "Wahhh your pregnant?! Wow! I'm a dad! Finally I have a blood family..." as he rolled over and hugged a rock. Sanji stopped, sighed and went back to sit down with the rest, Zoro taunted "Couldn't do it? Didn't know you were so sentimental." Sanji snapped and said "I'd like to see you go wake him up mosshead! Good luck not getting turned into a half grass cyborg!" Zoro grabbed him and said "Did you just say half grass you curly browed bastard?!" and they started a dust brawl.

Viper sat up abruptly and was sweating and breathing heavily, he held his head and screamed. The dust brawl stopped everybody looked at Viper and Chopper ran over and said "Are you okay?!" Viper grabbed him by the horns and said "WHERE'S LUFFY?!" Chopper pointed to the group, Viper saw Luffy, he dropped Chopper and ran over and ripped Luffy's hat off, he turned it over and pulled out the burned vivrecard. He dropped the hat and the vivre card, he paled and muttered "No" over and over before passing out again. The crew was worried and then a big man showed up standing over the crew.

Zoro noticed him and said "Who are you?" the man was holding a bible and said "Bartholomew Kuma. I'm here to eliminate the Strawhats." Zoro and Kuma fought. Kuma easily defeated Zoro and then the rest of the crew, he walked over to Luffy and was about to grab him when Zoro sped past him and cut his shoulder revealing his robotic parts. Zoro said "You're a cyborg?" Kuma said "Not quite, I'm an incomplete human weapon of the World Government."

Zoro said "Do you absolutely have to take Luffy's life?" Kuma nodded and said "That's the most I can compromise." Zoro said "Then how about you take mine instead? I was going to become the greatest swords man in the world." Sanji stood up at that moment and said "No take mine! I'm 'Black Leg' Sanji!"

Zoro stood up and punched Sanji in the gut, knocking him out and said to Kuma "Let's get it over with." Kuma said "You will sacrifice yourself for him? Why?" Zoro grinned and said "Because I believe in his dream. He will become King of the Pirates!" Kuma thought for a bit and walked over to Luffy, he grabbed him and pressed his palm on Luffy, causing a giant red bubble to appear. Kuma said "This is all his pain, fatigue, and exhaustion after his fight with Moria."

Zoro said "Let's go somewhere else." Kuma nodded and the two disappeared, very soon screams were heard all over the island.

Viper woke up and looked around, he saw the cook running off and followed after him. They came across Zoro standing with his arms crossed, completely covered in blood. Sanji said "What happened?!" Zoro said "No... Nothing happened." and fell face first on the ground. Viper picked him up and they went back to the crew.

A few days later

The crew was standing on the Sunny about to set sail, Nami was talking to a friend she made named Lola. Lola handed Nami a vivre card and said that it was her mother's she explained that vivre cards also tell you about the conditions a person is in. She saw Luffy's and said that whoever's vivre card it was, that the person was in trouble. Luffy waved her off and said that he would be fine. Lola nodded and the crew set sail heading for Sabaody.

A few more days later

Viper was in the lab mixing thunder and fire dials, he had already made one and he was working on the next. He was working like a maniac, trying to improve everyone he could he felt extremely rushed and he never stepped out of the lab except to eat and go to the bathroom. He finished the dials and screamed "Franky!" through the tube communication in the lab.

Franky showed up and Viper pointed to the table without even looking at him, while he was preparing his things. Franky lied down on the table and Viper started working on his fists in silence. Before long, Viper had installed the dials and said "To activate the Thundefire twist your middle finger one full rotation on each hand. The thunder and fire won't burn or shock your synthetic skin and when you want to de-activate it twist again. Constant usage will result in me having to repair the dials, so try to use it for less that 15 minutes straight. If you use it for less and give it some time to generate more Thunderfire they will last until I have sufficient plans and parts for a new body."

Viper turned around and went back to working on other things, on his desk was Ussop's Kabuto and Nami's Nimbus. He took a deep breath and said with his back facing Franky "Can you tell Sanji to make some coffee please?" Franky nodded and left.

Viper smashed the deck after the door closed, before taking another deep breath and working on Nami's Nimbus first. He added a Thunderfire dial to see if he could create a Thunderfire cloud, then he added a regular thunder dial along with a fire, water, and a rare Ice dial. He wanted the cloud formation to be faster, he also wanted to see if he could regulate the ice hail to create hail bigger than the ones on the grandline. He grabbed Nimbus after he was finished and walked out of the lab.

He arrived on the deck and pieced Nimbus together, he pointed the staff off of the ship at the sea and said "Thunderfire." a black and red cloud came out and flew over the sea, and struck down red lightning coated in flames. The impact caused a mini explosion and Viper said "Dissipate. Rain, Hail, Heat." three clouds came out and flew over the sea, and caused an illusion of a snowbird before the snowbird exploded freezing the sea a bit. Viper mumbled "Cloud flight not fast enough..." before he said "Dissipate." and walked back to the lab.

Nami watched in shock at her staff's new features, and by how fast the clouds formed and flew. She heard Viper's mumbling and frowned 'It's already fast enough..'

Viper returned to the lab and closed the door, he took apart Nimbus and put him on the seastone before he added breath dials to every tip and walked back out. He reached the deck again, assembled the staff and tested the clouds' speed, he made a cloud and sat on it as he flew around over the ocean extremely fast he frowned and said "Top speed" the cloud accelerated and went back to the Sunny. He had a straight face and was content with the speed, he turned to Nami and opened his mouth when a huge sea monster came out of the sea, Viper pointed Nimbus at it and said "Thunderfire." a red cloud came out and shot towards the sea monster blowing up it's stomach.

A mermaid flew out and landed on top of Viper with her lips pressed against his. He just closed his eyes and enjoyed it, the mermaid pushed herself up and said with a red face "Sorry I didn't mean to-" Viper sighed and said "Don't be. It literally happens all the time. You have very nice lips. I'm Viper." as he stood up, threw the staff at Nami and walked back to the lab, leaving the crew and the mermaid just staring at him. The mermaid yelled "I'm Camie! And um thank you!" Viper just waved his hand over his shoulder and disappeared. Camie said "Why is he so stressed? And what did he mean by it happens all the time?" the crew explained that she was the 6th girl to kiss or accidentally kiss him. Camie gasped and said "Wow! That's cool, I'm like part of a club!" the crew deadpanned and Sanji smashed his head into the mast.

Viper was working on Ussop's Kabuto, completely oblivious to what was happening outside. He went to grab his cup only to realize it was empty he sighed and went to the kitchen thinking about Ussop's weapon and the changes he could make. He bumped into a octopus fishman and said "Sorry." before continuing towards the kitchen, the octopus said "I should've watched where I was my bad" Viper said "No worries." and walked in the kitchen. He grabbed the whole pot of coffee and walked out. The octopus said "It's me Hatchi! I remember you, you're the giant snake right?" Viper nodded and said "Yeah, the one with the Rainbow feathers, my name's Viper. Great to see you again." and walked back into the lab. Hatchi said "What a nice guy!"

Viper poured himself a cup and rested the pot on his desk, he drank from his cup and mumbled "I could replace the breath dial with a jet dial and make it more compact.." he added the jet dial and cut it in half before making and extendable handle and fixing a button on it to retract and extend at will. He chopped up the excess part of the staff and covered the grey metal part with the green material that was there before. He pressed the button and the handle extended into the same staff like slingshot it was before but it was a little longer now. He nodded, satisfied before retracting the staff to a more portable version.

He frowned and mumbled "What is he missing..." He snapped his fingers and grabbed a bit of the seastone and melted it down. He poured it on the top parts that stuck out and used a metal rod to spread the seastone thinly over the top parts, and let it harden. He dunked the top into water and solidified the the seastone coating. He smiled and drank the rest of the coffee, before going to the pot and realizing he had no more. He grabbed the pot and Ussop's Kabuto and walked out.

He reached the deck and noticed there was a guy who looked exactly like Sanji's bounty poster, and he saw Sanji fighting him. He ignored it and threw the retracted Kabuto at Ussop and said "I put a jest dial and I offset it a it so the bullets spin and shoot straight faster, the tips are coated in seastone and press the button on the handle" before walking away towards the kitchen.

Ussop and the rest looked at his Kabuto and he pressed the button. The small slingshot extended and returned to what he had before but a little longer. Ussop weighted it in his hands and said "It's only a little bit heavier! How did he do that?!" Ussop pressed the tips against Luffy and he slumped down to the floor, weakened. Ussop and the rest were shocked.

Viper walked back out of the kitchen with a new pot of coffee and yawned, before returning to his lab. Robin frowned and decided she was going to go talk to him, and followed him.

Viper walked back into the lab and poured himself another cup before going over and tinkering with a small robot, he frowned when he didn't hear the door close and turned around to see Robin standing in the door way. He lifted his goggles into his hair and squinted at the brightness he mumbled "I didn't realize these were tinted.." before looking back at the small robot.

Robin frowned and said "Hello? Viper? Can I come in?" Viper waved and pointed to the seat next to him. She was about to close the door when Viper waved and a tiny breeze closed it for her, she was a bit surprised but assumed he set it up that way so he wouldn't have to walk over and close it. She sat down next to him and said "Why are you working so hard? What happened on Thriller bark." Viper paused for a moment before continuing working with the robot as he said "I don't have a good feeling and I had a dream that Ace was caught by the marines and they were going to execute him. I assumed he was currently locked up because his vivre card was burned and pointed down. They're probably gonna execute him." he twisted the head of the small robot and popped the top of it's head off, messing around with the wires inside.

Robin gasped and said "Why would they do that? And a bad feeling about this island?" Viper frowned as he fixed the wires in the robot's head before closing the cap and opening it's chest and messing with the wires in there as he said "I had a bad feeling on Water 7 when I say Kalifa, Kaku, and Lucci for the first time. This Island we're heading to feels even worse, and for Ace, well he is a division commander on Whitebeard's ship and a second division commander. It's well known that Whitebeard considers all of those on his crew as his sons, he wouldn't abandon them. I can only assume that the marines are setting a trap for Whitebeard." he fixed the wires and closed the robot's chest. He pushed a couple buttons on the back and twisted the robot's head 360 degrees and said "Fire." he little robot raised it's arms and shot two little lasers at a steel plate in front of it, but they didn't do much damage. Viper frowned and started messing with it again.

Robin was pensive as she watched the little robot fire lasers from its hands and she said "If that's the case then why are you working so hard for everyone except yourself?" Viper's hands paused and trembled a bit, he took a deep breath and continued to mess with the robot and flipped it on it's head and started working on it's feet and said "Because they're all weaker than I am. I can afford to help the rest." he picked up a steel plate and put it under the little robot and said "Fly." little boosters shot out of the robot's feet and it flew around the room, Viper tapped the steel plate it shot at before and said "Fire." the robot hovered in mid-air and raised it's arms and fired lasers at the steel plate, causing a big dent inside the steel as he said "Come back." the little robot flew back and landed on the steel plate.

Robin watched the robot fly around and fire lasers at the steel plate denting it and was thinking about how to respond. Viper stared at the little robot for a long time and shed tears, he was really sad when he looked at the robot, and he didn't know why. He wiped his tears, before turning the robot around and staring at a slot in the back of it's head and cried again. Robin noticed he was crying and said in a soft voice "Viper.. are you okay?" Viper turned to look at her and she noticed that his eyes were puffy and bloodshot, he hugged her and held her tightly. She smiled and rubbed his back as she hugged him back. She whispered in his ear "Come with me to get some rest okay?" Viper nodded and let her go. He grabbed the robot and carefully put it on a shelf and just silently stared at it for a few moments before wiping his eyes and walking out of the room with Robin.

When they left a man appeared inside the room and sighed as he looked at the robot, he mumbled to himself "Even now he somehow makes it back to you... I might as well help him a little.." he snapped his fingers and a super advanced computer appeared with a book on how to use it, he left a note that said 'To Viper from a friend' and disappeared. He went unnoticed by the entire crew, no. The entire world.

A while later

Viper woke up in a bed, he got up and walked out on the deck to see everyone sitting outside eating Takoyaki, with Hatchi, Camie, and a starfish. He walked over and sat down "Can I have some takoyaki please." Camie smiled and nodded, while Hatchi started cooking. The crew looked over and Zoro said "Nice of you to join us, I thought you died in that lab of yours."

Viper chuckled and said "You haven't died yet, how could I possibly die? Also I haven't seen you for a couple days, that grass on your head grew longer." Sanji burst out laughing and Zoro lunged at Viper over the table starting a dust brawl, when the dust settled Luffy and Sanji were also there, Zoro and Viper looked at him and saw all the bumps on Sanji's head and laughed. Viper stopped laughing abruptly and said "This is the ordeal of love." and pretended to exhale smoke. Luffy burst out laughing too and pushed his hair up with his hand and said "Who woke me up?" in Zoro's voice before pretended to go back to sleep. Ussop, Chopper, Viper and Sanji burst out laughing and Zoro grabbed all of them and started a bigger dust brawl, the dust settled and Viper stood up and did Franky's pose and said "SUUUPERRR!" Franky lunged at the group and they started another dust brawl.

Ussop stopped and his eyes turned into Robin's and he said "Maybe we all died." Viper blocked his mouth with one hand and covered his balls with the other, the rest did the same. They all let a few chuckles escape and Robin glared at them and crossed her arms. The guys all shook their heads and she said "Grab!" all the guys rolled around and then started to beat up Ussop.

A few minutes later

They were all sitting at the table, Ussop had a bunch of bumps on his head. Viper was eating his takoyaki and Hatchi was talking about fishman island "Basically to get there you need to get a coating but don't worry I know a guy! I'll introduce you guys!" The crew, except Nami, smiled and thanked him. Viper finished and started to walk back to the lab, Robin grabbed his arm and said "Where are you going?" Viper was confused and said "The lab?" Robin frowned "You've been in there for days!" Viper looked at the crew and said "But I can still help you guys get stronger before we get to the next island. Why would I stop now? Just come and get me when we land." Robin sighed and Franky said "I'll come with you!" Viper smiled and nodded before turning around. Franky gave everyone a 'ok' sign with his fingers and followed after Viper.

Viper and Franky reached the lab and Viper noticed something on his desk, he frowned and looked at it. He read the note and was confused, he opened the book and his eyes widened. He put the book down and opened the computer, the first thing he saw was a picture of a certain pink haired princess on his screen he blushed and started tapping buttons. He read the book and quickly understood, he kept reading and saw 'Basically a portable scientific computer. Indestructible, unlimited power, all music, and only allowed to be used by you, also I know who you like hahaha I hope you appreciate the background I put for you. Viper, Don't make the same mistake twice. your friend Thomas :)'

Viper smiled and thanked his friend he couldn't remember, before going back to the computer. Franky said "What is that?" Viper grinned as he tapped away on the computer "This my cyborg friend is the key I needed. It will allow me to SUPER improve you! I can design a new body for you and install anything you want! With this we can make you Franky Ultra!" Franky was shocked and said "How does it work?" Viper explained everything and told him that only he could use it for some reason then finished "I can even make artificial intelligence!" Franky said "Artificial Intelligence?" Viper nodded and said "A program that I can put into a tiny chip, and plug into a robot, giving the robot the ability to learn, and with enough time it could even think by itself!" Franky gasped and said "You're creating life! Impossible!" Viper said "Almost life. It's artificial, but like I said with enough time thoughts, emotions, feelings! Anything is possible! We could build a robot army! We can have hun-ARRGHH" Viper let go of the computer and fell to the floor grabbing his head and screaming.

Franky was shocked at what Viper said, as well as what just happened to him he ran out of the lab and called the rest. The rest of the crew ran in to see Viper clutching his head and screaming on the floor. Chopper went over to see what was wrong and Robin went over to the computer and the book on his desk. She read the last message and she knew what happened. She looked at Viper and said "Franky, What did Viper say before he started screaming?" Chopper had knocked Viper out and was checking him.

Franky explained the computer and about how only he could use it for some reason and what it was used for and then said "He also said he could create a chip that could cause a robot to learn and if he had enough time he could make it so that the robot had the ability to think for itself and have human emotions and feelings."

The crew had their mouths open wide, Ussop said "You can do that?" Robin said "What else?" Franky hesitated and said "He said we could build a robot army, all of them having the ability to think. I think he was about to say some crazy number but he started screaming before he could finish."

The rest were horrified, Robin turned around and grabbed the little robot and put it on the steel plate and said "This is what he was working on before I convinced him to take a break. Fly." the little robot used the boosters on his feet and flew into the air and around the room, Luffy said "Woah! That's so cool!" Robin frowned and said "And dangerous." she tapped the steel plate with the dent in it and said "Fire." the little robot did as it was told and hovered in the air raising it's arms at the steel plate and shot lasers and this time pierced the steel plate. Robin said "Come back." and the little robot flew back to the original steel plate.

Luffy stared at the robot with stars in his eyes and Nami said "A bunch of these?" Robin shook her head and pointed at Franky and said "I think Viper means that size, and able to do the same thing the little robot can do, but better, faster, and stronger. Imagine around 100 thousand of those." Nami paled and Robin said "There's also a note from whoever gave him this. It says 'Don't make the same mistake again' I don't know what that means and I'm sure Viper doesn't know either. He told me that he woke up in Shellstown with only a note with his name and a simple instruction. Has he ever mentioned it to you Luffy?"

Luffy said "He told me he didn't know what happened before that, but that was it." as he was playing with the robot. Zoro said "What did the instructions say?" Robin said "He told me it said 'Stay here and you'll find friends' he also said around a week after you showed up and two weeks after that Luffy did." Zoro frowned and gave Robin a look, she nodded. Franky said "Well, let's just take him to his bed for now. What do we do after?"

Robin said "Obviously something he forgot about is going to stop him from building any robot armies. And I'm sure he doesn't want to take over the world, if I had to guess he wanted to protect us. Plus he doesn't remember, we'll just hurt him if we question him all the time." She hesitated to say something but ended up not saying anything. Luffy of all people noticed and said "What Robin?" Robin said "Well it's kind of his personal thing but he told me his dream was to have a family, and he thinks of all of us as his family.." She chuckled and added "He even ranked us in Skypeia, I don't think he got the chance to rank us since." The crew smiled and Chopper said "How did he rank us?" Robin said "Me, Zoro, Him, Sanji, Nami, Ussop, Chopper, and Luffy." she giggled at some of the crew's reactions.

Zoro grinned and said "That's not too bad, I'm ahead of the love-cook by two."

Sanji snapped "What did you say you damn mosshead?!" and the two butted heads.

Ussop said "Nami's in front of me?!" Nami smacked him and said "Of course!"

Chopper almost cried "I'm only above Luffy...."

Luffy said "I'm at the bottom? I should be at the top! I'm the captain!" everyone gave him a look, he just frowned and said "When he wakes up we need to redo this list." Everyone nodded and laughed.

Robin smiled and the crew left with Viper, leaving only Zoro and Robin in the room. Zoro said "Who was it from? And how did whoever left the note know we we're going to go to Shellstown?" Robin said "It only says Thomas, and I don't know. I also don't know his motive but I can tell whoever he is doesn't want to hurt Viper or us, if he did he wouldn't have made it so that only Viper can use the it and he wouldn't have warned him of repeating a mistake. I think either Viper or someone else erased his memories, but only left common knowledge and some information about the seas."

Zoro sighed and pointed at the computer "Then what are we going to do about this?" he walked over and clicked a few buttons causing the background to show up revealing a certain pink haired princess. Zoro raised an eyebrow and said "That's her?"

Robin closed the computer and said "Yes. While I wasn't aware that was there don't tell anyone else. Viper asked me not to tell anyone when I found out, so now you're in on the secret. As for the computer itself, we'll wait until he wakes up. Maybe he'll remember something." Zoro chuckled and said "A big secret eh? Hope that doesn't bite him in the ass."

Robin giggled and he continued "Then we'll wait and ask him together I don't think we need the rest of the crew to know." Robin nodded and put the little robot back on the shelf. Zoro said "What's with the robot?" Robin said "I don't know, but he was crying when he finished making it so it's probably something important to him" as she walked out the door, Zoro followed her.

Viper woke up in a cold sweat on the bed and panted slightly, he turned his head and saw Zoro and Robin sitting in his room watching him. He waved and said "Hey. What happened?" Zoro said "You tell us. Do you remember anything?" Viper frowned and said "I remember getting into the lab and finding the co- You didn't go in the lab did you?!"

Zoro raised and eye brow and said "We did. Everyone did." Viper paled and mumbled "I'm finished..." Robin frowned and said "What's wrong?" Viper said "You all saw my background! Now you know who she is!" he fell back onto his bed and mumbled "It's over, I'm done. they all know..."

Zoro really wanted to beat the shit out of him and Robin just laughed out loud. Zoro growled "Only I saw your princess, jackass!" Viper sat up and snapped "Why didn't you say that before! You got me all worried for nothing! Jeez.." Zoro was really close to snapping and Viper put the final nail in the coffin "Thank god only the stupid half-grass bastard saw, I'd never hear the end of it from everyone else!" Zoro snapped and lunged at him "YOU RAINBOW-HAIRED FREAK! WHERE DO YOU GET OFF CALLIN ME HALF-GRASS!!" as the two fought on Viper's bed, Robin fell to the ground laughing so hard, she held her stomach and had tears in her eyes.

Zoro and Viper separated and Zoro took a deep breath and said "What happened in the lab?" Viper said "I was on the computer and I mentioned to Franky that we can build an army of robots, then I started to get a splitting headache and I felt really bad like thinking that way was a mistake. Now that I think about it, it IS extremely dangerous." he turned to Robin and said "Like the devil fruit research. Honestly I did want to make the artificial intelligence for the robot in the lab. Did you see it?! It can fly around and shoot lasers!"

The duo nodded and Viper said "I still will, but only for him. I still have to modify his body and make him a better helper, I was thinking of keeping him with me in the lab. He can also act as a lab guard, and if need be a ship guard. Honestly with what I have planned I could probably make a robot smarter than Luffy."

Viper chuckled to himself and said "I wanted him because his smart robot hands can go places I can't also a cute little robot is never a bad addition." he made a puppy dog face and said "Can I keep him? I'll feed him and improve his A.I everyday, I promise." he pouted for extra effect.

Zoro really wanted to punch him in the face and Robin gushed and hugged him. Viper grinned at Zoro, who grunted and walked towards the door and said "So much for third in the family rankings" and walked out, leaving Viper stunned. He looked up through Robin's cleavage and said "You told them?!" Robin said "Yeah... Oops?" He sighed and said "It's fine, I have to remake it now, with Franky and Brook with us now.." he paused and said "Was it a big scene?" she nodded and he sighed and said sadly "Do they think i'm a monster now?"

Robin frowned and smacked him in the head, pulling him out of her cleavage and up to her face and said "Why would they think you're a monster? I told them it was to protect the rest of us. You locked yourself in the lab for days trying to create ways to make us stronger. I'm sure your first thought was to protect us." Viper smiled and before sighing "I did, but I can't even if one of them gets caught and sent to Vegapunk's hands, it's game over." he made and explosion with his hands, demonstrating what he meant.

Robin chuckled and said "Alright there Vegapunk's rival. You haven't even built one helper robot yet." Viper chuckled and said "True." Robin smirked and said "That mermaid came to see if you were alright before, Zoro had to kick her out." Viper sighed and rubbed his forehead "What am I supposed to do? Kokoro said mermaids don't get their legs till thirty." Robin smacked his head and said "Is that what you think about all day?!" Viper hesitated and nodded, Robin giggled and hit hit again "Just go and be nice with her, jeez such a moron.. How are you going to charm you princess if you can't even talk to girls? Are you gonna rely on your luck?" Viper choked on his saliva and said "I'll have you know, I was and I can talk to girls! Watch me!" he got up and walked out of the room without his kimono, as Robin smiled behind him.

Viper walked in front of Camie. She looked up and saw his childish face and smiled "I'm glad your okay!" Viper hugged her and said "Thank you for worrying about me." Camie turned red and mumbled "No problem.." Viper let her go and said "Can I have some more of you takoyaki?" she smiled and said "Of course!" as she grabbed his hand and dragged him toward the kitchen. Viper grinned at Sanji and gave him the finger, causing Sanji to flare up as the rest of the crew held him back and chuckled, as Camie and Viper disappeared into the kitchen.

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