Early Repayment

Waking up from the meditative state he was in, he found himself still in the sky with Earth Eagle.

'For how long have I been away?'

As he didn't know how much time had passed by, he planned to go down and see.

He didn't just want to look at how Kuma was doing, but he needed Kuma to return his favor a little early.

But before Alexander could do anything, he felt a stinging pain coming from his back, but without any way to see, he dismissed it, for the time being, so he told Earth Eagle to go down towards the island instead.

Earth Eagle let out a cheerful shriek when it noticed Alexander being back as it had grown a little bit worried.

Gently stroking Earth Eagle's feathers in appreciation for its concern, he was still unused to Earth Eagle, showing emotions and personality.

He didn't summon Earth Eagle or the other Beys casually, as he only did it when he needed it.

'That should probably do something about that, but it amazes me every time, and now I'm getting sidetracked again.'

Earth Eagle dived down towards the island that was said to be, The Revolutionary Army's "secret hideout" for the time being.

As it's likely that they would change the location of their HQ as they don't trust that I would keep it a secret even if I saved Kuma from slavery.

As they landed, people quickly surrounded Alexander. He didn't expect anything less as around 200 people quickly surrounded Alexander and Earth Eagle.

'Sure, they don't seem to take any risks of underestimated people, or maybe they might already know my identity. Sure even tho I only have a high bounty, I never was offered a Warlord spot nor the 4th Emperor spot, which is a little suspicious.

The newspaper never mentioned me, which was even more suspicious other than my wanted poster.'

"State your name and intentions." Woken up from his thoughts as he heard a man's slightly shakky voice trying to talk to him.

"Alexander and I need to talk to Bartholomew Kuma."

'You should at least know my name by now. You guys did fire cannons at me just a few moments ago.'

The man didn't show any signs of arrogance as Alexander might have thought cause the man immediately took out his Transponder Snail and called his higher-ups.

*pere pere pere pere pere pere pere pere, gatcha

"Get him to Bartholomew." When the call went through, a man's voice could finally be heard after a moment of silence, even before the man got to say anything.

That was all it said before the Den Den Mushi eyes began to slump down, indicating that the call ended.

After a few moments of silence, the man looked at Alexander before saying "Follow, me." and began walking.

'Wasn't expecting it to go this well, but I'm happy it did.'

It didn't take them long to finally appear before a massive ruin with a castle-like appearance from the outside.

The ruin seemed deserted at first glance, but with the help of his Observation Haki, he could see a lot of people inside, a lot stronger than the ones patrolling outside.

As they continued inside, you could see that the outside had nothing in common with the outside. The inside couldn't be called grand, but it was still pretty nice, nothing expensive, and nothing cheap either, enough that if they needed a new hideout, it wouldn't be a big deal.

The man continued walking towards a set of stairs, and Alexander followed with his Observation Haki on just for safety reasons.

Finally arriving at what seemed to be the top floor, which was a little prettier than the bottom floor, and in front of them was a long hallway. The hallway had many doors which could be the personal quarters of the higher-ranking members.

Going through the long hallway, Alexander could sense people observing him with their Observation Haki and seemingly other tools, but he wasn't bothered with it, arriving by a door near the end of the hallway.

"This is the room he's waiting for you inside." The man said as he bowed slightly and walked away, but still within reach if something were to happen.

Even if Alexander knew his presence was known, he still knocked before going inside. Inside sat Kuma on a chair by a large desk, glancing over a book in his hands.

"How does it feel to be back?" Alexander said as he looked towards Kuma's direction, trying to figure out what he was reading as it might be. Alexander would never say no to a good book well as long as it wasn't a book about philosophy.

"I guess you could say that, yes." Kuma said as he continued to look towards his book in his hand. Alexander didn't expect Kuma to say much.

"Well, I'm glad to have been able to return you even though you might think that it might have been unnecessary. I only hope you can do me one favor for the effort." Alexander said calmly with a happy expression.

"Do tell." Kuma closed his book and put it on his lap before turning towards Alexander.

"As you could predict, It would be almost impossible for me to return by myself as it wasn't that long since we left. So all I want from you is that you could teleport me as you did with the Straw Hats." Alexander said

"And you know that how?" Kuma asked

"Well, it wouldn't be that hard to figure out as you work for Dragon, and knowing that Dragon is Luffy's father, I don't think you could've returned with his son's blood on your hands." Alexander said with a slight smile on his face.

'Not that I know how much Dragon loves his child as far as I know he only saved him ones in Loguetown.'

"That's true, so where would you want me to take you?" Kuma said as he stood up and walked towards Alexander.

"I only wish for you to teleport me as near Grove 13 you can, but if you know where Shakky's Rip-off Bar is, you could just take me there."

"Granted" Kuma said as his hand grabbed on towards Alexander.

"Question before that how accurate is your that abili..." before Alexander could finish the question, he had already gotten teleported.