A New Path - Chapter 189

“WHAT!” The table split in two as her captain drove his fist through it. Nami stood in front of her crew while the light in the room diminished slowly as the sun settled down and the fleeting daylight left. She had expected this reaction from him, but what she didn’t expect was the utter silence from the rest. Nobody said anything, and they didn’t need to as their facial expression made it clear how they all felt. Anger, sorrow and disappointment. This was the emotion running rampant inside all of them.

“What’s the plan, captain?” Zoro’s powerful yet oddly cold and detached voice came from the side after all the table splinters found their place around the room.

“I say we have two choices,” Sanji started in an equal amount of seriousness. “We press this button, or we don’t. No matter the choice we make, we are still going after her, right?” He glanced at Luffy who at the end of the day had the final say in all of this.

“Press it, Zoro!” Luffy said to his vice-captain. “It doesn’t matter what happens after we press it, someone took one of my crew members, and I won’t stand for it!” After he was done listening to Luffy, he pressed the button with some caution. After a little static noise, everything went silent until a voice pierced the silence.

“Robin? Are you okay?” A cold voice that almost by itself froze the room came out from that little device. “WHO ARE YOU? ARE YOU THE BASTARD THAT TOOK ROBIN?!!” Luffy snatched the device from Zoro and screamed into it as loud as he could.

“Shut up!” The voice said, clearly very annoyed. “Firstly, who are you? Secondly, what happened to Robin?” The voice was calm, cold, almost emotionless. Zoro took it back from Luffy and started speaking.

“This is Zoro of the Straw hat pirates. This device was left to our navigator by Robin before she was taken away by unknown attackers. Now, identify yourself!”

“Straw Hats? I see… This was unexpected!”

“Stop screwing around! Who are you, and how do you know Robin?!” Nami said from the side. Her frustration was building up, and she didn’t understand why Robin gave her this device.

“Calm down!” The voice said, “Navigator, you were with Robin as she was taken, describe the attackers. Tell me everything, any distinct features on them, anything at all.” Nami calmed down and started thinking back. She started slowly, but the more she talked the more she started to remember about the attack.

“Hm, from simply targeted guessing, that most likely was World Government agents. If your navigator wasn’t there the chances of Robin being successfully taken would have been slim. They moved in and used your navigator to make sure Robin would surrender. Without you there, Robin is quick and skilled enough to escape them in a packed city like Water 7.” The voice didn’t have any directed hatred or anger towards Nami, it was more like it just spoke the facts.

“It’s my fault?” Nami sat down on a chair as she lost a little piece of herself. Her gaze was hollow and mentally, she was kicking and screaming at herself.

“It was not your fault, Nami! Don’t listen to this bastard!” Sanji blew out some smoke and glared at the little device in Zoro’s hand. “What now? You still haven’t told us who you are, and somehow I doubt you will, so just tell us where they took her!”

“You’re in Water 7. Most likely, Enis Lobby. Though I should tell you, you don’t have to worry about her. Those agents most likely didn’t know who they took. Robin will be back in no time.”

“What do you mean? Who are you?!” Nami said, very confused.

“Hahaha, your crew has been placed in the middle of a big plot you’re not even aware of. Albeit, that is something you don’t have to worry about yet. You can just sit tight, Robin is in our hands now.” After that, the connection cut off. The crew stood around and just stared at the device. This was until Luffy started walking towards the door.

“Luffy?” Nami said worriedly. Her voice stopped him in his tracks and he looked back at them with determined eyes. “Get ready, we’re going to Enis Lobby. Robin belongs to my crew, she’s our friend. We will go there, and we will sink that place to the bottom of the ocean if we have to!”

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On the sea train to Enis Lobby, the agents sat inside one of the carts with Robin in shackles. Together with them sat a certain cyborg, and among them all, he was the only one that had said anything. He was sporadically yelling at the agents, trying to find out why the hell they took him as well.

“Hey, you, the loud one, what’s your name?” Robin finally asked as she had enough of his yelling.

“FRANKY! Who the hell are you?” His tone, his attitude, everything about him became more violent and energetic now that he finally got someone else to talk beside himself.

“Robin, and can you calm down! You are giving me a headache, so please stop yelling.” She tried to speak as calmly as possible, but that proved more difficult than she thought because she was very irritated.

“Calm down? Why!? They came and beat me up and kidnapped me, so, tell me why should I calm down?” He glared at the agents around them, but they didn’t even seem to acknowledge his existence.

“Because as I said, you’re giving me a HEADACHE!” She lost control of her voice and yelled at him. This provoked a reaction from the leader of the agents.

“So, you can in fact display emotions, Nico Robin.” He said calmly.

“Stop calling me that, that’s not my name!” She glared at the agent, not caring at the moment for what she was revealing.

“Oh, it’s not?” Another long-nosed agent asked he seemed quite interested in her.

“No, not anymore. I stopped being Nico Robin when you people slaughtered my home and my people!” Her tone was fierce, the agents could tell she didn’t fear them, and that intrigued the leader greatly.

“Where does this confidence come from? Where is the woman that would do anything to keep her life, you are not like the reports speak of you.” He said.

“I grew up, got accepted into a new family, don’t think that I fear you anymore.”

“A new family? Tell me, who is this family of yours?”

“You’ll see. My grandfather knew of your actions before you even thought of them, I’m sure of it. There’s nothing he doesn’t know or see. So, at the end of this day, you all will die, and I will walk out with a smile on my face and without a scratch on me!” That little speech earned her a slap from the only female agent among them.

“You would be wise to shut up now!” She said stoically.

“That, you will regret!” Robin was mad, very mad, so she couldn’t help herself. When the first words left her mouth, it was already impossible to stop them.

“Quite the feisty one, aren’t you,” The female agent got in before she noticed her leader glaring at her. He then looked over Robin and Franky and said, “It matters not who she is, or who she thinks will come and save her. Eventually, she’ll die by the hands of the government. I will have peace the rest of the way to Enis Lobby!” His words brough back the silence, even from Franky. Though, Franky started to like Robin a bit more from how she talked to the agents.

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