An Extravagant Alliance

~Dabi~

We met up with the others not long after finding Eraser, though something seemed to be off with them. After a long confusing discussion of who was who, it was assumed that "Tra-guy" did something and switched their…bodies? Souls? Who knows. Looking over at Eraser noting his annoyed and angered expression,

"That bastard, in the middle of battle when I wasn't looking…"

He muttered, as I hummed in amusement at his irritation. Leg-maro had gotten his head back and was finally unstuck from Luffy, much to the kids dismay. The others argued as Sanji continuously exposed parts of Nami's body, to which Nami started writing down prices he would have to pay for doing such things.

It was headachingly chaotic but hilarious all the same, after things calmed down a bit Usopp started explaining the whole "Leg-maro" or "samurai" situation. I didn't pay much attention as the giant children drew my confused attention more.

'I didn't think kids could be worse, but I stand corrected. Giant brats are a new level of 'Hell no' that I wish didn't exist.'

Rubbing the back of my neck and sighing, when Mr.Samurai said something about a warlord, turning my attention to him, noticing Eraser seemingly doing the same. Luffy seemed shocked by the news of his fellow pirate becoming a dog for the government, the samurai imputed that Tra-guy had been the one who sliced him into three pieces.

Nami questioned how he had spoken to us if it was only his legs, to which my nose scrunched up and disgust filled my face. He began farting again as he explained the strange "ability", plugging my nose as the room began to stink. It soon dissipated as Brook mentioned the torso that had been chasing him, Zoro informed him that it was in fact the samurai's. The mention drew said samurai's attention as he frantically asked where he had seen it.

Usopp had crafted some headbands for the four swapped crewmates so no one would get confused as to who was who, to which Sanji complained that it "spoiled Nami's beauty" Rolling my eyes while walking over to Luffy who was talking with the large centaur boss we had caught previously.

"Brownbeard?"

Luffy questioned the manimal.

"Yes. I'm sure you heard that name before. That's what I used to go by"

He nodded, a bit egotistical.

"No idea."

Luffy stated blatantly as a sigh left my lips.

"Are you kidding, you fool?"

His attention was turned to the kids playing with his tail as he told them off.

"What happened to you? You were clammed up a while ago but now you're talkative."

Zoro asked, the manimal chuckled before confidently speaking.

"You guys are done for! Law's gonna come save me! I despise pirates from your generation but Law is an exception."

Luffy turned his head, raising an eyebrow.

"What do you mean our generation?"

That seemed to annoy the manimal further.

"Don't you know anything, fool? Eleven rookies with bounties over a hundred million, who arrived at Sabaody at the same time two years ago. Plus Blackbeard, people call you twelve "the Worst Generation." You twelve are troublemakers who were born at the change of the era and hold the key to the future of this war-torn world."

"After Whitebeard died, you all came to the New World and raised havoc. When something big happened, there was always someone from your generation involved. Blackbeard! Kid! Law! Drake! Hawkins! Basil Hawkins was the one who shattered my pirate group."

"I lost both of my legs and ended my pirate career thanks to him, my crew were annihilated. I fled for my life and arrived here...on Punk Hazard. Do you know what this place is? This place...This island...Used to be a lush green treasure house of life."

Huffing out a sigh to stop myself from drifting off from the overly long and boring paragraph.

"Really?"

Luffy crossed his legs and leaned slightly forward, clearly fairly interested.

Zoro hummed "It's nothing like that now."

"And it housed a laboratory of Dr.Vegapunk, a Government scientist. They were experimenting with" -- blah blah blah blah blah...Explosion equals toxic gases, super suspenseful fight, and blam, the island as we know it was created. Then he continued to go on a rant about his "Master" needing guinea pigs for his research for the "future of mankind" and that some of us can become a guinea pig.

"Oh shut up, no one here besides you wants to be some expendable lab rat for a psychopathic sadistic madman."

Only slightly mocking him, as the kids, Chopper-Sanj, and Franky-Chopper berated me for being mean to the "Master" who apparently "saved" the prisoners and pirates who were left to die on this island.

Shaking my head and rubbing my temples while responding, a hand on my hip.

"If you ask me, I'd say he simply saved them to help in his sadistic research for evil, sure I'm a villain but even I hate madmen. Especially Shigaraki's personal one, the guy creeps me out more than All for One, and that's saying something."

Mumbling the last part of my tangent, after the long monologue things were becoming chaotic again as Sanji-Nami and Brook took off towards the exit. Most likely going to follow the samurai, Nami-Franky stopped them as she ordered Zoro to go with them to prevent the event of them taking any peaks at her body. They took off as I took a seat beside Eraser.

"You up for some undisclosed exploration?"

I whispered to him with a smirk.

He raised an eyebrow at me before closing his eyes and sighing.

"Why not, but expect me to leave you behind if it gets dangerous."

He said, pulling a chuckle from me.

"That's not very heroic of you, I should be the one saying that."

Standing up and sliding my hands into my pockets, he followed me out. We entered through some back entrance and explored the rooms.

"I wonder where this "Master" guy is, he seems to like sending his disposable guinea pigs in his stead."

Commenting as Eraser nodded with a hum.

"Typical villain."

He said, I snorted at the obvious jab.

"All for One who? This guy's certainly got me shaking in my boots."

Joking sarcastically as Eraser seemingly choked on a laugh, we were walking down the hall when we ran into Law.

He stopped walking as his eyes drifted between me and Eraser.

"Did you two come here alone?"

He questioned, both of us replying with synced nods.

"The others are a bit busy at the moment, figured we'd do some undisclosed exploration of the place. After all, I'm just glad we escaped the fiery hell part of this island."

Sighing as my hands landed on my hips, leaning back a bit with help of the extra stability.

"Still, it was kind of fun. Ah, I forgot. I should thank you for making this guy annoyed, it was really quite amusing."

Pointing towards Eraser while chuckling. He didn't seem to understand why I was thanking him for it but it didn't matter all that much. I got some amusement from seeing Eraser so irritated, so I'm in a good mood.

Said hero was giving me side glares but didn't seem all that bothered considering.

"You said before that you are a hitchhiker being dragged along against his will, so you two are not part of straw hats crew?"

Law questioned mostly Eraser, rubbing the back of my neck while replying in the bored hero's stead.

"Yeah, not exactly. We're kinda just hitching a ride until we get home, so in a way we kind of are being dragged along against our wills. Him more so than me, I don't quite mind the adventure. He just hates being stuck with me."

Laughing while nudging Eraser with my elbow.

"I suppose it's not his fault though, we aren't exactly friends back home. More like opposing forces, so you can see why he is very much so begrudgingly following along against his will. Since staying together is the road to getting back home again, or so I'd assume."

Finishing, the hair stood up on the back of my neck from Eraser's glare on me.

"By the way, what'd you do to those four?"

Asking Law while walking over to him, inspecting his sword and appearance.

"I can assume it was something involving your devil fruit, but it's really interesting."

Carelessly strolling back over to Eraser and placing a hand on my chin.

"Though I do kind of wish you swapped him with one of the others, that would've been hilarious."

Laughing as Eraser continued to glare at me, though adding a sigh of annoyance. Law seemed a bit annoyed as well, he muttered something before moving his hand. Grabbing his sword from its sheath, he jabbed it in mine and Eraser's direction, something felt off as the air escaped my lungs.

My brows furrowed at him, realizing I was no longer in pain, glancing down at my hands when someone groaned loudly beside me, obviously in pain. Looking at the person who was...me?!? Doing a double take back down, noticing my hands weren't scarred and I was wearing different clothing, switching my gaze between the hands and my body crouching beside me.

"How do you even move with this much pain??" Eraser groaned, the situation was laughable, obviously I did laugh, at his comment mostly.

"A lot of pain meds."

Remarking before stretching.

"I don't think I've ever actually been pain-free in years, I almost forgot how good it felt!"

Sighing in relief.

'So this is what he did, I don't exactly understand it. But we basically switched bodies?'

Eraser struggled to his feet, grabbing onto Law almost in desperation.

"Switch us back! I don't want to be stuck in his body!"

He nearly begged as the warlord looked a bit flustered at the unexpected reactions.

"No, c'mon!"

Running towards them when the air escaped my lungs again, taking a deep breath before letting go of Law's jacket and standing up. Looking back down at my hands, a bit disappointed.

"Welp, it was fun while it lasted at least."

Sighing when Law suddenly grabbed my arm, he took off the bandages and studied the grafted burns with knitted brows. He created a blue bubble that encased us as he grabbed his sword and motioned me to do something, my brows furrowed realizing he was asking me to take off my shirt. Raising an eyebrow before shrugging and sliding off my shirt, he studied the scars before slashing. Closing my eyes tightly for the longest possible time, a strange numbness filled my nerves as my limbs were reattached.

"You can open your eyes now."

He informed me as my eyelids slowly lifted open.

Blinking a few times before looking down, remarking my missing scars and grafts, turning my arm over before touching my face. Looking up at him in shock, my lips flapped wordlessly for a few moments.

"You think you could fix my power as well?"

He hummed, my brows furrowed at his response, or rather, lack thereof.

"Wait, I was actually just joking. But you can actually do that?"

My eyes widened at the possibility.

"I don't know, I've never tried to "fix" devil fruit powers."

He responded, opening my mouth to respond, quickly stopping.

'Probably shouldn't say anything about our universe until we trust him, but if he can fix my quirk...Then I won't hurt myself every time I use it, I...I- I wouldn't be a failure…'

A hot sensation covered my face as something wet rolled down my cheeks, wiping the back of my hand against my cheek. Pulling my hand back to look, expecting blood only to be surprised.

They were tears, genuine, hot, salty, tears. I was actually crying, the two seemed quite shocked as I desperately rubbed at my eyes.

"D-Damn it, y-you guys didn't see anything."

Sniffling while turning my face away from them.

'I haven't cried since that night.'

The tears just wouldn't stop, they continued to flow like a leaky faucet. Suppose it was just releasing years of tearless sobs and curses, probably stress as well. Sniffling and crossing my arms, peaking glances at the other two.

"It's not my fault, they're just releasing years of pent up stress."

Huffing as Law talked a bit with Eraser before taking off, sliding my shirt back on as we headed back out of the facility as well. It was becoming increasingly annoying with Eraser constantly staring at my sopping wet face.

"W-What're you looking at."

My voice cracked a bit, cursing under my breath at the stupid emotions.

"You look younger and healthier."

He said, as I hummed in reply.

"No duh, not being covered in burns and grafts does that to a person. Not to mention, I don't feel like I'm burning constantly anymore."

He nodded.

"I'm surprised you could even walk before, how long has it been since you haven't felt pain?"

He questioned out of nowhere as I chuckled.

"I think about...Fourteen years? If I can remember correctly, I think it was Sh-"

Quickly stopping myself and covering my mishap with a cough.

"Though If we're talking about pain in general, it would be 19 years."

Sighing thoughtfully.

"How old are you exactly?"

He questioned, smirking while eyeing him.

"My my, you have an awful lot of questions Mr.hero. Careful, you might actually start feeling for me."

Chuckling at the thought.

"Isn't it fair that I get to ask some questions now?"

Pondering the thought as he sighed and nodded.

"So, what made you want to become a hero?"

Glancing over at him, awaiting a response, which unfortunately never came. I groaned in disappointment and annoyance.

"C'mon, fine. Too personal for you? Then let's start off simple, how old are you?"

Smiling as he eyed me from the side.

"31…"

He replied.

The surprised hum and snarky reply came quickly after.

"You aren't as old as I thought."

He glared at me, chuckling and motioning my hands in a calming defense.

"I'm kidding, well since you told me yours. I'm 24."

Sliding my hands into my pockets while leaning back slightly. Eraser seemed a bit shocked by the information, perhaps he thought I was older. Snorting in amusement at his reaction, he sighed.

"When I was younger I wanted to create a hero agency with some friends, but a close friend of mine ended up dying. I kept myself in isolation for weeks until I finally decided to be a hero by myself."

He said sullenly, both of us staring at the floor in silence for a few moments.

"I mean, it comes with the job. Hero or villain, both sides lose comrades constantly. Whether it's a job gone wrong or an accident, we can't expect too much in our lines of work."

Stating with a sigh.

"It just sucks that sometimes those who deserve it never really get it, it's always the unlucky good ones."

Wiping the last of the tears from my face and smiling.

"The least you can do is cherish what you have while you have it, you never know when you might lose it."

Finishing my sentence before snickering.

"Now I sound like an old man, I just think it should be common sense, but everything is always normally taken for granted. Considering most things we always have, you only tend to miss things once they're gone I suppose."

Pushing open the door as we made our way through the snow back to the others.

"By the way, what happened to your other clothes?"

Questioning Eraser as he sighed and walked over to some pile of snow before pulling out his frozen plastered outfit from it.

Chucking while grabbing the outfit, slowly defrosting it for him.

'I'll have to be careful, Law may have healed me but if I extensively use my quirk, I'll just be back in the same situation. If he can actually somehow fix my quirk, if...if.'

Sighing after finishing defrosting and drying the outfit, tossing it back to Eraser as he quickly hid and changed.

"Finally, that outfit didn't smell great."

He said as I laughed in amusement.

"Yeah, that outfit didn't suit you very well."

We were half-way to where Luffy and the others were when we suddenly noticed Luffy chasing after some giant abominable snowman, glancing over at Eraser with a raised brow.

"Any ideas?"

Quizzing the obviously just as clueless hero, he pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed in annoyance.

"Guess we might as well see what's going on."

He considered.

Smiling as we made our way towards the chaos, with how much unwanted attention Luffy draws. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten himself killed yet, guess that just says something about how strong he and his crew is. Seriously, I'm used to chaos, but this is too much even for me. Huffing out a sigh as we finally reached the top of the mountain, Remarking Luffy, Law, and Nami-Franky all looking at us.

"Ah, hey again. Didn't think we'd meet again so soon, guess chaos draws pirates."

Chuckling and rubbing the back of my neck, Luffy and Nami looked at me and Eraser in confusion.

"Who are you?"

Luffy questioned, I blinked a few times before chuckling.

"Ah, yeah. I guess I look a bit different without all the grafts and burns."

Remarking as Nami's eyes widened.

"You-! Dabi?!?"

She exclaimed in shock while both me and Eraser nodded, Luffy's eyes widened as he looked at me.

"Dabi?!? What happened to your burns?!?"

I smiled while pointing at Law in response.

"Had a run-in with him and he fixed me up with his devil fruit ability, I definitely feel better, a bit hungry. But better"

Smiling as Luffy chuckled before turning to the warlord.

"I guess I have another thing to thank you for."

He smiled toothily at the man.

Law rubbed the back of his neck and sighed.

"You don't have to thank me, I just did it on a whim."

He replied but Luffy continued to smile widely at him. Law turned around as he looked out at the facility below, he returned to whatever previous business he had with Luffy, while both me and Aizawa whispered back and forth.

Law said something about an alliance and taking down a yonko, the conversation definitely drew my attention.

'Seems like Law has something planned, I'm guessing that's the reason he's on this island.'

Luffy, of course, was completely ready to agree. Saying it was fine as long as it wasn't Shanks, since he was already planning to take down all four yonko. Law looked at him like he was crazy as he told Luffy he was underestimating the Yonko's, though it didn't seem to be heard since Luffy was still grinning stupidly.

Snickering while striding over to Luffy, placing my arm on his shoulder, leaning against him.

"Long as you don't get yourself killed in the process, but knowing you I'm sure you'll be fine. I'm not letting you go off into danger alone after all."

Smiling as Luffy looked up at me, returning the smile, but a lot wider and nearly blinding. Removing my arm before walking over to Law and whispering.

"I'll just go ahead and warn you now, take anything chaotic and time it by twenty and that's the number of headaches and life crises you'll have during this alliance."

Striding away while smiling at him in a purposefully unsettling way, giving him two thumbs ups.

"Good luck!"

Taking a mental image of the distraught look on his face as we made our way back to the others.

Eraser hit me in the arm as I returned beside him.

"Don't stress the guy out."

He reprimanded, I rolled my eyes and chuckled in my own self amusement.

"Oh c'mon, I was just warning him. Things get quite crazy when Luffy's involved, the kid's a beacon for chaos."

Stating as he sighed and slightly nodded in agreement. We entered the building, stopping to look at the kids who were now chained up.

"What happened? They have a tantrum or something? This is certainly a serious time-out"

Remarking as the others looked at me and Law in confusion.

"Why's Law with you guys? And who's that guy?" Usopp questioned as he looked at me.

I hummed and raised an eyebrow before lowering it and sighing.

"How many times will I have to go over this with everyone? I get that I don't have my burns or grafts, but I don't look that different."

Rubbing the back of my neck as his eyes widened.

"Dabi?!?"

He shouted as Chopper-Sanji's eyes widened as well.

"Wha-?!? Dabi?!?"

They both examined me in shock.

"Oh my."

Robin commented with a hand over her mouth.

"Yes yes, you can thank Law for fixing me up."

Sighing and moving myself from the commotion, the others talked as I kept slightly tuned in to hear the important information.

"What?!? We're gonna form an alliance with the Heart Pirates?!"

Usopp and Chopper shouted in surprise.

"You just went out to reclaim Nami! So how did you come back with such an eccentric idea?!"

Usopp grabbed onto Luffy as he shook him.

"Listen…"

Luffy started only to be interrupted.

"If we ally ourselves with this creep who gives me the chills, I won't be able to sleep in peace at night!"

He complained.

'These guys, they should know by now that once Luffy's mind is made up, there isn't anything that's going to change it.'

"See, Luffy? Everybody's against it. Let's not do it. It's too risky. We wanna travel at our own pace."

Nami tried.

"She's right, Luffy! Besides, it's too early to even think about the Four Emperors! We can't fight them yet!"

Chopper persuaded.

Removing Luffy from Usopp's grip and lifting him onto my shoulders.

"You guys do realize Luffy's already made up his mind, you're not going to be able to convince him otherwise. Your best options are either trying to convince Law to not agree, or just give up and go with it. No doubt you'll be outvoted in the end."

Sighing as Robin chuckled in amusement,l.

"Luffy, I'm gonna go along with your decision. But alliances between pirates are often marked by betrayal. Maybe it's dangerous for you since you are so trusting."

She informed.

Luffy looked over at Lawz

"Huh? Are you gonna betray me?"

He questioned the man.

"No."

It was a straightforward and simple reply, that of which made Luffy smile widely and confidently at Robin.

Snorting softly as Usopp interjected, "Hey, have at least a little doubt!"

Luffy crossed his arms on top of my head.

"Anyhow, a pirate alliance sounds fun, doesn't it? I think Tra-guy is a good man but...even if he isn't, don't worry! Because I have you guy's who spent the last two years training!"

He laughed, surprisingly persuasive.

"What?!"

They all shouted, disbelieving.

"Luffy, you're…"

Usopp started.

They all looked away in embarrassment as they accepted the words of trust their captain told them.

'These guys…"

I huffed as Eraser and Law stood beside me with the same bothered expressions.

"I'm counting on you guys!"

Luffy laughed once again as the two beside me wallowed in despair. While I snickered at the continued amusement their despair brought me.

'Some flattering words from their captain and they're agreeing to anything.'

Shaking my head as Law started by switching the others back, unfortunately, Nami was stuck in Sanji's body since he isn't here with hers.

They started talking about the kids, explaining how they are drugged and supposedly being used for some government experiment that's been going on for years. Nami explained how she wanted to help the kids and Law questioned if she would be willing to stay here alone, to which Luffy interrupted.

"I'm not gonna leave my friend behind. If that's what Nami and Chopper want, I want it too."

He said seriously before smiling.

"And Sanji wants to stick the samurai's body back together. You got to help us if you wanna team up with us!"

Law looked at him in confused shock, Usopp sighed in obvious realization of the situation.

"I thought so. You have no idea. You think an alliance is a, cooperative. relationship. Just for some common goal, don't you?"

He asked Law.

"Of course, I do."

The other replied so confident and firmly, I almost wanted to laugh, this was going to be an amusing adventure.

"Listen. Luffy's idea of an alliance is a little different from yours."

The sniper continued.

"It's like being friends, isn't it?"

Luffy chimed in.

"If you're thinking of taking control, it won't be that easy, either."

Usopp warned.

"That's what they say,"

Luffy continued adding as he picked his nose.

"Once he feels sure about something, he won't back down. It's a pain in the ass! His selfishness is as formidable as the Four Emperors."

"That must be hard."

Luffy remarked as he tossed his booger onto Chopper who was out of commission due to undiscussed injuries.

"But what your friends want has nothing to do with us at all…"

Law said as Chopper yelled at Luffy for flicking his booger onto him. Law seemed to be suffering internally as he watched the painful events play out in front of him, he seemed to greatly regret everything leading up to this moment as he sighed and gave up trying to fight the inevitable.

He turned around and waved his hand.

"Okay, I understand. There is not much time. You guys have to take care of the samurai. I'll look into the drug that the kids were taking. Who is your ship's doctor? He's got to come with me and help me research it behind Caesar's back."

Then proceeded the embarrassing events of Chopper being tied onto Laws hat, everyone was dying laughing as Law died internally.

"Yeah ugh...I don't think that'll work for stealth."

Wheezing in hilarity. After finally situating everything, Law explained part of his plan and details about Caesar. Not paying much mine to the conversation since there wasn't anything too important, he took off and chaos started to brew once again.

'At this rate, I'll either die from a heart attack and lack of sleep, or from burning up from my quirk. The question is, which one is faster.'