26: Leaving sky island and marine base

As everyone was passed out from the party luffy went and woke nami telling her to wake everyone as they were going ti steal the gold and them run for it, but the two got into am argument and woke everyone else as well. Alex who woke up next to a beautiful shandian got pissed that someone woke her from her amazing pillows and went to punch both in the head to be quite, before the chief woke everyone ti go help pull up the golden bell that fell into the sea. The crew gathers and decided the plan to gather gold and make the most out of their time before leaving, which was most of them sneaking init the snakes stomach to gather he gold it has eaten, while zoro, robin, Usopp did their own thing and Alex went back to her beauty before taking her somewhere more private for the two of them to bond.

Robin went with the skypieans and shandians as she wanted to read the poneglyph that the bell held, seeing as it only talked about an ancient weapon she was about to leave when a shandian pointed out the same type of writing carved into the side of the bell. Reading what was carved robin was shocked as it was a message from the pirate king Gol D. Roger! It said

"I made it here. I will guide this text to the ends of the earth. Pirate Gol D. Roger."

This shocked robin as it proved that he was not only able to read the text but had traveled to this island as well. Robin made the connection that the rio poneglyph she was sesrching for was all the poneglyphs put together to make a single message which makes the rio poneglyph.

Alex after finishing up with the girl sees its almost time to go, wanders around until she finds robin where she is informed that thye will be given a giant golden pillar for their help. Alex seeing them carry the pillar wants to see if she is strong enough to lift it, and if she is she will just transport it in her shadow with the he rest she was carrying. Lifting the pillar alex strugles to walk, but she was still able to carry it with some difficulty, so she and robin went to meet up with he crew. On the way she asked for one of the shandian dog hat things as she thought they were cool and could be used with her hat for disguise. Arriving where the crew is they are greeted with luffy telling them to run as they stole the gold so they ran away leaving a confused group behind who chase after to understand why they are running away.

Arriving at the ship the crew immediately set sail with conis and pagaya sa guide so they can leave sky island and not get lost in the sea, they then arrive at a gate where they bud farewell to conis and her father before getting the ship ready for the trip down. As they were doing this a south bird arrived and started to scream at them which chopper translated into

"Don't forget about me."

Which reminds them of the south bird they brought up from jaya. Everyone was having a blast as they traveled the short distance down the slide before hearing conis say

"Everyone! Be careful while dropping!"

Which confused everyone, and Alex quickly tied herself to the mast again. As they started falling everyone felt their spirits leave their bodies as they knew they wont be surviving this fall, but as they were thinking this an octopus came and caught their ship before avting as a balloon and slowly lowering them down to the blue sea. They were able to hear the golden bells ringing as they traveled down which cheered the crew up as they knew they were being given a special sendoff, letting the crew relax and nit worry about dying anymore.

The crew talked about what to do with the gold they stole and Alex told them about how she has another giant batch hidden in her shadow that she cant take out as there is to much, nami them notices that they are riding an air current amd unable to determine their next location. As they travel they notice luffy disappeared before hearing him tell the, to join him up there as its super fun, looking uo the crew sees him jumping on the octopuses head which freaks them out.

"Hey! Don't be reckless! Out lives depend on that balloon!"

Nami yells at him. Sanji then notices that the jolly roger beneath the octopus is behaving weirdly and realizes that it's because the octopus is leaking air due to luffy. Sanji then climbs up to bring luffy down, but luffy ends up sending both flying off the edge and towards the sea below! Luffy manages to save them by grabbing the ship but then they start to fall faster. Usopp seeing this attaches himself to the ship before jumping over and swinging to the bottom of the ship where he uses all the breath dials he has to slow the ship further from its falling doom. The octopus chooses the moment when everyone relaxes thinking they were saved to run out of air! Leaving them to fall with only breath dials to slow them down. Luffy seeing Usopp still isn't on the ship grabs him add drags him aboard just in time as the ship crashes down into a bay on an island

Looking around there ship is then illuminated from multiple giant light from all sides and a siren goes off on the island, seeing this the crew knew they landed somewhere of limits. They quickly left the ship and headed to shore as they will just retake their ship before they leave, but if captured them its over. Alex seeing this quickly puts the valuables in her shadow and transforms into her tiny cat form and lies down in her tree watching all the marines swarm the ship, she watches as the marines seem extra jumpy and every little noise scares them. The south bird flies above their heads in the dark and makes its creepy noise scaring everyone but the commander who was able to identify the bird, who them attacks him for ruining its fun at scaring the marines. Alex watches as the commander orders them to keep investigating the ghost ship which she finds funny, before she makes her way after the commander as he leaves for the base.

She follows them for quit awhile listening as the commander is able to point out where they have been recently based of the fact he gathered while on the ship, such as they recently visited jaya, from the coffee they had to the south bird on the ship. She also listened to his reason for calling it a ghost ship, as if he said that it was the straw hats without knowing why they were there it would cause confusion throughout the base as they have new recruits and prisoners.

'This guy is good'

Alex thought following the commander. She also heard him send people to guard important places and tell the Lt. commander to take his men and search the places people gather as its most likely the crew would put marine uniforms on and hide among the men. Hearing this alex is a little worried as she kniws this is exactly what the crew will do, but believes that they will be okay even if she doesnt warn them about it. Alex follows the commander to his office as he talks to himself and notices he was able to guess how many crew they had and what their jobs on the crew was, this shocks her as she thought most marines were justice junkies without brains but he was proving her wrong.