27: Stealing and freeing zoro

Alex continued to follow the commander around occasionally getting him to pet her so she seems normal, he doesn't seem to suspect it so she kept going with it. The morning came and she heard about where they would move the merry so she ends up leaving to the sound of him allowing ships to enter the bay, and goes to looks for a map of the base in the commander room while he was out looking at the newly arrived ships.

Finding a map of the base was pretty easy so Alex quickly puts it into her shadow and make her way from the room and to the armoury, where she sees groups of guards standing in front of the door. Jumping into the shadow of the wall Alex made her way to the door before passing to the shadow on the other side, where there was no guards but there was den den mushis watching the area so Alex kept to the shadows as she looked at the weapons the marine base had to offer. Alex was disappointed with all the weapons as none of them seemed better than the yo-yo's she had nor any of the other crews weapons, so she was about to leave but heard the door opening and decided to wait. As Alex watched she saw a marine bring in zoro's swords before putting them on a shelf and leaving again, Alex knew instantly that zoro was caught as he'd rather die then go without his swords.

Seeing this Alex went to an area without denden mushies and some vents before she came out of her shadow to switch to human form and shrunk to normal person size before walking around collecting random weapons as she made her way towards zoro's swords and grabbed those as well. Alex did all of this while in full view if the mushies before she made her way back to where she came from carrying the weapons in a cute animal plushie backpack she found, opened a vent, switched into her cat from and went back into the shadows. Alex then made her way towards the treasury as she figured shed be able to get zoro after getting the valuables, she passed a bunch of marines on her way yelling about how someone broke into the treasury.

When Alex made it to the treasury she already placed everything in her shadow which with everything already placed in there was causing Alex some difficulty with the weight of it all. Alex made her way into he treasury and was shocked with the large amount of treasures available, there was literal mountains of gold not to mention jewels and valuable items! Alex looked around and spoted a few more den den mushie so she went to them one by one and removed them, she could handle killing such cute innocent creatures so she knocked them unconscious with a flick to the back of the head before placeing them all into a chest she left by the door. Alex then went to collect all the valuables and slowly made her way through the shadows after opening another vent at the back of the room, she now feels as she is constantly under heavy pressure and feels as if she might collapse. Alex while feeling like this, is thinking

'This is great strength training! I will surpass my limits with this!'

Alex them continued on to the changing rooms and switched into a open fronted vest and pants with her combat boots and tucked her hair into a marine cap she found, seeing as she has clear cleavage showing through the shirt alex went to the makeup room next to the dressing room. Quickly running to a supply room alex grabs medical tape and garment tape before making her way to the makeup room, there she find some pasties and puts them on. After the pasties are in place she pulls her breast up and outwards and finds a good anchor spot where it would be hidden under the shirt before she places the tape in the anchor spot and again pulls up and outwards over her breast before sticking it to her side, she does this a couple more times overlapping the tape going up and down over entire breast for flatness until she feels tension on her sternum and lower chest. She repeats this for her other breast and places a final anchoring point on the ends of the other tape to secure them and reduce the strain they have as well as make it smoother to tape the edges of the shirt to. After she was done taping she did a couple fighting moves and deep breathes to make sure they are secure and wont affect her if she needs to fight, before she takes some garment tape puts the shirt on and tapes the edges of where its open onto the medical tape and perfect she has open shirt with pecs and abs instead of boobs and abs.

Once this was done she makes her way the jail she met robin who was pretending to be a special inspector who told her where the actual one was so Alex went there and found the guy who had a ponytailed and passed out on the ground from robin. seeing this Alex runs to the nearest marine

"I think i found a straw hat! He's passed out down this hallway, help me secure him"

She says while they gather a few marines and bring him to the jail, in this way Alex was able to pass as a a,rine much better than any of the other straw hats has managed so far, once at the jail she ended up assigned as one if the guards as they were apparently short a guy who left and didn't come back. Looking into the cell alex watched as usopp messed with the actual special inspector who was yelling at the marines about his position

" stop it now, its disgraceful! A man should know when to give up! Let's not struggle....my comrade, Condoriano....."

"C-Condoriano?! What's that?! Who the hell are you?!"

"Hey, hey.... stop making bad jokes.... you expect us to believe you've forgotten my face or your own name?!

"Hey! Don't come near me! I'm not your buddy! I don't know him! I don't know this man!"

"Ow, ow..... what happened to you? Oh, no.... did the impact from the fall cause you to lose your memory?! How sad... it's too sad. Hey! Please! Would you let at least him out? He's not the same Condoriano that i knew!"

Alex watching this play out is having difficulty not breaking out laughing at the show she was given. The marines around her agree that it just proves he's a straw hat and there is no point in interrogating him. This sets him off and he goes back ti claiming he's the inspector this causes zoro to get up yell Condoriano which caused the inspector to turn ti him just to get a massive headbutt into the gate of his cell knocking him out.

Alex continued to guard them with some other marines until the Lt. Commander gathered them all at the entrance of the prison in an ambush for the rest of the crew. This didnt work out to well as a senior shipwright came down and got ambushed instead he then goes on to talk to usopp about the merry, the commander ended up getting impatient and had two marines escort the shipwright out so they can set the ambush again. As he was escorted out he yelled instructions on how to properly repair the merry to usopp, who thanked him for his time.

After resetting the ambush the marines and Alex waited for a little while before hearing two sets of footsteps rushing towards them and luffy yelling for zoro and Usopp, they waited until they got to the cell before springing the trap. Luffy went to break the bars but meded up super weak as they were made from sea prism, which caused him to feel weak. The Lt. Commander then springs the ambush on them sanji seeing this tries to break the cell open but is told by a marine that they would need a cannon or something in order to break the bars, this causes usopp to rush to sanji and tell him to use the impact dial he has in his pocket.

Sanji ends up grabbing the wrong shell which instead of being an impact dial, is a tone dial woth a recording of usopp talking. This makes sanji embarrassed and pissed as he said he would show them something amazing only for them to hear usopp, seeing this usopp quickly rushes back and has him grab the shell from his other pocket which should be an impact dial. This is again the weing dial as this one is filled with gas, seeing this sanji yells out

"get down its gonna explode"

as they were using flame lamps in the jail, before he dives for cover. This ends up breaking the walls holding the sea stone doors in place free zoro and Usopp. Alex seeing as this is the best moment rushes forward and releases them from the hand cuffs they had on before handing zoro his swords, and they all rush out of the jail with zoro in the lead. This turn out to be a good thing as they get lost on the way out and don't get surrounded by all the marines waiting for them outside the jail, seeing this Alex ends up laughing at how zoro can get lost so bad they escape.