36: super stealth mission

The masked guy leave nico robin and iceberg alone as he goes to finish off the shipwrights outside icebergs room, and that she would be contacted by the other two after they collect the blueprints from paulie and she is to kill iceberg by that time. Iceberg tells robin that he is c]shocked he was finally able to meet her, and that hes been wanting to meet her for quite awhile, he even has her wanted poster placed inside his room. Robin asks if he want an autograph so he reaches init his shirt fro paper but pulls a gun at the same time robin pointed four at him. He admits he want to kill her as he wants to stop her before she destroys the world by revealing what is on poneglyph's to the government., as she is the only one able to read what they say and restore the ancient weapons of the past.

Iceberg goes on to say that they shouldn't bring the relics of the past into the future as it will lead to destruction and death only, whether the person with the weapons is good or evil, robin agrees with him about leaving the weapons in the past but says that her searching for the history of the world has nothing to do with him. Iceberg doesn't agree as he is in the same boat as robin. He tells her he has the blueprints for the ancient weapon pluton, leaving her shocked on horror. That is why the government has been hounding him and now using force against him, they want the blueprints for themselves. Iceberg says that now the government know he has the blueprints it would be better to burn them, but he is not able to as nico robin is alive and able to recreate them from the poneglyph.

Just as iceberg was about to shoot robin she used her devil fruit against him, making him fall onto his back as she points a gun against his head. She asks him if it was even worth killing her now as the government got the blue prints, snd he tells her that cp9 was the ones to follow his plans, not the other way around. Alex listened in amusement as she found it funny this group of super secret agent that are supposed to be the best at gathering intel got juped by iceberg like they did, she had to hold in her laughs as she didn't want anyone to know she was in robins shadow.

She heard how Robin agreed to work with the government so that the strawhats won't be killed on the island and can go free as long as she helps them. She told iceberg that if she didn't agree they would have killed her whole crew before still taking her away, and so she decided to sacrifice herself for her crew.

The rest of the agents then file into icebergs room amd take off their masks revealing lucci, kalifa, kaku, and blueno who alex recognized as the bartender to the bar she was at earlier, this shocked iceberg as he is unable to believe that his workers and friends worked for the government the whole time. They then threaten iceberg with the lives if the innocents if he doesn't give them the blueprints or their whereabouts. The CP9 member explain how the CP unites work, 1-8 gather intelligence and do assassinations CP9 is a special unit that is unknown as they are given special privilege which is when citizens are uncooperative toward the government they have permission to kill them.

Alex tunes out the rest of the conversation as it doesn't seem as important as the first bit and tries to think of what they have against robin to make her listen to their orders. Alex only tuned back in when she saw kaku watching icebergs pulse as lucci went through theories about who has the blueprints and when he mentioned how franky is cutty flam icebergs heartbeat went rapid signalling that what lucci said was true. She also heard something about catching a train before it leaves.

Just as thing started to get interesting again Luffy and the rest burst through the wall yelling for robin. Alex watches as paulie attacks lucci with bunch of knives tied to a rope and pay extra attention on how lucci was able to move so fast

'It looks like he's kicking the ground multiple times with each step, that's probably why he is able to go so fast he disappeared.'

Alex thought after analyzing Lucci's movements, and finger attack. Alex watched lucci fight with luffy while thinking about a good time to exit the shadow, but decided to wait until she found out what they were using against her as even if they rescued her now they might use it against her again later. She kept analyzing the moves lucci used during his fight making her bale to figure out what it does and the most likely way to be able to train it, this way the crew would have more abilities they could use in fights.

One of the things alex noticed about her shadow travel is that if the shadow she is in moves, she is able to move with it without >conscious effort of her part. Alex loves this as it allows her to sleep in peoples shadows and still be in their shadow while they are moving for when she wakes up. Robin tells the crew she is leaving the, and then makes her way out the window leaving the crew behind with the CP9 agents but not before alex managed to analyze the rest of their special techniques such as the paper dodging, air walking and leg sword ones.

Once robin left the building alex left a note for the crew with another piece of her shirt attached to a knife, woth the note saying 'train leaves tonight' and left it at the base of the wall as robin landed to conceal the sound of the weapon dropping. As Robin was walking away she started to cry silently, alex wanted to comfort her but she is unable to do so until she cam make robin completely free from what the government is useing against her.

Robin and Alex arrived at the train station and she was manhandled onto the train and placed into a compartment by herself where she ended up crying for a little. Alex watched as Robin cried feeling depressed as she doesn't want to risk exposing herself until needed, so alex settled for watching the surroundings of robin in hopes of hearing or seeing something important or interesting.

They managed to hear a commotion towards the back of the train so robin took the time to get herself under control as alex wonders what is happening. Alex listened as the sound of commotion turned into battle, and the sound started to near the front of the train. A little later Robin hears a knock on the window and when she looks out she spots Usopp hanging off the side of the train with a mask

'Ah so thats the sound of battle from earlier, either the whole crew arrived or a couple arrived and they are fighting now'

Robin lets Usopp in and instantly starts to question him about why he came and how he managed to get onto the train in the first place. Usopp seemed extremely confident, which is unlike his usual self and Alex suspects the mask, he explains how sanji and franky were also on the train trying to rescue her with him. Usopp tells Robin about how luffy was coming after her on another train as he refuses to accept her leaving, especially as he has evidence from alex that she is being forced into going with the government.

Alex watched as Robin thought pf whatever it is holding her back before she told Usopp that she won't be going back with him and that they should just leave her alone and not try to rescue her. Usopp mentioned how iceberg told them why she is helping the government and that the crew is not going to let her go as it is not her responsibility to worry about them and make sacrifices for them, they are not so weak they need her to do that.

As they started to get into an argument about this they heard a knock on the door asking why she was making noise. Usopp quickly hid inside Robins coat as one of the Cpo agents walked inside and start taunting her about how she is getting scared the closer she gets to enies lobby.