40: Freeing Robin

After Robin yells about wanting to live the drawbridge started to lower, but the marines stopped it by shooting it with mortars causing it to pause half way. Franky while everyone was focused on the crew brought out the ancient weapon pluton blueprints and held them up so spandam could see when he turned towards him. Franky after showing the blue prints and confirming that they are real with lucci and kaku's help, goes on to tell the reason the blueprints were passed down from master to disciple and protected as they were.

He explained it was so if the world Government ever got their hands on the previous weapon the shipwrights at Water Seven would be able to build another to protect the world from them, he then says the reason they haven't been destroyed yet was the chance that Nico Robin would be able to return the previous weapon as she is the only person alive able to do so.

He tells them that since Robin has friends willing to risk their lives to protect her he will tale a chance, Franky then holds the blueprints up in the air he bellows a mouthful of flames onto the blueprints!

After the blueprints are nothing but ash explains that he bet on the Straw Hats to save Robin as if they don't him destroying the blueprints was worthless as the Government could bring the old weapon out, but if they do he left nothing for the government. The Franky family them startes yelling for franky to come back with them leaving franky crying in happiness, until Luffy yells at the, to shut up and lower the bridge already. Spandam in a fit of rage pushes franky off of the tower of law towards the waterfall abyss below, before the crew could think to save him nami got a call on her snail telling her to jump towards the falls as hard as they could. Luffy hearing that then gets a smile that sends shivers down the backs of his crew and stretches his arms out, grabbing all of them before he jumps towards the falls scaring every member of his crew doing so.

Just as it looked like they were going to fall into the abyss the sea train came speeding up the bridge and used it as a ramp launching itself at the tower of justice and catching the crew and Franky. Alex using this chance of distraction reaches out of spandams shadow and takes the Golden snail and Robins keys from spandam before taking both back into his shadow, not being noticed in the slightest due to her efficiency and quickness in which she did so.

She was able to do this without CP9 noticing as spandam was far enough away and they were focused on the crew, making it so she was able to take the objects with her back to his shadow before traveling to Robins shadow as it was connected to spandams. After the crew crashes into the tower of law, the CP9 agents turn to spandam for instructions and he tells them to go wild and leave none alive before taking Lucci and Robin with him as he evacuates the building. As he values his life to much to go without Lucci the strongest member, he unintentionally saved himself from Alex who was waiting for a chance to free Robin from her cuffs.

As lucci was walking behind Spandam and Robin alex wasn't even able to secretly unlock her cuffs as he would see her, this left her with the choice of trying to fight the guy Luffy probably claimed, or staying in the shadow for a better chance. Alex decided that her best bet would be to wait for Lucci to be distracted as she doesn't have high expectations for herself against him.

As they traveled spandam wouldn't shut up about how he has nothing to worry about and kept laughing grating on a;ex's and by the looks of his face Lucci's nerves, this continued for awhile and alex watched Lucci like a hawk waiting fro a moments distrction to unlock Robin's cuffs. They arrive in front of a solid metal door with multiple locks located in the basement, as spandam went about unlocking it Lucci looked away from Robin as he heard a noise on the stairs.

The moment Lucci looked away alex raised her hand with the key and pressed the key into Robins hand making her close them before going back into the shadow just as Lucci looked back over. Robin made no move to show she now has the keys and spandam manages to open the door, the three enter the door with again in the lead while bragging and closing the doors behind them. As they travelled a giant crash was heard behind them and Lucci speculated it was one on the pirates breaking down the doors, Spandam the idiot he is refuses to believe him as well as they can't know where the doors are even located.

Lucci explains it should be possible as they were followed by a little girl and her pet, freaking spandam out and causing him to question lucci about why he didnt kill them. Lucci with the smuggest face and voice Alex has seen yet replied

"Because... I was given no such order."

Before he walked past a complaining spandam and continues down the hall with Spandam following and Robin slowly making distance between them and herself, using the chance that both are in front of her she unlocks her cuffs as quietly as possible. When alex noticed Robin finally had the cuffs off she came out of her shadow and switched to half beast mode before grabbing Robin and bolting down the passage the way they came, leaving behind a stunned Spandam and Lucci.

"Hold on tightly now, im going to speed up more"

Alex told Robin before she used soru to continue rushing down the passage with Lucci with freshly given orders by spandam right behind her. As alex rushed she started to gain ground on lucci even though her soru is worse than his, as her base model when transformed is many many times stronger than his leopard form.

As she rushed down the passage she saw Luffy in the distance, she met up with him in a room they passed earlier that held a bunch of crates amd seemed to be the halfway point

"Hey luffy i already saved Robin, now we just gotta leave the island"

"I refuse! I need to beat that pigeon guy first"

"Fine, but I'm taking Robin back to the train so we can leave as soon as you finish"

"Ok"

Alex them continues to rush through the passage u til she reached the end, where she switched to her human form and walked with Robin up the stairs they came down. Robin and alex walked back in silence as Robin was busy with her thoughts and alex didn't want to interrupt her, eventually they reached the room where the train was crashed and saw granny Koroko sitting in the train drinking.

Alex decided to join her as she waits for the rest of the crew to arrive, but before she could get to comfortably she heard a weird roar. The roar sounded like a deer call mixed with the yell of a giant, confusing alex on what would be able to make it, so she went to investigate bringing Robin with her just in case a CP9 member saw her.

Arriving at the place the noise originally came from they are greeted by a monstrously large Chopper who looks like a mix between a yeti and a reindeer that was going berserk and punching the ground, looking at what he was punching they sre greeted with a bery much defeated kumadori.