59: to the rescue

Seeing the strawhats rounding the corner danny freezes in shock and lots of fear! Danny is a non combatant and just works out plans for the family to follow, making him terrified of meeting the straw-hats and other battle hardened people without proper preparations in place. Danny isn't the strategist of the Accino family for nothing, quickly thinking of what to do he quickly pulls a pistol out of his belt and aimed it at Alex who was still unconscious

"Take another step and she gets it!"

Danny yelled out after noticing that the strawhats have noticed him

"Alex! What did you do to Alex?!"

Nami asked staring at Danny with rage across her face

"I just injected her with my latest recipe! She will be out for quite awhile yet so if i was you i would back away or something unfortunate might happen."

Danny said with a twisted sneer across his face projection complete confidence in his plan, while having cold sweat run down his back and soaking into his shirt.

"Okay!"

Stated Zoro as he slowly walked backwards away from Danny and Alex

"Zoro! You can't really do what he says can you? Why not just ru-

"Enough! Do you really want to risk Alex's life by rushing this guy in the hopes we can get him before he shoots?! Just do what he says and we'll look for an opportunity to save her shortly."

Zoro said as he cut nami off. Hearing what Zoro said the rest kept quite as they also slowly backed away from Danny and Alex. Seeing them slowly leaving Danny let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding before picking Alex back up and leaving the way he came, while thinking back on his encounter with the crew.

'Would i have been able to react quickly enough if that swordsman tried to attack? He looked about ready to cut me in half if i so much as moved an inch!'

Danny quickly wiped away the sweat from his face while looking to see where he ended up after fleeing with Alex.

"Okay so bit of a detour but we're back on track now, just a few more minutes and we will arrive and by then hopefully the rest of your crew will have been recaptured"

Danny said to the drugged Alex as he turned a corner down a different path, that apparently lead to the same place.

While Danny made off with Alex the crew ended up getting into a slight argument

"We should've attacked him when he was still in front of us, or at least followed him from a distance!can you imagine what he's gonna do with Alex now that he's escaped away with her! Can you imagine what Alex will feel if he does something to her before we arrive to save her!"

Nami screamed at Zoro with her face an ugly shade of red due to her anger

"What else could we do! Im not willing to put her life on the line in the hopes that i can attack him fast enough or that he wont get twitchy with us following after him! If he did we would have a dead friend rather than a kidnapped friend! We can always get thw chance to save her before something happens and be there for her if we arrive after something happens but if he pulled the trigger then we would never see her again! And I'm not losing another person close to me!"

Zoro yelled at nami leaving her speechless as what he said is true, but she couldn't think of it, as all she could think of is what normally happens when a pretty woman is captured by the enemy, as she has seen it happen plenty while traveling in eastblue.

"Im sorry, i should've thought about the danger more"

Nami said as she ducked her head into a little bow towards Zoro

"Now that you two are done fighting, what should we do? Focus on saving Alex or on getting the flag back before Luffy finds out"

Sanji asks as he lit up a cigarette

"We should split up. One group with go after alex and the other will go after the flag."

Franky suggested, to which the rest agreed and proceeded to split up with Franky leading Usopp and Nami after Alex and Zoro and Sanji continuing on their way towards the Jolly Roger.

"Damn those guys! They should've been locked in the freezer! How could they escape?!"

Danny said to himself while he rushed away from the straw hats. Danny could't help himself but to steal a couple of glances at Alex as he rushed away

"Well no matter, as long as i have her with me like this they can't touch me!"

He said before breaking out in deranged laughter you'd normally here from only the lowliest of perverted people. What he didn't notice is that Franky, Ussop and Nami had already caught up with him but were hesitant to make a move incase they caused him to kill Danny.

"This guy really gives me the creeps!" nami said as she shivered in fear of his laughs.

"He's seriously bad news, we should hurry and get Alex away from him as soon as possible" Franky said as they continued to follow behind Danny while waiting for a chance to save Alex. Finally after what felt like hours of sneaking they finally saw

Danny entering a room that had a different door than the others, as this one seemed to be more secured and was made of steel unlike the other wooden doors they'd seen until then.

"This must be his lair! I'm worried about what type of things he has in there, must be filled with all types of creepy gadgets and devices! Just thinking of it is giving me the creeps!"

Nami said while hugging herself and shivering

Danny upon entering the dark room made his way with great familiarity towards a part of the room where he gently placed down Alex before turning the lights on and making his way back next to Alex who is now laid on a giant heart shaped bed with red and gold bedding.

"Hehe finally got you back here, its just you and me now pretty"

Danny said as he stroked the side of Alex's face while leaking a perverted look onto his face. Looking at the time he noticed that around two hours has passed since he first met Alex

"Thats not good the drugs about to wear out soon"

Danny said to himself as he quickly made his way passed tones of weird machines and devices of all shapes and size to a wall length standing shelf where he quickly grabbed a bunch of different bottles all with different items, powders, and liquids inside them before making his way to the main desk where there was beakers, tubes, bowls, and a bunch of other items.

Quickly laying out all of the ingredients Danny starts to mix a new batch of drugs for Alex when all of a sudden the building starts shaking!