One Piece: Plant island

4

[ZxR]

Zoro growled, annoyed at his crewmates. "I don't know what the hell this is, but I don't like it." He clashed with Sanji. Robin's arms didn't do much to restrain him, but they still threw off his focus.

"Damnit! What the hell is going on here!?" he said gritting his teeth as he knocked back Sanji.

He looked back over to Luffy, who was sloppily attacking Hancock. He grabbed Luffy and threw him at Sanji. The two started fighting. He knew they would both last a while. He offered Hancock his hand and helped her to her feet. He put his hands on her shoulders.

"Do you have any damn clue what's going on here?" he asked as he shook her violently.

Hancock, still trying to emotionally recover from Luffy's attack, stuttered deliberately, "I- uh- Zonbi told us... About a p-plant on the island that contains a chemical that can affect others like this. B-but it makes no sense that Luffy is affected while I'm not, and it also makes no sense that Robin was affected. I don't know what happened." she said coyly.

"Hmm... Thanks, Hancock, I'll have to figure something out with that," he said calmly, letting her loose from his grasp.

Hancock was the only female crew member who didn't get a nickname from him. Robin was "Woman", and Nami was "Witch", but Hancock was just that, "Hancock".

He continued, "For now, let's handle the ones that have been affected by the chemical, and we'll try to figure out what to do from there. Just knock em out, until we find a solution. Nami can handle Robin and the others. You take Sanji; I'll handle Luffy."

She nodded. Zoro smirked. Taking Luffy should be easy. These zombies attacked primitively. They attacked sloppily and didn't utilize any of the powerful techniques that they normally used. As he expected it was a clean sweep, but the real problem was figuring out what was going on. Why were his crewmates acting like this? He thought for a second, before getting a small idea.

"Hey, if you haven't been affected by whatever chemical, raise your hand," he commanded, looking around the ship.

Nami, Hancock, Chopper, Zonbi, and he himself were the only ones to raise their hands. He thought for a second... What could they all have in common? He thought a bit more. Nami, Hancock, and Chopper didn't have anything to drink. The only outliers were himself and Zonbi. He thought a bit more, he couldn't quite figure out what was going on. He shrugged his shoulders.

"Welp, whatever. I guess that sucks for you guys, I'm gonna drink the night away. Zonbi, give me that bottle you brought." Zoro said with a calm smile.

The others all yelled and scolded him, but he ignored them and grabbed the bottle, which Zonbi gave to him with a cheerful smile. He grabbed the bottle, looked at it a bit, and then tossed it to Chopper.

"Chopper, analyze that. Let us know if there's anything wrong with it," he said, his smile replaced by a stern glare.

Zonbi chuckled. "So you've figured it out? I guess that means my cover is blown." He chuckled a bit more. "Well, no matter. I guess I should just handle this now, " he says, grabbing a small bottle from his bag.

He held it above himself as if showing it off to everyone, before taking the cork off the glass bottle and downing every last drop of liquid in it. Before Zoro and the others could react, Zombi almost doubled in size and all of his muscles bulged throughout his body.

They didn't know what kind of drug he had taken, but it obviously wasn't good. Zoro smirked as he walked up to the man, who absolutely towered over him now. Zonbi threw a punch, which Zoro narrowly dodged. Zoro had never seen someone's hands move so quickly before. A grin played across his face as he unsheathed his blades.

"Well damn. This is gonna be even more fun than I thought," he said, slashing the air and sending a sharp wave of air towards Zonbi.

He blocked it with his forearm, receiving no more than a little scratch. As the battle continued, the two exchanged blows. Zoro would cut at Zonbi, Zonbi would punch or kick Zoro across the ship. Hancock and Nami watched in shock as it all unfolded. The fight was pretty even. Zonbi might have even had the upper hand, but he noticed that his strength was slowly fading.

The effects of the drug he had taken were slowly wearing off. In an effort to get Zoro off of him, he pulled a tube of bamboo out of his pocket, along with a needle in a plastic bag. He took the needle out, loaded it in the bamboo, and shot it at the first person he saw, which happened to be Robin. Robin was laying on her back, her eyes peacefully closed. She was graceful even when she slept.

Zoro sprinted as fast as he could and jumped into the needle, not knowing if it was coated in poison or what would happen to himself, but he wasn't worried about any of that. He went over to Robin and crouched down in front of her. He gently laid a hand on her face and smiled. She was beautiful. Not long after he began to feel her face, he began violently shaking and he lost his footing. He fell face-first down onto the hardwood beside her.

"ZORO!!" Hancock and Nami yelled together, making Chopper concerned from inside his office.

But Chopper didn't dare leave his office. Zoro gave him a task, and it could be the deciding factor of whether or not the others would be okay. Zonbi chuckled.

"Well, goodbye ladies, I won't be able to take on the two of you for long, so I think it's best we end it here," he said with a shit-eating grin.

He grabbed a ball wrapped in paper from his bag and threw it down in front of the girls. The entire Sunny was soon engulfed with smoke, and when the smoke finally cleared, two important people were missing... Zoro and Zonbi