You wiped your brow with the back of your hand. "All finished," you called down.
Sabo grinned, waving frantically on the ground as Ace glowered beside him, "Thanks Angel! This'll be a great place to hide our treasure."
"Sure," Ace grunted, "We won't need to if you yell it for the entire forest to hear."
Sliding away the screwdriver into your leg strap, you gripped onto the branch with your metal hand, "Oh I really do hope this works."
Since you were very high up after all. Perhaps...offering to create a secret compartment high up in a tree was not the wisest of decisions you had made...
But Dadan had been chasing you with a cutlass this morning demanding you do chores. And Luffy was off 'training' somewhere with The Marine.
Shrugging, you clenched your eyes shut and refused to look down as you swung off the branch. As you expected, you just hung there from your arm without much effort.
But now was the hard part.
You willed yourself to go down.
Nothing budged. No whirring, no chain, no nothing.
"Down please."
Again. Nothing.
"Everything okay, Angel?" Sabo called up.
Ace tsked, tapping his pipe against his heel, "Of course she's okay. She's got a metal arm."
Hang on a minute...Ace...
The first time had been due to wanting to save Luffy. The second time had been due to wanting to punch Ace.
What about if you told yourself you were going down there to punch him again?
The birds chirped in the tree behind you.
It always had been a bit of a long shot anyways. But still...There was no chance that you were willing to tell them that.
It would be mortifying.
"Oh come on...come down already..."
"Just leave her. If we're lucky she'll be eaten by wolves."
"ACE!"
Perhaps you were going about this incorrectly. You kept acting like the arm was a separate entity. When in fact...it was yours. Your arm.
YOUR arm.
You felt quite foolish for not letting this register sooner.
So if you wanted to go down...it was as if you were flexing a finger.
A giddy smile threatened to split your face as you saw the branch vanish high above you...at an alarming rate.
"Ah!"
Not that much! Slower...slower...
You slammed into the ground with a thud.
Alright. So it did not work exactly how you hoped. But you went down so...you considered that to be an improvement.
"Angel!" Your shoulder got flung back and forth, "Are you okay?!"
"Woah... That doesn't look good..." Ace winced as he turned you over. "Just climb down next time instead or relying on that hunk of metal, yeah?"
You glared at him, "I needed the practice."
His lip curled, "You and your practicing...One day you're gonna kill yourself y'know?"
"Yeah. She almost killed you a couple of times," Sabo sniggered.
"Huh!? Say that to my face you coward!"
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Broken Faith
Fanfiction[F!ReaderxASL] It's hard sometimes to accept who or what you are. That thought came to you when you were only six years old. Because being one of the infamous World Nobles wasn't enough, now you have to live with a robotic arm after the fire that de...
