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[mikangirl]

[Nami gets home from her mission late evening on the 2nd and knows pretty must straight away that something is off. Having been gone nearly two weeks, running into Sanji the way she does puts a bad taste in her mouth.  She was looking forward to seeing them.

Once Sanji leaves with his spooky darkness powers, she strides through the house in search of other nakama who are awake in search of answers.  Don't worry, if nobody's awake she'll just shake someone awake. 8Db  Maybe all of you!

...and that shows her quite plainly that the experiment going on isn't just affecting her chef.

FML.

In a temper the next morning, she heads through town, meets some very off-kilter people she knows, and at least thanks the powers that be that she's unaffected this time.  It doesn't improve her mood any, so she heads for the battledome to try and work out some stress and try (yet again) to see if she can locate the way down to Catherine's lab.




Okay, yes.  That was kind of easy.  TOO BAD ABOUT THE MESS.]

[Irritated Voice]

Does someone want to explain to me what the hell happened in the battledome?  If any of you are still sane, that is.  [She flops down in the wreckage of Catherine's lab and pans the video across the rubble.  Doesn't seem much need for secrecy.  This has to have been noticed by now, right?]   And if anyone is still sane, please tell me what the hell is going on today? 

...preferably over alcohol.

[She'll vent her temper on killing a bunch of pirates at the battledome, drop by the battledome clinic on the way out, then swing past Raine's with a handful of papers in hand.  And finally, she hits the bar to drink in moody silence.

Unless of course anyone wants to keep her company, because that'd be kind of cool.  Worst homecoming ever. >E]

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[mikangirl]

[...huh. There goes that theory.]

Weird. Seems like you're the odd one out.

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[hiken_ace]

In this case, I'm okay with that.

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[mikangirl]

Can't blame you there.

...have you run into Luffy?

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[hiken_ace]

[He shakes his head.] Nope. [...] Please don't tell me he's been affected, too.

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[mikangirl]

Currently he thinks he's a ninja from some clan somewhere. Given the amount of ninja in town, I'm not sure what world exactly he now "comes from", but... yeah. Don't expect him to remember he's your brother.

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[hiken_ace]

[His eyes widen and then he just sighs.] Dammit all...

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[mikangirl]

[She gives hima crooked grin.] Relax. Luffy will be back to normal in a few days. This isn't the first time he's decided to be a ninja. He's been a lot worse.

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[hiken_ace]

... define "worse". [he wants to know just how bad Luffy's been.]

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[mikangirl]

He came back as a Viking once. Knew alternate versions of the crew, behaved like a jerk. Managed to alienate half the crew.

[By 'half the crew', she means 'me', but she doesn't particularly want to single herself out.]

He felt really terrible afterward.

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[hiken_ace]

[Now he looks a little guilty.] Shit, that must've been hard on him...

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[mikangirl]

Only until we set him right. This place can make us do horrible things. There's no way to get around it... so it's more important than ever that we're here for each other when the fallout happens.

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[hiken_ace]

The thing about Lucet is it can definitely give us people to help when that fallout does happen.

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[mikangirl]

Yeah. [Sigh. She drains her glass and gives him a smile.] Place brings out the best in people, I guess.

[And the worst. Usually under protest.]

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[hiken_ace]

... heh. That is one thing I can't deny.

[Though the opposite is true, too.]