Canon Fodder

CHAPTER 302 ACTION FIGURE

“This is what I get for being cocky,” I mumbled as I floated off. The water from my water disc started seeping into my cute little bear feet. “Fuck.” Pulling energy out of the water it froze, then my feet froze. I didn’t feel any pain from it though so I ignored it. “I knew this was going to happen,” I hissed. “I saw it coming a mile away, but no, gotta play the hero.” 

“Weston, I’m so sorry,” Rebecca mumbled. I guessed she was crying, but no tears were coming from her button eyes. 

“Don’t worry about it. Hey, I remember you now. Just got caught off guard there. Let me regroup. Figure out what powers I still have. If need be we will get my crew,” I said. Stopping far above the city I could see people running out of the palace but they had no idea where we were. Using my Search quirk I found Luffy and Franky in the main part of town. Zoro was way near the edge of the island, probably lost again. The rest were gone.

To the North I could feel Robin and Usopp, as well as Trafalgar a little closer. They must have been still doing the exchange for Caesar. They were exchanging one of my shadow clones of course… I hoped the clone still existed. Whatever Sugar had done to me very well could have ended them. I looked through my memories, but it was all a little fuzzy when she changed me into a toy. Sanji, Brook, Chopper, and Nami were off to the Northeast. I guessed they had left for Zou already. 

Working through what to do the only thing I could think of was to help Trafalgar. Floating in the direction of Green Bit to the North I went slow. Once out of the city I skirted over the water. 

“Stop with the sadness already,” I barked over my shoulder. Rebecca jumped. 

“What?”

“Stop being so sad. We will get out of this. Just a little hiccup.” 

“How can you not be worried? Your friends don’t know who you are!” She yelled. 

“No, but they should be expecting me like this,” I said. “I’ll show you later. Just trust me, alright. It will be alright.” I looked ahead as the bridge connecting the Dressrosa and Green Bit blew up. Huge pieces of it breaking away they floated up striking a flying man. Pillars sticking out of him they were cut away. He dropped back down to the bridge. 

A tall man, he had blonde hair, rose red sunglasses, a pink feather boa around his neck, red pants with white stripes across them, and his chest was bare. It was Doflamingo. 

Trafalgar faced against him with his katana. Trying to slice Doflamingo up, the 2 fought hard. I could feel the Haki from both of them as they exchanged blows. 

My shadow clone wasn’t anywhere in sight. I guessed negotiations failed with nobody pretending to be Caesar. Watching them I tried to think of a way to help. Running through my power the Tremor Devil Fruit was out, but it looked like all my other skills still worked. Though severely nerfed. 

I had chakra, but I guessed only about a quarter of what I had before. There was Nen of course. I still had lifeforce, somehow. My Give and Take Quirk worked, but I was afraid to heat anything up or I might catch fire. But looking around, all I needed to help was chakra. 

Sea water all around us. I was about to make hand seals to attack Doflamingo with my dragon, but remembered I didn’t have fingers. I couldn’t make hand seals. Cursing, I pulled seawater up next to me. Coalescing it into a ball I prepared and watched. No one would suspect a couple of teddy bears hanging out near a fight between a couple of Shichibukai. I knew I wouldn’t. 

As the fight dragged on it was obvious Trafalgar was losing. Doflamingo flicked his fingers at Trafalgar and bullet-like strings shot out piercing him. Thrown back, Trafalgar was on the ground, bleeding and breathing heavily. 

“You really thought you had me, eh Law?” Doflamingo asked as he walked toward Trafalgar. “Where are your friends now? Did you really come here to fight me all on your own?” 

“I-”

“He didn’t,” I said, landing on the bridge behind Doflamingo by where the stone bridge had been broken apart. Rebecca behind me I was sure we looked like an odd pair, but Law and Doflamingo looked at us. 

“Sugar’s toys? What friend of yours did she get, Law? Oh right, you don’t remember. I’m sure you were no one special,” the man said with a laugh. 

“Fuck you, peacock,” I said after I couldn’t come up with a good comeback. I began throwing seawater ice bullets at him. Surprised by the speed he jumped back but I kept them going. Running toward him I sent more bullets chasing him away. This wouldn’t be good enough to escape though. This would have been a great time for the fog jutsu Kakashi showed me but I couldn’t do anything with my stitched hands. 

Grabbing onto Law I hit the bridge with my Nen, breaking it apart, then sent a huge wave of chakra into it shattering it all. Holding onto him with chakra I yelled, “Hold your breath!” We dropped down. The man yelled, unsure what to do. Hitting the water I swam us down. Rebecca joined and I held onto her as well. My little arms moving as fast as they could I pushed us along through the water, creating a current with my chakra. 

Law became unconscious soon after. Weakened by the seawater I felt sorry for these people with devil fruits. Unsure why seawater didn’t break us out of the Toy form, I continued to swim. First Moving West then North. I felt Doflamingo linger on the bridge for a while. As we came to the shore of Green Bit I felt the pink Shichibukai lift up and fly back to the main island. 

Law coughed and sputtered as he caught his breath. “Who are you?” He croaked.

“I’m the guy that saved your life, Weston Watanabe,” I said. “Check your list of names. I should be on there.” It took him time but when he recovered he read over the wet paper again and again. 

“What the hell,” he said. “I remember…someone giving this to me. How do I not remember?” 

“No idea,” I said. “Sugar’s devil fruit I assume. Listen, we are friends, trust me. We want to help bring Doflamingo down, but your original plan was shit. We just need to do what we do best and attack them all head on.” 

“We need to destroy the Smile Factory,” Trafalgar said down to me as he stood. “We need the other Straw Hats.” 

“I agree with you there,” I said. “Luckily there are 2 that way.” I pointed inland. 

“Robin and Usopp. They were supposed to help me. What happened?” Trafalgar asked. 

“No idea. Let’s find out.” Without another word I walked into the jungle of Green Bit. Large ferns and trees all around us it was hard to see much of anything in my short body. Making some water chakra I jumped on as it froze. My fluffy body was still drenched. I reached down and picked up Rebecca. 

“Who are you?” Trafalgar asked her. 

“She is the Dressrosan princess,” I said.

“Dressrosa doesn’t have a princess,” Trafalgar said.

“Hence our predicament. I told you that everyone loses their memories if they are turned into toys,” I said. “We just need to beat up some Sugar. I won’t feel so bad about doing it in this body. Worse comes to worse though we will need Usopp.” 

“Why Usopp?” 

“Because he has very special powers,” I assured. “They’re up ahead.” I could feel them with my Search Quirk, but as we drew closer I noticed the very tiny bodies all around. The Spiritual Energy of the dwarves was stronger than expected, but they couldn’t escape my eye. 

“Halt!” A small voice yelled. A tiny man about 6 inches tall stood on a tree stump straight ahead. “Who goes there?” 

“We um are with the great and mighty Usopp,” I said with a bow. I couldn’t remember how Usopp got the dwarves to follow him, but I did remember that they thought of him like a king or something. 

“Usopland?!” The dwarf said and more popped up. They were all about 4 to 6 inches tall. Long pointy noses, they dressed in an assortment of clothes and resembled miniature people. Though small I was fairly certain they were as strong as normal people. “You are vassals of the mighty Usopland?” 

“Uh yeah,” I said. “Sure.” They hooted and hollered and began walking toward where I felt the others. 

We made it through the forest to appear in a very tiny village. Homes built into the side of trees, dwarves littered the ground around us. A small cave in the back we were escorted toward it. The dwarves whispering about us as we moved past they reminded me of a group of wild children that had been left in the wild. Tiny needles for weapons, aluminum cans for chairs, they appeared to collect the trash of the island and make it part of their aesthetic. 

“Trafalgar,” Robin said as we approached. She was wearing a short black dress and that was all. Practically spilling out of the dress she was eye candy as always. It was probably a good thing I was a doll or I would have found a reason to be alone with her. “Sorry we couldn’t help with Doflamingo. These guys captured us.”

“I take it these are the fairies I heard about,” Trafalgar said. “The ones that steal anything and everything not nailed down.” 

“We take what is rightfully ours!” A dwarf with a green shirt and pants announced. 

“That’s right. And we will get everything owed to you,” Usopp said laughing. “Let me just confer with my crew. Then we can attack.” Usopp turned away and gave Trafalgar a look that said he was in over his head. 

“I’m so glad to see you,” Usopp hissed, tears in his eyes. Robin moved closer to listen in. “These guys captured us, but I made up some stories, and now they are calling me Usopland.”

“Why?”

“I might have said I was a descendant of Montblanc Norland. I remembered a story of his about coming to a land of dwarves. Apparently he really did, and they think I can save them like he did,” Usopp said quickly. 

“Oh, right,” I said, not remembering that at all. But at least the dwarves were on our side. Norland was the same explorer that found the city of gold. We had left his ancestor, Cricket, on Skypiea a long time ago. I wondered how he was doing. 

“Sorry, who are you?” Robin asked the 2 floating teddy bears.

“You guys don’t remember me?” I asked in faux disgust. “Read your sheets with the names of the people we arrived on the island with.” Both took them out. 

“Who is Weston?” Usopp asked. 

“Usopp, Usopp, Usopp,” I said, shaking my head. “How can you forget your husband?” 

“Husband?!” The man yelled. “Wh-what are you talking about?”

“We married, months ago,” I said. “It was a very simple ceremony.” 

“I-I-I have no idea-stop giving me that look Traf-guy!” Usopp yelled. 

“Hey, to each their own,” Trafalgar said, putting up his hands. It was really hard not to burst out laughing. I considered telling him the truth but the man was stuttering and blushing so much it made me feel a whole lot better about my situation. 

“Alright, time to get serious,” I said, rubbing my pawed hands together. “Feels like Zoro is on his way here. Let’s wait for him, then we can storm the castle. Usopp, inform the troops.”

“You’re not really my husband, are you?” He asked, trying to bring himself out of his stupor. 

“Who knows? I’ll tell you if you can scare the hell out of a little girl for me,” I said. Giving him my best innocent look I moved over to begin to plan on how to go about the next step. Taking down Sugar would happen, but there were a whole lot of foes that had to be watched out for until then.