One Piece (Love Story) [Part One]

Chapter One Hundred and Fifty Four [Rewritten]

-Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Four-

"When we sailed in just now, I couldn't help but notice an abundance of abandoned material lying around" Robin pointed out.

"You don't say? Well, that gives me a great idea" Usopp grinned, quickly motioning for us to come closer so he could whisper his plan. "Well?" he asked the minute he drew back, chest puffed out in pride when he saw the wide grins we wore

"Yeah!" we nodded. 

-Later-

When night rolled around and the disguise that Usopp had made for the ship was finished, we found ourselves ready to finally put our plan to get back the gold into action.

"Well, what do you think, guys? Not bad if I do say so myself—at least we don't have to worry about the Merry being stolen again, right?" Usopp proudly grinned as he showed off the result of his hard work in making the perfect disguise for the Merry.

"Looks alright to me" I nodded, it wasn't great...but it also wasn't terrible either—it was just decent enough that at a glance, you probably could believe it was a warship in the dark if you weren't paying close enough attention.

"Gluing paper all over the ship to disguise it? What a great idea" Zoro nodded despite not sounding that confident in the disguise.

"I don't know, guys, it looks like a three-year-old did it" Sanji harshly insulted. "You think that's going to fool anyone for very long?" he asked.

"Yeah, of course, it will! It looks just like one of the Marine warships, no doubt about it!" Luffy grinned.

"It sure does!" Chopper nodded.

"I mean...if you squint really hard it kind of does" I said, attempting to be polite as I didn't really have the heart to tell them that even if the disguise had been done better, the ship could never truly look like any of the warships due to its size.

"You're nuts" Zoro scoffed.

"Great, now all we have to do is get our treasure back" Nami clapped, not caring one way or the other if the disguise was good enough or not—as long as the risk of the Merry being confiscated again was minimized, she didn't care. "Operation Gold Recovery commences at midnight, got it?" she asked.

"Got it!" we nodded.

"Um...why can't we just go right now?" Chopper curiously asked.

"Well because super-secret missions are always better at midnight" Luffy explained.

"Oh, I get it now" Chopper smiled.

"Um...you guys are joking, right?" Usopp asked.

"With those two, it's hard to tell" I truthfully admitted.

"Alright, guys, enough waiting—let's go get our gold back!" Nami ordered once she finally felt the time was right for us to start our operation.

"Yeah!" we nodded.

"Hey, wait a minute" Usopp suddenly piped up.

"What's wrong, Usopp?" Luffy curiously asked.

"Having second thoughts?" I asked.

"We can't just rush off like this—shouldn't we come up with some sort of plan first?" the sharpshooter asked, causing us to blankly stare at him as if it never crossed our minds to really come up with a coherent plan in advance. "Oh great, we're off to a successful start! Don't you think those Marines would notice eight people sneaking around the fortress?" he frowned.