[Voice]

[fierybluebird]

All Spades, Straw Hats, and those invited, we need a full crew meeting immediately, off the ships.

To all other crews, my name is Marco. Do not touch a certain fireball named Ace. If you can avoid him, please do, but consider him extremely temperamental and volatile. That is not a challenge, it's a warning. He's not in his usual state of mind, and if confronted, he will try to kill you. And if you lay a hand on my baby brother, I'll kill you. So just leave him alone, and if you need help dealing with him, contact me here.

Are any other crew's members acting out of sorts?

Comments

[voice]

[yourotherleft]

[he's not entirely sure if Marco is talking about right now, or the other time Ace was in trouble. And that, he's not so open about]

What do you mean?

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Marineford.

[Yup. Leave it to Marco to just kick a giant hole in a can of worms here. He will eat those worms. You know. Because he's a bird.]

[voice]

[yourotherleft]

[gee thanks, Marco. He's still not inclined to talk about it, because as far as he's concerned it's crew business, and he won't even tell his crewmates where he was]

Do you think that if we had been physically able to join Luffy, we would have just sat back and said no thanks?

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

I spent my entire time before Marineford ready to beg and grovel to get all of Ace's friends ready to help. Your crew wasn't included because Ace would rather die than let his precious baby brother be hurt.

I don't mean to drive the knife further into the wound, I need to know if that's going to happen again.

[voice]

[yourotherleft]

No.

[bluntly, and sternly. The full weight of his determination and conviction is in that one word]

We will never let it happen again. To anyone.

[voice] / [private]

[fierybluebird]

Don't let your captain come.

It'll hurt Ace more than I can repair.

[voice] / [private]

[yourotherleft]

....got it.

[voice] / [private]

[fierybluebird]

Thank you.

I'll owe you a drink of sake when this all over and we can talk about better days, eh?

[voice] / [private]

[yourotherleft]

I'll take a whole bottle, but let's save it until we figure out what's really going on. Who knows who might owe who, then.

[voice] / [private]

[fierybluebird]

[A quiet grin at that.]

It's a deal, yoi.