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With only 2 straw-hats remaining, naturally, the current crew members have continuously split up and looked everywhere to try to find some sort of clue about where they could be but it wasn’t as easy as they had initially thought.
Finding two civilians among thousands of people was practically impossible. They were lucky to have found everybody within a certain area but finding Robin and Franky felt hopeless at this point.
Sabo did his part in trying to help out his younger brother find his crew mates. He also knew Robin in the previous world when she stayed with them for 2 years after Marineford and it’d be nice if they could find her.
So of course Sabo was thrilled to find her the day that he went to ‘help’ Dragon out at his work place.
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“Sabo, I’d like to ask a favour” Dragon asked as he approached his former Second in Command.
Sabo looked up from the book he was reading and closed it, “Sure, what is it Dragon-san?”
”Well I was hoping that, if you had the time, you could come over to meet everyone since you did say that you wanted to work alongside me after you graduate, I know that’s in more than a couple of years but I figured that it’s be best to bring you along today since we do need a helping hand. What do you say then?”
Sabo nodded slowly thinking his situation through, “Sure! I’ve got nothing to do anyway Ace and Lu’ have both gone out to look for Robin and Franky. By the way I was just thinking, you’re not inviting me over just because you need a helping hand right?”
Dragon sighed, “It’s technically not a lie but we do need help with a complete of people that have applied for jobs that need to be interviewed and one of them just so happens to be…Nico Robin…”
The blondes eyes widened slightly, “Robin?! You could’ve said that before but why can’t you do it yourself?”
”I don’t have the energy to deal with any of Luffy’s crew even if Robin is one of the normal ones.”
“So you want me to do it instead” He thought about it for a moment, “…fine…”
”Great! Let’s get going then”
——After They Got There——
“Soooooo, what exactly do I do and where do I need to go?” Sabo questioned as they entered Dragon’s office.
”Well, Robin will be appearing at around 5:00 so I guess you can just sit in there and wait for her to come, and then all you need to do is catch her up on everything and you’re done!” The older man told him as he gestured towards a room next to him.
“Right, but isn’t she here for like an interview or something? Isn’t that your job?”
”…you have a point but…I’ll do the actual interview later! In the time that you’re dealing with her I can get lots of paper work done!”
”Got it…” The blonde said lazily said as he walked into the other room.
The actual room itself wasn’t as interesting. All there was, was a table and a chair in the centre of the room with a few bookshelves at the back.
Sighing, Sabo took a seat in the chair furthest from the door and waited.
After about 15 minutes, the person who he was waiting for finally came.
There were 2 knocks on the door that woke Sabo up from his daydream, “Come on in!”
The door slowly opened to reveal Nico Robin herself.
”Please, come and take a seat” It appears that she hadn’t made any sort of eye contact with anybody here so she hadn’t remembered yet.
”Thank you,” She replied as she sat on the seat opposite to the blonde, “Not to be rude or anything, but I was expecting to have Monkey D. Dragon here not one of his…Sabo?”
The other smiled, “Robin! It’s great to see you again!”
She was speechless as she stared at the boy infront of him, “I don’t…understand…”
“And that’s why I’m here to explain everything and then you can get on with your actual interview!”
”Wait! Before you tell me, I assume that you’re all looking for the rest of us straw-hats, right?”
”Well…yeah we are, how did you know?”
”Explain everything to me later when we get Franky, I know where he is, come on let’s go!” Robin said as she stood up and grabbed Sabo’s arm leading him out of the room.
”You know where Franky is?! But what about your interview with Dragon-san?” He asked as pulled his arm free out of the others hand.
”The interview can wait, I’m sure Dragon won’t mind, now let’s get going!” She said as they made their way out of the building.
The younger boy pulled out his phone and sent a quick message to Dragon, “So how do you know Franky then?” He asked quickening his pace so that he could match Robin’s.
She let out a chuckle, ”We’re really good friends actually, he lives in the same neighbourhood as me!”
”I guess that saves us a lot of time! You and him are the only ones left!”
“Hey, isn’t that Luffy and Ace up ahead?”
Sabo liked to where she was looking and sure enough he saw his 2 brothers, “You’re right, that is them! ACE, LUFFY!!!!”
Hearing his call, the other 2 brothers turned around and grinned, while Luffy “SABOOOOOO, and…Robin?”
The two ran up to the pair of D’s, panting for exhaustion, “Lu’ Ace, I found Robin! Well I guess she kind of found us but she said that she knows where Franky is right now!”
“Really? That’s great! Have you told her anything yet?” Ace asked.
Sabo shook his head, “I’ll tell her when we find Franky!”
Luffy beamed, “Let’s go find him then! Lead the way Robin”
”Of course, let’s get going then!” She said as she smiled at her former captain.
The three brothers followed Robin until they arrived at a small workshop at the end of the town.
”Is this where Franky is?” Ace asked.
She nodded and gestured for them all to come on in as she went through the door.
The ASL brothers eyes wondered around the place looking at structures and materials that were inside this singular room.
”Franky!” The archaeologist called, “It’s me!”
There was silence for a few moments until there was the sound of metal hitting the floor.
”ROBINNNNNNNNNN!” The engineer shouted as he jumped down from above and landed infront of her, “How did your interview go? I bet it went SUPERRRRRRRR knowing you! Oh and who are…those guys?”
Robin smiled, “I’m sure that you can recognise them already.”
Luffy was jumping up and down with joy, “Franky! You’re not a cyborg anymore! It’s so great to see you!!”
”…Luffy…what did you do?”
Ace rolled his eyes, “Sabo can do the telling this time around,” The blond glared at his older brother, “What? You were the one who brought us here, it’s only fair!”
“Whatever…” He groaned as he began telling the story that they’d heard too many times.
”I see,” Robin eventually said as she smiled, “Thank you for letting me live and letting me sail with you Captain”
“Of course! I’m glad that you’re alive, Robin!”
Franky on the other was crying his eyes out, “*sniff* that was such a—- a *sniff* THAT WAS SUCH A HEARTWARMING STORY CAPTAIN!!!!”
Luffy came running up to his crew members and enveloped them in a hug which was different to how he used to since he couldn’t stretch his arms anymore. But nevertheless it still held the same warmth and kindness of a captain.
“I’m glad that I got to see you all in this new world”
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Later in the week, The Company King was seen with a strange group of CEO’s, famous people, and civilians celebrating an unknown event despite never meeting before.
That’s what the people thought, at least.