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[Ace has an assortment of animal plushies with some special modifications made to them. A monkey with a drawn on scar under it's left (looking at right!) eye, a straw hat, and a red vest, a tiger with three swords, an orange cat, a duck with a swirly eyebrow, an armadillo with a slingshot, and a reindeer with a blue nose. A transformers looking cyborg. And a cowboy hat on a little black Robin. He didn't have one for Vivi, and no one's told him about Brook yet, and he still thinks Jinbe might not follow through on his pleas for help, so sorry guys!]

Once upon a time there was a giant crybaby monkey. He was such a dumb crybaby that he almost drowned, but the pirate that saved him gave him his hat. And then he kept getting into stupid trouble, and wreaking havoc, so he had to have big bro pull him out of the fire all the time. But this isn't about that.

This is about when he finally set sail to become King of the Pirates.

He's kind of still a big dumb idiot who never listens and dives headfirst into danger, like who the hell walks into literally Hell?! [Uh is this puppet show really for children?!] But that's why his crew is so amazing!

This is Zoro the swordsman! [Holds up the tiger.] He uses three swords, because his fangs aren't long enough to bite people's throats otherwise. [Okay this puppet show might definitely not be for kids, despite that Ace is giving it in public LIKE a free puppet show for kids....] Nami: the cat burglar, [Orange cat!] she steals from pirates and gives it to the monkey! Her mistake though, because the monkey is always leaving IOU rocks, and doesn't even know how to eat'n'run! [Please please please, do not get your moral lessons from this moron...] Sanji, the super cute chef! [Swirly eyebrow duck.] Usopp the sniper! [Armadillo!] And Chopper is their super brilliant reindeer doctor!

I met them all when I was searching Alabasta for a traitorous bastard. [Or language.] But Gramps -- my grandfather told me how he met Franky the cyborg, [Sort of transformer toy dude...] And Robin the devil child in Water 7 when he ran into Luffy and his crew too.

BOY, did Luffy cause havoc there!!! [VERY PROUD LAUGH!] He took on the whole world government! Just to get back Robin! That's my idiot baby brother for you! He doesn't know the meaning of danger!

[Points to the plushies other than the monkey.] These guys really have their hands full making sure he doesn't die! [... Says the man who died :|]

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I know. [A sidelong grin.] You wouldn't be half as hot if you were. Not even a hundredth.

[Rose gave a bit of a sigh.]

There you go calling me "hot" again.

[A shake of her head before looking over at the little table set up.]

Shall we?

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Is that a problem?

[Typical grin! And he makes sure to pull her chair out ahead of her and properly push her in, lighting the candles with a single finger.]

I think we're just in time for the sunset. Ah, but I couldn't get too fancy with the food on short notice, sorry.

[She shook her head some.]

It is just something that I will never get used to.

[She sits down. When was the last time she was ever treated like a lady like this? She couldn't even remember.]

The food is fine. [Even though it looks like her raided the coffee shop.]

[He did! But he made some himself too!!]

Good, because then I'd have to come up with something else to keep you on your toes, and I'm just not that creative.

Somehow, I highly doubt you lack any creativity.

[She picks up one of the cups of coffee to have a sip.]

Some. But I'm lazy. The less hard I have to work the better.

[This is bullshit. Otherwise he wouldn't have gone after Rose in the first place, LET'S BE REAL HERE.]

How is it?

[Concerned! Because he did make it himself!]

[Rose does question the whole laziness thing. He seemed to be working quite hard to get her affections, despite her efforts to push him away.]

[She gave a bit of a nod after taking her sip.]

It is good.

[Quite strong, the way she likes her coffee.]

[Relieved grin!] Good! I know marines and Mal like it as black as possible, but despite your dragoon thing, I don't think you're really like that. And you like spicy, right? [He seemed to recall that well enough when it came to noodles.]

Yes, but what you got me the last time went beyond spicy.

[She almost became a fire breathing dragon because of those noodles.]

Sorry, sorry. [Laughs.] Side effect of being fire. I love spicy as possible.

That makes sense I suppose.

[Another sip before she looks to see what else he brought for their apparent rooftop picnic.]

[Ace just hums happily, PLEASED WITH HIMSELF!]

[There's brownies, cookies he made, they're still gooey and warm, and not even burnt :o, cinnamon rolls (he bought them genuinely), scones (not bought, stolen), biscotti (also stolen), and a meat, noodle, and pepper dish he's clearly been living on out in the wild.]

[And the pot of coffee and bottle of wine, of course.]

[Welp she sees noodles, might as well start on those, since she is not the type to fill up on sweets. At least they don't look as spicy as the ones he brought her a year ago.]

[Ace gives her a wry grin.] Right, sorry, yeah. I know you're not much into sweets, but... [Shrug.]

It is fine. I am okay with sweets every now and then.

[As long as she doesn't gorge herself on them like she did during one Full Moon.]

One is starting to think that you are nervous. [Especially since he keeps apologizing to her over little things.]

Okay good!

[Happy hum again, and he IS nervous!] I am! [Another nervous laugh.] I know I've been gone for ages, but for me it's only been a few weeks. If that. I don't want to mess up again. I'm enjoying this too much.

It sounds like that wherever you were, time moved differently there.

[It's not the weirdest thing to happen. Especially since they were stuck in a realm that attracted people from other worlds.]

[She blinked a bit and looked back to him at that last bit.]

You are enjoying this?

[Don't get her wrong. She's enjoying it too, she just didn't expect Ace to like something so peaceful.]

Like the Rainbow Mist. [Nod.]

Yeah! Of course!

Rainbow Mist? [Maybe it's something back in his home world?]

A time phenomenon on the Grand Line. It splits time like mist normally splits light into a rainbow.

I've never seen it myself, just know the books.

It sounds like there are some strange phenomenon back in your world. [Though she's not one to talk. There was the Valley of Reverse Gravity back in her world.]

[She goes to pick up a brownie in order to try it.]

Only on the Grand Line, really. The rest of the world is pretty boring.

[Never mind that there are giant animals, and all sorts of weird isolated island things.]

Doesn't your world have some too?

There was the Valley of Reverse Gravity. The name of it explains it all. There were floating boulders and it was easy to jump from one to the next even if they were far apart. It was a result of Wingly magic and Dragoon magic colliding during the Dragon Campaign, back when I was still young.

Wingly? I take it from the name they have wings and fly? Sounds like sky islands, but with them, the clouds just got some seastone in them and got hard enough to stand on.

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