The crew landed on Little garden and split up, Viper stayed on the ship, staring off into the distance. Nami came up behind him and patted his back "Hey you okay?" Viper said "Yeah, I was thinking about was Ms. All Sunday said to me." Nami said "What did she say?" Viper said "She told me that my research was too dangerous. I was thinking of stopping once I got you your cloud weapon. I already found out that the fruit gives an item a 'soul' so when I find out how to make a fruit permanently fuse with a weapon I'm going to destroy all my notes." Nami said "But you worked so hard on them, and-" Viper cut her off and said "I'm 80% sure that someone knows the truth about devil fruits and how to do what i'm doing, the right way. I don't want to create something that's already been invented. I want something new, something that will help the crew." Nami was silent for a moment before saying "What did you have in mind?" Viper said "I was thinking of telecommunications without snails." Nami said "That would be useful." Viper said "It would take a long time too."
The trio heard a loud thumping noise and turned around to see a giant, Viper said "Hello." The giant said "Hello, little man my name is Broggy, nice to meet you. Do you have any grog?" Viper said "My name is Viper and we do but the barrels are no where near big enough for you, if that's okay." The giant smiled and said "That's fine." Viper gave him a few barrels of grog and Broggy said "Join me for lunch!" Viper smiled and nodded before jumping off the ship, transforming, scooping up Nami and Ussop and following after Broggy.
The trio were in front of Broggy eating the meat he cooked, Viper was curled up in his full transformation, munching on a giant piece of meat, while Nami was sitting on his head and Ussop has on his back listening to Broggy's stories. Ussop said "WOAH! I want to be a brave warrior of the sea too!" Broggy laughed and said "I'm sure you will little human!" a volcano erupted and Broggy stood up and said "It's time for my duel! See you later!" Viper picked up his head and watched him go and said "What a nice guy." Nami said "I thought he was going to eat us!" Viper chuckled and said "Cannibalism is not a practiced tradition with giants ahahaha" Nami was embarassed and said "Shut up he was scary!" Viper shook his head and Ussop said "I want to see their duel!" Viper said "If I am correct the giants believe in a god, and if there's a dispute they must fight until there is a clear victor." another eruption occured and Broggy came back.
Viper said "Broggy how long have you been fighting?" Broggy scratched his head and said "It's been a hundred years, in Elbaph we have a god who judges who's right or wrong after a dispute." Viper nodded and said "Just as I thought, also did you bring the grog to your enemy?" Broggy said "He was still my friend before we started fighting sometimes we share meals in between duels, it gets pretty lonely after a hundred years of fighting." Viper nodded and Nami said "What were you fighting about in the first place?" Broggy said "I don't even know anymore" Nami said incredulously "You don't know?!" Broggy said "It's been a hundred years, My honor is on the line! I won't back down because of forgetting the reason for our duel!" Ussop said "That's right! Who cares what the reason was! It's about honor now!" Viper let out a breath and said "Fighting for your honor.. It's a MANS ROMANCE!" Broggy laughed and said "Exactly! A TRUE MANS ROMANCE!!" Nami sighed and said "I need to go to the bathroom, i'll be back." Ussop said "Can I come to your next duel Broggy?" Broggy nodded and Viper said "I'll go with Nami, in case a dinosaur needs an afternoon snack" he slithered away with Nami on his head as a volcano erupted and Broggy and Ussop left.
Viper was sliding around in the jungle and said "It's nice around here." Nami rolled her eyes and knocked on Viper's head "Yeah for you." Viper chuckled and said "Why do you say it like that? Because I'm a giant snake?" Nami giggled and said "Yeah, and you'd probably find a way to make the dinosaurs into cyborgs." Viper smiled and stuck his tongue over his head and licked Nami's face "Probably, anyway i'll be here when you're done." Nami wiped her face with her shirt and said "Gross!" before jumping off and going behind a tree and some bushes as Viper laughed.
A while later
Viper was waiting and found it odd, she shouldn't take this long, he grit his teeth and went where Nami was supposed to be before finding her missing. Viper looked around and said "Nami?" he looked around in the general area, and found nothing. He went back to Broggy's camp and found only Ussop, he said "Where's Broggy?" Ussop said "Someone interfered with the giants' duel and he cut down the other giant, I came back to look for you. Where's Nami?" Viper frowned and said "She might've been captured by the people who interfered with the giants' duel. Let's go find luffy!" he scooped up Ussop and sped off.
Viper and Ussop found Luffy under a rock, Viper said "What are you doing under there?" Luffy said "The giant put this on top of me!" Viper smashed the rock to pieces and said "Nami was kidnapped." Luffy got up and said "So was Vivi." Carue came running in and pointed in a certain direction and ran off, Viper scooped Luffy up and followed after the duck.
They reached a clearing and saw a huge candle-like structure, and Nami, Zoro, and Vivi were standing on it with wax covering some of their limbs. Luffy said "What are you guys standing there for?" Viper also noticed that the giants were covered in wax too. A man with a '3' on his head came out and said "There you are Straw Hat! I see you got a pet." Viper snapped and shook Luffy and Ussop off and stood above the man and said "Did you just call me a pet?!" Viper bared his fangs, the man started to sweat and said "You can talk?!" Viper hissed dangerously "I said. Did. You. Just. Call. Me. A. Pet." the man was truly scared and shook his head, Viper brought his head right in front of the man and blew air from his snout and said "I really didn't like that." Before he slammed his tail on top of the man, swashing him into the ground. Viper turned to a little girl having a picnic and said "Are you with him?" she gulped and said "No." Viper sneered and swatted her away with his tail, sending her flying through the forest.
Viper was seething "Do I look like a fucking pet to you?!" as he smashed his tail on the man in the ground repeatedly, Nami said "Viper I think you got him, maybe you could help out here?" he turned and smashed his tail through the was structure breaking it to pieces, Ussop lit a fire and melted the rest of the wax on the three and the giants.
The man woke up and saw Viper was still looking at him and said "What kind of monster are you?" Viper said "Quetzalcoatl." The man gasped and said "You have a weird name just like Boss' pe- I mean partner." Viper said "I thought your Boss' partner was a woman." the man said "He has another, his codename is Mr. 0.1" Viper sighed and said "Your boss has really shitty codenames let me guess you're Mr. 3?" the man nodded and Viper said "Great, now get out of my sight." before he smashed his tail against Mr.3 sending him flying through the jungle.
Sanji came out of some bushes and said "Who's Mr.3?" Viper said "You just missed him, he went flying into the jungle." Sanji pulled out a log pose and said "I got this, it was supposed to be a package for him." Nami said "You have an eternal pose to Alabasta?! That's great Sanji!" she grabbed it and said "Now we don't have to stay here for a year!" the crew agreed to get off the island as soon as possible and all boarded the Merry, as they were leaving the giants told them to continue straight no matter what and a huge gold fish popped out of the water, and the giants both attacked in, blowing a hole through the fish and sending the Merry flying through.
2 days later
Nami was breathing heavy while Navigating and Viper noticed, he came up and held her up and said "Are you okay?" he had been trying to spend less time in the lab, while still working on how to make the cloud fruit merge with a staff, Nami said "I'm fine." Viper touched her forehead and said "You're burning up! You need a doctor!" Nami shook her head and said "No, i'll be fine we need to go to Alabasta as fast as possible." Viper said "I'd rather have you healthy, Alabasta can wait." Nami collapsed and Viper picked her up and called out "Vivi come navigate." before he went to the rooms and put Nami in her bed.
Everyone showed up in Nami's room and Viper said "She needs a doctor." Vivi said "But we need to get to Alabasta." Viper took a deep breath and looked at Luffy. Vivi looked at Luffy too, and Luffy said "She needs a doctor." Viper smiled and Vivi was a bit upset, she walked out of the room and Viper sat next to Nami and changed her towel, before he got up and went back to the lab.
Viper sat in the lab and started working on his devil fruits again, the monkey fruit had returned and Viper had tried everything, setting it on fire, dumping it in sea water, physically destroying it, he theorized that the fruit was actually just a vessel for the power, and he contemplated that the power may be a soul or spirit he tried to put the fruit in a container with only one other object and see if the 'soul' would inhabit the object instead of searching for another fruit, he got his book and destroyed the fruit "Test number 85, monkey destroyed near book" the fruit was completely destroyed and the book vibrated a bit before stopping, Viper sighed and was about to write down 'failed' before he looked up and saw the book started vibrating again before growing a tail and arms and legs and a monkey head. Viper brightened up and said "Did it work?" he grabbed the monkey and brought him to the deck and put him down before saying "Do you feel unstable? Do you feel like you're going to fall apart?" the monkey-book scratched his head and shook it, Viper wrote it down and said "Can you switch between full book and full monkey?" the monkey nodded and demonstrated, Viper nodded and said "So you feel anything wrong when you transform?" the monkey shook his head, Viper smiled and said to himself "Did I do it?"
Vivi appeared and said "Will it fall apart?" Viper said "I really hope not, I'm really on edge recently. This shit is driving me crazy and worst part is if i'm not careful, it would be a catastrophe." Vivi smiled and said "At least your making progress." Viper said "I really just want to be done with it, to be honest with you." he sighed and handed the monkey to Vivi and said "Have him, Happy birthday." before he turned around, Vivi said "It's not my birthd-" before the monkey-book collapsed and exploded into loose pages, Viper chuckled and said "Look you get fireworks too!" before disappearing into the rooms, Vivi frowned and followed after him.
Viper was extremely frustrated, he had tried everything with the materials he had, and he was fed up. He opened the box labeled 'CLOUD' and took out the cloud fruit before smashing it at the wall and throwing his lab coat on the ground, grabbing his kimono and walking out. If he had stayed longer he would've seen the fruit smash into pieces on top of Ussop's finished clima-tact, and disappear.
Viper walked out and slammed the door, he put his kimono back on and had his goggles on the top of his head, he wasn't paying attention and bumped into Vivi, he looked down and sighed as he stretched out his hand and said "Sorry Vivi, just a little frustrated at the moment." Vivi took his hand and smiled before saying "Don't worry about it." Viper pulled her up and said "Want to come with me to check on Nami?" Vivi nodded and the duo went to Nami's room.
The next day
Viper was sitting on the deck looking out for any islands when Ussop said "Look theres a guy standing on the water!" Viper looked over and said "Wow he really is!" the man said "Cold today isn't it?" Ussop said "Yeah, i'd say so." the man said "Yeah me too." There was a silence, and Viper sighed and said "Is that all?" the man said "Now you're trapped." a huge boat came out of the water and people started hopping on the Merry.
Viper said "We really don't have time for this." and transformed into his hybrid form before creating a wind blast that sent all the people flying off the Merry. A fat man grabbed on to the railings and said "Do you have an eternal pose for Drum Island?" the crew shook their heads and the man said "Then we'll just take your treasure and your ship." before he took a bite out of the Merry. Luffy screamed "Stop eating my ship!" and punched the fat man and sent him flying into the water, one of the other people said "Oh no! He can't swim!" they all got on their boat and sailed after the fat man. Viper pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed, as the Merry sailed on.
A while later
They reached an Island and Viper went to go get Nami, he came out of her room with her on his back and saw that there was a group of people telling them to leave. Luffy said "We need a doctor!" Vivi said "Please if not one of our friends will die!" The villagers sneered and said "Yeah right!" and another villager shot at Vivi, Viper was shocked and said "Who shoots at a princess?" Luffy was angry and he was about to fight them, Vivi stopped him and said "Fighting doesn't always solve the problem!" Vivi got on her knees and bowed her head, Luffy did the same and a man came out from the villagers and said "Come with me." Viper followed after him and said nothing.
They arrived at the man's home and he explained that there was only one doctor here and that she was a witch, then he said that she lived on the top of the mountain, Viper said "So were going up the mountain Luffy?" Luffy nodded and Sanji joined them as they walked out the door. Viper fully transformed and carried Luffy, Sanji, and Nami up the hill, on the way Luffy said "Did you know, people don't sleep in snow countries?" Sanji said "Why's that?" Luffy said "Because if they sleep they'll die." Viper burst out laughing and Sanji shook his head and said "I don't think that's true." Luffy said "Yeah it is a guy on Shanks' crew told me that!" Sanji said "You want to know why women from snow countries are so white? It's because the snow seeps into their skin and makes their skin whiter and smoother." Viper laughed again, Luffy and Sanji said "WHAT?!" Viper said "Luffy's idea is just wrong, and Sanji's is wrong as well, women's skin is whiter in snow countries like this because they are always covered up to keep warm, I don't know where you got the smoothness from though." the group continued to chat as they made their way up.
Viper and the rest reached a cliff and Viper tried slithering up it, to no avail. Viper sighed and said "Really wish I could fly." before he changed back and started clinging with his hands, Luffy and Sanji followed after him. They finally reached the top and were almost frostbitten on all their hands, Viper collapsed in front of the castle door and kept Nami on his back as he fainted.
He woke up in a bed, and looked around, he got up and walked out of the room, looking for Nami's room, he walked into another room and saw Nami sitting up. He let out a breath of relief and said "Thank god you're okay!" before sitting in a chair and leaning back. Nami smiled and said "Thank you for bringing me all the way up here." Viper waved her off and said "Don't worry about it." before he noticed a little reindeer hiding backwards and saying "Do you think it knows that it's hiding backwards?" Nami giggled and said "I don't think so" the reindeer yelped and said "I'm a he!" Viper said "Woah he can talk! What's your name?" the reindeer said "Chopper an i'm a doctor!" Viper smiled and said "Well Chopper nice to meet you i'm Viper." Chopper said "Aren't you scared? I'm a monster!" Viper blinked before laughing and said "You?! Please, i'm more of a monster than you'll ever be." Chopper was confused and Luffy and Sanji busted through the door and said "Nami! Are you okay?!" before they noticed the reindeer and Luffy said "MEAT!" before chasing after Chopper, with Sanji following him, Viper watched them go and said "Do you want to bet on Chopper becoming our next crew member?" Nami shook her head and said "We need a doctor anyways." Viper just chuckled and sighed.