The next day, the crew was separated into groups and Viper was walking with Robin, Nami, and Zoro again.Viper said "Where do you think the gold is?" Nami was about to respond, when a huge snake crashed into the middle of the group and scattered them.
Viper was alone with the snake and said "Fuck me, what do you want?" The snake hissed and Viper transformed and said "Happy?" The snake bowed his head and hissed, Viper was confused and said "What do you need my help for? And how can I understand you?" The snake hissed a few times and Viper said "So your name is Nola? And you want me to help you take down Enel?" Nola nodded and Viper said "What do you know about this Enel guy?" Nola hissed again and Viper shook his head "You went right through him? So he's a Logia? I can't help you, do you know what his powers are?" Nola hung her head and hissed, Viper waved his tail and said "Lightning? I think I know someone who can help then. Do you have any allies?" Nola perked her head up and hissed happily, before slithering off.
Viper followed her and soon found himself in front of a group of Shandians. Nola turned to Viper and hissed, Viper nodded and looked at the Shandians. He came a little closer and stared at Wyper, then at a woman, who had a bag of dirt, he tilted his head and said "Why do you have a bag of dirt on you? You realize if you wanted to stop Enel's lightning you would need around 100 times that amount?" the woman in question was shocked that Viper suddenly started speaking, so were the rest of the Shandians.
Wyper said "Who are you?" Viper chuckled and said "We've actually met before, I'm from the blue sea. Remember?" Wyper took a defensive stance and said "What are you doing here?! Why are you with Nola?" Viper sighed and Nola hissed, Viper translated "She said 'I asked him for help, he said he knows someone who can help us' she's right, by the way." Wyper wasn't buying it, and aimed his bazooka at Viper.
The woman stopped Wyper and said "Wyper stop! What if he's telling the truth?" WYper grit his teeth and said "Raki, get out of my way!" Raki didn't move and just stood there.
Viper watched them and covered Raki with his wings, blocking Wyper and lifted her to his head "Why are you carrying a bag of dirt?" Raki hesitated before saying "I was getting vearth for Aisa, a little girl." Viper nodded and said "Well, very admirable of you, but aren't you supposed to be fighting Enel? Bringing a bag of dirt along kinda seems like a dumb idea to me.." Raki snapped "She wanted vearth so I got vearth!" Viper said "Alright, relax. I'm not going to take your vearth away jeez.."
Wyper looked at Viper and said "He is right though, why are you carrying it around? It's everywhere here. After we defeat Enel, we'll have all the vearth we'll ever need" Viper was about to say something when another voice was heard.
"Defeat Enel? You think you're capable of that?" A large man appeared, he was holding a sword with a big ball at the hilt and next to him was a dog. Viper watched him and Wyper gnashed his teeth "You're one of Enel's priests!" the man chuckled and jumped down with the dog and said "Correct, my name is Ohm, and this is Holy. I'm here to kill all of you."
Viper chuckled and lowered his head down, sliding Raki back to the floor, he slithered in front of the Shandians and said "I don't recall allowing you to do that" Ohm looked at Viper and said "Oh the giant snake from the blue sea, Enel is interested in you, so I guess you get to live." Viper laughed and coiled "Oh lucky me, I guess" before he sprang forwards flapping his wings and biting where Ohm was.
Ohm dodged and said "I saw that coming" Viper swung his tail at Ohm as he passed by, sending Ohm flying into a building and sneered "Did you see that coming too?" Ohm coughed up some blood and stood up "I did, but if I didn't move this first time I would've gotten snapped in half" he lunged at Viper and his sword blade turned into a spear, as he stabbed it a Viper.
Viper shifted his body out of the way and made wind blast, forcing Ohm back and said "Is that another dial weapon?" as he flapped his wings and flew in the air, before diving down and flipping, smashing his tail on top of Ohm.
Ohm made his sword turn into a cloud wall and said "It's called an Eisen dial, it creates a stream of iron clouds. I can manipulate the form and use it however I want." Viper was interested and said "So after I beat you, I get to keep it thanks!" and he shot forward again whipping his tail towards Ohm's legs, causing Ohm to jump. Viper smiled and bit at Ohm, who made his sword turn into a wall and blocked Viper's teeth, stopping him from closing his mouth.
Viper smashed his tail up and caught Ohm off guard, sending him into the air. Viper flew above him and slammed his tail into Ohm, sending him back to the ground.
Ohm slammed into the ground and coughed out more blood, Viper flew down and bit him, making Ohm scream in pain. Viper had Ohm in his teeth and was biting down harder and harder, until he heard a snap and dropped Ohm to the ground.
Ohm was on the ground, gasping for air, as Viper loomed over him. Wyper walked over and pointed the Bazooka at his head, Viper said "Are you going to kill him?" Wyper said "Enel and his priests took our homeland from us and terrorized all of our people, are you going to stop me?" Viper shook his head and said "No, I was going to do it myself, but if you want to do it go ahead." He transformed back and grabbed Ohm's sword, before walked towards the Shandians and hearing a loud BOOM. He ignored it and focused on the sword, he walked over to Raki and said "Do you know how to get the dial out of this thing?" Raki nodded and helped Viper take out the dial.
Viper looked at the dial and started playing around with it, when Zoro showed up. Zoro walked over and said "Hey, meet any priests?" Viper looked up and grinned "Yeah, I took care of him and got this cool new dial." Zoro shook his head and said "Where did he go?" Viper pointed at Wyper and said "That guy turned him to ashes after I snapped the priest's spine in half." Zoro sighed and sat down "I haven't been able to fight anyone here, I'm bored." Viper chuckled and said "Maybe one of the Shandians will spar with you? Although, I think everyone's waiting for 'God' to show up."Viper frowned and added "By the way, I think we can only rely on Luffy this time" Zoro said "Why?" Viper said "From what I heard, he is a lightning logia, so we can't hit him at all. Luffy is rubber and rubber is an insulator making him immune to the lightning attacks, and we don't have any seastone or Haki"
Zoro sighed and leaned back mumbling something about taking a nap and not being able to slash anything. Viper chuckled and went back to playing with the eisen dial. Before long, most of the crew gathered with the Shandians.
All of a sudden the ground collapsed and everyone fell, Viper got up and saw Robin looking towards a man with extremely long ears and a ring of drums attached to his back. Viper said "Oi, is that God?" Robin nodded and Viper walked over and circled around him and asked "How did you get that ring of drums in your back?" Enel was confused and Viper continued "Also are your ears natural? It's very strange, were you born like that? Not that, that's an issue. I was wondering if it was the same before you got your fruit."
Enel blinked and said "Who are you?" Viper said "I asked you several questions... I'm the giant snake. Can you answer my questions now?" Enel said "Ah the snake with wings, you may accompany me to fairy vearth!" Viper blinked and looked back at the group of people and said "Is he partially deaf?" before he turned back to Enel and said "Answer my questions! Also what is fairy vearth?"
Enel said "My ears are long because of the gold earrings, the drum ring is from my fruit, and Fairy vearth is the holy land in the sky!" Viper blinked and laughed right in his face, gaining astonished faces from the Shandians, as he said "You mean the moon?! You're going to fly to the moon?! HAHAHAHAH!" He fell over and held his stomach, laughing with tears in his eyes.
Enel was angry and zapped him, Viper stopped laughing and started coughing, and Enel said "Yes! I will go to fairy vearth!" Viper started laughing again and said "Do you know how far 'fairy vearth' is? Let's say you really do somehow go there, how will you survive in the vacuum of space? I don't know if you know but there's no oxygen up there, how will you breathe?" Enel said "I am god! These simple restrictions won't stop me!" Viper laughed again "Man! Even if you can somehow survive in space, it will take you years to get there! How fast can you possibly go?! Maybe by the time you get there you'll be an old man!"
Enel seethed and zapped him again and repeated "I AM GOD! NOTHING WILL STOP ME!" as Enel increased the voltage and zapped Viper unconscious, before he turned to the rest and said "Now for all of you."
A while later
Viper woke up with bandages all over his body. He got up and looked around and saw Zoro, Wyper, and Ganfall all sitting together, he walked over and sat down "Hey! What did I miss?" The trio gave him a look and Zoro said "After you questioned his goals and laughed at him, he zapped you unconscious and took out the rest of us. Luffy came by and went after Enel." Viper snapped his fingers and said "Damn, I didn't even get to try and fight! How did it go for you?" Zoro frowned and said "I went right through him." Viper nodded and Wyper said "I almost had him, but he restarted his heart."
Viper opened his eyes and said "How did you hit him!? What happened?!" Wyper explained that his glider shoes have seastone on the bottom and he used a reject dial to stop Enel's heart, but took his foot back and Enel restarted his heart. Viper nodded and said "When Enel is finished and our captain wins, can I get that reject dial from you?" Wyper thought for a bit and said "If he really does win, yeah." Viper clapped and said "Excellent! Another dial to play with!" Wyper said "You truly believe your captain can defeat him?" Zoro and Viper both said in unison "Yes." Wyper was a bit taken aback, and contemplated why.
Viper got up and said "Where are the others?" Zoro said "Around, somewhere probably unconscious." Viper chuckled and nodded, before walking away to go find them.
He found them all and dragged them near Zoro. He sat down and sighed, suddenly a note fall from the sky, Viper read it aloud "Cut the beanstalk so it falls west" he looked at Zoro and Wyper and said "Seems simple enough, let's go." the trio walked towards the beanstalk. Viper transformed and sent a wind blast at it, Zoro slashed, and Wyper used his reject dial. The beanstalk toppled and fell.
The trio looked up and Viper said "Was that west?" Zoro shrugged and Wyper said "West is left, right?" Viper sighed and said "Well, I hope it went the right way.." before a loud ringing sounded.
Wyper was shocked and said "It's the bell!" and fell to his knees with tears in his eyes.
Viper said "That must be Luffy." Zoro grinned and the two left Wyper and went back to the group. Half of them were awake, and Viper said "Welcome! We're really in heaven this time!" Ussop paled and fainted, while Zoro laughed.
A while later the Skypieans, the Shandians, Nola, and Luffy's crew were partying and celebrating beating Enel. Viper watched them silently as they danced and Luffy impersonated Sanji and Zoro, he laughed and lost it when Ussop impersonated Robin. He was laughing with tears in his eyes when he heard a voice that sent a shiver down his spine "Did you think he was spot on?" Viper stiffly turned his head and said "Not at all! Damn him for doing that! Argh Big sis is gonna be mad! I'll go teach him a lesson!" he tried to run off, but Robin grabbed his collar and said "I don't think so, you're not getting away this time."
Robin held up a magazine and flipped a couple pages and turned it to Viper, he blushed and said "THIS IS AN INVASION OF PRIVACY!" Robin chuckled and said "I have to investigate for" she coughed and finished "My little brother's sake." Viper looked at her and said "Yeah... Riiight. It definitely wasn't because you were extremely curious." Robin was embarrassed and Viper sighed "Fine, yes but don't tell anyone else!" Robin grinned and nodded, as Viper smiled and joined the party.
Viper joined Luffy and Ussop and started doing impressions of the crew, his eyes turned to Beri signs and he said "I'm sleeping with the gold tonight!" Ussop and Luffy lost and started laughing, Viper motioned for Robin to give him Chopper horns and got up waving his arms and said "I'm not happy! Bastard! Idiot!" Ussop and Luffy fell to the ground and held their stomachs, and Viper laughed along with them.
Luffy sat up and pushed his eyebrow into a swirl and held two fingers to his mouth and said "This is the ordeal of love..." he pretended to exhale, and Ussop and Viper laughed, the three continued to do impressions and dance all night long before falling asleep.
The next day
The crew, minus Robin was standing in front of the Merry, Viper had traded all of his dirt for all sorts of dials and Wyper had given his reject dial and his seastone shoes. Viper handed the shoes to Ussop and said "Take off the seastone form the bottoms and try and make something like a stand for Nami's weapon." Ussop nodded and got to work.
The crew finally saw Robin walking with a bunch of Skypieans. They were carrying a giant rod, covered in paper. Viper said "What's that?" Robin said "They wanted to give us some gold, because of our help." Nami's eyes turned to beri signs and the Skypieans un-raveled the paper, revealing the huge gold rod. Nami fainted with drool coming out of her mouth and Viper said "That's not going to fit on the Merry."
Zoro walked over and sliced up the rod into cubes and said "How about now?" Viper gave him a big thumbs up and grabbed a bunch of sacks, before filling them all with gold and bringing them to the ship. Conis came over and said "Um, Viper will you ever come back?" the crew were shocked and disappeared, Zoro grabbed the raging cook and dragged him onto the boat, leaving Viper and Conis alone.
Viper blinked and said "Maybe in the future, but probably not for a long time. Why?" he heard the crew facepalming behind him and Conis said "Well, I wanted to thank you for saving me from Enel, when we were on Angel beach.." she came close and suddenly kissed his lips and said "Thank you for everything!" before she ran away with a red face. Viper touched his lips and sighed, before he returned to the ship and said "It's a curse to be this handsome!" Sanji snapped and lunged at Viper, starting a dustbrawl, as the rest of the crew rolled their eyes.
A while later
The Merry was being escorted by Pagaya and Conis, who was feeling super awkward because she had forgotten that she was the one who was bringing them to cloud's end. The crew reached cloud's end and Conis said "Be ready for the drop!" Viper stared at her for a moment before smiling and saying "Thank you Conis." She smiled and the Merry dropped of the edge, Conis whistled and a huge balloon octopus grabbed onto the Merry and puffed up slowing their fall down. Conis looked sad and Pagaya said "Maybe you'll see him again." Conis smiled at her father and said "Yeah!" as they returned to Skypiea.
Meanwhile on the Merry, Viper was sitting down in front of Robin, she said "Must be nice to be kissed by an angel" she giggled a bit and Viper sighed and rubbed his forehead "I guess i'm just handsome." Robin rolled her eyes and said "How do you feel?" Viper said "Bad, she has her own life. If she waits for me all her life then I wouldn't feel too good." Robin nodded and said "Well really it's not your fault." she gave a smug grin and said "What would the princess feel if she knew?" Viper blushed and mumbled "I dare you..." Robin giggled.
A while later
The Merry finally returned to sea and the crew continued their journey. They eventually reached an island with super tall trees and animals. Viper opted to explore, curious about the island, and Luffy, Chopper, and Ussop went with him.
The group met a man who said his name was Tonjit and he said he'd been walking on the stilts for 10 years surviving off of fruit from the trees, needless to say he was happy to finally come down. Viper noticed a split haired man hiding in a bush and for some reason was extremely annoyed, he transformed and sent the split haired man and his group flying and returned to the group. Luffy said "Who was that?" Viper said "I don't know, probably some pervert. He was hiding in a bush with another man and a woman, who knows what they were doing in there!" Luffy nodded and said "Good job, we don't need perverts spying on us" the rest of the group, including Tonjit nodded and they returned to the Merry.
The group found the Merry trapped an a huge ship behind them. The rest of the crew were off the Merry and talking to another group of people. Viper walked over and said "Who are these guys?" Nami said "They said their captain went to challenge Luffy to a Davy Back fight" Viper said "We didn't meet anyo- OH!" Nami said "Did you see him?" everybody looked at Viper.
Viper said "Does your Captain have split hair?" the other group nodded and Viper chuckled "I thought he and two others were perverts spying on us so I sent them flying.. sorry about that." they gasped and scrambled back to their ship and sailed off. Nami turned to Viper and his group and said "You thought he was a pervert?!" Viper and the rest nodded, and Viper said "He was hiding in a bush with two other barely dressed people who had masks on! They were spying on us too! Sounds like a pervert to me.." Nami rubbed her forehead and sighed, then the crew heard a voice.
"Sounds like a pervert to me too." the crew turned around and saw a skinny man in a white suit, with an eye mask covering half his face. Viper said "Aren't you Admiral Aokiji? What are you doing here?" Robin paled and started shaking, Viper noticed and stood in front of her.
Aokiji said "I came to take a walk." he turned to Tonjit and said "I'll help you get back to your people." he walked to the sea and froze the water, making a path. Tonjit thanked him and walked along the ice, disappearing into the distance. Aokiji turned around and noticed Robin was gone and Viper was walking back to the group. He said "So the rumors are true, you're a pretty smart kid."
Viper smiled and said "I like to consider myself a genius, what made you come up with that conclusion?" Aokiji said "Well you probably knew why I came here as soon as you saw me didn't you." Viper lost his smile and said "Potentially, unless you leave right now and prove me wrong." the rest of the crew were confused and Aokiji waved his hand causing some Ice to appear and said "Normally I wouldn't bother, but I don't like the fact of Nico Robin running loose, so i'll have to decline."
Luffy punched Aokiji shattering him into pieces as Viper full transfromed and Zoro and Sanji got into a fighting stance. Aokiji appeared again out of the ice and said "Quite the ferocious group eh?" Viper smashed his tail against Aokiji, while Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy attacked him. He reformed again and said "It's useless, freeze" he pressed his palm on Viper's tail freezing him solid. Viper reverted to his human form in the ice, causing it to shatter. He landed on the ground and coughed up some blood as he stood up and looked at Aokiji wearily.
Luffy said "All of you run!" before he turned to Aokiji and said "Let's fight man to man!" and he punched Aokiji, shattering him again, Aokiji formed again and froze Viper solid before focusing on Luffy. Aokiji caught his punch and froze him too, the rest of the crew was already on the ship and Aokiji sighed "Wow he got me. I guess if I go after them now I would lose. Very clever Monkey D. Luffy." and he got on his bicycle and left the island.
The crew came back and saw Luffy and Viper frozen solid, Chopper grabbed them both and put them in a warm bath. Before long, Viper and Luffy were unfrozen, Viper took off his clothes and sat in the tub and sighed. Luffy was just sitting in the tub across from Viper with an unreadable expression on his face. Viper said "First I get cooked in Skypiea, now I get frozen.. Some people just don't know how to cook" he shook his head and tried to make Luffy laugh.
Luffy frowned and said "We almost died."
Viper said "You could say that." Luffy looked at him and Viper continued "But it just means we're not strong enough, we just need to get stronger is all. We just fought against one of the stronger people in the world, usually people don't live to tell the tale."
Luffy smiled and said "I guess. We do need to get stronger."
Viper got serious and said "I know a bit about the new world, if you want to hear it." Luffy nodded and Viper took a deep breath "In the new world there are 4 Yonko. Bigmom, Shanks, Kaido, and Whitebeard. If i'm not mistaken several of each other their crew can fight evenly with any of the admirals, if Aokiji fought against any of the Yonko he would lose. Luffy, I don't want to get 'that guy' but we are not prepared for the new world."
Luffy was silent and said "We'll get stronger, before we get there."
Viper nodded and said "I hope so." the crew burst into the room and saw Luffy and a naked Viper sitting in the tub, Viper said "Hey guys! Come in the water's fine!" Luffy chuckled and got out of the tub. Viper sighed and said "Can somebody get me a towel?" Chopper threw him a towel, he got up and wrapped the towel around his waist, he smiled and said "I almost became a snake popsicle there! hehehe"
Robin frowned and Nami said "Yeah and you also almost died!"
Viper waved her off and said "Yeah, but I didn't anyways where are we heading now? Who's steering the ship?" the crew left the room after mumbling something about steering the ship, Viper grabbed Robin's arm and said "Not you sis."
Robin turned to look at him and he closed the door, he turned back, sat down and said "How are YOU feeling?"
Robin remarked "Better than you."
Viper chuckled and said "Well said, now we're going to sit here, and talk nonsense until you tell me why you were shivering in fear at the sight of Ice-man. Weather's nice isn't it?"
Robin sat down and said "Very nice a bit chilly though, don't you find?"
Viper laughed and said "Yeah, should've worn a scarf. Fear is a very peculiar emotion don't you think? It tends to leave lasting memories, and triggers at irrationality."
Robin frowned and said "Irrationality?"
Viper nodded and said "Yes, how could a certain event imprint fear on a person's mind forever? Eventually you would forget the fear no? For example if you were scared of spiders as a child, you would grow up and eventually not be scared of spiders anymore. Your brain deems them a non threat. Some people however have no fear for anything like a certain rubber-man I know."
Robin quipped "Sometimes an event is enough to leave a lasting impression that doesn't go away."
Viper rubbed his chin and said "I can't relate, though I guess a death of a loved one" Robin visibly flinched, Viper noticed and continued "Or the loss of a home," she flinched again, as Viper continued "But that would leave me with more rage than fear."
Robin said "Most of the times fear, reflects a powerless situation."
Viper got up and smiled "You're not powerless anymore" and walked out of the room, leaving Robin to think about what he said.
A while later
Viper was sitting out on the deck in a chair and the crew spotted a frog doing the front crawl, he stood up and said "A frog doing the front crawl?" Luffy yelled "Follow that frog!" the Merry turned and followed the frog.
They came across a rail station, a little girl came out of the station and said "Granny! Pirates!" an older woman came of and dialed the snail. A voice came over the phone and said "This is the Marines state you emergency." the older woman said "Who is this? Why did you call? I don't have an emergency!" she slammed the phone down and continued to drink.
The Merry stopped in front of the station and Viper said "Hello-"
Luffy cut him off and said "Did you see that frog do the front crawl?!"
The older woman said "That's Yokozuna he usually-" the frog got sent flying by a passing train and the woman continued "There he goes."
Luffy said "Woah! Is he okay?"
The woman said "He's fine. I'm Kokoro, this is Chimney." as she pointed at the little girl. Chimney waved and pointed to the rabbit in her hands and said "And this is my pet cat Gonbe" Gonbe meowed. Viper's mouth was wide open and said "A rabbit that meows..." he turned to Robin and said "Slap me, I think i'm dreaming" Robin smirked and slapped him, he went flying and smashed into the Merry's railing. He sat up and looked dazed "I'm not dreaming but I think I just died..." Robin giggled.
Kokoro said "What are you doing here?" Luffy said "We need to repair our ship! Do you know anywhere we can go?" Kokoro said "If you follow the tracks, that way, you'll end up at Water 7. They have the best shipwrights in the world. Let me give you a letter, just bring it to a man named Iceburg, he works at Galley-la." Kokoro gave the crew a letter and the crew thanked her, then sailed off.
Viper was sitting on the deck listening to Luffy say what kind of shipwright he wanted, Viper piped in "Maybe he can be a robot! That way I can work on him." he suddenly had a gleam in his eyes, Nami backed off and said "I hate when he goes into mad scientist mode..." the rest of the crew, excluding Robin and Luffy, nodded.
Luffy said "WOAH A ROBOT THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!!"
Robin said "I think it's nice when he acts like that, very refreshing." the crew started backing away from Robin too.
A while later
The crew finally arrived at Water 7. After getting directions on where to dock their ship, twice, they dropped anchor on a deserted ship yard. Nami grabbed the bags of gold and forced Viper and Luffy to come with her, Ussop tagged along. Viper sighed and said "A taxi service yet again, maybe I should start charging fares..."
Nami punched him in the head and said "No, you shouldn't. Now hurry up and transform so we can load all the stuff on your back." Viper sighed and grumbled before transforming. He had all the bags along with Nami, Luffy, and Ussop on him and he flew off.
Later
Nami and the trio walked out of the gold exchange with several briefcases, Viper said "You're a demon, you know that?" Nami smiled and said "I got us more money didn't I?" Viper said "That poor guy is gonna have nightmares for weeks!" Nami waved him off and said "So? Not my problem, I got my money." Viper corrected "Our money." Nami said "Yeah yeah, my money.." Viper sighed and the group got directions to Galley-la and started walking towards it.