Chapter 92

Inside a luxurious room in the top of the hotel of Alabasta's capital.

Lucas was wearing his mask facing Crocodile standing next to the window.

Robin stood next to the door not believing from her heart that this guy can defeat Crocodile. Even though she knew how much strong is the self-claimed by name Zorro, she knew how strong crocodile is.

Crocodile was a Logia fruit eater, and by that, he was iminium to the physical attacks, he has control over the element of the sand and the ability morph his body.

His power allows him to use powerful techniques such as making sandstorms and drying the lands. One of the scariest powers that Crocodile had and Robin witnessed, was the power to dry up people in instant. She once, saw him in the bar grabbing a man from his throat. In less than a second, the man was dried up as he lost all of the water in his cells.

'Should I help him or should I wait some more? If I wait too much then Crocodile may win, but if I help him now, I could get myself killed on the spot' Robin knew that to defeat Crocodile, this Zorro would have to exploit Crocodile's weakness. He must either cover himself with water or cover Crocodile with water.

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"I'm sorry for making you wait for too long", Lucas said.

"You will apologize with your life" replied Crocodile.

The air between Lucas and Crocodile started to turn yellow as sand flew from Crocodile's body.

Still supporting his back on the wall, Lucas turned his eyes to Nico Robin, who had her hand inside her white suit's pocket. He used Haki and knew that she was clenching her hand on a tube of water. He wasn't surprised to know that she is secretly planning to help him. Unlike him, who is saving Alabasta for a selfish reason, she has a noble reason to stop Crocodile.

'Is he ignoring me!?' some veins appeared on Crocodile's forehead when he saw Lucas's eyes at Robin, not at him. Crocodile thought that Zorro was just overconfidence in himself because he never met someone with Logia ability yet.

"Keep that water with you, maybe you will get thirsty and would need something to wet your throat," Lucas said, then he looked back to Crocodile. He didn't need Robin's help at all.

Robin opened her eyes widely, how did he know what she was planning to do. Does he have the confidence to face Crocodile, no, that's impossible...Obviously, he was ignorant of what a Logia devil fruit user can do. But how did he know that she has water?

"Before killing you, let me ask you, did you come across the other agents?" Crocodile thought about something and his eyes became chillier.

"Are you talking about the slice guy, huh? he was soft as butter. I subbed him like this, and he fell, I don't know if he is still alive though" Lucas stabbed with his rapier in the air demonstrating how he did with Mr.1.

"This means that you've made my plan fail" Crocodile's facial expression became uglier. not only did he ruin his plan A, but also plan B as well. Does he have something against him to do all of that? Crocodile's right arm morphed into sand that floated around.

Crocodile had one hand, as for his left hand, it was replaced by a golden sharp hook that was covered by gold now.

"Blame your luck for sharing your fate with me." Lucas pointed his fingers at Crocodile who was 8 meters away from him. His armament Haki wasn't visible since he wore black gloves.

"Take this!" The sand from his right arm extended and took the shape of five giant sharp blades that extended and flew toward his Zorro.

«Finger gun». Lucas's finger shook in an instance, *Pew*, and from his finger, a compressed air bullet flew toward Crocodile's chest. The compressed air bullet was moving faster than the sand blades.

Lucas's finger gun pierced through the blades and continued toward Crocodile with breathtaking speed.

Crocodile didn't worry himself to dodge, because of the second that compressed air hit his chest, it will pass through his body without doing any real damage. And this blondie would learn what fear is.

Crocodile smirked. But at that moment, his sand stopped moving and his right arm took back its original shape. The smile on his face froze as he felt some pain in his chest. Crocodile looked to his chest to see a wound that had blood getting out of it.

"Impossible!". Crocodile put his hook on his wound to see blood dripping on it. How could this happen; he was a logia devil fruit user, and as long as he doesn't get wet he would be invincible. But now some compressed air hurt him.

'Impossible, did he know about his weaknesses and he didn't need water.' Robin opened her jaw not believing that Crocodile can be hurt without exploiting his weakness.

Lucas used the observation Haki to see the near future and knew how Crocodile would react next. Crocodile didn't waste time to enter a state of denial, this could be left for later.

He saw Zorro pointing his finger toward his head. *Pew*.

As his finger shook, Crocodile's whole body turned into sand and fell to the ground. Now, the ground was full of living sand. Knowing he would react this way, Lucas pointed his finger toward one spot in the ground and shot another «Finger gun». The compressed air hit the yellow sand and a cry of pain was heard.

"Argh!" the sand on the ground gathered itself and formed Crocodile holding his left shoulder with his hand. Crocodile just has realized that he can't depend on his Devil Fruit's defence. He needed to take things more seriously now.

His eyes moved across the room and stopped on his partner, Miss All Sunday, who stood next to the door and doing nothing. This was unacceptable. Even after seeing the situation, she didn't land her hand to help.

With her devil fruit ability, Crocodile is sure that she can restrict this blondie's movements and cause the battle to take another turn.

"MISS ALL SUNDAY, WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND HIS NECK AND LEGS!!" Crocodile shouted. If she does this, then he would be able to kill him.

"Sorry, mister Crocodile. I stopped doing this since I sent my ears" Robin replied as she took two steps back and held her ear. Her n.i.p.p.l.es suddenly became hard as she remembered the feeling from that day Lucas's licked her ear.

Both Crocodile and Lucas glared at her. The first wanted to kill her for her betrayal, as for the latter, he saw her smiling at his face, did she discovers his identity. Well, he didn't hide when he taught her a lesson about privacy that day, so it wasn't anything really.

"You…" Crocodile clenched his teeth. At that moment, Lucas saw the near future and knew what Crocodile would do. Crocodile would touch the ground and the hotel would dry up to before collapsing. To escape to the dessert, Crocodile is willing to destroy this building, kill the innocent people below. Well, it's not the first time Crocodile do so.

"No, you won't." Lucas used one step Shave, which can be executed in 1/10 the time of usual shave. He vanished as he appeared in front of Crocodile before he could touch the ground. Crocodile found a foot kicking him on his face and sending him flying out of the window. Lucas ran a few steps and jumped from the window to follow the falling Crocodile who could float since he is the sand.

Seeing Lucas following him from the window, Crocodile opened his hand and a small tornado appeared on his palm. He aimed with his eyes and yelled: "Sandstorm".

Crocodile waved his arm and the small yellow tornado extended and became a gigantic stand storm. It flew toward Zorro and swallowed him.

Everyone in the street who has yet to sleep could see the sandstorm next to the hotel.

Crocodile knew that this won't be enough, he put his hand on his right arm, and a poisoned blade appeared. Once this poison touches Lucas's skin, he would die a painful and quick death. Crocodile's left arm turned into sand and extended carrying the hook with it toward Lucas.

Lucas's reaction to this was to use Kami-E, which allowed his body to go limp in order to dodge. With the high level of Kami-E, Lucas's body was able to use the muscle memory to use the techniques to dodge and have faster reaction time. In the middle of the sandstorm, Lucas kicked the air bellow him unconsciously to avoid the hook, then he kicked the air again to get out from the sandstorm.

Crocodile saw him piercing through the storm and appears next to it. Crocodile prepared another sandstorm to unleash. But then Lucas waved his rapier sending a gigantic fast compressed air blade, it was so fast, that it was hard to react to.

The compressed air blade hit Crocodile in the middle making a big deep wound appears on his chest and stomach. The air blade wasn't only sharp, but also strong enough to create an impact that did extra damage.

"Argh" Crocodile was in a state between life and death as he fell on the ground.

[Ding, Defeating Crocodile + 350.000 acc.u.mulated XP]

[Sand-Sand fruit is in the storage now]

Lucas quickly descended on the ground. He used his Haki to make sure that no one is looking at him, then he put Crocodile in his storage. He would keep him there until Crocodile lose his seat as a warlord.

After arresting him, Lucas would have to take him to Impel Down personally. Going to Impel down is a chance for Lucas to take the Devil fruits of the prisoners secretly. Since all of the prisoners in the Impel down are tied by Sea stone, no one would be able to tell that.

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Lucas walked a few steps in some street. When he was between isolated houses, a tall blue-eyed tanned woman crossed his path.

He didn't expect her to follow him, but he could feel it. Robin who got out of the door when he fought with Crocodile.

"Oh, didn't you forget to arrest me, Zorro" Robin put her palm on his cheek and looked to his eyes. " Or, should I call you, Commodore Lucas."

Lucas didn't seem to be surprised by her claim. He took his hat off, then he took his mask off his face showing his usual look, but with a smooth blond hair.

He smirked " how is your ear, is it fine"

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