Towering Memories and Treasured Dreams

Floor 17: Usopp's Negativity and Sanji's Dream

"Hard to believe that someone dreamt up a giant of that size," Robin couldn't help but speak as she watched the towering giant's monstrous form. "I have no idea what kind of giant he is, but it certainly is fascinating."

"Fascinating?!" present-day Usopp barked at her. "That thing almost killed us all that night!"

"Doesn't mean that I can't be intrigued by it," she answered back with a shrug.

"You know, I really worry about you," present-day Usopp sighed as he shook his head. This woman wasn't normal. While he knew that for a long time now, he couldn't help but be slightly afraid of her even if she was a friend. How could she be so interested in such things? And have such a morbid mind? She's scarier than any zombie, isn't she?

But that wasn't the problem now. They were watching how their past selves were all standing on the broken bridge as Oars stood above them all. The memory versions of Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, and Franky were all staring up in shock at it as Oars slowly began moving.

Memory Franky, especially, wasn't wasting time in expressing his feelings about this whole thing.

"THIS THING IS TOO FREAKIN' HUGE, BROTHER!" he hollered in terror as he stared up at Oars. "AND LOOK AT THOSE HORNS! DID IT CLIMB UP FROM HELL OR SOMETHING?! I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS!"

"Wow, you sound freaked out," Luffy pointed out.

"Hey! I knew that your zombie was a giant, but I didn't expect him to be so huge!" present-day Franky snapped back. "How could I not freak out?!"

"And you yelling would have only got that thing's attention," Nami pointed out worriedly as Oars seemed to have been stunned by the fall. "If you're gonna yell, do it quieter."

"Oh, like you would have fared better if you were in our place!" present-day Franky snapped back. Maybe he was freaking out here, but hell, that thing was so big they didn't even realize that it wasn't a wall at first! He had met with giants before at Water 7, and he was expecting something along the lines of Oimo and Kashi. But this guy could step on those two giants and not even notice it. As for them? They were the size of cockroaches to him and he could have easily crushed them.

"Is it really a zombie?" memory Franky gulped down in fear. But he wasn't the only one either, for the memory versions of both Zoro and Sanji were looking up with nothing short of fear in their eyes as well.

"Holy crap," memory Zoro muttered.

"Luffy?" memory Sanji whispered.

"It's all over! He's gonna grind us up and make meat pies outta all of us!" memory Usopp cried out, already abandoning hope and ready to say his last words to them—all of which seemed to be along the lines that they were all gonna die. Not really something you wanna hear when you're about to kick the bucket... especially since they were so obvious.

But at last, Oars's one eye slowly turned to look down at them. Memory Usopp freaked out and ducked behind a large broken slab of stone when Oars spotted them—or at the least spotted the human-shaped flies below him. Oars then very slowly reached over their heads, forcing the three memory versions of Sanji, Zoro, and Franky to ready themselves for anything. But the massive hands, which could have crushed them under a single finger, instead grabbed hold of a giant piece of broken stairs.

"What is he gonna do?!" memory Usopp cried out as he was unable to stand up anymore. The others all readied themselves for the fight of their lives, ready to do something should the big guy try to use the stone to smash them.

"Is he really gonna...?" Chopper gasped in horror at the thought and he burst out crying, "HE'S GONNA FLATTEN YOU LIKE PANCAKES!"

"Not quite," present-day Sanji said firmly. "Luck was still on our side, at least for this moment."