Author's note: Hello to all my loyal followers i'm back with another chapter of forging on. We are back to the trio and the strawhats for this chapter. This chapter has a major focus on Alex and his recovery from his last fight and something about him I've been very subtly hinting at. Lets see if anyone can figure it out with the more obvious evidence in this chapter. And sorry this chapter took so long i couldn't figure out how to reveal this LITTLE aspect of Alex's personality. Sorry if the chapter is a bit short but i really wanted to focus on one thing in this chapter and any extra detail would take away from that. Anyway hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I dont own Halo or One Piece

"I told you doing that was a horrible idea" Vykan pointed out with no small amount of irritation as he dabbed a cold towel over Alex's smouldering torso.

Alex hissed out a curse as the clothes touched his charred skin. "Yeah i get it it was a bad idea. Now can't you just helYAHH!" vykan released the small amount of pressure he had put behind his hand and shook his head as a insincere apology.

"Alex this whole situation is your own doing i'll help you as much as I can but you get to face the consequences on your own you'll be bedridden for weeks if your lucky. Honestly I'm surprised you made it back to the ship in the shape you're in. You pretty much cooked yourself from the inside out if it had been just the surface i could help you easily but because the burns are mostly focused in the muscle i can't the only thing you can do is stay in bed until i say you can get up. If you ever want to walk again I would take that advice."

"Yeah yeah fine I will. Just make sure you don't get into too much trouble while I'm out of commission."

"Alex you shouldn't be talking i deliberately told you that idea of yours was stupid and now look at you."

"Yeah but it was damn cool when I did it scared the shit out of that woman."

"And look at yourself you're gonna be stuck in bed for weeks because of it."

"Alright I learned my lesson I won't do that again its stupid how much this hurts."

"Well several weeks of bedrest and you'll be fine just don't do anything to aggravate your injuries."

Alex laid his head back on the pillow and reached his bandaged right arm up to rub his forehead. "whatever you say doc."

Vykan shook his head and walked out of the small cabin luffy had given Alex for the duration of his recovery.

Vykan walked out to see the Nalia and Vivi standing outside the door. Nalia was the first to address him. "So is he ok?"

"Yes he'll be fine a couple weeks of bedrest is all he needs."

"Well that's good i was worried it would be worse than that but the strongest member of our little group will be out of commission on the next island and there's no telling what will be there."

"We'll address that when the time comes but for now he needs bed rest and good food to recover quickly."

"I'll make sure that idiot cook keeps him fed well he can't seem to resist the request of a specimen such as myself." Nalia grinned and pulled the collar of her shirt down slightly to accentuate her point.

Vivi giggled and blushed slightly at her friends point having seen the cooks antics for herself. Before assuring the confused looking alien. "Sanji will listen to us alex will be taken care of."

Vykan looked between the two lost as to what had just transpired before him. He shook his head deciding it was just one of the human things he had not yet come to understand. Despite his years spent fighting alongside the race. He decided he would go keep to himself for now preferably away from these people and their strange ways. With a shake of his head in annoyance he said one thing before walking away. "Just keep Alex healthy."

Alex scoffed to himself as he ate the food he had been provided he angrily bit into the steak sanji had cooked to perfection. Of course only a week after he started recovering they had arrived on a new island and he was stuck on the ship while the rest of the crew got to explore their new surroundings. Vykan was the only one to stay behind with him but his alien companion was nowhere to be found at the moment. He grabbed a book off the dresser beside him and dove into it determined to salvage some kind of entertainment. But that didn't stave off his boredom and he soon fell asleep.

He awoke with a book resting over his face to which he was not very happy with he pulled the book off his nose and threw the book back onto the nightstand he leaned back and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. Once that was done he sat up and stretched out his back putting his arms back down he noticed a piece of paper stuck to his sweaty right forearm. He peeled the corner off his arm to see what it was. He didn't know what to expect a note or something maybe but this caught him off guard. It was an intricate drawing of Luffy down to the very smallest detail. Their were measurements all over the drawing for height arm and leg length even several possible weights to the side of it.

Above the drawing was several paragraphs of extremely small writing discussing possible weaknesses strengths even estimations about how far he could stretch his body. The paragraph next to it seemed to be a strategy about how to beat him. Which consisted of getting him angry and then luring him to a standing water supply or if that was not available extreme heat would be the best option covenant plasma weapons being the source of that heat.

Alex scratched his head a bit confused about who would have left this in his room. He sat the paper off to one side of him but noticed the small stack of papers each one held a drawing of one of his new companions. The drawings just like the first were accurate to the smallest detail and each contained similar descriptions of the person in the sketch. What alarmed him was the amount of detail present within the counter strategies for each person. Ussop Nami and Vivi were written off as non threats but the rest however weren't given the same treatment. Nalia and luffy were the two biggest threats to whoever wrote these.

The strategy against Nalia was about luring her to water or if that doesn't work use her enhanced sense against her very loud noises or particularly foul smells would most likely force her back into a full human state due to how severe her senses would make those. He also found detailed body measurements of all three of her forms as well as estimated capabilities of each.

Sanji and zoro were noted to have monstrous strength for their size, zoro in particular had several sketches of his odd 3 sword fighting style and how it could be countered their were few strategies but one was to blind him somehow so that he could no longer track his opponents movement. And to disarm and subdue him from there.

Sanji was fairly straight forward based on the fact that he never used his hands during a fight to the point that he even blocked most of the time with his legs as well. The strategy was to overwhelm his defensive abilities by using hand as well as foot combat to give them the edge in a fight. At least that was the strategy if guns were unavailable. He threw away the last paper to reveal a paper with large writing reading. "We can't trust them."

Alex sat the papers aside and leaned back in the bed he would have to ask Vykan about this when he next saw him this seemed like a pretty important turn of events.

Vykan honestly didn't care if they had to stay on the island for the log pose to record it that didn't require the entire ship to disembark. And yet the captain had insisted he accompany him on his little outing and had got us into this whole mess. The idiot was lucky they hadn't been killed by the mercenaries waiting on the island. He was currently lugging himself back to the ship nalia was supporting half of his weight since the wax he had taken in had weakened him more than it had the humans. He could only assume it was because sangheili lungs were more specialized than human ones. He had noticed that due to some humans habit of smoking his kinds body seemed to be admittedly less durable than humans in that aspect. Not that he would admit that to anyone of course.

For now he just wanted to get back to the ship and off the damn island. He honestly wanted to have some of the chefs food and then check on Alex after that a long nap was in order mainly for his body to recover from the days events. They arrived back at the ship and ate a small dinner to prepare for the following morning since the giants had promised to help them get off the island. After the food vykan felt good enough to walk to check on Alex. He found Alex sitting on the bed closely examining a small stack of papers. He looked up when he walked in. " Hi V did you draw these i found them in here when i woke up from a nap? Do you not trust any of them?"

Vykan looked at him curiously wondering why his friend seemed so concerned at the moment. He grabbed the offered papers and looked them over lazily at first but that grew into alarm when he saw exactly what was written on each. "No Alex I've never seen these before. But can i take these to look into i have a bad feeling about this."

Alex looked both relieved and more concerned at the same time "Yeah i don't want them they make me nervous to be honest. By the way can you get something for me to eat im starving?"

"Yes Alex I'll be back shortly." with that said he quickly left the room his fist clenched and shook violently when he was out of Alex's view a scowl tore across his face as he set off to find Nalia he found her talking to Nami on the deck of the ship. He grabbed her and pulled her away from the other woman.

"What the hell V I was talking to her!" but her protest was cut short when she saw the look of rage mixed with intense worry written all over the aliens features. "Vykan what's wrong did something happen?!"

"We need a private place to talk until we get there all I can say is that Alex has been away from our ship for far to long."

Nalia looked at him dumbfounded but nodded and they made their way into the depths of the ship.