"Now, you can turn people into toys".
"Yes".
"What kind of toys?"
"Any toys I want… if I don't will it they will become toys that most fit their nature".
"Hmn..."
It was finally time to have this precious conversation. Veyron was sitting in his now clean office after making sure all of his wives were nice and healthy, unexpectedly though, a new compromise had arisen in the North Blue.
'But I need to get things going here before I head there, so first I'll set up Monet and Sugar'.
For his plans to work it was imperious to know how exactly the ability of Sugar works.
"So the pre-condition of it, is that it has to be a toy that you know, right?" He imagined.
"That is correct, why are you asking all those questions?" She tilted her head in confusion, thinking that if he wanted to turn people into toys, he should have just said so, what was the need to try and understand how her power worked? No one so far had cared, Doflamingo certainly didn't.
According to them, the most important factor of her ability was the memory loss aspect. But Veyron didn't think that was correct.
"Because you're going to be helping me quite a bit, your power right now is very important to me".
"Is that so...? So if I behave and become a good girl, you won't do anything bad to me, right?"
Veyron smirked and ruffled her hair, "If I do anything bad to you is out of the question".
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"But at the very least you won't feel pain so don't worry".
It would take a while before he could forgive her... it would perhaps take her longer than it took Stussy who had barely committed any crime against his girls, let alone Sugar.
"That's not reassuring at all!".
"Beats me" He shrugged his shoulder and gave Monet a sideway glance, the girl was merely standing coyly to the side listening and not expressing an opinion, it seemed that so long as they weren't killed or tortured, she didn't care whatever they went through.
Likewise, he'd have a hard time forgiving Monet, but her submissive nature would earn her points very quickly, unlike Sugar.
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"Also, if I lose my consciousness all of the toys I have transformed will turn back to their respective races, that is the only downside of my ability".
He frowned profusely, recalling this little detail. It was a detail that could handicap his whole plan.
"What about when you're sleeping?"
"Nothing is wrong when I'm sleeping... but if I happen to have a nightmare that's too frightening for example, there is a possibility that it could disable my powers".
"So I have to keep you monitored... very well, it is a minor setback. Lastly, people turned into toys lose their memories and the memories recover once they stop being toys".
"Right, but as you know I can't alter reality. If enough hints are given, someone may be able to remember them".
"Cool, now…"
He grasped a chunk of metal and his hand turned into a barrage of lightning. He melted it using lightning, then reshaped it into what looked like a puppet made out of steel using his psychokinesis. The whole process made him look like nothing other than a god in front of their eyes.
The puppet was all made out of metal and it was the figure of a man with what looked like armour and holding a gun, all it needed was colours, but it was perfectly shaped.
"This is 'Max Steel' try playing with it".
He handed her over the toy but she looked rather disgruntled as that was simply not the type of toy she liked. She took it and saw that all limbs could be moved in all directions, it was a puppet made out of steel but the movements were smooth.
"How will I play with it? It is just a puppet and it is for boys, I don't like it".
He rolled his eyes and created another one then handed it to her, this time it was a gorgeous tall beauty what was most ridiculous was the malleability of the metal that served as her hair.
"This is Barbie".
"I like this one!"
Of course, she liked it and quickly began playing with the two of them, which set Veyron to start the second phase of the experiment. He went to another room and got two people who had been hiding, blindfolded.
Next to them, there was an Amazonian Lady who used to belong to the Kuja but was now a high-ranked city guard in Rusukaina.
"My god, are you taking them now?"
"Yes, nice job Mira. You can return to your post, I'll take care from here".
"I live to serve the Hebihime and my God. If you have any inconvenience with them, please say the word and I shall dispose of them and get new ones"
She took his palm and kissed it before retreating. It thrilled and scared Veyron at the same time how loyal the Amazonians have become, they were by far the most submissive to him but he could imagine that Hancock and Primrose had a lot to do with it.
Finishing with the pleasantries, he immediately made them levitate and took them to the room where Sugar and Monet were, the two prisoners didn't even know where they were but they heard the previous conversation.
This was the infamous Lightning God and as long as he was here, not even a Yonko or an Admiral could come and save them, their fate was sealed.
"Please let me go! I won't try to invade again!".
"Lightning God please have mercy!"
"You two tried to invade my island undocumented. Not only that but you have bounties of more than two hundred thousand bellies. Pirates are not allowed in Rusukaina, bear your fate... I sentence you to ten years of slavery under me~"
"T-Ten years...!"
"Just a mere ten years... surely you can resist until then, right pirates?".
"..."
They didn't like the sound of it, but they didn't have a choice either.
"Okay now, I want you to transform this man into Max Steel and this girl into Barbie" Veyron gave his order to Sugar who looked at the two people who she couldn't recognise.
"Wait please spare me!"
"Shut up, if you don't cooperate-" Veyron's tone raised.
"We will! bastard, shut up, will you!? I won't die alongside you!" The female prisoner was a lot more cooperative and went as far as to kick the guy in the gut, shutting him up.
"I'll try…" Sugar gulped.
She tried to turn the inmates into toys, trying to follow up with what she had just played and what ended up happening was that they became toys but not exactly what she had envisioned.
Veyron closed up on them and touched them.
'It is metal... just like I thought. She can manipulate the materials the toys are created with as well, albeit unconsciously'.
"How is it, master?" She asked.
"It is not bad but still far from perfect. I want to achieve many things with these experiments, Sugar. One of them is for you to completely dominate this power which is very useful to me... so we will keep trying until the results are satisfactory. Until now I deduce, the more you play with the toys, the more accurate they will be, so just keep doing that... I'll make many toys for you and you just keep playing with them".
"R-Really? That's all?"
"Yes, for now, that's all".
"That's... wonderful! I will do it!"
"..."
'How come she's so happy now? is she that eager to play with toys?'.
She was supposed to be older than Monet which would place her around her early thirties, but she didn't behave like a kid at all.
"Yes, maybe if I play with them a bit more-" Sugar shivered, thinking she would be punished for her failure.
"Do so… you can try again as many times as you want. I want them to be exact replicas, got it?"
"Yes, master".
"Good. Monet, you're next".