It wasn't that Usopp thought things had gone perfectly last night, but they'd certainly gone well. Weapons made, a few more projects struck off the list, and now a new place to explore. And exploring was fun. Exploring was great. There was absolutely no point in dressing him up in sweatpants and a baggy flannel shirt, then handing him a bag that was filled with food, if they were just being herded onto the buses to make it easier to gas everyone at once, or to lock the doors and send the bus careening over a cliff, or to take them to a new testing center even worse than Landel's where the leeches were the size of Usopp and...

The nurses, with polite cajoling and a bit of pushing, managed to get him on the bus and in a seat despite his protests concerning the sudden flare-up of his chronic 'I cannot go on this field trip or I'll die' disease. Finally placed, he was shaking and staring out the windows, trying not to hyperventilate. Think about Sai smacking you on the back last night. That was funny, right? ...Poor Sai will die without ever really understanding what friendship is!

Usopp was definitely not going to start crying on the bus. Definitely. He bit his lower lip and chewed, though not hard enough to draw blood.

Could he slip through one of those weird, thin windows if he had to...?