'Who is the victor? Devil Fruit Power Showdown! '

Shanks supposedly stole enormous riches from Buggy. Then Buggy went into a flashback. ' A young Shanks and a young Buggy were arguing about something to do with the North Pole and the South Pole. They continued a bit before they got plonked on the head, by a tall man with an interesting beard shape.

'Wait for a second! ' Luffy exclaimed after seeing the man, fully ignoring the Shanks and Buggy fight.

'What is it? '

'I 'm pretty sure that's Rayleigh, he WAS on Roger 's ship with those two. '

'It is Rayleigh, ' Ryo spoke up from the corner of the room.

'Yay! I got it right! ' Luffy grinned at seeing his mentor.

Rayleigh reprimanded the two boys for fighting, and a few moments later an enemy ship was spotted. Buggy set his aim at plundering the enemy ship, but Shanks didn't seem to care for that. After taking down a pirate, Buggy found a treasure map. Later at the victory celebration, the young clown was by himself looking at the map, before Shanks joined him. The two then discussed what they would do when they go their way and the fact that Shanks was too soft-hearted.

'This is quite wholesome, I wasn't expecting that, ' Robin was surprised, not unpleasantly of course.

'Yeah, I cannot see why he would be angry at Shanks, they don't seem to have any bad blood, ' Sanji added.

Buggy then asked about the loot that they got, and Shanks shared that a Devil Fruit had been found. At first, Buggy didn't seem interested, but when he found out that it could sell for a lot, then he was. The next day, Buggy put on a mock show and faked eating said Devil Fruit. He had convinced the crew that it had been a fake. After that, he sat in a row boat and made plans to jump the ship.

'He doesn't have any honor, does he? '

'I don't think you need to ask that question. '

But before any of it happened, Shanks snuck up on him and unintentionally scared him. Buggy hid the Devil Fruit in his mouth. Shanks then briefly walked away again, after scolding his friend for stealing from the kitchen. But he came back instantly, scaring Buggy again. This time he swallowed the Devil Fruit. He instantly got angry at his red-haired friend.

'Oh ' ' everyone sweatdropped at that, having gotten an explanation for Sanji 's statement from earlier.

'Honestly, I would also be angry at that, ' Nami admitted.

At Buggy 's outburst, the treasure map had fallen overboard. To save it, the round-nosed boy jumped over the railing into the sea. But the moment he touched the water, he couldn't move. Shanks became concerned when Buggy didn't resurface for a while and jumped into the water as well. This ended the flashback. Luffy didn't seem to understand what the clown man 's problem was.

'That is an incredibly stupid reason to be mad at someone for years, ' Jinbei stated. The clown was almost the same person as he was at Impel Down and Marineford.

'Also, I'm pretty sure he benefited from the Chop-Chop Fruit, ' Chopper added his own two cents.

Buggy had decided to give up on the underwater treasure and focus on gathering all the treasure on land. After declaring that he won't forgive anyone that touches his treasure, he lunged at Nami who was dragging away a big bag of the clown 's beloved treasure.

'How dare he attack a woman! I 'll kill him! '

But he only lunged with his upper half, leaving his bottom half unguarded and full in Luffy 's control. The first thing he did was kick Buggy in the balls to halt his movements towards Nami.

'Oh god, Luffy! NO! ' Usopp cried in phantom pain.

'Luffy YES! ' Luffy cackled at that, even though he also felt mildly bad. Only mildly though.

'I see a lot of things in this crew get solved by hurting a man 's balls, ' Franky griped, confusing Brook and Jinbei.

Suddenly, a village-style camp was shown, where a man with glasses noted to a bunch of other people that the mayor had never been away for that long. They all decided that they were going to check out what was happening in town because they were worried about their mayor.

'Are these all the townspeople that Buggy scared away? '

'Yep! '

The eye-catchers now included Nami.

'Oh, Nami-swan! They finally acknowledged your beautiful self. They should 've done that a while ago. Of course, they should add Robin-chwan as well! ' Sanji twirled to many people 's annoyance, but they let him, for he had already been holding himself back with it.

Luffy told Nami to leave the treasure and get away from there. Nami outright refused and claimed that the treasure was hers, which got Buggy to raise his head again. Nami disclosed, again, that she was a thief who stole from pirates. Buggy was getting angrier and offhandedly asked to know what upbringing the girl had.

'Less than perfect, I'll tell you that. '

Buggy used Chop-Chop Festival and broke apart into a lot of pieces, but Luffy noticed that his feet were still on the ground, quietly walking away. The young captain grabbed one of the feet and pulled it out of its shoe. Buggy burst out laughing as Luffy tickled the foot. It scared the crap out of Nami though. Luffy kept torturing poor Buggy 's foot, making him make various interesting noises and faces.

'So that is what was happening, ' Nami finally pieced together the puzzle pieces.

'Luffy, you sure are a foul player, ' Zoro teased his captain.

'I'm a pirate, shishishi, ' Luffy answered cheerfully.

Buggy took a brief moment to scold Luffy, but in that brief moment, Nami whacked him with her bag of treasure. But Buggy was either prepared for that or he just got lucky, but he caught the bag. Now the pirate and thief were playing tug of war with the treasure. Just as the clown was about to harm Nami, Luffy came in clutch and stomped in his face.

'Thank you! '

'No problem, that's what I'm here for. '

Somewhere in that altercation, the bag holding all the goodies broke and sent its contents all over the street. Buggy was lying on the ground in pieces

'Looking at that still hurts, ' Nami groaned at the sight.

'Rest in pieces, I guess, ' the green-headed swordsman uttered, despite himself. Nami choked out a laugh, getting weird looks in the process.

'That was good, ' she exclaimed in between her snickers, making a blush form on the usually stoic man 's cheeks.

Luffy decided that the finishing move was from the mayor. Nami thanked him and claimed to owe him one.

'You have already claimed all of what I have owned to you, so I am not in debt to you anymore. ' 'That 's a lie. I will always owe you one. '

'I am aware, ' Luffy laughed at that.

During the time Nami and Luffy were talking, Buggy had woken up, baffling the hell out of the straw hat-wearing boy. Nami instantly bolted. But when Buggy attempted to reassemble himself, he found that only his feet and hands made it back to his head.

This made everyone laugh out loud, or at least chuckle. He looked ridiculous.

It was revealed that the reason Nami ran was to tie up any loose body parts she could find. Luffy laughed and stretched his arms way behind him. With a Gum-Gum Bazooka, he launched Buggy so far into the air that he disappeared out of sight like Alvida did.

'He is going to feel that landing in the morning, ' Usopp winced in almost pity.

'I hope he did, ' Nami spat.

The few Buggy pirates that had been watching decided that it was safer to just act unconscious. Luffy slowly picked up his torn hat and put it on his head again. Nami, after seeing how much the hat meant to Luffy, promised to fix it later. But Luffy didn't hear it the first time, so Nami denied saying anything.

'Why did you deny it? ' Chopper asked innocently.

'I wasn't ready to admit that I didn't hate him. '

'You came around eventually, so it's fine, ' Sanji reassured her, and she gave her a grateful smile.

The thief girl had at some point split the treasure into two smaller bags and asked Luffy to carry one of them. She said that the treasure should measure up to around 10 million berries.

'Carrying that much money with me would make my heart pump out of my chest, ' Brook admitted, before realizing that he didn't have a heart and thus made a Skull Joke.

To make it even with Luffy, Nami gave him the map for the Grand Line. Luffy was over the moon about that decision and decided to ask whether Nami was going to join his crew. Once more, the girl denied his request but decided to keep the alliance going. Luffy, making do with what he could, decided to wake up Zoro, who had been deeply sleeping through the entire commotion.

'That was a good nap, not gonna lie, ' Zoro thought back with a satisfied grin.

'After battle naps do be hitting different, ' Usopp agreed with a grin of his own.

The captain informed Zoro that they got the map and a navigator. At the word 'navigator ' and seeing Nami, Zoro seemed not entirely happy. Nami gulped under the swordsman 's heavy gaze. After that, Zoro decided that he was out of blood and couldn 't walk.

'It would make sense that you wouldn't be able to walk with that injury, ' Chopper stated, quietly pleased with the sense of self-preservation, their idiot swordsman showed for once. 'Even though I've never seen you this 'wimpy ' '

'Now that you mention it, for the entire time I 've known you, you have never complained about something like this and have tried to immediately walk it off, ' Robin observed with interest.

'I think sailing with Luffy has completely eaten away the part of his brain that knows when he is too injured, ' Sanji offered and added quietly, he didn't feel like fighting again at that point 'Not he had much of a brain, to begin with. '

'Do not blame me for that, ' Luffy blurted out, annoyed.

Zoro just took in all of those observations and eventually did conclude that he had stopped whining about injuries and learned to just power through them until his task had been completed. But it was necessary. In the Grand Line, you couldn't get by, if you paid attention to every single injury. It was dangerous even in East Blue.

'You really should try to stop not worrying about your injuries. I don't think I can become the Pirate King without you, ' Luffy said in a serious tone.

'I will take that into account, ' Zoro said, slightly taken aback by his captain 's words.

'So we 're both necessary for his journey to become the Pirate King, ' Sanji deducted. He didn't know whether to be happy that everyone seemed to be declared important on this journey or jealous that he wasn't the only one that got to hear those words.

Nami expressed the need to help the mayor as he was still knocked out. Although before that the townspeople arrived and asked for details about what happened. Before long, the citizens noticed their mayor knocked out on the ground. ' In a super smart move, Luffy admitted to being the one that knocked out the mayor. This got every person on Luffy 's case, and they demanded to know who they were. In another very intelligent move, Luffy confessed to being a pirate.

Usopp whacked Luffy on the head for that.

'Now that I see myself doing that, I can see that it was a stupid move. Genuinely seemed not that stupid at the time, ' the dark-haired boy recognized timidly.

'Well, we're glad that you can see that. '

This for some reason was hilarious to Zoro, and he laughed as the commotion was happening. Luffy crouched near him and heaved him partially on his back, as well as giving an order to run. They ran for a bit and then turned into an alleyway, jumping over Chou Chou in the process. Before the townspeople managed to catch up to the pirates plus one thief, the small dog barked at them, stopping the people in their tracks. No matter how relentless the crowd was, Chou Chou kept barking.

'Aw, he was protecting you, ' Chopper squeaked happily.

'He 's a good dog, no doubt about it, ' Jinbei agreed.

After running for a little while, the trio made it to Nami 's boat. To everyone's surprise, the three Buggy Pirates, that got swindled by Nami and picked up by Zoro, were on the boat.

'They were waiting the entire time? That's some dedication to capture you, Nami-swan. '

'Dedication to be stupid. '

One of the idiots, pat Zoro 's head and, got back a glare that made all three of them cry tears of fear. In the town, its mayor finally woke up. He was surprised by the surrounding destruction. He complained about getting treated roughly, but when the rest of the people started doing the same, he got angry. After hearing that the trio went towards the port, he hurriedly started making his way there too.

'So Luffy-kun and the rest of you, just keep befriending towns, huh? ' Jinbei analyzed in a laid-back way.

'Seems so, ' Zoro acknowledged with a smirk.

The trio grabbed two boats, one for the boys, and one for Nami. When they were a little ways from the port, the mayor caught up with them. After taking a little breather, he thanked them for saving the town. Luffy told him not to worry about it and to take it easy. It was then that the mayor noticed one of the treasure bags that Nami had been carrying. That was also the moment Nami was notified of one of the bags being left behind. Luffy defended his decision by bringing forth that the town needed to be repaired. As a punishment, Nami attempted to drown her future captain, while Zoro laughed at their antics.

'Well, for better or worse, looks like a navigator 's joined our journey '

Zoro 's voice narrated for a moment.

'That was, definitely, my own thoughts, thank you, ' Zoro almost whined.

'Sorry, Nami, if I had known, what the treasure was for, I wouldn't have left it behind, ' a very guilty-sounding Luffy apologized to his money-loving navigator.

'It's in the past now, don't worry about it, ' Nami dismissed his worries. It had caused her panic at first, but now that everything is over, it was nothing to fret over.

After the camera panned into the sky, the scene changed to grass, with familiar boots walking into the frame. Usopp was shown in intimidating lighting.

To be continued.

'That's me! The Great Captain Usopp! ' Usopp hollered in pure joy, while Luffy and Chopper hyped him on.

'We 'll see you then, huh? ' Franky mused with a laugh. He was excited to see how the dude could handle pirates for the first time.

'Before Usopp dies from excitement. Next episode! '