'A terrifying, mysterious power! Captain Buggy, the Clown Pirate! '

After Luffy fell from the sky, it didn't take Nami much time to use the situation to her advantage.

'B-Boss! You came to save me! ' 'Wha-? Who are you? ' 'Sorry, but they're all yours now! '

'You didn't ' '

Nami blushed and hunched over in shame. 'I'm sorry, Luffy ' '

'It's alright. It has been for a while now, ' Luffy soothed his navigator.

The Buggy pirates bought right into it, and one of them punched Luffy 'in an angle that knocked off his hat.

'Now they've done it, ' Sanji sighed.

That pissed Luffy off, and he punched the scarred pirate who punched him. '

Don't touch my treasure '.

It didn't take long for Luffy to take them all out. After that, Nam approached him again. After Luffy revealed that he didn't remember her, Nami introduced herself as a thief who steals from pirates.

'Hey, wanna team up with me? '

'A thief who steals from pirates and a pirate, what could go wrong, ' Zoro chuckled sarcastically.

'Absolutely nothing 'absolutely nothing, ' Nami chuckled along, mildly confusing everyone else, but Luffy who also smiled.

'No. I don't feel like teaming up with you. '

'I didn't know her, okay? And she stole from pirates, ' Luffy whined as Sanji crossed over Usopp to grab his Captain by his collar for rejecting a Lady.

'Not knowing someone hasn't stopped you before, just take Brook for example, ' Usopp complained from under Sanji.

'Yeah, but Brook is a walking skeleton with an afro, ' Luffy said like that explained everything and finally pushed Sanji back to his seat, where he thankfully remained.

Luffy complained about being hungry, and Nami offered to treat him to food.

'Nothing is free in this world, ' the navigator exclaimed before anyone had a chance to say anything.

The next scene showed Buggy asking about the progress of catching Nami and why the map was taken. After getting a less than ideal answer for the latter, in more ways than one. He went on about his nose not being funny.

'Was he born like that? It isn't a fake nose? ' Chopper whispered. He hadn't taken into account that that was an actual nose. It was weird.

'It is real, and I wouldn't mention it to him if I were you, ' Luffy lightheartedly warned Chopper.

Buggy then used his Devil Fruit power to raise the man in front of him, off the ground. After the man promised not to talk about his Captain's nose again, Buggy let him go. The scene cut back to Luffy, now eating a burger, while Nami was informing him that all the villagers left because they were terrified of Buggy.

'At this point, there's nothing that could convince me that Buggy is scary, ' Luffy sighed, that guy was just lucky that things kept working out for him.

The navigator revealed her plan to collect 100 million berries. That was also when Luffy realized that Nami was a navigator, so he asked her to join his crew. She was excited until she found out he had a pirate crew.

'There's nothing I hate more in this world than pirates! '

'He's one of the good ones, you idiot, ' Nami mentally cursed herself

'There, there Nami-san, ' Jinbei tried to comfort the woman, knowing that her plight was more or less his fault.

Despite the outright refusal, Luffy asked again, which got refused for the second time. Outside the house, the Buggy Pirates were still in search of Nami. She then had an idea. Seemingly, she was going to join if certain conditions were met. Luffy eagerly agreed to it. It being meeting Buggy the Clown while tied up.

'This can only go in one of two ways, ' Franky said, trying hard to keep himself from laughing and getting a very terrifying stare from Robin and a very familiar hand motion from her, at the kind of suggestion he was making.

'Sorry 'again, ' Nami leaned past Franky to tell Luffy and got an affirming nod back.

After the three men, who Luffy knocked out, admitted to their failure to capture Nami, Buggy freaked out. That was cut short by one of his men announcing that Nami came back on her own. She walked in front of the clownman and pushed Luffy onto his face. She then declared that she had captured the map thief, that being his 'Boss ' who she had a fight with and now is fed up with.

'It's kind of funny that your fake boss would become your actual boss in a little while, ' Brook yohohoho 'd.

'It's certainly a weird thing to think about. '

Buggy permitted the orange-haired girl to join the crew, clearly playing into Nami 's hand. As a result, though, Luffy was put into a cage. And after that, the pirates threw a party.

'Ignoring the fact that Luffy is in a cage, these dudes know how to party, ' Sanji determined.

'Don't ignore the fact that I'm in a cage. '

After a while, Buggy ordered his men to prepare a Special Buggy Ball. That Buggy Ball was shot by a cannon into the nearby houses, destroying them completely.

'That has some funk in it, ' Franky almost admired. 'If it wasn't used in this situation, I would applaud him.

This caught the attention of Zoro, who had just docked into the town's port, with his own three Buggy pirates. Back with Nami, Buggy declared that he was going to rule the Grand Line, to which Luffy replied:

'I 'm the one who's going to rule the Grand Line! I'm going to be the King of the Pirates '

This sent a wave of cheers through some Straw Hats as if they hadn't heard their Captain say that a million times.

This pissed off Buggy and after a bit of small talk with Nami, he gave her permission to use a Buggy Ball to blow Luffy away. Even though Nami attempted to save Luffy from it, she was forced to do it anyway.

'What's the matter? Your hands are shaking! That's what happens when you take on pirates with half-assed resolve. '

'Why is he so wise only in rare situations, ' Jinbei contemplated as he side-eyed Luffy. 'Could there be more to him than I currently realize? '

'Resolve to do what? To kill people like It's nothing? Is that a pirate's resolve? ' 'No! The resolve to put your own life on the line! '

'You sure have adopted that philosophy of Shanks as your own, huh? ' Robin chuckled.

'It's correct tho, ' Luffy stated matter-of-factly.

While Nami was thinking about Luffy 's words, one of Buggy 's henchmen stole the box of matches, Buggy had given her. Just as he started to light the fuse for the cannon in front of the cage, Nami took out three sticks that reassembled into a bigger stick. And she whacked him with it.

'There you go, sis! '

'That took the breath out of my lungs, not that I have any, Yohohoho! '

Buggy was understandably pissed about that, and while the thief was aiming to calm down the clown and explain things to Luffy, she mentioned that pirates killed someone close to her.

Franky immediately, but carefully, put one of his huge hands around Nami 's small shoulders in an attempt to make things easier. She didn't think she needed it just yet, but she was grateful.

While that conversation was happening, the fuse still had been lit and the cannon was still aimed at Luffy, who was in a cage, unable to move. Buggy ordered his men to kill the navigator, but she managed to keep them off until she could get to the fuse.

'Gotta give it to you 'that was kind of impressive, for you, ' Zoro said dryly.

'What do you mean by 'for me? ' Nami said calmly. Too calmly for Zoro 's peace of mind. To top it all off, he now had two bumps on his head and an annoying cook was laughing at him.

Nami grabbed the fuse with her hands in an attempt to extinguish it.

Sanji automatically winced and clutched his own hands.

The Buggy pirates tried to kill her again, but a certain swordsman intercepted them this time. He asked Nami whether she was okay and immediately scolded Luffy for playing around. The people around them, and Nami herself, recognized the name Zoro, thus realizing they were looking at Pirate Hunter Zoro.

'You are a party pooper, ' Usopp said jokingly, and luckily Zoro got the joke and the sniper didn't get his head cut off.

Buggy expressed an interest in killing Zoro, to which Zoro warned him about his death if he were to try so. And after it was clear Buggy wasn't going to give up, Zoro relented and fought him. It was over in seconds. Or so the Pirate Hunter thought. After a bit, Buggy was seen putting himself back together behind Zoro 's back. The swordsman didn't notice it, unfortunately, and got stabbed in his side by the 'dead ' clown pirate.

'Ow! ' Everyone, but Zoro, said in unison.

'It wasn't that bad, ' Zoro tried to defend himself, but got plonked on the head by a now human-sized Chopper.

'GETTING STABBED IS ALWAYS BAD!! '

Zoro fell to his knees and immediately tried to figure out how he got stabbed. It was then that the very alive Buggy revealed that he has the Chop-Chop Fruit.

'So he's your natural enemy? ' Brook asked.

'He would be if I didn't know Haki. I'm pretty sure that would stop him. ' Zoro explained. 'But other than that, yeah. '

Nami was very baffled by the new turn of events and Luffy called the other pirate a monster, while a text appeared under him saying 'rubber person '

'That's a fair point, ' the aforementioned rubber person admitted.

Luffy then called Buggy a Big Nose, which got his attention and made him throw a knife at the rubber boy. Luckily, he caught the knife in his teeth and bit it into pieces.

'At the rate, he eats and what he eats, I'm not surprised, ' Sanji sighed at the sight.

'I really should give his teeth a look over after this is done, ' Chopper mentally noted.

Luffy laughed maniacally and declared that he refused to die. He then gave Zoro the order to run and gave him a smirk. Zoro seemed to understand something and smirked back. The swordsman then had a quick spar with Buggy until he got a chance to run towards the cannon and flipped it over. Nami lit the fuse while Buggy and his men were freaking out about the Special Buggy Ball that was still inside it. The cannon shot its Buggy Ball and

To be continued.

'How did 'Run Zoro ' and a smirk, translate into 'Hey! Go flip that cannon over? ' Usopp demanded of the two involved in the mind reading event.

'It just did. ' Both of them answered.

'I give up! '

'They do have a special bond with each other, ' Jinbei once again tried to explain the crew's dynamic to himself.

'Before we make ourselves crazy thinking about this, how about moving to the next episode, ' Robin suggested.

'Yeah!! '