'Wealth, fame, power, Gold Roger, King of the pirates, attained everything this world had to offer. The words he uttered just before his death drove people to the seas. My treasure? If you want it you can have it! Find it! I left everything this world had to offer there! '

the TV suddenly started speaking while seemingly showing pictures of Roger 's execution.

'This is most interesting, yohohoho! ' Brook exclaimed.

'It sure is bro! ' Franky agreed with the skeleton.

'But what 's with the voice? Is it someone we are supposed to know? ' Chopper asked anxiously from Ryo.

'You don't have to worry about him, he just kinda shows up to give extra information, right now he 's just giving you a quick introduction to the show, ' Ryo quickly explained and eased Chopper 's curiosity for a little while.

The rest of the Straw Hats also took note of that and filed it away into the 'I 'll just take your word for it ' drawer in their heads. Everything was still quite confusing.

'And so men head for the Grand Line in pursuit of their dreams! The world has truly entered the Great Pirate Era! '

These were the last words of the narrator before music took the center stage and started showing the Early Straw Hats doing things to the music.

This also made Straw Hats erupt in questions as Ryo had anticipated.

'What is with this music? And what are we doing? I don't remember doing things like this. Didn't you say we were going to watch our lives? ' Nami demanded from Ryo, who just smiled and shrugged.

'I did. Just usually shows like this have an opening, you know a small musical thing to get you into the mood to watch it. I know this makes sense close to none of you and while I would love to explain the concept of TV shows to you, we all know the only ones to even mildly get it is Robin and you Nami, ' Ryo tried to explain, but quickly realized that it would lead to nowhere. 'So I think, for time 's sake, all of you should just accept that this is happening. And also, I forgot to mention that Luffy is the main character here, so most of the things you are gonna see revolve around him. Not all the time but mostly. '

The last sentence got Luffy excited beyond measure and it took a bit for him to calm back down to a tolerable level. Regarding the rest of Ryo 's explanation, the small group of pirates decided to just tolerate the things that seem odd at first and just go with the flow, because no one had a particular interest in what a TV show is anyway (maybe except for Robin and Franky, but was to be expected)

The scene changed when the opening finished, to a shot of a blue sky with seagulls flying around. When the sea was shown, there was a giant whirlpool with a ship going past it. 2 sailors were draped over the railing lazily until they noticed a barrel close to the ship.

Luffy recognized the setting almost immediately.

'Okay, where are we? ' Usopp asked.

'Oh, I think you'll see soon, ' Luffy snickered getting a few odd looks from his friends

Suddenly a bunch of words showed up on the screen saying

'I 'm Luffy! The man who's gonna become king of the pirates! '

while the voice of Luffy narrated the words.

Before anyone could even say anything, Ryo valiantly attempted to explain the new oddity that Straw Hats had encountered.

'Yeah this might be freaky, but your voice narrates the titles of the episodes, so you better get used to this because it 's going to keep happening, ' Ryo said simply and while it clearly didn't explain almost anything to the Straw Hats, except for Robin, they decided it was easier to just keep watching and shut up.

The next scene showed what seemed to be a party on a ship, people were seemingly having fun. Suddenly a familiar girl with orange hair was shown to be staring out the window while a random guy asked her to dance.

'It 's Nami! Guys, it 's Nami! ' Luffy hollered excitedly while stretching his hands over everyone to give the most awkward hug to the girl in question. Along with him, everyone was cheering for Nami 's sudden appearance, while the girl just rolled her eyes at the theatrics.

'Of course, it 's her, no one else could look like the Weather witch, ' Zoro grumbled, immediately getting an angry cook to shout at him. They probably would've gotten into an actual fight if the scene hadn't changed (they also probably stopped from the glare Nami was giving them, but that 's neither here nor there.)

One of the sailors was now attempting to rope in the barrel but was having a hard time, causing the other one to laugh at him. When the men had heaved the barrel onto the board, another ship came into view. It was a pirate ship, considering the skull and crossbones on the Jolly Roger. This particular Jolly Roger had a heart on the skull.

'Hey, I know this flag! It's Alvida 's flag. I remember plundering it once, ' Nami informed others.

At Alvida 's name, the original East Blue pirates cringed and left the rest of them confused. They didn't bother asking questions, for it probably would've been answered in a few minutes anyway.

'I guess we will be seeing Luffy soon. I remember him saying that he had a run-in with her at some point,' Zoro mused to himself

The original ship's outlook alerted the other two about the incoming pirate ship, causing the two to drop the barrel. At the same time, Alvidas' ship shot cannonballs at the original ship causing the people inside to panic. Nami just smirked at the chaos.

Real-life Nami tho slightly frowned because she was suddenly reminded why she was plundering the ships and who she used to be like back then. Luffy took notice of it but decided to leave her be. He knew what she was thinking but he also knew that Nami knew, she was safe and everything was forgiven.

Alvidas's ship kept shooting cannonballs and eventually the screen showed part of Alvida's face. She growled at a boy named Coby, who fearfully answered her.

This caused everyone but Zoro, Luffy, and Brook to gasp in shock. They had never known this fact about Coby, they only knew that Luffy had helped Coby but that he was on a pirate ship. No. Brook didn't know who the boy was and so he kept quiet. There was no point in asking constant questions that had a very real chance to be answered soon.

'I forgot Coby used to be so small and weak, can you believe it Zoro? ' Luffy asked Zoro with a weird sense of pride in his voice. Zoro huffed at it.

'Nope, he could give Alvida a pounding and a half at the rate he has grown, Captain. '

'Who's the most beautiful of all on these seas? '

Alvida asked Coby.

'This ship 's captain, Alvida-sama, of course! '

'Isn't she on an ego trip, ' Franky muttered under his breath. Luckily Sanji didn't hear him or he would have an angry cook to deal with.

Alvida let out quite an evil-sounding laugh and punched the floor with her mace. Immediately after the camera showed her face. To say she was unattractive was an understatement.

'And that is the lady who was supposed to be beautiful? Has she ever seen a mirror? ' Usopp choked out.

'I remember her looking more 'slimmer, ' Zoro added. He was confused as to how that drastic transformation happened.

'I think it had something to do with a devil fruit, ' Nami attempted to explain. 'But yeah she used to be like that. Luffy, you punched her out right? '

'Uh? Oh yeah, I did. She was annoying as hell. And, please, Sanji! I'm not keen on hitting women, but sometimes it has to be done, ' Luffy confirmed to Nami while trying to keep down a rabid blond, who had basically been set on fire after hearing about Luffy punching Alvida.

'You shitty rubber ', ' was all he got out until Robin had blown him a kiss, which made him go all limp from love. The now-safe Luffy gave her a thumbs up and they could continue.

'Shit cook. '

The Alvida pirates kept shooting cannonballs at the other ship, which made the barrel from before roll down to the ship's storage. Nami was trying to avoid all the chaos.

'Were you alright after all that Nami-san? ' Brook asked with slight concern in his voice.

'Actually, yeah. I got off without a scratch. It was difficult, but I escaped fine. '

'Of course you did Nami-swan! ' the love-sick cook flailed.

Alvida's ship parked near the cruise ship and her men started to climb on. She ordered that they show the other ship the terror of the woman pirate.

On the other hand, there was Coby, who looked rightly terrified. He claimed that he was not good at that sort of thing when questioned about his lack of action.

'Poor Coby ' ' Was the only thing in the Straw Hats ' minds.

Luffy looked impassive.

At that Alvida clubbed Coby toward the other ship, making the other pirates wince. Alvida tried to hit Coby again, but missed and went through a wall. It quite conveniently brought her to the dance hall where her men were already shaking people down. Nami did a quick change act.

'Why did you change clothes, Nami? ' Chopper questioned.

'I had a 'pirate style ' outfit on hand so if needed I could blend in with a pirate group, so I could rob them, ' Nami shrugged with a smirk. 'Girls gotta be prepared y 'know. '

'That 's pretty smart there Nami, ' Robin observed, earning Nami 's blushing.

While that commotion went down, Coby took a chance to peek into the storage room.

He was relieved to see that there was no one there.

Then he

made his way to the huge barrel close to him.

Luffy was smirking to himself, Zoro was the only one to notice that and figured out what was going to happen soon.

Nami was ziplining to Alvidas' ship to presumably plunder her treasure. While looking around the ship she ran into one of Alvidas' people who got a swift kick to the balls when he got suspicious of her.

This got all the guys to wince and huff a breath.

Coby was now rolling the barrel when 3 guys showed up to chew him out for presumably hiding.

Coby lied about wanting to haul the alcohol barrel, whilst everyone was shaking down people upstairs. The guys were more than happy to drink it instead.

'

"Great, now I 'M thirsty! ' Zoro suddenly exclaimed, catching everyone off guard. As a one-time favor, Ryo summoned a sake bottle for him. Just so he would shut up about it.

Right when the pirate in a blue striped shirt was about to open the barrel, Luffy suddenly popped out of it, knocking the pirate clean out. He also claimed to have slept great.

'There I am! Shishishi, ' Luffy laughed, throwing his hands in the air, mimicking his on-screen counterpart.

'Yohohoho! That's quite the entrance there Captain! I cannot believe my eyes, not that I have any, to begin with, YOHOHOHO! ' Brook hollered, seemingly with the same amount of excitement.

'I agree with Brook on that one, you sure know how to make an entrance, ' Sanji stated, taking a drag from his cigarette.

'I am already waiting for my entrance! It's going to be SUPER!! ' Franky hollered.

'Are you sure about that?'

On-screen Luffy looked confused at the fallen pirate and in a very Luffy-like manner nonchalantly asked the rest of the guys who they were.

'That guy's gonna catch a cold if he sleeps there y 'know. '

This caused a few eye rolls at their captain's antics. How was he always so unaware of himself?

Continuing his Luffyness, he asked for food while the 2 pirates were threatening him with swords. But when they were actually about to stab him, Luffy broke their swords and they fell to their knees.

'That was so cool Luffy, ' Chopper squealed, getting a head pat from a mildly flustered Luffy.

"What's the big idea? ' 'W-Who are you? ' 'I 'm Monkey D. Luffy. Nice to meetcha! '

All of the commotion caused the two pirates to run away, dragging their friend along.

'I might understand what his problem was now..."

"Different perspective on things, huh?"

Coby tried to convince Luffy to run away, but Luffy was too hungry for that kind of talk and he started to make his way toward the smell he caught, dragging a very terrified Coby with him. After finding the food storage he started to munch down on some apples.

'This time I can 't blame him for being hungry I guess ' ' Sanji discussed it with himself.

Coby

introduced himself.

He had caught that his companion's name was Luffy, and asked about how he was able to do the things that he did.

Luffy ignored the question and asked if Coby knew if there were any boats on the ship. His had gotten swallowed by a whirlpool.

'Of course, you would get caught in the whirlpool, why wouldn't you, ' Nami grumbled. 'How did you manage to even get to me without dying, huh? '

'Pure luck, I think, ' Luffy answered while looking vaguely confused himself, which got a snort from Robin.

Luffy inquired about whether the boy was a pirate as well. This prompted Coby to tell Luffy the reason, why he was on Alvida's ship.

'That's unlucky as shit, ' Zoro said.

'You don't say, Mosshead, ' Sanji for once agreed with him.

"Not SUPER."

'Man, You're dumb and stupid! '

Luffy said very helpfully.

'You 're brutally honest ' ' 'If you don't like it, then run away! '

'Only you, Luffy, only you. '

"It kinda makes sense though," Robin noticed.

Coby went into a terrified spiel about how Alvida terrifies him too much for him to run away. Luffy claimed to hate him for being a wimp.

'That's cruel Luffy! He's doing his best! ' Chopper cried. He was immediately cut off by Luffy himself.

'It's not though. He just sat there and took it from the lady. He wasn't trying to help himself in any way. Just sat there 'afraid, ' Luffy explained seriously. 'I hate people like that. '

'You don't hate me, do you? ' the reindeer asked, now genuinely close to tears.

'Do you think you'd be on my crew if I hated you? ' Luffy laughed and pulled Chopper onto his lap. That cheered Chopper up, but he made no move to go back to his spot. "You're willing to fight back, even if you're scared."

'I sure picked the correct person to follow, ' Zoro mused to himself.

The scene cuts back to Alvida ordering her men around and Nami in one of the rooms collecting what she could.

'Keep hustling, sis! ' Franky 's booming laugh echoed in the room.

The dudes from before notified Alvida that Luffy was on board, calling him a monster. Alvida misunderstood and clubbed them. Right after that, the eyecatchers flew onto the screen.

This of course confused everyone until Ryo briefly explained to them that these show up every episode and they might change every once in a while.

'Hey, it's me! Shishishi! '

'What compelled you to set out onto the sea, Luffy-san? ' 'I'm gonna be the King of the Pirates! '

'There it is! There's the catchphrase, ' Usopp cheered along with Franky.

'That's still the plan, ' Luffy shouted, making everyone nod along.

Coby was baffled by that statement and asked about Luffy's crew, of which he had none. Coby also unnecessarily explained to Luffy what being a Pirate King means. All that while genuinely freaking out.

'Are we sure it's the same Coby we met on Water 7? ' Sanji asked.

'The same one. The Water 7 Coby just had Garp to set him straight, I guess, ' Robin answered.

'That was quite surprising seeing him like that. He changed a lot during a short time, ' Zoro said, while quietly adding. 'That Helmeppo bastard too. '

"I would change too if Garp was training me."

Luffy hit Coby 'just because'

'It's not about whether I can or not. I'm gonna do it because I want to. I've decided to become the Pirate King, so if I die fighting for that, that's fine with me! '

'That's our Captain! '

'But please refrain from dying, that would ruin the fun of this trip. '

'I'm gonna do my best. I also would rather be alive. '

Luffy then went on about whether or not he would get a ship if he asked, leaving behind a baffled Coby.

'Do you suppose I can do it too? If I'm prepared to die for it? ' 'Do what? ' 'Do you think 'even I could join the navy? '

'He ended up becoming one so that should answer his question, ' Usopp said.

'It's been my dream since I was little! Do you think I can do it? '

Coby asked Luffy with hopeful eyes.

'How should I know? '

Luffy answered honestly.

'I honestly didn't, ' Luffy explained, holding a piece of meat. 'I couldn't see the future. '

'Another one inspired by Luffy, how cute. ' Robin chuckled to herself.

R

ight then and there, Alvida fell through the ceiling, demanding to know who Coby was going to team up with. Even after Coby's initial wave of confidence, he was now cowering again. Luffy almost got stabbed by multiple swords piercing through the wall he was standing next to. Alvida looked at Luffy and stated:

'You don't seem to be Zoro, the pirate hunter. ' 'Zoro? '

This exchange raised a few eyebrows, including Zoro 's.

'You seemed to be quite a menace even before you became a pirate, bro, ' Franky smirked, getting a smirk back from the aforementioned pirate hunter.

'By the way, Luffy, ' Nami started, getting Luffy's attention. 'Did you really not know who Zoro was? I mean the rest of the East Blue gang had at least heard something about him. '

'The place I lived at had 'limited information about the rest of the world, so to say, ' Luffy tried to answer. 'So no I had never heard of Zoro, but I'm glad that I heard about you when I did, otherwise I probably wouldn't have gotten you on the crew, am I right Zoro?"

The green-headed swordsman gave it a thought and did conclude that he probably wouldn't have joined if 'fate? destiny? whatever it was, had not brought Luffy to him when it did. 'Yeah you're right, ' he said simply, putting an arm around Luffy's shoulder.

When Alvida, again, asked who the most beautiful lady was, Luffy just simply asked who that chunky lady was. That made absolutely everyone drop their mouths on the floor and stare at him.

Sanji had to fight himself to stay seated and quiet. This had already happened and might have been correct but you don't say that to a lady.

Alvida attempted to hit Luffy with her weapon, but Luffy dodged very easily and took Coby with him to the upper deck. The Strawhat-wearing boy took out multiple of Alvida's men without even breaking a sweat. He soon got outnumbered which made him run across the deck. He grabbed a mast, which made his arm stretch causing all the pirates to lose their minds.

'Is it that weird to see a Devil Fruit user out in the Blues? ' Franky questioned, scratching his head.

'Honestly 'yeah. I had been bounty hunting for years and I hadn't seen any Devil Fruit users and let me tell you seeing my first one was 'interesting, ' Zoro voiced. Luffy had been his first encounter with a Devil Fruit user. He had thought he had gone full coocoo.

Luffy Gum-Gum Rocketed himself through the horde of pirates, taking them out. Once again Coby was dumbfounded and asked Luffy about what he was. 'I'm a rubber man! ' Luffy answered simply. The much less dumbfounded Alvida asked whether or not Luffy was a bounty hunter. He was not. He was a pirate, going to have a crew sooner or later. While that was happening, Nami, done with her stealing, started to leave Alvida's ship.

'And there goes Nami! ' Luffy observed

'There I am going indeed, ' She chuckled. By now she had a feeling that she was going to meet Luffy sooner than she originally thought she did.

After a quick flashback to ten minutes ago, Coby found the courage to tell Alvida that she was ugly. Luffy, finding that hilarious, laughed loudly. Now enraged Alvida swung her club at the pink-haired boy, only to hit Luffy, which would have also been good and all if the small captain wasn't so bouncy.

'I must commend young Coby for his braveness. You sure were a good role model for him, Luffy-san, ' Brook complimented both of the boys, with a strange grandfatherly air to him.

'I didn't do anything, ' Luffy laughed. 'Coby was the one to find his courage. '

'If you say so Captain If you say so. '

With a swift Gum-Gum Pistol, Alvida was knocked far off the ship, landing on the just-woken blue-striped pirate, causing a small geyser to erupt. Alvida pirates were terrified enough that Luffy managed to order them to give Coby a boat. Suddenly tho, more cannonballs came flying, from the nearby Marine ships. Luffy immediately jumped ship while telling Coby to go see them.

'Yeah, that would be bad. He would get captured, ' Usopp shivered.

The boat that Luffy jumped in landed very close to the boat Nami was using to escape.

'Hey! Hey! Nami, we met before, how did we not notice each other? ' Luffy very excitedly shouted.

'I mean we didn't get a good look at each other and we were both busy, ' Nami tried to answer but was also kinda confused. You don't see hats like that very often. But, oh well, they met each other a bit later anyways.

Luffy and Coby got away on their small boat. Luffy, like always, found the entire situation fun.

'Luffy-san. If you're heading for the One Piece, that means you're going to the Grand Line, yeah? '

'Where else? The moon? Give me a break, ' Sanji exhaled annoyedly. That got a few chuckles from the crew.

'He's tried telling me things, like I hadn't heard about them before, ' Luffy sighed. 'I mean I know I'm dumb, but not that dumb. '

'There, there Captain, ' Robin patted his head with one of her extra arms.

'I need a strong crew. What about that pirate hunter guy? What's he like? '

On-screen Luffy asked.

That got Zoro to raise an eyebrow again. Did Luffy actually seek him out? It wasn't a pure coincidence that he found him. Interesting.

Coby claimed that he had heard that Zoro was being held at a Marine base.

'Why were you held prisoner? '

'Umm 'I'm gonna guess we're gonna hear about it soon enough, but all I'll say is that it was more or less voluntary. '

'That doesn't clear anything up, but okay! '

"You and Luffy are so secretive constantly. We know nothing about you."

'Aw, He's a weakling? '

'Sure is, hah! ' a certain Curly brow laughed, which got the attention of a certain Mosshead, which in turn turned into a full-blown brawl in front of the couch. It lasted multiple minutes until Nami had enough and punched both of them. They didn't feel like getting off of it instantly.

Coby refuted the weakling accusation...

which caused Zoro to smirk from his place on the floor.

...by claiming Zoro was as terrifying as a demon.

'Why are you asking about him? ' 'Thought I might have him join my crew if he's a good guy! '

That statement left Coby baffled, again.

'Right now Zoro is the only one I've looked for to get him on my crew. The rest of you, I just 'kinda stumbled on, ' Luffy said sheepishly, while Zoro looked strangely proud on the floor.

The two went back and forth on the topic of Zoro until Luffy bonked Coby on the head 'just because'. Suddenly the scene changed to show an island. On the island was a courtyard of sorts. In the courtyard was a man, who could have looked better. The man had a black bandana and a green haramaki. He was tied to a post by his arms and middle section. He looked at the camera menacingly. That man was Roronoa Zoro.

To be continued.

The Straw Hats were taken off guard by the sudden showing of Zoro. He had seen better days.

'Seemed kinda thin ' ' Sanji thought to himself.

'It's kinda weird seeing yourself like this, ' Zoro chuckled awkwardly.

Nami nodded and added: 'Yeah, it is, but I got used to it pretty quickly."

'So 'that's the first episode. What do you think? ' Ryo spoke for the first time in a while.

'It's so cool! ' Both Luffy and Chopper yelled out.

'It's certainly interesting. I wouldn't mind watching more, ' Robin spoke.

'Whatcha think Captain? Should we continue? '

'We definitely should. It's fun, ' Luffy decided. 'Any objections? No? Then let's continue! '