'Wait, before we start, I have a proposal! ' Nami suddenly stood up, getting everyone's attention.

'What is it, Nami-swan? '

'Haven't you noticed that we're missing someone important? ' the navigator asked the room. When no one immediately answered, she answered for them. 'Jinbei. '

'OH! RIGHT! How did we miss that he's not here? ' Luffy suddenly panicked. 'Ryo, can you bring him here as well? He's Nakama! '

'I mean sure, I kind of forgot he's in the crew, to be honest. But yeah, you guys are not too far into the series, so you can give him a quick recap. ' Ryo said nonchalantly, ignoring Luffy's angry face after he heard that the man had forgotten that Jinbei was a Straw Hat. He quickly snapped his fingers and suddenly the giant Fishman was laying on the floor next to them and a new chair had appeared just for him.

It took a moment until Jinbei awoke, but when he did, he sure was surprised. After a quick explanation of where he was, everyone quickly provided a secondary explanation for the rest of the situation. It took a bit, but eventually, Jinbei felt like he had been sufficiently caught up.

'We're not that far in the series, but I feel like we owe you a recap, ' Luffy said and prompted Robin to give a quick but information-filled explanation of the episodes.

'Okay, I think I have somewhat understood everything, Robin-san, ' Jinbei declared and took a seat in front of the TV.

'Morgan vs Luffy! Who 's the Mysterious Pretty girl? '

Zoro was baffled that Luffy wanted to become the Pirate King, demanding to know whether Luffy knew what it meant. In a very Luffy-like manner, he responded:

'King of the Pirates is King of the Pirates! Are there any other meanings? '

'At first I genuinely didn't believe that you could become one, sorry about that, ' Zoro admitted sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.

'It 's alright, I admit that I don't look like I could, shishishi. '

Luffy presented three swords to Zoro and inquired which one was his. To this, the swordsman told Luffy that he uses Three-Sword Style.

'You'll take them, right? If we fight together now, you'll be a government-defying villain! Would you prefer that, or getting killed by the Navy like this? '

Luffy very expertly manipulated Zoro, too expertly.

'This is too good. Marimo got manipulated to join the crew! ' Sanji cackled, genuinely irritating the Marimo in question. Luckily, they were too far apart for Zoro to punch him.

'What are you, the devil's son? Well, whatever, I'll be your pirate, if I'm just gonna die here instead. '

'I can say that it was a good decision, ' the still seething swordsman said and then pointed towards the cook, 'If only you didn't recruit him onto the crew. '

'Now now, stop fighting, watch the show, ' Nami answered instead of Luffy, kind of managing to calm the two.

Luffy, with no sense of timing, started to celebrate Zoro joining the crew, while the latter was still tied up and Marines were pointing at them. But luckily, the Marines were still shocked from seeing Luffy's Devil Fruit powers. Morgan then started to explain Devil Fruits to everyone. Simultaneously, Luffy was failing miserably at untying Zoro, which was also the time the soldiers got over their shock and charged at the trio.

Chopper shielded his eyes in fear. He knew the trio was alright, but seeing this seemingly hopeless situation got his fur to stand up.

Zoro demanded someone give him a sword and after getting it, sliced through the rope instantly and defended Coby from the Marines.

'I'll be a pirate. I promise you that. I'm officially a criminal, now that I've fought the Navy. But I'll tell you this right now. I'm only going to fulfill my ambition! To be the world's greatest swordsman! If I wind up having to give that up, you'd better accept responsibility and apologize to me! '

'That worldview went down the toilet quickly ' ' Zoro sighed to himself

'I hope that you know I would willingly put my swords down for you, right? ' He asked his Captain in full seriousness.

'Please don't do that, ' Luffy complained.

'He pretty much did at Thriller Bark, ' Sanji thought somberly.

'The world's greatest swordsman? That sounds great! The King of the Pirates would need no less than that on his crew! '

Zoro also promised that his name will be spread throughout the world.

'You weren't kidding. I mean, everyone pretty much knows you Zoro-kun. '

'Yeah, but it's not enough yet. Haven't become the Greatest Swordsman yet. '

Luffy told Zoro to duck while he Gum-Gum Whipped the Marines, the future Strongest Swordsman was holding back. The Marines came to realize that they had no hope against those two, but Morgan was stubborn and wanted them gone. He ordered those who displayed weakness to shoot themselves.

This angered Brook once again, who despised the thought of wasting human lives. He was so angry that he couldn't even form words and only made exasperated noises. Sanji just put a hand on his Nakama 's bony shoulder. The rest of them were also angry at the pathetic excuse of a man.

Luffy ran past Zoro and the soldiers to give a nice punch to Morgan but got blocked by his axe-hand. Morgan then split the ground with said hand, and Luffy pretty much stepped on his face, sending him tumbling. Morgan, once again, tried to cut Luffy in half and only got a face full of Luffy's sandals.

'And you call yourself a marine? You've destroyed Coby's dream! '

'Of course, Coby's dream is the deciding factor in his anger. That's how you've always been, huh? ' Nami thought fondly

Suddenly, Helmeppo called out, revealing that he had taken Coby hostage at gunpoint. Any word he said didn't carry any weight, because of the way he was shaking. Coby declared that he was willing to die if it meant he was not getting in Luffy's way. Luffy only smiled and told Helmeppo to release his friend, because he was willing to die.

'That was brave of the boy, I'll say, ' Jinbei said.

'He grew a lot in a few days. '

Luffy aimed at Helmeppo while Morgan was raising his axe against Luffy, but right as Luffy punched and Morgan axed, Zoro moved quickly and sliced Morgan down.

'Nice! Zoro. ' 'My pleasure, Captain! '

For some reason, this felt like a monumental moment and half the crew was suddenly cheering. Brook was already writing a song, and Franky was denying that he was crying.

Zoro felt a bit embarrassed by the sudden attention he was getting from everyone and was about to suffocate because Luffy was practically choking him from hugging him too hard.

Zoro sheathed his swords and issued a challenge to the rest of the Marines. But instead of readying themselves to fight, the soldiers threw their weapons and hats into the air to celebrate their defeat of Morgan. Suddenly, Zoro made a pained noise and fell over.

'I'm 'hungry ' '

'Of course, you would be! You hadn't eaten in three weeks, Zoro! ' Chopper exclaimed worriedly. 'You were in no fighting condition! '

'I know that Chopper, but I had no choice here, I needed to fight to protect everyone, ' Zoro attempted to soothe their little doctor.

'That hunger had to have hurt ' ' Sanji thought sympathetically. He shuddered at the thought of that.

Nami had tied up two marines and was currently searching through a drawer. After a bit of looking, she found a safe behind some barrels. She easily opened it and thought she had found a map for the Grand Line. But it turned out the map had been stolen by Buggy the Clown. The eye-catchers had the addition of Zoro.

Zoro was very proud of his eye-catcher showing up, but Nami was busy hating Buggy.

'Goddammit Buggy! ' Nami hissed.

'I would've gotten it back for you, Nami-swan! ' Sanji declared with his signature heart eyes.

'Thank you, Sanji-kun. I appreciate that. '

The trio was now at a food place and Zoro had his first meal since he was captured. Luffy was somehow out-eating a starved Zoro as he does.

'So, how many others have you gathered besides me? You said you were in the middle of gathering a crew. To be the King of the Pirates, you must have a good number gathered. ' 'Just you. '

This baffled Zoro and he asked about their ship. Luffy pointed out the window towards the little fishing boat that he and Coby arrived in.

'You sure picked a crew to join, huh? ' Usopp snorted.

'I didn't pick the crew, the crew picked me if you remember. '

'This crew sure had an interesting beginning, ' Jinbei mused.

Zoro wasn't amused by their ship, but Luffy promised that they'd have a huge ship before long. At that, Zoro laughed.

Everyone other than Luffy, Nami, and Usopp was slightly taken aback by this. They had rarely if ever genuinely seen Zoro laugh, he sometimes chuckled and so forth, but full-on laughing ' no.

The three that had witnessed that just kind of smiled and took in that sight for the first time in a while.

'You should laugh more, Zoro, ' Chopper suggested timidly. That made Zoro think. He hadn't even noticed that change in himself, but seeing himself like he used to be 'made him kind of sad in a way. He had gotten serious in a way he hadn't meant to. He should work on that.

'Maybe you're right, Chopper, maybe you're right.

Luffy then imagined his future pirate ship, complete with him holding a sword. Their Jolly Roger looked exactly like the one they currently had.

'You can't use a sword, Luffy, ' Usopp pointed out.

'I can dream, okay? '

'I think Luffy-san was born without any sense of planning. '

'Isn't that the truth ' ' literally everyone thought, other than Luffy.

After Rika asked where they were going to go, Luffy just simply answered - Grand Line. Coby freaked out because Luffy's crew only had two members. Coby then vaguely explained the One Piece geography and the reason why pirates set sail for the Grand Line, to the small child. Luffy just nonchalantly brushed off Coby's warnings.

'If I tell you honestly, the Grand Line was much more dangerous than I thought at first, ' Luffy admitted guiltily. Him underestimating the sea was probably the reason Sabaody happened. Chopper moved from Zoro 's lap to his lap, to give comfort for the brief moment of guilt.

'I think all of us, who hadn't lived there, underestimated it. You hear all these stories, but they seem exaggerated, so you just don't believe them, ' Usopp comforted his Captain.

'Yeah, I guess so. '

'Luffy-san and I haven't known each other for long, but we are friends! Right? ' 'Yeah! We're going to part ways, but we'll always be friends!

'Luffy-bro, casually making friends with future Marine Captains, y 'know the usual, ' Franky laughed and attempted to do his SUPER pose, but sitting down just made him hit Sanji on the head with his giant arms.

Coby then admitted that he had never had friends or people who would fight for him and that Zoro and Luffy taught him to fight for his beliefs.

Now the Cyborg was crying and everyone, but a very concerned Jinbei, just attempted to ignore him.

Suddenly, the Marines from before came into the bar. They were very grateful to Luffy and Company for getting rid of Morgan, but they couldn't let them stay because they were pirates. Luffy and Zoro decided to honor that request and started leaving. Coby then had to worm his way out of being identified as a pirate. Luffy almost told the Marines about how Coby was on Alvida 's ship, but as the straw hat-wearing Captain had planned, Coby punched him, subsequently proving that they weren't friends. He and Luffy had a small fistfight until Zoro separated them.

'That was brutal, Luffy-kun, ' Jinbei observed. It was necessary, but he thought Luffy went a bit too far.

'Might have gotten carried away, shishishi. '

'But it was necessary, ' Zoro determined.

The two pirates left, leaving behind a thankful but frustrated Coby. He then very passionately asked the Marines to let him join him, one of the soldiers being against it. But the lieutenant after seeing the young boy 's passion decided to let him join. The scene changed to Nami getting ready to leave and the two pirates walking to their ship. Zoro scolded Luffy for his lame act, but Luffy laughed it off. Coby, the mom, and Rika came down to the pier to thank the two and so did the soldiers. With Luffy 's ship going into the sunset and the lieutenant gave the soldiers a punishment for sending them off. Zoro then asked for a reason why Luffy was obsessed with becoming the Pirate King.

'I swore to a certain man that 'someday I would gather a great crew, find the world's greatest treasure, and become the King of the Pirates! '

While he was saying that, a still picture of a man and a child was on the screen, the man placing a straw hat on the boy's head.

To be continued.

'Was that picture ' ' Sanji started asking before Luffy cut him off.

'Yup, that was Shanks and me. The moment that Shanks gave me the hat, ' the Captain said with a hint of nostalgia in his voice.

'Oh, nice! Anyway, the fight with Morgan was pretty cool, ' Usopp reflected.

'It was so nice seeing the formation of the crew, ' Robin voiced for the first time in a while. She was too busy watching the screen to make adequate commentary all the time. 'It's a good thing Zoro was so fast, otherwise both Luffy and Coby would be dead. '

'Robin! No! '

'Captain 'give the order. '

'Yosh! Next episode! '