'The Battlefront of Alabasta! Rainbase, the City of Dreams! '

Vivi made up her mind and decided that the crew should go to where Crocodile was. Luffy and the others were down with the plan, and so they set their course to Rainbase. It was about a day 's worth of traveling.

'Cutting it very close. '

'Too close for my liking, ' Nami noted in hindsight.

Usopp and Luffy were once again struggling with the heat, while Zoro observed that Chopper had not collapsed yet. The reindeer promised to try extra hard that day. The two complaining ones started fussing with the water that Toto gave them because Luffy did not want to waste it, whilst Usopp wanted a drink.

'He worked so hard for it that it seemed like a waste to drink it ' '

'He gave it to you so you wouldn 't die of dehydration, ' Chopper sweatdropped.

'Watching the desert is making me thirsty, ' Brook whined. 'But I don 't need water to survive! Yohohoho! '