He got this... right?

"I'm sorry about before." Nami apologizes to Luffy.

"Hmm? It's okay. You lost someone important to you because of pirates. You've been through a lot, haven't you? You don't need to say anything..."

Nami gives Luffy a faint smile but her face looks sad.

"OOOO!!! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!" The mayor starts suddenly shouting and startles all of us.

"I'm so pathetic, so pathetic! Chouchou and the brat are fighting so hard but I, the mayor, can't do anything except to watch this town burn!"

"Wait, mayor, calm down!" Nami tries to calm down the now frantic old man.

"To a real man, there are some fights that cannot be ignored!!! Isn't that right, kid!!?" Old man's words make my blood boil as a small grin grows on my face.

"That's right, old man!" "Don't encourage him!" Luffy answers but gets reprimanded by Nami.

The mayor starts telling the story how this village was built by folks who escape their old home that was razed by the pirates into this successful harbor town.

"This village and the villagers are my treasure! What kind of a mayor doesn't protect his own village! I'M GOING TO FIGHT!!!!"

*BOOOOOOMMM!!!* A huge explosion turns the whole block next to us into rubble and sends us flying a few meters.

"AAAHCK!!" "GYAAHH!!" "UWAAA!!" "ARGH!"

*THUMP* I fall on my right arm and because of my old injury my arm dislocates from the middle of upper arm.

The familiar pain makes me halt my movement as my mind blanks for a second as the pain is so horrible that I'm even unable to scream.

"KYAA!" Nami's scream and look of horror wakes me up and I use my left arm to put my right arm back in place, like I've used to and will have to again get used to.

*Thud* With a nasty sound of bones and flesh correcting the arm gets back in place but the pain still lingers. I try to breathe as I try to hold the contents of my stomach from escaping. Everyone gets close to check up on me but can't see any ways of helping me since only the lingering pain is affecting my bodily functions.

As I'm finally able to breath properly I wave at them and keep myself in all fours to stabilize my condition and zone out from the conversation. After a bit I notice the old mayor running off shouting Buggy's name.

I finally get up, my face pale as a ghost and throbbing pain in my arm, but otherwise nothing new. I've experienced this too many times by now. After the first time, it just kept repeating more easily.

"For some reason this is starting to feel more fun." "Shishishi, I agree." Zoro and Luffy just laugh at the situation.

"How can you still laugh in this kind of situation!? One of you is badly hurt! Where the hell does your confidence come from!!?" Nami questions the duo.

"How about we break a couple of bones from you too?" I grimace at them.

"You'll be fine after sleeping." Says Zoro as my eye twitches from his answer.

"I'm not a monster like you guys! I don't just shrug these kinds of things off!"

"How did you survive in the Grand Line then?" Zoro asks me.

"I wasn't with weaklings like you!" I shout in rage.

I start bickering with Zoro about how weak he is and how he is going to get his ass handed to him. Then suddenly Luffy goes to Nami and...

"Our destination is the Grand Line. Now we are going to go steal that map again! Will you join us? You need the map too, don't you? And the treasure." Luffy asks Nami to become our navigator as he stretches his hand for a handshake.

"... I'm not going to become a pirate. But I will join you guys, for the sake of both of our goals." She slaps Luffy's hand in a high five kind of way.

"Oh, so like Dravde over here." Luffy laughs "Well then, let's go!"

"I'm going to die..." I slump my shoulders as we start walking towards the Buggy Pirates.

"You're going too? What about your arm!?" Nami looks at me like I'm crazy.

"Hurts like hell... but works. And don't worry, I'll stay in the sidelines with you."

We arrive as we see the mayor getting Darth Vader choked by Buggy. Luffy rushes to help and removes Buggy's spilt off arm from the mayor's throat.

"That straw hat bastard!" Buggy shouts as he feels the pain from Luffy's grip on his hand.

"As promised. I've come to kick your ass!"

"You bastards! You actually have the guts to return here to face this great Captain Buggy!" The enraged Buggy shouts at us as the rest of us get to in front of the pub they are on as the mayor starts to recover from asphyxiation.

"Listen, I don't care whether you fight or not, you guys do as you wish. I'm just here for the map and the treasure." Nami starts explaining that she doesn't want to get involved in any of this.

"Yeah, we know." "You do you." Zoro and I answer back to her.

"You brats, what are you doing here? This is my war!! I'm the one who must protect this town!! Don't interfere!!" The now recovered mayor gets ready to rush with his spear but...

*BAM!!* Luffy smashes the man to a wall and knocks him out bleeding form the head as rest of us look in either shock or confusion.

"You...!! YOU IDIOT!! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!!? WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO THE MAYOR!!?" Nami starts screaming at Luffy for beating up an old man for no reason.

"'Cause he would just get in the way." Luffy casually says back.

"Good idea. If this old man fights, he'll get himself killed. It's better this way." Zoro reaffirms Luffy's choice of action as I simply nod.

"Don't be rash! There are other ways of handling that!" Nami starts lecturing Luffy.

"Don't expect anything smart from this rubber brain." I say to silence Nami's constant yelling.

As Nami finally quietens down, Luffy gets a chance to slip away and moves a bit forward towards Buggy's group.

"HEY, BIG NOSE!!" *SMACK* Luffy shouts and I immediately facepalm as everyone else goes to shock.

"You're not supposed to mention that!" Nami shouts in horror.

"You're pissing me off, asshole. You dare call me that? Fire the Buggy Ball now!" Buggy shouts in rage as they aim the cannon towards us.

"Are you trying to get yourself killed? You idiot!!" Nami starts running away as the rest of us just stand here.

"Oi, Luffy! Run!" Zoro tries to remind Luffy but he isn't moving an inch.

"Don't worry. He got this." 'He learned Balloon right?' A bit of cold sweat flowing as I try to remember.

"DISAPPEAR!!" *BOOM!* The cannon shoots at us but Luffy grins.

"Gomu Gomu" Luffy starts inhaling air in a rapid pace "Balloon!!" He turns his body into big balloon and the Buggy Ball sinks into his stomach until *Boink!* with a stupid sound the bomb bounces back towards the pirates and *BOOOOOOM!* another round of horrible devastation occurs.

"Nice! I hit them!" Luffy gives a small cheer.

"You're telling me that that was a lucky shot?" I look at Luffy incrediously.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!!?" Nami shouts at the madness in front of her.

"Don't surprise people like that." Zoro admonishes.

As we silently watch the rubble Nami finally recovers from the shock.

"Explain yourself! Ever since you fought that lion, I knew there was something strange about you. That's not something humans can do! How the hell did you just swell up like a balloon!?"

"Gomu Gomu... Balloon!!" Luffy answers with the smuggest smile he has.

"I'm not asking you for the name!! Are you some kind of monster!?"

"Didn't we already go over the existence of Devil Fruits or did you miss it along the way?" I tilt my head a bit in confusion while I look at Nami.

As Nami is about to answer me Buggy appears from the rubble while carrying two of his grunts that were seemingly used as a meat shield while Cabaji also appears lifting up a burnt Richie.

"This is the biggest humiliation we've ever received under our pirate flag, captain!"

"I'm so mad, words fail me." Buggy seethes in anger.

Mohji also crawls out of the rubble and starts to argue with Cabaji about his treatment towards Richie until he notices Luffy.

"The kid in the straw hat! Captain Buggy, be careful of that kid! The kid has eaten a Devil Fruit, he is a rubberman!"

'Did he not inform them or did he just wake up from the fight before?'

"Rubberman!?" Nami looks at Luffy for answers as Luffy just "Yeah, look." stretches his mouth.

"The Devil Fruit! That's how he was able to bounce the Buggy Ball back... But Mohji... If you knew that already... WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SO EARLIER!!!" Buggy throws Mohji towards Luffy like a projectile.

"BUT, I DID!! AAAAAAHHH!! Get out of the way!" Mohji screams as he flies at as.

"You get out of the way!" Luffy kicks Mohji straight to a wall.

Suddenly Cabaji rushes towards us on his unicycle.

"Buggy Pirates Chief of Staff "Cabaji the Acrobat"! I'll avenge the pain you've caused to our crew!" He tries to stab Luffy but Zoro intercepts him.

"If it's swords, I'm all for it." Zoro claims the fight for himself.

"It is an honor, Roronoa Zoro. To fight you as a swordsman."