32. Clown Entertaining Marine

The Clown pirates prepare themselves for battle with the Marine Battleship. Cricket prepare the cannons, Mantis take care of the steer, and Buggy go to the front railing. The Marine also prepare their ship and men for battle.

"I never see your flag, what pirate crew are you?"-T-Bone

"Clown Pirates."-Buggy

"Clown?"-T-Bone

""Pfft, Clown Pirates, hahahaha.""-Marines

The marines except T-Bone are laughing at the crew's name.

"Are you the crew that sail through North Blue and visit every island recently?"-T-Bone

"Ooh, you know that. But I wonder why no marine ship has ever found us?"-Buggy

"Your route is very unpredictable, and you're lucky. However, your luck end here, because I will capture you, pirates."-T-Bone

"Did we do any crime that allows you to capture us?"-Buggy

"Once you put that black flag on your ship, you have declared yourself as World's enemy."-T-Bone

"Make sense."-Buggy

"Get ready for battle!"-T-Bone

"Come!"-Buggy grin

The Marines & Pirates are getting ready for battle. They get close to each other and get in firing range.

""ATTACK!""-Buggy & T-Bone

*BOOM BOOM BOOM*

The Marines shoot their cannons, and Cricket also shoots their main cannon. The number of their shots is very different. With more men, the Marines can shoot more cannons at once. The Clown Pirates can only shoot one cannon, and there's nothing they can do about it.

"MANTIS, FOCUS GETTING CLOSER! CRICKET, SHOOT ANYWHERE, JUST MAKE SURE IT HIT! I WILL TAKE CARE OF THEIR CANNON BALLS."-Buggy

""AYE AYE, CAPTAIN!""-Cricket & Mantis

Buggy split his hands into 5 parts each and cover them with Armament Haki. He controls them to fly and block the incoming cannonballs. He use his observation haki to locate the cannonballs.

"Devil fruit user?! This man is dangerous."-T-Bone

"Captain T-Bone, he blocks all the cannonballs, and didn't get any injury."-Lieutenant

"I know, it must be his devil fruit ability that makes his body very durable."-T-Bone

'He thinks it's because of my fruit ability? He still doesn't know about haki, huh? Well, he is just a Captain on North Blue, so it's normal for him to not know it.'-Buggy

The Clown Pirates get closer to the battleship. Then when they get close enough, Buggy jump to the battleship. The pirate ship immediately moves away from the battleship and gets out of the firing range.

"It's such a long time since I jump on enemy's ship to fight alone."-Buggy grin while drawing his shortswords out

"So you want to fight all of us, alone?"-T-Bone frown

"Yeah, I alone am enough to defeat all of you."-Buggy grin

The Marines get angry because Buggy is clearly insulting them. T-Bone is the best Marine Captain on North Blue, and will soon be transferred to Grandline. He is already as strong as a Rear Admiral on Blues. So as T-Bone's team, they have significant power too.

"You don't like it? Then why don't you prove it to me?"-Buggy taunts them with his finger

"Bastard!"-Marine 1

"I'll show you what we can do."-Marine 2

The marine soldiers start to move and rush to attack Buggy. T-Bone who see this try to stop them because they're getting taunted by Buggy.

"Wait! Don't be rash!"-T-Bone

He tries to stop them, but it's too late, they've moved first. Buggy grins and he prepared to fight them. He uses observation haki to read all their movements and find the perfect counter.

"Split Split Circular Saw!"-Buggy

Buggy uses his favorite attack, the spinning blade. He spins his detached wrists that hold shortswords each and makes it move like a circular saw. He moves it around the Marines and they can hardly dodge it.

While his saw attack moves around, Buggy also uses his legs & remaining hand part to fight. Buggy covers his split wrist with armament to make it hard and uses it to punch. He also covers his feet, knee, and elbow with armament haki to give more impact on his attack.

"WHAT'S THIS? WHAT'S THIS? IS THIS THE BEST YOU CAN DO, MARINES? CAN YOU REALLY PROTECT NORTH BLUE LIKE THIS?"-Buggy get very excited while fighting

Buggy attacks the marines relentlessly and defeats them. He attacks with his legs & hands, and he defeats a marine soldier with each attack. Buggy's wrist saw also slash many marines and defeat them easily.

The marines also land hits on him, well, they tried to. Sharp weapons don't work on Buggy, and for blunt weapons, Buggy will either split his body to avoid the hit or he just cover the part that will get hit with armament haki.

Seeing all his subordinates are getting beaten up by Buggy, T-Bone gets angry. He can't stand it anymore and decide to attack Buggy. T-Bone is a swordsman, so he attacks Buggy with his sword. He attack with the blunt side of his sword, so Buggy split his body to avoid the hit.

"So you've learned, but it still won't work."-Buggy

"At least it can stop you for a moment."-T-Bone

"So after you stop me for a moment, what will you do?"-Buggy grin

"I will stop you again."-T-Bone

"What a naive thinking."-Buggy

Buggy sends his saw to attack T-Bone. The saw come from the left, and T-Bone block it with his sword. But then, the other saw come from behind the blocked saw. T-Bone can't block it now, and the saw slash his body diagonally from left waist to the right shoulder.

"*GAHK*"T-Bone spat some blood

"Don't be too naive with your thinking next time!"-Buggy

Buggy sends a strong right kick to T-Bone's jaw. The kick knock out the injured Marine Captain immediately. Then Buggy looks at the remaining marines who can't believe their captain lost easily. Buggy grin and the marines shivered.

"Let's try this new move on you guys. Split Split Tornado!"-Buggy

Buggy split his body and only leave his feet & head. He split the body into around 100 small parts in a block shape and cover them all with Armament haki. Then Buggy controls the split parts to fly at high speed in counter-clockwise movement like a tornado.

The body parts tornado hit the marines around him and even create a real small tornado. The tornado happens too fast that most marines can't react to it. When Buggy stop, there are only a few marines left.

"Hmm, the range is still a problem. But I'll think about that later, I'll finish this now."-Buggy

Buggy retracts all his body parts and then he attacks the remaining marines with his saw technique. It didn't take long for Buggy to defeat all the marines on the ship. When he finished, his ship come closer, then Cricket jump on the battleship.

"Are you okay, Captain?"-Cricket

"Yeah, they're not much."-Buggy

"Not much, huh? T-Bone is as strong as a Rear Admiral you know? He just needs a few more good results to be promoted."-Cricket

"He is as strong as 'North Blue' Rear Admiral, not Grandline Rear Admiral. Usually, a Rear Admiral on Blues is just as strong as Marine Captain on Grandline, or even lower."-Buggy

"That much difference?"-Cricket

"Yeah, so if you want to survive Grandline, make sure you become stronger!"-Buggy

Buggy have started to teach them haki a week ago after he explain the concept of haki. He still taught them on Observation haki first. He'll teach them armament haki after they get a glimpse of observation haki.

Right now, the observation haki is more important for them. Devil fruit users are scarce on Blues, so armament isn't needed that much. They'll also fight with many people most of the time, so with observation haki, they'll be able to 'see' the attacks from 360 degrees.

"Enough about that! Let's rob this ship before another Marine ship come!"-Buggy

"Robbing a Marine ship? What can you get from them?"-Cricket is confused

"Everything valuable, like ammunition, or good weapons. We can sell them later, just take as many valuables as you can!"-Buggy

"Ooh, we can stock our ammunition, huh? Good idea, Captain."-Cricket

Cricket & Buggy then rob the Marine battleship clean from its valuables. There's not much in there, and they only find ammunitions, & some supplies, but it's good enough. Then, they flee from the area fast before another Marine ship comes.

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