"You didn't know that? Nami asked in a surprised tone. Jiro shook his head, saying no.
"Idiot!" Zoro said as he started laughing, which caused veins to appear on Jiro's forehead.
"Enough!" Luffy's words caused everyone to fall silent. "You four have your orders; carry out my plan immediately," Luffy said before turning around and walking back to his throne with his coat fluttering in the wind.
"Are we going to wait for them to get ready and then follow us? Nojiko asked Luffy when she saw him sitting on his throne. "Or shall we leave them here?" she added. Luffy thought about it for a few seconds before he looked at Jiro's pirate ship and spoke.
"Hey Jirou!" Luffy called out to get his attention. "Do you know how to get to Alabasta? Luffy asked the first captain under his command. Jiro looked at Luffy before he spoke.
"Yeah, we were just from there a few hours ago," Jiro said, causing Vivi's eyes to widen.
"Good, we will go on ahead; you guys get your stuff together and start making your way there," Luffy replied before Vivi had a chance to start blurting out questions.
Jiro didn't reply; he simply nodded his head. Luffy then looked to his navigator and spoke. "Nami, resume course to Alabasta," he said, causing Nami to nod her head before she looked at Luffy with a confused look on her face.
"Luffy," she said, getting his attention. "If those guys just left Alabasta, how are they going to get back there? I thought the log pose only pointed to the next island whose magnetic field it needed to record?" she asked, causing Luffy to chuckle slightly.
"You're right, that is how it works; however, the log pose points in two directions," Luffy said, surprising her.
"It points to the next island we need to go to and to the previous island we visited, whose magnetic field is recorded," Luffy said, causing her to look at her log pose strapped to her wrist, trying to understand what Luffy was talking about. After studying it for a few minutes, a look of realization flashed across her face.
"I get it," she said in a cheerful voice. "The red half points to the next island, while the bottom white half points to the previous island," she said while looking at the log pose.
Bingo! Luffy replied as he took a sip of his drink. "Now, get to work! Luffy shouted, causing all of his crew members to scramble to get the ship moving again.
"Are you sure we can trust them? came the voice of Zoro off to Luffy's right, causing Luffy to look over his shoulder at him and see him staring at Jiro and his crew.
"No, I don't," Luffy replied in a serious voice as he looked at Jiro with narrowed eyes.
"So why did you have him join the fleet? Zoro asked as he turned and looked at Luffy. "They are extremely weak and won't last a minute in this business that you are going to be involved in," Zoro added.
"You may be right, but he has some use for me," Luffy said with a sigh. "It's not like he is going to be one of the high-ranking commanders in the organization.
He is just an ordinary foot soldier," Luffy said, causing Zoro to nod his head.
"Makes sense," Zoro said as he walked over to the side and took a seat on the deck.
As the ship began sailing away from Jiro and his crew and was heading full speed ahead to Alabasta, Luffy got up from his throne and began making his way to the main deck.
"Come on," Luffy said to Zoro, who just got comfortable on the ground. "Now ain't the time to relax," he said, causing Zoro to grumble under his breath about not being able to sleep.
When Luffy got to the main deck, he saw every member of his crew gathered there.
Okay, Vivi, I want to know the exact structure of Baroque works and just how many people Crocodile has worked for him," Luffy said as he walked towards the group. Vivi took on a serious look on her face before she replied to Luffy.
"The layout is quite simple, actually," she said as she petted her duck. "First, at the very top of the organization is the boss, Crocodile.
He's known as Mr. 0," she said, causing everyone to nod their heads. "There are a total of 12 agents and one animal who receive orders from the boss directly.
For the most part, these 12 male agents operate in pairs with a female agent," she said before going through and listing all of the agents and their partners.
The agents with code names 1 through 5 are known as officers agents. They each possess one of the devil fruit powers and are only sent on the most important missions," she said, causing Luffy to nod his head, understanding what she was saying.
'I'll need to recruit some of these officer agents,' Luffy thought to himself.
"But there is more," she said, knocking Luffy out of his thoughts. "Under the officer agents are 200 men called billions, and there are another 1800 men under them who are known as millions," she said, causing Luffy to smile.
He was already aware of those guys and had given Gem, Mikita, and Marianne the task of recruiting them.
"Let's see, 200 plus 1800 equals uhh... Usopp said as he began calculating in his head.
There are 2000 of them! Chopper screamed out in shock.
"2000 of them! Usopp screamed when he heard what Chopper said. Luffy started chuckling, causing everyone to look at him with a confused look on their faces.
"Calm down," he said with a chuckle. "Don't worry about those guys," she said, confusing them more.
Gem and the girls are going to handle them," Luffy said, causing his crew to finally understand what order Luffy gave to those three.
"I see, so you were thinking ahead all this time, captain," Nojiko said with a smile.
Of course," Luffy replied with a smirk. "I like to be one step ahead of my enemy," Luffy added as he leaned against the railing of the stairs.
He was about to say something else, but before he could, a shout from Vivi interrupted him.
"Luffy!" she shouted, getting everyone's attention. "What's that! she asked or yelled while pointing to the front of the ship.
Everyone turned and looked at where she was pointing and saw green smoke rising up from the ocean.
Hmm, what is that? Nojiko asked as she stared at the smoke.
Oh, don't worry about that," Nami said calmly, while Luffy nodded his head, agreeing with her. "It's just steam from an underwater volcano," she said, causing Usopp and Chopper's eyes to widen.
There are volcanoes underwater." Chopper asked in an astonished voice.
"Yeah, it is said that there are more volcanoes underwater than above the surface," Nami said, causing Chopper to stare at the smoke in awe.
"I would try and hold your breath if I were you," Luffy said as he stared at the steam cloud they were approaching pretty fast. "That thing stinks," he added, causing everyone, including himself, to take a deep breath just before the ship sailed into the green steam.
At the speed at which they were traveling, it didn't take them long to come out of the other side of the steam cloud. When they exited the cloud, Luffy looked at Sanji and spoke. "Hey Sanji," Luffy said, getting his attention.
"Yea, captain?" Sanji asked as he released his breath and looked at Luffy.
"Why don't you go bring up some of that nice dinosaur meat that we got from Little Garden and get lunch started? Luffy said as he began walking towards the front of the ship to sit on the figurehead.
"You got it, Captain! Sanji replied with a salute before he began making his way down below deck.
As Sanji began making his way down to the storage area, Luffy was making his way to the figurehead of the Going Merry, but before he could reach there, the voice of Zoro stopped him in his tracks.
"Hey captain, there is a man on the side of the ship," Zoro said calmly as he leaned over the side of the ship and watched a strangely dressed man holding on to the side of the ship.
"What do you mean there is a man on the side of the ship? Luffy asked as he stopped and began walking back towards where Zoro and everyone else were standing.
When he got there, he leaned over to see this man who was hanging onto his ship. "Hmm, would you look at that? There actually is a man on the side of the ship," Luffy said as he stared at the strange men with a bewildered look on his face.
"You have to help me, please! The man pleaded with the crew, causing everyone to raise their eyebrows at him. "You can't let me fall in the water! I ate a devil's fruit, so I can't swim!" the man cried with a pleading look in his eye.
"A devil's fruit, you say? Luffy asked in a bored tone as he looked at the man.
"Yes, that's right, a devil fruit!" he said, causing Luffy to nod his head before he looked at Johnny and Yosaku.
"Pull him up," he said to the bounty-hunting duo, causing them to salute and pull the strange man aboard.
When they pulled him up, the man flopped down onto the deck of the ship and began breathing heavily while everyone moved away from the side of the ship and positioned themselves at different parts of the deck to be able to defend the ship effectively if necessary.
"Man, I thought I was going to die there for a second," the man said between breaths as he sat on the ground.
Luffy walked over to one of the barrels on the deck and sat down on top of it before turning his attention to the strangely dressed man. "Heyyyy, you saved me, thanks!" the man said as he bowed slightly to Luffy and the crew.
"I never imagined that my life would be saved by a group of complete strangers," he said in a relieved tone.
"So what kind of devil fruit did you eat?" Luffy asked as he placed his right leg up on the barrel that he was sitting on.
Well, let's see, seeing as how I can't go anywhere until my ship picks me up, I don't see the harm in having some fun," the man said as he stood up. Everyone immediately put their guards up and stared at the man.
The man walked up to Johnny and smacked him in the face, causing Johnny to fall back and everyone else to spring out their weapons and take up the battle positions. Well, everyone except Luffy was still sitting on the barrel with an emotionless look on his face.
"Why you!" Yosaku and Zoro spoke in anger as they got ready to attack the man.
Now, there is no need for all of that," came the voice of Johnny from where the man was standing, causing everyone's eyes to widen in shock.
"We're just having fun!" the man said happily as he moved his hands away from his face only to reveal a perfect copy of not just Johnny's face but also his voice and his body.
'The Clone-Clone fruit!' Luffy thought as he stared at the man with a surprised look on his face. 'Now he can prove to be useful,' Luffy added in his head with a smirk on his face.
"What the hell? Johnny said from his position on the ground. "It's me!" Johnny said as he stared up at a perfect image of himself in every way except for the clothes that he was wearing.
"And if I touch my face with my left hand, The man spoke in Johnny's voice as he touched his face with his left hand. "I am back to normal," he said as he returned to normal.
"Now that is the power of the Clone-Clone devil fruit you see," he added, causing everyone to look at him with an astonished look on their face.
"Interesting devil fruit you got there, Mr...." Luffy said as he trailed off, waiting for the man to say his name.
Oh, forgive me; where are my manners? the man said as he bowed slightly. "My name is Bon Clay!" he introduced himself.
"Well then, you have an interesting power there, Mr. Bon Clay," Luffy said as he watched the man go around and touch the sides of each of his crew members faces one by one.
"Yes, I am quite proud of it," Bon Clay said as he walked up and touched the side of Luffy's face. Honestly, Luffy still didn't trust the man, but he didn't see any harm in the man being able to impersonate him; it wasn't like he could clone his devil fruit or his strength.
Bon Clay then took a few steps back and began changing into each of Luffy's crew members, even Luffy himself, but when he reached Nami, he stopped and spoke. "That's not all; I can change bodies too!" the man said as he pulled open his clothes, showing everyone the very naked body of Luffy's navigator.
All the men on the ship except for Luffy and Zoro had their eyes widening and their jaws on the floor, while Luffy just looked on with an unimpressed look on his face.
"Hmmm, I've seen better," Luffy said with a shrug, causing Nojiko to chuckle while Nami punched Bon Clay right in the head.
"Stop that!" Nami yelled as she punched him before she turned to Luffy. "And what do you mean you've seen better! she yelled or asked. Luffy just shrugged his shoulders with the same unimpressed look on his face, causing her to grumble under her breath.
"I am terribly sorry, but I shouldn't demonstrate my powers anymore," the man said as he got up from the ground and nursed his head.
"No! Do more!" Usopp and Chopper cheered, while Luffy looked on with a small smile.
Well, if you insist," the man said before he started changing into a bunch of random people one after another as he twirled himself around in circles while Usopp, Chopper, and Johnny cheered on. After Bon Clay was finished further demonstrating his powers, he began dancing around with Usopp and Chopper on the deck.
It was then that Luffy and Nami noticed a ship quickly approaching from the starboard side of the Going Merry. When Bon Clay saw the ship, he stopped dancing, hopped up onto the side of the ship, and turned his back towards the crew before he spoke.
"It's time to say goodbye already? What a shame," Bon Clay said in a sad voice, causing Usopp and Chopper to become sad as well.
"No, you can't leave just yet! Usopp said this with some tears in his eyes.
"Try not to be sad; journeys must always include farewells," Bon Clay said, while Luffy nodded his head in agreement. Bon Clay then hopped off of the Going Merry and onto the side of his own ship. "Now then, let's get going! Bon Clay said to his crew
"Yes sir, Mr. 2, Mr. Bon Clay, sir!" one of his crew members replied with a salute, using the straw hat's eyes to widen in shock and causing Luffy to spring off the barrel and onto his feet.
"Did he just say...? Luffy asked as he watched the paddle ship sail away at an impressive speed.
"Mr. 2?" Zoro added to Luffy's question.