Nami didn't know where Luffy had disappeared to, all she knew was he had snapped at her for touching his hat, he had stood up and then he was gone. She didn't see him anywhere, not on the dingy little boat or on the boat that was now filled with the corpses of three pirates.

Then she heard the sound of multiple expolsions, all of the coming from a far off island. "I just know Luffy's there," Nami decided.

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Luffy was not in a good mood. All he had wanted was a small nap and then some bastard had attacked the town with cannonballs. Normally cannonballs was not a problem for Luffy, if you grew up with Garp then you had a lot of experience dodging the things, but he really did not like having his nap interrupted again!

Ignoring the cannonball that was frozen right in front of his head Luffy once again pulled himself to his feet. "Who the fuck decided to interrupt my nap this time," he growled in anger before tracing the cannonballs trajectory with his eyes all the way back to a tavern.

Luffy walked past the cannonball, allowing time to start up again once he was out of it's path. Pulling his revolvers out of their holsters Luffy checked to make sure they were fully loaded as he made his way to the tavern. Someone was going to pay for interrupting Luffy's nap and if it was who he thought it was then Luffy would have to be prepared. A former Roger Pirate was not going to be an easy fight, even if he was one of Shanks' friends.

Luffy walked through the tavern's door, ignoring all of the pirates inside as he made his way to the roof. The pirates stared at him, growled at him and threatened him but none of them got in his way as he made his way to the tavern's roof. Collecting himself for the battle that was sure to happen Luffy drew his revolvers and kicked open the door.

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Buggy saw red. That cursed object was all that he could see. Hs captains old hat that he had given to Shank. Oh how Buggy hated that hat, he hated how worthless and unappreciated it made him feel. He hated how it brought back memories of Captain Roger only giving one of his two apprentices a gift before his execution. Sure Buggy was not as brave, as strong or as adventurous as Shanks but that didn't mean that he didn't care. Shanks got all of the training, Shanks got all of the praise and Shanks got that cursed hat while Buggy only got a stupid Devil Fruit. It just wasn't fair!

It took a little while for Buggy to notice that the person wearing the cursed hat was not Shanks, it took him longer to realise that the person under the hat was talking to him and it took him forever to take in the person under the hat. He was only a brat about seventeen, he was a little on the short side being about 5 foot 7, not many muscles on his body, black hair, a scar under his left eye and two revolvers on his hip. The boy looked nothing special but Buggy could tell with just a look not to underestimate this boy. Buggy had gone to the very ends of the Grandline, he had seen gods fight to the death and all of it had left him with the ability to size up an opponent very quickly and accurately. The boy in front of him was angry, he was confident in his own abilities, he was most likely the Devil Fruit user that Buggy was hoping to fight, he had the aura of a Conquror even if he had not awoken it yet, he was dangerous and if Shanks had given him Captain Roger's hat like Buggy expected then the boy may have picked up his captain's will.

Buggy sneered as he looked at the brat. Buggy may have had a low bounty, he may have been the laughing stock of East Blue pirates, he may have been weak compred to Shanks but Buggy was still a Roger Pirate. He had kept most of his abilities hidden, no need to draw too much attention to himself after all was there? Buggy wouldn't kill him, he didn't kill brat's after all, but he would teach the brat the fear of god. There was only one Pirate King and that would not change unless Buggy said otherwise.

"You have some nerve to come barging in here like that brat," Buggy eventually said, stopping the brat mid-rant. "Tell me brat, why shouldn't I kill you where you stand?"

There was a look in the brat's eyes, a look that said the brat knew just how dangerous and scary Buggy could be, a look that said despite all of that the brat was not scared, the brat would fight him and the brat planned to win. Buggy saw that look in his captain's eyes when they went up against Shiki, the brat was not aptain Roger though. "I'd like to see you try," the brat replied with a smirk.

Buggy's sneer grew at the brat's words, "well if you insist," he laughed before throwing a knife at the brat, it would most likely not even hit the brat but a good fighter get's his opponent to reveal all his secrets as soon as possible.

"Pause,"the brat muttered before the world once again stopped. Lazily the brat stepped to the side and pulled out his two revolvers before pointing them at Buggy.

"Interesting power you have there," Buggy commented idly, enjoying the shock in the brat's eyes. "Time based Devil Fruit I would guess. Very useful and very flashy."

"Shanks never said that you were a Conqueror," the brat eventually said.

"My old cabin-mate doesn't know as much about me as he would like to think," Buggy smirked. "Now let's see what you can do brat!"

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Luffy saw Buggy rushing towards him with his fist raised, Luffy had to admit the clown pirate was very slow. In response Luffy shot his revolvers, rapid fire, at Buggy. Once again as soon as the bullets left the gun chamber they were motionless in mid-air, frozen in time. "Goodbye Buggy," Luffy smirked, releasing his technique and allowing time to move once again.

Luffy casually reloaded his revolvers. He wasn't worried bout Buggy, the clown was too slow to have dodged all of the bullets. "With how Shanks talked about him I thought that he'd put up more of a fight," Luffy thought aloud.

"You know you really should pay more attention or you could die a flashy death," a voice whispered in Luffy's ear as a knife was placed against his neck.

Luffy didn't even hesitate as he pointed his gun behind him and fired. The knife was gone from his throat but Luffy knew that he had missed. Turning around Luffy saw Buggy seated at a table, casually drinking from a bottle of sake. Everyone of Buggy's crew was staring at their captain in admiration. "If that's all you can do you should just go home brat," Buggy mocked.

"I'm ust getting started," Luffy promised before he holstered his revolvers and bent down touching the floor of the tavern with his hand."Fast Forward."Luffy grinned as the wood of the tavern began to age, rotting faster than was possible, until very quickly the tavern began to fall apart. "Pause." Luffy froze time once again and looked at the new battlefield, rotting bits of wood hanging in mid-air, holes everywhere and nothing was flat. This time Luffy rushed towards Buggy, intent on getting a hit in on the clown. Just as his fist was about to hit the clown in the face Buggy disappeared.

"You rely on your Devil Fruit too much," Buggy announced, "you will never beat me like this."

Luffr saw that Buggy was on the floor of the bar and a falling beam was right above the clown's head. Luffy released his power and watched as the beam fell, knocking Buggy over the head and stunning him. Too bad Luffy wasn't paying attention to behind him as he would have noticed the knife flying towards him if he did. Luckily it missed all of his vitals. "Heh managed to get you," Luffy smirked, ignoring the pain in his back.

"I managed to get you worse brat," Buggy laughed. "You should give up, I haven't even begun using my Devil Fruit powers yet."

Luffy shook his head, "you have destroyed this town, killed countless innocents and even worse you interrupted my nap. I will beat you right here and right now Buggy," Luffy vowed in determination.

"Kick his ass Captain Buggy," a pirate yelled.

"Yeah Captain make that kid scream!" another added.

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Jaseny groaned in pain as she opened her eyes. It took her a few seconds to realise where she was She was in what appeared to be a large iron cage that ad been crushed as it was half broken. Crawling out of the cage Jaseny found herself in the bottom of the tavern but it was not like what she remembered, most of the roof was gone, the walls were falling apart and a guy in a strawhat was in a fight with Buggy. Buggy! Jaseny glared at the mean clown who had hurt the townsfolk, how dare he do something like tha, Jaseny would make him pay. Slowly she pulled herself to her feet, grabbed Cadmus that was luckily lying near her and advanced on Buggy.

When she was behind him Jaseny gripped Cadmus tightly in her hands and swung it as hard as she could, aiming for Buggy's head. "This is for being mean to the nice people!" she screamed as Buggy was sent flying by her attack.

Everyone stared at her in shock, their mouths hanging open. "You should be careful, Nanny said that you can catch flies like that," she informed everyone.

This appeared to be too much for the strawhat guy as he suddenly burst into laughter, clutching his stomach as he did so. Everyone else just continued to stare at her in shock.

"Stop laughing at me!" Jaseny screamed at the strawhat guy.

The strawhat guy continued to laugh only managing to get out, "th-they l-look s-so st-st-stupid!"

"You still shouldn't laugh at them," Jaseny muttered, privately agreeing that they did look stupid.

Suddenly the strawhat guy stopped laughing and he was standing behind her, one of his guns was raised and pointing at the fuzzy guy from before. "It's not nice to attack a girl," he told the fuzzy guy in a warning tone.

"I can handle myself," Jaseny pouted, trying to ignore the fact that she didn't notice the fuzzy guy sneaking up on her.

The strawhat guy turned to ace her and grinned, "I like you," he announced. "Want to be my nakama and join my crew?"

Jaseny hesitated at his words, "nakama? That means friend right?" she asked, getting a nod from the strawhat guy. "I never had a friend before," she muttered.

"If you join me I'm sure that you'll have loads of friend," the strawhat guy said kindly.

Jaseny nodded resolutely, her mind made up, "I would like that. I hope we can be the bestest of friends."

The strawhat guy's grin grew larger, Jaseny was worried his face would split into two. "I'm Monkey D. Luffy," he announced. "Welcome to the crew!"

Jaseny had to admit the guy seemed nice, she was going to enjoy being friends with him she just knew it.

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And that's chapter 4.

I hope you guys like the chapter and how I did Buggy, I always liked him and wanted to portray him in a different light in my story.

What do you guys think of Jaseny the newest strawhat.

Sea Rover Tactician: you are sort of right about his maturity but that's all ill say on that.

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