Luffy whooped with joy as Nami placed the plateful of food before him. In a matter of seconds Luffy began wolfing down the food like he hadn't eaten his entire life. Nami sweat dropped as Luffy inhaled his food.

"So what are you for? Are you going to assassinate Buggy? Forget it he's too strong."Nami looked back at Luffy.

"Well we're here looking for a girl named Nami. We're going to rescue her." Luffy replied through a mouthful of food.

"Your looking for me? Ha I don't see why I don't need saving." Nami scoffed Luffy stared at her stunned. Wait SHE was Nami? So she was the one that they needed to save. But she had just said she didn't need saving. On the other hand Nojiko was crying when she asked Zoro to save her so someone was lying. Luffy shrugged he would figure it out later when he met back up with Zoro. Luffy gulped down the last spec of food on the plate.

"Tell you what I'll go with you but I have to get my stuff first." Nami announced. Luffy smiled.

"Alright! Wait what are we getting?" Luffy tilted his head to the side to star at her.

"Oh just some money I have." Nami stated.

"Why money? You can always get some later." Luffy pointed out.

"You wouldn't understand why I need it." Nami huffed as she went to get something from a bag on the counter in the other room. Luffy smiled and laughed he had found Nami! And she said she would come with him if they went t get her stuff. Nami walked back into the room with lots of rope in her hand.

"what is that for?" Luffy glanced at the roped as Nami began tying him up with it.

"well we have to go the Buggy's hideout to get my stuff. And we can't get in unless we look convincing so you're going to have to be tied up." Nami explained as she finished tying Luffy up. Nami had tied his wrist together behind his back she wrapped rope around his chest pinning his arms to his sides so he couldn't move his arms. Nami left some rope out so she could lead him.

"Oh!" Luffy nodded in understanding but he had a feeling something was wrong but he ignored it

"alright here we go." Nami tugged on the rope and Luffy followed her. They walked for some time till they came to a three story building which was the tallest in the town. Nami lead Luffy into the building inside there were many people all dressed in weird cloths that kind of made them look like clowns. That was odd. They continued up to the roof of the building. There were even more people up there than there was inside the building. But what was the most odd was the fact there was a ten set up in the middle of the roof. Nami moved behind Luffy and shoved him roughly to the ground. Luffy gasped and fall face first into the ground. Luffy looked at Nami in shock and gave her a questioning glance. Nami smirked down at him evilly and stuck her tongue out at him.

"Nami! Good job running off with my MAP!" a voice yelled from within the ten. Luffy looked up to see a man with blue hair and red makeup on his face. He wore a short sleeve red and white stripped tight fitting shirt and light blue almost teal long pants with a teal sash. Around his shoulders was an orange fur lined captain's coat. Nami laughed and walked past Luffy who couldn't move because he was tied up. Nami placed a map she had been hiding on her into the wired man's hand.

"I did as you asked I tested security. And might I add… It sucks." Nami pointed out. The man laughed then turned his attention on Luffy. Luffy glanced at Nami hopping this was all a joke.

"Who is this Nami?" the man looked down at Luffy with a uncertain gaze.

"A trespasser I ran into he says he's an assassin here to save me." Nami reported. The whole group the man included laughed loudly. There were over 30 people on the top of the roof. The man laughed in snorts his voice was louder than the others. Luffy swallowed now he was having a bad feeling and it was telling him to get away from here.

"so an assassin huh? Well he doesn't look like Zoro the demon assassin that's for sure." The man looked luffy over from where he sat in the shadow of the tent.

"Buggy! I don't think he's alone!" one of the people in the crowd yelled. The man in the tent who must be Buggy looked around at the people assembled there. Nami looked over the group too.

"the Tightrope Walking Funan Bros aren't here. They know not to be late." Nami noticed as she glared down again at Luffy.

" and by the looks of this kid he couldn't have gotten here alone." Buggy got up and walked forward toward Luffy. Buggy grabbed Luffy by the ropes binding him and lifted him up till he as eye level with the weird clown man. Luffy glared at him a smirk broke out on Buggy's face.

"well everyone if he isn't alone then his friend will want to come save him right? Then let's make it so he has to be saved!" Buggy announced and the crowd cheered. Buggy through Luffy to one of the men and they undid the roped around his arms but bound his feet together and dumped him into a concrete cage with thick bars and locked it. Luffy mentally kicked himself; he should have stuck with Zoro and not have run off on his own. Now Luffy just hopped that Zoro knew where he was and would come and save him but then again Luffy didn't want Zoro to get hurt again if he did.

With Zoro…

The trio had led Zoro down one of the main streets running through the town. Sadly there still wasn't any sign of Luffy.

"hey! Look it's the Superhuman Domingos!" one of Zoro captives cried out motioning with his head toward three bodies lying in the road. Zoro let the rope he was holding go, knowing the men were too scared of him to even think about escaping him. One of them was a buff almost grey skinned man with no hair on his head. he had 2 circles of stitches running across his head he wore a maroon short sleeved tight fitting shirt. He wore knee length grey pants with a white sash. Another one of the men wore a yellow button down shirt with green knee length pants with a brown sash his hair was short and brown and came just above his ear. The third man had orange hair that was covered by a black and white checker board bandana with a dark green deed v neck shirt with dark green knee length pants and a tan sash. All of them were affectively knocked out at the moment all of them had what looked to be punch marks in their face from a strong hit. Luffy's work no doubt, there was no way anyone in the Buggy Corporation would revolt and turn against each other. Also they were alive just knocked out which was good. This way they were following orders.

"We are in so much trouble if we get back." One of the trio whispered to the other two.

"I know we are going to miss the meeting." The other whispered back.

"You three where is your hide out?" Zoro demanded spinning on his heels to glare at his captives.

"At the far edge of town!" the orange haired male squeaked out.

"Lead me there at once." Zoro ordered. The trio stumbled back in fear but tripped over each other seeing as they were tied together and fell down on their butts. Zoro rolled his eyes and began tying up the three unconscious men. After he was finished he hoisted up the three that had fallen and shoved them into motion. They began walking toward the end of town where they said their hideout was. Zoro groaned he just hopped Luffy wasn't going to be at the hideout in trouble… hopefully Luffy was somewhere safe where Zoro could find him later.

With Luffy…

Buggy and his men were busy having a party in celebration of having captured Luffy. Nami was smiling and laughing and singing along with them. Luffy had pressed his back up against the bars and had stretched his hand out to try and get some food from one of the tables close by. Luffy had found out that even though his hands were tied he could still stretch with his powers. Not that he was complaining mind you. Luffy's hand was just inches from a hunk of meat when his fingers slipped on the cloth and his arm snapped back to his body and the impact made Luffy topple over on his side. Luffy sighed this was going to be a very annoying day that was for sure.

"alright boys do we want to have some fun?" Buggy suddenly cried from where he was partying with some of the corporation members. All the members cheered merrily and yelled happily.

"Load the Buggy ball!" Buggy ordered as a cannon was brought out and pointed away from the building and out toward the town. Luffy watched on helplessly as they began to circle around the cannon. One of the strange members of the Corporation came out of the tent with a big red cannonball with the Buggy insignia on it into the cannon. Luffy watched interested as the fuse was lit and in a matter of moments the cannon went off. Suddenly all the houses in the direction the cannon was facing in exploded in a bright show of light. Luffy gasped in horror as the light faded and the houses were nothing but piles of ashes.

"now lets have a little more fun shall we?" Buggy suggested as the cannon was turned now to face Luffy. Luffy swallowed this was not going to go well!

With Zoro…

Zoro continued to follow his captives in the direction of the hideout. There was nobody else around which made Zoro feel uneasy. Buggy would have had people guarding the town to catch any intruders. Also Zoro never had to fight in a town setting before Most of the time he worked with just one building and multiple floor. Suddenly the house next to Zoro and the houses around them exploded in a flash of light. Debris and bits of wall showered onto Zoro and the trio. Zoro coughed and chocked on dirt and dust that had been kicked up as he shoved some large bits of wall from atop him. Coughing violently Zoro rushed over to the trio only to find them buried under rubble as well. Pushing the debris away from them he drug them all to the safety of a nearby house that was still standing.

"That must have been one of the Buggy Balls." Zoro cursed Luffy ad to be with Buggy. Buggy only fired off a Buggy ball when he was happy about something or had a captive and was warning other about it. Zoro zipped up his fur lined jacket and gripped the hilt of his swords and charged toward where the shot had come from just hoping he got there in enough time to help Luffy and find Nami and get them both out of there safely.

With Luffy…

"oh no this isn't good." Luffy whispered as he stared down the barrel of the cannon with a new red ball inside of it. Buggy and Nami stood behind it.

"alright Nami time to light it up." Buggy smiled as he handed her a box of matches. Nami took them but stared at them like she didn't know what to do with them. Luffy found that odd didn't Nami just betray him? Then why was she not going to light the cannon to kill him off? The men behind her were cheering her on wanting her to light the fuse.

"you don't have to do this you know." Luffy stated aloud to Nami trying to see if he could talk some since into her.

"yeah but I hate assassins like you! I'll never go anywhere with you!" Nami yelled back at him. But there was hesitation hidden in her words as she held the box of matches she still hadn't moved to strike one and light the fuse. Luffy stared at her never breaking eye contact with her. Nami bit her lower lip. The crowd behind her was starting to become more rowdy by the moment egging her on and to light the fuse already. Suddenly one of the men snatched the box away from her and struck the match.

"don't keep us waiting, this is how you do it!" he smiled as he held the lit match close to the wick. Luffy watched in amazement as Nami whipped out a pole from heaven only knew where on her body and slammed it into the head of the man who had the match knocking him out. The crowd including Luffy gasped in surprise.

"NAMI WHAT THE HELL!" Buggy yelled in a squeaky voice. Nami gasped and faced Buggy.

"I'm so sorry!" She apologized bowing to the clown.

"Your forgiven… Not on your life!" Buggy yelled back at her. Luffy was now confused what side was she on anyway? Luffy looked back at the cannon and his heart nearly stopped. The fuse was lit and burning quick!

"AH ITS LIT!" Luffy cried in horror. Nami spun to see it lit and started to move for it when four men with swords in each hand lunged at Nami. Nami avoided one attack but they managed to cut her pole into quarters. Nami ran around them ad lunged at the cannon wick. Nami screamed in pain as the burning wick burned the inside of her hands. Nami bit her lower lip as the wick stopped burning. Luffy sighed in relief.

"Look out behind you!" Luffy cried as the men lunged at Nami from behind. Nami didn't move she just closed her eyes and waited for the sword to piece her body but it never came.

"really you send the Acrobatic Fuwas against one little girl? That's pathetic." A voice commented. Luffy's face broke into a broad grin. Nami turned behind her and looked to see Zoro standing behind her. Zoro stood behind her with his swords raised blocking the attack from the four men. Zoro looked down at her.

"you ok?" Zoro asked judging by her hair and description that this was the object of their mission she must have been Nami. Nami shook her head. With a long swing of his swords Zoro threw the 4 men to the ground all four out for the count.

"Zoro!" Luffy cried happily. Zoro turned to glare at the troublesome teenage boy.

"And look at you first you run off without warning and now you're tied up in a cage? Do you know how worried I was? God Luffy!" Zoro growled. Luffy laughed apparently he had never been happier to see Zoro in his life.

"hey at least it was fun." Luffy smiled. Zoro rolled his eyes. Yeah fun for who you idiot I was running all over town looking for your ass he thought. Zoro scowled as whispered came from behind him in the crowd of Company men.

"Did that kid say he was Zoro?"

"Like Zoro the demon assassin?" Zoro snorted and rested his sword on his shoulder as he looked at Nami and Luffy in the cage.

"So your Zoro Whitebeard number one assassin huh? Are you here to assassinate me?" A voice piped up. Zoro looked over his shoulder at the person who was addressing him it was Buggy in his usual clown attire that in Zoro's personal opinion made him look gay.

"nope not this time. Our job doesn't require you dead right now." Zoro called over his shoulder.

"is that so? Well I would gain more fame in the underground world if I was to kill Whitebeards head assassin." Buggy smiled moving through the crowd of people toward Zoro. Zoro turned slightly to look at him with a frown.

"I wouldn't suggest that." Zoro warned. Buggy stopped and drew some daggers from within his coat and held them in between his fingers. In his other hand he twirled another dagger with ease. Zoro took a deep breath and let it out in exasperation.

"looks like words won't work on you." Zoro unsheathed his three swords placing the white one in his mouth and turned fully to face Buggy. They stared each other down for a long moment before they lunched at each other with full strength. Zoro jumped to the side dogging one of Buggy's attack and swept past Buggy. They stood back to each other. Zoro stood up and slid his sword back into their sheaths with a click. Just as they clicked into place Buggy's body came apart. Buggy's upper body detached from his legs his left arm came away from his body and his right leg flew off. Luffy gasped in surprise as Buggy collapsed on the ground motionless. The crowd of Company members fell silent as Zoro walked toward Luffy. Nami stared at him in complete aw. But Zoro didn't care what she thought of him as he headed for Luffy to untie him and undo the cage lock. But behind him the Corporation members began laughing.

"why are they laughing Buggy is dead?" Nami wondered Zoro turned to look at them confused wait… Shit Zoro forgot what Buggy was! Buggy had the ability to split apart! Just as Zoro remember this pain exploded on his left side. Zoro gasped in pain as his knees gave in and he collapsed to the ground.

"ZORO!" Luffy screamed as Zoro looked down at his side to see the blade of a dagger sticking out of his side and blood seeping through his hamaki. The blade withdrew painfully from Zoro side. Zoro glanced over his shoulder to see Buggy's hand in the air holding the bloody dagger. The hand flew back to Buggy who was now standing upright and reattach itself to his wrist.

"Attacking from behind is cowardly you big red nose!" Luffy screamed at Buggy from behind Zoro. And zoro sword if they weren't in the middle of a bad situation Zoro would have punched the idiot in the head. Commenting on Buggy's nose was something you never do it was taboo you would say.

"w-who has a BIG RED NOSE?" Buggy screamed as he threw a dagger at Luffy aimed straight at his heart. Zoro's heart damn near stopped he had to stop that dagger before it killed Luffy. Turning sharply on his knee Zoro whipped out his gun aimed and fired off one shot at the dagger. Everything seemed to move in slow motion as the dagger moved closer to the now terrified Luffy. The bullet easily caught up with the dagger and hit the hilt of the dagger with just enough force to move the dagger trajectory a few inches. That was just enough as the dagger now was aimed at Luffy's head. the dagger connected with Luffy's head and Luffy fell backward and didn't move for a moment. Sighing in relief Zoro lower the gun, Buggy laughed in triumph, the crowd of corporation member cheered and laughed.

"Well Zoro it seems your attempts failed." Buggy turned back to Zoro a wide smile on his face. Nami looked shocked apparently she thought Luffy was dead. Zoro smirked,

"You're dead wrong." Zoro and Luffy said at the same time. Buggy's head snapped around so face Zoro would have thought it had fallen off. Luffy pushed himself up with his elbows with the dagger clutched between his teeth a big face splitting smile on his face. Luffy bit down on the dagger and it shattered into pieces.

"Zoro lets go!" Luffy cried happily. Zoro got shakily to his feet thrusting his gun back into his pocket and crew his 2 swords and lunged at Buggy taking the clown by surprise Zoro sliced him making his upper body split from the bottom and float in the air for a moment. Zoro took that second and jumped through Buggy.

"I told you assassin that wont work!" Buggy turned to yell at him only to find that Zoro wasn't there.

"hey listen when I'm talking to you!" Buggy yelled at Zoro noticing Zoro was behind him now. Zoro fell to his knees and crawled under the cannon that had been aimed at Luffy and pressed his back against the bottom. Putting all his strength into it Zoro pushed upward making the cannon slowly move upward and fall backward so it was facing Buggy and his corporation members. Exhausted Zoro fell to his knees and looked over at Nami who was standing by the end of the cannon.

"hey light it!" Zoro ordered gasping for a breath. Nami jumped out oh her dazed state and pulled out the box of matched and lit one and held it to the wick as it caught fire and began to burn. Buggy and the corporation members seemed to also snap back into reality to see the barrel of the cannon pointed at them.

"Oh no the buggy ball is still in there!" One of them panicked as people ran all over the place. The cannon went off with a boom as well as buggy and all the corporation members in the way. Zoro pushed himself to his feet again and pulled a dagger from within his boot and cut Luffy's ropes and began dragging the cage away from what was now the burning roof top.

"Zoro your hurt are you sure you should be doing this?" Luffy asked from inside the cage. Zoro managed to heft the cage onto his shoulder.

"Shut up and just let me concentrate" Zoro hissed as he walked down the roof. Nami slid down the roof to where Zoro was struggling with the cage she gave him an amazed look as she watched him hold the cage up even with his wound. Zoro didn't really care what she thought at the moment he just had to get them all away and to a safe spot where they could rest. Moments later Zoro dropped Luffy and the cage by the pet shop Zoro had hidden his stuff by before.

"Thanks for saving me Zoro!" Luffy smiled up at him. Zoro didn't reply as his knees gave in and his collapsed to the ground painfully.

"Zoro!" Luffy called out to him worried Nami rushed over and pulled Zoro up and rested him against the post of the pet food shop.

"Why are you doing this? Why are you here for me?" Nami asked. Zoro pulled out his duffle bag and began running though it slowly trying not to put too much strain on his wound.

"We promised to bring you back to your sister Nojiko." Zoro managed out as he took Nami's burned hand and began to dump disinfectant on it. Zoro carefully wrapped a bandage around it before turning to Luffy who at the apparent moment had seemed to find a dog and began poking it.

"Luffy you hurt anywhere?" Zoro looked over at Luffy. Who glared at him and sat cross legged in the cage.

"Worry about yourself ass hole." Luffy huffed. Zoro chuckled and shrugged and began putting aneseptic on his wound. Nami snatched the bottle from his hand and began to bandage Zoro up. Zoro blinked at her in surprise.

"You said you know my sister is that true?" Nami asked without looking up at him.

"Yeah I've known her for a few years." Zoro replied.

"Zoro knows a lot of people in the Whitebeard Corporation! Like Ace, and Shanks and Marco and the Old man!" Luffy proudly announced without a moment of hesitation. Zoro shot him a warning glance to tell him to shut up.

"You know the Red Haired Shanks of the Red Hair Corporation!" Nami gasped staring straight at Zoro with amazement in her eyes as she wrapped Zoro's wound. Zoro looked away as a blush crept its way to his cheeks.

"How did you get to know him?" Nami demanded as she finished of the wrapping of Zoro's wound.

"I don't want to talk about it." Zoro looked away. Luffy groaned apparently he was still hoping Zoro was going to tell him. As if nobody needed to know at the present moment so Zoro wouldn't tell them, the only ones who needed to know was Ace, Shanks, and Whitebeard and that was all. Nami gave up and sat down on the steps next to Zoro staring at Luffy's cage.

"well thanks for saving me I guess. I would have been in big trouble there." Nami thanked them. Nami reached into the pocket of her pants and pulled out a key and tossed it to Luffy for him to use to unlock the cage.

"SWEET!" Luffy cheered making a grab for the key. But before he could touch it the dog he had been petting grabbed it in his mouth and swallowed it. Zoro stared at the little dog in complete shock. Nami's jaw hit the concrete and Luffy blanked out.

"AH NO!" Luffy yelled as he picked the dog up through the bars and began to shake the dog trying to get him to cough up the key.

"Luffy quit playing with the dog we have a big problem here!" Zoro yelled at him.

"What kind of problem?" Luffy asked putting the dog down as it scampered behind Zoro and glared daggers at Luffy from the safety of Zoro's side.

"yeah what's the problem Buggy was blown up with the Buggy Ball right?" Nami wondered.

"the problem is Buggy can split apart and he could have survived that attack with ease because of his power. Also Buggy has no real feeling for the men who work under him so he probably used them as a shield to survive the attack." Zoro reasoned Nami seemed to think it over for a moment then nodded in agreement. Luffy had a look of complete confusion on his face but didn't say anything.

"Who are you guys?" A voice broke the silence that had enveloped the trio. Blinking all three of them looked up at the new comer. There was an old man with balding grey hair wearing a yellow plaid shirt and brown pants on. On top he wore what looked like home made armor. Shit Zoro thought. He was under the impression that all the people of the town had evacuated to escape Buggy so what was this old man doing here? He was going to get hurt if Buggy and his men came to fight Zoro and Luffy.