Previously on The X-Pirates, Luffy and Tarble met a dog by the Name of Chou-Chou, then they had a run-in with a member of the Buggy Pirates named Beast Tamer Mohji. Seeing what Mohji and his lion, Richie, did to the Pet Store that Chou-Chou was guarding, Tarble knocked both Mohji and Richie away all for Chou-Chou. The Mayor of the town finally snapped and went off to fight Buggy and his pirate crew by himself, but Luffy, Tarble, Zoro, and even Nami wouldn't let him die for the town, so they went after him too. Now, the confrontation with the Buggy Pirates continues!
Clash Against The Buggy Pirates (Part 2)
Cabaji and Zoro clashed their swords against each other, then Cabaji noticed Zoro's injury, then he used some acrobatic technique and breathed out fire to distract Zoro, then he kicked his injury, causing Zoro to yell in pain.
"I can see that this guy likes to play dirty." Tarble thought while glaring at Cabaji as the sword fight went on, Cabaji kept going for Zoro's injury.
"He's playing dirty! Hey, why are the two of you just standing there watching!? Go help him out!" Nami demanded while Luffy and Tarble didn't answer her, nor did they look at her, they just kept watching the battle unfold.
"You annoying little bastard, you having fun poking at my wound?" Zoro growled threateningly, his eyes looked dangerous as he cried out, "Go ahead!"
Cabaji then rode his unicycle at full speed towards Zoro who didn't move from where he was standing as Cabaji stabbed him in the same place Buggy did, ripping the bandages off, but Zoro wasn't gonna back down anytime soon.
"That enough of a handicap for you, Circus Freak? I refuse to bring myself to lose to ANYONE who calls himself a swordsman!" Zoro told Cabaji despite the wound on his gut.
"Yeah, you tell him Zoro!" Luffy cheered while Tarble gave the swordsman a thumbs-up.
"Oh I give up, there's no point in sticking around here anymore, so I'm outta here." Nami said while walking away, but then she turned to Luffy and Tarble and said, "We should team up again if we meet again, later." then she walked away.
"Okay, bye." Luffy said happily.
"Be careful out there!" Tarble warned with a little wave.
"I admire your determination, Roronoa Zoro, but now you shall taste the sting of my ultimate acrobat technique!" Cabaji yelled as he suddenly rode his unicycle up a building, then he was above Zoro with his sword pointed at him, ready to strike him down.
Buggy smirked and held his hand out as he yelled, "Chop-Chop Cannon!" then he launched his hand towards Zoro as he yelled, "Cabaji, I'll hold him down so you can finish him off!"
Then suddenly Luffy stepped on Buggy's hand to stop him as Zoro used his swords to block Cabaji's attack before the two swordsmen backed away from each other as Luffy yelled at Buggy, "This is Zoro's fight, don't interfere! If you want to fight someone so badly... then fight me!" that's when he let Buggy's hand come back to him.
Cabaji smirked at Zoro, "I can assure you, I don't need my captain's help to defeat you."
Zoro brought his third sword out as he said, "You really think so? Well, we'll just see about that."
"DIE!" Cabaji yelled while charging towards Zoro who got ready for one last attack.
"Oni... Giri!" Zoro easily slashed Cabaji with all three of his swords.
Tarble whistled in awe, "Nice one Zoro."
"I can't believe the Buggy Pirates were defeated by petty thieves." Cabaji croaked out before he lost consciousness.
"We aren't petty thieves!" Zoro growled before he collapsed, then he added with a little bit of a flat voice, "We're pirates!"
Buggy growled angrily, "Fire a Buggy Ball at those three!" as some of the Buggy Pirates aimed the cannon filled with a Buggy Ball at Luffy, Tarble, and Zoro before they fired it.
"I'll just send it right back at you!" Luffy grinned, but then Tarble suddenly appeared in front of Luffy and pushed him back a bit.
"Tarble, what are you doing?" Luffy asked in confusion, Tarble didn't answer but he brought his leg behind him, grunted a bit as his leg was surrounded by a purple aura.
"Huh, now what's that guy up to?" Buggy asked in confusion while Nami, who was trying to find the chart of the Grand Line and Buggy's treasure, stopped to look at Tarble as well.
"I'm not gonna let you blow this town up anymore Buggy!" Tarble yelled as he used his aura fueled leg to kick the Buggy Ball straight up into the air as the Buggy Ball actually left the Earth and exploded in space as the Buggy Pirates, Zoro, and Nami looked at Tarble with wide eyes, Luffy looked at him with wide eyes as well, but with a big grin on his face as well as Tarble's foot lost the aura around it as he yelled, "And I'll do it again if you fire another one of those Buggy Balls!"
"Man, Tarble, warn me the next time you do something like that." Zoro said silently.
"It's official, he's definitely not from Earth." Nami whispered to herself before she went back to finding Buggy's treasure and the chart of the Grand Line.
"Luffy... Tarble... I'm going to sleep." Zoro croaked out.
"Rest up Zoro, Tarble and I will take care of everything else here." Luffy smiled at Zoro who just went to sleep, then Luffy turned to Buggy and yelled, "Listen, I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!"
Buggy snorted angrily after hearing that before he yelled, "Oh yeah!? If you're gonna be King of the Pirates, then that would make me a God!"
"I seriously doubt that." Tarble thought to himself, but Buggy wasn't done.
"Listen here you twerp, I'm the one who's gonna be King of the Pirates!" Buggy yelled as he brought knives out.
"Gum-Gum Pistol!" Luffy stretched his fist out over to Buggy.
"Chop-Chop Quick Escape!" Buggy's head quickly came off the shoulders just avoiding Luffy's Gum-Gum Pistol as Buggy laughed as his head reattached to his body, "So Straw Hat, you've eaten one of the Devil Fruits as well, AND you have a strong Monkey Boy with you? Very good..." then Buggy brought some knives out along with some knives popping out of his shoes as he finished with, "But not good enough, I'm afraid. Chop-Chop Cannon!" then Buggy fired his hands out towards Luffy and Tarble as they both dodged the attacks.
"This is for the town!" Tarble yelled as he charged towards Buggy.
"Nice try Monkey Boy! Chop-Chop Quick Escape!" Buggy removed his head again, but Tarble punched Buggy in the gut, causing him to double over in pain as Buggy grunted, "That monkey-tailed freak punches like a gorilla, if not, even harder than a gorilla!"
"Good one Tarble, now it's my turn! Gum-Gum Whip!" Luffy used his Gum-Gum Whip to kick Buggy towards a nearby building, then Luffy cheered, "Yeah, I got him!"
"Don't celebrate just yet Luffy, look, he's getting back up." Tarble said while looking at his Scouter as Buggy got back up and he was glaring at both Luffy and Tarble.
"You blasted Straw Hat and Monkey, now you've really pissed me off!" Buggy yelled before throwing a knife at Luffy, scratching him on his face, but it also got the straw hat Luffy was wearing as Buggy yelled, "Ha, got Straw Hat! Now for Monkey Boy!"
"Luffy!" Tarble yelled, but then he saw that Luffy was growling angrily as he looked at the damage done to his hat, even though it was just a tiny nick on the rim, Luffy turned to glare at Buggy as Tarble asked, "Uh, Luffy, are you okay?"
"You bastard, you hurt my hat! How dare you damage my one treasure!?" Luffy yelled at Buggy as Nami watched with a bag full of treasure behind her.
"Treasure you say?" Buggy asked before he laughed, "Give me a break! Treasure amounts to gold and silver! An old straw hat like that isn't considered treasure!" the Buggy got a sinister look on his face as he said, "However... if it's that important to you... YOU SHOULD PROTECT IT!" then he threw three knives at the hat.
"Don't you dare!" Luffy growled dangerously, but before the knives could get the hat, an arm got in the way and took the knives for Luffy and his straw hat, shocking Buggy, the Buggy Pirates, Nami, and even Luffy as they saw that Tarble had the knives on his arm, causing little trails of blood to drip down to the ground as Luffy cried out in concern, "TARBLE!"
"Monkey Boy!" Buggy cried in shock.
"Why did he do that!?" Nami thought while looking at the knives still on Tarble's bleeding arm.
"Listen here Buggy, that hat means to Luffy than anything else on this planet, so I'll do everything I can to keep you from damaging it even more! I WON'T LET YOU DO ANYTHING TO MY CAPTAIN'S TREASURE!" Tarble yelled angrily before he pulled all three knives off his arm at once.
"T-T-Tarble." Luffy chocked out looking between his hat and Tarble's bleeding arm.
"Don't worry Luffy, this won't be enough to kill me, after all, I'm a Saiyan." Tarble smirked while looking at Buggy.
Then Buggy's upper half floated off his lower half with more knives in his hands, then he flew over to Nami as he yelled, "NAMI, DROP MY TREASURE RIGHT NOW!" but just as he got close to Nami, Luffy kicked his unguarded lower half, right in the family jewels, and pretty hard enough to make Tarble wince as Buggy screamed in pain before he croaked out, "Ooh, right in the family jewels! What was that for, you bastard?"
"That was for my hat." Luffy said seriously, then he picked up Buggy's lower half and yelled, "And this is for stabbing Tarble in the arm!" then he threw the lower half over to Tarble and yelled, "Tarble, head's up!" then Tarble kicked Buggy's lower half hard, sending it crashing into Buggy's upper half, but Tarble wasn't done, so he kicked Buggy down to the ground as Luffy ran over to both Tarble and Nami.
"Thanks, you two really saved my ass back there." Nami said sweetly.
Luffy grinned at her, "Sure, no problem."
Buggy reattached himself as he growled at Luffy, Tarble, and Nami, "That's it, I'm done messing around! No one has made me this angry except for a pirate by the name of Shanks!"
That got Luffy's attention as he said, "Shanks? He's the one who gave me my hat."
"Oh did he? No wonder I get so angry whenever I look at that piece of crap." Buggy said while glaring at the hat on Luffy's head, making Luffy angry again.
"You know him?" Luffy asked.
"We used to be on the same ship as pirate cadets, he always wore that hat wherever he goes. It's thanks to him that I was able to get my Chop-Chop powers! I had a map revealing some treasure under the water, but he came out of nowhere causing me to accidentally swallow the Chop-Chop Fruit I was gonna sell! So I've decided, if I can't get any treasure underwater, I'll go for all of the treasure on dry land! But as long as I live, I'll never forgive Shanks for what happened all those years ago!" Buggy yelled, just before he got punched in the face by a very angry Luffy.
"Don't you dare talk about Shanks like that! He was a better man than you'll ever be!" Luffy growled angrily.
"Whoa, I've never seen Luffy this angry before." Tarble thought.
"At first, he smiles without a care in the world, and the next, he gets so mad about someone wrecking his hat and having his friend injured. And here I thought nothing fazes him." Nami thought before he ran away with the treasure.
"I'm gonna tear that hat apart until there's nothing left of it! Chop-Chop Separate!" Buggy then broke apart into several smaller pieces, making it harder to hit him, then Buggy's head and hands grabbed the bag of treasure Nami was carrying as he yelled, "Give me back my treasure!"
"Hey, let go of my treasure!" Nami yelled as they tried to get the treasure back.
"What do you mean your treasure!? It's mine you bitch!" Buggy yelled angrily.
"Tarble now!" Luffy suddenly yelled before he and Tarble gave Buggy's head a good punch, it was enough to rip the treasure bag open, and enough to knock Buggy out a little.
"You might want to get a new bag to put all the treasure in Nami." Tarble said but then Buggy woke up and he was really mad.
"Now I'm REALLY pissed off! Come to me, Body Parts!" Buggy yelled as he began to pull himself together, but he only got some parts of his body as he asked, "Huh, what happened to my parts?"
"Looking for these?" Nami asked as she had the rest of Buggy's parts all tied up.
"Nice one Nami, now it's my turn!" Luffy yelled before he stretched his arms back far before he yelled, "Gum-Gum Bazooka!" then he pushed his arms forward very fast, sending Buggy the Clown flying far away from the town.
Luffy held his hat in his hands and looked at the damage done to it, even though it was just a little bit, then he looked at Tarble and his bleeding arm.
"Sorry I couldn't stop Buggy from scratching your hat Luffy." Tarble apologized.
"You shouldn't have done that. Why did you take the hit for my hat?" Luffy asked sounding a bit mad.
"You said that it was your treasure, and a friend of yours named Shanks left it with you, so it was just a force of habit of mine to keep Buggy from damaging it even further." Tarble explained.
"But you still got hurt doing so." Luffy said as he and Tarble looked at the bleeding arm.
"This isn't gonna kill me Luffy, Saiyans like me can handle pain like this." Tarble said while holding up his injured arm as Nami walked over to them.
"You know, I can fix that hat for you." Nami quietly offered Luffy, then she turned to Tarble and added, "Plus I can wrap that up for you."
"Really? Thanks Nami." Luffy said with a grin, then he and Tarble were confused when they saw Nami hold out the chart of the Grand Line to them.
"This is just my way of saying thanks for saving me." Nami said as Luffy happily took the chart.
"So does that mean you'll join my crew?" Luffy asked happily.
"I told you before, no matter what, I'll never join a pirate crew!" Nami said firmly, but then she got a small smile on her face as she said, "But... alright. Hanging around with you seems profitable enough. But just remember this, I'm only joining you, because it's in my interest."
"Yeah, we've finally got a navigator!" Luffy cheered happily while Tarble walked over to Zoro, who was still sleeping.
"Zoro, it's time to wake up. We need to keep going." Tarble said, shaking Zoro a little as Tarble saw that Zoro looked a little sick from his own injury.
"Hey, you three!" Luffy, Tarble, and Nami, who had Buggy's treasure in two separate bags, turned to see a bunch of town residents looking ready to fight in front of them as one of them demanded, "What happened here? Where's Buggy the Clown?"
"Oh, sorry, but you just missed him. He won't be coming back for quite a while." Tarble answered as one of the citizens saw the Mayor on the ground, knocked out.
"The Mayor's knocked out! Just who are you!?" the citizens demanded.
"Oh, us? Well... uh... the thing is..." Nami tried to explain, but luck was not on her side.
"We're pirates." Luffy answered right away making the citizens glare at them.
"Oh, now I get it! It was YOU who destroyed our town and knocked out the Mayor!" one of the citizens yelled.
"Let's get those pirates!" the citizens yelled.
"Luffy, I know you probably didn't mean to, but you've just turned the whole town against us." Tarble said as Luffy hoisted Zoro up while Nami got the two bags of treasure with her as the three of them ran off with the villagers chasing them.
"That's just great! Why did you have to go and open your big mouth like that!?" Nami demanded as they kept running.
"This is a good town!" Luffy said with a smile, confusing Tarble and Nami.
"Luffy, what are you talking about?" Tarble asked in confusion.
"Everyone's so mad because of the old Mayor guy. Something tells me that they aren't gonna listen to our side of the story." Luffy said before they made a sharp turn into an alleyway, they were surprised to see Chou-Chou waiting for them as they jumped over the dog who barked at the citizens of the town causing them to stop in confusion.
"Chou-Chou, what's he doing here?" Nami asked looking back at the barking dog.
"He's helping us escape. He's repaying us for what we did for him." Tarble smiled at Chou-Chou as they kept getting further and further away from him and the citizens.
"Thanks Doggy!" Luffy yelled to the dog.
Soon the four of them made it to the docks where they saw their boat next to another boat with the mark of the Buggy Pirates on the sail and now the four of them left with Nami on the Buggy Boat and Luffy, Tarble, and Zoro back on their little boat.
"So, you stole that boat from some of the Buggy Pirates?" Tarble asked Nami while looking at the bigger boat.
"Yep, those pirates were so easy to fool." Nami answered while sticking her tongue out.
"Well, at least we're getting somewhere now that we have a navigator with us." Zoro said after he woke up from his slumber.
"HEY, WAIT YOUNG ONES!" Luffy, Tarble, Zoro, and Nami looked back to see the Mayor on the docks without his armor on him.
"It's the old Mayor guy." Luffy said as they looked at him carefully.
"I wonder what he wants? He should be glad to see us take off, seeing as how we're three pirates and a skilled thief who steals from pirates." Tarble pointed out before he looked carefully and he saw that tears of joy were running down the Mayor's face as Tarble said, "He's... crying?"
"THANKS! THANK YOU!" the Mayor cried happily as Luffy, Tarble, Zoro, and Nami grinned at him.
"Don't worry about it!" Luffy called back.
"Take it easy Mayor!" Tarble called back while waving, but then Nami realized something.
"What happened to one of my bags of treasure!?" Nami demanded, then she looked at Luffy and yelled, "Did you leave back at the docks!?"
"Yep, the old Mayor guy and the villagers are gonna need it to rebuild their town." Luffy answered happily.
"But that bag had about 5 million berries worth of treasure in it, and I stole it fair and square!" Nami yelled as she tried to push Luffy's head down into the water.
"Nami, what are you doing!? I can't swim!" Luffy yelled while struggling to get out of Nami's grip.
"That's the whole point!" Nami yelled still trying to drown Luffy.
"If you want it back that badly, just go get it!" Luffy argued.
"You're the idiot who left it behind, so you go get it!" Nami yelled, then she remembered Tarble as she turned to him and yelled, "Hey, you can fly, go and get my treasure back!"
"What!? I can't do that, they need that money to fix their town!" Tarble yelled.
"YOU GET THAT TREASURE BACK RIGHT NOW OR I'LL RIP THAT TAIL OFF YOUR BACK!" Nami threatened making Tarble hold his tail as he glared at Nami.
"You do and you'll be sorry!" Tarble yelled as Zoro laughed at all three of them as they kept sailing.
Well, they've freed the town from the Buggy Pirates, and they've got Nami tagging along as well, but they'd better watch their backs with her around. Who knows what kind of enemies they'll face in the next island they go to? Will they make another friend? Is there a foe that can give Tarble a challenge? The journey continues next time on The X-Pirates!
