On the last chapter of The X-Pirates, the Straw Hat Pirates stopped at an island that was once a perfect stop for pirates until a killer, called the Mountain Hunter. While Tarble, Luffy, Nami, and Usopp left to deal with this Mountain Hunter, Pigero and Zoro decided to hang back and get something to drink when they met up with a mysterious person in a green hood. Soon Tarble was able to find the Mountain Hunter and was told about the hunter's true identity. The Mountain Hunter turned out to be Tek, the last survivor of an alien race known as the Catsans, who wants revenge on the Saiyans for killing his race. Tarble and Tek then fought in the cave, and though it looked close, Tarble was able to win by pulling off his first Kamehameha Wave, and now wishes that Tek was in a better place. And now, the Straw Hat Pirates are once again on their way to the Grand Line.

The Sea Restaurant, Baratie

Back on the Merry's deck, Nami was relaxing, Pigero was writing what Tarble and Nami told him about Tek in his journal, Zoro was napping, and Luffy and Usopp were getting a cannon ready with some cannon balls that Luffy was able to find.

The only other member of the crew that also seemed to be taking a nap was Tarble, but it would seem that he's having a nightmare with the way he kept hissing, tossing and turning. What could he be dreaming about?

Tarble's nightmare:

Tarble opened his eyes and he saw that he was still on the Going Merry's deck, but as he looked up to see that the sky was covered in dark clouds, so as he kept looking at the clouds, he told the others, "Brace yourselves guys, looks like a storm's coming!"

When he heard no reply, he looked around the deck and asked, "Guys?"

Then he gasped when he took another look at the deck, the Going Merry was wrecked beyond repair and it wasn't on water, it was on a small uninhabited island, and it seems as though Tarble was the only one on the ship as he looked around while asking, "What-What's going on here!?"

"Guys, are you still here?" Tarble called as he searched the wrecked Going Merry for his friends, "Zoro! Nami! Usopp! Pigero! Luffy!"

Then Tarble heard something as he jumped off the wrecked boat and looked around the island, "Guys, where are you!? What happened to the Going Merry!?"

Then he gasped when he saw a bunch of skeletons on the ground as he looked around to see more destruction done to the island, so he gulped and asked himself, "What's happened here?"

Then suddenly, Tarble had a sword dangerously close to his neck as he slowly turned and then gasped when he saw that it was Zoro holding the sword to the Saiyan's neck, then Zoro said, "Good, you're finally here, you bastard!"

"Zoro, wh-what are you doing?" Tarble asked, a little shaky about the sword against his neck.

"What should've been done a long time ago!" Zoro growled dangerously low, making Tarble gulp nervously.

Then a rock hit his head, "Ow!" then he looked to see Pigero with his fists surrounded by rocks, so he asked, "Pigero? Why did you do that?"

"That was just a warning shot you demon! Next time, I'll make sure to use all of my Brek-Brek Devil Fruit powers on you!" Pigero yelled as he pounded his two rock covered fists together.

"Guys, come on! It's me, Tarble! We're all members of the same pirate crew, aren't we?" Tarble asked.

"Think again!" Tarble turned to see Nami giving him a very angry glare as she growled at the Saiyan Prince, "I never thought I'd hate something more than I hate pirates, but I guess I was wrong! You're worse than any pirate I've ever met!"

Tarble was shocked by what Nami was saying, "What!? Nami, what are you talking about? Don't you guys recognize me?"

"Yeah, we recognize you!" then Usopp came in as well while aiming his slingshot at Tarble, "We recognize you as the monster you are! You're nothing more than a liar and a killer! The Saiyans are not space pirates, they're just a bunch of murdering monsters like you!"

"WHAT!? How can you say that!?" Tarble yelled in shock as he looked around the island.

Zoro pressed his sword a little closer to Tarble's neck and snarled, "Don't play dumb with us, see what has happened to this island?"

"I do, who did this?" Tarble asked while looking at the damage done to the place.

"It was YOU! You caused all of this!" Pigero yelled while pointing at Tarble, who was pretty pale now.

"You killed all of these people!" Nami yelled.

"You destroyed the Going Merry! That was a gift from Kaya and Merry!" Usopp yelled angrily.

"You pretty much destroyed this entire island!" Zoro yelled as Tarble had small tears in the corner of his eyes while looking around.

"Guys, it wan't me! I didn't do this!" Tarble yelled.

"Tarble!" someone else called for the Saiyan who blinked, then he smiled when he saw another familiar face come to him.

"Luffy! Oh boy am I glad to see you!" Tarble said happily while Luffy was now in front of him, but his hat was overshadowing his eyes while Tarble continued with, "Luffy, you've gotta help me. the others seem to think that I killed these people and destroyed the Going Merry! Please, tell me someone else did this!"

"I wish I could, but that would be a lie... Traitor!" Luffy yelled the last as he looked up to glare at Tarble who gasped when he looked up to see a halo above Luffy's head as Luffy continued with, "And while you killed all of these people, you killed me as well and then destroyed the Going Merry! The biggest mistake I've ever made in my life... was making you the first member of my pirate crew! Now it's payback time Tarble! I'm gonna do more than kick your ass, I'm gonna kill you like you killed me!"

Then Luffy stretched his arms back and got ready to launch them at Tarble who was trembling as the fists came at Tarble fast as the Saiyan Prince shut his eyes tight, "Wait, Luffy don't! NOOOOOO!"

Nightmare interrupted:

Tarble was startled awake after hearing an explosion as he looked around to see that he was on the Going Merry, which was still as good as new, and he saw Luffy standing behind a smoking cannon, showing that he just fired it as Tarble had a hand on his chest while panting and silently saying to himself, "A dream, it was just a dream. I'm alive, I'm still alive."

"Hey what's so loud down there!?" Zoror shouted, seems as though the cannon woke him up from his nap as well.

"Cannon firing practice." Luffy answered, then he frowned and bit his lower lip, "But it's not going very well."

Usopp went around to the other side and said firmly, "Like I said, let the expert aim the thing." Then he pushed Luffy out of the way so he could show him. Frowning a little, tilting the cannon farther to the left, he muttered to himself, "Judging from the flying distance of that last one... This should do it..." and when he fired the cannon, the rock in the distance that they were aiming at was blown to pieces.

"Wow, nice shooting Usopp!" Pigero commented before he went back to writing in his journal.

"Awesome! You hit that thing on the first try!" Luffy shouted happily.

Usopp was surprised himself as he muttered, "Wow, I did?" then he realized what he said, and then quickly said, as if he knew that would happen all along, "What do you think? I'm pretty magnificent when it comes to aiming, so are you impressed yet?"

"Don't think I didn't just hear that Usopp." Tarble thought, even though he was still shock about his nightmare while Luffy nodded eagerly.

"Yeah! You better believe it!" Luffy said firmly, "So it's all settled! You'll be our sniper, and Pigero will be our chronicler!"

Pigero smiled and held up his pencil, "Cool with me, Captain!"

Usopp looked surprised and asked, "Wait, I don't get to be captain?"

"No, I'm still the captain!" Luffy yelled in annoyance and soon they got into an argument.

Pigero chuckled a little while looking at Luffy and Usopp, but then he saw Tarble's still pale face as he asked, "Tarble, you okay?"

"Uh yeah, I think I'm fine, just had a bit of a bad dream." Tarble answered, but then the two of them looked to see that Nami took it upon herself to break up the argument by taking everyone inside and now they were all sitting down at the table.

"Whatever, I'll humor you for now. But... the second you do something cowardly, I'm taking your post!" Usopp told Luffy as they relaxed at the table.

"I can live with that." Luffy said casually, then he looked to see Tarble sitting next to him while looking at the orange ball in his hands. Curious about the ball, Luffy pointed at it and asked, "Hey Tarble, where did you get that?"

"Oh this? Kakarot gave it to me before we left Emerald Island. He considers it his treasure, a good luck charm, and the only thing he had to remind him of his Grandfather by." Tarble answered while he showed the others the Four-Star ball as he continued with, "Like me, he changed into a Great Ape after looking at the Full Moon. He had no control of himself and unknowingly killed his own Grandfather, and the next day, all he had was his house and this ball given to him by his Grandfather."

"Wow, and Kakarot just gave it to you? That was really nice of him to do that!" Usopp said while looking at the ball.

"We made a promise to each other, that I would hold on to this for both Kakarot and myself until I become a true Saiyan warrior, to train like no other Saiyan has trained before, and then, only then would I return this ball to Kakarot." Tarble said while Nami's expression looked dark as she looked at the Four-Star ball.

"Wow, kinda sounds like the promise I made to Shanks years ago." Luffy thought as he glanced up at the straw hat on his head.

Then suddenly, they heard the sound of a barrel shattering on deck and then someone yelled, "Get out here you damn pirates!"

Then Luffy and Tarble looked to see that it was a young man with black hair and somewhat tanned skin along with a pair of sunglasses, and also a tattoo on the side of his face that read out: sea. Then Luffy demanded, "Hey what the hell!? Who are you?"

"Shut up! Who I am means nothing ya stinking pirate!" the young man yelled before he tried to slice Luffy with the sword he was carrying, but he easily jumped out of harm's way as did Tarble... however the sword swing ended up cutting up part of the upper railing.

The the young man proclaimed, "Over the years I've lost count of all the pirate heads we've taken! Now you guys think you can kill my partner?" He tried to attack Luffy and Tarble again, but ended up breaking up a few of the floorboards with his next attack.

"What do you mean by partner?" Luffy asked, now losing his temper, "Look, I don't know what this is! Just stop wrecking our ship!" Without another word, Luffy grabbed the young man and threw him over his head like he was nothing but a rag doll and the young man slammed into the side of the cabin before he slowly slid down to the floor.

"Lost by a hair..." the young man muttered.

"Looked like more than a hair to me." Tarble thought, hearing what the young man just said while sweat dropping.

"Who is this guy?" Luffy asked while looking at the young man.

"Well, with the way he talked about pirates, and the fact that he's not wearing a uniform worn by the marines, I'm gonna say he's a bounty hunter." Tarble guessed just as Zoro walked out of the cabin to see what was going on himself.

Zoro looked down to see who it was and he was quite surprised as he said, "Johnny... tell me it isn't you?"

"Huh? Who's saying my name like they think they know me or something?" the man, Johnny, demanded, looking up with an angry glare, but then he gasped when he realized who it was. So he got back on his feet and gasped, "Big Bro Zoro!"

Zoro looked at him with a satisfied expression on his face as he said, "Johnny, it is you."

Luffy looked at Tarble and whispered, "Do you think that guy's one of Zoro's friends?"

"Well, with the way they're talking to each other while smiling, I guess they are." Tarble whispered back with a shrug.

"What are you doing here, Big Bro? What are you doing on a pirate ship!? What's going on around here?" Johnny asked.

"Hey, relax. Where's Yosaku? Isn't he with you?" Zoro asked instead of answering Johnny's questions.

"What's going on?" Luffy asked in confusion while Nami and Usopp pressed their noses up against the window to see what was going on while Pigero stood back while looking at the same window while Luffy asked, "You guys know each other or something?"

Johnny was near tears as he pointed to the railing, "He's over here!" Then he and the others ran to the side of Merry and they looked down to see another young man wearing a long green coat and bright orange headgear was lying there in a small boat. He had a sickly look to his skin, he seemed to be having trouble breathing with a thick bandage wrapped around his chest and stomach that was stained with blood.

"He's been sick..." Johnny stuttered with tears while Zoro placed a hand on his shoulder in comfort.

"I'll bring him up here." Tarble offered before he slowly flew down to Yosaku and carefully picked him up and then went back up onto the deck.

Zoro looked at Yosaku and exclaimed, "What is it!?"

Johnny began to explain what happened to him and his partner, "Up until a few days ago he was healthy and full of life. And now...? He just keeps fainting and getting really pale! I have no clue what's causing it! His teeth have been falling out and his old wound opened up and started bleeding! He just got worse and worse, I didn't know what to do!" Then Nami, Pigero, and Usopp joined everyone else as Johnny went on while trying his best to hold in his tears, "I thought it would be best to let Yosaku rest on a small island for a little while... but then a cannonball came and blew up the rock and it almost killed us!"

Luffy and Usopp were horrified to hear that. "We're very sorry!" they said at the same time while bowing their heads down.

"Sorry isn't good enough." Johnny said, almost resentfully while Luffy and Usopp both turned blue in the face and they both looked like they could cry at any moment while Tarble and Pigero patted them on the backs gently to try and calm them down.

"Isn't that right, Partner!? Big Bro, give it to me straight. Is he going to die!?" Johnny asked Zoro who didn't answer, but his eyes widened a little and he seemed unable to think of something to say.

Then Nami spoke up, "You're all so dumb."

"Hey, watch what you say!" Zoro warned, but Nami ignored him as she checked on Yosaku by opening his eyes and pulling out his tongue.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing!?" Johnny asked her angrily, thinking that she's not helping at all.

Tarble held Johnny back and assured him, "It's okay, it might not look like it, but she's helping your partner."

Nami then turned to Luffy and Usopp, who still looked pretty scared, and told them, "What are you two standing around for? Go get some limes from the storage room!"

Luffy and Usopp then rushed off to get some limes... But when they did, they got stuck in the door to the storage room after getting some limes, that was enough to make Pigero sigh while asking himself, "How do I get myself into these situations?"

Later, Luffy and Usopp were dripping lime juice into Yosaku's mouth, then Tarble asked, "So what's wrong with him Nami?"

"He has Scurvy." Nami grimly told them.

"Scurvy?" Johnny and Tarble repeated in confusion.

"I've heard about it while I was still in training. It's a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C, which is required from the synthesis of collagen. As Scurvy advances, there can be open, suppurating wounds, loss of teeth, jaundice, fever, and even death. It's pretty common among sailors to get Scurvy." Pigero explained.

"If we're not too late, he should recover in a few days." Nami added while Johnny cried in happiness.

"Really Big Sis? REALLY!?" Johnny asked, then he yelled out in pure happiness, "THANK YOU BIG SIS!"

Nami just pushed him off and said, "Don't call me that."

Luffy was also impressed as he gasped, "You're smart! You're like... a DOCTOR!"

"YOU GUYS ARE MORONS!" Nami yelled to everyone, "EVERY SAILOR SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SCURVY!"

Tarble chuckled nervously, but then he saw that Luffy and Usopp were now shoving limes in Yosaku's mouth, so he yelled, "Whoa! Hey! Luffy, Usopp, stop that!"

Then, while coughing up limes, Yosaku sat up with the color back on his face. Blinking in surprise, he looked up at Johnny and soon the two were dancing and singing about how he was cured, and then Nami yelled at them both, "YOU CAN'T HEAL THAT QUICKLY!"

Then the two of them stopped to face the others with Johnny saying, "Allow us to introduce ourselves. My name is Johnny."

"And I'm Yosaku." Yosaku added.

"Together we're the baddest pirate bounty hunting duo in the world!" they said at the same time.

"Big Bro Zoro there used to be one of us." Johnny added.

"Glad to make your acquaintance." Yosaku said while smiling.

"Small world. I never thought I'd see you two again." Zoro said.

"Well, if you think you're surprised." Yosaku said, beaming at the sight of Zoro.

"We never thought that the Pirate Hunter Zoro became a pirate himself." Johnny spoke up while looking around at the ship.

Tarble shrugged, "Like he said, small world." But as Zoro held his hands out to shake with Johnny and Yosaku, Yosaku was pale again and then passed out where he stood.

"Hey, partner!?" Johnny exclaimed in shock.

Nami just calmly assured him, "He just needs a full night of sleep before he could even think about moving, let alone dancing around like that."

After getting Yosaku a spot to get some rest, everyone else was back in the lounge to talk with each other.

"Let this be a lesson to you." Nami said firmly as she pulled out her logbook and started to write down everything that happened today while Pigero kept writing in his own journal.

"Yeah, this is the kind of trouble you get into when you chose a life on the sea." Zoro agreed as he sat up against the wall, looking ready for a nap.

"Which means, while we're at sea, we really gotta think about how to get the right amount of nutrients with very little food." Usopp added gravely.

"It's absolutely necessary that someone knows how to do that." Nami agreed with a frown while wondering what to do.

"It's necessary?" Luffy asked while enjoying some bread, then his eyes widened as he suddenly had an idea, "Right, a ship needs a cook!"

The others looked to him, then Tarble nodded with a smile, "Good thinking Luffy, this ship needs a good cook."

Usopp stood up in excitement, "I'm in! We'll have yummy food even while we're out at sea!"

"But where are we gonna find a cook all the way out here?" Pigero asked, just finished writing down what just happened.

"I know the perfect place where you guys can find a cook!" Johnny claimed.

Luffy was pretty much jumping up and down with an arm around Tarble while yelling, "TELL US TELL US TELL US!"

"Easy Luffy, let him tell us where to find a cook before you get all excited!" Tarble tried to get Luffy to calm down.

"Consider yourselves warned." Johnny said as he paced forward until he was right in front of Zoro before he continued with, "This place is close to the Grand Line and I've heard a lot of rumors lately. That a certain Hawk-Eye man you're looking for is there too." After hearing that, Zoro grabbed his sword and grinned almost as equally as Luffy.

"Set a course! North by northeast!" Johnny exclaimed dramatically while pointing in the direction, "Our destination is... the sea restaurant, Baratie!"

"I'm on it!" Pigero said as he got out to turn the ship in the direction Johnny was pointing.

Later, as they sailed on, Tarble was up on the crow's nest when he spotted something, so he called to the others, "Hey guys, I see something straight ahead of us! Come look!"

Then everyone got on the upper deck with Tarble jumping down to join them as they stared ahead to see a brightly colored ship that looked like a large fish with many different levels and the name 'Baratie' spelled out in front.

"So, what do you think!?" Johnny asked while Yosaku cautiously poked his head out the door to his cabin.

"Wow! That's a big fish!" Luffy yelled with excitement.

"It's lovely!" Nami exclaimed.

"This is the coolest place ever!" Usopp yelled.

Tarble looked at the Baratie in awe, "I've never seen anything this nice while I was in training on different planets."

"Just like I told ya, right?" Johnny asked.

Pigero smiled at the sight of the restaurant as well, but then he heard bells and honking noises from behind them as he turned to look at the source when he narrowed his eyes at the sight and told the others, "Guys, we've got company." Then the others turned to see a large marine ship sailing towards them.

"What the...? A marine ship? All the way out here?" Johnny cried out, startled by the ship's sudden appearance.

"Hey Luffy, you don't think they're gonna fire on us are they?" Usopp asked quietly while Luffy just shrugged.

"That's just my luck, of course the marines would show up." Zoro said angrily.

"Took the words right out of my mouth, Zoro." Pigero agreed angrily.

"But how did that ship...?" Nami asked in surprise while Johnny tried to sneak below deck.

Then someone came out onto the deck of the marine ship. It was an average sized marine who wore a white pinstriped suit, he also had pink hair kinda like Coby's, well combed and slicked back, with a scar under his right eye and bolts attached to his knuckles that gleamed in the sunlight as he put his hand up on the railing when he looked over at them and said, "I've never seen that pirate flag." Then he called out, holding up his fist so that they couldn't miss his knuckles, "I'm Iron Fist Fullbody! But you can just call me Sir!"

"I'd rather die." Pigero muttered to himself while glaring at Fullbody.

"You there! Who is the Captain? Identify yourself!" Fullbody shouted.

Luffy stepped forward, "My name is Luffy!"

Then Usopp also came forward almost right after Luffy did, "My name's Usopp, got it?"

Luffy then gave Usopp a slightly irritated look, "We've only made our pirate flag not that long ago!"

"Right before we competed in the East Blue Martial Arts Tournament." Tarble added while slowly shaking his head with his arms crossed.

"That's right Marine, and I drew it!" Usopp yelled smugly.

Fullbody sneered, "You did? Is that so?" Then he noticed Johnny and Yosaku, who were half hidden behind the door, and called to them, "Hey, you two! I've seen you before! You're that bounty hunting duo that goes after the small fish, right?"

"What? Well, we..." Johnny exclaimed nervously, but couldn't figure out what else to say.

"So you've finally been caught by pirates." Fullbody sneered before he laughed.

Then a woman in a red dress came out from behind a cooed, "Hey, come on baby, let's get going."

"Sure." Fullbody told her.

Johnny and Yosaku looked very angry because they were being insulted as Fullbody and his girlfriend turned their backs. "Hey wait a minute!" Johnny yelled while reaching into his jacket, "You think that small-time bounty hunters would go after these guys!?" and then he threw a stack of wanted posters onto the deck.

However, Fullbody didn't reply as he held his thumbs down to one of the marines with him, Tarble then heard Fullbody say something about shooting them down so he gulped, "That can't be good."

"He ignored us!" Johnny growled.

"Next time we see him, he better have some more respect for us!" Yosaku said with determination.

Nami then spotted one of the wanted posters and bent down to pick it up as she softly asked, "What are these things?" though she already knew judging by the tone of her voice.

"Well, these are all wanted posters Big Sis Nami." Johnny answered before he chocked up when he saw the poster she had picked up.

Tarble looked back and saw the poster in Nami's hands... More like he could only see the name on the poster as he thought, "Arlong?"

Johnny then cleared his throat and finished, "In other words, if we defeat them, we get the reward money."

"Pretty good business, huh Big Sis?" Yosaku asked before Johnny covered his mouth, clearly going after someone by the name of Arlong didn't sit well with him for some reason.

Nami didn't say anything, but she crushed the poster in her hands, with her hands shaking.

Then suddenly, the marine ship then aimed a cannon at them as Usopp yelled in fear, "Hey you guys, look! They're pointing that cannon right at us!"

But the cannon fired as the cannonball was heading their way when Luffy proclaimed, "Leave it to me!" He then wrapped his legs against the railing tightly before he stretched out to grab the mast and the bow of the ship to make a slingshot. The cannonball hit him directly in the chest as he stretched back so he was now dangling dangerously over the ocean.

Tarble saw that Luffy was beginning to lose his grip, so he yelled out, "Hang in there Luffy!" then he flew over to help Luffy... But it was too late, the force of the cannonball caused part of the sheep's head to break off so that Luffy's hand slipped. Luffy and Tarble gasped as Tarble quickly grabbed Luffy's hand while yelling, "Okay, this isn't a problem! All we have to do is-" he didn't finish as Luffy launched the cannonball back, but the direction was completely off and went straight for the Baratie. It crashed into the roof and caused an explosion while Tarble gave off a nervous grin and muttered, "Oops." then Luffy crashed into the Merry's bow, making Tarble let go of Luffy's hand as he spun around real fast in the air until he was so dizzy as he groaned, "So dizzy, can't stay in the air." then he fell and landed in the water.

The smoke cleared and everyone saw a giant hole in the roof of the building while the marine ship quickly headed off to the restaurant, ignoring Pigero yelling, "HEY, WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING!? GET BACK HERE!"

"Just ignore him Pigero, he's not worth it." Zoro said with a hand on Pigero's shoulder to try and calm him down.

Then chefs came out of the restaurant to look around and get a good look at what was going on. As soon as they saw the pirate ship, they began to yell right away while the ship got closer to the restaurant while the chefs then dragged Luffy with them as Pigero said, "Looks like Luffy's got himself in a real jam now."

Usopp then looked down at the spot of the water Tarble fell in and asked, "Shouldn't we get Tarble back up here before he drowns?"

"Well, I can't go due to me having Devil Fruit powers." Pigero shrugged.

Johnny then noticed something surfacing from the water right next to the Baratie and told the others, "Wait, I see him right over there." that's when the others saw that Tarble was now standing right in front of the Baratie while wringing his tail a bit.

Tarble then turned to the others and asked, "Are you guys okay?"

"We're fine, but some of the chefs took Luffy into the Baratie!" Usopp told the Saiyan who looked back at the restaurant.

Tarble sighed, "Oh boy, this can't be for a good reason." then he looked back at the others, "Guys, wait right there on the ship, I'm going in."

"You sure you want to do that? Those chefs looked pretty mad." Pigero said, then he got mad as he added, "Not to mention that marine's in there!"

"I'll be fine, I'll try not to make a scene." Tarble assured before he walked inside the Baratie.

Nami sighed before she looked inside the cabin to see the Four-Star ball in there and her expression got cold again.

Inside the Baratie, Tarble looked around the dining room to see a bunch of people enjoying their meals on tables around the area and he also saw some stone stairs as well.

"Okay, now where did the chefs take Luffy?" Tarble asked as he walked further inside and looked around, then he spotted Fullbody and his girlfriend having their meal as he thought, "It's them."

Fullbody then examined the bottle of wine, "Let's see... from the North, Mikkyuo, lightly acidic, full-bodied, dry... Yes, I'm positive!" then he turned to the man pouring the wine who had curly blonde hair that covered his left eye, in a black suit with a cigarette in his mouth and asked, "This is Itururt-Subulga Stein, isn't it, waiter?"

The man turned to him, smirked and said, "You couldn't be any more wrong, Sir. And also, I'm not a waiter, I'm just a soup chef."

That was enough to make the customers laugh while Tarble laughed with his hand over his mouth while Fullbody looked shocked, then he snorted, "Ha! He was so sure of himself."

Then man then noticed Tarble, then told Fullbody and his girlfriend, "Enjoy your meal." then his kissed the woman's hand before he walked over to Tarble while saying, "Hey you!"

Tarble stopped laughing and saw the man coming his way as the man asked, "Can I help you with something?"

Tarble thought about it, "Hmm, I guess it couldn't hurt to ask this guy." then he turned to the soup chef and said, "Yeah. You see, my friend got dragged in here by a couple of angry chefs, I came here to get him back."

The man crossed his arms, "I see. Would that have something to do with the explosion I heard not that long ago?"

Tarble smiled sheepishly, "Yeah, but it was an accident that could've been avoided if he hadn't have fired a cannon at me and my friends." he pointed at Fullbody who looked like he was ready to complain.

While Tarble and the man were talking, Fullbody looked anything but happy about being wrong, so when no one was looking he snuck a fly in his soup to get revenge as he thought, "How dare you humiliate me? You'll pay!" then he called, "Oh waiter!"

The man turned away from Tarble and told Fullbody, "I told you, I'm not a waiter. What do you want?"

Fullbody pointed at his soup and asked, "What kind of dump serves soup with bugs?"

"Bugs?" the man asked as he and Tarble looked down at the soup with the fly in it.

"What's this fly doing in my soup?" Fullbody asked with a smug look on his face.

Tarble saw the look and thought, "Judging by the look on his face, I'd say that he put that fly in his own soup."

"Hard to tell, but it appears to be doing the backstroke." the man said as Tarble and the customers laughed again.

Filled with rage, Fullbody smashed the table, breaking it along with the dishes on it, "Don't toy with me!" he growled, then he noticed Tarble and yelled, "You again!?"

Tarble then looked down at the spilled food before he looked back at Fullbody and said, "You know, if you just removed the fly, the soup would still be okay to eat."

"Couldn't have said it better myself." the man told the Saiyan, and boy was Fullbody mad now.

"WHAT!? I'm the customer! How dare you say things like that!? You are a lowly cook!" Fullbody yelled as the soup chef, then he turned to Tarble and yelled, "And as for you, I will not allow a pirate like yourself to tell me and my meals! So you stay out of this!"

"Please stop, Fullbody!" Fullbody's girlfriend begged.

"I see, so you're a pirate?" the man asked Tarble, then he pushed the Saiyan aside and asked Fullbody, "Does money replace lack of courage?"

Tarble blinked before he asked, "Wait, what about my friend that got carried in here?"

"You'll have to wait." the man said with a look of anger in his eyes while some more chefs came out and watched the scene unfold and they knew it wasn't gonna be good.

"Stop Sanji, just let it go!" Tarble heard one of the chefs shout to the soup chef now known as Sanji.

"What could be the problem?" Tarble asked himself before Sanji gave Fullbody a couple of good kicks.

Soon Sanji was holding a bloody Fullbody up by his shirt while Tarble, the chefs, the customers, and Fullbody stared in shock as Sanji told him, "Offending a cook at sea is a big mistake, remember that. And food must NEVER be wasted."

Tarble then looked at Sanji and thought, "So he's a cook. And from the looks of it, one who's pretty serious about his job."

Then another person with large forearms came in while saying, "The Customer Is King!" over and over again, but then he saw Sanji and Fullbody and walked over to yell, "Sanji again? What are you doing to that customer, who is a marine officer!?"

Sanji then turned to the man and dropped Fullbody, "This piece of garbage wasted food and insulted our cooks! So I taught him a lesson."

Tarble narrowed his eyes as he thought, "I hardly call that teaching him a lesson."

Fullbody got back up, "This place is awful! The food is terrible and the service leaves a lot to be desired if you let pirates like him hang around!" he pointed at Tarble as the other chefs noticed him.

"Wait, he's a pirate?" one of the customers asked while gazing at Tarble, but Sanji got more mad at Fullbody and lunged at him while the cooks held him back.

Sanji tried to free himself while grunting, "Let me go! I can't stand snobs like him! I'll get you big shot! I'll teach you a lesson you'll not soon forget!"

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Sanji, the other cooks, the customers, Fullbody's girlfriend, and more importantly Fullbody were surprised to see Tarble standing in front of Fullbody.

"This snob needs to be taught a lesson, get out of my way!" Sanji yelled, but Tarble stood in his place.

"I can understand why you want to get back at him for what he did to your food, but kicking him while he's down is going too far! If you try to go at him while he's down now, then what you try to do to him, I'll unleash on you twice as hard! Now leave him be!" Tarble yelled.

"Stay out of this Monkey Boy!" Sanji yelled, but then he saw Tarble's tail and began to ask, "Huh? What's with the-" But then something came crashing down to the floor from the ceiling, making everyone stop what they were doing to see who came crashing down.

It turned out to be Luffy, along with some more chefs, and also an elderly looking man with blonde hair, a long mustache and beard, wearing an extra long chef's hat, and Tarble looked to see that the elderly looking man's right leg was replaced with a pegged leg, so he gasped and muttered to himself, "Oh my goodness, please tell me he didn't lose his leg in that attack!"

Luffy then gasped as he choked out, "I can breath again!" then he noticed that Tarble was in the restaurant as well, so he told him, "Tarble, buddy, you've gotta help me out here! This old guy's trying to make me work here for a whole year to cover the damage done to this place!"

The old man looked up at the hole made on the ceiling while one of the chefs asked in surprise, "Boss Zeff, what's happening here? You didn't hurt yourself did you?"

"Damn it, my ceiling!" the old man, Zeff, growled when he saw the damage done to the ceiling, then he glared at Luffy, "Another thing that has to be fixed because of you! This is all your fault, you brat!"

"How is it my fault? You attacked me!" Luffy yelled furiously.

"Boss, can you stop messing around and give us a hand?" one of the chefs yelled desperately while holding Sanji back, "Sanji's gone crazy again, and this pirate isn't helping one bit!"

Zeff then looked to see Tarble as he said, "Ah, I see the young brat came with a friend. Good, then you can help him work for a year Monkey Boy!"

"What is it with everyone calling me Monkey Boy?" Tarble asked getting a little annoyed while Zeff just pointed at Tarble's tail.

Then Zeff turned to Sanji and yelled out, "Hey Sanji, don't tell me you went on another rampage in here, you idiot!"

"Put a cork in it, old man!" Sanji yelled back.

"Oh, now you're ordering me around!? Just who do you think you're talking to!?" Zeff exclaimed, "Do you want to sink my restaurant to the bottom of the sea, you punk!?" then he gave Sanji a good kick to the face with his pegged leg.

Tarble winced at the sight of Sanji being kicked, "This is one wild place to get something to eat."

Fullbody looked thrilled, but then Zeff glared at him, "YOU TOO! GET YOUR ASS OUT OF MY RESTAURANT!" then he gave Fullbody a good kick to the head as he went flying across the room until he landed painfully on the floor.

Tarble then looked at Zeff in awe, "Wow, he's really strong."

"How can you deny our motto!? That the customers are king!" the cook with big forearms yelled at Sanji.

Sanji just sneered, "The only kingly customers are the ones who can stomach the slop you call food."

"That's it! If you two want to fight you can do it in the kitchen, you understand me!?" Zeff yelled at them both.

Just then, a marine from Fullbody's ship ran in, "Lieu... Lieutenant Fullbody! We've got trouble!"

"Wow, this restaurant is crazy." Luffy said as Tarble helped him get back on his feet.

"You're telling me, and this is the first restaurant I've been to in my entire life." Tarble agreed as they watched the chaos take place in the restaurant.

So their visit to the Baratie isn't going as well as they thought it would. What kind of trouble is the marine soldier talking about? How will Luffy and his pirate crew get out of this to find a cook for the crew? Their visit to the Baratie continues next time on The X-Pirates!