Within the top floor of the marine base, in a room, a giant of a man with an unsightly arm converses with another man, "I think my ten metres tall statue should be at the top of the base, so every citizen can see it."

"Captain Morgan, with all due respect sir, don't you think it's a bit much? I doubt we have enough funds to do anything, let alone build an entire statue, that is ten metres tall, of you sir."

"The town can pay for the expenses, if they refused then you have permission to kill them, what's important is that they must be reminded of my authority!"

"dddddddddiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee!" "Woohoo!"

"Huh?"

"Is something wrong lieutenant?"

"I thought I heard something sir."

"The children of this town perhaps, they can be quite loud, but they do not matter now. Join me for a moment lieutenant." Morgan gestures the lieutenant to stand by the window with him, he continues, "Tell me, what do you see before you?"

But before the answer exits the man's mouth, the wall to their left burst apart and two heads come crashing in. Unfortunately for them, one of their head was in the way.

"That was so fun!"

"I think I just saw my whole life flashes before my eyes."

"Anyway, where do you think his swords are?"

"My grandma said hi to me. I'm glad she's doing okay. I miss her, she was the nicest in the family."

"Excuse me, but do you know where the swords are?"

The person utters nothing,...

"Welp, that was useless. Now if I was someone putting away someone else's swords where would I put it?"

"Luffy please help."

"Jaune! What are you doing taking a nap? We're trying to take Zoro's swords back!"

"I can't feel my body," Jaune tries to move his arms but to no avail, "add my arms to the list too."

"We can fix that later!" Luffy then grabs Jaune's wrist, "We're trying to get a new crewmate right now!" And charges off into the Marine HQ.

After an hour of running around (being dragged around in Jaune's case), knocking marine personnels over and getting lost, the dynamic duo happen to pass by a door and overhear something that catches their attention,

"Hahaha, what an idiot! I can't believe that he agrees to be tied to a cross for a month and let me keep his swords. All because he wants to play hero for a worthless town! How stupid can he be?"

"Jaune, I think we might be onto something."

"Great, now please let go of my hand."

"Oh, sorry." Luffy whispers and lets go of Jaune's wrist, planting his face on the ground, with an agonising groan, he slowly pushes himself up from the concrete ground

"I really hope he good eyesight, if he does then he can see his cheap swords dangling right before his eyes."

Out of curiosity the two press their ears against the cool wooden door, "I wonder what is he thinking right now? If only he knew he's going to be executed in three days. I bet he'll be kneeling and begging for his life, that'll teach him not to cut up my dogs."

"Oh no, he's going to be executed? Luffy-"

Without warning the door before them explodes, a deafening *BOOM* can be heard.

"Hey! Don't go around killing my crew!"

"What the hell? Who the hell are you two?!" A familiar boy shrieks

"I'm Monkey D. Luffy the captain of a pirate crew and this is Jaune Arc, the first one to join my merry crew."

"You can't just introduced yourself like that." Jaune comments, as his right hand is introducing itself to his face

Before anyone can react, Luffy dashes across the room in the blink of an eye and hoists the boy up by the collar of his shirt, "Where are the swords!"

"What are you talking about?!" The boy screeches

Then someone pats Luffy's left shoulder, "Luffy, let him go, I think he wets himself."

"Oh, so that's why the room smells so bad."

*plop*

This time Jaune decides to take charge, "Now, let's start again, where are the prisoner's swords?"

"If y-you're talking about-t the ass' cheap swords, they're somewhere in this base."

"Somewhere doesn't tell me where they are."

"As I said, somewhere."

"Luffy."

"WHER-"

"Hanging by the window sill!" The poor boy squeals

"Alright nice! Let's grab it and, Jaune? Why are you smiling?"

With tear of joy flowing from his eyes, "I am so happy that someone have a higher pitch voice than me."

"How dare YOU!"
As Luffy reaches for the blades of steel, he notices something, "Hey, what are they doing?"

"What are you looking at? I think they're about to execute someone. Oh no, Luffy quick, we need to get down there!"