Lambo wandered the town for several minutes, finding absolutely nobody around. The streets were empty, the square was empty, hell, Lambo entered several houses to find them, yep, empty!

The entire town was abandoned.

"Did the Boss seriously left me in a ghost town by accident?", Lambo deadpans with a gloomy aura surrounding him, "I thought he out grew that because of Reborn's training."

It was then Lambo's ears picked up the sound of cheering and roars of none other than pirates. Lambo sweat dropped.

"Didn't the Boss say pirates never come her except for short supply stops?", Lambo deadpanned.

For a moment, Lambo was about to turn around and walk away and message Tsuna to drop him off at a different island because of the pirates. But something stopped him, a feeling deep within his gut. Telling him to go to the source, to where the pirates are.

But why would he do that? Didn't he promised not to get into any trouble? Lambo thinks, eyes sliding to the direction the familiar sounds of chaos resonated from.

Lambo sighs, "Yare yare, curiosity kills the cat. Let's just hope that the saying is true when it said that satisfaction brought it back."

He turns around and makes his way to the pirates, adding extra speed to his steps. Lambo didn't promise on whether or not he'd watch whatever is going on.

…...

Lambo stood on a rooftop not too far from the chaos happening below. In fact, on his way there, he saw a large path of destruction. It didn't take much for Lambo to deduce that whatever kind of canon ball that is inside that canon, was what caused all that destruction back in town. Now he knows why the town was deserted. The people left out of fear of the Pirates that moved in.

Despite Lambo wondering how all that destruction was caused by a single canon, he quickly grew to accept it. I mean, he has Dying Will Flames that allow him to control lightning and not get hurt by lightning and other electric bursts.

Scattered across the roof top pirates, all dressed like clowns? Their Captain most of all. With an orange coat draped across his shoulders and Captain hat, blue hair, a big red nose, white gloves, and cross bones tattooed on his forehead. With the pirates was a girl that didn't seem to fit in with the rest, wearing a white shirt with blue stripes, a short orange skirt, ankle brown boots, and short orange hair. She didn't look that much older than Lambo, three maybe four years if he's pushing it.

The pirates were all screaming the word 'fire!' as they peer pressured the to fire the destructive canon Lambo took note of earlier, that is aimed at a boy tied up and trapped in a cage, wearing a distinct straw hat.

Lambo can easily guess what's going, of course missing few key points and minor details, but he got the gist.

She seemed to be frozen and thinking on what to do.

Lambo sighs, "This is what happens when you throw it in with a bunch of dirty pirates."

His half-lidded eyes stared emotionlessly, waiting to see what the girl would do, not yet ready to pop in. He has a promise to keep.

The mafioso watched as a pirate wearing a weird hat snatch something from the girl's hands, mostly likely the box of matches and kneeled by the canon, about to light the fuse.

But before he could, the girl pulled out tree wooden shafts, putting them together to create a long staff. With a determined look, the girl swung the staff a knocked the pirate into the ground.

Lambo's eyes widened as his breath hitched in surprise and, low-key, worry for the girl.

Everything froze as everyone stared and tried to comprehend on what just happened.

The girl turns to the other pirates, saying something, but Lambo was too far away to hear. The Captain on the other hand, his shouts were loud enough.

"Nami!", he shouted angrily, "What is the meaning of this outrage!?"

The girl straightened, clutching the staff tightly in her hands before bowing respectfully to the Captain, most likely apologizing and trying to smooth things over.

"What's wrong!? Just shoot already!", he shouted with sharp teeth.

The boy in the cage said something causing the girl to whirl in his direction, stomping her foot angrily, now shouting as well.

"Don't be so stupid!", she holds up her staff defensively as she explains herself to the boy, "I'm not doing this for you, you idiot! I just don't want to lower myself to the level of these inhuman pirates!"

Then why is she with them? Lambo wonders to himself curiously, resting his weight on one foot while stuffing his hands in his pockets.

"Pirates took the life of someone very dear to me! I'll never be one of them!", Nami declares.

The boy mumbled something before screaming, eyeing the canon in fear.

"NAMI!", the boy shouts, "The fuse!"

Lambo quickly followed his gaze to see that the canon's fuse was lit, slowly making its way to the inside where it'll set the entire mechanism off.

Lambo slid to the edge of the roof, kneeling down, hands gripping the edge of the roof, knuckles turning white, as he continued to watch intently. He was also now able to hear what the people were saying without them having to shout.

"You think pirates are just inhuman filth, is that right?", the Captain asked rhetorically, veins popping all over his forehead, "GET HER MEN!"

With that order, four pirates leapt towards Nami, blood thirsty cries as they lunged at her with swords and daggers. Lambo locked his joints so he wouldn't jump in.

Repeatedly reminding himself that he made a promise, that this was not his fight.

The girl tried to swing her staff at them, but they all jumped over it, dodging the attack, she blocked a single attack by one pirate, but two others joined in successfully disarming her of her weapon.

"Not my fight. Not my fight. Not my fight.", Lambo mumbles darkly, his bangs casting a shadow over his eyes as his body trembled, begging him to jump in and help.

He somehow tensed even more, locking his joints tight, refusing his body's reflexes, ignoring his heart pumping loud in his ears.

The girl gasped and ran past the pirates towards the fuse determinedly. The boy panicked looking back and forth for something.

"Water! Water! Water! Water!"

Ah, that's what he's looking for.

The fuse crept closer to the inside of the canon.

"Not good.", the boy with the straw hat said, just before Nami grabbed the fuse and started to put it out.

WITH HER BARE HANDS!

"Idiota!", Lambo shouts in Italian, the shadows receding from over his eyes.

He was very lucky that nobody noticed.

Nami winced, but refused to let go, she screamed in pain, but continued to hold on as if her very life depended on it.

"Woah.", the boy said in shock and slight awe.

Lambo kept mumbling the word 'idiota' under his breath as he watched in shock as well.

Nami gritted her teeth, and the fuse finally went out underneath her shaking hands.

"Watch out!", the boy screamed.

Something clicked inside Lambo, and he almost leapt forward in that moment, in fact, he actually did.

But he managed to hold himself back enough he would land to the side and at the back of the crowd, completely unnoticed.

Three pirates leapt at the defenseless girl with their own war cries, only to run face first into two sheathed swords held by a man with light mint green hair cut close to his head, wearing dark green pants and boots, three golden dangle earrings hung off one ear, a plain white short sleeved T-shirt, a green scarf-like belt, and tied on his bicep is a dark green bandana that matched his boots and pants.

"Hey now.", he said dangerously with a deep voice, "It's not nice to gang up on a girl."

"Zoro!", the boy cried out cheerfully with a wide smile.

Isn't Zoro a bounty hunter, a pirate hunter to be more exact? Lambo thinks to himself, trying to see if that was why the name sounded familiar to him. He remembered Yamamoto speaking about him to the Boss once, saying he wasn't sure if he could beat the young man that wielded three swords. He told the Boss that he was glad that the bounty hunter Roronoa Zoro mostly went after pirates and not the mafia.

Zoro turns to the girl, resting one of his swords on top of his shoulder.

"You hurt?", he asks.

Nami just stared at him, not answering.

"I said are you hurt?", he repeated.

"N-No. I'm fine, I think.", she said shakily.

"Whew! What a relief! I'm glad you found us.", the boy exclaimed relieved, "Now hurry up and come get me out of here!"

Zoro turns around all the way, facing the boy.

"How do you get yourself in these situations?", Zoro asks, "First the bird flies off with you and now I find you trapped in a cage?"

"It's an interesting story actually.", the boy comments, sounding amused at his own predicament when he was just panicking moments prior.

'And the Boss thought I caused trouble.', Lambo thought in slight shock.

"That's-!", one pirate said in shock.

"Yeah! That little brat just called him Zoro.", says another.

Nami stares at the swordsman in shock as he walks calmly towards the boy in the cage.

'If it truly is Zoro...', Lambo thinks to himself, 'Then he either quit pirate hunting to join up with this boy as traveling companions or he picked him up as a partner in the business. Neither seemed very likely.'

Lambo couldn't help the quite amused chuckle that left his lips.

Not many things were likely then, but still happened when he was young, despite barely remembering any of it. He's heard enough stories to know. So why not more unlikely things to happen now?

"So your Zoro.", the Captain said smugly, sounding confident, "If you're here for my head then you got quite the struggle before you."

Lambo sweat dropped, 'This guy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, now, is he?'

"No. Not interested.", Zoro said monotonously, "I gave up pirate hunting, I'm just here for my friend."

So Lambo was right, this is definitely getting interesting. Lambo could tell that a fight was brewing, and judging on little he has seen of the Captain, he's a cheater and doesn't play fair. Same most likely goes for the crew as well.

Lambo is going to have to quickly decide now, so he won't regret the decision later, if things go astray, will he jump in to help the older group of teenagers, or is he going to stay back and watch their deaths in a front row seat?

Lambo quietly sighs, why is he even asking himself this? The moment he jumped down to the roof, he knew he was going to step in if needed.

Besides, he promised to not cause any trouble. He didn't say anything about joining it, much less get caught in it.

"But I'm interested.", the Captain said smugly, snapping Lambo back to the present, "Killing you will boost my reputation significantly."

Zoro turns to glare at the clown rip-off.

"If you try. You'll die.", Zoro threatens.

"Oh~? Is that so?", the Captain asked, unaffected by Zoro's dark tone.

Expertly spinning large knives at the ready into his hands.

Zoro sighs, "I tried to warn you, but oh well."

The pirates all cheered for their Captain, confident in his abilities to kill Zoro.

Lambo shakes his head, fighting wise, Zoro is significantly stronger, but Lambo could tell that the Captain has an ace hidden up his sleeve.

"Buggy! Buggy! Buggy!", the pirates cheered as the Captain, Buggy, finally Lambo got a name for him, licked one of his knives, eyes filled with blood lust.

Zoro drew all three of his swords, placing one delicately in his mouth.

Nami stared at him in shock, the boy watched the fight with an unreadable expression, while Lambo watched, usually neutral half-lidded eyes, narrowed sharply at the pirates around him, waiting for one to make one small move towards the group.

The two had a standoff for several moments, before Buggy's coat flapped behind him and he charged forward towards Zoro, who readied himself for the fight. Eyes narrowed dangerously at his oncoming opponent.

Buggy leapt forward, screaming something Lambo couldn't make out from the shout, while Zoro rushed forward, easily cutting through the big-nosed Captain.

Cutting him into pieces, effectively silencing the chanting crew.

Unaffected, Zoro sheathed his swords as Buggy's body fell in pieces to the ground with a loud 'thump'.

"That wasn't much of a fight, now, was it?", Zoro said darkly.

"Oh wow! He's weak! Way to go Zoro!", the boy exclaimed, also unaffected.

Lambo's eyes narrowed down to the parts. That was way too easy to be over.

"No way.", Nami mutters in shock, before turning to the laughing crew.

This only made Lambo's suspicions grow, his body tensed, ready to move at any second, despite the only help he could provide was the power of his Dying Will Flames, even if they were chaotic and hard for Lambo to control at times, it was better than nothing.

"Hey, why are they laughing?", the boy asks warily.

"Their Captain is lying dead on the ground and yet they're still laughing?", Nami says as she thinks out loud, "What's going on?"

"Fellas? What do you find so damn funny?", Zoro asks just as Buggy popped up behind him, floating in mid-air, missing the bottom half of his body.

"Urk-!"

Lambo's eyes trailed down Zoro's body to find a blade sticking out his side, blood already seeping through his clothes.

Zoro screams as he feels to his knees.

"ZORO!" the boy screams.

Nami gasps to see Zorro trembly in pain.

"But he's still alive!", she exclaims.

"What. The. Hell?", Zoro grunts, turning to face Buggy.

Lambo's eyes widened, he expected something like this to happen, yet he was unable to do anything to prevent it. No. He did nothing to prevent it.

Taking the trio's surprise to their advantage, two pirates ran forward, swords at the ready, making their way to attack Nami.

They screamed out battle cries causing Nami to spin around, only for it to be too late for her to be able to do anything for herself.

"NAMI!"

The pirates were jerked back, legs flying out in front of them as their shirt collars dug into their necks. The thing stopped them, then slammed them to the ground. Revealing a young boy crouching from the aftermath of his defensive attack.

He stood to his full, slouched, height, eyes half-lidded as he stared uncaringly at the pirates beneath him.

A dangerous glint appeared in his eyes despite their bored-neutral look.

"Back.", Lambo stomped on one pirate's face, knocking him out.

"Off.", he turned to the other pirate kicking him at the side of his head, effectively knocking that one out as well.

His back faced the group before turning around with a bored expression.

"I thought the mafia was bad, but you pirates exceeded all my expectations.", Lambo says with a bored dry tone, "Congratulations."

Nami whirled to the boy, "Do you know him too!?"

"Nope.", the boy said, popping the 'p' before smiling, "But I like him, he's strong."

"Eh?", Lambo says questionably, turning back to the trio, "What are you talking about? I'm not strong. In all honesty, I'm actually pretty weak."

"Stop kidding around! You just took out two pirates at once!", Nami screams.

Lambo shrugged, looking uninterested as he spoke, "That was just luck. I also happened to have surprise on my side. My famiglia probably could have taken down a group like this in mere seconds, minutes at most. I'm nothing special."

His eyes narrowed angrily at Buggy, "Him on the other hand..."

The hand attached to the knife that was embedded in Zoro's side, removed the blade, before reattaching itself to Buggy's arm as the rest of Buggy's body parts came together.

"...what the hell are you?", Lambo asked, unsure on how Buggy is able to do what he just did.

"I ate the chop-chop fruit.", Buggy informs the group, "The devil fruit that has given me my powers. I'm a chop-chop person and now I can never be defeated by a sword!"

Buggy then laughs crazily, his laugh also sounded like that of a clown's. Albeit, an evil one.

"His body parts reattached?", Nami says, bewildered, "And I always thought the devil fruit were just stories pirates told."

"You'd be surprised in how many unbelievable stories end up being true.", Lambo tells her lightly, now standing right next to her.

The boy in the cage gaped at the clown-like pirate.

"So, he's a chop-chop man? That's pretty freaky.", Luffy comments out loud.

"I didn't hit any vital organs, but that's a serious wound you have there.", Buggy says smugly with a wide smile, "So, I'm guessing... that I am the WINNER!"

The pirate crew went back to chanting Buggy's name, while the captain himself laughed like a maniac.

Nami stared in shock and fear, trying think of some way to get out of this situation alive.

Lambo stood behind her, ready on standby, prepared to activate his Dying Will Flames if needed.

"Damn, I let my guard down for one second. That's not good.", Zoro grunts, struggling to get back to his feet.

The boy glared, gritting his teeth angrily, trembling with the hot emotion that ran through his veins at the sight of his downed friend.

Buggy stood over Zoro, ready to dish out the finishing blow, still giggling at his, apparent, victory.

"STABBING HIM IN THE BACK WAS A COWARDLY MOVE, YOU BIG NOSE!", the boy shouted.

Lambo whirled to his angry figure in surprise, eyes widening. His eyes then slowly trailed over to the frozen figure of Buggy, who looked like he was ready to murder the boy.

Everyone gaped at him as if he was crazy, even Nami.

"What's that... you said...?", Buggy says dangerously, "Whose got a big nose!"

Lambo, Nami and Zoro gaped as Buggy threw the knife at the boy, straight at his face.

"Luffy!", Zoro calls out worriedly.

"Buggy!", Luffy shouts, his words muffled from the knife he caught in his mouth, somehow still smiling, "I'm gonna kick your ass as soon as I get out of this cage!"

He dropped the knife from his mouth with a clatter as Buggy laughed at Luffy, not afraid what so ever.

"You? Kick my ass?", Buggy asked in amusement, "You got a lot of nerve kid."

"All four of you are going to die here! And by my own hand.", Buggy shouted confidently, "So if you are going do any ass kicking, you better do it fast."

Zoro looked frustrated where he knelt while Nami looked panicked as she tried to think a way out, and fast. Lambo kept his usual bored-neutral façade, but he too, was quickly thinking of the safest way to get all of them out of this situation alive.

"We're done for.", Nami mumbles, "It's all over."

Luffy's loud laugh cut through all the pirates, easily silencing them and Buggy.

"I refuse to die!", Luffy declares before setting his sight on his friend.

"Zoro get up!", he shouts.

Zoro looks up in shock and surprise.

"Wha-?"

"You better have a really good plan or else we're dead!", Nami shouts angrily, "What are you guys going to do?"

Zoro and Lambo stare at Luffy who only had a big smile on his face.

Suddenly Zoro smiled, face turning into the pinnacle of calm.

"I gotcha.", Zoro smirked.

Nami just gaped at the two dumbly while Lambo lazily raised an eyebrow. Buggy leapt at Zoro with a multitude of attacks and strikes.

"You fool!", Buggy shouts as he laughs hysterically, attacking relentlessly.

Zoro remained on the defensive, but he easily blocked each strike with a smile on his face.

Until finally, Zoro went for another strike, slashing at Buggy's middle, who's upper body detached from the lower half in order to dodge the strike, then Zoro ran past the clown.

"Three sword style has no effect on me!", Buggy gloats, "I already told you I ne-!"

That's when Buggy realized that Zoro wasn't going for another attack, instead he was running straight towards, Nami, Lambo, and the canon.

"HEY! LISTEN WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!", Buggy screams angrily.

Zoro crouches in front of the canon and begins to lift it with all his strength.

"Oh, I see...", mumbles Lambo, rushing in front of Zoro and began helping him lift up the canon.

"I'm not that strong...", he grunts to Zoro quietly, "...but I'll help as much as I can."

With a final heave, the two managed to flip the canon over, causing it to face Buggy and his crew, who all just stared at the two in shock. Zoro crumbled back to his knees, Lambo kneeling in front of him with a hand on his shoulder to check and see if he was okay while Nami ran to the two's side.

"WHAA!?", shrieks Buggy fearfully, "Crap the canon's pointing at us!"

Zoro brushed Lambo away, mumbling a quiet 'I'm fine.' to the younger boy before grunting something to Nami.

"What?", she asked nervously.

"Do it now.", Zoro says more clearly.

"Right!"

"N-no! Just Wait!", Buggy shouts panickily, "That canon is still loaded with a special Buggy ball! I don't want to die like this!"

Nami relights the fuse and it sparks back to life as Buggy continually begs the trio for mercy.

Luffy laughs gleefully at Buggy's panic. Lambo couldn't help the small smile as amusement shined in his eyes.

"I can't believe you did that you ungrateful little girl!", Buggy shouts, eyes wide.

Lambo plugged his ears with his fingers, calmly closing his eyes while Nami's body trembled beside him, hands clasped over her ears and eyes squeeze shut as Buggy pleaded them one last time.

"Wait! No! Stop! P-Please!"

BOOM!