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Flashback

On a pirate ship, a group of pirates were surrounding two members of their crew. One was a youth with a clown nose wearing a purple vest and a black hat. The other was a rather dashing looking young man with shining red hair, a white shirt with black stripes, and a yellow straw hat. These are none other than Buggy The Clown and 'Red Hair' Shanks when they were still mere pirate apprentices and the two were in the middle of a heated argument. Over what you ask? None other than whether the North or South Pole is colder than the other. Shanks claimed that the South was colder, while Buggy naturally claimed the North. The heated bickering were of great amusement to the rest of the crew; it was hardly the first time the two got into an argument and would likely not be the last and they were always entertaining.

"I'm telling you I'm right!" Young Shanks shouted.

"You got a lot of guts claiming that ya cocky little shit. How 'bout we fight each other to see who's right?!" Buggy shot back.

"Bring it!"

The two were ready to throw themselves at each other when suddenly pain descended upon their craniums. "Quit goofin' off! If you want to find out which is colder why dontcha go there yourselves?" It was none other than the first mate of the ship, a blond spectacled man with a neatly trimmed beard. The two young pirates were still glaring at each other when a crewmate on watch signaled another ship was speeding towards them. Their anger at each other grew into determined looks as they both drew their weapons, a straight sabre for Shanks and multiple knives for Buggy.

Later that day, the crew had emerged victorious and had managed to find some pretty good loot on the enemy ship. Buggy in particular was interested on a treasure map they'd found. It lead to a supposed treasure hoard hidden beneath the sea. However that was not the only valuable thing they found.

"I heard they found a Devil Fruit." Shanks told Buggy as they relaxed on the deck.

"What's that supposed to be?"

"They say that Devil Fruits can give their eater fantastic powers, pretty much anything is possible. The catch is that you lose the ability to swim afterwards though."

"That's stupid, why would any pirate eat something that won't let him swim?" Buggy scoffed; if he ate something like that he wouldn't be able to get that treasure under the sea…

"I head they also sell for a good price on the market. Up to 100 000 000 beri!" the minute Shanks said this Buggy's eyes lit up and an idea formed in his head.

The next day, Buggy staged an event where he ate the Devil fruit in front of the crew. However, nothing happened out of the ordinary. As the disappointed crew left, Buggy gained a devious smirk…

Later that evening Buggy was snickering to himself as he held both the map and the Devil Fruit in his hands; as it had turned out, the fruit that he ate earlier in the day was none other than a fake! With these two items in his possession, Buggy let out a satisfied chuckle.

"I can make a fortune if I sell this fruit. Then when I find that treasure I'll be able to form my own crew!" Buggy thought with glee. He was just about to enter a boat and make off with his loot before he was interrupted.

"Yo Buggy, whatcha doin' here?" Shanks called out to him and Buggy hastily hid the fruit in his mouth.

"Why are do you look like that? Don't go off stealing food or else the cook will be mad…" Shanks chastised. He then turned to leave and Buggy sighed in relief. That is, until Shanks remembered something.

"Oh right, the captain was just-" this sudden turn of events startled the clown like pirate. One thing led to another and he accidently swallowed the whole fruit.

"SHANKS YOU-!" Buggy raged at his fellow cabin boy until he realized that Shanks wasn't looking at him.

"Um, what's that piece of paper in the sky?" Buggy turned in the direction and saw none other than the treasure map floating away.

"MY MAP!" Buggy hurriedly jumped in an attempt to grab the map. However, the second he hit the water he felt all his strength instantly leave him and he could no longer move.

"Oh no… don't tell me that eating a Devil Fruit actually takes away the ability to swim…" Buggy thought desperately.

Shanks was looking puzzled at this as he'd thought Buggy was always a good swimmer. It soon dawned on him that something was wrong and he immediately jumped into the water to save him.

From that day forward Buggy the Clown was never able to swim again.

Flashback end

"So Shanks saved your life then." Luffy realized.

"THAT'S NOT THE POINT! Because of him, my plan had been delayed for 10 years!"

"You know… this story really speaks to me." Gian muttered.

"And what's that?" Buggy asked.

"You're a punk bitch you know that? You think life is so tough now that you can't go after some gold? Well suck it up! 10 years ago I was still stuck in a cell! Every week or so I had a psychotic scientist inject some kind fluid into my body! There are people who wake up every day wondering if they'll make it to the next, so save me your damn sob story just because you couldn't get rich!" Gian shouted angrily. He really hated it when people complain about what they went through just because something went wrong with their life. Luffy's eyes widen at this; Gian told him a bit about his past but never about something like this! Off to the side, Nami was also shocked at this. She'd never expected the tall, wisecracking man to have such a painful life as a child. It made her think more about her current situation.

"Shut up! Because of him I realized I'll never be able to get that treasure! And if I can't have all the treasure in the sea then I'll get all the treasure on land instead! With my Bara-Bara no Mi's power I will do just that!" Buggy then spotted Nami carrying two bags of treasure. His eyes narrowed with anger.

"And that is why, no matter who it is, I won't let ANYBODY steal from me!" Buggy yelled out. His upper half instantly split and he flew towards the defenseless girl. Nami attempted to run but the Clown was close behind. Their distance grew closer until Buggy suddenly froze.

"Balls… my b-balls…" Buggy wheezed in agony. For back where his legs and lower half was, Gian had planted his foot straight into his nether regions.

"I am so sick of you right now…" Gian snarled. "Sorry Luffy I didn't mean to interfere, but no way am I standing by to see someone trash talk the person who I owe my life to and act in such a fashion!"

"That's fine Gian, I would've done the same." Luffy responded; even he was slightly disturbed at the how straight forward his nakama was with this.

"Now then…" Gian gained a sadistic grin as he unleashed multiple barrages of stomps upon Buggy's tenders, which the pirate was now crying a full river. For some unknown reason, while Gian was stomping away, the air became filled with music, with the only words being "Stomp em in the Nuts" being repeated over and over again as a heavy beat sounded along with it.

"Where's that music coming from?" Luffy wondered.

"I dunno, it happens whenever I do something like this." Gian responded indifferently.

When he was done Buggy was almost unconscious on the ground. "Alright you clown bastard! Quit going after other people. Luffy is your opponent!" he then turned to Nami "You really need to get out of there! Just leave the treasure behind!"

"WHAT?! Why the hell would I do that?! Like hell I'd leave behind my treasure!" Nami shouted back. Unfortunately for her, this statement resulted in Buggy regaining consciousness.

"YOUR treasure? Bullshit! That treasure is MINE!" the clown man shouted angrily. Suddenly Buggy's body split into numerous pieces as they proceeded to surround the girl. "Bara-Bara Festival!"

"HURRY UP AND RUN!" Gian shouted from the side. Nami didn't need to be told twice as she bolted away, carrying the bags with her, Buggy followed as expected.

"Damn it! He split into more pieces" Luffy gritted his teeth. Then he noticed that Buggy's legs were still on the ground…

Buggy was almost upon the thief until he felt more pain again! He turned to see Luffy doing all sorts of torture upon his unprotected legs. From tickles to pinches to even kicking the appendages. It was all sorts of discomfort for the Clown pirate but he continued his chase nonetheless

Nami took this chance to attempt to strike him with the bag of treasure. Buggy however, caught the bag in his hand.

"Let go!" she shouted.

"I let go?! You should let go of MY treasure!" Buggy snapped back and the two proceeded to have a tug of war over who gets the bag.

"…What am I looking at here?" Gian said with a blank look. Honestly, seeing a dismembered man chasing a ginger girl around while some one is unleashing havoc on said dismembered man's lower half is one of the last things he'd thought he'd ever see in his life.

"Might as well get used to it I suppose, if what Goro-san told me back then is true this won't be the last time I see something this weird."

The little struggle between the 3 was broken up when Luffy rushed up kicked Buggy in the face, knocking him into the bag. This ended up ripping the bag of treasure, which fortunately had the map of the Grand Line in it.

"Well we got the map, is there anything else we need here?" Gian muttered from the side.

"No there shouldn't be." Luffy answered.

Suddenly Buggy got back up! "Damn it… How dare you do this much damage to me?!" his body parts began to swirl around again "Bara-Bara reassemble!"

Buggy was now back to his full form! However, unlike before this time there was something different about-

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!"

Buggy had been reassembled- minus his torso! By the way he looks now, one could've mistaken him for a midget. He was nothing more than a head with arms and legs.

"Are you looking for this?" a voice taunted. Buggy saw none other than Nami tie up his torso on the ground. A few feet away Luffy and Gian were straight up laughing at the hilarious scene.

"No wonder you're a thief, Nami!" Luffy laughed.

"Oh boy! Guess when it comes to treasure grabs you come up just a bit short! Skrehahaha!" Gian chortled. Even Nami giggled at that horrible pun.

"Alright! Now it's my turn!" Luffy said as he got into position. He stretched his arms back and opened his palms. "Gomu-Gomu no…"

"CRAP!" Buggy shouted in vain.

"-Bazooka!"

The outstretched hands snapped back with fearsome force. It smashed into the Clown pirate so hard that it sent him flying, flying all the way towards the horizon. Eventually he flew so far that he disappeared from sight completely.

"Yeah! I win!" Luffy cheered.

"Finally, we got that over with." Gian breathed out.

Nami looked around and saw Luffy's torn up hat on the ground. After hearing what he said about how important it was to him she felt a bit guilty at its state. She felt slightly responsible. "Your hat's damaged…" she commented.

"Don't worry about it, I can still wear it." Luffy dismissed. "Besides I'm not angry at Buggy anymore now that I kicked his ass."

"Well, you did save me, so I'll patch it up for you.

"Huh?" apparently Luffy has a bit of a hearing problem.

"Yay! We're all friends now!" Gian clapped.

"There's also at least $10 000 000 beri worth of treasure here as well." Nami smiled at her luck; this would sure manage to get her total up by a lot…

"You're still thinking about that?" Gian quipped from the side. At this her smile dropped slightly

"Yeah… could you mind getting the other bag for me? It's kinda heavy…"

As Gian complied and went over to retrieve the other bag of treasure, Nami couldn't help but wonder what he said earlier was true.

"10 years ago I was still stuck in a cell! Every week there was a psychotic scientist injecting fluids into me. There are people who wake up every day wondering if they'll make it to the next, so save me your damn sob story just because you couldn't get rich!"

Those words were haunting, and she could feel that they were genuine. At that moment she could see in his eyes all the pain that had been dealt to him. All of it masked over by the laid back man who would say random things and make terrible jokes.

"Hey, what your crewmate said earlier, was it true?" she asked Luffy.

"I don't know. He never told me this before. I'd always thought Shanks saved him from a pirate that was mistreating him. Plus it's his personal business, so I didn't think it was important. If you're curious go ask him yourself." Luffy was unnaturally serious when he heard that. His smile returned a second later however as he remembered that Nami had the map of the Grand Line.

"Oh right, you wanted this right? I guess I'll give it to you, you did save my life after all!"

"Alright! I got the map!" Luffy cheered "Wait, this means you'll come with us right?"

Nami frowned again "I told you already! I'm never becoming a pirate!" she paused for a bit then smiled "but I suppose we can travel together for a while!"

"In the end, it doesn't even matter!" Gian laughed as he returned with the other bag.

"Thanks Gian!" Nami smiled at him. Luffy then marched up to him.

"Oi, Gian! Nami wants to know why you were stuck in a lab." The blunt request caught him completely off guard.

"What do you mean?"

"Luffy! You can't just be so blunt about it!" Nami chided. Turning to Gian, her voice came out softer "sorry… I was kind of concerned about what you said to Buggy back then. About... everything really. B-but you don't have to tell us if you're not comfortable talking about it! I know it was probably a painful part of your life! You'd want to forget about it! I would know! After all right now I'm-" she suddenly stopped herself from revealing too much; that was one thing she can't tell them, it's too personal.

"No, it's something you all need to know. If we're gonna be nakama from now on I have to be honest here. But I'll tell the story later, right now we need to get Zoro and get out of the town."

The other two nodded and they went off to get their swordsman.

Later

Zoro was awake by the time his crewmates caught up to him. "Did we win?" he asked.

"Nope! We all died a horrible death and we're having a party in hell right now. Of course we won! Why else would we be here?" Gian laughed.

"And I got the map and our navigator!" Luffy exclaimed.

"Shouldn't we check on the mayor as well?" Nami suggested. Everyone turned to see mayor Broodle still passed out. It was just then that the strawhats noticed a group of people coming towards them. The looks on the people's faces appear hostile.

"Hey! You people aren't from around here are you? What happened to the pirates that were terrorizing the town?"" one of them asked.

"Oh look, it's the townspeople. No, we're not, and you can see what happened for yourself." Gian answered.

"Oh, in that- THE MAYOR!" the townsfolk then notices the unconscious Broodle. "Who did this to him?!"

"Oh Gian had to knock him out" Luffy said nonchalantly. Gian stood off and made a "what can ya do?" gesture. This made the townspeople grow more hostile.

"You can't just say that out loud!" Nami shouted.

"But you said it too."

"Why would you hurt the mayor?!" the group advanced on the 4. "Don't tell us you're pirates as well!"

"If we're not careful here, there could be problems…" Nami thought as she looked around with a worried look. Unfortunately for her, any hope of a non-violent confrontation was dashed when Luffy made a simple statement.

"Yes, we are pirates." Luffy answered as if it was the most natural thing in the world. Nami facefaulted while Zoro and Gian laughed.

"We knew it!" The citizens growled angrily.

"WHY DID YOU TELL THEM THAT?!" Nami yelled with shark-teeth

"How dare you destroy our town?! We're never gonna for give you for this!" the townsfolk brought their weapons up and advanced closer.

"So, we're running?" Zoro asked.

"About that time, yes." Gian shrugged.

"Shishishishi! RUN!" Luffy cackled as the 4 pirates fled from the scene with the townspeople were hot on their heels, shouting threats and profanities all along the way.

"You know what would go well with this? Some saxophone music." Gian chirped.

"Why that kind of music of all things?" Zoro asked.

"Well I thought it'd fit the pacing."

"…Can't argue with that."

"WHY ARE YOU TWO EVEN CONCERNED ABOUT THAT?!" Nami screeched. "AND YOU! WHY DO YOU ALWAYS SPEAK WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND?!"

"This is a good town." Luffy said.

"What do you mean by that?

"These people are willing to do their best to fight for their mayor, they'd be mad at us no matter what we'd say." Nami looked back and had to agree; the only reason they were being chased at all was because the townspeople were so passionate about their town. Beside her, Zoro and Gian smiled at this as well.

"Turn here." Luffy suddenly commanded, ignoring a yelp from Nami as they took a sharp left into an alleyway. The townspeople were about to follow when they suddenly found their path blocked by a small dog.

"Chouchou! What are you doing?!" the townspeople were shocked. Chouchou was blocking them from chasing the strawhats any further.

"Chouchou?" Nami was quite surprised.

"Dog!"Luffy cheered.

"Hey there champ!" Gian grinned at his canine comrade. Chouchou woofed a greeting back to them. Then turned to face the townspeople.

"Chouchou! Get out of the way! You're gonna let the pirates escape!" the townspeople protested. However the dog stood his ground and refused to move.

"Thanks doggie!" Luffy said as he ran off, the rest followed soon after. Gian gave a thumbs up to the small dog who gave his own bark of appreciation back.

"You see? This is why I like dogs."

Later

The 4 had managed to get to the docks. Zoro was a bit out of breath so he had to be carried by Luffy on the way here. But everyone checked out alright. The boat that Nami used to get here was still tied to the dock.

"Well it was a good thing that Chouchou was there, how did we get into that situation again?" Nami moaned.

"Well it already happened, no use crying over spilt milk." Gian shrugged.

"Whatever, let's just get out of here. How did I get involved with you guys in the first place? Nami threw her bag of treasure into the boat. Suddenly 3 people revealed themselves to the strawhats.

"We've been waiting for you girl! We will get our revenge for what you did to us earlier!" it was the 3 pirates that had been marooned by Nami! Upon seeing this, Gian and Zoro both let out a collective groan.

"Seriously… why are you three still here? Get lost!" Zoro snapped at them.

"E-eh? Zoro-sama! Gian-sama! We were just k-keeping the boat safe for you guys! Yeah!" the 3 pirates paled when they saw who was among them. They tried to explain further but a snarl from Gian sent them packing into the water desperate to swim away.

"You guys know them?" Luffy asked.

"I'm forgetting about them already." Gian muttered.

"YOSH! Set sail!"

As they traveled further and further away from the docks, they suddenly heard a voice and turned their heads back.

"You brats! Wait!" it was none other than Mayor Broodle, who had awoken from his unwanted rest.

"I used to think that it was ok for me to die, but you 4 showed me just how much pain my death would've caused to the people that cared for me!" the mayor had tears in his eyes. "So thank you! And sorry! I'll return the favor someday!"

"It's fine, just take care of yourself old man!" Luffy shouted back.

"Do not worry child! The Lord forgives!" Gian shouted his own thing.

"… That doesn't make any sense…" Zoro and Nami deadpanned.

"…yeah you're right"

"Alright Gian, it's just us now. Are you comfortable with telling us?" Nami turned to him, as did Luffy. Zoro raised an eyebrow as well; Gian never told him much about his past, so he kind of want to hear about this.

"*sigh… it all started when I was born… well not really, but most of what I remember began from that though…"

One long tale later

"… And that's how I've come to have a fear of needles and how I met the most important people in my life." Gian concluded. He had told them everything, from start to finish. He told them of his containment on Punk Hazard, his slavery at the hands of the Riddo pirates, him meeting Shanks, all the way to him travelling to East Blue and meeting Goro-san and his family.

The result was a period of silence in the little dinghy. Luffy was uncharacteristically quiet as he tried to comprehend his first nakama's past. Zoro was deep in thought as well. Nami was on the verge of tears after hearing this; it's reminding her so much of what's happening to her right now…

"That's everything, Nami. It took me a while to fully recover from the ordeal, I guess I could count myself fortunate for running into the ones that matter most at the right time. Otherwise, who knows if I'd even be here sitting with you all."

Nami didn't say anything else at the thought, neither did Zoro. Even Luffy, ever the talkative one, was actually processing everything his nakama just told him.

"So yeah, if it makes you feel better knowing than that's pretty much it." the crew remained silent for a while before Nami finally let out a whisper.

"I'm more surprised about how you're willing to talk about it"

"Well, what can you do? You can't just let it cling to you forever. The pain doesn't go away in one day, but I've gotten things to look forwards to now, so I'll be fine." These words made Nami think a bit deeply, her mind drifting to her own painful past.

"Heh, our crew certainly has some interesting characters in it." Zoro smirked "Still, I knew some vile people in this world, but that just goes too far."

"Don't worry Gian! When we see that Ceasar guy again I'll make sure to kick his ass!" Luffy huffed. Gian can't help but laugh at that.

"Heh, you'll have to get in line for that! I already called dibs." Gian smiled. His crewmates were all caring over something that happened years ago. He's glad to call them his friends.

"That actually doesn't sound like such a bad idea actually, if I ever see that gas bastard again I'll show him just how effective his 'tests' were" his fists tightened at that.

"Well it's certainly a lot to take in…" Nami smiled lightly "But this only made me see you in a new light! You're a strong person Gian!"

"Yeah! I'm really glad you're here as my nakama!" Luffy grinned.

"It's a shame your jokes suck so much… we'd get along much better that way!" Zoro joked.

"You want to start something Roronoa?!" Gian mock snapped. The entire crew had a good laugh over that. Gian just sat back and smiled at his nakama, however there was more to his mind.

Even though he thought he revealed everything, a part of his heart seemed empty when he recalled everything. As if there was a blank space in his mind that previously held something…

"Why can't I remember anything before the Lab? I only remember everything starting from age 15… that was when the memories of the experiments began, so what the hell happened before that?"

It really bothered him, and for some reason he felt that it was a very major event that he was missing out… he continued to think about it until Nami brought him out of his stupor.

"Hey! Where's the other bag of treasure?!"

Back in Orange Town

Mayor Broodle stared at the shrinking boat with a fond smile on his face. Those 4 were good kids. His attention was then brought to a strange bag a few ways beside him.

Back with the Strawhats

"YOU DID WHAT?!" Nami's scream made everyone cover their ears.

"Their town was just destroyed, they need funds to do reparations and rebuild things." Gian stated.

"THAT ONE BAG HAD ROUGHLY 5 MILLION BERI IN IT!"

"Yeah, so there should be more than enough for them to fix up the town and buy themselves something nice. Go capitalism."

"WHAT IS CAPITALISM EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE?! THAT'S IT I'M GONNA MAKE YOU NEVER HAD THAT HEALING POWER!" she then jumped on him and proceeded to shake him back and forth. Beside them Luffy and Zoro both laughed. Gian just sighed and accepted his fate.

"My nakama are weird…" Gian thought as he was subject to motion. It's certainly is gonna be interesting traveling with them, but he wouldn't give them up for anything.

A/N: I'll say it right now: East Blue Saga has like the least interesting things in the entire series. Not a whole lot of strong people to face. So from now on I'll probably skip some of the unimportant fights, and just make reference to them instead. This goes for everything, even once we get to the Grand Line.

With that being said, the Orange Town arc is done and we can begin Syrup Village! Also on another positive note is that this story now has over 5k views! That means that over 5000 people at some point looked at this story and proceeded to read it over. So a big thank you to all you random viewers, as well as all those people who've favorited/followed this! You all give me such inspiration to continue this!

Expect the next chapter to be up some time next week! I have some assignments to catch up on. Thank you all again and review please!