Hi^^

as I said in the last chapter this will be some kind of a filler chapter. But it is canon for the story. Just so that you know. I know filler as a bad touch because of what the anime did. But I indent to use fillers as little extra chapters to do flashbacks or maybe just show you stuff which isn't important at the moment but maybe interesting to read about or maybe become important in the later story. So yeah, that's how I intend to use filler-chapters. They will be marked as such. So you can either skip them and maybe be surprised when there is a hint in a later chapter to one of these fillers or well read them. Your own decision^^ I also just want to use them to shorten the time a bit maybe you have to wait for the next chapter^^ I hope it works out. So enjoy.

buterflypuss: hey there again. Thank you for your support.

yukino76: You have to wait a bit longer to see how it will go on ;) Because I say this much. The PoV of this chapter isn't from anyone who is on the ship at the moment. But you will have to read it to know more^^

SakuraKoi: Thank you.

ChunkyFunkyMunky: I know that I did write you a pm already. But when I prepared the author note and the review responds for this chapter, I notice a few things. So here is a more detailed answer to your critic.

First of all, the genre Romance. Well, I can only tag two Genres for the story. So I chose these two which will be the most dominant which are/will be Adventure and Humor. BUT I did write in the summary, which is readable before you even click on the story that the "Genres can also include family, friendship, drama and romance". So just by this sentence, it should be clear that there is more than just Adventure and Humor to this story (at least I would think it if I saw this in a summary).

Second, pairings~ okay, question, you did read four chapters so the prologue + the first three and only in the 'fourth' one you notice that there are going to be pairings? I don't want to criticise you there... but since I reread the chapter you commented on and the chapter content didn't really hint at any pairings. The only thing in the chapter was the author notes at the beginning. So when you read those, didn't you read the 'warnings' in the prologue? I know I do ramble a lot, but I thought I did an okay job to make it noticeable and also even mentioned that there are more warnings in the prologue in the summary.

The other thing with tagging a pair in the summary is the limited space and I think I don't have enough left to write every single pairing down which will happen, happened and so on. Also, I can't tag it in the character selection for the reason I am limited to four characters and well, I chose the four which I started the story with and intend to focus a little more on. And if I for an example would tag AceXLaw as a pairing here I would feel like it should get the main focus which it doesn't have. So I don't feel comfortable tagging them here on AO3 it is different as I am not limited in tagging.

So yeah, I didn't do this respond to call you at or something. I do appreciate the critic. I really do. I just thought about the review more now and wonder what I could do better with the limited space, I have in summary, and so on to not lead any readers on.

~Filler 1 - New recruits~

Bogard shook his head. How could Garp be that irresponsible like falling asleep when they had to take a prisoner to headquarter?

Especially falling asleep in front of the said prisoner. Well, at least only the doughnuts were cut. That would be a nice punishment for his boss. For not following the order and trying to get to Logue Town to have a nice talk with the three brats.

Those brats were possible in the Grandline already. There was news about Buggy the Clown, Iron-Mace Alvida being in Logue Town at the same time as the brats. Fortunately, these three didn't have epithet, yet.

That meant nothing of their powers were known, yet. Or maybe they did know a bit about Ace's. After all, the black-haired one had probably set the building on fire which was shown on his wanted poster.

Also, it did wonder him a bit why Garp didn't do anything to help these chore boys trying to capture the prisoner. It would be easy for his boss to throw a cannonball at the ship or something smaller and hit the prisoner possible directly in the face. What was going on the mind of Garp?

He seemed to focus on the chore boys.

Bogard sighed. He had an idea what his boss was planning.

He wasn't able to see the two chore boys, but he heard them. He heard their shouting. It made him smirk. Because it reminded him of the brats.

~Flashback~

"Put Luffy down, Jiji", Ace shouted and glared angrily at Garp. Only to get hit by the older one. Garp was holding Luffy upside down in hopes to make him throw up.

"You are his older brother! How could you let him eat a devil fruit?" "How should I know that the fruit was a devil fruit? You haven't shown us how they look. Only said we shouldn't eat one, Jiji!"

Another hit for Ace and Luffy was dropped to the floor as it seemed impossible to make him throw up.

"I told you to call me, Jii-chan", Garp scolded the older one of his grandchildren while the younger one now was now behind his older brother.

"Then stop hitting Luffy, Jiji", Ace shouted back pushing Luffy even more behind him so that the child's small frame was protected by his.

It was amusing to see his boss arguing with his grandchildren.

Then a strange smell of burned material hit his nose. Bogard turned his head to see that Rosinante had himself set on fire … again. How could the adopted child of Sengoku be so clumsy? He was sure that he hadn't heard that much accident of the former marine while the boy had been young.

"You should stop smoking, Cora-san", Law said and extinguished the fire with a bucket of water. "Thank you, Law", Rosinante hugged the boy and Bogard was sure that the oldest of the brat, they had on board, was trying to kill the blonde someday. If the look was anything to go with.

Loud snoring made him turn his head back to his boss, Ace and Luffy, who had all three fallen asleep.

This family was impossible. There was something about Ace's blood ties they didn't know because he had to be related by blood to Garp and Luffy. It couldn't just be the D in the name which made him act so similar to the vice admiral and his younger stepbrother (well brother. Ace would try to hit anyone who tried to say that Luffy was his stepbrother).

Also, if the D was the reason, Law would act the same. But this boy had at least decent manners when you overlook the obsession with cutting things to open to see what makes them tick.

"Law, get Luffy and Ace to their room. I will have a talk with Garp to calm him down and maybe make sure that he will finally be a little more responsible…"

He didn't really believe his last words. Because getting Garp to be more responsible was something that no one had been able to achieve. Not even Sengoku when giving out orders could get Garp to be serious. His boss always did what he wants. Sometimes Bogard wondered why Garp wasn't a pirate because with how less the man cared about some stuff of government and rules it was a wonder that he worked for them.

Law had grumbled but took Ace and Luffy with him. Well, Rosinante went with him caring the youngest like it was his own child. It was a good thing that there weren't any stairs on the way to the room. Otherwise, the blonde would probably stumble down the stairs with Luffy in his arms. But there were enough obstacles which could be a potential danger…

"Hey, where are they? I haven't finished", Garp suddenly said. "You are finished for now. You should teach them more details about devil fruits and maybe find out what kind of a devil fruit Luffy ate. After all, you said you want to train them. So maybe you should know what kind of devil fruit it was."

Garp looked at him like he seemed to think about it before he started to laugh. "Well, it could only happen to Luffy."

Sometimes his boss was an idiot who changed his mind a bit too quickly.

"Jii-chan, Ace is on fire." "Am not. Be quiet, idiot." "Stop. I extinguished." "Cora-san, stop you are going to set yourself on fire again."

Garp looked shocked at first before he started to laugh again.

"Looks like Ace got one, too."

"Oi, get here you, brat. So I can give you a good fist of love so you don't burn the ship."

"Stay away, Jiji!"

Bogard sighed. He should ask Sengoku to get a higher paycheck. Because he definitely didn't get paid enough to put up with that.

~Flashback ends~

"Please forgive my poor supervision", the marine apologized when they had gotten the two chore boys back on board who had even shouted after Morgan that they would catch him someday.

They were gutsy when they had faced the prisoner. But now they bowed in apology. Looked like the comparison to the brats they had on board ended when they weren't in an extreme situation any longer.

They even apologized, too. Something he was sure neither Ace nor Luffy nor Law would have done. These three would probably be like your fault for not getting involved.

Bogard wasn't seeing the face of his boss. But he knew what the vice admiral was thinking and what would be said in the next moment.

"You are a burden to everyone if we let you stay here. So we have no other choice than to take you with us to the headquarter."

There it was. Garp was going to take them probably in as new training subjects because he missed training his grandchildren. Hopefully, he wasn't expecting too much from them.

"Garp-san, are you really going to take them with you?!" "Yeah, got a problem with that?" "No…" "Do you two agree to come? If you don't want to then now is your chance to run away."

Bogard looked at the two chore boys. Both looked shocked that they got an invitation to come with them to the headquarter.

They probably didn't even know what they sign up for when they agree.

"Though I have no intention of letting you say no, anyway."

Bogard suppressed a sigh. He knew that Garp didn't give them a chance to say yes or no. He had already decided what to do with them and would do it even if they didn't want it.

Now it was going to be interested how life is going to be on the 'Bad Doggy' with two new chore boys on board.

I hope you enjoyed the filler. Some parts of the dialogue were directly or worded differently from the Anime episode with Morgan, Garp, Coby and Helmeppo. So just that you know.
I had fun writing from Bograd's PoV to describe the troubles he has with his boss.
For the next chapter, it will probably be up in April. Also, a little bit you can influence the fillers by saying what you want to read for example the first meeting with Ain and so on. But there will be things, I will hold back because it wouldn't work out with the story progress at the moment. Even that is a bit in contrast to what I said at the beginning. But it's just that there is stuff, I don't want to write about in fillers before the hints appeared in the main story or the 'extra' is needed for the main story.
So until next time^^