Chapter 46: The Mystery of the Stolen Pants
Sabaody Archipelago. An archipelago of "islands" (really a giant grove of giant Mangrove trees). A place that if pirates wanted to go to the second half the Grand Line and Fishman Island, they had to go to here to get there. They needed to have their ship given a special coat to get there.
After many months the Spade pirate arrived there.
It would take days or their ship to get coated but it was going to be worth it.
Thankfully there were plenty of things to do on the archipelago, they had a tourist areas and pirate areas and the people of the archipelago were used to pirates.
However… there was something worse that appeared in the mangrove grove (sorry couldn't help putting that down)… but thankfully they're not important to this story.
Ace's bad sleeping habit kicked in while exploring on the groves… no one was sure if it was a form of narcolepsy or just something that he just had but it was annoying.
But he asleep in the middle of the street basically.
A figure lammed over him and smiled evilly.
Some time later Ace woke up. He grabbed his hat and realized he was a bit colder than usual. He looked down.
His pants were gone.
"What the!" yelled Ace as he work up.
HE was in the nude.
In the middle of a public place.
"This is bad." He muttered to himself.
He used his hat to cover his crotch.
He knew he had to get back to his hotel (as they had to stay off the ship) however then he realized something… something about the theft.
"Damn it!" muttered Ace realizing that he really did need to find his pants and needed to find them now.
He looked around. Hoping it was just a prank.
Then he realized something.
"Where am I supposed to look?" he asked no one.
He looked around to check if the coast was clear and it was.
After it always wasn't clear for long, as several people saw him.
"Oh my god!" yelled one of them.
"Someone's streaking!" yelled another.
"Won't somebody please think of the children!" yelled another.
"Can I go with one day without seeing a naked guy!" yelled yet another.
Ace managed to find an alley to hid in.
"This hat isn't working!" yelled Ace.
But then he remembered that he had his powers. So he turned his danger zone and moon area into a sort of flaming speedo.
This only led to MORE problems!
"Oh my god! His crotch is on fire!" yelled someone.
"Someone call the fire department!" cried out someone.
"What the! How did that even happen!" yelled another person.
"Must be one hell of an STD." said another person.
Ace ducked away breathing heavily.
"How am I even going to find my pants?" asked Ace.
"I heard there was a naked man with a crotch on fire and I knew it had to be you." Said Masked Deuce approaching him from behind.
There was an awkward silence.
"Someone stole my pants while sleeping." Said Ace.
"I can see that…" said Masked Deuce, "Why haven't you gone to the hotel and grabbed another pair? Or even called your sister so she could magic you up pair.
"I want to find the pair I was wearing." Said Ace, "Plus I don't need my sister help with this! I can handle it myself."
"Your mirror is in your pocket." Said Masked Deuce.
"My mirror is in my pocket." Said Ace.
Ace sighed, he remembered how his siblings found out about how he got shipwrecked shortly after leaving to become a pirate. Star and Sabo scolded him for not asking for help despite his mirror working… Luffy just laughed at it calling him an idiot.
After that he knew that if needed help and it was a. really bad they had to help out or B. Could be best solved with magic then to call them (though the latter was only a rule after Star got the wand).
But it doesn't help if his mirror was in his pocket.
"You know the rest of the crew is going to find out about this right?" asked Masked Deuce.
"It's true!" yelled a voice.
Ace turned around and saw several of his crewmembers.
"Okay… this is really happening." Said one of them.
"This is just one of those days isn't it?" asked another.
"Damn it ACE, turn down your crotch it's too mesmerizing!" yelled one of this crewmembers.
"Which is a thing that was just said." Sighed Ace face palming.
"How did you even lose your pants?" asked one of the members.
"I fell asleep." Said Ace.
There was an awkward silence.
That was when a bird flew over and dropped a roll up piece of paper on Ace's head.
He grabbed it and read it.
"I have the thing you want meet alone on Grove 26." Read Ace.
"Sounds like a trap." Said Masked Deuce.
"Yeah…" said Ace.
"And he used Ace's pants as bait for him." said one of the members of the crew.
"You know you can get more pants." Said another, "Sure you're embarrassed but it come goes."
"No I do have to go get it." Said Ace.
"What…" said one of the crewmembers.
"OH! I get it!" said one of the crew members, "His pants are cheap and replaceable that mirror's probably expensive."
The rest of the crew realized that was the thing.
"Yeah! So I don't' care about my pants but I would like to be able to keep in contact with my family!" said Ace, "so I need to get that back."
"Can't you just buy a new mirror I mean you do have Sabo's transponder Snail Number as back up. He can help you get a new one." Said Masked Deuce just realizing something.
"It's the principal of the thing! Whoever this guy messed with the wrong person!" said Ace.
"So… are you going now or gong back to the hotel to get a new pair of pants?" asked one of the crewmembers.
"I think he should confront the guy." Said Masked Deuce.
"What you can't be serous!" yelled one of the crewmember .
"No he's right!" said Ace, "It will less embarrassing."
They then realized why… it was because they were close to the meeting spot than their hotel.
"This is a weird day." Sighed Ace.
E turned to his crew.
"All right I have a plan!" said Ace.
However his crew was looking at his crotch.
"Stop staring and focus!" yelled Ace.
Then he heard a click… turned out one of them had a camera.
Ace just face palmed.
Sometime later he made it to Grove 26.
"So you made it." Said the guy.
"Why did you steal my pants?" asked Ace.
The guy however was staring at his crotch.
"You're the one who left me naked!" yelled Ace.
"But I didn't think you would light your crotch on fire!" said the man, "That's the replacing the whale in my nightmare…"
"Give me back my pants." Said Ace.
"I'm afraid I can't do that." Said the man.
HE took out what were clearly sea stone cuff and a sword with a sea stone blade.
"You have quite the bounty." Said the man, "And I'm not letting you get away!"
"This day is stupid and so are you!" blurted out Ace.
"What…" said the man.
"I said that out loud didn't I?" asked Ace.
"You did." Said the man.
"Look you're a bounty hunter… I get that…" said Ace, "And you're using sea stone… which I and it is a good move… but everything before that was just stupid."
"What do you mean?" asked the man.
"I was asleep… asleep enough that I didn't know my pants were stolen." Said Ace.
"Yeah." Said the man.
"Why didn't you just cuff me with Sea stone Cuffs and take me like that?" asked Ace.
The man was shocked beyond belief.
"This didn't even cross your mind!" yelled Ace.
However the bounty hungrier was still shocked over his stupidity that he didn't notice that Masked Deuce was going through his things behind him.
He held up both his pants and took out the mirror.
He opened the mirror and looked to be fiddling with it.
"It looks like it's working." Said Masked Deuce who then tossed Ace's pants to him.
"So what should we do?" asked the rest of the crew showing up.
"We didn't think was a complete and utter moron so should we weren't really needed." Said another.
The bounty hunter looked at the crew as Ace put his pants back on.
"I told you not to bring any one!" yelled Bounty Hunter, "Ever hear of the honor system?"
Ace had to resist going to a nearby bolder and hitting his head on it.
"I'm taking care of him myself." Said Ace.
Ace sent out a huge fireball at the hapless bounty hunter and of course he was defeated in a single attack…
Ace sighed looked at the fired bounty hunter. Masked Deuce tossed him his mirror.
"Okay! Let's just agree that none of this ever happened and we will never bring this up again." Said Ace.
That was when Ace mirror buzzed meaning it got a text.
He opened his mirror and saw what ha happened.
"You didn't." said Ace.
Masked Deuce looked away form his captain.
Turned out when he was fiddling with mirror he had taken a picture and sent via group chat to most of his contacts with the message "Stupid bounty hunter stole his pants. This is what he did to hide his shame."
Ace's face turned red as the contacts responded.
"Seriously!" was Star's response.
"Not sure how to respond to this…" was Marco's response.
"How did he even steal your pants?" was Sabo's.
Luffy's was just a string of laughing emojis.
"SEND MOAR PICS!" was Pony Head's response.
"I got to delete her number." Muttered Ace.
His crew was laughing at this. He turned to glare at them flames licking his body.
"I'll give you five seconds." Said Ace.
They all started to run. Even if he was pissed, a small part of him did think it was a little funny as he chased them down.
However it would be a shame for when they would enter the second half the Grand Line were going to change big time.
Next Time: Ludo knows that he must figure out a way to beat Luffy. However he's having a hard time trying to find someone to find him. Meanwhile Star, Luffy and Marco deicide to find Ludo to prevent him from stealing the book. What will happen? Find out next time!