"Hey Captain?"

She turned her head to look at him.

"Yes Zoro?"

He hooked a thumb towards the three people he could see not far from them.

"Think those guys know where the nearest island is?"

Jack crooked her head to the side, brows furrowed slightly.

"Hey, slow down!" Finally noticed them, huh?

Jack's forehead smoothed out, her head turning towards the three in the water.

"Get on yourselves, we're not slowing down."

"WHAT?!"

He smirked in amusement, continuing to row at the same speed and watching as the three actually got on.

"Huh, you got on. Impressive." His Captain said with a smirk, eyes trained on them.

"Are you trying to get us killed?!" They shouted at her incredulously. Didn't take long for them to take out their swords though.

"Stop this boat. We're with Buggy the Clown and we'll be taking this boat, otherwise you two are going to get it!"

Jack simply raised an eyebrow at them, obviously amused.

"Is that so?" She murmured, a smirk on her face.

"Oi, let me take care of this one Captain." He said, getting up and pulling out his sword.

Jack just looked even more amused.


"We're sorry! We had no idea you were the famous Pirate Hunter Zoro! Please forgive us!" The three idiots yelled, many cuts and bruises covering them as they rowed the boat.

Jack snorted slightly.

"As long as you take us to the nearest island, all is forgiven." She told them blandly, watching them nod eagerly before turning back to look at the sea.

The rest of the trip passed in relative silence, the only thing breaking through it the occasional sound of Jack's stomach rumbling loudly, which cause her to chuckle and grin sheepishly.

When they finally made it to land, the first thing that happened was a quarter of the town getting blown up by something the three idiots with them called a 'Buggy Ball'. Que a snicker from Jack.

Zoro just looked at his smirking Captain in exasperation.

"We're going that way, aren't we?"

Jack didn't say anything, merely jumping onto the roof of one of the buildings and running off, forcing him to run after her so he didn't lose her.

"Damnit Jack, slow down!"

"Nope~" She said in a sing-song voice, jumping from roof to roof like her namesake.

It wasn't long before they found the place the 'Buggy Ball' had come from, but what they saw surprised them slightly.

There was a guy dressed like a clown, red nose and all, an orange haired girl tied up in a cage and a lit cannon pointing straight at said girl.

Jack didn't waste any time, pulling the metal object off her belt and jerking her hand quickly, making the mess of metal and wire unravel into her prefered weapon. She then put an arrow to the string, not even needing to aim before she let it fly and hit the fuse of the cannon, extinguishing it.

The pirates around them blinked stupidly at the arrow now embedded in the ground, turning to look at Jack as she walked over to the girl in the cage, crouching down and grinning at her.

"Yo! I'm Jack. Wanna get out of here?" She asked, cheerfully ignoring the pirates around her and the way the girl looked at her like she was insane.

"How dare you interfere with my execution!" The clown-guy yelled, glaring at Jack.

Jack turned to look at the guy in confusion.

"Eh~? You're mad at me for not letting you get executed? Why?" She asked in bewilderment, staring at the clown in utter disbelief, an expression mirrored by almost everyone around her except for Zoro, who had already gotten used to his Captain's special case of selective hearing.

The girl in the cage then started yelling at Jack.

"Boss! You're here! I knew you'd come and get me!"

Jack turned to the girl again, looking very confused as Zoro raised an eyebrow at the girl, the clown having lost his disbelieving expression in favour of looking at Jack with interest.

"So, you're this little thief's boss, huh? I guess that means you're the one that told her to steal my map of the Grand Line." He said, glaring at Jack with contempt.

Jack just shrugged, rummaging through one of her coat pockets with a frown.

"I could have sworn I put it here…" She mumble, rummage through her other pocket, completely ignoring the clown, who was starting to look pissed.

"Don't ignore me you flashy idiot! I am Buggy the Clown, also known as Buggy the Immortal and I will not allow you to disrespect me like that! Men! Kill her!" The clown, Buggy, screamed and a group of pirates immediately took out their swords and jumped at Jack's unprotected back.

At least, it had been unprotected.

He blocked the swords with little difficulty, glaring at the guys attacking his Captain.

"You know, I'm starting to think you don't actually have anything behind that ribbon Captain."

Jack chuckled, now going through the many pockets of her belt in search of what she was looking for.

"I knew you'd have my back Zoro." She said cheerfully, completely oblivious to the reactions his name had gotten.

"Wait, did she say Zoro!?"

"As in Pirate Hunter Zoro, the bounty hunter!?"

"What the hell is he doing here?!"

"Why'd he call her Captain?"

He threw the guys away from him, backing up to stand behind Jack.

"So you're Pirate Hunter Zoro?" Buggy said, staring at him intently. "Are you here for my bounty?"

"Not interested." He told him. "I'm not a bounty hunter anymore."

Buggy gave a wide smirk. "Well, I'm interested in you. Taking you out will no doubt increase my bounty."

He glared at him. "Try if you've got a deathwish." He growled, the two of them now circling each other, Buggy sporting two daggers.

"Ah ha!" They stopped, turning to look at Jack at her triumfent yell.

In her hand was a small jar, about the size of her fist, with some kind of thick black liquid in it that reminded him a bit of tar with the way in sluggishly moved when Jack started opening it. The red lid came off with a bit of effort and Jack held the now open jar over the edges of the cage, clearly intent on pouring the liquid on it.

"What are you…?" The girl didn't get to finish her question, because the answer presented itself as soon as the black… something hit the stone top of the sage.

The tar-like substance started eating through the cage, effortlessly going through the stone top and metal bars like they were paper, until the entire front of it was gone.

Jack screwed the lid back on tightly, putting the still half full jar back in her belt and swiftly taking ahold of the dumbstruck girl, hoisting her over her shoulders and jumping off the roof of the building they were on with a quick "Come on Zoro!" thrown over her shoulder at him.

...Why was his Captain so weird?


It took Nami much longer than she would like to admit to gather her vits enough to yell "Put me down and untie me you idiot!" to the girl carrying her, but when she finally did, they were far away from Buggy and his crew.

The girl stopped and, much gentler than she had expected, took her off her shoulders and put her on the porch of one of the houses around them, taking out a small dagger from one of the pockets on her belt and slicing through the ropes binding her as the green-haired guy, Zoro, caught up with them.

"You alright?" The girl, Jack, asked her softly, staring at her through the ribbon over her eyes with a frown.

She grimaced, rubbing her wrists slightly once they were free.

"I'm fine. Thanks to you two they didn't really get to harm me all that much." She told her, watching the girl smile brightly and skip over to sit near the dog also sitting on the porch and pet it. "What was that?"

The girl look up from the dog, head tilted in confusion.

"What was what?"

Zoro sighed.

"That black stuff Jack. The thing you used to get her out of the cage?"

Although she couldn't see it, Nami got the impression Jack blinked.

"Oh, that. That was just something I have handy." She grinned at them, not giving them a chance to demand a better answer before switching the topic. "So, who're you? And why were you in that cage?"

Nami blinked.

"Ah, sorry. My name is Nami and I was in that cage because Buggy and his crew caught me stealing from them." She said sheepishly, the thought of lying to this girl making her feel very uncomfortable for some reason.

"So you're a thief." Zoro stated bluntly, leaning against the wall of the house and staring at her.

Nami huffed.

"Yes, but I only steal from pirates. I'm also the best navigator in the East Blue." She said proudly, smirking smugly at the swordsman.

Jack grinned widely at that.

"ShiShiShiShi! Well in that case, join my crew!"

Both Zoro and Nami jerked.

"WHAT?!"

Jack just laughed.