Basil calmly sat on a crate in a clearing in the middle of town on Grove 24 as a giant man wearing yellow and bearing the coat of an admiral strode towards him. His crew urged him to flee but he did not even flinch.

"Do not worry, I will not die today," he told them, but they ran to hide in the alleys. Basil pulled out a deck of cards from his pocket and shuffled the cards. He spread them out in the air, each card supported by some kind of vine that came out from under him.

"Battle… probability of defeat… 100%," he tapped a card and it stirred under the pressure of his finger, "Flight… probability of success… 12%."

His crewmates still called his name from a distance as the man came up to him and stopped just a few yards away.

"Defense… probability of circumvention… 76%..."

"Could I perhaps have a moment?" the giant man asked kindly. Basil did not look up at him. "I'm looking for a man by the name of 'Sentoumaru'," he continued.

"Survival… probability of death…" Basil took a breath, "0%." The vines disappeared and the cards were collected into his hands. "I know no man by that name. Try asking somebody else," he told him, shuffling the cards.

"Oh, but well you know… if I can't find him… I just get so bored, you know? And when I'm really bored… I couldn't possibly just leave a bounty head like this sitting around, Basil Hawkins." The admiral stared down at the pirate captain giddily. "Speed is weight… Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?"

Basil looked in the corner of his eye to see a light coming at him from his right. Suddenly, he was thrown into the building to the left of him. In Grove 27, a man grabbed at the right side of his head with a loud scream and then fell over dead.

The admiral came up to the pile of fallen bricks where Basil lay somewhere, and summoned a ball of light that burned everything in its path as it expanded twenty feet before collapsing back into the air. The bricks were singed by the light, and somewhere in the harbor, a man burned to death.

The dust settled and the figure of Basil appeared amongst the rubble. He was barely scathed, which surprised the admiral.

"Impressive," Basil told him, "You far exceed my expectations."

"Now that's just weird!" the admiral exclaimed.

"I see it is unwise to face an admiral with a mere ten men…" Basil said, outstretching his arm, which turned into a shoot of straw-like vines like what had held the cards up just minutes ago. Out of his arm came two dolls made of straw. One's head was partially gone, a whole blown on the right, and one was burning. Both were writhing in pain as they fell to the ground.

Suddenly, a huge bulky man slid across the ground, stopping beside Kizaru and Basil. Bartholomew Kuma came up behind him, ready to hurtle him across the island again.

"Ah, such misfortune! Before me, an admiral, behind me, a Shicibukai. Is this the end?" the man coughed.

"No, I would not say so," Basil answered him, "I see not the shadow of death upon you yet."

Each of them turned when they heard a crash and saw Diez Drake land his mace to Kuma's face with such strength, it sent the Shichibukai into a building, crashing it down. This gave the huge man time enough to grow. He was no one other than the Demon Monk, Urouge. He towered over Basil five times and his muscle mass multiplied the same. As Kuma got up, Urouge stepped up beside Drake and delivered a devastating blow to the Shicibukai's stomach. He then socked him across the face, and delivered another blow to his stomach, sending him into another building. He watched as the dust cleared and without warning, a white light shot out and pierced Urouge's arm. He fell over from the mere power.

"Commodore Drake," Kizaru said aloud and got both Basil and Drake's attention, "Former Commodore. You're not just seeing what it's like on "the other side"? You're welcome to try and fight. Though you should understand the state of affairs… and I'd imagine it would lead to quite a bit of suffering."

Drake turned as he heard thundering footsteps behind him. Kuma had his fist ready to grind him into the ground. Drake took his stance and began to change. A reptilian, three-toed claw reached out and grabbed Kuma's arm as a huge tyrannosaurus came down and wrapped its mouth around his head. It didn't see Kuma's other hand until the last minute, when a hot laser beam pierced the beast's shoulder. It shrunk back down to the sensible Diez Drake, surprising everyone who had only heard rumors of his Zoan devil fruit ability. Urouge was distracted and was kicked by Kizaru so hard in the side, he was sent through a building.

Basil took this opportunity to use his ability. He began to transform like the others. Straw overtook his whole body, stretching him and making him taller. His fingers became nails, which he tried to swipe at Kizaru with but he disappeared in a blink of an eye. Suddenly, two fingers in the form of a V-sign popped up before Basil's face and he was blinded by a bright light. Kizaru then pointed at him and shot him in the stomach with a light beam. With a quick turn, he delivered a kick to Drake's face, sending him into the broken bricks of a fallen building. Kizaru froze and answered a call on his den-den mushi. Basil looked up at him from the ground before Kizaru disappeared in a flash of light. Basil's head fell as he closed his eyes so he could rest.