Nakama sailed forward, speeding out into Alabasta's safe zone. Kasai threw his hands up in the air, cheering loudly, "Man of my word!" Harmony also had her arms up cheering. They both chuckled, and the exhaustion finally got to them. Harmony, Kasai, and Minx fell backwards, passing out. Kagaku sighed. "They were pretty beat up," he said, sticking his pinkie in his nose. "I think Minx said he got hit with lightning, and those two fought an admiral," he continued. "Lets get further out and anchor so everyone can rest up for a minute," Julio said taking charge, and Kagaku pushed his glasses up before running up to the wheel.
Once they got in a good safe spot to anchor up, Julio and Kagaku sat eating up some of the fruits from Skypiea. Everyone else was still asleep, resting their pain away. "So earlier, you made gold?" Julio asked, making small talk. "Yea, it's my Devil Fruit. I've forgotten its name, but I can make any basic element from my body fat," he replied, making Julio tilt his head. "Why don't you get fatter so you can make more stuff?" he asked, and Kagaku just looked down. He gripped his shirt nervously, looking rather feminine as he was still in the Kemajuan outfit, and replied honestly, "I got a really good metabolism..." Julio fell over.
"That stuff you used on the slippery guy..?" he asked sitting up. "Acetone. It evaporates quickly, and takes oils and water from your skin. His fruit worked by making his skin extremely oily, but if your fast enough there's a window if you get rid of said oil." Julio nodded, "Hm, makes sense. But what is acetone, exactly?" Kagaku chuckled, "That's a can of worms I don't think you're ready for."
Julio suddenly had a serious look on his face. "Someone's coming..." he stated, looking back towards Aluburna, and they indeed saw as some dark armoured knight in a small boat was headed for them. Julio started loading up Victoria, and Kagaku started pulling anchor back. "Yo if anyone wanna wake up we gotta guy here!" he cried out, but no one came to. "Where is your captain!?" the Black Knight yelled out, and Julio replied by firing a warning shot past his head. He didn't flinch, and Julio aimed for his chest, and fired. It phased through his body, creating sparks as it did. "Aw shit..." Kagaku ran for the wheel, activating Doggy Paddle to start escaping. "Our only haki user is out! We gotta go!"
The Black Knight jumped up, a lightning bolt appearing in his open hand. Julio and Kagaku both looked up in fear. He chucked it right at Nakama, aiming to sink the whole thing. Both of them started to panic, but Kagaku looked out and started smiling. Senju, running on the water, blitzed up and cut the bolt of lightning, protecting Nakama. He distracted the Black Knight as they escaped, running around him slashing for him, but his attempts were blocked by his spear. Once Nakama got out into the stormy part of the Grand Line, he sped off, the Black Knight huffing as he looked back towards his target.
Once it got chaotic in the storms, everyone else woke up. Minx and Kasai got in position, and Harmony took the wheel and map. But she wasn't doing too good on navigation. The ship rocked as Kagaku looked up at her face to figure out what was wrong. He noticed she was squinting, and smirked. "Yo Cap! Throw these on!" he said pulling a pair of eyewear like his, but the frame was pink and the glass parts were round, and tossing them to her. She caught them, and correlated his eyes with them and put them on, and suddenly everything was clearer. "Oh wow I can see!" Julio, Minx, and Kasai all facepalmed. "You had that fuzzy eye thing this whole time!? Why do you get newspapers!?" Julio cried out. She poked her fingers together, "I usually like the pictures..."
Now able to see the map and logpose position more clearly, Harmony actually took to navigation more naturally, and they were back to as smooth sailing they can manage. "Say captain, where are going next?" Kasai asked. She smiled, and said "To adventure!" The crew all laughed, smiling brightly as they started their path towards the next journey coming their way; a stretch of a calm zone with no true island, instead dozens of smaller uninhabited islands infested with a group known as the Creepy Captains. They've used this area for years to take out rookies traveling down the Grand Line with, just for fun. The Navy made a secret deal; if marines are left alone, they are allowed to continue ruining the adventures of pirates.