– after chapter 1079 of One Piece, I realized that we’ve seen what every Emperor is doing excluding Buggy. This is just a short series to show what plotline I would give him during this current Egghead arc
– Also one main impetuous for this storyline is that Perona followed Mihawk to Buggy’s hideout rather than trying to rescue on Moriah on her own.
Indebtitude
Empty Bluffs Island, New World.
Sir Crocodile was smoking on a cliff over looking the town. There’s noise all over the town and people raising arms. “They don’t know what they’re talking about.”
Daz Bones walked up to Croc with a new cigar, “you mean the rioters? They haven’t gotten paid recently.”
Down there, one pirate said to another, “I had to buy in to this company and he said I would get double in return in just a few months.”
A more refined warrior replied, “how funny, the day you came in is the last day I remember getting paid.”
Another said, “he owes me a fortune by now, I’ve been here for over a year!”
“Surely he is just waiting for a big day to pay all of us. He has the money with all the pillaging and looting we do,” said an old mini giant.
A visibly drunk girl mentioned, “didn’t we just have a big party last night? That’s payment enough.”
“We have a party every night. You were just blacked out,” said a swordsman.
A burly man argued, “well if he has money for our parties, than he should have money to pay us. There’s things I’d like to buy for myself!”
An ex-prisoner signified by the crossbones tattoo on his forehead stepped in between the group, “leave Buggy alone! He’s the Emperor, he’ll pay you when he wants!” Everyone turned to him without a response. “I’ve been here his Night Journey, he is a man of honesty and generosity. And Brock, if you want to go get paid, go ask Buggy right now.”
“Fuck you, I might as well. Who’s with me!?”
The refined warrior responded, “I’ll be with you at your funeral, just above ground.” Everyone broke into laughter. Brock shrugged this off and walked away. “Even without payment we get to live here.”
“Yeah we got free food and protection from Marines. This is a good gig.”
“The best place for a criminal in the New World!”
Daz said to Croc, “you see, eventually Buggy will inspire a mutiny against him. Only the officers get any dime.”
“All good but the reason they are complaining is for money owed to me. He owes me the most and I invested first. These are all peasantry…”
In a dark corner of the island, in a little wooden shack, there was Mihawk reading the newspaper. His room was decorated in his usual regal gothic design while his sword rested on a shelf. His snail phone was off the hook. He picked it up again. He muttered, “why can’t I contact Lulusia?”
Perona floated in and was surprised by the room. “I can’t believe you would want to live in such drab. Buggy said we could live in his palace.”
“Is it not too colorful for you? And I can never sleep with their parties.”
“The parties are fun. I get to do a ghost act in his circus.”
Mihawk tried the snail again but it couldn’t connect. “Why are you snooping around here? This is your first visit since we’ve arrived.”
“There’s a lot of hubba in town you know, about Buggy owing everyone. You could lead a mutiny.”
“I don’t handle money better than him.”
“Would you stop a mutiny against him?”
“….correct, I’m neutral on this. I’ll be here, trying to contact an old friend.”
In the Clown Palace, there was a pile of gold. Another bar of gold was dropped into the pile. The tearful Galdino smiled saying, “we did it. We found enough gold for another party.”
“We win!” Alvida announced. Then Alvida, Galdino, Richie the Lion, and fat Mohji held hands spinning around the pile of gold singing A Pirate’s Life. Cabaji stepped in to say, “we need to order them to scout the seas again for another weak pirate to steal from. There’s been less marines in the area since we promoted.”
Alvida added, “true, it’s good there’s less marines so there’s less bounties for the fools to collect.”
Galdino rubbed his chin, “we do owe rewards to several people and some debts but the party will make them forget. Plus, they’d never mutiny on Buggy, they love him too much.”
Perona was floating above the sky and spotted, “wow that Brock guy’s leading like 200 folk toward the palace. I wonder what Buggy will do about it, horororororo.”
On the balcony over looking the sea was a throne that Buggy was currently crying on. “Oh why oh why did Crocodile have to come now. I was only 10 million berries in the red but I owe him 50 million. He could poison me like, I should have Mohji take all my drinks. It’s all over for me, that bratty Shanks outlived me.”
Perona rose phasing through the floor, “Oh captain!”
“AHHHHH, the Lord of Death!?”
She fully flew out of the floor and spun in the air with two horo clones. “It’s just me silly billy.”
“That’s just disappointing. I really wanted to die.”
“I heard your moaning and groaning. You sounded so beautifully sad.”
“Ruined makeup doesn’t make a clown pretty, stupid. And I wasn’t crying! An Emperor doesn’t cry!” Buggy split from his legs and flew over to a table. “Look at these onions, I was just preparing myself a meal and got caught up in their smell.”
“Horororororo, you’re so silly captain.”
“Yes, I’m the captain, I’m the man.” Then his face exploded, “wait WHO are you!?”
A horo ghost grabbed Buggy by his collar while Perona screamed, “what do you mean ‘who am i’! I’m the ghost act in your circus. I’m Mihawk’s partner, the horo-fying Perona!”
Buggy rolled his eyes, “oh I remember, you’re the sad drunk who wants to rescue Moriah.” Buggy was dropped to the floor. Then he recombined himself. “What do you want? Why are you here?”
“Well do you have any plans to rescue Moriah?”
“No, you said Blackbeard kidnapped him. And why would I want Moriah? He’s such a down trodden guy. This is a happy party crew!”
“Because I love Moriah! You have to rescue him, Mihawk says so or he’ll leave the crew and the Marines will come after you. Its easy anyways, I heard Blackbeard is not on the island right now.”
“From who?”
“Morgans.”
“Not Morgans, that asshat! He’s trying to instigate a Pirate War. Leave Moriah alone. I got bigger more expensive problems than him.”
“Because of the mutiny against you with your lackluster treasury? Horororo!”
“What!?”
“There’s like two hundred of your loyal crew who are coming down here to kill you. I know you’re not crazy strong. If you help me and Mihawk rescue Moriah, we’ll take care of these traitors.”
“No way, then I would actually owe you guys something. You’re lying, he’s just here so he can relax like the rest of us.”
“Uhhhhggg, my captain oh my captain, what a bad attitude you have.” The horos danced around Buggy confusing him. “An attitude of indebtitude-“
“Not a real word.”
“Let me boost your spirits,” the horos phased through Buggy. He froze still. “Now, you’ll be boosted with enthusiasm and totally want to do some pirating!”
“Eh, gimme a week, maybe I’ll think about it.”
Big shock face, “no way, you can’t be immune too!”
“What’s your power? You’re supposed to mind trick me? It’s useless against a strong haki user, they have their own mind tricks. I just don’t care Horo girl.”
“You’re a horo-ble captain!”
Crocodile materialized on the balcony. “You clown!”
The door behind Buggy busted down by the crowd Brock led. “Captain, I’m here for your 3 billion berry head! That’ll pay everyone on this island for years!”
Buggy picked his jaw off the ground, “you buffoons don’t deserve a single dime if you’re putting a mutiny on me!”
Brock asked, “Sir Crocodile, Miss Perona, are you also against Buggy?”
“Yeah, Mihawk supports you guys,” Perona said.
“What are you saying that for?” Buggy asked her with his detached hands grabbing her.
“Brock, lay down your arms, I’ll take care of Buggy,” Crocodile commanded. He slashed Buggy clean in half.
Brock and the others were shocked but then they cheered, “go Crocodile!”
Buggy came back together, hands included. “wait wait wait!” Crocodile closed in and tried to stab his hook but Buggy’s body disassembled. Crocodile realized, I did not realize I couldn’t cut him at all.
“Well if you really mean it,” Buggy raised his foot, “Muggy Bomb!” The explosion enveloped most of the palace. After the smoke cleared, the Brock party looked on. Perona and the horo ghosts surrounded Croc and Buggy. Croc was holding a dried out Buggy. “I’m the captain now,” Crocodile announced.
Dry Buggy responded, “this sucks, you got me you old reptile. But I’ll work under you as an officer. Please!”
“Didn’t you hear Brock? Your head will pay us back. It’s good I came now and that raised your bounty so high.” Buggy frowned. “I will simply replace you as company manager and it will be even richer than Baroque Works.”
Brock said, “hey Baroque Works devastated my home island, this sounds like a good deal!”
“I see how it is. Would you like a rice cracker?” Buggy asked. From a ceiling corner, his legs spun out knives pointed out and stabbed in Crocodile’s back out through the chest. The shocked Crocodile let go of Buggy and collapsed. Brock, Perona and others jaw dropped.
Croco stared at him, blood leaving his mouth, “you you-“
Dry Buggy reattached, replenished by his legs, and closed his blue robe around him, “gyahahahah, you got beat by a clown. No more mutiny, Brock, just take tonight’s party gold for yourself and see if everyone else likes that.”
Brock sweated and kneeled, “I apologize, Captain. You truly are an Emperor.”
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