Storyline
The Straw Hat Pirates is still on the run from Vice Admiral Garp. Luffy, Chopper and Usopp are celebrating happily. The townspeople of Water 7 shout to the pirates to escape as quickly as possible, and Koby and Helmeppo are also worried about their friends. The marines on Garp’s ship wonder why the Straw Hat Pirates have suddenly caught their sails. Franky, before his plan is carried out, wants to pick a name for the ship. Luffy immediately gives his names for the ship, however they are just simple and silly listings of random animals. Franky offers a potential name for the ship, which Iceburg picked out when he first saw the figurehead of the ship: Thousand Sunny.
The crew is immediately enthusiastic about this name and puts aside the rest of their name suggestions, except for Franky, who tries to get his name for the ship accepted after all. The latter eventually settles for the name of Iceberg and wants to begin the plan to leave Water 7. He advises the remaining members to take one last look at the water city. Luffy calls out to his grandpa and Koby that he was happy to see them again and now they will escape. Garp is furious at Luffy for saying such a thing and pulls out his final weapon: a truly gigantic cannonball that would no doubt sink the Sunny to the bottom of the ocean. Franky now unpacks with his plan and introduces a giant air cannon powered by Coke. Just before the giant cannonball can sink the Thousand Sunny, a huge blast of power shoots out of the stern, sending the Sunny flying away and saving the ship from the bullet: Coup de Bust! Franky explains that the Coup de Bust can shoot the ship a kilometer away and uses up three barrels of Coke. All present can only marvel at this ship and its crew!
The workmen head back to the shipyard and Granny Kokoro, Chimney & Gonbe make their way to Shift station. The Franky Family is now left without their boss Franky on Water 7, wondering what they can do. Iceberg offers them work in the shipyard.
On some island on the Grand Line: Smoker, who has since been promoted to flotilla admiral, has just finished off a 55 million pirate. Tashigi, who has been promoted to Lieutenant, informs Smoker about the new wanted posters of the Straw Hat Pirates. He swears to the Straw Hat Pirates that he will crush them in the New World.
Lakeside restaurant Baratié, East Blue: Zeff shows Sanji’s profile to the cooks. They can hardly contain their laughter and proudly present it to the restaurant visitors.
Foosha Village, East Blue: The villagers celebrate Luffy’s new bounty, only Woop Slapp wonders why no one is ashamed that a felon comes from his village. While doing so, he mentions if Dadan already knows about Luffy’s bounty.
Syrop, East Blue: Kaya and Usopp’s band of pirates look at Sogeking’s mugshot and realize it’s Usopp because of the nose. Usopp’s pirate gang is proud of their captain. Kaya still wants to be a doctor so she can fix Usopp up when he gets home.
Shimotsuki, East Blue: Koushirou is asked about Zoro by his students and told to make pirates out of them. Koushirou is taken aback by the incident in Enie’s lobby, but is reassured as long as Zoro goes his way.
Kokos, East Blue: Nojiko brings Genzo his oranges while he complains to naval headquarters about Nami’s wanted poster, as the picture is indecent in his eyes. However, he has it himself hanging on his wall in huge format and realizes that Luffy kept his promise not to make Nami unhappy.
Sakura Kingdom, Grand Line: Dalton shows Chopper’s profile to Dr. Kureha. She’s happy to see Chopper’s face again, and notes in passing that going with Luffy was the best thing for Chopper.
Sandy Island, Arabasta: King Cobra, Igaram, Pell and Chaka also look at the wanted posters of the Straw Hat Pirates and are shocked that Nico Robin has joined Luffy’s gang. They assume when Vivi comes to know about it that she will react sadly and shocked as well. However, this is not the case, because she knew about it. She believes in Luffy and that he will one day become Pirate King.
Baltigo Island, Grand Line: A kingdom in the South Blue, Centaurea, has fallen after an uprising. Some men seem happy about this, but they are warned by a man who can only be dimly recognized, because there is a war going on, after all. The same man inquires about a wanted poster lying on a table, it is Luffy’s wanted poster. Now that he knows about Luffy, he makes his way out of the building, talking about fate and how he would like to see Luffy again. Now it’s also clear who’s behind the silhouette: it’s the biggest felon in the world, Monkey D. Dragon!
Grand Line: The Straw Hat Pirates bumps into Robin and Usopp and new members Franky and the Thousand Sunny, who are now making their way to Fish Man Island.
Miscellaneous
- Thanks to a translation error, Smoker refers to himself here as a fleet admiral, but he is merely a flotilla admiral.
- Another translation error is Zeff saying that the entire All Blue soldiers are now after them.
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