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Buggy huffed as his face twisted into a fearful scowl. His face was filled with bruises, and his head had a few bumps on it, noticeable even through his long blue hair.
He was sitting on his nice and expensive velvet couch, all of his body parts were stuck to the couch, held tight against it with sand.
To his side sat a smoking and rather frustrated Crocodile. Wearing his usual tuxedo, black coat and golden hook.
"What the hell did you feed those idiots?!? Why can't they understand that you're not the leader anymore!?" Crocodile growled as he huffed a bit of smoke.
"How the hell should I know?!?" Buggy's squeaky voice in itself was grating on the forr Warlord's ears.
Buggy noticed Crocodile's brows furrowing a bit, and he imdiately shut up and looked to the side, a bit of snot coming out of his red nose. He was just as confused as Crocodile.
He didn't need a reminder of the fact that his n had dood him.
The mont Crocodile arrived on the island and sought to form an alliance with 'Buggy's Delivery', all of Buggy's n instantly thought that he was their leader's subordinate now.
Countless voices praised and hailed Buggu, even more so when Crocodile drove Stussy, a governnt agent, away from their island.
Crocodile made sure to get rid of any agents he could find, he and Mr.1 swiftly took control of the joint, but despite all of that, Buggy got the credit for all of it in front of his n.
No one saw Crocodile as the leader or listened to his commands.
It was almost as if Buggy had managed to brainwash all of them. It would've even been slightly impressive to the forr Warlord, were it not so annoying to deal with.
Still, Crocodile had sowhat decided to use Buggy as a figurehead now.
Killing him and taking control of Buggy's Delivery was an option, but so of the strongest mbers under Buggy were bound to leave if he did that.
In the end, the most optimal choice for Crocodile was to continue acting as the Clown's subordinate in public.
Thankfully, he could still take his frustrations out on Buggy in private.
Crocodile took one more huff from his cigar, before sticking the tip of his golden hook on the couch cushion beside Buggy's head.
He huffed one last ti before putting out his cigar into the Clown's large hat.
'It's just a matter of ti before the war starts, I wanted to gather so allies, just to make sure.
Buggy himself turned out to be a disappointnt, but his n are quite capable, all New World-faring pirates...
I still find it difficult to understand how this Clown managed to get them to work for him...'
Crocodile closed his eyes for a few seconds one of his hands clenching so rocks and turning them into powder.
'You'd think that he must be so manipulative genius, but he's clearly a moron... Unless... Is that what he wants to believe?'
Crocodile's eyes shot open, and he glanced at the quivering ss that was Buggy, who was currently ugly crying with snot still coming out of his red nose.
Instantly, his the veins on his forehead beca more visible as his eyes almost turned bloodshot.
The forr warlord imdiately punched the clown in the head. He huffed in annoyance, he had gotten angry at himself as well, for even thinking that Buggy was in any way in control of the situation.
Crocodile was about to punch Buggy once more, but his hands stopped as his ears perked up.
He could hear it, the distant beat. A thundering drum that clearly signified one thing... The ti for preparations was mostly over.
"L-leader!" Mr.1 imdiately ran into the tent, looking panicked and rather frightened.
It was an unusual and rather unsettling look that Crocodile had never seen on Mr. 1. But Crocodile himself remained calm.
"There's a large cluster of islands flying towards us on the horizon!"
Although calm, Crocodile couldn't help but choke on his own spit as soon as he heard that. He imdiately coughed and jumped out from the couch.
He dashed out of the tent and looked in the distance, it was still small, rely dots in the distance. But the sound was getting louder and louder.
He couldn't help but gulp a bit when he saw just how long the line of islands in front of him was. Each island in that cluster was likely larger than the one he was currently on.
'Damn... I guess he's not pulling any stops, huh?'
The forr warlord couldn't help but sweat as more and more of his associates and subordinates took notice of the islands overhead.
Fear spread throughout the Buggy Deliver-owned island.
Crocodile closed his eyes tightly as his jaw clenched for a few monts. He had tried his best and struggled as much as he could, but it seed that the war was a lot more grand than he had anticipated.
Hell, Enel may have explained his allied forces to him previously, but seeing them in person was sothing else entirely.
There was also the fact that Crocodile knew very well that Enel was absurdly powerful. So the Sky King gathering that many people to work with him ant only one thing.
'However you swing it, this war won't be an easy one...'
Even then, they seed to be going around the world and collecting allies, and Crocodile knew that he was one of Enel's prospects.
And thanks to his appearance there, Crocodile could safely assu that Enel planned to take Buggy's Delivery with him as well.
Buggy himself walked out of the tent, sohow escaping the startled sand user's restraints.
His eyes widened instantly as he saw the scene overhead. He almost felt like fainting, every minute detail of his features was trembling in fear.
But his n were not interpreting the situation in the sa way.
"Hah! The boss is out! Look, he's trembling in excitent! There's nothing to worry about!"
Buggy and Crocodile both heard that, and they both instantly cursed at their stupidity.
The last thing they needed was Buggy's brainwashed subordinates to piss off the strongest Emperor alive.
But thankfully, such a thing was unlikely to happen, Buggy sighed as he rembered Enel's offer clearly.
His mind lit up in hope actually. His gaze shifted slightly towards Crocodile.
'I can finally escape from this bastard!
Hehe! Your days are numbered, you crooked bastard! Enel will not stand by you mistreating like this!'
Well, his misery was only amplified when Enel did not in fact fight Crocodile for him.
No, he just assigned Buggy's Delivery an island in the fleet, and they were all moved onto it to head for war.
Crocodile even held Buggy by the scruff of the neck as he briefly talked with the Sky King,
Enel either seed to not notice it or did not care.
Buggy's n didn't need that large an introduction, they were willing to head into war for their captain.
And the fact that the Sky King was asking for Buggy's help was sothing that just made them idolize the Clown Pirate more.
Crocodile just looked up to the sky and thought about just getting rid of Buggy the mont they all boarded Enel's wild ride.
But a voice stopped him in his tracks.
'By the way, if you try and kill Buggy, Shanks will likely kill you... So you may want to just stick to beating him up for relief.'
He recognized the voice that rang right into his ear. It was that of Enel, but the man himself was nowhere near or in sight.
Crocodile just sweated a bit more as he felt almost as if even his thoughts were being intruded on whilst being there.
Enel likely just read his intentions and felt his killing intent, but it was still creepy to have soone spy on him at all tis.
'Whatever... I just need to get used to the fact that he's a monster already... No point in overthinking things. Thankfully he didn't put close to Dragon and his revolutionary bastards...'
Crocodile sighed and went back to his people, they still had to set up their tents on their new residence.
The forr warlord wasn't going to help, of course. But he was going to find a good place to sit down and admire the view.
As for the next stop in the journey?
Well, it was rather obvious. A place that Enel both had so expectations from and dreaded going back to... Wholecake Island.
But of course, he was also going to run into Zuneasha along the way.
But Enel's most concerning matter was the fact that he now had to face the Big Mom Pirates after the whole fiasco that was Big Mom's last tea party.
'... Let's just hope they aren't the type to hold a grudge?'
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