Luffy intervenes, stretching out and throwing Vivi atop Hasami, staying behind to fight Crocodile. Crocodile's assistant, Miss All-Sunday uses her powers to ground Pell, then uses Clutch to severely wound him. Pell attacks Crocodile and while he fails to injure him, manages to make him let go of Vivi. Vivi thanks Luffy for helping her see the truth, and promises him a feast after they save the kingdom.Ĭrocodile ambushes them almost immediately, using his Suna Suna abilities to reach and capture Vivi. After befriending a camel named Matsuge, they ride his Moving Crab friend, Hasami. 2, in the form of the king of Arabasta, orders Chaka and the other soldiers of the royal guard, to destroy the rebels. He adds that Vivi is naïve to think that they can prevent everyone from dying in the battle, and he urges her to, rather than risk only her life, let them help her. During their travel, Luffy declares that he quits, saying that even if the rebels stop, the threat will continue as long as Crocodile is alive. The Rebel Army finds Nanohana destroyed, supposedly by the Royal Army.Īs the sun rises, Toto gives Luffy some water he dug up. Elsewhere in the desert, Crocodile tells the Officer Agents of Baroque Works to ensure the nation falls into civil war, and to prevent Vivi and Koza from meeting. They encounter an old man named Toto, who is the father of the rebellion's leader, Koza, a childhood friend of Vivi's. The crew reaches Yuba, a ghost town that had once been a prosperous oasis before sandstorms ravaged it, causing many of the people to join the rebellion. 2 transform into any of them, the crew each draw an X on their wrists and covers it with a bandage, which they will take off to prove their identity. In order to prove their identity should Mr. The leader of Baroque Works is revealed to be Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, who is considered a hero in Arabasta for protecting the nation from pirates. She reveals that Arabasta is in a drought, and her father had been framed for using Dance Powder, which forces rain onto the region it is used on at the expense of places downwind, for the capital.
Vivi realizes that the man was one of Baroque Works' agents, and that his being able to turn into her father is troubling. The man then leaves as his crew arrives to pick him up, declaring the Straw Hats his friends despite not knowing them for long. He adds that he can also remember these faces, which allows him to take on the faces of those he touched before, showing several faces to the crew, one of which is Vivi's father Cobra, the king of Arabasta. The man reveals that he cannot swim because he ate the Mane Mane no Mi, which allows him to change himself into anyone he has touched the face of. They pull up a mysterious okama, who appears extremely grateful to be saved by pirates he does not know. Vivi wakes up to find Luffy and Usopp fishing with Karoo as bait, and she punishes them by bashing their heads together. As the dream ends, Vivi resolves to show her father that the "hero" of Arabasta is really working to destroy it. She asked why he trains all the time, and he replied that it is to protect the land from any enemy. Vivi dreams of her childhood where she flew over the land of Arabasta on Pell, who had transformed with his Devil Fruit powers. The crew now has to cross the desert, stop the revolution, save thousands of lives from the Baroque Works hidden bombers, and most of all, defeat Crocodile, one of the mighty Seven Warlords of the Sea. Crocodile, the country's hero, secretly used his criminal organization Baroque Works, to undermine the citizens trust in Cobra, Vivi's father and head of the Kingdom of Sand, in order to seize the throne and the country's hidden secret for himself. They find the country in the middle of a revolution. The Straw Hat Pirates travel to Arabasta, the desert island and home of Nefertari Vivi.