Transcended as Lord Buggy

While Buggy fights with Strawberry, his crewmates also fight with their opponents. Jude & Manba have the easiest time because their opponents are weak even though their number is high.

Jude uses her ash power to trap & attack her opponents. She uses them as test subjects for her techniques. No one of the marine soldiers can attack her because they can't use haki. So she defeats them easily without any problem.

Manba also has an easy time, although not as easy as Jude. He uses his bazooka to defeat most of the soldiers. But then he needs to fight with his spear after he runs out of ammo. Still, he is just too strong for the soldiers and finally defeats them.

In another place, Mantis also makes her opponent overwhelmed. Her fighting style that looks like dance is very unpredictable. Even Buggy has a hard time countering her dance if he just uses the same strength as her.

She moves her staff around with random patterns and hits the Lieutenant many times. Her observation haki also makes her able to block or evade the Lieutenant's sword attacks while she dances around.

She is also very skillful with her staff that she can control her attack range anytime easily by changing her holding spot amidst her moves. Finally, the Lieutenant gets defeated after Mantis hits him many times.

Palu also defeats his opponent without much effort. He is very strong physically and his strikes are heavy because of the hammer's weight too. It makes the 2nd Lieutenant feels like he is being hit by a cannonball every time Palu strike.

He gets defeated without being able to hit Palu. The heavy strikes from Palu made his hands sore even though he uses a pair of metal gauntlets. Well, his gauntlets have dented after taking so many heavy strikes from Palu.

The only one who has a hard time fighting with the Marine is Cricket. His opponent is a Captain and a strong one. Furthermore, the guy is actually a devil fruit user. It's a zoan devil fruit, Bear Bear Fruit, model: Panda.

The Marine Captain wraps his chain on his left fist. It makes his punch gives more damage and he can block Cricket's strong punch with it. They exchange many punches and hit each other many times.

Cricket doesn't use his armament haki at all in this battle. He wants to toughen himself by fighting a strong opponent without haki. This Marine Captain is a good opponent for him because Zoan devil fruit users are strong physically.

As the 2nd in command in the crew, Cricket knows need to be stronger than the other members. He also needs to be able to support Buggy as their captain because he knows that Buggy can't do everything himself.

Their enemies will keep getting stronger and Buggy won't be able to handle all of them. So he always needs to be ready to help Buggy anytime. He has a big responsibility as the First Mate of the crew.

That's why Cricket just uses his pure physical power and does not use his haki. This will grow his basic strength and skills which are very important. Strong basic is really needed as he goes further.

Cricket keeps exchanging punches with the Marine Captain. But the Captain's punches are stronger than him since the guy transformed into a hybrid Panda.

So now, Cricket change his strategy. He opens his palms and starts to deflect the Panda's punches. Cricket uses his palms to strike the Panda's body.

The Panda-man send a left hook at Cricket, but Cricket deflected it with his right hand. Then Cricket sends a right palm strike at the Panda-man's chest. It pushes the Panda-man back a little.

Cricket then slides forward and lowers his body to evade a right punch from the Panda-man. He moves closer to the Panda-man and lookup. Then Cricket sends a full-powered palm strike at the Panda-man's lower jaw.

*BAM*

The palm strike hits the Panda-man's lower jaw and sends him flies up. Cricket then jumps higher than the Panda-man and clasps his hands. Then he punches the Panda-man to the ground with all his strength.

He kicks the Panda-man to the ground as strongly as he can. The Panda-man falls at high speed and crash to the ground. It creates a dent in the shape of the Panda-man.

Cricket then falls at the Panda-man and stomps him very strongly. The Panda-man coughs some blood, but he still wants to fight. Cricket looks at him before kicking the Panda-man's jaw and making him faint.

"Quite persistent aren't you?" asks Cricket to the unconscious guy.

The Panda-man then transforms back to his original form. He has a lot of injuries that weren't shown when he was in his Panda form. But now when he returns to his human form, all those injuries become visible.

Cricket also has some injuries, but it's far fewer than the Marine Captain. He has impressive durability that gets approved by Buggy. His durability is also the reason why he can dive very deep in the sea.

Cricket then leaves the location and returns to the ship. He wonders how the others are doing, but he knows that they will be fine. Their 6 months of training will be a waste if they can't handle something like this.

But he forgets that there is someone who doesn't train for 6 months because he has just joined them. Although the said person is doing just fine on his own. He even plays around with his opponent right now.

Ruff is still using hit & run tactic to fight Angelo. He throws his strange weapons invention at Angelo from his hiding places. Angelo has received Ruff's strange weapons 17 times now.

All the weapons that got tested by Ruff have the shape of blackball. But their properties are different from each other. There are wire traps, sticky liquid, fart-smelling gas, super combustible oil, itchy liquid, spicy sauce explosion, etc.

Ruff really just wants to test all his strange weapons on Angelo. He can test high-damage weapons on non-living things. But he can only test these strange things on humans and Angelo is the perfect test subject.

Angelo can escape from every strange weapon that Ruff threw. Although Ruff gave him time to do it, it's also a part of Ruff's plan. He wants to see if someone can escape from his strange weapons and how long.

Strangely, after 17 attacks from Ruff, Angelo still can't find Ruff. Ruff is smart and he has made a rather detailed plan before. He knows what to do and where to go after each attack.

Ruff knows he can't fight head-on, so he made a plan, and uses a hit & run tactic. He keeps attacking Angelo from his hiding spot where it will be hard for the guy to find him and it works.

But after 17 rounds of strange black ball, Angelo finally give up in the 18th attack. Ruff has made an unbelievable thing that he throws as the 18th. The last blackball is filled with sleeping gas that Manba made using some plants.

The sleeping gas is strong that it affects a wide area. It makes the people around there, fall asleep. Angelo who received the attack on his back faints instantly because he inhales too much the sleeping gas.

Seeing Angelo falls doesn't make Ruff believe it easily. Angelo might fake it to bait Ruff out of his hiding. So Ruff throws another black ball that is filled with green liquid at Angelo.

The green liquid spread on Angelo's body and it hardened fast. It is a liquid that Manba found coincidentally when he tried to make medicine. It was a failed product, but Ruff saw its potential and used it.

Angelo won't be able to move now, so Ruff approaches him. He pokes Angelo using a stick a few times, but the guy doesn't wake up. Angelo is really sleeping after inhaling the sleeping gas.

"It's easier than I thought," says Ruff while scratching the back of his head.

Ruff doesn't think much about it and just chained Angelo before taking him back to the crew. This is his first-ever battle and Ruff has won it easily by himself. How he did it is not important because he just needs to win.

With Ruff's victory, the Clown Pirates has won this battle completely. Their first real battle in Grandline has done perfectly. Now, they've become the real Grandline level Pirates.

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