The Circus Comes to Town

The Circus Comes to Town is episode 5 of One Piece.

The episode opens with Nami pretending that Luffy is her boss, using the distraction to escape. She watches as Luffy takes out Buggy's pirates with a Gum Gum Blast , and so she asks Luffy to join her. Luffy refuses, and Nami treats him to lunch, so he goes with her. In the restaurant, Nami says that she will stop at nothing to collect one hundred million berries, and Luffy finds out she is a navigator because she mentions stealing a map of the Grand Line from Buggy. When Luffy asks her to join his crew, she refuses because she hates pirates. Nami ties up Luffy and brings him to Buggy, and Luffy is thrown into a cage. Buggy then throws a party as Nami returns the stolen map.

During the party, Buggy demonstrates the Buggy Ball, a massive cannonball that destroys a whole row of houses. He then orders Nami to blow Luffy up with a Buggy Ball. Nami can't bring herself to do it, but one of Buggy's pirates takes the matches and goes for the cannon, but Nami takes out her wooden staff and knocks him out. The fuses is lit, though, but Nami grabs the fuse with her hands to put it out, and declares that she hates pirates and will not stoop to their level. Buggy's pirates attack her, but Zolo arrives and saves the day, knocking them out. Buggy recognizes Zolo as the pirate hunter, and so he attacks Zolo. Zolo cuts Buggy into pieces, but Buggy's hand floats over to Zolo and stabs him in the side. Buggy gets up, his body whole again.

Buggy explains that he ate the Chop Chop Fruit, allowing him to separate himself. Luffy calls Buggy a coward with a big red nose, and Buggy throws a knife at him - Luffy catches it and spits it out. Zolo then runs for Buggy, and the two get in a fight again. Zolo slashes through Buggy's midsection to get past him, and he runs to the cannon, flipping it so it points at Buggy and his crew. Nami lights the fuse, and so the cannon fires a Buggy Ball right at the Buggy Pirates as the episode ends.