Recaps

Vidal returned to the Marines, secured a place in Zephyr’s special training camp, and set out with Issho to recruit the young Bullet. After fighting Byrnndi World and adopting Bullet, Vidal began training him and helped Issho develop his abilities.

• Vidal returned to Navarone with Enel, introduced him to Cornell and Enid, and entered the selection matches for Zephyr’s camp.
• Vidal defeated Vincent, Ogden, Miles, and Comil, then met Issho in San Faldo and invited him to help find Bullet.
• Vidal and Issho rescued Bullet from Darnell and took him away from Garuzburg Island, keeping the Combine-Combine Fruit from him.
• Vidal and Issho joined the battle against Byrnndi World, protected Benson’s Marines, and fought World until Garp’s Phantom-Phantom Fruit illusion prompted World to flee.
• Bullet chose to follow Vidal, and Vidal told him he planned to adopt him and take him to Marineford despite Bullet’s angry refusal.
• Vidal trained Bullet on an uninhabited island, repeatedly defeating and healing him while teaching him the Six Powers.
• Vidal explained Six Powers training to Issho, who offered to teach Vidal Observation Haki and discovered that his Gravity Fruit could help him sense malice and hostility.

Vidal developed the Konoha Style and Three-Three System Tactics, defeated Issho, and brought Bullet and the Konoha Squad into Marine training. At Marineford, Zephyr sent the recruits to Z Island for a brutal trial, where Vidal began gathering criminals and recruits into a temporary group.

• Kong and Sengoku discussed Byrnndi World’s return to the New World and asked Marine intelligence to help track him, while Kong ordered Issho’s bounty kept low if he avoided serious trouble.
• Vidal developed Shadow of the Dancing Leaf and the Three-Three System Tactics, then trained the Konoha Squad and challenged its Marines to help one another and pass on what they learned.
• Bullet defeated Ogden and Vincent, then failed to take Vidal’s cap within an hour and had to call him Dad.
• Vidal fought Issho on the island, using Wood Clones and glowing Nightglow Mushrooms to overcome Issho’s gravity attacks and awaken Observation Haki after the battle.
• Bullet and the Konoha Squad defeated Mantoudiya and Luokesani, while Mantoudiya escaped and flew toward Vidal’s boat before Vidal captured him.
• Vidal left for Marineford with Bullet, where Zephyr assembled the recruits and assigned Vidal and Borsalino to share a house.
• Zephyr sent the trainees to Z Island for a two-day combat trial against one another and prisoners from Impel Down, while Vidal used Observation Haki to locate surveillance Den Den Mushi.
• Vidal recruited a pirate as a guide and gathered criminals around himself, then confronted Comil and Strawberry and offered to recruit them as partners.

Vidal won the free-for-all’s final battles through his command of the forest and his ability to replenish his energy, then negotiated Green Bean supplies and training terms with the Navy. As the recruits began camp life, Bullet proved himself against hundreds of academy students and chose a Devil Fruit reward for his younger brother Enel.

• Vidal challenged Strawberry and Comil, overwhelmed them with his trees and vines, and used Green Beans to heal their injuries.
• Dragon and Sakazuki clashed over how criminals should be treated, while Borsalino defeated other contenders and later teamed up with Sakazuki against Dragon.
• Vidal arrived with trainees and captured pirates, then joined Borsalino in wearing down Sakazuki before facing Dragon in a forest he created.
• Vidal trapped Dragon until he ran out of stamina, then fought Borsalino until Zephyr ended the free-for-all with Vidal, Borsalino, and Dragon as the last three.
• Vidal demonstrated how Borsalino’s light replenished his energy, sold Green Beans to the Navy, and arranged for Bullet to join the next camp under Garp’s mentorship.
• Vidal offered to help Sakazuki study after seeing his ineffective copying method, then went with Borsalino, Dragon, and Sakazuki to visit Bullet at the Navy Academy.
• Bullet defeated successive groups of students after Gion brought a hundred opponents, continuing for hours as Vidal used his healing ability to treat the injured.
• Zephyr recognized Bullet’s victory over more than four hundred students, and Bullet chose a Devil Fruit for Enel before Zephyr brought him and Vidal to choose from the fruit encyclopedias.

Vidal helped expose Moria’s attack on Cornell, moved his family to Marineford, and watched Bullet choose a Mythical Zoan before graduating and joining Sengoku’s crew. On their mission to Ovendo Island, Vidal captured the Leopard Cat Pirates, but their captain transformed into Sulong and challenged him.

• Vidal and the Marines battled the John Pirates until a snowstorm interrupted their pursuit, allowing John and his crew to escape to the Misty Sea island Moria had sought.
• During the Z Island melee, Vidal supported the cadets with Vigor Armor, but Dragon and Borsalino ultimately defeated them.
• Vidal returned to Navarone, learned Cornell had lost his shadow to Moria, and arranged to move his family to Marineford while Issho searched for Moria and Brook.
• Vidal let Bullet choose the golden Mythical Zoan, and Bullet ate it and gained the Cat-Cat Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Mahes Form.
• After a year of training, Vidal graduated and became a Headquarters Colonel under Sengoku, who took him aboard a warship for a mission against illegal biotechnology research possibly funded by Germa.
• When the Leopard Cat Pirates attacked Sengoku’s warship, Vidal trapped their ships in wooden cages and defeated several commanders while trying to capture them alive.
• Bengelasaisi transformed into his leopard Human-Beast Form and fought Vidal, then used the moon to transform into Sulong and challenged him again.