Recaps

Vidal joined Garp’s pursuit of the Roger Pirates, where he fought Rayleigh and helped the Marines escape after heavy losses. When the Navy diverted to defend G-3 from the Flying Pirates, Vidal and Sakazuki attacked the besiegers while Zangjing broke into the fortress to rescue Helandou.

• Garp led the Marines to Lancaster Kingdom, where Vidal helped clear the battlefield after the Roger Pirates destroyed the kingdom’s army.
• Garp caught up with Roger’s fleet, and Vidal sped up the Navy warships and armored the Marines before the two crews clashed.
• Vidal fought Rayleigh with his Woods-Woods Fruit and new Respiration ability while Garp battled Roger, but Roger’s crew escaped after their clash overturned ships.
• Vidal killed Mulian and Langram with seeds he had planted in their bodies, then raised a forest to obstruct the Roger Pirates as the Marines withdrew.
• Garp halted the pursuit when he learned Zangjing was attacking G-3, and Vidal led a force with Sakazuki aboard a fast-moving warship to defend the base.
• Zangjing overwhelmed the Navy’s defenders, broke through the fortress gates, and trapped Vice Admirals Kuro and Light in his Slow-Slow Fruit field.
• Sakazuki’s warship crashed into the Flying Pirates’ fleet, and Vidal’s trees attacked pirates in the square as he moved to confront Zangjing.
• Zangjing reached Helandou’s cell and freed him, while the account also recalled Garp crushing Helandou’s Wheel-Wheel Fruit-powered ship with an Iron Fist.

Vidal defeated Zangjing at G-3, then secretly kept him alive to learn from his martial arts and Haki. After reaching Fish-Man Island and uncovering Sunlight Tree Eve’s history, Vidal returned to Sabaody to organize his work creating Magical Creatures.

• Zangjing freed the prisoners and led them toward the harbor, while Vidal entered the Slow-Slow field and challenged him to a fight.
• Vidal battled Zangjing, adapted his Wood-Wood Fruit and Armament Haki to counter the Slow-Slow beams, and trapped him in an Adam Wood cage.
• A Void Archer’s arrows disrupted the Marines’ attacks, but Vidal captured Zangjing, whose apparent death collapsed the pirates’ morale.
• Vidal and Sakazuki routed the remaining pirates, and Garp arrived as Marine leaders discussed Vidal’s accomplishments and the danger posed by the Flying Pirates.
• Headquarters sent Sakazuki and the G-1 officers to serve under Garp and ordered Vidal back to Sabaody, while Vidal arranged a solar-powered propulsion project with Vegapunk.
• Vidal revealed that Zangjing was alive in his Door-Door Fruit space and forced him to agree to live and teach by threatening him with seeds near his vital areas.
• Vidal reached Fish-Man Island, touched Sunlight Tree Eve, and learned from its memories that it had been created for a gigantification experiment and guarded by Fish-Men.
• Vidal told Neptune he had rescued Fish-Man slaves and proposed forming a Fish-Man special forces unit, then left for Sabaody and returned to his base.
• Vidal tasked Colonel Noel with organizing Magical Creature designs and tried implanting a Consciousness Seed in a Wood Clone, but suspected another condition was needed.

Vidal freed the Fish-Men, expanded his forces, and dismantled the Flying Pirates’ businesses while preparing to find Woonan and Lily. The arc ended with Vidal reaching the island and capturing one of its armed defenders.

• Vidal freed nineteen Fish-Men from their collars and brands, named Dane captain of their Marine unit, and led them into the sunlight.
• Four Fish-Men fled toward Fish-Man Island and died after green seeds grew around their hearts, so Vidal reorganized Dane’s unit as the Sea Spirit Special Forces to patrol the waters and rescue captives.
• Vidal captured Kinoshita Kamakura after defeating him at the port, healed the Marines, and used Observation Haki to learn about the Flying Pirates’ operations.
• Vidal traveled to Alabasta, built quarters for his Marines, and discovered from Raymond’s memories that Lily and her companions had attacked Woonan’s crew on a deserted island.
• Vidal trained Brian to fight by summoning plants and arranged for Raymond to guide him to the island.
• Vidal sent the little dugong to train with the Kung Fu Dugongs, then headed for the island with Raymond and the little dugong.
• As Vidal approached the island, buried cannonballs exploded in a storm, but he and the little dugong survived in an alternate dimension.
• Vidal entered the jungle unseen, pulled an armed man into the alternate dimension, caught his bullet, and bound him with branches.