Chapter Summaries

The Straw Hats reached Sky Island, where Enel’s golden ship unleashed a devastating storm of lightning. After Enel declared his intention to destroy Sky Island, Luffy vowed to bring him down.

• The Merry rode the Express Shrimp up the Cloud Road and reached the White White Sea, where the crew explored the soft cloud beach.
• Nami and Robin realized that unnatural thunderclouds were gathering overhead, and Ronan suspected Enel had advanced his plans.
• The crew spotted a golden flying ship at the center of the storm, and Ronan identified Sky Island as part of the legendary city of gold.
• Enel declared that he would destroy Sky Island and used lightning to devastate the island, killing many people.
• Luffy condemned Enel for hurting innocent people and vowed to bring him down.

As Enel’s lightning ravaged Angel Island, Ronan and the Straw Hats rescued civilians and defended a plaza from the strikes. Ronan held the area as a refuge while Luffy headed for the Ark Maxim, and Zoro remained lost somewhere during the disaster.

• Luffy ordered Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji to stop the lightning while the others protected the injured, then launched himself toward Upper Yard to bring down the Ark Maxim.
• Ronan intercepted a lightning strike aimed at Conis and Pagaya and told Conis to gather nearby people in the plaza.
• Ronan used his spear and Observation Haki to shield the growing crowd from repeated lightning strikes.
• Sanji brought more survivors to Ronan’s refuge, where Nami and Chopper treated the wounded.
• Sanji told Ronan that Zoro had gotten lost after saying he would cut down the Golden Ship, and Ronan continued guarding the plaza as Enel’s Thunder Clouds gathered over Upper Yard.

Zoro wandered through Upper Yard and rescued Laki by defeating Shura and cutting apart Enel’s thunderbolt. Laki asked him to save the Shandia camp, but Zoro said someone else was already dealing with Enel.

• Zoro heard a fight in the forest and found Shura about to kill the wounded Shandia warrior Laki.
• Zoro dodged Shura’s Fire Spear and defeated him with a single strike from Wado Ichimonji.
• Laki told Zoro the Shandia had launched an all-out war against God Enel to reclaim Upper Yard.
• Enel’s thunderbolt targeted Laki, but Zoro sliced the lightning apart with One Sword Style: Thirty-Six Pound Phoenix.
• Laki begged Zoro to save the Shandia camp, and Zoro agreed while saying someone else had gone to confront Enel.

Luffy boarded the Ark Maxim and confronted Enel, who planned to destroy the island. Enel’s lightning failed to harm Luffy, and Luffy struck him down with an Armament Haki-coated punch.

• Luffy launched himself from the forest onto the Ark Maxim and faced Enel on the golden deck.
• Enel attacked Luffy with increasingly powerful lightning, but Luffy remained unharmed.
• Luffy covered his arm in Armament Haki and explained that Enel’s Logia powers did not make him invincible.
• Luffy’s Armament—Rocket Launcher struck Enel through his Elementalization, crushing his ribs and blasting him into the deck.

Luffy defeated Enel by shattering his 200 Million Volt Thunder God form and destroying the Ark Maxim, clearing the storm over Sky Island. After reuniting with Ronan and the others, Luffy proposed taking Enel's Rumble-Rumble Fruit to give the Merry the power to fly, and Ronan considered the idea feasible.

• Enel transformed into his 200 Million Volt Thunder God form, and Luffy answered with Second Gear—Vajra Giant Mode.
• Luffy struck Enel with a Gum-Gum Vajra Elephant Gun, shattering the Thunder God avatar and breaking the Ark Maxim in half.
• The thundercloud over Sky Island vanished, and the Sky Islanders and Shandia celebrated their freedom.
• Ronan gathered Sanji, Nami, and Robin aboard the Merry and sailed to meet Luffy in Upper Yard.
• Luffy returned with the unconscious Enel and suggested extracting his Rumble-Rumble Fruit to make the Merry fly.
• Ronan thought the plan might work and said they would eventually encounter Blackbeard.

After defeating Enel, the Straw Hat Pirates salvaged the Ark Maxim’s gold and fed it to the Merry, transforming the ship into a massive Golden Merry. Ronan proposed that Nami eat the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and planned to find Franky to help develop the ship, leaving Nami imagining herself ruling the skies.

• Nami ordered the crew to gather the Ark Maxim’s golden wreckage, and the Merry swallowed it using its Munch-Munch Fruit power.
• The Merry grew to more than three times its original size and fused the gold into its hull, becoming the Golden Merry.
• Usopp restrained the unconscious Enel with Seastone Handcuffs.
• Ronan asked Nami to consider eating the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, explaining that she could use its power to make the Merry fly as lightning.
• Ronan decided the crew needed Franky to guide the Golden Merry’s evolution, while Nami resolved to claim the thunderous fruit someday.

Ronan, Luffy, and the others climbed the Giant Bean Vine to Shandora's Lamp, where Luffy rang the Golden Bell and Robin discovered that the Poneglyph recorded Poseidon's whereabouts. Luffy rejected relying on an Ancient Weapon, and Ronan urged the crew to grow strong enough to become living weapons themselves.

• Robin explained that Shandora's greatest treasures were the Golden Bell and a Poneglyph at the top of the Giant Bean Vine.
• Ronan, Luffy, Nami, Usopp, and Robin climbed the vine and reached the Golden Bell.
• Luffy struck the bell, sending its toll across the sky and moving Wipper, the Shandia warriors, Zoro, Laki, and the residents of Angel Island.
• Robin read the Poneglyph and revealed that it recorded the whereabouts of Poseidon, an Ancient Weapon.
• Luffy rejected using an Ancient Weapon to become Pirate King, and Ronan declared that they would cultivate their strength until they became living weapons.

Robin deciphered Gol D. Roger’s message on the Golden Pillar and realized the Poneglyphs had to be pieced together to reveal the lost history and lead to Laugh Tale. After Luffy chose to leave the Golden Bell with the Shandia, Sky Islanders and Shandia celebrated their reconciliation, and Ronan’s group prepared to leave with the defeated Enel.

• Usopp spotted Ancient Script on the Golden Pillar, and Robin read Roger’s inscription saying he had guided the text toward the final land.
• Robin concluded that the scattered Poneglyphs together revealed the lost history and that Roger had carried the truth to Laugh Tale.
• Nami wondered whether they should take the Golden Bell, but Luffy and Ronan insisted it belonged to the Shandia, so they left it untouched.
• Ronan’s group returned to the ground, where Zoro reunited with them and Sky Islanders and Shandia celebrated together through the night.
• At dawn, Ronan prepared to leave on the Golden Merry while Luffy slept, and the crew carried the defeated, Seastone-bound Enel aboard.

Ronan and the Straw Hats left Sky Island aboard the evolved Golden Merry, carrying Enel as their prisoner and receiving a farewell from Conis, Pagaya, and the Shandia. As they began descending toward the Blue Sea, the Cloud Canal abruptly ended, sending the ship plunging into the void.

• Ronan sealed Enel in a compartment aboard the Golden Merry, while Luffy said they would take him to Blackbeard and Nami imagined gaining control of lightning.
• Conis and Pagaya brought the crew Sky Island fruit, and the Shandia warriors fired a farewell volley as the ship set sail.
• The crew reached the Edge of the Clouds, where Nami promised they would return to Sky Island.
• Luffy ordered the Golden Merry down the Sky Canal toward the Blue Sea.
• The Cloud Canal suddenly ended, and the Golden Merry began falling toward the sea far below.

After escaping Skypiea, Ronan and the crew drifted toward the Blue Sea beneath a giant octopus balloon as the Golden Bell rang farewell. During the descent, Ronan asked Chopper to help make Inner Qi Recovery Pills so the crew could replenish their energy in battle.

• A giant octopus inflated its head like a balloon and slowed the Merry’s fall, while Zoro held back from attacking after Ronan sensed it had no killing intent.
• Wipper and the people of Shandia and Angel Island rang the Golden Bell and called farewell to the departing crew.
• The Golden Merry continued descending toward the Blue Sea as the crew discussed their uncontrolled route and Luffy vowed to reach Laugh Tale.
• Ronan gave Chopper a formula for Inner Qi Recovery Pills and explained that the crew needed a faster way to restore the qi and blood they used in combat.

Ronan and the Straw Hats faced a sudden free fall when the Giant Octopus lost its buoyancy, and Luffy stretched himself into a parachute to slow the Golden Merry. With Chopper’s medicinal mist replenishing Luffy’s strength, they survived the storm clouds and crashed into the Blue Sea.

• Ronan showed the crew Precious Herbs and asked Chopper to study them for making Elixirs.
• Ronan noticed the Giant Octopus shrinking, and Nami realized its fading buoyancy had sent the Golden Merry into free fall.
• Luffy turned his body into a huge parachute while Ronan kept the ship balanced and Chopper dispersed a medicinal mist across the deck.
• The medicinal mist restored Luffy’s strength as the Merry plunged through the storm-filled Cumulonimbus Base, and Zoro cut through a lightning cloud with his sword.
• The Merry burst free of the clouds and crashed into the Great Sea.

After surviving the fall from the sky, the Straw Hats sailed toward Ace, while the wounded Blackbeard faced him on Baterilla Island. Ace defeated Blackbeard with a massive fire attack, and the Golden Merry arrived as the crew found him alive but unconscious.

• Ronan told Luffy that Blackbeard had betrayed the Whitebeard Pirates and said Blackbeard’s injuries left Ace likely to win.
• Luffy ordered the Golden Merry to head at full speed to meet Ace.
• On Baterilla Island, Ace confronted the badly wounded Blackbeard and attacked him with flames.
• Ace overwhelmed Blackbeard with Great Flame Ring Emperor Flame, leaving him charred and unconscious in a crater.
• The Golden Merry arrived, and Ronan recognized Blackbeard as their prisoner.

Ronan forced Blackbeard Teach to extract Enel’s Rumble-Rumble Fruit and gave it to Nami, who gained the power to command lightning. As the crew celebrated her new strength, Navy Admiral Akainu and a fleet of warships arrived at Baterilla Island.

• Ace warned Blackbeard Teach to follow Ronan’s demand and extract Enel’s Devil Fruit, while Teach asked Ace not to attack him before they returned to the Moby Dick.
• Blackbeard Teach used Dark Hole: Reversal to extract the Rumble-Rumble Fruit from Enel, who died as Ronan caught the new fruit.
• Ronan gave the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to Nami, and she ate it despite its awful taste.
• Nami released a massive lightning strike that vaporized the rock beneath the ruins, impressing the crew and Ace.
• Ronan, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Ace sensed an approaching threat as dozens of Navy Headquarters Warships surrounded Baterilla Island.
• Ace recognized Navy Admiral Akainu at the bow of the flagship and asked why he had come.

Akainu surrounded Baterilla Island with a Navy fleet and prepared to destroy everyone there, while CP0 tried to prevent him from capturing the Straw Hat Pirates. CP0 left to find a way to open the blockade so Luffy and his companions could escape, while Ace remained their target.

• Akainu and a fleet of warships encircled Baterilla Island as CP0 agents explained that they intended to capture Ace if Blackbeard failed.
• Akainu rejected CP0's warnings about the Straw Hat Pirates and ordered the fleet to begin annihilation mode.
• The CP0 agents withdrew to their secret ship and discussed how Akainu's plan could provoke Garp and the Revolutionary Army.
• The CP0 leader insisted that Ace had to be captured to draw out Whitebeard, but ordered the agents to find a gap in the blockade for Luffy and his companions to escape.

With Akainu’s Navy fleet surrounding Baterilla Island and bombarding the shore, Ace split off to draw the Navy’s attention while Luffy and the others prepared to escape. Ace blasted a passage through the cannon fire and charged toward the fleet’s southwest flank, while Ronan’s crew set course south.

• Ronan sensed Akainu and several Vice Admirals aboard the encircling Navy fleet as Luffy and Zoro welcomed the prospect of a fight.
• Nami, Usopp, Chopper, and Robin warned that the crew could not face an Admiral head-on, and Ace agreed that they had to escape.
• Ace proposed drawing the Navy’s main force away while Luffy and the others broke through the flank, and the brothers promised to meet again in the second half of the Grand Line.
• The Navy fleet opened fire on Baterilla Island, and Ace used Fire Fist to destroy the shells overhead and create a clear gap.
• Ace carried Blackbeard toward the southwest weak point in the encirclement as Ronan rallied the crew and Nami directed the Merry south.

Ace confronted Akainu to cover the Straw Hats’ escape while the Golden Merry raced toward the edge of the encirclement. Two Navy Vice Admirals blocked the crew’s exit, and Luffy resolved to fight through them.

• Ace took the barely alive Teach aboard a small boat and charged Akainu’s flagship to hold back the Navy.
• Ace neutralized Akainu’s Hell Hound, but Akainu answered with a Great Eruption.
• Luffy tried to return to help Ace, but Usopp and Nami persuaded him to keep escaping and not distract his brother.
• Two Buster Call-class ships blocked the Golden Merry’s route, with Navy Headquarters Vice Admirals Hoshigaki and Onigumo waiting aboard.
• Ronan urged Luffy to fight through the blockade, and Luffy vowed to knock aside everyone in their way.

Ronan and the Straw Hat Pirates fought off a Marine fleet after CP0’s redeployment opened a gap in the defense line. With the first boarding wave struck by Nami’s lightning, Ronan prepared to face Vice Admiral Hoshigaki while Luffy and the others confronted the remaining Marines.

• Onigumo learned that CP0 had redeployed three Vice Admirals, leaving a gap in the defense line, and joined Hoshigaki in attacking the Golden Merry.
• Ronan and Zoro destroyed the incoming cannonballs with their spear and sword techniques, prompting Onigumo to order the Marines to board.
• Luffy stopped Ronan from cutting the boarding cables and said he wanted to fight the Marines in close combat.
• Nami electrified the steel cables, shocking dozens of Navy Soldiers as they charged toward the Merry.
• Ronan sensed two Vice Admirals targeting the crew, told Luffy he would take the cigar-smoking Hoshigaki, and readied himself for battle.

Ronan and the Straw Hats fought off elite Marines boarding the Golden Merry near Baterilla Island. Vice Admiral Hoshigaki joined the battle, but Ronan met his attack and left him reeling as the duel continued.

• Ronan, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, and Usopp slaughtered or drove off the Marines boarding the Golden Merry.
• Hoshigaki launched a Flying Slash from the marine flagship, and Ronan shattered it with his spear.
• Hoshigaki landed on the Golden Merry and condemned Ronan for killing his subordinates, while Ronan declared them enemies on opposite sides.
• Hoshigaki attacked Ronan with his Haki-coated saber, but Ronan countered with White Clouds Cover the Top and forced him to retreat.
• Ronan challenged Hoshigaki across the bloodstained deck as the battlefield fell briefly quiet.

Ronan pierced Vice Admiral Hoshigaki with his Returning Horse Spear, but Hoshigaki escaped into the sea, while Zoro fought Vice Admiral Onigumo until he too retreated. With the Marines driven off, Ronan warned Luffy that Admiral Akainu was still nearby and urged the crew to support Ace.

• Hoshigaki sensed Ronan's attack too late, and Ronan's Returning Horse Spear pierced his chest through his Armament Haki.
• Hoshigaki tore himself free from Ronan's spear and escaped over the sea with Geppo, while Ronan watched the water turn red.
• Zoro clashed with Onigumo's nine-sword Spider Tempest and held his own against the Vice Admiral.
• Onigumo saw Hoshigaki fall and recognized he risked being surrounded, so he forced Zoro back and fled toward the Marine flagship.
• The Straw Hat crew celebrated the Marines' retreat as the Golden Merry slowly repaired its damaged deck.
• Ronan warned Luffy that Akainu remained in the area and said they needed to go support Ace.

As the Golden Merry approached Akainu’s battle with Ace, Nami discovered she could use the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and the ship’s gold to create an electromagnetic cannon. She forged golden regalia with her lightning and became poised to use her new power to help rescue Ace.

• After Ronan and Zoro defeated Vice Admirals Hoshigaki and Onigumo, the remaining Navy soldiers fled, and Ronan advised Luffy to approach the battle from the right.
• Nami steered the Golden Merry around the Navy’s flank toward Akainu’s flagship, where Ace was struggling against Akainu’s magma.
• Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji prepared to fight their way through the Navy, but Nami sensed the gold in the Merry and announced a plan to save Ace without fighting at close range.
• Nami explained that she could use the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to power an electromagnetic cannon using the gold in the Merry’s hull.
• Nami melted and shaped the ship’s gold into a staff, a floating hexagram ring, a crown, and bracelets, appearing as a thunder goddess.