Recaps

Dawn and his crew sailed back toward Marine Headquarters to escort Catarina Devon to Impel Down while enduring a violent storm. He planned to visit Tom afterward to discuss Pluton’s blueprints, and the chapter ended with him bringing grilled Sea King meat to Catarina Devon.

• Sola and the others smashed the giant hailstones while Ouroboros reinforced the warship with his abilities.
• Dawn reflected on his new Observation Haki ability, which he called “Time Slow,” and on the crew’s plans to return to Marine Headquarters and then separate to lead their own teams.
• Dawn planned to visit Tom on Sky Island after escorting Catarina Devon, hoping to obtain Pluton’s blueprints and build the weapon before the coming era.
• Sola killed a Sea King, and Ouroboros grilled its meat as the storm passed.
• Dawn brought grilled meat to the injured, Seastone-cuffed Catarina Devon in the ship’s cell, and she reacted coldly to his kindness.

Dawn visited Catarina Devon in the ship’s hold and offered her a chance to escape Impel Down in exchange for pledging loyalty to him. Catarina accepted the Contract, agreeing to serve him if she was freed in the future.

• Dawn sent the guards away and told Catarina Devon he had come to negotiate terms.
• Dawn warned Catarina that she would be imprisoned in Impel Down’s Infinite Hell and offered freedom in exchange for her loyalty.
• Dawn explained that Ouroboros’s Contract would sense betrayal and could devour Catarina’s soul if she acted against him.
• Catarina agreed to sign the Contract, accepting that she might wait up to seven years for a chance to escape.
• Dawn planned to use Catarina as a future piece in his schemes and strengthen Enel’s forces.

Dawn prepared to test a new recovery ability that stored life force as he faced a Sea King stampede. He realized the approaching adults had come after the crew killed and cooked their young, and welcomed the chance to gather more life force.

• Dawn left Catarina Devon's cell after securing her compliance and heard the crew panicking about Sea Kings approaching.
• Sola celebrated the incoming Sea Kings as food, while Hina warned that they could destroy the ship.
• Dawn explained that the stampede was a chance to test his ability to store life force for recovery.
• Dawn spotted grilled meat and an unprocessed Sea King beside Sola and realized the crew had killed the adults' young.
• Dawn welcomed the approaching Sea Kings, deciding the family could be reunited.

Tesoro, Enel, and the Thunder God Pirates overwhelmed Black Face and killed him after breaking through his psychic defenses. With CP0's hidden forces defeated, Enel led the crew to seize the Pure Gold.

• Tesoro struck Black Face with a golden fist empowered by an explosion and Enel's lightning, shattering his mask and sending him flying.
• Tesoro and Enel launched their strongest attacks while Trick and the others kept Black Face trapped under continuous pressure.
• Black Face unleashed a psychic blade storm, but Wapol, Moria, Tesoro, and Trick held it back long enough for Enel to charge his spear.
• Enel hurled the lightning-powered spear through Black Face's psychic barrier and pierced his heart, killing him.
• Enel destroyed the surrounding warships and ordered the crew to seize the Pure Gold.
• A red-masked CP0 agent realized that Made Tolega's attack and retreat had been a trap to draw out CP0's hidden forces.

Dawn developed a healing aura that could mend wounds by consuming life force, with stronger bodies requiring more energy to heal. After learning that Jack had planned to intercept the prison ship but had already missed it, Dawn considered the right time to fight Kaido’s subordinates and gain more Blood Bottles.

• Sola and Ouroboros salvaged pieces of the giant Sea King serpent while Dawn tested his newly developed healing aura.
• Dawn healed wounds on fish, Hina, and Sola, finding that stronger, physically tougher targets consumed more life force.
• Dawn continued killing Sea Kings and pirates to collect Blood Bottles as the ship traveled onward.
• The branch warned Dawn that Jack planned to intercept the prison ship carrying Catarina Devon, but Dawn realized the ship had already passed the interception waters.
• Dawn decided that Jack and other Zoan users could provide valuable life-force gains, though he would wait for a suitable time to confront them.

Dawn returned to Sky Island and persuaded Tom to consider building Pluton by explaining his fight against the Celestial Dragons and promising that he was gathering the strength to protect it. Enel arrived and revealed that his power and control over the West Blue underworld were part of Dawn’s plan, leaving Tom surprised to learn that Enel served under Dawn.

• Dawn returned to Sky Island with Enel and arranged for the Thunder God to help Tom study the Lunar Ruins and build ships.
• Dawn met Trick, Fisher Tiger, and Tom at Tom’s cabin and told them about the cruelty he had witnessed on Hunter Island.
• Dawn explained that he and his companions sought to eradicate the corruption at the top of the World Government.
• Tom said he would help build Pluton only if Dawn could prove he had the strength and resources to protect it.
• Enel arrived and declared that his Shichibukai position and control of the West Blue underworld supported Dawn’s plan, surprising Tom when he called Dawn his captain.

Dawn secured Tom’s help in building Pluton and took him and the others aboard the Thunder God to develop the moon’s ancient ruins as a secret base. Enel’s old dream of reaching the moon was rekindled as the ship ascended toward it.

• Dawn explained his relationship with Enel and reassured Tom that he had enough forces and funding to build Pluton.
• Tom agreed to help after Dawn signed a Contract that let him experience the group’s confidentiality measures.
• Dawn decided to develop the moon’s ancient ruins as a safer location for building Pluton.
• Enel piloted the Thunder God upward and proudly showed Tom the flying ship’s features.
• Dawn had Enel pause at intervals so the group could adapt to the altitude, especially the elderly Tom, before they continued toward the moon.

Dawn and his companions reached the moon and searched for the buried underground city, which Dawn intended to use as a secret construction site for Pluton. They found the vast ancient city, and Dawn hinted that another discovery awaited them.

• Dawn planned to conceal Pluton's construction by moving materials through West Blue and Buster Call Town.
• Dawn, Enel, Tom, Trick, and Ouroboros landed on the moon and began searching for the buried city.
• Enel and Dawn blasted craters into the moon until they found a hollow spot beneath the surface.
• Ouroboros opened and reinforced a passage through the cavern, driving out a strong stench.
• Enel, Tom, Trick, and Dawn entered the underground city, and Dawn hinted that they would find something beyond the city itself.

Dawn and his companions activated the underground city by having Enel discharge electricity, revealing a hidden robot population. Dawn planned to use the city as a base for building Pluton and asked Tom to modify the ancient battleship into a Flying Ship, while Enel sent the robots to search for their factory.

• Dawn told Enel to discharge electricity into the city, and Enel's lightning activated its lights and machinery.
• Dawn proposed using the city as a secret base for building Pluton and asked Tom to modify it into a Flying Ship.
• Dawn revealed that the approaching figures were robots, and explained that the winged machines were evidence that the Sky Island people were Moon People.
• Dawn had Enel release lightning, drawing the robots toward him, and told Tom they could serve as tireless assistants.
• Dawn asked Enel to command the robots to find their factory so they could produce more helpers.

Dawn and Enel planned to develop the moon factory into a secret base, recruit scientists, and use robots to support their projects. After returning to Sky Island, Dawn assigned Enel to face Crocodile, the Desert King.

• Enel showed Dawn and the others how the moon factory operated, and Dawn planned to transport supplies and recruit scientists to run it.
• Dawn decided to bring biologists from the Ishtar Kingdom to help make the moon self-sufficient and told Enel to recruit the robotics scientist on Robot Island.
• Dawn and the others took some robots back to help build Flying Ships and left the rest on the moon to assist with Pluton.
• After returning to Sky Island, Dawn gathered the officers for a meal and told Enel that Crocodile would be his next opponent.

Dawn assigned Enel to stop Crocodile’s plot against their ally, Alabasta, and tasked him with searching the skies for Golden Lion. Dawn intended to kill Golden Lion, both to raise his standing in the Marines and to obtain the Float-Float Fruit to strengthen his Sky Domain Aura.

• Dawn explained that Crocodile was using Dancing Powder to create a drought in Alabasta so he could take control of the kingdom and search for clues to Pluton.
• Enel eagerly accepted the mission to confront Crocodile and defend Alabasta.
• Dawn gave Enel a long-term task: pilot the Thunder God through the skies to find Golden Lion.
• Dawn told the crew he planned to kill Golden Lion, while privately intending to obtain his Float-Float Fruit.
• Dawn reflected that his Admiral-level abilities had reached a bottleneck and decided Golden Lion’s fruit could help him specialize and grow stronger.

Dawn planned to hunt Golden Lion and assigned Enel to search the New World for his floating base, while Trick and the Sky Island companions prepared to fight Golden Lion's crew. The group welcomed Tom, who agreed to build Pluton, and Dawn promised to keep it hidden until it could help bring about an era when fish-men could walk on land.

• Trick questioned the danger of confronting Golden Lion, and Dawn said he would fight the pirate himself while Enel and Trick handled Golden Lion's officers and crew.
• Dawn explained that Golden Lion's floating base could be anywhere in the sky and asked Enel to search the New World for it using his Observation Haki.
• Enel agreed to travel with Wapol and Chloe, first returning to West Blue to gather supplies and fight Crocodile before heading to the New World.
• Dawn held a banquet to welcome Tom, and Tom promised to build Pluton for him.
• Dawn vowed to keep Pluton concealed until the final moment and said its emergence would signal an era when fish-men could openly set foot on land.

Dawn hurried from Sky Island to meet Zephyr after learning that Zephyr’s training ship had set sail, hoping to prevent the fate he knew awaited his former teacher. Before Dawn arrived, a pirate from Zephyr’s past attacked the training ship, and Zephyr confronted him.

• Dawn celebrated Tom’s arrival on Sky Island, where the escaped slaves welcomed him and looked forward to Tom building Pluton for their fight against the Celestial Dragons.
• After Baby-5 told him Zephyr’s training ship had departed, Dawn contacted Zephyr and set out aboard Enel’s Thunder God to join him.
• Zephyr told his trainees, including Binz and Ain, that Dawn was coming, and the students eagerly anticipated meeting the young Vice Admiral.
• Ten days later, a distinctive pirate whom Zephyr had captured years earlier approached the training ship and attacked with his naginata.
• Zephyr blocked the attack with his iron fist, recognized the pirate, and vowed not to let him escape again.

Zephyr fought Edward Weevil for nearly three days while Ain and Binz waited for Vice Admiral Dawn to arrive. As Zephyr’s asthma and Edward Weevil’s fury shifted the battle, the training ship joined the fight with cannon fire, leaving Zephyr in danger and the students exposed.

• Ain told Binz that she had contacted Marine Headquarters and that Vice Admiral Dawn should be on his way to help Zephyr.
• Zephyr used his combat experience and Haki to punch Edward Weevil through the deck of the pirate ship, then took medicine as his asthma weakened him.
• Edward Weevil saw his ship taking on water, flew into a rage, and attacked with greater force, damaging the vessel further.
• Zephyr used Geppo to counter Edward Weevil’s attack and landed several punches, but a sudden bout of weakness let Edward Weevil knock him away.
• Ain and the others brought the training ship closer and fired cannonballs to block Edward Weevil’s advance.

Edward Weevil boarded the Navy training ship and overwhelmed Zephyr and his trainees, killing and injuring several Marines. Dawn arrived and trapped Weevil in Sky Prison, preparing to fight him.

• Edward Weevil destroyed the cannonballs, leaped onto the training ship, and attacked the Marines aboard.
• Zephyr fought Weevil while trying to protect his students, but Weevil’s strength and relentless attacks forced him back.
• Weevil threatened the Marines and killed a student before Dawn struck him with a massive fist and stopped him from falling overboard.
• Dawn checked on Zephyr, then used Sky Prison to seal the surrounding air and reinforce the deck around himself and Weevil.
• Dawn faced Weevil and said the next round was about to begin.

Dawn took over the fight against Dehua Weibul inside a barrier to protect the training ship while Zephyr rescued the students. Though Dawn’s enhanced Observation Haki let him evade Dehua Weibul’s attacks and land powerful blows, Dehua Weibul’s strength and recovery proved formidable, and Dawn embraced the battle as a way to absorb the Battle Song Aura.

• Dawn enclosed Dehua Weibul and himself in a barrier, then sent Zephyr to rescue the injured students.
• Dawn’s Battle Song Aura absorption sharply increased his strength, and he struck Dehua Weibul with a blow that sent him crashing into the barrier.
• Dawn trapped Dehua Weibul in a fiery barrage and tornado, but Dehua Weibul escaped with a slash and charged at him.
• Dawn used enhanced Observation Haki to evade Dehua Weibul’s sword attacks, then drove him backward with a high-speed halberd thrust.
• Dehua Weibul unleashed even greater force, sent Dawn crashing into the barrier, and left cracks in it.
• Dawn spat blood, began recovering with his own power, and resolved to keep fighting so he could absorb more Battle Song Aura.

Enel used his Thor form and heat-generating lightning to counter Crocodile’s sand attacks, then struck him with a powerful punch and a barrage of lightning. Crocodile escaped into the desert, leaving Enel disappointed and searching for a new opponent.

• Enel transformed into a giant lightning Thor and crystallized Crocodile’s sand attacks with intense heat.
• Crocodile launched a larger sand tornado, but Enel hit him with a magnetically propelled lightning fist and followed with a storm of lightning.
• Enel searched for Crocodile with Observation Haki but found only silence and left to look for Tesoro or Golden Lion.
• Crocodile hid deep in the sand, assessed his injuries, and chose a tactical retreat rather than continue fighting.

After Edward Weevil escaped, Dawn healed the wounded Marines and Zephyr resolved to help the shaken trainees recover. Half a month later, the group was returning to Marine Headquarters, with the trainees training hard and Dawn having collected a Cat-Cat Fruit, Tabby Cat Model.

• Dawn apologized to Zephyr for letting Edward Weevil escape, while Zephyr and Ain mourned the trainees killed or injured in the battle.
• Dawn learned that about one-third of the trainees were dead or injured and ordered Binz to gather all the wounded.
• Dawn used Healing Ring to heal the soldiers, impressing Zephyr and lifting the wounded's spirits.
• Zephyr vowed to help the trainees overcome the battle's aftermath, while Dawn left him to support them.
• During the next half month, the trainees trained on the voyage back to Marine Headquarters, and Dawn fought pirates and collected the Cat-Cat Fruit, Tabby Cat Model.

Dawn encountered Hancock and her warriors while traveling aboard a battered Marine warship, then met privately with Hancock, who had become ruler of Amazon Lily. He encouraged her to keep training her forces for their future revenge against the Celestial Dragons.

• The lookout spotted Hancock’s snake-drawn ship approaching the battered warship, and Dawn flew out to meet it.
• Hancock’s warriors threatened Dawn until Hancock recognized him and ordered them to withdraw.
• Dawn and Hancock reunited, and she told him she had ruled Amazon Lily for four years and had trained its warriors in Haki.
• Dawn urged Hancock to continue developing her forces for their future revenge and suggested organizing Amazon Lily’s archers into dedicated units.
• Dawn told Hancock to contact Tesoro if her people needed supplies.

Dawn arranged for Tesoro to fund Hancock’s troop training and advised her to become a capable ruler, while she mistook his advice as encouragement to become a worthy queen. Dawn returned to the ship, where he reassured the tense crew that Hancock had no intention of fighting the Marines.

• Dawn explained that he wanted Hancock’s soldiers to train as archers to keep them safer, and Hancock proudly declared that she would be forgiven because she was beautiful.
• Dawn contacted Tesoro and arranged for him to fund Hancock’s troop training, repaying her for helping him when his influence was still growing.
• Dawn reflected on how Tesoro’s empire, Enel’s work, and Tom’s decision to build Pluton had turned his plans into a powerful force.
• Dawn urged Hancock to listen to Elder Nyon, study world affairs, and learn to govern her country well; Hancock resolved to become a worthy queen for him.
• Dawn left Hancock, who imagined that he had romantic feelings for her, then returned to the ship and assured the crew that Hancock had no intention of fighting the Marines.

Enel traveled to Alabasta to find Crocodile, then blasted the roof of a Rainbase casino to draw out someone connected to him. Mr. 3 emerged and recognized Enel, realizing he had run into a Shichibukai he could not afford to offend.

• Enel decided to postpone searching for Golden Lion and planned to visit Tesoro after completing his assignment in Alabasta.
• Enel reached Alabasta and sent his men to rest while he headed alone for Rainbase.
• Enel used Observation Haki to locate a casino with people using “Mr.” code names and blasted its roof without harming the occupants.
• Mr. 3 came outside to confront the attacker, then recognized Enel and feared his terrible luck.

Enel confronted Crocodile in Rainbase, then drove him into the desert for a battle that tested both their powers. After Crocodile demonstrated that he could threaten Enel by draining moisture, Enel struck him with a Super Electromagnetic Cannon, and the explosion swallowed Crocodile.

• Enel attacked Mr. 3 after demanding that he reveal his boss, and Mr. 3 fainted from the electrical discharge without giving anything away.
• Enel summoned lightning against the casino, but Crocodile blocked it with a blade of sand and challenged Enel over entering his territory.
• Enel pierced Crocodile's chest with lightning, but Crocodile's sand body healed as the two began fighting across Rainbase and the desert.
• Enel moved the battle away from ordinary people and exchanged enormous sand and iron-sand blades with Crocodile.
• Crocodile drained moisture from a patch of Enel's hand, showing that his power could threaten Enel despite his Logia abilities.
• Enel fired a Super Electromagnetic Cannon, and the resulting explosion engulfed Crocodile.

Enel and Crocodile fought across the desert, trading lightning, sand, and Enel’s magnetic cannon attacks. Crocodile unleashed an enormous awakened sea of sand that towered over Enel and crashed toward him.

• Crocodile created a Sand Storm, but Enel’s 60 Million Volt Thunder Dragon burst through it and crystallized the sand with its heat.
• Crocodile tried to drain the moisture from Enel with Corrosive Cycle, but Enel sensed the danger, escaped, and kicked Crocodile away.
• Enel attacked Crocodile with lightning from the air, while Crocodile dodged and built sand defenses against the repeated strikes.
• Crocodile redirected Enel’s lightning through sand pillars into the ground, believing the desert made him invincible.
• Enel fired magnetically propelled Super Electromagnetic Cannons, battering Crocodile’s Empty Sand Defense Wall with physical attacks.
• Crocodile awakened his sand powers and raised a vast sea of sand above Enel, sending it crashing down like a tsunami.

Enel used his heat-generating Thor form to counter Crocodile’s sand attacks and badly injured him with a lightning punch. Crocodile hid underground and escaped, while Enel left the desert to look for Tesoro or Golden Lion.

• Enel transformed into Three Hundred Million Volt Thor and burned Crocodile’s sand attacks into liquid crystal.
• Crocodile attacked with a larger sandstorm, but Enel struck him with a magnetically propelled lightning fist and sent him flying.
• Enel unleashed a barrage of lightning at Crocodile’s landing place, but Crocodile had already hidden beneath the sand.
• Enel failed to find Crocodile with Observation Haki and left to seek out Tesoro or Golden Lion.
• Crocodile hid safely in the desert, assessed his injuries, and chose a tactical retreat.

After Enel defeated him, Crocodile hid in the desert and became even more determined to obtain Pluton. Meanwhile, Wapol and Chloe began clearing Buster Call Town for the Thunder God Pirates, and the slaughter continued as they waited for Enel.

• Crocodile accepted his defeat by Enel, retreated into the desert, and clung more strongly to his plan to obtain Pluton.
• Enel set out for Buster Call Town, where Wapol and Chloe were waiting to join him on a trip to Gran Tesoro.
• Chloe ordered her subordinates to kill the pirates in Buster Call Town and leave the civilians alive, then summoned Demon Soldiers to attack.
• Wapol and his companions charged into the pirates, and the Thunder God Pirates began taking over Buster Call Town by force.