Recaps

While Rossi remained stranded near the sun, Luffy ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and began gathering a crew under Rossi’s guidance. The arc left the Dream Chasers at Baratie, where Luffy tried to recruit Sanji as the Black Sails Pirates threatened the restaurant, while another Doflamingo prepared to test his counterpart.

• Imu summoned a second version of herself and created an Angel Army as the allied forces battled her and the Five Elders, and Rossi was pulled into the void and found himself near the sun.
• Doflamingo freed Trebol and other prisoners from Impel Down, then encountered a version of himself from another world and joined him in rallying allies against Imu.
• Rossi reached Luffy through his body in Goa Kingdom, helped him reunite with Ace and Sabo, and trained the three boys while asking them to help bring him back from the sun.
• Rossi chose Luffy to eat the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Luffy gained lightning powers as Ace awakened Conqueror's Haki and Sabo showed his Observation Haki.
• Luffy and Zoro set out together, defeated Kuro with help from Luffy’s instructor, and later met Mihawk, who wounded Zoro after their duel.
• Luffy and Zoro recruited Nami as their navigator and named their crew the Dream Chasers, with Rossi joining them as a guide.
• At Baratie, Sanji’s black armor emerged during a fight with pirates, and Luffy invited him to join the crew despite Sanji’s refusal and distress over his Germa 66 past.
• The Black Sails Pirates surrounded Baratie, and Luffy caught a cannon shell as he urged Sanji to use his strength to stand up for others, and elsewhere, Doflamingo challenged his counterpart to prove his resolve.

Doflamingo gathered allies and led them toward Mary Geoise, while the Straw Hats faced Crocodile in Alabasta and recovered from the battle. The assault on the Red Line reached Imu, whose time-stopping power forced Luffy, Teach, and their allies into a desperate fight.

• Doflamingo rescued Law and Pudding, recruited Blackbeard for an assault on Mary Geoise, and later redirected his alliance toward Egghead to seek Vegapunk’s help.
• Luffy’s crew reached Loguetown, where Rossi reflected on the Pirate King’s final words as a call to overturn the world’s order, and Nami awakened her vitality-consuming axe in a spar with Zoro.
• Doflamingo arrived at Egghead and invited Luffy to join his campaign against the Celestial Dragons, but Luffy agreed to fight beside him only to protect Vivi and her people.
• In Alabasta, Luffy and his crew confronted Crocodile, and Rossi took control of Luffy’s body to defeat Crocodile with rain and lightning before Crocodile withdrew.
• Doflamingo’s alliance and the Marines converged on the Red Line, where Akainu announced that the Marines would eliminate the Celestial Dragons and the hidden power behind them.
• Byrnndi World’s enlarged cannon shell devastated the Holy City but failed to break its silver barrier, which opened after a young man in a pink coat touched it.
• Imu attacked the Straw Hats and clashed with Teach, while the suited man used white threads to save the injured crew and Doflamingo repaired Mihawk after Imu froze and struck them.
• Teach shattered Imu’s frozen-time domain, Luffy rejected her offer to rule the world, and the Five Elders joined the battle as Imu revealed her Moon God form and Teach called his allies to fight.

Doflamingo returned to his Family and destroyed the Five Peaks Pirates as Rossi guided Luffy’s crew through Sky Island and onward to Water 7. After Robin chose to leave and was reunited with the crew, Rossi reached an understanding with Kuzan, and Zoro asked to accompany him to Dressrosa.

• Sakazuki led Navy forces against Imu, but Imu froze the battlefield and overwhelmed the combatants as Doflamingo escaped through a rift to another world.
• Shiki told Doflamingo how he had protected the Tontatta Tribe and rebuilt his forces, while Doflamingo reunited with his Family and learned they had news about Rossi.
• Luffy defeated Bellamy in Mock Town, then joined Cricket and the Saruyama Alliance aboard the Black Cat as Luo’s ship pursued them toward Sky Island.
• Rossi helped the crews reach Sky Island, where Luffy found and rang the Golden Bell, fulfilling the promise between Noland’s descendants and the Shandia.
• Doflamingo returned to Hachinosu with the Donquixote Family, destroyed the Five Peaks Pirates, and killed Ochoku, prompting Whitebeard to pass leadership of his crew to Teach.
• Rossi trained Luffy and the others before they reached Water 7, where Robin disappeared and the crew confronted her alongside Cipher Pol agents during Aqua Laguna.
• Luffy and the Straw Hats fought the agents and refused to abandon Robin, then stood against Kuzan until Rossi intervened and reached an understanding with him.
• Kuzan warned Rossi about the New Holy Land, Iceburg offered to repair the crew’s ship, and Zoro asked Rossi to let the crew accompany him to Dressrosa.