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Buggy grunted while Alrong squeezed the back on his neck giving him pain.

"This torture is your punishment. You touched my property."

Buggy gritted his teeth shaking.

Arlong stepped on his back and Buggy couldn't move. Arlong smirked seeing how weak he was. He then grabbed his arm and bend it back hard making Buggy screamed out in pain. Tears streamed down his face.

Arlong laughed and grabbed him by his hair and yanked his head up to face him. Buggy frowned so he spit in his face. Arlong frowned slamming his face in the dirt. He then crushed his head slowly with his foot.

Buggy groaned in pain. He couldn't scream as the dirt was suffocating him.

"Arlong, be careful you don't kill him. Remember you need him alive. But if you want to make him suffer then.....why not take him apart?" Kurobi suggested with a smirk.

"Yeah," Pisaro laughed, "wait for his powers to come back and then we pull him apart before he can fight us. Then we just keep his parts separated."

Buggy shivered when they said that. But then he heard Lydia's voice. He then realized his ear was still missing. She was talking to someone planning to save him and ambush Arlong. But it wouldn't be fast enough.

Arlong smirked at the idea, "fine," he grabbed Buggy by the back of his neck and pulled him up.

Buggy coughed and tried to spit out the dirt that was in his mouth. He was so angry that he was helpless to stop this. He wanted to make Arlong pay, but knew he wouldn't stand a chance with what they were planning for him. He hoped Lydia would make it in time to save him, but he also didn't want her falling into Arlong's trap either.

Arlong then dragged him into the torture room and chained him up. "Watch him once he dries up, let me know!"

The rest of the crew nodded.

"Look at you, clown. You're pathetic. As if Arlong's Queen would be interested in a weakling like you," Pisaro taunted him, "you can't even defend yourself, why would you ever think you'd be able to defend her."

Buggy hung his head and closed his eyes, trying to block them out. He was trying to hear Lydia again, her voice right now would comfort him.  But the mutant crew was right. He wasn't really worthy of Lydia. He was pathetic.

It was now late and she was talking to him, "everything's going to be ok, Buggy. I'm coming for you. I love you."

Buggy teared up hearing her voice. He bit his lip thinking about her.

Lydia was laying in Mihawk's cabin in a bed. He was in another room asleep himself. But Lydia was awake talking to Buggy whispering in his ear hoping he could hear. "...I-I really want to make you proud, my captain, but I am also scared...but that doesn't stop me to save you..."

Buggy wished he could tell her that he already was proud of her and always had been since they were just kids. He knew she was brave and stronger than she believed. She'd just lost faith in herself. He also wanted to tell her that it was okay to be afraid. It was natural and normal. But more than anything in that moment he just wanted to hold her. He couldn't believe his bad luck. Just as he found her, he'd lost her again. And now she was risking her life, and he would probably die anyway.

"I know you can't talk, but I wish you were here talking to me. I want to hold you too."

He then felt her tender hands cradle his ear. He closed his eyes lovingly the touch.

It was only his ear, but feeling that connection brought him comfort. He also hoped it must mean that she was nearby, but he also feared for her safety. He just hoped whoever she was with would be able to help her.

"Mihawk, Luffy and the others say you are strong, even how Arlong is torturing you. So...please...be strong for me...I know you will wait for me." She then kissed his ear.

He blinked away the tears in his eyes and sniffled. Damn. Why did crying always make your nose run?

Pisaro noticed this and laughed, "awe look at the little clown, crying for his mommy."

The others laughed, but Buggy actually looked up at them and glared his most angry glare. He wouldn't give up. He would hang on, for Lydia. He too wanted to make her proud.

"Why don't you cry over your own, she was the one who fell for a salmon, or Mackerel, or whatever the hell your dad was."

Pisaro growled angrily and slashed at Buggy's stomach, cutting him quite deeply.

"Owww!!" he flinched in pain.

"Not so handy not having those chop chop powers huh," Pisaro laughed.

Lydia sensed something wrong and held his ear close. "Bug'?"

"Dude! We need him alive, dumbass!" The other mutant cried.

"Pfft his time is running out anyway. He's lucky I haven't gutted him like a fish!" Pisaro growled.

"Somebody better conceal the wound though, before he bleeds through his vest and Arlong sees it," Kuroobi said.

One of the others lifted Buggy's vest and roughly tied a scarf around the wound. That is when Pisaro looked and noticed his ear was missing.

"Wait.....why are you missing your right ear?!"

Buggy eyed him coldly, "am I? Oops....I really ought to be more careful where I leave my stuff—"

"Stop fooling around, clown! Answer the question!" Kuroobi demanded.

"I don't know where it is, I'm pretty sure I lost it during the shipwreck, but I was too busy drowning and passing out to notice," he lied.

"Oh yeah? Can you hear anything with that ear!?

"Yeah.....whales, dolphins....but mostly the sound of water....I think I might've heard a turtle fart, that was prettty funny ain't gonna lie."

He smirked, "hear a little mermaid crying?"

"Mermaids? Really, fish-stick, you believe in that myth?? The only women you find in the water are sirens."

"Oh? The only reason why Arlong made her his queen is because she's a mermaid princess!"

Buggy's mouth fell open, "wait, what?? N-no that can't be possible. She has legs. Great legs too, I've had them wrapped around me. How could I have possibly got it on with a creature that has a tail?!"

Of course Buggy had sometimes suspected this to be what Lydia's true kind was, but he was playing dumb with Arlong's crew.

"Have you seen her swim, clown?"

"......no. I mean, maybe once or twice when we were kids. But only from a distance because AS YOU KNOW I can't go into the ocean."

They then laughed at him. He just sounded silly to be so clueless.

"Seriously boys, I'm the one laughing on the inside right now because I can't believe y'all believe my girl is half fish."

"Yeah, but she can't marry a clown freak big nose like you!"

"Why not? She loves me for who I am. Maybe she has a kink for clowns. She sure as shit doesn't have a thing for fishfolk."

Pisaro frowned and kicked him in the face.

"Aaggh," Buggy winced as blood ran from his nose. He was getting super pissed now. He just wanted to regain enough strength to use his chop chop abilities to get out of there.

"Dry enough yet?" He asked.

"D'you think I'd still be here if I was, dummy?!" Buggy huffed.

But he was starting to feel a little stronger. He just didn't want them to know it.

Pisaro then grabbed his head and slammed him against the wall, "come on, fight back, we know you can!"

".....what, you mean like this?" Buggy's hand detached and he poked Pisaro in the eyes with his fingers.

While the mutant covered his eyes and cried out in pain, he detached his other hand, his head....but when it came to his torso something was wrong...the cut.

It was so painful and he began bleeding out a lot from the wound.

"No no NO!!" Buggy yelled in frustration, as the others then had time to grab the parts of him that had separated.

"ARLONG!" Pisaro cried and the others tried to grabbed his parts.

Arlong came rushing in with a box and once he was nothing left his hands, head and feet, the mutants struggled to his parts in the box.

"Don't loose them!" Arlong snapped. "Now take it to my headquarters."

Pisaro did that and Arlong turned to Buggy and knelt down smirking.

"Fight me. Try clown," Arlong smirked.

"What did you do to me?!" Buggy screamed.

Arlong smirked, "I made you defenseless now," he turned to one of his members in the crew, "get another box!"

Buggy tried to pop his hand out to attack, but Arlong grabbed it and crushed it.

"AHHHH!" Buggy screamed.

"Nice try, clown," Arlong smirked, "but not good enough. Now get ready...for the little girl is coming."