Germa 66's Ahh... An Emotionless Excursion

Germa 66's Ahh... An Emotionless Excursion is the twenty-fifth Cover Story created as a side story on the title pages of each One Piece chapter. The story can be set during the events of the Levely Arc and the Wano Country Arc, as Germa 66 is shown escaping Totto Land and Big Mom had already departed for Wano Country.
==Summary==
In the beginning of the story, it is shown that the Germa Kingdom had managed to escape from Totto Land. Following this, Vinsmoke Judge and two of his children, Reiju and Ichiji are seen looking over a balcony, with Judge himself sighing. 
Unfortunately, his two other sons, Niji and Yonji had been captured by the Big Mom Pirates and were imprisoned in a book by Mont-d'Or's ability back on Cacao Island and put on display for the crew and citizenry to look at. As they are restrained, the brothers recall how they were easily defeated by Big Mom herself. Suddenly, they are both punched in the face by Pudding for having been so cruel to their brother, Sanji. She then leaves in a huff while Oven, who was wondering about Pudding's actions, carries the book with the brothers inside through a mirror with Brûlée using her powers. After passing through Mirro-World, Oven and Brûlée end up back on Whole Cake Island, with its fallen chateau in full view. Oven then drops off the book at a laboratory, where Kato, Brownie, Prim and Anana are prepared to dissect the brothers to learn about their modifications. 
However, back at Chocolat Town, two silhouettes appear and scare away the townsfolk, except for Choco Police, though he is surprised by their presence. Brûlée, who was with a still recovering Cracker, learns of this and states her belief that Vinsmoke Reiju and Ichiji have returned to rescue the other Vinsmokes while preparing to travel back there via mirror. But while this is happening, the book that the Vinsmoke brothers were trapped in suddenly catches on fire, freeing them. Ichiji and Reiju also burst through the wall and defeat the Charlotte siblings in order to rescue their own. Having reunited, the Vinsmokes then walk out as the facility goes up in flames.
As she continues to walk with her brothers, Reiju suspects someone else is around the corridor, who is in fact Caesar Clown, who failed to escape Whole Cake Island. Suddenly, both Oven and Katakuri appear and attack the Vinsmokes, but Caesar moves in and shrouds everyone with a hallucinatory gas. He then begs for the Vinsmokes to take him with them while the Charlotte brothers inadvertently fight each other due to the effect of the gas they were in. The Vinsmokes apparently agree to this and they all fly away from the fallen castle together.
Meanwhile, Chocolat Town and its residents are all completely frozen in ice. As Cracker lays on the ground defeated while also frozen, Brûlée wallows in tears that Pudding had been kidnapped by the invaders, who turn out to be Kuzan and Van Augur of the Blackbeard Pirates. 
The Vinsmoke siblings return to the Germa Kingdom along with Caesar. When they return, though, Caesar and Judge start fighting, and as they fought, they reminiscence their earlier days in MADS. As it turns out, MADS was supposedly a charitable lab dedicated to peace and was sponsored by Lu Feld. It was led by Dr. Vegapunk himself and also consisted of Caesar, Judge, Queen and an unknown woman. However, Caesar, Queen and Judge focused their efforts into creating weapons of mass destruction and carnage, with Caesar having created what could possibly be an artificial Devil Fruit. Unfortunately for them, the world was far more interested in Vegapunk's peaceful inventions, such as an artificial breed of flower that grew in gunpowder, which he received an award for. Ever since then, the three evil men began getting into fights between each other over who would be the second-best scientist of the organization, which apparently lasted for years, while Vegapunk is granted an audience with the Five Elders in Mary Geoise.
In the present, Caesar and Judge stop fighting after simultaneously coming to the conclusion that it was actually Vegapunk who got in their way of their progress. Thus, they decide to bury their grudge and form a new group called "NEO MADS" as a successor to the original MADS. The Germa soldiers celebrate the founding of this new organization while Ichiji and Reiju leave in a huff.
==Aftermath==
*Pudding is taken to one of the Blackbeard Pirates' ships and remains as their prisoner.
*Judge and Caesar have formed NEO MADS, a new scientific organization meant to succeed MADS.
==Chapter Titles==
#"Escape Whole Cake Island!!" (Chapter 1035)
#"Judge sighs" (Chapter 1037)
#"Niji & Yonji are held captive in Chocolat Town on Cacao Island" (Chapter 1038)
#"A creature beyond the power of science" (Chapter 1040)
#"This is for bullying Sanji-san! "Pudding Punch"!" (Chapter 1041)
#"Take Niji and Yonji to Whole Cake Island" (Chapter 1042)
#"Arrived at Whole Cake Island!" (Chapter 1043)
#"Mama's away on her trip. Begin the experiments!!" (Chapter 1044)
#"Two intruders in Pudding's home, Chocolat Town!!" (Chapter 1046)
#"I think Germa's come to Chocolat Town!!" (Chapter 1048)
#"Why?! The book in the lab burned up, freeing the brothers!!" (Chapter 1049)
#"Ichiji and Reiju show up" (Chapter 1050)
#"Germa's escape" (Chapter 1051)
#"The scientist who failed to escape" (Chapter 1052)
#"Katakuri and Oven arrive!!" (Chapter 1056)
#"Caesar's poison gas attack!!" (Chapter 1057)
#"Take me with you!! Get me outta here!!" (Chapter 1058)
#"Caesar's hallucination gas!!" (Chapter 1059)
#"Escape!! A successful rescue of Niji and Yonji!!" (Chapter 1061)
#"Meanwhile, in Chocolat Town, Cacao Island" (Chapter 1062)
#"Pudding's been abducted!!" (Chapter 1063)
#"Blackbeard Pirates, Kuzan and Augur" (Chapter 1064)
#"Germa returns, with added bonus" (Chapter 1066)
#"What's your name again?! Judge vs. Caesar!!" (Chapter 1067)
#"MADS, the group to which they once belonged" (Chapter 1068)
#"Loan Shark King Lu Feld's charitable research lab for peace, MADS" (Chapter 1069)
#"Promising scientists, brought together for the sake of mankind and the world" (Chapter 1070)
#"Mass-produced weapons of slaughter" (Chapter 1072)
#"Winner of the Ibel Peace Prize for 'GP Flowers' that bloom out of gunpowder" (Chapter 1073)
#"Three bitter rivals in the perpetual war to be No. 2" (Chapter 1074)
#"The Genius Scientist gets an audience with the Five Elders" (Chapter 1075)
#"Actually, I think our real problem is Vegapunk" (Chapter 1077)
#"The formation of NEO MADS!!" (Chapter 1078)
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==Trivia==
*There are 41 chapters between this Cover Story and the previous one, the longest separation in the second half of the series.
*This is the first Cover Story where the plot directly connects with the concurrent main story arc and characters appearing in both simultaneously. Specifically, Pudding's abduction by the Blackbeard Pirates is shown in both the title page and partway through Chapter 1064.
**Due to its importance, the events of Pudding's capture was later adapted as a flashback in Episode 1093.
*This is the first cover story that ends without the final volume being labeled as such.
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