Session 18

**Session 18** is unofficially titled “Baseball Bros”

## Short Summary

After Low and Ashton finish their solo explorations, the crew (with the exception of Kushay) regroup after they all finished exploring the city. After some conversation between the four a man shouts at them and approaches, introducing himself as Baseballman, He begins criticizing Leon for turning to a life of crime, saying he has tainted Baseball and made the people from their island angry. After his partner Pitcherboy shows up they begin fighting the crew to capture Leon. The fight ends with Pitcherboy telling Baseballman to return one of Low’s swords that he took and requests the same from Stede for his bat. After the two leave Ashton asks the crew for help with the abused robots, which they agree to and set off.

## Long Summary

Ashton continues talking to a person from her solo exploration, offering help to them that they try to decline. They eventually agree to her help and she offers to find the owners of the damaged robots near them to teach them a lesson for supposedly abusing them. She attempts to talk to them but as they are non functioning at the moment give no response, the unknown person tells her to come back tomorrow.

After that Ashton witnesses Stede leaving a shady looking building with a sign that reads “Health Shoppe”. They both greet each other and Stede tells her about his examination from the buildings doctor, saying that his amnesia was either caused by a devil fruit power, something traumatic from his past, or a third option that the doctor said would be completely immoral to tell him, saying it would break his will to live. Stede decides not to talk anymore about it until the crew is altogether. Suddenly Leon appears with one of Low’s swords at his side, and is greeted by Stede and Ashton. Stede feels what he thinks is a drop of rain hit his head and Ashton identifies it as condensation from the steam the buildings give off.

The focus changes to Low, as he continues a conversation with a Marine. The Marine mentions a group that went against an emperor’s right hand man, Low responds saying he is not afraid of the emperors. The Marine says that he should be afraid as they rule the Grand Line and have bounties supposedly in the billions, and that he’s not afraid because he has yet to reach the sea. The Marine mentions that Low isn’t aware of his new bounty, and Low looks over at the bounty posters on the wall to see his, 2,500,000, Only Dead. The Marine says that he’s not strong enough to capture himself but warns that any bounty hunter whose strong enough will kill him. Lastly Low threatens him to give a message to his superior, the message being that he will destroy the marines and he’ll start with this island, and declares that every marine will know his name for years to come. The Marine walks away saying he will tell his boss. Low leaves and catches a glimpse of Stede, Leon, and Ashton who are short walk away and approaches them while witnessing his other sword Leon was carrying magnetize itself to Stede’s spearginata.

After Low joins the group they are quickly interrupted by a shout, and a man approaches and introduces himself as Baseballman. Leon recognizes him as a member of a baseball team he played against a long time ago. Baseballman begins scolding Leon for stealing a baseball and becoming a pirate claiming that he’s the number one baseball player, and says that the people from their island are all upset about it. He then shows the crew Leon’s bounty poster, revealing his new bounty of 2,000,500. Stede tells him that he paid for the baseball eventually but Baseballman says that still won’t fix the shame Leon has brought upon the sport of baseball, and says that he will capture Leon because it is his duty as the (self proclaimed) number two baseball player. His partner Pitcherboy walks out from behind a building and they begin their fight against the crew. Leon offers to autograph the bounty poster but the offer goes nowhere.

During the battle Stede steals Baseballman’s bat with his devil fruit powers and causing him to freak out, and dropping two bounty posters. The first being Ashton’s, with a bounty of  1,900,000. The second poster being Stede’s, with a bounty of  2,180,000. Shortly after Low drop’s one of his swords, Baseballman uses the opportunity to grab the sword but Pitcherboy grabs it from him and gives it back to Low, saying that stealing his sword is like stealing someone’s bat. He requests that Stede returns the bat he took and Stede agrees, saying he doesn’t want to fight them anyway. Baseballman berates the crew for their association with Leon’s crimes and tells Leon that he should turn his life around and begins walks away. Pitcherboy whispers to Leon that he thinks Baseballman won’t care about his crimes as long as they aren’t related to baseball, and runs to catch up with him.

After the two are out of sight Ashton asks the crew to help her with the situation of the abused robots, which they all agree to and set off to investigate it.