One Piece 654

The Straw Hats make their ascent back to the surface.

Hook one fish, get two larger ones for FREE!!

Summary:
The Straw Hats are making their ascent back to the sea surface. Nami takes a break from her navigator duties to take a bath, and Brook and Sanji are hanging around outside the bathroom wanting to catch a glimpse of a naked Nami. Chopper is also around but he is more interested in Nami's tempo clouds, but he accidentally touches a thunder cloud and causes Sanji and Brook to be fried. On deck, Usopp, Luffy and Zoro are planning to catch a deep sea for dinner. Luffy knocks out a large fish and Usopp hooks the fish, but the fish is eaten by a larger fish which is eaten by an even larger fish. Zoro kills the final fish with a sword strike, but the crew notices that the ship is sinking and Luffy spots a "white dragon" nearby. Robin realizes that what Luffy is seeing is an underwater whirlpool called a Whitestrom. Nami returns to the deck and tells the guys to cut the fishes loose to avoid getting sucked in to the Whitestrom, but it's too late and the Sunny is pulled inside. After spinning around for a bit, the Sunny is spat out into a school of giant Miraculous Island whales which Brook mistakens for Laboon. To avoid getting into more trouble, Nami orders the ship to sail with the whales. Brook starts singing and the whales seems to enjoy the music, and the Straw Hats are carried by the whales to the surface. The Straw Hats break through the surface and find that they are inside a huge storm, but the terrible weather fails to dampen their spirits.

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Luffy and their friends finally make their way back to the surface world. The crew is progressing towards their next big adventure, but it might take one or more chapters to actually get there. If I remember correctly, Urouge (one of the 11 Supernova/100 million+ bounty rookies) ended up in a stormy location. We'll see if the Straw Hats ended up at the same area or somewhere else entirely. It's safe to say that thanks to the fishing attempt, the Straw Hats probably don't know where they are. The next few chapters will be for the Straw Hats to figure out where they are and what is there for them to do.

Now that the Straw Hats ended up in dark and stormy seas, they probably won't be seeing Smoker's G5s anytime soon.