I think he's going after Sengoku, but I wouldn't be surprised if he caused copious amounts of collateral damage so that if he wins or loses, the Marines won't be fighting the remainder of this war at full.
Posted on: November 04, 2009, 10:09:57 AM
Then, here's some pretty interesting news that sprung up recently:
Greg @ AP : "They're gonna make a former boss character their partner and head to the New World."
Apparently Oda mentioned this at Day 2 of JUMP Festa last year. I found it on NUMEROUS blogs when I was doing some research for the new section of my site.
I totally missed this.
Perhaps I was too busy having multiple orgasms over Jinbei.
Anyway, the 'partner' part is 'nakama' so how you interpret that...is up to you. Vivi IS their 'nakama' but is she currently a member of the CREW? No. So in many ways this could have several meanings aside from the obvious, "OMIGOD BENTHAM IS GONNA BE THEIR DANCER!!!!!1111FTW"
So this might be something that's already happened.
So, things look like there only going to get more awesome after this arc. Honestly, there are so many contenders for this now and each one would bring something new to the table, but I'm going to take a wild guess and say this will refer to either Croc, Jinbei, or Hancock (please, make it so!) with the wildest wildcards being Vivi (since it was mentioned and makes sense actually) and Squardo (you never know with Oda).