## One Piece Chapter 664, pages 10-11: Master Caesar Clown - Chapter: 664 - Pages: 10-11 - Characters: Brownbeard, Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Dr. Vegapunk, Basil Hawkins, Nico Robin ### Summary Page 10: Brownbeard describes how his downfall led him to Punk Hazard. "THANKS TO HIM, I LOST MY LEGS AND WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO CONTINUE MY LIFE OF PIRACY...!! MY WHOLE CREW DEVASTATED, I FLED DESPERATELY FOR MY LIFE... AND THIS PLACE, PUNK HAZARD, IS WHERE I WOUND UP!! DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN REALISE WHAT THIS PLACE IS?!" Luffy, Zoro, and the others look out over the impossible mixture of frozen ruin and buried facility. Brownbeard says, "LONG AGO, THEY SAY IT WAS A VERITABLE TREASURE TROVE OF GREENERY AND LIFE..." Luffy asks, "GREENERY AND LIFE? HERE?!" Zoro mutters, "THAT'S HARD TO BELIEVE." Brownbeard explains the old ownership: "THE FACILITIES YOU SEE HERE ORIGINALLY BELONGED TO THE GOVERNMENT SCIENTIST, VEGAPUNK. HE USED THEM TO FURTHER HIS RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION INTO ALL KINDS OF WEAPONRY AND DRUGS. HE HAD MANY PRISONERS BROUGHT HERE INSTEAD OF BEING TAKEN TO JAIL, AND USED THEM IN HIS HORRIFIC EXPERIMENTS...!!!" Page 11: Brownbeard continues the island's history. "BUT THEN, FOUR YEARS AGO, AN EXPERIMENT INVOLVING A CHEMICAL WEAPON VEGAPUNK WAS DEVELOPING WENT HORRIBLY WRONG... AND TWO OF THE THREE RESEARCH FACILITIES ON THE ISLAND WERE LAID TO RUBBLE!!" The crew stares at the remains around them, and someone says, "NO WONDER IT'S SO MESSED UP...!" Brownbeard clarifies, "THE PLACE WE'RE STANDING NOW... IS THE REMAINS OF ONE OF THOSE FACILITIES!!!" The disaster reshaped the entire island: "THE EXPLOSION COVERED THE ISLAND WITH SCORCHING HEAT AND POISONOUS CHEMICALS, WIPING OUT ALL TRACES OF LIFE. BUT THE GOVERNMENT RESEARCHERS SAILED AWAY WITHOUT A THOUGHT FOR ALL THE PRISONERS THEY LEFT BEHIND... AND SEALED OFF THE ISLAND COMPLETELY!" Some prisoners survived only barely: "DUE TO A POWERFUL NERVE GAS, EVEN THOSE WHO DIDN'T DIE OUTRIGHT WERE MOSTLY PARALYSED FROM THE WAIST DOWN... AND THEIR FUTURES SEEMED BLEAK AT BEST...!!" They escaped into the one remaining lab for shelter.