[Turns a laugh into a cough trying to stifle it.] That is probably quite true. Well, if he finds out, just say I wouldn't shut up about my baby brother, going on and on and on. It'll be payback for all the stories he's told me about you and Luffy.

And let's see... the first time I met Ace we weren't formally introduced. He wanted to kill my Pops so Jinbei fought him instead saying he wouldn't let him get through to us. They fought for five days solid, no breaks. [Not an exaggeration.] And then by that time we were actually able to get over there. Almost right away Ace figured out how much Pops outmatched him to he put up a fire shield and told his crew to run for it. So Pops knew he was actually a pretty good kid and asked Ace to join the crew. He told us to fuck off and passed out. So then his crew all tried to beat us up even though Ace told them to run; so we kicked their asses and dragged them on board with Ace. Thatch was there when he woke up, but after that Ace still kept trying to kill Pops and being crazy. So I'd stop by and talk to him whenever he let me, or at least gave up tuning me out. [And it was so gay a rainbow happened.]

And that is the first time I met Ace. You'll have to ask him yourself for the first time he met me though. I'm sure it'll be a wildly entertaining story about stupid pineapples bringing soup.