Alabasta Rebellion

The Arabasta Rebellion was founded because it was believed that King Cobra made the people of Arabasta suffer by stealing the rain through the use of Dance Powder.

Baroque Works
Throughout the Baroque Works Saga, it became clear that Baroque Works was behind the problems in Arabasta. It wasn't until late in the story arc that their leader Kohza became aware of the deception from Crocodile ; by then it was almost too late to stop what had happened.

The Baroque Works Deception
Several measures by Baroque Works which led to the rebellion to occur:
 * Crocodile won the heart of the people through use of public appearances as one of the Shichibukai, becoming a hero to the people by rounding up other pirates. This made so that no one suspected that he was the master mind behind everything.
 * Baroque Works secretly used Dance Powder to cause the capital city to have abnormally high amounts of rain. The people didn't suspect a thing until it was noticed that other cities were getting below normal rain amounts.
 * Baroque Works agents brought Dance Powder into the country and when questioned they said it was a delivery for the King.
 * Baroque Works assigned several of its members to join the Royal Guard, to aid in smuggling Dance Powder into the Palace. When the powder was found, this pushed the people into thinking their king was behind the lack of rain. By this time, the younger citizens of Yuba were beginning to form ideas of rebellion.
 * To make sure the Rebellion was pushed into place, several Baroque Members joined their ranks, even going so far as to become close officers to Kohza, who had become their leader.
 * With the aid of Mr. 2 Bon Kurei came the final spark that caused the rebellion to begin. First, they kidnapped the King of Arabasta, then Mr. 2 pretended to be the King and told the people he had used the powder. After Kohza was hurt during the incident, the Rebel army began its advancement on the capital.
 * A Baroque Works agent in the Royal Guard set off the rebels final assault by opening cannon fire on them "accidentally."
 * All efforts were made to stop Vivi from bringing the rebellion to a stand still. Firstly, by preventing Kohza from seeing her, secondly by firing at Kohza when he surrendered and then by stopping the people from hearing Vivi shouting at them.

Rebels
The rebellion is led by Kohza, Vivi´s childhood friend. Among the rebels are even more of Kohza´s and Vivi´s childhood friends from the Suna Suna Clan as well as various Baroque Works member who joined to ensure their groups plans came to fruition. The rebel army reached 700,000 members before the appearance of Mr. 2 as the King, at least 300,000 of them being defecting royal soldiers. By the time the attack on the capital city they had become a force of "2 million angry warriors" according to Chaka.

Major Members

 * Kohza
 * Erik
 * Farafra
 * Okame
 * Kebi

Course of events
Initially, the rebellion was simply a cold war with 600,000 royal soldiers vs. 400,000 rebels. However, as Vivi and the Straw Hats found out in a newspaper, 300,000 of the royal soldiers, half of their forces, defected and joined the rebels, changing the numbers to 300,000 royal soldiers vs. 700,000 rebels, shifting the balance of power to the rebels. This signals to the Straw Hats that the rebellion will escalate and soon blood will be shed.

Skirmish in Nanohana
The rebal army were getting ready to mobilise and attack Alubarna in a kamikaze attack. Meanwhile a young boy asked if he could join the rebal army but they said he couldn't join them and explained that people in the Rebellion are in real danger. Kohza also told him they hadn't given up on the king yet.

Battle of Alubarna


It is in this battle where in the Rebel Army charged to defeat the Royal Army and force the king of Arabasta to surrender. Not knowing that the war between them was actually engineered and being set up by the Baroque Works, led by Crocodile. Vivi would have blown up the Arabasta palace to catch the attention of the warriors fighting to urge them to stop the rebellion, but had failed to because of Crocodile. Kohza, the leader of the Rebel Army who knows the secret entrance to the palace, witnessed the commotion within and had found out that it was Crocodile who stole the rain. He and Vivi rushed to the Royal Army to make them surrender to the Rebel Army to stop the rebellion. But the Billions of Baroque Works who invaded the Royal Army shot Kohza and thus continued the war.

On the other hand, the Straw Hat Pirates fought their own battle. Usopp and Chopper fighting with Mr. 4 and Miss Merry Christmas; Sanji with Mr. 2 Bon Kurei; Nami with Miss Doublefinger; and Zoro fighting with Mr. 1, also known as Das Bones. The Straw Hats crew won the battle.

Luffy also had a hard time defeating Crocodile, and had at last won after their 3rd battle.