@uniaka:
Then how will luffy manage to get Sanji and Jimbei? They can't leave unless luffy does something.
And no, escaping is not in the options since the reason sanji even got here is because he would get some nice heads in boxes. Likely the same can be for jimbei and his friends.
the whole "capone is underestimating mama" plotline seems there as a device to give her something to be indebted to luffy when all things are set and done..she will give him back the cook as her "payment" for the favor.
another way it may go down is if luffy takes down germa..if the army is no more (or it's revealed to be too weak,thus casting a bad light on their technologies), the alliance would be to no use to big mom that might let go sanji
sincerely doubt that mama will go down in this arc@uniaka:
I do expect important names at tea party like Buggy and Croco boy, maybe Buggy heard rumors that warlord system will go down, and needs to make new contacts, like BM. I don't think Corocodile Works with Capone, but then again, they both seem like mobsters…
bagy is impossible,the WG would not accept a shichibukai attending a yonkou event,and while he may do this in secret,for him his position as a shichibukai seem waaaay too important to be wasted just to be present on the event.
Crocodile seem also a guy waaay too prideful to mix himself with a yonkou at that level..it's basically just like kid,better to die free than to live under the umbrella of a yonkou