Chapter 75: Chapter 74: War Of The Best, Part-1# Brothers....
Luffy teleported both Yamato and Zoro along with the Sea Empress to the place, where Whitebeard Pirates were waiting. He told them to follow Whitebeard, while he had some business to take care of.
Both of them didn't object and followed his orders.
...
The Day of Ace's Execution.
On the island of Marineford, where Marine Headquarters is stationed, there is a large town mostly inhabited by the families of Marine personnel. The streets are completely empty, except for one stray cat.
The citizens had been evacuated to Sabaody Archipelago. There, they should bear witness to Ace's execution on monitors. Reporters and photographers had gathered there from hither and yon to report the news to the entire world.
At the Sabaody Archipelago, the evacuated families stood in front of the monitors, watching every event that shall take place, along with news reporters and photographers, when suddenly…
Almost everyone in the world is paying attention to this major event that can shake the sea.
Everyone is speculating: Will Whitebeard Pirates come to Marine Headquarters?
Will Whitebeard rescue Ace...?
Will there be war between Whitebeard Pirates and Marine Headquarters! ?
All of this is unknown and because it is unknown, so it is scary and fearful.
The unknown war has not broken out yet, and everyone is already afraid. ..
" Look! " a man suddenly shouted, " There's Ace, on the scaffold. "
...
Outside of Marineford, the Marine surveillance ships have all disappeared in the fog. So far, there had been no sign of Whitebeard, but even so, the entire island holds its breath.
** CHANK..* KLANK.. **
Ace drops to his knees as he was being chained to the scaffold, and the executioners hold their blades in front of him in an X-position. There are only three hours to go until his head rolls.
" Stay alert, men! We have to be ready for anything! "
The owner of the voice is revealed to belong to Vice-Admiral John Giant. As his name implies, he was a giant that towers over regular Marine soldiers by several times in height and had curly brown hair.
Unlike other high-ranking Marines, like Garp, John had his coat with his arms in the sleeves.
There are 50 battleships surrounding the island of Marineford, as well its crescent moon-shaped bay.
Batteries of heavy cannons line the shore, and on the wall stand five warriors, ready to decided the outcome of the upcoming battle.
They were pirates, the five remaining Warlords of the Sea who had answered the summons of the World Government: Dracule Mihawk, Boa Hancock, Gecko Moria, Bartholomew Kuma, and Donquixote Doflamingo.
While Mihawk, Kuma, and Doflamingo are dressed in their usual attire, Hancock, on the other hand, was dressed in a purple dress with the mark of the Kuja printed all over, as well as purple high heel pumps, and Moria was wearing a blue cape with beige fur trimmings.
Finally, high atop the execution scaffold in the town plaza, the central figure of this drama, 2nd Unit Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, Portgas D Ace, kneeled while quietly awaiting his fate.
The platform was guarded by the World Government's Ultimate Powerhouses: the three Admirals, Aokiji, Kizaru, and finally, the one in the middle, Admiral Sakazuki, better known by his alias, "Akainu".
Akainu is an incredibly tall man, about as tall as his fellow Admirals, with a broad, square-shaped face, very pronounced facial features and short black hair. He wore a standard Marine cap and sports a crimson double-breasted suit, decorated with what appears to be a pink rose on the top left buttonhole.
Unlike many high-ranking Marines, however, Akainu does not appear to wear a tie. Instead, he leaves his light flower-patterned shirt unbuttoned, showing off his muscular neck and part of a light blue tattoo.
These mighty defenders of justice have come to prevent Ace's rescue and to do battle with the mighty Whitebeard and his pirates.
Two distinguished figures were walking to the scaffold.
" Garp…don't try to stop me. I'm going to tell them everything. "
" Fine. Do whatever you please. I'll be waiting, down below. "
Fleet Admiral Sengoku appeared atop the scaffold while Vice-Admiral Monkey D. Garp stayed behind.
" Stand back. " Sengoku ordered the executioner, who stood aside to allow him to stand next to Ace.
" Yes, sir. "
Everyone looked up when they saw Sengoku, who was given a Mini Transponder Snail.
" Attention, everyone. " Sengoku said, " I have something to say to you all The execution of this man, Portgas D Ace, is a matter of enormous importance! "
" Ace. " Sengoku continued, " What is your father's name? "
A slight pause came.
" His father's name? "
" What does that have to do with any of this? "
"…My father's name, " Ace began, " is Whitebeard. "
" Not true! " Sengoku bellowed.
" Yes, it is! " Ace shouted, " Whitebeard is my father! My REAL father! There's nobody else! "
" We were looking everywhere. " Sengoku continued, ignoring Ace's protests, " when Cipher Pol gave us intelligence of the possibility that one of his children might be born on a certain island. We examined newborns, even unborn infants and their mothers and found nothing…but that was only natural. Your mother used a trick to hide you. A trick that cost her her very life! "
" We were fooled. The whole world was fooled! Your mother, Ace, lived on the island of Baterilla in the South Blue. Her name was Portgas D. Rouge. She did something we never imagined was possible. She hid her child in her womb for 20 months in order to save it! "
Ace's eyes went wide.
" She bought your life, Ace, at the cost of her own. One year and three months before you were born, your father was executed. The blood of the most terrible criminal that the world has ever known…courses through your veins. "
A pause.
" Don't you start playing dumb, now! "
' No....No! Don't say it! Please, DON'T SAY IT! ' Ace thought.
" Your father, Ace, was the one and only Gol D Roger, the Pirate King! "
Everyone in the plaza and the people watching the live broadcast gasped at the revelation, for no one except Sengoku, Garp, and Ace himself knew about this.
Portgas or rather Gol D Ace…is the son of Gol D Roger, the former King of the Pirates and judging from Ace's facial expression, it appeared to be something he did not take pride in.
Garp stood behind, looking down with guilt, and he let his mind wander to the day before Roger's execution.
" My unborn child is innocent, Garp. " the old Vice-Admiral heard the Pirate King's words in his memory, " I ask you…take care of my son! "
Garp sighed. ' Forgive me…Roger. '
....
At the Sabaody Archipelago, everyone was still watching everything on the monitors, and was shocked to hear the news that Sengoku had just revealed.
" Fire Fist' Ace…is Gold Roger's son?! "
" This is big news! " said one of the reporters. " Quick! Notify the head office, at once! "
" We'll print an extra edition, if we have to! "
....
Back at Marineford, even all the Marines that stood ready for battle were also shocked at the revelation.
Gold Roger's son? How can this be?!
" So…he's not Luffy's blood brother? " Hancock questioned, " I wonder if my beloved knows. "
Ace squinted his shut and had his head lowered.
" Gol D Roger's…son?! " the Marines repeated in shock.
The Three Admirals sat in silence.
" So! " Moria exclaimed with a grin. " His son is alive, after all! It's incredible! Everyone who was ever associated with Roger was executed. "
Then Sengoku started telling Ace's history to the rest of the world and time passed.
After an unknown amount of time.
" Here they come! "
" All hands! Battle stations! "
" No way! " Sengoku said, " They all appeared so suddenly! Where did they come from?! "
Outside of the bay, Sengoku can see a huge fleet…of pirate ships, all with different kinds of figureheads and Jolly Rogers, and some of them belonged to infamous pirate captains of the New World.
There are at least 43 pirate ships in all, all of them here to rescue Ace, and all of them here are aligned Whitebeard…who was still nowhere to be found.
Ace looked on in surprise, for at one point after he first set sail…he had actually managed to defeat these people, and yet, here they are, coming to his rescue.
" You guys…you came for me, too? " Ace asked.
The battleships stationed outside the bay faced the pirate ships, prepared to attack.
" Shall we commence the attack?! " asked a Marine officer.
" No, not yet! Whitebeard hasn't shown himself, yet! He's sure to be up to something! Keep your eyes on the surrounding waters! "
" Kukukuku! " Doflamingo laughed, " Well, this is getting interesting! Now I'm getting excited, here! Whitebeard! Hurry up and show yourself! "
Suddenly, the Three Admirals raised their heads up. They could've sworn they heard something.
** BLUP...BLUP! ** The water gurgled.
" No. " Sengoku said, " It can't be! "
** BLUP! BLUP! **
The water kept bubbling, and the nervous Marines looked around, trying to find the source.
" He's going to try and pull off something outrageous, for sure. " Garp said.
" It looks like we could be in the wrong formation. " said Tsuru.
Just then, four shadows formed under the water.
" Hey! What are those shadows?! "
" No…you don't think…?! "
" So that's it! " Sengoku said, " They had coated their ships and went underwater! "
** SPLOOSH! **
A giant whale-like pirate ship appeared from the depths of the ocean.
But no one noticed as a small ship bearing the markings of the revolutionary army surfaced alongside the bay.
" IT'S THE MOBY DICK! "
Yes, the Moby Dick, the ship captained by none other than Whitebeard himself, had finally appeared, along with two other large whale-like ships and an additional unknown but magnificent ship even larger than the Moby Dick.
" They're inside the bay! Even the 14 Division Leaders! "
" Whitebeard. " Sengoku seethed.
" But what is that 4th ship? "
" Yes, i also can't recognise the Jolly Roger. "
".... That's the ship of Devil Dragon Pirates. Fuck. "
" Look only two of them are present. But where is that famous Dragon King? "
Everyone started discussing about the sudden entrance of Devil Dragon Pirates. Zoro and Yamato were standing on the deck of Sea Empress while waiting for their Captain's arrival.
Soon the discussion died down because of Whitebeard's presence.
** KLAK.. KLAK.. KLAK... **
A familiar person walked up to the main ship's figurehead. It was revealed to be none other than the mighty Whitebeard, himself.
" GURARARARARA…how long has it been, Sengoku? " asked Whitebeard, " My beloved son should better be all right, Sengoku. GURARARARARA~! "
" I'm coming, Ace. " said Whitebeard.
" POPS...." Ace shouted.
" I didn't expect them to get so close to the bay, so quickly. " Sengoku mused.
SWUP! Whitebeard crossed his arms in front of his chest, while the 14 Division Leaders stood.
Whitebeard then flashed a toothy grin, and then WHAM! He threw both hands to his sides, punching what seemed to be thin air. KRAKKRAKKRAK!
Then, RRRMMMMMBB! A tremor suddenly occurs, so big that it caused the entire bay to ripple and shake. THOOM! A gigantic explosion appears in the water, and grows, higher until it practically went straight through the Marines' flanks!
No one was harmed, but it did cause alarm for the Marines.
" W-what just happened?! "
" Is that an explosion?! "
" This is bad! Look at how high that wave is rising! "
" Well, well. " Aokiji said, " Looks we've brought us some real trouble down on our heads. "
" We should've seen this coming. " Akainu mused.
" What a pain. " Kizaru added.
Then the usual sequence of events occurred one by one. But suddenly something attracted everyones attention.
" Fleet admiral, won't you welcome me? " A young man shouted and to punctuate his statement he threw two daggers at the executioners standing on either side Ace. Both struck their marks and killed the guards just as he finished speaking.
Sengoku had just been about to give a speech about Whitebeard when he was interrupted by someone speaking and two crashes.
He looked toward the voice and almost dropped the Den Den Mushi. His eyes flared wide and his mouth dropped down. " where did you come from? " he demanded to know. By now everyone was looking at the newcomer with various expressions of confusion and shocked recognition.
The newcomer had blond hair, a long black jacket with a buckle on the left sleeve, with a blue shirt and vest, a frilled cravat and a simple belt holding a pair of loosen light-blue pants with black boots.
He also was wearing a pair of brown gloves and the same top hat with goggles over the band.
Yes, you guessed it right. It was Sabo, the last member of Luffy's brother trio.
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