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The small town in the new world was crowding with soldiers, members of the revolutionary army who were currently deployed at this part of the world.
He was one of this soldiers. The name he was known by today was Jack. This was not his true name, but he had been using it since he was part of the army or also "Jack the runner" that had been his nickname for the time, well, for as long as he had been on the run.
His real name had he given up a long time ago to protect both himself and others.
On his head was a bounty of 38.000.000 belly and that for a number of reasons. The first of them was that he was born.
His parents had been slaves and that had made him automatically a slave too, by default. But they had managed to escape. For that alone they had been pursued by the marines as long as he lived.
Since he was a child he had been a wanted person without even having done anything.
On his endless run however, the experience that had given him his new name, he had to break the law several times alone to survive and he had to fight off the marines who had been attacking him. But all that he had only done to defend himself.
Of course that made him a "criminal" in the eyes of the government all over again or rather it gave them another excuse to hunt for him and so his bounty had climbed higher and higher over the last years.
It was the absurdity of a "justice" that judged people for things they had not done and then blamed them for defending themselves.
So he became a criminal without ever wanting to be or deserving it, just because he got into the machinations of the world governments justice when before he was even born.
Many of his fellow revolutionaries shared similar stories, too many.
His entire life he had been a refugee, until he had met Dragon and decided to join his army. From then on he had been fighting instead. It didn´t take long to convince him.
Monkey D. Dragon the leader of the revolution was a charismatic and very impressive person and was able to win the trust and loyalty of others. When you were talking to him you knew that he believed in what he was saying and you couldn´t help but be caught by his words.
Some people said be had something called the king´s disposition, a form of haki that was said to be able to influence others minds and spirits. But his men knew it was more than that. It was his personality, just something about his being.
He had always known this so called world government was a blood thirsty tyranny that terrorized it´s citizens, enslaved people and lied, trying to frame others for it´s crimes. Like so many other he knew that from personal experience.
The revolutionaries were a force fighting to end this tyranny. Dragon and his commanders wanted to free the world from oppresson and give everyone the chance of a life in peace, people like him.
Or at least he had believed so for the longest time.
The revolutionary army was right, the world government was wrong? That had always seemed a bit too easy.
Their division of the revolution army had currently been operating on a group of islands close to the entrance of the new world.
Until a short time ago they had been hiding at a secret hideout, staying out of the sight of the marines and working in the underground. All this time waiting for the command to finally strike.
But all that had changed right now. A few weeks ago their battalion had occupied a town on one of the neighboring islands and taken complete control of it and it citizens.
It wasn´t what he had expected and it wasn´t what he was used to. Instead of greeted as liberators, like it was so often before, the revolutionaries were seen as invaders and treated according to it.
This wasn´t like it should be, he thought.
And that wasn´t even the worst of the situation.
Of course the world government had found out very quick what they had done and the town was now surrounded by an army of marines.
Battle-ships were lying in waiting, ready to bomb this entire town if necessary for their victory. As always, the world government was shown neither scruples or mercy or any concern for their citizens.
Worse, they should have known that it would come to this. Whoever had ordered this attack should have known right from the beginning that the government would react like this. They had knowingly set this town up for destruction.
There was no sense to deny it. The death of all this people would be as much their fault as it was the marines.
Maybe it had just been naïve and too single minded, to ever think that their aims could be achieved without hurting civilians or compromising their own morals in the process.
Was all this necessary for the greater good?
Maybe their leaders were really thinking so and then, he didn´t knew if he shared their opinions anymore.
Or maybe the problem was lying somewhere else and it was something different that was going on here.
Their sector commander had told them that they had direct order from the high command to take this island.
But if they were honest, thinking about it, nobody besides him had ever really seen this orders.
Were they truly doing this at the order of the leadership or was their commander following his own agenda?
He knew that some of the others were sharing his suspicions. But even if they were right, what should they do about it?
They were already in this situation, trapped in a town blockaded by marine soldiers. It was far too late for them to get out of here.
Another thing was that the Straw Hat Pirates had been seen in the town. They had gotten into several fights with their soldiers so far and some of the men were saying that their crew was preparing a strike to stop both, them and the marines.
It looked as if even the son of their supreme commander was against them.
What did that say about what they were doing here?
By what he had heard, the sons ideas about right and wrong, even when he was a pirate, were in general not so different from the fathers. Despite all the other obvious differences.
His doubts were certainly growing larger and larger. But what should, what could he do?
The battle would begin soon and it will be bloody.
In every chapter of this story, the same situation will be described from a different point of view by a different group. In the second, it will be from the marines and their version of the story.
The comments about Dragon´s king´s disposition haki made here are very vague and partly inaccurate. Saying that it was not haki but something about his being for example is absurd, since the kings haki is a representation about exactly this qualities.
But this thoughts are meant to come from somebody who has only limited knowledge about haki and nothing about the king´s disposition in particular. So this are statements from a unqualified person and were meant as such.