Chapter 3:
Ten minutes earlier...
Krillin, Coby, and Helmeppo stared with terrified looks as the battle raged on and the bald man looked at the two kids with a brave look on his face. "I need to get you two away from here." The boys seemed hesitant about leaving their posts.
"We can't do anything Coby, this isn't where we should be," Helmeppo pleaded and the other boy with pink hair nodded, feeling the same way. The three of them started running down the streets when they saw someone and froze, ducking behind the side of a building.
"It's another Marine," Coby stated as he saw the man looking nervously around, "It looks like he's doing the same thing we are and running away." He said this almost shamefully but a second later they saw another figure, much larger than the Marine, standing over him.
"It's Admiral Akainu," Helmeppo said and they looked at the man who was with them in the orange gi but the figure was shivering as he felt the untapped power hiding inside the Admiral.
"I have a family, I just want to see them again," the man pleaded with the admiral.
"If you really cared about your family then you wouldn't have brought such dishonor upon them like this." Akainu started to bubble and his skin turned to lava as he moved forwards and engulfed the terrified Marine. All three of the hiding people started sweating buckets and their legs began shaking as they ducked behind the building and fell to the floor.
"H-h-he killed him," Coby stuttered and Helmeppo covered his lips.
"We have to get out of here," Krillin told the boys but Coby was shaking his head in fear.
"No, we need to get back to the battle," Coby exclaimed and Helmeppo chased after him as they ran back somewhere even more dangerous.
"Wait!" Krillin called after them and then sighed as he stared at the now empty street as the boys turned the next corner.
"Who are you," a deep voice spoke from right behind him and Krillin tried to hold in his pee as he turned around slowly and looked up. The man before him was steaming as molten magma fell off of his skin and he glared at the man one third his height. "All civilians were told to evacuate. Since you aren't a Marine, that makes you a pirate. Die!" he raised a fist made of liquid fire and punched towards Krillin who lifted into the air and flew as fast as he could back towards his friends.
Akainu was about to give chase when he heard to get back because the plans were about to get started.
Present Time...
Gohan watched as the old pirate landed a few yards away from him and pointed his giant sword at the execution platform. Suddenly two cannonballs were heading their direction and Gohan was going to shoot ki balls at them but Whitebeard had other plans.
The old man punched the air with his left hand and through the power of his Tremor Tremor fruit, he sent the explosives flying back at the cannon, blowing it apart along with the Marines who had fired it. The teenager stared amazed at the power of Whitebeard and started moving closer to him.
"Brat," Gohan stopped moving at the word, "what do you think you're doing?"
"I'm challenging you," Gohan instantly turned his hair golden as he felt he stood no chance against Whitebeard in his base form. He didn't want to go to his Mythic state just yet, but was willing to if the fight progressed that far. The pirate captain was insanely powerful but even as Gohan turned into a Super Saiyan, he knew the man had more power he could tap into. He felt it was getting very weird that all the Marines were disappearing but he wanted to fight Whitebeard from the second he saw him coming out from beneath the water.
"Before you do," Whitebeard stated feeling the tremendous power emanating from this kid and knowing that he couldn't afford waiting to rescue Ace, "why don't you help me save Ace?" For some reason he knew he could play into the young man's heart and Gohan powered down from a Super Saiyan.
"Alright," he said with a grin, "but promise you'll fight me after this okay?" Whitebeard smirked at that and nodded his head. He didn't know who this guy was, but he didn't feel like giving him a speech about not being able to help, because this one man felt like he had the power to actually turn the tides.
Gohan turned and saw the tallest of all the Marine giants leap down onto the ice where he started slashing at all the pirates. The man in the Navy officer coat started charging towards them and Gohan flew up, charging a huge blast of ki in his hands. "Don't," Whitebeard said and the boy looked down, seeing the look of calm in Whitebeard's eyes. He moved out of the way and watched as the giant slammed his enormous sword down on Whitebeard's that looked like a toothpick in comparison.
It's not the sword, it's who wields the sword, Gohan thought with a gulp as Whitebeard was easily able to stop the attack on his own. Sweat began to drip down the teen's face as he rose higher in the air and looked around seeing Vegeta and Krillin also flying over to him. I didn't know anyone else on the planet was this powerful, It's kind of unsettling. Piccolo lowered himself from the air too and met with the three of them as they looked down at Whitebeard who knocked John Giant up with a small flick of his sword and then tossed his own sword in the air. "You're in our way."
"What's he doing?" Vegeta asked as Krillin was yelling gibberish.
"There was this man and he had flaming molten fists that he killed his own man with and it was terrifying holy shit what's he doing?!" Krillin stopped talking as he felt a huge power increase as Whitebeard stuck his hands out like claws into the air. Vegeta's smirk only grew wider as he saw the look of fury on the old man's face.
Whitebeard stuck his hands in the air and shook as he gripped the very air itself and pulled down as hard as he could. Vegeta's smirk disappeared as Krillin shouted in fear and the other two stared in disbelief.
Piccolo whispered just loud enough for them to hear it, "He really is a man like us. He has the power to destroy the world," the entire battlefield started shaking and tilting as men began sliding on what they thought was a flat surface. The giant in front of him had it the worst as he felt the very brunt of the attack and could feel his insides being shook.
The commanders that were all running with Luffy had broken off to fight other battles and allow the kid to keep chasing after his brother. Now all that was left was him and Trunks who stayed by his side the whole time. They were running so fast that they didn't even notice the ground shift and they lost their balance, tumbling to the side.
"Ouch," Trunks said as Luffy landed on him.
"That hurt," Straw Hat agreed and then looked to his right where he eyes went wide and he started trembling. Trunks got to his feet but his legs were shaking so hard that he couldn't stay up and had to sit down again for a few seconds.
They looked outside of the battlefield to the water surrounding Marineford and froze at what they saw. It was as if the Earth's crust had been ruptured and lifted up in some places where it had sank in others. Water was lifted in sections as big as bays and the different sections were elevated above each other. The land in front of them kept shaking as the Earth seemed to be cracking apart beneath them.
"The sea..." Luffy started.
"It's rising," Trunks finished as one section continued going higher above the others and some of its water was spilling onto another section where it dropped on top of a warship and shattered it by the force of millions of gallons of water.
"There's no doubt," Gohan stated quietly as they watched buildings all over Marineford start cracking as the island was tilted, "he's the strongest of them all." The two Saiyans began to grin again, almost unable to stop themselves from flying down and fighting Whitebeard at that exact moment.
The sections of water kept moving so that the Marines on their warships started getting put vertically facing the sky and the water. Ships were falling out of the water walls and crashing on top of each other as soldiers fell hundreds of feet to their deaths.
Luffy and Trunks panicked as a giant crack appeared in the ice and if not for Trunks' ability to fly they would have fallen down into the pit. The little boy caught the teen and lifted him before diving for the side of the geyser and panting deeply as he stared at the enormous crack.
Tien was miles away but when the world started to shake he turned around and stared with wide-eyes as the sea was broken apart in several sections and each one tilted above the next. What power, he almost decided to fly back but remembered the unconscious form on his shoulder and just shot off into the distance instead.
Luffy was in danger of falling back down the crack and Trunks was staring at the waves in shock, but the kid didn't need to save him as Jimbei was there again and caught Luffy himself this time.
"Thanks Jimbei." Luffy said gratefully and they turned back to watch Whitebeard again.
Gohan was amazed that John Giant was able to stand after that attack, let alone fight again but the man was raising his sword like nothing had happened. Vegeta stated plainly, "He's in a whole different league than the other giants, but he's still nothing compared to the geezer."
As if to prove this, Whitebeard jumped up and punched the air right in front of the giant's chest. A shockwave rippled across the air as cracks formed around his hand and the giant was pushed backwards. The force of the explosion caused a huge air blast that pushed across the ice, shattering it as it moved across the bay and broke through an outer wall.
"He's going to hit the execution platform," Krillin stated with hope in his voice.
Piccolo watched as two men stepped forwards and lifted their hands. The explosion reached the platform but once it hit the admirals, it dispersed and instead blew up a hundred houses on either side. The fighters were surprised that the two admirals were strong enough to stop a blast from Whitebeard and they were getting pumped all over again.
As everyone started fighting again, Trunks ran with Luffy and didn't seem to be tired at all. What is with him, Luffy thought and then shouted, "ACE! I'm coming right now," Trunks looked at him in disbelief as the teenager extended his arms all the way to the wall and grabbed on. Here we go, he lifted into the air and started flying after his new friend but before they could reach the other side, they were stopped. A new massive wall came out of the water and knocked Luffy's hands off the inner wall, causing Trunks to freeze where he was and look back at the teenager who fell down to the ice.
"I don't like where this is heading," Krillin remarked as they watched almost a hundred giant steel walls rise up around the bay. They saw some pirates trying to break them but nothing was working and as they looked up they saw hundreds of cannons sticking out of the wall facing the inner bay.
Piccolo listened to what the Marines were saying and he smirked, "That monster Oars is still doing his part, even as he lays there knocked out." The last wall wasn't being raised because Oars' body was too heavy and his blood had damaged the system. "The pirates still have a way of getting to Ace."
"They may not be closed in, but proceed with the operation Akainu." Sengoku stated coldly. Krillin started backing away in fear as they listened to the Fleet Admiral.
"It's him, he's the one who killed his own man for trying to run away," the small man pointed at the marine in the red suit. Vegeta just shrugged as if it was a normal thing to do while the other two looked disgusted. However, they all stared at the man as they felt a huge amount of ki start getting exuded from him.
His skin began to melt as lava formed all around him, "Meteor Volcano." He pointed his arms up in the sky and meteors started flying out. Five, ten, twenty, more and more kept shooting out until he finally stopped. They lifted up in the air and disappeared in the darkening clouds.
Hundreds of pirates were standing in the bay looking up at the sky fearfully as they began to see little red dots coming out of the sky. "I suggest we," Piccolo started as they began to make out the shapes of fists. Each fist was entirely made of lava and falling out of the sky faster than cannonballs as they broke through the dark clouds. "DODGE!" He screamed and the Z fighters started moving out of the way as massive fists fell down towards them.
Goku pulled himself out of the rubble of a building and looked around, he could hear thousands of screams but as he looked around nothing bad seemed to be happening. Tens of thousands of Marines were walking all over the plaza and he flew up in the air to understand what was happening. When he saw the enormous walls curving away from him he knew something was wrong and he flew over to the top of one.
As soon as he got to the ledge he saw madness, chaos of a degree that he could only compare the explosion of Namek to. No, this is worse than Namek, on Namek I was the only one there. Ice was shattering and melting everywhere as people fell into the boiling hot water. Explosions killed tens of pirates with each time a magma fist erupted. One fist hit a boat that burst into flames and began to sink.
"We have to go," Trunks urged his friend but Mugiwara wasn't budging an inch. He couldn't stop staring at all the fists falling from the sky. Suddenly every cannon in the wall started firing and blowing up any pirates that didn't fall in the water. All those who tried to run back were faced with an army of Pacifista who destroyed them with lasers.
Goku finally couldn't handle it any longer and he snapped, turning into a super Saiyan again and spinning towards the execution platform. "That is, ENOUGH!" He shot towards the platform with such speed that no one could even see him as he punched Admiral Akainu in the face. He'd heard of overkill, but the magma fists, cannons, and lasers were making ki's disappear so fast that his senses were hurting as he felt so many people losing their lives.
"WHAT!?" Garp, Sengoku, and thousands of other Marines shouted as Akainu was blasted away with one punch from the golden glowing figure. Akainu had not stopped firing his Meteor Volcano even after he was hit and as he spiraled out of control through buildings, he shot multiple lava fists into the ground and caused hundreds of Marines to get scattered around. One of the fists headed straight for the execution platform but Garp jumped up and punched it away. Finally the magma stopped firing from Akainu's fists and he fell to the ground on the other side of Marineford, but Goku was all the way back right in front of he platform where he stared up at the two leaders of the navy.
Inside the walls, Whitebeard tried attacking the wall but it only left a giant dent, not even close to breaking the huge thing. The fists that were still falling out of the sky increased but no more were being shot up so very soon they would stop coming. However, there were still enough of them that six or seven landed directly on top of the Whitebeard Pirate's flagship, the Moby Dick. Whitebeard looked at it sadly while hundreds of pirates started crying at the loss of their ship.
Ignoring the obvious threat right in front of him, Fleet Admiral Sengoku announced in his transponder snail, "The execution of Portgas D. Ace will commence immediately!"
Trunks was terrified, he saw all the pirates around him falter at that announcement and get ready to charge the plaza but he couldn't understand. He stared at them in disbelief as they talked about swimming across the boiling water to cross Oars body where they would face certain death against the Marines. How are they all willing to die for one man?
The boy turned towards Luffy and started shaking him but the rubber teen was having none of it and started screaming. Without further pause he started sprinting past all the other pirates and straight towards his brother. "Ace!" All the pirates were motivated by him and started chasing after him towards Oars.
Trunks floated up into the air and watched hundreds of pirates charge across the ice getting slammed by cannonball after cannonball. He watched his friend get struck by an explosion and it stunned him. Luffy kept moving forwards without hesitation even if his pace was slowed. "Just give up!" Trunks shouted as tears came to his eyes. It had long since stopped being fun and he wanted to leave but he didn't want to abandon his new friend either.
"ACEEE!" Luffy shouted and as he finished saying the name of his brother, another cannon fired and this one hit directly in front of the rubberman. No, Trunks thought as he watched the teenager fly up in the sky and start falling down into the water.
How could I have let this happen? He was my friend, Trunks started getting angry and his hair turned gold as he shot forwards at incredible speeds. Two cannonballs flew towards him and he caught them both, one in each hand as he flew right over Oars' body. He landed on the green giant's back and chucked both balls down at Marines where they exploded.
"Rarrr," he screamed but stopped as he felt the ground beneath him started shaking. Far in front of him, directly beneath the execution platform, Goku was having a stare down with the ice admiral, Aokigi. They both heard the scream and then the rumbling on the ground and started turning at the same time to see the giant monster getting up.
"Ace-kun," it grumbled. Trunks ran forwards and stood on top of the monster's head as it slammed a fist on the ground. "Ace... kun, Ace kun," he kept repeating those words, "I'm gonna protect Ace-kun." Oars was back, and he was ready to fight!
The nine year old boy opened his eyes and instantly felt burning hot. He tried to breathe but when he opened his mouth, water rushed in. He looked around and couldn't figure out which way was up as he panicked. Remember, Gohan said that in times of panic I need to slow down and take a deep breath. BUT I CAN'T TAKE A DEEP BREATH UNDERWATER! Goten still tried to remain calm as he looked for a way out and came up with an idea.
The spiky black-haired boy closed his eyes and felt out the strongest ki's, which were all right above him. So that way is up, he shot off in the direction and surfaced, but it did nothing to calm his panic. He had been encased in ice but a giant magma fist melted him. Now as he looked around he saw people dying all around him as cannons, fists, and beams fell out of the sky on top of them.
He saw some of the inmates and Buggy getting back onto an iceberg as well but he had to look for Trunks. Captain Buggy didn't need his help, they were fine without him. He felt out where his friend would be and instead felt his other friend much closer. Trunks should be with him, Goten shot over to a portion of the ice where Jimbei was talking to Luffy.
"Hey," he said as he landed next to them but they couldn't even be bothered to listen to the boy.
"They're gonna execute Ace!" Luffy shouted and Goten realized the situation had become a lot more dire since he left them. The little boy looked up at the man, or woman, with the giant head and purple hair that was with them and started giggling.
Jimbei answered Luffy, "Yes, we must act quickly." He looked at the little boy who was laughing at the giant headed Emperio Ivankov. The Okama queen couldn't be bothered by the little boy either even if she was feeling offended and instead she looked at Luffy in fear. We're running out of time.
"Jimbei, I've got a favor to ask," for the first time Luffy looked down at Goten and the little kid looked up at him with a serious face. Everyone else was treating the situation like it was the worst possible one to be in but he was still willing to help if Straw Hat wanted him to.
The little boy listened to Luffy's plan and smiled, watching as Jimbei understood and jumped down into the water, swimming right below them. "Are you ready?" Goten nodded and his black hair spikes turned gold. "GO!"
The ice beneath Luffy and Goten shattered as a giant pillar of water shot up and knocked them into the air. It pulled them up and over the massive wall and right over Oars' hulking form. Trunks saw who it was in the water sphere that shot over the wall and flew towards it, joining in with the other two as it slammed down to the ground.
Every Marine in the plaza stared speechless as they stopped attacking Oars to look at the people who just arrived. With knees bent, Goten and Trunks were both Super Saiyans who had their fists slammed into the ground making craters beneath them. Between them stood another, taller figure punching the ground with bent knees, only this one had a giant log with him. Luffy was holding a broken off mast of one of the ships in the bay and he stared at the ground after hitting it. Then, him and both Super Saiyans looked up at the same time.
Goku looked towards his youngest son with a smile and then heard Ace up above him, "Lu..." the word was caught in his throat, "LUFFY!" The man next to Goku suddenly had a new priority and shot over to stand right in front of the boy with the straw hat. The Saiyan also felt a huge power coming from his left but Akainu didn't come after him for revenge, he went straight over towards Luffy and the boys as well. I wonder why everyone is ignoring me? He looked up at the platform and was about to fly up and try to free Ace when a man appeared next to him with insane speeds. It looks like one of those robots, he knew it wasn't however because he could feel a ginormous power coming from inside him.
"Son Goku, winner of the 23rd World Martial Arts tournament, suspected to be an alien. Current bounty- zero. Threat level... maximum, eliminate immediately," Bartholemew Kuma kept his mouth open and a giant beam of energy shot out and hit the unsuspecting Super Saiyan.
Goten watched his father get knocked away by the bear-man, but his focus was on the two looming figures in front of him.
"Oh my. You finally made it here," the admiral in a blue suit stated.
"Quite an entrance. Son of Dragon." Akainu stated. "If nothing else I praise your tenacity," the man in red continued. He was already angered by the sudden attack from the glowing figure behind him but this pirate he could not let live. He makes everyone around him into an ally, he is the most dangerous man to let live here. D...
The tall marine with curly hair and a sleeping mask pulled over the top of his head added, "But you're not ready for this stage yet."
Luffy completely ignored them and just shouted, "Give Ace..." he jumped and swung the log, throwing it at the Admirals. "BACK!" Aokigi froze the log as it spun towards him but all three of the kids facing him were ready. "Gomu Gomu no, Stamp Gattling Gun," Luffy started slamming his feet over and over into the log breaking it into a hundred pieces and sending every piece towards the Admirals. Both half-Saiyan children started shooting scatter-shots of yellow ki into the men at the same time as little ice chunks surrounding the log hit them.
Every time a chunk of ice or a ball of light hit an admiral, it would go right through them without the man even blinking. The attack wasn't working at all and the two boys began to feel nervous but as steam started surrounding the admirals, (Akainu's hot body melted the ice on contact causing the steam to form), Luffy fell to the ground and his leg bent in as he shouted, "Gear Second." Both Saiyans were amazed at the power difference as Luffy shot past both Admirals at such an insane speed that there was no way for them to catch him.
"Soru!" Luffy looked to his left just in time to see a man who looked like he had eight arms slash him with his sword. He bent back at the last second but the swipe still cut him deep and the man followed up with a kick that sent Luffy crashing down to the ground, and shattering a house as he did.
Trunks and Goten both tried flying over the Admirals heads really fast but the two men were ready this time and jumped up as the boys were passing, each one grabbing the ankles of one of the boys each. They both swung the kids hard down into the ground and then looked towards the execution platform.
"On my mark." Sengoku stated, "Do it!"
"Ace!" A hundred different people all around the battlefield shouted at the same time as they watched in horror. The swords began to come down over Ace's head but as they were but inches away from slicing through their target, both executioners were killed and thrown off the platform. Shards of wood flew up as something had slashed through the front of the platform and saved Ace.
"Who did this?" Fleet Admiral Sengoku asked angrily and looked down into the square where a thousand Marines were pointing their weapons at one man. "Bastard!" he shouted as the sand man who looked up at him with an arrogant smirk. "Considering your old grudge against Whitebeard, I had thought we were lucky. Crocodile!"
"Huh... it wasn't my turn yet?" The blue phoenix Marco landed back on one of the walls realizing that he would've been too late anyway and that Crocodile had just saved one of his closest friends.
The fishman who had helped the children over the wall shouted to him, "You were hell bent on killing Whitebeard. Why the sudden change of heart?"
"That dying old man? I'll eliminate him later. But right now," he looked up at Sengoku, "I don't want to see you enjoying victory." Vegeta was smirking, he liked this sand guy, but before anything else could happen, Crocodile's head came clean off.
The Z warriors were watching from the air, at least the ones who were at the main action. Yamcha was fighting a losing battle against several Pacifista which he greatly underestimated, and Goku was nowhere to be seen after getting hammered by the real Kuma's attack. Both youngest Saiyans were face first in the floor of the plaza, their hair having gone back to black. Only Krillin, Gohan, Piccolo, and Vegeta remained in the air watching the events down below.
The Prince remembered seeing Oars' leg torn straight off before and the work done to Crocodile's head looked similar to that. It's him, he thought with a bit of disdain. He was looking forwards to fighting Doflamingo back at Dressrosa where he said to meet him, but the man was still moving around the battlefield doing as he pleased. "Hey hey, Crocodile-man. So you're ditching me to team up with Whitebeard?" Crocodile started to reform, his head turning to sand and that sand moving back towards his body. "It's enough to make a guy jealous ya know."
"I don't team up with anybody." As the two of them started arguing with each other, Gohan flew off to the side where he saw one of the Shichibukai walking. Kuma was heading straight for the broken building he hit the Saiyan warrior into before but his sensors told him to spin around and he did.
The nineteen year old didn't think the man would see him coming but pulled back a fist anyway to strike the man. He powered up fast into his Mythic form and reared back, throwing his fist forwards with enough strength to take the man down. Once his fist hit the bear-man's paw, it bounced back and slammed Gohan so hard in the face that it threw him across the plaza and into a building on the other side.
He got up fast wondering why that just happened but he didn't think about it for too long as Kuma disappeared and came towards him. The Shichibukai had a weird ability to teleport that matched his father's instant transmission. Gohan saw the man move halfway across the field, then on top of the execution platform, and then he felt him and saw half of his body directly on his right. "Son Gohan, Delivery boy, defeater of the man known as Cell," Gohan was amazed that this man speaking in a robotic tone could know this, "Current bounty- zero. Threat level- maximum, eliminate immediately." He slapped his hand forwards and Gohan was gone.
Piccolo had been watching the entire affair and froze up as his pupil disappeared. Krillin bugged, "What? Where'd Gohan go?"
Only Vegeta had been fast enough to see that the boy had not vanished but been shot into the distance at speeds much faster than he could fly. "He's not dead," The Prince growled, looking down at the bear-man, but that guy has some strong techniques. There's no way anyone here should even be able to lay a finger on Kakarott or his son. I may have underestimated the people of this planet. He had believed that the only ones on Earth strong enough to be considered anything but weaklings were all people that he knew personally. Now, he was getting a better idea of what was truly going on in the world around him, and it intrigued him. Maybe I'll become a pirate after this, he could imagine how well that would go over when he told Bulma, especially if he suggested taking their son with him.
Down on the ground, Luffy was surprised that Crocodile would save his brother, but at the moment he had to get back to the platform. He started sprinting through the masses of Navy soldiers, kicking their asses until he was stopped by another man using haki. This one wasn't nearly as strong as some of the others he'd had to face and he was able to defeat him with one Gum Gum bullet. However, as soon as that man was defeated, Aokigi was right on top of him and stabbed him in the right shoulder with an ice spear.
"I owe a debt to your grandfather, but this is where you die." He ate his words as the first division commander flew forwards and kicked him in the side so hard he was thrown into a nearby wall. Luffy kept getting help from the Whitebeard pirates, but he couldn't pay attention to any of that and just screamed, "ACE!"
"Ughh," Trunks lifted his head up and pulled himself to his knees. This is getting good again, he looked around and saw the square full of Marines starting to fall into a panic. The giant monster behind them was gaining most of their attention, but there was other stuff going on too. The little boy reached over with his right hand and touched the left side of his chest where he was slashed by Hawk-Eye earlier. He winced and then looked at the blood on his hand, A true warrior wouldn't let this stop him. "Goten, Goten get up," he shook his friend by the arm and Goten moaned before lifting up to his knees as well.
The black haired kid was covered in burn marks on his arms and legs but he ignored them as he struggled up to his feet. "Wow Trunks, these guys are really strong. What do you want to do?" The younger kid asked, stretching out his arms and kicking out his legs to get the blood pumping.
A few marines started to notice the boys who were pummeled by the Admirals a few minutes ago. Their eyes widened in shock as the kids were just shaking off their injuries and smiling. "We have to take them out," one man said to the other next to him.
The marine with the scruffy orange beard looked at his comrade and then back at the kids. "They're just children, can't we ignore them?" He said it because he didn't want to hurt kids, but the two boys with Saiyan-hearing heard him and thought he was taking them lightly. Both of their heads snapped towards him at the same time and the marine and his buddy took a step back.
As their feet hit the ground from taking a step back, the two boys in front of them disappeared and reappeared inches in front of their faces. Goten smacked the man who insulted them in the face and he spun through the air and he tumbled into other marines who all knocked over and turned around to face whoever their new enemy was. Their eyes went wide as they saw ten year old Trunks holding up a fat screaming marine over his head and tossed him hundreds of feet to the right into a crushed building.
"Get them!"
The two boys forgot about their wounds and got into fighting stances, grinning at the enemies before them.
"Run! The Pacifista are coming!" A pirate shouted over his shoulder as he ran from the back of the bay towards the opening where Oars was now awake again.
"They slowed down," a pirate holding a giant club said to the one next to him and the large group of them stopped running away towards Ace and turned back towards the large smoke cloud in front of twenty Pacifista marching towards them. "Look, there's someone still there. Hey, run away!" The man shouted and the others next to him started calling out for him to run too.
There was one silhouette and as the smoke cleared, they saw a man in an orange gi standing in front of the stopped army of Pacifista. "If I run," Yamcha panted. The man had blood coming down the right side of his face, his pant legs were ripped off, and the right side of his gi was torn as he stood in front of the enemies, "then they'll get you guys," the man said and the pirates behind him stared in awe as he jumped backwards to avoid five beams coming straight for him.
Yamcha lifted up in the air and his strength was draining. Gotta push out everything I have in this attack. "RaaaaAAAA!" he held his arms out to his sides and a large white aura started forming around him. It looked unstable and flared out in different directions as the rocks and broken weapons and bodies all around him started lifting up in the air.
"What's he doing?!" a pirate shouted and now a lot of the others stopped running towards the plaza to stop and stare at the man in the orange jumpsuit.
"Run away!" another man yelled and stumbled back as the strange figure pulled back his arms to his sides.
"KAME," Yamcha shouted and put as much energy as he could into the connection of his two hands. One of the Pacifista below held up a hand and shot a beam at him, but he couldn't dodge since he'd risk losing his attack. He took the beam head on and it exploded on his left shoulder. "HAMEEE!" he yelled at the top of his lungs and the blue ball grew, flashing light all around him. The attack on his shoulder broke through skin and hurt like a bitch, but he wasn't distracted at all from his attack.
The Pacifistas censors were going crazy and all the robots in front of him looked up and started glowing at the same time. They each released beams from their hands or mouths and twenty blasts started heading straight for Yamcha.
"HAAAAA!" the man roared and threw his hands forward right as the beams were on him. The blue blast met with the connection of all the yellow ones and they froze in midair close to the man, but he was pushing harder and the center of the attack moved so it was in between him and the enemies.
"Switching to full power," all the Pacifistas announced at the same time and their eyes flickered for a second as all the energy in their bodies got redirected into the attacks they were firing now. Yamcha felt his hands shake as his blast was getting pushed back by the growing beams, all of them pushing against him at the same time.
In the air above the plaza, the Z fighters looked away from the action below them for a second and stared over at where their friend's ki was spiking dangerously. "I've never felt Yamcha so strong," Krillin said with a smile on his face. Piccolo and Vegeta just grunted and looked back though they were surprised the human had it in him.
Yamcha's white aura doubled in size and he screamed at the top of his lungs as he pushed his arms forward even harder. "HAAAAAA!" The blue blast doubled in size and pushed through the beams, engulfing them in his attack and pushing through until the blue beam slammed straight into the center of the Pacifista line. For a split second, nothing happened. Then, the ground exploded in a massive blast that surrounded every single one of the Pacifista and incinerated them in a huge explosion that kept getting bigger as it domed around the human weapons.
All the men watching in awe stared at the area the monsters attacking them were a second ago. The blue light faded, and all that remained was a huge hole where water splashed around as if there was nothing above it a second ago. There weren't even pieces of Pacifista floating around in the waves, they'd been completely destroyed.
"Hey," a man shouted out and they all turned and stared at the man who destroyed them falling out of the air. Yamcha splashed down into the area where the ice had been destroyed by his attack. The Z fighter was unconscious, but the pirates were all running towards him and a bunch dove into the water to get him.
Krillin flew over the area and watched as pirates pulled his friend out of the water and heaved him up to rest next to the area. "You guys go on ahead, I'll stay with him." One man announced and the others nodded before sprinting in Ace's direction. He couldn't help but feel thankful for the pirates and everything he was seeing so far was telling him to fight the marines.
The bald midget turned and shot back to the plaza where Ace was to be executed, but first he had to fly over the water and it wasn't a pleasant sight. They were all swimming towards Oars, even as cannons fired into the water and blew them apart. Hundreds of pirates were jumping off the ice and into the boiling water between them and Ace, willing to do anything to get to their friend. I'll help you guys out as much as we can. Krillin realized his thought and made the decision. It might become hard for his family, but he'd never be able to face his daughter again if he didn't help the pirates save Ace.
He arrived back over where Piccolo was floating, but Vegeta wasn't in sight. "Where'd he..." he stopped and looked down where he saw a man with a red mohawk and long sword facing off against their own Prince of the Saiyans.
Vegeta looked at the Vice Admiral who he heard was called Momonga. He saw him from where he was floating in the air, and couldn't resist going down to test the man who was standing next to a cannon. There weren't many pirates in the square, so while the marines were mostly bored, he figured he'd entertain one.
"Soru," the man moved very fast to the right but Vegeta followed his movements and shot that direction too, pulling back his arm as he did. A yellow ball formed in his right palm and he threw it forward at the man in front of him. "Geppou," the Vice Admiral leapt up in the air to dodge the attack and he spun his sword to point it at Vegeta before kicking behind himself and shooting towards the spiky-haired man with a faster speed than even his Shave.
Interesting, Vegeta liked this man's weird way of fighting and jumped up to avoid the slash that went below him and sank straight into the concrete. The soldier was facing down with his sword stuck in the ground, but he swung a foot towards Vegeta and a green slash came off of it. The Saiyan barely dodged the attack by pulling his body to the left and he shot down and kicked the man in the side.
Right before Vegeta kicked him, the man muttered, "Tekkai," and his skin hardened like steel. The Prince felt his kick get minimized by whatever the man did and he watched as Momonga still flinched from the attack, not able to take it all with his iron body. "Who are you? Why do you fight the marines?" The man was interested, but he was mainly stalling for time to recover.
"I am Vegeta, Prince of the Saiyans. And I'm not fighting the marines," he said with a smirk and lifted both hands in front of him that started glowing yellow, "I'm fighting you." He released a scatter shot of ki into the area in front of him. Momonga was able to dodge many of the attacks flying at him, but the men behind him weren't. Each of Vegeta's attacks hit the ground or crashed into a man and dozens of marines went flying in all directions. Finally a few shots slammed into Momonga and knocked him backwards with smoke coming out of the holes in his uniform.
"Ugh ack," the man with the mohawk coughed and then lifted his head up as he went down on his knees to see the fighter standing over him with crossed arms.
"Not good enough," Vegeta said and delivered a finishing kick to the man's face that sent him flying back so hard that he shot straight past the execution stand into the building behind it.
"What was that?" Sengoku shouted and turned, seeing something fly right past him.
"That was Momonga," Garp replied with a grunt. He looked down off the platform at the spiky-haired individual who was looking around with crossed arms. He didn't have a lot of damage visible on him, his clothes didn't look too dirty and he wasn't bleeding that much. How has he made it this far? Who are these people?
Vegeta felt some stinging pain from where he was cut by that Doflamingo guy earlier. He wanted to fight the man, but with everything going on here, it would be much easier to have an uninterrupted fight with him back on his island. He would take him up on his offer, and just watched as the man clashed his leg into Crocodile's hook hand, creating a shockwave that knocked back all the marines around them. Hmm, he'd be fun to fight as well.
The man looked back out to the bay. He felt past the huge monster standing in the entrance to the plaza, and could feel Whitebeard's massive presence as strong as ever. Even after being impaled by his own man, he's just as strong. Can't wait to fight him.
There was a lot of commotion going on in the square as people started staring out at the water. The Prince flew up to see what was going on and only Krillin and Piccolo were there. He could feel his son and Kakarott's youngest fighting the marines below, but Gohan was nowhere in the vicinity and his father was fighting an intense battle with the bear man who made his older son disappear.
Kuma was keeping up with Goku in his Super Saiyan form, and the fighter couldn't have asked for a better opponent. The Shichibukai's skin was hard, made of some sort of metal, and his attacks were dangerous.
The other Z warriors lifted up higher to look over the bay where all the Navy soldiers were focused and the pirates were making a fuss. "There's something under the water," Krillin announced and the other two had already noticed the large shadow coming up underneath all the swimming pirates. The shadow was getting bigger and bigger as whatever it was got closer to the surface.
It started pushing out from under the water and the large mass of pirates were all pulled up on top of the ship that came flying out of the bay. Hundreds of pirates made chains to their friends pulling them all on board as the weird coating bubble surrounding the boat that allowed it to travel underwater popped.
"I never said we used all our ships," the pirate leader announced smugly.
"Clever move," Vegeta admired and looked over to Whitebeard, impressed by the man's strategy. Pirates were hanging onto the masts, the sails, they were all over the deck. The whole lot of them started roaring their warcries and the commanders of Whitebeard's regime all jumped on board from the ice, including the man himself. But how are they going to get into the plaza? Oh, I see, he started laughing and the other two wondered what was going on until they saw the direction the ship was headed.
"It's going straight for Oars," Piccolo muttered and then saw how the green giant standing on one leg was ready for them. "Oh I see," he said with a small smirk. All of the cannons being shot at them were missing and the ship was getting close now.
"No, not them! Shoot Oars!" the fleet admiral shouted from the execution stand.
"Too late," Krillin said, also having noticed what the pirates were planning. Whitebeard said the same thing as Oars held out his hands and grabbed the large ship as it was about to hit the plaza. He pulled the ship all the way through the entrance and the pirates screamed. The boat dragged across the pavement and slammed straight through the marines in its path.
"We're in the plaza!"
"Time to save Ace!"
"Let's overthrow Navy Headquarters!"
"Hang in there Ace!"
Piccolo looked over to the execution platform to hear the reaction from the enemy leaders. The old man who was Ace's grandfather spoke, "They got us. There was one tiny mouse hole in the walls, and they swarmed right in. Those walls may wind up working against us."
Ace leaned forward in his handcuffs on the execution stand, "Old Man!"
"Still got your head, Ace?" the old man with the white mustache asked. His presence in the square made everyone stare in his direction.
"We, made it," Oars mumbled out. The onslaught against him earlier was still hurting him and he could barely move. "Now Ace-kun can be resc-" cannon fire exploded all over his body. The marines were mad that he got the rest of the pirates through, and he wouldn't be forgiven. "Save... Ace-kun..." the monster pleaded as he collapsed to the ground. The Z fighters felt his ki go out and Vegeta growled that one of his favorite fighters just got killed.
"Oars!" the pirates shouted.
"The marines just made them all really, really mad," Krillin muttered to the other two. The tension in the air was thick enough to see, as not a single person made a sound. Every eye there shot towards the large man with the bisento sword who started walking forward.
"Here we go," Vegeta said, cracking his fists as Whitebeard started moving. He walked past his silent crew all the way to the edge of his ship. Goku and Kuma had stopped their fighting and were staring up at him silently. Every other Shichibukai except for Moria, who Tien killed, was staring up at the man on the edge of his ship.
The marine admirals were standing still as they stared at Whitebeard. Garp and Sengoku couldn't pry their eyes off of him. Admiral Kizaru's unconscious body still lay behind Ace on the platform, but he showed no signs of getting up anytime soon.
Luffy stopped running and was panting hard as he looked back at Whitebeard. Something about the man made everyone's eyes shoot towards him, and they couldn't look away or do anything but watch him. With a kick of his foot, the old man lifted off the side of the ship and flew through the air with his sword pointed out in front of him. He hit the ground and dust rings rippled out around him and knocked over a few marine officers by his presence alone.
"Whitebeard has entered the plaza!" one frantic marine shouted. His voice sounded way too high, probably from fear. The marines all pointed their guns and swords at him, trying to be brave in the face of their most terrifying enemy.
The old man's eyes were dark and forced several Navy captains and commanders to gulp at the sight of him. "Stand back my sons," he said and pulled back his sword behind his head. Everyone stared as a white ball of light formed at the end of his bisento and popped out to cover the blade. "Arrghaaahh!" Whitebeard roared as he swung his sword in front of him and the white light around his blade shot out at his enemies.
"Whoa," Krillin said. No matter how many times he witnessed this man's power, it never ceased to amaze him. The sky cracked where the attack hit, large white cracks literally forming in the sky before shattering like glass and blowing the ground below it apart. Dozens of marines lifted up in the air screaming as the ground blew up and a huge array of clouds lifted in the square.
Vegeta looked through the smoke and grinned as he counted off his enemies. The Vice Admirals, the Admirals, and a few others. The rest can't even handle that attack and got blown away. Every one of the remaining Whitebeard commanders then dropped down from the ship and landed in front of the old man. "Men!" he shouted with a fist held up in the air. "Rescue Ace, and destroy the Navy!"
A/N Hello everyone and thanks for reading the third chapter of this crossover. THE PIRATES HAVE BROKEN INTO THE PLAZA. Haha, so far i've followed the timeline of the Marineford arc pretty accurately, but soon the involvement of the Z fighters will really take its toll and have a larger effect on the battle. For anyone who wants to argue about how fast the Z fighters should be whooping them, remember that they're here first and foremost to get in cool fights. In the beginning they talked about not powering up too much so that they could fight on equal level with their opponents. Their enemies have Devil Fruit powers and strange Haki abilities that they've never seen before though so that's my basis for why the fights will still be awesome!
Diablo674
This story is extraordinary. Very good read. I also read the chapter 2 and am impressed very much. Also, I apologize for my bad English, as it is not my language primary. Anyways, I really enjoying it and am looking forward to chapter 3 very much. )
Thank you very much. The chapters are staying long and there are still a lot more on the way. I'm glad you're impressed and I didn't even notice your English so it must be pretty good :).
Matthew
I love it. It's an awesome story thus far. Please upload chapter 3 soon. :)
We've got the same name, so I'm extra glad you like this chapter ;). Thanks for the review and I'll try to keep up speedy updates!
JensenDaniels32
YEAH! THIS WAS AWESOME! :D Goku and Vegeta fighting against each other in their Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan transformation (from the new movie, "Revival Of F", which is indeed canon)? Then again, it might kill the will of everyone from fighting anymore. XD Anyways, I'm hoping to see Vegeta face off against and kick the ass of Whitebeard before the elderly man takes anymore damage from anyone else. Vegeta owning a full strength Whitebeard would have a much bigger impact on everyone both in and watching the war than if he lost to Vegeta in a weakened state.
Lol, if they went God there wouldn't even be time for any battles, everyone would be unconscious in a matter of seconds XD! I think the movie takes place after the time setting that I put this story in so I'm going to just keep the max powerups at what was the end of the Buu saga. Won't say anything about future battles, but the plot of Marineford is progressing steadily, and things are about to get intense! Haha, thanks again for the review!
Guest
great chapter
update soon
Thanks a lot! To everyone who read and reviewed, thanks again and I'll see you soon!
