Hidden Base
"You got to let me go boss!" Exclaimed the man in the top hat. The man was the second in command of the revolutionary army, Sabo.
"No, you can't show your face in this impending war yet, the marines will have a chance to trim our already low numbers. Plus I already have Kuma and Robin acting as our inside man." Replied the man he was speaking with, the leader of the revolutionary army, Monkey D. Dragon.
"But! That's Ace! My brother!" Exclaimed Sabo.
"Sabo, you will follow my command. This base will remain in lockdown until this war is over. Nobody will be leaving, that is my final order." Commanded Dragon, firm in his statement. Sabo held his head down, defeated by the thought of not being able to do anything to help his brother.
"Yeah boss." Sabo said still holding his head down.
"Now I don't want to hear anything about this again, the east gate will specially be fortified at 200, theres no way you will get out of here." Dragon stated, Sabo noticed a key slide under Dragon's desk, stopping at his feet. Then he looked up to see a smiling Dragon who nodded his head. Then Sabo caught his words, that the east gate would be where the key was for.
"Got it boss! Thank you boss! Sorry for bringing this up!" Sabo fumbled the key nervously and ran to his room, formulating his plan of escape. Dragon does have a soft spot after all.
In the middle of the night, Sabo got up from his bunker and made his way to the East Gate, from his excitement, he was unable to sleep the night before. Knowing the routes of the night guards, Sabo easily by pass all the guards leading him to the East gate. There he found at exactly 2a.m. the guards left there post per Dragon's summon. He used the key given to him to open the door and ran for his life to the dock, where he got on board a small ship along with a familiar face.
"Kuzan! Didn't think I'd see you here..." he said nervously. In the revolutionary army, he was only scared of a couple of people, Kuzan was one of them.
"Don't worry kid, old Dragon asked me to come with you." Kuzan pointed behind Sabo.
He slowly turned around and Dragon was standing there a grin plastered in his face.
"You better not make me regret my decision Sabo."
"Ofcourse, thank you again boss."
"Be safe on your journey."
"Aye!" Exclaimed Sabo finally setting sail along with Kuzan to join the war, hopefully there is no trouble along the way. "3 days until the execution. I'm coming to save you Ace!" He exclaimed causing Kuzan to shake his head.
Somewhere in the Grandline
The three pirate crews had met up with Whitebeard's fleet. The two captains Enel and Wapol along with acting captain Isuka had boarded the Moby Dick, and had explained the situation to the Yonko pirate captain.
"Pops we came as soon as we heard!" Exclaimed the first division captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, Marco.
"Yes son, it is unfortunate news indeed. I told that boy to be careful but he was always the trouble maker."
"I'm gonna kick some sense into him as soon as I see him!" Exclaimed Marco, worried sick about his friend Ace.
"We can't help what's already done my son, now we only look forward. By that I mean we are goin to Marineford and save our family."
"Yeah!" The ocean shook from the thousands of Whitebeard pirates and allies around the Moby Dick.
"Looks like you've prepared father especially with our time ticking." Marco said whistling to himself at the sight of the entire Whitebeard force coming together for there brother. "3 days I heard."
"Anything for my family son, anything."
"Aye pops, lets go save Ace!" Exclaimed Enel causing more cheers to follow.
In Marineford
"We got responses from sector 17 and 35. They will provide 500 men each."
"That brings our army count to about 20,000 strong."
"That's more than enough."
"Impossible, it's never enough, we are executing a member of a Yonkou, the greatest power of all seas. He is going to bring his full force and then some. You all need to gather more people." Sengoku slammed his hands on the table and exclaimed.
"But sir, our intel suggest that Whitebeard pirates and allies are only counting at about 2000. We outnumber them 10-1."
"Yes but these are the strongest pirate fleet in the world, we can never be too prepared." Replied Sengoku. "We will be ready for him, we will be ready for Whitebeard!"
With Doflamingo and Crocodile...
"Everyone sure is on there heal huh Crocodile?" Said Doflamingo walking beside his fellow warlord. The duo had mutual respect for one another in there common goal of subjugating a country.
"Tsk, bunch of weakling. They won't stand a chance if they're not up for a war." Replied Crocodile, his main thoughts on his allies, wondering if they got his information. For now he got a role to play and he's sticking with it until the time comes.
"I agree, I agree. But see here Crocodile, you got a funny look in your eye." Donflamingo looked directly at him, his grin was deadly seemingly knowing something.
"None of your concern. Get loss Doflamingo." He push right pass the warlord, who continued to stare him down.
"Whatever it is Crocodile just know that you and me could be great partners in the New World!" Exclaimed Doflamingo walking the opposite direction. Crocodile shook his head, the man was crazier than him.
With Mihawk and Moria
"I will be taking control of thriller bark after this." Said Mihawk, his deadly gaze piercing Moria, the man who lost his favor in the Marine from losing to Strawhat Luffy.
"Screw you Mihawk, that depends what I bring on the table here in this war. If I can provide great assistance I keep my title, if not well I lose it. Simple as that." Replied Moria debating whether he should kill the swordsman before him. The man was pissing him off.
"Hmm we'll see about that." Replied Mihawk, playing with his necklace sword, pointing it at Moria. "I'll kill you myself Moria. Mark my word."
"Not if I kill you first." With that Moria walked out of the room in a fit, leaving Mihawk to himself.
With Jinbei and Hancock
"I don't want to participate in such childish battles." Stated the queen of the amazons.
"Neither do I but protecting our homes comes at a prize." Replied Jinbei, he only joined the Shichibukai in order to protect Fishman island, along with allying the fishman pirates with Whitebeard. Double protection but for now he declared his loyalty to the Marine, but really he would always help Whitebeard.
Meanwhile Boa Hancock was a person who looks out for her peoples best interest. She was summoned and declined for weeks before finally agreeing to join the war because Sengoku threatened to attack her home land if she did not honor her duties.
"Screw the Marines but I need to protect my people, I do what I can for them." Said Hancock. The two agreed on one thing, they will do anything for their people.
Two days later with the Whitebeard grand fleet, the day before the execution.
"I see ships approaching us in the distance." Zeke was in the eagles nest of the Iron Maiden, noticing ships. But he had a smile plastered on his face as they flew the Sky pirate flag along with their own. "The Grand Fleet is here!"
The Grandfleet's captains joined the main crew in the deck of the Moby Dick. Dory and Broggy were on the water, not able to fit on the deck.
"Captain its been some time." Kuro bowed while the rest of the Captains followed. He looked at the main crew noticing some new faces. "My name is Kuro of the Black Cat Pirate, it's my pleasure to meet you all."
Whitebeard sat in the middle of the group with Enel on his right, Marco on his left. Isuka and Law next to Marco. The rest of the division commanders and fleet captain's beside Enel.
"Thank you for coming Kuro and everyone else." Said Whotebeard shaking his hands. "I'm glad you are all here, but I will allow anyone who wish to leave to go. This is a war I can't ask you all to participate in, especially with the possibility of imprisonment or even death. So again I will repeat if anyone wants to leave now, you got my permission to do so."
Nobody moved a muscle, Enel smirked on his right, glad that their plan had come to fruition. At first he was skeptical to bring there former enemies into the fold. "Seems like they're all ready Captain."
"We've been waiting to help you since you brought us to the fold, and here we all are, a grand total of 602 good men in our fold." Said Gin, who stood right next to Kuro.
"And we all have our roles figured out Captain, Kuro gave us the rundown. You all just need to focus on saving your brother." Arlong flexed his muscle, ensuring that they were all on board.
"Good bunch you gathered here Captain." Said Isuka, who hasn't met any of the people in the Grandfleet. "The name is Isuka acting captain of the Spade pirates."
"You have a ship? Because I don't see your ship anywhere." Stated Wapol who really took a step down from his former King persona.
"Yeah, but its a stolen marine ship." Isuka said, very proud of this accomplishment.
"Glad that everyone has met my crew, we should get some rest, tomorrow is the big day." Said Isuka. "Thank you again for helping me save Ace!"
" We are allies you would do the same for my crew" Whitebeard stated.
"YEAH!" The group was hyped up, ready for the battle that would surely come.
The Whitebeard fleet made their way to Marineford.
Once they got closer to Marineford they could feel the atmosphere quickly change. Perona returned to the crew to report her findings.
"Captain, they're moving up the execution. They said by sundown but they will do it mid day!"
"I knew those bastards were going to throw us a curve ball." Said Isuka, a former Marine Captain.
"We should be fine, my plans are absolute. I'll just move everything up. Again just focus on your captain." Kuro has provided everyone a portable ear piece where he could communicate with everyone across the battlefield. "God speed."
"What else you got for us Perona." Asked Katakuri, everyone of the Grandfleet Captains were now listening on the other line of their own ear piece.
"They have over 20 thousand marine officer on hand. Plus all their high ranking officers are present. All eight of their warlords are here. Then we have the trouble of all three admiral being here." Said Perona, everyone intently listening on the intel. "I also found the execution platform in the main plaza, but a giant wall separates the bay from the plaza."
"We'll create our hole with our giants." Said Katakuri, everyone was in agreement.
"Lastly Sengoku the Fleet Admiral will be present, most likely in the platform along with the executioner and your brother Ace."
"Great intel Perona, now all we can do is get there, use our intel from Boa Hancock to bypass the surrounding patrols and make it to Marineford in time. Great work everyone." Said Whitebeard giving her a smile.
"I would like to remind everyone to stick to the plan, and keep your headsets open. Listen to changes of the flow and I will make sure to keep everyone ready." Kuro said on the headset, everyone agreeing. "Let's go get your captain."
Isuka stood in front of the Stolen marine ship, her arms crossed as the air blew passed her. She put everything on the line for Ace, hopefully everything happens as planned.
In front was the Moby Dick which housed the main Whitebeard crew, closely following them were sixty ships manned by different captains who were recruited by one man, a man everyone were happy to follow till the end. They will fight his fight, they will bleed for him, they will do anything for their captain.
Whitebeard was just that type of man.
" If you want peace prepare for war" Gol D. Roger.