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Music is Hi-Finesse - Event Horizon

This thing we do…

You try to do the right thing…

But sometimes doing the right thing means you can't save the whole world.

That doesn't mean you give up…and it certainly doesn't mean you don't try

The monitor display plays back images of an incredible explosion over the water. The blast was so great, it caused a blinding white light and the end results was a massive mushroom cloud.

The room of people, men in suits, men in uniform watched with blank somber expressions while Dante sits in the middle. His work laid out before him to be judged.

"That's enough." Dante said, turning off the monitor. "What's your point?"

A man steps forward to speak,

"General...people are afraid of you…they are afraid of the power you possess. The power one man has that can wipe us all out. That power needs to be kept in check…you need to be kept in check. People like you can't have free reign anymore in this new world we've created. You can't keep being a hero."

The thought of the remaining Pluton warhead being taken off his fighter gave him pause.

Dante looked down a bit and then looked back at the group of men opposite of him. Sabo was hiding around the corner and didn't want to listen as he stormed off.

"I know I'm not perfect. I've done things that…I am not proud of, but I always feel the world is in good hands of those who are willing to change it regardless of what the world tells them…That we don't do this for glory or profit or for our names to be written down in history."

Dante sits in the cockpit of his fighter and launched while soldiers tried to stop him, even some shooting at him.

"You compromise where you can…and where you can't - don't. Even if the mob, the media and the whole world is telling you that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on the principle above all else, that we stand up for what we believe in no matter the odds or the consequences as long as it's the right thing to do. And when the world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree next to the truth and you look them in the eye and say…no…you move."

The fighter flew higher, but when it reached a point, Dante turned and noticed something coming from behind him. Something he didn't think would ever be thrown at him.

"Those are some arrogant words, General. You think you can still stick to it if the world happens to be filled with the faces of your victims? "

What was coming is a missile. Alarms blared inside his advanced cockpit as he turned in evasion, but didn't make it as the missile knocked him out of the sky.

He did his best to land and transformed into mecha mode. When he landed relatively safe on solid ground, his display went dark for a moment and he couldn't see ahead of him.

"...If those faces are your own men?"

When he got his bearings, and monitors back on, he looked up and was suddenly surrounded by his own Marines on the ground with rifles, in tanks and in powered suits with their weapons pointed at him. He didn't even have a chance to say anything, but the expressions on his face was enough. He felt betrayed.

There was an impasse as the lead Marine stared at a burnt photo of people. His family maybe?

Then, they fired on him all at once.

It was a hail of bullets and cannon fire that even his ancient advanced piece of equipment could not withstand as he's pushed back to the ground.

"You thought you could save the world with one suit of armor by yourself!?"

A lucky shot took out the arm of his fighter and knocked him onto the ground.

"YOU ARE NOT A HERO!"

Even as he crawled away, his Marines advanced and kept on shooting at him in the back relentlessly, mercilessly.

"Dragons can never be heroes!"

He found the edge of a cliff and fell over it.

"They will always be the monsters!"

As he fell into the ocean, fighters circled and dropped bombs on him.

"Your Republic does not exist!"

Dante waited and burst out from his destroyed machine and flew into the sky, powered by his Devil Fruit of air. That didn't stop them as they gave chase.

"Then, I'll keep on fighting until it becomes real! Until the world changes! Until there's justice!"

The fighters chasing him were suddenly shot down by others that came to his aid.

"What would you do if you can't stand anymore?" He can hear Sabo's words

"What will you do when the weight of the world breaks you?" He heard Robin spoke to him.

"Do you think you can change anything?" Vivi said

"Or will you become the very thing you are fighting against?" It was Nami's words that rang in his head.

Dante rose from a kneeing position wearing a clean pure white outfit with a long cape behind him and put on his sunglasses.

"Monsters do exist…and I will always be one of them…"

He walked towards the balcony and looked out at the horizon. He remembered a moment of his past and repeats something he once said.

"Vivi…I will remake this world…"

From inside a dark hanger, the doors opened and inside a pair of eyes glowed as the sound of something large started to walk out.

"I will destroy the world"