Rise of the Whirling Tides

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Author Note: Be about at least a fortnight (2 weeks) before I finish the next Chapter as if will be of similar length either shorter, equal or longer as this Chapter. Few cliffhangers to the fights which will be resolved in the Third War Chapter.

Author Note 2: This is related to the story. There is a key where parts will have a number, e.g. this (1) which is pointed at down the bottom to help clear things. And as always the link to discord channel ( h , t , t , p , s, : / / discord . gg / mX728eD ) just remove all the commas and spacing. If you have trouble, remembering who is who please do join there is a channel that lists my characters.

Summary Chapter 37: Big Mom forces landed on Uzu no Kuni and deployed their forces, marching towards Uzushiogakure under the command of Charlotte Armande. While the Marine's secretly absorbed far out to sea with a fleet of 30 ships containing 10 Buster Call Ships, ready to take advantage of the war to destroy both powers, Naruto revealed the troops of the Martial Legion deploying a Cavalry unit to charge the enemy, only to act as a decoy as a team of Shinobi commanded by Vladimir revealed themselves from their hiding spots on the battlefield.

The Team of Earth Release Shinobi cut off two thousand of the Germa Soldiers from their allies and using Son Goku's chakra cloak given to them by Vladimir, deployed the Doton: Yomi Numa to drown the soldiers in a giant swamp before retreating. As the walls used to block the enemy off crumbled the Cavalry unit appeared, lances spinning up like drills tearing Biscuit Soldiers into mincemeat, before drawing the shotguns from their back and decimating the enemy forces and withdrawing.

As the Big Mom Army Advanced against Fifth Legion Fourth and Ninth Division were summoned to the battlefield, the troops of the Fourth Division decimated the Biscuit Soldiers with powerful machine guns while those of the Ninth Division finished them off with new high powered rifles. Kenshiro, the Commander of the First Martial Legion, led the charge summoning his own Legion, six thousand troops. The First Legion charged wielding giant tower shields to blockade the enemy forces while their comrades in the rows behind used fully automatic assault rifles to deal heavy damage on the enemy. The Vinsmoke Family jumped into the fray of battle and began to deal damage to the First Legion. Poison seeped into the Soldier's body's as they came under assault by Reiju Vinsmoke.

Kenshiro fought against the five members of the Germa Royal Family finding himself outnumbered, but aid came as the other Commander's lent their assistance. Danielle, a rabbit mink and Commander of the Second Martial Legion, swung her spear at Ichiji. Niji found himself struggling beneath Soga a Bronze Whaler Shark Fishman and Commander of the Seventh Legion who wielded a pair of powerful battle axes and Devil Fruit. Graeham, a Former Vice Admiral of the Marine's, belong to Garp's Generation who had been retired in disgrace by the World Government revealed himself to blockade Yonji and Amande. Reiju found herself under attack by the Commander of the newly built Eleventh Martial Legion, Hildegarde who had consumed the Logia Class Shoki Shoki no Mi (Miasma-Miasma Fruit) making her impervious to Reiju's poisons. The four children of Judge were defeated and captured by the Commander's, each who were in possession of a devil fruit. Senri, the Commander of the Eighth Martial Legion, led the troops of the Eleventh exposing each of the Ten Officers as a Devil Fruit user.

Kenshiro fought against Judge in a fierce battle revealing the sword he carried was a legendary Meito called the Juuchi Yosamu (10,000 Cold Nights). Kenshiro's past was exposed as an Evil Samurai who once lived in Wano Country before becoming a retainer to the Daimyo Ozuki Oden. Kenshiro fled Wano Country after it was invaded, said to have been killed in battle with Kaido. The Swordsman defeated Judge revealing the power of his evil sword wiping out a large number of enemy's.

The Shinobi forces arrived on the battlefield, over one hundred in total. The true battle has begun.


Chapter 38: Shinobi Strike! Uzushiogakure's Secret Weapon Revealed

Multiple white flashes suddenly appeared across the battlefield, over a hundred Shinobi wearing Chunin vests and Anbu uniforms arrived. At the front of shinobi, was Yamato, Houjin and Suzuka prepared for the battle that was to come. Amongst the crowd of Shinobi was Suzuka's Anbu team, Odin, Shiina, Shirone, Miyuki, Mariko, and the students taken under the wings of the Bijuu. Every one of them was in full Shinobi attire, releasing a strong intent from their bodies that rose into the air creating an intimidating aura.

Kenshiro teleported multiple times, disappearing with a blink of an eye to arrive beside Yamato, arriving by his fellow officer, a hand on the hilt of the demonic blade he carried. A cold aura swept out from the sheathed blade as a killer intent flashed through his sharp violet eyes. Landing by Kenshiro's side was the other Commanders of the Martial Legions, standing in order of the number assigned to them. The ten officers of the Eleventh Legion retreated forming a protective wall in front of the soldiers of the First Legion. The Commanders had all done their parts and wouldn't need to interfere again unless necessary. However, each of them was eager to jump back into the fray.

"Push the enemy back." Yamato turned his focus to address the accompanying Chunin and Anbu operatives. The accompanying Shinobi took to the battlefield without a word, becoming blurs as they raced past Yamato and the others. A flurry of black steel raced through the air as a storm of kunai and shuriken rained down on the chess soldiers piercing through flesh.

The shouts of multiple Jutsu being unleashed followed;

"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)!"

"Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu (Fire Release Phoenix Sage Fire Technique)!"

"Katon: Goen no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Flame Technique)!"

"Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Bullet Technique)!"

"Fuuton: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)!"

"Fuuton: Renkudan (Wind Release: Drilling Air Projectile)!"

"Raiton: Bakurai (Lightning Release: Depth Charge)!"

"Raiton: Jibashi (Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder)!"

"Doton: Iwadeppo no Jutsu (Earth Release: Rock Gun Technique)!"

"Doton: Doryuu Taiga (Earth Release: Mud Flow River)!"

These were just some of the dozens of Ninjutsu techniques released from the Shinobi Forces. Numerous Doton and Suiton Ninjutsu were used to flood the battlefield with mud and water, sweeping away the enemy soldiers, drawing those few unfortunate souls. Those who hadn't been swept up in the mix of attacks were blown up into the air by the collaboration of Fuuton Ninjutsu. Rocks rained down smashing into foes breaking bones on impact. Katon Ninjutsu scorched the earth creating walls of fire, the heat pushing the enemy back. Giant balls of fire fell like meteors exploding violently on contact blowing bodies away. Raiton Ninjutsu electrified the ground with lightning turning the earth into a death trap, violently electrocuting those in close contact. Charred corpses fell to the ground as smoke wafted into the air. The elemental techniques rained down on the enemy, taking lives and forcing them to withdraw.

"Fall back!" Amande yelled as she led the retreat, moving around the incoming elemental attacks, avoiding them with ease. Under her right arm, the snakeneck woman carried Judge, blood trickling to the ground from his wounds. Amande had been tempted to leave the King to his fate, but it would turn the Germa Soldiers against them. With the order given the Big Mom Army began to fall back, retreating towards the beach, running at full speed.

"You're Shinobi certainly are impressive Naruto-san." Whitebeard looked on with amusement as he watched the team of one hundred plus Shinobi arrive onto the battlefield and reveal a mastery over the elements. Shinobi abilities were something the age of pirate had not seen until Naruto's arrival. For years Newgate had heard stories of the Shinobi retold through Gol D. Roger's mouth, in a way they had felt like fairy tales. It made his blood boil with excitement watching the stories come true right before his very eyes. Newgate had already experienced the might of the Shinobi first hand from Naruto, but seeing them in action still, make him giddy like a little boy.

"Not to say your Martial Legions aren't, they are just as impressive and valiant in battle, undeterred at the thought of death." Whitebeard had watched with scrutiny the entire time as the Martial Legion clashed with the Big Mom Army. The troops of the Legion had fought without fear, he could sense it they fought loyally, and with conviction, each of them would gladly give their life. Naruto had won their hearts, and the love they possessed for their Village was so strong they would willingly give their life to protect it. This conviction was truly astounding, only matched by the weapons they used it, the firearms were well ahead of anything he had seen.

"Your soldiers they have been trained well Uzukage-dono." Vista stroked his long moustache giving a nod of approval; Jozu gave a guttural grunt showing he agreed with his comrade.

"Each is quite disciplined and reacts to orders instantly-yoi." Marco was crouched low to the ground with a cigar hanging from the right corner of his lips. The Legion Soldiers followed their orders to the letter and would react immediately when a command was given without hesitation. Each soldier held the rank in battle and would not break formation unless told.

"It pleases me to hear your gracious comments, my friends," Naruto revealed a grateful smile at the words of his allies; it pleased him to hear the positive remarks about the soldiers he had painstakingly trained. Many hours, money and time had been spent to prepare every one of them and to acquire the appropriate equipment to go with them.

"That armour, the metal it is made from is similar to my bisento correct?" Asked Whitebeard as he lifted the newly forged giant bisento in his right hand. The metal gleamed under the sun as the Yonko couldn't help but admire the craftsmanship once more; it was indeed a work of art without a single flaw to be seen. This bisento lovingly crafted was perhaps one of the very few weapons in the world that would be able to handle the full might of his power.

"Almost. The metal used to forge your bisento is a grade below the one used in that armour. If an ordinary person were to swing that bisento against that armour, it would break on impact, however, if you were to swing it…" Naruto trailed off as his meaning was clear. The bisento, when used in the hands of the 'Strongest Mortal Man' in this world, would shatter the armour with ease. Whitebeard's level of strength was something that could rival the strongest Kage's back in his time, namely Senju Hashirama. The Immortal suspected if Hashirama was to fight Whitebeard. Even he would have a tough time against the Yonko's world-destroying powers. Secretly though, Naruto suspected the two would be thick as thieves, especially knowing Hashirama's personality. Pity, the Shodai Hokage, wasn't alive to meet Newgate.

The group of five would continue to converse back and forth with one another commenting on what was happening, shooting the breeze while observing the battle.

As the Big Mom Army began to retreat, a portal opened up from the right sealing array. Pouring out of the array was close to a hundred men and women dressed in white medical uniforms each with the kanji for '5' on the right chest pocket. The medical team poured out and began picking up the wounded and poisoned soldiers of the First Martial Legion, bringing them back through the portal to Uzushiogakure for immediate treatment. Unlike the other Legion's, the Fifth Martial Legion was primarily a support division and wouldn't be sent directly onto the battlefield, only when lives were needed to be saved.

"Legion's retake formation!" Kenshiro teleported to the front of his Legion, giving the command for them reform their lines. The remaining soldiers grabbed their weapons and quickly assembled back into five battlelines. The enemy poison combined with their assault had dealt minor casualties to the First Legion, as the front line was close to eight hundred strong; the second line was close to one thousand strong. The poison and following assault had taken down almost an entire division worth of soldiers, six hundred, whether they would survive was unknown

"Shinobi battle formations!" Yamato's command followed Kenshiro's as the Shinobi retreated landing in front of him, to the right fifty Anbu Operatives, to the left fifty-four Chunin. Appearing in flashes of white appeared the Shinobi who had assisted Vladimir, twenty-eight in total. Including Yamato, Suzuka, Suzuka's team, Odin, Shiina, Houjin, Shirone, Miyuki, Mariko and the Students of the Bijuu a total of one hundred and forty-seven Shinobi were present. However, amongst the students of the nine tailed beasts, Vladimir appeared to be missing, having vanished after his original appearance.

Another flash of white appeared at the front of the group as Naruto arrived on the scene, accompanied by Whitebeard and his three Pirate Commanders.

"Yamato, Kenshiro push forward." Commanded the Shodai Uzukage without turning to face the two Commanders of his army, Naruto's gaze was focused on the Queen Mama Chanter in the distance. The Immortal Sage appeared to be waiting, patiently watching as the enemy fled crossing more than eight kilometres. Naruto held out his right hand and chakra began to manifest in his palm. Chakra rose into the air gaining physical form as it took shape creating his Sage Staff. Naruto slammed the end of the staff onto the ground, a wave of chakra overcame the forces of Uzushiogakure no Sato. The air rippled around them before collapsing inwards swallowing everyone whole. Within moments the entire army disappeared, moving through space to their destination.


Marine Fleet

Glass began to crack and metal crumpled under Sakazuki iron grip, the spyglass in his hand shattered as it was crushed. The Admiral had seen everything that had unfolded on Uzu no Kuni. The strength of the Martial Legions was something none of them had ever suspected. The entire Armada was stunned beyond words; they just couldn't believe what they had seen. The level of the weapons was something they had only ever theorised. Fully automatic weapons were a pipe dream, so they had been told, and were something that wouldn't be viable for another decade or more.

"Just how. How did Uzu do it?" Sakazuki was baffled by it all, the armour the soldiers wore seemed nigh impenetrable, it could be dented. However, bullets seemed to only bounce of it. Then were Devil Fruit powers the key? A heat began to radiate from the Magma users body as he began to boil with anger over the thought of how strong Uzu was. The man was gaining an ever-growing hatred for the Entire Island and village.

"I want them all to burn!" Dark thoughts began to course through the Admiral's mind as he dreamed of boiling every last villager alive, drowning them in magma. A dark seed had been planted in Sakazuki heart, one from long ago, and it had slowly begun to bloom into a flower of madness.

"He's beginning to lose it." Kuzan watched Sakazuki with scrutiny; he could feel the man slowly slipping into madness as a sinister aura began to grow around him. Sakazuki had a perverted sense of justice, and it clouded his heart and mind. Kuzan's fists clenched tightly, knuckles turning white, "If he goes down the truly dark path, then I shall take his life myself. I can't allow for such a perverted beast to roam this world. Who knows how many would suffer."

Kuzan reached up to his chest, feeling a pain in his heart, "Some have already suffered to that man's madness. Serenity I couldn't protect you and your child, for that I am sorry. I vow never to allow it to happen again." Killer intent flashed in Kuzan's eyes with a desire to kill Sakazuki, however the Admiral bit the inside of his cheek and ground his teeth. Kuzan forced the painful memory of a good friend long passed from this world down into the deep recessions of his mind.


Big Mom Army

Amande took a long drag from a cigarette before dropping Judge's body onto the sandy beach beneath her feet. The woman was frustrated, expressed by the sour look on her face; she had underestimated the strength of Uzushio and was paying for it. Over two-thirds of the assembled army had been wiped out, less than one thousand Germa 66 Soldiers remained and just over four thousand Chess Soldiers. What made matters worse, they had barely been able to put a dent in Uzushio's army and not only was Judge out of the fight, but his children had disappeared, most likely killed or captured by the enemy.

"Mama's not too happy with you, sister." A voice spoke up from behind Amande followed by a cackling laugh that sounded like firecrackers. Turning to face the voice, Amande frowned as she locked eyes with her brother Cracker, accompanied by Smoothie and Katakuri. The Three Sweet Commanders had arrived.

"I told you not to underestimate them." Katakuri rumbled from behind the scarf he wore, appearing calm and stoic, eyes baring dead ahead, watching the enemy in the distance. "But I knew you wouldn't listen. I had foreseen your defeat; you should use this opportunity to temper yourself in the future."

Katakuri with his unique level of Kenbunshoku Haki had been able to see the retreat of the decimated Big Mom Army but had chosen not to speak up. Katakuri believed his family was too arrogant, thinking they could destroy Uzushiogakure with minimal effort. The Sweet Commander felt this momentary defeat at the hands of Uzushio would help lessen that arrogance of theirs, of course, if he thought any of his siblings were in any grave danger and on the verge of death he would interfere without hesitation. Katakuri felt it also worked in their favour, with the decimation of the Germa 66 and the defeat of the Vinsmoke Family, once the Charlotte family was finished here, destroying the Germa Kingdom and stealing its technology would be like taking candy from a baby. Linlin valued the use of the Germa Kingdom's cloning technology and wanted it for herself, whatever mother wanted she got, and Katakuri would happily deliver it into her hands.

"What do you propose we should do next brother?" Amande was more than happy to hand all matters over to her older brother. Katakuri was looked up to by all of his younger siblings, seen as a role model for them. The Snakeneck woman would not be upset by what her brother had done, seeing it as his way of carrying for her, wanting her to overcome this shortcoming. However it wasn't to say she wasn't slightly miffed at what her brother had done, but he only had her best interests at heart.

"Get ready; they're coming." Katakuri looked dead ahead alerting everyone to the fact their enemy was arriving. Space one kilometre away from the Charlotte Family quivered appearing to collapse in on itself before expanding. Materialising from mid-air was the army of Uzushiogakure no Sato. At the front stood Uzumaki Naruto, the Uzukage himself accompanied by Edward Newgate 'Whitebeard' and his three commanders Marco, Jozu and Vista. Behind Naruto was his commander's Kenshiro and Yamato with the rest of the forces in their shadows.

Katakuri retrieved the loudspeaker Den Den Mushi from a nearby Chess Soldier and had the volume turned to the maximum.

"Attention Shodai Uzukage, Uzumaki Naruto, I am Charlotte Katakuri, my mother has requested I deliver a message on her behalf! Surrender now, and she will be merciful. Mother will allow you to become a vassal under her rule. Every citizen of Uzushiogakure will be required to provide one months' worth of their lifespan every six months. In return, mother offers you her protection!" That was only the start of the terms of surrender, once the Uzu no Kuni was under her thumb, Charlotte Linlin would increasing her demands, including the methods on how to train Shinobi.

Naruto's eyes twinkled with amusement as he listened to the demands of the enemy. Did Big Mom think they would surrender just like that?

"Show them our reply!" Responded the eternal Kage, his voice was loud, drifting over the entire battlefield.

"Shinobi arms ready!" Yamato yelled to the troops stationed behind him. The army of Shinobi began to withdraw kunai knives from their holsters, holding four in each hand. Wrapped around each handle was a piece of sealing paper. "Release!" The Shinobi let loose, releasing the kunai up into the sky where they sailed upwards and dived down on an arc heading towards the centre of the enemy army.

Naruto brought his hands together and released a pulse of chakra that struck the falling kunai, "Kunai Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Kunai Shadow Clone Technique)!" The one thousand plus kunai began to rapidly multiple as puffs of smoke covered the sky drastically increasing their numbers. Darkness covered the sky as a shadow loomed over the Big Mom Army with over ten thousand kunai threatening to fall upon them. A downpour of cold steel had been created.

Katakuri's eyes darkened as he had a vision with a sense of foreboding. Explosions engulfed the Big Mom Army and his siblings unleashing catastrophic casualties. The image of his siblings lying dead around him created a haunting experience that filled him with dread. The Sweet Commander released a roar, slamming his hands onto the ground. The sand began to ripple as it transformed into a massive amount of white mochi that shot up into the air. Tendrils of mochi reached high into the sky and spread out fusing together to create a large blanketing wall. Mochi tendrils from the corners shot into the ground and hardened to form pillars. The mochi's colour changed from white to iron black as it was transformed with Busoshoku Haki.

The kunai impacted against the protective mochi wall, piercing into it or bouncing off. The tags lit up as a small flame appeared at the corners. The kunai glowed before they detonated. Thousands of explosive tags detonated at once, creating a large plume of fire atop the mochi wall. The summoned wall of rice cake shook as web-like cracks began to appear in its defensive barrier. Pieces began to fall as the blast tore through the first layer causing the blanket to crumble away. The wind shook violently as the earth trembled from the explosive might.

"Kurimu Tsunami (Cream Tsunami)!"

A giant man whose entire body looked like it was made of some strange liquid substance lumbered forward, arms extended. A thick wave of gooey, sticky cream poured out from arms the size of tree trunks and up beneath the wall of mochi. The liquid cream flowed seamlessly with no end creating a secondary defence. The cream washed away the falling mochi and absorbed the explosions. Cream was splattered everywhere as the explosions went off. Cream flowed up from around the sides of the hardened mochi and up around the massive plume of fire caused by the blast. The wave of cream acted to smother and blanket the explosion until nothing was left. The cream poured away falling harmlessly as the mochi crumbled into dust until nothing remained.

Naruto watched from the side, impressed by the enemy's reaction time. The one called Katakuri had delayed the explosions long enough for one of his siblings to react. If the kunai had fallen as planned, the enemy would have been caught off guard by the sudden attack and suffered severe casualties.

"What will you do next?" Pondered the Uzukage, eager to see what else the members of the Charlotte Family could do.

Katakuri ground his teeth behind his mask, anger reflected in crimson hues. A large shadow loomed over Katakuri as a giant figure crashed into the beach behind him and his siblings. One could feel a sinister will fall upon the island as deep laughter echoed out from the shore.

"Mamamamama!"

Big Mom aka Charlotte Linlin released a powerful laugh as beady eyes looked down upon the forces of Uzushiogakure no Sato. Linlin had decided to make her appearance, coming directly onto the battlefield leaving the confines of her ship the Queen Mama Chanter.

"You are truly arrogant Uzukage! To reject my generous offer, what audacity!" Big Mom roared out, but she didn't appear angry the Yonko seemed to be delighted for reasons unknown. Hovering around the woman on the right was a large cloud and on the left a giant sun, both with faces. The two creatures had sinister smiles as a deathly aura surrounded them.

"Is it because of that old goat beside you?" Questioned Linlin as she grabbed the bicorn hat she wore where it seamlessly transformed into a long cutlass. Linlin hoisted the massive blade, pointing directly towards Whitebeard, revealing a cruel smile as a powerful bloodlust began to leak from her body. The ground shook as a pressure crashed down on the area. The pressure was so strong, Linlin's children began to buckle under it, the Shinobi and Martial Legion's to suffer as the weaker ones fell to their knees, sweat pouring from their bodies. Those of the Uzushio forces who fell struggled with all their fight beneath the pressure.

Naruto frowned and released the hold on his chakra allowing it to spike creating a cloak of blue flames. The chakra collided with the pressure Big Mom exerted and dissipated it around his soldiers allowing them to regain their composure.

Newgate snorted in amusement and swung his right fist in a backhand motion unleashing a powerful tremor. Powerful vibrations rippled through the air making it shatter as it headed towards Linlin. Big Mom howled as she swung the cutlass into the path of the powerful wave and clashed with it head on. The two forces impacted creating a powerful shockwave that erupted with an ear-shattering boom. Those around Linlin were sent flying away from the Yonko, colliding with their allies, knocking them down.

Linlin sneered as she lowered the cutlass, anger directed towards the meddling Whitebeard. "It doesn't matter; he can't protect you forever! The old goat is on his last leg!"

Linlin was confident she could defeat Whitebeard, regardless of his previous title. Edward was sick, making him weak while Linlin was at full health. Anger bubbled inside; Big Mom looked on with disdain at the enemy and the damage they had caused to her forces. Taking a deep breath Linlin gave another shout; her voice enhanced to the point it reached far out to sea to all her ships.

"All ships lock onto enemy coordinates and fire! Wipe them out of existence!" The command stretched out reaching the Big Mom Pirates and caused waves in the ocean. The soldiers on board began to scurry to the battlements, moving cannons into position. Twenty-nine ships moved into place, each flying Big Mom's flag. Long cannons raised upwards as cannons balls were loaded. Nine cannons on each side of the Queen Mama Chanter's front began to move as the massive ship sung.

The Queen Mama Chanter lead the charge, its eighteen cannons fired off, the Tartes soon followed unleashing a volley up into the sky. The multitude of large cannonballs shot forward their destination the army of Uzushiogakure. Big Mom intended to show no mercy and wanted to flatten the entire area that the forces of Uzushio occupied, leaving none alive. Even with the impending doom of the cannon balls flying towards them the forces of Uzushio showed no sign of fear.

Naruto revealed a smirk that gave Linlin a sense of foreboding. Countless seals lit up all over the entire island of Uzu no Kuni. Seals lit up along its edges and every ten kilometres into the island. A transparent barrier came into existence covering the entirety of Uzu no Kuni creating a clear protective dome. The cannon balls could only impact against the wall and detonate on collision. The force of the detonation created powerful winds that caused the Queen Mama Chanter to float away from shore. The giant singing ships cannons had hit the barrier point blank only inches away from the massive ship. The force had destroyed pieces of its bow. The damage caused the sentient ship to cry out in pain as its sails caught fire.

"You'll pay for that!" roared Big Mom enraged by the damage done to her beloved ship. Linlin was incredibly selfish and possessive, easily infuriated when something she perceived as hers was damaged.

Naruto snorted in amusement to Linlin's antics; however, he chose not to respond, deciding to use his actions. Closing his eyes Naruto connected to one of his clones, "Is the fleet ready?"

"Hai Bosu (Yes Boss)!"

"Bring them forth, show everyone what Old Tom has created and let them tremble in fear!" Naruto gave the command and turned his attention to the sea. The air began to distort as a tear in time and space appeared drawing everyone's attention. The rip began to slowly open up stretching as a black hole began to manifest. The sea rumbled as it flooded into the tear. The ocean's top began to ripple forming large waves as if something was slowly making its arrival.

The first thing they all saw was the shape of a metal bow coming into existence. Attached to the bow was a one hundred metre long ship that sailed out onto the sea, proudly sailing the flag of Uzu no Kuni the symbol of the island. At the front of the ship was a single twin turret built on a rotating swivel. Behind it, four boxes positioned two by two. On each side a set of smaller turrets with strange metal boxes placed on top and what looked like red cylinder cones inside, a total of eight cones four on the bottom and four on top. As the ship came into view on each side the word, 'Inquisitor' could be made out. (1)

The turret began to move rotating into position as it locked onto the two closest Tartes. The ships without hesitation or warning the turrets firing releasing two powerful shells that made their way through the air with speed and deadly precision. The rounds impacted against the sides of the Tartes, hitting directly in the middle. Explosions erupted on impact as the shells pierced through the ship and out the other side. A massive explosion engulfed both ships as the shells cut through them with ease.

The strange small turrets with boxes on top moved and locked onto the enemy ships and fired the strange cones, missiles. The missiles soared through the air and rained down onto the decks of four different Tarte ships. Two missiles impacted on each deck causing havoc and mayhem as large pieces were blown off. The missiles hit key points splitting the ships into pieces blowing them apart. The swivelling twin barrelled turret moved back into position and fired once more, blowing apart the two ships it had previously struck. Within moments of its appearance, the metal ship called the Inquisitor had destroyed six enemy vessels.

The Tartes began to recover, shifting into position and fired their cannons in retaliation. Metal balls rained towards the single ship only for seals to light up across the bow. A transparent chakra shield stretched up and around the entire ship creating a protective cover. The incoming cannon balls detonated harmlessly against the protective barrier, leaving the Inquisitor untouched. The ship sailed forward, creating ripples, but those ripples only grew as the tear in space began to expand becoming over thousands of metres long and high.

Out of the tear, two more bows began to sail forth. Each of these ships was over two hundred and fifty metres long and many metres high. Each loomed over the much smaller Inquisitor with ease, flanking on the right and the left of the much smaller vessel. Each vessel was the same length and height but differed in appearance by the weapons placed upon them.

On the right was the ship called the Anarchy, at the front, it was equipped with a pair of long quadruple turrets one placed in front of the other. In the middle of the longship placed on each side a set of twin triple turrets. At the back facing towards the stern was three quadruple twin turrets, one positioned higher than the other two. In total the Anarchy was in possession of seven turrets. (2) The ship on the left was labelled as the Helios carried a larger number of weapons. The largest was a set of twin turrets that were five times larger than the rest, two at the front and two at the back of the ship. Along the length of the Helios were multiple twin turrets of varying sizes and lengths, six large twin turrets, eight medium-sized twin turrets and sixteen small twin turrets. The Helios carried a total of thirty-four twin turrets. (3)

The Anarchy struck first of the two metal ships, its front pair of quadruple turrets began to move into position. Unlike the Helios, its barrels were in a fixed position and could only fire onto a single target or location. The turret swivelled ever so slightly to the right, and the first round was fired. The four barrels fired together and powerful shells rained down onto a single location, pouring heavy firepower onto two Tartes sailing close together. The shells impacted against wood and tore the two ships apart. The wooden ships were unable to resist as they became pieces of debris. The second turret behind the first was elevated as the turret fired. Four shells came crashing down again onto another Tarte blowing it apart instantly; the small ship stood no chance. The twin turrets on the Anarchy's side were not to be outdone as they moved into position locking onto a boat each and fired. The twin barrels let loose as large shells impacted against the sides of two Tartes blowing them out of the water. Debris was spread across the top of the ocean as flames wafted into the air.

The Helios sailed into position the barrels on its two twin turrets were longer, wider and could move independently of each other. The barrels began to elevate up and down, locking onto a target each. The ocean quivered as the massive turrets fired just like its predecessors. Shells sailed down onto four small Tartes detonating on impact. Immediately after firing the first round the twin turrets unloaded once more into the same targets. The smaller battleships stood no chance as they were blown to pieces, their crew annihilated within moments. No mercy was shown as the three ships sailed towards the enemy fleet and wiped out fifteen ships within seconds of their appearances.

"Impossible!" Sakazuki dropped the spyglass in his hand, eyes widening at the sight of the three ships summoned by Uzushiogakure. The marines around him could only stare in silence at the side and the destruction that soon followed. Three ships using only a fraction of their firepower wiped out thirty percent of Big Mom's fleet with ease. Many marines trembled and collapsed to their knees. The Buster Fleet had the potential to do the same, but that required the full force of its weapons. It made them wonder, how would the fleet stand against these three ships?

Charlotte Linlin stood shell-shocked at the damage, watching on as pieces of burning debris floated on the ocean's surface. Never had she ever imagined Uzushiogakure would be able to produce such powerful ships, it was unthinkable. Uzushiogakure had been around less than eight years, and it had produced not only a powerful Military but also a strong Navy.

"This can't be. How?" Linlin's meaty hands shook with fear and anger; she couldn't believe her eyes. Linlin wanted to pinch herself and wish it was all a dream, but the wind smacking against her face said otherwise. The members of the Charlotte family were equally as stunned as their mother; the weaker ones fell to their knees, eyes widened in horror at the devastation. It was inconceivable; there had been no Intel at all about Uzushiogakure possessing any battle-ready ships of any kind. The only information readily available was the two Militant forces of Uzushio the Martial Legions and the Shinobi.

The members of the Charlotte Family had their mouths open in gape like a goldfish, shaken to their cores. Why wouldn't they be? In seconds of their appearance the three ships had wiped out a third of their fleet, this wasn't counting the Germa Kingdom's ships. If Judge was awake to see this, he too would surely be shaken but would be utterly delighted with greed at the thought of trying to snatch the technology used build those ships.

Whitebeard smiled from ear to ear, clearly impressed by the display, "You've been holding out on me Naruto-san! I had no idea your fleet was so powerful. GURARARA!" Whitebeard released a hearty laugh at the sight of the destruction. Seeing Linlin in such shock and distraught brought the aged Yonko much joy. Whitebeard laughed harder when he saw the gobsmacked expressions of his commanders, jaws down to the ground and eyes bulging out of their sockets.

"Incredible." Marco couldn't help but admire the destructive power before gulping wondering what would happen if it was ever turned on them. However if anything the First Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates feared what this would mean for the marines. For years the Marine's had been the top Naval Power if Uzushio could build ships just as powerful as these three, then how long would it be until they dominated the Marines completely. With just a few more years Uzushiogakure's Military might would surely surpass the World Government, and now so would their Navy.

Jozu and Vista were simply lost for words at the display, unable to say a word.

"You haven't seen anything yet Whitebeard. Watch." Naruto gave a knowing smile as Whitebeard showed a look of confusion. Neither paid attention to the fish mouthed expressions of Newgate's Commanders. The Shinobi was shocked, but not enough to relieve them on their senses, they expected the three ships to be powerful, but even this was outside their expectations.

The ships sailed out, weapons lowering as they moved into position. The three ships sailed in formation with the Inquisitor at the front and the two large ships at the side as if they were protecting something. Large ripples formed in the ocean that battered against the sides of all ships. Metal began to poke out of the hole in space, and that was when it appeared. Mouths opened in astonishment as a ship dwarfing the others emerged from its confines, creating large waves in the ocean as it moved.

A large ship three hundred and fifty metres in length and over two hundred metres high emerged, sailing in between the three ships, using them as an escort and protection. Unlike the others the ship appeared to have no weapons at all, appearing bare. The ship's bow was over two hundred metres long with the central command stationed at the two hundred metre mark, spanning seventy metres long and high. There was nothing but blank space at the bow, stern and sides of the ship as if were designed to be a carrier ship instead of a battleship. The name Maelstrom was proudly displayed on its sides. The marines and Big Mom pirates could only look on in amusement and laugh at the sight of the ship.

"What a colossal steel monstrosity," Whitebeard commented as the metal ship came into full view, while it was nowhere near as tall as the Queen Mama Chanter if anything the Maelstrom was probably only a third of the size of the singing ship. Even so, the Maelstrom was still an impressive vessel and no doubt one of the largest on the Grandline.

Taking hold of the wheel at the command station was one of Naruto's clones. The clone placed a hand on the control panel and released chakra into the ship. Chakra poured through the metal of the giant ship as seals lit up along the bow. The deck began to move as it parted in half, components would slide open revealing the internals of the large vessel. Something began to rise up out from beneath, parts moved and extended as a turret came into view, docking on top. The bow moved back into place closing up around the turret as its barrels began to stretch, a total of two. The twin turrets barrels extended to a length of two hundred metres extending over the bow of the ship, each over twenty-five metres in diameter.

The Maelstrom aimed as the Inquisitor sailed out to the side leaving an open path. The two barrels locked onto the middle of the enemy fleet as chakra surged. Positive black and negative white chakra began to gather at the points of the barrels and was funnelled inwards as the turret charged. Electricity surged around the turret flowing inwards. The enemy Tartes began to move out of formation attempting to avoid the incoming attack, but it was too late. The clone fired the charged energy releasing twin purple beams of chakra. Lightning flowed around the two beams as they struck their target. The beams hit water missing their targets, only to detonate on impact.

Chakra expanded outwards creating two large energy domes that fused together turning into one. Lightning flashed across the skies as clouds turned pitch black. Dangerous bolts flashed downwards striking ships as lightning raced across the ocean's surface. The destructive dome of chakra engulfed every ship within its path, encompassing the entirety of what remained of Big Mom's fleet, with the exception of the Queen Mama Chanter. Gale force winds were summoned knocking the Marine and Germa Kingdom Fleets from side to side; to the point, they almost capsized. The Queen Mama Chanter cried out as its sails were torn apart. The force of the wind was so strong pressure tore apart its sides and stern. The masts snapped as they collapsed hitting the deck with a loud thud.

As the dome died down a giant chasm was revealed in the middle of the ocean. One could see the oceans floor. Any debris that would have remained had been annihilated leaving nothing behind. Water poured back into the chasm as tidal waves were created. The sea churned violently before eventually returning to its calm state.

The Maelstrom moved its giant turret turning it towards the Queen Mama Chanter. The turret began to shift and move as parts folded in on one another and others expanded. The twin turret transformed into a sextuple turret, four thinner barrels on the bottom with two wider ones on top. The four barrels were two hundred metres long and five metres in diameter. The four thinner barrels moved locking onto the Mama Chanter and began to gather chakra. The clone channelled chakra into the four barrels; blue particles flowed through as electricity churned. The turret fired releasing four large projectiles made from pure lightning elemental chakra. The lightning projectiles sailed across the seas and collided with the side of the Mama Chanter detonating on impact. A violent lightning storm was released from each projectile engulfing the singing ship making it howl in pain. Four large holes were blown into the ship's sides as multiple cannons were destroyed. The sides were scorched as lightning coursed through the ship, creating hundreds of tiny bolts that pierced through the bodies of its occupants killing them with each bolt.

The two larger barrels on top, one hundred metres long and fifteen metres in diameter, rotated fixing their position on Big Mom herself. Chakra particles were absorbed into the right barrel as seals lit up along its length. Pure white negative chakra gathered into the barrel. The surrounding light began to grow dim as darkness spread out from the barrel as if all light was absorbed. Colours began to invert as a negative energy dome expanded out from the tip dome affecting the visuals of the world around the weapon.

"Negatibubāsuto (Negative Burst)!"

The clone released the charged negative chakra aiming it straight towards Charlotte Linlin. The ocean shook as a dense beam of white energised chakra erupted from the tip of the single barrel. The beam parted the sea creating large tidal waves that swept across the surrounding fleets pushing them back. Everywhere the beam of chakra touched became distorted as colour and light was drained, absorbed into it. The sea grew so violent large waves slammed against multiple ships from the Germa Kingdom. The waves crashed against the snails capsizing them, pulling them under to the ocean's depths. The four ships of the Uzushio Navy shook as they floated back on the ocean. The Maelstrom was pushed back from the force of the projectile, slipping twenty metres back.

Linlin gave a ferocious roar as she grabbed the sun beside her, Prometheus and threw him towards the incoming energy beam.

"Hebunrī Foiā (Heavenly Fire)!"

The sun erupted into flames taking on a sinister appearance as it sailed towards the incoming attack. An intense heat washed over the shore as the sea bubbled from the rays released by the sun forged from a piece of Linlin's soul. The fire projected from the animated sun grew exponentially in size to the point they dwarfed even the Queen Mama Chanter. Fire met negative chakra as the two attacks impacted. A large explosion of fire erupted from the impact between the two fires as it swallowed up the beam attempting to consume it. The world became distorted as rays of negative chakra exploded from the beam — rays of negative energy pierced through the veil of flames. The intense fire created by the sun began to disperse; the rays of negative chakra extinguished their existence until nothing remained.

The giant sun began to shrink rapidly in size as Prometheus returned to his original shape and size. The beam of chakra that had been stalled pierced through the centre of the sun's body cutting through it like a hot knife through butter. The living sun howled in pain as his body collapsed falling into the ocean, steam rose into the air as water met fire. The heat radiated from the sun's body was cooled as the ocean ways smothered him.

"Don't underestimate me! Ikoku (Mighty Nation)!" Linlin roared as she swung the cutlass, Napoleon, another one of her creations into the path of what appeared to be an indestructible beam of energy. As the sword was swung it transformed from a cutlass into a longsword and released a powerful shockwave. The shockwave tore apart the beach in front of Linlin as it collided with the beam of negative chakra. The beam stalled as it battled against the shockwave released from Linlin's sword. The shockwave shattered as the beam cut right through it and slammed into Linlin's chest. The force was so strong it forced Big Mom to release the hold on her sword dropping it to the ground

The beam carried such force behind it that it cracked the earth beneath Linlin as she held her ground. The Yonko dug her feet into the earth shattering it and roared like a behemoth. The woman appeared like some kind of demonic beast as a sinister aura erupted from her body. "Raitei (Thunderbolt)!" The cloud appeared around Linlin's left hand, another creation of hers called Zeus. Big Mom slammed her left hand down onto the chakra beam, releasing a powerful bolt of lightning on impact.

Lightning and chakra collided as the two attacks exploded. A dome of negative energy erupted from the impact encasing Big Mom. Everyone close to the dome was blown backwards as it expanded to a diameter of fifty metres. Lightning surged around and inside the dome as the ground within was torn apart. Dust and debris filled the dome blocking off everyone's view. The earth around the chakra shook violently as the colour was distorted and drained. Shockwaves erupted out from the dome throwing Charlotte's children and army off balance. With every shockwave, they grew stronger and stronger, to the point the weaker members of Charlotte's family were thrown to the shore. Even those in the middle tier of Charlotte's children had trouble standing against the incoming shockwaves. The chess soldiers were thrown backwards as their formations were put into disarray.

A large roar sounded from the dome as a giant fist tore through the array of negative chakra. The dome shattered as the colour was restored to the world. Dust and debris settled as Charlotte Linlin stumbled forward, a sinister aura flowing from her body, fists dripping with blood. The woman's appearance was a mess mattered with dust and debris.

"Not enough to kill her." Naruto clicked his teeth in mild annoyance, hoping the beam would have done significant damage to her, but beggars couldn't be choosers. The beam was strong enough, but it was no Bijuudama. The Negatibubāsuto (Negative Burst) used only negative chakra and in small amounts, unlike the amount used in a Bijuudama to help balance the ratio of 8:2 positive to negative chakra.

"Move to phase two." Naruto contacted the clone on the Maelstrom, directing it to move onto its next target.

The turret lowered as the Maelstrom retreated no longer aiming at Charlotte Linlin or the Big Mom Army. The four ships of the Uzushiogakure fleet began to sail away from the battle, heading out to sea. The action confused the Charlotte Family to no end wondering why Uzushio wasn't using the heavy artillery to finish them off.

"You think I didn't see you spying on us like rats?"


Marine Fleet

"Sir! The Uzushio Fleet is heading our way and closing in fast!" A marine shouted from the crow's nest. The Uzushiogakure fleet, if it could be called that with only four ships had changed course as was heading towards the Buster Call Fleet at incredibly high speeds.

"Arara (Oh My), I didn't think a ship could move that fast." Borsalino held a hand over his eyes, gaze cast towards the approaching ships. The Light user's legs were shaking slightly from the display he had seen with his own two eyes.

"All hands to battle stations! Prepare to intercept! We'll show Uzu just who has the strongest navy! Drop all sails and prepare cannons!" Sakazuki roared giving commands to the marines under his control. The command was quickly passed on through the Den Den Mushi transponders to each ship. The ten large Buster Call ships dropped their sails, joined by the twenty smaller vessels accompanying them. The Armada of thirty ships set sail intending to meet Uzushio head on and take charge, by grabbing the first advantage. The fleet of ships took off heading towards Uzushio's fleet, cannons moving into position. The large turrets on the ten Buster Ships locked onto the position of the enemy fleet.

"Ships One and Ten open fire!" Sakazuki shouted into a Den Den Mushi relaying commands to two of the Buster ships. Two ships one on the far right and one on the far left of the fleet opened fire. The barrels rumbled and shook as large shells capable of levelling entire islands were launched at the metal warships.

The clone on the bridge could only smirk, "You think that'll stop us?" Seals lit up along the lengths of all four ships as protective shields of chakra came into existence coating them. The four shields expanded and fused together creating one big energy dome that covered all four ships. The buster shells impacted against the combined energy shield and exploded. The force shook the barrier, creating large cracks only for the seals on the ships to light up. Chakra flooded into the barrier rejuvenating the damage done in an instant.

The clone sat back onto a large chair crossing his right leg over the left knee and revealed a shit-eating grin, "These shields are created from natural energy, gathered into the seals from the surroundings and converted into chakra which is then used to generate these protective shields. One shield would shatter under your shells, but when they are combined, they grow stronger with the addition of each new shield."

Sakazuki grit his teeth watching as the shells fired from the Buster Cannon's simply bounced off the enemy shields doing the bare minimum amount of damage. Any damage that was dealt upon the shields was repaired automatically. The strange symbols that were glowing on the ships appeared to be the source of what was causing the annoyance. The cannon fire was unable to slow the enemy ships down as they got closer and closer. The only thing the Marines had managed to do was waste their supply of ammunition. "All ships open fire! Take down that shield!" Sakazuki roared into the Den Den Mushi ordering every ship, not just the Buster Ships to fire.

Cannons and turrets moved into position as marines hurried to load them. The smaller ships moved into position the four large cannons on each of their bows fixed onto a single point of the enemy shield and fired. The smaller cannon fire was joined by the fire of the Buster Ships as multiple explosions detonated against the enemy shields, creating cracks along its entire length. Within moments the cracks recovered as the second volley hit. The barrier regenerated faster than the enemy could damage it. The combined cannon fire was unable to slow the ships down as they came into view of five hundred metres.

Sakazuki growled and launched his body up into the air; magma poured out from his legs as his lower half transformed. Marines screamed as they ran from the magma as it poured across the deck of the ship. Some were not as lucky as they were directly caught by the magma and melted; their screams sent shivers down their comrade's spines. Kuzan sneered at his comrade's actions and attempted to freeze the magma, turning into one big ice block, preventing it from harming any more of their subordinates.

The magma user could care less about the casualties and raised his hands above his head. Magma poured out of his left arm and gathered into the air morphing into the shape of a large ball. The ball of magma expanded as a great heat erupted from it. The ocean bubbled as the heat generated from the giant ball of mama evaporated the sea. The ball expanded to twice the size of the Buster Call Ship beneath Sakazuki as it took the shape of a dog head.

"Inugami Ryuusei (Dog Biting Meteor)!"

Sakazuki tossed the giant meteor towards the enemy fleet, indenting to drown them in liquid magma. There was no possible way the barrier could resist the force of the flying meteor. Ever since his battle with Otsutsuki Hagoromo and he had recovered, Sakazuki had been training like crazy. The Admiral had travelled to active volcanoes forcing them to erupted and battled his way against the flying flaming rocks. Sakazuki had honed himself under the intense heat of living magma and even bathed in it. Day by day the Admiral forced himself to grow stronger going to the extent to fight his own Admirals in two on one battle, even requesting some of the stronger Vice Admiral's like Garp and Issho to participate to increase the number of opponents. All of it was fuelled by his desire for revenge.

The giant ball of magma descended, creating a giant shadow over the enemy fleet, landing directly on top at the centre of the barrier. Magma broke down as it poured over the protective barrier attempting to melt away at it. Cracks began to form in the barrier that spread out like crazy. Seals glowered brightly on the sides of all four ships as natural energy was absorbed and consumed at an exponential rate in an attempt to keep the shield from falling. The ball of magma continued pushing down with the weight of gravity as larger cracks formed at the centre of impact. Eventually, small segments of the barrier began to break off falling away as magma slipped through the cracks.

"Do you think it will be so easy?" The clone vanished in a flash of white appearing in the air above the Maelstrom. The clone clapped his hands together, and chakra erupted from his body.

"Suiton (Water Release)" There was no Jutsu attached, as the clone assumed direct control over the water element itself. The ocean beneath the clone shook before it raised up into the air, creating hundreds of thousands of tendrils. The tendrils came together above the fleet of ships swallowing up the magma as the shield came down, deactivated under the clones command. An endless supply of water rose up from the ocean around the clone, chakra controlling it to rise up forming the shape of a giant hand.

The ocean trembled as ripples appeared on its surface gradually growing more violent and turbulent with every passing second as pillars of sea water rose into the sky. Waves gained strength growing in size as large tidal waves crashed against the sides of the small escort ships. Water splashed onto the decks with enough force to knock the marines on-board over. Ships shook side to side as the waves grew ever violent, threatening to knock them over like tiny dinghies in a storm. The water hand came up from beneath the magma ball, fingers coiling around and clenching, containing it in a fist.

Steam rose up from the hand as the intense heat evaporated the sea. Seawater continued to pour up into the air giving the hand an endless supply that never dimmed. Manipulating the giant hand the clone made it toss the sphere that had become a hardened piece of rock into the sea with a loud splash. The water hand collapsed as droplets of seawater fell down around the ships and returned to the ocean. Waves formed as the ocean churned violently before becoming calm.

"While their shield is done open fire!" Sakazuki wasn't going to let this opportunity slip by his fingers. The Admiral didn't know what took the shield down, but he wasn't going to let the opportunity be missed. The magma user wanted to eliminate these steel monstrosities before they had a chance to make their way onto the rest of the Grandline and threaten the Marine's authority and might. The only ones who had ever challenged the naval powers of the World Government were the Yonko. Sakazuki would not have some second-class power join the ranks of the Yonko.

"Like I said as if it would be that easy?" The clone snorted in amusement as he floated in the air. Folding his arms over his chest, the clone floated down and landed on top of the Maelstrom, standing on the front of the bow, granting a better view of what was to come. Tempted to take action the clone refrained, while he possessed a fraction of the original's power, it was not the task he had been given by the original.

The Inquisitor began to move sailing out to sea as it broke formation. The small ship was fast as it sped towards the enemy fleet, its turret moved into position pointing to the right of the enemy fleet. The twin barrels locked onto the enemy position and fired without hesitation. Two shells collided with the two separate marine ships and detonated on impact, rocking the ships as large pieces were blown off.

"Load the Buster Cannons blow that thing out of the water!" Sakazuki roared into the transponder, the cannons had already been spent after the initial attack and had yet to be reloaded. Marines scurried to quickly load the cannons, giving the Inquisitor plenty of time to mount its counter attack.

Unlike the weapons of the marines the Inquisitor, and its companions were each equipped with storage seals on their weapons allowing for instantaneous reload. The seals activated automatically when the weapons were fired allowing for constant suppressing fire. The four boxes at the back of the turret flipped open, a platform began to elevate as rising up from the depths of the ship were twelve soldiers dressed in bone white armour with the kanji for 'nine' on their backs. Each soldier held a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher; the rocket appeared to have two barrels locked together sitting on top of the other (4).

The soldiers raised the rockets up, locked onto the enemy vessels and pulled the trigger. From each barrel, a lone missile no bigger than a small baby and in the shape of a cigar was fired. The rockets skidded across the ocean's surface and began to elevate rising up on an angle as they split off forming pairs. The paired rockets sped towards their combined targets and collided with twelve marine ships. On impact, the rockets did not detonate but instead, spikes were released from the point of contact and impaled the ship. The spikes helped to plant the rockets into the marine ships fixing them in place. Compartments suddenly sprung open along the metal rockets revealing dozens of tiny small explosive bombs. The bombs were ejected from the rockets and flung out in every direction where they exploded violently. The bombs were small but powerful as they levelled twelve ships sinking them with ease. The marines on board hurried to escape their impending doom, but not all were lucky as many were caught in the explosions.

"You didn't think we would let you off and simply let you sit here watching us did you?" The clone's voice travelled the distance and reached the ears of every marine. "We would sense your ill intentions the moment you arrived. Anyone who dares lay their ill will on Uzushio shall face its wrath."

The clone felt some sorrow for those innocent marines who were simply following the commands of their leaders, but one could not afford to be soft-hearted in these turbulent times. Extending a hand towards the sinking ship tendrils of water shot out from the ocean around the Maelstrom. The tendrils extended to the floating marines and coiled around them, lifting them up into the air and pulled them towards the Maelstrom; parts opened up on the sides of the carrier as the Marines were thrown inside and confined in its internal prison. The surviving marines could be held captive and returned to the World Government for a price.

The Anarchy and Helios broke the line and sped up to join the Inquisitor in its advance. The two giant ships instead of firing from the bow rotated their positions moving onto their sides, both turned to the side allowing their full length to face the enemy forces. The two vessels faced the Marine fleet, pointing their left side towards them, allowing a large number of turrets to take position.

The Anarchy was the first to attack once it was in position, five turrets rotated into range, moving on their axis, two large quadruple turrets at the bow, two smaller twin quadruple turrets at the stern and a twin turret on the side. The five turrets swerved and elevated themselves into the air as they locked onto their chosen targets. The ship trembled as the massive turrets fired without mercy. Buster Call Ships went up in flames as ships marked one and ten were hit by the two larger quadruple turrets. The four shells devastated the timber frame blowing large chunks off into the water. The metal shells continued through piercing to the bottom of the ships blowing holes in the keel. With four large holes in the keel, the Buster Ships were unable to stay afloat and began to sink into the ocean's depths. With the aid of the three smaller turrets, three smaller vessels had been picked apart and decimated.

The Helios lacked the powerful turrets of the Anarchy but made up with it through quantity allowing it to target multiple enemies. Of the massive amount of weapons carried by the Helios, its four largest turrets moved towards their target, rotating towards two different Buster Call Ships, locking onto the Ships stationed second from the ends. The smaller turrets on the Helios also moved, those that were able rotated and elevated, each turret was operated by a small team of soldiers in bone white armour carrying the number 'nine' on their backs. The larger turrets were operated from the command centre. The sea trembled as the four large turrets opened fire, followed by fourteen smaller turrets. The Helios trembled from the firing of its multiple turrets but kept afloat as chakra circulated its body preventing it from capsizing from the force of its weapon.

Multiple projectiles detonated against the hardened shells of the marine fleet. The smaller turrets focused fire onto multiple targets as they attempted to sink the escort ships. The set of four large twin turrets impacted on the front of the Buster Ships blowing their bows apart leaving nothing left. Large shells crashed into the deck of the island destroying ships, destroying multiple layers. On impact, the shells detonated with a powerful explosive force that tore the ships in two. The fourteen smaller turrets with their combined firepower sank two escort ships turning them into debris, leaving wrecks full of holes that looked like Swiss cheese.

With the combined efforts of three ships four Buster Call ships and nineteen escort ships had been destroyed. The fleet had begun with thirty ships, but within moments of their arrival the Uzushio Navy had wiped out more than half. All that was left were six Buster ships and one single lonely Marine ship that acted as escort. As the ships sank tendrils of water would coil around the surviving marines and stored them in the Maelstrom taking them prisoner.

"I'd advise you to leave now before I finish off the rest of what remains of your poor fleet!" The clone called out to the marines as he took to the air and floated over coming into sight. Looking down at Sakazuki at the bow of the main Buster Ship, the clone sneered in disgust.

"Justice will be upheld! I'll take down those ships myself if I have to!" Sakazuki roared as he launched himself up into the air, his lower half transforming into magma once more. The Admiral's left arm transformed into magma and he punched down, unleashing multiple fists of magma. The giant fists of magma sailed towards the enemy ships with the intent to melt them down into scrap. The clone could only snort in amusement and instead of activating the shields decided to show them how utterly useless it was.

The fists of magma hit the metal ships without any resistance and began to coat them in liquid hot magma. The magma spread out across the ships as pieces dripped into the ocean, the heat evaporated the sea causing steam to rise.

"HAHAHA! It's over!" Sakazuki laughed as he looked on with glee at his handy work, soon the ships would be nothing but molten slag floating on the ocean's surface. The Admiral laughed with a crazed gleam in his eyes only to stop, eyes widening in horror, "Impossible!" The three ships were moving unhindered; the magma was unable to penetrate their metal hulls. It was as if the heat from the magma was nothing to it.

"That can't be how!" Sakazuki was stunned by what he was seeing; the only thing that could resist his magma was seastone. Unless the ships were made completely out of the rare ore, there was no possible way they could withstand the heat. On closer inspection a transparent cloak of energy could be seen coating the ships, clinging an inch from the surface.

"Let me tell you now, Uzushio's ships are one word, indestructible!" The clone boasted with a smug grin; the ships were coated in protective seals that could generate powerful shields. A primary shield created an energy dome around the entire ship while a secondary shield coated the ships sticking close to them and was almost invisible. As long as the second shield wasn't broken the ships couldn't be damaged, even then it would require incredible strength to even dent the metal that was used to forge them. The metal ore was created personally by the original and was incredibly durable.

A tall figure jumped down from one of the Buster Call ships and landed on the ocean's surface. Ice spread out from the point of contact creating a place for the man to stand, it was Kuzan or Aokiji as he was called by the marines. The Admiral of ice placed his hands on the ground, and a cold chill came into existence. Ice rapidly spread out in front of the fleet freezing the ocean between the two forces. Ice rose upwards creating a towering wall blocking off the Uzu fleet.

"Akainu order a retreat! We have lost too much to remain here." Kuzan yelled out to his fellow Admiral, appearing to have the cooler head of the group. The Admiral was well aware of his comrade's delusions, and unless he intervened the man would risk it all to try and destroy those ships. Kuzan wasn't about to lose any more marines to the magma user's madness. Even if he, Borsalino and Sakazuki combined efforts, Kuzan doubted they would be able to sink those ships. Besides Kuzan had been against this whole operation from the start. The Uzukage was just too unpredictable, and that made him incredibly dangerous.

"Rrrr. Fine. All hands fall back we are leaving! Return to base!" Sakazuki shouted into the transponder, clenching it so hard it began to break. The man was furious but had no choice but to leave with what was left of the fleet. Fleet Admiral Sengoku would not be happy with these results. Besides the fight against Hagoromo, never in his life did Sakazuki feel so humiliated and embarrassed.

"Just you wait, Uzumaki Naruto, one day I will kill you and burn your village to the ground!"

The clone watched on with mild joy as the fleet began to turn around and sailed away, gathering up what survivors they could. Turning to face Uzu no Kuni the clone rubbed his chin, "Now then I wonder how things are going back on land?"


Uzu Shore

Charlotte Linlin patted down her clothes and turned to face the Uzushio Army glaring daggers at Naruto. The woman was enraged again by the Uzukage's actions. Time and time again he served to only annoy and piss her off with every passing second. If she didn't destroy him and his people there would be no other way for her to vent her anger. "I gave you a chance Uzumaki Naruto! What happens next are the consequences for defying me!"

Linlin reached out with a meaty right hand, a strange pink glow surrounded the hand as an ethereal pink hand extended out into the air. The ethereal hand extended over Big Mom's forces and headed towards the soldiers of Uzushiogakure. The giant hand loomed several dozens of metres in size and was aimed down towards a group of soldiers; Big Mom was intending to steal their souls, killing a large group with one blow. But Naruto would not allow her to do as she pleased, especially in his territory.

"You're not the only one who can play with the realm of souls." Naruto jumped up into the path of the incoming pink hand and reached out with his own. A suction force erupted from his palm as a force with the power of a black hole began to suck in the pink soul energy, drawing it into Naruto's own body. Linlin gave an anguished cry as she felt a piece of her soul being torn apart. The woman quickly retreated, retracting the hand that was manifested from her own soul. As the hand returned, its fingertips were missing, having been absorbed by Naruto and fused into his body.

The Sage landed on the ground in a crouched position and shut his eyes. Internally the immortal was fighting with the remnants of Big Mom's will that was contained within the soul piece he had extracted, surprisingly Linlin had a rather large soul, and the piece he extracted was around the size an ordinary human held. Using that as a base, Naruto guessed Linlin's soul was at least a thousand or more times bigger than the normal humans. Destroying the piece of will attached to the soul, Naruto absorbed it taking in the memories contained within the fragment. A sneer formed on the Sage's lips as he looked up with burning anger at the woman.

"You steal the lifespan of your citizens." It wasn't a question but a statement. The reason the woman's soul was so big was she took payment from her citizens in the form of their lifespan, taking a fraction of the soul with it A piece was then added to Linlin's own soul expanding it and increasing her power while the rest was used to create strange creatures called homies. By adding soul fragments to her own, Linlin was effectively boosting her own lifespan, but the side effect was slowly degrading her mental state. No soul was designed to house the fragments of others, with the exception of Naruto's.

Naruto's soul was connected to his chakra, as he was a chakra beast. Unlike a physical being, Naruto's soul was flexible and capable of expanding; it was why he could absorb the souls of the citizens of the Element Nations without side effect. It was no wonder Linlin was known as a psychotic woman whose mental state would flip at the drop of a hat; she was unstable, made worse by her upbringing.

"You're a crazed dog who should be put down." This crazed woman couldn't be allowed to live, nor her fraction, it had to be destroyed.

"Kill them all! I want their heads!" Linlin roared in a crazed fury with every moment the troops of Uzushio lived; she was becoming more and more unhinged. One could see the woman's mental state fraying away, becoming overtaken by psychosis.

"All troops march forward and attack!" Katakuri jumped up into the air and landed at the front of the remaining chess soldiers. The favoured brother of the Charlotte Family was taking back control; his mother was not in the proper state of mind. "Split off and surround the enemy, attack from all sides! Germa Soldiers take the right side!"

The remaining soldiers splintered off into three groups, the remaining one thousand Germa 66 flanked to the right, while the four thousand chess soldiers split into two groups. Two thousand chess soldiers flanked to the left as the remaining two thousand headed down the middle. The Charlotte Family members splintered off each joining a different fraction. Charlotte Cracker, Cinnamon, Custard, Saint Marc and Angel headed to the right joining the Germa 66. Charlotte Smoothie accompanied by Opera, Counter, Cadenza and Cabaletta flanked to the left. Katakuri took charge up the middle joined by Amande, Daifuku and Oven. Big Mom remained behind stationed at the back watching with glee as her children and army advanced. Linlin held great confidence in her children especially the Three Sweet Commanders, but above all, she held confidence in Katakuri's strength as the strongest of her children.

"Nekkai Kiri (Hot Sea Slash)!" With a roar Charlotte Oven, a giant muscular man with a thick neck and hair arranged into three curved sections, appeared in the air above the Shinobi forces swinging a massive naginata. The naginata affected the air around it creating heat waves before it burst into flames. Gripping the polearm with both arms, the man swung it right into the Shinobi's paths releasing an intense wave of heat. The man was surprisingly agile as the blade struck the first Shinobi, a Chunin, without mercy. The flames engulfed the Chunin turning him into a living bonfire. The Chunin held back a pained scream as he lunged forward, performing a rising kick to the heat releasing man. The blow struck Oven in the chest and knocked him a few metres back.

From behind Oven's older brother, Daifuku, another extremely giant man with broad shoulders, shaved blonde hair and yellows eyes, charged towards the Shinobi forces. Daifuku rubbed his stomach, and a large plume of light blue smoke poured out from his belt buckle taking the shape of a giant blue genie. The genie towered over Daifuku, its entire lower half comprised of smoke while it wielded a giant naginata.

"Maijen Saidan (Fiend Shredding)!" The Genie swung its naginata downwards into the Shinobi striking with such force it cleaved a small trench in the ground. The shockwaves released sent those weaker Shinobi caught in the blast flying backwards.

The two brothers retreated and stood side by side, giving arrogant grins, "Don't underestimate the Charlotte Family!"

"Hold nothing back!" Yamato wasn't going to let the enemy get off freely. The Jounin Commander withdrew a scroll from one of his holsters, the scroll unrivalled as chakra flowed into it, in a puff of smoke a nine foot long green Guan Dao appeared, running along the blade was an azure dragon. Bright red flames engulfed the tip of the Guan Dao as it was swung into the path of the incoming army. A tsunami of crimson flames poured into existence, rising up to smother and consume the incoming forces. Fire danced as a tremendous heat swarmed the enemy troops with such intensity they were forced to shield their eyes. The tsunami loomed over the two Charlotte brother's threatening to turn them to ash.

"Mochi Tsuki (Mochi Thrust)!" Katakuri lunged forward, a three-pronged trident materialised out of the mochi user's body as he thrust it forward. The man's right arm twisted as it transformed into mochi before it began to unravel causing the trident to spin, turning it into a deadly drill like stab. The spinning trident struck the incoming waves and with incredible force split the tsunami in two. Katakuri pierced through the wave and headed towards Yamato the trident aimed at the Jounin's chest, revealing the pirates intent to turn the fire user into mincemeat.

"Kyojin no Ken (Fist of the Giant)!" A powerful wind kicked up as strong gale winds slammed against Katakuri slowing him down. From above a giant fist made of wind over three times, Katakuri's size came plummeting down towards him. Katakuri planted his feet into the ground and changed the course of the thrust, propelling it upwards to meet the incoming fist. As the two attacks collided, powerful shockwaves erupted from the impact. Earth shattered as cracks in the shape of webs were formed, the shockwaves were so powerful it caused the surroundings to shake and quiver beneath them.

Strange sparks of red energy radiated from the point of impact that transformed into bolts of lightning that tore the ground apart. The shockwaves released grew in intensity as the two forces collided. A rumbling came from the earth as it collapsed inwards, pieces of debris were scattered as dust was tossed upwards. A dome of crimson red energy sparked into existence at the point of the collision and grew exponentially in size covering a twenty metre radius. Those hit by the dome were violently knocked back.

"Haoshoku Haki?" Katakuri raised his right eyebrow, scrutinising the strange occurrence that was happening around him. What was happening was a peculiar event that happened when two Haoshoku Haki users clashed in battle. Sensing an attack from above Katakuri jumped back as a second tornado fist struck the ground creating a fist-sized imprint.

Hovering above Katakuri was a towering six-foot tall youth how had not long reached his eighteenth birthday. The youth had wide, sturdy shoulders with a well-built frame and matching tanned golden brown skin leaving him with a healthy complexion. A mane of spiky black hair fell around to the youth's back; the hair looked wild and untameable giving the youth a fierce look that went with a pair of crimson red hues that held a strong glare in them. Said youth wore a fiery red battle robe that matched a fiery disposition paired with a navy blue Jounin flak jacket. A fiery aura radiated from the youth as the wind whipped around him violently, but left him unharmed as if he was one with it. The youth was called Houjin, Second in Command of the Shinobi forces and Jounin.

"Another King has been born? Gurararara." Newgate rumbled with joyous laughter as he watched the two Haki users collide. He was a user of the Conquerors Will himself and naturally could spot other users of it with ease. The Yonko had already felt it in two others on the island when he arrived; it was impressive for three wielders of the legendary willpower to be in the same place under someone else's command. Whitebeard was able to sense it in the one called Yamato, one of Naruto's prized students, as for the third, the Yonko's senses had yet to discover who.

"That boy needs to die before he reaches his full potential." Linlin was already plotting to end Houjin's life to make sure he wouldn't have the chance to reach his adulthood and be an actual threat to her power. Linlin couldn't have too many Haoshoku Haki users running around, especially if they served Uzushio.

Everything below the youth's waist wasn't physically visible as it was transformed into a miniature tornado. The tornado was granting Houjin the gift of flight. The youth's right arm retracted as it changed back to its normal state. Wind gathered around the second generation devil user as he landed on the ground in front of Yamato, blocking off Katakuri's access to the Shinobi Commander. As he landed his legs transformed taking on a physical state allowing a pair of red, dark ninja sandals to touch the ground, revealing the youth's lower half was covered by black shinobi trousers. The youth was none other than Houjin, Second Generation Devil Fruit user, Jounin and Second in Commander of the Shinobi Forces. The wind user levelled his powerful gaze onto the mochi user and spoke but few words. Each word was spoken with a powerful conviction.

"You won't be taking another step passed me!"

Houjin ended his sentence and abruptly attacked without warning, legs transformed into miniature twisters propelling the wind user forward. Extending his left hand, wind materialised as his hammer axe like weapon was summoned, having been stored in his own body. Grasping the handle of the polearm, Houjin swung it into Katakuri bringing it into the man's path. A twister of wind poured out of the hammer side of the weapon increasing the speed and power of the tool mid-swing. The polearm smashed against the tip of the trident, and another shockwave erupted. The force behind it was so strong it blew Daifuku, Amande and Oven off balance making them slide backwards.

"I'll take you all one!" The second generation roared boldly punching out with his right arm transforming it into a powerful tornado. The wind rippled as the tornado shot through the air towards the three Charlotte Family Members. The tornado collided where they previously stood as the three pirates jumped out of the way, narrowly avoiding the attack, but the troops behind them were not so lucky. The tornado barrelled forward plunging into the ranks of the chess soldiers and blew them away. Blurs shot out from behind Houjin as multiple Chunin bypassed the four Charlotte executives and plunged into the enemy ranks. Houjin had drawn the attention of the enemy allowing his comrades to take the opportunity.

Giving a battle cry, Houjin propelled upwards barrelling towards Daifuku and Oven as the two brothers had landed beside one another. Chakra flowed into the axe half of the weapon where it burst into bright red flames that released an intense heat.

"Bureijingugurōrī!" Houjin swung the polearm overhead, gripping it tightly with both hands and brought it down onto the enemy.

"Don't look down on us trash! Hīto Denasshi (Hot Wind Fist)!" Charlotte Oven roared with righteous fury as his arms glowed bright orange and began to release an intense heat. The pirate pushed up towards the incoming flaming axe blade with right his arm. The heat fist met flaming metal as the two attacks collided with one another. Oven grit his teeth, feet dug into the earth as he put in all his might attempting to overpower the flaming axe.

"Surō Barādo (Slow Ballad)!" Charlotte Amande appeared floating in the air above Houjin, swinging her excessively long nodachi downwards in slow but deadly motion. The sword swung down aiming to bisect Houjin vertically from top to bottom in a slow and agonisingly painful method. Amande was known for her sadistic tendencies when it came to killing, enjoying killing slowly and painfully, all to maximise her opponent's pain. However, against a Logia user without the use of Busoshoku Haki, it would be useless. The blade cleaved through nothing but air as Houjin's body separated around the blade and reformed above where it had previously cut.

"Kazeken!" Houjin removed his right hand from the polearm transforming it into wind and punched out. A fist of wind connected with Amande's stomach, carrying enough force to make her gasp for air, tossing the woman up into the air and crashing into the ground ten metres away, creating small cracks on impact. Houjin's legs transformed into twisters and he shot up into the air, landing on the ground away from Oven and his brother. Houjin's senses twitched, directing the Shinobi to quickly transform his body into wind as a trident pierced through where his head once was.

Katakuri stomped a foot into the ground and transformed the tip of his trident with Busoshoku Haki and swung it out to the left. Houjin gripped the polearm and brought it into the trident's path allowing the two weapons to hit with a loud clang. The wind user held fast, feet digging into the ground as Katakuri pushed with surprising strength, the mochi user was just as strong, if not stronger than Houjin had imagined him to be. Katakuri was after all the strongest of Charlotte Linlin's children, a title he certainly deserved.

Katakuri twisted the trident, knocking the axe into the ground and lifted his right leg. The leg rippled and transformed into mochi, before it turned black from haki, "Mochi Sutanpu (Mochi Stamp)!" The transformed limb extended and slammed against Houjin's mid-section, the wind user's defensives were torn down as the haki counteracted his logia powers. Spit flew from the Shinobi's lips as the kick sent him barrelling back across the ground, the axe carved into the ground as he refused to release it, bringing it with him.

Katakuri didn't give up and launched himself straight towards Houjin. The Logia user clicked his teeth together and regained his bearings; the hold on his polearm tightened before it was lifted up into the air and turned around allowing the hammer side to face Katakuri. The hammer side transformed turning black with Busoshoku Haki before Houjin rocketed forward, legs transforming into twisters. Houjin's speed suddenly increased, appearing directly in front of Katakuri swinging the hammer side into the mochi user's left side. However, instead of hitting flesh, the enemy leaned backwards, allowing the hammer to swing over them narrowly avoiding the hit.

Wind erupted from the head of the hammer, changing its course, bringing it straight down. Flesh turned into mochi as a large gaping hole formed in Katakuri's body allowing the hammer to pass through harmlessly, hitting the ground with a loud thud. A powerful expulsive force erupted from the hammer shattering the ground beneath it.

"What!" Houjin was stunned, but it didn't last long as Katakuri retaliated, the trident was thrust forward, arm transforming into mochi before it was twisted and released. The twist caused the trident to spin up transforming into a drill, one hardened by Busoshoku Haki, aimed for Houjin's chest. Flesh transformed with Haki, reinforcing Houjin's defensives as the tip connected and knocked Houjin up into the air. The Logia user gritted his teeth and transformed into the wind bringing him to a halt, before reforming in mid-air, floating above Katakuri.

"This won't be easy." Houjin tightened the grip on his polearm and shot down reengaging Katakuri, their two pole weapons colliding with a loud bang. With that, the two began their struggle against the other, as Houjin attempted to tie Katakuri up as long as possible.


Undisclosed Location - Mariejois

The golden robed figure simply referred to as Father sat upon his throne, piercing yellow eyes looking down on his children, fingers tapping impatiently. The aura of an Imperial Emperor radiated off his body as the being of power eyed the second eldest of his children, the demonic speaking figure in the davy grey hooded robe. A right hand left the throne and moved slowly through the air, the imperial aura reached out touching the demonic toned man, conveying the ruler's authority, allowing him to speak.

"Thank you, Father." The demonic being spoke after being granted permission, standing tall from a kneeling position the being addressed the room.

"The Marine Fleet sent to Uzu no Kuni has reported in, over half the fleet has been destroyed. It appears Uzushiogakure has manufactured ships of their very own, ones made of metal." The hooded figure began to recount the report sent over the long wave Den Den Mushi. Kuzan had been the one to report what happened, leaving out no detail of the destructive power the fleet of four ships. The strength to not only wipe out a good majority of Big Mom's fleet then decimate the Marine's with only four spoke volumes to Uzushio's power.

"Huuuu." A long sigh escaped Father's lips as those yellow hues grew in intensity, their hand elevated as the robe slipped down exposing a hand that was the colour of night, pitch black.

"The Marines are useless, as is Charlotte Linlin why must I have such ineffective servants. First Kaido and his inability to create the SMILES, then even my own children fail in their tasks." Father spoke with a deep sneer, criticising those around, levelling a glare on the twelve children he created, specifically those in the black, dark purple and blood red robes. The three could only bow their heads in shame over the fact they had failed to keep Whitebeard from Uzu no Kuni. Father leaned back on the throne and appeared deep in thought, allowing silence to fill the chamber.

"Have Kaido speed up plans. Munashi, Akuhei, and Tasatsu you have a chance to redeem yourselves, go greet Kaido and assist him in his endeavours, take some of the test subjects with you. Isolda, Yin go with your siblings and make sure they don't mess up this time!" Father released a powerful pressure that flattened his creations to the ground before it vanished allowing them the chance to breathe.

The three Munashi, Akuhei and Tasatsu climbed to their feet, gulping ever so slightly. Joining the group were two others, one was six foot wearing a topaz yellow robe with a pair of emerald green eyes and the other five foot four in a navy blue robe who had turquoise eyes. The robes hugged their bodies showing distinctly feminine figures, slender waists, wide hips and modest bust.

"Your will shall be carried out Father." The one in the yellow robe spoke in a gentle tone before she and the others were engulfed by Munashi's cloak and disappeared into the void.


Left Side of the Battlefield.

Smoothie sped headed towards the enemy line, drawing the longsword from her back preparing it for combat. Kicking off the ground the giant woman crossed the distance as a group of Martial Legion Soldiers block her path.

"Die." The woman swung the massive sword on an angle intending to bisect dozens of soldiers with but a single swing. The sound of thunder sounded out loudly as a yellow blur appeared in the path of her sword. A pair of katana crossed over and intercepted the incoming attack creating a loud boom on impact as the three weapons of war collided.

Standing in Smoothie's path was a youth in his late teen years with gravity-defying blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes. The youth was no older than sixteen years and was five foot eight, carrying a slim yet muscular build, his physique was leaner with long arms and legs. Said youth wore a mask covering the lower half of his face, a high collared black Jounin flak jacket, guards on the shoulders, black shinobi trousers with a short-sleeved black top. Odin covered his hands with a set of fingerless navy blue gloves. Multiple scrolls were strapped across his body, two on each side of his jacket and two giant ones horizontally on his back. In each hand, the youth wielded a long katana with lightning blue handle and oval bronze guard. The youth was Odin the youngest of Naruto's students.

"You're pretty strong." The youth complimented the woman as he buckled slightly under her physical strength, showing a shit-eating grin, he was enjoying himself already. A smug smirk appeared on the youth's lips as he kicked off with his right foot, thunder echoed out loudly as he vanished in a yellow flash. Odin appeared above Smoothie; lightning surged through his twin blades as he seemed to float twenty metres in the air above her.

"Rai Isshou (Lightning Sweep)!" Odin swung down with his right sword, releasing the stored lightning nature chakra. Lightning erupted from the edge of the blade sweeping downwards on an arc creating a long blade. Smoothie, however, moved with surprising speed, kicking back with powerful legs launching her back out of the way. Lightning struck the ground and carved a deep trench in the earth, scorching the outer edges on impact.

Odin landed on the ground in a crouched position and kicked off launching himself towards Smoothie, moving faster than before. Lightning erupted from his feet propelling his body forward as he closed in on Smoothie. Right foot dug into the earth as Odin thrust forward with his right hand, shooting the tip of his katana towards the woman's chest, lightning spun around the blade creating a drill-like motion.

"Piasusandā (Piercing Thunder)!"

Smoothie regained her footing and swung her sword into the path of the incoming blade. The side of the longsword collided with the tip of the incoming katana. Lightning flowed through both blades and coursed into Smoothie's body electrocuting her on impact. The force behind the sword thrust, however, carried as it sent Smoothie sliding backwards, the heels of her feet carving deep trenches as she was thrown off balance. Thunder boomed as Odin vanished only to appear once again above her swinging downwards with both blades.

"Kureibingusandā (Cleaving Thunder)!" Two lightning coated katanas came downwards in a deadly swing aiming to cleave Smoothie into three perfect pieces. The woman sneered and brought her sword into the path of the blades. Lightning surged into Smoothie's body causing pain, the woman bit down, gritting her teeth to bear with it. The pain she could deal with but not the humiliation of being defeated. A large hand came swinging down towards Odin as the Sweets Commander attempted to palm the boy into the ground. Thunder boomed as Odin kicked off the air itself and moved out of the way, appearing in a defensive position ten metres in front of the woman.

Smoothie glared at Odin and regained her posture, rising to her full height. Gripping the blade with both hands, Smoothie launched her large body into action and crossed the distance. Swinging the blade, Smoothie went on the offensive, deciding not to give the boy a chance to retaliate. The massive sword was a blur as it was swung in rapid succession at high speed; the woman's momentum went unbroken as the sword swings grew faster and stronger, revealing her proficiency in swordplay. Odin went on the defensive using a combination of his Raiho (Thunder Step) to avoid the incoming attacks or blocked the powerful swings with his katanas. On each impact, lightning would surge into the woman's body electrocuting her, but she seemed to be fighting through the pain, ignoring it.


Right Side of the Battlefield.

"Shishishishishi!" Cracker chuckled sinisterly as he extended his arms upwards; materialising in mid-air around Cracker was large amounts of biscuit off all things. The bits of cookie gained shape manifesting into a dozen soldiers wielding biscuit armour and weaponry. Cracker created more and more biscuit generating it freely, shaping it into biscuit soldiers until he had created a one hundred strong army of the soldiers.

"Attack my creations!" The biscuit soldiers stomped forward, first starting in a slow walk that gradually grew into a high paced jog. The soldiers stood ten feet height as they loomed over the advancing troops of the First Martial Legion. Unlike the previous biscuit soldiers, Cracker had reinforced the armour of these new warriors, making them more durable than before allowing them to absorb more punishment; they wouldn't be defeated so easily.

"YA!" A loud battle cry came from above as a petite figure came falling down from the skies in a white battle yukata. A slender white fist crashed into the face of a biscuit soldier, a shockwave erupted from the impact, coursing through the creations body and shattered it to pieces.

Landing amongst the debris was a five-foot petite woman with a heart-shaped face of eighteen years; she had a well-developed figure for being so small, narrow waist with wide hips and a modest but not too big yet not too small. The young woman hair the colour of snow that was tied up in a tight bun with two dark red pins holding it in place, at the handle of each needle was light silver snowflakes engraved into the wood. A delicate silk battle Yukata the colour of her hair hugged her slender frame; however, it left plenty to the imagination. The most captivating part about the young woman, however, was her alabaster white skin and soft pink eyes that watched with a strange fascination and curiosity but held strong battle intensity. The youth was Shiina another one of Naruto's students and member of Team 7.

The young woman dusted herself off and confronted the enemy soldiers, kicking off the ground she charged towards them. Chakra flowed through her body as she collided with other enemy soldiers. Chakra erupted on impact blowing the soldier to smithereens. Shiina, however, did not stop there as she began her assault. Shiina moved amongst the enemy soldiers using her small frame to her advantage, ducking under sword swings and would either kick or punch. On each blow, chakra poured out from her tiny limbs blowing the soldiers to pieces.

"You dare!" Cracker charged towards her swinging the massive sword he wielded in a downwards swing intending to slice the petite woman in two. Shiina clapped her hands together and held them out in front of her body. Seals lit up along the pale flesh of her hands before a translucent rectangular shaped barrier manifested itself in front of her person. The sword collided against the barrier with a loud bang. Cracker gritted his teeth and put pressure onto the barrier attempting to break it, cracks spread out from the point of impact in a web pattern.

"Is that all you have little girl! I'll cut you up into a thousand pieces!" Cracker laughter as he jumped backwards creating distance between him and the albino woman. Biscuit began to materialise out of the air around him morphing into the shape of a dozen biscuit soldiers adding to the already large number created.

"Or should I say my soldiers will! My biscuit soldiers can't be beaten! If you destroy one, I can create hundreds more, even stronger than before!" Unlike the first one hundred summoned these twelve biscuit warriors stood thirty feet in height. These twelve warriors had a bulkier and larger frame, and each wielded a large spiked kanabo.

"Crush her with your might!" Cracker ordered his creations to attack. The twelve giant soldiers lunged forward like mindless drones and swung their massive clubs down towards Shiina. In return Shiina raised her right thumb to her lips and bit down hard, drawing blood.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)!" Shiina slammed her bloodied palm down onto the ground, seals spread out as a puff of smoke encased her. The kanabo's came down through the smoke and hit solid matter with a loud clang. The smoke began to clear, and a thirty-foot tall tortoise made its appearance towering over Shiina in a protective stance. The tortoise had a solid black shell covered in dozens of cracks and scars from battles it had fought in the past; around its neck was a red bandana. A single cigar hung loosely from the tortoise's aged lips as a pair of withered orange eyes stared at the strange biscuit like soldiers.

"Oi, oi, oi that tickled ya little shits. Ya think you can scratch my shell without consequences? Guess again! I'll take your heads!" The tortoise spoke in a rough dialect not unlike that of the Yakuza back in Naruto's day; his manner of speech was similar to Gamabunta the original Toad Head.

"Kameyoshio (5)) please lend me your assistance." Shiina appeared in a swirl of leaves atop the giant tortoise's shell, performing a courteous bow, speaking in a polite, well-mannered tone. The giant tortoise turned to look at the young woman and took a long puff of his cigar, the stick staying in place with chakra, before blowing a long cloud out of his nose.

"I like ya girly, so consider this favour done." The old tortoise turned back to face the large biscuit warriors who began to retreat forming a defensive line against the strange creature. Kameyoshio lowered his head, a calculating gaze fell upon the enemy soldiers, as if he was analysing them.

Cracker burst into laughter, grabbing his sides from the pain, "This is your big trump card, a giant talking tortoise! Ha. I'll stew him up and make tortoise soup when all this is all over!" The Pirate laughed so hard he fell to the floor and rolled around, tears streaming down his face. The son of Linlin was amused by what he had been shown.

"It's been a long time since I last did battle, but I'll make ya regret that remark Gaki" The Tortoise mumbled to himself before he began to walk forward, unlike the other summons the Tortoise clan were not one of the faster races. The Tortoise raised his right front leg and slammed it down onto the ground.

"Doton: Doryuu Taiga (Earth Release: Mud Flow River)!" Chakra flowed through the earth beneath the large biscuit soldiers and transformed into mud. The mud turned into a river that knocked the creations off their feet. The earth transformed beneath Kameyoshio as he lay down in it and went sliding towards the Biscuit soldiers, limbs retracting into his shell. The river of mud flowed on a downwards angle allowing the giant tortoise to pick up speed as he went sliding towards the enemy.

"Katon: Nenshou Kame (Burning Tortoise)!" Fire came to life as Kameyoshio's head retreated into his shell; fire poured out of the holes of his shell and ignited him. The tortoise became a giant fireball that sped towards the soldiers. The mud was ignited creating a stream of fire that poured down onto the biscuit soldiers. Kameyoshio crashed into the enemy and on impact detonated. A powerful explosion tore the enemy soldiers apart as their remains were incinerated. Those not caught in the explosion were engulfed by the raging fire spreading across the river of mud.

Feet landed in the mud as Kameyoshio emerged from his shell, Shiina climbed out having joined him in the retreat. The tortoise blew out a cloud of smoke that wafted up into the air. Heavy feet slammed down onto the soldier's remains smothering them into the river of mud. "Never underestimate a Tortoise, bakayaro."

Cracker gritted his teeth, "You bastards it's not over yet! You think you've won!" Biscuit manifested around Cracker's body fusing to his flesh, causing him to grow in size as an outer shell of biscuit armour was forged. Eight arms sprouted from the biscuit armour as it gained a lifelike appearance, like that of a brutish warrior, from below four legs was grown to help support the massive frame. The armour continued to grow as Cracker continued to create biscuit for his suit of armour, allowing it to grow to the same size as the tortoise.

"I'll cut you up into pieces myself!" A sword appeared in six of the hands as the other two wielded biscuit swords. The six swords swung down and struck the Kameyoshio shell hard making a loud clanging noise on impact. Kameyoshio snorted and charged forward slamming his head into the suits chest piece cracking it on impact. Shiina jumped up into the air from Kameyoshio shell, having avoided the six swords. Falling downwards towards the biscuit armour, Shiina extended her right leg, heel facing down.

"Tsūtenkyaku (Heavenly Foot of Pain)!" Performing the falling axe kick, Shiina drove her heel into the right shoulder of the armour releasing chakra on impact. Chakra tore through the armour, assisting Shiina's physical strength. Cracks formed as chunks of biscuit were torn off becoming debris that hit the ground with a loud thud, only to crumble away. Using the shoulder as a ledge, Shiina pivoted off Cracker and landed on the ground in a crouch position, right palm touching the ground.

"Impressive strength for one so young." Whitebeard couldn't help commenting as he watched Shiina do battle against one of the three Sweet Commanders. The sight of the giant talking tortoise was a bit odd, but Whitebeard saved that question for later.

Shiina reached into both sleeves and removed eight pieces of sealing paper, holding four in each hand. The Kunoichi clapped her hands together into the ram seal after she had tossed the sealing papers out into the air. Chakra coursed through her veins and into the tags sending them shooting out into the air, four landed in a square formation around Cracker twenty metres from one another while the other four hovered in mid-air a good twenty metres high.

"Tougoku (Imprisonment)!"

The seals glowed revealing a complicated array; each seal lit up like a Christmas tree as a transparent wall of chakra spread between each tag creating a cube twenty metres in size around Cracker. Black sealing letters ran up along the edges and sides of the cube covering it from head to toe. A chain of seals formed links around the cube and compressed squeezing tight to form a prison cell.

With the Three Sweet Commanders tied up by two of Naruto's students and one of the only other Jounin in the village, it left the remaining forces to place focus on the executives that were left and the encroaching army.

The First Martial Legion found themselves entangled as they collided with the remains of the Germa 66. Five thousand plus armoured soldiers should have easily run over the remaining one thousand Germa 66 soldiers, but the Legion found themselves with a complication. Cracker may have been tied up in battle with Shiina, but the Charlotte members who accompanied him were given free rein.

Charlotte Cinnamon who had previously helped her sister Custard block Eleventh Legion Soldiers Yon and Kyu was swinging her giant sword into the path of the armoured troops. The giant sword struck the Legions and sent close to a dozen flying from the swing and shockwave that followed it. Behind her Custard lunged forward thrusting her elongated longsword as if it was a rapier. The tip of the blade struck the chest plate of a soldier, making a large dent and carried enough force it sent him flying backwards, crashing into five or six of his comrades in the process.

Charlotte Saint-Marc barrelled forward with his massive armour covered body and shoulder barged a group of Legion Soldiers. The impact created a shockwave that blew them off their feet. Reaching out with massive hands, Saint-Marc grabbed the heads of two soldiers and slammed them against one another, he may not have broken their armour, but they would be left with concussions from the force of the impact. A foot stomped the ground, and the armoured man threw the two soldiers away without a care and punched down onto another with his massive right hand, plunging the soldier in the earth.

"OHOHOHO!" A crazed maniacal laugh was heard followed by a loud bang. Standing beside her brother was Charlotte Angel, thin woman with purple hair that sticks out to the right and left, in each hand, she carried a strange looking pistol. The right pistol was smoking as across from her a soldier had a hole through the right shoulder causing soldier stumbled back.

"The Walker was originally designed to penetrate the exoskeleton of those Vinsmoke freaks, but it looks like it does just nicely on you! OHOHOHO!" The woman gave another crazed laugh and raised the left pistol to eye level aiming at the same soldier's chest. What Angel didn't know was the bullet had only grazed the first layer of skin. The armour had slowed down and absorbed enough of the impact to make the bullet non-lethal.

"Have at thee!" A six-foot First Legion Soldier Captain shown by the horned helmet he wore roared in mid-lunge, drawing a long claymore from his back. The Legion Captain swung the two metre long double-edged weapon down at Angel, the clang of metal was heard as a giant armoured arm blocked the deadly blade. A second metal fist collided against the Captain's chin as Saint-Marc punched him with enough might to toss the soldier backwards.

The claymore pierced into the ground bringing the Captain to an abrupt halt, the blow left him slightly rattled but unhindered. Ripping the claymore out of the ground the Captain held it in front of him with both hands. Saint-Marc was already upon him, slamming into the claymore and the Captain with a powerful shoulder barge. The Captain was sent skidding backwards, blood flying out of his mouth from the impact. The Legion Captain hit the ground with a thud and rolled across the earth. Coming to a stop, the Captain stumbled to his feet and retook his stance; again Saint-Marc came barrelling towards him.

The Captain stepped to the right narrowly avoiding the second shoulder barge and swung down overhead with his claymore. The blade hit Saint-Marc's shoulder and cut an inch into the armour, before a powerful backhand crashing into the Soldier's chest knocking him back once more. The claymore pierced into the earth bringing him to a halt, without stepping back the Captain lunged, launching himself and thrust forward with the claymore giving a loud battle cry. The Captain's speed began to increase as he struck at Saint-Marc, the tip of the sword hitting the armoured man's chest making him slide back.

The Captain didn't give up and followed his assault, moving from multiple directions, getting faster and faster with each swing. The Captain was slowly gaining momentum as he narrowly avoided Saint-Marc's attacks, and attacked with his claymore. Metal clanged against metal, the blade cutting slowly and surely into the Pirate's armour, but had yet to touch the skin. Sweat dripped down the Captain's face beneath the helmet, but he continued, chaining his attacks. The sword was like a blur as it was swung with all the warrior's might. The Captain didn't let up, forcing his body to move, keeping Saint-Marc on the defensive, never giving him a chance to retaliate with his full might.

Around him other Captains of the First Legion's Ten Divisions had broken formation, drawing their swords or guns and attempted to engage the enemy executives. Three were engaged in battle with Charlotte Cinnamon. Another two had taken to blocking Charlotte Custard, and one was entangled with Charlotte Custard. The remaining three Captains were attempting to keep reign over the Legion Soldiers. Under their commands, the army of five thousand strong would easily be able to overwhelm the remaining Germa 66 soldiers, but nothing ever goes as easy as planned.

Lightning rumbled above the Legion soldiers as the cloud, Zeus, hovered above them with a vicious grin. The cloud had rapidly expanded in size and was black as lightning rumbled around it. "Die." The cloud spoke vicious words before a deadly bolt of lightning came crashing down from its body with a loud boom. The lightning bolt struck the centre of the Martial Legion engulfing over a dozen soldiers in its deadly strike. Lightning coursed through their bodies as their agonising screams filled the air. The ground broke and was scorched beneath the bolt as bodies dropped to the ground with a loud thud.

Linlin revealed an ugly grin as she eyed the cloud floating over the enemy forces, "Watch on Uzukage as I kill every last one of them!" Linlin laughed as she grabbed the sun, Prometheus, and threw it with great force towards the Martial Legion.

"Do you think it's so simple?" Naruto raised an eyebrow at the woman's actions, a hand raised up into the air towards the Legion soldiers who had been struck. Over a dozen soldiers were lifted up into the air and vanished in flashes of white teleported to the closest medical centre for treatment. Naruto would do his best to ensure the lives of his soldiers, but he wouldn't protect them danger. It was important that the people of the village win this without his assistance. Naruto could shelter them as long as he wanted, but there would be times where they would have to face dangers with the threat of death looming over their heads. It would do no good to constantly baby those under his command.

A Phoenix-cry sounded out as the mythical bird of legend comprised of blue and yellow flames collided with the living sun, Marco had taken action. The two forces impacted with great force knocking each other backwards from the blow. The bird flapped its wings, hovering in mid-air and released a loud screech that grated the ears of those who heard it. Giant wings flapped as the Phoenix charged again, long talons slashed out at Prometheus threatening to tear it in half. The sun cried out and floated out of the way as its body burst into flames. A fireball erupted out from the sun and slammed against the Phoenix making it screech in pain.

Marco took flight rising high into the air before diving down towards Prometheus, talons extended once more. The Mythical Devil Fruit user collided once more with the sun in a head-on collision. A powerful wave of blue flames erupted on impact, carrying a powerful will that slammed against Prometheus. The force of the blow allowed Marco to tackle Prometheus into the ground, where both landed with a loud thud and boom. Ground shattered breaking inwards on impact; the earth shook as fighters lost their footing as it collapsed beneath them. Blue flames died down as Marco took a few steps back, wobbling slightly, but quickly regained his senses.

An intense wave of heat rushed over the damaged area as Prometheus floated up into the air, an enraged look plastered on his cartoon features. Intense sun rays radiated from the homies body before he burst into overwhelming flames. The yellow flames burned with such strength the ground around him began to melt and the air boiled.

Marco crouched to the ground and kicked off launching himself towards Prometheus, legs transforming with Busoshoku Haki before his arms turned into giant blue Phoenix wings. Taking flight in his hybrid form, Marco picked up speed and shot towards Prometheus like a bullet, right leg swinging out in a kick. Marco's leg pierced through the veil of flames; skin burned only to rapidly regenerate as blue flames manifest themselves. The blow landed on Prometheus and sent the sun flying into the ocean where it hit the water with a loud splash. A tower of water shot up into the air only to evaporate into a thick cloud of steam. The giant sun floated on the water appearing visibly weakened.

"Whitebeard." Big Mom sneered at the First Commander under Whitebeard's command. It was bad enough Newgate had interfered by now one of his Commanders had as well.

During the episode, Zeus, remained unhindered as it grew exponentially in size, intending to grow to a point so he could unleash a devastating lightning bolt to finish off the entire First Legion. Lightning surged around the massive cloud as it built its strength and prepared to attack. Zeus laughed maniacally as it looked down on the soldiers as if they were bugs. The Legion warriors put on a strong air and refused to back down even with the threat of death looming over them.

"Perish." The cloud's grin expanded as the lightning gathered at his core.

"Shi o Iki (Death's Breath)" A demonic voice called out on the wind as the stench of death filled the air. Thick clouds of black mist rolled across the battlefield, covering the skies and began to surround Zeus. The black mist had a sinister aura and permeated the air with an unbearable chill that seeped into the bones of everyone. A layer of frost formed on the ground, the soil began to rot away wherever the frost-touched. The mist closed in on Zeus and frightened him to the core. As soon as the mist came in contact with Zeus cloud body, the black clouds began to rot away dissolving under its touch.

Zeus screamed in pain as the mist seemed to seep into his very soul burning away at it. Fright appeared in the homies eyes as he quickly discharged unleashing a violent blast of lightning from his body. Lightning temporarily forced the mist away only for it to dissolve away. Uneven breathing followed as a cloaked figure appeared beneath Zeus.

The cloak figures appearance was hidden from view by a long hooded black robe they wore; their face cast down. Chills were felt as eyes were all placed upon the weapon of death they carried in their covered right hand, a two-metre black scythe with a one-metre long crescent moon shaped blade, the tool of the grim reaper. Frosted air escaped from the hood as the figure raised their left hand; the sleeve fell back revealing an elongated finger made of white bone. As the sleeve rolled away no flesh could be seen, the entire limb was bone. The eerie sound of bones cracking was the thing of nightmares.

"Tainted." The figure slowly looked up, and a pair of demonic red eyes pierced the shadows of the veil, as their face was illuminated. Within the hood was the face of an undead skeleton, nothing but pristine white bone with a pair of crimson red orbs floating in its eye sockets. The skeleton parted its bone teeth and word seemed to just float out, "Rot away and repent." The reveal of the deathly figure delivered fear into the hearts of all who laid eyes upon it.

The reaper of death extended his arms; a thick black mist poured out from the sleeves gathering around the reaper and slowly lifted him up into the air. Green flames manifested around the creature's hands as a powerful soul force erupted and crashed down onto Zeus. The cloud screamed as it was forced into the ground, hitting the earth with great force that a crater formed. The reaper took a step forward and seemed to disappear as its entire body transformed into a black mist that flowed towards Zeus. The mist arrived above Zeus and reformed into the being of death.

"Shi no Houyou (Death's Embrace)!" The reaper raised his tool of death; the blade was encased in the black mist as green flames rumbled beneath. Green flames lit up around the reaper's skull giving it a sinister look as those red gems pierced into Zeus's soul. The blade came swinging down heading towards Zeus threatening to split it in two. Zeus crackled with lightning and quickly discharged the remains of his energy, fear coursed through his veins when facing this being of death. Lightning struck the incoming blade making it stall temporarily in mid-air. The lightning began to rapidly disperse as the mist cleaved through it.

Zeus floated up and began his escape, the lightning giving him only seconds of time. The cloud moved with great speed in an attempt to return to Linlin's side. However, the cloud wasn't fast enough as a fraction of its body was struck by the scythe and cut off. The cloud released an agonising scream but didn't stop, afraid if he did then only death would await him.

The reaper didn't give chase, instead reached out with a bony left hand towards the piece of cloud that had been dissected. A long index finger extended and touched the cloud, where it began to dissolve into a strange green essence. The essence flowed into the finger and was absorbed into the Death God's body. The flames that surrounded its head grew in size and began to spread appearing around the hood, and soon encased the reaper's entire body in a deep green aura. The remains of the cloud vanished as the last drop was absorbed. Big Mom clutched her chest, biting back an agonising scream; it was like something had attacked her soul.

The black mist rolled once more off the reaper's body collecting around its skeleton form. Flesh began to regrow as the skeleton gained a human appearance; the hooded individual pulled their hood down revealing a young man of only sixteen years. The youth was short only five foot three with long white hair reaching his shoulders, matching ruby red eyes that had a light green glow around them. Mist rolled off the hood the youth wore transforming into a long black battle kimono, black hakama pants and black ninja sandals, in white kanji on the back of the kimono was the word 'death'. The kimono revealed the appearance of a slender frame. Reaching into his obi sash with long bony fingers the youth removed a white porcelain mask that had black skull-like markings. Lifting the mask up to his face the boy fixed it into place. The youth was none other than Taro codenamed Shi (Death) one of the first Anbu operatives and was directly under Suzuka's command.

Linlin glared from the shore at the youth and was tempted to flatten him, but dared not to go near him.
"That boy can attack the soul directly!"
The strange powers the youth possessed allowed him to attack the soul, eating away at it. What was worse he could absorb soul fragments. Linlin had felt a piece of her own soul being torn apart when it was sucked into his body.

Zeus beside her was quivering in pain, tears streaming down his face as the part that had been sliced off regenerated; however, the cloud was visibly smaller. Linlin could feel her connection with the soul fragment she placed in Zeus to create him; the fragment was missing a small piece of itself. The boy had sliced off a piece of the fragment.

"DIE!" Linlin roared with great anger and grabbed her longsword, and jumped high up into the air. Linlin fell towards Taro swinging the massive sword downwards intending to bisect him.

"GURARARA!" A rumbling laughed bellowed out as Whitebeard appeared in front of Taro in a bright white flash, having been sent over by Naruto. The massive bisento the Yonko carried came swinging into the longswords path and struck it on the tip. The two legendary tools collided and a powerful wave of haki erupted from the impact destroying the ground beneath them. Taro struggled under the force but was protected by Whitebeard.

"Picking on those a fraction of your age, have you no shame woman?" Whitebeard roared as a powerful vibration erupted from the bisento. A quake erupted in mid-air knocking an unprepared Linlin up into the air where the giant woman crashed into the shoreline with a loud thud forming a human-sized crater on impact. Whitebeard releasing bellowing laughter before he vanished in a flash of white reappearing beside Naruto.

Taro took a breath, only to jump back as longsword hit the ground where he had previously stood. Charlotte Custard had left the Captain's she had been engaged in combat with to attack him.

"You'll pay for hurting mamma!" Custard roared out aggressively as she lunged towards Taro intending to run her sword through his body. The Zoan user raised a left hand; flesh melted away revealing bone as the black mist flowed out from the palm of his hand. The black mist touched the tip of the sword and began to eat away, making it rust away before the rust crumbled into fine dust. Custard quickly retreated before her sword rotted away completely.

A deep chill radiated from Taro's body as the mist rolled off of him, rotting away at the ground at his feet. "I'm your worst enemy." Gripping the scythe, Taro exploded forward swinging it at Custard's neck. The tall woman jumped back; the blade missed her neckline by an inch. Black mist seeped out and manifested into dozens of long tendrils that shot towards Custard. The woman was forced on the defensive as she evaded the incoming tendrils. Everything the tendrils touch dissolved away.

"Sister!" Saint-Marc cried out as he blocked the Captain's claymore once again, only to grab the weapon with his hand and use his free fist to punch the soldier brutally in the face. The faceplate dented slightly as Saint-Marc punched the Captain into the ground forming a head sized crater on impact. "Out of the way!" A heavy foot swung down and kicked the Captain in the gut only for the Captain to push off the ground and roll out of the way at the last moment.

The Captain jumped to his feet back and created distance between him and Saint-Marc temporarily. The swordsman placed the claymore at his left hip as if he was drawing a blade, the silver edge transformed with Busoshoku Haki.

"Activate!" The Captain said before a seal lit up on the handle of the sword. Wind began to pick up around the Captain and surrounded the sword, coating it in a thin layer. Seals lit up along the Captain's armour as nature energy was sucked in, converted into chakra and forced into his body. Muscles strained as the Captain felt an overwhelming power course through his veins. The Captain kicked off and the ground beneath him shattered, the Captain's movement speed tripled as he shot towards Saint-Marc.

"Reppuuken (Gale Sword)!" Wind erupted from the sword as the Captain ''drew' it, swinging it into the air, before grabbing it with both hands. The Captain began to rapidly swing the blade in mid-air as he dashed towards Saint-Marc. With every swing, a blade of wind was generated and sent flying towards Saint-Marc. Over a dozen blades of winds were created and went sweeping towards the Pirate. (6)

Saint-Marc roared and punched towards the incoming wind blades with both fists. The fists collided with the first wind blade and a large shockwave erupted out, tearing the blade apart. The shockwave travelled colliding with the rest of the wind blades. The blades tore away at the shockwave as they were destroyed. The final blade hit splitting the wave in two and slashed against Saint-Marc's chest piece. Metal shrieked as the wind blade cleaved through it and slashed Saint-Marc across the chest. The blade had lost most of its power but managed to leave a minor gash in Saint-Marc's chest.

"DIE!" The Captain appeared swinging the wind coated blade, aiming to bisect Saint-Marc in two. A large metal hand reached up and grabbed the wind blade. Wind cut into the metal, digging into Saint-Marc's palm but he showed no sign of caring.

Saint-Marc swung his left palm down, striking the Captain on the back and planted him into the ground, slamming him hard into the earth. The earth shattered on impact with Captain, armour dented as the Captain held back an antagonising cry. Saint-Marc seemed to find joy in hearing the cry as he stomped down with a heavy right foot square on the Captain's back and pressed. The Captain planted his hands into the ground and struggled to stand, gritting his teeth as he couldn't give the enemy the satisfaction of hearing him cry out in pain again. Saint-Marc growled and lifted his foot only to stomp down again with greater force.

The Captain bit his cheek, holding in the pain, armour dented from the impact. Knees planted themselves in the ground as he forced back against the foot with a strength that shocked the Pirate. "I won't give up! I'll fight to my last breath!"

"Foolish!" Saint-Marc sneered and stomped again with greater force. Bones snapped as the foot came down denting the armour again. The Captain released a silent scream, forcing the sound down to not give the enemy the satisfaction. Sneering Saint-Marc stomped down on the Captain's right shoulder; the bone snapped under the powerful heel, again the Captain refused to scream.

"Die!" Saint-Marc growled, no longer amused by toying with the Soldier, raising his foot the Captain intended to stomp down on the warriors head. The foot came down with the intent to kill.

A figure shot across the battlefield arriving in front of the Captain. A white fist planted itself into Saint-Marc's chest breaking the armour on impact and sent the giant man flying backwards, where he crashed into the ground with a loud thud making a human-sized indent. Saint-Marc winced in pain as he sat up to see who had attacked him.

Standing over the injured Captain was a boy no older than fifteen years; he was quite tall for his age being almost six foot in height with short burnt orange hair. The youth had a pair of mismatched eyes, sapphire blue in the left and ruby red in the right, but each held a powerful conviction and strength that threatened to take on the world as if he was unafraid. In the middle of his forehead above his eyes was a pair of strange circular red dots that stood out on his rugged yet strong facial features. The youth wore only a pair of black hakama pants revealing pale white skin, large sturdy shoulders and a well-developed muscular frame; he was not skinny by any means. The only other article of clothing he wore was an Uzushio headband around his waist like a belt. Bare feet touched the soil as the youth watched Saint-Marc with a wary gaze. What was strange about the boy however was the fact his fists were covered by a strange white casing, on closer inspection it was bone, bone that was sticking out of his skin.

"Dean-sama, thank you." The Captain spoke in pained gasps and struggled to his feet, multiple bones had been broken. The individual identified as Dean spared a glance at the Captain, revealing a look of concern.

"Are you okay? Can you withdraw to Uzushio for treatment?" Asked Dean, the boy's voice had changed since puberty and was much deeper than before with a rough edge.

"I want to stay and fight! I don't care what happens to my body!" The Captain said through the pain as he collected his claymore and stood at full attention, ignoring the sudden shock through his body. The Captain was willing to sacrifice his life for the Village, the pain he was going through was nothing, and he could live with it and would continue fighting.

"I admire your conviction." Dean was stunned briefly but flashed the Captain a reassuring smile, "I'll handle things from here." White bone began to pierce through Dean's skin coating his forearms and soon encased up to his shoulders. Without another word, the bone user and student of Kurama launched himself across the battle, straight towards Saint-Marc. The youth attacked without hesitation planting both fists into Saint-Marc's armour, metal cracked and shattered on impact exposing Saint-Marc's chest. Saint-Marc's lips parted as large amounts of blood sprayed out.

Dean was far from done as he raised his right hand, the bone coating his fingers transformed into a deadly bear like claw. The claw came down and slashed across the pirate's chest leaving five deep gashes. Blood painted the bone dying it a deep red. Dean kicked forward with his right foot planting it into Saint-Marc's chest and shoved him backwards. Saint-Marc gripped his chest gasping for air, but Dean closed in again, the bone on his left arm transformed into a giant serrated blade over twice his arm's length. The giant blade came down, blood and a scream followed as a limb went flying up into the air. Dean had cleaved Saint-Marc's left arm off as the pirate attempted to roll out of the way.

"You won't escape." Dean launched into the fray, bone armour coating his upper torso as he reached behind his back and ripped his spine out. The bone user swung the spine like a whip and it rapidly extending, coiling around Saint-Marc's waist and constricted. Bone spikes grew out form the whip piercing through the armour and into Saint-Marc's body. Bone poured around Dean's free right arm twisting into the shape of a large cone-like spear, kicking off the ground he crossed the distance and thrust the spear forward. The tip was poised to pierce through Saint-Marc's body.

"NO!" A towering figure loomed behind Dean as Charlotte Cinnamon appeared swinging her large sword down. Dean ignored it as bone covered his entire body forming dense, thick armour that shielded him from harm. The blade struck the bone and only chipped it, leaving the Shinobi unharmed and unhindered in his task. The spear pierced through flesh and made its way out Saint-Marc's front, destroying his heart and internal organs. A helmet hit the ground as blood trickled down Saint-Marc's lips as he coughed up wads of his life essence. A look of helplessness showed in those eyes before the spear was ripped out allowing the warrior hit the ground with a thud.

"Tch, useless." Linlin spat in annoyance at the sight of her son's death, unaffected by it at all, after all her children were but pawns to her, disposable when they no longer had use.

"I'll kill you!" Cinnamon roared in fury and started to attack Dean, swinging her sword wildly, only for it to bounce off his bone armour. The Shinobi jumped back with a smirk as blood dripped down his hand as it returned to its natural state.

"I'd love to stay, but I'm not your opponent." Dean waved at her and vanished in a swirl of flames disappearing from her sight, returning to his spot behind Naruto and Whitebeard, his mission had been completed. Each of them had been given a target before their appearance on the battlefield.

Cinnamon fell to her knees beside her fallen brother, grabbing him, tears spilling down her cheeks, "Saint…." The woman held her brother's corpses, her family members close by felt a pang in their hearts at their brother's death but there was no time to grieve, they had to continue.


Centre Battlefield

Daifuku and Oven roared angrily to the fall of one of their beloved siblings and attacked the Shinobi forces ruthlessly. A heat covered fist swung forward releasing a powerful heat wave towards a group of enemy targets; Oven intended to turn them to ash. Daifuku leapt up into the air the genie extending from his body came down swinging its halberd. The two attacks collided with earth, shattering it as the Shinobi jumped out of the way narrowly avoiding the attack.

"Suiton: Suidan (Water Release: Water Bullet)!" An Uzushio Chunin expelled a jet of water from his lips towards Oven intending to douse the man's fist. Oven snorted and punched into the path of the water jet, the heat radiating from the fist evaporated the water on impact turning it into steam.

"One of you killed my brother so I'll kill dozens of you!" Oven roared furiously as he lunged towards the Chunin swinging his naginata. A deep red flame coated the naginata as it swung towards the Shinobi, the Chunin narrowly avoided the attack but the heat created a powerful wave that knocked him back and scorched his skin with first degree burns. Blood sprayed into the air as a nearby Chunin managed to just avoid having his stomach cut open; Daifuku's genie had left a light gash in the Shinobi's flesh.

Oven planted the naginata into the ground and raised his hands up into the air; both hands glowed orange as an intense heat began to radiate out from Oven's entire body. The surrounding soil melted as heat waves formed in the air distorting the view. Oven then lowered his hands to the ground, imbedding fingers into the soil.

"Nekkai Koua (Hot Sea Core)!" Heat poured into the ground rapidly heating it up. Daifuku retreated out of the way as the heat expanded covering a wide area and was expanding without stopping. The surrounding forces were forced to withdraw as the intense heat was slowly burning their skin if they came in direct contact know doubt they would be burned alive.

"Aisu Eiji (Ice Age)!" A deep chill was felt in the air as snowflakes began to fall from the sky. A slender foot covered by white tabi and waraji touched the heated earth. Steam rose into the air on touch before the earth began to rapidly freeze over. Ice formed without resistance as steam wafted upwards. The temperature began to rapidly drop as ice spread over, quickly covering the heated earth extinguishing it.

"What!" Oven stumbled back as ice covered his fingers, a chill entered his body. Shivering Oven quickly heated his body up melting the ice coating his hands.

"Kuzan?" Daifuku panicked at the thought of an Admiral entering, but why would the Marines help, especially after being attacked? And the voice hadn't sounded male it sounded extremely youthful and above all, female.

"Shizen Houhou: Seimei no Yashi (Nature's Way: Palm of Existence)!" An angelic female voice sounded out from behind Daifuku as a large hand-shaped shadow loomed over him. The Pirate looked up and his eyes bulged out of their sockets as a massive hand over ten times his own size, made of some strange green energy floated above him. The hand came crashing down towards him intending to flatten him into the ground. Rubbing his stomach the genie manifested itself and slashed up towards the palm striking it dead on. The Genie, however, began to scream in pain as the strange green energy pierced into his being. The energy pierced into Daifuku's body making him cry out. The palm broke the Genie into pieces and proceeded to flatten Daifuku into the ground, creating a large hand-shaped imprint. The energy dispersed into tiny particles that seemed to fuse into the ground, as the energy fused with the soil life began to grow as small seeds began to bloom into tiny stalks.

Daifuku groaned as he climbed up out of the hand imprint, his body coated in Busoshoku Haki, he had protected himself at the last minute and only taken minor damage. "What hit me?" The Pirate grabbed his head, there was a ringing in his ears and he was slightly disoriented.

"I did." A soft and sweet voice spoke up to answer the pirate's question, the owner stunned Daifuku beyond words,

"Impossible." The shock was reflected in those hues.

Oven exerted heat from his body to prevent the ice from approaching him, making it melt just as quickly as it froze, "Who goes there! Show yourself!" A thick mist of steam had surrounded him, clouding his vision; all he could see in front of him was a tall silhouette.


Shinobi Command

Naruto examined the battlefield; most of the Shinobi had begun to find their chosen targets. It wouldn't be long until they were all locked up in combat. Naruto had sent a mental command to each of them, choosing their targets carefully, turning the battles to Uzushio's advantage. In war one must exploit the enemy's weakness, Naruto intended to this by pairing the elites of the Charlotte Family with Shinobi who would be their kryptonite.

In the centre, Amande had broken the line and was attempting to slaughter those who crossed her with her elongated nodachi, only for a set of long claws to block it. The voluptuous and seductive fifteen-year-old youth, Kuroka, had engaged her in close quarter combat.

"Nyahahahaha!"

While Kuroka was laughing gleefully and darted around Amande, striking at the woman, her sister Shirone was on the left side engaged in combat with Charlotte Angel. The petite white-haired girl was moving with cat-like reflexes, dodging Angel's weapon fire. As quickly as Angel fired, Shirone had already moved out of the way. However, Shirone was only ten years old and still inexperienced, unable to make her way to get close to Angel as the dual wielding woman was keeping her at a distance.

Vista laughed heartily as he stroked his long moustache, "I shall lend my sword!" The man laughed as flowers seemed to manifest around his body and he shot out into the air towards Angel and Shirone. The man intended to act as the young girl's shield, protecting her from the bullet's to allow her the chance to close in.

Jozu thumped his chest as he locked onto the three brothers Counter, Cadenza and Cabaletta on the right side of the battle. Planting his feet in the ground, his muscles tightened before he fired off like a bullet released from its chamber, darting straight towards the three brothers. Like a projectile, Jozu coated in diamond armour impacted between the brothers with a loud bang and sent them flying. The only one who had yet to be engaged by their target was Opera and Cinnamon, of the two the former was tied up by a squad of Anbu and the latter was holding her brother's corpse crying.

Across the battlefield, Naruto could see the strength of the Charlotte Family gradually increasing since the loss of their brother. The family bond they shared as siblings was strong and the death of one of those bonds had enraged the others, boosting their fighting spirit to obtain revenge. Houjin had been forced onto the defensive by Katakuri and found himself slightly struggling to hold out; he had never fought an opponent like this before. While Houjin may have defeated Monet and Diamante they were nowhere near on the level of Katakuri, it would be a good experience for the youth. Cracker was swinging his swords wildly, bashing them against the confines of his prison attempting to break free. Smoothie was aggressively attacking Odin, ignoring the pain that coursed through her body from his lightning based attacks, with each strike she seemed to be actively creating a resistance to the lightning, overcoming the shocks.

"Uzukage-sama, I am in position with Team Four for phase three." Vladimir's voice sounded out in Naruto's head, sent him by Son Goku over the shared plain. Naruto had Vladimir removed from the battlefield to conduct another operation.

"Go ahead with operations. Bring it back intact, take anything of value." Naruto sent the message to Goku where it was forwarded to Vladimir.

"Hai Uzukage-sama" The connection was cut off as Vladimir and those accompanying him went into action.

"Uzushio shall profit from your foolishness Linlin." A smirk formed on Naruto's lips that drew Whitebeard's attention.

"Hooo just what are you up to Naruto-san?" Questioned the Yonko stroking his moustache, curious about what the Uzukage had planned.

Naruto raised his left index finger and pressed it to the tip of his nose giving a knowing smile, "You'll just have to wait and see Whitebeard."


1) The Inquisitor looks alot like the Frigate Class Ship called the Admiral Gorshkov, but with a twin turret not single.

2) The Anarchy is a copy of the Dunkerque-class battleships created by the French in 1942 (look for 1942 October Print on Wiki)

3) The Helios is designed after the Japanese Battleship the Kongo from 1913.

4) Picture the M1 Rocket Launcher but with two barrels stacked on top of each other.

5) Kame means Tortoise. Yoshio, however, was the name of a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan. The most famous behind-the-scenes power broker, of the 20th century, who was active in Japan's political arena and criminal underworld from the 1950s to early 1970.

6) Martial Legion Soldiers are unable to use chakra, but to help increase their strength seals were placed on their weapons that can be activated with a command. Seals draw in natural energy and convert it into elemental chakra that can be unleashed to temporarily give them a boost in strength.

For the Maelstorm, picture something like a giant aircraft carrier but with the command room in the middle of the ship.

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