Chapter 49: Ace is Stupidly Stubborn

Ace screwed up… and he knew it. After what happened he first left his home island (which his siblings will forever mock him for) he knew he had to call for their help in the most simple of ways.

He saw the looks he was getting and he took out his mirror despite his nose bleeding profusely.

He called his sister because he wasn't up for going back to Dawn Island… especially not like this.

Meanwhile Stat was writing in the Book of Spells. While Glossaryck was talking to her about one of her spells.

"So this spell is your strongest." Said Glossaryck.

"Yep!" said Star.

"And it's a spider with a huge gun in its hat." Said Glossaryck.

"Yep!" said Star.

"I don't know how to feel about that spell." Said Glossaryck.

That was when her Mirror began to ring.

She picked it up and gasped and immediately answered.

"Ace!" Star almost cried.

"I need a portal now!" yelled Ace.

"Hold on a minute!" said Star.

"What! Why!" yelled Ace.

"I'll explain when you get here!" said Star then yelled out "MARCO! Bring in your scissors now!"

Marco came in the room with his scissors.

"What's going on?" asked Marco.

"Make a portal for Ace now!" yelled Star.

Marco shrugged sensing where to made a portal. A flame went through the portal, and of course it reformed into Ace.

Marco knew to close it after how he came through it.

Star ran over to her older brother and hugged him.

"I've been so worried about you!" said Star.

Then she lightly smacked him in the head.

"Hey!" yelled Ace.

"Sorry… but you worried everyone! " said Star, "Fighting a Warlord for five days straight then went after one of the strongest pirates there is! Seriously!"

"I mean I didn't fight Shanks… so there's that." Said Ace trying in vain to change the subject, "I met up with him before the incident…"

"Tell me later when Luffy's here…" said Star.

Ace sighed he she had to call both Luffy and Sabo. After all with everything that happened.

"So what was going on again?" asked Marco.

Star sighed, it would make sense that his memory was fuzzy, he was still readjusting after what happened with getting the scissors.

"Ace decided to confront Whitebeard." Said Star, "He's like the strongest pirate in the world and is said to be the world's strongest man."

"He's not that strong." Said Ace.

"Yeah… you're nose is bleeding." Said Glossaryck.

Ace glared at Glossaryck.

"Oh look at the time! I have to go feed my bugs!" he said diving into the book.

"And right before that he got in a fight for 5 days with one of the 7 War Lords of the Sea." Said Star.

"Seriously!" yelled Marco in shock.

"You know what the 7 War Lords are?" asked Ace trying to change the subject again.

"Don't change the subject." Said Star.

Ace sighed.

"I'll call Luffy you call Sabo." Said Star.

Marco nodded.

Star called Luffy.

"Star!" said Luffy.

"Ace is here." Said Star getting to the point.

A portal immediately opened up and Luffy tackle gum gum hugged Ace and started crying.

"Come on! Don't be a cry baby!" said Ace.

Luffy said something but because he was crying he couldn't understand him.

While this was going on… Marco called Sabo.

"Hey, Marco is everything okay" asked Sabo.

"Kind of..." said Marco.

"Is your memory." Said Sabo.

"No… Ace is here." Said Marco and figured what Sabo was going to say, "So… Portal?"

"Portal." He said.

Marco made the portal.

Sabo immediately stepped through.

He saw the heavily injured Ace and then smacked him upside the head.

"Seriously!" said Ace.

"Fighting Jimbei and Whitebeard back to back? What were you thinking!" yelled Sabo.

It should be noted that Jimbei was the Warlord he fought, not only was he was Warlord but also a Fishman.

"I thought I could beat him." Muttered Ace.

Sabo sighed.

They knew they had to treat his wounds so they talked about lighter topics while doing so.

"So how long were you there for?" asked Ace.

"16 years." Said Marco.

"So that means you're 30 when you go there." Said Sabo.

"Yeah." Sighed Marco it was clear he was still readjusting to everything.

"Hey!" said Star changing, "You mentioned you saw Shanks."

"Yeah." Said Ace, "I told them about how we became sibling since you know he was very confused about it."

"Makes sense." Said Luffy who had managed to stop crying and hugging Ace.

"Though the reactions to some of his crew members." Sighed Ace.

(Flashback)

"Aw man! I was hoping those two would end up together." Said one of them.

"I know right!" said another.

Ace and Shanks stared at the two.

"Come on seriously! You're thinking that way about two seven year olds?" asked a man with dead locks with the name Yasopp written on his forehead.

"That what 7 years ago? They're what 14 now so it's not creepy!" said the first crewmember.

"Just ignore them." Said Shanks rolling his eyes.

"Yeah." Sighed Ace.

(End of Flashback)

Both Star and Luffy laughed.

"IT would make sense for Yasopp to think us getting together is creepy." Giggled Star.

The other three were confused.

"He has a son our age." Explained Luffy.

"He talked about him all the time." Said Star.

The other three nodded getting it.

"Anyways we really should talk about what you did." Said Sabo.

Ace sighed knowing he couldn't dodge it forever.

He told them the whole story starting from how when he got to Fishman Island he burned White Beard's flag. Which Jimbei saw, which really set the stage for the events.

Eventually he got to another island that White Beard protected.

Jimbei got there first and they had a fight that lasted 5 entire days.

Then White Beard showed up.

It was an extremely one-sided fight.

However those injuries were thankfully treated already.

No the injuries he currently had were because he tried to kill Whitebeard again.

This time while he was sleeping.

"So you tried to fight off someone who was asleep?" asked Sabo, "Come on! You really thought he wouldn't predict attacks while sleeping? I mean a lot of people can do that… even Star."

"Yeah like that time that princess tried to steal my face." Said Star.

"He's so sick though. It should be easy." Said Ace.

"He can't be that sick." Said Sabo.

"He's on oxygen and connected to several tubes." Said Ace, "I'd say he's really sick."

"Maybe you should wait and let time kill him." said Star.

"Look if time hadn't killed him already chances are it will never kill him." muttered Ace.

"Wait… how were you able to try to kill him in his sleep." Said Ace.

"Uh… I might have left something out…" said Ace averting his gaze.

Turned out Whitebeard had invited Ace to join in as crew as a "son".

His crew did try to rescue him. But it failed. And they were all let on board to join effectively absorbing Ace's crew into his.

"So you're going to try to take advantage of the fact he let you into the crew and try to murder him." said Sabo pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Yeah." Said Ace.

"And you're going to call me and Marco in case you need help after those attempt to rest and first aide?" asked Luffy.

"Yeah." Said Ace.

"This is stupid… like Luffy grade stupid." Said Sabo.

"Hey!" yelled Ace.

"Fine you can call me." Said Marco.

"What?" asked Sabo.

"Two things… I'm on the fence of this plan…" said Marco, "Part of me likes it, part of me hates."

The four siblings knew it was sign of his minds still partially being on the wavelength of Hekapoo's dimension.

"And second, I already figured nothing we say will change his mind." Said Marco.

"What makes you say that?" asked Sabo.

"The fact I was trapped in my beard for hours! Because Ace and Star were arguing about the right way to free me! Which I will remind everyone Ace won, which means he out stubborn Star." Said Marco.

"You know Sabo he has a point." Said Luffy.

Sabo double face palmed. He knew Marco was right.

"We will have to lay down some ground rules for when to call me though." Said Marco.

"Don't call you during school." Said Ace.

"And if I tell you I'm going on a date. Don't' call during that time." Said Marco.

"Oh yeah… you have a girlfriend." Said Ace.

"You can call me any time though." Said Luffy.

Sabo sighed.

"I will forever be against this…" said Sabo, "But I know you too well that I can't convince you otherwise."

Ace sighed at Sabo's response.

"Also heads up, Koala said she's going to punch you next time she sees you for all the crap you pulled with Jimbei." Said Sabo.

"Why?" asked Ace.

"She traveled with his crew as a child." Said Sabo knowing not to give all the details of it.

Ace shrugged it off knowing that she does know Fishman Karate so it would make some sense she knew him.

And so he continued to try to kill Whitebeard. Durring school hours, he would call Luffy and while not in school and didn't' get the alert he was on a date he would call Marco.

When he wasn't trying to kill Whitebeard he actually got along pretty well with the crew.

He did tell one of the Division Leaders (the crew was so large that there were divisions with leaders) that he wouldn't call him by his name but rather by his well-known nickname of Phoenix…. But it wasn't anything personal.

"Wait.. .you already know someone named Marco?" asked Phoenix (he y his name is Marco, and there's already a Marco in this story, minds as well also use his nickname)

"Yeah, he's a good friend." Said Ace.

"You're not making it up?" asked Phoenix.

"I see." Said Phoenix with a shrug figuring that he would meet the other Marco in the future.

However during this time he decided to call King River one day and just talk to him.

Also thanks to the members of the Spade pirates who remained, word spread that if he has a casual conversation with one of his siblings or someone else on the mirror it's usually pretty entertaining.

So of course they listened in.

"How about you can call me sometimes if you need a portal out of there." Said King River, "I'll give you times when I'm alone, or planning a hunt, or Moon is out of town for a few days for a meeting."

"Thanks River." Said Ace breathing a sigh of relief.

"So what else is there to talk about." Said King River, "How's things going on with that Marine."

"It's not going to work out." Said Ace.

"Oh…" said King River, "That's a real shame… "

"It happens." Said Ace.

"Oh did you hear Marco got a pair of Dimensional Scissors?" asked King River.

"She did her hardest for him." said Ace.

After talking about a few more random topics. Ace need the call, he sighed when he saw a few other crewmembers of his "new pirate crew" (there's no other way to put it other than quotation marks).

"You listened in, didn't you?" sighed Ace.

"You have a dad!" said one of them, "Like a real dad."

"She's my sister's dad." Pointed out Ace.

"So then he's not like you're dad." Said the crewmember.

"Why should I tell you?" asked Ace.

He walked away planning his next move for Whitebeard.

However the word that Ace had something like a dad spread pretty quickly through the ship with the former members of the Spade Pirates confirming that the king was basically Ace's dad.

And that would prove a rather interesting turn of events for the future…

Well once Ace stops trying to kill Whitebeard.

But for now, Ace would just call one of his siblings or King River for help after said attempts… and this was going to last for a while…

Ace might be strong, but he clearly wasn't on the level of the man considered to be the World's Strongest Man.

Next Time: Janna decides to steal Luffy's hat while he's taking a nap on the roof of the school! And he's angry! And Star must stop the two from fighting. Will she succeed? Find out next time!

A/N: It's going to be a running gag for the rest of Season 2 where Ace will call either Luffy or Marco to ask for a portal. And some of them will be plot important and not just a throw away joke. So yeah...