Hello~ In this chapter and the next I will do reverse perspectives?(That definitely made sense right? XD) I'll go more into detail at the bottom! I hope you enjoy the chapter! :D

Ace was facing some stranger? He thought...wait what did he think? That this would be one of those "Bad guy wants you dead, shows themselves and tells you their evil plan?' chilches? Ace looked up to the man who seemed to be taking joy in this? He didn't think he had any enemies except maybe Akainu who hated him with a passion….

If this was that one of those things where he was a mafia member as well, Ace would change his name to his father's. The man looked at him with a feral look in his eye before he went outside the room with the door cracked open.

"Hey! Get your ass over here! We have Portgas, so let's get this started!"

Ace really had a bad feeling about this….The same man walked in with another who was carrying some sort of camera….Oh no. Don't tell me these guys were after something from Lu and Sabo or even him using them!

The other man set the camera up making sure it worked before turning it on with the red dot running...They were recording this….! The original man came over to him before kicking him in the stomach, making him lose his breath.

"We have a message for you Whitebeards! This is a warning from our boss!"

Ace was punched in his temple making him cough excessively. He felt a hand in his hair as he was kneed in the face, he started to lose his vision. What did Marco's Pops have anything to do with this! He was standing up the next moment against the wall before he was forced to his knees on the account of the knee that meet his stomach.

"Man you guys *Huff* like to take low blows a lot….*Huff*"

That got his face shoved in the wall while he felt his spine being pushed in giving him a sharp pain finally making him let out a ear piercing scream. The man with the camera put his hands over his ears while watch his partner torment Ace.

Whether it was breaking a few fingers or twisting the his ankle. They had won, Ace could barely make a scream come out not much less a smartass remark.

"I think that was enough footage let's send this to our friends after checking it. We don't want them to find us just yet, you think the boss would want to play with him?"

Those were the last words Ace heard before he blacked out due to the pain.

Timeskip ? earlier.

Marco was more than worried at this point. When he and Thatch went to check on Ace he was nowhere to be found, they know he didn't leave because he would have told them and his belongings were still there. Marco couldn't believe the sight, there was, without a doubt, that Ace had been kidnapped. The signs of a struggle were pretty obvious.

Thatch had grabbed Ace's stuff before they went out to Pops' house. It's been two days, Pops having to call both brothers of Ace to tell them what was happening when they noticed he was gone.

Now here all they sat as they were figuring out what to do. Marco noticed that Izo as usual went out to get the mail, before he saw him run in the place like a bat out of hell.

"Guys! I don't know what this is but maybe it has something to do with Ace!"

Marco, Sabo, and Luffy rushed over seeing the simple but bulky packet of mail they had gotten simply labeled 'Ace', they opened it to get a CD?

"Well?! Put in in the player Marco!"

Marco did just that, but what greeted him next was something he hoped never happened to anyone in his family, much less someone he loved.

Ace was in front of the camera looking at it with wide had bruises everywhere, his chest, stomach but his face seemed to have taken the most damage along with his stomach. He seemed to struggle before someone else came in sight of the camera, his face was masked.

"Be careful man...I heard this was the same kid who burned our old base down about 10 years ago with our men in it because we had taken his brothers….Please tell me you didn't touch them!"

"I didn't but the boss wants the Whitebeards to pay and well as this boy."

"Come on guys, can't we talk this out! I mean I know I'm hot but kidnapping me? Really?"

The man grabbed Ace's hair before leaning in to Ace, who was grinding his teeth from the pain.

"I know you're only joking to mask your fear….This is a message to your friends in that family your boyfriend is in!"

"Oh you mean Marco! So what's he and Pop's got anything to-"

The man punched Ace in the stomach, making Ace lose his breath. Ace started to cough up something as well, it was blood.

"You don't know but your Pops, 'Whitebeard' and your boyfriend the 'Phoenix' have been nothing but a nuisance to our boss!"

"Well that's good and dandy but I have the feeling since you couldn't do this to them, you went for the next best thing. How does that sou-"

Ace was punched in the face, his nose having a red tint to it as well as the as his eye. He grabbed Ace making the man stand up before he was kneed in the stomach.

"Come on….you can do better than that…."

The man was about to do another, taking a knife out before they heard another voice come through.

"Hey! Watch man! You know we need him alive for Whitebeard!"

"You tell that to the little-"

They watched as Ace knocked the guy down when he did a floor swept to the legs, taking the knife in his hand, to the man's throat.

"Woah, Woah! Take it easy!"

"Yeah right. *Huff* You expect me to lower my guard just like that? Get the keys to these cuffs or this man and anyone who gets near me with have a slit throat, my gift. *Huff*"

They heard running before the man Ace was holding hostage was talking.

"You know you can't get away from this! Our boss will get you! He'll make you life a living-"

"Sorry but my live was more than a simple hell a long time ago. The threat of death doesn't really faze me…."

Keys were thrown at Ace, Ace quickly unlocking the cuffs. Ace then slit the man's throat, letting him all to the ground.

"But you said-"

"I said to get me the keys. I also said that anyone who gets near me will have a cut throat. I'm leaving now…."

They saw the camera move before it was focused at Ace who was looking at the guy in the camera's view. He looked frightened, before turning tail and running.

Ace started to walk, peeking head out slowly walked out of the room looking around the hall. He started to walk slow down it before talking.

"This….this tape will eventually reach you, Outlook or Monkey….it could be the Whitebeards as well. I want you guys to know I never intended to hide what I had become from you guys, my brothers. So I'll tell you in person when I can….i need to take care of things with my uncle, my father's first friend. I'll be back within a week or so…."

"Goodbye."

When the CD ended he didn't know what to say. The person, the one he loved was very didn't from the happy-go lucky Ace they all knew. But all Marco wanted at that moment was for Ace to be here with him and the family….

"So you guys want to tell us what that was about?"

Marco turned to the family, who(the members of the 14 divisions) looked scared to even be around Sabo and Luffy after hearing and putting together what Ace did for them.

"Luffy doesn't know but I do….When we were kids, Lu was always one for adventure just like us. Garp, the one who took care of us, wasn't around so we got in all sorts of troubles together. One of them happened to be my father, he was hell bent on having me take over his company one day. He sent someone after me many times, but Ace and Luffy were always there to support me. It wasn't a surprise when I found out he had kidnapped me after I woke up in a room, but what got me was that Luffy had been taken with me.

I found out later that Ace had been gone and when he came back to find us gone knew my father had something to do with it. He searched day and night to find us for the next 2 days, when he did...it wasn't pretty."

"What did he do?"

"He….He….He found us in a warehouse that was used for shipping but was being paid off by my father to keep quiet about us. When He saw the beat marks on us, I could tell he was registering what had occurred. He started to the guys beating them up with seemed like an adrenaline boost of power and speed. When he was done, he tied them together in the middle where we were forcing them awake….

I saw him look around as the guys tried to struggle out of the ropes, yelling at Ace the whole time before Ace came back with a gas canister. He began to pour it everywhere along with the guys themselves. He dug around in his pocket before pulling out matches….He told me to leave and take Luffy with me Luffy was unconscious. I knew what Ace was going to do, I didn't stop him while I carried Luffy out.

When we were out I saw the whole building began to engulf itself in flames. I heard laughter and screaming, covering Luffy's ears just in case if he were to wake up.I saw Ace walk out, he was a pyromaniac at heart but this had tipped the tides. We said we would never speak of it again…."

Marco couldn't believe it, at such a young age they all had to go through something. What kind of child had to go through that? Marco knew he didn't have the greatest childhood but it wasn't bad! They were constantly hounded by Sabo's father and his men who had hurt Sabo and Luffy badly. Marco knew if anyone were to hurt his family like that they would also be dead. Izo stood up quickly with a worried look.

"So what are we supposed to do now?! Just let Ace walk around with no one with him? I find that unacceptable with what just happened!"

"Please trust in Ace. Our uncle will know what has happened and what Ace has gone through when he sees Ace. He is someone you can trust, plus he may have already called uncle already. He knows how to handle Ace…."

Marco only hoped for the best. He wanted Ace back, his Ace.

Hey guys me here! I wrote this chapter for this pretty quick because it's flowing a lot right now :D (Good sign!). I've decided that I will write Marco's and Thatch's prospective from the beginning next time and what happened to Ace after he had finished recording next chapter, reversed! I hoped you enjoyed the chapter and tell me what you guys think! C ya later!

Sapphire~