This is an interlude, which takes the place of the island of strange animals, mini arc
Mainly because Sunny will not be in the story until after Nami leaves the Baratie, so much of it remains canon
Legend: chapter 2
Story start
Chapter 7: Whitebeard pirates' second division commander and the revolutionary army's chief of staff. AKA: of meetings and warnings
The strawhats landed on an island, full of strange animals, found a man stuck in a box helped the man out, asked him to join the crew he refused, and the crew set off. Same old same old, goes exactly like canon, no, this chapter takes place just over 1 year and 6 months before Luffy set sail.
1 year and 6 months before Luffy set sail, 1month after Ace became the second division commander
"Hey ace! There is a blonde guy with a top hat wanting to meet ya" thatch said as he walked to Ace, who was currently busy with… something (read: preparing a prank on Marco)
"Who is it?" ace asked, recognizing the description
"I dunno, he told me to tell you your blood's full of gold" Thatch said, noticing Ace stiffened he asked "is there something wrong?"
"Did he tell you anything else?"
"Yes, now that you mentioned it. He also told me to tell you something about rubber monkeys and talking ships, no idea what he meant by that" Thatch replied.
Ace seemed to vanish and reappear right in Thatch face "Where is he?"
"Calm down Ace, the guy is on his boat, it's tied to ours on the stern. I will.. take… you … to …. Him?" Thatch trailed of when he saw Ace vanish again, running towards the stern.
When ace reached the stern and looked down his eye widened, the guy felt just like Sabo
But to confirm he asked two questions "What is your name, and what is your dream?"
"My name is Sabo" The man, Sabo, replied smiling "And my dream is to create a world where you and Luffy can live in freedom, regardless of you guys' heritage." Sabo removed his top hat, fully revealing his wavy blonde hair, smiling face and scar "Long time no see, Ace"
The Moby Dick: A short time later, inside the ship, only Whitebeard, his division commanders and Sabo are present, at Sabo's request
"My name is Sabo and after 3 and a half years in its service, have recently obtained the rank of chief of staff in the revolutionary army" this drew shocked gasps from the commanders present, only Ace and Whitebeard remained silent, though ace was smirking at hearing how fast his brother raised trough the ranks
"gurarara, so you are Ace's brother?" at Sabo's nod he continued "well then, as long as your actions don't endanger this crew, any brother of Ace is a son of mine, regardless if you join the crew or not"
"Thank you, though I would appreciate us keeping this meeting secret, it took a lot of time, both tracking you down and staying hidden from the marines spying on you and your crew, to reach you and Ace, and I don't want to be known to the marines yet. That would be detrimental to me and the revolutionaries, we are not ready to deliver our answer to the world yet" Sabo explained
"I understand, that dragon brat wants to be prepared for anything. Alright, we will honor your request" Whitebeard said "now; I believe you wanted to catch up with my second division commander, am I right?" at Sabo's nod he continued "alright let's leave these two alone and let them catch up
Moments later, only Ace and Sabo remain
"So" Ace began "why didn't we hear from you since you left?"
"Because of the need to stay secret, like I told Whitebeard, we are not ready to open our hand by fully revealing ourselves to the world government, that they know of our leader is bad enough as it is"
"I understand, but I'm still not happy about it" Ace replied "how did you find the revolutionaries anyway? They are quite a secretive organization from what I hear"
"That was mostly luck that I found them on my first try" Sabo answered "but heading towards an area with a Civil war ongoing certainly helped, I found the rebels and asked if they were affiliated with the revolutionaries saying I wanted to join them, their answer was yes and after some screening, I got in not long after"
"Screening?"
"They checked me and my past to discover if my intention to join were honest, and that I wasn't a spy or assassin, they had problems like that when they started getting bigger and more of a threat to the world government, they took a picture of me, wrote my name and my reason for wanting to join down. I was lucky Dragon saw my file and recognized my face as the boy he met in goa 5 years earlier, and personally invited me to join after some personal questions that only I could know, and I was in, he personally trained me in his own style, it also helped that I had already mastered all three forms of haki"
"Well then, you got lucky, how did you reach the rank of chief of staff so fast?"
"that was the reason for dragon training me, his first chief of staff retired from his position to conduct a long term spying mission for the revolutionaries, the spot remained open ever since, And he wanted me to take over, he declared me ready and promoted me just two months ago. Though I still have daily training sessions with him every day I am at base to master the style" Sabo explained "so what is your story Ace?
"It's much less exiting then yours, I tell ya." Ace began "but I'll tell ya anyways, the goodbye party was great, and next day I set off, like for you, Sunny had come out of her hiding place to see me off too, she also appeared shortly after I set off to warn me about watching out for cherry pies killing a pompadour for fruit but to not interfere beyond saving the pompadour"
"I don't get it, explain it to me please" Sabo interrupted
"I confirmed who Sunny meant with cherry pie and Pompadour, and I can only guess the fruit refers to a devil fruit, so if I got it right she warned me to watch out for one of my subordinates: Marshal D. Teach, the guy eats cherry pies like Luffy eats meat, and that Thatch, the head cook and the guy who told me about you, who has a pompadour will likely get killed over a devil fruit in the future if I don't watch out, but I'm not allowed to interfere with teach stealing the fruit beyond saving Thatch, well if he does steal the fruit, and tries to kill Thatch, you can bet I will hunt him down to the end of the world"
"Anyways" Ace continued "after I set off and was warned by Sunny about Teach I went to find a bigger ship and some crewmates willing to go to the grand line with me. Not long after I got my second crewmate if found a weird fruit, a devil fruit, the mera mera no mi, and after that I began to make a name for myself. I left east blue days after I got my first bounty with a crew of 6, me included"
"I read that, your first bounty was 10 million beri, wasn't it?" Sabo interrupted
Ace nodded and continued "yes it was, but continuing with my story. When we got onto the grand line we were almost overwhelmed by the weather at the start of the grand line, but we pulled through, I rose through the ranks at record speed, and it felt like we reached the new world in no time, and that was almost a year ago. We took a month off on Fishman island and went on roaming the new world for almost 2 months before I found Jimbe, by that time it was known around the world that I had the desire to kill Whitebeard, and Jimbe declared his intention to prevent me from doing so, saying he owed whitebeard a great depth for keeping Fishman island safe, we battled for a week, without breaks, before we both collapsed, this stunt got me up to 300 million by the way, and we were found by the whitebeard pirates, I attempted to battle whitebeard, was invited on the ship and tried to assassinate him every day, for hundred days, I meanwhile got to know the crew, and after the hundredth attempt accepted him as my captain, and true father" Ace said
"I heard of that, your bounty shot up to 350 million when that became known" Sabo said
Ace continued "I got placed in the second division, that at the time didn't have a commander, and after about 5 months, which was just over 1 month ago, I was asked. So I told Whitebeard about my birth father, and he dismissed that as a small thing so I accepted the position. I also told him about Sunny and her being from an alternate future, and the warning she gave me. He believed me, and told me and the other commanders too keep an eye on teach, especially if someone found a devil fruit, and teach saw it, and that the one that found it would need to watch their back extra carefully, he did not allow us to act preemptively, saying that teach would remain a son of his until the opposite is proven true, he also muttered something about the Will of D" Ace finished and added after a pause "and my bounty went up by a hundred so my bounty is now 450 million beri"
"What did you mean by not as exiting, all I had to do was paperwork and training to prepare me for my position, with the occasional low discovery risk mission thrown in. your story was more exiting" Sabo accused "and that reminds me, Sunny also gave me a cryptic message: 'if the fire is weakened by the darkness, it will go to hell, Luffy will follow to save the fire and follows him with the queen of okamas to the summit to save him, and you must help him succeed' I'm certain that the fire refers to you and hell is a common nickname for Impel Down, though I don't know who or what Sunny meant by the darkness, I do know that one of my comrades currently in impel down is known as the queen as okamas, so if my translation is right then in Sunny's time someone weakened you and you ended up in impel down, Luffy followed you to try and save you, met Ivankov the okama queen and escapes, and goes to whatever place this summit is and likely saw you die in the process, and will likely see you die again if this happens again in this time, at least if the revolutionary army, or at the very least me, don't interfere and help out"
Well, that is disturbing" Ace said "hearing of your own demise in another timeline, and without us knowing who Sunny means with the darkness this will likely happen again"
"that is probably Sunny's intention, as grim as it sounds, probably because this was a key event in the last timeline and while she does want to change things for the better, she needs to keep things similar to maintain some level of predictability" Sabo said
"Well I'm gonna try and prevent it" Ace gave Sabo a piece of paper "here, this is my vivre card, it also has pops denden mushi number on it. If you hear anything about me being captured; follow this"
"thank you, I would give you one but I don't have one yet, and even if I had, only high ranking members of the army are allowed to both hold one or have one for themselves, for safety reasons " Sabo gave an apologetic look "sorry"
The two brothers spent the rest of the day talking about different things, mainly Luffy, with Sabo asking how he was in those 2 years he was gone, they also expressed their desire to hear from him again, Sabo asked Ace about him talking with former roger pirates, to which he replied that he did meet some who he asked about roger, including Shanks, Crocus and Rayleigh in his journey before joining the Whitebeards, this went on for a day or 2, it included the 2 brothers catching up, a party, with a drunk Sabo telling the crew embarrassing stories about Ace and a drunk Ace doing the same about Sabo with both telling embarrassing stories about their little brother Luffy, who, like Sabo, was immediately declared an honorary Whitebeard, and a day of recovering from the hangovers before Sabo went back to base, promising to keep contact
though the two would keep in contact until Ace set out to catch Blackbeard, Ace would see Sabo again in Alabasta while he was chasing Blackbeard, with Sabo being in the country to investigate the rebellion and confirm intel that baroque works, and by proxy Crocodile was behind it, it would be that day the 3 brother would be together again for the first time in 5 years.
Back to the future, next chapter
I had this prepared during my poll so at this point in time Sabo doesn't have a devil fruit yet, if he will ever get one then it will be during the 1.5 years the 2 don't see each other
i dont know when next chapter will be posted, i hope the chapter will be done before april
Also: the former chief of staff Sabo talked about was Kuma
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Cya:) William;)
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