On the one hand, Sabo could understand how the Rebel Army felt driven to attack head on in an attempt to overthrow the government. On the other, he was more than a little annoyed by their shoddy intelligence network. They hadn't believed Koala when she had told them that their King had not been the one who had stolen the rain, in fact. It had taken blindly charging the plaza and seeing Crocodile with their own eyes before anyone started to listen and by then Sabo had more important things to do than gloat. Like getting civilians the hell out of the way.
Would have been a lot harder without the weird sucks that were running all over the place, scoping people out of harms way. Koala had gone off somewhere, shouting something about keeping the fighting out of the residential district as much as possible so he was alone when an explosion rattled the buildings for the second time in a week. Dust and sand whipped past, blown by the percussive force, drawing his eyes up into the sky where the explosion was still fading. His ears still ringing he ran through the crowd towards the tallest building, a clock tower, hoping to find the source.
"Pell!" He thought he heard shouted from a form hanging out the uppermost window. Sabo frowned, running faster, only stopping when something broke through the ground and went flying through the sky. "What the-?"
Sabo was nearly run roughshod as Smoker and a team of Marines went charging by, "Tagashi, you go find where Crocodile landed and don't let that bastard escape! I'm going after that damn Strawhat before he cause any more trouble!" leaving a confused young Revolutionary staring after them.
"Again with this Strawhat guy. They can't honestly expect some no-name to have defeated a shichibukai, can they?" He snorted, no longer in such a rush to follow after the Marines. As it turned out, he didn't need to be. Before long he came across none other than the very King of the county carrying the slumped over body of a young man. Sabo ducked behind a pillar and watched as one of the few nobles he could honestly say he respected walked past and tried to figure out why that stupid hat looked so damn familiar. Straw hats were a dime a dozen, really, but something about this one…
"Your Majesty! Are you hurt?!"
"No, no I'm fine, Chaka." The King replied.
"Is that-?"
"It is. We must hurry and get him to a doctor. Crocodile poisoned him, and even with the antidote I'd feel better if our physicians looked his wounds over."
"Yes, of course. Allow me to carry him, sir."
The King refused to hand over his burden, "I shall carry him. It's the least I can do for the one who really saved our country."
A tap on his shoulder almost had Sabo jumping out of his skin before he turned and saw it was just Koala. He pointed to the scene before them and whispered, "That little brat apparently just defeated Crocodile and saved Alabasta."
"Huh." She didn't seem very impressed. "I bet the Marines take all the credit again."
"I don't bet on a sure thing."