Chương 4: Ch.4
I walked the deck leading to the captain of the Whitebeard pirates and the rest of the crew. When they saw me they cheered and I grinned as I saw the old man sitting there as happy as ever. I heard his booming laugh. "GuraGuraGura. Brat it's been a while!"
I chuckled. "Indeed it has pops. I brought you some gifts and even one that would be of interest to you."
I waved a hand and a rack of swords and a big chest fell out of two separate portals. I caught them both and set them down before opening the chest for him to see the six devil fruits.
Those along with the five low graded named swords were a sight to behold. I took one particular devil fruit out and tossed it to him. He caught it and raised an eyebrow. "I already have a devil fruit brat."
I grinned. "That one's special. It's the door door fruit and when used it can open a door to anywhere you can see or so I've heard. If used right you could decimate a battlefield in seconds without risking anyone."
He raised an eyebrow and tossed it to Haruta the twelfth division commander. I raised my hand stopping Haruta from eating it. "Wait! Let me make it into a ring then you'll still be able to swim and won't be effected by sea stone!"
Haruta shrugged. "Be quick about it."
I grinned and took the fruit before putting a ring in the fruit and tossing it back to him. "When it turns back into a regular fruit take the ring out and you'll have a devil fruit without the drawbacks. The only down sides are that you can't use it while the ring is in water and the ring can be destroyed by sea stone blows."
Haruta nodded satisfied while Whitebeard asked. "What are the rest of these fruits?"
I chuckled and told him each one while his eyes narrowed on the elephant one and the leopard fruit. Marco asked. "Where did you get those? They were said to have been in possession of CP9."
I shrugged. "I took them when I slaughtered CP9 and Enies Lobby to get Pops the main gift, this."
I took out the blueprints to Pluton and handed them over. Marco's eyes bugged out when he saw the name on the blueprint. I chuckled as he handed it to pops and asked. "How-"
I shrugged. "Tom the shipwright was said to have it. I just took it from his apprentice and killed the CP9 agents and their boss who were plotting to steal it."
Whitebeard's eyes looked over the blueprints and how to's to build the ancient and rumored island one shot weapon. After a while he smiled and laughed before the entire crew started to celebrate. After a long night and vigorous hangover, I began to study and practice with my devil fruit abilities, expanding on them and growing stronger quickly as I used the memories I received so long ago to modify them and practice many different moves.
I turned my Dragon Thorn into a rail gun of sorts and with the space-space fruit I made it both silent and even faster as I folded space with each shot, creating a visible warping of space and an almost instantaneous and very deadly sniping ability.
Add to that the haki infused bullet and I'd become one of the most dangerous men on the planet. For reference, using observation haki against my shots is like having the sharingan, but not being physically capable of reacting in time. Even Admiral Kizaru could only get shot if caught unawares and unprepared which I totally intended to do to him during the coming war if Ace does get caught.
I'd happily kill him and all the other admirals except vice admiral Garp. Thanks to having two devil fruit capable guns I could dual wield with a lot of practice and I mean a lot because it takes a surprisingly large amount of Will and concentration to use so many specific moves compounded together to make what I called my Dead Shot.
For the next few months I tirelessly practiced and sparred on occasion with Marco or Jozu when they each had time. My haki was improving as well because of the constant pressure and practice. I wasn't seeing the future or going to me to toe with Whitebeard, but I was definitely making them work for it, even Jozu and he's made of diamonds during our spars.
When Ace was declared captured and sent to Impel Down, I offered to go and get him to no one's surprise. They'd found out he was my cousin thanks to Jozu running his mouth one evening while drunk. I was already declared the fourth division commander when my name got released thanks to Marco's convincing and my bounty went from twenty million to one point four billion when the execution of CP9 and Enies Lobby were leaked with that information.
I was actually surprised until I remembered the greedy bastards in Marijois wanting my devil fruit powers, specifically my stargate devil fruit. It didn't help that Marco leaked the information of me having a second devil fruit as well.
On the bright side the devil fruits and swords I brought as well as a bunch of guns and weapons I made on the side, increased our over all strength as I upgraded all but Pop's weapon. I did end up venturing onto a dark stormy island in the new world to train my lightning fruit powers. Let's just say Enel ain't got shit on me now.
His basic lightning attacks mean nothing to someone who can use a simple touch to paralyze someone or kill depending on my whims. I did so to quite a few of Big Mom's crew while they were raiding our territories. I really shined when I killed her sweet commanders, Cracker, Katakuri and Smoothie.
I'd paralyzed Cracker before taking his head and outright killed Smoothie and Katakuri with simple touches. Hell, I brutally slaughtered thirty of her officers and officially made her the weakest of the four emperors. I'd have killed her as well but Pops stopped me because there was no one to take her place as a Yonko or Emperor and I was still without a crew other than the fourth division.
Speaking of which, as Pop's made the war plans I volunteered to be the thorn in Sengoku's ass by thwarting his plans as they happen. My division would back me up as we deal with any surprises the marines have for us.
When we came up for air and a new coating at Sabaody, Grandma made Whitebeard swear to keep me safe. It was quite frightening to see but it had me shouting at her that this was my path and I needed to walk it on my own two feet. She looked like I struck her, but nodded solemnly and told me to be careful.
I felt bad for shouting at her like that but agreed nonetheless. I then went to see the one super rookie still on the island. It was Jewelry Bonney. She was eating up a storm when I offered her a drink and showed her my tattoo I'd gotten on my arm.
When she saw it she asked. "What is it a division commander of Whitebeard's wants with me?"
I smiled. "A favor and an offer."
She took a bite and I sighed. "I want you to give Pop's his youth back."
Her eyes bugged out but she shook her head. "It won't heal him. I've heard the rumors, he's dying and my powers don't heal, they just convert the body to a different age nothing more. If your wounded or sick beforehand-"
I waved her off. "I know. I've talked it over with him and he wants to go out on his own two feet. This will give us an edge to at least save Ace."
She set her plate down and asked. "What do I get out of it?"
I smiled. "A literal ton of gold or a weapon of your choice that I can make. And to top it off, information that could save you from being turned into a pet by some really nasty perverts."
She froze at the last one before swallowing hard and sighed. "What's your offer then?"
I grinned. "Join us, become a daughter of Whitebeard. When this war is over we'll have a ranking amongst the commanders to determine who is fit to lead. The position of division commander will be open or you can simply ally yourself with us like many others have."
She actually became flustered before I continued. "The information is simple. If you stay on this island or go to the new world you'll be captured and turned into a pet by Blackbeard the traitorous bastard. He'll leave you wishing to be dead when he's done with you which the celestial dragons will find you and turn you into a slave."
True terror could be seen in her eyes as she got up and agreed to both help Pops and join as an ally. She yelled for her people to load up and prepare for war. Her ship was already coated in preparation for the new world and now for war. I gave her a transponder snail to give to her people and had her follow me back to the ship where I showed her to Pops.
Bonney warned him as well and while Jozu and Marco were tight lipped, they both cried a bit. She'd been our last chance as Law was already off somewhere wreaking havoc. Pops accepted and although he grew younger physically and regained a good portion of his strength, it was a drop in the bucket as it to wouldn't last very long.
I told them the good news of her becoming an ally and joining us for the war. It was the numbers that she was making up and not the power. Though she herself had that as well.
She wanted a devil fruit gun that could utilize her powers at a distance and I gave it to her. I'd made hundreds in the passed week as I geared up for this war. On the bright side I'd even incorporated my space folding into my blacksmithing to make weapons faster.
It had helped my control and in a round about way it had grown my space inside the ring exponentially. While I could now fit my gold inside though, little else would fit now. While we sank under the sea and rode the underwater currents to Marineford, I sat in the crows nest listening to Marco's war speech.
I dozed off until I heard a booming laugh. "GuraGuraGura. Brat, you really have some guts falling asleep on a vessel bound for war!"
I didn't even open my eyes as I answered. "Not like there's much else to do Pops, besides listen to you flirt with your doctors."
He laughed his ass off before saying seriously. "Brat, take my place when I'm gone!"
I shot up like a rocket and dropped down hitting him in the head with my sandal. "You shitty old man! This isn't the time for jokes!"
He waved me away and looked at me hard. "I'm not joking anymore my son..."
I shifted and shook my head. "Marco will lead us-"
Marco spoke up. "I've already declined. It's not my dream to become an emperor."
I snorted. "Then Jozu-"
Jozu's voice was heard behind me. "I've already lost to you kid. I can't keep up any more and your powers are getting more and more dangerous soon it'll just be me receiving a beating."
I sighed. "Then Ace will do it."
Whitebeard slammed his naginata down. "BRAT! This is an old man's last wish!"
I sighed and finally nodded. "I agree. If you fall during this war and I make it.... I'll become the leader of the Whitebeard pirates! But don't think this is permission to die old man!"
He laughed and smiled at my words before drinking some Saki and passing his big ass cup to me. I downed the rest which was impressive considering the cup was nearly a wide as I am tall. Our pact was made though and our bond set. I would inherit his title as captain and protect our family even if I had to die to do so.
He showed me the captains logs and I had a lot of work ahead of me. Literally decades of reading to do. Luckily I had my own cheat, my lightning fast reflexes and optic nerve enhancements via the lightning ring I had. It was a trick I picked up after knowing Kizaru's issues and reason he's not as fast as he could me. It seems if he goes too fast his reflexes and senses can't keep up and that leads to very bad things.
It still took me six hours to get through it all and I'm damned glad I did. The adventures and good times, the losses and heartaches, all of it was within those pages. I knew more about the man Edward Newgate than any other living being alive could claim except himself now. He'd cried when Roger died, rejoiced when Ace joined the crew and mourned Thatch's death more than any other.
His anger towards Blackbeard only made it clear his disappointment was more evident in both himself and Teach. I could even tell he was indifferent and maybe even slightly happy to hear the news of his soon to be death. He was tired in only a way a man who saw to much could be.
I left the cabin and went to the forge. There I stayed until I was told we were there and waiting for the signal to surface. I have Marco a bag of rings and explained how to make them into devil fruit rings as well as make them only work for yourself through haki imprints.
It was a technique I'd learned and discovered when I first started to train my Conquerors haki. Essentially you lay claim to something with your will and a sort of psychic trace is left behind. If someone who can't use conquerors haki try's to use it or if they can and their will is weaker then it won't work for them. But if they have a stronger will then they could in theory at least, overcome it and erase your imprint replacing it with their own.
With everything set up and added to it the large ass storage of assorted fruits in our cargo hold because of my preparation, it truly was time to see what this war has to offer me or rather the crew. I'd long since changed my goals because of my former crew's issues.
Soon enough we were surfacing and so the war truly began. Pops had his shouting match with Ace and threw the first blow, creating a tidal shockwave that would've sunk the marineford island if Kuzan hadn't interfered and frozen the wave and the bay with it.
I nodded to Pops as he agreed before telling his men to use the ice layer to charge. I however took the fourth division and used my awakened space fruit ring to teleport us to the left side of the bay and outside where the ship holding the pacifistas were floating, waiting for our signal. As soon as we boarded I unleashed my conquerors haki, knocking out all the marines except Sentomaru and the pacifistas.
Before Sentomaru could react I teleported behind him and fried his nervous system leaving him alive but paralyzed from the neck down. I then teleported behind each of the pacifistas in quick succession and and fried their brain stems, one of the only parts on them still alive and not metal, effectively killing them without damaging their bodies. When I was done, I told Jace, my second. "Take the ship and head towards Sabaody. Get it coated and back into our territory immediately. These cyborgs will be useful later to protect our territories once they're rebuilt to serve us."
Jace saluted me and asked. "What about the war?"
I shook my head. "Let me deal with the war and you all do this. Oh, and destroy the den den Mushi. Leave no traces for the marines. Dump the marines into the ocean after you finish them off. Just remember, they picked this fight and decided to play dirty first."
Jace nodded and the fourth division set sail while slaughtering the crew. I teleported back to Pop's side while watching idiots try and challenge the king. Snorting, I raised a hand, blasting Kuzan backwards into Marineford at lightning speeds.
I then drew my pistols and smiled. "It's time to deal with some trash."
Pops laughed as I took aim with my heightened senses and fired two shots simultaneously at Mach eight speeds. None were fast enough to react even with haki. Kizaru, the light admiral, died on impact as his head exploded like a watermelon against a jet fighter windshield.
The other to die was none other than Doflamingo, the other seriously sadistic fuck in this place besides Akainu. With an admiral dead and a warlord at the same time dying, this war had already been more than Sengoku could afford.
I smirked and blew the smoke on my poor guns. The second one was destroyed because of the haki enhanced bullet being too much for it's non haki enhanced metals. All I had left was Dragon Thorn and it would need some time to cool down before being used again or I'd risk destroying it too with the pressurized magnetic forces haki or not.
Luckily marineford was in chaos now. Hell, the camera den den Mushi we'e still recording everything and they'd witnessed the death of a so called elite marine! Chuckling, pops patted my back. "Way to show them our 'conviction' son! GuraGuraGura lululu."
I smiled. "Anytime pops. I think it's time I dealt with another 'issue'."
He nodded and waved me off as I teleported away. This time I headed into a secret underground chamber where the levers and controls for the bay dome was to be used to attempt wiping out our forces. Smiling as I arrived, I slaughtered all the marines inside including an unsuspecting vice admiral and destroyed the mechanical levers and controls.
No dome would be coming up anytime soon that's for damn sure! With my objective complete, I arrived back at the ship just in time to see Squard attack pops. I was too late! Growling, I stepped forwards to strike Squard down, but Pop's stopped me and hugged Squard's crying form.
I felt both numbness and sadness wash over me in intervals until Pop's yelled. "Those who doubt me can leave but those who follow me, be prepared to lay down your lives!"
He leapt and I followed immediately. My second shot with my Dragon Thorn went off, killing Moria the shadow-shadow fruit warlord. More disturbance and curses from the marines while we flew into battle. Pop's grabbed the air and turned the island and the iced bay tipsy turvy as the whole damn place shook and rocked like a gondola ride at an amusement park.
Luckily I was using my space-space fruit to walk on air or I think I'd be sick as fuck from the looks of it all. Just seeing it was disorienting. When it stopped, Pop's threw a punch that forced Sengoku and the two remaining admirals to block it or it would've decimated the island and execution platform. I noticed at that time that Luffy was on the battlefield running towards Ace.
Sighing, I intercepted Hawkeye with my blades and deflected his blows. While I wasn't necessarily a swordsman since I didn't hold the sword in my heart like he did, I was competent enough after years of beatings from my Grandpa Rayleigh.
I forced him to back off long enough for Luffy to get away and he didn't even acknowledge my presence. I shrugged it off and continued to fight Hawkeye until Vista took over. Then I pulled my gun causing Hawkeye to freeze up along with half the higher ups in the marines. Not many warlords were left and only Akainu was of any importance for the Maine's side.
I blew Kuma's head off and put away my gun while the marines cursed me. Akainu had clearly had enough and ignored Pop's to attack me. Hell, I actually understood the sentiment. Out off all the powerhouses they'd had before, I'd killed four out right and only four remained that were any kind of threat.
Garp wasn't going to kill me, he knew Grandpa would murder him if he tried and Boa knew I was on Luffy's side, I think, considering I'd just saved his ass. That left Hawkeye whom I wasn't going to kill, Sengoku, Kuzan and Akainu. I'd effectively cut their real strength in half and that left the old fire dog 'absolute justice' pissed.
That I get, but throwing a massive hissy fit and a meteor storm on the side was a bit childish in my opinion. He didn't even bother to use haki, the idiot. I used the awakened powers of my lightning devil fruit ring, effectively creating a repulsing magnetic barrier and deflected the magma dick's meteor right into marineford!
Thousands of marines died screaming and many more besides were wounded and maimed. I looked around after kicking the magma mutt in the face, sending him to meet Garp at record speeds while I searched and found Buggy the clown using the den den Mushi camera to make himself famous.
I jumped up and took it from him while he cursed me. Snorting, I tossed him a bag of gold telling him. "Piss off big nose or I'll be killing you instead of paying you."
He was about to get pissy until I continued. "If you weren't apart of my grandpa's old crew I'd have killed you long ago for that shit you pulled in the East Blue."
He shut up before grumbling and ordering his men to help him kill some marines. I brought the camera den den Mushi that looked a bit tired from being frozen and defrosted with me. I petted it and fed it. "Hey little guy, think you can hang in there till this war is over? The world needs to know what happens next."
It bobbed it's head and I teleported us both to a wall next to the entrance little Oars had made for us. I set him on the wall next to me while I sat there and rested for a bit. Every now and then I'd pull my gun and kill a vice admiral when it cooled down, creating more chaos.
The war started to heat up as Sengoku himself acted with Akainu and Kuzan to fight Pops. Seeing him get wounded again, I moved and distracted Kuzan and Akainu, drawing my blades and using my ultimate sword arts. "Electric Bladed Hurricane! Space twister! Dimensional edge!"
My moves tore through thousands of marines as not even vice admirals could stop them fully and even they died as the price for slowing them down until both Sengoku and Kuzan were forced to deal with the more immediate threat to their numbers.
All in all I'd killed over thirty thousand marines before they were able to block me and my attacks. I didn't hold back though as I saw Akainu injure Pops severely with a magma fist in the chest. Roaring, I unleashed a tidal wave of electricity, in the form of a massive chain lightning effect killing another thirty thousand soldiers and sending Sengoku flying into the execution platform.
I coldly drew my gun and shot Kuzan in the head, ending the ice admiral for the whole world to see. I turned and aimed my smoking gun at Akainu and to their horror I fired the final shot, ending the magma dick as well. The marines were in turmoil as only Garp and Sengoku were there to back them up while Boa wouldn't help them and was instead hurting them and Hawkeye was busy fighting the Nyan brothers now.
They didn't even feel happy that my gun effectively melted except the dragon bone aesthetics. I tossed it aside and drew my blades while teleporting to Pop's side. "You alive old man?"
"Guararara. Brat, it'll take more than that to kill me! After all, I AM WHITEBEARD!"
The pirates around us cheered, but I knew differently. He was beyond help now. I could feel it with my observation Haki. He had maybe an hour if he didn't push it and that was being generous.
I shook my head and sighed. "Let's end this shall we Pop's? I'm tired of this war already."
He merely glanced at me once before smiling and nodding. "So be it!"
At that moment Luffy managed to free Ace while everyone else was distracted and Haruta got them both away. Garp and Sengoku were charging at us now with determination in their eyes. I'd truly stepped over the line when I killed all three admirals and now they were coming to kill me and finish off the old man.
Whitebeard called for a retreat and used the last major bit of his power to crack the island in half for our comrades to get away. It was me and the old man left and he knew I had to stay behind and finish this or they'd go after our crew. It was a life and death struggle now for the marines and they weren't giving up unless we paid a hell of a large price.
At that moment we heard a large crash and everyone turned to see a huge ass mountain of a man and I mean that literally as SanJuan Wolf showed himself. He was literally as big as a fucking mountain and he'd been hiding behind the marine HQ main buildings and covering half the damn island!
I knew he was big but it's one thing to see images and memories of a show and another to see it with your own eyes. He made little Oars look like a toddler and that was saying something!
Blackbeard and his crew had shown up so Garp and Sengoku targeted me alone hoping they'd use this opportunity to kill us both. I drew my blades and started using every haki infused ability I had while facing Garp and Sengoku. The issue wasn't Sengoku though he hit pretty damn hard in his golden Buddha form, the problem was Garp himself!
The hero of the marines was red eyed angry and he wasn't pulling any punches with me. On first contact he shattered one of the blades and my left arm with a single punch. My armament haki was simply overpowered by his own and I was sent flying into Sengoku. I used the momentum to stab my blade into his big Buddha belly and electrocute the marine Fleet admiral with all my strength while nearly splitting him in half with a haki bladed space cutter.
Sengoku screamed in agony as he slammed me back towards Garp without my blade. Right as he was about to make contact I teleported to my blade and ended Sengoku while he was stunned. I finished burning him extra crispy on the insides using his nervous system to completely fry his last chances.
His heart stopped and Garp went into over drive using his observation haki all over the damn place as I repeatedly teleported to avoid him. He was only slightly slower then my teleportation and that's saying something for an instantaneous traveling method!
I threw my last blade towards him and he dodged but then I wasn't actually aiming at him but Blackbeard instead. I teleported one last time, catching my blade as I stabbed it into Blackbeard's head just before he could desecrate Pops's corpse who died while I was busy fighting Sengoku and Garp.
Blackbeard died instantly and his crew attacked me next. I smiled as Garp appeared and kicked me with the force of a mountain. Even with haki, Tekkai and a space pocket that burst from the severe blow several of my ribs shattered and my right arm was dislocated.
I used the last of my power to create a portal, but I was to weak and exhausted to remember where it was going to.
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