"I'm on my way!"
Ka-cha—
Hanging up the Den Den Mushi, Kong immediately stood up:
"Damn it, how could this happen?"
Looking at the leisurely tea-drinking Borsalino, he instantly understood the meaning of those words just now. His anger surged:
"You still have the mood to drink tea! Go stop them first!"
"I'll be right there!!!"
He rushed out the door, stepping on Geppo, diving straight down along the Red Line.
Borsalino slowly finished his cup of tea.
"Sigh~"
"So troublesome~"
His whole body scattered into glimmering light particles and vanished.
...
Holy Land, Mary Geoise.
A few minutes later, the hall of the Elders.
A CP agent rushed in to report:
"Elders-sama."
"There's a battle at Marine Headquarters."
The Elders all froze for a moment, puzzled.
Who would dare cause trouble at Marine Headquarters...
The Elder with the sword spoke:
"Who is it?"
The CP member still wore a shocked expression, his face filled with disbelief.
He swallowed nervously, his voice trembling:
"The ones fighting are..."
"Marine Headquarters Admiral Sakazuki versus Fleet Admiral Sengoku."
"Marine Headquarters Admiral Kuzan versus Vice Admiral Enel, candidate for Admiral.'"
"And candidate for Admiral, Douglas Bullet, versus former 'Hero of the Marines,' Vice Admiral Garp."
The Elders all shot to their feet.
"What!!" x5
The curly-haired Elder was the first to regain his composure.
"What about Kong?"
The CP agent hurriedly replied:
"Commander-in-Chief Kong has already gone to Marine Headquarters."
The Elders' expressions turned grim.
"Guards!!!"
...
Marineford. Far out at sea.
Shattered icebergs were scattered everywhere, some even larger than distant Marineford itself.
Slender icebergs rose up from the ocean, coated with Haki, stabbing toward Enel like a thorny forest.
Enel flickered through the air, thunder booming across the sea.
Lightning condensed into a three-meter-long spear in his hands, which he hurled straight at Kuzan.
In an instant, it was before Kuzan.
Kuzan's pupils shrank sharply, his movement frozen.
The lightning spear pierced through his body, embedding itself into the ice.
A terrifying aura erupted from the impact point. A semicircle of light flared—
Boom—
A mushroom cloud hundreds of meters high exploded upward, shockwaves sweeping across the sea.
Countless corpses of sea creatures floated to the surface...
Kuzan reappeared atop a broken iceberg in the distance. At the last moment, he had shifted his body and avoided the hit.
Watching the incoming shockwave and rising waves, he muttered:
"Ara ara, that's terrifying."
He stretched out his hand toward the waves, cold energy condensing between his palms.
"Ice Age!!!"
Frozen air blasted forth. Wherever it passed, jagged ice pillars formed in the air, piercing into the waves.
The instant they touched, the surging sea began freezing solid, rapidly spreading outward.
Kuzan let out a cold breath.
"Fuu—"
An ice blade suddenly formed in his hand. He swung it back.
Enel's form vanished, instantly reappearing before Kuzan.
"Too slow."
The golden staff in his hand had condensed into a short blade, crackling with electricity, stabbing toward Kuzan's heart.
Clang!
Sparks flew. Kuzan's body was blown backward, his whole form covered in jet-black Haki.
But from beneath Enel's feet, countless ice spikes imbued with a trace of Haki suddenly shot upward.
Enel sneered, letting his body shift into lightning where the spikes would strike, pierced through harmlessly.
He tilted his head slightly, raising his lightning-charged hand.
"I told you—it's too slow."
He tapped lightly. The compressed lightning exploded on the ice, blasting Kuzan out of hiding.
The intense heat from the current melted the freshly frozen sea, spreading rapidly.
Steam rose from the ocean, gathering into the sky.
Kuzan's freezing aura surged, crystalline ice sprouting as he aimed at Enel with Haki-coated force.
"Ice Prison!"
The crystalline orb traced a frigid trail through the air, shooting toward Enel.
But Enel's Observation Haki sensed Zephyr and Vice Admiral Tsuru approaching. He transformed into lightning, dodging into the clouds.
Ka-ka—
The orb exploded violently, forming a massive frozen sphere reinforced with black Haki.
Unfortunately, it missed...
Within the clouds, Enel, now fully elemental, swept the area below again and again with Observation, hands in motion.
"Thunder Greeting!!!"
The black thunderclouds churned, coalescing into a thunderball the size of an island.
Bolts of lightning rained down from the colossal storm sphere, sealing the area below.
The sphere pressed downward, bit by bit...
...
Marine Headquarters, rear mountain.
Boom—
Two raging figures clashed and separated.
Dust was swept clean by the shockwave.
Bullet, in his Demon Mode was in a battered state, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.
His crimson eyes glared at Garp.
"Old man, your bones are tough."
Garp's body was covered in black Haki, his chest slightly dented.
He too was battered, but his eyes were locked on Bullet.
"You're still too green, brat."
Their pure hand-to-hand combat was far fiercer than the other battlefields.
Bullet grinned savagely.
"Your mouth's just as hard. Interesting."
Haki roared off him. Ferocious demonic phantoms appeared around his arms, locked on Garp.
Boom!!!
Their fists clashed again, shockwaves bursting out.
The phantoms crawled up Bullet's arms, but against Garp's immense compressed Haki, they were useless.
But Bullet hadn't intended for them to restrain Garp. Instead, they served as a bridge. He twisted, turning his fist into an open palm, seizing Garp's wrist.
He pushed his speed to twenty times normal. He couldn't fully control it—
But at such close range, before Garp could react, Bullet's other hand clamped down on his face.
With a vicious snarl, Bullet twisted and smashed Garp's head into the ground.
Boom!
The earth quaked, cracks splintering across the ground.
Garp's eyes blazed. He seized Bullet's wrist with one hand, unleashing raw power.
He rolled across the ground, flinging Bullet down in turn.
Locked at the wrists, the two of them rolled like raging beasts, the earth trembling with every crash.
In the midst of the roll, Bullet twisted on top, stomped, and unleashed his ability.
Both men shot skyward, soaring into the clouds.
In an instant, they reached a thousand meters high.
Veins bulged on their foreheads as they struggled, locked hand to hand.
Suddenly, Bullet sneered, whipping his body.
They both spun downward, aimed at Marineford.
Bullet's grin widened.
"Thirty times speed."
He couldn't even react to his own burst.
From a thousand meters above, they plummeted like meteors, smashing into the island.
Rumble!!!
It was like a massive bomb had gone off, shaking Marineford to its core, countless buildings collapsing.
In a crater dozens of meters deep, the two had separated.
Bullet staggered up, coughing blood.
"Hah... hah..."
His mind was blank, his lungs heaving.
No one could escape unscathed from such a clash.
Across from him, Garp rose, coughing blood.
"Hah... brat..."
His voice was low, his killing intent unmasked. If this kept up, one of them might truly die...
Bullet grinned, pulling a custom mini-missile from his pocket.
Buzz—
It instantly expanded to the height of a man. He ripped off its tail, coating it in black Haki.
This missile was special—without breaking its interior with Haki, it wouldn't detonate, even in fire.
Gripping the missile like a club, Bullet charged at Garp.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Primitive, brutal combat erupted again.
No dodging—just fists and weapons slamming into each other.
Crack—
The missile smashed against Garp's body, but under their monstrous power, it snapped and exploded.
A thunderous roar shook the island, a mushroom cloud rising once more, forcing them apart.
Both staggered out of the crater.
Bullet pulled out another missile, enlarging it instantly, charging again—
BOOM!!!!
...
Above Marineford, near the Red Line.
Thousands of meters high.
Sakazuki had entered Magma Mode, his body flowing with molten magma, golden eyes blazing as he clashed with Sengoku.
Compared to Sengoku's Buddha form, towering nearly a hundred meters, Sakazuki was like a tiny black speck.
Yet their impact was evenly matched, even pushing Sengoku back slightly.
Unlike the other battlefields where bloodlust reigned, their fight was more restrained... for now.
But Sengoku's stance had ignited Sakazuki's fury.
And Sakazuki's words had provoked Sengoku. The clash had escalated.
Though their tempers flared, their reason soon tempered it—but the fight had to be decided.
Sakazuki swung, magma forming into a three-meter magma blade coated in Haki.
He stepped and vanished, reappearing atop Sengoku's Buddha form.
The blade crackled with black-purple lightning as he swung down.
Sengoku's eyes narrowed. He raised his hand to block.
Szzzt—
The blade never touched his arm, yet lightning sparked violently between them.
A compressed black energy sphere flickered into being, radiating deadly danger.
They glared at each other, locked in stalemate.
Boom—
The sphere exploded.
Sengoku's golden form plummeted downward like a meteor.
Behind him, the crimson magma giant followed, its glow blazing.
Sakazuki expanded, his magma body swelling to Sengoku's size.
The magma giant's Haki-coated arms reached for Sengoku.
Around the golden Buddha, an impact-wave barrier formed, halting the giant's grip.
Both opened their mouths at once.
"Buddha's Shockwave!"
"Magma Explosion..."
Golden light and molten magma collided, swelling outward.
Yet before the towering Red Line, both were insignificant.
The golden light was gradually engulfed by magma, the shockwave barrier crumbling under the torrent.
From thousands of meters above, they plummeted toward the sea, locked in collision.
Only a few hundred meters remained.
"STOP, BOTH OF YOU!!!"
A furious roar echoed from above.
Kong plummeted headfirst, his right arm swirling with dense Haki.
He struck like a drill, punching through the magma and shockwave.
Boom—
The barriers shattered instantly, exposing Sengoku and Sakazuki.
Both were blown apart by Kong's attack, grunting coldly.
Kong descended, Conqueror's Haki erupting, pressing down on them.
"What the hell are you two doing!"
"A Fleet Admiral! An Admiral!"
"Do you intend to make the Marines the laughingstock of the world?!"
"Return to Headquarters immediately!!!"
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The fanfic is Finished on p@treon/tambeerg. 414 chapters in total