[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV
Impeldown, First Half of Grandline.
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The second Navy ship started heading towards Impel Down as the members of the Navy looked on in surprise at Impel Down, with the sun rising on the horizon.
“What the hell is going on here!” the Vice Admiral murmured, looking through his long-range equipment.
“Impel Down… has been destroyed…?” another Vice Admiral murmured in disbelief.
“This is bad, get me the Den Den Mushi quickly, we need to inform HQ!” he ordered, as the sailors quickly grabbed the Den Den Mushi.
“Hello.” The voice on the other end spoke as soon as he picked up the equipment.
“Fleet Admiral Sengoku! We have a visual on Impel Down, the situation is much worse than we imagined!” the Vice Admiral said as the snail’s face turned extremely grim.
“What is it now… a few hours before the execution… Is it Whitebeard?!” Sengoku asked.
“There is no sign of the Moby Dick, Mr. Sengoku… There are Navy ships all around the destroyed area, but for some reason, they are anchored… and we have no further vision, we’ll have to get there to see what happened… but there’s the Navy ship stolen from HQ…” he informed.
“The Shichibukai Teach!? I don’t think it’s him who did this because Impel Down’s communication was cut off before he passed through the Gates of Justice…” Sengoku reasoned. “Inform me as soon as you find out what is happening, understand?” Sengoku warned, and they nodded.
Finally getting close to the destruction of Impel Down, they could see numerous injured bodies on the ground while a group of Navy soldiers and prison guards were assisting them.
“Look! It’s the Navy!” someone finally saw the second ship approaching.
“Another enemy?!” another exclaimed.
“Look at the number of people, they are really soldiers of justice!” another exclaimed with joy.
Two figures flew from the ship and started jumping in the air, arriving faster as they landed in front of the men still conscious and not caught by Teach’s attack.
“What happened here?” one of the Vice Admirals asked as the men looked on with relief.
“It’s so good to see you Vice Admirals! We were attacked by the Shichibukai Teach! Not only that, but the prison has been under siege by Monkey D. Luffy since yesterday afternoon! They destroyed the surface and entered the prison! No one can stop them, even Magellan was knocked out by the Straw Hat!!!” the men exclaimed quickly while the Vice Admirals frowned.
“The Straw Hat…!” they exclaimed, stunned.
“Why are they attacking the prison?!” they exclaimed.
“Ace is at HQ, but Monkey D. Lucy was imprisoned with Ace by Garp… The girl protested and wanted to interfere in the war, but Garp, wanting to prevent his granddaughter from doing something that would get her expelled from the Navy… placed her here until the end of the war…” the Admiral informed the other, who looked surprised at this.
“This is bad…” the other Vice Admiral said.
“We must go quickly, remember that it’s not just Monkey D. Luffy, but the Shichibukai Teach who came here for some reason!”
“Soldiers! Give me the Den Den Mushi!” the Vice Admiral wanted to inform, but a soldier arrived from the ship they had come on with a frown.
“Sir… the Den Den Mushi is no longer working…” he showed the snail looking tired.
“This is bad… I feel like we are in some kind of field with my Haki… we were communicating before, so we must get out of here.” he said, taking the Den Den Mushi and using Geppo began to move away until he no longer felt the strange field they were in.
Their first priority was to inform HQ of what was happening here, after all, HQ should be informed about this to await orders or reinforcements, although the latter would be quite difficult with the war about to break out.
“This is troublesome…” the Vice Admiral jumping in the air looked at the still wilted Den Den Mushi, whatever had happened there was exhausting the snail to the point that it took time to recover even after leaving the field. So this Vice Admiral continued jumping back to the port.
“We need you to take care of the injured, but a group must leave with the ship from this space and wait for the Den Den Mushi to start working again, report everything that is happening to HQ, while my colleague and I will go inside the prison, understood?!” he ordered while the sailors who came with the Vice Admirals nodded quickly and began to split up.
“Let’s go!” he said to his colleague, and they started running towards the entrance of Level 1.
Meanwhile, on the second level, as Teach and his group continued walking around, they encountered a crowd of prisoners at that moment, with Buggy leading them to the exit after gathering everyone from the floors, taking advantage of the fact that the guards and animals were all knocked out.
“Zehahahaha. What do we have here?” Teach was surprised by this and laughed, while his group remained silent.
“Who are you?!” Buggy exclaimed, surprised by this while keeping a cautious look.
“Hm… You’re that red-nosed kid who used to hang out with Shanks!” Teach exclaimed, recognizing Buggy from the time when Whitebeard and Roger used to meet before engaging in a one-on-one battle.
“You’re the one who hurt Shanks! Wait, who are you calling red nose!” Buggy immediately complained with a grimace.
“Zehahahahaha!” Teach started laughing without caring much about Buggy. “They’re just prisoners, so let’s continue our way!” Teach said.
“…” Buggy was still cautious while starting to move, and Teach found something interesting, the elevator.
“Hey, Zehahahaha. Prisoners, is the elevator working?” he asked.
“It is…” a prisoner responded, having seen other members of the prison using it before. But as soon as he finished speaking, a light illuminated from the equipment, and its entrance was destroyed with purple flames, from Luffy’s attack on it from the sixth level, which was not limited to just that place, as the flames continued to spread from floor to floor, completely destroying that mode of transport.
“This…” Teach was surprised. “Zehahahaha, it looks like the Straw Hat is quite busy down below, let’s continue via the stairs then…” Teach said, and the group started following the path, ignoring the prisoners once again.
“We should continue… Captain Buggy?” the pioneers asked while Buggy was a bit stunned and nodded.
“Yes! Let’s continue!” He ignored Teach, despite being cautious.
“Hey, did you hear him say he used to hang out with Shanks?” a prisoner asked another as soon as the strange group departed and they continued running to the surface.
“Yes, but could it be Shanks, like the emperor…?” they wondered.
“I don’t think Chief Buggy is that important… he couldn’t possibly know one of the Four Emperors, could he?” another raised the question, looking at each other.
“I think he’s mistaken…” another concluded, as they forgot the subject, not thinking Buggy was that important after all, despite him freeing them and declaring himself as their leader, he was still stuck on the first level.
Meanwhile, Buggy was sweating, hearing the people murmuring behind them, hoping not to be discovered, as he wanted to hide his past and pass as someone ordinary, being too weak to deal with great forces if his past were discovered.
They continued running for a while until they finally emerged on the first level, hoping to reach the surface before finding a ship and finally leaving the prison. But what they did not expect was that as soon as they entered the first level, there were two people in front of the gate of the staircase from the first to the second level.
The two Vice Admirals were advancing behind the people causing chaos when they felt a huge crowd approaching and were surprised that all the prisoners from the empty cells they had seen were now appearing in larger crowds, trying to escape the prison.
Buggy immediately stopped with his group and faced the two men in high-ranking Navy uniforms.
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The two groups stared at each other for a few seconds without anyone saying anything.
“So here are the prisoners…” a Vice Admiral said.
“It seems that not only them, but there are also members from the second level, if not all… Are there no more guards on these floors?” another said.
“They’re Vice Admirals…” a prisoner murmured, still not recognizing their current situation.
“I think they must be after those guys from before… But now that we’re here…” another said.
“This means we’re screwed…” Buggy commented with a defeated and terrified look, imagining what would happen to them next.
Already on the fourth floor, with the largest group of prison soldiers gathered, ready to combat the Straw Hats, unaware of Teach also invading the prison.
“Damn it! First, that strange tremor… now the elevator is destroyed!” Magellan, still injured, looked at the burning elevator. First, something caused the entire prison to tremble, not knowing that there were seven Conqueror’s Haki users doing it, then that wave of fire destroyed it from the lower floors.
“What are we going to do, Director Magellan?” a soldier asked.
“We’ll wait for them; they must pass through here anyway,” Magellan said, preparing to face the invaders on the fourth level.
“Director! I need to punish the invaders, their captain escaped my sadistic punishment!!” Sadi spoke angrily, with a flush in her eyes, remembering what she would do to that invading man before Nami’s claws threw her far away.
“Director Magellan! The chief warden was kidnapped by the pirates; we need to rescue her!” a soldier who was with Domino to face the Straw Hats said.
“This is bad… we must rescue her at any cost!” Magellan frowned.
“Director Magellan!” A new voice emerged, and Hannyabal, all injured, approached Magellan. “You let the prison be invaded, you no longer deserve to be the director!” he exclaimed.
“…” Magellan said nothing and ignored him, not having time for this at the moment.
“Resign!” Hannyabal spoke again while Magellan ignored him, waiting for the Straw Hats to finally appear again, as he knew Luffy was here for his brother, as he said a bit before the fight started.
Already on the stairs on level 5.5, the Straw Hats continued their journey to level 5 until a group appeared in the middle of the path.
“Hm? Who are they? They look funny, look at the size of that one’s head!” Lucy exclaimed curiously and laughed.
“Ivankov…?” Luffy stopped in front of the group, looking at them with a raised eyebrow.
“Monkey D. Luffy, this is your sister, the other daughter of Dragon…” Ivankov looked at Lucy curiously, remembering her from the newspaper, surprised she was on the sixth floor.
“What are you doing here? We’re leaving, and I thought you’d stay here.” Luffy interrupted him. He didn’t dislike Ivankov but had his answer and would respect it without forcing him to join the war as in the original, so he was about to leave without further talking to him.
“I thought it over…” Ivankov admitted. “I want to help you in this war… It’s time we left the prison,” Ivankov said while the people behind him nodded.
“Alright…” Luffy agreed, not denying him, as Ivankov could be a great help.
“So let’s go!” Luffy said as he started to continue the path, grabbing various clothes for them to enter the fifth floor and withstand the cold of the floor.
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Raccoon here: I put two generic Vice Admirals, not knowing if I should use the canonical ones, so I didn’t name any.
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