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Third Person POV
Impeldown, First Half of Grandline.
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Buggy wasn’t in a very good situation. As he woke up after being beaten along with all his men when they encountered the vice admirals, he noticed that after some time, the marines, not wanting to waste too much time with low-level prisoners, just left them on the ground and continued on their way to the lower floors.
Buggy stood up and began calling everyone. “Come on, the marines are gone! Let’s move before the guards come back here!” he shouted, and everyone began to agree.
“Let’s go, Chief Buggy!” they exclaimed. Then a sound came from behind them, and several new prisoners from the fourth level appeared at the entrance to level 1. “More people?” Buggy was confused but soon nodded, satisfied with it.
“Let’s go, more of my men have arrived!” he shouted, and everyone from levels 1 and 2 looked at Buggy with admiration.
“You really knew about this, Chief Buggy!”
“Chief Buggy is very strategic!”
They started shouting excitedly for Buggy and moved forward while the members from level 4 joined them, a little confused by the other prisoners’ shouting, but they just wanted to get out of prison and nodded as they joined the group heading to the prison entrance.
It was already mid-morning when the marine ship not far away finally saw some sign of the Den Den Mushi starting to work again.
“Finally, let’s contact HQ immediately!” the marines exclaimed, and the highest-ranking officer on the ship made the call.
“This is HQ!” the voice on the other side spoke.
The officer wasted no time in informing the gravity of the situation at Impel Down. “Listen, Impel Down is being assaulted by two pirate groups. First, Monkey D. Luffy launched an attack on the prison, cutting all communications. Hours later, Marshall D. Teach launched an attack. We don’t know if the two groups are connected, but two vice admirals went down to check the situation. I repeat, Impel Down is under attack and couldn’t even resist the first attack from Monkey D. Luffy!!” he exclaimed into the Den Den Mushi.
“This…” The Den Den Mushi showed a surprised face and then switched to a serious look. “We will inform our superiors!” he said and hung up.
Meanwhile, in the first area of the prison, the conscious guards and marines soon noticed something was wrong.
“Hm?” The men treating the wounded from Teach’s attack began to hear something.
“I’m hearing footsteps and shouting…” another guard said with some fear.
“Don’t tell me it’s…” Before he could finish, the gate leading to level one exploded at that moment, and a crowd of prisoners emerged, with Buggy leading the group.
“It’s the prisoners!”
“Prepare to fight them!”
“Permission to shoot!”
The marines started shouting as they quickly tried to stop them, beginning to shoot into the crowd.
The sound of gunfire quickly alerted the marines on the ship while they were talking directly to Sengoku, having a difficult conversation as they reported what was happening.
“My lord, a crowd of prisoners has surfaced! The guards are fighting them right now!” a marine warned the officer who was on the line with Sengoku.
The sound of gunfire and screams began to echo through the prison. “What is it now!” Sengoku, with a massive headache, shouted furiously.
His shout seemed to be heard throughout HQ as the crowd of soldiers began to position themselves in the square, waiting for the war to start, while many officers there gave motivational speeches to boost the men’s morale.
Garp, who was on top of the main justice building, looked down, a little surprised by Sengoku’s furious outburst. He would have laughed at it, but there wasn’t any mood for that; he didn’t even want to hear what was happening. After all, his grandson was about to be executed, and his granddaughter was imprisoned in Impel Down.
“My lord, we must help them!” Back on the marine ship in front of the prison, a marine asked for permission to return to the area where the Den Den Mushi wouldn’t work.
“Alright, stop them and keep us updated on the situation. I can’t send help with the execution starting at this moment…” Sengoku was increasingly cornered. If he sent help, he might lose the chance to have enough force to kill all the targets in this war.
“Alright, we’ll do everything for justice!” the marine shouted and began steering the ship back to Impel Down. A tense battle was beginning on the first level.
Sengoku saw the Den Den Mushi lose communication after some time. “It seems he went after his sister… now how did he get that information… I don’t know.” A voice emerged in front of Sengoku.
“Shouldn’t I send reinforcements? All those marines are going to die…” Sengoku said with a lost tone, wondering how they could deal with those enemy forces.
“Maybe, but that will weaken the forces here, which is even worse. To achieve a good result, you should send a large part of the forces; otherwise, it will only delay him. We must wait for him here; after all, he will still be drawn here.” The one speaking was none other than Sengoku’s former boss, Kong, who was sitting in his office.
“Yes… the only thing I can do is ensure that the lives lost by those marines are not in vain. We will stop all these pirates today and end Roger’s last lineage.” Sengoku spoke with a serious tone, and Kong nodded, as he was there to reinforce the marines’ power in the war.
At the entrance from the second floor to the first, the door exploded at that moment, with Luffy emerging with his group heading for the surface.
Luffy looked to his side and saw his sister in internal conflict. “I know it’s not easy, Lucy, but now we have to keep going, and there’s no turning back.” he commented.
“I know… it’s just… hard to accept all this…” she replied.
Luffy could understand. After all, in a short time, she went from serving as a loyal marine to justice, to going to Marineford to save Ace, even if it meant becoming an enemy of the marines. Luffy noticed her look when he beat up the two vice admirals who appeared and lay on the ground of the fourth level, bleeding and unconscious after Luffy started fighting them.
“Remember, Lucy… there’s nothing more important than family…” he told his sister.
“Yes, you’re right…” she said finally, and they continued to the last level before reaching the surface.
On the fourth level, Magellan had just woken up, still feeling intense pain after being knocked out a second time.
“I need to stop them… I can’t let them get out of here!” he said with some determination, even if he died today, he would protect his prison.
While the soldiers remained fallen, he began to walk, trying to reach Luffy, but was surprised by what he saw at that moment. As he arrived at a point above the Lava Lake, he saw Teach and his group recovering from the fight with Monkey D. Luffy and heading to the sixth level.
“You…” Magellan quickly grew somber, realizing what was happening here.
“Zehahahaha, are you the director?” Teach asked, his face covered in blood after being beaten by Luffy.
“I don’t have time for this, Hydra!” Magellan wasted no time and summoned his poison, and before Teach and the others could react, the Hydra struck them, covering them in poison with one of its heads.
Teach’s entire crew fell to the ground, enveloped in poison all over their bodies, while Magellan simply left them there to die and continued towards the stairs to the next floors.
Meanwhile, Luffy finally emerged on the surface with his group and quickly realized the place was in chaos, not only because of Teach’s passage but also due to the conflict between the marines and the prisoners. There were corpses from both sides scattered all around.
“This is pretty bad…” Vivi commented.
“We don’t have time for this. We’re heading into a war that will be an even bloodier scene than this, so let’s keep moving, but we have to be quick.” Luffy commented as there were no more walls on this side, allowing them to see in all directions. At the port, there was a marine ship that the prisoners had captured after overpowering the marines with much greater numbers.
“We don’t have any more coating, and Enel damaged all the other ships here, but there’s that ship to take us part of the way to Marineford, so we can’t let them escape. Nami, stop the ship.” Luffy said and continued walking toward the port, ignoring the dead and unconscious people on the ground.
“We’ll finally get out of here, following my plan completely!” Buggy appeared in front of the ship crowded with prisoners while everyone nodded in agreement.
“Yes, Chief Buggy! You are truly an admirable man!!”
“Long live Chief Buggy!!” The people exclaimed to Buggy.
“That’s right, Buggy! Long live Chief Buggy!” They continued shouting excitedly.
They kept cheering for Buggy while he looked on with pride. “Finally, freedom, and I even gained all these followers! My day couldn’t get any better, Hahahahaha!” Buggy commented to himself as he raised his hands excitedly, with the ship leaving the port at that moment. “Thank you, god! You truly blessed me!” he exclaimed with everyone else also celebrating.
“Freedom!” Buggy shouted.
“Freedom!” Even the prisoners from the fourth level quickly converted to Buggy’s faction and joined the crowd, shouting in unison.
But suddenly, the ship trembled, causing everyone to lose their balance, with Buggy falling face-first onto the deck. “What’s happening?!” he exclaimed as he saw the ship struggling to move but unable to leave the spot.
“Chief Buggy!! We’re stuck! A giant claw is stopping the ship!!” a prisoner shouted as he ran to Buggy with a frightened face.
Buggy immediately ran to the back of the ship and saw a massive claw holding the lower part of the vessel, glowing green and keeping it in place.
“What’s going on?!” Buggy said, bewildered.
“Look, Chief Buggy!” One of the prisoners shouted, pointing to the front as Luffy approached the edge of the port with a smile on his face.
“Mugiwara?!” Buggy shouted, scared.
“Hello Buggy, I see you’re quite busy with this ship. How about giving us a ride?” Luffy commented with a small smile.
“What?!” The prisoners next to Buggy were a bit frightened, but Luffy wasted no time and simply unleashed another wave of Haki on the group, causing everyone to fall unconscious the next moment.
“What an interesting ability…” Ivankov commented from behind.
“Buggy continues to resist… your Haki, captain…” Zoro remarked while the clown looked around at all his fallen comrades before turning his gaze back to Luffy, with snot dripping from his nose.
Nami continued pulling the ship into the port until the entire Straw Hat crew and their new companions freed from the prison jumped onto the ship, and it finally started sailing again.
“Mugiwara!!” As the ship was about to gain full speed, Magellan appeared at the port, creating a massive red Hydra.
“He’s persistent… I admit,” Luffy commented and grabbed a cannonball beside the ship. “Let’s test this new ability…” Luffy said, having acquired a new level with his Akuma no Mi after fighting at Sabaody and invading Impel Down.
“Moa Moa no Mi: Apply speed… 100 times…” As soon as he threw it, the object flew toward Magellan, who was initiating his attack with the Hydra’s heads.
The cannonball disappeared as Luffy threw it like Garp used to, making an explosive sound as it flew at high speed, hitting the middle head of the Hydra and piercing through the red venom. It didn’t stop there, continuing to drill through the Hydra, with Magellan seeing the cannonball approaching at high speed, having no time to dodge before it exploded with him.
BOOOOOOM!!
The explosion disintegrated the red Hydra, while Magellan was blasted away, burned, and knocked out for the third time since encountering Luffy.
“The venom is coming this way!!” The okamas screamed in fear.
“We’re going to die!!!” Buggy shouted, terrified.
“Leave it to me!!” Ivankov yelled and started blinking, creating giant explosive impacts on each blob of venom headed for the ship. He blinked dozens of times, but it didn’t seem enough.
“Leave it to me.” Vivi said, raising both hands, creating a wind so strong that it blew all the liquid in the opposite direction.
“It seems nothing else can hinder us. Let’s head to Marineford!” Luffy said to everyone standing around the unconscious crowd. Jimbei quickly took the helm while everyone else nodded, except for Buggy, who believed he had finally gained his freedom, only to head straight into the middle of a war. But what else could he do?
Luffy nodded and hoped to find Bepo before reaching Marineford. He didn’t put the Black Pearl in the water due to the currents in this sea and wanted to save some energy, having used a lot of Haki and had a small fight against Magellan and Teach.
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