Recaps

Uchiha Natsu killed Saint Charlos on Sabaody, fought Kizaru, and forced the World Government to raise his bounty and strengthen its defenses. He then took control of Doflamingo and Caesar’s research before beginning to develop a Susanoo-based Sage Mode.

• Natsu freed a scientist at the Sabaody auction, killed Saint Charlos and CP0 agents, and fought Kizaru before leaving the ruined island.
• The Five Elders set Natsu’s bounty at four billion Beli and named him a Godslayer, while ordering a blockade around Origin Island and reinforcing their defenses.
• Lafitte recommended Teach for Crocodile’s vacant Shichibukai seat, and the Five Elders agreed to consider him if he captured a worthy pirate.
• Natsu confronted Doflamingo in Dressrosa, used Genjutsu to break his resistance, and learned that Caesar Clown was conducting experiments on Punk Hazard.
• Natsu made Doflamingo bring Caesar to Dressrosa, trapped Caesar in a Genjutsu, and ordered Doflamingo to supply the Uchiha Clan and take Caesar to Origin Island for research.
• Ace rejected Teach’s offer to join his crew and fought him on Banaro Island, but Teach defeated him after their prolonged clash of fire and darkness.
• Natsu learned from the Life-Bound Demon Fox that Susanoo could refine Natural Energy, named the fox Kunwu, and began training to use Susanoo as a Chakra Cloak.

Natsu joined Whitebeard’s campaign to save Ace and restored Whitebeard’s strength with Hashirama Cells. As the battle at Marineford escalated, the Uchiha arrived in force, while Natsu’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Fugaku brought Drake Vallen into the Uchiha’s underground laboratory, where Drake and the clan’s researchers began sharing expertise, while the Uchiha took control of three islands and reorganized their forces.
• Natsu awakened his Sage Mode and set out rules for marriage into the Uchiha Clan, then learned that Ace would be executed at Marineford and prepared to help Whitebeard rescue him.
• Natsu joined Whitebeard’s fleet, explained the risks of a Hashirama Cells transplant, and operated with Drake to restore Whitebeard’s failing body before the fleet sailed for Marineford.
• Sengoku strengthened Marineford’s defenses and recalled the Admirals, while Garp visited Ace in Impel Down and struggled with the order to stop Whitebeard.
• Whitebeard arrived at Marineford with his strength restored and fought through the Marines’ defenses, keeping the Admirals occupied as Sengoku watched for Natsu’s spatial abilities.
• Garp confronted Whitebeard, while Luffy arrived with the Impel Down prisoners and declared that he would protect Ace, and Sengoku revealed Ace’s parentage and Luffy’s connection to Dragon.
• The Marines raised the encircling walls and deployed Pacifistas, but the Uchiha attacked and destroyed more than half of them before Fugaku appeared in a towering Susanoo.
• Sengoku and Kizaru searched for Natsu as the Marines recognized the Uchiha threat, while Sakazuki urged them to stand firm.

Natsu and the Uchiha overwhelmed the Marines at Marineford, but Saint Nerona Imu emerged and fought Natsu with world-shattering force. As the battle erased the island, pirates and Marines fled, and Coby died after being abandoned by a warship.

• Natsu fought Akainu, Kizaru, Gunko, and Steel Bone Kong while the Whitebeard Pirates and Uchiha battled the Marines, and Yakumi and Yaoyu killed Onigumo.
• Kong injured Natsu, but Natsu awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, formed a Complete Susanoo, and killed Gunko and Kong before confronting Saint Nerona Imu.
• Natsu and Imu clashed as Ace escaped with Marco, Garp stopped fighting, and the Uchiha joined Natsu in resisting Imu’s Conqueror’s Haki.
• Natsu and Imu’s attacks devastated Marineford, and Natsu raised a vast Thousand-Armed Buddha in dark gold Susanoo armor to strike Imu.
• Garp, Sengoku, Whitebeard, and the Uchiha tried to evacuate Marines, pirates, and companions as Imu’s spreading ripples erased the battlefield.
• Whitebeard and Marco helped their crew reach the Moby Dick, while Coby begged a warship to save him and was ordered to let go.
• Coby fell into the sea and disappeared as Garp watched from another ship, and Akainu warned Garp not to take things too far.

After the Uchiha Clan rescues the Whitebeard Pirates from Marineford, Natsu recovers from Imu’s attack and reorganizes the clan’s forces. As pirates flood the West Blue, the Uchiha crack down on raiders and prepare a public execution, leaving the region under their control.

• Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Yaoyu, and Uchiha Kei rescued Whitebeard, Ace, and other survivors from Marineford before the disaster erased the island and the Marines left behind.
• Natsu returned to Origin Island gravely wounded by Imu’s Demonic Energy, and Uchiha Izumi, Setsuna, and Vallen’s team worked to keep him alive until Ōkuninushi healed him.
• Whitebeard accepted Natsu’s request to move the Whitebeard Pirates to the West Blue and proposed an alliance with the Uchiha Clan.
• Natsu recovered, reassured Izumi after she awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan, and reorganized the Uchiha’s guards, military, and academies under new leaders.
• Morgans publicized Natsu’s confrontation with Imu, and the Navy issued enormous bounties as pirates and world powers turned their attention to Origin Island.
• Pirates poured into the West Blue and raided its islands, prompting Uchiha forces to hunt down crews and kill raiders who attacked civilians.
• Uchiha Kei led the Night Owl Guard against the Broken Axe Pirates, defeated Drox, and killed him after he surrendered.
• Setsuna announced a public execution at Spirit Awakening Island, where the Night Owl Guard brought more than two hundred raiders, including Drox and his combat captains, onto the platform.