Here I Come

"What was that?"

"It looked... like a ship!"

"A ship as big as a mountain!"

The sudden massive shadow enveloped the Marines and pirates locked in battle.

For a moment, Marine Headquarters, filled with deafening battle cries, fell silent.

Everyone stared dumbfoundedly at the Hell Battleship whistling down from the sky.

The Hell Battleship was over a thousand meters long, nearly half the width of the inner bay. It was more than ten times larger than the giant ice block Jozu had thrown earlier.

Such an enormous warship crashing down from above carried no less force than a small island falling from the sky.

On the execution platform, Garp and Sengoku's expressions changed drastically.

Sengoku blurted out, "What is going on? Why did such a huge ship suddenly fall from the sky?"

For no apparent reason, the image of someone suddenly surfaced in his mind.

"Could this be Golden Lion's ability?"

Garp voiced the suspicion in his heart.

Boom!

The kilometer-long warship crashed down through the air. A violent blast of wind swept over Marineford Island, kicking up sand and debris.

On the frozen inner bay—

After their brief stupor, both sides in the battle were overcome by deep fear.

"Run!"

"Get out of the way! We'll be crushed to death!"

At that moment, pirates and Marines alike were filled with indescribable terror.

There was only one thought in their minds.

Run!

But—

From the moment they noticed the shadow to the warship's descent, only a few short seconds had passed.

By the time the people on the ice thought of fleeing, the earth-shattering impact had already arrived!

BOOM!!!

The thousand-meter Hell Battleship crashed into the center of the inner bay like a colossal meteor falling from the sky.

The vast sheet of ice immediately shattered completely.

Massive abyss-like cracks spread wildly in every direction with sharp cracking sounds.

The combatants directly beneath the hull—

Did not even have time to leave behind their last words before the world-shattering impact crushed them into flattened, blood-red slabs of flesh.

Rumble, rumble, rumble!!

The entire island of Marineford shook and trembled beneath the terrifying impact.

Even the ground in the plaza cracked apart.

Not even Whitebeard dared to block such a terrifying assault.

He could only leap off the deck of the Moby Dick and watch as the kilometer-long warship came crashing down, smashing the Moby Dick to pieces and burying it deep beneath the thick ice.

Watching the Moby Dick vanish beneath the shadow, Whitebeard's expression became incomparably grim.

"Moby Dick!!"

The pirates of the Whitebeard Pirates could not help crying out in grief.

To the Whitebeard Pirates, the Moby Dick was their home.

This ship had accompanied them ever since Whitebeard officially founded his pirate crew in his youth, witnessing the birth of a legend renowned across the world.

Marco's eyes reddened with tears.

The home they had lived in for so long had been destroyed just like that.

"What the hell happened?"

"Where did that damned giant ship come from?"

Questions arose in everyone's minds.

At that moment—

The entire frozen surface of the inner bay had completely broken apart.

The massive glacier had become scattered chunks of floating ice.

In the sea, the pirates and Marines who had miraculously survived the devastating impact desperately swam toward the nearest ice floes.

But just then, the Marine officers standing high above in the plaza and overlooking the bay all showed shocked expressions as they looked toward the top of the towering warship.

"Look! There are people up there!"

"So many! They... they're all wearing prison uniforms!"

"That's..."

"Jinbe the Sea Knight!"

"Crocodile the Desert King!"

"Blackbeard Teach!"

"Vasco Shot the Heavy Drinker!"

"Catarina Devon the Crescent Moon Hunter!"

"So many infamous pirates! Wait... that looks like Impel Down's chief warden, Shiryu of the Rain!"

There, on the deck of the giant warship, stood an enormous crowd of prisoners wearing black-and-white striped uniforms.

The hundreds of prisoners at the front exuded ferocious, tyrannical auras. Their strength was formidable, no weaker than the officers of Marine Headquarters.

But the most eye-catching figure—

Was the man standing at the bow of the warship.

His body was imposing, his frame as massive as a mountain, and his bare upper body was covered in broad scars.

His muscles seemed forged from steel and iron, radiating a terrifying pressure that struck fear into the heart.

Simply standing there and looking down was enough to make dozens of pirates and Marines below quake with terror.

On the plaza's embankment, the Seven Warlords of the Sea nearest the warship all had their pupils contract sharply.

The instant Doflamingo met that man's gaze, beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

The corners of his stretched grin twitched several times, and he forcibly swallowed back the laughter he had been about to let out.

"How could it be? That guy is...?"

Moria, with his sharp eyes, noticed several familiar faces standing beside Bullet and cried out in alarm.

"Crocodile! Jinbe! And Blackbeard Teach!"

"Why are all these people, who should never possibly gather in one place, appearing together?"

On the execution platform, Garp and Sengoku's auras surged violently as their pupils suddenly contracted.

"How could that guy be here?"

"Douglas Barrett!!"

Having lost his composure because of the sudden change, Sengoku completely forgot that he was still holding an amplified Transponder Snail.

When his startled cry echoed through the skies over Marineford—

Most Marine soldiers looked confused.

"Douglas Barrett? Who's that?"

"Never heard of him. Is he someone famous?"

But some older Marine officers displayed intense shock, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Among the crowd, Koby curiously looked at the stunned Marine Vice Admiral Momonga beside him.

"Vice Admiral Momonga, who is that?"

Momonga's expression shifted. His face grave, he let out a deep breath.

"Douglas Barrett was a combatant of the Roger Pirates, a powerful pirate whose strength was no less than that of a Marine Admiral!"

"A combatant of the Roger Pirates?"

Terror appeared in Koby and Helmeppo's eyes.

They exchanged a glance, then simultaneously turned toward the execution platform.

"Could this Barrett be here to save Roger's son, Fire Fist Ace?"

Aokiji pushed up the black sleep mask on his head, frowning. "Ara ara, another group of troublesome people has arrived."

"Douglas Barrett... wasn't this guy defeated by Garp and Sengoku, then locked up in Impel Down? Damn it, he actually broke out with several thousand prisoners."

Black smoke billowed from Akainu's body as one foot pressed down on a pirate's chest.

Crimson magma flowed, slowly burning through the pirate's chest amid his shrill screams.

Suddenly, a roar of rage beyond measure exploded over Marineford Island.

"Teach!!!"

Along with that furious roar came a violent shockwave that shattered the air!