Here I Come

"What was that?"

"Looks like... a ship!"

"A ship as big as a mountain!"

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

Marine Headquarters, filled with earth-shaking battle cries, suddenly fell silent for a moment.

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

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

With such an enormous warship crashing down from above, its terrifying force was no less than that of a small island falling from the sky.

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

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

For no reason at all, an image suddenly surfaced in his mind.

"Could it be Golden Lion's ability?"

Garp voiced the suspicion in his heart directly.

Boom!

The thousand-meter warship came crashing down, and a violent wave of pressure bore down on them, kicking up sand and stones across Marineford.

On the frozen inner bay.

After their brief stupor, the battling forces were overcome by a deep terror.

"Run!"

"Get away! We'll be crushed to death!"

At that moment, whether pirate or Marine, their eyes were filled with indescribable fear.

There was only one thought in their minds.

Run!

But.

From the moment they noticed the shadow to the instant the warship fell, only a few short seconds had passed.

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

BOOM!!!

The thousand-meter Hell Battleship, like a gigantic meteorite falling from the sky, crashed straight into the center of the inner bay.

The vast sheet of ice instantly shattered apart.

Thick, abyss-like fissures spread wildly in every direction with cracking sounds.

The combatants directly beneath the hull.

Before they could even utter their last words, the world-shattering impact crushed them into flattened, bloody slabs of flesh.

Rumble rumble rumble!!

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

Even the ground of the plaza split apart.

Not even Whitebeard dared to block such terrifying force.

He could only leap from the deck of the Moby Dick and watch as the thousand-meter warship crashed down, smashing the Moby Dick to pieces and burying it deep within the thick ice.

Seeing the Moby Dick swallowed by the shadow, Whitebeard's expression became incomparably grim.

"Moby Dick!!"

The pirates of the Whitebeard Pirates cried out in grief.

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

This ship had accompanied them ever since Whitebeard formally established his pirate crew in his youth, bearing witness to the birth of a legend that shook the world.

Marco's eyes had turned red.

The home they had lived in all this time had been destroyed just like that.

"What exactly happened?"

"Where did this damned huge ship come from?"

Questions arose in everyone's hearts.

At this moment.

The entire frozen inner bay had completely broken apart.

The enormous glacier had become scattered chunks of floating ice.

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

But just then, the Marine officers standing high above the bay on the plaza all looked shocked as they stared at the top of the warship towering above the sea.

"Look! There are people up there!"

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

"That's..."

"Jinbe, the Knight of the Sea!"

"Crocodile!"

"Blackbeard Teach!"

"Vasco Shot, the Heavy Drinker!"

"Catarina Devon, the Crescent Moon Hunter!"

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

There they were.

On the deck of the giant warship stood a dense mass of prisoners dressed in black-and-white striped uniforms.

The hundreds of prisoners at the forefront emanated ferocious, tyrannical auras. Their strength was in no way inferior to the officers of Marine Headquarters.

But the most eye-catching figure.

Was the person standing at the bow of the warship.

He had a towering, mountain-like build, and his bare upper body was covered in large scars.

His muscles looked as though they had been forged from steel, radiating a terrifying pressure that struck fear into the heart.

Merely standing there and looking down was enough to terrify dozens of pirates and Marines below out of their wits.

On the plaza embankment, the Shichibukai closest to the warship all had their pupils shrink violently.

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

The corner of his mouth twitched, and he forcibly swallowed back the laughter he had been about to release.

"How is this possible? That guy is...?"

Sharp-eyed Moria noticed several familiar faces standing beside Bullet and could not help crying out.

"Crocodile! Jinbe! And Blackbeard Teach!"

"Why are people who absolutely should not have gathered together all appearing here?"

On the execution platform, the auras around Garp and Sengoku surged, and their pupils suddenly contracted.

"Why is that guy here?"

"Douglas Bullet!!"

Thrown off balance by the sudden change, Sengoku had completely forgotten that he was still holding a Loudspeaker Transponder Snail.

When his shocked cry echoed across Marineford.

Most Marine soldiers looked bewildered.

"Douglas Bullet? Who's that?"

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

But some of the older Marine officers looked deeply shaken, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Among the crowd, Koby curiously looked at Vice Admiral Momonga beside him, whose face was filled with shock.

"Vice Admiral Momonga, who is that?"

Momonga's expression shifted. His face was grave as he slowly let out a breath.

"Douglas Bullet 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?"

Fear appeared in Koby and Helmeppo's eyes.

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

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

Aokiji adjusted the black sleep mask on his head and frowned. "Well, well, another group of troublesome people has arrived."

"Douglas Bullet... wasn't this guy defeated by Garp and Sengoku, then locked away in Impel Down? Damn it, he actually escaped from prison with thousands of inmates."

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

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

Suddenly, a roar filled with boundless fury exploded over Marineford.

"Teach!!!"

Accompanying that furious roar was a violent Shockwave that shattered the air!