Summer, Sea Circle Calendar 1522.
That summer, the New World was especially scorching.
The tsunami of history, a bomb detonated with the Mother Flame as its fuse and the World Government as its fire,
swept away the few remaining embankments between the two at an unimaginable speed.
In Dressrosa, Straw Hat Luffy battered Doflamingo into questioning his entire life with a single Gear Fourth attack, finally liberating Dressrosa.
At the same time, news swept across the seas of the birth of the "Straw Hat Grand Fleet," an alliance of seven pirate crews and over five thousand formidable fighters, forged in blood and oaths.
The fame of the "hero" who had defeated Doflamingo, coupled with the reality of the "great evil" who had shaken the world's order,
drew even more attention to the Straw Hat Pirates!
On the Marines' side, Admiral Fujitora, Issho, arrived alongside Vice Admiral Tsuru to deal with the aftermath.
Doflamingo, trussed up in Seastone chains, was escorted aboard a warship personally overseen by Sengoku and sent toward the great underwater prison, Impel Down.
But when the warship reached the edge of the Calm Belt...
Jack the Drought, one of the Beasts Pirates' All-Stars, barged into view aboard his Mammoth.
Facing a fleet commanded by Sengoku, the current Fleet Admiral and Marine Inspector General, along with Admiral Fujitora and Chief of Staff Tsuru,
Jack the Drought, one of the Beasts Pirates' All-Stars, was deeply pleased and delivered his famous declaration:
"Bring the ship alongside."
The battle that followed ended within a minute.
The Mammoth sank to the seabed, taking several hundred elite members of the Beasts Pirates with it.
Jack himself sank into the depths, gravely wounded, his fate unknown.
June 6 of that same year, New Marineford.
One hundred thousand elite Marines stood in formation in