Recaps

Lorne joined the battle at Marineford and overwhelmed the assembled forces, defeating Kaido, Big Mom, Whitebeard, and Teach. As the fighting seemed to turn in his favor, a cold, arrogant presence approached through the lingering dust.

• Soren united the Rocks remnants and led more than two hundred ships toward Marineford, while Big Mom and Kaido also mobilized their fleets.
• Lorne redirected the Fearless to Marineford as Whitebeard arrived to rescue Teach and the allied fleets began their assault.
• Kaido and Big Mom broke through the Encircling Wall, but Lorne descended in dragon form and withstood the Rocks remnants’ attacks before striking back.
• Lorne fought Garp, revealed his plan to expose the World Government’s hidden forces and overthrow the Celestial Dragons, then faced Kaido and Big Mom together.
• Lorne survived the Emperors’ combined assault, healed through Battlefield Valor, and unleashed a charged blow that severely injured Kaido and Big Mom and devastated Marineford’s fortress.
• Whitebeard fought Lorne while Marco and Vista helped Teach escape, but Lorne endured Whitebeard’s tremors, defeated him, and exposed Teach’s betrayal.
• Teach returned to kill Whitebeard, but Lorne shattered his musket, seized him, and crushed him into the plaza, destroying the Execution Platform and leaving Teach dead.
• Lorne’s allies celebrated as the Rocks remnants despaired and Marine leaders admitted they could not stop him, while a cold, arrogant presence approached through the dust.

Lorne survived the Holy Knights’ purge, ended the war, and claimed Titan Island as a base for his new force. After renaming it Fearless Fortress and welcoming rescued civilians, he faced an attempted raid tied to the World Government’s Hound Plan.

• Saint Garling led the Holy Knights into Marineford and ordered them to kill pirates, Marines, and witnesses, while Kuina’s crew defended the Fearless.
• Saint Garling wounded Kuina, and Lorne awakened, defeated the Candidate Knights, and killed Garling despite his pleas for mercy.
• Shanks negotiated a ceasefire, Sengoku ended the war, and Lorne left Marineford after proposing a Fourth Pole Force to Garp, who promised to protect civilians and share intelligence.
• Lorne sailed to Titan Island, destroyed its defenses, freed the imprisoned civilians, and demolished the Titan Guardian before taking Seraphim blueprints and data disks.
• Lorne renamed Titan Island Fearless Fortress, offered its residents shelter and paid work, and ordered its defenses strengthened as Dragon set out to meet him.
• Ryan found records of the World Government’s dealings and the Hound Plan to abduct civilians and liberated slaves, prompting Lorne to assign his allies to guard the fortress.
• Killers used a Silence-Silence Fruit ability to approach the civilian district, but Carrot detected them and Kuina defeated the attackers before confronting a figure emerging from the darkness.

Lorne seized Tesoro’s Underworld network, took a Poneglyph slab from the Undersea Ruins, and learned that Pluton’s core lay in Wano Country. He reached Wano, defeated King and Queen, and began helping Decayed Town’s starving residents while preparing to face Kaido.

• Lorne defended the Fearless Fortress from Dark Blade assassins, then used Kuina’s victory over them to trace the attack to Tesoro and Gold City.
• Lorne defeated Tesoro’s guards, the Underworld magnates, and Tesoro’s hired bounty hunters, then forced the leaders to surrender their businesses and networks.
• After the World Government mobilized against him, Lorne led the Fearless to the Undersea Ruins, overcame CP0’s submarine ambush, and fought Fujitora for a Poneglyph slab.
• Lorne took the slab and escaped the collapsing ruins, while Fujitora reported his failure and Sengoku and Tsuru weighed the Navy’s response.
• Olsen translated the slab and revealed that Pluton’s core, the Soul of Pluton, was sealed in Wano Country, so Lorne set course there to confront Kaido.
• Lorne broke through the Beasts Pirates’ defenses at Wano, killed King, freed the chained samurai, and learned that the Five Elders had targeted the island with a weapon capable of erasing it.
• In Decayed Town, Lorne defeated Queen after Queen’s Ice Oni shells infected residents and Marines, then ordered his crew to pursue the fleeing Beasts Pirates and distribute food and clean water to the refugees.

Lorne defeated Kaido and the World Government’s Judgment Fortress, then claimed the Soul of Pluton and transformed the Fearless into a Pluton Battleship. After founding the Fearless Empire and allying with Dragon against the Celestial Dragons, he headed to confront Crocodile’s Cross Guild fleet attacking a Wano resource island.

• Denjiro revealed himself and executed Orochi as Lorne killed Kaido, freed Wano’s prisoners, and accepted the samurai’s pledge of loyalty.
• The World Government’s Judgment Fortress attacked Wano, but Lorne destroyed it, killed Saint Uranos, and declared Wano his territory.
• Lorne fought the guardians beneath Onigashima and subdued the Soul of Pluton, which became a bracer and the core for upgrading the Fearless.
• Lorne and Wano’s craftsmen refitted the Fearless with Seastone armor, Seraphim cannons, and the living Pluton core, then Lorne announced the founding of the Fearless Empire.
• Dragon met with Lorne, who rejected becoming an emperor but accepted an alliance to share intelligence and support an assault on Mary Geoise.
• Ryan reported that Crocodile’s Cross Guild fleet had raided Wano’s Seastone resource island, and Lorne set out aboard the Pluton · Fearless.
• The Fearless arrived at the island as Lorne’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked out most of the attackers, and he confronted Crocodile while Olsen locked the ship’s weapons onto the enemy fleet.