Chapter 222 - Preparations for battle 01!

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Third Person POV

Marinefort, First Half of Grandline.

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Sengoku adjusted his cape, straightened his clothes underneath, ran his hand through his long beard, and adjusted his glasses by pressing them closer to his face with a finger. 

He looked into the mirror of his office and gazed at his reflection with satisfaction before turning around and beginning to leave the office. A group of soldiers was waiting for him as soon as he stepped out. 

"Fleet Admiral!" They saluted respectfully as their hands went to their foreheads while the other hand remained clenched into a fist behind their backs. 

"Come on, we're already late," Sengoku spoke and continued down the hallway as the navy soldiers followed closely behind. 

"Is everyone already in the square?" Sengoku asked along the way. 

"Yes, Fleet Admiral Sengoku," one of them spoke. 

"Then let's head there immediately," he said, and continuing their path through Marineford and descending the grand structure, they finally emerged from one of its exits, a special one leading to the execution platform in front of the entire square. 

However, today would not be a day for a public execution, as there was no prisoner to execute. Instead, the only being on that platform was an old man sitting at its edge, quietly eating his biscuit. 

"Garp," Sengoku greeted as he approached with the sailors in tow. 

"You've finally arrived, the sailors down there are getting restless waiting for you to show up," he said calmly while chewing on a new biscuit. 

"Hm... hand me that den den mushi," he said and took the den den mushi placed next to Garp. 

"You locked this thing up; it was a good opportunity to share my jokes, my students would certainly love to hear them. Buwhahahahaha," Garp laughed, spitting out his biscuit, which fell from that height, landing below and hitting a navy cap. The cap's owner was infuriated with the biscuit pieces falling on him, but he said nothing more while puffing on his cigarette. 

"Akainu is getting furious with you..." Sengoku pointed out. "And that's exactly why I lock the microphone, so you don't end up embarrassing the navy," Sengoku growled soon after. 

Ignoring Garp who laughed, he deactivated the microphone with a personal password and looked over all the men waiting for his speech. There were at least 10,000 sailors down there, all standing rigidly, with all the families of those sailors circling the square, bidding them farewell, as it might be the last time they would see each other. 

Sengoku took a deep breath and began to speak, "Today, justice has gathered all of you here because it needs to put an end to a threat in these seas," Sengoku started. 

People in the middle of the crowd like Coby, Helmeppo, and even Monkey D. Lucy were listening attentively to Sengoku's speech. 

"The navy has been suffering great losses since this pirate group entered the East Blue, destroying navy bases and killing its commanders, yet still coming out unscathed," he began and took out a paper with the entire history of their target. 

"It started with branch base number 153, killing Captain Morgan." Helmeppo shuddered upon hearing this. "Then there was a major destruction in Orange Town, they attacked a sergeant destroying his ship at sea, and it didn't stop there, base number 16 in the East Blue was also destroyed, killing Captain Nezumi as well," he continued as everyone listened and clenched their fists, with someone after doing all this, still roaming the seas, their blood screamed for justice. Sengoku also wouldn't say that Nezumi was a criminal, so he treated him as a victim here to add to the crimes of this group. 

"They also captured Captain Smoker, making him a hostage, after that, for the first time in that sea, a king was assassinated by a pirate, no less than the captain of this group. Garp tried to stop them, but they managed to escape and once again met in Loguetown, which resulted in the destruction of a large part of the city," Sengoku spoke before taking a breath and continuing.

"They entered the Grand Line; there was a sighting of a large explosion near Whisky Peak, they appeared in Alabasta, and the navy spoke again, they attacked Lumenarchy, other islands after some time disappeared, the captain destroyed Jaya. With all this, government agents became their prisoners, their last contact was in Water Seven, capturing other government agents," Sengoku paused to give more weight to his next words. 

Garp remained silent, Luffy could not be forgotten after all these crimes he committed, he is bringing the whole world into chaos with his feats. Obviously, the navy would respond accordingly. 

Sengoku also did not know all of Luffy's movements, because if he did, he would be even more surprised, after all, the pirate had killed two Celestial Dragons. 

Lucy looked at each of the reports with a furrowed brow, seeing that the brother she always loved was causing chaos in the sea fighting against everything she believed in. 

"We can no longer let this evil force continue sailing in this sea, so we will negotiate with this pirate gang to recover some government agents, one of them being a captured Shichibukai, therefore our force is assembling 1 admiral, 10 vice-admirals, 10,000 elite sailors with a Buster Call of 50 ships! If we enter into conflict during the negotiation, we will eliminate this threat from the sea!" Sengoku spoke and continued before they could celebrate. "You have the mission to eradicate the Straw Hats in Enies Lobby!" his voice echoed across the square. 

"OWWWWW!!!" the crowd of sailors seemed frenzied with the idea of eliminating such a threat after causing so much chaos in the sea. 

"No matter what kind of monsters are on that ship! We will eliminate them!" A man shouted. 

"Yes, justice will prevail!" Another sailor from the crowd said. 

"No matter the beasts we've seen in the newspaper, we have an admiral and 10 vice-admirals!" 

"Buster Call! We will be called with a force that can destroy an island!" Another said, celebrating. 

Lucy remained silent as everyone celebrated; she was not too excited about eliminating her brother. So she remained silent, just like Coby, doubting that they could really stop Luffy there in Enies Lobby. 

Garp continued in silence seeing people shouting below, wanting to kill his biological grandson. "Garp... you know you're not participating in this mission, right? I called Tsuru to take care of it," Sengoku spoke calmly. 

"I understand... My students can handle it," he said, but without much humor now, as he stood up and walked away without saying anything. 

Sengoku saw movement below the platform and saw Akainu standing up from his chair, knocking off the biscuit pieces that Garp had thrown at him while spitting and laughing before. 

He approached as everyone stopped roaring, seeing that the admiral in charge of the mission finally made a move. "Listen, everyone!" He began, getting heated. 

"No matter what happens, we will not fail in this mission, justice will not accept any failure, so we will eliminate this threat in Enies Lobby!" He spoke growling, not entertaining any outcome other than killing Monkey D. Luffy, this could be seen as he was holding the pirates' wanted posters in his hands, making them burn while clenching them, turning into ashes. 

"Let's board the ships, it's time to head to Enies Lobby!" Akainu spoke and jumped from the platform, landing on the ground and heading to the ships waiting for all of them, the sailors left their ranks and began marching behind the vice-admirals towards the 50 ships with the power to destroy an island, with Tsuru's ship waiting for them at sea. 

Sengoku watched everyone quickly settling on the ships and beginning to depart with civilians and military companions bidding them farewell in the square.

"Good luck!" 

"Fight for justice!" 

"Destroy the evil pirates!" 

Satisfied with this, Sengoku turned around, trusting Akainu to do his job, after all, they didn't just want to save the agents and Doflamingo, Akainu was summoned because everyone knows his personality, and Sengoku wanted to end this threat that was growing by the day at sea. 

As the dozens of warships departed for Enies Lobby, on an island a few thousand kilometers from Marineford, in the middle of the Grand Line, a village was being attacked. 

"Zihahahahaha!" Teach laughed as he destroyed everything in the place with his companions, testing his powers. 

But not far from there, in the middle of the sea, a boat catching fire at high speed was tearing through the sea at that moment, the Whitebeard tattoo shining on his back as he held his hat so it wouldn't fly off at the high speed. 

"Finally, I know where you are, Teach!" Ace growled as he headed in that direction, his target finally within reach, he would finally confront and punish Teach for his unforgivable crime, a pity that Ace was too confident to know the danger he was putting himself into. 

Elsewhere, Luffy was saying goodbye to everyone in the town, it seemed that they had finally become friends with those people, looking completely opposite to when the Black Pearl had arrived in the town. 

"Goodbye, Pirate Luffy!" 

"Straw Hat!" 

"Goodbye, pirates!" 

"This is unexpected..." Uta commented at the bow. 

"Thank you, everyone-sama!" Shirahoshi waved her hands as a farewell. 

"It was really a nice city to visit, it's a shame we must leave..." Nojiko commented. 

"We're ready to depart, captain!" Hachi spoke at the helm. 

"Understood, Hugo, raise the sails, let's depart!" He said, and Hugo began to lower the sails with the pirate flag on the main mast as the ship finally began to move away from the port. 

"Nami, all set for reaching Enies Lobby?" He asked, and his navigator nodded. 

"We're on course!" She said confidently. Then the Black Pearl began to move away from Water Seven as a train cut the sea beside them, their next stop would be in a small war between the Mugiwara and the navy.

Raccoon here: 

What do you think of the navy's force, enough or too weak for the data they have on Luffy's feats, after all, the navy doesn't know Luffy's real strength. 

I would put 10,000 men on 10 ships like the original Buster Call, but for 10,000 men I thought it was too little, so I increased it to 50 ships.

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