Mission : Iron Cell ( Part 1 )
Next-Day - 03/10/1474
Tranquil Island
(This is just to help me if I mess up the period in future chapters by any chance and to make the story's timeline better organized. )
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( 3rd Pov )
Instead of the calm and peace, Tranquil Island is known for, today the whole island was quite chaotic. Hundreds of Marines were rushing to their stationed battleships as today they would attack the pirate alliance. Around the ports of the island were 20 small standard ships, 13 medium size battleships, and 6 large size battleships.
[Small standard ships image]
[Medium size battleship image]
[Large size battleship image]
" HEY, WHERE'S BATTLESHIP 2!"
" Son of a bitch, stop pushing."
" Man, I don't wanna die, can we back out now?"
" Shut up, get back in line." The marine said behind him as they boarded one of the battleships.
As more and more marines boarded their assigned battleships, that island soon returned to some normalcy once more. Ethan stationed around 300 marines and 4 battleships on the island should any pirate crew dare to attack. In total Ethan took 3000 marines with him to Hai Tac island.
As the 35 ships left their ports in a straight formation with the small standard ships last in the formation. The medium battleships were in the middle and the large battleships in the front. Ethan's battleship was at the very front of the other ships leading them.
[Battle's ships formation]
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( Drake's Pov )
As Ethan's ship left the port leading that other ships, I saw Thor on the desert island where we trained on the map in my head. Thor left the island yesterday to train after I gave him my ship and a den mushi to call me if anything goes wrong. Although I did tell him not to call my den mushi until I can buy or find a white den mushi in case our calls get intercepted by any chance unless it's an emergency.
[ The White Den Den Mushi can produce signals that neutralize the Black Den Den Mushi's eavesdropping abilities; as such, they can be attached to any standard Den Den Mushi to encrypt the user's calls. They are extremely rare to that point we saw only Dragon use it.]
As I looked behind me from Ethan's ship, all I saw were rows of awe-inspiring battleships capable of defeating anything in the West Blue. It just reminded me just how much power that Marines and WG have and just how many men I would need to compete with that.
If I recall correctly during Marineford, they were about 100,000 marines and 55 large battleships and they still had more marines throughout the world. Whitebeard probably brought 10,000-20,000 men with him to Marineford not even coming close to the marines.
Kaido has around 20,000 and as for Big Mom, I have no idea about her. But she probably has the most pirates under her. With her fruit powers and her popping out children like every single month, she probably has around 20,000-30,000 pirates under her. And lastly Shank's, pretty much nothing is known about that bastard and his crew. It probably ranges around the thousand.
' If I can't compete with that WG sheer number then maybe I can compete against that WG's forces with technology and elites. Seems like I have to get Vegapunk before the WG does.'
' Speaking of which, Shanks is going to be one of the biggest problems in the future. Should I kill him after Roger dies? No, I still need him alive to keep the power balance in the future for a while until that Paramount War starts.'
"Although that moment he gets in my way, he dies no matter what. I'm not allowing an x-factor to exist if it becomes an obstacle considering his connections with the WG and everything else he did. I can still use him in the future for some of my goals." I thought as I jumped towards the top of the ship's triple-barreled cannon.
I sat down and started to meditate at the top of the cannon waiting for that ship to arrive at Hai Tac island. I would be the first to land on the island to get in range to use my conqueror's haki to knock out most of the pirates. After about 40 minutes, I sensed someone coming towards me but I couldn't tell who it was until I opened my eyes and saw Ethan below the cannon.
" Nervous? This is your first battle on such a huge scale," Ethan asked me. I thought about that question for a while before I said no to Ethan's question.
I already got used to death by now, and that death of pirates barely affect me in any way. We talked about five minutes about that upcoming battle before Ethan left since we would arrive at Hai Tac island in an hour.
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One Hour Later
( 3rd Pov )
As the marine's got closer to Hai Tac island, all of the standard marine ships formed a straight blockade about a mile away from the island. The blockade was to block any incoming pirate reinforcement. That marines now had 19 battleships while that pirate had around 40 ships. In total there were about 5000 pirates on the island.
As the battleships were about 60 meters away from the island surprising that pirates. The battleships started bombarding the island with that cannons, destroying several pirate ships, and killing hundreds of pirates before that pirates fought back. Soon a large naval battle started as you could hear the sounds of cannons launching their shells from a mile away.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
That was all anyone could hear as that naval battle raged on with explosions happening all over that battle. As Ethan's ship reached the shore of the island with Drake cutting that cannonballs in half making sure that ship didn't get damaged.
Drake's air walked towards the middle of the island taking advantage of the chaos to attack Pier, Eric, and Salih. They were commanding that pirates as more and more marine battleships reached that shore and marines deployed from them.
( Drake's Pov )
As I reached that middle of the island, I released my conqueror's haki knocking out anyone with a weak will in my range. As I looked around 700 pirates and 400 marines were slowly falling to the ground as I couldn't yet control who I knock with my conqueror's haki. As I turned my head around, I saw that three pirates behind this mess.
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And that's the chapter
1083 words in total, pretty short I know. I had more trouble writing this chapter than any other since I didn't how to properly write this chapter but I think I got everything figured out now and how to proceed from here.
If you liked that chapter you can drop some powers if you want. If I made any mistakes do let me know as Grammarly decided not to work tonight so there might be tons of mistakes. Other than enjoy the chapter I hope.