219 Chapter 219

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A bit earlier, Marine Headquarters.

"Who is it?" Sengoku asked Cancer as the Vice Admiral walked in with an open Transponder snail.

Around the room, other than Sengoku, there was Vice Admiral Garp, Vice Admiral Bogard, Former Admiral Zephyr, and lastly current Admiral Kuzan. All of them were tense and worried. There was a reason why most of the higher-ups of Marineford were in the same room.

The Vice Admiral looked at the transponder snail and then back to Sengoku, "...It's a monkey, sir."

Sengoku felt his brow twitch, before he glanced at a certain someone.

"Hey! Not every monkey is related to me, damn it." Garp defended. Just because his family name was Monkey didn't mean he was one.

Sengoku sighed, picking up the transponder snail, and putting it on loudspeaker. "Who is this?"

"Sparky," Came a voice from the other side, making Bogard who was in the room cough.

"Okay, I take it back. He is related to me," Garp dumbfoundedly muttered, getting a glare from the Fleet Admiral.

"Gampa?!" asked the voice, the human voice then turned full on monkey, "Guahg Ugh uah ueh! Ugh uah uehuah muuah iueah ueh," making monkey sounds as a monkey should.

None of them got what the monkey said other than Garp of course. It seemed Sparky still preferred his monkey tongue to those who could understand it. "Okay, you missed me on the Vivi part. Who's Vivi? More importantly why the heck are you in that base?"

"Wait, Vivi?" Zephyr, who was also listening to the call, stood up from his seat, going near the transponder snail.

"Yes, Vivi." Sparky went back to speaking human. "Female human, beautiful, Blue hair, has a duck…"

Zephyr grabbed the speaker, "Where is Vivi?"

"Who is Vivi?" Sengoku asked.

"I have one better? Why is Vivi?" Garp said, all of them looked at him. "I mean why is she important?" That was a valid question.

"She's the princess of Alabasta that had gone missing a year ago." Zephyr answered before he looked at Garp, "Who is this? And why does he know about my niece?"

The confusion in the room vanished. Before it resurfaced yet again as to why the unknown monkey knew about her.

"Well… Vivi… she's a friend." Sparky said.

Garp put his left fist over his right palm, "Now it makes sense!"

""Shut it!"" both Sengoku and Zephyr hissed at the same time, shutting the old marine hero down

Kuzan had to step in before the three old marines killed the poor transponder snail in their shouting. "Garp-san, can you ask Sparky here what is going on?"

"Oh, he did… didn't you guys hear?" Garp said, while picking his nose with his pinky.

"We don't speak monkey, damn it!" Sengoku grunted, while Zephyr massaged his head.

"Oh, you should've said so," Garp said, but quickly explained when both Zephyr and Sengoku were glaring at him. "Well, Sparky and his 'friends' seemed to have saved one of the evacuation ships on their way to Alabasta. But when they heard the G-3 marine base getting attacked by Jack, and Vice Admiral Sinbad being there, they had to make a detour. Something about Vivi's cousin being in trouble…? So it seems my grandson and his crew are there on the island helping your brat! Bahahaha!"

"Wait, your grandson…? I thought your grandson was Mario? Wasn't he a bounty hunter or something?" Zephyr asked. Many of the new recruits he was training idolized that figure for some-reason. Being a hero or whatnot… he didn't know. Honestly, he thought he didn't know who Garp's grandson was. He didn't keep up with the newspapers that much.

"Bahahaha… no idea why that brat got that name. But nah, his name is Monkey D. Luffy."

"And he's a pirate." Sengoku said, sighing, while Garp coughed. "But I don't even care anymore. Garp, ask about the conditions of the marines, more importantly about the civilians, and about the evacuation ships. Oh, and about the high-ranking marines stationed there… We need info on the situation there."

Garp looked at the transponder snail, and nodded. But he knew better than to ask random questions, so he started with the main one. "Well… to start with; why did you call? Is the situation bad there? Do you need backup?"

Even though there wasn't any fast way to send help, as the distance between the island of Alabasta and Nanimonai Island (G3 base) was one day. Even with a fast boat, it would take at least six hours to get there.

And when Sengoku called in the desert Warlord, Crocodile had declined helping the Marines. Not wanting to get involved with Kaido's men. There were other marines on the island, like Smoker and Captain Hina but both of them weren't that strong enough to provide significant help.

And Sengoku knew better than to push in cannon fodder just to get slaughtered.

Then there was Vice Admiral Vergo, he was also a capable fighter, but it seemed he was busy being attacked mid-way in the sea. The Marines had no way of verifying the story, but they trusted the upper ranks enough. A mistake on their part.

"Oh, I was just checking if the first evacuation ship reached it's destination. The first ship was a bit damaged and I wanted to make sure." Sparky said, but that was a lie. As Luffy had handed Gin a transponder snail, (not the black one. A transponder sail that they took from Mr 3 after capturing him) in case they needed it for contact. The real reason he was calling was because Luffy had a plan in mind.

"Yes, the first ship has reached Alabasta…" Garp said, "What about the others?"

"Uh… three other evacuation ships left the base, the other two are currently getting filled with survivors. Well, the situation wasn't that good before we came here, many of the marines died along with civilians, but now the situation is completely the opposite."

All of the marines present there looked at each other, mainly two of them relaxed a bit. That was Garp and Bogard, they didn't know how strong Luffy got but he was always the tricky fighter so he might be able to handle it. Also it makes them proud knowing that Luffy chose to help even though he's a pirate.

Bogard had also been called six months back to train Luffy just after the boy had unlocked his Armament Haki, so both of them knew Luffy's capabilities. Learning all three types of Haki, even the basic concepts, by himself was no easy thing. And also Luffy had an eye for taking in strong people. Sparky was one example of it.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, Garp, but can we trust the monkey?" Sengoku said.

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