Leroy's eyes shot open! Jolting up and breathing heavily! "Ha! Haah! Hoh…Ah…Haha.." He grabs his chest. He felt revitalized! Full of energy! He looked around to see that those who surrounded him was only Diva and Mar-Syl.
"What…What'd you do?" He said as he looked with confusion. He hadn't realized that he had collapsed from exhaustion. Emotional and Physical.
"A lot." Diva began "I'd say you have…An hour. Maybe two left, before your body collapses again for good. From their your body will have to deal with all the pain and injuries then and there. But right now. Your energy is spiked to its peak. Your mind sharper and refreshed."
She tapped the side of their hair "Right now. You're at your peak. You should be able to do everything as best and as good as you would had you been properly fed, rested, and ready."
Leroy felt a rumble from outside. A quake! It was the fall of Obex and the moving of Redbeard. But before he stood up. He stopped. Gripping the edge of the seat…A look of sadness on his face. Even if he was revitalized. It didn't change his mental state.
"What's wrong?" Mar-Syl asked, leaning forward and putting a hand on Red Sashes shoulder.
Leroys lip curled. "Is…Is all this death…Worth it?" He looks to Diva, then to Mar-Syl "Is doing all of this really worth it…Yes I want to save Azar…But so many people are being hurt…I've hurt a lot of people. And I usually don't feel bad…but…right now…I feel-"
"Doubt?" Diva said "Doubt that maybe you're wrong? Maybe they're right? Anxiety?"
Leroy nodded.
"Well…Red Sash…People die. All the time. Destruction happens. People loose their homes. Their stuff. Their lives. Memories. But let me ask you. Would you rather fight, and now that what you're fighting for can possibly prevent that very damage? Or let it continue because you then don't have to be apart of it?"
"I get it. Everyone can have those sorts of thoughts. Wanting to disengage for their own wellbeing. Safety. Certainty." Diva shrugged
"But. What about if you could do something? What if you had the power to help others? Work with others? Encourage people to fight because you knew that if enough people worked together. That the violence could mean something. When words won't?" He locked gaze with him
"What if when you are faced with an opponent who won't listen to reason. Who won't change the way they are. But you know if they were stopped. It'd be better for everyone? Even if it meant people dying. Even if it meant destruction, and bad stuff happening. Would you go through that struggle. Because you knew that it would prevent that from happening again? Even just a little?" Diva had experienced this very conundrum constantly when she was an active part of the Militia. Understanding the sacrifice. The violence. Because they were doing it to guarantee a better world
"I-" Leroy furrowed his brow. And finally looked up "I would. This world if fueled by Violence. And if they will use it at every turn to ensure that it continues. No matter who dies. Then I will fight. Against those very people."
"We should all fight against them. So that are deaths aren't in vain. Aren't just oil in the gears…Because if we fight against it. No matter who dies. It'll be for a world that would remember them forever…"
"Diha…" Diva chuckled. "Good. It might not feel good. Because you want good happen. But its why its been done that matter. Not just what. If fight. Right here, right now. Even if we don't save Azar…It will show the world that you can fight for something you believe in. And that you fight, not for money, not to toss faces into the cogs to be forgotten. But so their memory is never will be."
Leroy breathed. And smiled, ever so softly. "Lets go!"
He said as he broke for the Door! Shoving it open! Only to see Redbeard leaping over him! The Voice of Muromachi coming over the PA System! "Fight! Only 35 Mintues Remain! Stand Strong! Show the world your conviction not to buckle!"
Minutes prior. To when Redbeard first started to move…
Redbeard lifted his foot. Muscles in his legs tightening and loosening like tons of metal shifting beneath leather. The mere footfall of his boot. Caused a disruption to the entire island.
In that singular moment. A massive burst of energy erupted from around him! It was as if a bomb of aura exploded! Red, orange and golden hues dancing in the air like the air itself was changed! From Redbeard's body, thick black and red bolts of lightning shot around him as if like a Electric Coil! Streaking across the bow of The Fancy! Thunder booming from it!
The sheer force of this phenomenon caused the very clouds and weather to react! Thunder rolling in and the sky darkening as rain began to drizzle!
"No you don't!" Screamed Vice Admiral Bo! A Giant Marine who stood at over 25 meters tall! And was considered to be one of the strongest Giants in the Marines! He was on the second layer when he sensed the disturbance! Shooting through the air and across the entire island in the blink of an eye! Appearing in front of the Emperor! His massive mace glowing with energy and coated in glossy black as he attempted to bring the Multi-Ton weapon down onto Redbeard!
Barbossa raised his hand. And caught it barehanded! Force capable of splitting an island in half absorbed into his hand with no effort! His fingers clutching the metal with nothing but his grip strength!
The world suddenly turned upside down! Vice Admiral Bo had been flipped! Barbossa having twisted the weapon, causing the giants entire body to follow the momentum! It wasn't even a second later that Bo slammed his back against the bow the ship! His head slamming before Redbeard
Eyes looked up in fear as Redbeard raised his Pole Hammer-Axe, Energy spewing off of it as a Vibrational Bubble formed!
The Impact into the Giants skull was devastating! All of that force. All of that energy! Despite not even making full contact with the Marine, caused his skull to shatter! Blood erupting around him.
In a single blow. The Vice Admiral was Dead!
"Hrah!" Redbeard screamed! Pulling his weapon from the corpse. Before Leaping from the Fancy! Causing the entire ship to jostle and the Crescent Bay to shake from the force! Faster than Lightning. Dozens of times so!
The Strongest Man in the World Soared through the air! Only slowing down when he began to reach plaza. It was time to go all out!
His landing shook the island. A fiery aura surrounded his body in a glow as he began to rise from the dust of his descent. Marines dead from the impact alone. Blood and broken bodies beneath his feet as his crew began to cheer!
"Yeah! Pa is here! Lets go!" They screamed. Compounded by Redbeards own declaration!
"Go! Fight! Fight!" He raised his weapon up! And sliced through the air! Shooting a massive explosion of pressure and energy through the air! Knocking thousands of Bodies up into the air!
"Holy Shit!" A Marine shouted as he ground himself against the floor. Stopping his momentum. "Fire! All guns on Redbeard!" Gunshots exploded! From normal firearms, to Powerful Supernatural weapons. Even the 5k, 10k and 1k Guns were shooting at Redbeard! Causing massive damage to the plaza grounds!
But it didn't leave…Even a scratch on his body! His crewmates that were around him had flinched. Thinking their death was incoming. Only for when the dust to clear, did they understand why they did not.
Redbeard had taken all of the force of the artillery to his body! His hand was extended backwards as energy came out of it. A bubble! Protecting them! "Family! Away from me! Now! Unless you are willing to fight by my side!" He declared with extreme conviction!
"We will stay with you!" They screamed back! Raising their swords as the bubble disappeared. It must;ve been that mysterious power of Haki that the Admirals had used prior!
Redbeard smiled a wide toothy grin. "Now! No one lays a hand on my Family!" He screams! And in a blur he was gone! Suddenly he appeared in front of the of the 10k Gun Turrets! Even as they shot point blank! A wicked grin spread across his Redbearded face! He shoved his whole arm into the barrel! Causing it to explode the moment a project was attempted to be fired!
He leapt to the next! Slamming his Hammer down with such force that it obliterated the turret and the the surrounding area for meters around! But before the next gun could aim! He sensed it! And tossed his axe like a discus! Spiraling through the edge like a propeller going literally a million miles an hour! Slicing through the turret in a massive explosion!
He had destroyed over 20 guns in under a second! An entire half of the island was disarmed in a blur as Redbeard leapt backdown into the crowd of Marines!
"Hrah! He sliced again! Sending hundred into the air!
"Vice Admirals! Charge!" Screamed Vice Admiral Hemlock. And in a moment. Every Vice Admiral was on top of Redbeard! Swords thrusting froward! Abilities like thorns, poison, mythical fruit, blunt force, gunshots, and all in between crashed into the 777cm tall man!
"Grah!" He Screamed. Bending backward! Beginning to fall!
"Hrah!" The Vice Admirals slammed attack after attack into him! Stabs! Pierces! Gashes and wounds! He was about to hit the ground! Back first! Only for his foot to slam into the ground! Steadying himself!
"Who…The Fuck…Do you think I am!" He screamed! The Admiral Canidates Leapt Backwards. Commanding Marines to run forward. Only to be blown away by massive explosion a second later! That same energy erupting from Barbossas body !
"I am…Redbeard!" The visible explosion of energy washed over hundred of people! All of them but the Vice Admirals fell to their knees! Those still on top of Redbeard were sent flying away from the force!
"Should we go?" Murausagi asked to Kuroryu next to him. The Three Admirals were standing only a dozen meters away from the Execution Platform
"No. Not yet…Wait for him to come to us. Muromachi may be able to handle any pirate. Hell we could kill them all if we wanted. But our goal is to ensure that Azar Dies here today…Nothing More. Nothing less…" Kuroryu said with conviction. But deep down…He knew there was one pirate on the island he wanted dead more than even Redbeard and Azar…
"Asashi is right. Barbosa is stalling…Hes trying to widdle down as many of the Marines as possible to give his crew a path forward…He'll come to us eventually" Nokotori said.
"Besides…Look at the distance between us and them…Not a single pirate has made it into the Plaza Proper." The Deep Blue Bird pointed. Showing how the Pirates had only gotten a few dozen meters past the wall. With Kilometers between their and the scaffold.
"Get…Azar!!" He screamed as loud as he could! His mind flashing through the memories of when he first met Azar. How viewed Azar not as a stoic man that was harsh and acted out. But as a fire that needed to be nurtured. He understood this all even better when he found out that Azar was Rogers son…It'd be a lie to not say he didn't think of it as Irony and a way to finally one up Roger. But he also took it in stride…Knowing that all he needed was a place to belong….
"Destroy all of Marine HQ If you Have to!" He screamed as loud as he could! His voice reaching every single person on the island!
25 Minutes Remained…