A fist of magma tore through the air crashing towards Whitebeard, who blocked with his bisento, and then quickly jumped towards Akainu, covering his fist in a white sphere and slamming down on Akainu's head, sending him crashing through the ice into a deep hole.
Afterwards, Whitebeards attention instantly shifted to Teach, the look sending shivers down Teach's spine.
"Zehahahaha.. pops don't look at me like that!"
Whitebeard didn't slow.
He leapt after Akainu's fallen form, but instead of chasing him into the crater, he turned sharply—his killing intent locking directly onto Teach.
Teach froze.
Even with the Yami Yami no Mi, even with his "invincible plan," even with his new "crew"… Whitebeard's glare alone made his lungs tighten.
"Zeh… Zehahahaha… Pops, no need to look at me like that!"
Whitebeard didn't say a word.
He simply shifted his stance, a white light gathering around his fist.
Teach panicked, yelling to his new crewmates
"Get ready!! Pops ain't gonna hold back!!"
But it was too late.
Whitebeard vanished in a burst of speed that seemed impossible for a man his age and size.
CRACK.
His quake-covered fist slammed directly into Teach's chest, distorting the very space around him. Teach let out a scream, body folding unnaturally as he was launched across the battlefield, rolling violently through debris and shattered ice.
"G-GYAAAAAHHH!!"
His crew tried to intercept, but Whitebeard was already on top of them, swinging his bisento, sending Augur, Burgess, and the others flying like broken dolls.
"POPS!! LISTEN—!!" Teach tried to rush to his feet, but Whitebeard stomped down, planting his foot on Teach's stomach and pinning him to the ground.
"You betrayed your family," Whitebeard growled, voice deeper than thunder. "And now you come stand before me… hoping to take my head?"
Teach coughed up blood but still forced a smile.
"Y–You old fool… this is the age of new power!! Of new blood!! This era is-"
Whitebeard didn't let him finish.
Another quake-infused punch hammered down on him. The air rippled and shattered, the ice beneath them splintering.
Teach shrieked again.
The marines and pirates alike could only watch as Whitebeard crushed Blackbeard repeatedly, each blow caving the ground, each crack exploding outward like small earthquakes.
Even Sengoku, Garp and Nagato who were engaged in their own fight, felt the tremors.
Whitebeard raised his fist one last time.
"You're not fit… to call yourself my son."
Teach's eyes widened.
But before Whitebeard could strike
A fist of magma erupted from beneath him, blasting through the ice and catching him directly in the torso.
Whitebeard staggered, coughing blood as the magma burned through his flesh.
Akainu emerged from the crater, face twisted with fury.
"WHITEBEARD… YOU DAMN PIRATE!!"
He lunged again, slamming another magma fist into Whitebeard's side, the blow erupting into pillars of fire.
Whitebeard tanked it, gritting his teeth, but he didn't fall.
Teach scrambled away, gasping, clutching his shattered ribs.
Akainu pressed the attack.
"You protect your criminals! Your sons! YOU ENABLE EVIL!!"
Whitebeard swung his bisento with everything he had left, clashing with Akainu's flaming arms, sending shockwaves ripping through Marineford.
But Akainu was still well in his prime. Barely wounded, and had stamina to fight for days.
Whitebeard was exhausted… wounded… and burning from the inside out.
Still, he didn't retreat. He stood his ground.
He forced Akainu back step by step, rage burning in his eyes.
"For my sons… I'll never fall to a man like you."
Akainu roared, magma surging.
"THEN DIE WITH THEM!"
The two collided, magma meeting quake infused fist, sending bursts of steam, flame, and cracks spreading outward.
Even in his battered state…
Whitebeard refused to go down just yet, striking and creating a large trench across all of marineford, splitting his sons from the marines, so they could continue escape unimpeded.
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Nagato swung his newly reformed blade towards Garp and Sengoku, at the same time sent 2 Limbo clones after them, so whether they blocked or dodged they'd still have to take a hit.
Garp covered his fist in armament haki and conquerors haki, and punched through the sword, shattering it once again, while Sengoku tried to block the Limbo clones, to no avail. Sengoku's devil fruit and armament haki had no effect on them whatsoever, and Sengoku was sent flying by one, as the other one continued towards Garp, who only managed to respond last second, attacking with a punch still infused with conquerors haki, and to everyone's surprise, the fist actually affected the limbo clone, sending it backwards, injured.
Nagato's eye's widened, realizing they actually had a method to counter limbo. The so called conquerors haki.. I've heard it impacts things on a spiritual level, so I guess that's why it can also affect limbo.
Garp however, didn't give him much time to think as he yelled to the nearby Sengoku
"His ability isn't invincible! Those clones can be attacked with conquerors haki!"
Sengoku smiled slightly, regaining some confidence and rushing back towards the fight
"Well done Garp. Now that we know his weakness, let's take down this monster, just like we did with Shiki all those years ago."
Garp smiled widely, cracking his knuckles.
"You're in for a rude awakening brat. I've taken down people like you before, and it won't be the last time either. You were too arrogant coming here without your crew."
After saying that, both Garp and Sengoku rushed towards Nagato, making sure to keep their observation haki honed on the position of the.. 1 clone? What happened to the other one? Thought Sengoku.
He made sure to be even more alert, as he and Garp both threw fists infused with their strongest haki at Nagato's susanoo.
Nagato's haki was draining quickly, the cost of covering something so massive wasn't light in the slightest, however he quickly responded, throwing two fists at the two, since he hadn't had a moment to reform the sword yet.
Nagato blocked their blows with Susanoo's fists, the impact cracking the air around them. Even with the protection of Susanoo, he felt the pressure behind Garp and Sengoku's strikes, these two were real monsters, just as strong as their titles suggested.
Sengoku stayed locked on the clone he sensed, dodging its strike and retaliating with a shockwave-filled palm, infused with conquerors haki. The attack hit clean, forcing the Limbo clone back several meters before it dissipated, returning back to Nagato's body to recharge.
"Tch… so they really can destroy it," Nagato muttered.
Garp didn't give him space. He leapt high above the Susanoo's head and brought his fist down like a meteor.
"Galaxy.."
Nagato focused most of his chakra and armament haki upwards, at the area Garp was about to hit.
"Impact!!"
The punch crashed against the Susanoo's head, piercing the armor and sending Nagato flying out of the susanoo, sliding across the ground, before he regained his footing.
Nagato's brow tightened. "Their raw power… is troublesome."
Sengoku flashed beside Garp in an instant, golden light flaring.
"We push together!"
The two launched forward again, Garp with another conqueror-infused punch, Sengoku slamming down his massive palm, also infused with conquerors.
Nagato quickly created a third stage susanoo, to block, while also using a quickly created sword to slash towards Garp.
Garp met the blade head-on, conqueror's haki erupting across his fist.
Sengoku struck the side of the blade with a shockwave that bent the attack just enough for Garp to slip through, punching his susanoo, and sending it flying, cracks covering it's body.
Nagato clicked his tongue. "Persistent old men… It seems I'll have to use all my abilities today."
Nagato calmly pressed his hands to the ground "Kuchiyose no jutsu!"
The large summoned bird, the chameleon, the three heading dogs, and other summoning beasts were summoned, rampaging around as they began to attack Garp and Sengoku.
While they were distracted by those, Nagato quietly infused a small black sphere with chakra and then threw it upwards. "Chibaku Tensei"
Garp and Sengoku easily handled every beast aside from the dog that kept multiplying, however they then resorted to knocking them unconscious with conquerors haki. While they had just wrapped up the last of the summoned beasts, they suddenly noticed the ground underneath them had at some point, unknowingly began to rise into the sky, an extremely strong gravitational pull affecting not only them, but their surroundings.
They crushed the rocks around them and tried to escape, but the gravity overwhelmed them. Their eyes locked onto the tiny black sphere above.
Before they could strike it, Whitebeard's roar erupted across the battlefield.
"THE ONE PIECE… THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!!!"
Everyone on the main battlefield froze, eyes wide.
That brief distraction was enough. The sphere was completed. The mass of rock expanded and sealed Garp and Sengoku inside, forming a huge sphere hanging in the sky behind Marineford, so massive it looked like a meteorite had come down from the sky.
Gasps and shouts spread across Marineford as everyone finally noticed it.
Marines stared in fear. The remaining Whitebeard pirates, already in tears from watching their captain fall, could only look up in shock.
Enel and Kizaru's fight had ended without anyone realizing. Kizaru was lying off to the side, doing nothing, pretending to be unconscious. Enel meanwhile, stared up at the Chibaku tensei and whistled "Truly worthy of the God I've partnered with"
Akainu and Aokiji stared at the sphere.
"Sakazuki," Aokiji muttered, "I can't sense them at all."
"...Neither can I," Akainu growled.
Nobody was paying attention to Teach slowly approaching Whitebeard's corpse. Eyes finally shifted when he threw a black cloth over himself and the body.
Confusion rippled through the plaza."What is he doing…?"
Moments later, the cloth was torn away. Teach stood with darkness swirling in one hand, and Whitebeard's quake power cracking the air from the other.
"He- he has two Devil Fruits?!""He stole Whitebeard's fruit?!"
Shock spread again, until the massive "meteor" suddenly exploded outward.
Everyone looked up as debris rained down, and Garp and Sengoku fell from the shattered sphere. Their expressions were tense as they stared at the man who had destroyed it.
"Akagami…"
Shanks stood between them and Nagato, while the rest of the Red Hair Pirates had already appeared at the front of Marineford to stop the fighting.
Shanks faced Nagato directly.
"I've come to stop this war."