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Trial by Error	By : Opinionated_Asmodeus Category: +M to R > One Piece Views: 5045 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter List
- 1-A Legend Brought Down! Shanks Appears!
- 2-The War Ends! Perilous Escape from Marineford!
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Despite the fact that Gol D. Roger was Ace's biological father, the logia user would always be a member of the Monkey family. Garp had never felt anything less for Ace and had always shown him the same love he showed to Luffy, including his well-known "Fist of Love." Even before his own reckless grandchild had been born Ace had held a place in his heart.
That Sengoku had allowed for Ace to be used to spark a war against Whitebeard, of all the pirates in the world, made him seriously reconsider quite a few things. Resigning from the Marines, for one, was looking to be more favorable by the second, especially if his foolish grandchildren made it out of the war alive. Ever since Ace had been given to him he had been thinking of resigning, and now with Luffy thrown into the fray it was an idea he was going to go through with.
He would no longer be at odds with them, forever chasing them down and cursing the fact that they had chosen to live as pirates; and if those two stuck together, which he was quite sure that Luffy wasn't going to be letting Ace out of his sight ever again, then he wouldn't have to worry about them as much.
Boy, did he worry about them. They were definitely Ds down to their cores.
They would be there to look out for each other, and hopefully nothing like this would ever happen again. He couldn't bear the thought of losing one of them, let alone both of them, to the corruption that was the Navy and the World Government.
Garp stood up from the rubble and watched as his precious grandchildren fled the still crumbling Marineford, courtesy of that wily Edward Newgate. He started to grin with pride as they made it halfway across the plaza, the former Shichibukai known as Jinbei closely following them, but a sense of foreboding overcame him and he started after them. His instincts were right on the money when Sakazuki began to insult Whitebeard, which was sure to antagonize Ace into attacking him.
The grin was replaced by a scowl as Ace stopped in his escape to turn and face Sakazuki. 'That foolish brat!' It was exactly what the Admiral had wanted of him and there was no way that Ace even stood a chance against the Magu Magu no Mi user. It was proof enough when Ace's hand ended up burned by Sakazuki's Magma Fist and it had him moving faster toward the fight.
Garp saw Sakazuki's intent before Ace did and right as his eldest grandson moved to intercept the blow meant for Luffy he made his own move, not even thinking to use Busou-shoku Haki. The looks of shock on their faces was more than he cared for, but his boys... his boys were now safe. It was all that mattered to him, and he was glad that he could keep the promise he had made all of those years ago.
"Ace... Luffy, my boys." Garp grinned despite the pain of having a molten fist through his torso, making it obvious that it didn't bother him in the least. Even when the fist was withdrawn he didn't flinch, his gaze staying focused on his grandsons. Luffy, who was well beyond his limits, had started to tremble, tears appearing in his eyes as realization of what had just happened set in.
"J-Jii-chan!" Luffy was clutching Ace's Vivre card, his lower lip quivering as the tears fell from his wide and innocent eyes. Ace was sprawled on the ground next to him, where Garp had pushed him out of the way so that Luffy's efforts wouldn't have been in vain.
"Ace, Luffy. Promise me that you will live!" He kept his voice firm as he gave his grandchildren a scowl, the Mera Mera no Miuser returning it with a scowl of his own and unshed tears. "Promise me!" A nod was given to him from each of them and with the last of his strength he grabbed each of them by the forearm and threw them as hard as he could in the direction of the escaping Whitebeard Pirates. "Now live!"
Garp grinned in triumphant success as his body succumbed to the pain and he dropped to his knees. Marines surrounded him and a medic was called to give him treatment, even though it was already too late. As the last of his life slipped away he heard that the Yonkou Shanks had arrived at Marineford from one of the nearby Marines. Now he could be at peace, knowing his grandchildren would be safe with that man around.
-TbE-
Marineford was in utter chaos when Shanks arrived through the Gates of Justice. The battles were not only vicious, but already he could tell that many had died and more were still dying. As their ship practically snuck up on the war still waging on Shanks noticed that the Supernova Trafalgar Law had managed to sneak in as well. What the Death Surgeon was doing there was beyond him, but there was no doubt that his medical skills could be used to aid the wounded pirates.
A glow was coming from atop the mast of a ship, meaning that Admiral Kizaru was preparing to attack someone, and from what he could tell it was Law's submarine. At that moment, however, a voice shouted out loud enough for everyone to hear, "That's enough!" and everything went to a standstill. Kizaru powered down his attack and the killing ground to an abrupt halt.
Standing between the Whitebeard Pirates and Sakazuki was a young, pink-haired Marine, his arms outspread. Tears were streaming down his bruised and battered face as he fought for breath and searched for the words that would hopefully end this slaughter.
"A Marine?" Law was the first to break the dead silence, even if no one but his crew could hear him, and to express his confusion at the situation. Everyone else was equally confused at Coby's sudden outburst and they all waited to see how it would unfold.
Sakazuki was pissed to say the least and his gaze shifted down from the Whitebeard Pirates he was ready to kill to Coby. He looked quite unimpressed by the late Garp's upstart subordinate and was getting the urge to put the brat in his place.
"Coby!"
"Stop, already! All of this fighting, just end it!" Coby sobbed out, his form quivering beneath Sakazuki's fierce gaze. Still, he pushed on and let the words pour out from him, even as a pirate questioned, "What's with him?"
"We're throwing people's lives away! Even though every single soldier has a family waiting for them to return!" The tears fell faster as he held his ground, the words flowing faster than he could process them. "Even though we've already accomplished our goal!" Hadn't it been enough that Whitebeard was now dead? Garp had even given his own life to save that of Ace's and he had looked up to the man as though he were a father.
"We keep chasing pirates who don't want to fight, drawing out a battle that should already be over..." Instead it was the mindless slaughter of both sides as the pirates made their retreat. "and abandoning soldiers who could be saved if we treat their wounds now!" How many had died because they hadn't gotten immediate treatment? Coby couldn't even count the number of voices that had disappeared in his head.
"And still, we're sacrificing even more people!" What sort of justice was this? This hadn't been what he had in mind when he had wanted to join the Marines. He had been willing to die for his ideals, but this was nowhere close to matching up with what he believed in! "What about the soldiers who will fall after this?! We're making them look like idiots!"
"Huh? Who are you?" Sakazuki finally moved, looking more irritated now because his prey had escaped him. "You've wasted several seconds of my time. The Navy has no use for soldiers who aren't righteous!"
Coby looked absolutely frightened at that and his body began to shake even more as the realization that he would probably die settled in. The boy seemed frozen in place, yet he showed no regret for what he had said, even as Sakazuki raised a molten fist to strike him down.
In that split second Shanks made his move, blocking the attack that would have taken the young Marine's life. The red-haired Yonkou held his Haki-imbued sword in place, keeping all of Sakazuki's magma from reaching Coby. The boy fainted and dropped to the ground right as Shanks praised him. "You did well, young Marine. You risked your life to create a brief moment of courage..." Precious seconds that had given him the time he needed to reach the ice where the standoff had been taking place. "For better or worse, that has greatly changed the fate of the world."
Coby's courageous words had given Law enough time to have the heavily injured Luffy and Ace moved down into the lower levels of his submarine where they could begin their treatment. It was also enough time for his men to have positioned themselves to keep the Marines in check as Benn Beckman proved when he momentarily stopped Kizaru from attacking the yellow submersible.
The Marines started to panic when they realized that the Yonkou was in their midst and watched in terror as he sheathed his sword to walk across the ice. He stopped when he reached the all too familiar Straw Hat that he had inherited from Gol D. Roger, and in turn had given to Luffy. Shanks bent down and picked up the treasured item, his fingers lightly stroking the woven straw. "I've come to end this war!"
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