Chapter 81

Grandline, Paradise, Gate of justice

Buck was standing along his fellow captains in an orderly fashion behind vize-admiral Momonga that had taken command of their ship, now having crossed the threshold of the gate of justice bringing them into the middle of the three gates, the gate of Impel Down having been opened simultaniously with the one that lead to the headquarter, giving every marine a clear view on the fierce battle that was currently engulfing Impel Down.

From his position Buck could see a few of the barricading marine sh.i.p.s burning and sinking while gun and canon shots echoed through the air. The occasional beam of light, possibly fired from admiral Kizaru, illuminating the battlefield after which it exploded in a huge fireball.

Sweating slightly, Buck had positioned the small video transpondersnail in such a fashion that it had a clear view of the battle that was raging, even though they were still rather far away from the nucleus of the fight.

'Unbelivable that the marines would even exterminate their own comrades in order to not let any prisoners escape... unfortunately for you the whole world will soon learn of your f.u.c.k.e.d up ways, thanks to yours truly, grihihihihi' Buck thought to himself while the vize-admiral had stepped aside to go over to another transpondersnail to coordinate the soon commencing attack with his fellow officers.

Minutes passed by like an eternity and all Buck could focus on was the fierce battle that was raging up in the air between the leaders of the two factions, like a moth drawn to a flame.

One was admiral Kizaru, easily identifiable due to his bright devilfruit combined with his yellow suit.

The other one though was hard to identify as it was a colossal beast with fire roaring forth from its arms and legs, surrounding it like a cloak of deadly chaos, while the beast was fighting with the admiral, trying to rip the man to shreds that was hard pressed to dodge by the looks of it, sweating bullets as they had been fighting for what probably felt like an eternity to the man.

Shooting a beam from his leg, Kizaru attempted to blast his opponent to pieces who simply jumped over it, twisting in the air so that his head pointed downwards before the beast kicked off of the air atop itself, barrelling towards the admiral who promptly dematerialised and shot as a beam of light into a nearby marine ship, causing the ship to explode into pieces and marines and convicts alike to cry out under the shockwave that catapulted them backwards.

The beast meanwhile had seemingly tasted blood as it relentlessly chased after the admiral, clawing, punching, piercing, kicking or burning everything that stood in its path while it tried to end the enemy that escaped again and again, though each time the gap between the two fighters narrowed precariously for the admiral who seemed to have noticed this as well.

Buck that was observing the fight like many of the other captains was shocked at the power the two combatants rained down upon each other, deforming their surroundings into rubble and splinters in the process.

All of this was of course transmitted through the transpondersnail to his boss who had promptly ordered some subordinates that were stationed on the main islands with the highest population in paradise to set up huge displays, drawing curious eyes upon them in the process, to broadcast the battle that was soon entering its hot phase.

Buck meanwhile was ripped out of his trance from watching the highlevel fight by the first fired canonshot the warsh.i.p.s had sent, and thus the buster call finally began.

Grandline, Paradise, Sabaody Archipelago

After receiving the orders from the boss of the Maichyo the staff had promptly rushed to carry out their orders and set up gigantic screens in the biggest townsquare drawing the attention of the population onto them.

"Hey! What are those for?" A curious vendor asked one of the men that had finally finished setting up the screen and were now connecting the screens with the transmission the boss was broadcasting from their base to the islands all over paradise.

"We are workers of the Maichyo and while we are talking a major battle is raging at Impel Down which we will be broadcasting, live of course! If you can rely on one thing in this world then it is on Maichyo! What ever major thing is happening around the world we will bring it live to your doorstep! If you haven't done so yet, set up an abonement immediately!" One of the workers answered, bringing a sweat drop to some passerbye's that had clearly identified the man's words as advertis.e.m.e.nt, still curious though what kind of battle the man was talking about and thus stayed.

And holy were they surprised from what they were seeing, many never having been witness to such violence before in their lives and certainly would never want to be after what they were about to see.