Saving Ace (End of Text)
"Ace, I'm here to pick you up."
Luffy landed on the execution platform and gave Ace a smile brighter than the summer sun.
Ace was stunned for half a second, and a warm feeling surged in his chest.
It turns out that so many people love him and are willing to risk their lives for him.
Then, try your best to survive!
Ace smiled back, brighter than ever.
It was not for his life that was denied by the world, but for the group of friends in the audience who were not his family but were better than family.
Ace broke free from the chains of seastone, and flames surged up, overturning the approaching navy.
The Fire Fist returns!
boom--
Two figures stood back to back in the flames, fighting side by side tacitly and fleeing towards the harbor.
The battle continued all around, but Newgate stood in the midst of the flames, wounded and many-faced, yet still stood upright like a giant tower.
"Next, give the final captain's orders. Everyone must leave here safely and return to the new world."
"No! Dad!"
"I am a remnant of the old era. The new world no longer has any ships to carry me!" With a loud bang, the air around them shattered, creating a path of survival for all the crew members. "Don't look back. Times are moving forward!"
Whitebeard's crew cried and began to retreat reluctantly.
Sakaski's cold, mocking voice rang out: "Are you running away just like that? There's nothing we can do about it. After all, Captain Whitebeard is nothing but a loser."
Loser? Who is he talking about?
Blood rushed to his eardrums instantly, and Ace couldn't help but turn around and look back, his arm turning into a giant flaming dragon.
"Shut up!" Ace roared as the surging flames attacked Sakaski, "I won't allow anyone to insult my father!"
The magma fist and the flaming fist collided, flames shot up into the sky, and the blast overturned the square. The two sides were fighting fiercely.
Meli stared at the figures fighting in the distance. The scene that just flashed by burned her eyes.
No, Ace must not die!
Meli ignored the attacks around him, used his tentacles to support himself on the ground, bounced away, and ran desperately in the direction of Ace.
There are still one hundred meters, fifty meters, twenty meters...
The next second, as the magma rolled, Sakaski suddenly turned, and his magma fist penetrated the wall of fire and turned to attack Luffy.
"Luffy!"
In a flash, Ace's body reacted faster than his brain, and he stood in front of Luffy without hesitation.
In the end, the flames were no match for the magma.
Puff——
The magma fist hit Ace's chest mercilessly, piercing his heart.
It's so hot... The temperature of the magma is much higher than that of the flame...
Ace tried to raise his eyes, and Luffy's face came into view. The face that always had a silly smile on it was now filled with fear and panic.
Sorry, he's being willful again.
Ace tried to force a comforting smile, but first he coughed up a mouthful of blood foam.
My brother's cries were ringing in my ears, but they always felt very far away.
I'm sorry, I've been rescued and everyone is telling me to evacuate.
“Dad…”
But how could he allow the enemy to insult and trample on my family!?
"Everyone......"
He must defend the honor of the Whitebeard Pirates who gave me a second life!
"And Luffy..."
How could he let anything happen to my beloved brother!
"Thank you everyone..."
Aaaaaah!!! Ace!!!" Luffy burst into tears, his eyes gradually losing focus.
Didn’t make it!? Merry froze in mid-air, then plummeted to the ground with a thud, his pupils fading from deep blue to a dead grey.
Sakaski raised his lava fist again, wanting to continue attacking the collapsed Luffy, but Jinbe rushed forward and stood in front of the two of them.
Jinbe, Marco, and Vista worked together to stop him, but they couldn't hurt Sakaski at all.
"Enough!!!" Meli's eyes were red and he couldn't help but roar loudly.
An invisible circle of impact exploded with Merry as the center, and her long pink and gold gradient hair flew in extreme anger.
A huge water dragon rose up around Merry and began to run wildly, raising its head and letting out a silent long roar.
[All sea kings, listen up! ]
[Your Highness! As you command!]
The sea kings beneath the deep sea responded to the king's call.
Boom————!!!
The sea surface exploded with a loud bang, and one, two, three... sea kings several thousand meters high broke through the waves, raising their necks at the same time, and their roars merged into thunder, shaking people's eardrums.
Huge waves hundreds of meters high were stirred up, as if the entire ocean was upside down, crashing down towards Marinford.
It's a tsunami!
Countless people screamed in the square.
"Glacier..." Kuzan flew up, condensing cold air in his palms. Just as the ice crystals were about to spread, an unexpected person blocked his way.
"Kuzan, long time no see~~" Gulixiati came through the air, raised her hand and greeted with a smile, "Your opponent is me~~"
Seeing the familiar figure in his memory, Kuzan was slightly distracted, and the ice crystal in his hand paused for a moment.
It turned out that after Shanks and Newgate formed an alliance, after discussion, the Red Hair Pirates were responsible for stopping Kaido first, and arrived at Marineford a little late.
When sensing the approach of Shanks and the others, Merry immediately sent the Sea Kings to assist, and the sailing speed increased a lot, so that the Red Hair Pirates' ship could arrive at Marinford in time.
But in an instant, the tsunami collapsed, crashing - a huge tsunami rushed towards the square.
Boom—everything in Marinford was swept into the wall of waves.
Whether it was the navy or the pirates, almost everyone was busy using their own abilities to save themselves, or trying to find ways to rescue their companions, and no longer had time to care about fighting.
The sea kings on the periphery were still helping to create a tsunami, setting off a second huge wave that continued to submerge Marinford.
Merry took the opportunity to fly forward, and two of his tentacles wrapped around Ace and Luffy respectively. The other tentacles used the momentum to jump into the air and landed on top of Milo's head.
Milo fell into the air, turned a corner, plunged back into the surging waves, and quickly broke through the waves to evacuate.
"Hold on!" Merry laid Ace flat and painfully cut off one of the octopus's tentacle.
Blue blood gushed out and dripped onto the burnt hole in Ace's chest, while she forced the broken tentacle into Ace's mouth.
The fishy and sweet taste filled his throat, locking the last trace of his heart pulse. Ace's eyelashes trembled slightly, and his fingertips moved with difficulty.
Very good, there’s still time!
Meili's eyes instantly became hot, but she didn't dare to delay any longer. She shouted to the sea: "Luo!!!"
Crash——
The yellow submarine emerged from the seabed and opened the hatch on the top.
Luo popped his head out of the hatch, his eyes swept over the miserable figures of Meli and the others, his face serious.
"ROOM!"
The translucent spherical area expanded instantly, covering the three people above Milo's head.
Merry rolled up Ace and Luffy, jumped down, and landed in the submarine.
"Don't run away!"
Sakaski's roar came from behind. He actually avoided the tsunami and was chasing from the center of the vortex on a warship.
"Quick! Quick! Dive!" Meli quickly got into the boat, and the last tentacle closed the hatch.
Sakaski's lava fist was aimed at the Polaris, which had not yet fully submerged.
"Boom--" Milo Luo broke through the waves from the side and blocked the attack.
Even Ace can't dodge it, Milo Luo is courting death!
Meli's pupils instantly burst into blood and she hurriedly ordered it to get away.
Miloluo dodged as ordered, sank its side fins, and slid its huge body underwater.
The lava fist hit the sea surface, and the surrounding sea water was instantly vaporized. The white mist and steam mixed together, and the heat wave surged.
Milo Luo was still injured in a large area, but fortunately it was not a fatal injury.
The submarine did not dare to delay for even a moment and dived quickly.
Sakaski raised his arm and continued to concentrate on the second punch.
Swish! A flash of sword light slashed across, splitting the magma fist in two.
Lava rain fell heavily, and Shanks held the sword in one hand, blocking the warship.
"Give me some face. Ace is dead. Let my children take the body away."
"Impossible!" Sakaski roared, like a vicious dog that refused to give in. "All pirates must survive!"
Before he could finish his words, his entire arm turned into molten lava and solidified into a ferocious giant dog head, which stretched out to bite Shanks.
Shanks said no more. He turned the sword and his domineering power swept like a wave, colliding with the lava dog head in the air.
Boom!!!
The collision of magma and sword pressure caused a rain of fire in the sky, and the blast wave directly overturned the warship.
The two men stepped on the wreckage of the warship floating on the sea and continued to fight on the sea.
The magma rolled, the domineering aura shook, the afterimages and sword lights crisscrossed, and the battle lasted for hundreds of rounds.
Boom boom boom————
On the other side, Beckman was wielding a flintlock rifle and was fighting Borsalino on equal terms.
Just as Borsalino was about to transform into a beam of light and leave, the cold muzzle of a gun was pressed against his forehead.
"It's so scary~~~" Borsalino raised his hands high, but there was no fear on his face.
Click! Beckman didn't waste any time and pulled the trigger.
Bang! Gunshots rang out, and Borsalino turned into particles of light, blasted back hundreds of meters by the domineering aura.
Farther away, Kuzan was also entangled by Gulishati and Jesus Bu, and was suppressed tightly, forcing him to be unable to split himself.
Lakiru nibbled on a chicken leg while nimbly firing his gun. Snake wielded his two swords like an acrobat. Rhyme Jones swung a long staff wrapped in electric shocks...
All the cadres and members of the Red Hair Pirates were present, like wolves among a flock of sheep, invincible, and forced the navy to retreat step by step.
"Are you sure you don't want to stop?" Shanks dodged another column of lava and smiled with ease, "Everyone on our side is in top form."
Beckman stood on a nearby driftwood, blowing away the gunpowder smoke. "That's right. If you want to touch our children, you have to get past us first."
Sakaski looked around and saw that the navy who wanted to continue the pursuit had all been stopped by the members of the Red Hair Pirates.
The Polar Ship dived into the seabed, with the sea kings leading the way, and the ocean currents they created followed closely, and it also disappeared into the deep blue.
Merry, Ace, Luffy and others had disappeared, and many navy men were swept into the boiling sea water, wailing everywhere.
Among the wreckage of the ships, members of the Whitebeard Pirates were rescued by the Red Hair Pirates. Although they were severely injured, they remained tenacious and unyielding.
Sakaski clenched his fists and his face became extremely gloomy.
The two sides fell into a silent standoff for a while, and neither side was willing to give in.
"Gulala la la..." A powerful laugh broke through the air, and Newgate slowly came behind Sakaski. The clouds cut through the ground, and spider webs cracked in the air.
"Red-haired kid, have you settled things over there?"
"Of course." Shanks tilted his head, a confident smile on his lips. "Although the new era is unstoppable, the remnants of the old era don't want to leave so easily."
It turned out that Shanks had also heard Whitebeard's previous declaration of covering the rear, but he did not quite agree with it.
Whitebeard raised an eyebrow: "Red-haired kid, do you count as someone from the old times?"
"Hahahaha, that's not right. I don't want to be a remnant of the party. If I have to be one, I want to be the flag of the new world."
"Gulala, it seems the fire of the old times is not going out yet."
......
The standoff on the battlefield is still going on, and Merry in the Polaris has no idea what will happen next. She and Luo are racing against time to find a way to save Ace.
Ace was laid flat on the operating table. Although the bleeding from the burn hole in his chest had stopped, the place where his heart should have been was empty, and only a weak breath remained.
Luffy was sleeping on the stretcher next door, unconscious, his brows still furrowed.
"I don't know how you managed to keep him alive," Law said, examining Ace's wounds, his expression becoming grave. "But his heart has been completely burned to ash, and the surrounding internal organs have also suffered varying degrees of burns. Without a heart, even with my surgery fruit, I can't save him."
Meili grabbed Luo's wrist and asked persistently, "What if there's a complete heart?"
"You mean a heart transplant? Theoretically, it's possible, but time is of the essence right now. He may not be able to survive until we find a suitable heart."
Merry patted his chest and said, "No need to look for it. Just transplant my heart into Ace's."
"What? No! You'll die even without a heart! We can only look for someone who has just died..." Luo shook off Meli's hand and disagreed with her suggestion. "Wait, many people died in this war. Maybe we can find a suitable heart here."
"It's too late. We must evacuate here as soon as possible." Merry grabbed Luo's hand and pressed it against his chest. "You should use mine. I have three hearts. I won't die if I lose one."
"No?" Luo felt the beating in Merry's chest and froze in his place, shock welling up in his eyes. "Why do you have three hearts?"
Meili forced a smile and said, "Don't worry about these little problems, just save people!"
"Okay. Let me give it a try!" Luo calmed down, raised his hand, and moved his knuckles slightly.
"Room——"
The transparent spherical space instantly enveloped the three people, and the emergency heart transplant operation began.
In the room, Merry's heart was painlessly removed and placed in Ace's chest cavity.
Luo's fingertips kept dancing, and beads of sweat overflowed from his forehead like raindrops.
All the blood vessels and nerves were connected, sutured, and closed one by one...
"Dong~~"
A faint beating sound was heard.
A hint of surprise flashed in Luo's eyes, and his fingertips continued to move.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
Then came the second and third beats... the heartbeats gradually changed from being chaotic to becoming a rhythm.
Although still very weak, Ace's breathing finally became regular.
Luo put his hands together, the space in the room disappeared, and he collapsed on the ground with his head hanging and his forehead hair wet.
“It worked.”
Meli's face was so pale that it was almost transparent. He frowned when he heard that.
"Great... Ace... is back..."
[End of Text]
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