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I already knew that my day would come, but to die was still so weird, yet comforting to me. My life was spent on the battlefield, I joined the Military when I was 18 years old. I didn't know what to do with my life so I thought, 'why not'. I always thought that I would quit before I was 30, but look at me now, being fired my multiple bullets by numerous hostiles at age of 38, currently Master Sergeant in the Marine Corps. I always believed that I would be married now but luck was not on my side. All those women always seem to ride someone when you're not there, 'literally and figuratively' and after those failures, I just gave up on them.

"Fucking shit! Were coming!!! YOU BETTER NOT DIE THERE SOLDIER!", said my commanding officer in my coms.

I smiled upon hearing this, I knew that they could not arrive here to help me. The distance from base to my location would probable take them 35 minutes at best, if they encounter more hostiles then it would take more.

"I'm a dead man Captain, but I'm not gonna go down without fighting", I said into my coms.

"LAY LO---", were the last words my commanding officers said as I turned my coms off.

"Let's see, what quote should I say out loud before they kill me", I said to myself with amusement, as if not caring about the multiple gunshots in the background.

"OUCH!! That fucking hurt bitch!!" I said out loud as a bullet hit my arm.

"Okay, no time to think....." I said as I stood up and look at the location of my enemies.

"HASTA LA VISTA, BABY!!", I said as I began to fire bullets at them. I was able to empty my entire magazine before I was finally killed.

Shortly after I died, multiple marines arrived and cleared the area of hostile. Some of the marines were wounded but none of them died, which was good news considering what they found inside.

"Damn, how many bullets did he take before he died", said a Private.

"Take his body, a soldier is coming home", said Captain Miller with a sad tone in his voice.

Later it was found out the Master Sergeant Enzo died due to 30 AK-47 bullets throughout his entire body, he was able to kill 11 hostiles before he died.

After my death it was darkness. I was alone in this darkness, time meant no meaning in this place. Most of the time I thought, 'where am I? Is this it? Is this what life after death is?'.

Suddenly I felt something push me away. The darkness suddenly vanishes and I saw the light.

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Vice Admiral Stoner POV

It has been 22 years since I had been promoted as Vice Admiral and Chief of the Marines in the G-5 of the New World. I did everything I can in my power to prevent the rise of piracy in the New World, but it was for naught, pirates had become a lot common around the area and the world at large.

"Sir, we have a call for you", Commodore Oki said.

Commodore Oki has been my assistant for the last 5 years now. He uses two swords as his method of combat, and by my estimation, he has already reached the rear admiral level. He is a man who was born blind in one eye, has a huge figure, and a shaved head, all in all, a man who is scary to look at.

I nodded, while Commodore Oki gave me a den den mushi.

"Stoner, where are you now?", said the man on the other line.

"Fleet Admiral Sengoku, where are in route to Marineford. I believe it would take us 12 hours to arrive there", I said to my superior.

"I need you to intercept a pirate ship that was spotted in that vicinity", Sengoku said.

"Intercept? Are there no other vice admirals near the area to handle it?" I asked.

"Most cannot be removed from there position and the rest are too far away", Sengoku said.

"...."

"I know why you're returning in the Marineford but consider this your last mission as a Vice Admiral", Sengoku said.

I sighed and said, "....Very well...my last mission as a Vice Admiral. Tell my commodore the coordinates of the location".

My commodore nodded and took the den den mushi away from me. I walked in the deck of the warship that was assigned to me. As a Vice Admiral, you could design your ship to your liking, due to this free reign, I changed the color of my warship from the colors blue to brown.

Brown because it reminds me of the time I received my moniker, Vice Admiral 'The Unmovable' Stoner. I was fighting Shiki the golden lion in a mountainside that had its surroundings dried up due to unfavorable weather. That fight happened 10 years ago, and to be honest, even if I was given the moniker 'The Unmovable', I knew deep-down that Shiki was playing with me. The only reason I lived till today was that mid-fight Shiki's crew told him that they received information about the location of Gol D. Roger.

Yet when the word of this fight got out and followed by my survival, people referred to me as a powerhouse, a man that could reach the Admiral rank but I knew that I was not a powerhouse. I painted my ship brown to remind me of that moment, to strive to be stronger every day, but as always life has a way to f*ck you up. I trained hard but I could not reach the levels of the Admirals.

My thoughts were interrupted when a Captain shouted, "PIRATES ON STARBOARD!!!".

I look towards that direction and I could see a pirate ship.

"That flag bears the mark of the Claw Pirates", one of my Lieutenants said.

"The Claw Pirates, Captain Black Bart, 1 month in the New World, having a bounty of 320,000,000 Berries. He has eaten a zoan devil fruit, cat cat: black panther", my Commodore stated.

"Fire the cannonballs once in range", I said to them, my commodore nodded and shouted at our troops.

The pirates saw us firing and decided to fire back.

"BANG!"

One of the enemies cannonballs were headed straight to the deck of the ship, I intercepted it with punch coated with Haki. The cannonball crack and was destroyed due to my punch.

"I'm going in there ship. Commodore Oki, take command of the ship", I said, Oki acknowledge my order and saluted.

"Time for my last fight before I retire", I said to no one in particular.

I 'moonwalk' straight towards the pirate ship. As I was still in the air, I coated my leg with haki and proceeded to do multiple Rankyaku.

"How dare you! Come fight me like a man!!", a man who I presumed to be Black Hart said, as he tried to block my attacks from hitting his ships.

"Too bad for you, I don't care what a scum-like you want", I said as I continued my bombardment.

"AH!!! F*cker come here!", Black Hart shouted as he immediately transformed into a Panther-human hybrid. He squatted and propelled himself towards me, he cocked his right arm and he shouted, "TAKE THIS YOU OLD MAN!!!! QUADRUPLE PANTHER IMPACT!!!", he punched his arm towards me as his fist was having a faint outline of shock waves surrounding it.

"Hm...A faint outline of Hasshoken style, too bad it's too weak", I said to myself as I coated my fist with Haki and received his punch with my attack, "Tekkai Iron Mass Smash".

My fist coated in Haki against his zoan fist with the Hasshoken style collided in mid-air.

"BANG!!"

Our collision produced a small shockwave but due to my Haki being stronger than his Hasshohoken style, Black Hart was propelled back with incredible speed as he smashed into his beloved ship.

"BOOM!!!!"

His ship could not stop the impact of my attack, and Black Hart went straight to the ocean, causing his ship to be divided in two.

I stayed in the air using 'moon walk' and just watch the pirates beneath me as they tried to hold into something so that they won't drown in the open sea. I saw one of Black Hart crew members save him from drowning.

"That was easy", I commented as I waited for my warship to arrive.

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