Ascendance Valley War

2nd Island of the Ascendance Valley Archipelago…

"XAHAHAHA!!...Bring it on!!" Ashen said as both Garp and Shanks dashed at him.

"Cocky brat, I'll teach you a listen!" Garp roared as he jumped at Ashen, his fist was emitting black lightning as he infused it with Armament and Conqueror's Haki before he punched down Ashen.

*KA-BOOOM* Ashen used his sword to block Garp's fist and the attack proceeded to generate a massive explosion, pushing Ashen a few feet back before Shanks appeared beside him with his sword drawn.

"You can't fight us both at the same time, you're overestimating yourself!" Shanks said after slashing Ashen diagonally with his Haki-Coated sword.

*CRACK*-*CRACK* Ashen managed to react quickly and punched the air beside him, cracking it while generating a strong shockwave that split the entire the ground beside him open and forced Shanks to jump to the side.

"…*Smile*…the greater the risk, the bigger the reward! I'll never be able surpass Roger and Rocks legend if I aim low, I have to defeat both of you here today…" Ashen declared with savage smile stretching in his face "…I don't know about you, but I'm damn ready to die if fail today—though I doubt that would happen!"

"What a crazy punk!" Garp said a wide smile stretching in his face.

"Enough chatting…Let's get done with this" Shanks said, his fiery sword was crackling with black and red lightning as he infused it with Conqueror's Haki, before he suddenly appeared in front of Ashen and swung his weapon horizontally.

*SWOOOSH*

"Divine Departure!!!"

*Lightning*-*BOOOM* Shanks delivered a powerful slash to Ashen, strong enough that it left an impact on the surrounding terrain while leaving dozens of pirates who were near the area unconscious and foaming at the mouth.

Ashen used Shusui to block it, as both him and Shanks kept pushing and trying to overpower each other before their Haki was shot towards the sky and splitting it.

"Eat this!!" While Ashen and Shanks were busy fighting each other, Garp suddenly appeared on top of Ashen mid-air, before he came flying down and grabbed Ashen by the face and slammed him downwards, creating a massively deep hole in the ground as he fell.

"Blue Hole!!!"

Both Shanks and Ashen were using Observation Killing, preventing each other and Garp from seeing the future.

"Bwahahahaha!! How do you like that punk?!" Garp said, proudly flexing his arm.

A few seconds later, Ashen flew up and appeared again with a few bruises in his face before he thrusted Shusui that was infused with solar energy forward, unleashing a devasting solar beam towards Garp and Shanks.

<Death Beam>

Seeing that, Shanks dodged to the side while Garp thwarts the attack by using the unconscious bodies of a few pirates before he threw them at Ashen like fireballs.

"Pirate Jack-o-Lantern!!"

Shanks then sent several flying slashes at Ashen after that. The latter used Inferno Jet Steps to dodge them before he retaliated by charging his attack, his body became enveloped in a radiant aura, resembling a brilliant sunlit halo. Shusui itself became infused with intense solar energy, emanating vibrant golden hues. With a swift and fluid motion, Ashen unleashed a searing sword slash of concentrated solar energy and Haki.

"Astral Rupture!!"

*BOOOM* The attack left behind a trail of luminous particles that illuminated the surroundings. Upon impact, the slash engulfed Garp and Shanks in a fierce explosion of searing heat and blinding light, reminiscent of a miniature solar flare. The sheer force of the attack cleaved through everything in its way, leaving behind a trail of scorching devastation.

After the dust settled the entire part of the town was destroyed with Garp and Shanks suffering from burns across their bodies.

"That took me by surprise…his ability is dangerous" Shanks remarked as he tightened the grip on his sword and got ready to attack again. Despite taking some damage from that attack, Garp didn't look worried at all.

"Dealing with ability users is really annoying" Garp said.

"…"

"The Captain, Akagami and Garp are fighting!!" One of the Ashen Pirates exclaimed.

"Don't let the bastards from the Cross Guild and the Marines get close to them!!"

"What the hell?! That bastard is really holding Shanks and Garp by himself!!" Buggy exclaimed in surprise before he carefully looked around him trying to find a chance to escape, but just as he was trying to sneak away Calvin and Yamato appeared behind him.

"There he is! The Emperor of the Sea Buggy!" Yamato exclaimed as she slowly walked towards him.

"Was he trying to sneak attack Ashen?" Calvin questioned.

"N-Nani--?!!!--…" Buggy slowly turned back cold sweat dripping from his forehead as he laughed nervously "H-Haha…"

Suddenly out of nowhere dozens of Buggy's crew members appeared and started cheering for him.

"Showed them your true strength Buggy-sama!!"

"--Buggy--sama!!!"

Seeing the situation Buggy decided to go along as he didn't want his crew to think he was running away "As expected from the King of Pirates crew, you caught me while I was trying to attack him--?!!!--"

Before Buggy could finish his sentence, Yamato already dashed towards him while swinging her Conqueror's Infused weapon horizontally.

"Huh?...*BAAAM*-!!!" Yamato's strike instantly rendered Buggy unconscious while sending him crashing into a building.

"Is this guy really an emperor?" Yamato questioned.

"Gyaaah! Buggy-sama!"

"That's dirty of you, you attacked him while he was still speaking!"

"Dirty? We are pirates, there is nothing dirty about that" Yamato said while resting her Kanabō on her shoulder before the previous Blackbeard Pirates appeared.

"Yaah, that's unexpected even knowing how weak he was" Laffitte remarked while adjusting his hat and with him was Sanjuan Wolf, Vasco Shot and Jesus Burgess.

"It's time for some revenge ya bastards, we'll have to beat up Shiki after taking ya down along with your captain. We'll make ya regret messing with us! We ha ha haha!!" Burgess declared while flexing his bulging muscles.

"Ohh, if it isn't the remnants of that punk Blackbeard's crew" Calvin said with a grin as he got ready to fight them before the mountain situated at the center of the island was suddenly shaped like a face with two eyes and a mouth.

It was none other than Avalo Pizzaro who used his ability to take control over the before "All you see over the news these days is 'the King of Pirates did this' and 'the Emperors did that' we are even getting disrespected after Teach defeat, it's about damn time for us to shine as well!!" Pizzaro said while utilizing his ability to summon two colossal arms from the islands back, threatening to crush everyone inside the town.

"That moron is trying to crush all of us" Crocodile said in anger while looking at the sky.

"Blackbeard really got these guys some crazy abilities" Moria commented while standing next to Ian before the two colossal arms came crushing down at everyone.

Ian cracked a smile before he gabbed Moria by the collar and used Geppo with Soru to quickly fly towards them.

"You take care of the left one, Moria!!" Ian said while using his momentum to throw Moria towards the left arm and he flew towards the right one immediately after that.

"Leave it to me Ian…Kishishishi!! Don't think you can crush the King of Pirates crew that easily!" Moria said as he hardened his arm and his sword and let his Haki flow into his sword using Emission before he channeled his shadow energy around his weapon as well.

"Midnight Blade!!" Immediately after that Moria sent a barrage of flying sword slashes imbued with shadow energy which managed to cut the colossal arm into many pieces before the shadow energy split into smaller shadow blades and further cut the arm debris into much smaller pieces.

At the same time Ian who landed on top of the right arm imbued his metal bat with Advanced Armament Haki (Emission) and channeled his Hasshoken energy into it, wrapping it with a vibrant green aura.

Ian then unleashes a barrage of bludgeoning smacks with his bat at multiple same spots and multiple angles.

"Dragon Thrashing!!"

*BANG*-*BANG*-*BANG* The Hasshoken shockwaves and the Haki-Coated smacks were enough to generating massive shockwaves and shatter the colossal arm into small pieces.

"Someone destroyed the arms!!" Someone exclaimed.

*CRASH*-*CRASH*

"Gyaaaah!! The debris are falling at us!" The people down there were still at risk of being crushed by the remains.

Yamato and Calvin were fighting the previous Blackbeard's Titanic Captains.

"Heavy Drinker…Hearth Fire!!" Vasco Shot proceeded to breath fire from his mouth towards Calvin.

"Earth Shield!..." Calvin responded by smashing the ground with his feet while using Hasshoken and picked up a large rock using it as a shield to block the fire, and then he imbued it with Haki and punched it at Vasco Shot effectively pushing him a few meters away until he crashed into a building "…Earth Smack!"

Right after that, Sanjuan Wolf who increased his size until he was a giant's size proceeded to punch Calvin down. Calvin was taken by surprise and was crushed down under Wolf's fist, but he quickly got up and flew upwards and delivered a Conqueror's infused uppercut with Hasshoken shockwaves, effectively sending Wolf flying upwards then crashing into the ground unconscious after that.

Beside them Yamato was getting attacked by Laffite and a bunch of Cross Guild members, Laffitte who's arms were white wings instead, came flying down at her without her even noticing before he turned his wings back to normal arms and thrusted his red cane towards Yamato.

"*SPLASH*--?!!!" Laffitte managed to stab her in the left shoulder. Yamato who wasn't paying attention to him looked surprised since she was using her Observation Haki and didn't let her guard down "How?!"

Laffitte tried to stab her again, but she quickly used her Kanabō to block the attack before switching to her Awakened Hybrid Form. She tilted her head back and breathed a wave of ice, freezing laffitte solid and then smack him away.

While Calvin and Yamato were busy dealing the Blackbeard Pirates, Mihawk finally made his move.

"It'd be a bad look for me if I stood around while my allies and subordinates if I may say gets defeated" Mihawk calmly said as he took out Yoru and confronted Yamato and Calvin "Bring it, Demonic Captains!"

On the other side of the town one of Cross Guild allies Boa Hancock was fighting the Ashen Pirates. Moria who just destroy Pizzaro's colossal arm landed beside her.

"Mero Mero Mellow!!" Hancock used her signature attack to form a heart with her hands and fired a heart-shaped beam from them, turning dozens of Ashen's crew to statues "Hmph…you filthy men!"

Unfortunately for her Moria didn't fall for that and didn't turn into a statue. When Hancock saw that she narrowed her eyes while looking at Moria with disgust.

"You…"

"Kishishi! I'm not a moron like them to fall for that"

"I won't forgive Ashen nor his crew, prepare yourself you filthy thing!" Hancock declared while pointing her finger at him in arrogance.

"The Ashen Pirates are always prepared for action"

"…"

At the same time Ian landed near Crocodile, Diana who was fighting Scratchmen Apoo and Amber who was facing Daz Bonez.

"'The Berserker' Ian Inaki…Puff…Can't underestimate a Demonic Captain" Crocodile calmly said before he formed his right hand into a loose blade of fast-moving sand, and then stabed it into the ground, extending it along the ground like a torpedo, splitting anything in its path, including the very ground itself.

"Desert Spada!!"

"Fucking sand, really?!" Ian used Soru to dodge Crocodile's attack and then he sent large, compressed wind blade towards him, unfortunately for him the wind blade passed right through him as he didn't use Haki with it.

"That's useless" Crocodile said in arrogance while blowing smoke from his mouth.

"A Logia huh? Good thing we have something called Haki. I'll make sure to shove that hook up your arrogant ass!!" Ian said smashing the ground with his bat and sending a strong shockwave across the ground and splitting it open.

Crocodile jumped to the side avoiding it and then summoned a massive tornado of sand and sent it on a rampage.

"Sables!"

The tornado was directed at Ian, and it quickly grew larger before Ian proceeded to strike back as well. He wildly spun with his metal bat strong enough to create a strong tornado around him, effectively blocking Crocodile's.

"Savage Hurricane!!"

Near the port's entrance Enel and Katakuri were having a rematch. The last time the two of them faced each other was 16 years ago in the Big Mom war where Enel and Moria were defeated by him.