Under the sea

Kuma teleported and arrived near Luffy to finally end this Luffy sensed Kuma coming, but all he could do was to look at Kuma, but before Luffy disappeared, Kuma said his last words to him. "...We will not be seeing one another again... Farewell, Straw Hat."

Alexander was unsure if he was going to do what he had planned a while ago as It would force him to leave Nojiko for some time until he's is back, and Alexander didn't know if he could do that even if he has full confidence in Shakky and Rayleigh.

'I have to trust that they can hide her if things go wrong for the time being, I might just be gone hopefully, just one month.' Finally making up his mind on what to do next, he looks towards the people still there.

So without waiting, he took a piece of paper from a small bag he has on him that he usually keeps little things like pen and paper, that might come in handy sometime.

So taking some paper out and wrote a letter meant for Rayleigh, just telling him that he's about to do something stupid that might endanger Nojiko, and asked him and Shakky to look out for her in the meantime.

"Well, then guys, if there's nothing more you want from me, I think I will go." saying that, Rayleigh slowly walked away from them before disappearing.

"After him, Uncle Kizaru!!" Sentomaru hastily said as he saw Rayleigh run away.

"He's already gone, and we don't have the manpower or time to catch him, so let him go." Kizaru calmly said.

"I will inform the Admiral about this, so on another note, Bartholomew Kuma, you have some explaining to do!" Sentomaru said to Kizaru before looking at Kuma with suspicion.

"I do not need to explain my actions to you." Kuma calmly retorted.

"You will tell me...." before Sentomaru could finish his sentence, he turned vigilant for a moment sensing something, and he wasn't alone as Kizaru felt something to but disagreed the moment after as it wasn't his problem.

"Uncle Kizaru, what was that...?" Sentomaru turned around to check with Kizaru, and it was then it happened again, but before Sentomaru could react, a strong wind hit his body making forcing him to take two steps back to get his balance back.

As that strong wind that hit Sentomaru had come from Alexander after having dived from high up in the sky with Earth Eagle and grabbed Kuma and flying the fastest possible with the added speed from the dive.

After grabbing, Kuma had already gotten a few hundred meters away in just a moment.

"Who..." Kuma seemed a little shocked by this, but before Kuma could ask any questions, Alexander had already silenced him. "I will tell you my simple explanation later, but right now, I need to get this firefly off my tail."

Sadly what happened to Rayleigh didn't occur to them as Kizaru didn't let this one go because the moment they had taken away Kuma, Kizaru had already started following them with lightspeed.

"Ooh, I was just about to head back, but it seems that my plans have changed, so can't you just stop now, so I don't have to follow you?" Kizaru said in a tired tone.

Trying his best to find ways to lose Kizaru from their tail by trying all of Earth Eagle's flying capabilities, but nothing seemed to work the moment, and the moment they left the island, they were taking fire from Maines Ships trying to shoot them down.

The ships weren't the only ones that started firing as Kizaru had started becoming impatient and bored as he began shooting light beams at him.

Finally, getting away from all the ships, the only problem was Kizaru still following them.

And that was amazing by itself because if you compared Kizaru's and Earth Eagle's speed, Earth Eagle was faster by a small margin which, was weird as Kizaru was light itself, there were a few times he got close, but Earth Eagle's flying skills dodged them with perfection.

"I don't have all day, so stop right now, and I won't have to end you, right now." Kizaru said with slight frustration, but the only thing that came from Alexander was a quick reply. "I'm counting on that."

Alexander was looking around, trying to find some island around them to try to shake him loose with the hope of doing it this time, but to his disappointment, there were none.

It wasn't until he looked towards the sea below him he got an idea, not a great one, but it might work.

"When I tell you to hold your breath, do it." he quickly said before starting to dive down.

"NOW!!" both of them did it before hitting the ocean.

Kizaru saw that and was surprised before he started shooting beams left and right as he couldn't see them from above.

When the enter the sea and was underwater Alexander could feel great pain in his ears, it felt like they were about to burst, he had never really dived this deep and fast before, so he didn't know what to do, so the only thing he could do was to bear with it for the moment.

Looking towards Kuma, trying to see if he still was alive, and he was except, he seemed a little sluggish, so without idling around, he and Earth Eagle did their best to get moving using their vibrations to move underwater. It worked, but it wasn't fast like before but still pretty fast, maybe at the level of a speedboat.

What shocked him was that the vibration seemed to have amplified underwater.

So they started hastily sneak away from Kizaru's detection.

Kizaru was still shooting everywhere, trying to hit them, but it seemed like nothing worked, and even if it did, he wouldn't know, so after a while, he stopped shooting and just stood there looking at the sea.

"I hope we don't have to meet again." he said calmly, as all his frustration had gone away with all that, and so he turned started flying back towards the Battleships.