War of the best: Ace is free (11/?)

Ian had taken care of Garp, for a short while anyway. He had used the six king gun, which was a devastating attack on its own. But coupled with the ever increasing power of Ian it would become an even deadlier attack.

Garp was launched away from the platform to the sky, and would take a while to both recover from the attack and to come back.

Meanwhile Ian turned his head to the side and shared a look with Ace as their eyes met.

****

On the battlefield. Everybody was flabbergasted. The normal marines were shocked that Garp was that easily taken care of. Meanwhile the admirals saw a new power from Ian, the mysterious person who was giving them much trouble. They clearly noticed how he had slowed down Garp a lot. As for the six king Gun they had already read that in the report about him.

The three of them shared a look, and nodded at the same time. They wanted to give an opportunity to Kizaru to go stop him before he does something else. But the old man started pressuring them even more than before, which left them stumped.

But they once again gained hope, in the form of Sengoku running towards Ian with a furious look on his face. He had been launched a bit of distance away earlier by Ian, and when he recovered he was kept busy by two annoying commanders until he took care of them after a while and was coming back now as fast as he could.

Unfortunately for him. A certain strongest person in the world didn't agree with his decision.

Whitebeard as soon as he saw Sengoku running, kicked the ground and arrived at his path in a shocking show of speed. He had his arm cocked and filled with quakes power, but Sengoku was able to dodge as he was not a weak person.

However that was exactly what the old man had been gunning for.

He did not want to hit him with that attack. Rather he wanted to keep him busy and stop him from reaching Ian.

The three admirals followed behind him trying to make use of the opportunity presented to them with Whitebeard leaving his guard open.

All three of them released their attacks at him shortly after.

"Ice Mass: Raving Pheasant Beak" Connecting to, possibly being the source of, Aokiji's epithet Blue Pheasant, Aokiji released a massive wave of ice in the shape of a pheasant in a single blast and then launched it at the old man Whitebeard.

"Hound Crimson Lotus" Akainu created a wave of magma shaped like a fanged dog head and launches it against the old man.

"Yasakani Sacred Jewel" Kizaru crossed his arms in front of him and used both hands to fire a torrent of deadly light particles, causing extreme damage to whatever they hit. It was an attack that he can control the spread of, either limiting it to a single person or covering an extremely wide area. It also has great piercing properties. In this case, as obvious as it was, he limited its range only to Whitebeard.

But the old man punched the air in front of him, shattering the ice pikes, the magma hound and the light particles and releasing a huge shockwave in the way. The Old man came out unscathed much to the annoyance of the admirals. They had been attacking like that for a while now, without any visible effect.

Whitebeard however, had plans he had to get done with. Now that Ian had made it this far, he had to keep the admirals and Sengoku away from him. But try as he might with him keeping four people in check, one would be able to slip past him. So he made the decision to take one out now and leave him incapacitated.

And his eyes fell on Aokiji.

Though the admiral might not know, but whitebeard had noticed how he was making the air around him frigid in order to slow him by freezing the surrounding area. For using his mind in attacking, he had gained the old man's recognition. But unfortunately, he had to retire from this fight, as he was essentially the weakest of the group.

Whitebeard released with his weapon another quake imbued attack at them making them jump a bit away and separate from each other.

Then he used the same speed as before to appear in front of Aokiji who was able to react and was about to attack too, but a sudden sniper shot caught him by surprise in the right side of his chest making it hard for him to breath for a second.

'Shit, I forgot about the hidden sniper… I won't be able to dodge the old man now' Aokiji cursed as he saw the old man coming to attack him.

And the old man took advantage of that as he used his quake power on his right hand and punched at the admirals head with so much force that the space around his head started to distort.

The admiral was shot to the ground in a brutal way. But the old man was not done, he once again cocked his arm back, before releasing it again, but this time at his chest. Effectively knocking out the admiral.

And after that he stepped back from the oncoming attacks of the other admirals and Sengoku, who noticed something was wrong, but sadly for Aokiji, until it was too late.

And just like that the old man's plan was done. He got rid of Aokiji, and could now keep up with the remaining two admirals and Sengoku. While Ian could do what he had to do with ease.

"Hahaha" The old man laughed from excitement. He did not have this much fun fighting since years ago.

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Back to Ian.

He was able to see the visible shock in Ace's eyes. But he just smiled at him as walked briskly towards him. He did not need any keys whatsoever as usual as he took his handcuffs off. He was able to unlock the locks with his telekinesis.

Ace stood there in shock as he looked at his hands fixed in his place. Until Ian addressed him.

"Ace, let's go, we don't have much time." Ian said as brought him back from his shock. He could understand what he was feeling, but this was a war, anything could happen at any given time.

Ace gave a nod.

"Thank you for saving me. And you're right. Let's go" He didn't question Ian anymore, or even ask for his name he just started running after him, enjoying the feeling of wanting to be alive, and finally being free to rejoin his pops.