War of the best: Vs Garp(10/?)

Ian who had suddenly vanished from everyone's eyes, appeared behind Sengoku with A cocked arm that appeared to be black up until the shoulder. And Sengoku was not able to react at all.

Ian punched Sengoku so hard in the direction of the old man Whitebeard, as discussed in their plan from before, that Sengoku made a crater in the ground as he crashed.

All around the battlefield silence rained. Nobody was expecting this. They were left flabbergasted. The marines started panicking as their leader was attacked while the pirates rejoiced for being close to their goal of saving Ace.

'The plan to save Ace had started' Ian, whitebeard, and all the commanders thought to themselves in unison the moment Sengoku was taken care of.

Ian exhaled a breath. As he looked at Garp who was standing there in shock, apparently as he had just noticed how everything was going wrong. He had been out of focus, but it appeared that he had snapped out of it.

But for Ian using more than 30 steps in his 'shave' was not without consequences. His internal organs had ruptured, and for a few seconds, he was almost about to fall unconscious. Until his regeneration started taking effect and healed him.

Things had already changed much from the anime by this time as Ian noticed. The admirals were struggling against Whitebeard, barely able to keep up. Which left the commanders against the vice admirals who were closer to their powers, unlike in the anime where they were beaten by the admirals in relative ease.

Of course Marco and Jozu were quite stronger but they still did not reach the rank of the admirals.

The pirates at the lead were charging and nearing the execution platform by the second. All as discussed in the plan.

As once Ian saves Ace, they will be covering their backs as they retreat to the ships. That was the reason they are charging madly now and attacking in rage.

Still Ian noticed from the corner of his eyes, how Whitebeard was having the time of his life. While the admirals were struggling against him.

He was guarding their attacks with ease and delivering devastating blows back making them retreat a distance away, which gave the old man the chance to attack all the weak marines who only had their numbers.

And this had dealt the marines a huge blow, as they couldn't keep up with the attack of the pirates if Whitebeard kept taking them out.

Originally it was not like this. As Kizaru had been there. And with three admirals, whitebeard was kept in check. Well mostly, as sometimes his attacks would still be able to take out the marines surrounding them, but it was not as bad as it was right now.

Now Aokiji and Akainu could only hope for either him to comeback rapidly or for Sengoku to join them in the fight. And to their relief it was Kizaru who hurriedly came back to help them keep up with the old man shortly after. He had seen how Ian was close to saving Ace, but he deemed it more important to take care of the old man first and foremost. He also believed that Garp was more than enough to stop Ian.

But what they didn't know was, that this whole chain of events was planned by Ian and Whitebeard.

Back to Ian and Garp. A couple of minutes had passed with the two just standing there watching each other. And though it may look silly, one was in a bit of a pinch, while the other was vigilant from any sudden moves.

Garp finally couldn't wait anymore and yelled at him.

"If you want to save ace, you'll have to do it over my dead body!" he said as he stood there waiting for Ian to move.

But all Ian did was give a smile. Both at the old man's resolve. And at the fact that he was finally healed completely from his injuries.

The moment he was healed, he used 'shave' to close in on the old man.

But Garp was not a hero of the marines for nothing. He was able to keep up with Ian's speed easily.

The two met in the sky, and their punches connected to each other as they both hurriedly took them back as Ian actually felt that his arm might break if he kept pushing, while Garp felt the same way.

Garp was a bit shocked as this was the attack he was famous for all around the world, even if he was not using Haki, but Ian was the same. All around the world he was known for his fist power. But Ian easily matched him.

Granted Ian was using his scaly mode that boosted his strength, otherwise he would refrain from using power to combat power.

Ian couldn't afford to waste any more time. But he couldn't use 'shave' past 30 steps again, as he wouldn't be given time to heal after. But without it they were equal in speed. And his telekinesis was not working at all. And Ian knew that it was because Garp had been coating his whole body in colorless Haki.

Which left him with one option. Other than to attack his mind.

And that was Gravity.

He increased the pressure as much as he could on Garp, and then used 'shave' to disappear in front of him and appear at his back.

Garp was moving much slower than before, but couldn't figure out why.

Although a normal increase in gravity wouldn't be able to affect him much, this time Ian had increased it as much as he could. And this increase left even him -under scaly mode- much slower than before. Not to mention Garp who was already pretty old.

Once Ian was at his back, he cocked both his hands at his waist, as he charged his power.

Before suddenly throwing his hands forward and releasing a combined shockwave that sent Garp through the sky and made him crash very far away. One could even see that he threw up blood while in the sky.

This was the secret seventh technique that far surpasses the other six primary techniques of the marines.

The six King Gun.

Ian turned back towards the person he was here to save as soon as he landed. And their eyes met.