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"STOP YOU BASTARDDDD!"
Ace closed his eyes, throwing his head back in a heartbroken, soul-shattering scream. He squeezed his eyes shut, unable to watch the Warden bring his hand down. He had failed. He had failed Sabo. He had failed his crew. And now, he had failed his little brother.
ZOOM.
The execution strike descended.
Suddenly.
Magellan stopped midway.
The solid bedrock floor beneath Magellan's massive boots began to violently bulge.
The stone didn't crack; it groaned, a deep, unnatural sound of immense subterranean pressure building in a fraction of a second.
"HEEE-HAAAAW!"
It was, a massive face.
An impossibly massive face.
The owner of that face had a loud, flamboyant voice.
The bedrock floor exploded upward with the force of a volcanic eruption.
A colossal burst of pressurized wind—a highly concentrated Death Wink—slammed directly upward into Magellan's chest. The sheer, concussive force of the air pressure caught the colossal Warden completely off guard.
GRRRRRRR.
Magellan was lifted entirely off his feet, his massive body sent skidding backward across the corridor.
From the jagged, smoking crater in the floor, two bizarre figures emerged into the flickering torchlight.
One was a slender, sharp-featured man with half of his body dressed in bright orange and the other half in stark white. He held his hands forward, and his fingers had inexplicably transformed into the blades of massive, heavy-duty scissors.
The other figure was a colossal, larger-than-life presence. He had a massive, disproportionate head crowned with an impossibly large purple afro. He wore a tight, revealing purple leotard, fishnet stockings, and heavy, dramatic makeup that curled into a wide, terrifyingly intense grin.
"Emporio... Ivankov?!" Buggy shrieked from his hiding spot behind a stone pillar. His jaw unhinged, his eyes practically exploding from his skull as he recognized the legendary Queen of the Kamabakka Kingdom and a top commander of the Revolutionary Army. "What the hell is a Revolutionary doing at the bottom of Impel Down?!"
"We don't have much time!" Ivankov ordered, his massive head swiveling rapidly to take in the catastrophic scene.
His sharp eyes analyzed the battlefield in a split second. He saw the heavily poisoned, twitching bodies of Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji. He saw the 'rescued' child cuffed by Hannyabal. He saw Bon Clay and Mr. 3 shivering in terror. And most importantly, he saw the furious, highly toxic Warden recovering his footing at the end of the corridor, the red Kinjite venom flaring aggressively.
Ivankov realized instantly that this was not a fight they could win.
There was a reason why Magellan was Warden.
In an enclosed space like Impel Down... winning against him was almost impossible!
"Inazuma! Secure the boys!" Ivankov yelled, stepping forward to draw the Warden's ire.
The orange-and-white man didn't waste a single breath. "Understood."
Inazuma moved like a blur. His scissor-hands SNIPPED rapidly through the air, cutting directly into the solid stone floor of the corridor as if it were nothing more than a sheet of construction paper. He sliced a massive, rectangular slab of the bedrock, flipping it over and rolling it up like a massive stone carpet.
With incredible precision, Inazuma used the rolling stone to scoop up the twitching bodies of Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji. He dashed past Hannyabal, delivering a swift, brutal kick to the Vice Warden's face that sent the man sprawling. Before Hannyabal could recover, Inazuma snatched the Seastone-cuffed Bonney by the collar of her oversized shirt, throwing the 'kidnapped' child onto the stone carpet with the others.
"NOOO! MY PROMOTION!!!" Hannyabal cried.
"Grab the rest!" Inazuma ordered Bon Clay, who was staring in absolute awe at his idol.
Bon Clay snapped out of his daze, grabbing the terrified Buggy and Mr. 3 by their collars and dragging them onto the makeshift stone transport.
"You dare interfere with my executions?!" Magellan roared, regaining his balance. The red Venom Demon behind him hissed violently, and the Warden unleashed a massive, sweeping wave of highly concentrated toxic sludge directly at the revolutionaries.
"HELL WINK!"
Ivankov didn't flinch. He leaned back, his massive eyes widening to terrifying proportions, and blinked with immense, localized physical force.
A massive shockwave of pure air pressure erupted from his face, colliding directly with the incoming wave of red venom. The sheer force of the Hell Wink didn't destroy the poison, but it successfully deflected the deadly sludge, splashing it against the adjacent stone walls and clearing a brief, momentary path.
"Down the rabbit hole, boys!" Ivankov yelled, spinning around and diving back into the jagged crater they had just created in the floor.
Inazuma followed instantly, dragging the heavy stone carpet carrying the Straw Hats, the captured Bonney, and the terrified escapees down into the absolute darkness of the secret, uncharted tunnels hidden between the structural floors of the prison.
Magellan rushed to the edge of the jagged hole, looking down into the abyss. But they were already gone. The secret labyrinth of tunnels—Level 5.5, Newkama Land—was too complex, too dark, and too dangerous to blindly follow without risking the integrity of the prison's foundations with his poison.
The Warden's fists clenched in absolute, seething fury. The red Kinjite venom bubbled violently around him, melting the edges of the crater.
He had let them slip through his fingers.
Magellan slowly turned his terrifying glare toward the final cell. Ace was panting heavily, hanging from his chains, staring in utter shock at the hole his brother had just vanished into. The relief of seeing Luffy rescued from the execution blow was immediately overshadowed by the terrifying reality of the poison inflicted to him.
"Lock down the entire prison," Magellan ordered, speaking into a trembling Den Den Mushi snail attached to his wrist. "Seal every heavy bulkhead from Level 1 to Level 6. Nothing gets in, and absolutely nothing gets out."
Magellan walked up to the iron bars of Ace's cell, his red venom illuminating the dark space.
"And contact Marine Headquarters immediately," the Chief Warden growled, his voice a promise of absolute finality. "It is almost time anyway. Prepare the heavily armed escort. We transfer Fire Fist Ace to the surface right now."
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A/N: Well, I'm finally glad I got over the Luffy part of the story. He is still weaker, and he hasn't been running away because of Ace, so it's been iffy for a while.
Anyway, thanks for holding up. Let's get good now!
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