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Chapter 1: What if Ace survived Marineford? Part 1: The Fist That Chose Family

by @konyomistudios

low angle on battlefield. Garp's single eye widens. Garp rockets sideways into the path and punches Akainu's forearm AWAY before it can reach either brother. rear three-quarter view of Garp, planted between the brothers and the admiral, coat billowing.

Akainu straightens from impact, cap shadowing angry eyes, steaming arm. Garp facing him, huge fists at sides, battered coat, stern tearful face. Sengoku standing by distant ruined scaffold, elderly muscular man with round spectacles, long braided black beard, tall Marine cap with small gull ornament, white uniform and coat. Garp foreground with Ace and Luffy small behind him.

Ace close-up, freckled face shocked and ashamed, bead necklace, bruises but INTACT bare chest. Garp looks over one shoulder at Ace. Luffy grips Ace's wrist tightly, tears in eyes, scar under left eye, straw hat at his back. Ace and Luffy side by side, hands gripping each other's forearms, exhausted intense human emotion, both chests intact.

enormous wide top: Whitebeard, towering elderly muscular pirate captain Edward Newgate, iconic HUGE white crescent mustache extending sideways, white captain's coat draped over bare scarred torso, dark bandanna, wielding his bisento polearm, standing amid cracks and cannon smoke. Ace turns back toward him, eyes wet, feet still moving alongside Luffy. close low-angle Whitebeard with fierce protective smile, bisento planted, miniature pirates running past him toward escape ships.

Jinbe appears at shattered seawall, huge broad blue-skinned fish-man represented in grayscale, round face, curly black hair in topknot, thick brows and sideburns, two tusk-like lower fangs, broad nose, patterned kimono and sash. Ace supporting exhausted Luffy, faces recognizable, intact chest. close Ace's freckled face, teeth gritted; he has turned his gaze toward the route ahead, one flaming fist begins to glow white through heavy black screentone. Ace projects a wide roaring ribbon of fire int

Garp's huge fist catching and redirecting Akainu's punch, flying magma and broken stone, no gore. Akainu sneers, marine cap and floral shirt. Garp close-up, tired clear eyes beneath white brows, bruised but standing. Garp stands alone in smoking crater between Akainu and the distant escaping brothers, coat torn and blowing, vast rows of Marine soldiers silhouettes beyond.

Ace and Luffy scramble onto the low deck of a battered pirate rescue ship. close Ace's hand clutches ship railing, fingertips shaking, ASCE tattoo correctly on left arm. Ace and Luffy kneel on deck next to each other, panting. close Luffy's tearful smiling face, black hair, left-eye stitched scar, straw hat down on back.

panel: Marines carry a large old-fashioned broadcast Den Den Mushi snail with eye stalks and receiver, its mouth speaking. Ace and Luffy on pirate ship deck hear the broadcast, their relief vanishes. Ace's freckled face, jaw set, single tear, turning toward Marineford. foreground rear view of Ace and Luffy at the ship railing; distant across smoke-filled bay tiny Garp stands alone against ranks of Marines, coat fluttering.

End of chapter 1

What if Ace survived Marineford? Part 1: The Fist That Chose Family

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