The Overall Phase of War

The war escalated even more.

After Oregano dismantles the team of Pacifista and almost anger to death Sentomaru the whole war seems to change.

The Pirates become more active, they are now starting to form groups and not just running forward recklessly.

While the Marines also started to come up with a new strategy to counter the enemy , the change only made the War even harder.

The casualty seems to start to minimal but the wound everyone get is starting to be more severed.

As the war waged on, the Moby Dick was sunk by Admiral Akainu's Meteor Volcano, and another of Whitebeard's ships were sunk by Akainu's Great Eruption.

Many crew members were killed or injured, and several of the commanders were severely incapacitated, including Marco being pierced repeatedly by Admiral Kizaru's lasers, Jozu being frozen solid by Admiral Aokiji, and Curiel being burned and defeated by Admiral Akainu.

Death can be stopped if not for Admiral Akianu's reckless behavior but still, Xin did his best to prevent something like death to happen but this kind of casualty is normal to a war.

Xin's wishful thinking is just his own self but not for everyone.

And something incredible happens again, the whole world sees something that they never see every day.

Whitebeard got wounded, not by the Admiral, not by Xin or anyone but by his own crew.

Whitebeard himself had been severely injured by a deceived Squad before he even jumped into battle

"Maelstrom Spider" Squard is an infamous New World pirate and the captain of the Maelstrom Spider Pirates.

Squard and his crew were allies of the Whitebeard Pirates and participated in the Summit War of Marineford.

Squard is a pale, slim man of tall height. He has a bald top, but light-pink wavy hair that flows long downwards. He is often seen sticking his tongue out and has sharp teeth.

He wears a spider design on his forehead which has a spiral at the bottom, with a diagonally-placed headband that attaches to it.

He wears a dark grey, long coat with ruffled edges over a similarly designed, lighter-colored shirt, and dark pants that almost reach his armpits, with some buckles and strings on the front, tucked inside boots, and with ruffled, lighter-colored edges as well.

Around his neck he has a dark red tie. For footwear, he wears high-heeled black boots with loose white cloth coming down from the openings.

Squard appears on Whitebeard's ship, apologizing for being absent when Whitebeard needed him. As Whitebeard announces that he will now join the fray himself, Squard pledges his continued allegiance to Whitebeard, saying that he will continue to help him.

However, to Whitebeard and everyone's surprise, Squard suddenly impales Whitebeard through the abdomen with his blade.

Marco immediately attacks him and demands the reason for Squard's actions.

Squard claims that Whitebeard had betrayed him twice:

First being when he did not tell him that Ace was the son of Gol D. Roger, the man Squard hates the most for having killed his first crew;.

Second was when he sold out his New World subordinates to the Marines in exchange for saving Ace.

Admiral Akainu, had in fact following the orders of Sengoku, deceived Squard, using his shock of knowing Ace's origins against him, and making him believe Whitebeard's betrayal.

Having understood this, Whitebeard hugs Squard, telling him he loves him anyway, and begins his last attack against the Marines, leaving Squard on the Moby Dick on his knees, lamenting from his mistake.

Seeing Squard on the ground sobbing, Marco suggests that he redeem himself.

Of course, everything of this happened before Xin's eye, how Akainu and Sengoku deceived Squard but he didn't stop them.

This is despicable but this is also part of the strategy, there's no right or wrong here because this is war, only fools will fall for that kind of trap.

Squard is a man who just joined and his trust is not 100% so he is easily fooled and used as a tool of war.

After geeting wounded, Whitebeard finally join, he tilted and shake the whole Marineford, he even almost flip the whole island but that is idiotic, he will accidentally kill everyone here with his crew.

And so, the melee start even the great amount of strategy did not stop Whitebeard at all, the war finally reach to the actual plaza where Ace is being held.

...…..

Marko tries to bypass everyone but the three Admiral stops him, being Whitebeard is already on the island, the three Admiral can only helplessly look at Marko who is flying in the air.

"Ace!!"

"Go back, Marco!!"

"Dont say im going to save you!!"

"Fool~"

Garp suddenly appears behind him, before Marco can even react, he grab him spin around and throws to the thick metal plating wall behind the enemy lines.

"Shit! He finally stepped forward!!"

"The Legendary Marine himself!"

"Gramps…. "

"It's Garp!! Garp finally moves!!"

"If you snot-nosed punk want to paw me, you'll have to walk over my dead body."

Xin clapped his hand and said," That's a cool speech, Grandpa Garp."

"Really?"

Xin and Ace nodded, that's really cool for Garp who always do a foolish thing like Luffy.

"Bwahahahahahaha~ you will see my cool moves alter kids, sit back, relax and enjoy!"

"Garp!! Stop fooling around, they are coming!!" Sengoku also started to move.

Finally, the three Admiral, Sengoku and even Garp start to join the war leaving Xin and Ace alone on the top of the platform.