"long time no see you brat" said obito
"I've been pursuing you and your crew for a long time now" said obito
luffy started to sweat, the same guy that beat him and ace up back on dawn island is now right in front of him.
" Ahh, obitooo could you act like you didn't see me " said luffy as he scratched the back of his head and grinned
"What!" everyone on the roof except obito exclaimed at the shameless and carefree attitude of luffy.
obito wasn't too phased at luffy's antics because it was a common occurrence back on dawn island.
"Luffy you fool, I am a marine you are a pirate , two complete opposites , this is not dawn island and after I deal with crocodile over there i'll deal with you and your crew " said obito as he gazed at the warlord
"Oh!, you swirly bastard, crocodile is mine. I'm the one who will kick his ass" proclaimed luffy
"You fool, If you don't want to move out of my way then I'll deal with you first " said obito as he readied his gunbai.
"I've heard that you were in Arabasta, but to think you would attack a warlord of your world government"
"Accceee!" Luffy called out , a smile emblazoned on his face as he once again got to see his brother.
" Fire fist ace " Cobra muttered as he remembered the newspaper he read about the second divison commander
" Crocodile is no longer under the umbrella of the world government , his crimes against arabasta and the world government have come to light and he shall be punished " obito replied.
"Luffy go and deal with crocodile, i'll take on the commodore over here" said ace as he stared at obito.
" It seems you've still haven't learned your lesson ace , you can never defeat me"
Ace smiled smugly then replied.
"That was the case years ago obito when we were kids , but you shall see soon enough the power of a whitebeard pirate division commander "
"Is that so? Then come I do not wish to destroy this place " declared obito as he then vanished
"Wha!, where did he go ?" Asked vivi clearly shocked as the marine just vanished into thin air
Ace frowned , the speed at which obito moved was easy to see for himself but to the naked eye of untrained fighters or the weak it was impossible to see.
Ace turned around and jumped off the palace balcony , and with the help of his flame flame fruit he followed obito quickly to the outskirts of the city.
5 minutes later
Outskirts of Alubarna
"Ace , the use of your devil fruit is very impressive , to have such control over your devil fruit is commendable something most devil fruit users today have failed to do"
" To get a compliment from someone like you is very rare obito , we may have trained together when we were younger bit don't think i will take it easy on you" said ace
"Pay no attention to the compliment for it is the last one you shall receive from me , so then let us begin.Divine judgement "muttered obito As he slashed down diagonally with his scythe releasing a large red sword energy which raced towards ace , cutting a line in the sandy ground as it made it's way towards the pirate.
Ace didn't even move an inch , he was logia and an attack such as this had no effect on logia devil fruit users, the energy blade passed through his body harmlessly crashing in a sand dune behind him slicing it in two .
Even though it could not hurt him, the power behind the pressurized air blade was no joke either if he wasn't a logia he would've surely be split in half .
Ace threw his thoughts aside and prepared to attack , red hot flames now emitting out of his left arm.
"Hikken!" ace bellowed as a large fire fist raced towards obito , who quickly did hands signs."water style : water shockwave" said obito as a large column of water surrounded him and slammed against the fire fist .
Large clouds of steam, and dust covered the entire area and rose dozens of meters in the air .
As ace was looking around the steam, seemingly searching for his opponent , a large water dragon shot shot towards him , with the help of his observation haki he managed to dodge to the left but the dragon kept on its onslaught and pursued him to his surprise.
Ace formed another large fire fist and punched at the now charging water dragon .
"Boom!" The sound of the elemental powers slamming against each other released another large cloud of steam.
An opening obito thought as he stood to the side and watched while ace dealt with the water dragon.
While ace's back was turnt obito appeared behind him and swung his haki coated gunbai at the exposed back of the pirate.
Ace sensing it with his observation haki again didn't have time to dodge , so he coated his back in armament haki to reduce the damage he was about to take .
As the gunbai hit to it's target , ace was hurled meters away , thrown out of the clouds of steam and mist that covered the area, crashing in a sand dune nearby .
"That bastard knows haki" ace muttered as he got up to his feet , his body aching as hell . If he hadn't covered his back with haki in time he would have received some serious damage.
As he got to his feet the figure of his opponent walked out of the steam and mist .
"Surprised aren't you ? Haki is such a useful ability when it comes to dealing with pirates with logia devil fruit " said obito
" It wasn't all too surprising , I knew you would learn it over time , but to think you mastered it to such degree " said ace as he wiped blood from the side of his mouth.
" You've travelled the new world countless times as a pirate so you should know that captain level and higher within the marine ranks knows about the power of haki , it's not something secretive as most would think " said obito his tone as condescending and cold as always.
"Well I can't say that i am not impressed with your armament haki, but I am the second division commander of the whitebeard pirates trained by the strongest man in the world we shall see who's haki is stronger" declared ace as he cover his fist in haki a dark metallic glow shone off his arms , obito did the same but covered his scythe and gunbai in haki instead.
" Then let us dance " said obito as he rushed towards his opponent , ace doing the same .
"Ting, clank, boom!" The metallic sound of haki against haki resounded through out the desert and even though obito was strong in haki it was very clear that ace was pushing him back more and more .
Obito's haki control was lower than ace's and he was expending too much of it in their clashes. And within 30 minutes his haki reserve would be finished .His haki control was being interrupted due to the flow of his chakra, two different energies in one body.
Meanwhile
Alubarna , underground ruins
"Gomu Gomu no storm roared luffy as hundreds of bloodied stretched fist assaulted crocodile , the sand man was driven through the stone roof of the ruins and hurled to the surface hundreds of meters in the air above alubarna.
Clocktower of alubaran…..
Vivi could be seen overlooking the battle going on throughout the city sadness, despair and grief were taking her over , her people were fighting each other die to the evil machinations of one man.
"Please stop the fighting " shouted vivi , her voice resounding through out the entire battle field , the fight came to a pause , the rebel , the soldiers and marines stared at the clock tower the voice came from.
The battle field became deathly silent as they stared at the crying princess
"Vivi sama" muttered a rebel
As they were staring at the clock tower the unconscious body of crocodile fell to the ground leaving a small crater .
"That's crocodile" a rebel muttered , stunned and in disbelief at the condition the warlord was in just so were the others around as they saw the badly ,beaten , bruised and bloody body of the warlord.
Van augur who was nearby saw the opportunity to capture the traitorous warlord and took it .
"Sergeant, take your men and ensure crocodile is chained up , he's a devil fruit user so make sure you use sea stone cuffs, fate has delivered the enemy within our hands " said augur towards Sergeant rade
" It will be done captain, alright men you heard the captain bring all the sea stone cuffs we have quickly!" Said rade
(Pls note :Guys sorry for the late update , i was writing a chapter earlier this week but unfortunately something happened with my device and the chapter went unsaved so it kind of messed up my vibe .)