So this is the first One Piece story, I ever considered writing and publishing.

First of all some WARNINGS:

1) This is the first chapter of the story, as such this is also the chapter that will follow the manga most closely (I get annoyed with stories that only add some of their own twists but basically tell what you have seen/read already anyway.

2) I gloss over most of the battle scenes. While writing this I realized just how much I suck at writing battle scenes, not to mention that I think it's boring reading about those anyway... sorry!

3!) If I write any romance at all, it will be boys love, though I will hardly ever put it as focus, if I should ever feel like writing smut for real I shall write it as a side story.

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Oda, I just came up with the ideas for this story. I also avoid using original charas, so I can't even claim them.

Breakout

It was a very sunny and bright morning in the New World. The sound of seagulls carried over the ocean as they flew in search of food. Even this early in the morning the temperature was rather high and the sun shone down harshly upon the deck of the Moby Dick. The bright and peaceful atmosphere stood in stark contrast to the tense atmosphere on board the big ship.

The time had finally come to head back to Paradise, their brother was waiting for them, even if he was too stubborn to admit it. All the female crew members had left the ship, Whitebeard would never allow for the women on his ship to fight. All those left were people willing to die in order to get their missing commander back.

"Four battleships are heading this way!" One of the guys on the outlook informed them.

"Seems like they are trying to intercept us before we even leave." Marco landed before their captain.

"If that was the case, why would they only send four battleships? And why now?" Whitebeard pondered. "I doubt they have any personal to spare at this time."

"Oyaji! There are two more ships and from the looks of it they are members of G-5!" Another one called out. "And Kaido's fleet is coming towards us."

"He's trying to start a fight now of all times! It's unfortunate we don't have time to teach that idiot some manners. We leave!" Whitebeard ordered and the crew began the sinking process at once, letting the air out of the floating bag.

"Oyaji, the Marines just sunk one of Kaido's ships. And The Red Force appeared and intercepted Kaido!" Yet another crewmember shouted just before they vanished in the ocean.

"That brat… it seems like we owe him one for this." Whitebeard said grudgingly. "Still, things seem to be very much chaotic. The Marine movement doesn't seem to be very well planned, though they had some capable people on board apparently"

...

Soon after they began to sink their coated fleet a call from McGuy, one of their allies, reached their ship. "Oyaji!" He yelled "Oyaji! The ship that was supposed to deliver Ace hasn't arrived at Marineford yet and that everything is in chaos! My lookouts on Sabaody said the Marines on Sabaody are going crazy over there!"

"You're near Marineford already? Ace is missing?" Atmos asked.

"We're close enough, have been since dawn. And we haven't seen a single ship that came through the gate! Much less the convoy we expected to carry Ace. We don't know what's going on! Reforte sent some guys to see if they can find out anything. The Marines sent three vice admirals!" McGuy reported breathless.

"Tell him to be careful and to keep their distance from Marineford still." Whitebeard told him. "This may well be a trap and we don't want to lose any of our allies! Call again if you receive any news."

"Oyaji… do you really think that this is a trap?" Marco asked doubtful. "McGuy would have noticed if more was amiss."

"There is definitely a trap waiting for us, Sengoku isn't stupid. However, I'm not sure he planned what is happening at the moment. Not delivering Ace would be a heavy blow to the Marines so I doubt they'd lose him. Still this changes things. If our allies find out anything, they'll call. Kingdew, keep an eye on the Den Den Mushi!" Whitebeard ordered his family.

"Maybe Ace escaped." Haruta said hopeful.

"That's hardly possible. They're watching Ace specifically!" Vista was dubious.

"Talking about that now is useless. Stay focused!" Marco interrupted. Not knowing what was going on put a strain on the whole crew. It could be dangerous to get their hopes up just yet.

...

A few hours earlier at Impel Down

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaceeeeeeeeeeeeee!" came the loud yell of a red and yellow blur, which suddenly halted in front of the cell said Whitebeard commander was in.

"LUFFY!" Ace shouted desperately. "Why the hell are you here?"

"Iva-chan, Inazuma!" Luffy ignored Ace to wave towards two more people behind him. "Ace is here, get him out quickly!"

Two men appeared behind him, one throwing attacks at other loud prisoners while the other's hands turned into scissors and opened the door.

"LUF-" Ace was cut off from shouting angrily at his younger brother again the moment he was freed of his shackles. Said boy launched himself at him and hugged (or bound) Ace by encircling him with both arms and legs several times, and burst into tear.

"Bey sad yud dieeeee!" Luffy cried loudly.

Jinbe could only stare at the display with wide eyes. Not only had the young captain managed a feat thought impossible while apparently gaining notorious allies on the way, but now said man was crying his eyes out while ignoring his brother's angry shouts, which Jinbe knew were more shouts of worry instead of anything else.

He hadn't believed Hancock, who most likely was another ally of Straw Hat (there was no other way the man-hating woman would ever have come here to deliver a message otherwise). Her coming here should have been the first warning. The second one came from Ace when he told Jinbe about how crazy Straw Hat Luffy could be, and how much of a crybaby at that. No wonder the poor guy had been so worried!

"YOU IDIOT! WHY THE HELL DID YOU COME HERE? I DIDN'T ASK FOR YOUR HELP" Ace shouted when Luffy released him.

"You didn't have to! I'm your brother! You gave me your Vivre Card and it's burning!" At this this the teen teared up again. "You promised to live! Ace is my most important person! Don't dieeeee!"

Ace was torn between hugging his little brother and hitting him on the head and grit his teeth. "I'm not dead!"

Ivankov gave them a minute to collect themselves and meanwhile had started to take out some of the more annoying prisoners of level 6.

"You should hurry." An unexpected female voice interfered. Jinbe eyed her with some confusion. Weren't all the guards male down here? Well aside from the two higher ranked ones. "They're keeping close watch on Ace and will soon notice that the surveillance Den Den Mushis aren't sending any pictures anymore. His escort will also arrive soon enough."

"The others should have bought us a bit time, but you are still right." Ivankov reminded them. "I'm sorry to cut this short, Straw Hat-boy, but we better get back to all the others.

"Should we release the prisoners here too then?" Luffy asked.

"NO" Ace shouted at the same time as Inazuma started to explain. "There are some people here who would cause all sorts of problems for the civilians. Iva-sama told you about them before."

"Ah right. The guard guy. He's on Magellan's side, isn't he?" Luffy turned towards the newly turned woman guard. "So where is he?"

"You mean Head Jailer Shiliew?" She guided them towards the Head Jailor, who was right away hit by a Death Wink as well as a Gomu Gomu no Pistol and rendered unconscious.

"That should take care of him until ve are at save distance. He might have indeed gotten released, the Marines will do anything to deliver Ace after all."

Before any of the others could say something else, two loud thunks could be heard.

"They must have noticed that their surveillance system isn't working down here anymore!" Inazuma said, while looking at the now blocked pathway.

"They're not taking any chances with Ace having to be delivered at 9 o'clock. Get away from the stairways. Sleeping gas should be coming through any second now!" Their female guard warned them just in time.

As quick as possible Inazuma cut the ground and blocked the gas from the stairways, but also their exit along with it.

"Why did you do that? How is Ace supposed to escape now?!" Luffy yelled.

"Worry about yourself first!" Ace hit his little brother who laughed it off. Why the hell was his brother here? If Luffy got caught…

"Free me." Jinbe suddenly made himself known. "I want to help you."

"Are you strong?" Luffy asked curiously.

"He is, he's one of the Shichibukai. Ve'd profit greatly from his strength." Ivankov said shocked at seeing one of the Marine's elites here.

"Ah right, sorry Jinbe! Are you sure? You will probably be released you in a bit anyway. You are a Shichibukai after all." Ace turned towards his momentarily forgotten friend.

"I won't be one for much longer. I was imprisoned here because I was against the war the Marines are starting with Whitebeard. I want to help him so please let me join you." The fishman explained and was soon freed. Still they had no idea of how to get out of the place.

"Kuhahahaha" a deep throaty laugh came from a cell behind them. "If you free me, I can easily get us out of here. I still have a bone to pick with Whitebeard. We could both help each other escape from here."

"I won't let you lay a hand on Oyaji!" Ace erupted in flames while Luffy yelled at Vivi's tormentor.

"Oh Croco-boy. This is actually not such a bad idea. Inazuma, free him." Ivankov ordered as he stepped before Crocodile's prison. "Ve need his help to get out of here. Don't worry, I know some of his weaknesses, so I can keep him in check." Ace grit his teeth, but didn't say anything more.

"Are all of us devil fruit users?" Luffy asked. "Those seastone handcuffs would be nice against Magellan."

"Since when do you plan like this?" Ace questioned almost shocked.

"His poison hurts like hell!" Luffy exclaimed making Ace grit his teeth once again, he would not ask how it happened… not right now. His brother was standing beside him, alive. And he'd do everything in his power to keep it this way.

...

"Is eating really what you guys should be doing now?" One of the resident Okama's of New Kama Land questioned completely astonished. Instead of hurrying, like they had assumed they would, both Ace and Jinbe had requested something to eat, with Luffy joining them, despite all he had eaten not two hours earlier. Crocodile meanwhile got one of the inhabitants to clean his shoes for him, while he waited for them to move along.

"Domt woy" Luffy got out in between bites.

"There is not much difference between going right now and in a little while." Jinbe told them and the others agreed.

"The convoy which should deliver Ace is certainly already here, so it makes no difference. From the moment they noticed the missing signal from the Den Den Mushi they must have assumed the worst. Instead of rushing, we have to see to it that we are as well prepared as we can." Inazuma explained and handed out prison keys.

"Release as many prisoners as you can. Ve need as many as possible to fight vith us and distract our foes! If you see someone vith a Den Den Mushi, take care of that one, let's cut of their communications! On top of that ve vill have to steal one of the Navy ships! Get ready! Heehaw!" Ivankov shouted his orders.

"Yaaay" Everyone agreed and so, with some considerable lateness they all got ready to escape their home for the past few years.

...

The way up was an absolute mess, the likes that Impel Down had never seen before. All had gone well with only two minor delays at the end of level 4 when they had been intercepted by Sadi and Hannyabal. Ace and Luffy took care of the vice warden while Ivankov beat the chief guard without any major problems.

That was when they came face to face with Blackbeard.

"Zehahaha" The blackhaired captain laughed. "When I came here today I didn't expect this. No wonder everyone was on high alert with even the vice admirals inside of Impel Down. You gave us quite some trouble."

"Blackbeard!" Ace didn't waste any second and charged, landing hit on his already bloodied face. The other captain reacted just as fast and activated his powers. "Do you want a repeat of what happened before?" He grinned at the escaped convict.

"ACE!" Luffy yelled and hit Blackbeard, freeing his brother. "What the hell! Stay away from my brother."

"Zehahaha… So this is the reason for your escape, Ace. I suppose it's only fair he came here, after all, he is the reason you are in here in first place." The other man told, while grabbing Luffy with Vortex and slamming him to the ground.

"LUFFY!" Ace attacked the other with fire. "Your power may cancel other devil fruits, but unlike other logia users, your body isn't made of darkness. I will not let you lay a hand on my brother. We will win."

Though Jinbe tried to stop their fight, he and Inazuma were intercepted by the rest of the Blackbeard pirates. Their fighting came to an abrupt end however when Magellan drenched the prisoners behind them with one of his Hydra heads, while another was coming towards the fighting trio fast.

"Straw Hat!" Ivankov shouted the warning and flew into the fighting trio, grabbing on to the small captain. "Magellan is here, run!"

"But Ace!" Luffy eyed his hotheaded older brother.

"Run Luffy! I will take care of things here!" Ace shouted. He wouldn't rest until Blackbeard was five feet under.

"No way! If Ace stays then I will too!" Luffy turned and landed another hit on Blackbeard who returned the favor right away.

"Jinbe, grab Luffy! Let's run!" The okama queen shouted while he himself grabbed Ace.

"WHAT THE HELL! LET ME GO!" Ace roared in anger. "HE'S-"

"Magellan is here!" Ivankov hissed. "If you stay, then so will your brother and if he is covered by poison again he will die for real this time!"

"Luffy…?" Ace's eyes widened.

"He already lost ten years of his life so he could go and save you! Do you want to risk both of your lives to kill Blackbeard?" This shut Ace up for good. He stopped his struggling at once and he started to run along them.

Not a second later another hydra head had covered the area Ace had stood in just a moment before.

"So you managed to get down here after all. Which means that you broke down my barrier and that the vice admirals…" Magellan trailed of.

"Are you Magellan?" Blackbeard grinned at his newest foe.

"And you are Blackbeard." The warden stated before attacking with a single giant hydra and flooded the entire bridge towards the entrance to level 2.

...

The secret hope Ivankov had held, that Magellan would be defeated by Blackbeard, who for some unknown reason had also broken in to Impel Down was swiftly destroyed when only a few minutes later, on their way through level two (which was strangely enough also lacking a lot of prisoners from what Luffy had seen last) another hydra appeared right behind them and the chief warden came swimming towards them.

"I will not let any of you escape here! Fire Fist Ace, Straw Hat Luffy! Justice will win!" Magellan headed towards them and was faced by Inazuma and Ivankov.

"I've had enough of you!" Ace whispered furiously. "You almost killed Luffy!" Flames erupted from his palm and formed an ever growing ball that soon was taking up a major portion of the room they were in. Ace ran a few steps towards Magellan before it came into contact with his hydra. The hydra splashed to all sides and caught fire which went back to Magellan. Charging further he used his namesake attack and burned the poison man.

"Hurry!" Crocodile eyed him. "Your execution should be in a few hours and if you are not delivered I'm sure Sengoku will not waste time to send someone else."

The rest of the way up was less of a problem, as apparently the Blackbeard Pirates had taken out Ace's supposed convoy, and the five vice-admirals. "Ah! That's the guy that came when we were at Enies Lobby!" Luffy shouted and pointed to one of the vice admirals.

"Enies Lobby…?" Ace wondered.

"Ah. We went there to help Robin." Luffy explained and Ace decided it was probably healthier for him to not know about it… right at this moment at least.

"You and I are going to talk once this is over." He sighed instead. The last news he'd heard about Luffy was from Blackbeard and he had been in Water 7 then and not on a Marine base known for 'Justice'.

"Shishishi" Luffy nodded then beamed. "Look Ace! Your paper is big again!"

Ace couldn't help but smile, even though he felt more than just guilty for worrying his little brother and getting him into such a situation. "Ah, let's get out and keep it that way! I'll have one made for you later on too…"

Luffy just laughed in response, more cheerful than he had in days.

...

A minor problem came when not a single battleship, which they wanted to hijack, was still docked, but with Jinbe's help they soon enough had one. The Gate of Justice also opened at the very right time, though Luffy almost made everyone turn back since the one responsible for the opening of the gates was his okama friend, Bentham.

Once again they had Jinbe to thank for convincing the young captain to stay on course. His friend would be transported to freedom by one of Jinbe's shark friends.

"WATCH OUT!" Daz Bones suddenly shouted and pushed some escapees away just before a beam shot a whole into the ship where they had been standing just seconds before.

Three battleships were waiting just outside the gate along with two more vice admiral as well as admiral Kizaru.

"Phew… looks like I can deliver both of my targets after all." Kizaru commented when he saw Luffy as well as Ace.

"We're not going back!" The escapes shouted, though Buggy and Galdino tried to hide themselves.

"Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" Luffy tried to attack the admiral to no avail.

"Let the Logia users deal with him and let's focus on destroying their ships!" Inazuma called out, his hands turning into scissors as he jumped to the right ship alongside Ivnankov and their New Kama Land comrades.

With a nod to Ace Luffy lead most of the other ex-prisoners to the third ship, battling through the grunts and facing one of the vice admirals, Strawberry.

"Gomu Gomu no Giganto Pistol!" The attack landed with a satisfying crunch on the vice admiral who had a hard time getting to his feet again on the now partially destroyed battleship.

The other ships were faring no better. Aside from Kizaru, who was kept busy by Ace and Crocodile, the fights were in favor of the prisoners, who were dead set on never returning to the prison. The Marines had probably guessed that there were problems with Ace, but not the magnitude of them or they would have sent more than one admiral.

The first ship fell when Stainless abandoned it with his and joined to help Kizaru, though he was easily stopped by the ex-Shichibukai. "Stay out of this, Stainless."

Despite being overpowered by him he still grinned as his hand connected with Crocodiles solid arm and put a seastone handcuff around it. "You wish!"

"Shoot him!" He ordered his subordinates. Only Ace needed to be delivered alive, all the others could be done with now.

Momentarily distracted Ace was also caught in seastone handcuffs by Kizaru. The admiral had taken a big gamble in handling them himself, but he had won this round.

"AAAAACE!" Luffy rocketed back to their own ship and took a beam meant to incapacitate Ace.

Two more Marines quickly grabbed Ace when the younger boy exploded and released a wave of Haki. "LET GO OF ACE!"

Most of the Marines fell unconscious all of a sudden and those who didn't remained momentarily stunned as Luffy raced towards his brother, and pulled him towards the still hiding Mr. 3.

The next moment a water fountain hit Kizaru dead on and gave Ivankov a chance to hit him with his Death Wink.

With some difficulty Kizaru managed to avoid the next fountain, but Jinbe jumped onboard and managed to capture the admiral with their stolen seastone handcuffs as well.

"Thanks for reminding me." He said and pushed him overboard.

"ADMIRAL" Strawberry jumped into the water to save him, while his own battleship fell towards the vicious attack of the pirates.

Meanwhile Mr. 3 freed both Crocodile and Ace.

"You idiot!" Ace glared at his brother who was bleeding from the wound he had gotten thanks to Kizaru.

"You are one too. Getting caught by the beam guy!" Luffy glared right back.

"Not the time!" Buggy panicked. "Let's escape! Hurry! I'm sure another one already called for help!"

With a combined attack the last battleship was smashed to pieces.

"I can't believe we made it!" Mr. 3 breathed out and sat down on the desk besides Buggy.

"I always knew we would!" His comrade nodded gaining stares of admiration from his followers.

"Luffy-kun, let me bandage your wound." Jinbe held up some bandages he had found on the battleship. "You should rest, that wound looks nasty."

"I will, the moment that we are free and back on the sunny."

"Since when can you use Haki?" Ace questioned and took the bandages from Jinbe.

"Haki?" Luffy looked confused.

"Never mind then." Ace sighed and threw a worried look at his little brother. He seemed fine so far, so a sheen of sweat covered his face and the wound was still bleeding.

...

Meanwhile the Whitebeard Pirates had just passed Fishman Island when another call reached their ship.

"OYAJI!" Kingdew yelled "It's Delacuaji!"

"Kingdew? A battleship just came through the Gates of Justice! THEY HAVE ACE! Well, not the Marines! There isn't a single Marine on the ship!" Delacuaji laughed from excitement. "Jinbe is steering them into the direction of Sabaody! And Ivankov the Revolutionary as well as Straw Hat Luffy is with them!"

"ACE IS FREE?" Many shouted.

"As far as we can tell!" came the cheerful reply. "Though all of them look like they could do with some rest! A fog screen was set, so the Marines won't discover him right away. I and some of the others want to follow, that ok?"

"Of course. Marco, set the course for Sabaody, but take care that our ship stays coated when we emerge, we need to be prepared for any event. Kingdew, tell one of our ships to follow us while the other stays on course but won't emerge." Whitebeard ordered. "Don't hope too much yet until we can confirm things with our own eyes."

...

So, is this story worth continuing? I'd have quite a few things planned things (meeting with Rayleigh, Whitebeard, of course the other Straw Hats and so on...)

Is it too drawn out? Too short? Let me know what you think, also let me know if you find any mistakes. Sorry for my inability to write great battle scenes (stuff always looks so much better in my head than on paper in words...)

Please leave a message and tell me what you think about this story.