One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

At the sea entrance, the eight warships responsible for guarding Impel Down were violently rocked by the rising seawater.

The wooden floating harbor rose and fell in waves, the planks on it crackling and breaking one after another.

"Everyone! Evacuate to Impel Down! Close the entrance gates!"

Holding the Bloodsucking Blade, Hannibal loudly ordered the jailers standing outside the entrance to move away from the port.

He frowned as he looked at the churning, windless sea before him, a look of disbelief in his eyes.

Hannibal had never seen anything like this before, despite having lived in Impel Down for so long. The towering waves seemed poised to engulf Impel Down at any moment.

You should know that this is the Calm Zone, the world's most stable sea area, a place where even a breeze rarely blows.

The only creatures that could potentially stir up waves in this area are large sea monsters.

At that moment, the vast sea surrounding Impel Down, as far as Hannibal could see, was filled with waves the size of mountain peaks, as if the entire ocean was in turmoil.

Even the Gate of Justice, which had stood for eight hundred years in the distance, trembled under the towering waves.

Little Sadie saw a hundred-meter-high wave rolling in from afar and frantically shouted from behind the door that was about to close, "Deputy Commissioner Hannibal! Come in quickly! A giant wave is coming!"

"coming!"

Hannibal knew the danger and quickly turned around and rushed into the entrance to the first level above sea level.

It was one thing before, but he even dared to swim in the Calm Belt outside Impel Down and catch Sea Kings.

But now he's a Devil Fruit user; if he gets swept into the sea by this terrifying giant wave, he's doomed.

Hannibal didn't want to die young; he was in the prime of his life.

Ever since eating the Heat-Heat Fruit given to him by Rorschach, Hannibal felt his strength growing stronger every day. The guards around him gradually began to look at him with genuine respect and awe.

Even Little Sadie and Domino no longer looked at him with the same disdain they used to show when looking at a jailer beast.

This change fascinated Hannibal.

He found himself becoming fascinated by the feeling of gradually growing stronger, and thus even his usual training in Impel Down became more and more energetic.

Even without Rorschach's encouragement, he can now proactively force himself to complete a large number of cultivation tasks every day.

Hannibal now has a new idea for his unchanging dream of becoming the warden.

That is, with his rapidly growing strength, one day he will openly challenge Magellan, beat him up, remove him from the position of warden, and become the new warden of Impel Down.

Then, Little Sadie and Domino threw themselves at him, and the three of them spent the night together...

The thought of that day brought a lewd smile to Hannibal's face as he ran through the door.

"Hehehe..."

The smile had barely appeared on his face when the Impel Down beneath his feet suddenly trembled violently, and several loud noises came from outside, shaking the jailers in the entrance hall at sea so much that they lost their footing.

The door behind Hannibal slammed shut with a loud bang, and a large amount of seawater rushed in through the gaps and bottom of the door, scaring Hannibal half to death. He quickly jumped away.

"What happened? Did the giant wave smash the gate apart? And what were those loud noises just now? Did someone take advantage of the chaos to launch a surprise attack on Impel Down?"

Hannibal was filled with surprise and uncertainty, and he really wanted to open the door to see what was going on outside.

Seeing that he was about to open the door, Sadie quickly reached out to stop him.

"Deputy Commissioner Hannibal! Don't open the door! Be careful of a large influx of seawater! I'll have the monitoring room check the situation outside using the surveillance Den Den Mushi installed outside."

Hannibal suddenly realized, "Oh right, there are surveillance Den Den Mushi installed on the outer walls of Impel Down. I almost forgot about that. I need to contact the surveillance room right away."

after awhile.

"What did you say? The warships moored outside were hit by waves and crashed into the walls, causing the outer walls of the Crimson Lotus Hell's cells to crack?"

Upon hearing Sadie's report after contacting the monitoring room, Hannibal's face turned pale instantly.

Although Impel Down is known as an impregnable prison, it is not immune to damage.

This towering prison, situated on the seabed in the doldrums, suffers from damage to both its internal facilities and its exposed exterior walls due to various reasons, requiring regular maintenance by the guards.

What Little Sadie just described wouldn't normally be considered a serious matter, but it's different now.

Outside, the waves are raging. If the walls of Crimson Hell break and a large amount of seawater floods in, and it is not repaired in time, the entire Impel Down may be submerged, and the people inside will become like ants in a bottle, drowning alive as the seawater fills the bottle.

The thought of that possibility made Hannibal feel terrible.

He immediately disregarded everything else and ran wildly toward the crack in the wall that Sati had mentioned.

"Quickly get someone to bring the tools and materials to repair the wall! We absolutely cannot let this situation escalate! Contact Chief Magellan immediately and report the situation here!"

"Yes!"

Sati realized the seriousness of the situation and, with four silly-looking jailer beasts and a large number of jailers, followed Hannibal toward the Crimson Hell.

at the same time.

In a corner of the Crimson Lotus Hell, in a cell against the wall.

Bucky, dressed in tattered prison clothes, was shrouded in a low-pressure atmosphere as he squatted in the corner of the cell, drawing circles on the ground.

"Damn Straw Hat Boy, I won't let you get away with this! I, Bucky the Clown, swear that when I get out of here, I'll tear you to pieces! My treasure! I haven't found Captain John's great treasure yet..."

"Hey! Bucky the Clown, what are you talking to yourself about?"

Shouts came from the corridor outside the cell.

"You bastard! Who are you calling red-nosed?!" Bucky reflexively looked up and yelled.

But when he realized that it was a group of burly jailers who were scolding him, he immediately wilted and hurriedly bowed and apologized.

After finally managing to flatter the guards and get them to leave comfortably, Bucky was half-exhausted. He slumped down at the cell door, staring blankly at the keychains hanging from the guards' waists, fantasizing about when he could get those keys, unlock the handcuffs and cell door, and leave.

Ideally, all those terrifying jailer beasts, wild beasts, jailers, and Magellan, the King of Hell in Impel Down, would be absent, giving me a chance to successfully reach the first level of the Impel Down entrance at sea.

"Um... just getting to the exit isn't enough, we also need a pirate ship. Hmm, even having a pirate ship isn't enough, this is the Calm Belt, those Sea Kings will just eat pirate ships like they're easy targets. Hmm, we need to steal a warship, that way we can sail smoothly in the Calm Belt. But even a warship doesn't seem safe, if the Gates of Justice don't open, we can't escape even if we steal a warship. If only we could fly, like Shiki the Golden Lion, we could just fly straight out of here."

Bucky was having wild fantasies.

Just as he was lost in thought, heading towards the end of the long corridor, a loud bang suddenly came.

Then the ground beneath their feet shook violently, even Bucky, who was sitting on the ground, was thrown into the air and crashed into the iron bars of the cell, letting out a painful scream.

"Damn it! What happened now? Can't this place be normal for once? Even going to jail isn't peaceful!"

Bucky rubbed his swollen, red nose in frustration and subconsciously looked outside. He saw the prison guards who had just walked by, who had been overturned by the sudden tremor and were now rolling back like gourds.

Seeing the guards' disheveled appearance, Bucky wanted to laugh but dared not, and could only hold it in.

With a soft clang, a bunch of keys fell from the waist of a tumbling jailer and landed right outside the fence in front of Bucky, making his eyes widen instantly.

"Key...key?"

Watching the prison guards, tangled together and still tumbling backwards, fly away, Bucky swallowed hard, his eyes fixed on the keychain outside the fence.

"Are you going out?"

Bucky hesitated for only two seconds before reaching for the bunch of keys outside.

Holding the keys with trembling hands, Bucky tried them one by one on the sea stone handcuffs he was wearing, his heart pounding faster than ever.

"This is an opportunity given to me by God, and I must not give it up. But... even if I can get out of the handcuffs and leave the cell, how will I get to the upper level at sea, how will I leave this place?"

Bucky's thoughts were in turmoil until a sharp click sounded as the handcuffs on his hands came off and clattered to the ground, startling him and alerting the other prisoners in the adjacent cell.

When the prisoners saw the sea stone handcuffs that had fallen at Bucky's feet, their eyes instantly turned red.

"Hey! How did you do that? You actually got the key! Let me out right now, and let me out too! Let's escape together!"

"Buggy the Clown! No, Boss Bucky! Save me, take me with you!"

Hearing the sudden wailing and howling around him, Bucky's hand trembled, and he almost threw the keychain in his hand away.

He turned pale with fright and hurriedly gestured for the screaming prisoners around him to be quiet, but it was too late.

The commotion alerted the jailers outside. The jailers who had been rolling around in the corridor also realized that their keys were missing and immediately rushed over, shouting.

"Damn it! You bunch of idiots have ruined my life!"

Bucky was inwardly groaning, but his hands didn't stop moving. He quickly ran to the cell door and frantically tried the key.

"Please, there has to be a key to this cell in here! Otherwise, I'll be executed for attempting to escape!"

Hearing the footsteps getting closer and closer in the corridor, Bucky broke out in a cold sweat.

Whether it was Lady Luck hearing his prayers or not, when the jailer outside the corridor was still dozens of meters away from his cell, Bucky's cell door finally clicked open.

"Thank God!"

Bucky scrambled out, running wildly in the opposite direction from where the jailers were chasing him.

"Torn apart!"

Not satisfied with running fast enough, he used his Chop-Chop Fruit ability to lift his upper body into the air, leaving only his two feet on the ground as he sprinted towards the depths of the corridor where the prison guards had previously passed.

He was very fast, and the burly jailers behind him were quickly left far behind.

Bucky was overjoyed at the sight and couldn't help but laugh wildly, hands on his hips: "Hahahaha, have you seen how powerful Uncle Bucky is? A bunch of idiots... Han... Hannibal?!"

Before his smile could fully bloom, Hannibal, a muscular man with a fierce, devilish appearance, appeared in his line of sight. He was carrying a long sword, followed by four tall and strong jailer beasts and hundreds of menacing jailers.

Bucky was so terrified by the sight that his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He turned around and continued to run for his life into the depths of the corridor.

Behind him, Hannibal, accompanied by a group of jailers carrying various thick planks, long nails, and steel plates, was also running wildly in the direction Bucky had run.

He also saw Bucky.

However, at this moment, Hannibal's mind was clearly not on Bucky.

"The wall that was breached by the warship was right in front of us, but fortunately, after the warship crashed into the dilapidated wall, it became embedded in it, accidentally plugging the crack and preventing seawater from flooding in..."

Before Little Sadie, who was right behind him, could finish speaking, a burst of intense flames erupted from the depths of the corridor, followed by a huge explosion.

Then came the surging sound of water that made Hannibal, Sadie Jr., and the others turn pale.

Deep in the corridor, looking at the path blocked by a section of a warship's bow, and at Hannibal and his men chasing after him like devils, Bucky didn't hesitate for a moment. He raised his right foot and fired a small cannonball from his shoe.

"Break through! I don't want to die! Let me escape! Bucky bomb!"

As the powerful compressed shell he had hidden in the swallows exploded on the warship before him, Bucky shouted in prayer.

As if Lady Luck had smiled upon him once again, the already badly damaged warship in front of him was completely destroyed by the shockwave of the explosion the moment the Pakistani missile struck, allowing the sunlight from outside to stream in through the broken holes.

"It's broken!" Bucky was stunned at first, then overjoyed, and then his eyes showed confusion and fear.