One Piece: Reborn as Enel

Chapter 66: Exhaustion and Waves

_________ POV Narration_________

Enel abandoned the snake's body as soon as the Whitebeard pirates got far enough from Marineford.

It took everything from him to sometimes check on them, as controlling the large snake he had created was already taking up most of his concentration.

Still, he had managed to do it in the end.

Jörmungandr was the name he had given to that move. It was extremely useful against a large number of enemies, but it didn't really have much of an effect on stronger people.

Sengoku didn't have any issues with taking on the tides with his body, and most of the Vice Admirals and Rear Admirals could also easily withstand it as long as they had Armament Haki.

There was the issue of being washed into the sea and drowning, but this wasn't a problem for non-Devil Fruit users.

Enel was now resting on a cloud, a bit further away from Marineford, that was about as far as he could make it.

He had been injured that entire time, ever since the clash with Whitebeard, his hands had taken the worst beating in that war, he had used his staff to block attacks from many powerful marines.

His leg was also most likely broken from Kizaru's kick, which Enel had honestly expected, so he couldn't complain.

Getting Kizaru to kick him towards the snake was honestly the only way for him to enter it. The Light Admiral would've otherwise been able to stop him from entering it by constantly intercepting him.

Not that he knew that Enel would just disappear in it.

Still, Enel didn't even feel like he had enough energy to keep his eyes open, but he knew he couldn't fall asleep on a cloud.

The only reason he could rest on one was that he had overcharged it and compressed it enough for him to sit on.

Enel could feel his consciousness slipping, but he also knew that he couldn't exactly pass out that close to Marineford and above the sea.

The sea would likely swallow him, and if the Marines did find him he'd just be imprisoned...

Still, he couldn't help it. The crippling exhaustion that filled his body.

In a moment of carelessness, Enel's control on the cloud underneath him actually slipped, Enel scowled a bit as he was freefalling towards the sea.

'... I didn't want to do this, but I guess I've no choice now...'

Just as he was about to turn into lightning, and use his greatest speed to fly off with his last sparks of stamina, he saw a blue figure quickly approaching him.

It didn't even take a few seconds for him to be caught in a pair of talons, Enel looked up to see the face of a familiar blue phoenix with bored-looking round eyes.

"Are you alright, Enel-yoi?" Marco said as he instantly turned back around and flew back towards their ships at the greatest speed he could muster, this time with Enel within his grasp.

"... Been better..." Enel said with a wry smile, he was a bit shocked to hear just how weak his voice sounded.

The last thing Enel could remember was Marco's cheeky smile as he passed out.

'At least they won't be executing me...' Enel thought to himself as his consciousness slipped.

While the Whitebeard Pirates were still fleeing, the Marines were recovering from Enel's attack.

Most of Marineford had been flooded, and they also had a lot of people to fish out of the waters and break out of Aokiji's ice.

Sengoku could feel a headache coming to him as he realized that their pathetic loss had all been televised to the world.

Although he had asked for the broadcast to be stopped at some point, it still continued at some pirates had found the recording device pointing at the stage.

Sengoku ripped some of his hair out in frustration as he tried to reason with himself, he could only find it in himself to blame one person for his failure.

'Enel... Whatever your reason was... I won't forgive you for this...!' Sengoku's anger could hardly be quelled, Garp could only sigh as he took off his coat and started drying it off.

'That brat really went and did it, huh?' The old man thought to himself, suppressing a smile as he realised that both of his grandsons had survived the ordeal.

Akainu was surprisingly not as angry as Sengoku. The most prevalent emotion inside him was currently confusion.

He simply refused to believe that Enel was a dirty criminal. He knew that the Rear Admiral had been temperamental and that he had always been a bit prone to insubordination...

But Akainu also knew that Enel had a strong sense of justice, unwavering even, that thing one simply couldn't fake.

Enel went out of his way to hunt pirates and even got into trouble with the World government in order to dispense justice.

Akainu knew that Enel didn't gain anything from those situations, yet he still chose to put himself in them.

Akainu had respected that part of Enel. Now he wasn't sure what to feel anymore.

'... I will definitely be the one to catch him. He better have a good reason for this when I do!' That was all he could think about as he huffed to himself.

His thoughts were somewhat similar to that of Hina actually, who was just as confused and angry as him.

She internally vowed to capture him and force his reasons out of him.

She needed to find out. If all of it had been a lie, and if their friendship was also a lie. To her, it hadn't been one, but she couldn't be sure if it was the same for Enel anymore...

Although the marines had lost the war in its entirety, the World Government had lost just as much.

Not even a day passed since the war ended, and Sengoku was already replaced by Akainu, being forced to resign as the brunt of the mistakes was blamed on him.

The Marines were also forced to start moving their main base the Holy Land Mary Geoise, as Marineford needed to be completely rebuilt, and the World Government decided to just move the Marine base closer to the Celestial Dragons.

This had everything to do with the fact that Enel was still at large, and the 5 elders wanted to assure that the Celestial Dragons were well protected.

Akainu was rather mad about that major change, but he couldn't exactly argue with the reasoning...

The problem was, that now the brunt of the Navy as an organisation was delegated to protecting the World Government in its entirety.

Basically, everything above a Rear Admiral needed to protect the Celestial Dragons at all times and were ordered to be stationed inside the holy land at all times.

This was done extremely quickly after the war, and the marines were still recovering, so no one had any time to dispute these orders.

Still, Akainu wasn't stupid enough to not realize that many marines would likely be forced to resign. He had already been around plenty of Celestial Dragons, so he knew that they weren't going to be accommodating to others...

But that problem would be addressed at another time. Right now, Akainu needed to handle the logistics of both moving their main base and recovering from the war at the same time...

Surprisingly, Aokiji decided not to put more salt on the wound and try to dispute Akainu's position. Instead, the Ice Admiral started helping Akainu with the paperwork.

The world itself was shaken by the war.

No one had expected things to go the way they had. Not only that, the entire world now knew that Portogas D. Ace was the last living blood relative of Gol D. Roger.

And, unlike his father, the marines had completely failed to execute Ace, and his whereabouts were now completely unknown.

Then there was Enel... The 'Unranked Admiral', as some had called him after the Dressrosa incident, was formally stripped of all of his achievements and rank.

He was shunned by the world government for his efforts to save a pirate as Vile as Roger's spawn.

With this event, Enel had proven his strength to the world, striking fear in the hearts of many with the rise of yet another extremely dangerous pirate.

With this, he also gained the full attention of the world government, becoming yet another enemy they had to worry about and take countermeasures against.

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Hope you liked the chapter! War is officially over, eh?

There's still quite a bit to write about regarding the repercussions. The mc would also obviously gain a bounty after pulling a stunt like this.

Btw, mc was about to just light speed away in a random direction with whatever energy he had left and hope for the best, Marco did kinda save his ass on this one :))

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