The Liberation War

The Yonko; Columbus, the main antagonist of the liberation war saga

The "**Liberation War Saga**" (解放戦争編 Kaihō sensō-hen), also referred to as the "**New World saga**", is the latest saga of *One Piece: The Aftermath.* Continuing from the "**Rise of a New Generation" and "Kenzan Saga", as well as happening in tandem to the H.E.L.L saga**. It covers G-7's entry into the New World and their quest to rescue Durwin Zen from **"The Emperor" Wabi Wabo,** only for them to discover a larger scheme unfolding in the shadows.

## Summary

### A Message From a Friend

Shortly after their departure from the island of Kenzan, G-7 would be surprised with a visit from the infamous rogue news reporter Denny Denny harboring them a message to their captain from Durwin Zen, with the Supernova requesting aid in the finding of the Pseudo Ancient Weapon known as Asclepius to prevent it from falling into the hands of Wabi Wabo, revealing he has also asked all other former members of the Nimbus for help, barring Taejin.

Denny would reveal albeit incidentally the latest events in the new world such as the clash between the emperor and another Yonko Colombus, as well as the existence of a mannequin fruit user. Upon learning of this information G-7 would scrap their vacation and true to their nature go on an unauthorized mission to the new world with the help of Captain Tabbineko's teleportation powers who happened to be present due to James' adopted kids wanting to see him.

After quickly saying his goodbyes, with Scuttler being entrusted to act as a babysitter and gifting two baby giraffes to his daughters he would take his crew and be teleported to one of the three only marine bases in the New World, G-12. There they would be re-supplied with equipment suitable for travel in the new world as well as preparation for their dangerous journey with help from vice admiral's Spence and Oddity.

Tabbineko would express his disdain for G-12, calling it "the worst marine base ever" before teleporting away, as the crew set sail towards the pirate haven of Beehive with a new addition to their group in the form of marine scientist Killa who asked to join them in their quest due to his interest in the mechanical snake known as Vhagar, and desire to further his research.

in the hopes of gathering information during their travel they would take on a fake pirate identity to hide their marine allegiance, going as far as completley redecorating the Helios and inventing new names and taking on new outfits to blend in a world dominated by pirates.

### The New World, right into the Wasp's nest!

The logpose would eventually lead G-7 into the pirate haven of Beehive, a desert island with little to no information on it available to the marines. Beehive serves as a ain focal point of pirate gatherings and houses a bustling market for all sorts of materials and items that arent found anywhere else.

Using the fact that David Wild induction into the marines was still a secret, G-7 would present itself as a pirate crew that is lead by the former warlord crewmember, going by aliases such as Gold (James), Platinum (Silas) and Bronze (Killa).

With their new identities they would dock the Helios far away from shore to avoid trouble, and fly towards the bustling market town in search of any information regarding the whereabouts of the Gambling Sharks where countless high profile pirates as well as new faces to the new world roamed, such as the vicious fishman "Kaiser Neptune" and the "accursed" Adrian Abel as well as "Zombie" Mummyman, many of whom already registering the group under their radar.

As the crew explored the market for information they would eventually encounter a man going by the name of Darian, who greeted the group after Hamza bumped into him. Darian would appear as a nice and kind individual before departing the group to their own devices.

Eventually Killa would run into an arguement between Brutus Khan and another pirate known as Grudenburg, where the Khan was questioning him about the location of Durwin Zen. Failing to extract any info, the Khan would then make his way towards the Gravestone pub while being trailed by the marines.

He would eventually catch on to this and confront G-7, the conflict being only resolved due to Killa's quick wit of feigning interest in joining his pirate crew by punching David in the crotch, as well as the swift interference of Darian who was revealed to be the owner of the pub.

Darian would then claim to be a member of the gambling sharks and the supposed lover of L'oreal, he would then request G-7's help in finding them and guide them towards the skull temple that layed in the middle of the island distrustful but unable to go on without other leads, James would agree to helping him. However as G-7 made it's way towards the temple and passed its protective barrier laid down by its shrine maiden, Darian would reveal his true colors as a member of the yonko's crew, revealing the gambling sharks have been captured and that he was here to finish off Lo'real after she managed to escape.

A battle would then break out inside the temple between the marines and the 700 million bounty pirate, as Silas and Killa went in to rescue the shrine maiden and Lo'real while the rest held off Darian who was armed with the powerful transfer transfer paramecia and a style of combat that utilized football allowing him to be a potent combatant both at range and at melee.

Unusual to their ways, G-7 would employ a defensive strategy against Darian, focusing on rescuing the injured and fleeing rather than engaging in an unnecessary battle in hostile territory. The battle would be fierce with Darian's football techniques scoring vicious hits against David and Silas, nearly incapacitating both while using his devil fruit to be nigh invulnerable to their attacks.

Killa would make his way out of the temple upon rescuing Lo'real, managing to run into the Khan outside who turned out to be an ally of the gambling sharks, before securing the injured woman and accompanying the pirate captain back into the fight just in time to witness Darian's signature technique blasting away all of G-7, minus James who was out of the way and Killa who hid behind the bulky body of the Khan.

Upon entering the temple Killa would utilize one of his many creations, a bronze centipede that would crawl towards Darian's spine and paralyze him, before an enraged Khan (now in his hybrid form revealing his mammoth ancient zoan) struck down at him with his full might, Darian being able to survive the critical blows due to his transfer ability that re-directed its damage towards the attacker. G-7 would not linger and would immediately retreat after sensing the approach of a the Yonko commander, "the hornet of virtue". An enraged Khan would turn his attention towards the rear admiral believing him to have kidnapped his crewmate of Killa, however he would be ignored as G-7 would witness the hornet swiftly and effortlessly strike down the mammoth and free her subordinate, having barely managed to escape back to the Helios.

The crew would return into a damning scene as they discovered the Helios was attacked by forces of the emperor, lead by one of his sons Mercules, "The demon of paradise" Izo and his commander Crazy Tie. The crew's investigation of the crime scene lead them to the results of this attack, with Nels having died in the assault and Haneyana kidnapped, while Killa managed to discover a long arm by the name of Sage Pancha who would after recovering from shock, fill the crew on the events.

The crew's investigation would also lead them to find out about the fact that "Godhand" Noah was still alive, as he and an unknown ally helped fend off the attackers. Lo'real would also fill the crew on the fate of the gambling sharks, revealing that Durwin zen had been imprisoned in Wano while the rest of her crew was scattered, their fates unknown.

The only lead to G-7 would be a viver card with the letter "S" that Nels had died protecting. After giving the musician a proper sea funeral and recuperating from the damage, they would set sail once more following the card and continue their weapon hunt against the emperor.

### The Suicide Misson: March on Yonko Territory

Sailing through a storm in the new world, the viver card would eventually lead the Helios into the heart of enemy territory and the main base of the emperor, Wano.

Using the mecha snake's jet boosters the battleship would easily fly atop the waterfall into tue land of the samurai, but quickly started falling once they ran out of energy, only avoiding a crash due to David using his awakened push push fruit to cause the vessel to slide onto a lake of frozen ice, in Ringo. The crew would then disembark and head off following the card, eventually marching through the infamous graveyard and even passing by the graves of countless infamous people.

Their search would end when the confused marines would stumble upon a wounded wolf pup, as well as a strange stone mask and a cursed sword.

After putting the mask on, the wolf would slowly turn into a member of the gambling sharks known as Sin due to the power of the human human fruit infused with the mask. Sin would go on to inform G-7 about the whereabouts of his crewmates, now imprisoned in Udon as well as the presence of warlord in Wano. With this new information, James would decide to fly towards the capital and negotiate with the emperor instead of trying to fight him. He would eventually succeed in convincing Wabi Wabo to call off his hunt for the weapon, despite the unauthorized attack carried by David and Silas against the prison of Udon as well as in exchange of forming an alliance with the Wabi pirates against his rival and fellow emperor of the sea, Colombus.

G-7 would then free Durwin Zin of the gambling sharks without Wabi Wabo's permission, and ally themselves with a warlord of the sea before leaving Wano and using an illusionary doppelganger puppet to replace Durwin in his prison cell. Durwin now acting as their guide, would then inform them that the weapon was in the land of giants, and that Columbus was also going after it. The crew would also spot an engagement between an unkown fourth party and Colombus's forces off the shores of Wano, with the unknown party going by "F" and informing them that Colombus was amassing his armada to carry out an attack against Wano.

Before G-7 was able to set sail towards Elbaf they would be beset upon by one of the liberation commanders of Colombus's armada, known as Andre the titan and user of the titan mythical zoan. After a brief attempt to hide their presence in an attempt to pass off as passing pirates, a battle would erupt as the titan mistakenly assumed Killa was a revolutionary officer. The clash would be brief as the forces the marines, the warlord and the recently revived Kalahand would decimate the liberation commander, killing him and his entire crew before destroying his ship after looting it for valuable information regarding the seraphim.

### Bankai - t*he terror of the seraphim*

However not long after their victory over the commander, the forces of G-7 would be ambushed by the yonko's new seraphim, as S-Joey attacked the ship flooding it with shadow puppets of undead foes using the bankai fruit. Battles would rage across the Helios both in the lower and upeer decks, as most puppets would end up slain with the seraphim having to defeat most of the marines himself, while keeping the warlord and other forces onboard with busy with his more powerful shadow puppets. The seraphim would eventually be forced to retreat by Silas Raeves but not departing before also taking captain Hamaza with him as Doctor Flammel sought her for eating two devil fruits. This would lead G-7 to launch a rescue operation and assault on the territory of Columbus; **Elbaf** in order to save Hamza and hopefully stop the emperor.

### War Breaks Out

As G-7 made their way through Elbaf; Columbus launched his assault on Wabo Country with Four of his Liberation Officers and his Freedom Cards. With each of the Officers engaging with members of the Emperor Pirates whilst Columbus made his way to the palace in order to defeat Wabi Wabo. However, what Columbus did not anticipate was the arrival of marine forces in an undercover operation to attack the Emperor of the Sea spearheaded by "Shitty Fishery", who led several hand-picked marines in a operation to defeat the Liberation Armada and strike down Wabi Wabo's forces in one swift combined motion.

When G-7 arrived as a result of Killa's alterations to the "Black-Box" created by Doctor Flamel; the group ended up seperated across Wabo Country; with Silas nearby Meldy; David & Killa arriving near Yukiou, with James & Chaku arriving within the captial respectively.