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An eerie silence falls over the battlefield as Luffy and Ace share a heartbreaking final moment together. With his dying breath, Ace begs his brother to convey a message to his fellow pirates.

Despite Whitebeard's order to retreat, Ace is drawn back to the battlefield by the cruel taunts of a Marine adversary. Luffy watches in horror as his brother makes what could be his last stand!

Ace is finally free from the execution scaffold! Luffy and his brother make a fearsome team as they blaze a path toward salvation. Ravaged by the war, Whitebeard wistfully commands his men to make the journey to the New World without him!

Luffy must defeat the man who taught him how to fight - his own grandfather - in order to save Ace. Battling his own flesh and blood won't be easy, but a waxy ally is there to provide back up!

Whitebeard orders his men to help Luffy clear a path to the execution scaffold, but someone close to the Rubber-man rises up to derail the rescue mission at the last second!

Luffy makes short work of face from his past, and Whitebeard struggles to withstand the full force of the Marine onslaught. With the executioner's swords hovering above Ace's head, Straw Hat Luffy discovers a new ability!

While awaiting his execution, Ace flashes back to a trouble youth spent seeking the truth about his father. Meanwhile, Luffy begs Ivan for a potentially-deadly treatment that will allow him to continue fighting!

The battle rages on and the bodies pile up as Whitebeard squares off against an Admiral, Luffy gets knocked cold, and the legendary Vice-Admiral Garp finally enters the fray!

Crocodile's unexpected assistance creates an opening for Luffy to advance, and Whitebeard has a surprise lurking beneath the ice that might swing the momentum in favor of the pirates!

With the ice melting beneath his feet, Luffy begins a desperate final charge towards his soon-to-be-executed brother. Should his rescue attempt fail, death will surely embrace them both!

Whitebeard shrugs off his injuries and leads a ferocious charge into the heart of the enemy's defenses, but three deadly Admirals join forces to silence his shock wave attack as the pirates find themselves surrounded by impenetrable walls!

Whitebeard is betrayed - and brutally stabbed - by one of his own men! In the wake of this unthinkable act of treason, allegations about the legendary pirate bring the battle to a halt!

Luffy and his pirate brethren have their hands full with an ominous army of unbeatable Kumas! While the inhuman minions march onward, Whitebeard encounters a former ally!

Luffy runs into a lethal roadblock in the form of Hawk-Eye Mihawk. The legendary swordsman is determined to halt Luffy's onslaught, but Ivan-san, Boa Hancock, and Jimbei aren't ready to give up the fight!

A gift from Boa Hancock and Ivan-san's Galaxy Wink get Luffy closer to Ace than ever, but a sword-wielding foe from the past threatens to derail the rescue mission!

Supernatural powers take center stage in the battle to save Ace as Luffy and his uniquely talented allies throw down with the Navy's own arsenal of Devil Fruit Eaters!

Luffy leaps into action, attacking the Naval forces with a frantic display of brutality. Meanwhile, Ace watches in horror as an army of zombies rises up to attack his brother!

Luffy appears on the field of battle with a ferocious sense of urgency. Ace could be executed at any minute, and the rubber-man's refusal to back down impresses even the most feared men in all the world!

In the wake of Little Oars Junior's tragic defeat, Admiral Sengoku hatches a devious plan to speed up the countdown to Ace's execution. The situation looks beyond bleak until a hero enters the fray from on high!

A towering giant of a giant known as Little Oars Jr. carves a path of death and destruction as he fights to save Ace. The monstrous mauler is within arm's reach of his friend when he's intercepted by the seven warlords of the sea!