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The moby dick was currently in slight disarray, it had been for the last week due to the fact that they had just gained a new brother. After multiple long exhausting weeks of him trying to assassinate pops the hot head (no pun intended) had finally agreed to join the whitebeards, the occasion was marked with fire fist ace getting their jolly roger tattooed on his back and many drinks shared between the pirate family.
one thing that Marco always seems to forget about whenever they throw a party is how big the whitebeard family is and how insane some of them can get when drunk, to be fair Marco isn’t the exception to this but still, after they have a party of this scale it usually takes them 2 weeks to get the moby back to a normal state
One other thing that Marco always forgets about, despite being on this ship for over 30 years, is the fact that at least twice a year the revolutionary army send over a representative to talk and maybe get information from the whitebeard pirates, they normally change the representative every couple years and whilst the Revs knows a fair bit about the whitebeards the whitebeards normally don't even know the name of the Revolutionary sent, due to this he and his brothers always end up with nicknames for whichever Rev turns up, the most recent being Blue gentleman, the Rev was named this due to the fact that he wears very fancy clothing and most of it is blue
So when said Blue gentleman arrived on the moby dick to see multiple broken planks being hauled around, atleast 5 sake bottles stuck in the sail and what looked like a massive drawing of whitebeard himself spanning across the deck and multiple other things the first thing marco said to him was
“It was worse two days ago”
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“It was worse two days ago”
Words you do not want to hear when you have just gone onto the ship of the “strongest man in the world” and seen multiple broken windows, various food items scattered across every surface, a cannon that's been stuffed with some weird green slop and…is that a mural of whitebeard?
Sabo looked around the moby dick more, focusing on the members, Marco the phoenix was currently working on the deck which had multiple planks missing, Diamond Jozu was doing…something with the mast, flower sword Vista was talking with other crew members and, sabo gave up on trying to find out where the division commanders were, there was too much chaos going on
“Did you get attacked or something?” Sabo questioned
“Nope” the first division commander replied “Just a party”
“This…this is just a party?”
“Yeah, not even our biggest one”
“And this party happened two days ago?”
“A week ago actually”
Sabo stopped and stared at the man who hadn't even looked away from the deck, a party a week ago had caused this much damage to this ship and it still hadn't been repaired. Sometimes sabo wondered how pirates survive on these unforgiving seas when they pull shit like this.
But he decided not to voice his concerns and instead focus on his reason for being here
“Do you have any-”
“Yeah yeah i know the drill, but as you can see we’re a bit busy, would you mind waiting an hour or two and then i can answer you questions”
“I would prefer talk to whitebeard”
“Pops won't be able to talk to you right now, just wait out here” he said continuing his work
Under other circumstances sabo would have tried to get this over with as quickly as possible but right now dragon has gone to east blue to apparently check on something, koala has been undercover for a couple weeks and hack has been avoiding sabo like the plague, so all the people that would either need him back or he could annoy at HQ were gone, honestly this was the most interesting thing that's happened all week
And so the blond boy makes his way over to the kitchens, for some reason sabo always instinctively knows where the nearest food source is no matter where he is, he always feels like someone something is waiting for him there, he can never quite place his finger on what though.
When he enters the kitchens the first thing he is greeted with is the fourth division commander, Thatch, standing on a pile of his fellow crew members.
“What in the world” Sabo’s words escaped his mouth before he could stop them, but honestly he was too confused to care.
Thatch turned his head towards the blonde haired boy and simply stated “couldn't reach the shelf” he then proceeded to grab various pots and pans from a high up shelf, throwing them down onto the heads of his crew eliciting many grumbles and shouts, Thatch laughed in response and jumped down onto to floor
“So, what brings you here monsieur en bleu”
“What did you just call me?”
“We started calling you blue gentleman but that name is boring, i added some pizzazz to it”
“Well that's…interesting, I'm just waiting for the phoenix to be done with his business, would you mind if i sit here whilst I wait?”
“Of course, have some food while you're at it.” The cook went over to the stove and started preparing a meal as sabo took a seat
“No that's fine, i can see that all of you are running around quite a bit, wouldn't want to add anything to your plate”
“Nonsense, no one goes hungry on this ship” Thatch said and continued making some food
The revolutionary decided not to argue anymore, instead he placed his pipe down beside him, after a couple minutes the 16th division commander, Izou, sat down next to sabo, they chatted for a bit then went silent as sabo watched whitebeards fix their ship. In the hour it took for thatch to make the food four fights had broken out, three people had crawled up the mast and flipped off it and fifteen people had tried to raid the fridge, one of them actually succeeded.
Needless to say after this Sabo’s worries for how pirates survived in this world had increased exponentially, food was set in front of him but the revolutionary didn’t react, as if he was in a shell shocked state
"Hey monsieur bleu...you there?" Thatch called waving his hand in front of the static revolutionary
"He hasn't said anything for the past hour" Thatch turned to Izou who was slightly chuckling at Sabo
"How...how are you pirates alive?" He exclaimed in a small voice
"I'm not sure myself"
"Food, sake and dumb Luck now eat"
Thatch and Izou said at the same time causing them both to laugh for a bit, Thatch patted sabo on the back in sympathy then left him with a still laughing Izou
"This is insane, your insane" sabo continued, still wide eyed
"Hey don't be calling us insane, you sailed the new world in a tiny ass boat" Izou retorted
"The revs don't regularly fight outside of training"
"Your really taking this hard aren't you"
Sabo simply turned to the man, mouth still hanging agape, and said
"You almost died three times, at the hands of your own crew"
Izou simply laughed even more, causing some of the other crew members to notice.
Before he knew it sabo was arguing? Talking? Having a discussion? With some of the whitebeard's about how to not die because of your own crew mate's. Sabo, to his frustration, was losing the argument.
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Ace woke up with a very tired yawn, last night the and the spade pirates stayed up for a long time simply talking, it was peaceful in a way Ace hadn't felt in a while, but they all agreed that what was said last night never leaves that group.
And so after that the first thing on his mind was food.
Acr got up from his hammock and, did he just step on deuce?
He made his way out of the small cabin area the whitebeard crew gave them, wait now he was a whitebeard, does he now say their brothers? He simply shrugged of his thought leaving it for not hungry Ace, he walked onto the deck to see how the chaos was doing to only find it in a slightly better state than he remembered
"This is almost as bad as Dandan's parties" The fire fist thought out loud
"Who's Dandan?" Someone asked, Ace turned his head towards the voice and saw...was that Jozu hanging on the side of the ship?
"What the fuck?" Ace questioned
"Ace, is your brain to mouth filter working?" Someone else asked, at this point Ace was too tired to try and figure out who
"I need food" was the only reply the speakers got as their new brother wandered in the direction of the kitchen.
Ace managed to get to the kitchen without any further problems, then he spotted the group of his new crew mates, they seemed to be sat around Someone talking about death? Murder? Chaos? Something along those lines, Ace simply let his nose guide him to the fridge, unguarded and ready for raiding.
As he made his way to the fridge at the back of the kitchen Ace took notice of who the other whitebeards were crowded around, before even thinking about it he held his hand out to the speaker who did the same, they did a quick handshake involving 2 fist bumps and some weird version of a high five before Ace continued his trek to the fruit.
Wait a second the only person he did that handshake with was...
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After Ace walked past him Sabo continued talking, not paying attention to anything until he noticed the whitebeards were not speaking, Sabo quickly racked his brain, trying to think of what he did until he realised.
He whipped his head towards fire fist Ace, the man he did a handshake with, a handshake that Sabo didn't even know existed.
"Sabo?" Ace said in a small voice, a voice that none of the whitebeards had ever heard before
"Ace?" He replied, tears coming to his eyes as memories flooded his brain, Ace, Luffy, Dandan, The bandits, Gramps, all of it came back in an instant, the memories still foggy, not quite visible, but they were there, Sabo's internal monologue was interrupted with a punch to his face
"SABO YOU FUCKING BASTARD"
The blond looked up at his forgotten brother, Ace had an angry expression but tears were staining his cheeks, after all these years Sabo still had the ability to read Ace like a book, he scanned his brother spotting how he has grown up in the past years, when he spotted the tattoo on Ace’s upper arm a laugh escaped Sabo’s throat
"Did…you really……misspell… your own…..fucking name?" Sabo managed to gasp between laughs.
Ace’s instantly flushed red causing Sabo to laugh even more
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Marco was…confused to say the least, he just walked into the kitchen to see a small crowd formed around blue gentleman who was laughing his ass off and ace who was shouting at him like a madman
“SHUT UP BITCH YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD” Ace shouted, now that marco looked properly he could see Ace’s ears become a dark shade of red
“Oh…im sorry… this must be horrible AC-S-E” the revolutionary laughs clutching his stomach
“SABO IM GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU”
Wait…Sabo? Is that the revolutionary’s name? This is probably a good time to step in.
In that moment Ace lit his fist on fire, cocking his back to punch the revolutionary Marco, who didn’t want to start a war with the revs, decided now was definitely the time to step in.
“Alright, how about we don't incite the wrath of the revolutionaries yoi” he said, literally stepping in between to two people
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Before Ace could land a good hit on Sabo Marco got in between them
“Marcoooo you just ruined it” a voice called out “It was just getting good”
“Yeah marco let them fight” someone else piped up
Many more sounds of protest at the first division commander sounded from around the room until a single voice cut through
“I’m not going to fight him” Sabo said getting up “besides, i would win”
“Oh yeah right idiot” Ace snarked
“My bounty is higher than yours dear brother, even the marines think I’m better”
“hold on you two” Ace and sabo turned their heads towards the speaker, Izou “think i speak for all of us when i say how the actual fuck do you two know eachother?”
Sabo and Ace turned to each other at the same time…this was going to take a lot of explaining……………………………………Fortunately neither of the brothers liked going into detail about things and so ace simply turned to his new crew and said
“He's my brother who died, now he's alive” The fire fist then grabbed Sabo (as well as some food from the fridge) and ran away before the whitebeards could compute what he said, he dragged sabo over to a corner of the moby that he knew the whitebeards wouldn't find them in, allowing him and his brother some privacy, he tossed sabo some food and they ate in silence, both of them knew what was coming.
“So…why didn’t you come back?” Ace finally asked
“I…..I didn't remember…when my boat got shot i think i hit my head or something…genuinely couldn’t remember anything, not even my name” Sabo replied bringing his hand up to the scar over his eye
“And you got your memories back when?”
“When you said my name”
“You…you seriously got them back like 5 minutes ago?”
“Yup” Sabo chuckled “also I’m not letting go of the fact you spelt your own name wrong, how the fuck did you even manage that?”
Ace immediately looked away from Sabo and started fidgeting with his hands “I…I didn’t spell it wrong”
“You sure? You have amnesia as well?”
“The S is supposed to be there…the S is for you, its crossed out cause....well, y'know, you died”
Sabo’s mouth formed an “o” shaped before he started grinning
“Aww Ace you actually care”
Ace launched at Sabo starting a sort of catfight between them, through this the Whitebeards managed to find the brothers and haul them onto the deck for questioning, half an hour later the whitebeards had more questions about Ace and Sabo’s safety when they were kids than answers.
Both the brothers simply grinned at the Whitebeards before Sabo brought up the fact that most of them almost died by the hands of their own crew multiple times causing another argument/discussion/talk about how being attacked by your crewmates was NOT normal.
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“-Yeah but we’re adults at least, you guys were how old?”
“It doesn't matter, a pirate crew should-” Sabo stopped talking as the den-den mushi in his pocket rang, instantly he picked it up only to be met with an annoyed koala since he was apparently supposed to call every hour, unfortunately due to the whole “suddenly remembering you have two long lost brothers, both of which think your dead and one of them just so happens to be a very well known pirate who is extremely pissed at you” situation, that fact kind of slipped his mind.
“All Right, well we are going to have to talk about this another day, I’ve got to head back now, soo yeah” The revolutionary then proceed to backflip off the moby dick onto his ship, waving off to the whitebeard crew, he saw his brother go to the edge of the ship as he shouted his goodbye’s
“SABO YOU BETTER FUCKING COME BACK”
Oh Sabo was definitely coming back whether Dragon liked it or not, there was no way he was going to not contact his brother again.