One Piece 525

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One Piece
Chapter 525: "The Undersea Gaol, Impel Down"
CP9's Independent Report, Vol. 31: "Someday We Shall Return"
[TN: lol at Berry Good's state of affairs =p]

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Garp: Ahh, I do wish you and Luffy had become great Marine officers like I wanted you to... / To think that you would both do the very opposite and become terrible rogues.........!!
Ace: ...............!!
Garp: Oh, yes. / Come to think of it - I told Luffy about his father... / He was rather surprised to learn that he even had one!
Ace: It doesn't matter whether... we know it or not... the fact remains that both Luffy and I... / ...have the blood of a global-scale criminal flowing through our veins... how could we possibly become Marines.........? // ...However.........!! // I took the name "Portgas"... from my mother, whom I owe a great debt...
Garp: .........
Ace: ...I don't care one jot for that half of my blood that came from my useless father... / I don't have any memories... or any debt to him whatsoever...
Garp: ......Well, I suppose that makes sense... That guy being how he is............
Ace: And that's why......... Gramps...
Garp: !

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Flashback!Whitebeard: This is no place for you to die, boy...
Flashback!Ace: .........?!!
Flashback!Whitebeard: Take my name upon your back... / ...and rage across the seas to your heart's content......!!! // Become a son of mine!!!
Ace: I have only one father......... // And that father is Whitebeard...!!!!
Garp: .........

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Marines: Vice-Admiral Momonga!! Vessel sighted! / Pirate ship sighted at 10 o'clock!!
Momonga: Who is it...?
Marines: I'm sure I've seen that mark somewhere before...... / I'll look it up immediately!
Momonga: If you can't even remember its owner, then it cannot be anybody particularly noteworthy... / Just leave them. We're on a strict schedule for this journey.
Marines: Yessir!!
Momonga: This is Momonga, Marine Code G-1 00660.
[Box: The battleship with Luffy and Hancock on board...]
Momonga: We will be entering the Current momentarily. Prepare the gates!
[Box: ...is approaching the Tarai Current, which Marine ships use to travel between the three central Government institutions.]
[Map: Marinford // Impel Down // Current Location // Enies Lobby]

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BuggyCrew: ......W... We may have managed to get this far on our own, but... // Aaghh!! Check it out!! It's a giant Sea King!! // It - It better not look this way! // I really don't think there's anything more we can do, Alvida-neesan!
Alvida: Oh, stop relying on me! // You were the ones who said you wanted to come here, weren't you? / Even spending all that cash on an Eternal Pose...
BuggyCrew: W... Well, we have to save Cap'n Buggy from Impel Down!!!
Alvida: Take a look out to sea. You're looking at the Calm Belt, a veritable nest of monsters. / ...Do you think you can survive that in a ship like this? // ...Well, I ask that, but the only other path is a route open only to Marine vessels. / It's not like a pirate ship could ever gain passage through the Gates of Justice, after all...

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Mohji: No way~~~~! You're telling me we can't even get there...?!!
Richie: Grrrrrrrrrrr~!
Cabaji: At this rate...!! Cap'n Buggy could end up sentenced to death!! // Just like Ace, who we made friends with before!!
Alvida: Impel Down is the world's greatest gaol, impossible to infiltrate, impossible to escape. // You really should just face reality and give up already. / The days of "Buggy the Clown" have come to an end.........
Mohji: That's just not true!!! Cap'n Buggy is......!!! / He's not the kind of man who would let a thing like this finish him off!!!
Cabaji: That's right! Until the day we find the Treasure Island of Captain John we've been searching for all this time...!! / We'll never stop following Captain Buggy!!!
Richie: Grrrrrr!!!

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Alvida: Well, do as you wish......... / I'll take the Big Top for myself... // ...so you can just go off in a rowing boat.
Mohji: Whaaaaat?! No way!! This is Captain Buggy's ship!!
Alvida: Yes, and where is that Captain Buggy, hmm?
Mohji: I......... guess he's not here...
Alvida: I'm not prepared to sail to my own certain death. And I'm not putting this ship to such a waste, either. / So you just take a little boat, and chase after Buggy to your hearts' content... // Although I daresay you'll end up dead long before you get anywhere near Impel Down.
Mohji/Cabaji: Captain Buggy~~~~~~!!! We thank you sincerely for all you have done for us~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! // Farewell, dear comrade!! We will never forget you!!! // We hope your death is swift and painless!! Farewe~~~~~~~~ll!! // Let us meet again in the next world~~!!!
Richie: Grrrrrr~~!!!
[TN: A~nd that's the difference between the Buggy Pirates and the Strawhats. Because the Strawhats would totally have gone for it in the rowing boat if they had to =p]

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[Box: The world's greatest undersea gaol... "Impel Down"]
Criminal: Buaaghh...!!! Aarghh!!! Aahhh......!!! *pant* // Aahh... *pant* // *pant*...!!! *cough* // Nguaaaahhh!!! // Aaaaghhhhh...!!! // Please...!!! Just kill me already!!! // Aaaaaghhhhhhh!!!

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Prisoners: Hey, new guy......
NewGuy: !
Prisoners: Whaddaya think you're doing...? Sitting there, gnawing your bread, without even a word... / ...to the Boss of this room...? // Newbies have to give all their bread to the Boss! That's one of the rules of this place!!!
[BubbleSFX: cre~~ak...]
Prisoners: Hey, wait a minute already...!! // We just had a little fight, that's all!!! // We're not on Death Row!!! Let us out of here!!!
Someone: RUOOOOOOOGHHHHH!!!
Prisoners: AAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHH!!
Someone: RUOOOOOOOOGHHHHHH!!! // RUOOOOOOGHHHHH!!!

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[Box: Four and a half days have passed... // ...since their departure from the Isle of Women, Amazon Lily.]
Marines: Vice-Admiral Momonga!! // We have arrived at Impel Down!!!

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Marines: Thanks to a headwind, we arrived a little later than anticipated...
Momonga: Damn it all......... Let's hurry. / Call Hancock out here immediately!!
Marines: Yessir!!
Luffy: (.................. // ..................)
Marines: Hancock-dono!! We have arrived!
Luffy: ......What the heck...?
Marines: It's time to leave!!
Hancock: ......It is only natural, as protection for this, the most dangerous place in the entire world......
Luffy: There are more battleships here...... than there were in the Buster Call...!!! / And Ace......... is in a place like this...?
Hancock: .........I daresay he is deep down under the waters. // Now quickly, inside my robes...............

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[Box: Calm Belt; Great Gaol of Impel Down, Main Entrance]
Marines: Welcome to Impel Down, Vice-Admiral Momonga!!! // (W... Whoooooa...!! Ch... Ch, ch, check that out...! // ...That's the "Pirate Empress"!!! ...Talk about "Absolute Beauty"! // H... Her beauty just knows no end...!!! // How many thousands of volts of Beauty Power must that lady have?!! How many millions?!

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Hancock: All this chattering... truly they are an irritating bunch. / May I petrify them......?
Momonga: I would ask that you refrain......... // Now, about your condition...... you want to be able to see the central character of this incident, Portgas D Ace, correct? // As I told you before, ordinarily all pirates, Shichibukai or otherwise, are forbidden from entering this place. / You will only be permitted to enter if you submit to wearing a pair of Kairouseki handcuffs... / And you will have to undergo a strict full-body check at the entrance. // Just to make sure that you don't pull off any strange plans to free the prisoners, or the like.
Hancock: (...Luffy... they're going to do a full-body check...)
Luffy: (I'll deal with it somehow!! / Just carry on!!)
Hancock: So be it...!!!

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ViceChief: What?! Buggy the Clown?! Vanished from his cage......?! Is he a Fruit user?
Woman: Vice-Chief!! Vice-Admiral Momonga has arrived with the Shichibukai Hancock-dono!!
ViceChief: I'll be there right away!!
Marines: Whoa... O - O - Ohhh, she's cute... I - I mean, "Open the gates"!!!♡ // Understood!♡ Absolutely understood!♡
[Box: Until Ace's public execution...]
Hancock: (Here goes, Luffy...!!!)
[Box: ...thirty-three hours remain.]
[Insert text: Time to infiltrate Impel Down!!]