Rocks Pirates vs Garp And Roger

As we know, Rocks Pirates were a legendary pirate crew that were the most powerful during their era, thiry eight years before the current storyline. They were led by Rocks D. Xebec. Kaido, Big Mom and Whitebeard were members of this crew, along with many other pirates who made a name for themselves such as Shiki “The Golden Lion”, “Captain John”, “Silver Axe” and “Ochoku”. The crew strength at the time made them the most threatening pirates to the World Government.

 
Inside Marine HQ, Sengoku even says that Rocks D. Xebec’s ambition was involved with many of the world’s taboo subjects. This likely involves the Will of D., but what other subjects did he know about? The Void Century? The Road Poneglyphs? How much did his influence lead him to know about the world’s dark secrets? 38 years ago, the Rocks Pirates attacked several World Nobles and their slaves on a island known as God Valley.


On that day, Monkey D. Garp defeated the crew, earning him the title of “Hero of the Marines”. The Marines listening to Sengoku talk about how they never knew which of Garp’s heroic feats gave him that title. Sengoku adds that Garp tends to keep mum about the whole ordeal aside from the known historical facts. The first reason Garp likes to keep quiet about the battle is one that never made it into the public record. Garp had to fight alongside a pirate. The other reason is that Garp fought to protect the Celestial Dragons.

The introduction of Celestial Dragons into the story and Garp’s secrecy about protecting them surprise and confuse the present Marines. Sengoku explains that Garp’s moral code does not allow him to protect Celestial Dragons. It’s also the reason he never accepted the rank of Admiral, because he would be directly under their control. This is particulary interesting, since every single D. in the series has gone against the Celestial Dragons, being the natural enemies of the Gods: Garp refuses to serve them, Dragon wants to overthrow them, Luffy despises them and punched one of them, Roger was the Pirate King and great threat for the Celestial Dragons. The same threat is now represented by Blackbeard. Rocks led his crew on a mission that endangered the World Nobles and their slaves. Rouge bore the child of the Pirate King, Saul opposed the decision of Celestial Dragons to destroy Ohara and Law went directly against Doflamingo. The true story of the event known as the “God Valley Incident” is that Garp and Gol D. Roger met there by chance, teamed up, and defeated the Rocks Pirates. This revelation surprises the Marines most of all. Sengoku goes on to say that God Valley is no longer found on any maps. In reality, the entire island disappeared without explanation as if it never existed. Sengoku rephrased his description, saying that an island the World Government wanted to keep secret disappeared. How much relation this island has to Raftel? Raftel being an island of devils and God Valley being an island of gods seems to create an interesting parallel.

The Unstoppable Alliance between Bigmom And Kaido forms in Wano!

It is revealed by Hiyori that Kozuki Oden used to wield two powerful Meito blades in a style of swordsmanship that was a Daito Nitoryu (literally meaning “Long-Sword Two-Sword Style”): Ame no Habakiri and its sister blade Enma, the latter said to be the only sword that has ever harmed Kaido. Oden gave each blade to each of his children, Momonosuke and Hiyori respectively. The Ame no Habakiri (literally meaning “Snake-Slayer of Heaven/Takamagahara”) is the most famous Totsuka no Tsurugi, appearing in Japanese mythology as a blade used by the Shinto god Susanoo to slay the legendary monster serpent Yamata no Orochi. “Haba” is an archaic term for “snake.” Anyway Zoro accepts Hiyori’s offer to give him Enma in place of Shusui, despite Kawamatsu’s reservations.

In the meantime Law is freed from his imprisonment by a mysterious figure, and he cuts up Hawkins, who reveals that his alliance with Kid and Apoo was blown up due to Apoo secretly working for Kaido since the start. Then we see a shadowy figure who is letting Law escape. He’s probably the same person that allowed Law to break free from his cuffs. But who is he? It has to be X Drake! He was the only other person with Law and Hawkins. Furthermore, Oda recently stated that X Drake has a particular interest in Luffy x Law Alliance. On Onigashima, Kaido and Big Mom have stopped their battle and reveal to King and Queen that they have formed an Alliance to take over the World! As we know, the possibility of two or more of the Yonko forming an alliance was enough of a threat to cause the World Government to panic, as seen when it unsuccessfully attempted to prevent a meeting between Shanks and Whitebeard. The World Government feared that the two Yonko would unify, creating a much more imposing threat that would disrupt the balance between the Great Powers. Will this trigger the arrival of the Marines in Wano? If we remember Kizaru’s reaction to Big Mom and Kaido’s conversation on the den den mushi, we can assume that at least one Admiral will show up at the end of this gigantic conflict. By now, there are only five days remaining before the raid on Onigashima.

The Rox Pirates will reunite this arc. But how?

When the Rox Pirates were first introduced, garp stated that if they were to reunite, it would be beyond our imaginations to do anything about it. And now big mom and kaido have met up.With the way this is going I think that the rox will most likely reunite and that garp's statement at reverie was foreshadowing/hype for what is to come. But if they do reunite, what must happen? Well kaido needs to realize that the supernovas are not just rookies, they are not weak pirates, and they are a threat capable of directly challenging his power.

I think that sometime before the final battle, there will be a major clash in wano kuni in which some of kaido's strongest forces will be defeated by the supernovas. In particular, I think that jack, queen, hawkins, drake, and kyoshiro have a high likelihood of falling and possibly even joining the alliance this won't happen for jack or queen but could happen for the other three. I also think that luffy will be able to fight on par with kaido's base form and possibly even push him to using his hybrid.

In any case, these fights are extremely necessary. We have major characters like: law, kid, zoro, sanji, and maybe killer who have yet to have their time to shine, despite how far we are in the new world. You can't just have kid and law being able to fend off kaido and help luffy beat him if it isn't established that they are strong in the first place. So what happens then? Kaido realizes that the threat of the supernovas is very real and he realizes that luffy has immense potential and if not now, will eventually become a threat to him. He will then call for big mom, bakkin, and possibly other members of the rox to rejoin in order to defeat the members of the worst generation. In turn, I see the worst get getting help from other major factions including: shanks, blackbeard, the marines, or the revolutionaries

This will all culminate in a war that will by far eclipse marineford in terms of importance. Big mom and kaido will be overthrown, luffy and kid will replace them, and blackbeard will take up his former captain's mantle as the new strongest man in the world.

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Big Mom and Kaido allied to subdue Elbaf?

I just had a shower thought… oars’ giants race is officially named “ancient giant”. I assume kaido to have this ancient giant race’s blood and hence he might be some kind of last survivor of the species. Maybe kaido is half ancient giant half normal giant, which explains his appearance.

Now we know that big mom wanted elbaf’s powers by making an alliance with them, also she basically wants to subdue them. We don’t know kaido’s plans yet, but what if he also plans to take over elbaf as some kind of “righteous heir”?

In this theory I think both big mom and kaido will survive wano, wano will just tease both characters and both characters will end up in an alliance. It could be that they flee from wano and move forward to elbaf. This is the moment blackbeard invades whole cake island and moves forward. With that kaido and big mom will take over elbaf and subdue the giant species. I think elbaf will be the arc where we will see shanks and blackbeard might also jump in. The grand finale of the yonko saga.

Luffy Awakens His New Power Against Emperor Big Mom!

So Luffy is ready to use his new power against Big Mom. Will Luffy surpass the Yonko Big Mom?
Immediately after slamming Queen’s head into the ground, Big Mom defeats him by throwing him into the wall, and this knocks Kid and Killer out of the water and damages Kawamatsu’s cell door.

Big Mom then finds the o-shiruko container only to see that it is empty, and Luffy inadvertently reveals that he ate it, causing her to attack him and Hyogoro in a fit of rage. Big Mom forces the two of them out of the ring, but in the heat of the moment, Luffy successfully manages to rip off their collars. Luffy concentrated his haki to tear off the collars in the same way Rayleigh did with Camie in the Auction House in Sabaody! Luffy immediately sets off to escape, but Hyo stops him. Saying that Luffy could only progress his power when backed into a corner, he tells the pirate to protect him from Big Mom, putting his life at stake in Luffy’s training to advance his Haki. As Luffy stands in front of Big Mom we can see that both of his hands emit steam, just like Hyo’s arm emits steam before hitting Alpacaman.

Each Emperors Represents a Specific Test for Monkey D. Luffy

What if the Yonkou's represent the tests of heart, body, mind and soul on Luffy’s quest to find One Piece? In this scenario then,

Charlotte Linlin would represent the test of soul since she has acquired the powers of the Soru Soru no Mi after the death of its previous owner, Carmel, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows her to freely interact with and manipulate souls.

Kaido would represent the test of body since he’s renowned as the “Strongest Creature in the World”.

Blackbeard would represent the test of heart in fact a lot of people speculated that he ate Whitebeard’s heart (I have a feeling Oda might have drawn on some tribal customs, where eating the heart of a defeated foe grants you their strength). Finally Shanks would represent the test of mind.

Shanks would also be the hardest test – not only because of prior associations, but also because say what you like, actual planning and strategising just isn’t Luffy’s thing…

Next Major Opponents For The Strawhats

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StrawHats Advantage against the Yonkos and the World Government

So with Luffy D. Dragon now being acknowledged as the “5th Emperor among the Yonko”, I realized that Luffy’s power comes from him not having anything to hold him back. The world balance being kept as is from the beginning of the story is because if any of the Yonko or the World Government makes a move the other Emperors (or the World Government) will use this chance to gain something from it, for example: If Big Mom tries to fight Kaido in order to get a copy of the Ponyglyph or vice versa, Shanks, Blackbeard or even the World Government could use this chance to their advantage. Same with World Government…if they try to capture one of the Yonko, it will need all their military power to put on a fight and that will leave the world nobles and their bases without anyone to protect it.

But with Luffy in the equation, everything crumbels. Him essentially not needing to protect anyone that stays at the same place all the time, gives him the freedom to fight anyone he wants without worrying about them. He went to Whole Cake Island, gained things and left things behind but in the end he still survived and is on his way to fight Kaido. Wether he defeats Kaido next arc or not, I am sure he will come out with at least damaging Kaido’s territory and defeating most of his strong fighters (Calamities, Shogun, etc…). And here is the thing: when Luffy escapes from an Island, nobody knows where he is at or how they can lure him because he himself doesn’t have a territory to return back to and if Kaido or Big Mom wants to chase after him, they need to risk leaving their territories in the open for a long period of time because as far as we know they won’t be able to pinpoint his location quickly. Imagine if Luffy has a territory at his current strength, firstly he won’t be able to protect it from other Yonkos and the Marine. Secondly Luffy’s way of life is that he wants to have adventure not staying at the same place for a long time. Him also having kingdoms that support him in secret (Alabasta, Dressrosa and Water 7) works to his advantage as nobody knows about them except Smoker (Albasta), Fujitora (Dressrosa) and Aokiji (Water 7) which are considered very honorable people. That leaves us with Fishman Island which is supposed to announce soon that they are under Luffy’s protection and I think it being so far away from where the Yonkos are and directly under Mariejois will make it hard for anyone to attack it.