Dragon Ball World.
On a desolate, remote planet stood numerous alien structures, surrounded by scores of parked spaceships.
This planet served as the main headquarters for a powerful space pirate crew, housing a vast horde of ruthless, cutthroat criminals. Their primary line of work involved invading and plundering innocent planets, pillaging resources, and selling the surviving populations as well as the worlds themselves to shady intergalactic merchants.
This pirate organization was extremely formidable and notoriously infamous throughout the galaxy, having conquered countless worlds.
The very planet they occupied as their hideout had originally belonged to an indigenous species known as the Jinima race. However, a few years prior, the pirates had seized it by force. The original inhabitants had either perished during the invasion or been captured and sold into slavery by intergalactic slave traders.
Normally, no one dared to approach the stronghold of such a notorious pirate syndicate, as any unwary traveler risked being devoured alive without even their bones left behind.
Yet not long ago, an uninvited guest had arrived.
A giant spaceship had plunged from the sky, crashing directly into the center of their main headquarters and flattening large swaths of buildings into ruins. Naturally, many pirates trapped inside hadn't even had time to escape before being crushed to death.
At this moment, the leader of the pirate syndicate was leading a fully armed battalion, preparing to attack the crashed vessel.
However, just as they drew near, the spaceship's heavy hatch automatically slid open, and several figures stepped out from within.
"Roger, you absolute bastard! Are you trying to get us all killed?!" a tall man with a white, crescent-shaped mustache roared as he stepped outside.
Beside him, a middle-aged man with a black mustache retorted annoyed, "Can you really blame me? If Madara hadn't damaged the flight controls, do you think a pilot of my caliber would have landed like this?"
A black-haired man standing with arms crossed snorted in disdain. "Hmph. Blaming others for your own abysmal flying skills?"
At that moment, another black-haired man stepped between them to mediate. "Alright, alright, calm down! Didn't we land at our destination safe and sound?"
These individuals were none other than Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama, Whitebeard, Gol D. Roger, Nagato, and Uchiha Obito, who had parted ways with Lin Xuan earlier to travel across the cosmos.
Altogether, their group numbered fewer than ten people. Facing them, however, was a fully armed space pirate army tens of thousands strong.
Yet, despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered, the group's expressions remained completely composed.
Senju Hashirama stepped forward, looked at the crowd ahead, and called out in a booming voice, "You lot are that intergalactic pirate crew known as the 'Red Dragons', right?"
Across from them, a high-ranking pirate commander with a darkened face spat back, "Who the hell are you people?! How dare you act so reckless as to come barging into our turf seeking death?!"
"Hashirama, why waste your breath? Just beat them up already!" Madara said, his patience wearing thin.
As soon as the words left his mouth, his eyes instantly spun into the Sharingan, and the ethereal armor of Susanoo began to manifest around his body.
However, just as Madara prepared to unleash his full might—
POOF!
Madara's body suddenly exploded into a cloud of white smoke and vanished into thin air!
The entire battlefield fell into a stunned silence. Every pirate stood there, utterly bewildered.
In the next second, Senju Hashirama clutched his stomach and burst into boisterous laughter. "Bwahaha! Madara is still as unreliable as ever! Disappearing out of nowhere right at the crucial moment!"
Nagato shook his head and corrected him, "No, it seems Madara was summoned by Guild Leader Lin Xuan. Look at the group stream—Guild Leader is currently engaged in a battle over in his world!"
Uchiha Obito grumbled with a look of dissatisfaction, "Nani?! There's a battle on the Guild Leader's end and he didn't call me?! I'm clearly way stronger than Madara!"
Hashirama patted Obito's shoulder reassuringly. "Alright, if Guild Leader needs us, he'll surely call for us."
Watching Obito and the others casually squabble right in front of him as if his army didn't even exist, the pirate leader's face turned as black as coal.
"Arrogant fools! How dare you ignore me?! Open fire! Kill every single one of them!"
At his command, thousands of pirates immediately opened fire on the spaceship.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Under a barrage of high-powered artillery and laser cannons, a terrifying series of explosions engulfed the area.
"Hmph, damn insects! That's what you get for offending me!" the pirate boss sneered.
However, in the next instant, the billowing smoke and flames were abruptly snuffed out, returning the area to absolute tranquility.
What followed was a scene that left the pirates frozen in sheer terror.
A massive Wood Golem, several hundred meters tall, suddenly towered over the battlefield.
Standing atop the Wooden Golem's head were the remaining figures.
"Well, even though Madara is gone, we should hurry up and finish things here so we can see what's happening over on Guild Leader Lin Xuan's side!" Hashirama announced.
"Agreed!" Whitebeard bellowed.
Without hesitation, Whitebeard took the lead, leaping down from the massive Wood Golem. Coating his entire body in Armament Haki, he braved the torrential storm of gunfire and slammed directly into the center of the pirate army.
Instantly, advanced laser rifles and heavy cannons unleashed a hail of fire toward him.
Whitebeard activated his Observation Haki, effortlessly dodging every incoming beam. A wide, confident grin spread across his face. "Perfect timing! Let's see how you guys handle the combined power of my Tremor-Tremor Fruit and Ki!"
He raised his trusted bisento, Murakumogiri, channeling the destructive power of his Tremor-Tremor Fruit into the blade before slamming it downward into the earth.
BOOM!
The ground and the air violently shattered simultaneously!
Within a radius of hundreds of miles, the solid ground collapsed into a terrifying abyss, while molten lava erupted upward from the deep fissures in the earth.
At the same time, the others unleashed their devastating abilities.
If outsiders witnessed this scene, they would surely think these people were insane—a mere handful of individuals launching a frontal assault to annihilate an army of tens of thousands!
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