The Shells Timeline

The Shells Timeline is an alternate reality that extends to after Monkey D. Luffy becomes the Pirate King. The timeline was created by Lvdoomien and is the reality where all of his short storys and the story Shells takes place.

= Overview = The Shells Timeline is the resulting period that occurs when Monkey D. Luffy becomes the Pirate King and then passes away soon afterwards. Due to Luffy's constant use of Gear Second and his encounter with Magellan, his life span has already been shortened greatly and about a week after becoming King of the Pirates he passes away. The news takes about a week to reverberate throughout all four corners of the world, but results in one of the bloodiest and deadliest times in recorded history.

KingFall
After Luffy's passing, the resulting news causes two months of complete agony and anarchy throughout the world. Officially named "the Fall of the Last Pirate King", this time period has also been dubbed "the Death Echo", "Doom and Doomly", "Hell's Ocean", or more popularly, "KingFall".

As the word of Monkey D. Luffy's passing spreads through the New World and into Paradise, many of the people either directly or indirectly affected by the actions of the Youngest Pirate King go into mass hysteria. As civil unrest spread throughout the ocean many citizens began to revolt against their governments and the World Government, believing that now that Luffy was not there to change the world for the better for them they had to do it themselves. At the same time, many pirate crews took the opportunity to aid these revolutions for their own benefit or for the benefit of the people.

Then, the Marines got involved.

Sakazuki's Folly
Fleet Admiral Sakazuki, better known as Akainu, saw this mass outbreak of chaos and piracy as a way to purge the world of the threat known as piracy. In a very bold and very controversial move, Fleet Admiral Akainu ordered all active Marines and the Seven Warlords to attack and destroy all pirates aiding the worldwide revolutions, despite direct orders from the Gorosei to not make such a drastic choice and despite being advised against it by the three Admirals.

When the order reached the Marines placed throughout the ocean, all active marine ships directed their attention to the locations of any pirate activity or presence. The resulting confrontations throughout Paradise and the New World greatly angered the local governments and the Four Emperors, which caused even more confrontations and resistances against the Marines. Meanwhile, many pirates who had decided against aiding in local revolutions instead began attacking the overextended Marine outposts and bases. This further weakened the Marine's grasp on the situation and caused Sakazuki to make a final, desperate move in an attempt to save his botched order.

Sakazuki originally set out with his crew of Marines to take down the remainder of the Straw Hat Pirates, who were still in the area of Raftel. However, on the way there a mutiny occured and Sakazuki was shot down by his own men out of anger for his failures as a leader. After that Sakazuki's crew were pardoned officially by the Gorosei, being dubbed as the Favored, and sailed off into obscurity as the rest of the ocean fell into chaos.

By the end of those two months, many of the most notorious pirates and Marines had been arrested or killed in the worldwide conflicts. Along with that a large amount of those crews and Marine locations were destroyed or disbanded, leaving a large power gap throughout the ocean. The Four Emperors were also left extremely weak from these two months, and all four of them were overthrown or lost their grips on the New World. With no will left to fight, the entire ocean was left in a silence and began to rebuild itself.

The Silent Score
The next twenty years after this consisted of a lot of inactivity from the Marines and piracy.