with ace about to be executed live at marienford the entirely of the whitebeard pirates. Once the war starts ace's brother luffy arrives and gets him off of the execution platform. They're about to escape when the admiral akainu begins insulting whitebeard. Ace turns around to fight akainu and is about to die when suddenly out of nowhere Yamato appears and knocks akainu away

Yamato: ace! Your alive! she picks him up and hugs him tightly, ace falls into her "chest"