@CodedTech:
Didn't Ace do the same thing with his Fire Gun? He didn't seem like he merely extended himself in that case.
True, but it's a minor attack that seems designed to harass Augur more than actually kill him. For major attacks, he turns his body into flame and then directs it towards an opponent. Ener, on the other hand, usually uses the lightning that consitutes his own body for showy, but relatively minor attacks while generating massive lightning bolts for major attacks.
Based on what Oda said and what we've seen in practice, Ace's ability to generate fire is very limited in comparison to Ener's ability to generate lightning.
@Greg:
Doesn't seem to be much of a problem for Luffy. Especially now considering his Gears. So long as he has something to grasp onto, he can launch himself just about anywhere with Rocket. Let's not forget how far he stretched in Drum.
Remember his handicap during the fight was having that huge weight on him. Without that and the power of Gears….holy shitballs....he would have taken Maxim apart like an Erector set.
Considering that we don't see him stretch very much at all in Gear Two, I'm not sure how well Rocket would work there.
Gear Three is up in the air; his body stretches quite a bit, though it seems that he has trouble inflating more than one body part at a time. If so, a Gear Three Rocket would have one massive arm with one regular sized one. That might throw off his aim a bit. Of course, he might be able to half inflate each arm, but that would likely require more control of Gear Three than he currently possesses.
Of course, this is all provided that Ener doesn't know what he's up to and simply move Maxim out of the way before Luffy gets there. Assuming that his miniarc is occuring in real time (which is possible; the Miss Goldenweek arc has her receiving a newspaper reporting the demise of Baroque Works as front page news, which would indicate that it's only been a few days at most since that event), he's flown to the moon in a few weeks, which would mean that Maxim is pretty damn fast.
Anyway, tearing apart Maxim while he's on it and it's several hundred or thousand feet above sea level might not be the best idea. Not that that would stop Luffy of course.
Does Ener give two shits about the Blue Sea?
Probably not, but I don't know that he does about anything besides himself.
We may find out I imagine in his story and whether it connects to reality in OP or not (seeming unlikely but whatever) but although Ener was a sick bastard….he really didn't seem all that interested in the Blue Sea. Just my take on it, I'm not Oda.
He probably couldn't care less about the Blue Sea, but the mere fact that it would piss Luffy off if he went around destroying things would probably be enough of a motivation for him. That and the fact that he hasn't ever been there and his own inflated ego would push him towards going down and proving that he can run the place. Not that he necessarily could, but I doubt Ener would admit it.
I dunno if any of it's all that valid since we dunno if he'd actually care about doing anything but getting OUT of the Blue Sea. I'm not sure if he even has motivation to unleash Maxim's power down there beacuse his goal wth Skypiea was to return life to what it used to be. What good will that do on the Blue Sea?
I don't know that traditional motivation is key when discussing Ener for the reason mentioned above. Ultimately, he's been to the Fairy Vearth and has gotten bored with it (well, presumably, the original premise of this thread doesn't say as much) and has been to the White Sea and was bored with it. He might as well check out the Blue Sea as he's seen everything else.
