User blog comment:Fliu/How the Whole Cake Island Arc Should Have Ended/@comment-3986064-20180420084323

I think that since the archipelago is so big, it seems sensible to keep the ship intact and ambush them once they board it. They could easily hide somewhere within the chaos before the bureaucratic machine of the Big Mom pirates starts working or Big Mom recovers from her rage and starts using her homies for surveillance.