Quote Originally Posted by poopdeville View Post
I think he ran because Akainu can just burn through Blackbeard's body and turn him into a corpse. The Blackhole fruit makes him weak to Akainu's attack, and he probably hasn't mastered Whitebeard's earthquake punches. For now, his power is "only" good for destroying Islands.
Also because Akainu is a PSYCHO marine that also went toe-to-toe (not equal, but he put up an amazing fight) with Whitebeard and burned like half his face off and beat the shit out of countless other powerful pirates.

Yeah, he should be scared of Akainu.