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Shrek and the Dance Party

It was the showdown of a century: the famed warlord and king of Dressrosa, Donquixote Doflamingo, versus beloved Scottish ogrelord, Shrek. Produced from a weapon in Rick Sanchez's bizarre arsenal, the avid One Piece fan watched as the two squared off.

"What is that thing?" Smoker asked the scientist, rubbing his eyes in disbelief. "It doesn't even look like it belongs in this world."

"He doesn't, but technically I don't either," Rick shrugged, before cheering on the bald ogre. "Come on, Shrek, go get him!"

"And just why do I—" Shrek began to ask Rick, only to suddenly freeze as a thin line of blood began to ooze out from around his neck.

"He's dead, that's what he is," Doflamingo interrupted as he held up a hand to pull on an invisible string, decapitating the Dreamworks mascot in a swift tug of a haki-infused attack using his devil fruit. "Now quit screwing around, I'm in a hurry! One of you is going to tell me where Straw Hat and Law went, even if I have to shred every person here to ribbons!!"

"Awe man, he didn't stand a chance," Rick lamented as he held up the gun that shoots ogres again. "Good thing this thing still has 5 more shots in it. Let's see if Doffy can handle more than one Shrek at once!"

Infusing his leg with armament haki, the warlord swung a kick at Rick faster than the eye could see, knocking the odd weapon from his hand and breaking the scientist's wrist. Clutching his trembling hand, Rick could sense string around his neck attempt to tighten, only for the sea stone layer that now coated his body to quickly dissolve it.

"That sea stone thing you did is really annoying," Doflamingo remarked as he infused both legs with haki now. "But my haki seems to be hurt you pretty badly, at least. I guess I'll just have to bludgeon you to death instead of just cutting off your head with string like I did to the green thing."

"I love you, Doffy, but put some respect on his name," Rick began as his cybernetic implants repaired his broken wrist. "His name is Shrek, and if you won't let me use my gun that shoots ogres, then I'll just test this bad boy out!"

Reaching into his white lab coat, Rick withdrew what looked like a small, glittering disco ball and threw it into the air.

"Taste the might of my groove grenade!" the scientist exclaimed as the disco ball began to spin and play "The Hustle" by Van McCoy. Almost immediately, the surrounding marines began to dance against their will, before Vice Admiral Smoker and even Donquixote Doflamingo himself began to get down and boogie. 

"A-again!? What are these strange powers that you keep using?" the warlord demanded, humiliated as he was powerless to stop himself from grooving along to the funky rhythm.

"A-ahhhh, we're dancing! Even Smoker-san is!" a random marine grunt shouted as he twirled.

Smoker glared at Rick as he raised his arms and began to shake his hips, before the scientist in turn started laughing at how ridiculous everyone looked.

"A-awe man, t-this is perfect, even a hard-ass jobber like Smoker has to dance like a goofball," Rick stammered as continued chuckling, before realizing that he was beginning to dance himself. "Well crap, I was supposed to be immune to this. Don't worry, this thing wears off sometime between 4 minutes and 5 hours."

"WHAT!?" the marines yelled in shock as an embarrassed Doflamingo and Smoker merely stared at each other.

"Whoa, what's going on here? A party?" a calm, cool voice suddenly sounded as a cold mist began to float through the area. "And I wasn't invited?"

"What the hell are you doing here?" Doffy asked a shadowy figure as it emerged from the mist.

"Oh shit, oh shit!! Kuzan!" Rick yelled excitedly as Smoker's eyes got wide.

Slowly stepping towards them was former marine admiral—and current member of the Black Beard Pirates—Kuzan. The reason why Punk Hazard was half a frozen wasteland, the ice man's appearance at the end of the arc was something that Rick had been looking forward to seeing since he'd first arrived in the One Piece world.

"I'm sorry, strangers, but could you please stop whatever this is?" the former admiral asked calmly as he looked towards Smoker. "I've come to visit this old friend of mine."

"The groove grenade, you're going to have to destroy that," Rick replied as he nodded towards the glittering disco ball.

Holding his hand up, Kuzan flash-froze the gimmicky weapon, causing it to fall to the ground and shatter, ending the dancing spell that it had casted and everyone in the area regained control of their bodies.

"Admiral Aokiji!" some of the marine grunts shouted, before correcting themselves. "I mean…former Admiral."

"You came just in time," Smoker commented, before nodding towards the warlord. "I'm pretty sure 'heavenly demon' here was about to try and silence my men and I."

"Oh?" Kuzan replied as he glanced at Doflamingo, who had grown enraged again, before turning to Rick. "And who is this stranger?"

"My name is Rick Sanchez, sir, it is an honor," Rick replied as he took the towering ice man's hand and shook it furiously. "Wow, I'm meeting so many big names already! And I haven't even met the Straw Hats yet. Speaking of which, I'd better get going and catch up with them."

"I still have no idea who this man is or if he's even on our side, but he prevented Doflamingo from slaughtering us," Smoker explained to Kuzan as Rick walked past them and headed towards the water. "He has some bizarre technology."

"Fascinating," the former admiral remarked, before looking down at Shrek's corpse. "And what is that?"

Now wanting to meet the heroes of the story, Rick simply departed the area and allowed the events going forward to take place on their own. One way or another, Kuzan was going to prevent Doflamingo from killing Smoker and his marines, and the king would have to return to his home country empty-handed but soon destined to run into the Straw Hat pirates sooner than he'd think.

As well as Rick.