Hey y'all! This is another flashback chapter detailing more of Shrek's past with his former love, Shadow the Hedgehog. It sets up the basis of the next few chapters as well

Shrek and his lovely, well, not so lovely because they were all evil, selfish, and rude (minus Magolor and Elsa probably. Also Deadpool seems pretty nice so far) league were sitting around at a beach.

"Shrek dear, you've taken us to the beach. Now what?" Elsa asked. She was the only one near him as everyone else was off minding their own business. Magolor and Tingle were burying Deadpool under sand while Phosphora, Anal, and Nui made sand castles. Chad was off strumming a guitar and sitting on a log while staring down at the sand. Elsewhere, Dr. Mario was tinkering with Metalface.

Off in the distance sat a frozen Captain America, Spider-Man, and Evil Deadpool. They were in ice blocks that covered their entire body, except for Captain America. His head was free and he could talk.

"Odd how we're all at peace right now after everything that recently happened to those other groups. I don't even know why we're doing this, it doesn't feel right," Shrek said solemnly. He sighed, sinking back and plopping down onto the sand. His lover sat down next to him.

"Our goals are important to reflect on, but you didn't answer my question. Why'd you take us here?" Elsa asked again.

Shrek looked at her and wanted to give her an answer, but he couldn't give her a real one. "To relax and take a break," he half-lied. While he led everyone to the beach because he had no idea where to go, it's true the group had been through a lot lately, but Shrek felt as if they didn't warrant a break. The only two who deserved breaks were Magolor and Dr. Mario, but the latter wouldn't even let himself take a break even if Shrek ordered him too. Poor doctor and space egg, losing their friendships and partners.

Shrek thought back. After all the changes he could sense that were soon to come, he decided now would be a good time to have a flashback...

Shrek stood in line with Shadow, holding hands as they awaited the line to die down so they could talk to the person at the desk. They were on Tortimer Island for vacation. They were going to stay at a lovely resort for a few days and have a romantic time.

"You packed all my KoRn CDs? Right?" asked the edgy hedgy. "I need my KoRn CDs or we'll have to go back."

"Aye lad, I packed them," Shrek assured his hedgehog boyfriend.

"Good," Shadow stated.

Shrek adored how Shadow had an emo, mysterious side to him. While he sometimes found it hard to take such a small adorable thing seriously, the tough vibes Shadow gave off also enticed Shrek in a serious manner.

The line kept dying down until Shrek and Shadow got to the desk.

"Hello, I'd like to rent a room for my boyfriend and I," Shrek said.

An old wrinkly turtle looked at both of them and made a weird face. Shrek felt bothered by it, but did his best to ignore it.

"What type of room?" asked the turtle. "We have Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Resort Experience rooms."

"Well we've saved up for an Resort Experience room," Shrek said. He pulled out his Visa Credit Card. It had an adorable picture of Donkey-Dragon babies on it, reminding him of his good old friend back home, Donkey.

"Sorry, we're out of Resort Experience rooms," said the turtle. He said it coldly in a rude way.

Shrek frowned, but Shadow patted his back. "It's okay," said the emo hedgehog. "Resort Experience is over priced and too mainstream prep anyway. We'll just take a Gold room."

"Gold is out too," the turtle said.

Shrek felt himself tick inside.

"Give us a Silver then," Shadow said.

"Sorry, I'm afraid that's no use," the turtle replied.

Shrek slammed his fist down on the desk.

"Then give us a damn Bronze!" he yelled.

The turtle stepped back, then grinned widely.

"Sorry, no rooms left. We're all booked!" he said with his crackling, dry voice.

Shrek hated him. Just hearing him talk now made him steam with rage. Shadow tried pulling Shrek back, but Shrek pushed him aside. That was one thing Shrek did not like about himself; he knew he had anger issues and that they hurt people around him, but he could almost never control it. It always made people calling him a monster make him feel even worse.

"Listen here, turdle. You are going to give us a room even if you have to kick someone out! I saw the face you made when you first saw us, and I know you're just messing with us because you want to! Do you think it's okay to do this because I'm just some big ol' Ogre who doesn't having feelings? Are you repulsed by us for some bigoted reason? Give us the highest quality open room you have right this instant or I will take you to court!" Shrek yelled.

The turtle backed away futher, showing cowardice with his shaking body.

"Threaten me like that again and I'll be the one taking someone to court," the turtle snapped.

"I only threatened to take you to court. I never implied I'd physically bring harm to you," Shrek spoke calmly. "Now give us a room or you'll be sued."

The turtle grumbled, then walked back to the desk and flung open his book. He had Shrek and Shadow both sign it.

Back in present time, everyone except for Shrek, Elsa, and Chad began to gather around Captain America.

"Come on Capsicle, tell us a story!" Deadpool pleaded.

"Yeah! Story time!" Tingle and Magolor copied.

Even Anal, Phosphora, and Nui began chanting. Dr. Mario just stood there with Metalface, not saying anything but looking interested.

"Fine! I'll tell a story, and don't call me Capsicle!" Captain America yelled.

"Okay, CAPTIVE America," Deadpool said.

"Don't call me that either!" Captive America yelled in reply.

Magolor, Tingle, Phosphora, Nui, and Anal then started chanting the nickname in unison.

"Gah! Stop chanting that and I'll tell you all a story!" he shouted.

Everyone quieted down as Captive America glanced around. He looked out into the ocean and gazed at the beautiful sunset. He saw an island in the distance and it brought back a flurry of memories.

"Ah yes, it happened a long time ago," Captive America begun. "I was back at an island resort. I was sent by Nick Fury to investigate it. Apparently there was an evil group of employees there, including the person in charge there. He was some homophobic asshat and denied people service for their sexual orientations."

"Wow, what an ass. I mean we're all evil people but at least we're not bigoted," Anal said.

"Yes. Truly the evilest scum are those who shun others for who they are," Captive America said.

"Yeah! That's just messed up, ruining people's happiness because of who they are! You're only supposed to ruin their happiness because you're evil!" Magolor said.

Phosphora was about to say something to mock him, but she stopped herself because the context would make her seem like a jerk.

"As I was saying, I had to go undercover in order to find out what was really going on. I went there with my ally Tony Stark and we posed as a couple to see if the rumors were true, and sure enough they were. We had to abort the mission because it turned out the island was supported by the government, who didn't want us taking it down even though the people who worked there are doing things that are literally illegal," Captive America contined.

"You should have obliterated them. Feckless scum like that doesn't belong in this world. They just keep us from progressing by being dicks to everyone. And this is coming from a mad scientist who wants to enslave the entire world and destory it," Dr. Mario said.

"I never thought I'd agree with a genocidal monster," Captive America begun, "but I agree."

"So is that all there is to the island?" Phosphora asked.

"Well," Captive America said awkwardly. "There was also many secret underground experiments done there. Including a bunch of top secret things I shouldn't be telling you. They do have an entire underground base and defense system there, though. My group always planned to attack there someday to prevent them from carrying out evil deeds. The government truly ruins everything," Captive America continued his story. He seemed angry just thinking about the people on the island.

Wow. Remind me not to ever go to that island with Spidey, Deadpool thought to himself. Not that he'd willingly come there with me in the first place. Damn.

"They have defenses and scientific labs? Hmm..." Dr. Mario thought aloud.

Captive America gave him an upset glare. "I knew I shouldn't have spoken about all their secrets. You're all going to be heading that way now, aren't you?"

"Most likely once Shrek hears about this, yes," Dr. Mario replied with a small smirk. "Besides, what is that ogre doing anyway?"

Everyone glanced toward Shrek who was sitting near the shore with Elsa. He looked deep in thought as Elsa was patting his back.

"Ah, well. I guess I can now tell of the time I fought Nazis in World War II. How does that sound?" Captive America said.

Everyone perked up in excitement. Captive America smiled, then started to recite his origin story.

"It all happened back during World War II, the sequel to World War I," Captive America begun. "I used to be a wimp like you," he said, pointing to Magolor, "and then I got these anchor arms."

"How did you get them?" Magolor asked, so intrigued he didn't even care if he was just insulted.

"Ah yes, how did you get them?" Dr. Mario asked as well.

"Well, I was injected with an experimental serum. Many bad things have happened from people trying to replicate it. It was very one-of-a-kind, and I was lucky to be injected with it. It completely turned my life around and made me who I am today," Captive America continued.

"So are you going to get replaced like you did in the comics or what?" Deadpool asked.

"Wait, what?" Captive America asked.

"Uh, nothing," Deadpool replied.

Shrek remembered how he and Shadow were placed in a small storage room. They were given dusty sleeping bags. The closest bathroom was nearly a mile away, in addition to the dining hall at the resort.

"It's okay. I like this place," Shadow spoke up. "It's dark and quiet in here. It's isolated too, I love it."

"Yeah? Well we should be in the most grand room of them all!" Shrek shouted. "You know what's not goth? Letting them restrict us to this cramped storage closet!"

"You're acting like a prep with how you're trying to motivate me," Shadow teased, hiding a sense of true annoyance.

"I'm sorry, but I'm just angry. I want to do something," Shrek pouted. "Let's try some of the food delivery here."

Shrek picked up the phone and a menu.

"Yes, I'd like an Ogre-sized Quarter Pounder Special," Shrek said. "And add a Mocha too. Shadow, what do you want?"

"I want Maria back. O-oh, uh, I mean, uh, I guess a Goth Burger," Shadow muttered.

"Goth Burger too," Shrek said.

The two then waited for about an hour. Shrek angry, Shadow displeased but mostly bored.

The door finally flung open with knocking. The turtle was there.

"Here's your food, but it's cold. You'll have to walk to the dining hall to warm it up. Sorry for the inconvenience," the turtle guy said.

Shrek was furious. He wanted to devestate the turtle at this point, but he kept himself restrained for now.

"By the way, we'll throw in a small pay and some free food if you deliver this pizza to the Bronze room along the shore about half a mile up," the turtle said.

"Sure," Shadow chimed in before Shrek could say anything.

"Alright," the turtle said to Shadow as he handed him the box. The turtle then walked off and left without another word.

Shrek and Shadow walked along the shore.

"See, this is nice. A romantic walk on the beach," Shadow said.

"Yeah, I guess. At least we're finally at the house," Shrek said. He grabbed the pizza from Shadow and knocked on the door. He knocked and someone flung the door open.

"Oh, there's my pizza," the guy said.

"Yeah. That'll be about $5, according to the menu here," Shrek said.

"Ah, well does that include the drink I ordered?" the guy asked.

Shrek froze. What drink?

"What drink?" Shrek asked.

"My drink. The one I ordered," the guy said.

Shrek had seen SpongeBob before and he knew how this was going to go down.

"I can't enjoy this without my drink!" the man yelled. He slammed the pizza down. Shrek had had enough now, he just broke inside and fell to his knees and cried. The guy slammed the door shut.

Shadow heared the lock latch shut. He had his eyes on Shrek, whom was crying uncontrollably.

"That's it. I've tried to make this a positive experience, but I'm utterly disgusted by the shit we've had to face so far," he said under his breath. Shrek turned around and looked at him.

"I don't usually do this because I'm not some psycho killer," Shadow begun. "But..."

Shadow pulled out his gun and walked up to the door. He knocked and the man opened up.

"What is it you want?" the man asked.

Shadow held the gun up to the man.

"You're going to take this DAMN pizza before I blow your DAMN head off. Then you're going to apologize to Shrek, and give us our money for that pizza you wasted!" Shadow said very edgily.

The man ripped out his wallet and handed it over to Shadow.

"Just take it! Don't kill me, okay?" he said as he backed away.

"I've had it with you, you fucking garbage cock! Say sorry to Shrek!" Shadow yelled.

The fish ran off screaming into his house. Shadow ran after him with his gun loaded and ready.

"No! I'm sorry! I'M SORRY!" the guy yelled.

"That's more like it," Shadow said. "He said he's sorry, Shrek!"

And after that, Shadow and Shrek completely terrorized the island. They gave into their inner goth and inner ogre-demon respectively, then did as much wreckage as they could to the island. Without actually killing anyone, of course. Shadow may have been a goth and edgy, but he didn't kill innocent people. Also, Shrek wasn't a murderer either. He didn't like killing unless the situation called for such.

After that, Shadow and Shrek were outlawed from the island for life as they escaped on a small raft. They laughed and enjoyed themselves as the raft floated away, eating their stolen delicious resort food.

The flurry of both sad and fond memories tore away at Shrek.

"Shrek," Elsa said. The sound of her voice made Shrek snap back to his current reality. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"I'm just tired," Shrek lied. "Very tired."

"Well stop being tired," Dr. Mario said from behind.

"What is it now?" Shrek asked, kind of annoyed.

"You see that island?" Dr. Mario asked.

Shrek looked up, gazing out into the ocean. He saw the island. That was it, Tortimer Resort. Shrek's flashback came back to him again. He shivered a bit.

"What about the island?" asked the sexy ogre.

"They have an underground base and labratory. Pretty nifty defense system too. Our group could really use a new base, too. You do the math," Dr. Mario said.

Shrek thought back to the blatant homophobia of the old crotchety turtle, the horrible service, and the general horrible atmosphere of the resort. Hearing that it apparently had the perfect set up for a new base and the idea of terrorizing the island once more sounded promising to him.

This was it, he thought. Things really are looking up!

Wow, I believe that was the longest chapter yet! And also the best one yet! Tune in next time to see the League launch on onslaught on Tortimer Resort and to claim their new base!