Shrek sat solemnly, thinking about the unfortunate end to his former love Elsa. Thoughts came to mind about how he managed to screw her over twice-and only just recently. All he wanted to do was make it up to her, but alas she was gone.

Memories of Elsa came to Shrek as he remembered times the had in High School...

"Leave him alone!" Elsa yelled one day. She got between Shrek and a school bully.

"Oh, so now the school bitch is protecting the other school bitch? Bitch as in bitch and bitch as in wimp respectively," the bully replied to the girl.

Shrek just sat there as Elsa defended him. He felt weak and pathetic having to let others defend him, and he was also deathly afraid of the bully violently lashing out on Elsa. He felt he needed to take a stand for her though, the same way Elsa had for him.

"She's not a bitch..." Shrek said

"What was that?" the bully asked in an angry tone.

"She's not a bitch!" Shrek yelled.

The bully immediately let his fist loose on Elsa but she grabbed it and twisted his hand.

Still grabbing hold of him, Elsa looked back at Shrek. "Can you please give me a hand?" she asked.

Shrek, confused, got up.

"What do you want me to do?" he asked.

"Whatever you want, really. He was bothering you so you should be the one to get payback," Elsa replied.

Shrek looked at the bully whose eyes were now full of fear. He was the pathetic-looking one now.

"I don't want to hurt anyone," Shrek said. "Haven't you already stopped him? I'm sure he won't hurt me now."

"Fair enough," Elsa said, letting go of the bully, whom immediately ran off. "Say, if you want you could come back over to my place and hang out with my sister and I. I never really see you hang out with anyone around school is if you're lonel-"

"Sure! I'd love to hang out!"

"Heh, well okay. Just come home with me on the bus today and we'll hang out all day."

Shrek looked forward to hanging out with Elsa all day. The classes seemed to pass by quickly as Shrek awaited and envisioned what the time at Elsa's would be like. He was so exctied to finally have some friends. Mr. Drake even congratulated him when Shrek told him he wouldn't have time to talk to him after class due to going to a friend's house.

Shrek and Elsa sat on the bus and ignore the chaos. Shrek was shy and didn't know what to say to her, so he just listened to her talk and responded to her whenever she asked him things. They were a few people who kicked their seats or taked about them from afar, but Elsa told Shrek to just ignore them.

After about an hour on the bus, they finally arrived at Elsa's house. Shrek hung out with Elsa and Anna all day, playing video games, gossiping about school stuff, and Elsa teaching Shrek and Anna about social things.

"So if Chad is okay, why aren't his friends?" Anna asked.

"Because they're dicks. Chad himself is alright, but sadly misguided. I've been trying to get through to him for a while so he can stop trying to fit in with those dolts and start making sense again," Elsa replied.

Shrek thought maybe Chad could be a friend too, if Elsa's words were to believe.

The day passed on well as Shrek arrived home late in the day after being dropped off by Elsa's parents. Shrek remembered the day fondly as it was the first of many days when he would go to hang out with Elsa and Anna after school, almost daily. They were his two true friends for the longest time, until they slowly drifted apart after Elsa graduated. It was only until Shrek and Elsa were recruited into the League of Super Evil did Shrek and Elsa reunite. All Shrek had heard about Elsa after her graduation was from Anna, saying that Elsa had wandered off into the world and closed herself away from everyone. Shrek didn't bring it up upon reuniting with Elsa, he couldn't seem to find a way to ask her if she was doing alright without potentially accidentally offending her.

Thinking about things now, Shrek realized something seemed off about Elsa ever since he reunited with her and they fell in love. Shrke noticed Elsa seemed happier once they fell in love, but now it hit him that even then something seemed off about her. All the guilt of his own obliviousness finally hit him.

"I'm more responsible for this than I thought," he said aloud.

Deadpool heard him but knew automatically what he was talking about.

"It's not your fault she's gone. It was only your fault she switched sides. She could still very well have been lasered down by the Legendary Bae even if she still was on our team," Deadpool said.

Shrek was about to snarl at Deadpool but stopped himself. "That really makes me feel better," he said sarcastically. "However it would still be my fault because I'm the one who started the conflict between us that made the Legendary Bae return."

"Oh..." Deadpool said. He walked off because now he just felt bad and awkward.

Shrek sighed as he fell back onto a pile of leaves to fall asleep.

Dr. Mario analyzed the secret map of Town 64 he found on the deep web so that he could find some shady places.

"What are you doing, boss?" asked Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"Finding a way to get Elsa back. I need to find a man capable of getting us into the Gates of Hell so we can retrieve her," Dr. Mario explained. "God forbid I tell you because I know you might mess this up."

Dr. Doofenshmirtz backed away shyly, letting out a small fake chuckle. "I see. In that case I'll go away now."

The room fell silent as Dr. Mario continued his search. He came across a tiny little bar named The Gates of Hell.

"This... this must be some kind of sign. I'll have to find a way to get to there within the remains of Town 64-before they block it off for reconstruction."

Meanwhile an certain evil green dinoaur named Yoshi was looking at top secret government files. He examined files on current world enemies and saw vague, almost info-less files on members of The League of Super Evil. The document seemed to have no idea the group split.

"While they may be known they aren't in any severe danger... perfect. They also seem to lack the knowledge of their split, which may be used to the great doctor's advantage."

Sorry for the short flashback this time! There wasn't a lot to say but a little to set up! Tune in next time for Chapter 22.

Future chapter titles:

The League of Super Evil Chapter 22: The Gates of Hell

The League of Super Evil Chapter 23: Thanks Satan

The League of Super Evil Chapter 24: Undoing Our Mistakes Part I

The League of Super Evil Chapter 25: Shrek Flashback V