Darkness fell early over Egghead Island.
What was once the beacon of scientific progress now stood silent, the cheerful hum of machinery replaced by an eerie quiet. The island was cut off. No communications. No surveillance. No reinforcements.
The trap had been sprung.
It began with silence. CP-0 agents, handpicked for their fanatical loyalty to Figarland Shamrock, infiltrated the island under the guise of World Government officials. Using stealth ships and cloaking devices developed from stolen Vegapunk blueprints, they slipped past all defenses.
The agents dispersed, each carrying concentrated doses of a newly engineered neurotoxin developed by Shamrock himself from the remains of a now-extinct Sky Island venom beast. The toxin was undetectable, activated only once it reached the bloodstream.
And so, one by one, the island's food supplies were laced. The meals prepared for the Straw Hats and Vegapunks, their only moment of respite after countless battles, became their undoing.
Franky, Brook, Sanji, Nami, even Jinbe… they all collapsed without a sound. Vegapunk Lilith slumped over a table, blood trickling from her nose. Atlas crashed through a wall, spasming. Shaka reached for a silent alarm, only to freeze halfway.
Luffy was the last.
His eyes widened in confusion, then anger.
Then… paralysis.
CP-0 stormed the compound, swift and surgical. In under two minutes, all remaining targets were detained, paralyzed, and restrained in seastone-lined shackles. The once-boisterous halls of Egghead echoed only with the click of boots and the whirring of containment pods.
Then, came the sound of footsteps.
Not those of a soldier.
Of a king.
Shamrock walked through the shattered gates, Cerberus on his back, his coat fluttering behind him. He paused before Luffy's paralyzed form.
The Straw Hat's eyes burned with fury and disbelief.
"You're the one who killed Shanks."
"Yes," Shamrock replied coldly. "You'll go and accompany him soon."
He turned to York Vegapunk-06, the traitor.
"Serve me. You were always meant for betrayal."
York hesitated only a moment. Then she bowed.
"I've always liked winners."
"Good."
Without another word, Shamrock drew Cerberus.
The sword roared.
In a single sweeping strike, he decapitated Shaka, Lilith, Edison, Atlas, and Pythagoras. Vegapunk Stella watched from inside his pod, screaming but his voice was unheard.
Cerberus devoured their corpses. Memories. Knowledge. All fed into its gluttonous blade.
Robin, bound in chains, screamed, "You monster! You'll never erase the truth!"
Shamrock stepped forward, lowering himself to eye level.
"Truth? Like the truth of Ohara?"
He sneered.
"Your mother. Your teachers. Those burning civilians. All ashes. Just like you."
Robin spat in his face.
He smiled.
And plunged Cerberus through her chest.
All the attending CP-0 then proceeds to decapitates all the Straw Hats except Franky and Luffy.
Only Franky and Luffy remained.
Shamrock approached the cyborg and with a single brutal motion, ripped Franky's head from his shoulders, wires and blood spraying against the wall.
"I'll need your brain to extract the blueprints of Pluton. Don't worry, I'll preserve it."
Then he turned to Luffy.
The paralyzed pirate king struggled, foam at the edge of his mouth, teeth clenched in impotent rage.
Shamrock squatted beside him.
"Joy Boy. Sun God. Hero. And yet, here you are, powerless. All that legacy. All that strength. And you couldn't even protect your friends from a meal."
Luffy tried to scream.
Cerberus plunged into his stomach.
Not quick. Not clean.
Shamrock twisted the blade, inch by inch, devouring the very essence of the man who was supposed to save the world.
And then… silence.
[System Entry: "Sun God Eliminated"] [Looting Complete: Mythical Haki Signature, Devil Fruit Affinity — Nika Model Acquired]
As the body crumpled, Shamrock stood alone amidst the corpses.