Following his daily routine of watering the drones and drinking a little fire flower whisky to soothe his boredom, Albert had nothing left to do. So he just decided to go in front of the mirror to test a few things.
He went to the mirror and tried to see whether his appearance inherited some traits of slimes. He lifted his shirt and saw that his spine was lined with a lot of spiky crystals that looked like hot glass. He could only sleep backside up because of this which was fairly annoying. His eyes would become yellow after using invisibility along with his canines getting sharper and longer. Flowers started to bloom naturally in his hair so he now looked more like a deity of nature than a regular human, even his eyes had an eerie glow that looked pretty divine when he thought about it.
Nonetheless, he went to the Range exchange and pressed on Mochi Miles, she was starting to speak with him a lot more casually. She at first was quite annoying but after a while and speaking to her it was revealed to him she had insecurities about her father. Which was a little sad but he helped her get back on her feet nonetheless.
She had some rare plorts too, kinds you would never see like angler plorts and cotton plorts.
"Good morning mochi, need a few of these. Of course, my clothes got ripped by the crystal largos again"- Albert
As he said that he put a request for five cotton plorts and put the reward to be 800 newbucks. If you wondered, the reason he couldn't domesticate cotton Largos is that they were very hard to keep and needed a powerful AirNet to keep them from hopping out.
About twelve minutes later he got the cotton plorts and paid the reward. He then went to the lab and turned each plorts into silk. It was very strong silk but after having to personally evacuate the crystal largos into an open space his clothes got ripped. It was not worth it at all.
But with the fine silk, he ran it through a machine that started knitting him a few shirts and pairs of pants. He then went back to his Ranch house and thought about a few things.
He thought about how it started, all the good things that had happened to him, and as he looked at the sky what he expected to see were clouds, but what he did not expect to see was a rather large ship that was inside a bubble, coming down towards his ranch.
Anxious about what would happen if it landed on his ranch and all the destruction it would cause he bundled up tangle vines, a lot of tangle vines and he formed them into a net.
Throwing the net up into the sky he used his crystal trait to form a giant crystal block that held the ship up from falling. Although it shattered once the ship touched it the amount of kinetic energy on the ship lowered a lot and the ship fell into the net as the ship then bounced a little on the net like a trampoline.
"sigh"-Albert
His relief for the fact that the ship didn't fall and break on his ranch was enormous. There was no mess to clean up but on the ship, he could hear a loud feminine voice.
"What just happened! It was all going so well and-"-???
"Hey who are you and why did you fall out of the sky?!"-Albert
Suddenly silence ensued as the members of the crew slowly got out but one was a bit impatient and launched himself down by somehow stretching his arms and slingshotting himself down.
"Luffy! What are you doing!"-???
"SUGEE!"-Luffy
Lowering the ship to the ground slowly Albert was surprised to see a boy with a straw hat smiling brightly and marveling at the slimes he saw.
As the crew members looked at him he cleared his throat with a cough and asked loudly.
"Who are you and why did you fall out of the sky?"-Albert
The orange-haired girl started to speak up and introduced him to the crew. While he was surprised to see how unique the crew was. Their names were.
Monkey D. Luffy
Roronoa Zoro
Nami
Ussop
Sanji
Chopper was a reindeer that ate a devil fruit
Robin who also ate a devil fruit
Franky who was a cyborg
Brook who was a skeleton, somehow alive and due to a devil fruit
He was pleasantly surprised to see that the people in front of him were the main characters of the show One Piece.
"Well, how did you get here? Fishman Island?"-Albert
"Well yes, that's the reason. But now that we are here I must ask but where are we?"-Nami
"You are in the Far, Far Range, home to the slimes,"-Albert
"Oh is that what those little critters are?"-Nami, pointing to a Largo
"No that is a Largo, more like a large crossbreed. But please come inside, I believe I may have some food I can prepare for you all"-Albert
As Albert left them there to wait. He prepared a Large Meal for many, about 10 times more people than on the actual ship because he knew Luffy's appetite.
"Food is ready!"-Albert
Suddenly the little house he had became a little crowded as everyone feasted and messed around. Then time for dessert rolled around as he brought a large Honey cheesecake and an even larger assortment of little sweets like cupcakes, little cookies, and even lots of little cups of jellies and creams and tons of sweet dreamy things.
"DELICIOUS"-everyone/except Albert
"Can I have the recipe for this?"-Sanji
"Well you can have it although it won't taste as sweet"-Albert
"Why?"-Sanji
"Because one of the ingredients only exists here in the Far, Far Range"-Albert
As they sat and cheerfully ate the night away, the slimes outside seemed to be dancing to their tune.
Next day, morning.
They had all waken up as Albert started to lead them through the Ranch, Showing them the various expansions and telling them the reasons to not sail on the slime sea. Though after that they wanted to see the whole range and as they told him, he said.
"Well here, if you want to explore you can take one of my written maps just make sure not to go to the place marked as the Feral path on the Island here"-Albert
Though just as he expected half of them came back with bruises on their faces.
"My kicks don't work on them!"-Sanji
"My sword can't cut them!"-Zoro
"I can't punch them even with Haki!"-Luffy
"What are these things made of!?!"-Luffy, Sanji, Zoro
"Well I mean you can't really punch, kick or cut a liquid can you?"-Albert
They stared at him shocked. Impossible to damage? How could they be defeated then?!
"I know what you are thinking and all you need to do is toss food at them. Also, don't try to eat or hunt them, they are literally inedible."-Albert
Suddenly though as they had fun, that fun would end at some point and although Luffy tried to get Albert to join his crew, Albert declined, saying that only his Ranch is where he would go. The crew got their ship and suddenly It started glitching like a quantum slime.
"What the-"-Nami
"Prepare for your ship to hit the water in 3... 2... 1... take cover!"-Albert
Then the ship disappeared from the Far, Far Range but appeared in the New World sailing the sea like normal.
The Ranch was now quite once again as Albert took out a bottle of Fire Flower Whisky and drank it, smiling whilst knowing that new possible guests may appear on his Ranch.
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Many people were wondering where the One Piece in the story was, well here it is.
Hope you guys get some rest over the weekend, stay healthy!