Spectacular World

Hero

"Sounds like things have gotten pretty crazy over there." Kevin sighed.

"Yeah. Sounds like it." Money Tree took a swig from the bottle of whiskey. "I'm not worried, though. Cinder is a member of Pantheon. My best friend would never take on someone who would lose." He tossed the bottle over to Kevin, who caught it.

Kevin finished the whiskey off and walked over to a shelf, placing the empty bottle back on it. "Want me to grab another one? There's still a bunch left." He asked his enemy.

"Nah." Money Tree shook his head. "That was plenty. Can't feel the pain in my arm anymore. Thanks for that."

They were far from the portal now. When the villain split himself in two, one of the Kevins had chased Money Tree away from it. They went even further when Cinder decided to turn the entire battlefield into an active volcano. Far in the distance, the remains of the Pallet Boys castle were slowly melting away.

They were at a different section of the realm. One which had a large stone building that had been mostly torn down in all the shaking. It had seemingly served as a sort of wine cellar for the Pallet Boys, though it wasn't underground. A single shelf had survived the rumbling, and it allowed the two of them to take a much-needed break.

"Won't your mistress get mad when she learns you stopped fighting me?" Money Tree snorted.

"Maybe." Kevin cracked his neck, and his flesh bubbled. "You just looked uncomfortable. I'm not one to pick on someone who just lost their limb, so I figured you could use the break. Besides, you've been fighting all day, right? Got to be pretty tired now."

"You can say that again." He muttered. It was hard to think that they had been in this realm for less than an hour now. So much stuff had seemingly happened, and they were still nowhere near done. This break was very much needed. It allowed Destiny to go and back up Cinder as well. "So be honest. Do you have the thing in your head? The one Wish told us to break."

Kevin gave a lazy shrug. "Nope."

"Got it. Well, I'll be seeing you, then. I need to go and help Snowdawn destroy that thing the psycho lord mentioned."

"I don't have one in my head because it doesn't exist." Kevin grunted. "She lied. There is a core that stops me from growing back, but it isn't in my body. Sorry to say. If you really want out, you're going to need to either somehow kill Wish or tear through the flesh wall I created."

"Could you take it down?"

"No. I'm not programmed to."

"Programmed- Ah. I get it." Money Tree nodded. "I'm guessing you're not going to let me just kill you and go help Snowdawn either, are you?"

"Yeah, I can't do that. The moment you try to leave, I'll go back into attack mode and try to kill you; the same goes for when you attack me. I'd say you have a single second to hit me with a solid attack. Either wipe me out fully or mostly. You can also try and convince me to take another break, but I'm not sure if it'll work again."

"That makes sense to me." Money Tree gave a sly smirk. "The thing is though; I've already made my attack."

"Huh-" Blood spilled down Kevin's stomach as a blade of shimmering diamonds jutted out of his side. "How did you-"

"When you took a sip from the drink." Money Tree raised his palm up, and more blades began to jut out of Kevin's body. "I put a few strands of diamond dust into it. See, I create forms of currency. Few powers can just create things out of thin air, and I'm one of them. I can't create stuff in places I don't see or inside of objects. I can only create things out of my skin. I say create, but that isn't really right. It's less creation and more transmutation. I infect matter with my power and turn already existing matter into a type of currency. I can't do this to living things, but the air around us is filled with trillions upon trillions of tiny bits of matter, all brushing my skin and being turned into dollar bills or shards of diamonds. This infection can then grow and start to infect other forms of matter. In other words, that tiny bit of dust you just inhaled is now changing into trillions of shards, growing larger and larger."