Spectacular World

The Real Target

Kevin gasped, and his eyes shot open as he felt his organs restart. His skin burned, and he could feel it starting to regrow around his muscles and nerves as he started to live once more.

Bright lighting caused him to squint his eyes, and he was unable to speak due to the massive tube that was shoved down his throat. He couldn't even move his arms or legs, as his entire nervous system hadn't come back yet. He just floated there, his brain putting itself back together one piece at a time.

He was in a strange glass-like box. It was filled with an orangish liquid, the same substances in all the Wandering Coin's drugs. A buzzing began to fill his head as his ears came back together.

"-to the world of the living, Kevin!" He tried to speak, but the tube stopped him and instead caused bubbles to float up. "Try to stay calm. We're rebuilding you strand by strand." A voice responded, echoing in the strange box he was in.

Past the glass, he saw him. Doc leaned forward on his cane and gave a grin. The man's lab coat was a mix of dozens of colors, and he had dyed his hair seven new shades. Kevin knew where they were as his eyes adjusted to the light of the bright room. The basement of the mayor's manor. It was large and had been converted into a makeshift lab with stainless steel floors and walls. Dozens of tables were scattered about, and attached to the wall was the strange machine he had woken up in.

"How long will it take for his body to be put back together?" A new voice asked.

Standing behind the Doc were two figures, both dressed in red cloaks. They wore masks that covered their faces and had coins sewn into the eye sockets. "Calm down, Hannah. He'll be back soon enough." The Doc smirked. "He took quite the beating, you know. He split himself in two, and both halves died. One froze to death out in space, and the other popped like a balloon when it appeared at the bottom of the ocean."

The second cloaked figure walked forward and looked at another box that was next to the one Kevin resided within. He spoke in an older tone, being around before Kevin or Hannah. "And what of Wish?"

Kevin craned his head and felt his eyes go wide when he saw the girl. Her eyes were closed, and her arms and legs were folded in on themselves. She looked almost like a weird ball simply floating in her tank. She looked to be fully healed for the most part but wasn't awake like him.

"I'm having some issues with Wish." The Doc admitted. "See, that bastard, Battery, brought out something I wasn't expecting. I knew he worked for the Emperor. Still, I never dreamed he would actually take up the Emperor's sword, nor that it would work for him. He used its power to force all of Wish's DNA back in her body, basically getting rid of her ability to come back anywhere she wanted to. Then, with the help of that Myth hero, they finished her off. Wish died, so to speak."

"Yet here she still is," Hannah spoke in a blunt tone, placing her hand on the glass. She stared up at Wish, cocking her head to the side. "Now she won't wake up either."

"That's the main issue I'm trying to get past." The Doc admitted. He walked to the other side of the lab and smacked his cane on the side of a metal orb that glowed with a blue light. "When a Lord dies, they either pass the power down to a next of kin, granting that person the new status of Lord or the power returns to the Pod. The Pod will vanish and then reappear somewhere else in the world, ready to make a new Lord. That only happens if a Lord dies, though. What does death truly mean? That is where the loophole comes in, I think. If I were to die but then my heart is restarted somehow, did I actually die or go to the afterlife? Long ago, the Emperor used his power to create his wife. The Princess of Life, the first one, perished in the attack of the Beast years ago. He made a copy of her and tried to convince himself it was the real thing. Then he had a child with her. The hero we know as Paragon. Thanks to her, Wish didn't truly die. Even without her body, Wish's consciousness was able to stay connected to this world, and thus she is still the Lord of Life. And thanks to the pod we have, I can use it to recreate a body for her as long as it views her as the master."