Spectacular World

Alexander Lauren

Wyvern's feet landed on the beach below. The hero was careful not to knock over any of the piles of junk, something the Victorian didn't seem to care about as the golden woman basically dropped from the sky and crashed down onto an ocean of scrap metal, using it as some sort of makeshift throne.

Hope let go of Wyvern's tail and looked up at her city. They were in the junkyard that took up most of Oleander's beach. The Giants had seemingly marked it off as not being part of the city. The massive, armored men had moved away after seeing that they weren't posing any harm, leaving her and the two Enforcer members alone. Her mind was still racing, trying to figure out what could have happened in such a short time.

Just how long had she been missing for?

"This place is a dump," the Victorian called down toward her and Wyvern. The world's strongest woman had replaced her battle-damaged uniform yet again. A new cape was tied around the woman's neck, and all the tears in the army uniform had been stitched up by Lady Time, but they were still nasty-looking, marking the entire outfit with a battle-damaged look.

"No one ever got around to figuring out where a better spot to put all this junk would be." She said awkwardly. She still didn't really understand what her relationship to this woman really was. As a kid, she adored the Victorian. The woman was her everything and her top favorite hero. Even now, she still dreamed of flying around the world with the woman fighting crime and would kill just to be her sidekick. That said, she also couldn't help but notice a lot of the mistakes and flaws the number one hero carried. "What are you doing here?" She asked slowly.

The Victorian's smile faded for a moment, and the woman awkwardly shrugged her shoulders. "Lillian had Ocean Empress, Daisy has Lady Time, Dandelion has Mister Man, Gladiolus now has my daughter, Violet is protected by Fable, and Wyvern guards Daffodil. Boy Genius and Beta are the only two heroes who don't guard any of the cities, instead focusing on their little prison. In the past, Rose used to be my city, but now..."

"You're not the number one hero anymore." She finished for the woman.

"No. I'm not."

She nodded her head, feeling a mix of emotions. Mr. Larison had somehow beaten the Victorian. She knew he was strong, but to be on that level... That likely meant he was in Rose, which meant she wouldn't be able to find him in Oleander, no matter how hard she looked. "Wyvern and Fable, both said you knew I was alive. How?"

The Victorian hopped off the pile of trash and floated down until she stood in front of the young girl before her. Slowly, the woman brought her hand up to her chest. "I felt it in here. I could tell that the Brightest Star half that exists within you hasn't moved to a new host. Though I never expected you'd be in such a small form..."

"You know about the Brightest Star?" She asked, shocked.

"I learned about it recently after speaking to Battery," the golden woman said, shrugging. "I must admit I'm a bit jealous. After all, the shard within me never once bothered to try and start a conversation with me."

"The shard within you?" She froze as she understood what the woman meant. Brightest Star was split in two. The being had claimed Full Monarch did it. She only held onto the title of Lord of the Sun. Her Cosmos half was lost.

The Victorian smiled, giving her a knowing look. "That's right. Within me is a bit of the Lord of the Cosmos."

"A bit? What do you mean by that?" She asked startled.

The woman gave a nod to Wyvern. The dragon-themed hero nodded back and grew her pair of wings once more, allowing her to fly off. It was a conversation that Wyvern didn't need to hear. Once the Enforcer member was long gone, the Victorian began to speak once again. "When I first saw you way back during that charity event, part of me had a faint idea that the power of the Lord might live within you. I'll admit, seeing how weak you were in the past ticked me off a bit. The Lords aren't anything special, in my opinion. They use cheap tricks to get as far as they could, and none were able to unlock the same level of power my father did. That was until you. In the fight with the Beast, you did the impossible."