HeroDude and The Liquefier stand across from each other. Ready to strike… anytime.
But even then, HeroDude still thought about the people in need. Despite their hatred towards him. He believes that their lives need saving.
He thinks about the lava at it's endless intent to melt everything. All the people are safe. At least the people in the area.
HeroDude knows that eventually the lava will spread to the other areas. HeroDude tries to calculate the speed of the lava and how far the other areas are.
"Five minutes."
Five minutes until the lava spreads to the other cities. Five minutes until everyone burns. Five minutes. To defeat the skeleton they call The Liquefier.
HERODUDE KAGE
CHAPTER 30
HeroDude speaks
Five minutes to send you to the loser's table?
Despite all this he still smirks
"Should've given me less time."
The Liquefier responds with a beam of liquid mercury at HeroDude.
HeroDude responds with a Kompozed wall to block the attack.
"Liquid Mercury? I should use some of that material one day!"
The Liquefier changes the blast to molten metal. it pushes HeroDude and the wall back to the rushing lava.
The wall melts. It gets thinner and thinner.
But HeroDude stays calm and remembers what the cops said.
"I don't need to know everything inside my arm to make it move. I just like…give it purpose and it just goes man."
He Kompozes two pieces of the falling wall together into a punching-glove extender and then bursts through the molten lava and punched The Liquefier right in the gut
"How…How did a plastic glove get through my blast?!?!?!
HeroDude Kompozes Rocket Boots and flies up to The Liquefier.
"Well. It shouldn't. Realistically at least."
"You say a lot of dumb stuff. But that just doesn't make sense!"
HeroDude Kompoze a hammer
"Well. Logically the glove should've burned. But too bad I stopped thinking logically.
The Liquefier raises a brow. (He doesn't have any eyebrows cause he's a skeleton but if he did he would've raised a brow…you get it..you get it….)
"Still lost? Let me put it this way. Figure out my weakness before it became a weakness. Get with it ya noob.
"People still say noob?"
The hammer stretches and wacks The Liquefier in the face.
"No but I do! At least in very high pressure situations!"
HeroDude rushes forward and swings the hammer around with great force that spins The Liquefier around.
"How is—WHACKED—Your stuff—WACKED—Extending—WHACKED—I thought your powers were combining crap!
HeroDude swings his hammer around for a big hit.
"It is. But now I simply…give my item's purpose and just let them go"
HeroDude swings the hammer again but The Liquefier blocks and breaks the hammer with acid.
"Either way. Your toys can still break"
He flies higher to the sky and shoots out many forms of acid…hydrofluoric, Sulfuric, Nitric and so much more.
HeroDude flies around to dodge the acid.
"Look who past chemistry? All them acid stuff and none of them are hitting—"
One of the acid blasts turn to mercury and stabs HeroDude in the ankle.
"OUCH!"
The Liquefier blasts more acid at HeroDude, and then dashes straight to him and hits a mean acid punch. Slamming HeroDude to the ground.
"Ugh…that was a mean hook…respect…"
HeroDude then screams in agony and The Liquefier flies down.
"Hurts don't it…that reality barrier of your falling you?"
HeroDude looks up
What? No. I screamed 'cause I gotta cramp in my leg….yeah your stuff was just a little…love tap.
The Liquefier screams in rage and blast more acid beams form the sky.
"I was joking! I was joking I WAS JOKING.
HeroDude's kompozes a…rope on the ground and the rope extends to HeroDude ankle and pulls him away.
The Liquefier turns
"Youngsters like you are always so fast!"
"Youngsters? That's the most non-generic thing you said all day! And about that what I said earlier…"
HeroDude rolls back onto his feet and in the middle of the rope.
"I lied! I wasn't joking!"
HeroDude quickly checks the time…
Three and a half minutes
"All that was only a minute and a half? Well I ain't complaining"
HeroDude grabs on to the rope…
"Like my older bro always says whenever he's playing with his friends!"
"He pulls the rope and a big ahh cannon comes from the ground!"
"YOU A**! FIRE!"
HeroDude blasts the cannon and it snacks The Liquefier in the face. The cannonball sends him to the lava.
HeroDude starts to run and the Kompozes a trampoline,
"Oh no! I'm not risking you becoming a big lava monster!"
He jumps and lands about 40 meters infront of The Liquefier. He Kompozes a skateboard to roll to him.
While being pushed into the lava, The Liquefier extends his finger tips and 10 different liquid substances come blasting out.
Molten Glass
Liquid Sulfer
Potassium
Bromine
Liquid Chlorine
Methanol
Gasoline
Lava
Turpentine
….hot chocolate
All this Liquids are capable of completely cook HeroDude.
But he responds with opening his pockets once again and everything that comes out of them Kompozes into a laser
The lasers and the liquids collide. Leaving HeroDude completely open to skate toward The Liquefier.
"You wanna see something cool?"
The Liquefier screams
"YOUR PISSING ME OFFFFFFF-
He charges up a blast with a crap load of acid
"Imma take that as a yes."
HeroDude jumps out of the skateboard. Does a rad mid-air backflip. And then throws a piece of rice down at the skateboard.
When the Skateboard gets close to The Liquefier, the rice piece taps it and they Kompoze together to form a BIG BEHIND ARMOURED TRUCK that slams into the Liquefier and breaks his reality barrier. The Liquefier is now open for elimination as the truck fades away.
Huh. They usually don't fade away that quickly.
The Liquefier screams out. So loud that it manages to push HeroDude back.
"NO WAY I'M GONNA GET ELIMINATED BY SOME SCUM HEROFRAUD. I'M ENDING YOUR LIFE AND THEN I'LL PRAY THAT GOD SENDS YOUR ANNOYING A** STRAIGHT TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT OF HELL!
He charged up a beam….made of every liquid substance that can bring pain to people…all of that formed into one big attack…
HeroDude looks down at him.
"Sounds like your barrier is—-
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-
The Liquidfier blasts the beam while HeroDude was expecting the beam to charge up. In almost an instant, he blasts HeroDude with everything his got…at that very instant. All the jokes HeroDude had in store completely left his mind. As the instant shock of that sudden blast took his breath away.
HeroDude spams force fields and shields for him to take as little damage as possible. But they all break almost instantly. Whenever they break. HeroDude can feel the burning pain of some of the deadliest liquid ever created.
He relies on his rockets boots to get closer to The Liquefier. But his pockets are running short…
"Come on..Come on…
However, HeroDude is in a rare position where he's running out of things to Kompoze.
His pockets are getting empty…he currently has only 10 more things in his pockets leaving him with five more things to Kompoze at the moment.
When he realizes this. Instead of spamming force fields, he decides to bare the pain and use the rest to Kompoze more rockets on his legs and he forced his way through the beam and tackled the Liquefier. He starts punching Liquefier right in the face
"How? How did you survive that?"
HeroDude's mind keeps going back to that instant blast.
"Y'know. You are one of the few people that made me stop talking!"
He starts shoving his fist into The Liquefier's skull!
"You gonna make me suffer? You're gonna pray I go to the bottomless pits of hell?"
"So serious now aren't you? Life flashed before your eyes. Did death itself showed you that playing hero will get you nowhere?"
HeroDude keeps punching him.
"Yes hero? Keep hitting me! KEEP. HITTING ME AS YOUR KNUCKLES BURN TO MY LAVA BODY—-huh?"
He looks at HeroDude's knuckles. And he's perfectly fine.
HUH? YOU…YOU CAN HIT ME WITHOUT FEELING PAIN????
HeroDude smirks.
"Earlier you said that i ain't have nothing to fuse… Buddy… life lesson. Their's always something to fuse."
"YOU BLUFFING. YOUR—-"
The Liquefier tried to charge an attack right in his face. Only for HeroDude to grab it, enhance his raw power with reality sorcerer and completely break his hand.
"AGGHRAAAAAAAAAA!"
HeroDude then grabs him at the throat.
"And also. The reason I'm so close? It's simply because I wanna punch you my DANG SELF!"
He then throws The Liquefier back to his feet and then hits a spinning roundhouse kick to the cranium.
He follows it with punches to the neck bone. The Liquefier tries to swing, but HeroDude quickly blocks and sweeps him, then front kicks him back on his feet, and then karate-chops straight to the rib cage. Breaking off every piece. And then a chop to the skull as it cracks….
As HeroDude is beating up The Liquefier. He wonders how HeroDude could still use Kompoze. What he doesn't know is that when he ran outta things in his pockets, he simply starts to use his clothes. Two pieces of his zipper are now missing.
HeroDude lifts up The Liquefier by the throat and enhances his raw strength for the finishing blow.
"Earlier you said you'll pray that I goes to hell. Well, guess what? I'll pray that you go… to heaven :D"
But as soon as he was about to land the finishing blow. He suddenly hears a loud scream all the way from near the lava.
He quickly turns and sees two kids running for their lives from the lava.
"No…Shot!?"
He looks at the time again.
2 minutes. HeroDude was so focused on eliminating the Liquefier after that beam…that he completely forgot about the time
There is another thing that he forgot when he was examining the houses. He examined every window….but one thing that he didn't put in consideration…was the basement. That was where the kids were, playing hide and seek in the basement.
HeroDude looks back and sees people running away form the lava, car stranded all over the road as the lava's heat's rushes closer and closer.
He sees one man running to the lava. More specifically, his kids.
"THOSE ARE THE KIDS. I NEED TO GET THEM. I NEED TO! THEY'RE ALL I HAVE LEFT!"
The lava rushes closer and closer to the kids. HeroDude is at a loss. He doesn't know what to do.
The Liquefier laughs
"What's it gonna be hero? You Eliminate me now. Or you save those two poor little kids. As I run free. But just a little warning. I WON'T STOP. I'LL GET STRONGER. AND I'LL BE BACK TO END YOU BOY!
HeroDude lifts up his fist.
"But at the same time if you eliminate me now. I'll be gone and that lava will fade away with me.
HeroDude eyes widen.
"So what it will be HeroDude? Let's see how much of a hero are"
59 seconds
HeroDude needs to ask fast! His eye are faced with a tough decision.
Save two…or save many.
He made his decision.
HeroDude pulls The Liquefier close to him…
"I'll deal with the lava my own way!How about you run away and find some better one-liners!"
HeroDude throws The Liquefier away and runs to the kids. He turns back to the father screaming.
"DONT COME ANY FURTHER!"
The man screams back
"NO! NO WAY IMMA LET A SORCERER GET NEAR MY KID—
"I'M TELLING YOU NOW! I WOULDN'T LET YOU LIVE A LIFE WITHOUT YOUR KIDS. AND I WON'T LET YOUR KIDS LIVE A LIFE WITHOUT THEIR FATHER! STAY. BACK.
The Father looks deep into HeroDude's mask. And he stops running. Forced in a position where he has no choice but to place his full trust in HeroDude.
HeroDude turns back and Kompozes his shoes to rocket boots again he flies to the kids at max speed. He Kompoze more and more Rockets on him. As the floor breaks around the kids.
The kids fall due to the shattering floor. They look into the lava and they embrace in what they believe would be their last moment.
"I love you, bro!"
"I love you too, bro"
But right before the Lava could take them. HeroDude flies in and scoop up the two kids and flies up and away from the lava!
"Are we…are we going up to heaven?"
"Naw? I got y'all! I got—-"
HeroDude turns and see the Liquefier charging at him with an already charged up fist.
"Predictable. Of course you would've ran and saved those kids. And I know you thought I would've ran. But I know your weak. I'm weak too. But this fist will be enough to end you!!!!"
HeroDude tried to charge up a kick… but it's too late….the fist is too close—
Slink-
The Liquefier's hand gets slice clean off the wrist. And a flying sword spins to the ground. The Liquefier turns and sees Quadeem, who threw his sword at the perfect time.
"No…..NOOOOOOOO"
BLAM!!!!
HeroDude kicks The Liquefier right in the jaw. Sending him SLAMMING to the ground. the lava fades away before it gets anyone. As HeroDude looks other to his brother. Who is doing a fist pump!
"Still got it!"
END OF CHAPTER
Bonus Scene-
HeroDude grabs on to the rope…
"Like my older bro always says whenever he's playing with his friends!"
"He pulls the rope and a big ahh cannon comes from the ground!"
"YOU A**! FIRE—-
He suddenly gets smacked outta no where by his mother with her slipper
"O-O? TI GASON SÒT? WHO TAUGHT YOU THAT LANGUAGE? YOUR BROTHER???
"OW—OW—MOMMY STOP I'M SORRY!