"Iggy... open your eyes!"
The inside of his mind is screaming as he suffers in pain. His bubble is gone, and his powers are gone along with it.
Iggy, weakened, opens his eyes and stands up. He looks around him, confused as to where he is. He knows the plateau's edge is only a few feet away from him, but he doesn't even try walking toward the cliff.
Stealth is the strong point of the eel. Chipping away from the lava pit in silence, going with the flow with the fiery blaze it's been in... People are not quick to take notice.
It's not until the giant eel is a few feet away that Iggy realizes that it is coming from behind him.
He barely dodges it, his hair brushing off the eel's incredibly hot skin.
"Holy, It can float!?"
From the Garden of Eden, an anxious Pickle queries about such an unexpected phenomenon. "The eel can float..."
"The last time Massacre was here, many of our angels saw hundreds of smaller eels floating like the wind before this place became a disaster. We need to find that kid, and fast." Cider answers.
She looks at the angels around her. "Prepare your arsenals! We're taking down that eel!"
The angels begin shouting in solidarity; One can't help but think of a revolution.
"Logic, Follower, Lorde, Royal, Zikh." Cider commands. "Search the mountains for Iggy. That kid needs assistance."
"Got it!" Pickle obliges.
"Come on! Hop on!" Royal tells Louie and Pickle. Louie grabs Pickle and they all take for the sky.
MOUNT SINAI
For the nth time, a staredown...
"Just one body gone, and I already can't forgive you." An exhausted Iggy says. "All I have to do for now is dodge you, right? They're coming for me, so try not to make a sound."
An angry growl comes out of the giant eel's mouth. Iggy tries to be unfazed, replying with only one word:
"Blunder."
The eel uses itself as a whip and slams itself directly at Iggy, but he evades the attack in time. The foe's hot temperature burns the ground.
"Right... You just came out of lava. I can't get hit~ I'll be burned to a crisp!"
The wind whispers to Iggy's ears. "Someone's coming..."
He looks at the source of the wind.
"They're here!" He realizes.
Iggy runs towards the cliff and jump-salutes at the eel. "I'll be back. See ya!"
One goes down...
And five come up.
His feet in between Lorde and Royal, Iggy, glowing mint, smirks at the eel in intimidation. The rest of the crew poses alongside him; it's like something you see from a robot show.
"Now I'm ready." Iggy says. He faces Pickle, who is still in the water filter and offers a request.
"Can I drink you?"
"Is that even a question!?" Pickle replies.
Iggy opens the water filter and drinks its contents, his nose held tight and his tongue in denial.
"That was his puke, you know..." Louie whispers to Lorde, Royal, and Zikh.
Iggy finishes drinking Pickle and drops the water filter out. He wipes his mouth and prepares his stance, but the eel doesn't wait and tackles the five of them...
Successfully.
Fortunately, no one is directly in front of the eel's mouth.
The angels clutch and grab Louie and Iggy.
"You guys alright?" Lorde asks Iggy and Louie.
"Yeah..." Iggy answers. "Throw me into the plateau, will you?"
"As you wish!"
Lorde showcases her formidable swinging power and violently throws Iggy into the eel. He adds sharp spikes to his bubble and hits the eel with full force. The two combatants crash down to the plateau.
The eel faces its first knockdown.
"Everyone else, double team!" Pickle says. "We need to confuse that eel!"
"Right!" The angels oblige as they fly around the battlefield.
As the eel recovers, the plethora of angels flying around captures the eel's attention, though it can't seem to focus on one person at a time.
"Iggy, Nora's powers are for defense. It's time to switch to an offensive weapon!" Pickle commands Iggy.
"What's our next move, Pickle?"
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"Can you divide this mountain in half?"
Iggy lets a little chuckle out of this mouth. "...Mountain Moses."
A cloud of smoke rapidly covers Iggy; He enters the Ong State.
He floats a few feet high and crosses his arms, commanding the mountain to SPLIT.
...And so it does.
But the eel is quick to float upward. Now it's heading directly for Iggy.
"Crap!"
He bends the air around him and gushes out a wind comparable to that of a supertyphoon.
But the eel is unfazed and strikes him directly with intense speeds.
Iggy's mouth is bleeding and comes crashing down, but Zikh is there to grab Iggy up again.
The divided mountain made it so that there was no more surface; just three angels floating around in the air.
The battle had just become aerial warfare.
"There's no more ground to stand on..." Iggy says as the giant eel wanders around the sky. "What is our next move? We need to take it out flying!"
"Well, we brought your bag, so maybe there's stuff in there!" Pickle responds.
"The only thing in here is a script, some clothes, and a shell!" Zikh says, scouring his sling bag.
"The reject dial from Two Piece!" Iggy realizes. "If we close this mountain up and let it absorb all the shock, that'll crush the eel!"
"Then it's a matter of giving it to you~" Zikh answers. flying towards Iggy...
But the eel doesn't seem to like that.
TACKLE.
Zikh drops the shell from his hands.
A dozen more angels, led by Tiny and Werbo, arrive at the torn-down mountain and watch Zikh fall from the sky.
Werbo is an angel with a shotgun.
"Zikh!" Werbo worries.
"I'll catch him!" Tiny responds, flying down to catch him.
"Hey! Iggy! Backup has arrived." Lorde tells Iggy who is focusing his sights on the eel. He looks back and sees the behemoth of angels behind
"What's the plan, general?" Werbo waits for Iggy's command.
"Give it all you got!" Pickle responds.
"Directive received." Werbo says, tossing the shotgun to Iggy.
"...Is this real?" He asks Werbo.
Werbo points to the eel that's about to tackle Iggy again. "Why don't you try it out!?"
Iggy looks behind him and sees the eel. Shaking, he aims at the eel and pulls the trigger.
BANG!
The eel spins around in circles; it's in pain.
"You guys take it from here! I'll get the shell from Zikh!" Iggy tells the angels as Lorde flies away.
"You heard the kid! ATTACK!" Werbo screams. The angels begin their ambush and violently charge towards the eel.
"Where's Zikh???" Lorde searches as she moves around with Iggy. He notices Tiny with Zikh at the bottom of the mountain.
"Is that him?" Iggy asks as he zooms his eyes...
"He got K.Oed when you weren't looking!" Royal says from below.
"But we did catch what you needed!" Louie adds to the conversation, raising the shell up high.
"Nice." Iggy snaps his fingers. "Pickle. DiMartino's airbending, and Two Piece's reject dial."
"Noted!"
Smoke comes out of Iggy's body, and with it, a plume of smoke comes out of his nose. He airbends the wind around the smoke and forces the smoke to the shell, hitting it with full force...
The shell clicks twice as it turns red.
"Werbo! Take your fights a few feet higher! We're closing this mountain shut!" Iggy tells Werbo, to which he nods.
"Everyone! You heard the kid! Fly higher!"
"They're doing a good job distracting the eel..." Lorde looks at the scratches and the burn marks of her peers. "But they're taking a lot of damage!"
"Pickle!" Iggy says. "The Ong State. Now!"
Iggy enters the Ong State and gestures for the two halves of the mountain to close shut.
"Louie! Throw the dial! Quick!"
No words are said. Louie tosses the shell in between the two mountains. Iggy is struggling to close the mountains with all his might.
"I can split the mountains in half... but I can bring it back together!" Iggy tells himself.
He struggles as his hands get a grip of the two mountains...
And he closes it.
The two mountain pieces collide with the shell with sheer force; a force so giant and loud...
But the transformed shell manages to negate all that force. Gigantic chunks of rock come flying away from the battlefield.
The mountain's height is cut in half.
"No way... It absorbed all that power!?" Royal observes.
The shell drops down to the mountain's surface. Royal and Louie follow its direction and land on the new plateau. Louie makes a run for it and takes the shell off the ground.
"We got it, Iggy!" Louie shouts, waving the shell.
From above, Iggy gets the signal and waves back. "Come on, Lorde! Let's assist the angels!"
Lorde flies up and looks at the sweating angels. Their swords and guns had become blunt, but the eel remained remorseless.
"The thing shows no sign of stopping, Iggy!"
Iggy equips his shotgun. "Pickle! Baseball bat!"
"What story!?" Pickle says.
"Any story! Almost every story has a baseball bat!"
"Okay!"
Same drill, same phenomenon; the shotgun turns into a club from the blue smoke. Iggy curiously looks at its lackluster diamond-like shape.
"...This is just the debate club from Ge~"
"It works just as well, Iggy!" Pickle retorts back at Iggy.
Iggy feels the weight as he carries the club with all his might. Lorde carries Iggy closer to the giant eel, and~
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
SMASH!
But the eel remains unbothered. Werbo comes closer to meet Iggy and Lorde.
"What's up?" Werbo asks them.
"We need a bigger force to knock it down to the ground!"
"If you want, we can go and take the shell back!" Lorde suggests to Iggy.
"Shellbacq... that's it! Pop Music!"
"POP MUSIC!?" Lorde, Werbo, and Pickle ask.
"Hear me out! Shellbacq wrote many songs this generation that people sing along to. If we summon the audience's loud cheering somehow, that could loosen the eel's guard!" Iggy explains.
"Or we could let the angels keep distracting the eel~" Lorde utters a rebuttal as the eel tackles them head-on.
Iggy looks at all the exhausted angels. Only three minutes of their time were wasted fighting a common enemy; but burns, wounds, and broken wings became common phenomena in the aftermath.
"They did everything they could do, Lorde. It's our turn." Iggy replies.
"Alright then... Who celebrity?" Pickle asks.
"The one with the concert film!"
"There's two!"
"Anything will do, Pickle!"
"Well then... let's choose... this!~"
The eel tackles them with its utmost strength... But the blue smoke clutches Iggy and Lorde's escape.
...
"So much for a final concert venue..." A Transformed Iggy says.
His dreadlocks were replaced with wavy, brown hair...
His clothes are that of silver full bodysuit...
And his guardian angel turned into a flying horse.
"ACT III, baby..."
The angels from afar are looking at the commotion.
"No way..." Werbo looks at Iggy in awe.
"Who's that?" Tiny asks Werbo, who is carrying a knocked-out Zikh.
"She's one of The Industry's most valuable entertainment assets..." He answered.
"Queen Bee!"
Though Werbo seems to have realized something. "But wait, she never collaborated with Shellbacq..."
"Oh." Pickle puffs out.
Werbo begins crying in happiness and begins fanboying... "THAT DOESN'T MATTER! QUEEN BEE! I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN!" He says, hugging the horse's leg.
"Why, thank you!" Queen Bee compliments Werbo, the horse trying to... shake it off.
"...I wanna hear you scream, TIMELINE-2!" Queen Bee commands the angels in the area. However, only Werbo screams out loud.
"That doesn't sound right. Where my fans at?"
The eel attempts to tackle Queen Bee once again, but they both dodge the attack smoothly. Werbo gets flung out because of the attack.
"QUEEN BEE I LOVE YOUUUUuuuuuu~" He says as he disappears.
"Tsk. No matter. I'll just call them here!"
Queen Bee begins gesturing nefariously with her hands. It turns dark.
A grandiose version of her pop hit starts to play in the background.
An imaginary stadium comes out of the air, getting filled with people of all ages. It is so massive that it shadows the entirety of the mountain.
The eel whips to the background song's beat, but Queen Bee times all of her dodges gracefully.
"You got a ticket to my concert, baby?" She asks the grumpy eel.
...She is about to serve.