Dimensional Descent

Monkey began to wither away, his roars growing fainter.

Leonel was stunned as he reached forward, but everything happened too quickly. Soon, what was left of Monkey became nothing more than a pile of ash, leaving Leonel absolutely baffled.

'What the hell just happen here?'

Little Blackstar jumped into action without waiting for Leonel's command, snagging a shadow out of the air before returning. However, Leonel hardly registered the little guy's actions.

Leonel's brow furrowed tightly, his emotions whirling about and his mind in a fog. He had truly wanted to give Monkey a chance and it was most definitely not his own action that caused the latter to end up like that.

Leonel hadn't been shocked that Monkey was roaring in rage, it made sense. The last time they met, he was battling Leonel. If Leonel blamed him for this, it wouldn't have been fair, that was why Leonel was still willing to try and calm him down first.

But reality was both cruel and unexpected. Leonel had no idea what could have happened to cause this, but he was left completely in shock, unable to speak a single word for a long while.

The reason for this was simple… For the first time in his life, he had no explanation for what was before him. There was no spark in his Dreamscape, no small clue he could grasp on, no immaculate, god level deduction to make…

There was simply nothing.

The snowglobe should have preserved Monkey in an absolutely perfect state. The only plausible explanation seemed to be that Monkey had run to the end of his ability and didn't have anymore strength to duplicate his cells and heal himself anymore, but the snowglobe should have frozen that process entirely.

That left only one possibility: Whatever caused this had to have happened before Leonel put Monkey in the snowglobe. But, this possibility seemed even more impossible than the first.

After several minutes, Leonel couldn't find a reason nor could he find any clues. Without a choice, he closed his eyes, sighing deeply.

Someone was toying with him. And he didn't like it one bit.

**

it, Leo? This thing

obsessed with a physique he hid beneath baggy clothes, was also the well known clean freak of the group. Seeing the disgusting tentacle womb before him, despite the fact it

the way it is now, but

thinking of using that hell

know quite yet. Remember Little Blackstar's ability? I have something much better for it to

before he nodded in

you want

who's smart enough to manage this. If I leave it to the others, I'll probably find this thing dead by the

me dumb, Cap? Where's the worker's union? I want

seemed to hear something

"You're leaving?"

I've left you all in the dark about too many things until now. In fact, you all don't even know what my goal is, even though you likely know me well enough to have guessed by

a strong arm envelop his shoulder. He looked to the side and up to find Raj's big

Cap. How much of it

saw eight pairs of eyes looking back at him, each one with their own level of fervor. He couldn't help but grin himself.

"All of it."

**

This was

there were still several skirmishes still ongoing on the border of Earth's territory. But, from what it looked like, it didn't seem that they would be ending any time soon. Those individuals wouldn't stop until Earth simply grew too powerful for them to even dare. But, with the current state of things, it would definitely take

as they always were. But, Leonel just ignored them as he usually did. The difference was that this time, none of them reached

stood waiting, still wearing his spectacles as always. This man always seemed to

time."

voice was quite even, he seemed to have been trying to convey surprise. Clearly he didn't expect this out

raised an eyebrow. "Punctuality is the

time. He looked toward Leonel deeply, a hint of something