Michael emerged from the enormous current of water, the lightning voltage in his body multiplying with every mighty step he took closer to his opponent. "I heard you called me a wannabe!" he claimed, using his staff to bend the weather around him. "By the end of this battle, I guarantee you that I'll have you saying something way different!"
"It's about to get real!" Alex whispered, his mouth covered by Samantha's hand shortly after.
Michael grasped the staff in his hand tighter, creating a hand around him consisting of small bolts of lightning that could be shaped to his desire. "I'll cut through the skies if that's what it takes to defeat you!" he exclaimed.
Cookie's sword swang right through Michael's body as if it were a piece of paper, but his flesh had not been revealed by the slash that would be guaranteed to kill 100 average men. She looked up in shock, followed by Michael obtaining the chance to grab her right by the head. The lightning on the palm of his left hand crackled loudly, creating a charge that threw Cookie back where she had begun, this time hitting a tree and nearly losing the battle right there and then.
She beamed at Michael with a stare of anger that ominously shook him, now knowing the fact that Cookie was still holding back against her opponent. "You don't know how it feels…" she said under her breath, "HOW IT FEELS TO BE FORCED INTO A LIFE OF SLAVERY!"
Michael's eyes locked to her hands, which were bound in an unusual formation along with her sword, which was sticking out from the rest of her body.
He stuck out his hands back at her, showing the efficiency of the charges of electricity racing across his hands. "Slave or not, you still have to be humbled!" he replied.
Swinging up his hand, he caught a bolt of lightning straight from the sky and aimed it toward Cookie, who was silently admiring his power but still had an undying desire to stand victorious. "I'm done playing your little games!" she exclaimed, a puddle of blood slowly forming below her feet with each drop extracted from her mouth.
"Lightning Throw!" Michael exclaimed. The bolt he had once held exploded into what seemed to be a million tiny bolts that shook the entire battlefield and altered the ground around them, creating massive wind currents that Cookie fought to endure. She then approached Michael at lightning speed, but was intercepted by his perfect timing to dodge her attack. As they continued to combine with each other, Michael felt a sudden feeling of hatred inside him - a feeling that he had never felt before. Even though it peered inside his very being similar to a parasite, he felt a weird sense alongside the feeling that he had claimed not to own.
Before he knew it, Cookie had successfully landed a fatal blow on him, instantly knocking him back to his base form and then slamming him into a tree, where blood rushed out of his mouth due to the impact.
Upon raising his head, he looked at Cookie, who was slowly walking towards him with her swords drawn. "You share a sense of determination alongside me," Cookie said to herself, halting when her swords reached Michael's neck. "Show me your true power, it will be the only way a weak and worthless kid like you will defeat me!"
Cookie continued to land blows on Michael's face as he screamed in pain, but with every punch that hit his face, an additional unknown memory appeared in his head as if someone were taking over his brain.
"I'll cut you to shreds!" she screamed, the same ring from earlier appearing around her eyes. She held her swords high up to the skies, and swung them down to kill Michael in one blow.
The entire valley around them was destroyed due to the impact and power of both of their attacks, but it had seemed that Cookie had stood victorious from this battle.
She stood over Michael's lifeless body and resembled it to Dookie, her brother who she had resented and slightly loved simultaneously throughout their confusing relationship.
Her silence was then substituted with hysterical laughter that both Alex and Samantha heard, looking back and seeing Michael's lifeless body in curiosity.
Samantha looked in horror, traumatized by the death of her friend. On the other hand, Alex still had hope for the future of the Land Of Trila, and the picture of Team ENTITY saving Trila in his mind included him standing alongside his best friend. This emotion was followed by a sense of anger, causing him to rush out from the bushes to recover his friend's body. "Michael!" he shouted loudly, acknowledging the fact that Cookie would now pursue both him and Samantha.
She looked Michael's way, licking the blood on her lip and smiling at him. "Trying to save your little friend, huh?" she asked, imitating the gesture Alex was performing in a struggle to save Michael.
Cookie jolted her sword at Alex, planning to impale him right in the area where his heart beat 10 times faster than usual. "I am the strongest person there is in this world!" Cookie screamed.
Tears flew right out of Alex's eyes as he jumped to Michael's lifeless body, but what happened next would shock everyone currently watching the battle.
A gigantic bolt of lightning would blaze right into the forest, flashbanging Samantha, Michael, and Cookie. As their eyesights recovered from the sudden white light, they heard the resumption of Michael's immune system via the beating of his heart coming back.
Now shirtless, he screamed louder than Cookie so that the entire island would know the name of his attack: "Voltatic Resurrection!" he screamed, the bolt of lightning that rained down from the sky blowing Cookie through the forest at lightning speed.
Alex, now on the floor, looked up at Michael with fear. Michael looked back down at him, his face lighting up. "Don't worry, I'll be sure to defend you!" he exclaimed.
"Even if our relationship had been ruined years back, I won't let someone dear to me perish right before my eyes!"