How curious. Cosmo felt the jolt of his hand as his opponent’s telekinesis pushed the whip away from him and sent towards a rock instead. It seemed his adversary had both telekinetic powers and control over gravity. Cosmo wracked his memory for another parallel example, but came up empty.
But he always did enjoy a new challenge, especially one so willing to dance.
Did this little intruder think he could outsmart him by wrapping his whip around a rock? Cosmo took a split second to watch in earnest as the figure pushed up his hand and bound his hand-whip around a large rock. The whipped end wrapped clear around the structure, looping through the entire circumference of the rock. That was when Cosmo suddenly pulled back his hand with enough force that the taut, black whip actually pulled the heavy rock towards him. The end of it wrapped all the way around and knotted around the band.
He had plans for the rock. If his opponent thought he was being smart by buying time with the rock, Cosmo would just have to turn the tables against his strategy. If his opponent thought that the rock would pose him trouble, he would just have to prove to him that it wouldn’t an issue. Even if his strategy failed to finish the battle, it was a mental challenge; the intruder would eventually have to recognize that he could not so easily dispatch Cosmo with his conventional tricks and ploys. That's when the real fun would begin.
A split second later, and the entire weapon seemed to shift again. The whip that wrapped around the rock fused together into a complete circle, and the band seemed to flatted out and harden. With yet another sudden tug against the rope, the broad black ring dug into the rock face like a shackle. With a third jerk of his hand, the black ooze that had formed the whip separated from his fingers altogether, and it too hardened into a solid beam. After a final sweep of his hand, he took this new handle and shifted his weight. Placing his other hand further down the handle and counterbalancing with his body, Cosmo lifted the rock by its ebony handle and flung it over his shoulder—now he had a new mallet.
And he released an eager smile, ready to show off that he knew how to use it, especially considering his adversary had been so kind to equip him with the weapon.
The ground crunched and cracked beneath his feet, as the weight of Cosmo’s body and the rock-hammer was too much for the old asphalt and concrete. Putting his entire body into the swing, his quasi-muscles tightened and tensed, and Cosmo briefly looked cartoonish, like animated characters that swung objects that were far too big for their body. The massive mallet lurched through the air with a roaring whooshing sound, as Cosmo brought the hammer down towards his opponent. At the last moment, he concentrated on the ground beneath the mallet and knitted his brows in focus, bending the strands of space-time to increase the gravity so that the mallet suddenly accelerated towards the ground with even more thunderous force. |