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Thaddeus was not quite finished yet. He was to figure out what he had been thinking about for awhile now. Kane moved by "sliding", could morph shape, was able to absorb anything, was made out of a slime like substance, and even had its own visible brain. Out of all of this, Thaddeus figured that Kane was nothing more than a giant amoeba, an animal-like protist, which is a unicellular organism. Now, how does one ensure the death of a cell? Natural processes, particularly, homeostasis.

The faults would close up on their own, as the warhammer only had a temporary effect. However, there was still the matter of what was in Thaddeus' hand...the flask. It was glowing blue, and ocean water appeared blue, did it not? The flask would pour a seemingly infinite amount of water from itself, coming out like a geyser. It would not be any water, but SEA water. How would this matter? Let's take a look.

First, there is the current of the water. When the water splashes down to fil the arena, it goes in all sorts of directions in order to fill it. The force of a geyser is tremendous, and so would the current of the pool of water as long as the constant faucet pouring style was in effect. The main thing it would do is prevent the stray pieces from meeting each other. Even though it could move through its psuedopods, the force of the waves from the sea water would be too great.

Second, and most important, is the solute/solvent concentration of both organisms. But even before that, there's Kane's outer covering. What was it? It had to be a phospholipid membrane, lest the opponent would fall apart. It couldn't be a cell wall, otherwise it wouldn't be able to make its rapid movements. But back to the topic. The solute/solvent concentration in the water would be pretty much guarenteed to be VERY different. Most of it would be water, of course. Now, how it would work: If there was more water in Kane's individual split-up parts than in the pool, then more solutes from the water would enter? This would leave all of Kane to shrivel up. If there was more solutes in Kane than the water, however, each individual supercell would expand until it would burst. And nothing could stop this, as it was a natural process that all living organisms abide to.

The water would proceed to fill up the arena within seconds once spouting from the flask. Even though it wouldn't cover all of Kane "yet", his bottom would still be unprotected, causing osmosis to take place. No matter what, Kane would pretty much be over and done with as the pool would get bigger and bigger. The supercells themselves would get covered easily as well.

Oh, and what would be Kane's nucleus also consists of a phospholipid bilayer...if it would burst, the DNA would be left for the lysosomes to destroy immediately, as they were technically foreign invaders.

The question at this point was moreso "Did they last long enough before being totally deflated or burst?" It merely depended on the solute/solvent ratio that each of the cytoplasmic "slime" balls contained. Even though they were on the surface, half of their plasma membrane would still be underwater, meaning there'd be enough time for osmosis to occur. The question is, how much in that time? All depended on the concentration, particularly for the main body that contained the nucleus, which would be fully submerged for the longest time, thus had a higher chance of being directly affected by osmosis.

That does not mean that Thaddeus and his owl would stop watching. On the contrary, the owl would be observing every move as Thaddeus focused on the water. The owl would be particularly alerted once the birds had started to form. Yet, it would be more than enough time for Thaddeus, whom the owl had noted about the attack, to take care of it. "Oh great Ares, protect me with your weapons!" Thaddeus would then be surrounded by a sphere of diamond tipped arrows. Once the birds would be close enough to Thaddeus, he'd let them fly towards his now multiple enemies. This was to do two things:

1. The sheer force of the arrows would be able to penetrate through the slime and effectively cut the wings of Kane, causing him to fall into what would be a watery grave. The speed which the arrows would pass would most likely be too fast for Kane to fully absorb. Plus, with how many arrows that would be let loose from the chant, Kane would probably be too small to absorb them.

2. Second, and most important, would be damage to the nucleus. With the sheer number of arrows used, the probability that the nucleus would be hit, and effectively split, would be extremely high. Once split, the DNA, if not already chopped up, would be disentigrated by lysosomes, effectively killing Kane.


If they would still be in the air, Thaddeus would direct his water geyser towards the bird(s) in question, hopefully moving at a fast enough pace to hit them all and knock them out in the water.