They enter The Entropic Garden, a place where their actions give birth to terrifying stresses and strains all around them, causing the stars to bleed, the ground to give way.

They do battle with The Equator, who causes their limbs to be swallowed up by the air.

With every move fleshy wormholes open all around them, suppurating sores on the body of reality itself, which becomes an all-devouring mass that swallows and regurgitates at the same time.

Even Neutrino’s armoured bodysuit is no match for its appetite.

The X-Ray Kid focuses his eyes and sends a beam of light as far ahead as he possibly can.

But there is nothing beyond, nowhere to escape to.

They have walked into a trap.

It was The Singularity that had come in search of them. Now there is no end to the flesh.

Neutrino’s struggles are causing him to be swallowed all the faster.

The X-Ray Kid focuses an intense eye-beam on the ghastly folds that have Neutrino in their grasp but even as it howls in pain – before the beams have even struck it – it seems to grow stronger with the attack, gaining force and fury from what, in The Anti-Matter Universe, is merely the transference of powers.

Then The Anomaly makes his play.

He stops moving. He surrenders.

He gives in to the back and forth, to the trap of the flesh, to the calling of The Singularity.

He refuses to resist.

The flesh around him recoils and extends itself in horrifying reconfigurations.

It opens huge waste pipes around him and exposes the great effluvial channels that run beneath the universe. But The Anomaly refuses to be drawn into wonder.

Even as Neutrino screams and appears to be on the verge of being torn and quartered by the force of their assailant.

Even as The X-Ray Kid appears to turn on The Anomaly himself, his eyes tearing through him in an attempt to rearrange his cells for what he perceives as a moment of mutiny or just a lack of heart for the battle.

As The Anomaly renders himself motionless in the tumult, the tumult itself accelerates, to the point that it starts to feed on itself.

The great Canals of Slurry that run beneath become super-heated and trigger a series of elemental transformations.

The waters start to run clear.

The sound of teeth rending the air.

The sound of the air swallowing itself.

Neutrino drops to the ground with a klang!!! as the endless flesh turns itself inside out in a series of shuddering orgasms.

Don’t fight it, The Anomaly commands his brothers.

Neutrino and The X-Ray Kid are stood in wonder.

Is it not beautiful, Neutrino says, as he himself is lifted up by his own power.

He goes to take his helmet off.