He-El's dark crimson eyes gleamed. The blood-red Reality Stone embedded in his chest flashed at its angular facets, as though a blood-colored radiance had shrouded his demon-god-like armor. He extended a large, dark, sharp-armored hand and grabbed the Two-Dimensional Foil drifting down.
A sheet depicting Thanos's severed arm wearing the Infinity Gauntlet floated down in a shimmer of light and was caught in He-El's dark hand.
"Restore!"
He-El issued an order to Vivian within his body, commanding her to use the Reality Stone to restore this small piece of Two-Dimensional Foil to its original state.
The Reality Stone possessed the ability to erase and alter reality, as well as turn all insubstantial things—such as thoughts, fantasies, and dreams—into reality.
He-El had never used the Reality Stone before. All this time, he had only used it for observation.
The power required to use a single Stone was not something an ordinary human like him could endure.
He-El had only one chance to use the Infinity Stones: when he gathered all six Stones and erased his own curse.
Before that, the price of using the Reality Stone itself was difficult for him to bear.
That was why he had created Vivian.
Vivian was his Infinity Gauntlet, bearing the backlash of the Reality Stone in his stead.
"Yes, Master."
Within He-El's body, Vivian linked with his Quark Armor. Using her will, she activated the Reality Stone to restore the small piece of Two-Dimensional Foil in He-El's grasp.
The Two-Dimensional Foil He-El held tore apart again, unstable like space itself and like particles. In a flash, the two-dimensional objects within it reappeared in three dimensions. But when they had fallen into two dimensions, they had already lost their height and thickness. Thus, upon returning to three dimensions, they could not be restored whole and