On the moon, the three old men exclaimed in amazement while Kalifa looked around curiously.
Rubick said, "Don't just stand there. Find some suitable ore."
The three old men hurried off to search for ore they could use to forge a weapon. The search took all afternoon.
"Found it! Found it!"
Clay's excited shout caught Rubick's attention. He looked at the stone in Clay's hand but couldn't identify it.
"This is the one," Clay said. "The color and texture are unmistakable."
The other two old men agreed. Clay explained, "Meteorites make good forging material because friction with the air burns away most of their impurities as they fall."
Holding up the stone, Clay added, "But I don't know whether simply heating this would have the same effect."
"Easy. Leave it to me," Rubick said. "Kalifa, take them back first."
Rubick opened a Portal, and Kalifa and the others soon left the moon. Rubick followed the trail from the stone and found an enormous mass of ore.
He applied gravity, lifting the truck-sized mass into the air. With another wave of his hand, he sent it flying toward the world of the Pirate King.
"A hundredfold gravity!"
Rubick pointed forward, and the ore hurtled toward the All Blue with unstoppable force. Friction with the air soon turned it into a blazing meteor.
Rubick applied gravity to himself and followed at a distance. He needed to find someone to recover the meteor as soon as it landed.
A dozen or so seconds later, the meteor entered the atmosphere.
Another dozen or so seconds later, the sea below came clearly into view.
Another dozen or so seconds later, the meteor slammed into the sea, throwing up a huge plume of water. Its heat vaporized vast quantities of seawater, and thick steam spread across