A glow emanated from the headlocked Patrick, an indication that the drain was imminent. In the dimly lit Egyptian exhibit it was by far the strongest light source and illuminated the surrounding exhibits and casting eerie shadows.
Adhesiva gazed in wonderment at the flickering shadows and, confident that Leech would drain X-streme without a problem, moved in closer. As she dragged poor Kelly who was still struggling and cursing away, Adhesiva noted something reflecting the glow, resonating a similar glow to the power drain.
"The jewel of Imotet" she whispered getting even closer to Leech and his heroic victim. She outstretched her free hand and formed a long strip of tape with which to snatch the jewel.
Patrick, in the meantime, was making one last attempt to break free and was powering up a shock blast from his fist, which was taking longer than normal as his powers were being drained albeit not as fast as he was charging up. He'd never used the technique so close before, certain that the blast would knock him out too, but felt it was his only chance.
Once he mustered enough energy he grabbed Leech's arm and let loose the shock blast, at the exact moment when Adhesiva's tape touched the jewel while Kelly was still secured in her other hand.
As the pulse of energy expanded from Patrick's grip, it Leech's grip loosened and disrupted the flow of energy from him to Leech causing it to flow instead into the jewel. Adhesiva and Kelly screamed as the jewel coursed raw elemental power through the pair.
The jewel still connected to the energy drain powers of Leech kept on drawing Patrick's powers. Neither Leech nor Patrick had the energy to stand as they fell to their knees.
Leech finally fell victim to unconsciousness as he crashed onto the floor letting fly plumes of millenia-old dust.
Patrick palms hit the floor and he was struggling to move when he started to feel a numbness from his toes and fingers.
Using all the strength he could muster, he brought his head down to look at his hands. The surface begun looking like a layer of dry skin before becoming more transparent. To his horror, they started to look as if they had been cut from some precious stone. The wave slowly worked its way up his arms and crouched legs, his mind struggling more than his body was capable of, up Patrick's torso and finally swallowing his head up.
The energy from the jewel died down steadily as the last of Patrick's essence made its way into the jewel.
Both Adhesiva and Kelly collapsed having been released by the jewel.
As the dust settled, the room became eerily calm. The hostages tied by Adhesiva found that with her unconscious the tape binding them lost their adhesive properties and managed to free themselves, one running up to the unconscious Kelly and dragged her out of the room.
In the quiet of the room another dark figure stepped from out of the shadows and took the jewel from Adhesiva's loose grip and inspected the teen hero statue that was in a classic Egyptian servitude pose. The figure then made some incantations and X-streme was enveloped in shadows and vanished. The figure then subsequently vanished, walking into another shadow leaving the collapsed Leech and Adhesiva alone in the room.