Help Making This Plot Work

So, at the end of Issue One of my current story, the main character has been injured by various fights with Mooks and also a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere. He then gets into a fight with the Big Bad (of issue one). My problem is that the main character doesn't have enough health potions to recover enough health to win this last fight. Furthermore, it's absolutely vital for the plot of future Issues that he win this fight, because he gets his Yandere girlfriend as a Random Drop at the end of the fight, completing the Battle Couple. So how should I fix the discrepancy?

The solutions I've thought of so far are:

• Increase the main character's number of starting health potions (but I don't think his family could really afford more, he is impoverished, after all)
• Have him find a Deus ex Machina Infinity +1 Sword by random luck (but it'd have to be a one-time-use item or else it'd mess up the battles in future issues!)
• Maybe the main character can keep grinding on random Mooks longer and get more health potions first?

Any help is absolutely appreciated; this story is really close to my heart. :)

edited 31st May '12 4:52:10 PM by PuppyDogGrinder6870

Hmm...a video game story?

If you're giving yourself space to stray from video game mechanics, you should think about The Big Bad, and the setting of the fight. What can the protagonist exploit in order to defeat the antagonist? Does the Big Bad have a weakness, or is there something in the area the protagonist can use as a weapon?

What tone are you going for? More comedic? Or maybe more dramatic despite the video game setting? Because that could change the way in which the Big Bad loses - either as a joke or full on sign that the main character is improving.

You're writing a story, not playing a game - you already know what the random drop is going to be (a girlfriend? Seriously?). Just give him that extra health potion to start with, or write one of the earlier battles as being easy enough that he doesn't have to use one.

What sort of story are you going for here, by the way?