Chapter 7: Day of the Bakunawa Part II

  “DAD!!!” Miguel began to cry in a primal way. “DAD!!! NOOOOO!!! AAAAAAH!!!”

  Beatle yells out. “MIGUEL!!! YOU NEED TO TELEPORT BOTH OF US OUTTA HERE!!!”

  “Oh… Oh my God!” Miguel smiled. Miguel sees that the Reaper is slowly regenerating. “If… If I move him now, he’ll die!”

  Beatle sighs. “FUCK!!!” Beatle is hammered away, as Morningstar charges toward Miguel, only to be tackled away once more by Beatle. “KID!!!”

  Meanwhile, Myrmex is trying to infiltrate the base. “Where’s Unbreakable!?”

  “In Tondo… WHERE’S THE MORNINGSTAR!?!?”

  “What? Has Miguel not teleported-?” Myrmex speaks to Miguel. “Miguel? MIGUEL!!!”

  “TELEPORT US!!!” yelled Beatle.

  Miguel sighs. He slowly looks up. “No. He needs more time…”

  “MIGUE-!!!” Beatle’s head is scraped on the wall, causing blood to splatter as his brains paint the walls. Beatle begs his body to regenerate, but Morningstar just tosses him away.

  Miguel gently lets his father down and faces Morningstar himself.

  Beatle regenerates, albeit slowly as well.

  Miguel furrows his eyebrows, staring at Beatle, then his father, both regenerating.

  Morningstar sneers, staring at him.

  “Why are you doing this?” asked Miguel.

  “Because… My choices… my actions… every decision I make is what makes me… everything that I am… I am fucking Mornigstar. Who the motherfuck are you?” she sneered.

  Miguel just stared at her…

  Miguel sighs…

  “I’m just a kid… I’m Neurodivergent. I’m Filipino. I suck, man. At first, I thought none of us deserve to be a part of whatever the hell this war is… But now, I know that my whole life had been leading up to this moment. All of us,” he narrated, as Myrmex crashed the ship into the space snake, and it swallowed the ship, and Hercules burned alive…”I knew that the very moment I witnessed Unbreakable’s rampage in Manila, what was the most terrifying thing wasn’t the blood, or the gore, or the brains. It was the damned thought… That the neurotypicals were right.” He spoke, as the four: Dark, Askal, Lord, and Slime Tutorial huddle together while Stefan melts the stone bubble. “Of course they fucking were! Nothing was gonna stop the fact that the neurotypicals, who built every norm in our world from the ground up and made IT the very norm, had any chance of losing from what we believed in… All three ideologies… From the Star, to the Pentagram, to the Black Spiral… All three of us are waging war on each other and letting our egos bleed all over society like this. They were right. We are weird. We are freaks. We are monsters. We are Aswangs… It was only a matter of time before we would come out of the shadows and try to change the world and force it into our own vision. Because we see the patterns and try to place our own biases into it. They were right. They always have been.“ He spoke sardonically. “We never mattered. So we make ourselves matter in this story you and Beatle made… And the worst part? The neurodivergents are the ones who are going to save the world this time… Misfits who started it… are ending it. It’s… honorable… in a way. Because one thing makes us different from you. We took the harder path. We fight for neurodivergents AND neurotypicals to coexist. You destroy. Like a cancer, you keep burning resources when clearly there are other, albeit harder alternatives. We… We suck… But we have a hard time… And you took the easy part. You didn’t listen to your Superego. You listened to your fucking instinct. And now, we stand… before you… To burn your entire ideology down.”

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  “What do you even stand for?” laughed Morningstar.

  Beatle and the Reaper slowly rise from behind her.

  The stone ball also falls down into the Hollow Earth.

  Meanwhile, the ship blows out of the Space Snake’s belly, as Hercules, burned all over, blasts heat vision that manages to cut its neck.

  “Hope,” said Miguel. “Equity. Peace. Autonomy. And fucking. You. Up.”

  Beatle and the Reaper grab her from behind and throw her into Unbreakable, who had entered the facility.

  The two gods meet each other.

  Morningstar sneers, and so does Unbreakable.

  Morningstar prepares to punch him, and Unbreakable prepares to beat her, both winding up punches, before a portal opens.

  Morningstar roars, grabbing onto the tiles, then a metal beam. “NO!!! I’LL BE BACK!!! I’LL BE BACK, YOU FUCKS!!! YOU THINK YOUR LITTLE PORTAL CAN-!?”

  Beatle blasts heat vision at the beam she was holding onto as she is flushed into the space toilet.

  Unbreakable roars and charges after them, only to be pushed by the Aswang into the portal, Unbreakable grabs the pepper vial from his pocket and tosses it, with the vial shattering on his face.

  “NOOO!!!” yelled the Reaper.

  “Ow!” yelled Miguel.

  Beatle pushes Unbreakable into the portal.

  But, Unbreakable then blasts heat vision, melting his throat, as the Aswang fell to his knees.

  Miguel, still bleeding from his throat, jumps and dropkicks Unbreakable into the portal, which closes.

  Miguel falls to his knees, grabbing his throat and shaking in so much anguish and pain.

  The Reaper cradles Miguel in his arms. “NO!!!”

  “What’s happening!?” asked Beatle.

  “The pepper… You gotta FUCKING TAKE IT OUTTA HIS THROAT!!! HE WON’T BE ABLE TO HEAL!!!” yelled the Reaper.

  Beatle’s eyes widen. He warps out water and cleans the pepper off, but most of it sinks into his throat.

  “NO!!! FUCK!!!” boomed the Reaper. “No. No, no, no! Not my baby boy! No!” He sobbed, hugging Miguel. “NOOOO!!”

  Myrmex hears this from the communication line. “Miguel? MIGUEL!!!”

  Beatle sighs, grabbing Miguel’s face. “Gimme a blade.”

  “What?”

  “Gimme a fucking blade. NOW!!!” Beatle is given a bone blade, and Beatle cuts his hand, allowing the blood to bleed on Miguel’s neck.

  ..

  Silence.

  …

  More silence.

  …

  Miguel goes limp…

  Though…

  …

  He immediately jolts up, alive. Gasping. Breathing as he shook in pain. “Holy fuck!”

  The Reaper smiles, hugging his son.

  Myrmex smiles, grabbing her mouth, and crying.

  The heroes smile and laugh together… Now they accept their new duty… Now as a team…

  The Honorables.

  End of Volume I.

  Meanwhile… from the wreckage of the ship… Eradicator limps out of the debris. “E-E-E-ERA-RA-RA-RADICATE…” he hummed. He reaches a new area, where he landed…

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  Meanwhile... Meanwhile... Like, Double Meanwhile... Whatever lol...

  Unbreakable opens his eyes, seeing nothing but darkness unt the horizon, and is horrified, as a god-like being descends from the heavens breaching into the darkness...

  Unbreakable backs away. "You..."

  The god-like being, the Aswang King, aka, Miguel Azral, gives a smirk, "I'm back, bitches..."