37. Killer Queen Part II ~Sheer Heart Attack and Bu...

"The arrow?"

"Yes, Father... I need it."

"You've already gained two more abilities because of this arrow you think so highly of."

"And?"

"My sweet... You might not survive this ability you'd get."

"I'll take my chances."

Meanwhile...

"I killed the kid! Aha ha ha ha!" laughed one of the men. "He was like screaming and crying! Drowned him!"

"BRO!!!" laughed the other men.

The other men sadistically laughed as The Reaper watched from the rooftop.

The Reaper takes out a metallic arnis stick and beats three men with it. He spins and breaks one of the man's jaws and jabs the man behind him. He then snaps the man's neck with his thighs as he uses Star Platinum to crush the last man's legs.

With the man bleeding on the ground, Miguel continues to beat him with his own bare hands.

"Where is Yoshiko Kira?" asked Miguel with a deep voice. "Sirian Jomez. You are one of Yoshiko Kira's finest soldiers."

The man replied. "Pawns."

"Whatever," said Miguel. "Where is Yoshiko Kira?"

"I don't know! Nobody knows!" shouted the man. "No one has any idea, Reaper! Now, let me go!"

"Well... you did kill a child and feel no remorse for it," said The Reaper.

"No! I do!" shouted the man. He then puckers his face and tries to cry really hard.

"What the hell are you doing?" asked The Reaper.

"Crying," replied the man.

*CRACK*

*SPLAT*

*SPLORGE*

"I didn't buy it," said Miguel. "Sorry."

Miguel sighs.

"Walang kwenta..." he whispered, as the man fell to the ground, dead.

Miguel crushed the man's skull using Star Platinum's hand.

Miguel calmly walked away.

"THE REAPER!!! HERO OR SERIAL KILLER???"

Arthur read the newspaper seeing these words.

"Hey! Miguel!" smiled Arthur as he walked in.

"What is it, Dad?" asked Miguel.

"I found where Yoshiko Kira is staying..." said Arthur. "She's in this hotel right now in this city."

Miguel reads the words on the paper that Arthur is pointing at.

"'Seafoam Hotel.'" said Miguel. "And you made the connection... how?"

"Men from Helsing report that there's a surge of Stand Energy from that house," said Arthur.

"You think it's a-..." said Miguel.

"Stand Arrow," said the both of them.

"Yes," said Arthur. "Yes, I do."

Before...

Miguel plays with some thread he found on his jacket while standing alone in the corridor in his school. He had glasses, wore a black hoodie, wore a black cap, had short hair, and was very silent.

Some other kids push him after seeing him and laugh at him right after.

"Ugly fat kid," said one of the kids in Tagalog, and walked away.

Miguel stared at them blankly, walking away. They met up with Jessica, his current love interest, and Anne, his former.

"Kill them..."

"I'll kill them all..."

"Anne forgot to pay rent and therefore lost her apartment. Turns out that Jessica wasn't living anywhere from the start and basically lived in the precinct she works for. Finally, Jedan was kicked out by his landlord because they thought that he was a local serial rapist. To avoid scaring new residents, Jedan was kicked out. So now, they all live with us," said Miguel to Kariel.

"Hm," said Kariel with a disgusted look. "Wow. More people between me and my brother. Great."

Now...

And now... the Crusaders live in the JoJo Residence.

Anne accidentally pricks her finger.

She is currently sewing her clothes that were torn from a branch earlier.

Anne stayed completely calm.

She observed the blood bleed from her index finger.

"M," she whispered.

She turned slightly red.

"Oh," she whispered. "It stopped bleeding. What if I prick it again?"

"What are you doing?" asked Jessica, crossing her arms.

"Oh..." she said calmly, turning to Jessica. "I'm just enjoying pricking my own-..."

Anne immediately stopped talking, turned around, and continued sewing.

"I'm sorry, what, now?" asked Jessica, looking disgusted by her. "I never thought of her as one of those gals... What's her and Miguel's relationship anyway...?"

"Why are you here, Jessica?" asked Anne, still calmly sewing.

"W-Well..." said Jessica, putting her arms behind her back.

Meanwhile...

"How is Anne sadomasochistic?" asked Arthur, as he and Miguel, both in the super suits, walked on the rooftop of the hotel.

"I really don't wanna talk about this," replied Miguel, leaning on the balcony while looking down at the city.

"What?! You were the one who offered the topic!" shouted Arthur.

"No, Dad," said Miguel. "You used your Stand to read my mind without my permission."

"Whoa! You have no proof, kid!" smiled Arthur.

"Ugh," said Miguel. "She's not sadomasochistic. She just enjoys it when she's in pain."

"Do you hurt her," said Arthur, in all seriousness.

"God, no," replied Miguel in all seriousness. "What do you think I am?"

Miguel silently stared outside.

"Why did you become this person, Miguel?" asked Arthur. "A vigilante?"

Miguel remembers himself being beaten to the ground by those he called "normies."

"I wanted revenge," said Miguel.

"-... on those who killed your Mom?" asked Arthur.

"-...and on those who I wanted to break... I wanna break those who broke me."

"But you wouldn't do it, huh, kid?" asked Arthur, as he leaned his back on the balcony.

"God, no," said Miguel. "Killing innocent people is the last thing I'd want to do... and using my Stand on the innocent could take second place to the last."

"That's why you aren't them, Miguel," said Arthur. "That's why you aren't a Salvi. You're a JoJo."

"Sometimes I wish I became a Salvi," said Miguel, as he turned around and walked away. "So I could teach those normies some manners."

Miguel looks up at the stars.

"This is a pretty big universe," said Miguel.

"There could be more than one," smiled Arthur.

"Multiverse theory?" asked Miguel.

"There are some hints in the Grimm Books about those," smiled Arthur. "Why do you do that? You look to the stars... You gaze up on what's up there..."

"I believe," said Miguel. "That whatever is up there... Whatever is out there... it's hope..."

Miguel looks up and points his index finger upward.

"I, Miguel JoJo, have a dream I believe is just," he whispered. "A world where I knock the bad guys down..."

*click*

"Look over here..."

Arthur's eyes widen as he uses Open Arms to grab Miguel. He pushes him and himself off the building.

"DAD!!!" should Miguel.

*BOOM*

"WHOA!!!" shouted Miguel, looking up and seeing a large explosion.

Miguel uses a grappling hook to grapple to the ledge as both of them swing and crash into a window on a lower floor. The room is revealed to be empty. No furniture. No paint. It's just a gray cemented room that's empty.

Miguel scans the room using his mask.

"No sign of life detected."

"What the hell?!" asked Arthur. "This entire hotel isn't even real!"

"What? Is this hotel just some kind of fake building sitting in the middle of the entire city?" asked Miguel. "I doubt that. How did people not notice? There must be people checking in the hotel, right?"

"I had a feeling that this was a trap," said Arthur. "Kira must be far away, right now. That looked like a long-raged automatic Stand. We need to call the others..."

Arthur reaches for his phone in his right pocket.

"Dad," said Miguel. "Don't turn on any devices."

*click click click*

"Look over here."

*BOOM*

The two of them run outside the room as it explodes completely. They began running in the corridor as they search for a place to hide.

They enter another room that's unlocked. Once again, it's barren. The two stayed completely quiet.

"I could still sense that it's following us..." said Miguel. "Whose Stand is this? Is there a drone nearby?"

"No, kid," said Arthur. "I only sense one place that's sending off Stand Energy, and it's from that thing."

"What?" asked Miguel. "Killer Queen is a Stand that's just like Radio Ga Ga?"

"Not exactly," said Arthur. "He seems to have multiple Stands. Not all of them are automatic. I've dealt with one Stand like this before back when I was in my prime."

Arthur tries something out. He turns on the lightbulb.

"Miguel," said Arthur. "Open the door. Let's get outta here."

"Why? He'll see us!" Miguel shouted back.

"No," said Arthur. "Just listen to me, kid. Also, be as calm as possible."

Miguel sighed and nodded, as he opened the door. The two snuck in front of the small blue round tank with a skill with horns on its face. It turns to the room they were just in.

*click*

Miguel and Arthur ran to the corridor and into the flight of stairs to the next floor. The walls of each corridor were barren. Not even bugs were found. However, each corridor and room has one lightbulb at the center with a switch somewhere in the room.

*BOOM*

"I was right. It can sense heat," said Arthur, as he stopped Miguel on the lower floor. "It goes after the hottest closest thing within its range. Keep your cool. Don't run, so you won't overheat."

Smells like blood.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Arthur. "I'm beginning to sense Stand Energy all around us. Wait..."

Arthur looks at the bombed room from before.

"Wasn't that the room we were just from?" asked Arthur.

"Didn't we go down a floor?" asked Miguel.

Arthur grabs Miguel as both of them jump out of the window.

They return to the same floor, but this time, the room that blew up is fixed.

"Huh?!" asked Arthur.

Arthur grabs Miguel and runs to the corridor and into the stairs.

He walks down a flight and enters the next floor.

He returns to the same corridor.

He sees that more corridors had formed in front of it.

He turns left, right, left, and right.

He returns to the same corridor.

"Building A Mystery," said a voice. "That is my Stand's name. I am Gian Pimiento... AT YOUR SERVICE!!!"

*BAM*

"I am Arthur JoJo," said Miguel.

"And I am Miguel JoJo," said Arthur.

"DON'T YOU TRY TO TRICK ME LIKE THAT!!! I AM NO KAPRE!!!" shouted the man.

"Huh," said Miguel. "I thought for sure that that would work."

"Yeah," said Arthur. "It was my idea, but I didn't think it would work!"

"SILENCE!!!" shouted the voice.

Sheer Heart Attack approached them.

"HEY!!!" shouted Miguel at the voice, pointing up to the ceiling. "GET US OUT OF HERE!!! WHAT IS THIS PLACE?!!"

"WHERE IS YOUR STAND?!!" asked Arthur.

The voice laughed.

"You don't get it, do you?" asked the voice.

"YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE THIS PLACE AGAIN!!!" said both the voice and Arthur.

"Huh?!" asked the voice.

(theme begins)

Arthur and Miguel ran around in the corridors together, turning on all the lightbulbs possible using Open Arms' vines.

"What are you-?!"

"Look over here..." whispered the tank Stand.

*click*

*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM*

Arthur and Miguel kept on running as they made sure to avoid the attacks of the tank Stand.

"SHEER HEART ATTACK!!!" shouted the Stand. "LOOK OVER HERE!!!"

*click*

Several lightbulbs exploded because of Sheer Heart Attack's bomb blaster.

The two kept on dodging the attacks, running away from the tank.

Sparks went flying everywhere with each explosion. Each time they left, the corridors behind them reformed.

Arthur then stopped for a while in the "next" corridor. He then bit his finger until it bled, and using his blood, wrote something on the walls.

Miguel and Arthur continued running and running as suddenly...

They stopped moving.

(theme ends)

"Huh? I didn't hear any doors opening before they stopped running. Sheer Heart Attack stopped bombing my lightbulbs," said Gian to himself. "But for some reason, no explosions are happening. Are they dead? They must be... right?Or...!"

A dark thought entered Gian's head.

"No...! That would violate Kira's direct orders!" he told himself. "I shouldn't do that! It could be a trap! But... what if they're really dead...? Or what if...No! That's impossible!No one can escape the treacherous ability of my Stand, Building A Mystery!But no movements... not even a breath... could be felt in the building.But I could feel writings on the walls...He wrote on my walls... Probably with his own blood... Just to mock me..."

Gian entered the building. He could sense Sheer Heart Attack nearby, so he simply shifted the corridor Sheer Heart Attack was in repeatedly so that it wouldn't be able to reach him. Each time the Sheer Heart Attack reaches the end of the room to attack Gian, Gian will rotate the corridor, as Sheer Heart Attack will have to go in the same direction all over again.

But... Gian finds something unsettling.

"What is this? A footnote?" asked Gian.

Blood was written on the walls, which says, "Don't move yourself and your Stand and increase the speed of your heartbeat right after reading this sentence."

Suddenly, Gian's heartbeat increased in speed, causing his body to heat up. Gian was then unable to move himself or his Stand, causing Sheer Heart Attack to enter the room.

"Well, well, well..." said Arthur, as Star Platinum let go of his and his own User's heart.

The two continued to breathe, gasping for breath.

Sheer Heart Attack approached Gian.

"You slowed down your heartbeats to cool your body temperatures so that Sheer Heart Attack wouldn't be able to detect you," said Gian.

"Yes, Yes, YES!!!" smiled Arthur.

"We nearly died, actually..." smiled Miguel. "But it was necessary for our survival. I used my Stand to grab our hearts to slow down our heartbeats. We were basically half-dead for a minute or two."

Gian smiled.

Gian, now revealed, is a curly red-haired slender man that's about 170 cm tall. He wears a green polo with a diamond-shaped hole on his polo's chest. He has green pants and black shoes.

"You've outsmarted me," said Gian. "Please... I'll do anything. I'll join your little club. Anything..."

"Nah," said Miguel. "Read up your file. You're a local serial rapist in my close friend's neighborhood. You kinda look like my friend, and that caused him to be kicked out because residents there were scared of him. Poor, poor Jedan. And rape? Ew.Die, you miserably horrid scum."

Sheer Heart Attack passed by them and approached a trembling Gian.

Miguel and Arthur run and reach the opening Gian came in from.

They then jump out and fall toward the ground.

Arthur smiled while falling midair. "Now, you'll say!"

"YOU MOTHERFUCKER-!!!" shouted both Gian and Arthur.

*click*

*BOOM*

The entire building exploded.

Miguel then lands safely down on the ground, as Star Platinum's feet landed them safely.

Arthur pants in relief.

"Hey, Dad," said Miguel, looking at the building as it slowly deformed. "It's disappearing."

The building then disappeared, only to show a single lightbulb on the ground. Heart Attack also disappeared.

"Huh," said Miguel. The two shrug and walk away.

"Want some Jollibee?" asked Arthur.

"Fine," sighed Miguel. "But you're taking a break from coca-cola."

"No smoking and no coke?! You're a mad man, son!" shouted Arthur.

Miguel sighs. "Hay Naku..."

Meanwhile...

"Because!" continued Jessica. "Because..."

Anne giggles.

"I don't hate you," smiled Anne.

"Tch-..." said Jessica. "Why do you think you're such a good person, Anne?"

"I'm not," sighed Anne. "I've done terrible things."

"Yes," said Jessica. "And you act as if nothing happened. You act as if you deserve him... But you don't, Anne... You left him for our group."

"He only liked you just to get my attention," said Anne, turning around. "He did it to hurt me."

"Stop it," said Jessica.

"He loves me because he always did," said Anne, turning around. "In another world, I may not exist in his life and he ended up being obsessed with you. But in this world, I'm here... and you don't matter to him."

"I want him," said Jessica.

"Well, you can't, because he's mine," said Anne, as she stabbed the needle on the table and immediately turned to her.

Jessica is revealed to be mildly perturbed. A drop of sweat falls down her face.

"Huh?" asked Anne. She looks up to see that Sticky Fingers nearly hit Jessica in the face. Anne's eyes went black and Jessica, out of fear, woged.

"Sorry," Anne softly replied.

"No prob," trembled Jessica.

Anne thought for a second.

"Do you still love him?" asked Anne. Anne laughed. "No way you'd admit-..."

"Yes," replied Jessica. "You have no idea how long I wished for a world where you weren't there..."

"Miguel's probably out there hunting Yoshiko Kira...He's still out there trying to right other people's wrongs... and I love him for it...He may be doing it for revenge... but I don't care... because he has a good heart." said Anne.

"You're just making excuses for him," said Jessica.

Anne sighed.

"Jessica..." said Anne. "About what I did to you... I'm s-..."

*click*

"Anne-?"

*BOOM*

"ANNE!!!"

"No-!!!"

*sssssssssssssst*

No one was there, to begin with.

Jessica looked at her hands. She looks around the library, and it was empty. "Who was I just talking to... exactly?"