257. Suicide Squad Part II

I cannot think of a title card joke right now... So... Uh... Eh...

"I can't reset Stefan's action to zero!" yelled Giorno.

"What!?" asked Duwang Josuke.

"I think... Stefan just won..." said Giorno.

Meanwhile...

Prince Josuke vomits blood as he wakes up.

"Josuke!" sobbed Miguel. "They're dying out there! Come on!"

Prince Josuke slowly Stands up. "PURPLE RAIN PRINCE!!!"

Stefan then steps on one of Van's bullets as Kryptonite melts his left thigh.

"RAUGH!!!" yelled Stefan.

Giorno regenerates Peter's arms and legs while Duwang Josuke heals Peter's arms and legs.

Peter gasps for breath as he slowly stood right back up. "Mr... Mr. Wayne... He's too fast... How will we-...?"

The Prime Arks teleport near Zed.

"Zed?" asked Star. "What are you doing!?"

"What Eobard told me to do!" yelled Zed. "Spiral staircase, Rhinoceros beetle, Desolation Row, Fig tart, Rhinoceros beetle, Via Dolorosa, Rhinoceros beetle, Singularity point, Giotto, Angel, Hydrangea, Rhinoceros beetle, Singularity point, Secret emperor..."

Zed whispers a wish to the eldritch gods of the unknown.

Zed's eyes glowed with unlimited power from his body.

Suddenly... Zed dropped to the ground as Star catches him.

"Zed!? What did you do!?" asked Star, as she checks for Zed's pulse.

She gasps and covers his mouth as tears flow from her eyes.

Suddenly...

"ORA!!!" Miguel's Star Platinum blasts a punch at Stefan.

"STAR PLATINUM BITES THE DUST!!!"

Miguel does not successfully travel through time.

Miguel struggles to try and travel through time.

"If I can only get back...!!! a few seconds earlier...!!!" whispered Miguel.

"I felt that!" yelled Stefan. "Did you just try to stop time just now? No... travel through time... Fool... This... is the new world... Thus... there is no past to return to."

Miguel's tears begin to flow from his eyes.

"The one moment you tried to go back... is a failure! AND IT WILL ALWAYS BE A FAILURE!!! NGAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"I can't control this moment right now... But I can do this-..."

Time... is erased...

Time resumes...

"-... KILL YOU!!! Huh?" asked Stefan.

Giorno looks around. "Did he just-?"

Giorno sees that he is a few steps forward.

"He can... do that?" asked Giorno. "Signore JoJo!"

"ORA!!!"

Star Platinum punches Stefan from behind, but Stefan turns around and bashes his fist into Miguel's face.

Miguel stops time and blasts punches toward Stefan's face. 

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!! WRYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

Miguel floats left and right.

Stefan's eyes begin to follow Miguel in stopped time.

"Shit!" whispered Miguel.

Stefan teleports behind Miguel. "M̸͔̻̜̱̤͔̓̈͂͝A̸̬̍̂̾̎D̶̛̰̞͖͈̋̿͑̿È̴̝̍̅̃̍ ̸̡̧̫̾̈́Ḭ̵́͗̒̿N̴̰͎̟͈̟͌̾̏͛̇͌ ̴͔̗͖̗͓̉͑͐̔̽̒Ḩ̴̤̺̗̩̺͐͋̀͝Ę̶̫̔͂͒̅͘ͅͅA̶͓͔͌V̷͉̠̀̓Ē̷̥̯̫̪̟Ñ̴̡̮̥̺̋͐̋̉̃!!!"

Miguel turns around and blocks Stefan's ax kick with Star Platinum.

GER II tries to blast a punch toward Stefan, but Stefan simply dodges with ease.

After a minute, time ends up resuming.

"I AM THE MOST POWERFUL STAND-USER IN THE MODERN-DAY!!! WHAT ELSE ARE YOU ABLE TO DO AGAINST ME YET BOW!?"

"You're not a god," said Bruce. "I know for a fact that even gods can fall flat like the world's biggest losers."

"TRY ME, BRUCE WAYNE!!!"

*tackity tackity tackity tackity tackity tackity tackity tackity*

Stefan's Stand gallops and prepares to kill Prince Josuke by blasting a punch into the invisible jet.

"NO!!!" sobbed Miguel.

*PEW*

*BOOM*

"JOSUKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!" sobbed Miguel.

Miguel's eyes and hair turn silver as he yells with shockwaves shattering the cosmos.

"What the f-!?" asked Vegeta.

"Ultra Instinct!?" asked Goku.

Stefan charged as he blasts Omega Beams at Miguel, who simply blocks the attack.

"You think that your little power-up will defeat me!?" asked Stefan.

Miguel growls as he struggles to block all of Stefan's infinitely powered-up punches. 

"RON-KAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKA-!!!" yelled Made in Heaven, blasting punches at Miguel.

Miguel blocks all of Stefan's punches. "USELESS!!! USELESS!!! USELESS!!! USELESS!!! COME ON!!! COME ON!!! COME ON!!! COME ON!!! COME ON!!!WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

Goku, Saitama, and Vegeta try to attack, but they are just too slow.

"I CANNOT LOSE!!! I HAVE GAINED UNLIMITED POWER!!! NOTHING!!! AND MAY I REPEAT!!! NOTHING CAN STAND AGAINST UP!!!"

"Stand proud..." whispered Miguel. "Everyone... will stand proud against you... Swimming in the Bloody Stream of those we've lost... toward you... The destiny of one's blood."

"ORA!!!" yelled Star Platinum. "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA-!!!"

"I don't deserve to be bullied any longer! The world deserves better than the dogshit it received from these pathetic humans!THE SUN... WILL NEVER SET IN THE WORLD MADE IN HEAVEN!!!"

"Oh... It will... It fucking will..." whispered Miguel.

The two Stands exchange punches toward each other.

"I'LL TAKE YOU OUT, JOJO!!!"

Miguel smirked as he stared at Stefan's angry, fortified, face. Stefan angrily kept on trying to go for the neck.

Miguel woges, as he transforms into silver-furred Aswang.

"What can a Filipino like you do anyway?"

"So much more than you... or the rest of the world... will ever expect."

"Yeah... right..." chuckled Stefan. "What can you do?"

"'Accept that I'm a loser.' Something you're apparently incapable of doing-..."

*POW*

*SPLAT*

"What's wrong, Stefan?" snickered Miguel. "Did I strike a nerve? What a fucking loser..."

Stefan grabbed Miguel's neck and kept on punching his face over and over as Star Platinum encased Miguel's body like armor.

Miguel starts to get dizzy as he spits out blood.

"You'd do anything for your world, right? Even die?"

"Pretty much..." Miguel trembles in pain. "But I still have some life left in me to be able to kill you off."

"Try me."

"Sure thing."

Star Platinum manages to break Stefan's right leg.

"I should've been there for Josuke..."

"You should've... Now, look where he is now... Whispering his last words in oblivion..."

Miguel headbutts Stefan as Stefan's nose splatters with blood.

"MMPH!!!"

"I'm going to keep fighting you... Until you are brought down to the Goddamned ground."

"You're no hero, JoJo..."

"I don't care... I'm going to keep fighting..."

Note: "Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice." So says the glorious Jose Rizal.

"...-and keep fighting... Even dead, I'll still fight... through my family... for my heart beats with my ancestor's rage, passion, and love... from Simoun JoJo to me and my descendants, we will all come after assholes like you... We'll stand right back up, proud as we can be... and knock you all back down to the ground!I don't care if I die as a nobody... remembered only as a mere speck in your thoughts... At least I died out with a Goddamned blast..."

"Like you'll ever-!"

Stefan gasps as Miguel's body begins to glow with massive amounts of energy.

"Power... Stand Power..." Stefan backs away. "I sense it resonating from within you... What the hell is this?"

The Prime Arks have chosen their first champion in years...M I G U E L  J O J O ! ! !

Stefan turns to the Prime Arks on the ground.

"That's what Zed did..." said Stefan. "He... He exchanged the thing he loves most for Miguel's Stand Power Evolution... His life...Shit! What is this!?Goddamn it! NO!!! MIGUEL IS-!!!"

Stefan tries to touch Miguel as the tip of his index and middle fingers of his right-hand dust to pieces.

"GOD!!!" yelled Stefan, grabbing his wrist in pain.

"What!?" asked Vegeta.

Miguel stares at Stefan with absolute rage in his eyes. 

"YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME, JOJO!?"

Miguel cannot hear Stefan.

Miguel enters a state of his mind... He sees his friends... Lord... Jedan... Kariel... Prince Josuke... Anne... Raphael... Gabrielle... His father... his mother... Everyone... He remembered them... he loved them...

That's why he has to do this... He killed Salvi as he was trying to avoid the path to this event... He is the Angel of Death... thus... He has to make right his wrongs... To save everyone... To undo his mistakes... It can be undone... He can do this... He just has to face the most human emotion... stronger than faith...

Hope...

That's what the JoJos always represented... hope... they are hope... they've always been... not only to the Philippines... not only to their world... but all worlds that were created... whether or not they are remembered... they are destined to save everyone... as they are the sons and daughters of David and Bathsheba... Jesus and Mary Magdalene... They may matter to no one, but they matter to me... and even if they're just figments of my imagination, the memory of their lives will live on forever... Because they deserve justice for every adventure that they've done... from a parody of the Lord of the Rings to a dramatic sitcom alien space adventure... They all mattered to me... no matter how awfully bizarre they are...So this isn't the end...

Miguel resonates in everyone's hearts.

This... This is it... Stairway to Heaven...

This? He deserves this... to win... finally win... he deserves to save everyone... he never wanted this... but he is content with this... because this... this is his destiny...