Control is Everything(15)

– Safe Zone B, 3rd Floor, Site-17 - 12:02 PM –

Currently, Cain and Iris have been able to get the foundation staff and personnel to the safe zones, but the constant ambushes from the dinosaurs and D4C clones, they had to continuously keep their guard up. Fortunately, due to Cain's damage redirection ability, which allows any damage he takes to go back to the person who dealt it, has made it slightly easier for them to move the people to safety. 

"Do you think that's the last of them?" Iris questioned him.

"Given how many times we've been attacked, I don't think they will stop." Cain responded in his robotic tone.

"I expected as much. I wonder if Miguel is alright."

Suddenly, the door of the safe zone violently bursts open, followed by Miguel flies out of the safe zone's doorway and crashes right next to them. Standing himself up to his feet, Miguel brushed himself off until he noticed them, and waved to the two.

"Hola mis amigos."

Widening her eyes, Iris exclaimed, "Wait! If you're here then that means..."

Then they spotted Abel entering through the entrance, brandishing his greatsword and bearing several stab and slash wounds. 

"Brother, the site is in chaos because of a Human Stand." Cain stepped forward and stated to his brother, "We need a temporary truce between ourselves and fight against D4C."

Placing his fingers on his chin, Abel thought deeply for a brief moment until he responded, "How about... NEVER!" 

"Abel, I know you're still mad at me for what happened all those years ago and you have every right to be mad at me for it, but given the situation we are in right now, we need to be united. So please Abel, just for once set aside your anger and let us work together."

"...I refuse."

"I knew he wouldn't agree that easily." Miguel muttered, pulling out two black misty katanas from Cain's shadow and started approaching Abel.

"There is no beauty in vengeance, Abel. Your brother politely asked you to help him and you just refused straight away. How cold hearted."

"You don't need to understand my emotions and my quarrels with my brother, Miguel." Abel said, "So stop getting in my way and let me finish this."

Pausing his advance, he takes a fighting stance while holding both the katanas in his hands, "That will only happen if you can take me out, but I'm still breathing here and preventing you from approaching your brother."

"You are just too agile in combat. That's why it's difficult to get a hit on you."

"Then, want to try again? I'm waiting."

*Music Continues* 

Simply dropping himself backwards, Miguel fell down into Cain's shadow before emerging into Abel's shadow and trying to attack from behind. However, Abel's superhuman senses kicked in by the time Miguel came out of the shadow, and by the time he did, Abel had already grabbed him by the throat, chokeslammed him to the ground, and attempted to take him down.

But Miguel is fast; he swiftly stabs Abel in the right eye with a shadow dagger that he snuck out of his shadow without the latter noticing. This blinds Abel from the right side, which allows Miguel to strike him in the face with tremendous force, causing Abel to lose his grip before diving into the shadows.

Scanning around, Abel kept his guard up and a vigilant eye on his surroundings, he knew that Miguel could travel through the shadows, so just in case, he sharpenes his senses up to pick up on anything that might emerge from a shadow. Casting a quick glance at Cain and then at his surroundings, one of Abel's feet slid to the side and...

Whoosh!

With a whoosh, Abel sprinted towards Cain, traveling at the speed that split the air apart, but before Abel could react, Miguel leaped out of a shadow and slashed his back with his katanas, before vanishing into the darkness. Then, he heard Miguel speaking, but from where, he wasn't sure, but no doubt he was somewhere lurking within the shadows. 

[There is something I have  that you don't, Abel. The shadows and the darkness gain me strength and speed. The boogeyman learned the hard way from me in Italy, mi amigo.] Miguel spoke in a monotone voice that reverberated throughout Abel's surroundings, as if he was everywhere at the moment. He continued, [Abel, I suggest you stand down and assist us rather than oppose us. This is D4C's plan, but you're so caught up with revenge you don't see it. So again, I say will you help us?]

"YOU ALL CAN BURN FOR ALL I CARE!" he roared in anger.

"...Que así sea."

Emerging out from the shadow, Miguel brought out a new weapon and shouted.

"GET OVER HERE!"

Before Abel could react, Miguel threw a kunai spear with a chain attached, which stabbed his right shoulder. Miguel then pulled him toward him and delivere an uppercut that sends him flying into the air. Before Abel could land back on the ground, he was immediately struck by a shadow version of Smough's hammer from Dark Souls with a tremendous force.

The attack forced him to break through across three different walls until he crashed into the containment cell of SCP-527, also known as "Mr. Fish", who was casually sitting on a chair and reading a book. 

Widening his eyes, Mr. Fish noticed Abel lying on the floor, but instead of being alarmed, he greeted him politely, "Good afternoon, dear sir. What brings you crashing here into my containment chamber during my book reading hours? Also, can you tell me why the lights are out? Using a flashlight to read is just a good waste of batteries if you ask me." He said to him casually in a British accent.

No one answered him when suddenly, Miguel jumped out of Mr. Fish's shadow and throwed multiple shadow shurikens at Abel but he quickly deflects them with his sword, but when he was distracted for only just a split second, it is enough time for Miguel to stab him in the thigh with two of his katanas.

With an enraged roar, Abel attempts to punch Miguel in the face, but he sidestepped to the right and dodges the blow before giving Abel a uppercut to his face, and then swung his shadow katanas horizontally across his chest, leaving two horizontal slash marks on them.

In return, Abel kneed him in the gut, grabbing his face and lifting him up and was prepared to stab him in the chest with his sword but Miguel quickly kicked his face and proceeded to stab him in the neck with both his katanas, forcing Abel to release his hold.

When Abel lost his grasp, Miguel fell right straight into Abel's shadow and sank into it. Just as Abel was about to remove the katanas from his neck, Miguel leaped out of a shadow of a bookshelf that was present in the containment chamber and gave him a shadow brass knuckles blow to the face. 

Over the course of a few seconds, Miguel continued on jumping and emerged from one shadow to another at unprecedented speeds and kept punching Abel in the face repeatedly who struggled to parry and dodge his attacks due to the Shadow Walker's incredible speed in the darkness.

In the midst of it all, Mr. Fish was just casually laying in his bed, reading his book with the help of a flashlight.

"...This is fine."

Returning to the action, Miguel delivers a right hook to Abel's face, forcing him to take a few steps back. Lifting his sword up, Abel was about to bring it down with full rage in his heart.

"DIEEEEE!"

Before Abel's sword could strike him, Miguel brings out the shadow version of the great sword of Guts from Berserk and swings it upwards with all his might, successfully cutting off both of Abel's arms. 

Seeing a perfect opening, without wasting even a millisecond, Miguel quickly brought the entire shadow greatswords on his head and split it in half vertically like a watermelon. The only expression on Abel's split face was only able to muster a look of disbelief.

*Music Pauses*

"Should have listened to us from the start, Abel." Muttered Miguel. After removing the sword from his split head, Abel's body falls on the ground with a loud thud as it begins to decompose rapidly and fading away into nothingness.

"Even if you took the knowledge from my fight in Vegas and from the spars we did in the training chambers, I highly doubt in an environment that is filled with darkness and shadows, you would be able to beat me without it, but it was a good fight nonetheless. You have my respect as a fighter."

Circling around, Miguel exits the chamber and heads to find Iris and Cain. 

Watching him leave, Mr. Fish remarked, "Well that's that then, gotta get that wall fixed though." he said, gazing at the damaged wall and the destroyed furniture as a result from the battle.

"Oye Danny, you can come out now." Mr. Fish called out, casting a glance at the table in the distance, the one piece of furniture that, remarkably, had been the only one being untouched during the battle.

Coming out from underneath the table, a young man by the name of Danny Anderson got to his feet and looked at Mr. Fish with a surprised look on his face.

"So... I made a miscalculation with my dimension jump and ended up in another SCP dimension where JoJo Stands are literally walking among us!"

"Told you. If there was info on you or anything in this world, someone one would have known. Where's Steve by the way? You said you found him in the void between parallel worlds and you two ended up here pretty much because of your mistake."

"Oh, he's in the closet."

Pointing towards the closet, it suddenly bursts open, and a person falls on the floor face first, showing to be a man by the name of Steve. 

"Heyooo!" 

"Come on, Steve. We are leaving!"

With a nod of his head, Steve rose from the floor, followed Danny from underneath the table, and the two of them vanished at the next instant due to Danny's so-called ability. 

"And they're gone. They were good people to chat with though 🐟"