The entire group rushes their masters into the infirmary.
"PROMETHEUS!!! CAN YOU HEAR ME!?!?" asked Miguel.
Happy pushes their beds into the hospital, growling.
Anna, Jedan, Lord, Gerard, and Fred all follow after.
Athena grabs Prometheus' finger. "Pro..." she said, worried.
The nurses appear to handle him.
"What happened?" asked one nurse.
"Duel," said Miguel.
"*sigh...* I'm not surprised..." said the nurse. "Use one of those weird machines this man gave to our worlds."
"Can we stay with them when it happens?" asked Miguel. 295
The nurse stops them as the pair are charged into the rooms. "Patients cannot walk beyond this line," she points to the line on their feet and shuts the door. She enters the room and shuts it with metal doors.
"O.A. much?" asked Anna.
"I hope they're okay..."
3 weeks... later...
Miguel meditates beside the Reaper, who is in bed asleep.
Prometheus is in the bed across the Reaper's.
Prometheus... wakes up. "*GASP!!!* OH MY SHIT!!!" he roared. He gasped for his breath and stood up, shaking. "Where am I? Are my kidneys still-? Oh... They are. I could still wriggle them around in there. Miguel! ANNA!!! WIVES!!! CHILDREN!!! I'M A TERRIBLE FAAAADUUUUH!!!"
"Chill, Pro. The others are at home holding the fort down," said Miguel.
"Oh, thank God..." said Prometheus, tucking himself in. "Wake me up when somethin' important happens."
"Thank God he's awake now..." sighed Miguel.
Suddenly, the Reaper opens his eyes.
"Mr. Reaper? You're okay! Thank God as well..." said Miguel.
The Reaper ominously stares and looks forward. He slowly stands up. "YARGH!!! I BE FINALLY HAVE TAKEN OVER THIS BODY ONCE MORE!!!"
"Uh..." said Miguel. "Reaps?"
"Huh? Ah! You must be the Reaper's boatswain!"
"You're acting weird..."
"NAY, SONNY!!! IT IS I, CAPTAIN MORBIUS MORRBEARD!!! DEADLIEST JUDGE OF THE SEVEN SEAS!!! WARRIOR OF DARKNESS!!! YARRRGGGHH!!!"
"Uh... Okay..." said Miguel. "Wait... Didn't Reaps say he had another personality? Are you one of his identities?" he smiled.
"Yes, Sonny."
"Wow! Uhm... Nice to meet you, S-... I mean! Captain... When may I meet Mr. Reaper?"
"HmhmhmhmHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, you don't get it, do ya, boy? He's NEVER COMIN' BACK!!!"
Miguel's eyes widen in horror.
"YARHARAHARHARHARHARHARHAR!!!"
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Back then, the Reaper lost his parents to an Aswang. Remember? Miguel's father. His parents were actually eaten right in front of him: Mauled to death and turning the Reaper slightly insane. Growing up from the age of 8 to 12, Reaps had no parents and was essentially under foster care, where he would be hurt and touched by the headmaster. Well... let's just say all that hurting and touching caused the Reaper to gain a defensive mechanism.
It was then that Prometheus learned about the abuse that he adopted the Reaper killed the headmaster and spoke to the Judge of Heaven to place him in the worst of Hells, as per usual. Prometheus would raise the boy right. Though he could be harsh, he raised the boy. However, over time, Prometheus began noticing how the Reaper began to speak to himself in the mirror. At first, he thought it was an imaginary friend. No... He was speaking to... two imaginary friends? One was a pirate and one was a mafioso gangster. Strangely enough, he would act like he was them for entire weeks and days. Prometheus began differentiating each personality he would make and be horrified to conclude that his adoptive son gained Dissociative Identity Disorder due to four years of continuous trauma. Prometheus offered to give the Reaper medication every week, which if he misses it, the personalities...
Could take over...
"So..." Captain Reaper stands up. Several blades begin leaving his body. "Where can I find the greatest treasure in the world, boy?"
Prometheus snores silently.
"P-... Pro? PRO!!!" asked Miguel.
The blade is pointed at Miguel's neck.
"Be careful with where ye place yer tongue... BOY..."
Suddenly, Prometheus' eskrima stick is tossed into his face, bounces on the ceiling and bounces back into Prometheus' hand.
"Sticks, mother FUCKER," said Prometheus. "Well, well... If it isn't my son who plays pirate all the time?"
"Well, well. If it ain't me beloved cap'n meself! Greetings, wizard father."
"Get that blade away from your fellow identity's son. NOW."
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"YOHOHO!!! Nay... ya don't seem to understand, mate... I've been trapped in that lily-livered vigilanter for so long... It's time for the Captain of the ship to finally come his due to this world... And sail once more in its seven seas..."
"Kid... Don't do what I think you're doing-..."
"YARGH!!!" Captain Reaper kidnaps Miguel.
"OH, COME ON!!!" yelled Miguel, as Captain Reaper rushed outside the hospital.
"YOHOHO!!! SHIVER ME TIMBERS!!! I'M BACK, LANDLUBBERS!!! CAPTAIN MORBIUS MORBEARD BOOK IS BACK!!!" 297
Prometheus opens a portal and ends up in front of Captain Book.
"GARRRR!!! I forgot ye can do that..."
Prometheus spins and blasts bubble spells at Captain Book only for Book to jump, do a flip, and pop each bubble into several blades with the bubbles turning into various objects: Books, papers, confetti, slugs, snails, monkeys, rats, lizards, and frogs.
Prometheus spins, warps out his stick, and slams it at Captain Reaper who blocks the attack with his blade.
Prometheus and Captain Reaper, in the driveway, exchange strikes with their weapons.
"Reaps... You in there!? Can you hear me!?" asked Prometheus.
"Yer precious 'Reaps' is GONE, Savvy?!" roared Captain Reaper.
Metal blades began growing from Captain Reaper's skin. He activates his own armor, which is a pirate-like version of his armor.
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"Well?" smiled Captain Reaper. "What's it gonna be, O, Great Lord Prometheus: Sorcerer King of the Cosmos?"
"It's gonna be this, Captain... You're goin' back in... whether you like it..." Prometheus shows a syringe. "Or not..."
"YARHARHAR!!! DO BE TRYIN', WIZARD FATHER!!!"
"To do is to be... To be... IS TO DO!!!" his eyes turned red as he tightened his grip on his sticks. "Doo be doo be DOO!!!" Prometheus does a head strike, spins, and does a side strike, before spinning the sticks together to knock down his blades.
"WHY AREN'T YOU USING YOUR MAGIC!?!?" asked Miguel.
"Pride, mostly," said Prometheus, as Captain Reaper spun kicked him, and reaches out, tossing his blades at Prometheus.
Prometheus goes matrix style and jumps up, spinning in the air and managing to get stabbed all over by the blades. He falls to the ground and screams in pain. "OH!!! OHHH MY SHIIIT!!! UGH!!! ONE OF THEM WENT THROUGH MY DAMNED LEG!!! UGH!!! TSSSS!!! OW!!! Ow, ow, ow!"
"Ye be an idiot..." said Captain Reaper, before running away. "WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP!!!"
"HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!" yelled Miguel.
Captain Reaper keeps on running and laughing. "YOHOHOHOHOHO-!!!"
*CRASH!!!*
"Oh my God!" Anna runs outside of the CoolDudeBus. "I didn't see him there! REAPS!!!"
"No... No, it's all good," said Miguel, sitting up while being practically cut in half.
"OH MY GOD!!!" yelled Anna.
Miguel holds up his hand. "Chill! Just, chill..." Miguel reattaches his legs to his upper body. "We knocked him out. We're good now... He'll be back to normal in a second."
"What just... Oooh... Did the personality thing happen when he woke up?"
"Yes! How'd you know about that!?"
"He told us..." sighed Anna.
"He didn't tell me!"
"He always tells you."
"Oh... Oh, right! He did...! Huh... Weird... Am I deaf? Oh my God. I'M DEAF!!!"
"No... You just have ADHD. Or autism. Or-..."
"Yeah... I should reeeally get checked."
The "Reaper" slowly stands up, now with a different armor. 299
"MR. REAPER!!!" smiled Miguel, only to look at him in horror.
"Ms. Reaper?"
She flat-out takes out a Glock and points it at the pair. "Gde korol Aswankov!? GDE ON!!!?"
"Uh..." said Miguel, backing away.
"Akh... Ty yego uchenik Asvanga. Gryaz'... no nedostoyna moyego vremeni..." she squinted her eyes.
*click!*
"Odnako..."
Miguel's eyes widen in horror.
*BANG!!!*
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Miguel slowly wakes up.
"Miguel! Miguel!" yelled Anna. "Dude! Wake up!"
Miguel, now regenerated, slowly stands up. "Anna?"
"Dude! She got away! The bus is after them!"
Miguel's eyes widen and he grabs Anna. He teleports them away.
"WHOOOOOA!!!" yelled Anna, falling from the sky.
Miguel catches her and spreads his wings, carrying her while they fly in the sky.
Anna turns red but Miguel keeps on looking in the ground like a hawk.
"I hear her heartbeat around here..." said Miguel.
"You can do that!?" asked Anna.
"Yeah. Aswang, remember?" He looks around while ticking his wings and flying. "THERE!!!"
"WHOA!!!" Miguel begins chasing after a high-speed black Porsche. He flies beside it and sees Ms. Reaper.
"What do you want, boy?" she asked.
"Didn't Mr. Reaps say you were Italian?" asked Miguel.
"Wasn't it Spanish?" asked Anna.
"Nyet. I can change accents whenever I wish."
"Well! Pull over! I want Mr. Reaper back!"
"Why should I? I am here to hunt and kill the Aswang King."
"The Aswang King is currently on our side. He's trying to help us beat Vlad! We agreed on terms to settle his fight with you later!"
"The Reaper never agrees, boy..." Ms. Reaper points the Glock at his face. He dodges as she shoots at him over and over.
"Ms. Reaps! Pull over or she'll pull you over!" yelled Miguel.
Ms. Reaper doesn't respond.
"Anne?" asked Miguel.
Anna blasts her strings into the wheels and clogs them, causing the vehicle to halt and crash into a tree.
Ms. Reaper hops out of the windshield, breaking the glass, and tumbles forward in fact. Ms. Reaper turns and shoots at the pair as Miguel blocks all of the bullets.
"Ms. Reaper, please... It's not like you'd be able to-..." 301
Ms. Reaper holds up her hands.
"Really?" sighed Miguel. "Anna. Stay back..."
Anna rolls her eyes. "You do realize that I fight women better than you."
"I'll be fine! Chill, dude..."
"It's because you refuse to hit them..."
"I'll hit her... GENTLY!!!" Miguel holds up his fists. "Ready..."
Ms. Reaper charges and jumps, aerial kicking him in the face.
He dodges and throws several punches at the speed of light only for her to be punched away.
Miguel looks at his knuckles and is shocked with horror upon seeing broken glass all over his hands.
Ms. Reaper is revealed to have placed the glass in front of her body the second Miguel approached her. Ms. Reaper then takes out a dagger and stabs Miguel in the shoulder.
Miguel roars and tries punching Ms. Reaper who jumps and handsprings backward, proceeding to toss ninja stars into Miguel's face. "DUDE!!!"
Ms. Reaper grabs Miguel by the face and begins beating him with her gauntlets.
Miguel's blood splatters on her fist as he transforms into an Aswang and tries to punch her again only for her to grab his fist, turn him around, and pin him down, wrestling with him as she punches his chest, breaking his ribs.
Anna sighs. "You done?"
"I'm good! I MEAN... I CAN STILL-!!!"
*CRACCCCKKKK!!!*
"WHOOOA NELLY!!!"
"I hate Aswangs... I hate everything that is Aswangian... I promise to decimate all your kind, boy... I can't believe my personality dares try to suppress me..." Ms. Reaper begins strangling Miguel. "Then again, you are pretty cute, boy... Even though you're me..." She kisses his ear.
"EW!!!" yelled Miguel.
"OKAY!!! THAT'S IT!!!" Anna brings out Prometheus' syringe and stabs it in her neck.
"HAHAHAHAHA!!!" She falls to the ground, unconscious, and Ms. Reaper slowly transforms back into a man.
"Ew! Weird... She clearly has an oedipal complex," said Miguel, wiping off her saliva on his ear.
"Mine..." said Anna, hugging his arm.
"Riiight..." sighed Miguel. "Glad I don't have a Mom... Anyway... Yo. Mr. Reaps... You okay? Whoa... His armor changed again..." 302
The Reaper slowly opens his eyes. He stands up and sighs. He spits out some hair. "Gross..."
"What the hell HAPPENED!?!?" asked Miguel.
"His personalities happened. Reaps has three personalities. If you remember what Prometheus told you, Reaps was abused when he was younger in his old foster home. This caused Pro to adopt him in the first place. He eventually formed two other personalities, one representing his id's desire to protect itself by gaining thorn-like blades around his body similar to a cactus and the other acting as his moral compass, becoming a genius fighter but gaining the ability to heal herself from the damage he gained as a child."
"THAT was his moral compass!?" asked Miguel. "That MORAL COMPASS... TRIED TO KILL ME!!!"
"It's his moral compass. Not ethical. Reaps' morals always had been... questionable..." said Prometheus, appearing in the scene.
"Shut up, old man..."
"Spent years tryna keep them down, hm...?"
"Shut up..."
"You could've killed Miguel."
"You should've-!"
Prometheus looks at the Reaper with disappointment.
"I'm sorry, Miguel..."
"It's okay, Mr. Reaper..." said Miguel, as his tummy rumbled. "Anyone up for a bite?"
Anna's tummy rumbles as well. "Ihawan?" she smiled.