"I am Prometheus..." said Prometheus, standing before Aurora's palace. "...the world forger."
Meanwhile...
Beatle sighs, facing Aurora.
Aurora smiles while she stirs the hot tea. "It... isn't entirely unpleasant... seeing you again."
Beatle nods. "I would like to thank you... for finding the time. Knowing how you're so busy nowadays."
"Hm..." said Aurora. "How was your day?"
"Unpleasant. My... son figure... brother figure, maybe... Just committed genocide."
"So, I've heard. Doesn't matter. I could always build another."
"Why are you still... doing this?"
Aurora stops stirring. Her eyes dart to Beatle's. "You really are an old man now... But it is unwise for you to stay alone in a room with me."
Beatle feels her foot brushing up his legs.
Beatle politely pulls away and puts her foot down. "Not the time, Ruru."
"Miggy, pwetty pwease?"
"What do you want?"
"I know what you want. I want you to stop fighting. I want you to rule with me... Love... me..."
"I did."
"I want the war to stop, Beatle. I'm tired. All I want is for you to come home. With me."
"No," said Beatle. "Your way isn't right."
"My WAY IS THE ONLY WAY!!!"
"Your way poisons the Multiverse."
"MY WAY IS ALL FOR YOU!!!"
"And that's why I feel so, damned, guilty..." Beatle facepalmed. "I always loved you. But what you've become... That's a different story... A terrifyingly different one."
"I built palaces. Nations. Worlds for you. And you never cared."
"Of course, I did."
"YOU... NEVER CARED!!! And here I am... gathering scraps of what you call love."
"Ruru, you're a damned politician. You should think about people other than yourself!"
"Not until you love me."
"Ruru... I don't love you. I never will love you... Not like this..."
"WHY!?!?! WHY!?!? I CHOSE YOU!!!"
"I chose you as well... And you hurt me. And I have a responsibility beyond you."
"Beatle, please... Can't an old gal have some fun?" Aurora kisses Beatle but Beatle pushes her away. "Please..."
"Aurora... I asked you to come here because I wanted to know why you keep fighting."
"And what makes it hard to believe that I only fight for you!?"
"You... hurt me... You turned my daughter into an animal."
"Let me... heal you..." she said, seductively as Beatle pushed her away. "Your alter assaulted Prometheus. You really wanna go down that route?"
"I'm willing..."
Beatle sighs. "Stay away from me."
"Beatle, please..."
Beatle pushes her away. "Ruru... Stop."
"NO!!!"
Beatle punches her.
Aurora sighs, fixing her glasses and fixes her voice. "Sorry... I... was losing control once more... Been a long time before I saw something shine like new again."
"You really are insane, aren't you?"
"You brought me here because you think you can save me. No. You never will. You... never... will..."
Beatle sighs. "Prometheus is planning to destroy your factories... All of them."
"Bullshit. How?"
"When I was young... and foolish... I once made a virus that can destroy your thousands of factories in space. If I can do it, he can. I taught him everything he knows, after all."
Aurora's lips quiver with fury from the mockery of her loss.
"I'll help you. If you leave us alone. Forever. And let go of my empire. Forever."
Aurora's nose twitches. "Your empire... is in shambles... What makes you think you deserve to have it?"
"Do you want to keep your territories in the Solar System? I mean, it's all you are now, Aurora."
"Fuck... you..."
Beatle smirks.
Meanwhile...
Prometheus, and his army of variants of Annas, Jedans, Chrises, and various Athenas marched toward the palace while Prometheus held the drive in his breast pocket.
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Beatle, Sabbath, Death Leopard, Green Day, Panthera, Billy, and Gabrielle stood before the massive army.
Prometheus smirks. "So... You betray everything you are..."
Beatle sighs. "I struck a deal with her. Stay away... from my palace."
Mars vibrates his vambrace blade. Mars charges toward Beatle who transformers in God-Mode Level 2 to slap him away.
Beatle and his small army charged toward Prometheus' massive army of hundred-thousands and slaughtered them one by one.
"FOR MAHARLICA-152!!!" roared one Anna.
"FOR THE EMPIRE!!!" yelled another.
Beatle tears one's spine. "For me..."
Panthera kills several of the soldiers, charging toward them.
Death Leopard and the kids stood their ground while shooting dead many of Prometheus' soldiers, who mind you, were alters of the main characters of the series.
"ALL HAIL PROMETHEUS!!!"
Green Day stretches and tears out most of their bodies down to pieces.
Billy turns into a Vampiric monstrosity and feeds on many of the soldiers.
Black cuts many of the soldiers down with her bladed wings.
Beatle meets Prometheus and Mars who try to cut Beatle down.
Beatle roars. "PROMETHEUS!!! THIS... IS NOT THE WAY!!!"
Beatle beats Prometheus to the ground with a strong headbutt.
"THIS IS THE ONLY WAY!!!" Prometheus beats Beatle starting with a deadly uppercut and bashes his face over and over again. "All these years of suffering an death and the only way you respond is with A SMILE?!!? HOPE!?!? And you let Anne BE WITH TYRONE!?!?"
"It was never my decision to make."
"Never YOURS!?!? WHO WAS IT THAT BACKED OUT FROM THE FIGHT!?!? WHO WAS THE COWARD THAT RAN!?!? THAT CRIED LIKE A BABY AND CAUSED EVERYONE TO HATE HIM!?!? WHO WAS THE ONE WHO ALLOWED HIMSELF WEAKNESS TO BE THIS PATHETIC!?!?" Prometheus pins Beatle down as Mars stabs him over and over. "Who was it... that name himself Beatle? I respected you. I really did, Beatz... But then... This... All this... And for what?"
"I thought they'd accept me one day."
"Well, you thought wrong..." Prometheus let him go as Beatle fell to his knees and dropped his palms to the ground. "Join me... Together, we could be unstoppable. We want the same thing!"
"My friend... You're a liar who never tells his own team anything. Why would I want to be a part of an illusion?"
"Technically, reality is an illusion. But when you look hard enough. Stare hard enough in the deadliness of reality. You could force it into your own. Join me... we could become one... Join my empire, and we could be something. A statement. A cold hard truth. Something real. Something we've been looking for all these years! Don't you want that, Beatz?"
"I wanted to be something. I wanted to rule," said Beatle. "I wanted it so bad... I wanted Tyrone to suffer... I wanted all of them to suffer... For what they did to me... But I realize that to survive in this new world... the only way is to do that... 'Pakikisama'. To join. To hang. To respect others' beliefs. Make sure we stay together as one people... Your way is destructive... to yourself and others. I only want what's best for my people... For all of us... or at least all of us that are left... to survive. I stand for my world."
"And you're allowing the Multiverse to suffer for it. Don't you get it? YOU JUST ALLOWED AURORA TO CONTINUE POISONING MY WORLDS!!! MY PEOPLE!!! MY KID'S PEOPLE!!!"
"You're doing it for your own gain."
"Are you stupid? I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT MIGUEL, OKAY!?!? I want him safe. And with those factories gone, he won't be a target anymore."
"How about their kids? That virus will crash down every factory. Heat systems. Ventilation systems. They'll lose their last breath before they get a taste of their next ration. Children, Pro!"
"I didn't start this war."
"We can stop them in a different way. We can achieve peace, Pro, I can help reform them. Just leave my nation alone. I got my land back after so long and that is the first step among hundreds of more... Now, please, Pro! Stand down!"
"No..." Prometheus creates a bubble that strangles Beatle. "CHOKE ON MAH DADDEH!!! KRRRYYYEEEAAAH!!!"
Beatle growls and beats Prometheus down who jumps around, dodging Beatle's attacks.
Mars runs around Beatle but Beatle catches him and tosses him away into another mountain.
Prometheus and Beatle exchange punches, heavy ones, that cause massively destructive shockwaves.
"I am Prometheus!!!" roared Prometheus. "THE TRUE ST. KING!!!"
"You're nothing but a World Forger," said Beatle, giving him a heavy uppercut that shatters his jaw.
Prometheus regenerates but Beatle grabs him and beats him down over and over.
Prometheus dodges after but Beatle grabs his head and smashes his head into several mountains, then pieces of satellites, then rock and debris, then asteroids, as they land on Saturn's moon.
"This seems... familiar..." sighed Prometheus, as Beatle hammered him down.
"How many people DIED because of how irresponsible YOU were!? HOW MANY HAD FALLEN BECAUSE OF YOUR BLEEDING EGO!!! YOUR ARROGANCE!?!? HOW MANY!?!?"
"THEN WHY WON'T YOU LET ME PROVE MY WORTH FOR ONCE!!!?"
"You don't have to prove... anything... Just stop... trying it this way... There... is absolutely nothing wrong with you..." Beatle grabs his shoulder. "Please... Enough is enough."
Prometheus punches him in the face. "What gives you the right? THE BALLS?!?"
"Because before all this bullshit to happen... I was just like you... My arrogance caused Aurora to do this in the first place. My personal problems broke her heart... Made history..."
"But you stuck to your guns..."
Beatle laughs. "I left my world after my crucifixion. I respawned in another world. Been there. Done that. I chose to come back after ten years."
"I chose to come back after 40..."
"I wasn't finished. I came back... And I wasn't ready... I got stuck in my world... unable to leave it for 900 years... When I saw you ending up in my world near Casin, I wanted to offer you a new future... A better future."
"Dracula ruined my life."
"Thank God because you got to create a utopia. Do you really want to change the past that badly? The only reason you have Miguel right now is because you ran, Pro. But the past never defines who you are right now. It just tells us what we can be now..."
"I lost so much... She assaulted me... I lost my kid... My family... The people I love... My world..."
"And I was only there to make sure you won't become me."
"I was a coward."
"And I was impulsive. You chained yourself outside your world. I chained myself within it. We're prisoners of war, and the only way to freedom is... happiness... Accept happiness, Prometheus."
"Shouldn't you be telling that to yourself?"
"I... know... I should..."
A younger Anne rests her forehead on the younger Miguel.
"I should've... I was so... obsessed with trying to live this purpose that I pushed everyone else that I cared about from my own world." Beatle sits next to Prometheus. "I'm sorry... for all of this.."
"I'm sorry... I was... obsessed with trying to escape responsibility that I ruined every meaningful relationship I've had."
"Really?"
"Miguel... My Aswang kid... He uh... recently ran off with Anna. I don't know where he is." Prometheus looks up to the stars. "Remember when our Annes would sit our heads on their laps...? She would brush our heads... Tell us stories?"
"Of course I remember, kid... She was all we ever had..."
"We should've gone to a therapist..." snickered Prometheus, with Beatle snickering as well.
"Yeah... But Dad always thought mental health was a myth. Remember when Dad said our writing was 'demonic'?"
"HAHAHAHAHA!!! So stupid..." said Prometheus.
"Pro..." said Beatle. "I'm sorry."
"No... I'm sorry... I... will stand down..." said Prometheus.
"Thank you..." said Beatle.
Prometheus chuckles. "Hey, Beatle? I think it's about time I face the Devil."
Beatle is intrigued.
"I... want you to do one last thing for me... One last favor..."
"Is it stupid?"
"Not really."
"Is it a stupid joke?"
"Even moren't."
Beatle nods, sensing grief in both their hearts.
Two... years... later...
Miguel begins dancing and prancing around like an idiot. "IMMA KILL THE DEVIL!!!" Miguel begins humorously humping the air like an idiot and proceeding to spin around and moonwalk. He proceeds to punch the air over and over again. "HOCUS POCUS MOTHERF-!!!"
Miguel accidentally punches a face. "Oops! SORRY MY GOOD SIR!!!" he laughed. "S-Seriously though, sorry." he laughed, only to be slightly horrified, switching to, "Oh dear God, a dead alter of mine..." said Miguel, seeing a much older scarred alter of Miguel's hanging by a rope. "Weird..." he said, nearly unfazed, seeing the body swing like a pendulum. He looked down his face and to his chest, seeing an ankh. Then, his eyes widened. His lips quivered. He stopped quipping. His fingers shook and his heart beat faster.