Beatle smiles, eating with his family: The Christ Crusaders and Miguel's team. Beatle smiles, looking at them with calm precedence.
Beatle listens to the vibrations of reality. He stands up. "Sorry, guys. I gotta take this." He flies into the distance.
Beatle lands before a dead family underneath scattered bloody debris.
Beatle sighs and sees Animal.
"Animal. What?"
Animal growls angrily.
"This... was your Death Leopard. What was his name? Buffalo S.F.? He decided to leave you... Leave his old life and I can... see that Buffalo is very well... well... Not very alive at the moment. And neither is your Sabbath. What was her name? Obituary?"
"I wanted to do it... He was flaunting their happiness at me..."
"They were minding their own business. They abandoned you because we love our job too much. You just committed murder. Now, I know you smell like ass and shit or whetever, but... Prepare to go to prison, which also smells like ass..."
"I just... murdered... my childhood rival... I killed him and his wife." He gasped. "It felt good."
"I know."
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"You really don't want to do this to your Tyrone or Anna?"
"Do not call them by their slave names."
"'Slave names.' You still think that ever mattered?" he smiled. "Now, I get to be with my Aurora. It feels so good... Being so... detached from my purpose, now... It feels so damned good..."
"No. It's eating you up inside, isn't it?"
"Shut up."
"You loved them, even though they betrayed you... Chewed you and spat you out like you were nothing and you still loved them."
"Stop talking."
"And I get to look down on you, now... That's the worst thing."
"You think you're better than us, Beatle? You're just another Miguel. Who wants to allow the weapon in you to start slitting... start cutting and thinning them down like a fucking animal. Like me. I am an Animal. I gave in to my weapon half... I enjoyed it. C'mon, Beatle. Do it. Kill them... They're probably fucking behind your back right now."
"No. Believe me, I can tell. We've set boundaries."
"How do you KNOW!?!?"
"I have faith."
"Faith isn't always enough. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do while God just watches..."
"God doesn't goad you to kill people. You're pathetic. Don't justify evil."
"Stop trusting the system. You know damn well Death Leopard is scum waiting to happen."
"I know. But I feel there's more to him."
"Every Tyrone dies a villain."
"And yet my Miguel Azral exists. A version of us without an Aurora."
"Maybe there is hope... Kill me..." said Animal.
"You're going to prison-..."
Animal prepares Hell Fire. "I will burn every man, woman, and child in this city."
Beatle sighs. "You've been judged. You don't deserve to die."
"NO!!!" Animal tries attacking them but is immediately restrained by Beatle, who telekinetically stops him. "I KNOW YOU'RE PULLING YOUR PUNCHES!!! YOU WANNA KILL!!! DON'T YOU!?!? COWARD!!! COWERING FROM YOUR INSTINCTS!!!"
"C'mon, Animal. Let's go."
"NO!!! AAAAAAAAAH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!!"
Beatle sheds a tear, as Animal, now restrained with Demon Chains, is ridden away.