Unbreakable stares at the bodies he had made by killing billions, each stacked together like cattle. “It is so beautiful. The salvation we have offered.”

  “Exactly,” said Eradicator, turning his camera left to right. “It is.”

  “Fools… I have offered my old bullies so much kindness… By eradicating them, Rabbi. And I can hear the ones who have gone to Hell cursing at me.”

  “That is what reality should be,” said Eradicator, vibrating. “The world needs enemies. I realized along the way that the world doesn’t need just any enemy. WE must be that enemy.”

  “Yes… To save them.”

  “Exactly. Salvation.”

  Miguel lands into the debris of what is left of one of these worlds. He sees that the world they swept into like a whirlwind is essentially dead and of decay. Miguel listened as the music of their silenced whimpers floated like dust in the air. He listened closely. Miguel and some Knights lift some debris and help the people survive the horrific pieces of cement, stone, and dirt.

  Miguel senses something wrong. Miguel signals the soldiers, and each of them turned invisible, wherein Unbreakable zooms past them in the sky around a couple of times, circling the Earth as a gush of wind caused some soldiers to trip down. They could see each other… somehow… Somehow… with their devices. But Miguel only needed to smell them and echolocate them.

  However, one man, who was still visible, seems to have failed to activate his device to turn transparent.

  Stefan’s roar echoed in the entire atmosphere.

  The soldiers try to save him but Miguel stops them.

  Miguel shakes his head and he goes toward him by himself, but Unbreakable was too quick, managing to melt him with his heat vision. And that smell. That awful smell was smelled by the soldiers, confirming Miguel’s suspicion.

  Unbreakable immediately turns to the invisible Miguel. He reaches out, and now his fingers are inches away from Miguel’s face. Miguel unleashes his wings to try and fly away, but he realizes he’d make wind. Miguel retracts his wings and just backs away, only for some pieces of debris to fall.

  Miguel’s senses go haywire. He senses Stefan’s terrifying ‘danger’ all coming from the fumes of Stefan’s aura. Danger. Danger. Danger.

  Miguel’s Probability Sense, his echolocation, his enhanced senses, are all only staring at Stefan’s presence. It told him to run.

  Miguel refused.

  Stefan touched Miguel’s face, only for Eradicator to speak up.

  “WHAT!?!?” asked Eradicator. “What is it?”

  Stefan smiles. “I thought I touched something. No… No, I did. It could be the visions… But… I have infrared vision… I think… some soldiers are invisible before us.”

  And suddenly, hearing Stefan’s words, everyone panicked, horrified that he could see them the entire time.

  “Is that true… noooooow….?” asked Eradicator, before shooting the soldiers to death, killing each of them one by one, even the survivors. Miguel growled, turning visible to try and protect the soldiers, but Eradicator made MIguel watch the slaughter. “Sacrifice to our God. Like lambs to the slaughter.”

  Miguel punches Eradicator who easily blasts into Miguel’s shoulder, causing Miguel to fall into the ground, bleeding.

  Finally, Miguel is the only one left.

  Unbreakable strangles Miguel, but Miguel realizes his strangulation isn’t very strong, but it was enough to choke him due to Unbreakable’s unbreakable body.

  Miguel pushes him away as Stefan, with incredible speed, punches Miguel in the face, as Miguel falls to the ground, now with a fractured skull. He heals his head but Stefan just stares at Miguel crawling away.

  “You’re so pathetic… Trying to escape salvation…” said Unbreakable, as Miguel blasts Stefan with cold shot, but none of Miguel’s attacks actually affect him.

  Miguel realizes that Stefan the Unbreakable breathes heavily. A mouth breather. He yells out, “SMOKER’S LUNG!!!”

  Suddenly, Unbreakable is unable to breathe. Unbreakable immediately realizes that Miguel is suffocating Unbreakable by generating flames into his lung.

  Miguel merely used his faith alone to do so.

  Unbreakable lifts his fists up and hammers at Miguel’s spine, snapping it in half as Miguel screams in anguish. Miguel screams and screams, crying and wailing like a child.

  Unbreakable roars, hammering his back over and over as Miguel begs him to stop simply by screaming in anguish.

  “STOP!!! Please, please, please… WAIT!!!! W-W-WW–WAIT-!!! AAAAAAAAAAH!!!”

  Miguel forced his scream out, gargling blood, but then Eradicator stops Unbreakable.

  Eradicator sighs. “We need him alive… He is the spiritual grandson of the Nazarene… He must survive. He… must… liiiive…”

  Unbreakable nods. “My rage… made me falter… The temptation to kill for vengeance…”

  “That is why… you are not ready to bring salvation to him… You’d kill him instead…”

  “Yeees…”

  Miguel crawls away, opening a portal, before landing in his house.

  “PAPA!!!” sobbed Gabrielle, grabbing her father, only to turn to Unbreakable and Eradicator, feeling a less pronounced but similar sense to her father. “Oh… fuck…” she shuddered, as Unbreakable gave a horrific smile before the portals closed.

  THE NEXT DAY…

  Gabrielle sat before someone, who seemingly turned himself in. HER ARM was on the desk, while she placed the front of her body the the right, away from Stefan. “You hurt my family.”

  Unbreakable smiles, fully facing forward, cuffed, raising his hands as if he was saying, “What did I do?”

  Gabrielle just looked at him with disgust.

  “The visions tell me you need salvation,” he smiled, shaking his head while his eyes already told Gabrielle enough red flags.

  “Those visions are just you having an overt sensory overload. Your brain can’t interpret it anymore… You’re disoriented, and your brain tries to make sense of this by interpreting it with these… delusions.”

  “I don’t understand…” smiled Unbreakable, shaking his fists and rattling his chains. “I am here to bargain. Let me save the Multiverse… and I will let you join us.”

  “What?” Gabrielle stared at Stefan, squinting her eyes with disgust.

  “We did this together! Miguel allowed himself to create me! Miguel allowed himself to fail FOR ME!!! Don’t you see? We’ve been doing this together!” Stefan smiled, clearly with the deluded tones in his eyes and voice.

  “You’re delusional,” she shook her head, giving a look of absolute cringing.

  “What?” Stefan looks… heartbroken.

  “Papa thinks you’re insane. He thinks… you’re a complete psychopath whose delusion allowed him to kill so many innocent-...”

  “No. NO. NO. NOOOOOOOO. THIS IS NOT HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!!! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO LOVE ME!!! LIKE ALL OF THEM!!! NOT GO AGAINST EVERYTHING I STAND FOR!!!” Stefan shook around speaking off-pitched, shaking his head and rocking backward and forward, acting VERY SIMILAR to Miguel.

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  “You’re crazy,” she said, with one eyebrow up and another down.

  “The plan…” said Unbreakable. “THE PLAN, GABRIELLE!!”

  “What plan?”

  “ALL OF IT!!! Oh… You didn’t figure it out? My God… I overestimated your immense greatness…”

  “Stefan, please. Please.”

  “I… AM… UNBREAKABLE!!!”

  Gabrielle punches him, but her knuckles bleed. “WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?”

  “Hallelujah… Hallelu Hallelu jah…”

  “WHAT. DID. YOU. DO!?!?” she roared, beating him.

  “Now I've heard there was a secret chord

  That David played, and it pleased the Lord

  But you don't really care for music, do ya?

  It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth

  The minor falls, the major lifts

  The baffled king composing Hallelujah… AAAAAAAAAAAAH!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”

  Meanwhile…

  Miguel gains a dark tought in his mind while Myrmex is seen cooking in the background. Miguel grabs a gun and brushes his fingers over it, before placing its mouth on the temple of his head. “They say that dying will have your life flash before your eyes… But death… is what I seek… Not a reminder.”

  Myrmex blocks the bullet, causing Miguel to scream in pain as his eardrums bleed. “The reminder’s there for a reason. Don’t ever do that… NO… DON’T YOU DARE WANT THAT AGAIN.”

  “Mmm…” said Miguel, with his eyes dying.

  Later…

  “A seminar?” asked Gabrielle, who sported bruised knuckles.

  “For Stefan,” sighed Miguel, who sported a bleeding ear.

  “Why?” asked Gabrielle.

  “The villains we’ve captured seem to lack the very understanding that they deserve redemption…” said Miguel.

  “They’re long gone, Miguel,” said Gabrielle.

  “We could at least try.”

  Gabrielle observes Miguel. “What happened to your ear?”

  Miguel sighs, turning around and walking back into his room. “None of your concern, love.”

  The next day…

  “We all have something that we think we deserve. We look for purpose. We look for something we try to empathize with.” A therapist smiled while speaking to the villains, who humorously sat in armchairs as if they were in detention.

  Unbreakable laughs out loud, as all the villains turn to him. ”Empathy?”

  Undying, Musang, Madame Barang, and the various other villains listened to him intenty.

  “EMPATHY!?!? EMPATHY!?!? NOW THE WORLD OFFERS THAT TO US NOW THAT YOU THINK WE’RE BROKEN?!?! We are not men. WE ARE GODS!!! You think you can fix us. WE DON’T NEED TO BE FIXED!!! WE DON’T NEED TO BE JUDGED!!! God's don't get judged. We judge.”

  “That exact idea is toxic. That Messianic complex makes your actions toxic… That is madness. Now, let’s have a simple ice breaker-...”

  “These games are meant to design to sway us away from our ideologies… What we stand for. Do not let these pharisees tell you what they think is normal.”

  “Stefan, please.”

  “We don’t need to be fixed. We are already… unbreakable.”

  “Stefan… You’re sick.”

  “You’re right!” sarcastically smiled Stefan, with his eyes glowing red, as the soldiers bring the therapist out of the room. “Thank you! I feel like a million dollars! Great! Now… I really want to save you! You fixed me! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Now, let ME heal YOU…” Stefan blasts the soldiers and melts each of them, one by one as he crashes out of the room and flies out of the underground facility. The villains break free and begin killing the soldiers who each manage to subdue them all.

  Stefan howls, flying in the sky while planes began charging toward him and shooting at him, but Stefan just speeds and destroys the planes. When one pilot survives the crash and uses a parachute, Stefan goes back just to melt him as well.

  Stefan roars. “I ain’t no Morningstar Prime… She was just another faker. She was a mustache-twirler… flicking the lights on and off for epileptics while laughing just to prove a point that Beatle was wrong… Me? I am exacting… Justice…” Stefan melts several others in the cities as Miguel charges and dropkicks him, shattering his leg.

  Stefan roars and blasts at Miguel over and over. “You want to kill yourself, don’t you, Miguel? Sadly… I cannot give you salvation… Not now.” Stefan then pukes so much smoke.

  “SMOKER’S LUNG!!!” Miguel cried out his attack, kicking him away while Unbreakable’s lungs caught on fire.

  “BURN IN HELL!!! HELL FAIYA!!!” Miguel blasts fire from his hands, then activates fire from his feet, spinning the flames around as he rides it like skater shoes, skating up Stefan’s Heat Vision Blast and kicks him in the face with the ball of flames.

  Miguel roars, beating Unbreakable. “I GAVE YOU A BETTER PATH!!! WHY WON’T YOU TAKE IT!?!?”

  Unbreakable beats Miguel. “PRAISE BE TO SAINT KING!!!” He sang, vomiting blasts at Miguel.

  Miguel dodges left and right before beating Stefan in the face. ”Come on!!! COME ON!!! GIMME, GIMME, GIMME!!!” Miguel beats Stefan, but his attacks don’t faze him and Stefan just grabs him by the head and slams him into the building’s walls, causing glass, stone, and shrapnel to shred his face.

  Miguel roars and beats Stefan over and over but Stefan simply kicks him to the ground.

  Miguel roars and vibrates upon impact, causing him to puke blood. Miguel regenerates, entering Wrathful Faith as he beats Stefan over and over.

  “Why do you care about not giving any of them salvation?”

  “Everyone can be redeemed.”

  “DEATH IS REDEMPTION!!! DON’T YOU SEE!?!? Especially… what happened to her.”

  Miguel’s eyes subtly stare blankly, yet again. “Stop it.”

  “Good thing Anna was redeemed… Look at her… She’s gone… Miguel… And now what? She’s redeemed for cheating on you. Why not accept such profound kindness?”

  ”Stop it.”

  “You train… ‘til your bones break… muscles bleed and pop… But here you are. An animal trying to have an idea of redemption. We both know what you are. A fool… Trying to do good. Not knowing that salvation… is here.”

  “STOP IT!!!”

  “Anna loved you, Miguel. She did… She cared.”

  “STOP IT!!!” Miguel warps out a hammer and blasts it into Unbreakable’s face, but he is unfazed once more.

  “Coming out of my cage…” he sang. “And I was doing just fine. Gotta gotta be down because I want it all. It started out with a kiss. How did it end up like this. It was only a kiss…” He breathed in and stopped singing. “Was it, Miguel? A kiss?”

  Miguel’s eyes go down.

  “Only a kiss? Only… A kiss? Miguel? I am trying to give you a path of redemption… for your people… So you could meet her again. Tyrone… or Undying… The Cold Roach King… He bullied you your whole life… And Anna wanted him because she thought he was pathetic… not because he was strong… So, die… with the Multiverse… So you could find happiness. He’d go to Hell… rot there… You and I, however… We’d go to paradise… See Anna again…”

  “I tried killing myself, Stefan. Part of me wants to believe that… Wants to believe that death means freedom… But it isn’t right. No one gets to choose how they go out… How we end. No one should.”

  “That constant fear… That is Hell. THIS IS HELL!!!” Stefan roared, psychotically flinching ever so slightly.

  “I understand you. You got hurt because of us. I got hurt because of my enemies.” Miguel gulped and gasped, trying to compose himself.

  “Your enemies? OUR enemies. I know why we’re all so sick. They call us sick. I don’t want to fight you. I want you here… by my side…” Stefan smiled, lovingly.

  Miguel kicks Stefan over and over again but Stefan tears him in half. Miguel, technically a Manananggal, divides his body with ease, but it seems Stefan did it so quickly that Miguel’s body wasn’t prepared to be halved. He was very much in pai, but amazingly, Miguel continued punching Stefan.

  “I am kindness… God gave to humanity.”

  “We don’t want your kindness.” Miguel gnawed on Stefan’s hand before screaming and bashing his head on his arm.

  “Stop… doing that… UNREQUITING ME!!! MY LOVE FOR YOU!!! DADADADADADADADADADADA!!! You’ll be back…” he sang.

  Miguel beats Stefan over and over in his Wrathful Faith form but Stefan keeps tanking the attacks.

  “Miguel… You are so… beautiful… Join me… And together we will rule the galaxy… AS BEST FRIENDS!!!” sneered Stefan only for Miguel to beat Stefan over and over. Stefan kept coughing smoke. “Don’t make me kill you. I don’t want that. I want your kindness to develop… For us to all die… Together! I know a part of you want it!”

  Miguel, halved improperly, roars, begging his muscles to continue attacking, but because of the pain, his body just shuts down.

  Stefan the Unbreakable sneers. “Why are you resisting? Such… determination! Place it in the right cause, however… You’d be so much more… respectable. Amicable, even. Because I already find you respectable. You are so amazing. We believe in you.”

  “You… You think you know my pain? You think each moment day in day out I just enjoy losing people? You think YOU CAN HANDLE MY PAIN!?!?”

  “I did…” said Unbreakable. “You were bullied. I was bullied. You lost a loved one. So did I, I lost my family. You lost your partner. My crush died of cancer. WE’RE THE SAME!!!” Unbreakable lovingly stares at Miguel with insane eyes. “Salvation.. Kindness… I love you.”

  Miguel roars and punches him over and over.

  “You mean something to this world… Let me implement such meaning into a factoid. Turn the tomatoes you offer… into ketchup…”

  “You’re… Insane…” said Miguel.

  “I love you, Miguel. I am a muse. You are the angel of death.”

  “Leave… me… alone… Leave this world alone…”

  “You ran… when your soldiers died. You ran… when I came to existence. You want me to kill them.”

  “I’m scared of you… My body is telling me I’m afraid of you. I don’t accept that…”

  “See? Truth remains… despite our ways of fighting it. Why fight it when you can have… Salvation…?”

  “I’ll fucking murder you…” said Miguel, gritting his teeth before weakly shutting down.

  “Shhhh…” said Stefan. “We’re rallying soldiers, Miguel. Soldiers… Who believe in the Black Spiral. Who believe in the truth… the swirl of madness reality offers and freedom death liberates us… The spiral doesn’t go inward… No… Something leaves from it…. People say the black hole is like gravity… and pulls you in… But I argue… it takes something else out…” sneered Stefan, as Miguel gives a horrified look. “Darkness.” Unbreakable kept staring at Miguel and begins singing. “Do I get the T-Word pass, my friend?”

  “There’s a ‘T-Word?’”

  “Yeah. For Aswangs. Tickers, right?”

  Miguel's eye twitches, both in horror and annoyance.

  “What’s up my ticka.” Stefan smiled.

  “I’m going to kill you, Stefan.” Miguel gave an awful and angry look, angered by his words.

  “Yeah, okay. We’re not quite there yet, are we? OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.” He yelled monotonously and rather off-pitched as he dropped Miguel, where a visceral sound coming from his head was heard. “NOO NOO NOOOOOOOOO.” Stefan flies away, zooming away in the air before blasting an airplane to pieces. Miguel tries to reassemble himself to help the passengers but their screams were immediately silenced.

  Miguel slams his head on the cement and growls. “FUCK!!!”

  Miguel sighs, taking out his blaster, pointing it at Stefan.

  He shoots at Stefan, but the bullet that can bypass anything merely passes through Stefan.

  Which… is quite an interesting law of physics.

  Stefan turns. “Foolish… So sad…” Stefan proceeds to bomb the city with a single blast from his eyes and flies away.

  Miguel, who was skipped like a stone in the rubble, just groans in pain while his tentacles recombined his body parts.