331. The Strange Stand-User ~Raptor-Knife-Day After...

Yurielle JoJo is currently unconscious along with many of the racers, and right now, the race is temporarily canceled.

Gabrielle stares at you, the reader, gravely injured and trembling.

She's listening to her father's memories, but then... she sees coordinates. Alien coordinates lead to a strange Pocket Dimension.

"Bruce?" asked Gabrielle, talking to her Bluetooth Speaker. "Bring me to this place... 'Prismo's Room.'"

"Hehehey!" smiled Prismo, the pink shadow-like Wish Master. "I'm Prismo! What could I do for ya today?"

Gabrielle JoJo shows Prismo her father's DISC.

"Whoa! What the hell are you doing with that!?"

"I want to see him. The man my father found to be useful for Bizarrmaggeddon. Where is he?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" yelled Prismo. "You can't just barge in here and ask for him out of nowhere!"

"I need him! He's very important to our world!" yelled Gabrielle.

"He's been banished from all reality, Gabrielle JoJo. If he comes back to his own reality, something bad happens to him."

"We'll figure that out later! We just need him! Please! We need his help in beating Bill Cipher!"

"Bill... Cipher...? HE'S HERE!? I thought that he was destroyed!"

"Well, he isn't and he had been around for about ten years, so please, I beg of you, make that man help us!"

Prismo sighs. "Fine... But he won't listen to you..." Prismo opens a gate on the wall of his yellow room. "He listens to nobody," he said, as Gabrielle entered a strange opening.

The door closes.

"Hello?" asked Gabrielle.

*clang! clang! clang!!!*

*ws! ws! ws!*

A man looking away, staring at what looks like security videos of an entire planet, stayed silent. He has long hair and a beard. He has tattoos all over his body, and a star on the back of his left shoulder. The tattoos are very small and are etched in his skin. They're showing Latin-Hebrew-Tagalog creole words.

*ws! ws!*

He's switching the screens around to his liking. He then drinks a banana milkshake.

"Hey? Hello? Hi! I'm Gabrielle JoJo... I live two or three Universes away from you... Could you please help me out?"

He pauses for a second but continues to flip the screens.

"According to my Dad's memories... there... was a prophecy. That you, along with me... and someone else... along with an army of good people in this world... is meant to stop Bill from bringing anarchy into our world."

"Go away," said the man, in a familiar voice.

"Wait... Your voice... sounds really familiar," said Gabrielle. She gasps softly. "Dad?"

"I'm not your father... At least not the one from your reality."

"I heard that you were the leader of the Earth-Zero Rebels... You were a powerful warrior who succeeded in many fights... But... you were banished when defeated."

"I wasn't... defeated..."

"Then what happened?"

"I was killed... But I could've gone back... I have the Goddamned power to get back. Back to my reality... But he threatened to kill my family if I do. So I stayed dead... shunned by the world I lived in. I'm also not going back because Humans are ultimately ungrateful pieces of shit... I offered to save them. They sacrificed me to the Dream Demon. Crucified me. Laughed at me while my very few family members cried for me. Then, my body was desecrated. And I was thrown away. I tried to get back... For the love of God, I did... But... as I said... He threatened to kill the people I love."

"That's why I'm here! To beat this Dream Demon! You could help me!"

"And what!? BETRAY ME AS THEY DID ME!?"

"You've been gone for ten years."

"A day out there, a year in here... Y'know how long I've stayed here, for, then?"

"I'm not... good with Math..."

"I've been here for 3,653 years. Alone... watching... studying... training... trying to watch and look over my world while"

I'm sorry.

"Who... Who said that?" asked Gabrielle, hearing the voice of the unknown.

The man laughs. "Don't say that. DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT!!! You knew what was going to happen! You offered me as a sacrifice to redeem these awful, awful people... My own wife had forgotten about me and is with another man! My own daughter thinks her father is that man!" He slams the table with each sentence. "EVERYONE had moved on while I STAY HERE TO ROT!!1"

Miguel. We're sorry.

"NO!!! I'm your Scape Goat! Say it! Say that I'm your disgusting sacrifice!"

Miguel...

"Tell me..." he shakes and bounces his legs. "When the dust settles, whose body does the world laugh at? My entire life, I was marginalized... Even when I was their only hope... They threw me to a fucked up god. They made me bleed on a crucifix... It was disgusting... Humans are disgusting. Why will I ever help them again if they don't deserve me?"

It's not about what they deserve! Bill is evil... That's why now, you're the one being recruited to undo all of what happened to you.

"I wasn't talking about Bill..."

You suffered. That was our bad. Just, please... This is your destiny.

"I NEVER WANTED THIS DESTINY!!!" he slammed the table. "I wanted to be a normal person! I wanted to be normal! You made me into a hero! Built me into someone I never wanted to be! And when the world needed me most, the world betrayed me! And now they get what they deserve! Suffering anarchy and nuclear winter for ten years!"

But does your family deserve this... Miguel?

Miguel pauses. "My wife slept with another... My daughter doesn't know me... My friends are rebels... but are practically in shambles."

"You're a coward," said Gabrielle.

Miguel pauses. "Excuse me?"

"You are not my Dad after all... Because you know what my Dad would've done? He would've got back up and knocked them all down!" yelled Gabrielle.

"Your father was shamed by several Universes."

"And he didn't care! Hell... I DON'T CARE!!! I don't care how they view me as long as I do them right!"

"And what did the world do for you?"

"I don't know! I'm one of the idiots who live in it!?"

He scoffs. "I live here. Again. What has the Universe ever done for you!?"

Gabrielle pauses. "I-!"

Miguel stands up and menacingly walks toward her and she backs away upon seeing his terrifying face. She feels a sharp chill in her spine upon seeing him.

"Tell me... When will the world ever be grateful for you? If they are just as evil as the people you've fought against, what even is the point in fighting for them?"

"They are not evil!"

"Then why did they shame you for having a father like me! A father who cared!? Why did they shame you for having our blood!? That is the JoJo Curse... The world will always hate you even if you do them right! Because Humans are ungrateful... Humans deserve to die. I don't care if you're American, Spanish, Japanese... HELL!!! Even if you're Filipino!" He spits on the ground. "Humans are disgusting fucks who deserve to die! Ungrateful! Ungodly! Swayed easily by those stronger than them! Rather than fighting for themselves, they kneel before who they fear!"

"But you never knelt!" yelled Gabrielle.

"AND I WAS SHAMED FOR IT!!!"

"But the point is that you never knelt, Miguel Ibarra!" yelled Gabrielle. "Doesn't that mean something?"

"It doesn't!"

"Then why did you do it!?"

(Sub to Sheet Music Boss!)

(theme begins...)

Miguel Ibarra clenches his fists. "Because I loved people... I hate them now, but what I've learned is that hate comes from love... Hatred comes when love is betrayed. And when I was younger, I loved the world because it was bizarre... Because of what little I had. Because I cared about the little guy being pushed around... Back then, I relieved my anger by doing fucked up jokes with my friends... because it made me feel powerful... The hatred... It felt so good to hate... But after a while... The hatred begins to hurt... And you feel bad for it... You feel like everything you've done is because people broke your heart... and now you want to unleash chaos on this world. The single worst thing about hating Bill Cipher is that you understand him. I understand him. But I don't agree with his ways... I never did..."

"Then why did you leave!?"

"Because you're right... I was a coward. I never should've left. I should've gone back and fought... No matter how much more people I lose! That's why...I gotta get back. GET BACK!!!"

His tattoos and his star glow.

"GET BACK!!! I GOTTA GET BACK AND SAVE THE WORLD!!! And I will beat the living fucking shit out of everyone who hurts the people I love! The people I care about! Fuck it if I didn't get respect from the rest of the world! What matters is that I love them, not the other way around!"

(theme ends...)

Swore!

Swore!

Miguel frowns. 

W-W-W-WAIT!!!

WAIT!!!

Miguel walks back toward his chair and prepares to sit back down. "Maybe I'll just sit back down and accept my fate."

Wait! Hold on! Chill! Chill! We'll do whatever you want!

Wait, seriously?

He pauses.

YES!!!

"I don't know you guys very well, but yeah! Just do as the man says!" yelled Gabrielle.

OKAY!!!

YEAH!!! THAT'S WHAT I SAID!!!

"Okay, fine... Let's have some ground rules. First, I AM ALLOWED TO SWEAR!!!" yelled Miguel. "I'm allowed to sin and I don't need to be punished for it because I AM A PERSON!!! People keep saying that I have so much power and privilege! Screw that noise! I'm every bit of a person as anyone! Privileged and non-privileged!"

But you're... y'know!

"Yeah! And I don't care!" yelled Miguel. 

But-!

"Welp! Looks like I gotta sit back here since the world doesn't respect me, still."

Okay! Okay! We respect your wish!

Yeah! You can swear and sin!

"Okay, fine! Second... I'm allowed to eat anything I want! I'm also allowed to have sex with my wife! AND MAKE THAT ASSHOLE BREAK UP WITH THE WOMAN I LOVE!!!"

Okay! Writing it down! Should I write it down!?

Duh!

"Hey!" yelled Prismo. "What's going on over there!?"

"Oh! I'm landing some ground rules to be the Chosen One again!" smiled Miguel.

"Okay!"

"Now! Let's continue our set of ground rules wherein I have the entire Omniverse's fate along with a Googol number of Universes altogether having Googolplex light years are in the palm of my hand."

Later...

"Hey! You finally got him to move out!?" smiled Prismo.

"Yep!" smiled Gabrielle.

Miguel Ibarra follows her. "Hey, Prismo. Bye, Prismo."

Miguel takes out his sticks and creates a portal, as the pair hops out.

"You were here for almost 4,000 years. No 'thank you?'"

Later...

A portal opens and Gabrielle and Miguel walk out of it. They walk around New York City.

"I am Miguel Ibarra!" yelled Miguel. "Wut wut assholes! I am here to save the world."

"Shut up, asshole!" yelled one man.

"So... how do we kill Bill?" asked Gabrielle.

The pair points at each other and says, "OOOH!!! HAHAHA!!!"

"Yeah. I don't kill," said Miguel.

"What!? Stand-Users? Mangkukulams!? Mambabarangs!?"

"Like Christ (but I'm not Christ) I just send the spirits... slash... dark magic away," said Miguel. "Permanently."

"You seriously haven't killed anyone yet!?" asked Gabrielle.

"Yep. I have the inherent belief that even though humans are evil pieces of shit, they're still good people."

"So... who is Bill Cipher?"

"He's a powerful being who has a debt to his people. Wherein I am a moderately powerful being whose people has a debt to."

"Wait... Are you the Christ?"

"I said I'm not..." said Miguel. "I am Christ's User. He's my Beyond."

"What the hell is a Beyond?" asked Gabrielle.

"A very powerful Stand-like spirit that gives the User incredible power."

"So... you haven't killed anyone? Because I know Anting Users who have killed witches and other Stand-Users."

"Yeah? Well, I don't. I believe that everyone has a chance to be a good person."

"That's kinda dumb, but I get it. I've killed people before."

"Yeah. I saw. You were pretty badass, though."

"Thanks!"

"Now... What do you need me for?"

"Bill Cipher. He's here and he wants to kill all of us."

"Really, now? 'Why?' I wonder."

"I don't know! He wants to make some kind of... anarchic party?"

"No, no, no... The party won't kill anyone. It just destroys all of logic, physics, and reality as we know it. And it's up to us to save the world."

"Bruce has this inherent belief that you have to force the world to make sense... because it doesn't."

"The world already makes sense. You have to force yourself to see that it does! Hey!" smiled Miguel. "Holy shit is that Shakey's!? Gabrielle, let's eat there! And I could show some magic tricks to get us a really cool table!"

Gabrielle rolls her eyes. "Well... Sure! Whatever!"

"Hoho! They have a glass balcony!? Holy shit! Let's go!"

"You became oddly positive after leaving that place."

"Because I'm free for the first time in a while! Hurray for liberty!"

"Shut up, asshole!" yelled a woman.

"Fuck off, bitch! I do what I want! Just kidding! Have a wonderful afternoon!" smiled Miguel.