436. Superior Spider-Man ~The Tournament Part V~

"Miguel...?" asked Anne, seeing that Miguel is already awake. Both of them are in glass cages.

They have Stand-Destabilizers around their necks.

"Finally, you're awake," said Miguel. "You slept like Snorlax. Or anyone in a math lecture."

"But you love math," said Anne.

"I didn't like it. I was good at it and therefore suffered with it."

Giorno is also there. "Where the hell are we?"

"We're in a chamber where we won't be able to mess with Stark's plans," said Gabby, who is next to them.

"Gabby...?" asked Miguel.

"You're in trouble, young lady!" yelled Miguel.

"Just... don't talk to me right now," said Gabby.

"'Don't talk to you? DON'T TALK TO YOU!!?' I've been worried sick for the last-!!! 3 hours... Before I was kidnapped and taken here by some Ultron Guards..."

"SEE!? YOU DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT ME!!!"

"Gabby, that isn't true. I'm just an idiot. And I wasn't listening to the Probability Sense for a while now."

"Because you don't care about me! I had your room rebuilt by Prismo, and this is how you thank me!?"

"Gabby. I don't have to thank you for anything because I already love you. Always. I'm just angry that you signed me up for this tournament and got us into this mess!"

"Because I thought you'd want to be there!"

"Why would I want to be there!?"

"BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS WORKING... FATHER!!! YOU'RE ALWAYS WORKING!!! Ugh!"

"You've changed so much... You used to be a young lady who actually had manners."

"Father... I had no emotion because of you! Because of you, I was practically bullied by EVERYONE in my college right now!"

"What makes you say that!?"

"My whole life, I didn't have any friends! Stuck in a room with YOU!!! For ten years! When I finally came back to this world where only barely any TIME has passed, I was practically an outcast, father!"

"How is that my fault!?"

"You wanted me to be just like you! I don't want to be like you! I want to be a NORMIE!!!"

Miguel is looking at Gabby with a very annoyed look. "Gabby... Normies are bad people. They bully people like me."

"Dad... So was Mom! She used to go trendy like everyone else!"

"Yeah. And she bullied me."

"Well, if you can't accept me for who I am... Then I will continue to not talk to you."

Giorno stares at the two. "What the hell is a normie?"

Note: If you remember in JBA: Gospel Truth, Miguel Ibarra was relentlessly bullied by normies in the past, solidifying his hatred for them.

"I can't believe it," said Anne.

"Right!?" asked Miguel.

"Miguel, I can't believe that after all this time, something trivial like this mattered to you."

"Anne. You can't understand. She has to be like me! If she isn't-!"

"What, Miguel!? She'd bully you!? You'd HATE her!? She's our daughter! Your daughter!"

"I'm not his daughter..." said Gabby, bowing her head. "I know that I'm MABUS' kid."

"Gabby..." said Miguel.

"No. It's okay. You can hate me all that you want... I know about how you got drunk that one time and told Gabrielle about how much you hate her..."

"Gabby... No! I didn't say that!"

"You actually kinda did," said Anne.

"Well! Gabby! I would never really hate you!"

"You're just saying that," said Gabby.

"No, sweetie! I'm not...! I swear! I loved Gabrielle as I loved you!"

"Or you love her more than me... I can sense how you talked to her. You saw her as your own... I'm not even your kid..."

Miguel sighs.

The four stay silent.

"You know..." said Giorno. "My own father was a very terrible person... But I found someone else who I saw as my true father."

"So... you're saying I should hate this guy."

"I'm saying that Mr. Ibarra is all you have. So, be glad that you have him close to your heart."

Gabby still looks away from Miguel but gives a thinking look over what Giorno said.

Meanwhile...

Peter smiles as he fell asleep, listening to anti-gaslighting ASMR.

"(I'm so sorry... I shouldn't have said those things to you...)" whispered the female ASMRtist. "(You deserve so much more than what I did to you. I hurt you. And it's only right that you hate me. You're allowed to hate me... You're allowed to always hate me.)"

"I did good," smiled Josuke. "I did pretty good."

"We're here at the foot of the mountain!" yelled Gabrielle.

Bruce is still synthesizing Peter's suit.

Peter wakes up.

Josuke and Gumball sense danger.

 Yurielle, F.F., and Gabrielle all wake up as well.

*CRASH!!!*

"HOLY SHIT!!!"

Everyone prepared their Stands, weapons, and powers immediately while the Bus shrunk into Gabrielle's pocket.

"HEY!!!" yelled Gabrielle, only for all of them to be webbed almost immediately.

Gabrielle activates her string to try and choke the attacker, but his suit immediately electrocutes her string, transferring it into her body.

"GABRIELLE!!!" yelled Narcos, as he shot icicles at the attacker, only for the attacker to web all of his icicles.

Black legs appear as the man in the Superior Spider Suit appears.

"Wait... I thought Tony's Peter was dead."

"He is..." He takes off his mask, revealing that his face is the same as Tom Holland's. "Hello, Peter."

"We're totally wiping everyone's memories after this," said Gabrielle.

"Yep," said Bruce.

All of them are webbed up by tentacle-like energy webs as they are constantly drained of their energy.

"Ugh!" yelled Gabrielle. "I can't get out! It's like voting but your family is pressuring you, all over again!"

"See!? I told you that we should've done something about The One Who Shall Not Be Named!" yelled Peter.

"You pink, bro?" asked Gabrielle.

"Wait, I thought you were Anti him."

"Do your research. All he did was make Martial Law because of terrorism."

"Wasn't he corrupt?"

"You just killed a guy last week, idiot. And I got New York killed. GET ON THE GODDAMNED SHIP!!! WE ALL HAVE CONTROVERSIES!!!Except for puppies. Puppies can never have controversies."

"Puppies bite children, Gabrielle," said Narcos.

"Yeah!" yelled Patrick. "Careful, Gabrielle! You'll get Mad Snail Disease!"

"That was a myth," said Spongebob. "The event was caused by mass hysteria and everyone's delusion."

"Yeah... By YOU!!!"

"The One Who Shall Not Be Named is still good to enter the election because killing terrorists and DRUG LORDS with THE POWER OF VIGILANTISM is better than just letting these pansies not do anything."

"Yeah... This is the part where I have to disagree," said Bruce. "Why? Because people-..."

"-should always have a chance to change and be a better person," said everyone else. 

"Oh, please!" yelled Gumball. "You killed thousands of people for two years!"

"Yeah. Because I hate myself."

"Yeah! I may have killed someone, but that was an accident! People deserve a second chance! I truly believe that."

"You're insane and you have issues," said Josuke. "Why should we listen to either of you hypocrites if now we know that anyone, even someone as good as either of you, would take a life just like the person you oppose?"

"W-... I-..." said Peter.

"Well..." said Bruce. "To be fair... Literally, every official in the Philippines in every universe was corrupt at some point."

"Yeah... Except for Miguel JoJo... And Ibarra... So far..." said Peter.

"Aren't Miguel JoJo and Ibarra Marc-... *cough...* The One Who Shall Not Be Named's Grandson...?" asked Spongebob.

Everyone stares at Spongebob.

"Wait, what?" asked Peter. "Wait, really?"

"Yeah..." said Bruce. "It says on my file that The One Who Shall Not Be Named in these sets of universes did it with a mistress and his daughter is their mom."

"Wait... WHAT!?" asked Gabrielle. "I'm sorry... He's my Great-Grandfather!?"

*DUN DUN DUN!!!*

"That makes sense... I'm great at law!"

"Pfft!" laughed Narcos.

"Excuse me?" asked Gabrielle.

"I sneezed..." said Narcos.

"WOULD ALL OF YOU PLEASE SHUT UP!!!?" asked Peter-838. "The election was a week ago!"

"A lot of things happened a week ago... I AM STRESSED ALL THE TIME AND I HATE EVERYONE!!!" sobbed Peter. "Everyone hates me because of what I did."

"Oh... Peter..." said Peter-838, pulling Peter closer as he electrocutes all of the other characters and ties them to the rock. "You think you're so clever? The Spectacular Spider-Man... You think you're a hero? I can't believe that your 'mentor' over there still continues to fight for you after you practically betrayed him. Because you believe in Stark so much... You can't resurrect the dead, Peter..."

"You understand me so well..." said Peter. "But the Peter Tingle is telling me that you're not me. You will never be me, either. Like how your Tony can never live up to who my Tony was."

"Oh, the contrary, Spider-Man. In many ways, I consider myself to be far more... Superior..." said Superior Spider-Man. "I was so happy when Stark gave me this new suit..." Superior Spider-Man shows off his Arc Reactor. "The power of the sun..."

Peter's goggles dilate. "Doctor Octavius?"

He smiles. "Clever. Nice upgrade you've gotten."

"It's an old design," said Peter. "It's just the suit I made that Bruce gave a few enhancements." He shakes his head to focus again. "Why are you in my body!?"

"Are you kidding!? To our Tony, you're a disposable mess, Parker. Nothing but a reminder of what a constant failure you were to him. You could never be Tony Stark, Peter."

"Yeah..." Peter frowned. "Because I'm my own person, Doc Ock."

"*sigh...* Peter, Peter, Peter... After we switched bodies, Tony killed you in my body. He found that my mind combined with your strength made me what you couldn't be."

"Why are you trying to piss me off?" Peter's goggles contracted.

"Because it seems that you listen to your heart more than your head, kid. Like a little monkey given a typewriter. You're an irresponsible idiot given too much power. You caused the drones' attack. Got a variant of me, Osborn, and a few chumps cause mayhem. You killed a man last week. Can't even live up to your own code."

"I'll make things right, Doc Ock."

"And how will you do that, Spider-Man?"

"Antiviruses uploaded," said Peter's earpiece.

"Easy..." said Peter. "I'm going to that lab of yours and take you and your boss out."

Superior Spider-Man sighs and drops Peter to the ground. "I was afraid you'd say that. Mr. Stark. You can call them now."

Superman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Thor, Green Lantern, Cyborg, The Wasp, SHAZAM, and Hercules float down.

Green Arrow, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Hawkeye II, Vigilante, Captain America II, Hulk, Aquaman, The Flash, and Ant-Man also stand in the way.

"I have no use for Jake and Darwin... Being far too weak..."

Superior Iron Man lands before them, doing a Superhero Landing. "I just want you to know that this isn't personal, kid."

"HEY!!!" yelled Tyrone, on top of the mountain.

Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Josuke Higashikata, Okuyasu Nijimura, Koichi Hirose, Trish Una, Guido Mista, Shigeo Kageyama, Jean Pierre Polnareff, and Krillin all float down in front of the hypnotized Justice League and the Avengers.

Mob also floats down.

"Wait. YOU SURVIVED THAT CHILD!?" asked Superior Iron Man.

"Duh... He's literally the weakest one in our group," said Vegeta. "We had that idiot over there give us the Antivirus to snap him back to reality."

"Antivirus uploaded," said both Bruce's and Peter's earpieces.

"Yeah!" yelled Tyrone. "I'm useful!"

"Well..." sighed Superior Iron Man. "Either you join me... Or-!!! Fuck it. Kill them all."

Suddenly, all of their Arc Reactors are deactivated, but Superior Iron Man's army still has bodies on Earth to transfer back to.