47. Voodoo and King Crimson Part I ~Zombie Boat~

Miguel and Anne walk silently in the boat.

Miguel checks his watch and sighs.

"I really wanna come back to the boat... I think I left the oven on..." he said.

"What's wrong, Anne?" asked Miguel.

"Nothing," she crossed his arms and looks away.

Miguel sighs. "Is this about me forgetting about our monthly anniversary?!"

"Tch-..." she whispered.

"That doesn't mean I don't love you anymore!" he shouted. "I worked a lot today!"

"You do realize that our anniversary is next week?" asked Anne. "Hmph!"

"Ah," said Miguel. "Okay... what did I do wrong? Did I hurt her feelings somehow? What did I do!? *gasp*"

"I talked to Jessica last night," said Miguel.

"Hmph!" she shouted.

"You're kidding, right? She was just apologizing for what she did!" explained Miguel.

"She was just apologizing for what she did!" she repeated with a high-pitched voice.

"Alright... what do you want?" asked Miguel. "How do I make up for it?"

"There is one thing," She turned red.

Miguel looks around. "Here? We're on a mission."

"So?" she asked.

"Bah..." said Miguel. "Fine. I'm bored, anyway."

The two ran into the storage room and locked themselves in using Star Platinum.

Suddenly, a man limps and moved past the storage room they're in. He has a strange walk and moans oddly.

The two put their clothes back on. Miguel zips up his pants. Anne clips her polo up. Miguel checks his watch again. "Ugh..." Miguel sighs.

"Really did good work on my flower," said Anne.

"Ugh... Don't call it that. People don't talk like that after-..."

*cling cling cling*

Miguel immediately brought out Star Platinum while Anne brought out Sticky Fingers.

"Get behind me," said Anne.

"You're the klutz! You get behind me!" shouted Miguel.

*step... step... step...*

*groan*

*hiss*

A pair of eyes peer back at the two. Suddenly, a man with a torn-up body appears from the darkness. He limps around.

"You okay, sir?" asked Miguel.

"Miguel... he's bleeding and he looks like he's been mauled," said Anne.

"Alright," said Miguel, as Star Platinum tried to approach him.

*SNAP*

The man nearly bit Star Platinum.

"WHOA!!!" shouted Miguel. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! No... No ho ho ho... Anne... He doesn't have a heart."

"What?" asked Anne.

"I don't smell any blood from him. I don't hear his heartbeat," said Miguel. "Do you understand what that means?"

"You're a Vampire and he's not your meal?" asked Anne.

"No..." said Miguel. "That guy's a zombie."

He pointed at the zombie.

"Alright... Not saying that your nerd gene is kicking in... But I just gotta say that I don't think that's how you deduce things in the real world," replied Anne.

"Weren't their books about zombies before?" asked Miguel.

"Yeah," said Anne. "Voodoo is a shared Stand by multiple Users. It is inherited by Priests of the western African tribes. The Stand is called Voodoo and is known to be an egg-like Stand. It transfers through a bite by the User. Once the User bites a living person or a corpse, the eggs enter the person's bloodstream and enter the brain. The eggs then turn into larvae that eat away and replace the person's brain. The larvae then eat each other until one larva remains in the brain as it becomes a cocoon. As a last resort, the cocoon hatches and unleashes the Wasp Stand which is much weaker than the zombie, but if it stings you, you become a zombie once more. The victims become obsessed with eating flesh and could transfer the eggs once more through bites. Their reproduction is similar to the Emerald Cockroach Wasp, which stings cockroaches and lays their eggs in the cockroaches' skull."

Anne prepared her Sticky Fingers.

"You're not a zombie, right?" she asked softly.

The man's jaw falls off.

*crock*

*splorge*

"Thanks for answering, Mister," said Anne, trembling.

"ORA!!!" shouted Star Platinum as he punched the man's face and broke it into pieces.

*SPLAT*

Miguel and Anne ran to the door.

Anne puts her finger on her lip as she peeks out from the door.

Zombies are found everywhere wandering around.

Anne zipped the ground as he fell in with her. There, Miguel and Anne found themselves in a dark room.

"Did they notice?" whispered Anne.

"They only respond to loud noises, lights, body heat, and carbon dioxide," Miguel explained. "Didn't you study this? Oh... right! Your dad!"

*thud*

*groan*

Miguel immediately woges into an Aswang and used Star Platinum to attack that zombie.

"Glad that Aswangs can sense body heat," said Miguel.

"You used the word, 'Aswang', this time," said Anne. "Oh!"

"What?" asked Miguel.

"Horror Movie 101," said Anne. "Remember that conversation we've had with the others about horror movies?"

"Never fight in a dark room?" asked Miguel.

"Bingo," said Anne.

"I've found a light switch," said Miguel, as Star Platinum turns on the switch.

The entire room has a crowd of zombies right in front of them.

"Well shit," said Miguel.

Miguel and Anne immediately ran toward the locked door.

(Overdrive Theme Begins)

"ORA!!!"

Star Platinum punched the door open as Anne zips the opening closed. The two of them ran away.

"Oddly enough, I'd count this as our second date," said Anne.

"Really? A zombie movie?" asked Miguel. "That's by far the most romantic thing you've said all day other than 'Hmph'."

Zombies began crashing toward them as Anne zipped themselves to a lower floor. The zombies managed to get through.

"I have to zip it close!" shouted Anne.

"Horror Movie 101!!! Never come back for something unless you really need it!"

Anne zips the next wall to bring themselves to the next room and zips the last room locked.

Anne's eyes are revealed to be black.

"Your eyes have been black the entire time," said Miguel. "Wait... are you honestly scared?"

"NO!!!" shouted Anne. "Ahem... No."

"You? The girl who showed me all those zombie movies I was terrified of!?" asked Miguel.

"You were terrified of them!?" asked Anne.

"Yes!" shouted Miguel.

"You were so mundane about all of them!" shouted Anne.

"Exactly! I wasn't laughing! Instead, I was mundane!" shouted Miguel. "That's how scared I was!"

"You have serious problems, Miggy," said Anne.

"Uh... Yeah!" replied Miguel.

"What possible other things did you witness on that island!?" asked Anne.

"I was force-fed with my allies' children for a living," said Miguel. "I had sex with a dead rat."

Anne stares at Miguel, looking rather weirded out.

"What!?" asked Miguel.

"We just had sex," said Anne.

"Yeah, and it was in a zombie infestation! It was awesome!" smiled Miguel.

"Alright, nerd," she sighed. "How will we murder the User this time? Because I'm guessing that that's how we kill the zombies all at once. This room is bright and there are no zombies around."

The room around them is completely barren. No windows and no furniture.

"We should locate him," said Miguel.

"How?" asked Anne.

"Love," said Miguel.

"Don't you trick me into doing it with you right here!" shouted Anne. "You think you can just give me pretty eyes and get me to do it with you?"

"That had nothing to do with it!" shouted Miguel. Miguel then blinks very quickly several times over.

"Ha!" laughed Anne, with her eyes closed. "I closed my eyes!"

Miguel then bonks her on the head.

"Hoy!" she shouted.

"Well... Hello there," a man said in a suave manner in an African-American Bayou accent. "I would give you some privacy, but I'm meant to kill you," he smiled, emerging from the shadows.

"Hey!" Anne shouted, bringing out Sticky Fingers. "Takedown your zombies, and I won't have to zip you to bloody pieces!"

"Hay Naku... Either way, I'll kill scum like you for killing a ship-worth of innocent people," said Miguel.

"The couple turned from sweet and adorable to terrifying and malicious," said the man. "How very quaint. Dylan Straizo, at your service!"

"Straizo? Sounds Chinese," said Anne.

"He's clearly French-African descent who lived in America for some time," said Miguel.

"Don't you assume my citizenship! That's racist!" shouted Straizo. "Well... The taller one is correct, BUT STILL!!!"

"Thank you," said Anne, crossing her arms.

"He meant me!" shouted Miguel.

"Aw," said Anne, bowing down and loosening her arms.

Miguel then pats her on the head.

She then closes her eyes and enjoys the head pat.

"FOOLISH FILIPINOS!!!" he shouted. "You will have to endure the power of the mighty... SALVIIIIIII!!! AHA HA HA HA!!!"

Miguel checks his watch again.

*ring ring*

"ORA!!!"

*dzzt*

Suddenly, Straizo is gone.

Anne is now on the ground, coughing blood.

Miguel coughs blood as well. "What the hell happened?"

There is now a large hole on the wall in front of them.

"What just happened?" asked Miguel.

Flashes of what happened occurred. A red white criss-cross-striped Stand with a white face and green eyes attacked both of them. It punched both of them during... whenever that was.

Miguel checks his watch.

"It's ten seconds later."

"What?" asked Anne.

"I can sense... time... right?" said Miguel. "It didn't feel like 2 seconds just happened before I checked my watch... It felt like ten..."

"Ten seconds?" she asked. "What? He somehow erased our memories or whatever?"

"No... something..." said Miguel.

He remembered blocking an attack from an opponent.

"Something..." said Miguel. "Someone stopped time? No... he... erased time? That world didn't exist anymore... He somehow erased time... he stopped it from existing... So now we're on the ground... That guy can erase time."

"Wait... there's an ability that is like King Crimson?" asked Anne.

"Horror Movie 101. No talking," said Miguel.

The two stand up and prepare their Stands.

Zombies went from one and of the hall to the other.

"ORA!!!"

*splat*

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA-!!!"

"BUENA BUENA BUENA BUENA BUENA BUENA BUENA-!!!"

*POW POW POW*

*ZIP ZIP ZIP*

A crowd of zombies attacked Miguel.

Miguel grabbed one and threw it toward all of the other zombies. He punched once, twice, and thrice, as all the zombies' heads exploded. He stopped time and each time-stop, he killed a group of at least twenty zombies who all fell to the ground at once.

Meanwhile, Anne was zipping all the zombies' heads to pieces. She ran on the walls and ax kicked one zombie as she slammed the zombie's head to the others' heads, causing a zipper chain reaction, zipping all of their heads into large pieces.

The two stood their ground back to back.

Star Platinum then used Star Finger and stabs a zombie's skull. The index and middle fingers then elongated and zigzagged, killing about twenty more zombies.

Time erased.

Miguel's eyes widen as he sees that Anne might get injured by this.

Miguel grabs Anne as the zombies charged toward them. Miguel then fought all the zombies by himself. In two seconds, he killed 27 zombies behind him and turned around as he killed 16 zombies that were behind him in the next two.

Blood and organs were everywhere. The smell of rotten flesh reeked the room. The zombies have all been killed by the two Stand-Users.

Anne looks at Miguel, who hugs him.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Oh," said Miguel. "Time was erased so I protected you from the zombies and Diablo."

For a long moment, he kept on hugging her.

"Uh..." asked Anne.

"Right," said Miguel, letting go of her.

"Wait," said Anne. "No, you can keep hugging me." Miguel immediately hugs her again. "I was gonna ask, how'd you know, I presume, another User's name?"