92. Stormy Monday Part II ~Monster Emperor Cometh~

"I've heard that you were going to play that game at Miguel and Anne's wedding," sneered Rob.

"Yeah... the others are planning to play music there..." said Josuke. "The others are planning the food... Mr. Reaper and Ms. Kuta are planning everything else..."

"Why the hell are you telling him everything!?" asked Gumball standing up.

Josuke shrugs.

"Very well... Stand-Off... Quickest Stand wins," sneered Rob.

The two stare each other down.

"STORMY MONDAY!!!"

"PRINCE!!!"

"WEIRD LIKE U.N. ME!!!"

"ORA!!!"

"UWA!!!"

"UBASHORA!!!"

The three Stands spin around each other as Prince and Weird surround Stormy Monday, blasting their fists toward it. Prince spins and kicks Stormy Monday's left throat, then proceeds to jab Stormy Monday's throat. Weird Like U.N. Me then grabs Stormy Monday's throat and blasts another fist into its face.

Rob coughs blood, realizing what the two of them are trying to do.

"You're fighting dirty..." he whispered with a disgruntled voice. "I'm surprised that Josuke Higashikata can do something so unfair. You and your constant argument that no race should be below another. You, the literal fairest of them all.I almost want to spare you..."

Stormy Monday's glitch virus retreats to Rob as everything goes back to normal.

Rob and his Stand prepare for another attack.

"UBA!!!"

Prince and Weird blast their fists once more at the Stand.

"TOO WEAK, JOSUKE HIGASHIKATA AND GUMBALL WATTERSON!!!" howled Rob, as he kicks Josuke and Gumball meters away.

The dust clouds around them as Rob pounced at them and hammered his fist toward Gumball.

Rob sends a glitch to attack Josuke.

Gumball rolled to the left as Rob's Stand stomped Gumball, but failed to catch him because of his surprising speed.

The glitch, meanwhile, glitches the environment around Josuke.

Josuke grabs the glitch as he randomizes in animation. He restores it as he ends up pulling Rob away from Gumball and toward him. Prince then blasts a punch into his face.

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!!" yelled Prince, kicking Rob's eye over and over again.

Stormy Monday then swings a hook into Prince's temple as Josuke spits out blood and is thrown away.

Weird Like U.N.Me strikes Rob's throat once more from behind, as Rob vomits blood.

"Why am I still bleeding!?" he asked himself in annoyance.

"Vampire saliva is similar to the saliva of a leech, which contains hirudin. It allows us to make your wounds bleed more so that we'd be able to suck more blood from you by preventing blood clotting," said Josuke. "Now back away so we can save our friends and have the wedding tonight... or I'd have to kill you..."

Josuke woges and charges toward Rob as Rob simply uses Stormy Monday to kick him away once more.

However, this time, Josuke ripped the sleeve of his pants. Josuke restores the pants as he pulled Rob back toward him. Prince then grabs Rob by the foot and slams him into the ground repeatedly.

Josuke once more jabs the wound on Rob's throat, this time with his own fist.

Rob screams and punches Josuke over and over again.

"What the hell do you guys want!?" asked Josuke, as he used his tail to begin strangling Rob. Weird Like U.N. Me then grabs Rob's Stand down.

"We're trying to usher a new truer world... A world where he rules..." gagged Rob.

"Who!?" asked Gumball.

"Him... The Monster Emperor..." said Rob, gagging.

"Gio?" asked Josuke. "What does he want with me?"

"So you know who he is... He wants one thing, Josuke Higashikata," said Rob, trembling. "Your throne. Miguel JoJo argues that no race should be above another... But here you are... a Vampire... being Prince of all Cryptids and another Vampire being President. How is that fair? People in society hold Vampires in high importance while the other Cryptids and Humans stay at the very rock bottom. We're just a bunch of farm animals and you're the pig that stays on top... How is that fair?But then I was told of the true ruler... The Monster Emperor...Thousands of years ago... The Cryptids were born from the experimentations of another race, the Fortisites. A race of god-like origin that ruled in the 4th World. They've discovered this planet which all the Old Gods fought for. Precisely, they've chosen two worlds for their experiments... The Grimm and Prince worlds. They combined the genetic components of human and animal genes... creating Superhumans.However, they went mad and wild... The world was classed and the world was dangerous... So... in the Grimm Universe... there is a chosen one... The Monster Emperor, who was created spiritually by the Fortisite priests to become a god of the Cryptids, ruled both worlds, being able to transform into all known Cryptids...Then one day... The Lord of the Vampires of the Grimm Universe rose and killed him, and deemed all Vampires as the highest class of all.Your throne was built from the death of the true ruler...And his reincarnation is Gio Brando... the man who will always be better than you...That's when God decided to create Grimms for the two worlds to be at peace... To police them...All because of the foolish Vampires..."

Josuke, feeling awful about himself and everything he stood for, bows his head.

Gumball stares at Josuke, looking concerned.

"How does it feel, Josuke Higashikata? How does it feel to realize that you will never be the protagonist of your own life?" sneered Rob.

"UBASHORA!!!" yelled Stormy Monday, punching Josuke over and over again. Josuke allowed the punches to reach him and is thrown far away.

"You're the bad guy, Josuke... Always has been," said Rob.

Josuke laid on the ground feeling nothing.

"That's what you stand for, Josuke," said Rob.

Gumball is then strangled by Stormy Monday and he is pinned down by glitches as Rob beat Josuke.

"How does it feel to be like me!? Forced to suffer below that kid you consider your friend!" he howled.

"I feel... awful..." said Josuke.

"Exactly!" yelled Rob. "So the best thing to do now is to step down your role as the so-called 'Hero' and be what you've always been: A nobody from a nobody family with nobody friends-..."

Josuke's eyes turned blue and his eyes went angry.

"-... that stole Monster Emperor's crown," said Rob.

"What did you just say about my family?" asked Josuke, slowly lifting his head.

"I said-..."

Prince grabs Rob's face and slams it into the concrete.

*SPLAT*

"RAUGH!!!" roared Josuke. "NEVER..."

Josuke bashed his face into the ground over and over again.

"...MOCK...!!!"

*CRACK*

"...MY FAMILY...!!!"

*CRACK*

"...EVER... AGAIN!!!"

*POW POW*

Rob's face, now bloodied and battered, bleeds and bruises. Rob uses Stormy Monday to push Josuke away to catch a breath.

"I'm tired of everyone ignoring me... pushing me around like I'm some joke... I'm tired of being laughed at, ignored, betrayed... hated..." said Josuke. "But that's all okay. All of that. It's all friggin' okay.But then you insulted the family I lost and the family I already have...And that really pissed me off..."

Gumball gasps. "You swore!"

Josuke grits his teeth as his irises turn blue with black eyeballs and pupils.

Josuke then sneers as he slowly raises his head. He faces upward and looks at Rob's eye, sneering with a dark smile. His claw emerges from his index finger as he points to Rob.

"I'm going to kick your ass..." smiled Josuke.

"You're not Josuke... are you?" asked Rob.

"KILLER QUEEN!!!" yelled "Josuke".

"J-Josuke?" asked Gumball, as Killer Queen approached Rob.

"Wh-whoa..." said Rob, as Killer Queen takes out a coin from Josuke's pocket.

Josuke flips the coin.

*cling*

Rob pounces backward as the coin explodes.

"Killer Queen... FIRST BOMB!!!" yelled "Josuke".

Gumball grabs Josuke from behind.

"JOSUKE!!! NO!!!" yelled Gumball.

"Get off me, Watterson..." said "Josuke".

"Josuke... He's just a kid! You can't just-!"

"What can't I do? Kill him? Mr. Reaper does it. Why can't I?"

"Because you stand for something, Josuke! You stand for something that includes not doing something as horrible as taking one of my enemies out! Especially the fact that he's a kid!" yelled Gumball.

"You've changed, Gumball," said Josuke. "Usually you'd just beckon your shoulders and look at your phone... Now you genuinely care for someone... Even your own nemesis...Change... A constant reminder why we should start killing these people..."

"Okay... You must be the other guy in his head... Or gal... I dun'no! Just-! Please! Let Josuke go from your grip!"

"The people Josuke puts down pick themselves back up. The people The Reaper puts down stay down. Says a lot about the kid's morality, right?"

"Well... At least we can agree on one thing!"

"What's that?"

"I'm gonna get us captured and you're gonna hate me for it."

"What!?"

A frisbee strikes Josuke's head randomly. Josuke's head spins for a bit as he falls to the ground face-first.

Rob shivered in fear. "Wh-Why'd you do that?"

"He gets knocked out and wouldn't kill you and you'd take us to the big bad," said Gumball. "Win-win, if you ask me. We'd just find out how to escape."

"You... saved... me?" asked Rob. "Again?"

"Yeah..." said Gumball, grabbing his other arm. "I mean... who else could be my nemesis?" he smiled.

Rob sighs.

"I've said it before, and I'll say it again... You're pretty hard to hate, Gumball..." said Rob.

"I know! Frustrating, huh?" asked Gumball.

"Yeah..." sighed Rob, smiling. "Gosh, I hate you."

"I hate you, too," said Gumball, smiling.

"Get a room..." said Josuke, muffled.

Rob shakes his head, grabs them, and teleports away.