93. Rock Bottom Part II ~Stephen, Like a Stone, is ...

20 years ago... in the Grimm Universe...

"Remember all the weird things Stephen did?" asked Zed, laughing with his friends.

"Remember that time he flipped us off telling our team to suck it in intramurals and it turns out that we're the same team as of him?" laughed Lord.

"I remember we were waiting for the jeepney and he flipped me off for no reason. Everyone looked at me and I got embarrassed..." said Miguel, as he grabbed his knees in sadness.

"Remember when Stephen would snort ube pillows and lick the bottom of his shoes or whatever?" laughed Zed.

"He licked a toilet seat," laughed Lei.

"Remember when he farts to assert dominance in class to attack the normies?" laughed Yang.

"Dude... he farted around me and told everyone it was me..." said Miguel, still in a fetal position.

"Everything he's ever done was for his own benefit, Miggy," laughed Jedan.

"Dude... remember when he would tell all of our crushes?" asked Miguel. "He told everyone about how I liked Anne... and then later about how I liked Jessica... Now both of them ignore me."

"Didn't you creepily stalk them and do creepy stuff for them?" asked Jedan.

"Shut up... I didn't know how love worked at the time and I was 12," sighed Miguel.

"He skipped group meetings and cleaner's scheduled to play at the arcade in the mall," laughed Lord.

"HE STOLE MY FLEX TAPE AND PUT IT ON A JOYSTICK IN THE ARCADE!!! WE COULDN'T DO ANYTHING IN INTRAMURALS BECAUSE OF THAT!!!" yelled Lei. "I mean... he's my adoptive cousin... But still! Uncle Lei still has to bathe him!"

"I remember that we called him Jimmin Stephen because he was so hot," laughed Jedan.

Everyone laughed, even Miguel.

"I was his best friend back in Grade 4... And I remember that he'd act as if everyone loved him..." laughed Miguel. "I was always in his shadow..."

"Good! He's a loser now!" laughed Zed.

"Stephen sounds like Mario when he goes into a fucking pipe. *ug ug ug!!!*" laughed Miguel.

Miguel then kept on telling terrible and awful jokes about Stephen.

Everyone laughed at Stephen.

Each story they've told, they each had a different reaction. Some were done out of disgust, some out of laughter, and some out of hatred.

"Oh..." said Jedan. "Stephen! Hey!Stephen?"

Stephen is in tears watching all of this.

"Stephen?" asked Miguel. "We were just joking..."

Stephen turned around and ran away.

"Stephen!" yelled Miguel, as Stephen ran outside.

He sobbed and ate his cinnamon cookies.

"Hoy! Si Stephen, o!" laughed some normies in Tagalog. They laughed and copied the way he ate. They then laughed and patted his shoulder acting as if they were buddies.

Stephen then took his shirt off and danced before them. "Yeah! You want this, bitch!? YEAH!!!"

Stephen was suspended for gross disrespect of the school uniform...

Miguel sat beside Stephen one recess. "God, you smell weird."

Stephen stands up.

"No, wait! I'm kidding! Sorry! I-It's just my-! Hatred for you!" yelled Miguel.

"Why do you hate me, Miguel?" asked Stephen.

"I don't know! You were always the cool kid and I was always viewed as the loser back in 4th Grade. I guess I viewed myself as some loser in your shadow," sighed Miguel. "That's when I started talking behind your back and calling you a loser... bullying you... I'm sorry..."

"It's... okay... I'm sorry for being weird all the time... I'm just... me..." sighed Stephen. "I just wanted people to believe in me, Miguel... I just really do... I want people to realize who I am... someone who wants to be the hero... a person people think that is someone who could save them... Someone people could for once care about... I wanna be loved, Miguel... Because no one does..."

Miguel looks at Stephen with guilt.

"I... know how that feels..." said Miguel. "I believe in you, Stephen. You can be a hero... I promise."

Stephen smiles. "Thanks, Miguel!"

20 years later... Today...

"Hello, Stephen..." said Jobin, as he sat before Stephen on the desk. "Okay, weirdo... I know you're wondering one question... 'Why am I here?'"

"Yes," smiled Stephen in his signature derpy voice, which is basically Goofy and Hulk Hogan mixed. "Why did you call me here?"

"You're the current assistant of Weeb Town and the Crusaders... and the President, Miguel JoJo... But what if I told you that I can give you something that no one else ever gave you before. Powers..."

"But I have a Stand..." said Stephen.

"Yes... a Stand that you never use for good..." said Jobin. "A potential that you're forced to put down because you're just an assistant. But what if I told you that you're something more... according to my research."

"What?" asked Stephen.

"You, Stephen Rivers, are a Fortisite... the Omniverse's most dangerous race of god-like warriors. You're half, to be precise. Your genes were locked by your father, who was mysteriously killed before you were born. Your mother, disgusted by your ugliness, gave you to an orphanage," said Jobin. "I studied your blood. You are half Fortisite."

"So...?" asked Stephen.

"How about you work for me as well, Stephen?" smiled Jobin. "Work as this world's Lord Marvel?"

Stephen smiles sweetly as Jobin sneers.

"STEPHEN RIVERS RENAMED STEFAN RIVERS!!! ALSO KNOWN AS PRINCE UNIVERSE'S UNBREAKABLE!!! ALSO KNOWN AS THE LORD MARVEL OF EARTH PRINCE!!! STEPHEN RIVERS IS CURRENTLY A GREAT HERO OF THE PRINCE EARTH AND HAD BEEN HELPING OUT FOR THE LAST MONTH EVER SINCE THE ERADICATOR CAUSED MILLIONS OF CRYPTIDS TO HAVE RACIAL WARS AND COMMIT RACIAL CRIMES AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE!!!"

"DOWN WITH CRYPTIDS!!!"

"YOU HUMANS ARE RUINING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!!!"

"FREEDOM FROM THE ANIMALS!!! DOWN WITH NAPOLEON THE PIG!!!"

"BOO, YOU! BOO YOUR WILD SIDE!!!"

"AND HERE IS STEFAN RIVERS, ALSO KNOWN AS UNBREAKABLE, OFFERING TO HELP!!! HE HAD BEEN SAVING PEOPLE FROM ACCIDENTS!!! KISSING BABIES!!! BUILDING WORLDS!!! SAVING PEOPLE FROM TERRORISTS!!! STOPPING WARS!!! STOPPING CRIMES!!! AND SAVING THE WORLD FROM METEORS!!! YOU KNOW!!! THE USUAL!!! THAT IS STEFAN!!! HE IS UNBREAKABLE!!!"

Note: I haven't watched Invincible by the time I'm writing this, but I know the memes and some of the story. Reee... Yes. This book is a JoJo Reference with an Invincible Reference but I haven't watched Invincible yet. Also probably with a pinch of Megamind. Shoot me.

Miguel sighs watching the news about Stefan the Unbreakable.

Anne, meanwhile, is at the table planning the wedding.

"Miggy?" asked Anne.

"Yeah?" asked Miguel.

"Should the next set of flowers be Bougainvilleas or Jasmines?" asked Anne.

"Uh... Pass," said Miguel.

"Sweetie... What's wrong?" asked Anne. She sees the television program. "Oh... You think he's doing any trouble over there?"

Miguel gulped out of nervousness.

"Miggy? What's wrong?" asked Anne.

"He uh..." said Miguel, as he took a glass from the coffee table and took a sip.

"I researched that he killed a kid," said Miguel.

"What?!" asked Anne. "Stephen... Stephen wouldn't! He's a good guy."

"He is... It was a complete accident," said Miguel. "He blasted a heat vision to a terrorist in front of him. The Heat Vision was too powerful and he ended up blasting the child's face."

"H-How old was he?" asked Anne in fear.

"She," corrected Miguel. "7. He also... uh... blasted a boat filled with people by accident. They covered it up with headlines like, 'I couldn't save them' or 'Stefan's Failure.' All accidents according to my research."

"You want to... ask him yourself?" asked Anne.

"You stay here with the kids, Anne," said Miguel. "Tell the kids that I'll be off-world doing whatever. I'm talking to him."

Later...

Miguel, in the Prince Dimension, ends up in a warehouse.

Miguel, in his Reaper costume, sneaks around unseen.

"'Sup," smiled Anne in her Killer Kuta costume.

"GAH!!!" yelled Miguel. Miguel stomps his feet each sentence. "Will you STOP that!? And why are you here!? I didn't even iron your suit yet so that you wouldn't come!"

Anne shrugs. "I wanted to see what all this was about."

"HELLO, OLD FRIENDS!!! IT'S BEEN A WHOLE MONTH SINCE I'VE SPOKEN TO THE BOTH OF YOU!!! GREETINGS MY LOVED ONES!!!"

Stephen descends from the ceiling as the lights turn on. He lands softly before them.

"Hey, Mr. JoJo!" laughed Stephen.

"Whoa! Stephen! You sound and look handsome!" giggled Anne.

Stephen is now muscular instead of obese. He also now sounds like Skeletor or Papyrus, but with a deeper voice. He also has a handsomely chiseled face with a cleft chin. Unlike before, when he was 5-feet-tell, he is now 6-foot-9-inches.

"Hey..." facepalmed Miguel. "Stephen... You're coming with me."

"What? Why!?" laughed Stephen. "Am I under arrest?"

"Stephen, you killed 38 innocent people," said Miguel. "You're coming with me."

"It was manslaughter! I got pardoned! It's okay!" laughed Stephen. "Were you... spying on me? Don't you... trust me?! You always said that you believed in me! Even you, Anne! Why on Earth would you spy on me!"

Miguel ignored Stephen's words.

"Stephe... I'm the only one allowed to pardon! Aside from the royal-!"

"Yes... Indeed... Why did these two not believe in you?" asked Jobin, as he emerged from the darkness.

Jobin throws files on the ground.

"These are The Reaper's files of you... dating back to 2016... When his father taught him how to file his friends... who were Cryptids... Turns out... everyone except you knew what you really are, Stefan Rivers... A Fortisite... Found these just this morning..."

Stephen looks into these files and closes his eyes out of sadness and self-pity.

"Stephen... I renounce his pardon. You're coming with me..." said Miguel, sternly.

"Did you really know about this?" asked Stefan, with anger in his eyes.

"Stephen..." said Anne.

"DID YOU ALL REALLY KNOW ABOUT THIS!?" asked Stefan, roaring.

Miguel sighs. "No... Just me. I'm the only one who knows about this."

Anne, with a terrified look, stares at Miguel with concern.

Stefan's nostrils get larger as he slowly stands up.

"Stephen..." said Miguel. "Stephen, no..."

Miguel prepares his Stand Destabilizer, which is in his coat.

"I am Diddy Wah Diddy-..."

"PFFT!!!" laughed Miguel and Anne.

"We're sorry!" giggled Anne.

The two of them stop laughing, seeing that Stefan is unimpressed.

"...and for 20 years... you manipulated me into working for you, Miguel... Being your sidekick... Your assistant... for 20 Goddamned years... I became your servant while you kept telling me that I was special... That I was meant for something... And you knew? You knew this whole time that the only thing I wanted... which is to be loved... is something that I could've easily gotten-!"

"I couldn't tell you now... Why? Because unlike Lord... you're-..." said Miguel.

"I'm what!? An idiot!? A weirdo!? A klutz!?"

"I mean... You... Did all of this and that... Killed some people and stuff..." said Anne, laughing nervously.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU SLUT!!!" yelled Stefan, pointing his finger at her.

"Hey... Don't you fucking say that to her," said Miguel, pointing at him.

"Or WHAT!?" asked Stefan, looming before the two.

"Stephen..." said Miguel. "Calm down."

Miguel stops time and puts the Stand Destabilizer on his neck, but somehow, the device melts on Stefan's neck.

"Wh-?"

Time resumed.

"I AM NO LONGER STEPHEN!!! I... AM... STEFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!" howled Stefan as he blasted Heat Vision toward Miguel.

Star Platinum, of course, blocks the heat vision blast with great precision.

Stefan then tries to grab Miguel's face as Miguel escapes by stopping time.

"STICKY FINGERS!!!" yelled Anne, as Sticky Fingers blasted a punch at Stefan.

*ZIP*

*doom*

"Huh?" asked Anne.

Stefan doesn't get zipped.

"What?" asked Anne.

Anne repeatedly attacks Stefan as Stefan merely walked toward Miguel. "BUENA BUENA BUENA BUENA-!!!"

Star Platinum blasts his fists toward Stefan's body, yelling, "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!!"

Star Platinum's fists crack and Miguel's fists bleed.

Stefan immediately grabbed Miguel's neck without Miguel predicting Stefan's next move.

"Wh-?" asked Miguel.

"I only wanted a family... friends..." said Stefan. "Look what you turned me into... I live in a Goddamned society because of you..."

Miguel wears Star Platinum out of fear as Stefan smiles.

Stefan grabs Miguel by the neck as he slams him down to the concrete ground.

Miguel stands right back up and blasted fists at him. Stefan blasts him with heat vision.

"WAIT!!!" yelled Anne. "WE ALL KNEW!!! JUST STOP!!!"

Stefan looks at Anne with contempt.

"Stop... Hurting him... Please... We don't want to fight-..."

*bzzt*

*SPLAT*

"NO!!!" sobbed Miguel, as Anne's arm melts off.

"AAAAH!!!" yelled Anne, bleeding. She zips her arm stump close to stop the bleeding, but because of the pain, she falls to the ground and trembles, screaming.

Miguel grabs his face and eyes with his arm, completely stopping the heat vision.

Stefan then looks at Miguel as his heat vision got hotter and blasted Star Platinum's hand open.

"RAUGH!!!" yelled Miguel, as two holes appeared on his arm.

Stefan then flew outside and grabbed Miguel's head. He then slams Miguel's head into the windows of several buildings and throws him several thousand kilometers into space. Stefan then flies upward into space and beats Miguel over and over again. Stefan then slammed Miguel into an asteroid half the size of Earth and blows it up completely. Miguel is barely hurt by the explosion, but instead, Stefan's punches are the ones that broke his armor. Stefan blasted his fists as Rock Bottom finally emerged.

"May I reveal to you... JoJo... my Guardian Angel... Rock Bottom," sneered Stefan.

A large rock-skinned muscular humanoid with no pattern emerged from Stefan's body. Its body is entirely gray and its head resembled the Easter Island Heads.

Rock Bottom head butts Star Platinum, blasting Star Platinum into another asteroid the size of the moon. Stefan punches it as Miguel stopped time to dodge Stefan's punch and the asteroid explodes.

Miguel grabs two asteroids the sizes of pluto and slams them toward Stefan, sandwiching him in between.

Stefan blasts his fists as Miguel is shot down back to Earth. Miguel slams into the Pacific Ocean as Stefan grabs him from below and flew him into several cities. Stefan slammed him into the city of Tokyo, bashing his face into endless buildings until he flew them into the Himalayas, breaking a mountain in half.

Stefan blasts heat vision into Star Platinum's face as Miguel lets out a muffled and horrific scream.

Stefan then jabs his face over and over again as blood begins to gush out of Star Platinum's face.

Stefan kicks Miguel down into the ground, back in the Philippines, outside the warehouse they were in.

*bzzt*

Stefan begins melting Star Platinum's chest armor as Miguel howls in pain.

Stefan sighs and composes himself.

He kicks Miguel down.

Now, Star Platinum's body is all cracked and is bleeding constantly. Its face, which is a skull, is heavily bleeding and its eyes are cracked and scarred. Miguel trembles in great pain and anguish, but stayed silent.

"WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO THIS!? YOU MADE ME! THINK, MIGUEL, THINK!!!" Stefan puts his index fingers on his temple. "My whole life, you lied to me just like your father did! Because of that, you're going to watch everyone you loved to die in your very eyes! EVERYONE and EVERYTHING you know WILL BE GONE! WHAT WILL YOU HAVE AFTER FIVE MINUTES?!!"

"You," said Miguel. "No homo."

Stefan angrily stands up and stomps on Miguel's face over and over again non-stop.

"FUCK... YOU!!! FUCK YOU!!! FUCK YOU!!! FUCK YOU!!! I CAN... DO... ANYTHING... I... WANT!!!"

*BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG*

"ORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

A large powerful shockwave was felt by the whole world. The blast was powerful enough to create a mini-Earthquake.

Star Platinum went for the chest.

"K-K-K-... *GASP*..." sobbed Miguel. "*GASP*... K-K-Killed... you... no?"

"No," said Stefan. "You."

Stefan stomps on Miguel's legs and snaps his bones in half.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" howled Miguel, shaking. "OH MY GOD!!! *GASP*... GOD!!! *GAG* *SPIT* *SPUTTER* *GASP*"

"You tried to kill me? Don't you know who I am!?" asked Stefan. "I'M UNBREAKABLE!!!"

Stefan lets out a hammer fist and slams Miguel so hard that an even more powerful earthquake was felt around the world.

Stefan wasn't even sweating.

Rock Bottom prepares its fist.

"ROKA!!!"

*fsss*

Speed King, an orange robotic Stand with terrifying teeth on its face, hisses at Stefan.

Stefan angrily turns to him.

"You wanted to be a hero, right, Stefan?" asked Speed King. "I'll give you a chance to be one... Just give that idiot to me. We need him alive."

"Why?" asked Jobin. "Because we need him since Gio wants him alive."

"For what?" asked Stefan.

"Gio sensed that this is what fate should be..." said Jobin. "I mean... if you still want to be the hero..."

Stefan sneers.

"Sure, thing."

Stefan drags Miguel's near-lifeless body on the ground as a trail of blood leaves him.

"Cinnamon..."