116. Single Lady ~Mistake~

Princess Bubblegum, Sandy Cheeks, Marceline Abadeer, and Erina Zeppeli had brought back the seven's dying bodies, all wrapped in bandages, to the hospital.

Miguel stares at them, grabbing his mouth, holding back his tears.

Anne comforts Miguel, hugging him and kissing him.

"I'm sorry," said Princess Bubblegum, who is with Marceline.

Miguel briskly walked toward Princess Bubblegum.

"Miguel! No!" yelled Anne.

*pow*

Miguel punches her in the face.

"RAUGH!!!"

Marceline grabs his arm.

"HEY!!!" yelled Marceline.

Miguel woges and roars at her. He kicks her away and flies backward. Marceline transforms into a humanoid bat and slashes her claws at him, but he uses Star Platinum to knock her down.

Miguel then uses Star Platinum to grab Bubblegum in the neck.

"Look what you did! Look what you fucking did!" he growled at her.

He sees her eyes full of guilt rather than fear, not being able to look at the boys herself.

"I just did a mistake," she whispered.

His eyes quiver as he throws her away.

Miguel angrily walks outside.

Anne follows after him.

"I asked for help," said Miguel.

"What?" asked Anne.

"I-I-I-I I did it... I asked for help like you said," said Miguel, angrily pacing left and right. "I asked for help... and now look where we are..."

"Are you blaming me-?"

"I am not blaming you, Anne... I'm just so tired of doing this, Anne. If someone dies because of Monster Emperor, that's on Bubblegum. If those boys die because of Monster Emperor, that's on me!" He grabs his head, feeling nauseated.

"Miguel. It's not your fault," said Anne.

"I'm just sick of it... I'm fucking sick of it, Anne... First, my dad... Then Jessica... Now it could be the boys, Anne... I'm so sick of people dying on me..." he began to tear up. "They die trying to help me. Why am I so GODDAMNED important!?" He clenched his jaw, angrily scratching the back of his head. "I just thought after all these years, they were ready... No, no, no, no, no... I fucked up, Anne... I almost got them killed, Anne! I almost got my own family killed!"

"Miguel," her eyes went teary. "It's alright."

"It is not alright," said Miguel. Miguel thought of something. "She planned all of this."

"What?" asked Anne.

"She planned ALL OF THIS!!!"

"Bubblegum?"

"Cassandra," said Miguel.

Miguel begins to fly upward.

"Miguel? Where are you going?" asked Anne. "Miguel!?"

"Somewhere," said Miguel.

Anne sighs and does something with a Zipper Kusai.

*zip*

"A good luck charm," she nodded.

Miguel nods back.

Miguel lands in an abandoned mansion.

"CASSANDRA!!!" he yelled. "WHERE ARE YOU!?"

*step step step step step*

"Hello, JoJo," she sneered.

"I'm going to kill you," he said.

"You can only disable your Stand if you're an inch close to me," she smiled. "Your Range lowered so much, hadn't it?"

"I don't care," his eyes went wilder. "I'm letting out the other guy... RIGHT HERE... RIGHT NOW!!!"

"Oh? Are you so sure about that?" she smiled. "Lately, it's all gone quiet in there... As if your personalities had cleaved together... Molded together... Into one person... Having all of each other's memories..."

"You're absolute scum, you bitch," he growled. "You've hurt my family... You planned it, didn't you? You knew that they'd get beaten... That they'd be defeated so easily... You knew that they'd attack knowing that you hurt me."

"Oh, contra ire," said Cassandra. "Look at you, trying to look for answers. You do realize that them almost getting killed was all you. You've done this, JoJo! You murdered your own family!"

Miguel looks down with eyes quivering. "No... You're the one who truly created Dragon Fly... And I'll break you for causing harm to my family... No... I'll murder you."

"I'd like to see you try to even try," she sneered, as she woges and screeches like a banshee.

He woges and hisses softly. His eyes and fur turn silver.

She uses her psionics to grab him with her brainwaves and slam him on the ceiling and the ground over and over.

Star Platinum encases him with itself as he flies toward her. His arm, however...

She immediately teleports six meters away.

"Too far, President Reaper!" she cackled, as Single Lady blasts a punch into his face. "O!!!"

Angered, Miguel blasts another punch toward her, but she dodges once more.

"Too slow! Too slow!" she cackled again.

Miguel stops time and blasts a punch toward her chest, but his punch faces through her. He tries to bring out Gold Experience II to disable her Stand. But for some reason, it isn't working.

"You're not the only one who can manipulate the Hamon that puppeteers those from the dead!" she growled.

She brings out her claws and slashes them at Star Platinum.

Star Platinum's claws emerge from his fingers and claw at her as well.

The two try to maul each other but she successfully strangles him from the inside of his suit. She whispers Latin phrases as scratches begin appearing on Miguel's neck.

"I heard you just learned to use Anting-Antings five years ago," she said. "Not enough years to master sorcery, Miguel JoJo!"

He whispers a prayer and is let go from her grasp.

"What!?" she screeched.

Miguel does a crescent kick in her face, as her Stand, Single Lady, pushes her away. Single Lady then blasts so many punches on the same spot on Star Platinum's chest that it began to chip his armor away. This also causes his skin to slowly crack and bleed.

"What's wrong, JoJo?" she sneered. "You're feeling pain?"

She does so again on different spots in his chest. Holes begin to appear on his chest as he bleeds out. Blood begins to drip out of his mouth. He roars and headbutts her, fracturing her skull.

She does so again, surprisingly being able to penetrate Star Platinum even with such low Power Stat (Power: D). She stabs his abdomen.

*SPLAT*

Miguel backs away as she pushes him away with sorcery.

Miguel slams into the next room as she charges.

She uses her Stand to stab the spots with holes as each of his wounds gets deeper.

Miguel grabs his wounds and slowly backs away.

Soft and Wet's bubbles try to sneak behind her, but her Stand immediately punches them, popping all of them.

"How pathetic," she sneered. "You could just die with such a foolish death... Attacking out of emotion. Just like how you always did... I remember that face..." she said, as Star Platinum's head retracts. "That was the face of fear when I shot your mother in the head... while I paralyzed you with my sorcery..."

Miguel's eyes widened. "Tarantado..." he growled.

His fangs showed and he charged toward her, woging into an Aswang.

She smiles and phases through him as she stabs him in the back with another needle-like attack.

Star Platinum begins to retract because of the pain. His silver hair and eyes slowly flicker as his hair and eyes go back to a normal color.

"Why are you doing this?" he sobbed.

"I'm doing this because I hate your father... Using me only for his amusement. But why am I really doing this? Because I simply can, Miguel JoJo... Because I can kill you... Because I can bring Made in Heaven here with all its glory!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"You're... *cough cough...* Stefan's mother... aren't you?"

Her eyes widen.

"Or at least... You're his adoptive mother. Stefan is the one who enacts Made in Heaven, isn't he?"

She is completely speechless on how Miguel figured this out.

"I was wondering who raised Stefan... Uncle Goyo looked out for him at school... Yes... But he didn't raise him... All I knew was that his mother raised him and left him at 21. That lines up around the same time when Josuke's family was killed by The Reverse-Flash."

Her eyes quivered in fear.

"You completely underestimated me... I just went here for three reasons... One is to avenge my family... Another is to figure Made in Heaven out... And lastly, is to receive closure," said Miguel.

*ZIP*

She screams as her eyes were zipped closed.

"Did you notice that my arm doesn't look like Star Platinum's arm? Your Stand depends completely on precision. How can you be precise without some of your important senses?"

Her ears zipped off as well and he zipped her mouth shut. She knelt in fear. Muffled begging could be heard.

"Look at you... You can still hear what I'm saying since I only zipped off your ears. But I must tell you," he said. "Do you even know how it feels like to lose a mother?"

She shakes her head in fear.

"No... Of course, you don't... Of course, you don't," he snickered. "While my father was out there being a complete man-child, my mother was always there for me..." He swallowed. "I was always out there getting beat up by normies and my mother would always cheer for me even while tending my wounds. She was the only one who truly understood me... But you and I could agree on one thing, right? A mother's love. I know she was a bad guy!"

He slammed his fist into her face and torso and zipped her body once more as her wounds bleed tremendously. "You hate that, don't you? Hate that the son of your lover with another woman is the one who kills you... The one who ends this whole charade... The one who you're fearing for your own life right now. This is all that I've ever wanted. You begging for your life, thinking that you can still control this situation. Guess what, Cassandra? You can't. You have nothing to do to escape this. You're trapped like a bug under a toothbrush cover. You're trapped."

"ORA!!!"

*SPLAT*

Star Platinum punched a hole into her.

"I will kill you like this because you have my respect. But you're still scum... So I have to kill you."

Her voice trembled.

"See you again in hell," he said, as she dropped on the ground, bleeding and dead.

"Thank you," whispered a female blue-colored bird humanoid Stand who watched the fight. It retracts and disappears.

*SHING*

*SPLAT*

Miguel...

...is stabbed in the heart...

Miguel slowly turns around.

"J-Jessica?" he said in a shaky voice.

*SPLAT*

He gasped for breath. He had been stabbed from behind.

"Wh-Why?" asked Miguel.

"Sorry, dork," said Jessica, as she pulled out her sword.

*SHING*

His face...

...is split in half...

*thud*

He drops to the ground...