A sack is removed from Miguel’s face, revealing a vulnerable and wheezing young man. Miguel gasps for his breath before being punched down.

  Alas, he had been injected with a red liquid from a syringe: Demon blood.

  Miguel is then strangled by Mars, who chokes Miguel.

  “Easy, Mars,” spoke the mysterious Prince Rasputin, sporting his physique as per usual, his jeans, bare feet, and his iconic cowl. “Good evening, bros. It is me, Prince Rasputin.”

  The other heroes have sacks removed from their heads: Aurora, Anna, Jed, and Chris.

  Chris, or Tophbee begins laughing, hard out loud. “Dude, are you… HAHAHAHA!!! Are you Cursed Mikey!?”

  “Holy, hell. Michael!? No way…” laughed Jed, aka Inchworm. “Hey, Cursed Mikey!”

  “Guys, I AM DEPOWERED!!! NO POWERS HERE!!! WE ALL ARE!!!”

  Chris stammers. “Oh. Uh… All hail communism! Yeah. Yeah, totally! All hail, China.. All hail-...”

  Jed sighs. “Fuck it. Fuck communism. Kill me.”

  Miguel sighs, bowing his head.

  Aurora just stares at them, angrily.

  Mars smiles. “I like the cut of this one’s jib.”

  “What’s wrong with dis one?” asked Michael.

  “Nothing. I-I-I just learned that the President killed my family and told everyone they… were a crime family. In reality, they failed to transact 3.997 trillion pesos because they were savants… And they worked against his corrupt practices…” she spoke, looking rather insane.

  “Huh… So YOU AREN’T working for Dingdong Narciso?” asked Michael.

  “No,” said Aurora. “If anything, I’d enjoy killing him.”

  Anna’s eyes widen, realizing who these people are. “Big mistake. DOJ.”

  “HAHAHAHAAHAHHA!!!” They all laughed at Anna.

  “Listen, dude!” smiled Marv, walking out of the shadows. “3D Chess NFTs? I could sell! But what you’re sellin’? I ain’t buyin’.” he mocked. “So, Anna Anastasia. Why the fuck are you here?”

  “Sorry, we didn’t introduce ourselves,” said Cursed Mikey. “I am Rasputin. Prince Rasputin. This one is Mars. Marv is known as… well… Cheapshot… We gained powers… just like you…”

  Mars blitzes with a trail of red lightning behind him at such speeds and offers them tea and cookies.

  “From who?” asked Beatle. “From God?”

  “HAHAHAHA!!! From the FGoat!” smiled Rasputin, lying on his throne. “I pray to him like he was my God. Yes? Bro, listen. I've been huge fanatic of America and Russia. Everybody knows that! But I think we all deserve little respect from all our hadwork, yes? The governments? They no give us anything. So we began this resistance against the Dictator you call Dingdong Narciso.”

  “He’s just a man in a suit,” said Beatle.

  “THAT MAN IN SUIT IS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE FUCKMOTHERING ARCIPELAGO!!! HE RULES WITH IRON FIST!!!” roared the man. “And he dislikes our kind! The Neurodivergent… He just despises us… Marginalizes us along with the poor because that is how the class system of the Philippines works! He grew to hate them because our kind exposed them, as Aurora here had mentioned.”

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  Aurora scoffed.

  “Excuse me… Did you scoff at me, yes?” Rasputin loomed over her.

  Aurora smirks and chuckles. “I don’t fear you. Little Filipino man who thinks he’s Russian and American. Actually just a fanatic extremist asswipe.”

  Rasputin puts his finger on her nose and begins freezing it. “I will tear out your nasal cavities by freezing them, bitch. UNCHAIN HER!!!”

  Aurora smiles and is unchained, standing before Rasputin.

  “What’s so scary about this one with that dumbass shit all over her face?”

  Her nose twitched, and she headbutted Rasputin, knocking him down.

  He flies up with his ice wings, buzzing in the wind, and tries freezing her, but she weaves away, then grabs and breaks his legs.

  Aurora smiles and gains a black aura around her.

  Miguel’s eyes widen. “You struck a contract WITH THE GOAT?”

  Aurora turns to Miguel, looking a bit guilt-ridden.

  Rasputin kicks at her from behind, but she grabs his leg and beats him down over and over, before stabbing him with her pen over and over, and the pen slowly turns… into a trident…

  She sneers, seeing the trident with all its glory, and points it at Rasputin’s face.

  Rasputin indeed regenerates, but his fear had scarred him so much…

  “RURU, DON’T!!! HE ISN’T OUR ENEMY!!! HE IS TRYING TO RECRUIT US!!!” yelled Miguel.

  Aurora scoffs. “Y’all want a real challenge?” she twitched insanely. She turns to Anna, smiling.

  “Well? WEEEEELL!?!? Wehehehehehell!!!” she shrieked like a demonic bird, then spoke singsongily, dancing around like a psycho. Then, she stood with so much awesome confidence, “Would you like to be playthings to this nowhere king or will you march to Malacanyang TODAY, AND DISPATCH THIS PRESIDENT AND TAKE HIS THRONE!?!? I TELL YOU, FOLLOW ME, AND NEVER AGAIN BE DECEIVED BY ANY FALSE PROPHETS AND NOWHERE KINGS!!! Presidents, Prime Ministers, SAINT KINGS!!!”

  “I’m sorry…” Miguel said.

  Aurora turns to him and just smirks.

  Miguel tears up, as Aurora laughs and cackles while blasting into the roof with her trident over and over, eradicating it as she fired shots nto the open sky, eradicating the clouds and creating a neon sky.

  Miguel then sees the steam on his breath, and peculiarly felt cold in the open space while the sun shone in Manila of all places.

  “What was the deal. Aurora?” asked Miguel.

  Aurora turns to him.

  The atmosphere began to feel… colder…

  “WHAT WAS THE DEAL, AURORA!!!?” boomed Miguel. “ANSWER ME!!!” The Voice entered his mouth and boomed.

  Aurora was unaffected and just smiled, showing her fangs.

  She teleports away.

  Anna closes her eyes, crying. “I’m sorry…”

  Miguel boomed. “NO!!! NOOOO!!! AURORA!!! NOOOOO!!!”

  Suddenly, from above, Aurora struck at him, severely injuring him as she flew away….

  …

  Aurora plays Hey Clown by Firewater while she decimated the people of Manila. She started attacking in BGC, with each blast killing men, women, children, the pregnant, the elderly, the poor, and the rich. Aurora smiles. “LET THE GREAT CLEANSING BEGIN!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” She held her trident like a heavy-duty barrelled machine gun and shot down at literally everyone, killing thousands in a split… second…

  Meanwhile, Miguel gets a call from his mother and Tita Mommyta. He cries softly and takes it.

  “Oh my baby!” sobbed the two women.

  “Are you okay?” asked his mother.

  His brother cries and yells. “KUYA!!! KUYAAAAA!!!” he roared.

  Upon hearing their cries, he begins to tear up. Miguel prays silently, and suddenly, his family is next to him. His aunt is bewildered, and so was his mother, but they were just happy that their son was before them. His younger brother hugged him, crying, “KUYA!!! KUYA!!!”

  He kept his head close to his brother’s chest.

  Anna is shocked by the miracle, even moreso by the way his family treated him.

  The kind aunt began untying all of them. “There…“

  His Mom cries. “Is our baby going to be okay?”

  “He’s okay,” said his aunt.

  His younger brother just kept hugging him.

  “Yes… I… I believe he will be okay. Because HE CAN do this.. He always could…” said Anna, as Miguel began to regenerate.

  Miguel gasps and tears up. “I got Aurora… I made her into a murderer…” he teared up.

  “No… Shhh… That’s not true…” said his mother. “That will never be true!”

  His aunt sighs, seeing Anna. “You broke his heart back in college, right? After everything he did for you. Bake you cakes, gave you gifts and pieces of affection… Why are you here?”

  “At first I was greedy… Then… I was afraid… Then I fell for him,...” she teared up.

  “Be kinder this time, okay?” asked his mother. “I know he smells bad, but he’s just so perfect!” she smiled, hugging her son.