Chapter 3: The Club Meeting

  The group meets once more in the Tomb, where they end up in Miguel’s old mansion. It was beautiful, pristine, and felt like a hotel turned into a house. It was sparkling everywhere and absolutely aesthetically superior to any of the houses nearby. There was a giant kitchen, a gym, a child’s play area, a music room, a massive sports room, a living room the size of a house, and several bedrooms.

  “Holy fuck, dude!” yelled Myrmex. “You HAVE BEEN LIVING HERE THE ENTIRE TIME!?!?” she smiled, gleefully. “I mean… not a gold digger, but DAMN did I strike a diamond mine!”

  “I’m cut off.”

  “Dang. Eh! I still love you,” she smiled, kissing his forehead while carrying their strange cat.

  “What the hell is the goat in your arms?” asked Dark.

  “This is Antlion,” Myrmex said, pulling her away.

  “What… is it?”

  “She’s a Sigbin. She’s a tiny little Filipino-…”

  “Vampire Cat…” said Dark.

  “Familiar to you?” smiled Myrmex.

  “I’m an Aswang. Been studying monsters my entire life.”

  “Cool,” she smiled.

  “Hey…” said the Aswang. “Sorry for breaking your collarbone.”

  Dark laughs. “Sorry for stabbing you to near death in that gala.“

  The Aswang laughs back as well, giving a hearty one.

  Beatle sighs, looking around.

  “You live in a place like this as well?” asked Askal.

  “No… I live on a farm in the Third Temple in the boundary between La Trinidad and Baguio City,” said Beatle. ”Used to be kinda like a smaller mansion…” He gave a soft sigh. “Boy, would my Dad have done things to get this… Lawyer. He wasn’t dirty, just greedy and abusive of his power at times.”

  “I hear that…” said Askal. “My Dad was a Congressman who owned a powerful company. Pinoy Supremacist. Then my brother and I killed him.”

  “Damn. Patricide,” smiled Happy. “I can…” he frowns. “Relate to that…” He muffled his words.

  “So…” said Jedan, poking stuff around only to shatter a vase. “We’ll pay for that.”

  “No, you won’t,” the Reaper rolled his eyes.

  “Whoa! You got a gym in here!?” smiled Lord Marvel in another room, as the Reaper chased after him. ”DON’T TOUCH THAT!!!”

  Hercules smiles. “You guys sure there won’t be Wrecker Golems in here?”

  “The ones at the lawn are reprogrammed,” said the Reaper.

  Hercules peeks outside. “The ones at the-!? HOLY FUCK!!!“ He hid down from the window upon looking up, where just below them a couple of Wrecker Golems watched steadily at the front gate.

  “Relax. The Reaputer is strong enough to bypass any virus in this vicinity.”

  Myrmex speaks up. “You’re saying that the Golems are-?”

  “A digital virus. They were made by Neuro the Neurotic years back at the time when the original Miguel Azral of Earth-152 fought Unbreakable. The virus is a manifestation of a being once known as… Eradicator.”

  Yes. THAT Eradicator… The BAD GUY from the Golden Age epilogue.

  “Mhm… Absolute genocidal psychopath, this thing is. It was mapped from his mind and Soul, and eventually his spirit attached to the virus, being the living embodiment of genocide itself.” The Reaper enters the Tomb with the others, and there, they see the computer, where the Reaper flashes images of various societies burning and crumbling with Eradicator traversing from one universe to another, decimating and brutalizing so many innocent societies with a single blast, and with the help of his lieutenant, Unbreakable.

  “They say that telepathy can actually defeat Unbreakable. Any of you idiots know the Usog technique for lightning?”

  “Why lightning?” asked Dark. “How can you read minds by SHOCKING people, huh?”

  “The mind is just made of various electrical pulses called neurons. With the correct concentration, you can jolt the mind’s brainwaves in a manner that you can read or even control it,” smiled Myrmex.

  “Clever girl. I approve. Marry him, he’s your problema now,” said the Reaper, as Myrmex blushed and laughed as the Aswang stomped his foot.

  “Dad!” yelled the Aswang, blushing.

  “So, what do we do?” asked Dark.

  “We brainstorm ways on how to get inside Unbreakable’s current military base on this world, which is his Wrecker Ship hovering above Manila.”

  “And how do you suggest we do that?” asked Askal, picking some thread from her suit.

  “We… could… use our status to enter the ship,” said the Reaper.

  “That’s stupid,” said Askal.

  “The public views us as corrupt, and the very people who drill our way into Unbreakable’s life. Unbreakable doesn’t even know my secret identity and thinks you’re still on his side, is that correct?”

  “We fought for a few civilians,” said Askal.

  “Yeah. But Unbreakable doesn’t know your game, does he? All he knows is that you’re keeping damage to a complete minimum and lessening war crimes. He doesn’t even know about Herc,” said the Reaper.

  ‘’Right…” said Dark. “That actually makes a lot of sense.”

  “So, we infiltrate the ship with our own secret identities. What do y’all think? I’ll make fake IDs,” said the Reaper.

  “Good enough for me,” said Beatle.

  Chapter 4: The Party Crashing

  The team reaches the ship, which docks for Kojoji and his “associates”.

  “Ah. Mister Kojoji!” sneered Unbreakable. “What a pleasant surprise!”

  “Hello, Mister Unbreakable!” smiled Miguel Kojoji.

  “I believe that you’re joining us today?” asked Unbreakable.

  “I wanted to stay neutral, y’know? But I am leaning MORE TOWARD your ideology.“

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  Unbreakable laughs. “Welcome, brother. These are your merry band of variants?”

  “Yes,” said Kojoji.

  Unbreakable eyes his variant son, Miguel Azral. “Huh… This another son of yours? Your last son, I had a little… conundrum with…”

  “Welp! Yeah! His name is Miguel Baguio,” smirked Miguel Kojoji.

  “Great. Another one,” Unbreakable rolled his eyes. “And his girlfriend? Another Anna Anastasia, I presume?”

  “Yes,” she smiled and bowed. “I am!”

  “Nicer than the last bitch I presume…” said Stefan, as Myrmex gave a disgusted look toward him when he turned around to enter. “Come. My guests! Come, come!”

  “Okay, as a stakeholder, I would like you to have a meeting with me. Your… associates can just stay at the lounge. Got it?” asked Unbreakable, as the doors shut.

  Kojoji turns to his family and smirks, nodding before the doors shut.

  The Aswang, Myrmex, Dark, and Askal nod to each other.

  Meanwhile, Beatle creates illusions that the four are still there, using his magic. He, Hercules, Happy, Slime Tutorial, and Lord Marvel must stay silently in the lounge.

  Meanwhile, the Aswang, Myrmx, Dark, and Askal finally reach the ventilation, with the Aswang teleporting them inside.

  They spy from above and see Doctor Unggoy commandeering his soldiers. “I may be a foreigner, but I much agree with Unbreakable’s tactics… I agree that the true Filipino people, such as mysel,f deserve a place in this new Heaven of his…”

  “Jesus Christ…” said Dark. “I may be half Caucasian, but this white dude literally thinks he’s one of us?”

  “Mhm,” said the Aswang. “Actually, I’m not even Filipino Human. I’m Half Aswang and Half Pantheon myself.”

  “Right on, dude. Hey, check this out. Unggoy’s gonna say, ‘You have 2 days, Sullivan!’”

  “2 DAYS, SULLIVAN!!! OR YOUR FAMILY’S DEAD!!!” boomed Unggoy, as the two guys snickered.

  Myrmex rolls her eyes and looks for the control room. “There…” Myrmex dropped down and began to type into the supercomputer. “Cover me.”

  The Asswang, Dark, and Askal nod to her and guard the door.

  Myrmex smiles, taking out another chicken nugget.

  Miguel notices this before shaking his head and looking away.

  Myrmex managed to hack into the interface and bypass every password… But then... “What the hell? I can’t… move the cursor…”

  The lights go out, and the four of them hear extremely heavy breathing from a distance.

  “E-E-E-ER-A-A-A-A-ADI-DI-DI-CATE…” whispered a voice, as a zombie-like figure with a robotic skeleton, one with rotting flesh torn down into what looks like half-eaten chicken and red glowing eyes, began to emerge from the darkness. “E-E-E-E-RA-AA-A-A-A-DICA-CA-CATE…”

  The trio put their fists up, with Dark even taking out his katana and Askal her kris blade.

  Eradicator began to limp toward them. He holds out his hand and prepares a Juggernaut Blast from his Usog, the Juggernaut Eyes, forcing the Aswang to try and block it with a shield of flames.

  Though the blast continued and blasts his chest, which he regenerates from.

  It tries to shoot Myrmex, but Dark swats the blast away with his katana.

  Dark tries to cut Eradicator, who just blocks the katana with his metallic bone where the katana clangs and gets stuck in the metal bone. Dark tries to pull out the katana but Eradicator shoots him in the foot.

  Dark regenerates, but Eradicator swiftly knocks him so hard that his chest bursts open.

  Askal, out of fear, dropkicks Eradicator and tosses a doggie bomb into his face, which he shrugs off.

  The android shoots at Myrmex, but the Aswang swats it away with his flame Usog, managing to counter the beams.

  Eradicator grabs him by the throat and tears it out as the Aswang is forced to transform and beat him. The trio of antiheroes tackle it to slow it down but it keeps on approaching Myrmex.

  Eradicator whispers and moans. “E-E-E-E-E-E...” he screeches. “KRRYEEEEEEA!!!”

  The Aswang screams as he teleports all four of them away from Myrmex and out of the control room.

  Now, they’re in the hallway, and the trio keep on exchanging quick strikes but the creature just remains unfazed.

  The creature grabs the Aswang and crashes him into the walls, where blood scrapes off from his face. He screams in horror and anguish before being dropped to the ground. Miguel blasts flames at him as the Eradicator blasts at him with his Juggernaut Blasts, causing blood to splatter out of his body.

  Dark strikes at him over and over, and the Eradicator snaps his neck. He, obviously, regenerates, but keeps on beating the creature up.

  Askal keeps on punching the creature, which just grabs her and slams her against the walls. It wheezes. “E-E-E-RA-RA-RA-RADI-...”

  Suddenly, Beatle appears and tackles the creature.

  “BEATLE!?!? THE ILLUSIONS!!!” yelled the Aswang.

  “Slime Tutorial, Lord Marvel, Hercules, and Happy are handling it! JUST GO!!!” boomed Beatle.

  The guards appear, and each of the four tears the guards to pieces.

  Slime Tutorial stretches and catches the bullets by creating a slimy, rubbery shield. Hercules tackles and melts their heads with heat vision. Lord Marvel smiles and walks around, crushing their skulls. Happy just manifests drones, each grossly emerging from his skin and shooting the soldiers with its Hornet Stings.

  Happy smiles and blasts at each of the guards, popping their skulls with ease. “HONEY, I’M HOOOME!!!” he yelled singsongily.

  Beatle, meanwhile, exchanges fists with Eradicator.

  Eradicator speaks in shivers. “E-E-E-ERA-RA-RA-RADI-DI-DICATE!!!”

  “Yeah. And to you as well!” smiled Beatle, before hammering his fist into the creature, and the pair knock each other around while the trio ran away, only for the pair to teleport and crash right before them, causing the trio to turn to the left hall.

  “FUCK!!!” boomed Myrmex, only for a guard to appear and point a gun at her.

  She nearly gets shot as the guard fires, so she leaps up and somersaults to knock him out. More guards came, as she grabbed the drive and auto-infiltrated the system.

  The guards back away. “What have you done?” asked one of them.

  “FIRE!!!” yelled their leader, as Myrmex dodged all the bullets with absolute ease, knocking their teeth out of their jaws.

  After the data extraction, Myrmex grabs the drive and pockets it before running away and knocking out several more of the guards.

  The Reaper bounces his leg as Stefan gets a call.

  “Sir… We have a problem…” said the man on the radio, as Unbreakable’s eyes glanced at the Reaper’s with a terrifying look of furrowed eyebrows.

  The Reaper smiles. “Problem?”

  Unbreakable blasts him with heat vision, but the Reaper summons his bone armor and manages to easily block it away. The Reaper charges and knocks him down, causing Unbreakable to actually bruise.

  “IMPOSSIBLE!!!” growled Stefan. “I AM STEFAN!!! I AM UNBREAKABLE!!!”

  “Meet me… The Goddamned Unstoppable Reaper…” the Reaper growls and takes out his bone claws and tries cutting Unbreakable.

  Meanwhile, Beatle repeatedly blasts Eradicator’s face with his heat vision and booms the void, screaming before hammering his fists into his face.

  Eradicator roars. “WHEREIN THE NEUROTYPICALS CONSTANTLY OUTCAST US BUT THERE WAS A TIME THE NEURODIVERGENTS WERE ONCE ABOVE NEUROTYPICALS… A TIME WHEN WE WERE SUPERHEROES. WE WERE ONCE ABOVE THEM ALL AND THEY CRUSHED US… CONSTANTLY HUMILIATING US… LET US MAKE A WORLD… A BETTER PLACE. Destroy this world and make a world where we’re all equal… Don’t you realize that? You of all people should agree with me…”

  “You’re… gonna wipe this whole world away…” said Beatle.

  “Bingo…”

  “I WON’T LET THAT HAPPEN!!!”

  “Oh, Saint King. Everything I’ve done was for your original universe self… You are nothing but a failed and corrupt version of him…” said the Eradicator, buzzing each syllable and sounding like a coughing radio. “THE REAL SAINT KING SHALL BE UNBREAKABLE!!! He once believed if he controlled him… he would live… We’ll destroy EVERYTHING!!!”

  “How?” asked Beatle.

  “That is for you to find out…” Eradicator stabs Beatle’s face with his Juggernaut blade and tears his body in half, spine wriggling like a snake, as he crawls into the vents. Beatle regenerates and blasts heat vision into the vents, but Eradicator is already gone.

  Beatle’s eyes widen. “WHERE’S MYRMEX!?!?”

  The Eradicator then lands and faces Myrmex, crawling forward as Myrmex punches it in the face, but Myrmex’s knuckles bleed.

  Myrmex yells, “SHIT!!!” as she turns and runs away, with the creature crawling around to chase after her, screeching.

  The creature hisses as the Aswang lands before it and beats it.

  The Aswang ticks its wings, and the Sigbin attacks and spits black blood into its face, blinding Eradicator as he scampers around. The Aswang grabs his daughter, kitten Antlion, and Myrmex, teleporting away.

  The Eradicator hisses and returns into the vents.

  Meanwhile, the Reaper beats Unbreakable over and over, but Unbreakable is obviously stronger. His bones, however, were heavy and dense enough to break him.

  “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOUR BONES MADE OF!?!?”

  “I’m beginning to think the heat made it harder than nuclear pasta somehow… also maybe my god genes…” The Reaper smirks, holding his fists up.

  Unbreakable roars and tackles him, crashing him into the wall.

  Unbreakable grabs him by the neck and strangles him, where finally, Eradicator appears and blasts him with his god blaster, shockingly bouncing back into Eradicator’s face, making him fall to his knees.

  The Aswang then appears and teleports himself and the Reaper away.

  “WHERE… ARE THEY!?!?” asked Unbreakable, while he cradled the Eradicator’s damaged body in his arms..

  “They’re gone, sir…”

  “BLOW UP THE KOJOJI’S HOUSEHOLD!!!” boomed Unbreakable. “AND KILL THEM ALL!!!”

  Meanwhile… in the mansion… the team manages to board all the windows as Miguel sighs, removing a sack over the head of the one they kidnapped: Doctor Unggoy, whose tail is chained up.