375. All Eyes On the Issues ~Teary Eyes, That Is~

"Hey..." said Miguel. "About earlier..."

"Don't talk to me..." said Gabrielle, as she stands up. "Not right now... I don't know why you stopped me, but I trust you... Because you know how this plays out. Just... don't talk to me, right now."

Jotaro coughs into his hand, revealing blood. He pulls out some of his hair. "Christ..." he said. "I don't have much time, do I, Annalisa?" He stayed outside of the cave near a lake to see his reflection in the moonlight and sees that he looks sickly.

"Goddamnit..." whispered Gabrielle, who is now awake. "Narcos is still using my work computer."

I blame Twitter for existing.

Why... Why are you mentioning that now?

I have issues, okay!?

"Hey... there's something on your shirt!" smiled Yurielle.

Miguel checks his shirt.

"OH!!! BOOM!!! ROASTED!!!" laughed Yurielle. "I can't see anything! How would I know!?"

Jotaro walks past them from outside.

"Hey! Mr. Jotaro! There's something on your shirt!" smiled Yurielle.

"No, I don't," said Jotaro.

"D-... Dang..." said Yurielle.

"Oh. Boom. Roasted," said Miguel.

The group plans how they're going to find the Jump Force.

"Okay..." said Gabrielle, placing a paper on the table. "How are we going to do this?"

*beep beep...*

"Seriously!?" asked Gabrielle, turning to Miguel.

"I'm sorry! I'll be back!" smiled Miguel.

He opens a portal and leaves from there.

"Okay... So, we use the Sanchez Particles to-...?" asked Gabrielle.

"To find the Jump Force and bring them back," said Jotaro. "This is not going to be easy... Counting that they could be anywhere..." Jotaro brings out the Sanchez Particle Tracker device. "But we just have to walk around and follow where the dial points."

The device's dial points north.

"Should we wait for Miguel?" asked Jotaro.

"Alright..." said Gabrielle.

Gabrielle enters the CoolDudeBus. "But for now, let's just train our bodies..."

Gabrielle and the others enter a Gravity Device Chamber in a pocket dimension through a secret door in the CoolDudeBus.

They bring out their Stands and make them fight each other in the room.

Meanwhile...

"Hey, Papa!" smiled Gabby (Earth-777) as she runs to Miguel and hugs him. Gabby is now currently 19 years old.

Anne walks up to Miguel with a saddened and guilt-ridden face.

"Oh... Hey!" smiled Miguel. "What's up...? Are you okay...?"

"I'm sorry..." said Anne.

Meanwhile...

"Geez..." said Gabrielle, sweating. "Is it weird that every week he leaves and stays in his mancave for at least 2-3 days..."

"Maybe he stays with his family for a while?" asked Irene. 

"Probably..." said Gabrielle.

Josuke senses something. "Something's wrong..."

A portal opens and Miguel falls face first.

"Miguel! Wait!" sobbed Anne.

Miguel closes the portal while he depressedly stayed on the ground. 

"Whoa! You okay?" asked Gabrielle.

"You're not my daughter!" laughed Miguel. "None of you are my family...?" He said drunkenly. "Okay...!?"

"How are you drunk...?" asked Josuke.

"Miguel, you're not thinking straight... Lemme help you up -..." said Gabrielle.

"I'll tell you why I didn't let you kill him."

"I'd rather you don't."

"Because in this timeline, he's destined to be a good person, Gabrielle." He said drunkenly. "He's destined to save your ass."

"Okay... It's okay..." said Gabrielle. "I don't care. I trust you."

"Don't give me that... 'Trust...' A faulty propaganda of the man's eye. I don't trust you. I will never... ever... trust you."

"You're just saying that because-..."

"You will never be my daughter... I'm not your father... Your father's dead... he will always be dead-..."

Gabrielle's backhand slaps Miguel in the face while she had tears in her eyes.

Her lips are trembling.

"Miguel... You have to calm down..." said Jotaro.

"Do you know who brought back every fucking villain that caused your wife's death?"

Shizuka's eyes quiver. So does Irene's.

"Mr. Ibarra... That's enough," said Josuke. "You wouldn't want to cause a scene."

"Quiet, bat-boy!" yelled Miguel. "Guess what? I know who it is... And you idiots will never know."

"Easy, Ibarra..." said Jotaro.

"And guess what? I did it on purpose... Because I lowkey knew that it was gonna happen... I let it happen so that you, pieces of shit, won't do anything stupid like let this universe die..."

Jotaro grabs Miguel and punches him to the ground.

Miguel kept on laughing.

Jotaro punches Miguel in the face over and over again.

"Papa! Stop!" yelled Irene. "He only did what he had to!"

"And let your mother die...!?" asked Jotaro.

"He was doing it for the sake of the Universe..." said Irene.

Shizuka kicks Miguel in the face over and over again, crying.

"And who are you...? A blind girl and an ugly Frog Prince who both will never truly belong..."

Josuke and Yurielle are hurt by this.

"Because... that's all I have... r-right?"

Jotaro's eyes widen.

"We're JoJos... That's all we are... People who would just... experience terrible things... and we have to fix it... It's all on us... it's ALWAYS on us...!"

Miguel is laughing. "The pain... The burden... Of always being in the wrong... Of always being wrapped around evil's fists... We're always the ones who suffer in these stories that aren't even real...? Who am I kidding...? We're hopeless... We're so fucking hopeless...Look at you... Jotaro... You're gonna die and you still haven't achieved having your daughter love you... Even though you love her so much... It's honestly pathetic..."

Jotaro punches him in the face. "YAKAMASHI!!! YOU'RE DAMN ANNOYING!!!"

Jotaro keeps on beating Miguel.

He then strangles Miguel.

Jotaro sees that Miguel...

...is crying...

"I don't know who to blame... Here I go again! Heh... Blaming others... when I'm hurt... You know what would be nice...?If you kill me... right now... right here..."

Jotaro stares at Miguel with a painful look.

"You're gonna die anyway, right? You're a machine like I am... You're going to enjoy killing me. Kill me... KILL ME!!!"

Jotaro gently lets go of his neck.

"What happened...?" asked Jotaro.

"What...?" sobbed Miguel.

"What happened to you...?" asked Jotaro.

"Shut the fuck up and walk away..."

"What happened to you...?"

"Shut the fuck up and walk away..."

"I SAID WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU... TEME!!!" Jotaro grabs him by the collar.

Miguel stays silent.

Jotaro lets go of his collar and he drops his head on the stone ground. "I'm in a bad mood. Leave me alone." Jotaro walks out of the cave.

Miguel stands up and leaves as well.

Shizuka follows after one of them...

Later...

Shizuka approaches...

Miguel. He's sitting by the lake, alone.

"What happened?" asked Shizuka.

"Nothing," said Miguel. "Everything's a concept and I used to think it still mattered. Turns out, everything is meaningless."

"What-...?"

"Everything is meaningless, okay? Everything is...fuck..."

Shizuka sits next to Miguel. "It's a beautiful night for an apocalyptic world."

The owls are hooting. Fireflies are about. And galaxies are visible in the sky.

Miguel stays silent.

Shizuka sighs out of boredom.

"No fossil fuels on this Earth anymore. Everyone's having a peach." Miguel replied, after a short while.

"Could you tell me what happened?"

Miguel stays deadpan silent.

"Okay..." said Shizuka, as she is about to stand up.

"I went home... to meet my 'family...'"

Earlier...

"Hello?" asked Anne. Anne covers her mouth.

"Anne got a call from Rick... When I came home... she was about to cry."

"Hey, Papa!" smiled Gabby (Earth-777) as she runs to Miguel and hugs him. Gabby is now currently 19 years old.

Anne walks up to Miguel with a saddened and guilt-ridden face.

"Oh... Hey!" smiled Miguel. "What's up...? Are you okay...?"

"I'm sorry..." said Anne.

Now...

"And...?" asked Shizuka.

"The Gabrielle that we met on my Universe... isn't... technically my daughter."

"But... she's Gabrielle's, right?"

"Anne's an idiot, alright? She doesn't know how genetics work. She thought it was a coincidence and got away with it. No.Anne didn't even know who she slept with because he was wearing fucking armor the entire time.Rick told Anne that the Sanchez Particles on my daughter don't match with mine. Her father is a variant of mine. Not me...Her Sanchez Particles match with MABUS.He is the father.But for a good half of her life... I raised her in the Hyperbolic Time Room. I feel... so cheated. I feel so Goddamned cheated... I thought that... she was gonna keep me going, y'know? And then you find out that you're probably infertile or some shit and you can't have a kid.I may be the Messiah... but shit... I'm fucking unlucky.I feel conflicted... I want to continue loving Anne... And I know she loves me after everything we've been through... But... This is... gross... I feel used..."

"But... you still love her... right? Gabby?"

"I do... I do..." Miguel's voice broke. "Then again... She's a reminder of the fact that I was betrayed... again..."

Gabrielle hugs him from out of nowhere.

"Get off of me..." said Miguel.

"No..." said Gabrielle. "Because fuck it... You're still our father... You're the closest thing I have to a father right now. And you're my father... And you're hers, too..."

"I have no family."

"We are... Shut up... We are..."

"I have no family..."

"We are... We're Joestars... We're Ibarras... We're JoJos..."

"I just... need some time..."

"We'll stay with you..."

Yurielle and Josuke join in and sit next to him, hugging him.

Miguel cries, softly whimpering in so much pain and self-hatred. He thought things like, "Was I not good enough?" or "Was I not going to be a good father?" or "Why did God do this?" or "This is pain. Please, God... Forgive me one day for whatever did I do." or "Is this yet another stone or is this just another fucking train wreck?"

Later...

Shizuka walks toward Jotaro. "I'm adopted... right? Is that why you don't love me?"

"Nani...? Where'd you get that idea...?" asked Jotaro.

"I talked to Miguel and-..."

"That fucking piece of shit doesn't know jack shit, you got that...!? Fuck!" yelled Jotaro, as he turned away from Shizuka.

"Asshole..." Shizuka thought, looking at Jotaro angrily.

Tears fall on the ground in front of Jotaro.

Shizuka sees this.

"Papa...?" asked Shizuka.

"Yakamashi," said Jotaro. "I'm your father... You got that!? I'm your father! If this is about wishing you grew up with your real parents, you're fucking wrong. Y'know why? Because I love you. Y'got that!? DAISUKI!!I changed your fucking diapers when you were a baby. I made sure you were independent but I still watched over you in school. I made sure no fucking asshole would ruin your life so I beat the shit outta all of 'em. ALL OF THEM!!! If you're trying to find your real parents, well don't do it. Because you're my child, okay!? You're my daughter and I love you." Jotaro angrily grunts and grumbles as he wipes his eyes with his sleeves. "Shit!"

"Dad... Dad, I'm not saying that. I don't want to replace you. I love you, Papa. You realize that. I love you. I just thought you hated me because I was adopted."

"I loved you... so much..." Jotaro is still turned-away. "If anyone tries to hurt you, I will kill them. I made sure any punk asshole or bitch in your school who tried to fuck with you get fucked over... Because I love you. I made sure you were protected. I called every day. Even if it sounded scripted back then. I called you every... day..."

"You... You did..." said Shizuka, with eyes quivering.

"And if anyone hurts my little girl, I'll kill them..." said Jotaro. "I swear to God, I will. So, if you're going to ask who your father is, say it... Leave me for all I care... Just know that I love you. I love you... okay...!?" his voice broke. "I would never hate you... I'll keep saying it... I love you... I should've said it a while ago... I love you... I love you and your sister. All of you... Your mother, too... I promised I'll protect you... And now your mother's gone... And if you and your sister will leave me, too... Or die on me... I'll murder DIO. I'll kill Rick, too. I'll kill Miguel, too even if I don't have a shot in actually killing him..."

"I would never leave you..." Shizuka began to cry. "I promise that I won't die on you, Papa... Papa..." she sobbed.

Shizuka slowly hugged Jotaro from behind, as Jotaro turns around and gives her a big hug, revealing that he was, in fact, crying.

"I'm so, so sorry..." said Jotaro. "I was a terrible fucking father..."

"No... you're still good enough, I guess..." sobbed Shizuka. "I promise I won't leave you..."

"Your father-..."

"I don't wanna know..."

"But you deserve it... Your father... is Yoshikage Kira."

Shizuka doesn't care, and kept on hugging Jotaro.

Irene runs out of the cave and hugs the pair as well. She's also crying.

"Irene-..." said Shizuka.

"I love you guys, too..." sobbed Irene.

"WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?" boomed a voice in the distance. "NO!!! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!! NO!!! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO T̵̡̬͂͐̚Ë̸̹̻́̿͛A̸̩̋̅R̷̖̞̿ EACH OTHER APART!!! RAUGH!!!"

The full moon above them becomes an eye as it peers down onto them. A triangle then forms around the eye and out came B̴̟͗i̴̼͗l̴̻l̷̹̇ ̶͙C̷̬̋i̷̪͝p̸̭͒ḧ̷͕́ë̶͚́r̵̺.̵̄.

"NO!!! WHAT THE FUCK!? NO!!! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!! RICK FUCKING L̴̞͌I̴̛̞E̴̺̓D̷̟̑ ̴͉̀T̸͓̔Ò̴̲ ̵͕͐M̴̱̑E̸̡͑!̸̱͊!̶̜̓!̴̟̆ CAN'T SEE THE FUTURE BECAUSE OF YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!!! R̷̡͂Ą̶̚Ḁ̸́A̸̰A̶̖͗A̵̫Ȁ̴̞A̵̭̅A̶̝͂Ȧ̷̼Ǎ̶̪U̵̯̒U̶̺̒U̷̥͊Ụ̴͊Ǘ̷̹U̶̠͌Ģ̴͂H̴͈̋!!!" 

The whole world shook.

"I'LL SHOW THEM YOUR COORDINATES!!! I DON'T CARE A̷̜̒N̶̻͠Y̵̹͠M̴̧̽Ǒ̷ͅR̸̹͠E̶̢̾!̷͙̓!̷͉̂!̸͍̑"

Suddenly, Bill disappears, and from a portal... came...