Beatle slowly opens his eyes and sees Billy drinking what looks like mead.
"Kid. Drinking's bad for you. Don't drink that."
"Calm down. It's root beer."
Beatle grabs it as Billy awkwardly waddles around. Beatle takes a sniff.
"This is mead, kid. Who gave you this?"
"Found it in ya flask! That nice gentleman over there gave it to me!" smiled Billy.
"He lied to you."
"It's okay! You taught me I can't-... *hic!* Harm humans, right?"
"Yes. But I didn't teach you how to teach others a lesson." Beatle stands up while the drunken man laughs at Billy. Beatle grabs his face and tosses him to the wall, causing a crater to be made.
"Beatle! Why!?" asked Billy.
"Billy. You shouldn't be drinking. You're a child."
"Cool kids in my neighborhood do it! You do it!"
"I drink milk. Plus, alcohol literally has no effect on me. Angel's Blood, remember?"
"Oh! *HIC!!!* Right!"
Beatle waves his hand as Billy vomits out all the mead.
"Ugh... I'm... better now... Why'd you-!?"
"Because you're a child!"
"Sir..." said the obese, smelly, drunkard standing right back up. His beard was sticky and so were his hands. He smelled of beer and nothing more. "I'd like you to get hamfisted by my-..."
Beatle kicks him down. "Sit down, Sapien."
"Hey! Is that how ya tourists speak to me!? I'm the Goddamned father of this city's head doctor!"
"Then clearly, it's understandable why you're no longer the head doctor. Now SIT, DOWN. You gave someone with a condition beer. A CHILD, no less."
"What are ya? Some kinda God!?"
"Oh, bitch. You have no idea..."
Billy grabs Beatle's hand. "He's not worth it."
"He was taking a video of you," said Beatle.
"Yeah. Because he was flapping his hands like an abnormal-..."
"Don't. Call him that," growled Beatle.
Billy is about to cry. "Beatle. It's okay."
"Sir... Please leave," said a nurse, walking toward the obese man.
"YA CAN'T MAKE ME!!!" roared the obese man, while security ushered him away.
"Sorry. He... just sits around claiming he has urinalysis. In reality, he's just drunk and likes to make fun of patients for their struggles. Abe, I believe?"
Billy smiles and winks at Beatle, giving him a thumbs up.
"Yeah, uh... You are the Nurse that took care of me, is that correct?"
"Why, yes," said the Nurse.
"Uh... Thanks. But, I have no money."
"It's okay. The hospital's purpose is to heal and protect. We're being paid by the Zodiac Mind! All Hail THE ZODIAC MIND!!!"
Beatle gave a nonchalant look. "Excuse me."
Beatle grabs Billy's hand rather frantically and they walk away.
"Sir? Where are you going?" asked the Nurse, still smiling.
"Why? What's wrong? She was being nice!"
"She's a Zodiac."
"I thought those Superhumans were the Zodiacs. They just have the same name with the Zodiac Mind!"
"They're affiliated. The Zodiac Mind's been compromised."
"By... what?"
"Aurora."
Billy's eyes widen.
"Sir..." said the Nurse while the Guards stand before Beatle as Beatle brushes his fingers over his holster. "I believe you must stay... here... She would like to speak with you!"
"You treat me with kindness. Why?" asked Beatle. "This is all her doing, hm?"
"Just... come to my room. You can't harm Humans though, right?" sneered the Nurse.
Beatle facepalms. "Fuck..." Beatle and Billy enter the room and meet with the Nurse.
"Fair maiden, I wish to leave," said Beatle, as he sat down.
"No one leaves the Hospital City. You are safe here."
"Nurse, please."
"No one leaves the Hospital City. You are safe... here..."
"Beatle, I'm scared," said Billy.
"What do you want?"
"No need for want, as long as the great Zodiac Mind watches over us all!"
"The Zodiac Mind isn't a god."
"Please do not blaspheme. Do you have... mental conditions that make you speak such?"?
"That has nothing to do with this. What matters is that you free us, now. The right of all Human life is autonomy, freedom, and respect."
"Do you feel alone, Beatle?" Her neck snaps on its own, killing the Nurse while her body becomes mangled. Suddenly, she is branded by an upside-down star. "Aw! Cutsie pooh! Hellu hellu my little beatle!"
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CALL ME THAT ANYMORE!!!" roared Beatle.
"My, my! Angry, are you? Who's this? Your new lieutenant?"
"Aurora, please. He is a child."
"I wonder what I can do with his body... What parts I can take away and reattach? Do I kill his clan as well? Skewer them like I did your precious fellow Crusaders?"
"AURORA!!! Tch-... Ruru..."
Aurora Nurse's eyes widen. "How... Dare... You... YOU DON'T GET TO CALL ME THAT!!!" She jittered and shivered. "I AM YOUR GOD!!!"
"Aurora, please. You can't just compromise this land's monotheistic god. It isn't right. That's against our code."
"I never listened to any of your codes."
"Yeah! And what happened BECAUSE OF THAT!?!?"
"War crimes!"
"EX-FUCKING-SACTLY!!!"
"Beatle... No need to raise your voice."
Beatle sighs. "I'm sorry. Please leave this boy alone."
"Ah... We both know that boy isn't what you'd expect. Billy Wisdom, right? File says here that she... was meant to be married to a Prince in the West Coast. Is that true?"
"Please..." cried Billy.
"I mean, she's of age, right? Old enough to marry?"
Beatle defensively grabs the Nurse by the neck.
"You... knew...?" asked Billy. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I respected you boundaries," growled Beatle. "Now. Aurora. Leave."
"You really think you can act like a martyr after what you did? All those years ago? Did you respect anyone's boundaries? HER boundaries!?"
"She is no longer my purpose. My purpose is to protect all life-..."
"Black Sabbath should be ashamed of you. She told me. After I slit her throat."
"Liar."
"Am I? Can you tell while we're both oh so far away? OR... MAYBE!!! She's still alive! In the castle! But I'm ABOUT TO slit her throat! Or MAYBE!!! She ain't here at all!"
Beatle lets go of the Nurse.
"Aw!" smiled Aurora. "See, Black Sabbath? He DOES care!"
A hologram leaves the bleeding eyes of the Nurse, revealing Aurora and Sabbath together.
A woman wearing black armor with a golden star badge on her chest is chained behind Aurora. Before her is a very shadowy figure, with only her sneer showing at the camera.
"Selfie!" smiled Aurora.
"Aurora... Please."
"Choose. Billy or Black Sabbath."
"Why are you doing this?" asked Beatle.
"3..."
"AURORA!!!"
"2..."
Beatle points his own blaster toward his head.
Aurora stops. "You... sly, cunning, BITCH!!!"
"WELL!?!? WHAT'S IT GONNA BE, RURU!?!?" mocked Beatle.
Aurora smiles. "You win this round, Your Highness."
Sabbath angrily shouts. "DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!!!"
The hologram disappears.
"That the... missus?" asked Billy.
The Nurse smiles, dying. "You're free to go now."
Beatle and Billy turn to each other...
And, Beatle and Billy walk away together to the horizon toward the sunrise.
"What's wrong with her?" asked Billy. "What does she want?"
"Eh... She's like that in every universe. Just ask Prometheus."
"Who?"
"Doesn't matter. BING CHI LING BITCHES!!!"