"Supposedly I'm normal," said Beatle. "If I was, I wouldn't have met you."
Billy smiles. She smirks upon hearing that.
"Would you like to speak about... the elephant in the room?"
"Elephant? What is that? And there's a room here?"
Beatle laughs. "It's a metaphor! Meaning, would you like to speak about the unspoken topic at hand?"
"Ah. Yes. I'm a girl. My family raised me as a boy so I wouldn't get married off to a Prince. So, I'm actually a girl. But I like boy stuff. Don't make me feel weird about it."
"Of course I won't! I've swung both ways in the past!" smiled Beatle.
"Really? What does that mean?"
"I uh... Like both sexes."
"Oh. Why?"
"Because that is my nature."
"To be... different!"
"Yes. Oh, shit... We are here." Beatle said, slightly perturbed.
The pair stood before a massive labyrinth of a city at the furthest east coast of Monopolia.
Billy is enamored by the rich sources of advanced technology glimmering everywhere in the massive city. The city spanned the entire eastern coast of the continent with various sub-cultures underneath it, piling up with no respect with each Human's autonomy. The Humans there looked very primitive, similar to our own kind. They looked nearly if not identical to the Humans of our time, though, with a strange difference. These Humans have no belly buttons. This was because these Humans were wombed in labs.
Beatle and Billy enter the city, where the city's cameras began watching over them.
"I feel... watched..." said Billy.
"That's because she is watching. Zodiac Mind. She thinks she can scare us away just by looking. Because people like us fear being watched... being stared at... But that's not gonna work. Right?"
"Right!" yelled Billy.
The people in the city hide in their homes while Beatle and Billy walk around. They keep on watching because they are told to do so.
Beatle shows no fear as he and Billy enter a valley of death.
"I'm scared," said the frightened Billy.
"Don't let fear hinder and fetter your mind. Fear itself. Fear losing because you allowed yourself to," said Beatle.
"Okay..." growled Billy, proudly showing her chest and putting her fists out.
Beatle and Billy keep on walking and walking. Hours became days. Days became weeks...
Silence. Utter silence. Smells were rather clean like a slightly recently cleaned hospital. Cleaning fluid. Everywhere. The city was still and silent every time Beatle and Billy pass by parts of it. The city only had urban areas with perfect gemoetrical landmarks everywhere. As they moved forward, they began fearing even more, though Beatle's was much lesser, he could feel it festering inside him like poison.
"So... you're bi," said Billy.
"Yes. I've had... lovers..." continued Beatle. "Men and women alike."
"And they hated you for it?"
"Eh. I didn't know boundaries. Apparently I harassed a man without knowing it. I was... incredibly stupid."
"Beatle-..."
"Right... I... was just ignorant. But ignorance never excludes one from the law. Got that?"
"Yes. But the law must adjust for people like us."
"No. We must adjust to the law. In the name of equity, Billy. Freedom, equality, respect, and autonomy. These four things linger in the minds of each frantic Human being."
"But... it's hard."
"Of course, it is. But... we'll get there. I... promise you, Billy. We will."
Billy sheds a tear. "I thought you hated promises."
"I do," smiled Beatle.
"We've been avoiding... this... other... 'elephant in the room'... to avoid fear, aren't we?" asked Billy.
"Yes," said Beatle.
"We're here, aren't we?" asked Billy, flinching with annoyance.
"Yes," said Beatle.
"You lied, again."
"No. I just didn't tell you anything. So you wouldn't panic."
"I won't. I promise."
"Are you afraid... you'd be alone forever?"
"Not anymore," said Beatle, smiling.
Billy smiles and nods back to him.
Beatle hugs himself, tightly, looking like a giant baby afraid of showing themself to others.
Billy notices this. "You're scared, too."
"Mhm," said Beatle.
They reach the last city... The First. At the far northeast of the nation.
"This... took six months... of walking..." said Billy. "Now, we're here! We have reached the Capital!"
"Great..." said Beatle. "That..." said Beatle, pointing to what looks like the very tall Empire State Building, which was modified heavily to the point it now reaches space.
"The Neo-Olympus!? We're... actually gonna do this, Beatle, huh?"
"Let us climb the elevator."
"'Elevator'?" asked Billy.
Beatle and Billy enter the elevator as calm and soothing music plays in the background.
"Never gonna give you up!" sang Beatle, realizing the playing rhythm. "Never gonna let you down!"
The pair sang. "Never run around and... desert you!!! Never gonna make you cry... Never gonna SAAAAY GOOODBYEEE!!! Never gonna tella lie... and HURT YOU!!!"
The elevator dings as they both walk out of the elevator, meeting the Zodiac Mind, a giant pulsating semi-organic brain at the center of a massive penthouse in space.
"Miguel Ibarra..." said the Zodiac Mind.
"Who?" asked Billy.
"Willamirah Wisdom," said the Zodiac Mind, catching Billy's attention.
Beatle brushes his fingers over his holster.
"Detecting hostility," said the Mind.
"Yeah, fucker. What'd you expect? YOU STOLE MY STAR!!!"
"That Star is our only way with communicating with the Great Aurora Morningstar."
"Beatle? What's she talking about!?"
"The Star! On my chest! It's the other half that Aurora wears on hers! It makes me psychically link with her! And this FUCKER STOLE IT!!!"
"It was the only way to save our Empire."
"You call THIS... SALVATION!?!? This is an autocracy. People barely even have lives anymore in your so-called empire! AND THE ONES OUTSIDE ARE BARELY EVEN MANAGED!!!"
"That is because the people similar to Ms. Wisdom over here... is provided to be... as they call... 'Savages'."
"What!?" asked Billy.
"There is no point for saving such filthy Savages. Especially counting her condition in that brain of hers. Making her an atypical creature."
"Seems this giant shit brain's republican," said Beatle.
"Beatle..." said Billy, hearing whispers in her head. "She... was the one who had my family killed... to get to you, huh? This... This is a trap!"
"Yeah. And I willingly fell for it to save my people."
"No! You did this to get your Star!"
"To save my people. And yours. That star allowed your people to be subjugated for years."
"Yeah. And because you exist, my family DIED!!!" cried Billy. "THAT STAR KILLED MY FAMILY, TOO!!! BECAUSE OF YOU!!!"
"Billy... I'm... sorry."
Billy began punching Beatle over and over again. "WHY!?!? WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO US!!?!?"
"Billy. Please. I tried to protect us all."
Billy punches Beatle over and over as Beatle gently blocks his attacks.
"Billy..." said Beatle as Billy grabbed his gun and pointed it at Beatle's face.
The gun's glow becomes red rather than its regular blue light.
"Billy. Don't shoot."
"Afraid to die NOW!??!" cried Billy.
"Billy. If you shoot you'd be able to kill me. That gun is now empowered by your anger."
"So YOU ARE!!!"
"I don't fear death. I fear of what you'll do when you kill me."
"I thought you didn't care!"
"Billy..."
Billy shoots at Beatle's kneecaps. He doesn't budge or flinch, rather, allows him to shoot.
"Billy..." said Beatle, bleeding blue blood.
Billy keeps on shooting and shooting as Beatle regenerates.
"Billy..."
"I thought you were-...! RAUGH!!!" Billy kept on shooting as Beatle just laid there, allowing him to shoot. "Why won't you fight back!?!?"
"Because I care, Billy. I only wanted to make up for it. I only wanted to make up for all this... death..."
"I miss... my Mommy... My Daddy... my brother..." Billy drops Beatle's blaster.
Billy sobs and hugs her own knees, tiptoeing herself.
"Billy..." Beatle regenerates.
"I'm sorry... I... I tried to kill you. What... WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!?!?" she sobbed, slapping her head over and over again, causing her nose to bleed.
"Billy. Calm down... Hey..."
Billy sobs and slaps herself over and over again as Beatle goes on to grab her wrists and hug her.
Billy cries... "What is wrong with me?"
"Absolutely nothing..." said Beatle.
"Plan A has failed," said the Zodiac Mind. "Commencing Plan B."
Suddenly, various Zodiacs appear from every corner of the room, wearing animal skin on their heads...
Beatle and Billy prepare their battle poses.