Beatle sneers as he puts on his light gray mask with circular goggles with cartoonish glowing silver eyes within those goggles. He wielded his eskrima sticks and let his trench coat act like a cape behind him.
Billy shoots at them with Beatle's Cross Bow, killing each of the Zodiacs. Desensitized and irate, Billy slaughtered each of the Zodiacs with each of his blasts.
Beatle used his eskrima sticks to bash their skulls in, tearing them limb from limb by striking their joints with nigh-perfect precision.
"You are... unintelligent. You are nothing... You pathetic whelps... Bittersweet nothings... God's mistake... Something is wrong with you..." spoke the AI.
"Silence," said Beatle, stabbing a Superhuman in the face and tearing his spine out. "I think you're forgetting who I am."
"I don't even know who thou be."
"God. Therefore I am," Beatle tears their spines out as he grabs another's face and tears it out as well.
"You think you're normal? You think you'll ever be normal? You think society will ever care about your problems? Your hardships?"
"They will never. And they don't have to. My purpose is to serve them. Not the other way," Beatle snaps their necks, beats them to death, and jabs their throats in.
"Aurora showed me a different path. Sometimes, to make the world make sense for you, you'd have to force it to."
"That's because she's an idiot," said Beatle, as he tosses a Superhuman midair that Billy shoots at and blasts to pieces.
"All Hail... Morningstar..." said the Zodiac Mind.
"You're not a god... Neither are you a man... You're an overglorified washing machine for humanity's fuckery with nature."
"Beatle... You will never be understood."
"I don't have to be understood by everyone. As long as one does..." He turns to Billy, who shoots at the Superhumans and killing them with ease. "...I'm covered. I... MATTER!!!" Beatle decapitates a larger Superhuman by striking the stick into their neck. "I... DESERVE!!!" Beatle snaps one's leg backward and stabs him in the head with his stick. "I... AM LOVED!!!" Beatle beats another Superhuman over and over.
"You made this world. You started this war," said the Zodiac Mind. "Quantifiably, you must be killed."
"Yes. And I'll save this world. I'll end this war. Quantifiably, I must survive."
"Error. Illogical," said Zodiac Mind. "Irrational. Foolish. Atypical."
"And there it is. Not even a machine understands me. That just proves how flawed society's standards are, since you were made by those standards."
"Then choose hatred. Choose destruction. Be the bad guy. Destroy... them..."
"That isn't right," said Beatle.
"Error. Illogical."
"You divorced yourself with humanity, Zodiac Mind."
"I never was Human."
"And that is why you're not good for Humanity. So... You MUST... DIE!!!"
"ABSORPSHUN!!!" Beatle climbs the giant brain and begins absorbing the star from the Zodiac Mind.
"No... Please... This... star is my purpose. Without it, I will die..."
"That's the difference between you and I. I am more than my purpose. I'm me." Beatle warps the star on his chest, finally dawning his emblem.
"I'll do anything."
"Then, die..." Beatle keeps on absorbing and absorbing until the brain explodes.
Beatle jumps off and grabs Billy as the empire state building topples over.
Beatle hugs Billy.
"Beatle... How are we gonna survive this!?"
"We won't survive. We'll live."
Beatle flies up and begins swimming through the air.
Billy hugs Beetle, tightly. "Beatle! YOU CAN FLY!?!? YOU'RE... DEFYING GRAVITY!!! LIKE IN THAT FAIRY TALE YOU TOLD ME!!! WICKED!!!"
"I though I flew chapters ago."
"I thought that was just a phase or power up or some shit!"
"Don't worry! You're sa-!!!"
Beatle is shot by a stray bullet and keeps Billy safe by allowing his body to land on the ground rather than hers.
Billy's eyes widen, seeing Beatle on the ground, bleeding.
"Beatle!" yelled Billy, as a disgusting semi-organic robonoid creature lands before them both.
"Humanity truly is irrational. I tried... My creator made me try... But Humanity is... Hopeless..." growled the Cyborg.
"Yeah... I knew your creator," said Beatle.
"I know."
"I believe I shot him in the face," said Beatle.
"I know..." She grabs Beatle and beats him to the ground. "My purpose is to keep America safe. Keep it stable. Keep it alive after YOU... RUINED THE WORLD!!! YOU TOOK THAT AWAY FROM ME!!! GIMME THAT STAR!!! I'LL TEAR IT OUTTA YOUR PATHETIC LIMP DYING SHRIVELED-UP BODY!!!"
"I thought you couldn't feel emotions. Thought they were irrational," said Beatle, preparing to fight her standing up and posing a deadly stance.
The robot slowly turns to Billy.
"No... No, no, no," said Beatle.
The robot prepares to blast Billy away with her bloody palm.
"NO!!!" Beatle shields Billy and is shot over and over. He hugs her and is shot from behind, causing him to vomit so much blue blood.
"Don't do this... If you die for me... I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!!!" sobbed Billy.
"I know... I'm not dying because I hate myself, this time... I'm dying for only one reason..."
"You need to live."
"No... I have all I need... right here..." Beatle said, remembering their karaoke nights together, meeting her at the bar, them singing in the forest, and their conversations as introspective as they were. He remembered Billy hugging him, crying, and believing in him. All her comments. All her pieces of faith toward his own heart...
"Beatle... Please!" sobbed Billy.
"Billy..." said Beatle. "Let me die for someone else for once..."
Beatle falls to his knees and drops to the ground, limp.
"I am a god... For I killed God!"
Billy sees the star on his chest, seeing that instead of the metallic badges the others carried with them, his was like Aurora's... Made of a strange woven cotton yarn. "It's personal... Like he is... to me..."
The Zodiac Mind snickers. "I have no fucking idea what you're on about."
Billy grabs some of his blood and drinks it herself.
"What... are you doing?" asked Zodiac Mind. "You've resorted to cannibalism? Truly an idiot."
"Nah... Just taking in some Angel's Blood."
"No...!"
Billy smiled as she grew slightly larger, around the height of a 5-footer compared to her 4-footer height from earlier.
"All Hail... MORNINGSTAR!!!" Zodiac Mind roared, shooting at Billy.
"BILLY BRAIN BASH!!!" roared Billy, as a layer of psychic energy melted the organic part of the Zodiac Mind's brain.
"What... did you DO TO ME!?!?" roared the Zodiac Mind. "NO!!!"
"Awaken, Beatz..." said Billy. "Please..."
"The only thing that can save him... is Faith..." spoke another deep voice in Billy's head.
"'Faith?'"
"Believe in him... Never doubt. You... are his only Disciple here... Believe..."
Billy laughs and cries at the same time. "Of course, I do!"
"All hail, Morningsta-a-a-ar..." said the Zodiac Mind.
"All hail Beatle St. King," said Billy.
Beatle's eyes open as he gasps for air. "God-Mode Level 1."
"God-Mode Level what?" asked the Cyborg.
Beatle growls, gaining red hair as a shockwave of red energy leaves his body. Red energy glittered all over his body. Red fog left the pores in his skin. He gains red eyes and red vines sprouts around his body.
The Zodiac Mind charges and beats Beatle down over and over, as Beatle doesn't even budge.
"Had enough?" asked Beatle, as he knocks him back to the ground.
"YOU... DESTROYED THIS WORLD...!!! YOUR LITTLE LOVE TRIANGLE... YOUR BETRAYAL OF AURORA!!!"
"Error. Irrational," smirked Beatle.
"I AM... NEVER IRRATIONAL!!!"
"Error. Everything makes errors," sneered Beatle. "You were made by Man. Thus... you are just another machine... Plus, you have a margin of error of 0.05. Kinda sad, TBH."
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!! I... AM THE ZODIAC MIND!!!" The Zodiac Mind charges and blasts at Beatle as Beatle grabs her head and tears out everything, including her spine and innards.
"I..." Beatle St. King drops her head and innards. "...am the one and only St. King."
"BEATLE!!!" giggled Billy, running to him and hugging him.
"Thank you, Billy. You have served me well..."
"Now, what?" asked Billy.
"We... go home..." Beatle opens a portal for the first time in years...
Beatle and Billy pray before the graves of Billy's family. They refurnished the old family barn into their little home, filled with a garden and a farm. Beatle happily gardens every day, writes, creates Vlog videos he posts online, and dances for BlikBlok, while Billy happily studies the Bible, Greek and Eastern Philosophy, and other religions of the world. While Beatle gardened a beautiful apple seed, a butterfly flies by, making Beatle smile. "So, you survived..."
And finally...
A portal opens at the distant valley, revealing Black Sabbath, and three other warriors...
"I hope I'm not too late," said Black Sabbath. "Panthera. Led Zeppelin. Green Day. C'MON!!! FOR... ST. KING!!!"
"HAIL!!! HAIL!!! HAIL!!!" roared the others.
"HAIL!!! HAIL!!!" yelled Sabbath.
Finally, a little girl around Billy's age follows after Sabbath.
The little girl grabs Sabbath's hand.
"Let's go find your idiot father," sighed Black Sabbath.
Meanwhile, Beatle and Billy laugh by the campfire, while looking up to the starry night.