Pandora grasps the railing looking out into the arena, where Michael has been absorbed by some gigantic floating monstrosity with wings and eyes all over. "What is THAT!? W-why didn't Michael die w-when Blackbeard shot him!?"

Lucifer sighs. "Normally that should've definitely killed him, but well… angels like Michael and myself self-actualize."

"Self-actualize… doesn't that make you unbeatable!?"

Lucifer shakes his head. "Not quite. But when we change on a subconscious level our bodies adapt accordingly, within reason. So a newly born angel is a baby, and the more they mature their bodies grow. Somewhat like humans I suppose. But well… for Michael. He saw himself as a protector, a glorious guardian so he took the form of a handsome young man with a sword and wings of light. But now… he's beginning to change at his core. That Eddy… Really did a number on his mind."

Pandora gulps looking out at Michael. "So… Michael is… changing?" She feels a tear fall from her cheek. "I'm sorry Michael… I'm so sorry." Lucifer glances down at her, and is about to speak but closes his mouth, looking back towards the arena.

Blackbeard laughs heartily as he looks up at Michael. "Hey abominable snow-fairy! What're you looking at over there!? Look! AT! ME!" He yells placing his hand on one of the ship's cannons and his black mist makes it grow and lengthen. He pulls the fuse out, shoving his flintlock pistol into it and pulls the trigger, blasting a cannonball directly at Michael, striking him with what would've been deadly force but it only pushes him back.

"YOU!" A booming voice explodes from Michael. "You dare turn humanity against me!? Their savior!?" He screams, the giant eye in the middle of his face widens and fires a large light shard similar to those his previous wings were made of towards the ship.

"Turn humanity!? Those fuckers HATE me! I just told them the truth!" Blackbeard yells, firing the cannon again, the two attacks colliding and shattering on each other.

"SILENCE! I do not believe you!" He calls out as the light of his wings flashes brightly and launches down towards Blackbeard. The pirate leaps back to avoid, swiping a few away with his cutlass. However a few land shallow cuts on him.

"HA! You know me, Michael! You know me well already! Can you say truthfully that I tell lies!? I have not lied ONCE!"

"NO! You said you were ready to talk! Yet when given the chance you SHOT ME WITHOUT HESITATION!" The giant eye furrows its brow, launching a large ring of light at Blackbeard.

Blackbeard laughs and his Black Heart encapsules his cutlass giving the end a large hook. He leaps over the ring and catches it, hurling it back at Michael. "I was ready! Had you accepted then and there I would have talked! YOU were the one who did not believe me!"

"GRRRRR!" Michael disassembles the ring with ease as he floats closer to the ship. "You knew I would not! Thus it is trickery and lies!"

Blackbeard runs along the hull of the ship, shooting at Michael but the bullets merely bounce off his shell. "Ha! And that is MY fault!? Delusional!"

Icarus gulps seeing Michael so angrily firing lasers at Blackbeard who can do nothing but run and jump out of the way. None of his attacks seem to get through! "This… this is not right."

Ra smirks and leans his head back. "This is as it should be. All according to plan,"

"What!? You… PLANNED for this to happen!? Michael is falling apart!"

Ra sighs and waves his hand to Osiris who takes over. "Take it from me. From the broken pieces. What assembles after will be much more powerful."

Icarus grits his teeth. "But it will STILL be broken!" He says flapping his wing slightly.

"It is none of OUR concern. So long as Michael wins then we are satisfied,"

Icarus grits his teeth. "This is…" He looks up to Pandora seeing her worried expression. "The worst… you're the worst Ra."

Ra scoffs. "As if your opinion holds value."

Blackbeard leaps around the ship, bouncing off crates and barrels, all the while having a wide grin on his face. "Come on then fairy king! SMITE ME DOWN! Show me your TRUE desires you self-important BITCH!" He lands and rolls off.

"I… I will NOT kill you! I refuse! I REFUSE!" Suddenly a pulse explodes from Michael. The many many countless eyes from his wings pop off, falling onto the deck of the ship, lifeless for a brief moment before Blackbeard notices them growing and warping into weird humanoid shapes with these singular eyes in their heads. FORMLESS WHITE ANGELS! Blackbeard smirks.

"Ha! These things are DISGUSTING! Ungraceful!" He smirks as the weird angel monsters start shambling towards him.

"SILENCE! Restrain him! NOOOW!"

Humanity looks almost horrified as the many shambling zombies of light. "This… this is not Michael… Michael would not be so… ungraceful… brutish. What is happening?" Saint Peter says falling back into his seat, seeing Blackbeard shove the beings back. "Michael! STOP THIS! Remember your promise! Gracious guidance!"

Blackbeard sees the monsters coming at him, smirking as one leaps at him and he slices its head off, kicking the body back, grabbing the head out of the air and slamming it into a second one, leaping away and around them all. "Gracious guidance!? HA! Ain't nothing gracious about this!"

Next to Saint Peter a man comes walking, sitting down roughly, taking a long sip of a bottle of wine. "Man… what's the world come to huh?" He says. Saint Peter instantly recognizes the smell of manure and alcohol.

"N-Noah?" He looks over seeing a strong-looking man with shaggy dirty-blonde hair wearing some simple early human clothes.

"Yeah. Michael's really gone off the deep end."

"Yes but… we mustn't lose hope in him!" He says and Noah takes another sip. "Stop drinking!"

"Lose hope? Heh. Funny cause to me you're the one losing hope. Stuttering and proclaiming it to the heavens. There's no losing hope in Michael for me. Were it not for him… humanity would have long since been destroyed."

-880 years after Adam and Eve's creation-

Yu Huang sits on the council throne and raises his voice. "I believe that humanity… has failed! Adam, the foolish first man, has slaughtered a god, and made a MOCKERY of Heaven!" Other gods begin to raise their voices as well.

"Yeah! That BASTARD!"

Shiva laughs holding up four Xs. "Yeah. Let's start over again. Still gonna do monkey's right? To torment that weird monkey-boy who stood up to ya?"

"That's correct. But this time… better. Perhaps a smaller species."

Aphrodite sighs. "Do we truly NEED to wait until their 1000 years are up? Can we not just… start the flood now?"

Yu Huang slams his fist on his seat. "NO! We are GODS! The rules we make are FINAL. Therefore we shall stick to them… but humanity. In 70 years. Shall perish for their sins.

Michael, standing on the side of the voting parlor gulps. "This… cannot be!? Humanity has BARELY risen! No no! NO!" He is not dumb enough to directly confront ALL of Heaven at once. "Adam… my friend… I will not allow this! I need… a plan!" He rushes to the prophet room. "This… must work." He puts on the stone 'headset' and looks down into the pool of reflective water, as it zooms down onto Earth. stopping above a certain man. "YOU!"

Down on Earth, Noah was simply taking a stroll through the forest, his lovely wife at home waiting for his return. It was a simple life. But he was happy. Suddenly a berrybush BURSTS into a flames next to him. "What in Heaven's name…?" He gasps as he is about to run.

"No! Stay! Please!" The bush calls out.

Noah pauses and looks back. "You… speak? And…" He looks at the lack of smoke from the bush. He can't even feel heat from this flame. "What… are you?"

"Me? It is irrelevant! I have a mission for you. One you MUST complete! The fate of humanity as a whole depends on it!"

Noah kneels down. "The whole of humanity? That is… that makes no sense. I'm just one man. What is going on?"

Michael ruffles some papers on the table. "Hear me… Noah. In 120 years. A great flood shall wipe these lands and all upon them!"

Noah's eyes widen. He only JUST turned 480! He still has so many years left to live. "And what… am I to do about it?"

Michael bites his lip. "I… I do not know. But something must be done. I will not allow you all to perish! You. Your wife. All the rest of humanity!"

Noah's eyes widen. "I will do whatever I can! But still… why me?"

"You are the one I have chosen Noah! I will entrust you with this task… I… I will contact you soon. Until then, simply live your life. Laugh with your wife. Love her as you would. I swear. I will bring you news soon."

Noah nods. "Alright… I trust you. You seem to be a genuine person… bush?"

"I am… Michael."

"Michael… very well. I will remain strong and ready, Michael!"

Michael drops the headphones causing the bush to burn out, leaving it perfectly fine as it was before. Noah seems to almost feel as though he hallucinated but he strides with purpose back to his house. "But what… news would I bring? I must convince them… I must think up a plan!" Michael walks through the halls of Heaven's Valhalla council. "Noah… I must figure something out," He suddenly bumps into someone as they walk around a corner. "Ah! My apologies," he starts before looking at this short human. Dressed in… a leaf? Holding an apple. "ADAM!?"

"No problem. Say Michael. What's got you so worried?" Adam asks and Michael explains the situation to him after finding a garden to sit in. Adam bites the apple hard hearing that the gods wish to destroy humanity already. "That… we must not allow it. Do you have any ideas?"

"We somehow must convince Heaven to change their mind…"

Adam sighs. "Humans cannot convince divinity to change. Not with words. But you are not human. You could," He gives Michael a pat on the back. "Right?"

Michael feels a sudden surge of pride. "Yes. Yes! Perhaps… It would require a display… something to prove. Without a doubt that humanity is worthy of their praise. I will… guide them!" He says and Adam takes a bite of another apple.

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves. These are my children Michael. For now… let us ensure their survival. I trust you Michael. You brought our souls to Heaven swiftly. You have been a wonderful friend here. Ensuring us safety from the arrogance of the gods. I can trust you with this. If you need anything. And I mean ANYTHING, do not hesitate to ask. I would do anything for my children."

Michael stands, smiling brilliantly at Adam, holding out his arms. "I will Adam. And in return, I will ensure the safety of your children. For now on and FOREVER!"

And so… Michael's task began. Each year, during Heaven's meeting he pleaded with them. He showed them the beauty of humanity. Noah's family. His children. The love sprouting elsewhere. But it all fell on deaf ears and blind eyes. For 50 years… nothing seemed to impress Heaven. Michael falls to his knees in front of Yu Huang, slamming his fist against the floor. "Please! I beg of you. This is… cruel!"

"Cruelty is needed, Michael. This act of yours is getting tiresome. Bring this up again… and you yourself will feel the wrath of the Dragon Lord," Yu Huang says and Michael's eyes widen.

"If love will not do it… then surely… you must respect power," He mutters and Yu Huang raises an eyebrow. "Yes!" He springs to life. "You go ahead. Wipe out humanity, lord Yu Huang! And in return I declare! Humanity will SURVIVE your apocalypse!"

At this Heaven erupts in laughter. "BWAHAHAHA! Impossible! The Flood shall wipe the Earth clean! Not just those foolish humans but ALL life! And even IF humanity survives. How will they live without food? They will die either way!"

Michael shakes his head. "You shall see, Yu Huang. Do not underestimate them!"

Noah is sitting back on the proch of his house he built, looking out at his sons, frollicking in the fields with their wives, sighing happily as he places his hand on his wife's. "What beauty we have created."

"Yes… It is gorgeous," She says when suddenly Noah feels a chill run down his spine. "Noah?"

"Would you… excuse me dear…?" He says and rushes into the forest much to her confusion.

Noah finds the bush, lit ablaze and he gasps. "Michael!? It has been… so long! Do you bring news!?"

"I do… It is unfortunately not good news. But hear me! For you Noah! YOU shall save humanity! With my guidance!"

-1075 years later-

Michael sits anxiously in the voting room of the gods, biting his lips, tapping his foot. They spared the human souls of Heaven until Earth was wiped clean… and Noah succeeded. Yu Huang's face is shrouded in ominous darkness as he raises the gavel. "Voting. To exterminate humanity once more will now BEGIN!" In an instant an X is raised by a god.

"KILL THEM! NOOOOOW!" The god yells.

Michael grits his teeth as more Xs begin to rise around the god. "No… no no no…"

However suddenly Yu Huang raises his vote. An O! "I was unsure how to feel. The defiance of the gods is inexcusable! Noah, the human man, went against divine law and opposed us… and yet… rarely have i witnessed such tenacity. The sheer determination to live impresses me. Therefore… humanity shall live to see another day!" As he finishes his speech other gods begin raising their Os. Shiva. Aphrodite. Zeus. Ares. Hermes. Ra! Anubis! Izanagi! Izanami! Heaven seems to generally agree with Yu Huang and Michael jumps from his seat.

"YES!" He yells out celebrating with glee as he looks up at the sky. "Humanity… you made it. My guidance… with my guidance you can overcome ANYTHING!" He says as tears flow down his cheeks.

-Present-

Blackbeard grabs a rope hanging off a mast, swinging around it, as he blasts the light zombies with his flintlock. "Hey Fairy king! You wanna pin me down you gotta do better tha-" He suddenly feels one of the creatures holding onto him foot and he is pulled down as they all pile onto him. "For something made of light… you guys are HEAVY! KYAHA!" He laughs as he tries getting to his feet.

"YIELD! Or they will CRUSH you! Before it is too late!" Michael yells out in his booming voice.

"Ha. Yield? I ain't know what that word means, fairy king," Blackbeard's Black Heart begins to spread from his heart. He sees his jacket he discarded when he transformed lying in front of him and reaches out to grab it, his Black Heart making it grow into a vine-like appendage, pulling him out from the pile. However instantly he is struck by Michael firing a beam at him. "You… fucker!" He says as the creatures all begin to pile on top of him. He stands firm, trying to pull them off and shot them all but there are too many and he is buried again.

"NO! You mustn't die! YIELD! Survive! Humanity must prosper under my rule! EDWARD! Do you hear me!? Do not let your pride be your death!"

Suddenly the black mist from My Black Heart begins seeping out from the pile of creatures. "MY pride? You wish to get me surrender before death. Nay. Even in death. BLACKBEARD SHALL NEVER SURRENDER!" Suddenly there's a burst of power from the pile as Blackbeard knocks the enemies back. He has once more altered his appearance. He is older… his beard is as long as it has ever been, and seemingly on fire. His hair is longer as well. "I am the scourge of the sea! The storm that never ceases! The whisper of terror in the night! I! AM…!" His Black Heart spreads out all over like a thick layer of mist on the floor, creeping up the legs of Michael's creatures, their bright bodies becoming muddled and dark, the single eye in the middle of their heads turning purple and demonic. "BLACKBEARD!"