How Can It This Be

From the same person behind Astral Journey: It's Complicated and Cruising for a Jobbing, the Spice Girls short fic has the women learning a horrible fate when they arrive in Japan to see the Olympics. Found on Wattpad and AO3

Tropes used in How Can It This Be include:

• Afterlife Express: It's a train.
• Archangel Raphael: He explains what happened.
  • One of Us: He also happens to be a fan.
  • Nice Guy
  • You Can't Fight Fate: Despite the medic of the archangels, he wasn't allowed to give the women their lives back. He was ordered to bring them to heaven.
• Bittersweet Ending: The Spice Girls learn why they couldn't interact with people.
• Dead All Along: The women learns this.
• Due to the Dead: They're given funerals and memorials.
  • Empty Chair Memorial
  • Shrine to the Fallen
  • Together in Death
• Heaven:
  • Our Angels Are Different
  • Winged Humanoid/Holy Halo: They obtain these when they found out what happened.
• Mama Bear: All of them have children and care a lot about them.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: They had to come to this conclusion after seeing their loved ones trying to move on.
• Mood Whiplash: Going to a cheerful to Tear Jerker indeed.
• Reincarnation: They're told they can apply for this if they want.
• Our Ghosts Are Different
• The Reveal: Their fate
• WAFF