"... and she just blows up! She would have… 'bit the dust' if that amount wasn't smaller... no pun intended", ranted Jonas as they neared Beacon Academy. Their grandfather had returned to the SPW headquarters and Ironwood stayed back at Juda to sort out the mess Jotaro caused.
The black-capped delinquent only entertained Jonas with his grunts of agreements as he just wanted to be left alone to his comic. Lying down, the cigarette still burned in his mouth.
"Hey Jotaro, can your stand go out more than 2 metres away from you? Mine can't so I was hoping you could."
"2 metres? Let me try…", replied Jotaro as he summoned Star Platinum out to show Jonas. True enough, his Stand could go up to the cockpit from the couch he was lying in, however it couldn't go beyond that.
"Interesting… So that means that our Stands have a range of sorts… Like it can't operate after a certain distance away from us!", deduced Jonas with a raised finger.
A little while after Jonas discovered the revelation, a question randomly popped in his mind.
"Oh that reminds me, Professor Ozpin what's a semblance? I heard of it from my grandad but I don't really know what it does", he asked.
"A semblance is a manifestation of a person's own power and abilities. It's tied extremely close to their Aura. I can even dare say your stands are basically an Aura and Semblance taken physical form, although we can never see them. It's a theory produced by the Speedwagon Foundation after their analysis", explained Ozpin as he put a hand to his chin.
"Oh… so that's what it was… What kind of semblance are there?"
"Well… It depends on a person's abilities. Some semblance are hereditary, hunters sometimes get their semblance from their lineage. There are multiple kinds of semblance, like creating fire, making shadow clones, and so on…"
"I see… Is there... any semblance… that can bring back the dead?", asked Jonas, his eyes darkening a little.
"...Jonas… That exists within the realm of God… We are only mortal human beings. There isn't a power that can achieve that… But… it still might be possible if there exist a stand with a similar kind of power … After all, this new phenomenon may prove that anything can exist. But may I ask, what is the purpose of asking that question?"
"Huh? O-oh, it's nothing really. Wouldn't it be cool if someone could do something, like, I don't know… stop time?"
"Stopping time?", asked Ozpin with a raised eyebrow. "Theoretically, that is impossible, no Hunter nor Huntress in record has been able to do that. Even if they did, it would take a rather large amount of willpower. I have already mentioned that that sort of power is within God's territory and it will remain as an undeniable fact. Even though there exists semblance that bend nature to the user's will, there still exists lines that shouldn't and cannot be crossed..."
"... I see… Thank you professor…", said Jonas as he sat back down on his seat, sighing as he didn't learn anything that could point to that day…
"...?", as Jonas sat down, he felt something uneven and prickly at his butt. It was like a twig, yet jagged-edged…?
Standing up, he looked back on his seat, only to find nothing on it. Puzzled, he thought nothing of it and sat back down. Then, he felt the same sensation next to his neck, only to find something crawling in his neck.
'What the… an insect?'
He reached out underneath his shirt to check what the hell is crawling inside and take it out. But like before, it was gone.
'Am I imagining things? I can't be! There was definitely something there! Moreover...'
"Is it me or this bullhead getting lower?", asked Jonas aloud.
"Hmm? What are you talking about….!", said Jotaro when the bullhead suddenly rocked violently.
"AHHHHH!", a voice from within the pilot cockpit screamed violently, every person on board the bullhead immediately stopped what they were doing and all of their eyes turned into closed door leading to the pilot seat.
"...What's happening!", shouted Jonas, not getting a clue what was going on.
"The pilot! Something's wrong!", without a second thought Jotaro, threw his magazine aside, his cigarette still staying in his mouth.
Both Jonas reached the door first and tried to turn the door knob. However, it wouldn't budge and the pilot's screams were getting louder by the minute. It was as though he was being tortured by having a saw run through him.
There was also something else in the room in him. Somewhere, Jonas heard a sort of hiss, like something a snake would do, yet more sinister, monstrous… evil even. Jonas didn't like what was making that sound, but nothing he did could open the door.
"Tch… Jonas, out of the way!", yelled Jotaro as he summoned Star Platinum. As it materialised, it's arm went straight through the door as if it were cardboard, it then proceed to mow the door down with a lightning fast barrage of punches.
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!", with each punch, an 'ORA' came out of its mouth, as if it were a battle cry.
The door finally gave way and it was pried aside by the heavy set stand. Both Joestars stepped in. When they did, they didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, even the pilot was fine.
"Hey, pilot! What happened? Why is the bullhead dropping suddenly?", demanded Jotaro.
The pilot turned to him, and then blood started gushing from beneath his helmet.
"OH SHIT! What the…", yelled Jonas.
The helmet burst open and it revealed a giant centipede that had already ripped apart the scalp of the pilot clean, revealing his brains, which were half-masticated.
"SCREEEEE!", the centipede squealed sharply with its mouth pincers mixed with blood, its own saliva and brain bits.
"ORA!", wasting no time, Star Platinum punched the morbid creature with a single boulder punch, following up another barrage of machine-gun like speed and smashing it into oblivion, blasting it out of the window.
"Urg… Disgusting insect… It seem it ate the man's head from the inside out…", commented Jotaro as he inspected the work done by that creature. Jonas only stood still, his mouth threatening to vomit the accumulating bile before the vile scene before him. The body was starting to smell now, the smell of blood was entering his nostrils.
"H-h-huhh…..", shivered Jonas, right before he got punched in the face. He yelped as he got hurled back into the previous room.
"... Don't puke in front of me, it's gonna be bad enough if we have a dead body on our hands…And that was also payback for the episode in the jail...", said Jotaro, his eyes dark and he kept a hand on his cap.
"You… punched me… I never thought I'd say this but...T-thanks, I kinda needed that…I thought I was going to pass out there..."
"Boys, what happened?!", asked Ozpin. He knew that something was wrong ever since they left Juda. But he thought nothing of it and dismissed the thought. It was something in his gut feeling as a professional Hunter and being the principal of Beacon Academy, and he was right after all when he saw that the pilot was killed with such brutality.
However, as disorientating as the situation was, he had to act like an Adult and be logical in the event like this. He rushed up to the consoles of the bullhead so that he could set it on auto pilot now that the pilot was dead. That ensured that the bullhead wouldn't crash and would instead continue back to Beacon at constant height.
However, it seems that Jotaro had already done so for him.
"Jotaro, you know how to use this bullhead?", asked Ozpin.
"Only a bit… Someone taught me how to use it before"
"Oh my… What happened to this poor man?", said Ozpin as he turned to see the dead body. "What kind of monstrosity would cause this?"
"I already took care of the vermin… It looked a lot like a giant centipede, only that bugger was vicious as hell."
"A giant centipede? … Is it a grimm? I didn't see one. And I was wondering why you punched Jonas… so it was prevent him from fainting from witnessing the dead body. I might sound calm, but even I don't feel well from seeing this scene in front of me… What could this be the work of…?"
"Tooooooook care of me? I wouldn't be so sure of zaattt…!"
"...?!"
Everyone, except Ozpin, immediately turned to the source of the voice. It appeared right before them, right back where the dead pilot's body lay. Going right in between the open orifices of the body, it reared it's ugly face at the passengers of the bullhead, snarling viciously, something a normal centipede would never do.
"I'm going to fucking eat all your eyeballs out! JOOOOOESTARRRR! SCREAHHHHHHAHAHAHAAHAH!", the centipede cackled with a high pitched ear-splitting scream as saliva spewed out of its mouth.
"What the hell is that thing!? It's really a giant talking centipede! I'm not losing it, am I? Professor, can you see it!?", shouted Jonas as he got really freaked out by the monster before them.
"What are you talking about, Jonas? There's nothing in front of me, unless…"
"...It's a stand!", Jotaro finished for Ozpin.
"DING DING DING! That's riiiiiiiiiight! Ttzzztttt! My name is 「Centipede」! My user isn't even here so you can forget about finding him! I sssssnuck into this damn heli back in Judassssss…. That pilot's innards were so delicioussss...", screeched the damn monster as it swam around in the blood of its most recent victim.
"You bastard… What the hell are you doing on this aircraft!? Did you come to kill us?", yelled Jonas.
"OF COURSE YOU FUCKINNN IDIOT! Why would I come here then? Its so that I can get to slice and dice each and every one of your guts and FUCCKKKK EMMMM..."
"Dude… This guy's messed up…We gotta take him down fast! With your Star Platinum's speed and power, we can kill this guy! We can't let something like this land in Beacon! Many innocent lives would be at stake!"
"Wait Jonas… There's something wrong … Just now, I was sure I punched this disgusting bastard back to hell… I remember I even smashed it's goddamn head in. It doesn't even look like it got scratched. We need to think of a plan first. We don't know what his ability is, it could be something that not even we can handle. The fight with you back in the prison taught me that even if my Star Platinum is extremely fast and have reactions as fast as the speed of sound, it still can't expect the unexpected."
"Grr… So what the hell do we do then? Get a giant rooster to kill it? Yeah, that's a great idea… No thank you! I'm not helpless enough that I can't even squash a giant bug. I can take him now that I have a Stand! Fragile!", shouting its name, Jonas materialised his stand and extended a punch towards the vile creature.
"YOUR STAND! Its moves! I know what its abilities are. I've seen it back in Juda! It destroys matter and can restore it! Rather powerful! But that doesn't matter if it doesn't hit me! KEHEHEEHHE! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN WHAT I'M EVEN CAPABLE OFFFFF!"
With a sudden drop in the air, static suddenly appeared all around Centipede. It reared its head and just as Fragile was about to strike it, it vanished into thin air with a swift distortion.
"Electricity?", shouted Jonas as he witnessed that unexpected move. He didn't think any sort of animal, much less a centipede, could produce that kind of energy. But he had to remind himself, this wasn't any sort of insect, it was a monstrous form of a Stand. And it's very existence was really vile to Jonas, he just wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible.
However, before he could realise the err of his ways, he was struck with a bolt of blue lightning at his side.
"It's too late now! I'll turn your insides to soup so I can drink it from a straw!"
"GRAHHHH!", yelled Jonas from the attack.
"...? Impossible! No one other than me should be this fast!"
Jonas' side would've been decimated by that electric centipede, had it not been for Star Platinum's punch to move him out of the way in time. Jotaro had been carefully watching the enemy, if he hadn't, he wouldn't have deduced where the attack would have came from and Jonas would have been struck. Luckily, due to Star Platinum's faster than light reflexes, he was able to make Centipede's attack miss by punching Jonas away.
"Yare yare daze… Stop being such a dumbass, go sit on that couch or something… Don't get in the way, if not I wouldn't be able to send this damn bug to Hell... This disgusting Stand is starting to piss me off the more I look at how hideous it is…"
"J-jotaro! S-stop punching me already!", managed Jonas as he recovered from receiving Star Platinum's third punch of the day.
"Send me to hell?! I'll send you both of you there myself!"
"Hmmph…", murmured Jotaro as he put his hand into a pocket. "I, Kujo Jotaro, have personally beat the crap out of people than I have to… Teachers that get on my bad side don't usually return for a month or two, or never again. I even make it a policy to not pay for a meal which tastes like shit! But, even I guy like me knows, what TRUE evil looks like! Evil, is when overwhelming power is used to subdue the weak, those who can't even defend themselves!"
"What are you even saying!? The weak? HAHAH! That means I'm really evil, doesn't it? It doesn't even matter! DIEEE! No one has ever been able to catch me! My usage of electricity has propelled me to speeds never thought possible! Now that there exists people who can see me, THEY MUST PERISH!"
"Your power can't be touched by law, nor other Hunters! That's why… I will be the Judge of you!"
"What!", shocked, Centipede stopped its attack midway.
"Yare yare... Looks like you noticed where this bullhead is heading, took you long enough…"
Jonas looked out the window to see what Jotaro was talking about. The full view of Beacon was in sight, even Jonas himself didn't even notice they were that close to it. They were plummeting straight into it, right into the port of the academy.
"Up here in the air, both of us have a disadvantage over your speed in such a small area, we'll change the game a bit. I set this craft to Beacon, and to crash into it. If we can't win here, we just have to run away, that's when your Judgement will begin!"
Grabbing a disorientated Jonas by his collar,he gestured Ozpin to follow him. Ozpin, despite not knowing what was happening, nodded as he knew what Jotaro was trying to do. He would put his trust in this two since he couldn't even see the enemy in front of him, much less fight it. He punched open the tightly locked entrance with Star Platinum's power and busted through with Ozpin and Jonas in tow.
"WHHOOOOAAAAAA!", screamed Jonas as all three of them went plummeting down into the courtyard, the same place where Ruby first met him.
"How the hell are we gonna land? Wait! There's a tree in front of us! That's right! We're near the garden of the school! There should be some trees!", he shouted over the rushing wind.
"Star Platinum!", summoning his Stand, Jotaro willed it to punch the oncoming tree. Its punches broke the entire trunk of the tree and it broke off the ground. Then, bracing for the impact, the three of them smacked right into the broken tree half and it somehow managed to cushion their fall as the trunk hit the hard exterior of the trunk would've broke Jonas' arm, luckily they were already near the ground. If they were higher in the air, this outcome would've been a lot more different.
"That bug… Did it managed to escape?", said Jotaro as he looked at the rapidly descending bullhead from his prone position from the trunk. He took out the cigarette from his mouth and crushed it under his foot. It didn't even drop from his mouth when they were falling earlier.
By now a crowd had gathered as they witnessed the falling spectacle of watching a bunch of men jumping out of a bullhead. The same bullhead came crashing down into the school grounds as if it were a meteor. As it impacted the ground, the bullhead exploded as it got smashed into smithereens from the sheer force. Fire spewed from its fuselage and smoke bellowed from its remains. The pilot's body got probably incinerated from that as well.
"Damn it...That was one messed up ride… I didn't expect that we'll meet another Stand user so quickly. Luckily no one got caught up in the explosion", panted Jonas as he turned to his cousin. "Jotaro! What the fuck man? You could have killed some people when you crashed the bullhead, shit… You were lucky we didn't cause any deaths!"
"Don't get upset. Star Platinum's precision is so sharp it can take a bullet at point blank range… I used that precision like a microscope to somehow zoom into the horizon and find a point in the school where we could crash safely. After all, that bullhead has no means of landing in the sea. It would've been faster crashing here than landing. We have a better fighting ground now", reasoned Jotaro as he got up from the broken tree trunk and dusted himself off.
"W-well, that wasn't cool! I mean… crashing right into the school's front yard? Couldn't we have crashed somewhere else? What if that Centipede guy manages to kill these students as well, huh?"
"It was a gamble… But I figured that since my Stand can't be further than 2 metres away from me, it could apply to the bug's user as well...But I only just realised that it went beyond the boundary ever since it got on at Juda. We were already several miles away from that place... Maybe its range from its user is a lot more than I anticipated… Shit...This could mean something entire different for this bastard's Stand."
Then, at the corner of his eye. Jotaro spotted something in Ozpin's scarf, and he knew it wasn't good.
"YES! You are correct Kujo Jotaro! A smart man! But dumb enough to not figure out that earlier! I can kill all these people the moment you fools can even bat an eyelid! But since I want to see you all writhe in pain first, I'll let all of you go! YOU WILL JUDGE ME? Fat words from someone who didn't even figure out my power! But that doesn't mean this is the end! I've already had my fill for the day! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Both of you have piqued my interest! The next time you see me will be your last! See you later, FUCKINNN IDIOTSSSS…."
"Jotaro? I can understand if you wanted to crash here if there wasn't any land between here and Juda, but please give me a heads-up first… My goodness, you two are like your grandfather… crashing every single vehicle he's in...", sighed Ozpin as he rubbed his temples with his hand, he could feel a headache coming on. He wasn't going to have a good sleep tonight .
"Ozpin! Don't move…. Wait, he's gone... That bugger… I blinked for an instant, and that period of an instance was all he took to disappear. Even Star Platinum can't find him anymore."
"Centipede! He was crawling on the professor's shoulder! But… he didn't even harm him… He just said he was leaving us alone? What the hell does that mean? Why the hell did he attack the bullhead? I don't get any of this…", Jonas hissed at Jotaro.
"...? What is it Jotaro? Is something wrong? Do you know where the Stand is now?", asked Ozpin, puzzled.
"...Nothing…Tch… I messed up...", the black-capped delinquent said as he put a hand onto his cap and walked off swiftly. A crowd was already gathering near the wreckage of the bullhead, and he hated crowds since he always seemed to attract unwanted attention.
"H-hey! Wait up! S-sorry, Professor Ozpin. I-I need to catch up with my cousin… Oh by the way, Jotaro said he couldn't sense the Stand anymore, m-maybe the user retracted it? It should be going back to where its user is, in Juda, so the students here are safe for now, you have nothing to fear at the moment", said Jonas as he bowed in apology.
"Hmm… I see...Just go. I'll handle this. That attack from earlier, it was a Stand attack, right? Then it is out of my hands, I'll just do whatever I can for the moment. You boys are tired from the trip, just take a rest first. Consider it thanks for saving my live just now, and for saving the people here as well since we have no means of defending ourselves from this unseen enemy", offered Ozpin kindly.
"Thank you Professor! I won't forget this!", again, Jonas bowed before hurriedly running off to reach Jotaro.
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Shortly after, the teachers themselves started rushing out of the main building. Many people here had seen the crazy antics Jotaro had pulled off. Glynda Goodwitch, one of the many teachers at Beacon Academy, had a look of shock on her face, as if a Grimm just slapped her on the face.
"Professor Ozpin! What happened? Why did you and two other boys jump off that vehicle? That was unbelievably dangerous! Where are those two now?Are you alright?", Glynda asked with unending worry and stress, firing the questions as if her mouth were a machine gun.
"I'm fine Professor Goodwitch. It's… just that we had some circumstances just now. We were attacked by an unknown enemy, and I couldn't see him. The pilot was attacked and if it weren't for Jotaro and Jonas, I would have probably lost my life as well."
"Jotaro? Who is that? Is that one of the two boys from just now? I only remember one of them, he came into your office earlier. If I'm not mistaken, his name was Jonas Joestar… But of all things… WHY CRASH A HELICOPTER IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL!?"
"P-professor, please...just… take that bullhead away. Gather all the other teachers, I have an important announcement to make. It's regarding this incident. The students must NOT learn about this. "
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"Jotaro! Hey! Listen to me! Why the hell did you walk so fast?!"
"...You're annoying. It's already getting late, just take me to the place where we're suppose to rest for tonight."
"You're not listening! Anyway I'm also pissed that you punched me like three times already today! Do you even know where you're going? That Centipede guy might be gone for now, but what if we encounter him next time? Are we going to run away again? I never run from my fights! Besides that was in my hands!", shouted Jonas angrily as he jabbed a finger in Jotaro's chest.
"If you're talking about your ability, forget it. That bug was too fast for you, that skill of yours only activates if you hit him. Star Platinum even had trouble pinpointing his exact location, and that's saying a lot since his precision is extremely sharp. You would've lost that fight. Much less get killed for your idiocy."
"W-why you! I'm not weak at all! Tch… Whatever...Next time I see him I'm gonna kill him!", said Jonas with conviction as he punched the air in frustration.
"Whatever, we're suppose to meet at the ballroom area, since the Dorms aren't ready yet. We have to sleep in this place used for dancing. Besides, don't you need some luggage or something? You didn't even come here with a fresh set of clothes."
"The Old Man already took care of that for me. He sent over a bunch of clothing from my place, it should be available for collection. Just do your job and take me there. Don't bother me for the rest of the night, its a pain if we're gonna sleep indoors with a bunch of other people", finished Jotaro as he stopped to wait for Jonas' directions expectantly.
"W-what the… How can anyone be so… obnoxious? Only I can be that obnoxious!", yelled Jonas in protest.
"'Sigh' Whatever… Let's just go and be done with this…. I'm tired for the day, especially after seeing two dead bodies in a row, my heart can't take this", exhausted, the 17-year-old Joestar walked towards the main building with his bulking cousin behind in tow.
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Elsewhere, back in Juda…
Centipede, with his powerful lightning speed, had rushed back to the island of Juda, where his user originated. It was close, but he nearly had both of their necks. Those people, were the grandsons of his most hated enemy, Joseph Joestar. Joseph was the cause of his struggles in the prison since he was the one who put him there in the first place. This place was crawling with pathetic maggots whose sheer existence was basically begging him to end them. Every since gaining his Stand, every single inmate that was paired with him ended up getting violently mutilated or died in a 'freak accident'. From then onwards, he was placed in a special cell for especially dangerous people like him. But of course no one could prove he killed them, since they can't see his Centipede. Footage was literally non-existent as it killed them too fast, in a blink of an eye.
His modus operandi when he wasn't in prison made it so that he would torture his victims first by killing all of their family members and then killing the target, brutally of course. He enjoyed the sheer despair of his victims faces, and he remembered every single one of them.
His user, however, didn't act as over-the-top as he did. In fact, their outer personalities weren't similar at all! Yet they both get the kicks out of killing people. Weeks ago, his consciousness came to being as his user was apparently stabbed by someone with an artifact called the Arrow, but he managed to live and give birth to him.
After weeks of testing his power, he managed to sneak Centipede into the city and whenever and wherever he wanted. After hearing confidential news from the warden, he finally heard caught on that a certain Joseph Joestar would be visiting his prison along with his grandson. Not only that, but it seems his other grandson was causing a ruckus at the prison as well. He had planned to ambush both of them when they entered the bullhead, and kill them right there.
However, he himself didn't even know that his (what did they call it?) Stand couldn't attack anyone when it reached a certain mile. That forced him to retreat as he was very vulnerable in that position. Moreover, the fact that both of them were Stand users infuriated him to no limit. No one could touch him, yet the first person who made him miss an attack was that Jotaro bastard. Cursing himself for this revelation, he swore he was going to kill them next time. But of course, getting out of this maximum security prison was easy enough with a little planning and especially with a Stand that could attack with electricity. He muttered a small laugh as he anticipated the blood bath that would be to come, Centipede crawling at his side.
"Kujo Jotaro… and Jonas Joestar…. After I kill you both… Your grandfather is next!", Centipede cackled, ending with a high-pitched scream, resembling that of a woman getting tortured.
Author's Note: Sorry it took so long. I had a bunch of stuff going on at school and had this ready for weeks but I didn't have time to upload it. Leave a review since I wanna see how the progress of story is coming along. I really want to make this story a good one and I need criticism to advance further. In the words of the great Kishibe Rohan, "I draw comics because I want to be read!" Though I'm not a good writer, and there are many other writers on this site far more talented than me, even if there exists similar crossovers like this I still want to write this. Thanks for listening to my rant. I'll update in a few weeks time since I still have to prepare the other chapters and school work is getting in the way.