A/N: I hope you guys have stuck in there. I apologize so much for taking so long. I've even been sitting on this chapter for a bit. It's 6K words. Not too long. Wanted 5K, but needed to finish this fight this chapter. I even cut out an additional 1K words to put into the next chapter...or have it as its own chapter. I gotta see. I just don't wanna always go over 5K is all.
So anyways, guys, this is the chapter. And I think it's time to give you guys JoeStar.
Also...new Star Vs. episodes! I won't spoil...but interesting episodes so far.
I own nothing...but your souls.
"Marco...!"
His eyes never left her pale, evil smirk. Her expression was shot directly at Marco, curling her lips upward for the most devious of grins. With a bow in her left hand and her right hand curled into a fist, she stood triumphantly inside the Goblin Dog truck. There was nothing anyone could say right now; Star kept her glare at Heinous while Pony Head's nostrils flared while floating above Proclaimer. Janna was wide-eyed, mouth agape, at the sight of Jackie barely able to breathe. Blood gushed from her chest wound, covering her broken skateboard with her own red essence.
"Marco...!"
The red aura blew up around Marco, as if the Red Ripple itself was his own silent reaction to Heinous's deed. Action was coming very soon, and he would be damned if he let Heinous get away with trying to kill his girlfriend.
"MARCO...! YOU'RE ON FIRE!"
Kelly's voice snapped Marco back to reality quick enough to see his own hoodie slowly flaking away due to the heat. "Ah! AH! AH AH AH!" He was quick to turn off his Red Ripple, but it still left him breathing heavy while he was patting out any flames on his hoodie. "I'm gonna run out of hoodies eventually..." Marco muttered while groaning. But he didn't forget the matter at hand. Turning to Kelly, he saw her kneeling over Jackie with a concerned look on her face.
"Dude...calm down. We need to fix Jackie together." She said to him with a soft yet stern tone. "You can let them fight. You don't have to fight for her honor. Just help heal her. We need to work together for this to work, otherwise she's dead. Come on..."
He wanted to blast Heinous away so badly. It almost hurt him to let Heinous go and do her own thing, but he knew his friends would be there to handle that. Jackie came first, always. After Marco ran back to Kelly and Jackie, he kneeled in front of the latter with his hands clapped together.
Though Heinous, of course, was quick to mock Marco. "Princess Marco, running away to save your little girlfriend instead of fighting for her honor. Now you know that isn't how you advance the family line. She was better off dead to you anyway. THAT WAY, you could be a PROPER princess..."
The comment would have enraged Marco enough to using Red Ripple on accident near Jackie. But two factors kept him from doing that. The first one was his self-control, keeping his mind at ease in stressful situations like these. He's had a lot of practice with that since he met Star. A lot...
And the second factor...
"...'Princess'...?" He said out loud. "Lady, look, I ain't-"
"'Ain't'? UGH! Such VULGAR language for a princess!" Heinous interrupted Marco, but her conversation was quickly intercepted by the standing girls of The Shining Stars. Butterfly sent out her Stand, Stardust, to float around her head. Despite the cutesy look of the spider Stand, Star's very serious face managed to keep her from looking too ridiculous (though ridiculous nonetheless).
"Heinous..." Star snarled under her breath. "Toffee's dead, Heinous. We've been looking for you for ages. And here you are, STILL causing problems. Don't you ever take breaks from being a nasty old witch?"
"Old witch?" Heinous feigned being offended by Star's comments, holding the back of her hand to her forehead while leaning back. "Oh dear. Star Butterfly, goofball princess and the 'Joestar' HURT my feelings." The hand to her forehead quickly turned into a fist and SLAMMED into the counter of the food truck. "If I wanted to sit here and hear INSULTS from a NASTY little TROGLODYTYE such as yourself, I'd have LET myself get captured already! FACE IT, Butterfly. The only way I let you and your friends take me into custody is if my dead CORPSE is dangling in your hands. Toffee and I were going to run this world TOGETHER. We would have caused CHAOS throughout the dimensions, taking whatever we needed before taking CONTROL of a chaotic universe. Toffee told me many things...one of which is that this world, no matter what happened to him, is still going to burn under its own excesses and greed. Mewni itself will fall to Toffee...and the other dimensions will follow. The Mewmans and natural Mewnians of the land will live under one crown. And it will be the crown of Toffee and myself."
"Oh BOY this is sooo riveting." Pony Head rolled her eyes while replying sarcastically, "But uh, yeah, see here's the thing-PROCLAIMER!"
Quick as a bolt of lightning, the headless punch ghost zipped its way towards the food truck and punched the side of it as fast as it could. Each punch put a dent in the truck, trying to pound it into a ball so as to crush Heinous inside. The princess trainer took steps back inside the truck and opened the door for a quick exit. "FORGOT THERE WAS A DOOR I SEE!" She screamed while making her getaway.
"AFTER HER!" Star screamed while pulling out her wand in haste.
"SUMMONING CLOUDY CHARM!"
With a wave of her wand, she summoned her smiling cloud vehicle aptly "Cloudy".
"HIYA PRINCESS!" The cloud happily greeted its rider, who mounted it quickly.
"No time for conversation, Cloudy! After her!" Exclaimed Star, who began to follow a floating Janna and a "galloping" Pony Head. The equine princess was ahead of them both, using her speed to get in front of Heinous. The villainess decided to try and run to the side, only to get Janna floating down in front of her.
"Gee, Ms. Heiney, you'd think a super-villain could make a better plan than just "Run away and think about what to do later." Janna's smirk only grew bigger when Star jumped behind Heinous. The former instructor of St. Olga's turned around once more, only to be met with a powerful star and pose from Star Butterfly. The force from said pose made Heinous freeze in place, only able to stare at Star Butterfly point at her with The Finger of Justice. The Star Finger Stare, along with the ominous pink aura surrounding Star, helped her stance look even more authoritative. Holding the side of her puffy green dress and pointing at Heinous, Star began to monologue...
"Heinous...it wasn't enough that you harmed princesses, trying to use them to sell and make your own profit...or that you teamed up with Toffee and spread chaos throughout the dimensions with your arrows...but then you harm our friend Jackie. That's when this stops being a job...and starts being personal."
She takes a step forward, cracking her knuckles before putting her fists to her side. Heinous takes a step back herself, ready to defend herself when ready. Her own purple aura flowed around her hands, readying Allison Chains for battle.
"Toffee's terror ended before it began, and I will not allow you to continue whatever plans he may have had. My authority comes from The Butterfly Family. My Justice comes from The Joestar Family. And with these two families in my, I become the one authority able to dole justice when needed throughout the universe. Let our Shining Stars shine bright! LET OUT JUSTICE REIGN THROUGHOUT THE DIMENSIONS! MISS HEINOUS, I WILL NOT LET YOUR EVIL STAND!"
Star's triumphant speech helps propel her forward, fist cocked backwards so it could have a meeting with Heinous's face! The evil woman put her hands in front of her face, the arms of Allison Chains over Heinous's actual arms, for defense against the following attack.
"ORA!"
A fist connects!
...And Heinous, still upright, continues to have her arms over her head. She anticipated the strike. It was supposed to come already. What happened?
Turns out, as Heinous looks down at Star Butterfly trying her best to rapidly punch Heinous in her stomach, that Star's Stand just wasn't going to assist her in this endeavor.
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA..." The princess shouted out the most low-speed, low-energy "ORA" barrage in the history of Stand-kind. WHile Janna and Pony Head just blankly stared, Star continued to throw the punches out in a vain attempt to look powerful. The speech was decent. But the power behind every punch she threw out could be clocked at zero percent. Even Heinous could only watch in embarrassment. The crowd around them, who were waiting for Goblin Dogs and began hiding when Heinous shot the arrow, almost looked ashamed at the display they were watching.
"THIS is our rescue team?" A little koala said with its hands extended out in Star's direction. "I'd rather take my chances with the arrow! At least the arrow will kill me quickly or give me a power! This is just painful to watch!"
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA...ORA...ORA...ORA...ORA...ORA...ORA...ORA..." Star was getting more and more tired after each punch, losing her own energy and every other ounce of dignity she had left along with it. After one last weak, "ORA...", she panted while holding her knees, observing that Heinous herself was still standing just from looking at her feet. That failed. Horrifically. And Star was left kneeled over, breathing for air.
"I...miss...my...punch ghost..." She wheezed while catching her breath. Janna patted her on the back while Pony Head floated next to her.
"Hey...I thought the speech was sick." Janna said with her signature half-smile.
"Yeah girl, no big deal. Learn what you can do with your Stand, 'kay?" Pony Head smirked. "YO KELLY! HOW'S JACKIE!"
"SHE'S GOOD!" Kelly screamed back while both her and Marco were glowing with Ripple. They had to pull the arrow out of Jackie's wound, and then worked to try and close all of her wounds via Ripple. The cell regeneration for such deep wounds was hard, but Marco wasn't going to stop at anything to heal Jackie. Though blood was still gushing out of Jackie's chest like a geyser, making Marco a tad sick. He couldn't hold it in, he had to move his head back and upchuck (though trust us, only Kelly really saw it).
"Yeah...ALL GOOD!" Kelly had to nervously yell out, possibly trying to convince herself of that lie.
"Geez...what a deep wound..." Marco said to himself, trying to regain his bearings. Jackie went into shock a few minutes ago, so she couldn't hear him. It just scared him how much he had to heal. He wasn't sure just how much damage could be healed by their combined Ripple. Jackie took some heavy injuries to her veins and lungs from this strike. But he continued trying to heal her, because he wasn't going to quit on her. The more Ripple the two Hamon users generated, the faster and more efficiently Jackie healed.
Though back to the action, Proclaimer and Black Magic Woman took the front lines of action. "Watch out for her chains!" Star shouted from behind them, taking up the rear for support. It was all she could do at the moment, which upset her quite a bit. She wasn't one for simply "watching someone's back". She enjoyed having her back watched while she went all out in the frontlines of battle. But this was an important position, and she knew it. Her mother made her study up on Miss Heinous and her stand, Allison Chains. It's ability, using chains to claim something as Heinous's, was very powerful. It could turn an entire school into her pimped out zombies. But it also simply allowed her to control anything inside of her Stand's range. This time, however, they couldn't just fling Heinous away like before. They needed to apprehend her. So avoiding the chains was monumental.
"Just keep jumping out the way, Janna!" Pony Head's knowledge on the former head of St. Olga's also worked in conjunction with Star's knowledge. She had a first hand account of how bad Heinous could be. "She gets in your head, you a zombie! Just...yknow...no arms falling off and junk..."
"Aw man, that's the best KIND of zombie." The punk grumbled while dodging everything with her helium control keeping her airborne. "They can use their arms as boomerangs and all kinds of crazy stuff."
Heinous summoned forth chains from her hands, shooting them around the battlefield in the hopes of hitting someone. She had no actual combat experience, or at least no up-front combat experience. She couldn't actually fight any of these two. "Pony! Get right in her face! Janna, you get in close too! Confuse her!" Star directed the two.
"Got you!" Shouted Pony Head as Proclaimer zipped and zoomed around Heinous. She got right in Heinous's face, then run around her when Heinous went for a slow moving punch. Black Magic Woman moved in from behind Pony Head and uppercutted Heinous right under her chin.
"GAH!" After the head-mistress is sent back-flipping into the food truck, Pony Head sends Proclaimer under her while she was in the air to jackhammer her spine with rapid-fire punches. Janna moves in above her and joins in on belting Heinous with punches to her chest. And once Pony Head transitions to floating above Heinous, Proclaimer and Black Magic Woman deliver one final tandem kick to the face. Her head CRASHES into the ground, imprinting it into the ground and making cracks in the ground.
"Alright guys!" Star jumped for joy and hugged her Stand while twirling back twirling back to the ground. And for the quick apprehension, Star decides to finish it Heinous with her own Stand. Stardust sends webbing at Heinous, who was rubbing her head and trying to stand up. The webs came at her fast, and she wasn't able to avoid all of it. However, plans came to her mind after observing the entire fight. She managed to move to the right, letting her left hand be stuck to the food truck thanks to the webbing.
「ALLISON CHAINS」
But her raccoon princess Stand appears, firing off two long chains from its hands towards Star. But she was all too wise to let this get her. "Nice try, Heinous!" A smirking Star gave Heinous a thumb to her own nose and used a web she shot at a tree to pull her away from the chains. "You're so predictable!"
"Well child...if I'm so predictable, then how is it you don't realize who my REAL target is." She tapped her head, showing her own mind to be superior over Star's. When Butterfly does stop her gloating and look behind her, she sees the chains headed right for-
"MARCO!"
Star's shout causes Marco to look up in shock, seeing two chains flying towards his head. "WHOA!" He was about to put up his hands, forgoing Jackie's healing temporarily (but possibly putting her in worse condition without two people at the helm)...
"NOT TODAY, SWEET CHEEKS!" Said a floating Janna, who dropped like a rock in front of Marco after her helium deactivated.
"Wait, Janna? GET OUT THE WAY! JANNA, SHE'S GONNA POSSESS YOU!" Shouted Marco out of fear for Janna's safety.
"DUH. Why'd you think I DID this?" Her condescending tone hid a bit of valor behind it. If Marco got possessed, Jackie has one less person trying to heal her. And that would, in turn, possibly kill Jackie. So she decided to be the guinea pig for Heinous right now. "Look, YOU just keep healing Jackie! I-WHOOOA BOY!"
The chains make contact with Janna, circling around her body and entering her head in search of her mind. Black Magic Woman is bound by the chains inside of Janna's mind, and her brain is next to be encircled by Allison Chains. Once every part of Janna has been compromised by the chains, a scroll rolls out of her left ear and unravels itself in front of Heinous. "Information on Janna Ordonia", the scroll was titled.
"Janna, no! We need you right now! Pony Head can't take on you AND Heinous!" Star was worried about what would happen next. She was going to have to step in for Janna now and fight alongside Pony Head, though one of her opponents had to be a good friend like Janna. It made Star very uncomfortable, and really got her mind on one thing...beating down Heinous. Her wand is grabbed from behind her back, and she stands right next to Pony Head while Heinous reads the information silently to herself.
"..Oh word...what a disgusting individual...so far from a princess." Heinous perused the scroll more to find anything of use to her. "Not as classy as Princess Marco, which is saying a lot..."
"Does she..." Marco was about to respond to Heinous's words, but immediately balked. There was no need to do so at the moment. Just keeping his mind on Jackie was enough. Her health was more important than trying to figure out Heinous.
"...OH...OH...oooooh...ooohohohohooo..." Heinous, with a haughty laugh, looked towards the girls in front of her. "Janna...your helium powers...they'll be my escape."
"How so, old lady?" Her defiant attitude made her annoying, and Heinous constantly asked herself just why she didn't have Janna under full mind lock. But then she remembered something...
...the screams would make it better.
「BLACK MAGIC WOMAN」
"ASCEND!" Heinous demanded of her "new Stand", prompting Black Magic Woman to use helium on Janna. She's slowly sent upwards into the air, feeling her chest expand due to helium that's being pumped into her.
"Hey! HEY!" Janna may be regretting what she did as she kicked her legs around and flailed her arms. Star and Pony Head can only look up in pure horror right now, shocked by Janna's Stand turning against her. But of course, Heinous would explain it to them (if they needed explaining). She criss-crosses her arms and lowers her head, using this as her explanation pose.
"Allison Chains possessed your subconscious...which means it took control of your Stand, Ms. BRAT...and now your powers belong to us."
Behind Heinous, Allison Chains was holding its chains like a puppeteer holds a puppet's strings. Black Magic Woman could do nothing, because Janna was powerless against such a powerful Stand. And because she felt she couldn't do anything, Janna just decided to sigh and pull her phone from her pocket. "Well while I float here, I can at least check my blog updates..."
Though Janna's relaxed state is a contrast to the panic on the faces of Star and Pony Head. Marco wished he could do something, but Kelly grabbed his shoulder and pulled him back down. Jackie wasn't losing much blood now, but she was still knocked out from the shock. They needed to tend to her wounds, and let Star and Pony Head handle that. It wasn't his ideal choice, but it was all they could do right now. So he kneels back down and puts a hand over her body. His emotions were running high. Everything about this situation made him sick to his stomach. Shaking knuckles became white due to the tightness of his fists. Kelly could feel his body temperature rising. She knew he was about to explode, and she needed to try and calm him down.
But Marco's emotions got the better of him. His Red Ripple EXPLODED from his body and radiated brightly. The heat was intense, and it nearly felt like it was peeling off bits of Kelly's skin. It was certainly drying her hair out. Kelly was close to yelling at Marco to calm him down before he melted them both. However, there was one thing she didn't expect...
...Jackie was glowing red, similarly to the red ripple. The red energy, though, wasn't ebbing and flowing like a fiery aura. Instead, it was encircling her body in the form of rings. "What...the...?" She wasn't sure what was happening, though Kelly could tell that the ring based energy was not something natural. And when she saw how Marco's Red Ripple was flowing, she could tell that Jackie's body was reacting to Marco's energy. Whatever Marco was doing, it was bringing something out of Jackie. She was afraid of using Red Ripple on her before; but right now, it seems as if using Red Ripple may indeed save her life.
"Marco..." Kelly looked down at Jackie before looking back up, "...use it on her. Channel your Red Ripple into her. Don't question it...just DO it."
Marco looked down at Jackie, watching the rings around her body. It was something he had never seen before, but it was something that was going to help Jackie survive (so he assumed). He HAD to take this chance. What other shot was there? So once he threw his arms over Jackie, he began to channel all of his Red Ripple towards her. His hands ignited with a fiery power that would (and should) have burned Jackie alive. But instead, the rings around her were simply spinning clockwise. They started off slow, and eventually began to spin faster and faster like washer/dryer spin cycle. Jackie's skin seemed to be drying out, which worried Kelly. Though upon further inspection, her skin was actually tightening. Her wounds were spinning in on themselves, tightening before moving around on her body. This entire scene was beyond belief for Kelly, who was not even sure what was happening. But some cues did give her tips as to what this was. The rings, especially, were a telltale sign.
Despite this miracle work, Miss Heinous still had Janna in the air. Her calm demeanor aside, Janna was still in a dangerous position. And while Pony Head and Star wanted to move forward, the one time they tried ended with Miss Heinous trying to expand Janna via helium. She could kill her right now and not bat an eye. The crowd around them had mostly fled, so there weren't any other victims she could use as hostages (thankfully). But Star and PH were stuck with a lofty decision.
"We can't let her GO, Star!" Pony Head turned to Star and whinnied. "She's gonna kill something or someone else, I say we IMPALE her right now!"
"But JANNA, Pony Head!" The princess shook her head and lowered her wand, "We can't let her hurt Janna!"
"I'm perfectly fine with sacrificing my life, honestly." Janna, still looking at her phone, raised a finger. "I mean, according to Mr. & Mrs. Joestar, this is what happens to Joestar buddies anyway. Me dying was inevitable, to be honest."
"JANNA!" Star couldn't believe what she was hearing from Ordonia.
"Hey, she said it." Pony Head bent her neck as if she was shrugging, "I say we honor her last wishes."
"No!" Star shook her head.
"I wanna see what the underworld looks like, honestly." Janna snickered.
"We are NOT sacrificing you Janna, and that is the last time!" Star scolded Janna like a mother, even wagging her finger at her, "Now SHUSH!"
The villainess-in-waiting tapped her feet while ho-humming. "Excuse me, we have a hostage negotiation here. Do we have a deal or not?"
"Can't you see we're having a MOMENT?" An incredulous Star turned to Heinous and blew steam out her nose. "PLEASE...wait your TURN."
Heinous didn't quite expect that, which made her quiet down just a bit. And as Star, Pony Head, and Star had a brief discussion over Janna's fate, the other group was busy healing Jackie in order to save her life.
All this for hot dogs.
STAND NAME: Stardust
Type: Close Range
Power: C
Speed: C
Range: B
Durability: C
Precision: C
Development: C
Abilities: Stardust can make things stick to one another using webbing it shoots
"Okay...I guess we've come to a conclusion?" Star looked at Janna and Pony Head. The former just sighed, looking down at her phone in her own form of protest.
"Yeah, but I don't agree with it Star..." She shook her head, which prompted Butterfly to puff her cheeks and cross her arms.
"Yeah, well, you're my friend, Janna. I wouldn't let anything happen to you. I don't what my Joestar parents say, I'm making sure I don't lose ANYONE like the other Joestars have. I've already lost Mina...and I lost the other Joestars...I won't lose you..."
This made Janna sigh, as well as briefly look up from her phone. She looks down at Star and gives her a smile smirk. It was a silent form of appreciation for Star's commitment to her, and she was happy to at least know that Star was going to have her back in any situation. Pony Head had to agree as well; no friend gets left behind on the battlefield. Even if it means sacrificing capturing a villain, you never abandon a friend. Or at least, that's what they all must tell themselves here.
"Heinous." The princess turns to her friend's captor with a stern look, "...Put Janna down...and go."
A chuckle escape from Heinous's pursed lips, with a hand over her mouth and a sly look in her eyes. "Oh thank you dear...that means a lot."
Star points behind her, "Just go...no matter where you go, you're being hunted...and I'll hunt you down like a cat on a mouse...or how Mr. & Mrs Diaz hunt down new friends."
"Star, not the time..." Marco, through gritted teeth in the background, chimes in with a comment. Jackie's body jerked under him, showing some signs of life as her wounds fully tighten up and close in on themselves.
Heinous paid the commentary no mind, simply getting into the Goblin Dogs truck and waving at the heroes. "So long, children. I hope I don't have to see you very soon..."
Though despite her words, one thing bothered the girls. Pony Head spoke up, glaring at Heinous as she floats towards her. "Yo, old lady, put Janna down! We said you could go!"
Now Heinous's smirk begins growing into a wide grin. Her chuckles became audible guffaws. And Allison Chains made Black Magic Woman force Janna towards the truck.
"Hey hey, this wasn't part of the deal, you psycho!" Shouted Janna.
Heinous waved it off as she turned the engine on, "Yes, well...in order to make sure you all don't come after me, I am keeping her as a warning. If I feel threatened by any of you...I will pop her like a balloon..."
"WHAT!?" Janna freaked out as she spun around in the air. "BLACK MAGIC WOMAN! BLACK MAGIC WOMAAAAARGH...!" A sharp pain came across Janna's head while she tried to recall her Stand. Allison Chains was deep inside her mind, and it was preventing even strong minded Janna from accessing her subconscious abilities. "YOU WITCH!"
"HEINOUS, LET HER GO!" Star was not willing to use force to try and yank Heinous out the truck, but she couldn't find any other solution to rescue her.
"I lied, children..." Heinous chuckled, "It's what people like me do. Goodbyyye..."
As all of this goes on, Marco finally tires out and falls to his knees. "Janna...!" He tries to say, but words can barely escape his mouth right now. He had released every bit of Red Ripple he could possibly release. His body was close to giving up on him. Kelly gets behind him and holds Marco. He seems to be fading out, while Jackie seems to be fading back into life. Lynn-Thomas's eyes flutter open, and she can see a blurry visage of a truck driving away. Her brain wasn't able to process much right now, but she could take in the fact that something was wrong. Soon enough, though, everything began to flood back into her mind. Her eyes shoot open, and her memories of Heinous and the arrow fill her body with a sharp phantom pain. She slowly looks over to her left, seeing Marco's eyes opening and closing rapidly. And then she looks forward to see Heinous driving away with Janna floating right behind her. And to her right was what looked like a figure sitting on her skateboard with its legs crossed and its hands out, as if it was meditating.
"Ahahahaha!" Heinous's laughs became full blown cackling, as if lightning should have accompanied it any second now. Janna's threats of killing Heinous became enjoyable white noise to her. The escape was realized. NO ONE could combat Allison Chains, it seemed. It was a Stand that was too strong for its own good. Star wasn't sure how she could handle the situation. It became a full blown disaster. She just wanted to save her friend...and instead, she endangered her even more and might have just put billions more people at risk. She was close to shutting down and falling to the ground out of grief. Thankfully, Pony Head was there to keep her standing via Proclaimer.
"No way, girl...you ain't falling on my watch. You messed up once, but we gonna get her back. Heinous's ugly face can't blend into a crowd, so I think we can find her easily." Her over-confidence had no basis in reality. But it was something Star needed to hear. It instilled her with the confidence to stand back up and lead her team to find Heinous.
The Goblin Dog truck went as fast as it could up a hill, and would be out of site once it went down. "Victory for me is a victory for Toffee." She said. "If Toffee can't carry out his plans, then I plan on carrying out Toffee's plans myself. And with you as a security wall, I don't think your friends and their nosy allies will have the will to stop me if they care for your well-being."
"Ha, jokes on you, my parents don't." Janna slightly sticks her tongue out at Heinous.
The taunt meant nothing to a victorious Heinous, but the sudden jerking of her bus got her attention. "Speed bumps...the lot of them..." She growled under her breath while driving over the speed bumps. But then her truck hit another speed bump, this one preventing her from moving forward. "What? How high is this bump? I can't even go forwaAAARD!" The truck continues to bounce and jerk back and forth. She drives forward...but then gets jerked back. She pushes down on the gas, but she continues being jerked backwards. She has no momentum to go forward, sos he feels maybe backing up off the hill so she can build more momentum would work. She puts the truck in reverse and begins rolling backwards...
...but when she gets to the bottom of the hill, she puts it back in drive...and she continues going backwards. "What in heaven's name? WHAT IS THIS!? I SHOULD BE GOING FORWARD!"
Star, Pony Head, and Kelly were confused by the sight of Heinous's getaway vehicle driving backwards. What was going on, exactly? Was she doing this on accident? Was the truck broken? These were important questions, but for later. They needed to find a way to turn this into their advantage. Miss Heinous was about to lose her mind after being forced backwards by some unknown force. She had to call out Allison Chains.
"ALLISON CHAINS!" She screamed, sending The Stand to shoot chains from its hands and wrap around nearby trees so as not to be pulled back any farther. It was a brief distraction, but a distraction nonetheless.
「STARDUST」
「PROCLAIMER」
Webbing was shot out to stick the chains to the tree, keeping Allison Chains stuck to it. The Stand couldn't move from its spot, which provided Proclaimer the perfect chance to begin a rapid rush of strikes to the body and face of the raccoon! It did not let up from its beatdown, and Heinous felt every single hit. Her face was being hit a hundred times per second due to the light-speed of Proclaimer, with one final hit uppercutting Heinous into her own roof!
She crawls out of the truck next, just to get a reprieve. But she's suddenly sent floating upwards. "Nooo nonono, NOW what?" Her eyes look down at Janna, who was standing in front of a now free Black Magic Woman. The beatdown caused Allison Chains to free Janna, and now Janna has Heinous pinned to a tree. After a few webs from Stardust to stick Heinous to a tree, the heroes could safely say they now had Miss Heinous subdued.
Celebrations were in order while Star contacted Queen Moon, and Janna handed out sticks to the civilians who were coming out of hiding. "ONE DOLLAR TO USE HER AS A PINATA! PRICES STARTING AT ONE DOLLAR!" Heinous was took weak to send out Allison Chains, so she knew this was not going to be an enjoyable time. Pony Head, her head attached to Proclaimer, grabs a stick and hands Janna TEN dollars.
"I dib first...I've had some things to get out from St. Olga's." She snickered before slapping the stick on her big meaty Stand's hands. All Heinous could do was gulp...
Marco sighs in Kelly's arms and looks over towards Jackie. She must have fallen back to sleep after that whole ordeal, and he didn't blame her. It was a stressful day. He'd talk to her when she wakes up. His hand grabs her hand, and he lets out a sigh of relief before he tries to sleep. Babysitter Kelly didn't want to have two sleeping beauties in her hands, but she assumed this was her job now.
"Man...this blows." She said to herself. "No Goblin Dogs after all of that?"
"Weeell..."
Kelly turns around to see a small goblin man in a vendor's outfit. She instantly recognized him as the Goblin Dogs vendor, and she perks up out of excitement. "Ooooh hiii!"
"Hey Kelly, how's your week been?" The vendor asked.
"Eh, same old. Big battle, hung out with friends." She shrugs it all off, "So you're giving us Goblin Dogs, right?"
The vendor shrugged. "Well hey...you saved my truck and saved all these people. Why not? Just follow me when you're done here."
Kelly's excitement causes her to clap, which in turn makes her accidentally drop Jackie and Marco. "Whoops! ...Huh?"
Something caught Kelly's eye. Marco, of course, just hits the ground. But Jackie falls on top of her skateboard. And her skateboard wasn't there before. It was as if her skateboard rolled towards her at the right time. And upon further inspection, the hole Jackie's skateboard where the arrow stuck is gone as well. Kelly was close to building conclusions about all of this, but Goblin Dog thoughts began to flood her mind again. She'd give it heavy thought later, so instead she just offered up a simple theory.
"...Something something Stand. Now let's get those dogs. Ready, Chad?" She looked upwards and asked the question to the top of her hair.
"Yeah, babe." Of course, the top of her hair stands up to reveal that it's actually a person named Chad, "I'm STARVED after all that."
Goblin Dogs for everyone! The Shining Stars get to celebrate their victory with some food...though even through all of this joy, Kelly was still confused. Jackie's body created Spin energy. That much was obvious. But how did she do it? How was it produced? And why was it red?
These questions would have to get answers later. Because when the Goblin Dog owner gave her a Goblin Dog in her hands, she needed to clear her mind for the trip she was about to go on in a few seconds.
A/N: End of the fight. And I hope you guys enjoyed it all!
I went with the design Cross177 gave me. WOW did I love it. ...I'm also a Zenyatta main, so y'know...bias. But for now, let me answer your reviews.
Cross: I would love to play Skullgirls, by the way. I think the inspiration came from her, a bit of Millia Rage from Guilty Gear, and another...whose name I forgot. But yeah she's a fairly strong character here in this JoeStar universe. But THANK YOU for the idea for Skatergirl!
OMAC001: I think I answered your question here, amirite OMAC? Haha, Chad has no Stand though. He's just...hair.
Mal Masque: You're in our community. You deserve a shout out. It's a good story too! And psh, theft? Please, we're all creative here! I would never accuse anyone of stealing. I'm a hack anyway haha.
And yeah, I looked it up and spiders are also Star's favorite animal. So, y'know, a Spider Stand would be perfect for her. And it is a nice nod to SwaTH. I won't reveal too much about the Stand other than it shoots webs. AND YES! THERE WE GO! YUKAKO! That's who was the biggest inspiration. Yukako & Love Deluxe, Cross. Thanks for reminding me, Masque! Thanks for the kind words though! I love that you loved the fight! Hope you like this one!
reven: Ah I missed these. It's okay, Marco. Maybe you'll be Koichi...the one JoBro who not only survives, but finds love. ...Course the statistics are not in your favor...
fangs of death: Thanks, Fangs! Hope you liked this chapter too!
Leolamin: WOOF...hope you're still up for doing something cool, Leo. Sorry for taking so long.
I would DEFINITELY say, "Crazy, Noisy, Bizarre Town" is the theme for Pt. 2...and for Part 1...either the same, OR Bloody Stream. But definitely CNBT is the theme for Pt. 2.
RandomNumbers: Y'know, you'd think that. But she was so sure Jackie would die that she didn't even think of it. It did take some crazy stuff to keep Jackie alive, and a huge risk on Marco's part. Why so? You'll see. But needless to say, methinks Heinous didn't see that coming.
Even here, this is all about setup. So I DO hope I don't come off as just giving people things as deus ex machinas. Every new thing has a story behind it that hopefully gives it some credence. But I think The Shining Stars all have something now. Jackie, Marco, Janna, Pony Head, Kelly, and Star all have something. At MOST...maybe I'll see if Tom joins. But that won't be for a while. But I'm hoping I am not just pulling things out my rear end.
trickster3696: Oops! My bad! Troll, not ogre. Got it.
coldblue: Longest for last. Lemme see if I can answer your questions.
1.) Well there is a reason for the skateboard here. You'll definitely see it. But there is a humanoid aspect to the Stand. The skateboard also has a roll that you shall all see. I didn't want to take too much from Masque's "Shining Stars" story. In that, Jackie has a riding Stand. And I didn't want to take off too much from it. It'd be disingenuous of me.
2.) Hmmm. Interesting idea. But may keep Marco strictly Ripple. He can make them spin anyway, or lest we forget Caesar's Hamon Bubble Cutter.
3.) I would need to think on it more. I have been thinking about whether or not to give Star some actual training or not. Her mom knows Spin (secretly; it was made by Eclipsa and used by monsters...and Star Vs. gave me ideas on how Moon could have gotten the idea to use Spin...hint hint: crystallized family members). So maybe she could learn something.
4.) Well Sade is actually one singer, my friend haha. R&B from the 80s and a bit of the 2000s. She was good. But I mean, I could see her style of music and that song fitting for JoJo. Unfortunately, can't give it to Jackie. Skatergirl was perfect. Will keep Smooth Operator in mind for if I need it though. Thank you!
Once again, guys...so sorry for taking so long. I just hope you guys are still reading. You give reviews a lot, and you've stayed so faithful. I hope you guys continue reading and are still keeping up with the story. I got a lot more story to tell, and I hope you stick round for it.
Once again, thank you all so much for reading! Hoping to get the next chapter out soon! it may be a 1,000 or so word chapter, but it's important. OR I may at least try to get it to 5K and get it out in a couple weeks. I just don't want to unnecessarily stretch a chapter out with unimportant filler. But we shall see.
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