"Hold the hell up." Jotaro closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then stared at the equally-as-confused Josuke, "How the hell do you know my name?"
"We haven't told him!" Ruby quickly said.
"Holy hell, so you are Jotaro!" Josuke suddenly smiled, "And you look so young and...gloomy, what's up with that?"
Jotaro gritted his teeth, "Don't talk as if we know each other." he said, menacingly walking towards him, "Who the hell are you?!"
"H-Hold on, you really don't remember?! I'm Josuke, you know, your uncle!"
"What."
"What?"
"What…?"
"Whaaaat?"
"Excuse me, what?"
Jotaro and the four huntresses stared at Josuke blankly.
"You did mention family came to your town to find a serial killer, but I never thought it would have been your nephew, and I absolutely would never have guessed he would have been your nephew." Blake said, astonished by the discovery.
"Hold on, why the hell are you trusting his word?! I never even heard of him."
Josuke sighed and stood up, "Well, it seems I'll have to convince you." he said, before suddenly and very swiftly pulling off his outfit!
"Woah! What the heck?!" Weiss shouted, Yang immediately darted over to Ruby and covered her eyes.
"Y-Yang! What are you doing?!" she shouted, trying to get out of her big sister's grip.
"You'll understand when you're a bit older." she stated, looking over at Josuke.
He was wearing a tank top underneath his outfit, and as he turned around, he pointed to the base of his neck, and there laid a perfectly star-shaped birthmark.
Jotaro gasped, "No...Are you really part of the Joestar bloodline?!"
"Wait a sec!" Ruby shouted, pushing Yang off her and making her drop onto a bed like a sack of potatoes, "Are you telling me that everyone in your family has that birthmark?"
Both Jotaro and Josuke nodded. "Talk about genetics." Blake smiled, arms crossed as her ears twitched slightly under her bow.
Weiss was looking down, in thought, "I still don't get it, you're sixteen." she started, pointing at Josuke, "And he's seventeen, like me, Blake and Yang. How could you possibly be his uncle?!"
Josuke sparked an idea in mind, and looked at Jotaro, "Jotaro's sixteen...So you can't be the same Jotaro I met in Morioh, you must be his younger version!"
"Oh great, what's this now, time travel?" Yang stood up, "Can we please resolve this another day? Josuke was about to tell us something important."
"I was…? Oh, yeah! The Stand Arrows! Why would that be important to you?"
"Because a lot of Stand Users suddenly began appearing in this world, and as far as we understand they only should exist in yours."
"Well, either us Stand Users coming here somehow awakened everyone's potential in this world at once, which sounds stupid." Jotaro started, "Or it's whatever this guy's talking about."
Josuke's eye twitched slightly, "I have a name, you know."
"Anyway, as I told you four before he came in, the arrow can turn a strong-willed individual into a Stand user, and if it's not strong willed it kills the person instantly."
"So, it could be possible that if someone brings. one of those arrows here, they'd be able to create as many Stand users as they wanted?" Blake asked.
Josuke quickly nodded, his hair bobbing up and down, "Yes, in theory. In fact that's exactly what happened in my town, it got swarmed with Stand using criminals that got shot by the Arrow."
"Well, there you have it, if that Arrow is here, it would explain a lot of things." Yang said, walking over to Jotaro, who was still in a rather confused state.
"You should probably tell this to the others...Speaking of which, where are they?"
Jotaro blinked, staring at her, it took a second for the question to register, "Oh, right, I know this is a bad time to tell you all, but we're planning to leave town."
"What? Really?" Ruby stood up, surprised.
"Why?" Yang simply asked.
"It's too dangerous here, we're going..." He looked around, making sure that nothing or nobody was listening, "...Somewhere." he vaguely concluded.
"Well, while you're out in the middle of 'Somewhere', you should make yourself useful and find something about this Arrow, whoever is gathering Stand users is not far from Vale. We'll do our best to find the Silver Records." Weiss said.
"Woah woah hey! Am I the only one not understanding most of this?" Josuke pushed his hands forwards, as if to sign all of them to slow down.
Yang turned to him, and placed a hand on her hip, "We have a lot to explain to you, also please put your shirt back on, don't do that in front of the kid."
"What? You mean me? I'm not a kid!" Ruby whined, like a kid, "Plus, there's nothing weird about this!" she said, looking at Josuke, like she was challenging the almost perverted vision of her half-sister.
"Wait, did you always have those muscles? I guess those clothes are really tig-!"
A pillow seemingly coming from out of nowhere smacked Ruby in the face, knocking her on the ground before she could finish the phrase.
"This is going to be a headache..." Blake said tiredly, rubbing her forehead.
After the, more tiring than expected, goodbyes, Jotaro and the others were already on the train by evening.
"Really? You've found your uncle, who comes from the future...And somehow also ended up here?" Polnareff repeated in disbelief, "Are you sure you didn't fall asleep while going back, and dreamt it all?"
"I'd like to think it was true, but it was so surreal that I wouldn't rule that out at this point, it was fucking weird."
"I don't doubt that, I think it would be weird for anyone to meet someone who knows their future self."
Polnareff awkwardly laughed at the irony, "Yeah, no doubts."
"Wait, if he knows your future self, then will you somehow get out of this world?" Kakyoin pointed out.
"I...Didn't think of that, could be possible." Jotaro answered, could all his actions be pre-determined? A sudden doubt washed over him, if it was fate for him to fight Dio, has fate determined he will do the same in this world?
He shook his head, no point in thinking about that kind of stuff now.
He relaxed on the seat of the train, and started to silently wait.
Meanwhile, in the cargo wagon:
The woman in victorian-esque clothes coughed as she got out of the dusty box, "I know we're supposed to be a duo, but this is a job much more fit for you than for me." she said, tapping her cane on the ground.
The big, hooded man practically smashed out of his box, "Not my idea, blame Anguis, she's the 'master of Vale's countryside', or whatever dumb title she gave herself:"
"So, basically, we're under her orders." Fiore said, not pleased at all by the fact. "Like always, we're subordinates, despite us having seniority over them."
"Are you going to judge the Master's choices? If he says we're subordinates, we're subordinates." said the hooded hunter, a stern look on his face.
Fiore waved him off, "Yes yes, I know that, Brick."
"Keep that in mind then, speaking of which, what the hell are we supposed to do now? Do we strike right now?"
Fiore shook her head, "No, she just told us to follow them around, and freak them out a little every once in a while, like that letter we brought to the hotel, just what is she planning?"
"Whatever it is, it comes from the Master himself, so whatever it is, it's incredibly important." Brick said, sitting down on the ground, the wagon wobbling as the train moving, "Still, this is pretty damn boring, my axe needs to rend flesh."
Fiore walked over to the wagon's door and took out a strange electrical lock. She placed it on the surface of the door and it attached itself, a strange blue aura enveloping the door "Keep your blood lust in check." she calmly said, tapping her cane on the ground as she walked over to Brick.
"Grrr...Fine, there best be sacrifices to make, though."
"Oh there will be, don't worry."
The next day at Beacon:
"Argh...You four could have given me a blanket, y'know? I feel very unwelcome here!" Josuke complained, fixing his hair which became a mess due to him sleeping on the floor.
"We had nothing to spare, sorry..." Ruby looked down, geniuenly apologetic.
Yang put on her jacket, turning to her Team, "Josuke aside, has anyone noticed that it's been pretty quiet these days?"
"Huh, now that you mention it..." Blake started, "There haven't been any assassins or Stand users with a bounty on our head, even with the Insider we were the ones who searched for him."
Josuke's eyes went wide, "A-Assassins? Did you four do something to piss people like that off?"
"Apart from becoming friendly with your nephew and his friends, no." Yang said, "We're wanted from at least three criminal groups. Possibly four."
Ruby counted on her fingers, "Dio's assassins..." One, "The Door's assassins." Two, "The White Fang." Three, "And the Silver Records, none of them has made an attack in a while."
"Are you going to complain? At least we go to school in peace now." Weiss placed her hands on her hips as she said so.
"Speaking of which..." Yang started, putting on her gauntlets and making sure they were loaded, and Josuke looked curiously, "Today we have the day off, so it would be good to show Josuke around, right?"
"Oh, yeah, sounds like a good idea!" Ruby said, putting up her boot. "What do you think, Josuke?" she asked standing up.
The delinquent boy smiled, "I would be honoured!"
"Nobody objects?" Yang looked around, no objections.
"It's not like I have any better plans today, but please, let's keep our weapons this time, I don't want for it to end like the time we brought Polnareff to buying groceries."
The Team collectively groaned at the memory, greatly confusing Josuke, "I'm not going to ask."
"Well, it should be fine either way. Let's go!" the small leader stated, running to the door and waving at the others to follow her.
Later:
A nice jingle sounded throughout the supermarket, the five walking around, "Man, there's some crazy stuff in this world, even this 'Scroll' Qrow gifted me goes beyond the phones in my world!" Josuke said, taking out the Scroll.
"Uuh, Blake, why are we even here? Don't we eat at the school anyway?" Yang asked as Blake looked over at Josuke.
"It's what we decided, right? Each one of us brings him to a place in town of our choosing. And if he's going to live here, he might as well know what to buy."
Josuke curiously poked an unlabelled bag of orange powder, "What's this? Some sort of ability boosting spice?" he asked, his imagination running wild.
"What? No, that's just curry powder." Ruby said with a slight laugh, "There's no food that gives you more strength, we're not in a game."
Josuke grabbed the bag and flipped it, and there the label was, he sighed in disappointment as he placed it back on the shelf.
After that, it was Ruby's turn, who showed him around a coffee shop, and just because she was leader, showed him a nearby arcade, though they didn't go inside.
After that, it was Weiss's turn, "So, where do you plan to take us?" Josuke asked, looking at the ice princess curiously, she looked up and smiled, eyes closed,
"It will be a special surprise!"
"Ooh, I didn't think you were one for surprises, Weiss." Yang grinned.
"Oh shut it, I'm going to bring you all to a much more refined place, I bet you all never even heard of it!" she said haughtily.
"Yeah, sure, whatever Ice Hipster." Yang teased as a taxi pulled up, Ruby covered her hand, trying to hide the laugh, though the others didn't even try to hide it.
Weiss crossed her arms, pouty "Hmm, I'll let you have that one, just don't call me like that ever again!"
"Man, it's incredible, we barely know each other and yet you four are going to such lengths to help me around." Josuke smiled.
After a long ride, they arrived in an area near the outskirts of the city, and they arrived at a point where most residential buildings and stores were out of sight, it looked like a completely desolate area. After a few minutes, however, the taxi pulled up in front of a small building, a big sign on the front read "Museum Of The Great War"
"Wow, you're right, I never knew of a place like this, it looks...Old." Blake commented as she walked out of the taxi.
Weiss walked towards the front door, the others keeping up, "Yes, but it's also quite empty, not that it's a bad thing, it's perfect if you just want to relax while looking at old things."
Josuke tried to look interested, key word being 'tried', "A-Ah, yes, okay, what's this 'Great War' thing again?"
Ruby smiled, "Well, if we told you it would ruin the point of going here, now come on!" Ruby placed a hand on his back and pushed him.
With Weiss at the head, they headed inside the slightly ominous museum.
Meanwhile:
The balding old man in uniform hid inside the bushes, he placed a hand near his ear, initiating a call, "The targets have entered the museum." he said with a weak feeble voice.
"Good, you now have permission to eliminate them, do it in whatever way you please." the distorted voice on the other side of the call said.
"Understood." The war veteran closed the call, and held onto his black rifle, "Let's go, Guns 'N Roses." he whispered, petting the weapon.
[To Be Continued]-