Chapter 1: A Whole New World

Shizuka's grief quickly turned into fear. Something was seriously wrong. She looked around in a panicked manner. This was her room wasn't it? It looked exactly the same, but she couldn't shake the feeling that it was different. It was like her bed was shifted slightly to the left, or that some of the photographs placed on her nightstand were slightly askew. Something was definitely wrong. She summoned [Achtung Baby] to her side.

"What the hell is going on ?" she said to herself.

"Well looks like that Joker was right. I thought that I finally lost my mind." said a mysterious shadow from outside her door. He slowly got up and revealed a thin Italian man in unusually old-fashioned clothes. He wore a jacket decorated with aiguillettes attached to the chest, a plain pair of pants and a pair of old-fashioned shoes. The most distinctive feature about the man was the playing cards standing on his shoulder and the Borsalino hat upon his head. Shizuka's eyes widened in horror.

"Who… Who the hell are you?"

Cannolo Murolo was a man who never really trusted anything but the information his Stand [All Along the Watchtower] provided him. After the new boss Giorno Giovanna requested him to use his Stand to keep his eye on the various members of the Speedwagon Foundation, including members of the so called Joestar family. Cannolo spent the next few weeks breaking into various facilities and placing cards to gather information for him. By using this method, he could gather all the information that he required while fooling both enemies and allies alike as to the true ability of his Stand.

This would all change a few days ago when he suddenly got a splitting headache and saw a vision. It was brief at first, only a flash. However, these visions grew more frequent and longer. Finally, he saw a girl in an apartment which he immediately recognised as Joseph Joestar's adopted daughter, Shizuka. A second later he saw a second Shizuka suddenly appear. Just as his confusion threatened his sanity he saw these two girls fly towards each other and crash into each other. They merged together much like a jigsaw puzzle, before they both disappeared.

Cannolo felt something that he did not feel, would not allow himself to feel. Fear. What was this? He called his Joker back to explain, but it quickly became clear that his Stand was just as confused as he was. His Stand could not show him the future, no matter what he told others. However, he didn't have any other explanation. After making some excuse to Giorno about a possible threat to Josephs' life he manged to get on the next flight to New York and use his connections to get the Joestars to leave the house. How he had hoped that he was wrong. Now he was looking at a second Shizuka Joestar confirming his fears. How was he going to explain this?

"I am a friend of your father." He replied to the terrified girl. " My name is of no importance." He grabbed a sock out of his jacket. After seeing that vision he need to check something. He had used his Stand to grab a sock that he had seen in the vision a few hours before he landed in New York. If he was right, then the sock would try and re -join its counterpart.

He let go of the sock and it flew towards Shizuka, hitting her shoe. Shizuka screamed as the sock crawled around her shoe trying to re-join its identical twin. Before that could happen, the King of Hearts grabbed it and pulled it off, struggling to keep the wriggling piece of clothing restrained.

Shizuka crawled away as quickly as possible while Cannolo calmly picked up the sock and put it into his pocket. He turned to Shizuka and started to speak.

"You know who the Speedwagon Foundation is, right?"

"My dad worked for them." said Shizuka in a shaky voice. It was clear that she was still afraid and suspicious of him.

"Well I work for them too, and now I have to take you to some guys I know."

"What's happening to me ? What's going on?"

"You're not from here." said Cannolo. " I'm not an expert on the schematics of how you came here, but this world is not your world. There's another Shizuka just like you, identical in every way."

"How…How is that possible!?" she screamed out.

"Maybe a Stand ability."

"Your saying someone sent me here."

"Most likely"

"How do I get home?"

He paused and turned to the girl, looking her straight in the eye. "My Stand saved your life today. You saw what happened to the sock. That was going to happen to you if I hadn't intervened. I can't get you home but maybe one of my colleges can."

"It's time to go."

"Can I talk to my mom?"

"She's not here. Even if she was it might be too dangerous."

"When can I see her again"

Cannolo paused again. The girl was the exact opposite of Sheila E. She was afraid and meek, but he saw the same resolve in Shizuka as he did in her. The resolve to see her family again. To get home. This caused him to say something against his character. "I don't know, but I'll do everything in my power to make sure you do." He knew that this was giving the girl false hope, but he secretly hoped that his words were true.

= To be Continued

User: Cannolo Murolo

Stand: [All Along the Watchtower]

Destructive Power: C

Speed: B

Range: A

Persistence: A

Precision: A

Developmental Potential: E

Appearance: Approximately 10 cm in length, All Along Watchtower is bound to a deck of cards, allowing each of them to become doll-like and sentient. The cards have a hierarchical relationship, with such cards as the King, Queen or Jack having higher positions.

Personality: The 53 cards forming All Along Watchtower call themselves the Watchtower Troupe, and enjoy performing circus tricks, such stacking themselves to form a pyramid. They are joyful and appear to get along, but will occasionally fight with each other.

Abilities:

Espionage: [All Along Watchtower] has the ability to spy on targets without being seen or alerting them, then relay the information back to Cannolo in the form of a circus act. They act individually, taking advantage of their thin shape to perform assassinations and gather information while remaining unseen.

[All Along Watchtower] is a weak Stand, unfit for direct battle against most Stand users. However, because of their stealth and range, they are perfect for surveillance and espionage. Because it's composed of 53 independent cards, damage is split between them before reaching Cannolo, causing him to only receive 1/53 of any damage inflicted toward him.

Now due to the dimensional distortion caused by Shizuka Joestars' sudden appearance [All Along Watchtower] can now see brief glimses of the future, visions which become more detailed and common as the event in question gets closer. However, this has only happened once in Murolos' lifetime.

Hey guys, the author here. Had to take a short break. The next chapter will be a time skip to the present day. Shizuka is 21 and still trapped in this strange world. She has spent the last nine years in a state of grief, unable to get home, she is in a depressed state, not willing to interact with many people as a result. She is still determined to get home and is willing to undergo any task the Speedwagon foundation gives her. Her only goal is to find a Stand which can get her home.

More chapters to come soon. Hope you enjoy.