Stand Name: Factory Showroom

Stand Ability: Can switch the functions of electronic devices within its range.

Metal Detector: Can switch the functions of two chosen electronic devices.

Design: A chaotic mess of 100 of robotic arms like one might see on an assembly line with a singular glowing eye at its center.

Destructive power: D

Speed: B

Range: B

Durability: C

Precision: A

Development Potential: B

Okuyasu

I brought The Hand's palm down once more. It carried me the final stretch placing me right in front of Jolyne's hotel. I took a moment to regain my stamina. I had hurried here as fast as I could, but I was afraid I still might be too late.

I took a look down at the woman under my arm. Her gaze was fixed on the floor. It seemed she still hadn't recovered from her fight with the stand user.

I had always known she was a bit unstable. She had kidnapped Koichi early on in their relationship. But I still cared for her. I want both of them to be safe, they were some of my only friends.

I pushed open the door to the hotel and stopped. Something felt really off. The air had an electric quality to it. I couldn't really explain it but it felt like the room was wrong and I knew it.

I looked around the room. There had to stand user in the room somewhere. My eyes darted left and right. Up and down. All around the room. I took a step back as the sound of a radio snapped me out of it.

My eyes shifted to where the sound was coming from. Leaning against a vending machine was a police officer. He was listening to a handheld radio. "Young woman, long black hair, angular features," came a voice from the other end. "Keep your eyes peeled." It's been a while since we've had a murderer in town," remarked the man wistfully.

I had to be careful to avoid him. I leaned Yukako against the wall outside. "Hey, wake up," I whispered. Her eyes bore into me only separated by an unnatural period of winks.

I sighed and stood up. I would have to leave her here for now. An unresponsive woman would draw too much attention. I would have to be quick about getting help from Jolyne and Josuke.

I entered with confidence and strolled right up to the elevator. My finger made its way to the button. But before I could click it I was interrupted with a long, uncomfortable ding. My eyes moved from the button to the opening doors. I only had a moment to prepare before Josuke jumped out with Jolyne under his arm.

Oh. That was unexpected. Josuke noticed me and quickly wrapped me under his arm. "Crazy Diamond!" I could barely react fast enough. A pink aura wrapped itself around his palm and we were carried through the glass doors. "The Hand!" Shwoooop. Space was erased and Yukako was picked off the ground and hurled towards me.

Just as her hand-knitted with mine a car drove through her. Her wrist cracked and body ragdolled unnaturally from the impact. I didn't have time to think about it right now, I just had to move. I moved my hand down her arm so I wasn't putting a strain on her broken wrist. "Freeze!" came a voice from in front.

I turned to see a police officer pointing his gun at us. He was stopping us from going any further in the alley. "Make any sudden moves and I'll shoot." There was a crack as Josuke sunk Crazy Diamond's feet into the ground. It was no use though. Whatever Josuke was restoring was carrying us pretty far away. "The Hand." As soon as I'd said it the officer fired. I managed to dodge in time to avoid the bullet. It whizzed past me leaving a small streak of blood. On my cheek. The gun flew past as well, hurtled through space by my ability.

Bang! Another shot from behind. I reacted at a turtle's pace. The bullet had made me flinch. The body under my arm shifted. She couldn't stand, but elevated herself with her hair. The officer from the lobby stood shocked as the bullet dropped. It had been stopped by a wall of hair a meter tall.

He backed up slowly but slipped. He fell on the ground throwing his gun in the air. The object he slipped on slid under our feet. The gun tossed in the air went off as it left his hand. The bullet flew straight for Jolyne. Luckily she still had enough fight to summon her stand. "Stone Free!". The stand punched the bullet with a right hook. The bullet changed the angle of the momentum filled gun on the floor. It spun into the hands of the officer in front.

Bang! I turned to see the cop fire once more, as if out of fear. The bullet flew over the now slumped Jolyne. Based on its trajectory it was going to miss all of us and fly straight through. Josuke was hit in the ear taking a piece out of it. I was shocked, but then I realized what had happened. I had forgotten that we were still moving. Josuke was still being dragged forward by the object he was restoring. Instantaneously a pipe matching the spot blown off was severed letting light fumes escape the body.

In reaction, Josuke punched the cop's lights out. He fell to the ground with a thud.

"You see it now don't you," came a voice from behind I didn't recognize. I turned yet again to see a woman tearing off a now unrecognizable outfit. Underneath she wore a long sleeve shirt with triangles running down the top of the sleeves. Around her neck sat a large amount of noisy glass jewelry. She could have been a wind chime if I was blind.

"This is my stand, Carry On Requiem." She raised her hands to praise the light bathing her. "Are you surprised, scared maybe. Perhaps you wish to know the nature of the power that will defeat you, or even of the arrow you have just lost." The air was silent, but I felt it again, stronger than last time. Space was wrong around her. I took a step away from her.

The form of a stand slowly manifested behind her. It stepped into the entrance of the alley. The stone on the outside had fallen away, but not before it was superheated. What was once sand had become a divine being of stain glass handcrafted by god himself. The plate on its mouth had melted and taken shape as a golden ring around its neck. Light refracted within its body one million times forming a sphere of every spectrum of light. Some light escaped it. As the beams of light escaped they ran across the ground. Everything they touched was brought a second chance.

Small grass struggling to grow out of the darkness of the alley began to rise up. Not only that. Many blades of grass escaped and upturned the concrete. Where the grass grew a new man stood.

A teenager with a terrified expression. "Don't shoot!" He cried and fell into the fetal position. "But you're dead," Said the cop behind us. "I… I shot you." The young man met his terror with rage. And like a beast from hell, he pounced and tore away at the man's flesh. It was like a horror movie.

The woman ignored all of this. Her gaze never left Jolyne. Jolyne to my surprise responded. "What is this stand, it messed with space and time." she pointed her finger. "What is your power." The old woman cackled. "I see no downside to telling you, there is no way to counter it after all." Jolyne inhaled heavily and summoned her to stand. A bruised and beaten Stone Free was summoned from within Jolyne. It collapsed on the ground somehow exhausted.

"You will have to listen closely because this is going to get a little complicated, and even I'm not sure of the specifics. My stand before this had the ability to place the spirits of the dead into the living, functionally possession. Based on that I know humans have spirits, things that leave them when they die and determine their identity as a person. A spirit does not determine the physical appearance, however."

"By experimenting I know animals have spirits too. Even grass has a spirit, although I was never able to do anything with it. It couldn't even enter a human body despite animals having the same power. So what else has a spirit? Rocks? Hills? Mountains? Maybe even cities? If so what is the identity that defines them? What if the soul can be viewed, and manipulated."

"My stand works on an even grander scale than all of that. My stand can view and manipulate the soul of the world, what one could perhaps call god. It is quite difficult to achieve, however. I was only able to give it one simple, generic law. I have changed the fabric of reality for a large patch of the world to conspire in my favor. I've given it identity and purpose. Perhaps I will be able to work even greater miracles given time."

"Of course all of this is simply a guess based on what I know. Perhaps I'm wrong entirely." "You sure love talking about yourself lady don't you," shouted Jolyne. "Josuke lets go!" He gave her an exhausted nod and removed Crazy Diamond's feet from the concrete. All of the energy trying to move them must have been building up, like a slingshot.

They flew through the air towards a car dealership. "Jolyne!" Called Josuke without flinching. Jolyne, in turn, raised her arm to the sky. It was gone. In its place was a large parachute. That's what she must have been doing while the crazy woman was talking.

"Yukako!" Called Jolyne. The woman stayed slumped, but her hair traveled up Jolyne's arm filling in many of the holes Jolyne couldn't. "Okuyasu!" whispered Yukako.

I had no idea what was going on. How were they able to have this much coordination without speaking a word. I gave a fearful look towards my best friend. He gave me a reassuring smile, and I knew what I had to do.

"The Hand!" My stand materialized from within me and rotated about my feet until it was posing below me. With one swift motion, it drew its hand as far back as it could manage. It drew a line in space carrying us upwards. The extra space was what the parachute needed to slow our fall.

We landed with a collective thud onto the paving of a car dealership. Josuke opened his palm letting a small metal part fly under the car and back into place in the engine. I was shocked to see it was a Lamborghini. "Josuke what is... ". He gave me that smile again, and I almost felt safe.

Of course, I wasn't. Our enemy was apparently the whole world. There was no way we could fight that. I was terrified. I felt insignificant.

The feeling that space was wrong only became more and more real. It felt like I was being puppeted, and I hated it.

Josuke touched the stub where my arm once was sending his pink aura coursing through it. "Your arm should be heading back to you now."

He turned to address everyone present. "I stole the keys a long time ago in case it was ever necessary to beat a stand user, but I didn't want to take it until I paid for it." "If we make it out of this my family has close ties to the Speedwagon foundation, I can do what I can to help." Said Jolyne.

Josuke nodded, spinning the keys around his index finger. He made a move to unlock the car and sighed. "Right then, let's get started."