This chapter is meant to introduce a brand new member of the team. One who will be showing up frequently. Disclaimer: I don't own Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Kamen Rider, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Future Diary.

Stars Are Eternal Chapter 11: A New Evolution

The Higashikata family was having dinner at home. "I notice we never invite Grandma to these evenings," Jogo noted. "She shares a first name with one of your school friends," Pinkie explained, "Don't ask me how, but that would get confusing for people." Jogo looked at his dad. "Are you really gonna question your mom's logic on this?" "Good point," Jogo said with a reserved sigh. Just then, all the lights in the area went out, flickering on and off before going out completely. A sudden light bulb appeared over Pinkie's head, allowing for illumination. "I love having a cartoon for a Stand power," she said, "In the meantime, looks like the plot decided to kick in."


Koichi checked in on Minami. "All of our other friends who can control electricity have alibis," he noted, "That only leaves you. Though I was confused as to how you could pull it off from a holding cell. And then I remembered something I encountered back in my high school days." "Sheer Heart Attack," Minami realized, "I've heard the stories of Yoshikage Kira." "Not just him either," Koichi clarified, "But also Polpo's Black Sabbath in Naples. Both of them had something in common… They were independent Stand, capable of moving on their own with only programmed instructions. Limited intelligence, but a lot of power to back it up."

Minami smiled. "It's true. High Voltage is also independent. Even now it's finishing the experiment I intended." He leaned forward. "It's a device based on one from a book I wrote called Unholy Night. Have you read it?" "A group of revolutionaries creates the means to steal electricity from an entire city," Koichi noted, "Including cars, backup generators, anything that was powered by electrical energy." "The concept is the same," Minami admitted, "But I specifically altered this device so that it wouldn't drain electricity from vital areas, such as hospitals. I worked on that novel with a criminal psychologist named Koya Nishihori. I'm sure you've heard of him from the news reports."

"Got arrested last year for committing copycat crimes," Koichi noted, "He was arrested when he tried to mimic the Phantom Thieves." "He was brilliant when it came to figuring out criminals," Minami said with a nod, "But as it turns out, not so good when it comes to actually committing crimes. However, there may be an issue. I can still see through my Stand, much like I'm viewing a live documentary. And High Voltage sees members of the Omekata group approaching. If it cannot complete its task, then the whole city really will experience an Unholy Night." Koichi leaned towards Minami. "What is this device for?"


"They want to find more people with Stand potential?," Jogo asked. 'Even without their Stand active, those with Stand potential have greater than average neural activity,' Koichi explained over the phone, 'The device could be used to find anyone in Morioh with that potential, then take the shards from Egoist and pop 'em in.' Meanwhile, on the same road, Shinzo was speaking to someone on his own phone. "I know Number 001. Her evolution is almost complete. And I'm on route now to stop the Omekata from destroying the device and potentially plunging all of Morioh into chaos."

He and Jogo wound up running into each other. Shinzo recognized Jogo first. "Talk about coincidence. I don't believe we've been formally introduce. Shinzo Hiroi, formally Number 002." "That's that one crossed off the list…," Jogo muttered, "So why are you here?" "I had been intending to confront you to see how my power stacked up to yours," Shinzo admitted, "But perhaps now's not the time. One of the hunters is trying to attack Minami while he works on his device." "So Tsubaki is one of the twelve hunters," Jogo realized, "I might have guessed. I think this is right around the time Mom would say, 'Damn you plot.'" Shinzo raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything further as he lead Jogo to where the device was.


Koichi had gotten the word out to every Stand user friendly to the group, and they were confronting the Omekata. This was causing confusion in Tsubaki's Stand, since her attention was getting focused everywhere. Jogo hurried up to the roof of the electric plant were High Voltage was putting the finishing touches on the device. "You really think this is gonna be enough for ninety or so Stand users?," he asked Shinzo. "From what I understand Morioh is like Stand Central Station," Shinzo explained, "Even Joseph Joestar can't get a good bead on anyone specific in this place." Jojo nodded. "Yeah, Grandpa tried once when he was looking for my dad. Got a dangerous serial killer instead."

"I assume you're talking about the one sealed inside the Angelo Stone," Shinzo said with a chuckle. "Dad has quite the temper," Jogo noted, "Just don't insult his hair." Shinzo laughed. "Wouldn't if I wanted to. I actually like his style. Even since my Stand awakened I felt liberated from my old businessman job. I even managed to find the girl of my dreams." Jogo nodded. "Good for you." He looked down and noticed that even the Stand users that had evolved from shard bearers were there, save for Minami who was still serving a minor sentence. Several Omekata managed to get on the roof. Jogo immediately went into action. "Activate Smoke and Aero!"

A smoke machine appeared on Cosmic Mind's right leg, while a vacuum machine appeared on its left, working int reverse to blow the smoke even further out. "Cosmic Mind!" "Kickstart My Heart!" Jogo and Shinzo activated their Stands and started knocking around the group members. "Activate Elek!" Cosmic Mind shifted forms and swung its baton around, accidentally hitting Kickstart My Heart. "Oh crap! Sorry Shinzo!," Jogo called out. He then noticed Shinzo was only slightly phased. "Don't be… Now I can fight a little harder!" The burning red Stand tossed several Omekata. "Kickstart My Heart grows stronger as it fights," Shinzo explained, "And it can grow even stronger by absorbing heat. That electric jolt definitely damaged it, but it was able to absorb the heat and damage to increase it's strength just a little bit."

After several moments of fighting, High Voltage finished with the device. Several suburbs got hit with the resulting blackout, but other than that the city's electricity seemed to be intact. "That should be enough," Shinzo said as the Omekata retreated, "Time will tell if this plan will work. Father Roche doesn't seem to be all that interested in making more Stand users. He's clearly intending something else entirely." "You don't trust him," Jogo realized. Shinzo nodded. "None of us do, save those that have yet to evolve." He began to walk off. "Perhaps next time we will have our fight, but until then I need to check in with my friends. Ciao."


Mitsuharu welcomed Shinzo back. "She's just about ready. Her shard is already starting to crack." He nodded over to a young woman named Misuzu Hatori. Behind her was Dyson Sphere, already starting to crumble apart. It soon fell apart, replaced by a vaguely humanoid female colored white with red accents. "I did it!," Misuzu said excitedly, "Shinzo, I did it!" She and Shinzo hugged. "I told you that you could pull it off. If that idiot teacher of yours could see you now…" Mitsuharu cleared his throat. "If you're both done making me look like a third wheel… Misuzu, I believe you should chose a name for your Stand." Misuzu nodded. "I've already thought of one… The Medic."


A few days later, Koichi was in a police conference. "As of late, several high profile rich men with possible ties to criminal activity have been assaulted," the chief said, "In every case evidence of slowdown was present." "Sounds like someone has a vigilante streak," Koichi noted, "If there's slowdown, the possibility of shard bearers is there. There are only ninety of them left, including the ones that have evolved but not been contained. How many were attacking at once?" "Just one," the chief replied, "And every time he was corralled and reprimanded by an African-American man who appears to speak fluent Japanese. This man could walk normally in the slowdown, suggesting he is possibly either a shard bearer or Stand user." 'Maybe both,' Koichi thought.


Jogo and Yuki looked through the houses of one of the victims. "This place looks kinda familiar," she said. "That's because it used to belong to Yoshikage Kira," Jogo explained, "It was the Kira family's ancestral home. But after the death of Yoshikage and his father Yoshihiro, it was put up for auction. Hanamura, the victim we're investigating, was the one that bought it." He looked at the shelf. "Nice to see he cleaned up the blood and fingernails…" "Blood from what?," Yuki asked. "According to my dad," Jogo explained, "Yoshihiro would hide the bodies from his son's serial killer life before getting a Stand arrow from Enya Geil, which rendered such actions unnecessary. What's left of those early bodies were eventually found and buried. But no one's sure if we got them all."

"And the ones Kira killed when he got his Stand were never found," Yuki said sadly. Jogo nodded. "Anyway, I'm not sure what Koichi expects us to find. Feeling out slowdown isn't like tracking one of those overlays the Phantom Thieves have been delving into." "Speaking of which," Yuki said, "I saw Goro on a talk show the other day. Strangely, one of the audience members he spoke to had a Stand that looked a lot like W Boiled Xtreme, Joker's Stand." "Must have been Joker's civilian guise," Jogo reasoned, "Even with the mask just covering his eyes most people wouldn't recognize him, and only a Stand user would be able to see W Boiled Xtreme."

Suddenly, the duo found themselves hit by a slowdown, their Stand keeping them active. "What the heck!?," a middle-aged man's voice said. The duo ran out to see the man in question. "Is that the shard bearer?," Yuki asked. "One of them," came another voice, with a slight accent. The duo turned around to see an African-American. Jogo gasped. "Hey! That's the actor Bernard Ackah! He played the human forms of the Phantom Caitsith in Kamen Rider Wizard and the Gunman Roidmude in Kamen Rider Drive!" "Funny you should mention Gunman…," Bernard said with a smirk.

A blue serpentine dragon with six finned wings appeared behind him. "That's Number 017!," Yuki called out, "Leviathan Dragon!" Jogo noticed cracks running along the shard. "Now for long it isn't. Looks like Bernard has Stand potential." Sure enough, Leviathan Dragon crumbled away, leaving a robotic humanoid with a cowboy motif. "As I was saying," Bernard said, "It's funny you should mention my former role as the Gunman Roidmude. Because I was thinking of naming my new Stand… Gunman!" Gunman lifted twin magnums and started firing. "Split Personality!" Yuki split herself as one of the bullets started to reach her, allowing her to dodge out of the way.

Jogo noticed the bullet phased through the wall behind her without harming anything. "Guess hiding's a no-go," she muttered. "If it's a shoot-out you want," he said, "Let's try something more advanced. Activate Gatling!" Bernard quickly got out of the way as the gatling gun went off, grabbing the other guy as he did. "And this is why I told you not to try covering your tracks! That only makes things worse!" "What'll we do!?," the man said, panicking. "We get out of here," Bernard said simply, "Gunman!" His Stand started using covering fire to let the two escape. "Think the other guy was a shard bearer," Yuki said as she pulled herself back together. Jogo nodded. "I think so. But we didn't get a chance to see his shard."


As the duo raced through the Morioh, the guy with Bernard was clotheslined by a pure white figure with angel wings. Jogo and Yuki stopped to look as a young man with white hair stepped into view. "Are you another of the hunters?," Jogo demanded. "No," the young man clarified, "I am here to stop that foolish game by taking out as many shards as I can. My name is Aru Akise. And this is Song of a Certain Truth. It generates a melody that let's me divine the truth of whatever I'm seeking, such as where the suspect of the recent attacks is fleeing."

The older man grunted. "Heraldry Patriarch!" He summoned a floating blue crystal surrounded by a sharp sickle, Number 018. He charged at Aru, only to get smacked around by Cosmic Mind. "Can't let you have all the fun," Jogo pointed out. Aru laughed. "Goro mentioned you were a master Stand user." "You know Goro then," Yuki said. Aru nodded. "We're both detectives, and he asked me to come out here to give you guys a hand since he was too busy with the Phantom Thieves case. Since my girlfriend Tsubaki is involved I obliged him." Heraldry Patriarch was showing signs of damage, until a warm light surrounded Number 018, healing up the cracks.

Misuzu approached, The Medic emitting the light. "Now what?," Jogo asked. "She was the bearer of Dyson Sphere," Aru explained, "Looks like she evolved." "And I intend to make it harder for anyone to destroy more shards," Misuzu replied, "Thanks to The Medic's power." The three of them hurried off, The Medic leaving flower petals as a distraction. Aru started to chase them, but Jogo held him back. "We'll run into them again. You know that theory about how Stand users are drawn to each other? It started here in Morioh."


Sure enough, Jogo and Yuki were later able to confront Bernard as he and Number 018 were arguing about another possible attack. Jogo quickly confronted Bernard, who activated Gunman to attack. "Activate Shield!" Jogo put up the special shield of Cosmic Mind, which let him deflect the bullets. Meanwhile, Yuki stopped Number 018 from escaping. "Split Personality!" Yuki and her copy, charged with Stand energy, quickly bombarded Heraldry Patriarch, eventually decimating it. Jogo, meanwhile, had managed to overpower Bernard and Gunman using the Gatling attachment, finally knocking him out.

Aru soon arrived. "You guys got here faster than I did." "Mom used her Stand to get eyes all over the city," Jogo explained, "After that I just warped us here using the Cosmic attachment." Aru nodded. "This leaves eighty-eight shards not contained. Or destroyed. Bernard will likely get off due to trying to stop Number 018." "It's still miles to go before we can sleep," Yuki noted, "And those hunters are still making trouble. We know there are still ten of them out there, having already arrested two." Aru closed his eyes. "And some of them are people I'm rather close to. This is not gonna be an easy assignment."

No, it is not. By the way, anyone know any good English voice actors for characters that don't have one. Remember that it is permitted to have a voice actor voice more than one character, though it will only be permitted within the same Part if either A, it's a returning character, or B, the cast is huge (like with Spirit Tracks and Jojolion). Now for the breakdown:

001 002(END) 003(END) 004 005(END) 006

007 008 009(END) 010(END) 011 012

013 014(END) 015 016 017(END) 018(END)

019 020(END) 021 022 023(END) 024(END)

025 026 027 028 029(END) 030

031 032 033(END) 034 035 036

037(END) 038 039 040 041 042(END)

043 044 045 046 047 048

049 050 051 052 053 054

055 056 057 058 059 060(END)

061(END) 062 063 064 065 066

067 068 069 070 071(END) 072

073 074(END) 075 076 077 078

079 080 081 082 083 084(END)

085 086 087 088(END) 089 090

091 092 093(END) 094 095 096

097 098 099 100 101 102

103(END) 104 105 106 107 108

Now for some Stand info:

The Medic (Song by Foxing)
User: Misuzu Hatori
Ability: Mutated from Egoist shard Number 009, Dyson Sphere. True to its name, The Medic can repair anything that uses life energy. This not only includes humans, plants, and animals, but also Stands or anything that uses Stand energy. It can also defend itself using shields made from generated rose petals, and attack with strong tentacles that can fire lasers. It also has enhanced eyesight, allowing for microscopic and telescopic vision.
Power: B
Speed: C
Range: B
Durability: A
Precision: B
Potential: C

Gunman (Song by Orden Ogan)
User: Bernard Ackah
Ability: Mutated from Egoist shard Number 017, Leviathan Dragon. Gunman wields twin magnums with enough stopping power to damage even high defense Stands, and the bullets are capable of phasing through solid objects. While more suited to long range combat, the Stand is quite competent is close quarters, since the heavy barrels of the magnums are excellent as blunt weapons.
Power: C
Speed: A
Range: A
Durability: C
Precision: A
Potential: E

Song of a Certain Truth (Theme of Aru Akise from Future Diary)
User: Aru Akise
Ability: This Stand can generate a musical tone that allows Aru to divine the truth of any given situation, whether it's the answer to a question or the direction a fleeing suspect is taking. In addition it's a strong fighter when needed.
Power: B
Speed: B
Range: C
Durability: A
Precision: B
Potential: B

That's just over 250 Stands I've created, including the ones from GTKH and Phantom Thieves Origins (no new Stands from there, by the way). Hope everyone's staying safe out there. Read and review.