Kosaku Valentine: Thank you so much! I'm truly glad you have been enjoying this story so far, and your support means ZA WARUDO to me! You are awesome!

Guest: I don't want to spoil anything...but let's just say: if Johnny was able to go back to U.A, hypothetically of course, he would have to convince one of his teacher's to let him back in. I mean, he is a drop out after all. And hey, I get it, Johnny is at his best when he is around his classmates.

Coco Jumbo: I like the way Coolk put it. Gyro will always be Johnny's Jobro, although Kyoka is still pretty important. There is a reason I keep comparing her to Koichi, I have a Part 4 dynamic going on. Kyoka is more than Johnny's potential love interest, she's the Koichi of the story. Johnny isn't her only priority, while it's obvious she has feelings for him, she is also pretty independent.

Coolk: Be prepared, there's another one.

TheSBRquestioner: Yeah, the SBR is nearing it's end...but will the end be the same?

"Oof."

Joseph climbed out the window, his back was killing him, but he persisted. He needed to find Johnny, no matter the cost. "Mr. Joestar?"

Joseph looked down on the second floor balcony to see Diego Brando staring up at him. "Do you need help? You look tired."

"No...this isn't the first time I've had to climb tall buildings."

Diego shook his head. "Of course not...sorry, I know this isn't anything new for you, just showing concern, that's all."

Joseph sighed. "Climb up, I'll wait for you."

"Really?"

"You want to prove that you're turning your life around, right? You can help me look for Johnny and the others."

"Um...about that.."

"Hmm?"

"They just ran by, I saw them through the window...they are two floors below you."

A bead of sweat ran down Joseph's head. Shit! I must have climbed past them!

"Hermit Purple!"

Purple vines sprouted from Joseph's hand and wrapped around the windowsill above him. "You ready to see something cool Diego?"

"I'm ready to catch you when you fall."

"Don't worry! I'll have you know I have watched Die Hard at least a thousand times!"

"That just makes me more concerned..."

Joseph kicked off of the building and used Hermit Purple to swing into the window below him, startling Izuku, who fell backwards as the old man smashed through the window.

" YIPPIE KAI YAY MOTHERFUCKER! "

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"...Yare yare daze."

Diego used Scary Monsters to scale the building, and he crawled through the shattered window. "ARE YOU MAD?!"

"Mad and Proud of it!"

Johnny gave his great-grandfather an unenthusiastic frown. He, Gyro, Kyoka, and Hot Pants had just caught up, only to walk straight into one of Joseph Joestar's shenanigans. Diego finished crawling through and turned his attention to the group.

"You must be Johnny's school friends, correct? Diego Brando."

"Aren't you the guy that tried to injure Gyro's horse during the first stage?" Melissa asked.

"...yes, but I'm trying to make up for it. Might I say, you look marvelous in that dress Hot Pants." Diego said, trying to deflect the conversation.

"Shut it."

"SHHHH!" Iida motioned for them to keep quiet. They were near the laboratory now, and he slowly peeked his head around the corner. "Security bots...around 40."

"They knew where we were going..."

Joseph wracked his brain. "So...how could we get past them quickly?"

Kaminari walked up. "Don't worry guys, I got this."

"Oh no."

"Come on, JoJo! Have some faith! I've improved since the last time you saw me."

"..."

"ALRIGHT, HERE I GO!" Kaminari ran into the room. "1.3 MILLION VOLTS!"

...but it was ineffective.

"No?...alright, how about 3 MILLION VOLTS!"

Kaminari unleashed a shit load of electricity at the security bots. "No! If you do that-"

"Yee..."

" ...you'll turn stupid." Kyoka put a hand to her face.

"Well...at least he stopped the robots." Gyro said.

Every single robot turned and focused their attention on the third Zeppeli.

"...karma is a bitch."

Click...

The group turned to find that Joseph suddenly had a Tommy gun out, pointing right at the robots. "Eat lead..."

RATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATAT!

Bullets hammered into the robots, tearing a multitude of them to shreds, leaving the rest of the group staring in disbelief as Joseph cackled like a maniac.

"JoJo, I think I can speak for everyone when I say...your grandpa's scary." Kyoka muttered.

"Where do you think I got the crazy from?"

"How did he do that? Those robots were supposed to be bulletproof!" Melissa said.

"I filled the gun with Hamon! This old man still has a few tricks up his sleeve!"

"Good...you'll need them."

Joseph's blood ran cold, as a hand emerged from one of the destroyed security bots, and a giant man with flowing orange hair climbed out, giving the eldest Joestar a glare that indicated murderous intent.

"JoJo..."

Kyoka turned to Johnny, before realizing that Johnny wasn't the only JoJo in the room.

"Santana..." Joseph responded. The old man's playful demeanor had turned into a dark grimace, as the two old enemies faced each other.

"Santana...like t-the Pillar Man?!" Izuku stuttered out, fear evident on his face.

"Kids...RUN."

"Gramps-"

"DAMMIT, RUN!" Joseph wrapped Hermit Purple around Johnny and Gyro and flung them towards the stairs, while the rest reluctantly followed them. Izuku stared back. "M-Mr. Joestar?..."

"Go Midoriya, this is my fight."

Izuku frowned and nodded, and rushed to join his friends.

Santana slowly approached Joseph, a menacing aura enveloping the two as they locked eyes.

"Happy. Fun. Nice to meet you man."

Joseph raised an eyebrow. What is he...

Oh.

"HAPPY. FUN. NICE TO MEET YOU MAN!"

Joseph gritted his teeth. "Bastard..."

"What's wrong, JoJo? Where are those pearly whites? You used to be so full of energy..."

Joseph checked his Tommy gun, he had wasted all of his bullets on the robots. He threw the gun to the side and wrapped Hermit Purple around his fist. "I don't really feel like it..."

"Because you are protecting your kin?"

Joseph's heart skipped a beat.

"That boy being carried...he looks a lot like you when you were younger... am I wrong?"

"You won't touch him."

"I've decided serious isn't a very good look for you, JoJo. Where is that cocky attitude? You know, the same one you had when you KILLED MY MASTERS?!"

Santana brought his arms above his head, and his ribcage shot out of his chest towards Joseph. Joseph brought his arms out to his sides, and he pushed against the overwhelming force as Santana's ribs threatened to crush him. Joseph managed to duck out, and Santana charged him.

"Master Kars! They told me what you did to him! You gave him a fate worse than death!"

Finally, the cocky grin that Joseph was known for came back onto his face. "Yeah, and once a year...I bring out a telescope, and I just sit back and laugh as he floats by!"

"DAMN YOU! YOU DISHONOR HIM!"

"That bastard didn't have any honor. Wammu did, and Esidesi to an extent...but Kars? No, he was just a bastard through and through!"

Santana punched Joseph in the ribs, causing the eldest Joestar to go flying, coughing up blood in the process. "You're an old man now, JoJo! There's no way you can fight me like you did in your prime! I will avenge my masters, and I will destroy humanity in their name!"

Suddenly Santana felt something wrap around his arm, and he turned to see nothing. Something is restraining me, but I can't see it!

But Joseph could, he was using Hermit Purple. Joseph used his stand to yank Santana off the ground, and began to swing the Pillar Man around in circles, before flinging Santana straight into a wall. "True, but I've learned a few new tricks."

Santana climbed out of the wall, shaking his head. Joestar...he grabbed me with something, something that I couldn't see! Is this some sort of Hamon trick?

Then Santana had his face busted open from a thrown clacker. The clacker returned to Joseph's hand as he began flipping it around like nunchucks, and proceeded to give Santana the finger.

Santana felt the burning beat of Hamon run down his face, and he knew that Joseph had wounded him. He's still just as much of a threat now...no he's even worse. He's had time and practice on his side...but I know his weakness...

He's protecting his kin.

Santana turned and rushed up the stairs, much to Joseph's confusion. "Hey! Running away is my thing!"

Why is he runni-

"OH NOOOOOOOOO!"

Joseph bolted after him, knowing the implications. If Santana caught up with them...they're just students, there is no way they would survive.

Midoriya? He's getting better, but against a Pillar Man he's toast. Iida? Faster, until he isn't. Yaoyorozu? While her quirk is impressive, nothing she could make would have any effect on him if she couldn't use Hamon. Johnny? He would have stood a chance, if his movement wasn't severely limited. Gyro? Joseph had no idea what he was capable of with the Spin, but he wasn't taking any chances. Jiro? She could weaken him if she had some sort of speaker, but Santana could easily rip her earphone jacks right off. Kaminari? He's stupid right now.

Only Joseph could defeat him.

...

"They're EVERYWHERE!" Gyro hollered as he flung a steel ball into a cluster of robots.

"Where's Izuku?!" Johnny yelled.

"He went with Melissa! They are going to the security room!"

"Then we better protect their asses!"

Johnny fired two shots, and dove into one of the bullet holes, startling Iida, and emerged out of the other one. The hole began to move along the floor, taking Johnny with it with a surprising amount of speed. Johnny began gliding along the floor within his own personal wormhole, taking robots out with nail bullets as he went past.

"Since when could you do that?!" Diego asked as he smacked a robot with his tail.

"A few floors ago."

"...okay."

Momo had created a cannon, and Kyoka was firing it. "YaoMomo, more ammo!"

"YaoMomo?"

Momo collapsed. She had used too much of her quirk and now it was taking it's toll on her. Kyoka rushed over to her friend, only to be knocked aside by an astounding force. Kyoka hit her head on the wall, fell to the ground, and lay still.

"Jiro..." Momo attempted to go over to her friend, only to see what knocked her over in the first place.

Santana was sprinting as fast as he can...he had knocked Kyoka away in his haste.

And he was heading right towards Johnny.

"JOJO!" Momo managed to shout out, and Johnny turned to see the Pillar Man heading down on him...

Except Gyro got in the way, ready to take the blow.

Joseph had just made it, and saw his adversary was about to crush Gyro...

Gyro was sacrificing himself...

The image of blood seeping out from underneath a cross-shaped rock was burned fresh in Joseph's memory.

He had already seen a Zeppeli die to a Pillar Man...he wasn't going to let that happen again.

"CAESAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" Joseph screamed involuntarily as he ran faster than he ever thought he could, Hamon coursing through his body, as he slammed into Santana with enough force to send both him and the Pillar Man flying straight into the elevator doors, smashing through them.

Joseph summoned Hermit Purple and grabbed onto the ledge of the elevator shaft, only to feel a hand clamp around his leg. Santana began climbing him, desperately trying to reach the top. Gyro ran to the edge and reached out. "MR. JOESTAR! TAKE MY HAND!"

Joseph looked back as the Pillar Man made it to his torso, and then at Gyro with a smile. His smile was calm, tranquil, as he had come to terms with what he had to do.

"Take care of Johnny for me."

"W-what?!"

Joseph released his stand as Gyro frantically swiped for him, but it was too late.

Joseph turned and punched his enemy, the eldest Joestar and the Pillar Man punching and kicking as they fell into the darkness.

"MR. JOESTAAAAAAAR!"

Johnny felt as though his heart had stopped. Did...did Joseph just...

"Gramps..."

"I NEED HELP OVER HERE! KYOKA'S HURT!"

Johnny blinked back tears and turned his attention to his former classmates. Santana had smacked Kyoka pretty hard...there was blood running down the side of her head as she lay limp in Momo's arms.

No...

Johnny fired a bullet right beside them, and emerged from the hole and brushed through Kyoka's hair, trying to find the wound. She was breathing...but a head wound was pretty damn serious. An empty pit began to form in Johnny's chest as he looked at her scalp...

She's okay...it's not bad...

Johnny breathed a sigh of relief. "It isn't bad...she got really lucky..."

Hot Pants pushed past him. "Out of my way! I can heal her!"

Johnny felt an overwhelming amount of anxiety. He had almost lost both his great grandfather and his...friend, in a matter of minutes. Kyoka's eyes fluttered open as she rubbed her head. "Shit...what happened?"

"You got smacked by a Pillar Man, that's what happened! You're lucky to be alive!" Hot Pants scolded her.

"Oh...well shit."

Kyoka turned her attention to Johnny, who looked to be on the verge of tears. "After all that shit that we did in my head, only for you to get hit hurt like that? You're making my life more of a roller coaster than it already is..." He muttered at a volume only she could hear.

"Oh JoJo..."

Kyoka pulled him into a hug. She could tell that he was really upset, but was trying to keep himself together the best he could. Wait...he's shaking...this is more than just me...

Then Kyoka saw the lack of the other Joestar.

"Where...where is Mr. Joestar?"

"He..." Everyone turned to Gyro, who was practically sobbing. "He saved me...he called out for Caesar..."

Diego had his face turned down. "He took Santana with him..."

Kyoka's face fell, and she turned her attention to the crippled Joestar in her arms. He might have just lost the man who raised him...and she got hurt on top of that. She pressed her body into his as Johnny shakily said:

"G-gramps..."

Embarrassment be damned, her JoJo needed her.

...

Santana brought his hands up and slammed them into Joseph's back, trying to shake the old man off of him, but despite coughing up blood from the impact, Joseph held strong.

Santana grinned as he spoke.

"You really think a fall from this height will kill me, JoJo? I'll just come back and kill them later!"

"Your next line is: Isn't falling the way we ended things last time?"

"Isn't falling the way we ended things last time?...WHAT?!"

Joseph grinned as he held out his hand, throwing something around Santana's neck. A..an elevator cable?! He cut it?!

"I called the elevator from the top floor just before we jumped! You're not going to just fall, Santana: You're going to be crushed!"

"DAMN YOU AND YOUR TRICKS!"

Santana attempted to time a punch so he could break out of the shaft and into one of the lower floors, but Joseph wrapped the elevator cable around his fist, at the same time summoning Hermit Purple to grab onto a safety ladder.

Santana was now hanging from the cable while Joseph used Hermit Purple to prevent them from falling. Joseph looked up and saw the elevator, that had it's cables cut, hurtling towards them.

"You trying to take us both out, JoJo?!"

Joseph thought back to Johnny, all the pain the boy had to go through...no, he couldn't die on Johnny, he still had so much to teach him. Joseph looked down at his nemesis.

"Nah."

Then he channeled Hamon into the elevator cable around Santana's hand, causing his enemy's hand to crumble. Santana gasped as he once again began falling, coupled with a missing hand. The last sight the Last Pillar Man had was of Joseph Joestar waving goodbye at him from the service ladder as the bottom of the elevator grew bigger.

"JOOOOOJOOOOOOOOOO!"

THUMP

Joseph grinned as the elevator slammed into the Pillar Man and took him to the depths of the facility. "Heh...still got it."

...

"I'm so sorry JoJo..."

"No...it's okay...he's still alive."

"JoJo, he fell down an elevator shaft with one of the most powerful beings to exist...I highly dou-" Iida was saying before Johnny interrupted him.

"He would have hit the bottom by now...and I would've felt it. He's alive...and I'm pretty sure he kicked Santana's ass."

Kyoka beamed. "That's a relief."

"Wait...you believe this Jiro?"

Kyoka nodded. "Dr. Kujo said that the Joestar family has a blood bond. They can sense when something happens to each other."

Johnny's phone buzzed and he quickly pulled it out.

Best Cheater: Pillar Man? More like Pancake Man!

Johnny groaned. "Yep, definitely alive...yare yare, he gave me a fucking heart attack."

Wheels: If I could kick you in the balls, I would...fucking old man, scaring me like that.

Meatball: Mr. Joestar...thank you. You saved my life.

Best Cheater: And you were prepared to do the same for Johnny...Caesar would be proud of you, you are truly worthy of the Zeppeli name Gyro.

Gyro blinked back tears and smiled. "That old man is even crazier than you, Johnny."

"Yeah, he is...Kyoka?"

"Hm?"

"You can let go of me now."

"S-s-sorry!"

Johnny brushed himself off. He felt...cold. "Now, next order of business?"

More security bots flooded in.

"FUCK!"

"Language, JoJo!"

The group found themselves surrounded by hundreds of these bulletproof robots. Momo was practically down for the count, Kyoka was still recovering from her head injury, Kaminari was still stupid, and Johnny still didn't have working legs.

Gyro brought out both of his steel balls. "Looks like we've got a pretty big fight, huh?"

Diego partially transformed. "I'll chew them up, if you all have my back."

Hot Pants turned to Diego. "We do...you're part of the team now, after all."

Johnny brought out Act 3. "Let's show these glorified toasters what a few pissed off jockeys can do."

That's when the door burst open, as several armed men stormed into the room, followed by a familiar man in a pink business suit.

Funny Valentine regarded the group. "I hope we aren't too late for the party."

Once again...fuck my life.

...

The remains of an elevator smoked in the bottom of the facility. It had landed with a loud crash, and what looked to be a hand was underneath it. The Last of the Pillar Men had been defeated, right?

The hand twitched, and then made a fist.

"Jo...Jo..."