ThanoSstinks: That's a big no. The Susan beat down was pretty much a reference, it wasn't really foreshadowing anything other than Susan's upcoming transforma-
Shit.
Coco Jumbo: I didn't want to make Kyoka reliant on Johnny, you know? She may have feelings for him, but she's just as strong of a character as he is. I really want her to be the Koichi of the story, she has her weaknesses, her doubts, but she will become strong enough to overcome them. And don't worry, they will eventually come together...although I have no idea how that's going to happen just yet. KyoJo...huh.
Coolk: Some pretty good ideas! I think I might use some of them.
Kosaku Valentine: Thank you so much! You're the man...man.
EDGQ: No, while I am caught up with both mangas, it would be unfair to the anime only readers if I started spoiling the manga. Also, I might end up diverging from the MHA canon, depending on which ideas I decide to implement.
TheSBRdude: Don't worry, Susan will get what is coming to her...and it will be PAINFUL, and yes, I made a callback to team Buccerati.
CrazyHeartAttack: I'm not sure Heaven Ascension DIO would work in this story, but I'm glad you're enjoying it so far!
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I just want to say a few things before I begin the chapter. First of all, I would like to thank all of you for sticking with me this far, I truly didn't expect the story to blow up the way it did. Second, I would like to talk about the future of the story.
The elephant in the room: Johnny and Kyoka. I chose Kyoka as Johnny's love interest due to their similarities. They're both not very confident in themselves, both sarcastic as hell, and truthfully, I love them both.
I've already set up their feelings for each other, but I can't for the life of me figure out how or when they are actually going to get together, only that I want it to be during season four, before she sings "Hero Too." If anyone has any ideas on how I can somehow get these awkward misfits to end up together, please let me know.
Susan is becoming a primary antagonist, alongside Santana. These two will be the primary threats going forward, since Valentine is dead. Santana especially, he will attempt to build an empire and become an ultimate life form in his own right.
Jotaro is going to try to be the best father he can be. Izuku will be drifting away from the main group, but it won't be far, he will eventually come back...let's just say he and Johnny will get to do a really big combo move, on a really big villain. Also, do you think Izuku would be mad if he found out Johnny killed Valentine?
Johnny, Gyro, and Kyoka are essentially the Josuke, Okuyasu, and Koichi of the story. These three are the definitive main characters, while Izuku is kind of the...Jotaro? Rohan? No, Bakugo would probably be the Rohan. He's still going to be heavily involved with them, but he's ultimately the protagonist of his own story. Of course, these three will interact with the other characters, but the story is going to be told from their three points of view. Gyro and Kyoka will get chapters focused solely on them. What would you all like to see them do?
And finally, Diego and Hot Pants will reenter the story at some point, although I'm not sure when. It will be after the events of the spinoff.
I wish you all the best, and thanks for reading!
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Meatball: Okay Kyoka, I've been rehearsing this all night.
Headphones: Rehearsing what? Your love letter to Momo?
Meatball: No, I don't actually know her all that well yet you know, I'm not that desperate. I'm talking about what the Wicked Witch of the West said to you today.
Headphones: Oh, that.
Meatball: Look, Kyoka, you aren't ugly, and you're not plain either.
Headphones: Then what am I?
Meatball: You're a walnut.
Headphones: ...good night Gyro...
Meatball: No, I mean you're like a walnut, you're trapped in this big stupid shell, but when it is cracked open, there's a tasty little snack inside.
Headphones: So if you crack me open...I'm a snack?
Meatball: You already are dumbass! The shell is your own self doubt, your insecurity! You've let the words of a few select people get to you, and it's preventing you from being happy. When you came out in that dress on I-island, you turned a few heads! Johnny fell out of his wheelchair!
You need to get your head out of your ass, and look, actually look, in a mirror! Johnny is infatuated with you, can't you see that?
Headphones: I'll think about it Gyro, thank you.
Meatball: I mean it, you know, I don't make shit like this up!
Headphones: I know. I'll see you tomorrow, I can't wait to see the look on Midoryia's face when he sees Johnny standing.
Meatball: Nyo ho! It'll be hilarious!
Headphones: Did you just 'Nyo ho!' over text?
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Johnny took a deep breath, facing the gates of U.A, more specifically, the building that he was going to be moving into. His classmates were gathered outside, oblivious to his presence, save for a certain purple-haired musician, who was shooting him a few knowing glances.
He wasn't nervous though, he was terrified. He hadn't seen them in so long, and how would they react when their previously paraplegic classmate walked over to them? They would obviously have a few questions, and he wasn't sure how he would answer them. It wasn't like he could just say it was Jesus, then they would think he was a nut.
Johnny shook his head, and turned to Gyro, only to realize the Italian wasn't there anymore. Gyro was strolling up to his class without a care in the world.
"Say hello to the new foreign exchange student bitches!"
Yare yare daze...so much for subtlety...
Johnny fired a bullet into the ground, and entered a wormhole. He wasn't going with the same forward approach that Gyro had was.
"ZEPPELI?! You're a student?!" Iida exclaimed, oblivious to the wormhole that went between his legs.
"Yep! Mr. Joestar thought I had talent, so he pulled a few strings!"
Izuku put up. "That's great Gyro! I'm sure JoJo is probably really happy for you."
"You don't know the half of it kale chip."
Izuku turned around to see Johnny standing right behind him, and then promptly fainted.
"DEKU?!"
"JOJO?!" The whole class exclaimed.
...
Jotaro watched from the front steps of the Heights Alliance as class 1-A gathered around his son, pestering him with questions and excitement. He smiled, they were really happy to see his son, walking around no less. Aizawa walked past him and towards the class and began to reprimand them for risking their necks to save Bakugo.
Not that it mattered, Johnny could have taken on the whole League with Gyro at his side. If their fight had taught him one thing, it is that he should have more faith in his son. Truthfully, Jotaro was ashamed that he had ever doubted Johnny, wasn't it his job as a father to support his son? He was glad that Johnny managed to beat some sense into him.
Jotaro was going to make it up to him. He was going to make sure that his son would thrive, succeed where he failed, and the first step...
Would be to get Johnny a date.
Jotaro wasn't blind, and he knew his son better than anyone. Even now, Johnny and Kyoka just couldn't stay away from each other. Johnny had never, NEVER, been this close with a girl before, he was always either hanging out with Izuku or lazing around the house. Even when he was living with Joseph in America, he would hardly ever leave home. Johnny was his son in every way, he wasn't really comfortable with the opposite gender, and the fact that they were already that close, that he told her things that Jotaro didn't even know...it had to mean something.
Now, Jotaro wasn't an expert on romance, Susan was living proof of that. He was barely married, and to be perfectly honest, he wasn't sure if he ever loved her. Sure, he married her, and sure, they had two kids together, but he was never really around to truly know her.
Maybe if he had stuck around, Johnny wouldn't have suffered...
It doesn't matter now, the past is the past, there is no changing it. But Kyoka could be Johnny's chance at happiness, and that is all that Jotaro could ever want for him. Sure, Jotaro was about as experienced in romance as a rock, but he was going to try his best.
Besides, he was pretty sure that Gyro would be more than happy to help.
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"Let's have a contest to see who has the best room!" Mina exclaimed. Johnny raised an eyebrow. "Ashido, I haven't finished unpacking yet."
"Come on! We just got you back, shouldn't we do some bonding exercises to get to know each other a little better."
"Well I only know a few of you, so I'm game!" Gyro said.
Iida stood up. "A brilliant idea, Ashido! We must get stronger as a class!"
Johnny frowned, he really wished he could keep his privacy, but there was no getting around it now. It wasn't like he had anything to be embarrassed by, so he supposed there wouldn't be any harm.
"Alright, but there are a few things in my room that have some sentimental value, so no touching, got it?"
Kyoka gave him a mischievous smile. "Sure JoJo...sure."
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"WAIT NOOOOO! DON'T GO IN, DON'T GO IN!" Izuku cried out as the class attempted to force their way into his room.
When they eventually got in, Johnny wasn't surprised to find that it was covered in All Might merchandise. Izuku stood near his dresser, shaking with embarrassment.
"I gotta say Izuku, I'm disappointed."
"W-w-what?"
"I expected more, you've been slacking in the decoram." Johnny walked over to Izuku's three foot All Might statue. "How do you sleep with this thing watching you?"
Uraraka grinned. "You're such a fanboy Deku!"
Gyro turned his attention to a poster. "Y'know Midoriya, there's nothing wrong with admiration, I think it's adorable."
"I-I-I really admire him, h-he's the reason I'm trying to become a hero."
In more ways than one, Izuku. Johnny patted his friend on the shoulder. "Good man."
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"Okaaay, I feel like I walked into a Hot Topic." Johnny remarked, looking around Tokoyami's room. Said student looked embarrassed.
"Hey, I had this keychain in middle school!" Kirishima said, picking up said keychain.
"A sword, so cool!" Izuku exclaimed.
"Please get out."
...
Johnny sighed. "Well, here it is, don't shit your pants from the excitement."
"Wow! Is that a cowboy hat?"
A cowboy hat with a zebra print sat on Johnny's dresser, along with a piece of rope. Gyro frowned and looked down, putting a hand on Johnny's shoulder as the two remembered their fallen friend. "It belonged to a friend of mine, he wanted me to have it."
Johnny turned his attention to Kyoka, who was poking through one of his drawers. "Hey! What the hell?!"
Kyoka held up a familiar set of pajamas. "I found them!"
Johnny turned a deep shade of crimson as he grabbed ahold of his pajamas. "Give me those!" He and Kyoka wrestled over them, Kyoka giggling at Johnny's embarrassment as their classmates watched with both amused and curious expressions.
Johnny yanked the star-studded pajamas from Kyoka's grip and shoved them back in his dresser, giving her an annoyed look the whole time.
"You conniving little shit."
Gyro shook his head, turning his attention to the room. It was fairly normal room, except for Slow Dancer's saddle hanging on his wall, and a Fleetwood Mac album hanging above his window, alongside Billy Joel and Prince.
Kyoka was looking up at them with a big smile on her face.
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"Ashido, there is so much pink in this room, my eyes are going to melt." Gyro said, blinking multiple times in a row.
"Well, pink is kinda my thing!"
Johnny looked around. "I think I've gone colorblind."
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Kyoka grimaced as she slowly turned the doorknob to her room. The class gasped in awe as her collection of instruments and posters was exposed for them all to see.
"There's so many instruments! Can you play all of these?!"
"Y-yeah..." Kyoka said, and then she came to a terrifying realization. She had let Johnny, the guy she had been crushing on for who knows how long, into her room. He was in HER ROOM.
Oh God...he's looking around...
What if he thought it was stupid? What if he laughed at her? What if-
Stop it. Johnny would never do that to you...
Johnny turned to face her, and she was surprised to find a look of amazement on his face. "Well, I think this is the coolest room I've seen so far!"
Gyro walked over to her drum set and began to clown around on them, and Kyoka marched over and seized the drumsticks from the Italian. "Dude, no."
Izuku looked around in admiration. "Wow, you must have a real passion for this stuff!"
"Your rooms girlier than this." Kaminari remarked to Aoyama.
"That's because I have style!"
Kyoka angrily turned around and jabbed them both.
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"Who do you think is going to win the room contest Johnny?"
"Sato."
"Because he had food?"
"Because he had GOOD food."
Gyro stopped at his room. "All right folks, prepare to be amazed!"
Everyone gasped as that the hallway flooded with light, and Johnny pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Yare yare...why am I not surprised that it looks like that?"
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Johnny sat down with his three best friends on the couch in the common room. "Well...a few months ago, I thought my life was over. Who knew that things would turn out this way?"
Gyro smiled. "A few months ago, I was signing up for a goddamn race, and now I'm in Japan starting a hero career. Life really does have it's twists and turns."
Izuku shrugged. "I don't know, a few months ago I was breaking my arms every time I threw a punch."
Kyoka grinned. "You never know... JoJo, remember when we first met? I had no idea I had just met one of the best friends I would ever have, and nothing could have prepared me for you two knuckleheads."
"Life throws shit at you, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Besides, it looks like things are finally looking up."
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Blood stained the hallway of the Speedwagon Foundation headquarters, as Santana walked past several mutilated bodies of Speedwagon agents. They were neither Hamon users or Stand users, therefore they stood no chance. Santana made his way into the room he sought, cornering a terrified scientist.
Santana was now sporting a mechanical hand, and he had a black leather jacket and his orange hair was messy and unkempt. His combat boots thudded against the floor as he slowly made his way over to the scientist.
"The arrow...where is it?"
"I-I-"
"Back on I-Island, Joseph Joestar grabbed me with some unseen force, which upon further investigation I found it was called a Stand. The arrow in this facility has the power to grant people the power of a Stand, does it not? Give it to me."
"A-Are you going to let me live it I-"
"No...but I won't go after your family...so give it to me, or else..."
The scientists raised a shaky hand to a safe hidden in the lab, putting in the combination, and reluctantly handed a golden arrow to the last Pillar Man. Santana gazed at the arrow triumphantly, before backhanding the scientist, taking his head clean off of his body.
Finally...with this, I will have a Stand of my own! Joestar and his kin won't stand a chance against my power! With this arrow, I will create an army of Stand Users to do my bidding, and I will become the emperor that Lord Kars always wanted to be! I will make him proud!
But...I need to make sure this arrow works before I use it on myself...I need to use it on someone who hates the Joestars as much as I do.
Santana pulled out a cell phone. He had recently figured out how to use it, if there was one thing humans were good at, it was their gadgets. He scrolled until he found an article. The article had a picture of a brown-haired woman screaming into the camera.
Susan Cujoh: From Martyr to Menace.
Santana smirked.
Perfect.