Hello, King Spike Rules here and this is the next chapter. There will be a new threat and a new Stand from the group revealed. Also, i feel i should say this. When i started this fic i had not gotten to JoJolion yet and was not awe of Soft and Wet powers. Lonesome Dove is similar but not the exact same as it.

Chapter 9: Fighting the Clock Pt 1.

The group sat next to their destroyed van waiting for the return of Kite and Mary to return from the office. John sat on the sidewalk near one of the doors looking closely at the three men standing around the van. Franky was in the middle of another cigarette, taking deep drags of them as he took glaces at him and then resumed to his smoking. Doc was acting like nothing had happened while strumming his guitar gently and Kieth was working on his revolver, looking at John as he did it and their quickly stole glances at each other.

"Okay, it's all set up." Kite said walking out from the office and addressing them, stopping between the sidewalk and van, looking at them all before saying, "Me and Mary set it up where we can get a car in two days, and the Speedwagon Foundation has paid for our stay with three rooms." Kite tossed John a set of keys and then tossed one to Kieth, "John, you and Mary will share a room, and Keith and Doc will have one too."

"Don't get any ideas." Mary said from behind him and made John turn back to look at her.

"What kind of guy do you think i am?" he asked her and she did not answer, walking towards their room, leaving there signing before following her.

"What was that attack for Kite?" Franky asked him when John was out of ear shot and they all turned towards him, waiting for Kite to answer him.

"I'm the boss of this group and no one give us orders." he said and walked away from them to his room, leaving the group on their own to think about his answer to them.

"I guess that's it for that." Keith said standing up and headed to his room, leaving Franky and Doc on their own contemplating on how things were going on. A few hours later the sun was getting ready to set with tension in two of the rooms and John was still in shock from what had happened in the van.

"You still going on the trip?" Mary asked from the other bed and he turned to her with a puzzled look on his face, and so she continued, "You could just say so and we will leave in the morning." John was shocked about her saying this and was about to dismiss it until the thought of it filled his mind, turning back to face the window and letting what she said sink in when there was a knock at the door.

"Hey, I'm heading on a food run to the diner, want something?" Keith said standing by the door and John turned to Mary, who was thinking for a moment.

"I could use a Patti melt." she said to them sitting on the bed and John turned to look at him.

"I'll take a cheese burger." he said to Kieth, who tipped his hat and began to walk off. John closed the door and let out a sign before he said, "Let me think it through." Mary nodded to what he said and went on the get in the shadow as John laid back on his bed, staring at the ceiling.


Keith was whistling a tone walking towards the diner, haven gotten the orders of everyone in the group and the money from Kite to get it all. He smiled seeing two pretty girls near the diner and they smiled when they saw him.

"Evening ladies." he said tipping his hat and getting them to giggle at him, making him smile wide opening the door to the diner and headed inside. About seven minutes later, the door to the diner opened and he began to walk out with bags in hand with their food. He walked down the sidewalk when a guy walked past him. Keith stopped feeling something on his hand and checked it, seeing it was nothing on it and shrugging it off until a sharp pain filled his chest. "S-shit." he mumbled staggering back and dropping the bags, holding his chest tightly and looked down. What he saw shocked him as a large timer was now on his chest with ten minutes placed on.

"I guess you can see you see the problem your in." a voice said making Keith turn around and seeing the guy standing there smiling, he had blue hair with yellow eyes and glasses on with a white suit on with white clock hands all over it. Keith instantly knew he was in trouble and pulled out his revolvers, aiming them too him.

"Who the hell are you and what do you want?" Keith said aiming them to him and the guy didn't even pay him no mind when he saw the guns aiming at him.

"Oh, you should really relax and just let us talk." he said pointing towards them and confused, Keith looked down to see the clock on his chest was starting to count down with it saying 09:45:40.

"W-what's it counting down too?" Keith asked confused looking at the clock and watching it continue to count down as the guy just chuckled.

"Your death, that's the power of my Stand." he said smirking and his stand began to form, showing a tall, square shaped humanoid figure with clock hands all over it, a spiky head, a clock face like mask with working hands, long stringy arm, and no lower torso."Meet Final Countdown, he counts down to where you will die unless you tell me which room your friends are in." Keith looked form his clock to him and got a serious look on his face.

"You really think your stand scares me?" Keith said putting his guns back in his holsters and tipping his hat down, slowly looking up and showing his eyes when a cloak like thing appeared in front of him. Seeing that made the guy gulp and take a step back with Final Countdown still in front of him. Keith threw his arms back and the cloak followed suit, revealing a tall humanoid in a blue cape, long arms with revolvers in both, a few knives on its waist , a large ten gallon hat on it head with a bandana over where its mouth and yellow eyes. Stones appeared through out it and floated over Keith whoa smirked, saying, "Time to face, Rhinestone Cowboy." The guy stepped back and began to sweat nervously stepping back when Rhinestone aimed its gun right at him.

"Oh, shit." he yelled when it fired, causing him to jump out of the way and then an explosion was heard from behind him. The guy looked back and saw a hole where the bullet had hit. "Explosive rounds, the fuck?" he mumbled turning back to look at Keith who was still in his pose.

"Yep, you better be ready for a shoot out." he said Rhinestone Cowboy began to fire at him again and the guy jumps back from the bullets, seeing them explode from the impacts to the sidewalk.

"Shit, Final Countdown." he yelled out loud with his Stand appearing and took a few of the shots form Rhinestone Cowboy's attack, seemingly unharmed from it. Keith gritted his teeth, glancing down to see the clock ready 07:57:30 and looking back up to the guy in front of him.

"I'm not finished yet." Keith said with Rhinestone Cowboy put one of the revolvers into a holster and then placed the other in front of him, firing six shots nearly instantly and they all hit Final Countdown at once. The combined explosions made it skid back a few feet and the guy hold his stomach with a groan.

"Ha, that's the best you got?" the guy asked smirking from behind his Stand and waited for more time to pass, checking his watch to see the time, "Come on, it has to be soon."

"Your lost will be." Keith yelled leaping into view and the guy looked up shocked to see him aim his gun towards him, firing a few shots at him. The guy panicked when his Stand's hand swung into view to block the attack. But one of the bullets got past and brushed against his leg, ripping the clothes and cutting his leg. The guy winced and held his bleeding leg as Keith took aim with his revolver in hand.

"You bastard." the guy yelled out as Final Countdown threw a punch at Rhinestone Cowboy, hitting him hard and sending Keith flying a few feet. Keith grown sitting up and rubbing his chin, he gasped when he saw that the guy was gone and he looked around frantically.

"Shoot, where did he go?" Keith asked himself looking around more and still didn't see him, looking down at the clock on his chest and saw it was 07:20:52. He gritted his teeth out of frustration when he saw blood drops on the ground, grinning wide following the trail. Near a dumpster, the guy ripped off part of his suit and tied it around his cut trying to stop it from bleeding.

"Man, when will it kick in." he grumbled pulling it tightly on his leg and glancing out to see Keith was getting near, the guy groaned out loud summoning Final Countdown, having him push the dumpster. Keith was near the dumpster when Keith saw the dumpster roll towards him.

"Ha, is that it?" Keith said summoning Rhinestone Cowboy, who put his hands on it and slowed it down. Keith pulled out his revolver and slowly walked around behind the dumpster, aiming his gun when he saw nothing. "Huh?" he said looking around curiously and got confuse when suddenly he felt strange, feeling tied and dropping to his knees panting heavily from out of no where saying, "W-w-what's going on?"

"So it finally kicked in." a voice said from around the dumpster and the guy came in view smirking at Keith, who looked at him furies and tried to have Rhinestone Cowboy to attack him. But Rhinestone was fading out and soon was gone much to Keith's horror. "I think you confused as to why your Stand vanished." the guy said smirking wider and bringing out Final Countdown to look down at Keith before he continued, "With the clock counting down, it drains your life force slowly and make you weakening. Making it harder to keep you Stand up, and that means." the guy stopped and Final Countdown began to throw several punches, hitting Keith a lot and sending him a few feet landing hard on the ground groaning. "Are you going to tell me what i want or not?" he asked watching Keith roll onto his knees and forcing himself up, panting as he looked at him with blood running down his face.

"I'm not telling you nothing." Keith said focusing all he could and Rhinestone Cowboy appeared, aiming it's guns at him firing a few rounds at him. But the bullets burst before they were even near him and Keith was left shocked, wincing as he knelt down and groaned from the pain of the punches earlier.

"You really are just a dunce." he said walking up to Keith and kicked him hard in the stomach, making him cough up a little blood and rolled a few feet before stopping looking at the guy slowly walk towards him saying, "We still have minutes to change your mind."

TBC.


That is it for this chapter, i hope you enjoyed reading it and please leave a review to tell me what you think of it.