Most stand users gain stands not through their inherent resolve, but by the use of stand arrows, including the stand users of Riverford. The Speedwagon Foundation carefully tracks each of these arrows, trying to make sure that none of them get into the wrong hands. However, in 1992, Europe exploded with stand users under the employment of a Russian mafia. The only explanation was that the mob boss obtained a stand arrow of his own. Despite this, there were no records substantiating the presence of a stand arrow in Russia.

Jonas Johannes was sent on a mission, at first to save an unrelated person, but soon evolved to be finding this mysterious source of stands, and defeat the mob boss who commanded these stand users. It was revealed that the mob boss had under his employ a man named Ivan, a stand user who controlled the stand called "Stand by me" a stand that could create one-time use arrows that dissolve after being stabbed into someone.

After defeating the mob, Jonas told Ivan to never go to America, or else he would beat the devil out of him. However, the Speedwagon Foundation had tracked down his whereabouts to the town of Riverford, and dispatched Jonas to defeat him.

Jonas found a payphone near the outskirts of town to call the foundation. He needed to, since he was holding Ivan by the collar of his shirt while his limbs and mouth were bound by duct tape, and that would look pretty suspicious to anyone watching him.

A voice came from the phone, "Hello, this is the Speedwagon-"

"Jonas Johannes," He interrupted, "I have Ivan with me. I need you to send someone here to get him."

"Uhh, ok," Said the operator. Jonas had called a special number for stand users on foundation missions, so they knew what he was doing, "Why aren't you going to bring him to us yourself?"

"Do you have records of a stand arrow in Northern California?" He asked.

The operator was silent for a moment, "Can I get back to you on that? We need more time to check that stuff."

"Darn," Jonas swore, "Look, there are a lot of stand users in this town. There's probably an arrow here," Before the operator could ask, he said, "Ivan said that he had nothing to do with the stand users here, and didn't even know they existed. Then I fought a teenage girl with a stand. Also, my nephew has a stand and so do two of his friends-"

"Mr. Johannes," The operator interrupted, "Slow down. We'll send someone to pick up Ivan. Stay as long as you need."

"You've really come out of your shell, Jordan!"

One of Jordan's classes that he took for his first year was beginner's drama. At first, he rarely participated in the stupid games that tried to get people to open up. However, almost dying three times in the course of four months makes acting seem a lot less terrifying. So it made sense that his teacher would tell him he's been coming out of his shell.

Only, his teacher wasn't telling him that. It was this girl in his drama class. A short-statured and short-haired brunette girl that usually took the lead in the drama games. Jordan didn't even know her name, actually.

"Ok. Thanks," He said. He went to leave for his next period.

"Oh, hey," She called. Jordan stopped and looked at her. She seemed a bit nervous, "Uhh..do you want to like, hang out at all? After school?"

Jordan sighed, "No thanks."

I'm not falling for that, Jordan thought, shouldn't she know how similar that is to the strategy Donny used to jump me? Yeah, right. Jordan wasn't in the mood for getting in a stand fight. It had been almost a month since the fight with Goth, and he was getting ready for Halloween.

After describing this situation to Donny and Melvin during lunch, they both loudly groaned with disappointment.

"Really, dude?" Melvin asked.

"What?" Jordan shrugged.

"That was a girl asking you out," Donny said, "Not, like, explicitly, but it was close."

"No way," Jordan scoffed, "What am I even doing to get a girl to like me?"

Melvin glared at him, "You don't do something, innocent Jojo. It just happens. A girl is just attracted to you sometimes."

"Oh yeah," Jordan scoffed, "I'm just being myself, and a girl just happens to like me? Sure. Sure. No, she's definitely a stand user."

"And if she is?" Melvin asked.

"Beat her up and then date her after," Donny said, "It worked with Melvin."

Jordan glared back at Melvin, "You're still dating Goth?"

Melvin shrugged as he took a bite of his sandwich.

"Unbelievable."

"She's been decubed," Melvin said, "And you know what? We're still good together. It's beautiful."

"Well, one half of the relationship is beautiful," Donny said.

"Hey!"

Jordan was right. On the walk home, he caught that girl tailing him. She was being fairly obvious about it. He'd never seen her on his route home before, yet there she was. He decided to ambush her to make sure she didn't get the drop on him. When he was walking through the park, he dipped behind a tree during one of the turns. Sure enough, she came around.

She saw that Jordan wasn't there, and stopped. She scanned the surroundings, so Jordan ducked further behind the tree. Then she looked frustrated. "Dang it!" She exclaimed. She turned to go home.

At that moment, Jordan jumped out from behind the tree, "CHAMPION!"

His stand came barrelling out in an explosion of electricity, and cocked back its fists as she turned to face him. She screamed as she did, clearly startled by his surprise attack. My first stand fight I'm gonna win instantly! Jordan celebrated.

"YA-T-"

Champion stopped. Its fist came within inches of her face, yet there was no response. Maybe she was faking it like Goth?

"Ya-ta?" Another test punch. No reaction. "Ya-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta...ta-ta?" No reaction from any of the test punches.

"Hey, what the hell?!" She yelled, apparently not at the stand trying to attack her.

Jordan stared at her, looking past Champion to see what the deal was. He ignored her question, asking, "Why were you following me?"

"I wasn't-following you!" She yelled, frustrated, "Look, my house is that-that way, and I was just walking the same way."

"Why today?" Jordan interrogated.

"What?"

"Why, specifically, today did you take this route?" He walked closer to her. He was wondering if she was faking not being able to see his stand.

She shook her head in frustrated disbelief, "I wanted to see…if I could talk to you," She crossed her arms, "Since you said you didn't want to hang out, this seemed like the next best thing."

Jordan put his stand away. "So," He said, "You're not...trying to kill me?"

"Oh my God, no, what?" Now she was concerned, "Why would you possibly even think that?"

Oh my god, Jordan thought, she's not a stand user.

"To be honest…" Jordan paused, "I guess I...I just have some trust issues. I'm sorry."

She didn't say anything.

"Hey, what's your name?" Jordan asked.

"May."

"Ok, May," Jordan said, "If you wanna...hang out like you said, we can. I guess I should try and trust people more."

For a moment, it looked like she changed her mind.

"Ok," May said.