A/N: Let's get a few things out of the way before we can continue.
1. If you don't know by the summary, Part 6 does not exist in this universe, the only original character from Stone Ocean present in this story is Jolyne. So Dio never had a diary and whatnot.
2. I wrote the first 4 chapters 6 months before the rest. So it might stand out a little that chapters 5 and onward seem better written than chapters 1-4. (because they are!).
3. I know that there are a lot of returning characters from part 3, and especially part 4, but this story isn't really about them. You'll see in future chapters that this story will really be about my own original characters and their own Stands, (I've made 20+ original Stands for this fanfiction).
4. This will be updated every Friday with no exceptions. Doesn't matter if it's a holiday or not. So expect a new chapter every Friday without any breaks until the story is finished. If I don't post on a Friday, then assume I'm dead. Or my internet's down. You choose.
5. Lastly, there is a bit of cursing in this fanfiction, but there will be no slurs or f words. Enough rambling, enjoy, and feel free to comment, I will respond to all the comments I can, so feel free to ask questions.
Episode 3: Rocketman and Sweet Little Rock Part 2
"Bravissima!" clapped Tonio when Double Abstract turned one of the tables into liquid, "My, your power is really something! Just for that, your meal will be on the house! May I see your hands, please?" Joanne walked up to the chef and showed him her hands. "Hmmm…" said Tonio, "You seem to be sleep deprived because of stress…" Joanne yanked her hands back, "How did you know that?!"
Tonio smiled, "It's all in your hands, sit down and drink some water." as Joanne walked back towards the table, she mouthed, "What is wrong with this guy?" at Jolyne who shrugged. As Joanne sat down, Jolyne checked her watch. "Shouldn't Koichi be here by now?" she asked.
"Maybe he just ran late," Joanne said.
"I'm gonna go call him," said Jolyne, "Just to make sure he's still coming."
As Jolyne got up to get to a phone, Joanne began drinking the water. "This water's damn good!" she said in astonishment. She began drinking more until her glass was empty. Suddenly, Joanne was crying.
"You alright there, Joanne?" asked Jolyne as she dialed Koichi's number on the phone.
"M-my eyes!" yelled Joanne, "They're shriveling up!"
"What the hell are you talking about?" asked Jolyne as the phone rang.
"I feel great!" yelled Joanne, "I feel as if I've slept 10 hours every day for the past two years!"
Jolyne rolled her eyes, "Okay… Anyways, Koichi hasn't picked up, that's weird."
"That is…" said Joanne, "You think he's alright?"
"He better not be messing with us!" said Jolyne, "Or I'm gonna get pissed off. First, he tells us to go to some bizarre Italian restaurant that doesn't even have a menu, then he just doesn't show up!?"
"Here are your meals!" said Tonio as he came out of the kitchen holding two dishes, one in each hand. "At least we get to eat," said Joanne. Jolyne sat down and looked at the food.
"As you eat your first course, I'll go make the second," said Tonio as he walked back into the kitchen.
"Should we wait on Koichi before eating?" asked Joanne.
"Nah," said Jolyne, "this is what he gets for being late."
Suddenly, all the windows in the restaurant shattered, and two red and grey disembodied hands flew through them like rockets and grabbed Joanne and Jolyne by the throat. "What the hell!?" Jolyne yelled as the hand lifted her off her feet and dragged her against the wall.
"What is this!?" yelled Joanne as she was slammed down onto the table.
"Stone Free!" yelled Jolyne. Her throat unwrapped itself into strings, allowing her to escape the hand's grasp. The string materialized into her blue and gray Stand. "I don't know what this is," said Jolyne, "But I'm gonna destroy it!" Stone Free grabbed the hand and punched it repeatedly. "Ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora!"
"Double Abstract!" yelled Joanne.
"Da hell are you doin', Jo?" asked Double Abstract as she was staring at her user struggling against a hand. "Just get rid of the hand, Abstract!" Double Abstract grabbed some of the forks and knives that were thrown off the table and stabbed the hand with them. The hand loosened its grip, and Joanne was able to break free. "Eat wood, bitch!" yelled Abstract as she threw one of her tubes at the hand. The liquids inside the tube transformed into the table she had liquified earlier and crashed onto the other hand.
"You ok, Joanne?" Jolyne asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," said Joanne, "but what was that?
Two legs suddenly came flying at them, and kicked them both in the stomach, sending them crashing to the floor. "My, my." said a voice, "You guys really did a number on my hands didn't you?" a figure stepped into the restaurant through the broken window, both of his hands were bleeding heavily. "I think you might've even broken one of them," he said. The feet kicked Jolyne and Joanne multiple times.
"You bitches!" yelled the figure, "I was just going to knock you out, but I think I'll have a little fun now."
"Stone Free!" strings shot from Jolyne's fingers, tangled around the man, and pulled him close. "I'm gonna beat the shit out of you!" yelled Jolyne. As Stone Free got ready to punch the man. "Don't get too confident!" he yelled as the hands retracted and came towards him. The hands flew back and connected to a Stand. "Allow me to introduce myself." said the man, "I am Jon L, and this is my Stand, Rocketman." Rocketman was missing its lower legs, its body was a red and gray checkered pattern. It had black lines going around specific parts of the body such as where the hands and lower legs came off. It also had black lines around its neck, shoulders, waist, and upper thighs. The hands, although injured, were able to block Stone Free's punches.
"You're quite feisty, aren't you?" said Jon. The foot kicked Jolyne even harder, hard enough for her to spit up blood. "How does that feel!" yelled Jon, "That's what you get for breaking my hand!"
A plate was suddenly thrown towards Jon's head. Rocketman was able to grab it. "Don't think I've forgotten about you," said Jon as he looked at Joanne. Double Abstract had managed to grab the leg, preventing it from kicking Joanne. The part of the leg that would be attached to the Stand suddenly sprouted flames like a jet. This rocketed the leg forward and kicked Abstract backward.
"What?!" asked Joanne as she was shot backward because of the kick to her Stand.
"This is my Rocketman's ability." said Jon, "It can split apart into separate pieces and use rockets to propel them forward at high speeds." Rocketman broke apart into separate parts. Both arms were split apart into the upper and lower portions, the chest and stomach disconnected, as well as the higher parts of the legs and the head. "My Stand has unlimited range!" said Jon, "Although, if it goes past my vision, I cannot see where it is going."
"Very bold of you to tell us your weaknesses." said Jolyne, "Now I know how I can kill you."
Jon laughed, "Rocketman!" three of the Stand's limbs rocketed into Jolyne, sending her through the wall of the restaurant. "Jolyne!" cried Joanne.
"Don't be so sad," said Jon, "You're next after all."
"I don't think so!" yelled Joanne, "Abstract!"
"Way ahead of you, Jo!" yelled the Stand as she reached to grab one of the tubes. "I don't think so!" yelled Jon as two limbs rocketed towards Joanne. They were suddenly stopped by strings. Jon looked in surprise at the hole in the wall. Jolyne was barely clinging onto consciousness, she was bleeding everywhere, and had probably broken a few bones. Yet, she was still able to stand up, and turn both of her hands into enough string to tie a net and stop Rocketman's limbs.
"Thanks, Jolyne!" said Joanne, "You gave us just enough time! Double Abstract threw a tube at Jon. "No!" he yelled as he used Rocketman's three remaining limbs to try and throw the tube away, but it was too late. The tube formed into the forklift that Double Abstract had liquified back in her battle against Koichi, and it fell on top of Jon. Joanne ran towards Jolyne.
"Jolyne!" she yelled, "We need to call Josuke quickly!"
"J-Joanne…" mumbled Jolyne who had lost too much blood to stay awake, "Th-the limbs… they're not h-here…" Jolyne passed out in the arms of Joanne, the net untied itself and formed back into Jolyne's arms.
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"Rohan!" yelled Josuke as he and Okuyasu saw Rohan's stone body.
"What happened to him, Josuke?" asked Okuyasu.
"I don't know, but he sounded like he was in trouble when he called me."
"You think this was the work of an enemy Stand?"
"It has to have been." said Josuke, "And a pretty powerful one at that, they were able to take down Heaven's Door." Josuke walked up to Rohan and brought out his Stand to try and heal him. "It's no use." he said, "He's not broken or injured in any way, he's just… stone."
"Has Koichi responded yet?" asked Okuyasu as he observed Rohan's statue."
"No," said Josuke as he took out his phone, "Let me try calling him again." Josuke dialed Koichi's number and waited. He could hear a faint ringtone coming from not too far away. "You hear that Okuyasu?"
"Yeah, it sounds like Koichi's ringtone."
The two ran towards the ringtone and found the statues of Koichi and Yukako. "What the hell!?" yelled Josuke, "They got Koichi? And Yukako too? Who did this?"
Okuyasu didn't respond. "Okuyasu?" asked Josuke, no response. Josuke looked up at his friend, "Okuyasu, what's the matter with you?" Okuyasu pointed up at a building. On top, there stood two figures, one obscured in shadow, and the other one glowing.
"Is that…!?" asked Josuke.
"Akira Otoishi!" said Okuyasu, anger in his voice, "Red Hot Chili Pepper, the man who killed my brother!"
"What's he doing out of prison?" asked Josuke.
"I don't know," said Okuyasu, "and I don't care. Today's the day that he pays for killing my Bro!"
"Take it easy, Okuyasu!" said Josuke, "There's someone else up there. Besides, Red Hot Chili Pepper doesn't have the ability to turn people into stone, there must be another Stand user."
"As I said, Josuke," said Okuyasu, "I don't care. You can go fight the other Stand user, I just need to get my revenge on Red Hot Chili Pepper!"
"Okuyasu-" Josuke was cut off by the man obscured in shadows on top of the building. "Josuke Higashikata, Stand name, Crazy Diamond, can heal or fix any object or person. Okuyasu Nijimura, Stand name, The Hand, with its right hand, can scrape away objects or even space in between objects. Both powerful Stands, both will make a fine addition to Dio's collection."
"Dio?" asked Josuke, "Did you just say, Dio!? Answer me! Who are you!?"
"My name is Stue Rod." said the voice. "I will give you the chance to surrender yourselves now, if you don't, we have to resort to beating you half to death.'
"Half to death?" said Okuyasu, "So you don't plan on killing us?"
"As I said," said Stue, "Dio definitely wants your Stands."
"You didn't answer my question!" yelled Josuke, "What do you mean by Dio!?"
"That I cannot tell." said Stue, "I'm only going to repeat myself one more time. Surrender now or we will beat you half to death. Those are your only two options."
"How about we choose the third option?" said Okuyasu, "You give me Red Hot Chili Pepper, and undo whatever it is that you did to Koichi, Yukako, and Rohan, and Josuke and I won't kill you."
Stue smiled. "I guess we'll have to beat you half to death then. Akira!"
"Already on it," said Red Hot Chili Pepper as he once again started absorbing all of the electricity in Morioh.
"Okuyasu!" called Josuke, "Don't let him get all of that electricity!"
"The Hand!" yelled Okuyasu as he scraped away the space between himself and the top of the building. Okuyasu was suddenly five meters in the air. He kept doing this and was slowly getting to the top of the building. "I'll take care of that Stue, guy!" said Josuke as Crazy Diamond punched and broke part of the wall of the building, "Dora!" The wall reformed, but pieces of it stuck out so Josuke could use it as stairs to make it to the top.
"Hurry up, Akira!" said Stue, "I can't do anything if I'm not within two meters of them!"
"Stop shouting at me!" yelled Red Hot Chili Pepper, "I'm doing this as fast as I can!"
With one last scrape, Okuyasu made it to the top of the building, and Josuke wasn't far behind. "It's time for some payback, Red Hot Chili Pepper!" said Okuyasu, "The Hand!" The Hand scraped away the space in between Okuyasu and Red Hot Chili Pepper. Red Hot Chili Pepper was pulled in closer to Okuyasu. "I've got you now, you little shit!" yelled Okuyasu as he got ready to scrape the Stand apart. Red Hot Chili Pepper smiled and sent a shockwave of electricity throughout the building top. The shockwave sent Okuyasu flying off, he was thankfully caught by Josuke who had hidden in his makeshift stairs on the side of the building.
"Warn me next time you do that, Akira!" yelled Stue, "If I hadn't used my Sweet Little Rock's shield, I would've been blown off of the building!"
"Had I told you, Okuyasu would've known what was coming!" yelled Red Hot Chili Pepper, "Let me deal with them!"
"You ok, Okuyasu?" asked Josuke.
"Yeah." said Okuyasu, "I'm just a bit shocked, but come on! I still need to kill that son of a bitch!"
"Wait, Okuyasu!' said Josuke, "We need to find Red Hot Chili Pepper's user. The Stand is too dangerous, especially now that he's managed to suck up all of the electricity in Morioh."
"You have a good point." said Okuyasu, "Where is he?"
"He's over there," Josuke pointed to a few buildings over, "He purposefully separated himself so we won't target him. If we want to hurt him, we'll have to attack his Stand directly. Unless we can make him come to us."
"That makes sense." said Okuyasu, "But how do we get that shithead to come to us?"
"We don't need him to come to us!" said Josuke as he brought out his Stand, "Why don't we go to him instead? I'll distract him, Okuyasu, you use The Hand to scrape away the space between you and that building he's on to get to him." Crazy Diamond punched the building again, and it broke under Red Hot Chili Pepper's feet, "Dora dora dora!"
"Trying to get me to fall?" said Red Hot Chili Pepper, "You should know that I can fly, and now you've given yourselves away!" Josuke smiled. The building was fixed, but the top formed into a spike which pierced Red Hot Chili Pepper's foot. "Ow!" he yelled, "I'll kill you!" Red Hot Chili Pepper started charging up an electricity attack.
"Stop it, dumbass!" said Stue, "Don't kill them, just incapacitate them!"
"Yeah, yeah." said Red Hot Chili Pepper, "I know."
"Go, Okuyasu!" whispered Josuke, "I'll stay here! If he tries to follow you, I'll stop him."
"Right!" said Okuyasu, "Go kick the other guy's ass for me!" Okuyasu used The Hand to erase space between him and the building, and he teleported closer, he kept this up slowly getting closer to Akira Otoishi.
"Will do!" called Josuke.
"So," said Red Hot Chili Pepper, "Going after my user? I don't think so!" Red Hot Chili Pepper prepared to shoot a bolt of electricity at Josuke but was stopped when Josuke nearly landed a punch on him. Red Hot Chili Pepper jumped back before he could get hit. "I know better than to let you get a hit off of me, Josuke Higashikata." He said, "I might as well take care of you first."
"No, Akira." said Stue, "Go stop Okuyasu, I'll take care of Josuke."
"You just said that your Stand is more of a defensive one." said Red Hot Chili Pepper, "Don't you need me?"
"I would if Okuyasu were still here." said Stue, "But his leaving has worked out for the better. Go stop him, I can handle Josuke."
"If you insist," Red Hot Chili Pepper said.
"You're not going after Okuyasu, Akira Otoishi!" Josuke said. Crazy Diamond got ready to punch the electric Stand, but Red Hot Chili Pepper had already zapped away.
"Damn," Josuke said, "I hope I gave you enough time, Okuyasu."
"Now then," said Stue as he stepped closer to Josuke, "are ready to surrender, Josuke?"
"Like hell, I'm not!" said Josuke as his Crazy Diamond prepared to punch Stue. Rocks began to form into a humanoid shape, the shape formed a rock shield around Stue.
"Dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora!" yelled Josuke as he punched the shield. With every punch, a piece of the shield broke off, but the humanoid shape instantly regenerated it. Josuke stopped punching.
Stue laughed, "This is the power of my Sweet Little Rock! Not only can it turn any living thing within two meters into stone, it can also create a rock shield that can regenerate itself almost instantly. It's the ultimate defensive Stand!"
"Two meters?" Josuke asked, "That's the range of my Crazy Diamond, why didn't you just turn that into stone?"
"Sweet Little Rock can only turn living things into stone." said Stue Rod, "Stands are not affected, but humans most certainly are!"
"There you go spouting your limitations again." said Josuke, "You must be very confident in yourself."
"Why wouldn't I?" asked Stue, "Nothing can harm me!"
"Dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora!" The shield instantly regenerated every time Josuke's Crazy Diamond punched a hole through it.
What if I try attacking him from behind? Thought Josuke. Crazy Diamond went behind Stue and started punching, "Dora dora dora dora!" The stone shield dropped from in front of Stue and instantly appeared behind him to block the punches. "This is why I said I would have trouble against two of you." said Stue, "My shield is impenetrable for one Stand but for two, that's a big weakness. Although I do admit that now that my shield is behind me, you could come up to me yourself and attack me, but if you step within two meters of my Stand, you're done for. So there's nothing you can do!"
"Oh really?" said Josuke as he smiled. Crazy Diamond punched the roof of the building right under Stue. The punches formed holes, causing Stue to have to jump out of the way.
"Your shield only works when you're on the ground, doesn't it?" Josuke said with a smile. "Crazy Diamond!" Crazy Diamond punched more holes under Stue. Stue had to jump away again to avoid falling through the roof, but before he could land, Crazy Diamond grabbed him. "Guess you should've chosen option three!" said Josuke, "Dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora dora!" Crazy Diamond attacked Stue with a barrage of punches, and there was nothing Stue could have done to block it.
"Now," said Josuke, "You're going to answer a few of my questions."
"I-I don't thi-ink so!'' said the beaten-up Stue as he grabbed a pen from his pocket and jabbed it into Crazy Diamond's arm. Josuke cringed from pain and accidentally let go of Stue. Stue ran to the edge of the building. "I'd rather die than betray Dio!" he yelled.
"No!" Yelled Josuke as he ran to try and stop him, but it was too late. Stue jumped off. Josuke didn't want to look down at the aftermath, he sat down, not knowing how to feel. On one hand, he had disposed of a dangerous Stand user but on the other, he missed some highly important information. Dio would surely send more Stand users. Suddenly, Josuke's phone rang. "Hello?" said Josuke.
"Josuke!" said Joanne, "We were attacked at that Tonio place by a Stand user!"
"What?!" said Josuke, "Where's the Stand user?"
"I took care of him!" said Joanne, "But Jolyne's badly hurt! You need to get here quick and heal her!"
"I'm on my way!" yelled Josuke.
…
"I found you!" yelled Okuyasu as he made it to the rooftop where Akira Otoishi was standing.
"Stay away from me!" yelled Akira.
"Oh, I'm not going to let you go so easily!" said Okuyasu as he prepared his Stand, "The Hand!"
Red Hot Chili Pepper who had been following Okuyasu shot a bolt of electricity. Okuyasu managed to jump out of the way. "The Hand!" he scraped away the space between himself and Red Hot Chili Pepper. Red Hot Chili Pepper was pulled in towards Okuyasu. Okuyasu grabbed the glowing Stand by the throat and slammed its head on the roof. Akira's head was slammed as well.
Something was wrong with Akira's forehead. Okuyasu noticed that something was squirming on it. Okuyasu looked closer and saw a flesh bud. He had never seen one before but knew what it was instantly from the stories Jotaro had told. "I must've hurt that thing when I bashed Red Hot Chili Pepper's head," said Okuyasu.
He slammed the Stand's head down again, and the resulting attack done to Akira crushed the squirming flesh bud. Akira spat out blood and fell backward, his Stand disappearing. "That was easy," said Okuyasu, "but what was that flesh bud doing in Akira's head?" Akira jumped back up. The flesh bud was still alive, but it was extremely damaged.
"Help me Okuyasu!" yelled Akira as his Stand returned and was moving out of control. The flesh bud couldn't control Akira's mind completely anymore, and the two were fighting over movement. "That's a fine job, Akira." said a voice from behind Okuyasu, "but it seems you're done for, at least we managed to get a few of our targets before the flesh bud lost control." Okuyasu turned around to see Stue. Sweet Little Rock punched Okuyasu back towards Akira.
"What?!" said Okuyasu, "You were just with Josuke!"
"I was." said Stue, his face bleeding, "That punk caused me to jump off the roof! Luckily, my Sweet Little Rock managed to grab a ledge, and I followed you here."
"I'll kill you!" yelled Okuyasu, "The Hand!"
"Akira," said Stue, "make yourself useful and block that attack for me."
"No!" said Akira, "I don't want to!" but the flesh bud's control was too strong. Akira jumped in front of The Hand. Okuyasu had planned to scrape away the space between himself and Stue in order to pull him closer, but Akira had jumped directly in front of The Hand, out of instinct, Okuyasu ordered The Hand to punch Akira. The punch landed on Akira's head and slammed him to the ground. The nearly destroyed flesh bud wriggled vigorously before sprouting tentacles and destroying Akira's brain before dying along with him.
The shock from being sprayed with Akira's blood was all that Stue needed to get within two meters of Okuyasu. "Sweet Little Rock!" The Stand sprayed its dirt, and Okuyasu was turned into a statue. Stue looked satisfyingly at Okuyasu's stone body before frowning upon looking back at Akira's dead body, "That flesh bud automatically destroys the brain of its host when it senses it's about to die," he said, "It's so someone like you wouldn't try to kill it or remove it. Looks like the flesh bud got the better of you, Akira, but that doesn't matter. Jon should've incapacitated the Joestar girls by now, the only target left is Josuke."
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Josuke had arrived at Tonio's restaurant and healed Jolyne. Tonio had been hiding in the kitchen while the others fought. "If you fix my restaurant, you'll get free meals for the rest of the year!" said Tonio.
"Really!?" said Josuke, "Consider it done!" Josuke fixed all of the broken windows, holes in the wall, and broken tables. "All that's left is this forklift," said Josuke.
"I'll take care of that," said Double Abstract as she touched it with her left hand, liquified it, and absorbed it.
The three stared in shock. "Are you sure you hit him?" asked Josuke. Jon wasn't under the forklift, there was a pile of blood, but nothing else.
"I'm positive!" said Double Abstract.
"I saw it too! It definitely hit him!" said Joanne.
"I tried to tell you, Joanne," said Jolyne, "The limbs are gone. He called back his Stand. He's still alive."
"But how?" asked Josuke, "And where is he now?"
A/N: And that's chapter 3. We got a full introduction to Rocketman and Sweet Little Rock and as my first antagonist Stands, I feel like I did a good job. Obviously, we're going to see more of them next chapter, but I'm curious which one you guys perfer? I honestly think that Rocketman is cooler, but tell me what you guys think in the reviews. Either than that, see you all next Friday for Rocketman and Sweet Little Rock Part 3!
