A/N: Let's get a few things out of the way before we can begin.
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 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).
3. 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. (As I said before, I've worked ahead and have already written the first 24 chapters). If I don't post on a Friday, then assume I'm dead. Or my internet's down. You choose.
4. 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.
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Episode 4: Rocketman and Sweet Little Rock Part 3
Stue Rod took a moment to sit down. He looked at Akira's bleeding corpse. What a shame, he thought, Dio could've used his Stand. He stood back up, his body was hurting and aching from the beatdown that Josuke gave him. Nonetheless, he was satisfied with his defeat of Okuyasu. "I hope Jon's on his way back," he said to himself, "Then we can take down Josuke together." Suddenly, Stue heard footsteps coming from behind him.
"Sweet Little Rock!"
"Whoa there, Stue, It's just me." Jon L. said as he stepped closer to Stue. Jon's hands weren't bleeding anymore, but they were visibly wounded. "What the hell happened to you?" asked Stue.
Jon chuckled, "I could say the same about you, you're looking a bit worse for wear."
"That doesn't matter. Did you get the Joestar girls?"
Jon hesitated for a second, "I got one of 'em pretty good, the other tried to crush me with a forklift, but I used my Rocketman to hold it up and escape while she wasn't looking. Damn it. I was about to go back for the other one, but Josuke had already arrived so I had to flee. Chances are, he's already healed 'em both and all my hard work was for nothing."
"Although it is true that Josuke got the better of me and managed to get away," Stue said, "our situation isn't completely useless. I got Okuyasu Nijimura." Stue gestured a hand to Okuyasu's statue. Jon noticed Akira's body on the rooftop.
"Holy shit, what happened to him?!" he said.
"Don't worry about Akira." Stue said, "He served his usefulness. What we need to worry about now are Josuke Higashikata, Jolyne Kujo, and Joanne Jones. They're our only targets left. Once we bring them along with all these other Stand users, Dio will praise us!"
"Then let's get started, shall we?" Jon said, "Rocketman!" Rocketman appeared and split into all of its pieces. Jon and Stue placed their feet on top of the limbs. Rockets facing down, the limbs lifted the men into the air. "Gotta hand it to you," Stue said, "Your Stand is pretty useful." The two flew off on the rocket-propelled limbs.
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"How did he get away?" asked Joanne, "I could've sworn that we actually hit him."
"There's no mistake," said Abstract, "I know for a fact that I hit that little shithead."
"Then how'd he escape?" asked Josuke.
"His limbs!" yelled Jolyne, "Right before Abstract hit him, he retracted the limbs that he used to push me through the wall, and used those to break the impact of the forklift. Then when Joanne came to me, he escaped without her noticing."
"This is bad." said Josuke, "Okuyasu and I came across two other Stand users, one of them could turn people into stone, and unfortunately, they already got Rohan, Koichi, and Yukako. Even after the user killed himself, I went back to check on them, but they were still stone. What do we do?"
"You said that you and Okuyasu encountered two Stand users?" asked Joanne, "You dealt with one of them, and I'm assuming that Okuyasu is dealing with the other, shouldn't we back him up?"
"That's a good idea." said Josuke as he ran out the door, "Let's go!" After exiting the restaurant, "The Stand users were on top of some buildings not far from here. I don't remember which building Okuyasu was on so let's go to the one I was at and look for him from above." Josuke began running towards the building and Jolyne and Joanne followed. Soon, they arrived at the rooftop where Josuke had fought with Stue.
"This is where he jumped off," Josuke said, pointing at the edge of the roof, Jolyne and Joanne peered down.
"Ummm…" Jolyne said, "Hey, Josuke, did you ever check for a body?"
"No," said Josuke, "I didn't wanna look at his dead body."
Jolyne facepalmed, "Goddamnit! His body's not even there either! Josuke, maybe check for a body before automatically assuming someone's dead!"
Josuke rubbed his head again and gave a soft chuckle, "Ok, ok, you've got a point. But he couldn't have gotten far, I beat him pretty badly before he jumped off."
"But Josuke," said Joanne, "Doesn't your Stand heal things? So whatever damages he has, they should be repaired, right?"
"That's not how my Crazy Diamond works," Josuke said, "Although its ability is restoring objects, not everything it touches instantly gets restored. I can choose whether or not I want it to be restored. It's similar to your Stand, Joanne, Double Abstract doesn't liquefy everything that comes into contact with her left hand, she can choose whether she wants it to be liquified or not, am I right?"
"Very right, Josukie." Abstract said before touching the ground with her left hand, "See? I'm not liquefying this. Although, I wouldn't be able to even if I wanted to. If an object is so big that it is five meters away from me, I won't be able to liquefy it. That includes the ground and walls."
"Wow," thought Josuke, "You're actually being helpful, Abstract. You're not even being an ass about it."
"Yeah, shut up, Josukie!" Abstract said arms crossed, "I just want to get revenge on the bastard that attacked Jo and nearly killed Jolyne."
Josuke smiled, Abstract seemed to actually care about others, albeit she did tend to hide these feelings deep within herself.
"Anyways," Jolyne said, "Where did you say that Okuyasu went?"
Josuke suddenly stopped thinking about Joanne or her Stand, "Er, um…" he surveyed the rooftop as if he had to reevaluate his position, "I think I see Okuyasu on that building over there." Josuke pointed to another building not very far away.
"How do you expect us to get over there?" Joanne asked.
Jolyne smiled, "Watch and learn." She stretched out her arm using strings far enough so that she could grab onto the building's rooftop. "You might want to hold on tight!" she said. Joanne instantly knew what Jolyne was thinking. She grabbed onto Jolyne, and Josuke seeing this, also understood. Now that the two were holding on to Jolyne with all they could, Jolyne jumped off the roof and swung to the other rooftop. When they landed, he rushed over to Okuyasu, but upon getting a closer look, he felt like throwing up. There, on the rooftop was his best friend, a statue with the body of Akira next to him.
"Shit!" Joanne yelled, "What the hell happened here?"
"Okuyasu!" Josuke yelled, "Damn! They got him too!"
"Who the hell is this guy?" Jolyne asked as she poked Akira's body with her foot.
"His name was Akira Otoishi." Josuke said, "I fought him ten years ago. He came back with another Stand user by the name of Stue Rod."
"That means that there are at least two more enemy Stand users left, right?" Joanne asked, "The one that you fought and the one that attacked me and Jolyne."
"Yeah, it looks like it," Josuke said.
Suddenly, Double Abstract appeared, "Hey, Jo," she said while pointing up in the sky, "what's that?" Joanne looked up to see Stue and Jon riding on Rocketman's limbs.
"Get down!" Joanne cried, "That's the man that attacked me and Jolyne!"
Josuke looked up, "Damn it! That other one attacked me and Okuyasu!"
Jon smiled, "Rocketman!"
Both arms of Rocketman, which were not being used to hold Stue or Jon in the air, rocketed towards the three. "Stone Free!" Jolyne cried as her blue Stand shot out strings that tied around one of the arms. The rocket on the arm was too strong though, and despite Jolyne's best efforts, she was not able to move the trajectory of the arm. "I can't hold it back!" she yelled as she returned her Stand, "Get down!" The three jumped out of the way as the arms crashed through the roof of the building. He didn't try to hit us? Joanne thought as she stared up at her enemies, Why? He can change the trajectory of his Stand, so why didn't he? He could have hit two of us. Why didn't he, goddamnit!?
You, Jo, stop stressing. Joanne could hear Abstract's voice in her head.
What do you want, Abstract?
You see Jo, He didn't hit us because he knew we'd beat the shit out of him if we got his arms.
What does that mean, Abstract?
It's like when he attacked us at the Italian restaurant, we were able to defeat his arms no problem right? How is this any different? We can just grab onto them and start kicking them or whatever. This would injure his hands even more and put him at a disadvantage.
Joanne looked up at Jon, Okay then, so why did he shoot at us in the first place? Joanne's eyes suddenly grew with fear, "He wasn't aiming for us!" She yelled, "Josuke, fix the roof now!" It was too late. The arms had crashed through the roof and had busted through the walls of the building.
"That's what you get for breaking my hand, bitch!" Jon yelled as the roof began to cave in, and the three fell in.
"You think they died?" Stue asked, "That would be a shame, Dio won't be completely mad. After all, we did eliminate three of his enemies. But on the other hand, we can't bring them over to him so he can take their Stands."
"It doesn't matter to me anymore." Jon said, still full of rage, "Had they just complied with me back at the restaurant, none of this would have happened. Those little shitheads got what they deserved!"
Stue shrugged, "If you insist. Anyways, we should go check for their bodies. Dio told us how the Joestars always find a way to somehow win in the end."
Something caught Jon's eye, "Hold on a second." Rocketman moved the two a little closer. "Dammit, that bastard!" Stue could see it too. The roof was reforming.
"Nice one, Josuke!" Joanne said as the roof rose back to its original spot and was fully regenerated as if nothing had happened. Akira's body had fallen off and landed on the top floor of the building, but Jolyne had used her strings to hold onto Okuyasu's stone body.
"Damn that Josuke." Stue muttered, "We're going to have to beat him first if we want to win this fight." Stue suddenly lost his balance and would've fallen off if he wasn't caught by another one of Rocketman's limbs. "You're still bleeding." Jon said, "Josuke hit you in the head a lot, you've lost too much blood in your brain. You need to seek medical attention now or else you'll die."
"I… have an idea." Stue said as he regained his composure, "Take me to the roof of the building and follow my lead, got that?"
"Stue? Clearly, you've lost too much blood and you're not thinking straight. You'll die."
"No. Sweet Little Rock's shield can only block in one direction. I'll make sure to have my back to the edge of the roof so they can't get behind me. Plus, I don't think they have any intention to kill me. The rock shield will just be an extra precaution." Stue turned to face Jon, "In the meantime, I'll need you to get Rocketman's arms back.
A crash could be heard as the arms broke through the side of the building and Rocketman's arms raced through the sky until they stopped next to Jon. "Good." Stue said, "When I get down there, I'm going to need you to grab that statue."
Jon smiled, "I think I know where you're going with this."
Rocketman's limbs flew Stue over to the edge of the building. Stue, arms held up in the air as if he was giving up, stepped over to the building, "I want to make a deal." he said.
Joanne looked over to Josuke, "I don't trust this guy." she whispered. Josuke nodded in agreement. Jolyne's arms turned into strings, ready to make a net in case anything happened.
"We don't want to make a deal with the likes of you!" Josuke yelled.
Stue's blood dripped onto the roof, "As you can see, I am highly injured." Stue lost his composure again, and Sweet Little Rock had to grab onto him before he fell off the roof. Stue regained his balance and got on one knee, his left fist on the ground, "I am losing too much blood!" He said, "It's hard for me to even stand up straight." Stue pointed at Josuke with his right hand, "So if you use your Crazy Diamond to heal my injuries, I promise that Jon and I will retreat and let you be."
"We don't trust you!" Jolyne yelled, "Go to hell!'
"I just might." Stue said, "My time is now limited from these injuries, so I am feeling desperate. I have too much that I still have yet to fulfill in my life, so please heal me before I die!"
Abstract appeared and flipped Stue off with both her hands, "I don't care about you, bitch!" she said, "Bleed out to death for all I care!"
Stue was now breathing heavily, "Please…" he muttered quietly. The three Joestars didn't respond. Shit! Stue thought, They're really going to let me bleed out to death. I guess it's time for the backup plan.
Stue made a motion with his right hand, and Rocketman's arms quickly flew over and grabbed Okuyasu's statue.
"What?!" Josuke yelled, "Let him go!"
Rocketman dangled Okuyasu over the edge of the building, "I would pick your words more carefully if I were you," Jon said with a smile.
"Let's make ourselves a new deal, shall we?" Stue said, "If you heal me right now, I promise that your friend will not be hurt. Whatever damage the statue sustains will carry out to the person if they are reverted back. Meaning if that statue hits the ground and gets smashed into a million pieces, then… well you get the idea, don't you? Okuyasu won't be doing too good."
"He's bluffing," Jolyne said, "Don't listen to him, Josuke!"
"Dammit!" Josuke said under his breath, "Alright! I'll heal you!"
"Josuke, don't," said Joanne, holding onto his sleeve, "We can't trust them!"
"I don't have any other choice!" Josuke said as he shook off Joanne's grip and kept walking forwards. He stopped three meters away from Stue, out of the range of his Sweet Little Rock. He pointed up at Jon, "If you don't keep your end of the bargain, then I swear, I will kill you!"
Jon smiled, "Don't worry, I'm a man of my word."
Josuke took a step forward and was now in range. He brought out Crazy Diamond who touched the slightly dazed Stue in the head. "No tricks," Josuke said as he looked Stue dead in the eyes.
"As Jon said," Stue replied, "I promise that the second you heal me, we will put your friend, Okuyasu Nijimura, back on the roof and not harm him."
Josuke nodded, and Crazy Diamond began to heal Stue. After the process was over, Josuke looked up at Jon, "Now put Okuyasu back!" Before Josuke could say anything else, he felt something grab his left arm. "What?!" he yelled.
"Sweet Little Rock!"
With a swift spray of dirt, Josuke fell backward onto the ground. He looked at his left hand and saw it turn to stone, "Bastard!" he yelled, "You tricked me!"
"I did no such thing," Stue said with a smile as he pointed at Jon who put Okuyasu's statue back on the roof, "See, that was our agreement. You never said anything about me attacking you, therefore I still kept my word as I promised."
The stone spread throughout Josuke's entire left arm and lower body. Josuke looked at Jolyne and Joanne who both stared in shock. "Joanne! Jolyne!" Josuke said as the stone spread to his other arm and crawled up his chest, "Don't let these guys win! I know the two of you can beat them! Find out all there is about this 'Dio' that was my job, now it's yours! Don't let me down!" The stone fully encased Josuke and turned him into a statue.
"Two to go," Stue said with a smirk, "Dio will reward us handsomely, don't you agree, Jon?" Stue was marveling at Josuke's body, but Jon didn't respond, "Jon?" Stue asked as he looked to his side. Suddenly, Rocketman's body parts swarmed around. Jolyne had tied strings around Jon's neck and was strangling him. Jon, in a case of panic, was wildly aiming his Rocketman's limbs. "Jon!" Stue said as he ducked under Rocketman's torso that was flying at high speeds, "Watch where the hell you're aiming assho-!" Stue was cut off when Rocketman's leg hit him in the face and sent him falling off of the building. Sweet Little Rock was able to absorb some of the impact, but Stue was left bloodied on the ground, many stories below. The hit to his face had broken his nose, and the fall had broken many bones including his arm.
Meanwhile, Jolyne tied her strings around Jon's body, pinning his arms and not allowing him to move. Jon realized that he had just kicked Stue off of the building, and stopped swinging Rocketman's limbs around. Shit! He thought, This girl's choking me too hard! I'm blacking out! I can barely see! She's going to kill me at this rate! I need to regain my composure! Rocketman reformed into its humanoid form and grabbed onto the string. With a swift tug, he yanked Jolyne towards him. Jolyne, not seeing this coming, was caught off guard. Rocketman grabbed Jolyne's face, covering her mouth and nose. Jolyne tried to yell out, but it was muffled, Rocketman tightened its grip, and Jolyne soon realized that she couldn't breathe. Jolyne let out another muffled yell, this one directed at Joanne. Joanne didn't understand what Jolyne was saying but inferred that she was being suffocated.
"All right Abstract," Joanne yelled, "Let's do this!"
Joanne ran straight at Jon. Rocketman blasted a foot at them. Double Abstract elbowed the rocketing foot into another direction. Meanwhile, Jolyne was losing consciousness and released the strings that were binding Jon's arms and neck. Jon was taken aback by the sudden burst of air that he could now freely breathe. So taken aback, that he didn't realize just how close Joanne and Double Abstract had gotten. Abstract grabbed Jon by the neck and slammed his face onto her knee before throwing him in the air. Jon lost his concentration and accidentally unsummoned Rocketman which allowed Jolyne to break free and inhale huge gulps of air.
"I'm not done with you yet!" Abstract yelled as she began to barrage punch Jon, "Kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono!" Abstract uppercut Jon with one last "Kono!", and as the man fell down to the roof, Joanne yelled, "Konoyaro!"
Joanne rushed over to Jolyne who had a red mark over her mouth and nose from how hard Rocketman had gripped her. "Are you alright?" she asked. Jolyne, who was breathing heavily, managed to stand up, "Yeah, I'm fine."
The two walked over to the beat-up man. Stone free once again wrapped his arms and held him next to the two girls. "Listen here!" Jolyne yelled, "You're going to tell us all that you know about Dio and how to revert your buddy's stone ability."
Jon, who had lost several teeth and was bleeding everywhere, simply laughed before spitting out blood, "I refuse!" he yelled. Rocketman suddenly appeared, but it looked semi tangible. Jon was on the brink of unconsciousness therefore he could barely conjure up his Stand. Rocketman shot out its arm. Double Abstract appeared, ready to block the blast from touching either of the girls, but it didn't. Instead, the arm blasted straight through Jon's stomach before disappearing along with the rest of the Stand.
` "What?!" Jolyne said in surprise as Jon spat out more blood and fell backward to the floor.
"Long… live… Dio…" Jon gasped before he succumbed to his wounds. Jolyne unwrapped her strings and called back her Stand.
"Well that takes care of him," Joanne said, "Let's go see if the other one is still alive, we could go interrogate him." Abstract punched the roof with her left hand, and the part they were standing on turned to liquid. The Joestar girls fell down and landed on the top floor of the building. It was really late at night. By the looks of the inside, the building they had been fighting on top of had been an inn of sorts. "Abstract," Joanne whispered, "fix the ceiling, we don't want to alarm the people inside." Abstract obliged. Jolyne could see Akira's body that had fallen down earlier.
"Should we get rid of that?" she whispered at Joanne.
Joanne shrugged, "Just leave him, there's another body on top of the roof anyway." As the two took a couple of steps forwards, one of the doors opened to reveal an elderly man. "I knew something was amidst!" he yelled, "They didn't believe me when I told them that the roof broke open and fixed itself! And now look what I found here! Two murderous girls!"
"Murderous?" Jolyne asked, "What are you talking about?"
The man pointed at Akira's body, "Don't act dumb! I've caught you red-handed! I'm going to report you to the Morioh police!"
Joanne and Jolyne looked at each other. "We didn't kill this man," Joanne said.
"Don't lie to me!" The man yelled louder, he was going to wake everyone else up at this rate.
"Abstract." Joanne whispered, "Could you take care of him?"
Abstract smiled as she picked up the man. "I'm flying?!" the man said, surprised, "How is this possible?!"
"Because this is simply a dream." Jolyne said with a smile, "You are simply dreaming."
"Dreaming?" the man asked, "Yes, that's it! I'm dreaming! It's the only logical explanation!" Abstract put the man down and he went back to his room with a loud laugh, "Excuse me, ladies," he said happily, "Enjoy being in my dream!" The man laughed again and closed the door to his room. Joanne and Jolyne looked at each other.
"What the hell just happened?" Joanne asked. Jolyne shrugged.
The two quickly ran to the elevator and made it to the bottom floor. They quickly exited the building, ignoring the man at the front desk as he questioned who they were. As they went around the side of the building, they stopped. Instead of finding a battered Stue, they found a trail of blood.
"He couldn't have gotten far, could he?" Jolyne asked. The two followed the trail. It ended at the nearest road.
"Damn it!" Joanne yelled, "He must've gotten a taxi or something in order to escape!"
"Don't worry, Joanne," Jolyne said, putting a hand on her shoulder, "You'll get him soon. I think our best move for right now would be to gather all the statues and put them under the protection of the Speedwagon Foundation."
"Speedwagon Foundation?" Joanne asked.
"It's a foundation that helped my dad out during his trip to Egypt when he fought Dio for the first time."
"So they'll be safe under their protection?" Joanne asked.
"I guarantee it," Jolyne said.
The two stood there for a second more, unknowing of what this encounter with Jon L. and Stue Rod would bring them.
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A/N: And that's Chapter 4! This is also a wrap for the Rocketman and Sweet Little Rock arc. What did you all think of my first major arc? Anyways, Stue Rod managed to get away, and Josuke and his friends are still turned to stone. What will Jolyne and Joanne do now? Find out next time on Dragon Ba-... No wait, Abstract Sky Episode 5: Fleeting Escape! See you all next Friday!
