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 many returning characters from part 3, 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 10: Elastic Band and Vertigo Part 3
Joanne ran behind the building where she was met with Tenmei, who was standing before Ally. Bloody spikes pointed up to her neck, ready to pierce through it if she tried anything.
"Looks like it was you who got her after all," Joanne said.
"Joanne, are you ok?" Tenmei asked, "Did she get you under her hallucinations as well?"
"Yeah," Joanne said, "I think so."
"Tenmei, sweety," Ally pleaded, "Remember all the time we spent together, you wouldn't actually hurt me, would-"
One of the spikes grew and went inside her mouth, "I'd be quiet if I were you," Tenmei said, "If you move your jaw too much, you might push that spike into the roof of your mouth."
Ally, not being able to say a thing without getting stabbed, opted to glare at him instead.
"So how did she get us under the hallucinations anyway?" Joanne asked, "I thought it would only happen when we were facing an opposite side of her."
"She's done this trick once on me before," Tenmei said, "it happened when she turned around. Even if only for a split second, we were facing the opposite direction of her."
"Huh?" Joanne said, "I don't get it."
"Back then, she was facing towards us while we were facing towards her. Even though we were on opposite sides, we were still facing forwards. Think of it like looking in a mirror. Even if the reflection is a completely opposite version of you, it's still facing forwards toward you and you are facing forwards towards it. You are both facing forwards towards each other. Let's say that hypothetically, you are still standing facing the mirror, but your reflection has its back turned to you. Technically, you and your reflection are facing the same direction, but since everything is backward in a mirror, it's technically facing the opposite direction. The same thing happens when something is flipped on an axis. Let's say that there was an axis in between us and Ally, when she turned to run away, I thought that we were safe because once she ran off, we were out of her Stand's range, but for a split second that she turned around, she was within five meters of us. We probably hallucinated her running away and she was always within five meters of us while we were hallucinating. That's how she got us all under her spell."
Joanne grinned as she looked at Ally, "So, you thought it would be funny to have a bunch of spiders chasing me, didn't you? How did you know that I hate those creepy little things?!"
"Vertigo chose to manifest your deepest darkest fears into your hallucinations," Tenmei said, "Your deepest fear is spiders I presume, which is why you hallucinated all those spiders. My fear used to be getting people I cared about killed over my mistakes, but she put me under Vertigo's spell two years ago. Those hallucinations she put me under haunted me for a long time. But since then, I've been seeing therapy from my trauma and have overcome that fear. That is why I was largely unaffected by the hallucination and I was able to focus all my time on finding the user. And it looks like all that effort paid off."
"Greatest fears, huh?" Joanne asked, "Then I wonder what Kenna hallucinated."
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June Eaden crashed through the wall of the restaurant. Elastic Band had been able to shield her from some of Kenna's attacks, but she was still injured. As the water poured all over her body, she managed to get back up.
"Damn," she muttered, "If Fletcher hadn't intervened, I would've had them for sure!" She stumbled behind the building to find Joanne and Tenmei, standing next to Ally, on her knees with multiple bloody spikes aimed at her throat, and one inside her mouth.
"That's her!" Joanne yelled, "She's the other Stand user!"
Tenmei quickly got blood from Ally's bleeding arm and turned it into multiple knife-shaped blades. Tenmei wasted no time in throwing the blades at June. Elastic Band unwrapped itself from around June's body and stretched itself out in front of her. The blood blades hit the rubber Stand, but bounced off and fell to the floor.
"What?!" Tenmei yelled, "Those blades should have cut through her Stand!"
"It's made out of some sort of unbreakable rubber," Joanne said, "Not even Hol Horse's bullets could break through it!"
"Then this fight isn't over just yet," Tenmei said, "Does Double Abstract have anything useful on her?"
"Sorry," Double Abstract said as she appeared, "Tank's empty, I've got nothing."
Something glowed in June's hand. "She's got something!" Joanne said as she pointed at June.
Tenmei looked carefully and saw a large piece of glass in her hand, it was glowing from the sun's light.
"Joanne, get down!" Tenmei yelled.
June cackled as Elastic Band grabbed the glass shard and stretched itself back before propelling forward toward Tenmei. The glass shard cut off Tenmei's right hand in a single swipe. Tenmei cried in pain and clutched his bleeding arm. Elastic Band kicked Tenmei a few meters away. Suddenly, the blood around Ally turned back to normal.
"He is so lucky we don't wish to kill him," Ally said as she got up, "You're lucky too!" she pointed at Joanne, "If we wanted to kill you all, we would have done so already! What was stopping us from blowing up your car while you were still in it? Nothing! But the second that Dio gets your Stands, We're going to kill you all, slowly, painfully!"
"No," Joanne said, "It's not us who are lucky, it's you! You two are lucky that we didn't have the intention to kill you up until now! I don't know about me, but Abstract's been itching to kill a couple of assholes for a while."
"Now you're speaking my language, Jo!" Abstract said as she pounded one of her fists.
"Feeling brave?" Ally asked, "Then why don't you follow us?" the two ran away.
"I'm going after them," Joanne said, looking back at the bleeding Tenmei, "I'm sure Kenna can heal your hand for you. Don't worry, I'll make sure to stay five meters away at all times!"
"Joanne… wait!" Tenmei yelled, but it was no use. Joanne and Abstract ran to follow Ally and June.
Joanne, Tenmei thought, You're crazy and reckless! If you keep doing stuff like this, you're going to end up getting yourself killed! You're just like my uncle! You better not die like he did!
Hol Horse and Kenna came running around the corner. Tenmei turned towards them. "Ally…" Tenmei grunted through the pain, "She and her partner managed to escape and cut off my arm!"
"Where's Joanne?" Kenna asked.
"She went after them!" Tenmei said as he winced in pain, "She doesn't stand a chance against the two of them! She's going to get herself killed!"
"Redbone!" Kenna yelled. The red Stand picked up Tenmei's right hand and put it in its chest before picking Tenmei up and putting him inside as well. After a couple of seconds, Redbone's chest opened up again, and Tenmei came out, looking as good as new.
"Sorry," Kenna said, "But I couldn't replace all the blood you lost."
"No," Tenmei said as he looked at his fixed hand and the puddle of blood on the floor, "I think this'll work out great."
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June and Ally stopped running once the restaurant was out of sight. They were on the other side of a not very busy road. A few trees could be found here and there, and there was a small stream running water nearby, but other than that, the nearby area was barren.
Joanne came running behind, stopping about six meters away from the two.
"What are you doing all the way over there?" Ally teased, "If you want to attack us, you'd better come closer."
"I'm not falling for your trick again!" Joanne said, "I know how your Vertigo works!"
"I'm afraid Ally here wasn't asking," June said as Elastic Band appeared and stretched its arms out towards Joanne.
"Kono kono kono!" Abstract punched the rubbery arms, but it did nothing.
"Don't you get it?" June asked, "You can't harm my Stand, meaning you can't harm me!"
"Just out of curiosity," Joanne asked, "Does rubber melt?"
A scared look appeared on June's face, "What do you mean?" she yelled.
Abstract grabbed both of Elastic Band's arms, "I'm just asking you if rubber melts under extreme heat, that's all," Joanne said with a grin.
Abstract grabbed a tube with her right hand and threw it on the ground. The liquids inside turned into a bunch of napkins.
"Remember earlier when Abstract told Tenmei that she didn't have anything useful?" Joanne asked, "That was before we were surrounded by grass. I got very lucky that you two thought it was a good idea to run over here. Now that all this grass is here, these napkins are very useful to me."
"When did you get those?" June yelled, "And how are they going to help you anyway?!"
"Oh, these?" Joanne said, acting clueless, "These little napkins? While you were pretending to work at that restaurant and getting our food ready, Polnareff told me to grab a bunch of napkins. Hol Horse isn't the man that he once used to be, so he's a bit… clumsy, and tends to spill things a lot. I'm not sure how such a clumsy man can shoot so well, but that's beside the point. What I'm trying to say here is that there's a high chance of Hol Horse spilling his food and drink while we're in the car, so that's why Polnareff told me to grab a lot of napkins. I didn't feel like holding all of them, so I just had Abstract hold on to them."
"I still don't see how this benefits you at all!" June yelled, "So what if you have a few napkins with you, this doesn't change a thing! I'm going to pull you into Ally's rage and she'll trap you in a hallucination of your worst nightmare!"
"You see," Joanne said, "You interrupted me." Abstract grabbed another tube with her right hand. "As I was saying," Joanne continued, "Hol Horse is a clumsy man, and he doesn't just drop his food and drinks. Yesterday night, he lit his cigarette but dropped the lighter. It broke open and all the fluid spilled on the ground. That really pissed him off, so he dragged everyone along to buy him a new one. Polnareff told me to hold onto the lighter as well. If Hol Horse would always drag us to buy new lighters, then we would never make it to Dio's mansion, so we thought it would be best in my care."
"What are you…?" June asked.
The liquid from the tube formed a lighter in Joanne's hand. Joanne flipped the lighter on.
"June!" Ally called, "Get away! You need to get Elastic Band's arms away from her!"
But it was too late, Joanne dropped the lit lighter onto the napkins below. The napkins burst into flames which spread through the grass. Abstract held onto Elastic Band's arms before stretching them out and yanking them down onto the fire. The arms began to bubble as they were slowly melted by the flames. Abstract was standing on the hands, not allowing them to retract and push the arms away from the flames.
June screamed in pain as burn marks began to appear on her arms, "Goddamnit, Ally! Do something!"
Ally ran towards Joanne but was stopped when something sharp was thrown into her leg. Ally fell to the ground and looked at her injured leg. Something red and sharp had pierced all the way through it.
"That's as far as you're going to go," Tenmei said. Ruby Tuesday was holding multiple other bloody knives.
"Joanne!" Kenna called, "Throw her into the water!"
"You heard her, Abstract?" Joanne said with a smile.
"I heard her loud and clear," Abstract said, "Get dunked on, bitch!" Abstract threw the melting Elastic Band into the nearby stream. This caused June to fall in as well. She wasn't complaining, the water was shallow enough for her to stand in, and it felt nice on her burn wounds.
"Check this out, Joanne," Kenna said, "I used Redbone to absorb all of the coolness from the freezer inside that restaurant. I can combine it with this water to…" Redbone stuck its hand in the water and it began to freeze.
"No!" June yelled as she crawled out of the water. Elastic Band was also getting out, but its left foot was still in by the time the ice caught up to it. The water around its body began to freeze.
"Rubber breaks when it gets frozen, doesn't it?" Hol Horse said with a smile as he aimed Emperor at the frozen Stand.
"No!" June yelled, "Don't shoot! I surrender!"
"Don't kill her," Polnareff said, "We might need to question her."
"You always ruin all the fun, don't you?" Hol Horse whined.
Tenmei walked up to Ally before creating more blood spikes, centimeters away from piercing through her throat, "Don't try anything this time," he said, "We really only need one of you alive, we're just being nice and giving you both a chance to live. But, we might change our minds if you attack us again."
Ally glared at Tenmei and slowly nodded, not saying a word.
"Put them into Mr. President," Polnareff said, "I'll then remove their flesh buds and interrogate them."
"Wait," June said, "You're going to set us free from being Dio's minions? Why didn't you say so? I'll gladly tell you anything I know in exchange for freedom."
"I'm glad we could find common ground," Polnareff said.
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Ally and June were transported inside the turtle room, and Polnareff's spirit used Silver Chariot to swiftly remove the two flesh buds before Hol Horse shot and destroyed them.
"Ok," Polnareff said, "I got rid of your flesh buds, now you two have to tell me everything that you know."
"We weren't Dio's most trusted servants," June said, "Only a select few actually see him on a regular basis."
"I've only seen him once after I attacked the Speedwagon Foundation two years ago," Ally said, "But he was obscured in the shadows."
"A select few?" Polnareff asked, "Do you know who specifically?"
"Yes," Ally said, "The Mistress of the Mansion, Greta, and The Wall."
"As per Kenna's request," Polnareff continued, "We would like to refrain from attacking Greta, but The Wall? What's that?"
Kenna turned to Polnareff, a worried expression on her face, "They're a team of extremely powerful Stand users, hand-picked by Dio. They're assassins, and they are highly trusted by him. So highly trusted in fact, that I don't even think they have flesh buds."
Joanne looked at Kenna, "Why didn't you tell us this before?"
Kenna sighed, "Because I was hoping that we'd be able to avoid them. They're out and about carrying out missions all the time. Chances are they won't be at the mansion by the time we confront Dio."
Polnareff turned back to June and Ally, "Extremely powerful Stand users, you say? Do you know how many of them there are and their Stand abilities?"
"Six," June said, "I think there's six of them. But their Stand abilities are a complete mystery to us. I think that only they and Dio know what their Stands are. Their missions are always top secret and they reveal nothing about themselves. We don't even know their real names. The only other piece of information I know about them is that they're all men."
"So I'm assuming we'd want to avoid them at all costs, right?" Joanne asked.
June, Ally, and Kenna nodded, a scared expression on their faces.
"Ok," Joanne said, "Keep away from six scary men who call themselves The Wall. Noted."
"What about Dio?" Hol Horse asked, "Do you two know anything about him?"
"Afraid not," Ally said, "That man likes to keep his secrets. If you want to know more about him before you plan on fighting him, then the only people you can really talk to are Greta or The Wall."
"And trust us," June added, "You are not talking to The Wall. Your best bet is to talk to Greta, but I'm not sure how you'd manage that without hurting her. She's really nice to us, but she is probably the most loyal person we know. It'll be extremely hard, if not impossible to get any information out of her."
Polnareff sighed, "If only Mr. Joestar was still here, his Hermit Purple would've made things much easier."
"Sorry," June said, "That's all we know. But I am going to give you a bit of advice, since you got the flesh bud out. I'm not sure how you're planning to take down Dio, but it won't work."
"I'd hate to see your handsome face die," Ally said, running her finger across Tenmei's cheek, "If you all want to live, then you'd better go to some remote country where you won't be found."
"That won't be needed," Polnareff said, "I already know the secret to Dio's Stand."
Ally, June, and Kenna perked their heads up.
"How?" Kenna asked, "Nobody knows about Dio's Stand, all we know is that he has some sort of ability to take other people's Stands."
"No," Polnareff said, "Dio probably has another trusted subordinate who can take the Stands. A person can only have one Stand ability. Dio's Stand is The World, he can stop time for up to five seconds. It is impossible for him to have another ability. It's not unlikely that he has some crazy worshiper working for him who has the ability to take Stands. I once fought one of Dio's crazy worshipers, he ended up killing two of my friends. Dio has some crazy seductive powers, there is no doubt in my head that this is the case."
"Why didn't you tell us about Dio's Stand?" Joanne asked.
"To be honest," Polnareff said, "I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to be involved. Knowing Dio's Stand ability makes you one of his prime targets."
"Then why'd you bother bringing us along?" Tenmei asked, "Shouldn't we all know about Dio's Stand before we fight him?"
"You're not going to fight him," Polnareff said, "None of us are."
Hol Horse spat out the cigarette in his mouth in surprise, "Like hell we're not!" he yelled, "What kind of bullshit are you spitting out of your mouth, Polnareff?!"
Polnareff sighed, "Yesterday when Kenna told us the whereabouts of Dio's mansion, I called Jotaro. Jotaro is the only other person alive who can stop time besides Dio. He's the only one who can stop him. I told Jotaro that we'd be at the mansion in three days and gave him the exact location. Jotaro said that he'd get plane tickets right away and that he'd inform his daughter as soon as she landed in Florida. Jotaro's going to be here in two days. It'll be him who fights Dio. We'll just take care of any other Stand users that try to get in his way."
"That's right," June said, "When we heard reports that Tenmei, Hol Horse, and Polnareff were headed to Dio's mansion with two girls, we assumed it was going to be Joanne and Jolyne. We had no idea Kenna had joined them. So Jolyne is on her way to Florida?"
"She's probably already landed," Tenmei said, "Is there a problem?"
"I doubt she'll survive then." Ally said.
"What are you talking about?" Polnareff asked.
"Greta sent two Stand users to Florida," June said, "They're a married couple, but they've never trusted us enough to show us their Stand abilities. We do know their names though, the wife is Stevana and the husband is named Scallion. Their last names are Pryce. For some reason, Scallion changed his last name to that of Stevana's."
"They've always been cocky so we doubted their ability to defeat Jotaro," Ally said, "But they're not dumb. If Jolyne is there, they'll find a way to use her against Jotaro. I don't know how, but I know they will somehow use her."
"When did they board the plane?" Polnareff asked.
"We're not sure exactly when," June said, "Greta dropped us off before dropping them off, but I'm assuming it was late last night."
"So they've either recently landed or have almost arrived," Tenmei said, "We need to call Jotaro now."
"Yes," Polnareff said, "Please do that for me, I'm going to wrap things up with these two."
Tenmei stepped out of Mr. President to make the call.
"Is there anything else we should know before we let you two go?" Polnareff asked.
"Actually, there is just one last thing," Ally said, "We know the Stands of two other people in Dio's mansion."
"Oh?" Hol Horse said, "Now that's what I call information!"
"The first one is named Khan Miran," June said, "His Stand is named Amplifier. I don't know the specifics, but it can control the pitch of the sound it makes."
"And the second one is Loni Dodson," Ally said, "Her Stand is named Freakshow. I haven't gotten a good look at it up close, but it resembles a spider that can shoot out paralyzing webs. I'm not sure exactly what these webs do, but they completely immobilize the body and even the Stand of the person it wraps around."
Joanne jumped out of her seat, "D-did you just say… spider?!"
"Yes, that's correct," Ally said, "You'd better hope you don't encounter her on the way."
"Konoyaro!" Joanne yelled, "Why does it always have to be spiders?!"
Hol Horse began laughing at Joanne, while Kenna was attempting to reassure her.
Polnareff ignored the chaos that the other three were causing behind them, "Why would you rat out people who trust you enough to show you their Stands?"
"To be frank with you," June said, "They're both assholes. Kill them both if you have to."
"Well," Polnareff said, "If that's all the information you have, then you're free to go. You can always join us."
"Hell no," Ally said, "You guys are going to get yourselves killed."
"Then don't come," Polnareff said, "But if you have been lying to us or setting us up, trust me when I say that I will personally kill you both. The same goes for if I ever see you two using your Stands for harm. I suggest that you two head away from the mansion because if I ever see either of you again, I'm going to assume that you're attacking us. We also won't be healing any of your wounds either. Think of it as punishment for attacking us."
"We understand," June said, "We don't want to see you again either."
The two exited Mr. President. "Let's get the hell out of here," June said, "Let's go to Italy, I've heard that's a really good place to go sightseeing."
"Give me a second," Ally said as she walked up to Tenmei who had just hung up on the phone. "If you ever want to get back together," she said as she grabbed onto his shoulders, "feel free to call me." Ally gave Tenmei a kiss. Tenmei didn't resist and kissed her back. She then walked away with June.
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A/N: And that's Chapter 10! Got a lot of setup plot points here. Let me go through them one at a time. The first is The Wall. They're gonna be very important later on. In case you didn't know, The Wall is a reference to the Pink Floyd album of the same name. We also got two new Stands namedropped. The first was Amplifier, named after a song by Imran Khan of the same name. It's user, Khan Miran, is named after Imran Khan, and Freakshow is named after Freak Show, the Silverchair album. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, and see you all next week for Episode 11: Welcome to the Freakshow Part 1.