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 24: Flood Part 4
June Eaden and Ally Clayton were both born to the same mother. June was the product of an affair with another man. Ally's dad was furious about the affair, and divorced his wife and left her. June's father didn't want to take care of a child, so he fled the country, leaving June and Ally in the care of their mother. June, Ally, and their mother lived in a small apartment, but after a bombing, the apartment burned down, killing their mother. Soon after, they were approached by someone.
"What happened to your mother and the other twenty-two victims was a tragedy," The person said, she was a young woman in her early twenties.
"Who are you?" Ally asked.
"Fate has not been kind to you, has it?" The young woman asked, "My name is Greta. It is my job to keep tabs on those left in the dirt by the cruel hands of fate. I can give you two extraordinary powers."
"How do we know we can trust you?" June asked.
Greta pulled out an arrow, "All you have to do is cut your finger on this. That's all I ask of you."
"Why would we do that?" Asked Ally, "We don't trust you."
"Wait," June said, "I believe her. I don't know what it is about her, but I feel inclined to take that arrow."
Ally reluctantly agreed as June took the arrow and pricked her finger with it. Ally did the same.
"Your Stands should soon awaken," Greta said, "Please follow me."
"What?!" Ally yelled, "Why the hell would we follow you?"
"Ally…" June felt a presence within her, and almost as if rising from her body, a light blue rubber figure emerged from her.
"What the hell?!" Ally yelled as a dark green and yellow Stand began to seemingly emerge from her as well, "What is this?!"
"These are your Stands," Greta said, "They're your own unique abilities and they're yours to command."
"I'm so confused," June said, "What is going on?"
"Come with me," Greta said, "I'm here to help." Van Fleet flew in from the distance and a rope ladder dropped from it.
"This is my ability," Greta said, "I've called it 'Van Fleet'. I will take you somewhere you may live for as long as you need."
June and Ally looked at each other before going up the rope ladder.
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Binns groaned as he woke up, "The hell…?"
Ally walked towards him, "Your name tag says, Binns. Are you in charge of this place?"
Binns stood up and looked at the prison which had caved in on itself, "What happened? The last thing I remember, my guards were falling over, then I saw someone… I saw…" Binns' eyes widened in surprise when he got a good look at Ally, "You! You're the one who did this!"
"Wait!" Ally said, "Loni Dodson broke free. She's the one that made this prison cave in. June and I saved everyone here before the roof crushed them. Plus, Loni Dodson's dead."
"Dead?" Binns looked quizzically at Ally, "What happened while I was out?"
Ally sighed, "Other Stand attacks happening in Morioh right now. You and your team can detain Stand users, right? Why don't you guys come with us and we'll explain on the way."
Binns looked as the other Speedwagon Foundations woke up and began to groggily question where they were and stand up, almost on cue.
"Did you wake them up? Is that your ability?" Binns asked.
"You could say," Ally said, "My Stand ability revolves around illusions, I can create an illusion that makes the brain think it's tired and make the body fall asleep. Order your men to follow us. We'll explain everything that happened and everything we know about Dianne on the way."
Binns' head perked up when he heard that last statement, "Alright men!" he called, "There's a Stand attack in Morioh. These two are Stand users on our side. They know trivial information about our enemy, Dianne! I want you to treat them with respect. We're going to listen to them as we go back to Morioh!"
Joanne instinctively closed her eyes as she saw Thunderstruck's fist zooming towards her. If this was anything like the last punch, then she knew it would hurt like hell. Abstract was already reaching over to see if she could grab the fist before it landed on her user, but she knew she was too slow to catch it, yet she tried nonetheless. The fist outmatched Abstract's speed and was about to split Joanne's skull open when something stopped it. Thunderstruck was hit in the head and stumbled back. He shook his head in surprise and looked at the mirror that had formed in front of Joanne.
"Take me to Church!" Hozier ran toward Joanne, "I won't let you hurt Joanne!" he said.
"This mirror," Thunderstruck mumbled, "Did it deflect my punch? Is that what happened?"
"Kono kono kono kono kono!"
Thunderstruck just barely managed to evade Abstract's punches. He took a few steps back to get out of her range. Hozier hugged Joanne as the mirror disappeared, "Did he hurt you? Did the bad, blue man hurt you?"
"No," Joanne winced as she got back on her feet, "I'm fine. You don't have to worry about me. But your mirror… It didn't do that last time, did it? Last time it cracked and destroyed the roof of Dianne's mansion and cut her head, right? But that crack is gone, and this time it deflected Thunderstruck's punch?" Joanne looked at Thunderstruck who wasn't even bleeding from the punch, "Hey, wait a minute!" she said, "Wasn't that punch supposed to finish me off or whatever? If you got hit by that same force, how come you're not dead?"
Thunderstruck didn't answer, it just stared at Hozier, "That kid's Stand is quite something." he muttered, "As much as I hate to say it, I might have to eliminate him first."
"What?!" Joanne yelled, "You're not going to hurt Hozier! Abstract, get him!"
"Joanne, wait," Tenmei said, still on the floor, clutching his broken leg, "I think I understand his ability. His punches double in strength."
"Yeah, you told me that!" Joanne said, "But that still doesn't explain why he wasn't damaged by his own punch."
"No," Tenmei said, "That cleared everything up. His ability is so simple!" Hearing this, Thunderstruck rushed towards Tenmei, "I should've finished you off when I had the chance!" it yelled, "I can't have you spouting the secrets of my Stand!"
"Take me to Church!"
With Hozier's call, the mirror appeared in front of Tenmei, and the punch heading his way instead hit the mirror and deflected the damage back to Thunderstruck who was more visibly hurt and even began to bleed. Thunderstruck's leaking blood formed a small blade in Tenmei's hand.
"One more step," he said, holding the blade, "and my Ruby Tuesday will throw this at your skull faster than you can punch."
"I don't know what's more troubling," Thunderstruck said, "The fact that you have no fear in threatening me, or the fact that I believe you."
"His punches reset for every new target," Tenmei said, not taking his eyes off Thunderstruck, "He was ready to kill me and blast my head apart with his punch, but you jumped in the way and got hit instead. Since Thunderstruck punched a new target, the strength reset. That's why it did no damage to you. That also explains why Thunderstruck was barely even injured after his own punch reflected onto himself. The target changed and the punch reset."
"Clever," Thunderstruck said, "I'd expect no less from you, Kakyoin. I'll kill you both even though you know my full ability. Don't get cocky around me."
"No!" Tenmei yelled, "I'm ending this!" Ruby Tuesday grabbed the blood blade and threw it at Thunderstruck. The blade flew through the air so fast, that Thunderstruck knew he wouldn't even have enough time to step away. And punching the blade away was out of the question as well since it could cut his hand open and give Tenmei more blood. Plus, he doubted that he would be able to successfully punch the blade away anyways. Thunderstruck wasn't bothered by any of this. Instead, it punched itself for the third time, and the impact from the third punch sent it flying back, just outside of Ruby Tuesday's range. The blade missed its target and fell out of the range as well, turning back into normal blood.
"Joanne, help me up," Tenmei said, "He can't get us if we're together." he looked down at Hozier, "You too, we're going to need your Stand as well."
Joanne grabbed Tenmei's arm and helped him up, allowing him to lean on her for balance. Hozier stood in front of the two. Thunderstruck frowned, "I almost broke a bone with that third punch. It was my only choice. The next one could prove fatal to me depending on where it hits. Which is why…" Thunderstruck punched the ground under him, "I'm resetting my punches. You can try and make me hit myself all you want, but it'll be for nothing."
"Damn," Joanne muttered, "What do we do?"
Tenmei sighed, "We stall for time. The sooner Kenna deals with that other Stand, the sooner she can heal me and the four of us can take down Thunderstruck."
Joanne had almost forgotten about Kenna, about ten meters away, she was still fighting the purple Stand, Evil Twin.
"Where are you hiding, Miller?" Kenna asked, "You and Cliff must be close if your Stands are appearing this strong."
"We are hiding for a reason, Fletcher," Evil Twin said, "I won't give away our location. You'll just have to come find us if you can."
"I don't have time for this!" Kenna yelled, "Redbone!"
"Ushasha!" The red Stand punched Evil Twin. The purple Stand jumped back to evade any other attacks.
"You're pretty fast, Fletcher," Evil Twin said, "And your Stand's pretty strong too. You would've made an amazing addition to Dianne's group. Do you know why we still listen to her even after she lied to us with her whole 'Dio' schtick? It's because she won't be alive for much longer. She's planning on killing herself after all this is over, did you know that?"
"Yeah she told us," Kenna said, "What does this have to do with you?"
"Dianne has a will," Evil Twin continued, "In this will, she grants anyone who helped her eliminate the Joestar all her riches."
"Riches?" Kenna asked, "Since when was she rich?"
"Dianne is Dio's daughter." Evil Twin, "A lot of people hated Dio, that's true. But a lot of people worshiped him. How do you think she got so many people on her side? And when she was pretending to be Dio, so many people brought her riches, worshiping her."
"I see!" Kenna said, "So you're doing all of this for the money, then?!"
"Exactly! Now you're getting it! All Cliff and I have to do is help kill the Joestars! Once your friend Joanne is dead, Dianne would have already dealt with Josuke. Our only enemies are Jotaro and Jolyne. The Wall can have their way with them. And of course, there's Holly Kujo, she'll be easy pickings. Once all that's over, Dianne will kill herself and over a hundred million yen will be awarded to me and the others. That much money could set us up for years and years to come! Cliff and I will be able to put our lives back together!"
"Joanne didn't do anything wrong!" Kenna yelled, "She's innocent, why are you so hellbent on killing her?"
"Dianne cannot let the Joestar bloodline carry on, it's as simple as that."
Kenna could feel her blood boil. How could they want to kill Joanne? How could anyone want to hurt that girl that she had grown such fond feelings of? She couldn't understand how someone could hate Joanne so much. As much as she wanted to convince Miller that Joanne didn't deserve to die, she knew the message wouldn't get through. And the more she listened to Miller, the angrier she felt. She knew that talking would get her nowhere.
"Ushasha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha!" With a burst of fury, Kenna along with Redbone charged at Evil Twin. The Stand barely had any time to react before Redbone riddled it with punches. Evil Twin winced in pain as the punches kept coming. Redbone ended with one last punch to the jaw, and Evil Twin fell back, its skin cracking from the beatdown.
"Such ferocity!" Evil Twin yelled, "I didn't know you had it in you, Fletcher…" The Stand began to break apart as it crumbled on the floor.
"You ended up being too easy of an opponent, Miller. Your body broke apart like nothing. I hope you rest in peace." She looked at the remains of the Stand, knowing that Miller had suffered the same damage before looking over at Joanne, Hozier, and the injured Tenmei. She ran towards them, Redbone's chest already opened, "Tenmei! I'll heal you!"
"Kenna!" Tenmei yelled, "Behind you!"
Before Kenna could react, something hit her hard on the back of the head, and fell to the ground.
"You didn't think I was dead, did you, Fletcher?" Evil Twin said, standing over the crumbled body that Redbone had pummeled.
"Wh-what?" Kenna muttered as she felt the back of her head with her hand, she wasn't surprised to see her hand coated with blood, "Wh-what did you hit me with?" She felt dizzy, and her vision was blurred.
"Oh, just a little something I borrowed from before," Evil Twin said, holding a bar. Kenna turned her body around to look up at Evil Twin. Oddly enough, there seemed to be two Evil Twins standing above her, "How hard did you hit me…?" she said, slowly feeling her consciousness slipping, "There seem to be two of you…"
"Oh, Fletcher," Evil Twin smirked, "there are two of us!" The Evil Twin holding the bar laughed along with the second, standing next to it.
"Get away from Kenna!" Joanne yelled, "Konoyaro!" With a single punch from Abstract, the Evil Twin holding a bar cracked open and fell to the floor.
"Heal yourself, Kenna!" Joanne yelled, "I'll kill this bitch!"
"What about that other blue Stand?" Kenna asked, "Won't it attack if we're all focused on Evil Twin?"
"That's why not all of us are focused on Evil Twin," Tenmei said. Ruby Tuesday stood next to him, holding many blood knives between its fingers, "I hope you don't mind if I used some of your blood, Kenna."
"Not at all," Kenna winced as she got back to her feet and entered Redbone's chest.
"Good," Joanne said as Redbone's chest closed, "Glad she's safe. Now then, what's the deal with your Stand, why are there more than one of you? Did your user take damage from Abstract's punch or not?"
"You tell me," Evil Twin said. An arm emerged from it, followed by another arm, a torso, a set of legs, and a head. Another Evil Twin emerged from the first.
"So that's it," Joanne said, "You can make a clone of yourself, is that right? That's why you named your Stand, Evil Twin, right? But obviously there must be more to your ability, right?"
"Enough with the 'right'!" Evil Twin said, "If you let me kill you now, I'll promise to spare your friends."
"Ha!" Joanne laughed, "Even if I agreed to that, Kenna and Tenmei would never allow you to get away, you'll probably have to kill them either way. So why let you kill me if you probably won't keep your end of the bargain?"
"You are incredibly stubborn," Evil Twin said.
"Thanks," Joanne said, "Believe it or not, I get that from my Stand. Her name is Double Abstract!"
"Konoyaro!" Abstract aimed for the Evil Twin that had created the clone but had her wrist grabbed.
"I've noticed your attack pattern after that first punch," Evil Twin said, not letting go of Abstract, "Next time yell out after you've given the punch, otherwise you're just giving yourself away."
Evil Twin's clone stepped back until it was five meters away from Joanne, and Abstract disappeared from the original's grasp.
"What?!" Joanne yelled, "Abstract, where are you?"
"Over here, Jo!"
Joanne looked at the clone to see Abstract in its grip. "I'm too far away from you to even move, Jo! You need to get at least three meters closer!"
"How? Wh-what did you do, Danielle Miller?!" Joanne yelled.
"Isn't it simple?" Evil Twin smirked.
"Joanne, she can use her Stand to transfer anything in her hands to the hands of her clone!" Tenmei said, "It's the only possible way. The second Abstract disappeared from that one's grip, she appeared in the other one's that's far away!"
"Focus on one thing at a time!" Thunderstruck yelled as it rushed towards Tenmei. Ruby Tuesday threw two of the knives, but Thunderstruck was anticipating this and ducked under them. Just when it was about to punch Tenmei, Hozier's mirror rose from the floor, and the impact from the punch was sent towards Thunderstruck. The Stand quickly jumped away from Ruby Tuesday's range.
Redbone's chest opened up, and Kenna stepped out, fully healed, "Sorry for the wait, Joanne, but I'm here now."
"Couldn't have come at a better time," Joanne said, "I'm kinda helpless here. Abstract is too far away from me to even move. I've gotta get to her before—" Joanne saw Evil Twin's clone walk up to a building, and punch through a window. The Stand grabbed a shard of glass and got ready to stab Abstract in the throat with it.
"Before that happens!" Joanne yelled.
"Don't worry, Joanne," Kenna yelled, "I have a plan! Hozier put your mirror in front of my Redbone!"
Hozier nodded, "Take me to Church!" The mirror appeared in front of Redbone. "Good," Kenna said, "Now Redbone, quickly, before Abstract gets stabbed, destroy that mirror!"
"Wait!" Joanne said, "But that mirror even withstood a super punch from Thunderstruck, I don't think it can be broken!"
"That's what I'm hoping for," Kenna said with a wink, "Go Redbone!"
"Ushasha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha!"
All of Redbone's punches reflected back into it, but it took no damage. It was absorbing the energy from its own punches.
"Now, Redbone!" Kenna yelled, "Get to that clone!"
Redbone shifted the energy from the punches to its legs, and burst from the ground straight towards the clone, punching its head to pieces. The rest of its body crumbled, freeing Abstract.
"Nice one," Abstract said, "But now both me and Redbone are too far away, we can barely move, how are we going to get back?"
"Don't worry," Kenna said, "I didn't use up all the kinetic energy, I have enough to propel you and Redbone back." Abstract clung unto Redbone as it propelled itself back towards Kenna with the energy.
"Good," Joanne said, "now let's get this bitch!"
"Kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono kono!"
"Ushasha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha!"
Evil Twin quickly made a clone before jumping back. The clone took the beating and cracked apart from the punches.
"Great," Joanne said, "Now we're back to square one. We just can't seem to hit this Stand!"
"No," Tenmei said, "This isn't square one, you two are way past that point now. I've been able to pick up a few things from watching your battle. The first is that Evil Twin can only create one clone at a time. Surely it would have made more if it had the chance, but it only makes a new one once the first has been destroyed. The second is that if you two can defeat that main one, then the battle will be over. That one must be the original, if it wasn't, then it wouldn't have gone out of its way to dodge that attack. Take that one down and the battle will be over!"
"Cliff, kill him already!" Evil Twin yelled, "He's learning too much from watching!"
"I know!" Thunderstruck yelled, "What do you think I'm trying to do? His Stand can throw faster than I can punch and this damn kid keeps deflecting my attacks! You just focus on your battle, and I'll focus on mine!"
"What did you say about killing my Tenmei?"
Joanne and Kenna heard that voice and found it oddly familiar. Tenmei instantly recognized it, "Ally Clayton?" He turned around to see June and Ally running toward him, "What are you two doing here?" he yelled.
"It's a long story, Tenmei," Kenna said, "But they're on our side."
"I thought we had an agreement!" Ally yelled, "I would team up with you guys so long as Tenmei doesn't get hurt! He's on the ground, his leg is broken, and you're threatening to kill him! The deal's off! We'll no longer work for Dianne!"
June let out Elastic Band as she stepped towards Thunderstruck. Vertigo followed Ally as she walked towards Evil Twin, "Fletcher, make sure to heal Tenmei."
"On it!" Kenna rushed towards Tenmei and opened up Redbone's chest. Thunderstruck tried to interfere, but Elastic Band formed into a wall, and the punch was ineffective against the rubber Stand.
Kenna helped Tenmei into Redbone's chest.
"You guys go stop Dianne and Khan Miran," Ally said, "June and I will worry about Miller and Cliff."
Joanne nodded as she rushed towards Kenna. Redbone's chest opened up and Tenmei stepped out, fully healed.
"Hozier, you're coming with us," he said, "We're going to need you if we're going to take down Dianne." He looked at June and Ally one last time before heading off with Joanne, Kenna, and Hozier.
"You think you can beat us?" Evil Twin smirked, "That's cute. Last time we fought, you two lost."
"Last time we didn't know about your Stand abilities," Ally said, "This time we do. We know all your little secrets!"
"Yeah!" June said, "This time we'll win for sure!"
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A/N: And that's chapter 24! We're officially halfway done with the story! Maybe! Hopefully! In theory, it should end with chapter 48, but I might extend that. Really depends on how much room I leave myself with for the finale. But I'm hoping I squeeze it in by chapter 48. If not then by chapter 50 or 52. 55 max. Anyways, Evil Twin's ability was revealed and so were the motivations of Cliff and Miller. We also got some June and Ally backstory. Some keen-eyed readers might have noticed that the bombing that killed June and Ally's mom was the same as Greta's accidental bombing that she mentioned back in Holy Diver. Anyway, this is probably the halfway point of this arc as well. Seeing as how the first big arc, The Journey to Dio's Mansion, was 20 chapters long, you might've expected this second one, The Assualt on Morioh to be just as long. But nope, it's probably gonna be seven or eight chapters. As I may have mentioned earlier, this fanfiction will have either four or five major arcs, I'm leaning towards four but we'll see. Enough rambling, hope you enjoyed, and see you all next week for Episode 25: Heatseeker Part 1!