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. 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 27: Heatseeker Part 3
Joanne felt the knife penetrate her stomach as she looked at Khan in surprise. Khan took the knife out and stabbed her two more times with it. Joanne could feel blood pooling out of her stomach as she looked back down in disbelief. She spat out blood as her legs gave out and she fell backward. Hozier cried out in horror, and his mirror cracked again, reflecting on Khan's face. The mask broke apart, and a cut appeared between Khan's eyes. Khan disregarded the injury as he quickly transported himself back to Dianne's pained gasps.
"I got her," he whispered soothingly, "I stabbed her three times, she'll bleed out in a few minutes."
Dianne's vision grew cloudy as she looked up at Khan, "My… arm…" she whispered barely audibly, "I need it… to heal… myself…"
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Six minutes ago
Kenna and Tenmei saw Dianne fall out of the building after being hit by Hozier's attack. Their gravity soon shifted back to normal.
"She did it!" Kenna yelled in excitement, "She got Dianne!"
Tenmei walked up to and observed Dianne's arm, which had remained on the building. "Hozier did this," he said, "It matches the wound Dianne had two months ago from his mirror. I've theorized about his Stand before, but this proves my theory. He can conjure up cracks in the mirror and they crack whatever is reflected. In this instance, Dianne was caught in the reflection."
"All we need now is to find Khan Miran, then," Kenna said, "Once he's defeated, all of this will be over."
Tenmei instantly spun around "Ruby Tuesday!" he used the blood from Dianne's arm to create a spear and threw it behind Kenna. Kenna turned around to see the spear penetrate through the floor, "Tenmei, nothing's behind me, what are you doing?"
Kenna turned back around to see Khan Miran slice across Tenmei's stomach and disappear.
"Tenmei!" she yelled as she ran towards him and opened up Redbone's chest, "Get in, quick!"
But Tenmei wasn't moving, his eyes were open, but they didn't seem to see anything. Redbone grabbed Tenmei and put him in its chest.
"Please! Please! Please!" Kenna yelled as Redbone began to close Tenmei's wounds. Once it was done, it opened its chest, and he fell out. Kenna rushed to check for a pulse, and she thankfully felt it. But he had lost a lot of blood and was out cold. Kenna heard Khan's yelling from the ground and looked out the open end of the hallway to see him transporting around Joanne.
"Damn," she muttered, "I'm too far away to help."
Khan appeared in front of Joanne and stabbed her in the gut three times. Her heart sank as she saw Joanne fall back, Kenna's body began to shake as she blinked rapidly in disbelief. Her body refused to exhale as she lost her balance and landed on her knees. Then all at once, her breathing came back along with what she could only describe as a punch to the heart. Despair spread throughout her body as tears fell from her eyes and she let out a scream.
Khan appeared next to her, "If I dispose of you, you won't be able to heal her." He drove his knife at Kenna who reflexively blocked it with her arm, getting a large cut.
"Ushasha!" Redbone swung its fist too fast for Khan to react, and landed a hit on the right side of his head, sending him back.
"I'll kill you!" Kenna yelled, heavy tears falling from her face, "I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"
Khan felt blood coming from his head and noticed that his hearing was strange. He grabbed the hearing aid on his right ear and examined it. Redbone's punch had destroyed it. Kenna didn't hesitate in running toward him.
"I'll kill you, you piece of shit!" she yelled.
Khan used Amplifier to transport behind Kenna and got ready to stab her. Kenna noticed this immediately and jumped out of the way before hitting Khan on the other side of his head, breaking his other hearing aid.
"H-how?!" he yelled.
"You probably can't hear me," Kenna said, "But you know how to read lips, Greta taught me how to do it, so I'm sure you know as well. The first hit I got off of you was pure luck. I just got lucky with that one. But once I realized you had hearing aids, I purposely charged toward you and yelled. I knew you'd transport near me to cut me with that knife. I planned this ever since I started running at you."
"Damn you," Khan said, "I don't care if I die now, there's one thing that needs to happen first."
Khan rushed towards Dianne's arm. If I can give Dianne her arm. If I can only do that. If it's not too late, she can still heal herself using Redbone. Either way, Joanne Jones has probably already bled to death, I have completed my job. I don't care if I die right now!"
Khan kicked the arm off the building before Redbone caught up to him, "Ushasha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha!"
Khan fell to the ground, deaf and badly beaten. Kenna ignored the beaten-up man and got ready to jump off the building; she had to get to Joanne as fast as possible. Right before she jumped, she heard someone.
"Wait," Tenmei stood up, "You'll get hurt if you do that. I'll help you."
"Tenmei!" Kenna said, "I'm glad I was able to heal you in time."
"Yes, I appreciate that, but we have no time. Joanne's hurt, right?"
Kenna nodded.
"Then I'll make a ramp using this blood to get you down safely. A fall from this height could break your legs. We can't let that happen." Ruby Tuesday appeared and the blood from Dianne's arm and the blood that had spilled out of Tenmei began to weave around him.
"Stop!" Khan swung his knife at the two, but stumbled and missed, "I won't let you interfere, even if I die! I don't care!"
Tenmei sighed, "I'm sorry, but we don't have time for this. I could use the extra blood as well." The blood flowing around Tenmei turned into four spikes. Ruby Tuesday threw the spikes, and all four impaled through Khan's chest and went out the back, shredding through his lungs, crushing his heart, and killing him instantly.
"Sorry again," Tenmei said, "We could've spared him, but we don't have much time. Plus, now I have more weapons to fight Dianne with."
Kenna was slightly disgusted with the sight of Khan's impaled body, but she didn't care. As long as she made it to Joanne in time, she didn't care, "Khan stabbed Joanne in the stomach!" she yelled urgently, "Three times!".
Tenmei used all the blood to create a ramp, which allowed the two to safely make it off the building, "How much time has passed?" Tenmei asked as the two ran to the bleeding-out Joanne, "She's been stabbed in the stomach three times right? That means that she'll be dead no later than five minutes after getting stabbed. Kenna, how long has it been?"
"A-a minute," Kenna said nervously, "Maybe a little more. We'll make it in time, right?"
Tenmei shook his head, "We'd be pretty lucky."
"Wh-what do you mean?!" Kenna yelled, "We should still have just under four minutes, right?! What do you mean by 'We'd be pretty lucky'?"
"She will die five minutes after getting stabbed," Tenmei repeated, "That's a fact. But after two and a half minutes, Joanne will have lost enough blood to cause serious damage to the brain. Do you understand, Kenna?"
"We're almost there!" Kenna yelled as she ran faster, desperately trying to reach Joanne, "I can make it in time!"
When Kenna blinked, she could've sworn she had gone back several meters, "What? I'm back. Something pushed me back!"
"No," Tenmei said as he turned around, "Someone replayed events that happened ten seconds ago."
Kenna turned around as well, and a fully healed Dianne ran towards them, Voltaire idly following her.
"Khan managed to get her arm off the building," Kenna said in shock, "He let himself get killed so he could give Dianne her arm back! She healed herself using my Redbone!"
"That mirror," Dianne said, "That Stand. It took on its full form for the first time back in my mansion two months ago. I can only copy abilities once they've fully been developed. I was never able to get Hozier's Stand when Greta brought him. I need to touch him, his ability is too dangerous."
"Go, Kenna!" Tenmei yelled, "Heal Joanne, I'll stay here and fight Dianne!"
"Amplifier!" Dianne yelled, the metal Stand appeared next to her, "Khan is dead? You just confirmed his death?" Tenmei could've sworn he saw a tear appear in her eye, but it soon disappeared, "It doesn't matter, all three of you will be dead soon! I've decided I'm going to kill you all!"
"Ruby Tuesday!"
The Stand wielded Khan's blood as a scythe in its right hand and wrapped more around its left and had it protrude small spikes. Dianne used the sound of the blood flow to transport next to Ruby Tuesday. Tenmei saw this immediately and had Ruby Tuesday swipe the scythe at her.
"Elastic Band!" Amplifier turned into the rubber Stand and blocked the swipe with its elastic body. Dianne jumped towards Tenmei and after yelling out, "Freakshow!" had the spider Stand spit an acidic web at Tenmei. Ruby Tuesday grabbed the web with its spiky blood hand. The web dissolved some of the blood but didn't harm Tenmei.
"You're using old tricks, Dianne," Tenmei said, "Amplifier, Elastic Band, Freakshow. I've fought those Stands before. You're going to have to come at me with something new. The Wall. They're all Stand users, all six of them, right? You have their Stands, don't you? Why don't you use those? Show me something new!"
"I'm not showing you The Wall's Stands," Dianne said, "I can't risk showing them to anyone."
"They're that strong?" Tenmei asked, "Or are you just afraid of them?"
Dianne didn't answer, instead, she switched her Stand to Evil Twin. A clone quickly grew from it and rushed towards Tenmei. Ruby Tuesday swung its blood scythe at the clone, but it grabbed it, and it instantly appeared in the other's hand.
"Ruby Tuesday!" Evil Twin disappeared, and the blood scythe appeared in an identical Ruby Tuesday, being controlled by Dianne.
"You touched us last time," Tenmei said, "I had almost forgotten. You touched me and Joanne. You have our Stands as well.'' Tenmei looked at the blood on his Ruby Tuesday's left hand. It turned into a small dagger.
"That's not enough range, Kakyoin," Dianne said, "The weapon you made for me will be your downfall. You can't control the blood that my Ruby Tuesday wields. I've spent these two months practicing with your Stand."
"Then let's see who can use it better," Tenmei said. Both Ruby Tuesdays charged at each other, blood weapons held tight in their ruby hands.
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Kenna could hear Tenmei and Dianne fighting as she ran towards Joanne. I can make it! I can make it! I can make it! The words repeated in her head as she rushed over to Joanne, just over a dozen meters away. She could faintly see Joanne's chest rise and fall slowly. She was still breathing. Right as Kenna was about to reach her, she felt something grab her and pull her back.
"Evil Twin?" she said in surprise. She looked behind her and saw that Dianne and Tenmei were both using Ruby Tuesday.
"Miller is that you?!"
"No," Evil Twin responded, "I am a clone made from the original Evil Twin Dianne used. I am not the Stand, I am a clone of the Stand. I can exist while Dianne swaps to a different Stand."
"I'm calling bullshit!" Kenna said, "Dianne can only use one Stand at a time. There's no way she can use Evil Twin and Ruby Tuesday at the same time."
"As I said," Evil Twin said, "I am a manifestation of a Stand's ability. The ability can be active while the Stand isn't. That's how Dianne can keep Sweet Little Rock's stone ability on while not using it. If the ability is separate from the Stand, it does not go away after the Stand is switched."
"I don't care anymore!" Kenna yelled as she tried to run away from the clone. Evil Twin ran towards Kenna and kicked her in the leg, sending her falling on the grass.
"Can't let you do that," Evil Twin said, "Joanne Jones needs to die. I'm going to keep you occupied for as long as it takes. It's been two minutes already. Only about thirty seconds left. After that, as Kakyoin said, she'll have permanent brain damage from the blood loss. Your Redbone can't fix that, can it?"
"Ushasha!" Kenna didn't pay attention to Evil Twin's words and attempted to punch it. The Stand jumped out of the way of the punches and kneed Redbone in its stomach, sending Kenna back on the grass, gripping her gut.
"You shouldn't have betrayed us, Fletcher," Evil Twin said, "Now everything's falling apart for you. Joanne will die in a minute or two, Dianne will kill Kakyoin soon as well, and you… You will die right now."
Kenna could feel the anger build up in her, she was running out of time. No, time had probably already run out. If Evil Twin hadn't interfered, she would've made it in time. The rage coursed through her body as the adrenaline forced her to stand up without thinking about the pain. With a swift punch, Redbone sent Evil twin flying in the air.
"I'm not done with you, you bastard!" she yelled as Evil twin fell back down, "Ushasha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha!"
The punch broke apart the clone's body, and it disintegrated into nothing on the grass. Kenna's anger quickly turned to sadness. Joanne's brain would be permanently damaged. She had failed. She couldn't save her. Kenna couldn't save the girl she had fallen in love with.
"Hey, Fletcher! What are you standing there for, get over here!"
Kenna turned to her left. June Eaden and Ally Clayton were next to Joanne. Elastic Band was still wrapped around June's bullet wound, but part of it had wrapped around Joanne's stomach, stopping the bleeding. Kenna couldn't believe what she was seeing at first. But she quickly came to her senses and rushed over. As soon as she arrived, she put Joanne in Redbone's chest without uttering a word. After the stab wounds were closed, Redbone's chest opened back up, and Kenna carefully took Joanne out. She laid her on the floor and checked for her pulse.
"She's alive!" Kenna said, "But did I make it in time? Is her mind okay?"
"Worry about that after you've healed me as well," June said, "This bullet wound is killing me! Literally!"
"R-right!" Kenna sturred as she opened Redbone's chest and offered to help June inside.
"I can get in myself," June said as she unwrapped Elastic Band and went inside Redbone's chest.
"What happened to Cliff and Miller?" Kenna asked, "You guys defeated them, right?"
"They're dead," Ally said, "We won't have to worry about them again."
"Khan's dead too," Kenna said, "All that's left is Dianne."
"And Greta," Ally added.
"And The Wall," June said as she stepped out of Redbone, her stomach healed, and holding the bullet in her hand.
Kenna turned to Hozier who had been hiding behind his mirror the entire time. "Hozier, can I trust you to keep an eye on Joanne? Hide her behind your Stand and keep her safe. Can you do that for me?"
Hozier nodded silently as his mirror disappeared and he walked over to the unconscious Joanne, holding her hand as the mirror reappeared to cover them both.
"Thanks, Hozier," Kenna said, "Take good care of her." She then turned to see Tenmei and Dianne, still fighting with Ruby Tuesday.
"We've gotta help," Kenna said, "This is our chance to kill Dianne."
June and Ally nodded as the three raced towards Tenmei.
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Tenmei could feel his breath grow heavy. He was exhausting his stamina with this fight.
"You're on par with my Ruby Tuesday," he said, "I'm impressed."
"I've planned out this assault meticulously." Dianne said, "I plan to kill you here, Kakyoin. I refuse to back down. Once you're dead, a great weight will be lifted from my shoulders."
"I'm glad you see me as such a threat," Tenmei said, "However I'm not going to die today."
Dianne looked to her left and saw Kenna running at her with June and Ally, "The three traitors are coming to help you, how sweet."
Dianne's Ruby Tuesday threw its blood scythe back far enough away that it exited the range of either Stands and turned back to blood. Tenmei instantly backed away. She threw away her weapon. She wouldn't do that for no reason. If I go close for the kill, she'll kill me. She wants me to get close, that's why she threw away her weapon!
"Rocketman!"
Dianne's Ruby Tuesday turned back into Red Nightmare's mist before shaping into the checkered Stand. Its body parts separated and rocketed in the blink of an eye. A hand rocketed at Tenmei and slammed him to the ground. The other hand held Kenna by the throat and dragged her in the air. Two feet slammed into the stomachs of June and Ally and propelled them onto the grass.
"I'm not giving up!" Dianne yelled, "I refuse to give up!"
Tenmei tried to get the hand off of him, but its rockets were too powerful. The hand was balled up in a fist, pressing against his chest. He could feel his ribs begin to hurt, but there was nothing he could do stuck on the ground. Ruby Tuesday had dropped its blood knife when Tenmei was hit with Rocketman's hand, and the blood was too far away, and now out of range. The pressure on his chest grew as the hand kept rocketing into his ribs.
My ribs! Tenmei thought they're gonna break. I need to get out of here, but there's nothing I can do! Tenmei looked at the others to see if they were faring any better.
Kenna was now several meters in the air, her Redbone useless. The hand was tightening its grip around her neck, making it harder for her to breathe as she struggled in vain to get out of its grasp. June and Ally found themselves in a similar situation to Tenmei. Except the legs were pressing down on their stomachs, slowly crushing them. Ally's Vertigo was useless against only a leg, and June tried to get Rocketman off of her using Elastic Band, but the rocket was too strong. All four of them were stuck, slowly getting crushed by Rocketman's body parts.
"I will admit," Dianne said, "You all gave me a run for my money. And the sacrifices today are graver than I could've imagined. But I'll be glad to get you all out of my hair. I do hate to kill those caught in between my business with ending the Joestars, but once my work is done, no one else will be caught in between again. I hope you all understand."
Tenmei could feel his ribs cracking from the force, June and Ally were already spitting up blood from their mouths, and Kenna's windpipe had been crushed enough to fully restrict her breathing. In a few more seconds, the arm on Tenmei, and the legs on June and Ally will have burst through their bodies completely, while the hand around Kenna's neck would have squeezed her head off. None of them could move from their spots, none of them could escape their inevitable fates.
The remaining body parts of Rocketman swerved in front of Dianne, forming a barrier. Tenmei heard several gunshots as holes appeared in Rocketman, and then later Dianne.
"This is Binns from the Speedwagon Foundation. Dianne Donovan, return your Stand or you will be shot dead."
"You!" Dianne yelled as she stared at Binns. She got ready to run at him but suddenly felt the pain from the gunshots. She had been shot in both her shoulders and in her right upper thigh.
Shit! She thought I'm gonna bleed out! I just need a bit more time.
Rocketman's limbs disappeared in red mist, releasing the four from its grasp. But the mist formed a stone angel, and time seemed to go back.
"Voltaire!"
Voltaire replayed events from ten seconds ago, and Tenmei, June, Ally, and Kenna, found themselves back in the grip of Rocketman's limbs. Dianne, now uninjured, quickly jumped out of the way to evade the gunshots.
"Damn she replayed events," Binns said, "She went back ten seconds!"
Dianne propelled Rocketman's six remaining limbs at the Binns and sent him crashing to the ground.
"You killed my brother!" Dianne yelled, smothering Binns with Rocketman, "You're the reason all of this happened! I'm going to kill you! Bastard! I'm going to kill you!" Hate etched into her voice as Binns could feel his body slowly crushing.
"Use The Space Between!" Tenmei managed to cough up, "Use your Stand and we win! Binns! Please!"
Binns' heart was racing. He didn't want to use his Stand, he didn't want to use his curse. But what choice did he have? If he didn't do this, then they would all die and Dianne would win. Binns thought about this for a couple of seconds before swallowing his pride and holding his breath. Rocketman's limbs went away to Dianne's surprise.
"What is this?!" Dianne yelled, "What did you do?!"
"We've gotta be quick!" Tenmei said as he got up, "This is our best shot at killing Dianne… We have to…" Tenmei fell back on the grass. Three of his ribs were already broken. He could barely see from the amount of pain he was in. "We have to…" He tried getting up again but fell over. Kenna June and Ally weren't doing any better. June and Ally were on the ground, painfully clutching their stomachs as they continued to cough up blood. Kenna, unable to breathe from her crushed throat, had quickly jumped inside Redbone's chest. But she wouldn't be able to heal herself in time. Binns was a smoker, he couldn't hold his breath for more than thirty seconds. Dianne would soon get her Stand ability back.
"Binns! We're here!"
Tenmei looked behind him to see the rest of the Speedwagon Foundation officers, their guns all aimed at Dianne. With one look at Dianne, they all pulled the trigger.
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A/N: And that's chapter 27! The next chapter will wrap up this arc. In case you forgot, this is the second major arc of the story. The first major arc, was the first 20 chapters, ending with Holy Diver. This second arc started with Flood Part 1 and will end with the next chapter. We got another major death in this chapter with Khan Miran's impalement at the hands of Tenmei. Originally, his death was supposed to be way earlier on at the end of Amplifier Part 2, but one of my friends whom I had shown the drafts of this story liked the character so much that I decided to bring him back. Anyways, this was the first time we got to see Binns' Stand in action. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed and see you all next week for Episode 28: Hot Soft Light!