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 36: Pink Floyd-The Wall Part 8
8:30 AM
"Jolyne and Hozier should've been dragged in here," Kenna said. For the past half hour, she was near some buildings in Morioh with Joanne. At least, that's what it seemed. The two had soon realized that they were inside a picture. Joanne mentioned that she had seen this exact picture in David's photo album. They appeared to be in a cube, thirty meters by thirty meters by thirty meters. There were black borders surrounding the edge of this cube. Joanne had tried throwing a rock at these borders, and it disappeared. The two were too scared to actually touch the border, seeing as they didn't know what would happen. The ground below them didn't have a border, however. If the two tried to go into a building, they'd be met with a similar black every time they opened the door.
Joanne sat down on a sidewalk, "I think that this Stand ability can only manifest what the camera sees," Joanne said, "These borders are out of the frame of the picture, that way they don't exist in this pocket dimension. Same with what's inside the buildings, the camera doesn't know what's inside, so it's like a black void."
"Yes, that makes sense," Kenna said, "We've already been here for thirty minutes. Now that The Wall has everyone else in presumably similar pictures, are they going to make their move? Or are they planning on just keeping us here and letting us starve?"
"No, if that's the case, then David could have just taken our pictures without having other members of The Wall fight us. There's a reason why the other five are here. I just don't know it. Maybe they're also going to enter this dimension and fight us?"
"But we know that they can't kill us, so what's the point of fighting us in this dimension as opposed to the real world?"
Joanne aggressively gripped her hair in frustration, "I don't know! Goddammit! Shit, this is too confusing!"
"Hey, hey, calm down," Kenna sat down next to Joanne and hugged her, letting her head rest on her shoulder, "There's more to The Wall's plan that we don't know. I feel stressed as well, but we need to think level-headed, so we need to stay calm."
"Yeah, yeah," Joanne said, letting go of her hair, "You're right. I presume that they want us split up, seeing as they separated us in the photographs. But why? If David's Stand ability is seemingly invincible, then what's the harm in putting everyone that was captured in a single photograph? There's a reason why we're all split up like this. The Wall thinks that we can escape if we're all together."
"That's a good point," Kenna said, "Jolyne said that she'd call me when she entered the pocket dimension. It's been a few minutes already, why hasn't she called back?"
"I don't know," Joanne gave the ground a defeated look, "I'm tired of just sitting here!"
"Don't worry, Jojo," Kenna said, "We'll find a way out of here."
"You say that!" Joanne stood up, looking at Kenna with tearful eyes, "But do you mean it?! Ken, you're just trying to keep me calm, I understand that, but I can tell you're lying. Your hand is shaking!" Joanne pointed at Kenna's hand which was vigorously shaking. Kenna quickly hid her hand in her pocket.
"That's just adrenaline from our fight earlier with Vitas and Heatfield," Kenna said, "I'm not scared."
Joanne walked closely to Kenna and put her hands on her shoulders, "Ken, I can see it in your eyes. You're more scared than I am right now."
"I... I…" Kenna could feel her voice shaking as her eyes welled with tears.
"It's okay, Ken," Joanne said, "Everyone's scared of dying. Hell, I feel like throwing up right now."
"N-no…" Kenna broke out into tears, "I'm not scared of dying, I'm scared of you dying! You! You! You, Jojo! I can't stand the thought of you dying! Especially when it's all my fault! When you called me that your vision was gone, I honestly thought that you had some sort of panic attack! Sure I thought you were under a Stand attack at first, but when you sat down next to me, all my worries of a Stand attack suddenly vanished! If I had just believed you at first, maybe we could have defeated Vitas and prevented ourselves from being stuck here! And now you could die here all because of me! You could die!" Kenna stumbled over her words as tears rolled down her cheeks before continuing on,"I-I'm such a mess!" she yelled, "I'm older than you! I'm supposed to be your moral support, and I'm just standing here, crying! I'm so useless!"
Joanne couldn't believe what she was hearing. Hearing Kenna say these things was making her muscles tense. For some odd reason, she felt rage in her system. Without thinking, she took her hand off of Kenna's shoulder and smacked her on the face. Not hard enough to hurt, but hard enough to get her to stop talking. Kenna stared at Joanne in surprise, holding a hand up to her slightly red cheek.
"J-Jojo?
Now Joanne's eyes were the ones filled with tears, "Don't you dare call yourself useless again!" She pulled Kenna close for a hug and held her tight, burying her head in her shoulder.
"Don't you dare blame yourself for any of this! I can't stand seeing you always putting the blame on yourself! It's true that you're older than me! That's why you rarely see me cry, to show you that I'm just as strong as you! And it's true that you're my moral support, but why can't I be your moral support! Are you supposed to bear all the burdens to make me feel better or are we going to take the burdens together and deal with them together?! I can't stand it when you take all the burden yourself!"
"Jojo… I…" Kenna was at a loss for words.
"Just shut up and hug me!" Joanne said.
Kenna smiled as she wrapped her arms around Joanne, her left arm slowly rubbing her back, while her right arm held the back of her head.
"I'm sorry, Jojo," Kenna said, "you're right."
"Damn right I am," Joanne said, holding onto Kenna tighter, "Now let's find a way out of here!"
8:20 AM
"He's waking up!" Tenmei called as Binns' eyes began to flicker open. Jotaro and Portobello quickly rushed toward him.
"The hell…?" Binns muttered as he touched the back of his head.
"Careful," Tenmei said, "Portobello had to seal your wound with some of his clay."
"Where are we?" Binns looked around, "What happened?"
Tenmei clicked his tongue, "That's a good question. In short, we're trapped in some sort of… well, I'm not quite sure what this is. But we're under some sort of Stand attack. I doubt you'd be able to disrupt this ability, would you?"
"What?" Binns got up, bewildered, "What do you mean?"
"Look around," Tenmei said, "It may look like we're in the outskirts of Morioh, but do you see these black borders all around?"
"Yeah," Binns got up and looked around, "Is this place some sort of dimension created by a Stand ability then?"
"Yeah, that's what Jotaro and I think," Tenmei said.
"Then unless I see the user, The Space Between is useless," Binns said.
"I figured," Tenmei said before turning to Portobello, "How are your clay dolls?"
"They seem to have traveled pretty far outside the border," Portobello said, "And don't seem to be injured at all."
"Then going into the border is safe," Jotaro said, "We should go now, June and Ally might be on the other side."
"They don't see anyone," Portobello said, "but whatever this area is, it seems like there's a pretty large structure near it."
"We're going then," Jotaro said, "Portobello, what direction did your clay dolls go in?"
"That's a good question, Jotaro," Portobello said, "Unfortunately, I have no clue."
Tenmei sighed, "They went into that border," he pointed to the border to their left.
He, along with Portobello, Jotaro, and Binns approached the border. Tenmei hesitated before slipping his hand into the border. It felt as if he had stuck his hand through some sort of liquid. He quickly pulled it back out to make sure there was no damage. His hand didn't seem damaged in the slightest and wasn't even wet despite the liquid feeling. He nodded at the others to signify that no damage was done to him before stepping all the way inside the border. He was absorbed by blackness and walked through it for a few seconds before he entered a new area. He could see Portobello's clay dolls in the distance. He saw that they were standing near a building. His heart sank when he realized what building it was.
"Haha, we made it!" Portobello yelled with joy as he rushed over to his clay dolls. Jotaro and Binns were the last ones to emerge from the darkness. Jotaro could see that Tenmei was shaking. He walked over to him.
"Is everything okay, Kakyoin?"
"Mr. Kujo," Tenmei said, "This mansion. This is where we fought Dianne three months ago. This is where Polnareff and Hol Horse were killed." Tenmei could see Jotaro clench his fists out of the corner of his eyes.
"David's Stand," he said, "Did it replicate this mansion or take us directly to it?"
"I've had nightmares about this place, Mr. Kujo," he said, "seeing Hol Horse and Polnareff dead like that has kept me up for several nights."
"Yeah," Jotaro looked down, not allowing Tenmei to see his face.
Jotaro's head suddenly flicked up when he saw something. Tenmei looked up as well. The three clay dolls jumped in front of Portobello before several rocketed limbs burst through them. Portobello was barely saved by his clay dolls.
"Rocketman," Tenmei said, "I almost died to that Stand."
"Yeah," Binns said, "Does that mean that she's here?"
"Portobello! Get back here!" Jotaro called. Portobello nodded as he rushed back to the others.
"She must be working with The Wall," Tenmei said, "Maybe this was the plan all along. Since The Wall can't kill us, they've trapped us inside David's Stand ability and are planning on having Dianne finish us off!"
"I can't disrupt that Stand until I see the user," Binns said, "Until shows herself, I can't activate The Space Between."
"Joanne told me how this Stand, Rocketman, worked," Tenmei said, "It has a seemingly infinite range, but she did notice that the rockets' power seemed to be weaker the farther it was from the user. But most importantly, she said that the user has to see where the rockets are heading in order to aim them properly. Dianne can see us right now." he turned to Portobello, "Did you see where the rockets came out of?"
"Yes, of course!" Portobello said.
"Great, where did they come out of?" Binns asked.
"That's a good question," Portobello said, "What are we talking about?"
Jotaro sighed, "Yare yare daze."
"Hold on," Tenmei said, Ruby Tuesday appearing next to him, "Now would be a good time to hold your breath, Binns."
Dianne came out of the front doors of the mansion, her hands raised in the air. Rocketman's pieces combined together to form the full Stand before it disappeared.
"That wasn't me," Binns said, "I didn't use The Space Between yet. She made Rocketman disappear on her own."
"Why would she do that?" Jotaro asked, "Even with my time stop, if she sent all the rockets flying towards us, I wouldn't be able to stop them all."
Tenmei took a hand knife out of his pocket and cut his palm open. Ruby Tuesday collected the blood coming out of his hand and formed it into eight small throwing knives that it clenched between its fingers. "If she gets within five meters of us, I'll throw these in her throat."
"She's not attacking," Jotaro said, "Why is that?"
"What do you mean, Jotaro?" Portobello asked, anger in his voice, "She just killed my clay dolls! They were my best friends!"
"I know," Jotaro said, "But I don't think she was aiming for you, she stopped her attack once your clay dolls were dead. She wasn't even trying to harm you, let alone kill you. I think she wanted to get rid of the clay dolls."
"But why?" Portobello asked, crying, "Why kill my precious babies?!"
"Because your Stand doesn't have a range," Jotaro said, "After you've transmuted an object with your Expresso Love, you can get as far away as you want from that object and it'll stay transmuted. The clay dolls are essentially a ranged attack. Do you understand? Apart from Binns, our Stands have small ranges. Kakyoin's is five meters, mine is two meters, yours is anything it touches. This way Dianne won't have to worry about us attacking her."
"Yeah," Tenmei said, "I was thinking the same thing. Don't use The Space Between yet, Binns. Wait until she tries to attack or until she's within five meters of us."
"Yeah," Binns said, "Will do."
Dianne stopped ten meters in front of the four, her hands still in the air, "I'm not here to hurt you."
"Bold statement," Binns said, "I'm not sure if I believe you."
"You don't have a reason to," Dianne said, "But I'm asking for your help. The Wall must be stopped. They're planning on getting rid of me and Greta right after they finish up with all of you."
"So what?" Tenmei asked, "Don't you want to die when this is all over anyway?"
"Die?" Dianne smirked, "No, they won't kill me. They can't kill other Stand users. They're going to trap our spirits forever."
"What, in here?" Portobello asked, "Does this mean that there's no way out?"
"Not in here," Dianne said, "And there is a very easy way out of here. All you have to do is wait an hour. Exactly one hour from when you entered. After an hour, you'll be released and brought back to wherever you were."
"Then what's the point of this ability?" Jotaro asked, "And which member of the wall can take spirits? The only ones we've met are David, Elliot Collen, and Beedul. But we've heard of another member named Vitas."
"Yes," Dianne said, "I can confirm that they are all members of The Wall. To prove I'm on your side, I can explain all their Stands. If you allow me to."
"Yeah," Tenmei said, "but if you try anything, Binns will take away your Red Nightmare."
"Of course," Dianne said, "Let's start with the ones you know," Red Nightmare appeared next to Dianne, and the red fog turned into Def Leppard.
"This is Elliot's Stand, Def Leppard," Dianne said, "It can harden or soften the density of any object in a sphere around it. Even the air is affected." The ground under Def Leppard began to soften, and the Stand began to sink in it, "Def Leppard can also shoot out dense air like bullets. I won't demonstrate that since I doubt you'd trust me too,"
"You got that right, lady!" Portobello said, "I forgot your name!"
"Next up is Beedul," Dianne said, "His Stand is Blackbird." Def Leppard broke apart into red mist before reforming into Blackbird, "This Stand has five abilities, and they're all linked to its feathers. There are one of five different hieroglyphs all over its feathers, once they shoot out and pierce a person or Stand's skin, they will do one of five abilities. The first is to take control of the person's body for ten seconds, but this cannot control their Stands. The second is the complete opposite, it can control a person's Stand for ten seconds, but cannot control their body. The third can drastically change the personality of a person to whatever the user wants. This also lasts for ten seconds. The fourth can make the person think that they're anyone else. As an example, if it was used on you, Kakyoin, Beedul could make you believe that you're me. You'll think without a doubt in your mind that you are me, you'll even have the same memories as me. After ten seconds, all the memories go away and you revert back to your normal self. The fifth allows Blackbird itself to disappear in your shadow, if it does this, it can go as far away from Beedul as possible, and still be able to shoot out more feathers."
"What a unique Stand," Tenmei said, "I've never seen one like it."
"Yes," Dianne said, "Next is Vitas' Stand, Seventh Element." Blackbird disappeared and reformed into Seventh Element, "As long as the target is within Vitas' line of sight, this Stand is able to take away one of the five senses. This can also improve Vitas' senses. If Seventh Element was to take away your vision, then Vitas' vision would be twice as good. The same goes for smell, hearing, taste, and touch."
"That's not too bad of an ability!" Portobello said, "Joanne can handle that no problem!"
"Maybe," Dianne said, "But that's assuming Vitas isn't working with a partner. He's probably with Heatfield, his Stand is called Master of Puppets." Seventh element disappeared in a red mist before two hands and a metal ball formed, looming over Dianne, "There are two alternatives to this ability. If the hands are on top of two people, then strings will come out of the Stand's fingers and attach to their joints, keeping them completely still. If Master of Puppets is attached to two people, then it cannot control their bodies, it can only immobilize them. But if both hands are above a singular person, then Master of Puppets will be granted full and complete control of the enemy. The only catch is that the hands need to stay above the target, even if they're already controlling them."
"So those two are the ones fighting Joanne?" Jotaro asked.
"Most likely," Dianne said, "Fletcher's also probably fighting them alongside Jones."
"Then what about Jolyne?" Jotaro asked, "Who's attacking Jolyne?"
"By default, that would be Tankian," Dianne said, "His Stand is called Chop Suey," Master of Puppets turned into the small shark Stand, "If the Stand eats something, it along with Tankian will take up the properties of what it ate. If it eats stone, then Tankian will become as hard as stone. This ability cannot work on liquids or gasses, it has to be solids."
"That's five," Binns said, "Five members. You haven't explained David's Stand yet."
Dianne sighed, "I know, I'll get to it. But I'm hoping that I've earned your trust. Greta is listening to us from inside the mansion. She's here too. I'm doing all of this to protect her. Promise me you won't hurt her no matter what."
"We won't hurt Greta unless either you or her give us a reason to," Tenmei said, "We're already very skeptical about working with you."
"Of course. I understand," Dianne said, "Our goal is to kill The Wall. They have to be wiped out completely. If not, they'll come back."
"I agree," Jotaro said, "With such a fierce team of Stand users, it would be unwise to not finish them off."
Dianne nodded, "David Gil Moure's Stand is called Pink Floyd. Its ability is nearly invincible. No, it might just be invincible. I can't even show you what it looks like because its form can't be manifested without activating its ability. A lot of criteria have to be matched in order to activate it. First and foremost, the targets have to be Stand users. Non-Stand users cannot be affected by it. As you may have figured out, it is activated once a printed picture of any kind is put into a photo album. The album isn't the Stand, I don't know where David got it from. On top of that, a Stand user had to have activated their Stands in the past fifteen minutes in order for Pink Floyd's ability to be activated."
"So that's why they went through the trouble of attacking us first," Tenmei said, "I was wondering why they had to attack us when David could've just taken our picture without us noticing."
"Once someone's picture is taken and put into the photo album," Dianne continued, "David can transport you inside his pocket dimension after a minimum of fifteen minutes. What you're in right now is a series of pictures that David has put into the album. We are inside a picture of my mansion. We are able to freely traverse the pictures as we please. Once we have been brought into the pocket dimension, it does not matter if our pictures are taken out of the album, torn apart, burned to ashes, nothing will happen to us. We will remain inside this pocket dimension for exactly one hour before we are brought back out. Greta and I already had our pictures taken beforehand. We were brought in here about forty minutes ago."
"I have no idea how long we've been here," Portobello said, "It feels like years have gone by! Buns, I think you're balding!"
"I'm not balding!" Binns yelled, "And it's Binns! Not Burns, not Buns! Binns!"
"Whatever you say!" Portobello said with a smile.
"If this is David's Pink Floyd ability," Jotaro said, "Then we should be out in fifteen minutes. We were brought in here about forty-five minutes ago. So we just wait for fifteen more minutes? And what about spirit stealing, you've never told us what that was about."
Dianne sighed, "I'm getting there. I've only scratched the surface of Pink Floyd's ability. David will steal our spirits once Pink Floyd: Part 3 is activated."
"Part 3?" Tenmei said, in surprise. "What do you mean by that? How many 'parts' does this ability have? What 'part' are we in now?"
"It only goes up to three," Dianne said, "This is only Part 1. Part 2 can be activated at any point once someone enters the pocket dimension. Once Part 2 is activated, the one-hour timer is reset."
"Can David use Part 2 several times?" Binns asked, "Can he keep resetting the timer?"
"No," Dianne said, "Part 2 can only be activated once. If Part 3 isn't activated one hour after Part 2, then we will be let out."
"Alright," Jotaro said, "Tell us about Part 2."
8:35 AM
All six members of The Wall stood in a hospital room. Heatfield and Tankian were in a hospital bed. The other four stood next to them.
"All of our targets are in Pink Floyd's pocket dimension," David said, "Part 1 has been completed. I will allow you all to enter as well."
The other five nodded and they soon disappeared, their pictures glowing in the photo album. David, now alone, grinned as he flipped through the album's pages. "Now that everything is set, I can finally begin my attack!" Something pink appeared for only a second before jumping into the photo album.
"Pink Floyd: Part 2, activate!"
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A/N: And that's chapter 36! We're officially three fourths of the way done, only twelve chapters left! This is the first chapter of the second act of The Wall arc! A lot of this was just a exposition for David's Stand ability which now has a confirmed name. Pink Floyd, both the chapter and the name of David's Stand, are both references to the band of the same name. I've said this before, but The Wall is an album from Pink Floyd. Anyway, we got caught up as to what Joanne, Kenna, Jotaro, Portobello, Binns, and Tenmei have been doing, and we got the return of Dianne and Greta. They're all going to play a major part. Next time we'll also see the return of June, Ally, Jolyne, and Hozier. What do you all think Pink Floyd Parts 2 and 3 will do? We'll get a small taste of Part 2 next chapter. Anyway, see you all next Friday for Episode 37: Another Brick in The Wall Part 9!
