October 1, 2020 - Agency Bastion
Narrator
All of the guild's top agents were together in an opulent meeting room, black cushioned chairs were lined up besides each other.
"So boss, wanna clue us in on why you dragged us up here?" Vance asked.
"Our lieutenant here has an imperative situation that he has to discuss" Alakazam stated.
"Hmm? " Vance, along with the other top officers in the room pivoted their head towards a small pokemon wearing a black tie, this certain pokemon was leaning back on the black, cushiony chair, chewing a toothpick.
"Who the hell do you think you are, calling a meeting on your own discretion, Vinny?" a mega-gardevoir chided.
The victini sat upright, a slight smirk on his face, "in the presence of all the guild's lieutenants…" he spoke in a surprisingly coherent and calm voice.
"A question Guildmaster, if you may." Vinny continued "We all know about the vampire several decades back, sealed away in the distortion realm forty years ago".
Alakazam nodded, several of the other officers leaned in out of interest.
"Is it true then… that he has made contact with the outside world?".
"What? "
"Really?"
"The fuck!?"
The entire room erupted into murmurs and exclamations.
"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" an empoleon burst out of his seat, "if this is some kind of shitty joke I'll rip those pointy ears straight off yer head!".
Empoleon turned towards Guildmaster Alakazam, "Guildmaster?".
Guildmaster Alakazam, who was sitting still silently the whole time, leaned forward, " what is your source on this? " he inquired to Vinny composedly.
"Rohan, of Team Morioh".
…
Guildmaster Alakazam leaned back, "I have planned to divulge this matter to my top lieutenants after I had confirmed this".
Empoleon stepped back, "y-you mean… DIO is…".
"..." the entire room was silent.
"Yes".
"WHAAAT! We all barely survived him last time, and now you're telling us he's still alive!? Do you know how jacked up he might be now!?" Empoleon snapped.
"Empoleon! Watch your tone" the mega-gardevoir stood up.
"Yes, there is solid proof that DIO is operating outside of the distortion realm, and that there are stone masks in circulation outside of the Speedwagon Foundation's walls. For now the guild is to be considered on high alert, all possessors of stone masks or pokemon believed to be in contact with DIO are to be arrested" Guildmaster Alakazam stood up, "meeting adjourned".
Alakazam floated out of the room, some officers stood up to ask him questions, but he ignored them. Soon enough they all started to leave the room.
Vinny floated off of his chair and readjusted his tie, he noticed that Vance was staring at him inquisitively, they both locked eyes with each other, Vinny giving a small grin, while Vance was trying to hide a glare.
Vinny turned away and walked out of the room, leaving Vance to stand there in suspicion.
Meanwhile, in the Joestar Group's dorm.
Raymond's Perspective
As I do at the start of every other day, I open my eyes and I'm met with the sight of my ceiling.
Well, that's what I'm supposed to wake up to.
You see, instead of a dull, white ceiling, I'm met with the sight of…
Nothing, everything is pitch black, and…
"Oh… this is just my blanket" I pushed the cloth sheet off of me and sat up, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, like always.
I got out of my bed and put on my blue scarf, I have a bad feeling in my gut for some reason.
I opened my door and stepped into the dorm's hallway.
"The lights are off…" I can barely see a thing.
I put my leafy arms forward and stumble around, trying to find the light switch, suddenly I hear some disturbing groaning behind me.
I turn around and see the most terrifying thing I've seen in my life.
It was a tall humanoid, wearing a long, black robe with a cowl pulled over its face, it was holding a giant scythe, a bizarre purple aura was flaring around it.
"Raaaaayyymoooond" the terrifying figure groaned.
I yelped, stumbling back, "EEP!".
"I have come…' the monster pointed it's scythe at me.
Menacing…
"FOR YOUR SOUL!".
The tips of my vines stuck out of my neck out of fear, "s-stay away!".
The monster got closer, raising its scythe high above its head.
"AAAAAAH!" I screamed.
Click
The lights turned on.
"HA! GOTTEM!" Evie's voice rang out at the end of the hallway, Charlotte was standing besides her with her paws and eyes glowing purple.
"Wh-w… what? " I sat up, dazed.
The cloaked figure dropped the scythe and pulled off its hood, revealing that it was actually JoJo just wearing a costume.
Charlotte's paws and eyes stopped glowing, causing the riolu to revert back to his original height, the ends of his cloak were dragging across the floor as he walked over to me with a goofy grin.
"Happy early halloween mate! Whaddya think of me and Charlotte's costume? " he reached out to me with his paw to help me up.
"you dick!" I slapped his paw away and got up by myself.
"Woah! Chill out!" he stepped backwards.
"Yeah Raymond, it's just a joke~" Evie pranced over to me, she had a long white bandage wrapped around her head because of what happened a few days back.
I grunted and got up, "wait… what's halloween?".
Literally everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and stared at me with stone cold faces, even Oliver and tinker Tom, who were in their rooms burst out their doors to stare at me.
…
Please don't break into a musical number…
"You… you don't know what halloween is? Dammit I should've written a musical number for this" JoJo grumbled the last part to himself.
"It's an old human holiday, we all dress up as ghosts and monsters and scare each other, and we go to strangers houses and ask for candy" Evie explained.
"You lost me at 'dress up'" I scoffed.
"Oh come on dude, it's fun! Lookie here" Oliver grabbed my hand and guided me into his room
Oh… so that's why nobody wants to go in here.
The entire room reeked of something horrible, pictures of cryptids and other weird stuff were scattered about, there was even a 'I want to believe' poster on the wall, and there seemed to be some kind of weird fog in it.
"This place sti-... uh, this is… different" I commented in the most polite and indirect way I could think of.
The oshawott went over to a wardrobe and dug around in it for about a minute, grumbling quietly as he struggled to find whatever he was looking for.
"Ah! Here it is!" he pulled out a strange looking costume.
"What is that? " I asked him.
The costume was made out of rubber, the torso was white, the leg parts and gloves were black, the upper torso had a bright blue U shape where the neck was supposed to be. The strangest thing about the costume though was that there seemed to be a giant fishbowl helmet with an antenna on top.
"Okay, now what is that" seeing that him showing me the costume made me even more confused.
"It's a spacesuit!" Oliver chirped.
"A… what?".
"You know, from all those science fiction stories" he pointed towards a rack with some books and magazines, they seemed to be reprints of human-era books, from where I was standing some of the titles were: "Amazing Stories", "Last and First Men", "Triplanetary" and "War of the Worlds".
"Not really" I shook my head.
The oshawott chuckled, "I feel bad for you".
Deciding that the stench in Ollie's room was too much for me I walked out. I went into Tinker Tom's room to see what his costume was.
Thankfully his room didn't reek of (most likely) weed, there were several workbenches with varying unfinished gadgets on them, a bunch of diplomas were hung on the walls and there was a huge bookshelf beside his bed.
"Hey, Tom, what's your costume?" I asked the pikachu, who was currently sitting at one of his workbenches.
His face lit up at the mention of his costume, "glad you asked, could you look the other way for a sec? Don't wanna ruin the surprise".
I did as he asked and turned away, extending a vine over my eyes for good measure.
"OKAY… YOU CAN LOOK NOW"
I turned around and saw that he was now wearing his costume, it was all grey plastic that seemed to be mimicking metal, looking like a bulky suit of armor enveloping his entire body, he had a helmet on which had two slits for him to see through.
"You're a…?".
"I AM ROBO-CHU" he said in a robotic voice.
"That's… actually pretty cool!"
He excitedly took off his helmet, "really?" he said in his normal voice.
I nodded and walked out.
"What's Evie's costu-" my thought process was interrupted by a certain eevee bumping into me.
"Sorry! It's just hard to see in this thing".
"It's oka…" I glanced over at her and saw that she was literally just wearing a tablecloth with eyeholes".
"Is that… your costume?" I inquired while trying my hardest not to laugh.
"I'm a ghoooooost" she sang.
"Well, at least she tried" I walked away.
"I already know JoJo's costume is the Grim Reaper so I guess the last pokemon I need to ask is Charlotte", I walked over to her room.
A wave of dread swept over me as I walked in, the room was dimly lit, the furniture was plain and tidy, and the most creepiest thing was that Charlotte was sitting in the middle of the room facing away from me.
"Uh Charlotte, is something… wrong?" I cautiously stepped closer.
She slowly got up, still facing away from me.
"C-charlotte… y-you're kinda scaring me right now" I said shakily.
CRACK
Her head twisted 180 degrees towards me with a sickening crackle, her eyes were fully black, with a strange, gross liquid pouring out of them.
I jumped back and screamed.
The lights in her room turned on.
"Looks like someone's still a scardy-skitty" a voice from the side of the room jeered, it was Charlotte.
"I-if you're Charlotte, then who's… " I looked back and forth between the two Charlottes.
"Look closer at the other me"" the Charlotte sitting on the side of the room said.
I reluctantly went closer to the possessed meowstic and inspected her.
"Wait… this isn't Charlotte at all, this is just a doll!" The fake meowstic was made entirely out of yarn, with some plastic bits inside, it had two black buttons for eyes and a line of stitches in the shape of a mouth. It was like a giant plushie.
"You're spot on Ray, this is my costume, I can control it with telekinesis" she demonstrated this by waving one her right paw around, causing the fake Charlotte to jerk around it's right paw.
"It's like a puppet on a string" she boasted.
"That's cool!" I exclaimed in awe.
Charlotte smiled.
I took a quick glance around her room, "y'know, I'm not trying to be rude or anything but… your room is kinda boring" I admitted.
"You're right, I just like things neat and tidy" she looked down, "anything messy or muddy makes me stressed out, it's kinda the reason why I le-".
Click
"A job just came in, can Ray, Charlotte, Ollie and Tom get up here?" Vance's voice echoed through the dorm, he sounded a bit down for some reason.
Charlotte grabbed a bag and left her room, leaving me in it.
"You guys are leaving me here alone!?" Evie tore her costume (tablecloth) off of her head.
"Heh, that sucks" Oliver said while packing a satchel.
"You forgot about JoJo," Charlotte pointed out.
"ACHOO!" JoJo's sneeze was heard from his room.
"Oh".
While I was still in Charlotte's room, I saw some strange bottle on her study desk, I got closer to it and inspected it.
It seemed to be a bottle of pills, I picked up the bottle and read the label.
"These are depressants, is her stress problem really that bad?" I thought to myself.
I placed the bottle back on the table and went with the others.
Later…
Narrator
On the way to the job site
"Ooooh I love these things" Tinker Tom cooed as he opened another energy drink, right after chugging another.
"Dude, COCAINE is healthier than that stuff," chastised Oliver.
"Says the guy who smokes a bong every night" retorted the pikachu.
"I-its medicine!" the oshawott stuttered.
"Can you both shut up!?" yelled Charlotte, who was rubbing her temples out of stress.
"She seems a bit peeved today" Tom remarked to himself.
"This is the place" the group arrived at their destination, it was a tall, hotel-like building.
"We just need to talk with the owner for the details of the job" Raymond explained as he opened the door
"Why does it feel like I forgot something?" Charlotte pondered.
The group walked into the main lobby of the building, the place was warm and luxurious, the carpet was red with yellow outlines, the walls were made out of light brown wood with ornate patterns carved on them, an enormous glass chandelier was hanging from the ceiling, under it was a front desk in a U shape.
The lobby was completely empty, "hello! Is anyone there!?" Raymond called out.
…
The group walked forward towards the front desk.
"I have a bad feeling about this" mumbled Tom.
Suddenly, a disembodied voice began speaking.
"Why hello there! You must be the guild members that I called for, please, make yourself at home, I will be here shortly".
Charlotte's eyes flashed purple, "something's wrong".
Oliver spotted something shiny on the ground just under the chandelier, he went closer to it.
"Oooh a coin!" he crouched down and picked it up, unbeknownst to him, the chandelier started moving.
Raymond and Tom noticed the chandelier, " OLIVER GET OUT OF THERE!", the chandelier slammed into the ground just inches away from the oshawott, Charlotte pulled him back with telekinesis.
"The hell!? It's like that chandelier moved on its own!" Raymond extended both of his vines.
"CIRCLE FORMATION NOW!" Raymond commanded, everyone huddled up, backs to each other.
"Everyone make your way to the exit" Charlotte told everyone psychically.
The group slowly moved to the exit, still staying in formation.
But then all of a sudden the doors started shaking, the group backed off, watching the exit twist and distort until all that was left was a blank wall.
"I-impossible!" Tom ran up to the wall where the door used to be and felt it, " we just went through here".
"It's the work of an enemy stand" Raymond declared, "it seems to be able to mold the building's layout and amenities, the same thing it did with the chandelier", the snivy hypothesized.
"Wow,, he pieced that together quickly" Tinker Tom thought sarcastically.
"That is correct Raymond" the disembodied voice said, " my stand:「House Of Holy」, allows me to manipulate any building I reside in, those who cannot escape from said building within the timeframe of one hour…".
The group felt a chill down their spines when they heard the remainder of the sentence.
"...will be erased from this world without a trace".
TAP
The disembodied voice sounded like he tapped the floor with a cane, the room around the Joestar Group began to twist and contort, eventually transforming into a convoluted maze similar to that of a mystery dungeon.
Raymond's senses were overwhelmed at the sight of the room changing around him, he collapsed onto the floor out of dizziness.
"Ray!" Oliver helped him up.
"T-thanks" he said weakly.
Tinker Tom went up to a wall and charged up an iron tail, he struck his stiff tail against the wall, to his surprise, it did no damage.
"Not even a scratch" the pikachu shook his head.
"What do we do?" Oliver said dejectedly.
"Isn't it obvious?" Charlotte's eyes flashed purple, "he's still inside this building, all we have to do is find him and kick his ass".
The meowstic turned to Oliver, "your stand uses echolocation right? map out the maze" she ordered.
Oliver got up and summoned「Delta Blues」, he strummed the guitar, "the closest room is this way" he pointed towards a hallway.
"Did you forget that he can change the layout? He can easily just block us off!" Tom argued.
"You have a better plan?" Charlotte countered.
Tom growled and reluctantly followed Oliver with them.
50 minutes left…
After running into several dead ends, Charlotte was feeling (justifiably) really stressed out, she discreetly lagged behind the group so she could check her satchel.
"Where are they?" she thought as she rummaged around in her bag, after a minute she came to a shocking realisation, "my pills! I forgot to pack them!".
Bad memories started to resurface in her consciousness.
"Are all emergency units on standby? Okay, begin test"
A stress inducing high pitched screech is played.
"Increase pitch".
Charlotte clutched her head in pain.
"Stress levels rising, increase?"
"Yes"
More high pitch screeching noises are played.
"Stop!" Charlotte fell down, a bright purple aura flaring around her.
"Restrainer units be advised, subject is manifesting a stand, over".
"Wait… she's standing up, this is one-way glass how does she see us?".
""Oh Arceus, TAKE COVER!".
Charlotte snapped back into reality, she closed the satchel worriedly.
45 minutes left…
The group walked into a large decked out dining hall, filled with tables, chairs, menus, and even food. A small fully-stocked bar counter was on the right side of the room. There also seemed to be a theatre stage on the far end of the room.
"There has to be some clue to get out of here," said Raymond.
"Everyone search the place" Charlotte ordered, everyone wandered around the dining hall, turning over tables and checking menus.
30 minutes left...
Tinker Tom went over to the bar counter and searched it for the 15th time already, he suddenly realised that a safe was hidden behind a hidden hatch on the back.
He charged up an iron tail and struck it to no avail, "It's the same as the walls".
Charlotte went up to the stage, there were two pillars besides it. She ran her paw across both of the pillars, she noticed that the one on the right was hollow.
She pulled her paw back and slammed it into the pillar, just as she thought the hollow shell crumbled revealing a smaller pillar inside with a keyhole. "That's definitely important".
Raymond went over to one of the round tables and opened it's menu, he saw that a note was written in it.
"The enemy stand user wouldn't just leave clues for us, or maybe this wasn't left by an enemy stand user, this was left by one of his victims!" Raymond began to read the letter.
It's behind the stage
The rest was ineligible, but at least Raymond got something out of the words that he could read.
"Charlotte!" Raymond called the meowstic over.
"This is a note left by someone who didn't make it in time" he handed the paper over to Charlotte.
"There was a keyhole hidden near it, maybe that has something to do with it" she pondered.
Oliver was in front of the stage, he saw that a music stand (a literal one) was in front of it, on top of the stand were some papers.
He picked up the papers, they all had manic writing on them, he was just about to place them back when a small folded up note fell off of the stand.
He bent down to pick it up, he saw that there were a bunch of dots and dashes written on them.
Charlotte sensed his discovery, "Oliver, pass that paper to me", she reached out and telekinetically swiped the worn out piece of paper.
"You didn't have to just rip it out of my paws y'know?"
"Hmm, looks like… morse code, can anyone re-"., Charlotte stopped and looked at Tom, the pikachu sighed and extended his paw.
The meowstic handed the paper over to Tom.
".- ..- -..- -... -... -..- ...- ..- , that's 12,67,42 in morse code, what could it…"
His eyes widened, "the safe!", he ran over to the bar counter while the others followed.
Tom vaulted over the counter and inputted the code into the safe, but instead of a key being inside, it was a map of the dining hall.
The map was strange however, the position of the chairs and tables were different than it was in reality.
Raymond and the others already knew what they had to do, "what is this? Some kind of crappy escape room?" he thought.
The group went to work on rearranging the tables.
10 minutes left...
when the last chair was put into place, the floor started shaking.
Suddenly, a circular chunk of the floor started to rise, once it rose about two meters up it stopped.
On the sides of it were several drawers filled with keys, one of them was the key to open the theatre.
Raymond opened one of the drawers, "there's hundreds of keys in this one alone! We don't have enough time to check them all!".
"There must be some way to filter out the right one" Tinker Tom scratched his chin and "hmm"d, the group stared at him, expecting some kind of genius plan.
…
"Yea I got nothing" he shrugged.
Everyone groaned.
"Well…" Oliver sat down, "any last words? Anyone?"
"You're giving up!?" Charlotte yelled.
"Yep" Oliver fished inside his bag and pulled out a bong.
"I know!" Raymond perked up, "Charlotte! Maybe you can use your telekinesis to push around the lock's internal mechanisms" the snivy suggested.
"You think I haven't tried that!?" Charlotte said, irritated and even more stressed.
"It doesn't work?"
"Yeah, I can't physically move it's guts since the entire building is a stand, all I can do is feel it with my mind".
Tom went into deep thought for a moment, his ears jolted up as an idea popped into his head, "if you can feel the lock's mechanisms, then you can just feel around for the key that fits it!".
Charlotte's eyes widened, she activated her psychic powers, her eyes flashed purple as every drawer of keys opened.
A wave of purple energy washed over every key, after a few seconds, a single key levitated out of one of the piles and floated over to the stage's pillar, inserting itself into the keyhole.
She telekinetically turned the key, loud mechanical sounds echoed throughout the entire hall as a chunk in the middle of the wall behind the stage opened like a set of sliding doors.
"It really is like a crappy escape room" Raymond remarked.
BANG!
A hail of shotgun pellets flew towards the meowstic, she calmly held a paw up and telekinetically stopped them in mid-air.
A lilac quadrupedal figure walked out of the darkness of the doorway, it had slender legs with large ears and purple eyes. There was a small red gemstone on its forehead. It was wearing a gold trimmed long cape with a popped-up collar, and a bell-boy hat matching with it's color scheme.
A shotgun was levitating in the air besides it, gun smoke emanated from the barrel.
"An espeon" Raymond mumbled.
"So you're the guy who trapped us in here, right?" Tom asked.
The espeon nodded, "I am known as Dija Maker, and yes, I was the voice you heard under an hour ago".
Dija Maker telekinetically pulled back the pump on his shotgun, chambering another round.
"It's 4 to 1, you're outnumbered".
"Do numbers really matter when you're able to mold the battlefield? I have the entire building on my side, so while you outnumber me, I outgun you" Dija Maker explained.
"Wait what are we doing? I wasn't listening" Oliver said partly in a trance from his weed.
Tom's eyes jolted open, "He's stalling so we can disappear!", he promptly shot a thunderbolt at Dija, who quickly dodged to the side and fired off another shot aimed at Tom.
Tom swiftly got under a table, which, due to it being a stand, took the hit for him.
Raymond fired off a razor leaf, while Charlotte fired a psychic, both at the same time.
A wall rose out of the floor in front of Dija, blocking the projectiles.
Dija raised a paw forward, suddenly walls rose out of the ground randomly in the dining hall, creating a maze.
Everyone was separated, Raymond and Tom were right in front of Dija, Charlotte was a few walls away, and Oliver was just chilling several walls back at the entrance.
"Woah!" Raymond jumped forward, dodging a wall that sprouted right under him.
Dija maker telekinetically pulled back the pump on his shotgun and aimed at Raymond, who was wide-open.
The snivy leapt to the side right before he fired, a few pellets grazed him, but one went straight through his tail.
"Damn!" Raymond grit his teeth as he put a vine over the wound.
Unfortunately, while he was distracted, Dija slammed his paw down on the floor, causing a horizontal pillar to burst out of the wall and clock him in the back, sending him flying a few meters forward.
The table on top of Tinker Tom disappeared, "what?" he exclaimed in confusion, a vertical pillar suddenly a vertical pillar burst out of the floor under him, tossing him into the air, a horizontal pillar extended out of the wall besides him, flinging him into another wall.
Both of them fainted.
"You fools!「House Of Holy」is invincible!
Stand Master: Dija Maker
Stand Name: 「House Of Holy」
Stats:
Destructive Power: E
Speed: B
Range: C
Persistence: A
Precision: D
Developmental Potential: D
Charlotte navigated the maze and found herself right at the place where Raymond and Tom were defeated.
"DIO said you were the strongest of the bunch, let's test that shall we?".
Charlotte tried going through his mind for a moment, but since he was a psychic type as well, his memories were all muddy, just the thing that Charlotte hated.
Several pillars burst out of the walls near Charlotte aiming to knock her out, she skillfully dodged all of them and shot out another psychic burst at him.
Dija Maker, not expecting the attack, was hit and stumbled backwards, a small amount of blood spewing out of his mouth.
Dija Chambered his shotgun as fired multiple times at her, getting frustrated that she was deflecting them with telekinesis.
Click Click
"Damn it! I'm out of rounds" the espeon grumbled as he tossed away the shotgun, deciding to take her head on.
Dija's forehead gemstone glowed brightly, a purple wave of psychic energy washed over the entire maze.
Charlotte stood there dumbfounded as she wasn't hurt, until the realization stuck her, "he used future sight!".
The discovery came too late though, a chandelier materialized on the ceiling above the meowstic, she looked up to see that it was glowing with purple energy.
"SHIT!".
A purple laser beam from the chandelier engulfed Charlotte, she screamed as her energy was sucked away.
She stood there silently, shaking in fatigue, she collapsed onto the floor.
"He's too powerful;...".
The sound of tinnitus pierced through her hearing, the high pitched squealing sound giving her flashbacks.
Her paws flashed a purplish blue for a second, "No, stay the hell in you damn monster!".
Her entire body was engulfed in a purplish blue flame, "Oh whatever... 「Calvaire」, lets rip and tear this fuckwad".
Espeon, who was looking away, turned around and saw the meowstic menacingly standing, with an intimidating apparition besides her.
"A-a stand!" Dija Maker stepped backwards.
Charlotte took a quick glance at her stand, every time she looked at it, she remembered why she left Pecha Town.
October 1, 2017 - Speedwagon Foundation Testing Facility
"Activating biofeedback sensors" A brionne wearing a labcoat flipped a switch, several screens lit up.
Speedwagon stared through the 1-way glass silently with a stone-cold expression.
Several Foundation scientists were in the room with him. They were inside a high-tech observation room peering into a giant containment chamber from the top of the chamber's walls.
"Speakers are ready to fire" a raboot wearing a labcoat confirmed.
"Are all units on standby?" the brionne asked into a microphone
"Affirmative" a mega-aggron's voice came out through a speaker to the right of Brionne.
"Subject's vitals are stable" the raboot pressed a few buttons, "no abnormalities in pre-trigger phase".
Brionne squinted as she looked into the glass, inside the testing chamber was a young espurr, strapped to the small pokemon's forehead were two white oval-shaped sensors, placed around the room were multiple reinforced electronic speakers.
"Begin test" Brionne said, trying to hide her nervousness.
A speaker in front of the espurr activated, releasing a high pitched screech.
Everyone in the observation room shivered, being able to hear the sound despite the testing chamber being soundproofed.
The espurr clutched her head and doubled over, she shot out a psybeam at the speaker, causing no damage.
Speedwagon maintained his stoic expression, watching the test unfold.
"Subject's stress levels are rising," Brionne said, trying to maintain her composure, "Increase pitch".
Speedwagon didn't bother to look at Brionne as he replied in a cold and indifferent tone, "yes".
Every speaker activated at once, causing the scientists to flinch at the volume.
"BPM is rising, reaching approximate maximum" Raboot said.
"Stress levels are rising, wait…" Brionne observed the computer screen, "the sensors are nearing their limit, they're starting to fail".
"We're losing contact with the biofeedback sensors!" Raboot watched as the brainwave charts on the screens stopped.
A blueish purple energy started to surround the espurr.
"Restrainer units be advised, subject is manifesting a stand, over" Raboot spoke into a radio.
"We have what we need, turn off the speakers" ordered Speedwagon unemotionally.
"I-I'm trying to! There must be some kind of electromagnetic interference!" Brionne frantically pressed buttons on her console.
"Send in the restrainer units".
"Can't, the door isn't working! It's interfering with the door mechanisms too!" said Brionne in a panic.
The lights in both the observation room and the testing chamber started flickering wildly.
"Shut off the power".
"Yessir!" Brionne smashed open a glass shell for the emergency shutdown switch and flipped it.
"I-it's not working!" Brionne panicked as the lights didn't go out.
"Mr. Speedwagon!" one of the restrainer unit's voices crackled through a radio, "we were able to get a crowbar, we're prying open the door right now!".
The espurr slowly stood up nonchalantly, suddenly every speaker in the testing chamber blew up.
"Holy shit!" one of the scientists yelled.
"The sub- she's staring right at us, but this is a one-way window!".
The espurr was looking at the scientists through the observation glass, a stand was manifesting besides her.
All the scientists watched in horror as the stand fully manifested.
The stand manifested as what seemed to be half of a human skeleton, it didn't have a lower half, instead, its visible spine seemed to be extending out of the espurr's back. It had purple shoulder pads that extended over its upper torso similar to a football player's pads. It's arms and hands were human bones.
Its face was like a demented comedy mask, it's vermillion was jagged, and it had two giant holes for eyes. There didn't seem to be an observable interior, as if you were to look into its eyes or mouth you wouldn't see anything except black. On both sides of its jaw was a bolt.
Speedwagon was unfazed by the stand's appearance, although his colleagues were less calm about it.
The stand craned its head upwards, a bright purple light started to glow emanate from outside of its mouth, it's jaw extended downwards to about 50 centimeters, it started screaming, it's cry sounding like a mix between the sound of a dog howling and a baby crying, but 10 times more louder and distorted.
"Oh Arceus… TAKE COVER!" the scientists braced for impact.
A giant purple laser erupted out of the stand's mouth, it swung its head around, causing the laser to melt the walls and their foundation.
The entire observation room started shaking, "send an evacuation order!" yelled Speedwagon.
All the scientists frantically left the observation room including Speedwagon.
They all ran through a long corridor in a frenzy, the lights flickering and the crumbling of the facility's foundation put them in an even greater panic as they trampled over each other.
Instead of running to the evacuation tunnels, Speedwagon decided to dash the opposite direction, towards the testing chamber.
He bumped into the fleeing restraining units, "hand me that crowbar" he ordered them, the mega-aggron handed him the crowbar, the lycanroc held it in his mouth.
We walked over into an airlock and exited it into the entrance to the testing chamber, the door was partially pried open, he put the crowbar under the door and pushed it up with all his strength, eventually wrestling it open.
He dropped the crowbar and ran into the chamber, spotting the espurr and her stand trying to melt a hole in the ceiling to escape.
"Charlotte! Stop this at once!" Speedwagon yelled.
The ceiling gave way from the stand's laser, bits of rebar and concrete fell just inches away from both of them, revealing the midnight sky above.
The stand looked down at the lycanroc, its jaw still extended. The espurr glared at Speedwagon.
Speedwagon, sensing the possibility of being disintegrated, loosened his expression.
"Charlotte, you know this just as well as I do, if you go out there by yourself you WILL hurt pokemon, what we did was just a test, we didn't mean to hurt you".
The stand's jaw shrank back to its normal length, it let out an eerie growling sound.
"Stay here, and we can keep everyone safe, if not… I'll allow you to leave".
Charlotte looked down, her expression relaxed, she pondered the offer in her head.
After several seconds, she turned her head upwards, her stand grabbed her by the waist and hoisted her up, the stand levitated upwards towards the sky with her in its grasp.
"Restrain yourself Charlotte, I beg of you".
Stand Master: Charlotte
Stand Name:「Calvaire」
Stats:
Destructive Power: A
Speed: C
Range: B
Persistence: B
Precision: A
Developmental Potential: C
Present Day…
5 Minutes Left…
"W-what is this power!?" Dija Maker exclaimed as he blocked 「Calvaire」's laser with a wall.
The espeon looked up to see 「Calvaire」hovering right over him with its jaw down to it's torso, it's spine was extending all the way over to Charlotte, who had an amused expression on her face.
"w̴̼͉̓͘h̵̲̙̀̊a̴̢̝̽t̵̟̉͜'̸͇́s̶͈̰̔ ̸̨̛̙̄w̶̹͗r̵̪͍͘̕ŏ̶̝͝n̵͙̥̆̽g̴̙̖͋?̴͇̯͆͑ ̷͚͆Š̶̟͇̂k̸̢̑ǐ̶̺t̸̞̗͐͘ţ̵̯͊̈́ÿ̷̝̀ ̷͖́̂g̴̹͖̏͠o̷̜̻̐̓t̵͈͉͗ ̵͉̒̈́y̷͉̱̎̏o̵͇̥͊u̸̥͌̿r̸̺̗̒ ̴̉̿ͅt̴̰̜̚o̷̹͛ñ̷͚́ġ̸̓ͅu̷̬̭͗̃ḛ̵̀͂͜?̷̯̓"「Calvaire」jeered in a distorted voice similar to Charlotte's.
Dija Maker jumped backwards and fired a psychic blast at「Calvaire」 the wave of energy phased right through the stand.
「Calvaire」's mouth started glowing purple, Dija Maker, who already knew what was coming, dodged out of the way, the laser just barely grazing him.
Dija Maker summoned a pillar under 「Calvaire」, it burst out of the floor and caught the stand, rapidly lifting it towards the ceiling, aiming to crush it.
Charlotte retracted the long spine connecting both her and 「Calvaire」, pulling the stand back right before the pillar collided with the ceiling.
Dija Maker's vision was a blur while all of this was happening, due to the sheer amount of dust that the lasers kicked up.
When he was able to see again, he saw that 「Calvaire」was no longer in sight, "where the hell is it?" he thought, he noticed that it's spine was laying on the ground like a wire, he looked at the trail of phantom vertebrae until he realized that it led behind him.
He fearfully turned around and saw that 「Calvaire」's face was just inches away from his.
Dija Maker stumbled back, "DIO paid me in advance, y-you can take the money just don't hurt me!".
"Geez, you really are a scumbag" Charlotte sighed, her exasperated expression turned into a serious one, "money isn't gonna get you out of this shit-show, besides…".
…
"Y̷͚͊Ō̸̧Ǘ̷͜ ̶͕͒Ṕ̴̟I̷̪͑Ṣ̶̍Ś̸̻È̶͎D̶̩̆ ̶̩̒M̵͈̀E̴̖̿ ̵̹̿Ȏ̸͔F̷̡͛F̶̠̿!̶̟͂" Dija Maker was met with an uppercut from 「Calvaire」, the force of the punch blasted him into the air.
「Calvaire」pulled both of it's fists back, preparing to do a barrage of punches, once Dija Maker was in range…
OKA! OKA! OKA! OKA! OKA!OKA! OKA! OKA! OKA! OKASARERU!
The final punch flung Dija Maker across the room, when he landed, he went limp
All the walls, structures and rooms that Dija summoned disappeared, the room around Charlotte twisted and distorted until it turned into the main lobby that they walked into when the Joestar group first came there.
Charlotte looked around and saw that the fainted bodies of Raymond, Tom and Dija Maker were lying on the ground.
"Where's Oli-".
"Woooooaaaaah… was that your stand?" Oliver appeared behind Charlotte, she turned around.
"Are you still high?".
"Neewwp" Oliver said, still clearly tripping balls.
"Okay just… lets keep this between ourselves, okay?" Charlotte asked Oliver.
""A-alright… I'm going to fall over now…".
Thud!
Oliver fell on his back and fainted.
"He's gonna feel horrible later. Well, better call HQ" Charlotte pulled a device out of her satchel and pressed a few buttons.
A few seconds passed, Vance's voice crackled out of the device, "yo! Charlotte! How you doin?".
"We got attacked by an assassin, can you send some guys over to arrest him?"
"Oh… sure, just one sec".
Dija Maker
User Of 「House Of Holy」
Retired
October 31, 2020 - Downtown Jericho
A familiar zorua walked down the dark streets of Jericho, it was halloween night, and he was dressed for the occasion.
Smokey was wearing a black cape with an extremely high collar, a white bow tie, and plastic fangs, his costume was Count Dracula.
Slung over the zorua's back was a bag filled with candy, he drooled at just the thought of eating it all at home.
But his thought process was interrupted by a mysterious voice coming from an alleyway next to him.
"Smooookeeeeeeey" the voice groaned.
He turned around just to see a cloaked figure turn the corner into another alleyway.
"Uh, hello? Did someone say my name?" Smokey called out.
The zorua walked forward into the alleyway, "hmm, just my imaginat-".
"Smoooookeeeeeey…".
Smokey swiftly turned towards the voice and saw the most terrifying sight of his life.
The figure was impossibly tall, about several meters tall, it was wearing an extremely long black cloak that covered its entire height, it was also wielding a giant scythe.
"I have come… FOR YOUR SOUL!" The grim reaper pointed it's scythe at the zorua.
"AAAHHH!" Smokey ran the other way in terror, and into another alleyway, "whew… I think I lost him".
He turned his head and saw a meowstic facing away from him, she was standing unnaturally still.
Smokey carefully approached the meowstic, reaching out a paw and poking it in the back, "excuse me?".
The meowstic's head suddenly turned 180 degrees to face Smokey, the meowstic's eyes were pitch black, with a strange liquid pouring out of them.
"EEP!" the zorua dashed into the alleyway to his right.
Meanwhile, only a block away.
"Alright JoJo, I need you to annoy me" Charlotte explained to the riolu, who just took off his costume.
"What? Why?".
"Just do it".
"Alright…".
JoJo raised a paw… and started repeatedly poking the meowstic on the head, " heyCharlotteheyCharlotteheyCharlotteheyCharlotteheyCharlotteheyCharlotteheyCharlotteheyCharlotteheyCharlotteheyCharlotte" he said repeatedly.
A faint bluish purple aura started to manifest around the meowstic, JoJo noticed it.
"Still not enough, act dumber".
JoJo nodded, "hey uh, Charlotte, this may come off as a bit sudden but… you're kinda hot~".
「Calvaire」burst out of Charlotte's back, "thanks… and also…" the meowstic kicked JoJo in the balls, "you had that coming", she ran off into Smokey's direction.
"Ow…"
Smokey bolted down the alleyway, aghast at the terrifying monsters that attacked him earlier.
He hid behind a dumpster and stopped to take a breather, when he was done he walked out into the middle of the alleyway, hysterically looking around.
Not deciding to jinx himself, he stayed silent. He cautiously went down the alleyway towards the street.
Tap...Tap...Tap…
The zorua heard something moving to his left, he glanced over there and saw some weird white thing on the ground.
It was long, and coiled around the place like a wire, he lowered his head to inspect it, "is this… a spine?".
Suddenly something tapped him on the shoulder, he slowly turned around and saw…
…
"B̵̢͈͈̈̒͝ő̷̰̞̯͇̔̈́o̷͍̤̅̍̓̚" 「Calvaire」uttered, it's face just inches away from the zorua's snout.
Smokey stood there, unmoving, he watched as 「Calvaire」retracted it's spine and was dragged down a drain pipe, it was watching him the entire time it was being recalled.
Smokey gradually skedaddled, still speechless.
The zorua arrived at an intersection of alleyways, he glanced around, seeing figures moving in the dark.
His lip quivered , his glances became more frantic, his breathing became faster.
"Oooooooooooo" a ghostly groan emanated from one of the alleyways.
Bit by bit, Smokey forced himself to look at whoever made the noise.
It seemed to be a pale white shapeless apparition, it had black, soulless circles for eyes and no mouth, it slowly made its way towards Smokey.
"Oooooooooooooooh, Iiiiii'mmmm a ghooooooost" the apparition groaned.
Smokey stared at it for a few seconds.
Thud
Then he fainted.
Evie took the tablecloth off her head, "oh… oops"
Chapter 20 End
Howdy! This took a pretty long time to make.
I wish I could've gotten this out sooner, since this is a halloween special, but I am a big procrastinator so I should be glad I was able to release this right before october ended.
I would also like to thank the people who take the time out of their day to read this fic, I really appreciate it.
I can't think of anything else to say so…
Have a nice halloween!