My Little Pony: Friendship is a Bizarre Adventure
Part 3:~Stardust Coachriders~
Episode XIV: Bastet's Animal Magnetism, Forgive and Forget
The party had made it to The Land of Dead Kings, Luxor. Years ago, the Pharaoh's of the land began to build their tombs beneath the Earth, to deter grave robbers from ruining their ancient and revered resting places. Despite their intents, many tombs were lost in the ashes of history, with the only known survivor being King Tutankhamen. The village of Luxor was said to be descendants of these thieves, and may still search for more treasure to find... Pinkie Pie tossed the tourist book in Polnareff's hands.
"Told you I can change my voice! I used to do it in Italy to snag me and JoJo free food!"
"Whoa~! You sounded so different! Can you mimic others?"
She slapped her face and became bug eyed as she shouted in Joseph's voice.
"Oh My God! All you had to do was ask, Cheesehead!"
"Gyah! Y-You sounded just like the Old Man!"
She stood up straight with a smug smile before pointing at him in a challenging manner.
"You trying to pick a fight with me, PolPol!? Of course I can do that!"
"U-Ugh! You even sound like Dashie, it's all so uncanny!"
She posed sensually, her back turned to him as she held a hand to her face.
"I, dio, believe so as well."
"Ooooh! Really close! Although it's not exact as the voices before, I still got the chills! You should be voice actress! You'd make millions!"
"Joseph already has billions! I think I'm good, though I wonder where he went...?"
Jotaro lifted his cap up and thumbed behind him.
"Grandad left for the toilet. Iggy's with him, so he'll probably be all fucked up when he gets back. Though, I don't see Dash anywhere either."
Joseph looked at the terrifyingly desert sight. It was just a hole in the ground with dried feces and a large walls that allowed privacy. The desert heat and air dry up the poop into a crumbling state, the wind blows it all into the wind rather than flush it away. Sanitizing sand in a can sat next to the hole. Iggy smiled up at Joseph.
"Oh My God! What the fuck is this!? Fuck no, I'm using this damn thing, eugh!"
He left the toilet like a disgruntled pimp, but found an odder yet less revolting sight. An electrical outlet on a boulder.
"What the...? Who'd put this here? It shouldn't be on since it's applied to this rock... [Hermit Purple]!"
Joseph sent his vines into the boulder, just to find a secret compartment or some sort, but it was only a mere rock. He chuckled and shook his head as he looked to Iggy.
"Look at me! Jumping like a caveman at the sight of something so simple!"
"('Tonight. You.') Arf!"
"Still, it's a rather foreign design from the other outlets around here..."
He reached for the device. Joseph's eyes nearly sky rocketed from his sockets as he flew back.
"HOLEY SHEIT! D-Did that happen because of my arm!? What the Hell was that?!"
Rainbow Dash found and helped him up.
"Old Man? Why're you on your rear?"
"That's so weird! U-Uh nothing to note, just that strange outlet. Did you see anyone suspicious around here?"
"No one weird, just that chill lady over there."
She pointed to a beautiful Egyptian woman with the hottest legs. She gave a simple wave as she smoked one of Rainbow Dash's rare cigarettes.
"She gave me some advice and more cigarettes, apparently it's the same brand, who knew?"
"At least she's a nice woman. We should meet up with the others."
The two left as they bade the woman goodbye. She sighed a cloud of smoke. Boys, always touching things they're not supossed to. She looked back at the base of the boulder and snapped her fingers as the outlet vanished. That one boy, Jotaro, was a nuisance. How could she not give her own two cents to Rainbow Dash? Such a cute girl... Such a shame she has to die. These were her thoughts. The thoughts of Mariah, the Stand User of Bastet the Goddess of Love and Warfare, and cats. The group had stopped at a small outside bar. The cold colas had refreshed them. Pinkie Pie held her bottle at Joseph.
"It's high noon cowboy!"
"... Heh! May the fastest win."
He held a new bottle up as they stared each other down.
"DRAW!" "DRAW"
As Hamon coursed through thrm both, the caps flew off the bottles and at each other. Like bullets, a loud bang sounded off, yet the two met and collided. Pinkie Pie snickered as she drank her pop.
"Darn! Quit doing exactly as I do, JoJo!"
"Me!? Aren't you usually following my lead!?"
"Your soda's spilling~"
"Gah! Goddammit, I just bought this one!"
The two still laughed. It's been a long journey, and it was nice to simply relax. Polnareff and Rainbow Dash always enjoyed the sight of Hamon, even Jotaro was curious, but his thoughts were not on their breathing technique.
"Oi. What's the plan? We'll be in Cairo in two days."
Joseph immediately became serious again. DIO, was just within reach.
"He hasn't moved either... DIO, is waiting for us, I can feel it."
"I can too... This bloodline thing, it's stranger than every Stand we've faced. Speaking of that, they've gotten worse."
Rainbow Dash nodded as she thumbed to her eye.
"Ever since that Milder chick, we've nearly lost all of our lives, and don't always come out in one piece. We gotta get to that Chump, DIO, fast!"
Pinkie Pie rolled her shoulder and flexed her mechanical fingers
"But can't we take just ooooonnnneee day off? I'm sore, tired, and most of all sick of all this fighting! Can't he just make up with us and we sucker punch him into the Sun or something?"
Polnareff looked to the bar tender, the man had done all he could to fix his radio. Only static and white noise came out.
"Hey, if you can't get anything but static, just turn it off!"
"But this is brand new, and right from Japan! There's no way it should be broken!"
Joseph then noticed something odd. His fingers began to click and clack, like they once did long ago with his first model, it had several bugs and would cut out on him at times. Rainbow Dash noticed his concerned face.
"Yo, Old Gramps-"
"You can call me Gramps or Old Man, not both you gold digging hog."
"Why am I the hog!? Whatever, what's up with you? You look even more old manish than usual."
"One day Dashie, you'll be in my shoes, and it's this confounded arm! It's acting up! I got the Speedwagon Foundation doctors at the hospital to patch it up, so it shouldn't be acting this way."
"Oh! The hospital! Shouldn't Avdol and Zecora be out soon?"
"They'll be here tomorrow actually. We'll spend two days here instead of moving on. One to wait, and another to rest. Any objections?"
"Sounds fine to me." "Bon dieu, A break at last!" "Yare Yare Daze." "JoJo, you slacker!"
"I'll take that mess of dialogue as a yes. Let's go get our rooms at the hotel. I'll have to book our shaman's ahead of time."
They got up and left, Joseph never noticed the bottle caps that stuck to his body. The bar tender jumped at the radio's sudden compliance.
"Just as those weirdos left! What did they have a magnet?"
A man nearby hammered in nails in the wall, the nails in his mouth for him to easily grab for the next. Yet as Joseph walked by, the hammer became heavier, and the nails moved on their own. They began to drill through his cheek.
"A-AAARGH!"
The hammer flew from his hand and at Joseph's head. Avdol snatched it from the air.
"Mr. Joestar!"
"Oh, oh shit! You really saved me there! Weren't you supposed to be here tomorrow?"
"I had decided that my wounds were merely a nuisance. It hurts but, from my understanding we all are quite too stubborn, and do not have the time to wait for a full recovery."
"That's true, but what about Zecora?"
"She stayed behind with Kakyoin, she wanted to make sure he was safe during recovery, I am sure they will be just fine. Few are a match for her."
The next morning, Joseph woke up to Pinkie Pie rolling him out of bed.
"Wake up you old coot! It's breakfast! My granbaby outside is wailing!"
Polnareff shouted from the window.
"H-Hey! Don't call me baby, I'm not Kakyoin!"
Pinkie Pie nearly threw herself our the window and shouted back.
"ALL OF YOU ARE MY GRANBABIES! Kakyoin's just the nerd of you bunch!"
"Then what am I?!"
"You're the dumb one who's too charming to be mad at for too long!"
"THE DUMB O- H-Hold on, charming? Hehehehe! I... I guess I am!"
Pinkie Pie turned back to Joseph.
"We literally have about twelve minuets before he snaps out of his daydream. C'mon, JoJo!"
Pinkie Pie leapt out of the window. The floor they were on was the fifth, yet Joseph only groaned as he got out of , he felt something bump him. He looked back and found the rolling chair had suddenly moved to him.
"What the...? Is it broken? Pinkie did spin around this thing all night."
He moved it back in place, but it rolled over back to him.
"Is the building slanted? What's with this dingy dump! Two-hundred dollars a person for all this!?"
Although in a ranting mood, Joseph felt rather well today. Two young ladies passed by him, yet one had their dress pulled up into the air. She turned to Joseph with a face of an ogre.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!? DON'T TOUCH ME!"
"Wha-"
"PERVERT!"
She socked poor Joseph in the jaw. The two ran off as Joseph rubbed his cheek.
"What was that? As Avdol would say, bitches be crazy in here.. "
He saw an old wrinkled woman, about Enya's size, pass him with a bit of effort. Her dress flew up as she passed Joseph.
"Huh!?"
"Oh my~"
She turned as he did his damnedest to put the dress down.
"Such an aggressive approach! Such confidence! I love men like you, I just. Want. To. Eat. You. Up!"
She blew a kiss at him. Joseph responded accordingly.
"OooOOOhH! MmMMmYyY! GOOooOoooODd! ! !"
He ran away before the situation could get any worse. As he passed by a cart of silverware, the tools began to fly at him.
A-Ah! What's happening!? Everything with iron- no. Anything magnetic is assaulting me! As if my body has become a...!"
It hit his head like a punch from Star Platinum. The outlet had turned his body into a magnet, and rendered his whole left arm practically useless. The whole plate of utensils flew after him. He turned the corner to escape the knives and forks, but even the spoons stabbed into the wall. A few utensils made it to his back as he nearly fell on an escalator to the entrance of the hotel.
"Gah! Why can't I, stand up!? N-No! The fucking escalators too!?"
He was forced on all fours. A woman with metal decorative wires on her dress stood in front of him. The wires flew around his throat and hands.
"Eugh! Ma'am! The escalator! Please turn it off! I'll be in trouble!"
She turned and revealed her face. Mariah simply chuckled.
"Joseph Joestar. Those aren't chains, those are fiber wires made specifically for traps like these. Die."
"Wha- You're the lady from before! It's you isn't it!?"
She laughed as he summoned Hermit Purple. Surely, this death machine had an emergency stop button. Yet his vines found nothing.
"Ah! AAAH! I'M GOING TO BE CRUSHED BY THESE WIRES! HELP ME! ANYONE! I CAN'T DIE NOW! I'M TOO SEXY TO BE KILLED OFF, I HAVE AT LEAST ONE MORE PART AFTER THIS!"
"Ahem!"
"THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! I CAN'T BE KILLED HERE!"
"AHEM!"
"OH MY GOD! I CAN FEEL MYSELF BEING STRANGLED! NOOOOO-"
"MR. JOESTAR!" "JOJO!"
"Pinkie shut up, I'm dying here! ... Ah! PINKIE! AVDOL!"
Pinkie Pie waved happily as Avdol thumbed to the side.
"We were wondering where you had been all this time."
"And here you are about to be coiled up and torn up like [Empress]! Yikes, what did you get yourself into, Old Man! You're lucky we hit that button before you did!"
Joseph did his best to ignore the odd looks and glances from the other hotel residents and employees. He got up only to have Pinkie Pie's hand fly onto his chest.
"Huh? What's uh, what's going on here?"
"Apparently I've been turned into a magnet. The Stand User is a woman, young woman even. She-"
An ashtray hit his head and covered his shoulders with ashes.
"... She's... Nearby. I don't know where though! The pull is getting stronger!"
"No duh! Soon, you'll probably be picking planes out of the sky!"
"Pinkamena Pie, I will body slam you all the way back to Air Saplena if you make another plane joke."
"Sorry JoJo, it took off."
"HHHHHNNNG-"
Avdol pointed at Mariah who stood in the crowd.
"Her, I take it?"
"THAT'S THE DIRTY BITCH ALRIGHT! AFTER HER!"
Mariah laughed as she ran ahead... Into the woman's bathroom. Avdol and Joseph looked at Pinkie Pie, who despite her height growth, was still carried away by Joseph.
"H-Hey! Pick your feet up and get in there! Or at least use your [Candy Shop]!"
"But I'm glued to you like this! Even if I go in, you'll be coming with! I checked while you were chasing her anyways, she's gotta be in that last stall to the window!"
"U-Urgh... Back us up Avdol!"
Avdol shook his head and mumbled under his breath.
"Crazy ass white people... Yessir!"
The three entered quietly. They checked each stall as a case of precaution. Joseph held a finger up to his mouth.
"She's got legs hot enough the scramble eggs, that's all we need!"
Pinkie Pie nodded as Avdol reached the last stall.
"This is Polnareff's gimmick, not mine! But, Mr. Joestar!"
"Fucking hell Avdol, is it Old Man or Joestar?"
"Whichever comes out first, sir! These have to be the legs, right?"
"Ah! No doubt about it!"
Their hearts froze as locks clicked. Each stall opened to reveal a different wan, each ugly in their own right. Only one stall remained closed as the last one, held the old woman from before.
"Oh~! You're that wonderful stallion from earlier. You came in here for me? And you've brought friends, oh my you're just outrageous! Such an exotic couple you've got!"
"HoLY SHiT! ! ! This is the first floor! You were the on the goddamn fif- how'd you get down here!? Why is this happening!?"
Pinkie Pie glanced outside and saw Mariah wave at them.
"She's right outside! C'mon you invaders of personal privacy!"
"Pinkie, Shut Up!" "Ms. Pie Please Not Now!"
They dove through the window and began to chase after Mariah. Avdol began to squish Pinkie Pie against Joseph.
"Hey, Avdol! We can't run as fast with you on me like that! You too Pinkie!"
"I-It is not me! It's as if I can't help but be pulled towards you!"
Pinkie Pie poked her head out from between their chests.
"As the victim of this old people sandwich, I can safely say that outlet that shocked you Avdol, just turned you into a magnet."
"By the Gods... W-We're going to fall!"
The three tripped over each other. Although Pinkie Pie kept their faces and torsos apart, Joseph and Avdol's wrist and ankles connected. Joseph groaned.
"What the fuck kinda gimmick Stand is this!? Graaagh! Okay, everyone-"
"It's literally just us, JoJo."
"YOU WANNA STICK TOGETHER LIKE WE'RE SIAMESE TRIPLETS!?"
"Ehm... Nah, I don't want to put Avdol through that!"
"Good! Here's the plan! There has to be an attracting and opposing force on us, our polarities! If we can use that to our advantage, we may just be able to split up! We'll start by standing up and moving to that picket fence! Ready?!"
"Always!" "Yessir!"
The three got up and began to make their way to the nearby fence. As Joseph and Avdol grabbed it, Avdol looked to the side with a gasp.
"M-Mr. Joestar... Ms. Pie... This is utterly embarrassing...!
"Well for me and JoJo, this is a daily thing." "What's the problem?"
"W-We've attracted a small audience!"
Joseph looked back best he could and saw a group of kids. They stared at them with confused but bblan faces.
"HEY! WE'RE JUST DANCING IN THE STREET! GO AWAY IF YOU'RE BORED!"
The children ran off as Joseph sighed contently.
"Okay... Avdol! Can you move at all? Even a little?"
"Just slightly!"
"Try moving to the bottom! Pinkie, you're not a magnet, right?"
She smiled and shrugged her shoulders.
"Well I do seem to be caught in a tight situation."
"Not the goddamn time!"
"Okay, okay, only my hand and pinky finger are stuck to you!"
"Good! Then you can use a repelling Hamon on my mark! GO!"
Avdol began to shuffle downward as Pinkie Pie lowered herself. Avdol began to mumble and blush.
"This... This is awful... Comedy isn't my place in this cast either!"
Pinkie Pie looked down at Avdol.
"What's the problem?"
"It's... W-" "OH NO!"
Joseph had looked down and blushed horribly. Avdol's face was right above Pinkie Pie's rear, and her face right on his crotch. He looked up and nearly died on the spot. The kids from before had brought several friends.
"FUCK OFF WITH YOU! GO AWAY! THIS ISN'T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE! AVDOL, HURRY UP, PINKIE GET FROM THERE!"
"Mmhnph!" "M-Mr. Old Man I got stuck! This is the only way for me to make it down!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH! ! !"
"Th-There! I'm at the-"
"PINKIE NOW!"
Both the elders focused their breathing before they flew apart, the Hamon from their bodies repelled each other as Avdol had flown back from the force. All of them were happy, until Avdol reattached himself with Pinkie Pie still in between them. Joseph's eyes nearly flew from his skull.
"WHAT THE SHIET! ! ! TH-THIS IS EVEN WORSE THAN BEFORE! SO MUCH WORSE!
Pinkie Pie squirmed slightly and to breath.
"This is so super awkward! At least your chest is like a bed, Avdol."
"Ms. Pie, now is the worst time to say such things!" "SEE AVDOL! SEE THE BULLSHIT I GOT TO DEAL WITH!? HOW COULD THIS GET ANY WORSE!"
"J-JoJo! Quit moving like that! Av-Avdol try that thing aga- Uh Oh."
An angry shout came from the other side of the road. The old woman from before had started to charge at them.
"I thought you were a gentleman who lived life to the fullest! But you and that man are only having fun with that hussie!? You left me out!? Heeeeiii! I'll show you what for, how dare you play with a young woman's heart!"
"OOOOOOH MYYYYY GOOOOODDDDDDD! HELP MEEEeeEeEEeE! NGYAAAAAAAAAHHHH! ! ! !"
Joseph was assaulted by the woman and her umbrella of vengeance. All he could do was cry. Avdol envied his sister. He cursed his luck, surely she must he laughing wherever she is with that hospital, the night before however, a mysterious visitor had approached the entrance. The security officers held their guns up to them.
"Stop right there! You look suspicious!" "This area is closed off and under investigation! Return during the day hours if you're here to visit!"
"Such uncivilized monkeys... Why do I have to deal with such ugly men everywhere? I just want to find, my perfect girlfriend."
The men attempted to pull the trigger of their guns for a mere warning shot, but their hands were frozen solid. The figure grabbed their hands and slammed together, he had literally disarmed them.
"I know that heinous beast, [DragonForce] the Stand Eater has been here. It's evident all over... He better had left her alive, or I'll freeze his heart."
W-Who are you talking too!? And what happened to my hands!? Why is it so cold!? Aaaaahhh..."
Jack Snow kicked the guard's head.
"No one will stop me from my honest and true love quest. Rainbow Dash, when this is over, we're going to get married."
He stomped down on their heads a few times. He was supposed to support Spike, but he would never be caught dead near the beast he knew. He had never received word from DIO that the Joestar group had moved on. Only Zecora and Kakyoin remained. Zecora shook slightly as she contemplated her next move. Nothing could prepare her for this. She entered Kakyoin's room, he laid in his bed as Zecora made her way beside him.
"Who's there? It's too late for any appointments "
"It is I."
"Ms. Zecora? You should be asleep so you can leave tomorrow... Why are you here and awake?"
"... There lies in me, a dark secret of great mystery, a guilt so grand and heavy that my heart shakes in misery."
"What? You...? What could it be?"
She grabbed a chair and placed it next to him.
"...There are not nine Egyptian Gods that serve DIO as his henchmen... but ten..."
"Ten!? But, you gave me their names! [GEB] [Khnum] [Thoth] [Anubis] [Bastet] [Sethan] [Osiris] and [Horus]! Who else could there be..."
She opened her mouth but saw the glass on the windows freeze over.
"Not now... Not that boy! If he's here, it will be to search and destroy!"
"Ms. Zecora? Did it just get colder? Who is it..?"
"[Last Christmas], the walking definition of absolutely hopeless."
She stood up and summoned a thin dome over him.
"I will keep you safe from harm, and that dome should keep you warm."
"N-No... M-Ms-Ms. Zecora...!"
She left his side for the hallways, and readied herself. Jack Snow froze the nurse and pushed her aside as he hopped over the counter. She shattered apart upon contact with the tiles. He knew his Stand had already targeted the entire building, he couldn't care less. This made his goal easier. Then, the radio in the office came to life. DIO's voice came through.
"Jack Snow... Where have you been? I've been wondering what you have been doing all this time. I, DIO, am worried."
"I'm at the hospital. It looks like your pet freak didn't actually kill anyone. This is a nuisance, but at least my true love is alive."
"You misunderstand. I, DIO, am worried that you haven't woken up to reality yet."
"I could care less. My world revolves around my ideal life. With her."
"... You... Do, realize, she has eyes elsewhere. Yes?"
"What do You mean? She's mine, and mine alone. My honest and true sweetheart."
"This is just adorable. You're nothing more than a faded memory to her. She cares less for you than you care for those victims in the hospital you're attacking."
""DON'T THINK YOU CAN GET IN MY HEAD AGAIN! YOU CAN'T SCARE ME, YOU WON'T ANGER ME, I'M RIGHT! WE WERE MEANT FOR EACH OTHER! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!"
The weather had changed in an instant. The winds in the area nearly took the building apart as it became layered in snow. Personnel's and patients alike were thrown all around. Kakyoin sat anxiously in his bed as Zecora held onto the walls with a solid light ice pick. Jack Snow himself was out of breathe from the outburst. His Stand was powerful and his range was far more than he let on. However, simply covering the first floor made him tired. He panted but composed himself soon.
"You promised me that I would get my one wish, and here You are telling me that I should wake up. You're the deluded one!"
"Hehehe... I did bring them here to this world... I, DIO, said nothing about them loving you back. You're a mere child too weak to even use your Stand properly, a Stand I, DIO, gave you. You abuse My gifts, and disrespect Me directly. Jack Snow, karma has come."
Jack Snow raised a brow before he heard the heavy breathing. He turned to see Zecora, ice both froze and melted from her body. She held up a finger as several small spheres of light formed above her. The shot several beams of light at the boy, yet he dodged in the nick of time. He knew the only reason he was alive was the secret to his Stand. Last Christmas true ability, was to suck the strength away from living beings to freeze them into statues. Zecora, was weakened. He summoned the wind to hold her arms. Claws of frost and ice collected in the air and clawed at her back.
"Gyagh!"
"You and your monkey of a brother, have hated on my love quest, long enough!"
He ran at her to stab into her heart with a spear that formed from the ice in the wind. Ra had kicked it away and in that moment of weakness, Zecora seized him by the throat and struck his face with her ice covered hand.
"Agh! Ugh! St-Ough! Enou-Oof! Igive-Brouf! I give up! I yie-Snarf!"
She stopped wmthe assault soon as the ice broke off with each punch. She held him above the ground with a glare.
"Jack Snow, the boy who had it all, but threw it all away for a ho. A girl who played you like a fiddle, and made you oh so fickle. DIO promised you love and longevity, but all you seek is selfish goals that cause many a calamity!"
"Your rhymes are whack, and so is your attack!"
Several sharp shards of ice formed around them both. Sharp and hard enough to dent into a tank, and flew faster than that of sound. He had her in checkmate. Then he noticed he felt nothing. More than usual. There was the sound of drops of water. Then rain fall. Ra had melted the ice and stabbed into Jack Snow's heart before he could even finish his thought. He fell to the ground as Zecora released him, and returned to Kakyoin. He sat up from his bed as the dome faded away.
"Stop! Right there! Don't you dare take another step!"
"Kakyoin no need to be frightened!"
"On the contrary... I feel so stupid, that what you said only clicked now... All this time... You were right beside us!"
She slowly approached him, yet Hierophant Green appeared ready to fire. She stopped with a shakey sigh.
"You have every right, to be full of fright."
"Who are you... Really! Tell me now!"
She took a few steps closer, she could see it. Kakyoin's reluctance. She gently grabbed his hand and held it up to her face as he broke out into a cold sweat. He was utterly sure, there could be no possibility and yet, here she was admitting the sudden truth.
"Years ago in my clinic, there were many a patient who was simply too sick. No remedies, nor any recipes. They all would die within a day, but then as if to answer a prayer, there was They. DIO and His Queen, together They radiated a beautiful sheen. I had accepted Their aid, and in turn my life for Them had been laid. No evil or spite, nor any despicable sight, like angels They descended and lead me to Their Light... There was no need for a flesh bud to control me, like a fool my love for Them blinded me... I was the first Stand User They had ever known, and it was by my hand that They had Stand's of Their own. I, lead Them to Enyaba... I, gathered the Tarot... I, was once among His friends... And my final act of loyalty, was to bring you and your family. It was I who brought [Hanged Man] to Sherri... I didn't intend for her death, J. Geil was supposed to find out her Stand! ... Even when he ran for his life, the one following him, my dear brother Avvy... Was me. I never knew... I never knew how terrible it all would be... And now, you have every right to hate me... My only regret, is that it is too late for me to be sorry..."
"...! ... You... You were the one who paid for our trip...? It was all you...?"
She shook horribly as his hand loosened in hers. She leaned over Kakyoin as she desperately held back her sobs. Tears fell from her face like skyscrapers that fell from an earthquake, shattered like her soul. She couldn't live in silence anymore. The weight of her heart was unbearable. She had to tell someone, this was all her fault. Hierophant Green vanished as Kakyoin began to shiver. It was too late before she noticed that her very tears began to freeze over.
"And now it all comes together. Your sins are here to reap what you've sown, Adilah Zecora. Kakyoin, I'll let you live if you tell me where my beloved Rainbow Dash is, and even let you kill this miserable traitor yourself."
"! ..."
Jack Snow leaned against the doorframe with his arms crossed. This had to be fate. Zecora was an even worse counter pick than Avdol. He never would have dreamed of being able to defeat Her until now. Zecora herself cursed mentally. Of all the Stand Users, this psychopath was the one. She was frozen still, and the ice began to freeze her very blood flow. Last Christmas leeched away at her life just enough, to the point of her body being too cold to summon her Stand. She would be dead in moments. Kakyoin laid their with the bandages over his eyes.
"Jack... You'll let me go?"
"Yes."
"You'll never come after me?"
"I only want my true and honest love. DIO doesn't mean much."
"And you'll let me take care of Zecora?"
"I promise. I thought of using a snow doppelganger like before, but I have already won. All I need to know, is where she is."
"... She's in good hands. Thank you, Snow, for making me killing you so much easier."
Jack Snow heard a strange hum by his ear before his head had been blown apart by concentrated Emerald Splashes. Zecora gasped for air as Kakyoin's grip tightened.
"I actually sent my [Hierophant] around the room, in case you wanted to attack me... But, even if I didn't hear you out, I'm not sure if I could hurt you myself...
He sat up a and looked right at her.
"Ms. Zecora... Even right now, as I truly am filled with great anger, there's a relief. Even though I was under the influence, I still personally hold myself responsible. You and I are traitors on the path to redeeming ourselves... There's no one in this group of friends that I don't trust with my life. Even Polnareff... Even you. I forgive you. So please, forgive yourself."
"A-Ah... Ngh... Hhhhnnnaaaaa!"
Zecora simply stared at him, before she pulled him into a hug and cried. He hugged her back slowly.
"This group... It's more like a family now..."
Tears flowed from his own eyes. Though there was great sadness in their faces, a bond stronger than blood had truly formed between them. They would dedicate their very souls to defeating DIO, and repent for their sins.
Princess Celestia and Twilight Sparkle were stunned, yet confused. They didn't imagine Zecora could have been influenced by Him. Then, Princess Celestia stomped a hoof onto the chessboard.
"Hold! What's that piece there doing!?"
DIO's voice chuckled from the darkness as the image they ponies had all seen before. Rainbow Dash in cornered by a large shadow. However she looked, different, and was by a silver haired child.
"I, DIO, decided to see how well you truly work under pressure. These two, while not my strongest, are without a doubt are my most efficient Stand Users. And unlike the fights before... You haven't paid attentioto the whole story this time."
"What!?"
He and the figure chuckled. She had been played, distracted from the other pieces. She noticed the one piece had a shadow of it's own, one that strangled Polnareff and Rainbow Dash.
"Where are they right now!? I won't let you take their lives!"
"But my good mare, they've been in trouble since the escalator scene~!"
"What!? We've got to manage two fights at once in different locations!? U-Ugh!"
"You can do it, even I, DIO, have faith... In my victory."
Princess Celestia fired a bolt at the board. Twilight Sparkle stepped up to it and put her own hooves on.
"I'll manage this one, Princess you should focus on getting Rainbow Dash out of there. Spike? If you can, go back to the castle and get my notes."
"A-All of them...? Okay!"
Spike ran off as DIO laughed.
"Nostalgic, isn't this? Truly, a fitting reunion. I hear that Alicorns are like gods, so then, how well can you do against mine?"
The shadow lifted up from the piece. A strange clown haired man with bells the hung from it, he held an axe in hand and shades over his psychotic eyes.