My Little Pony: Friendship is a Bizarre Adventure

Part 4: ~ Diamond is Charitable ~

Episode XVII: Blood On The Operation Floors

Shigechi and Okuyasu laughed over the numerous coins pile up while Rarity watched with distaste. It isn't that she found their actions to be deplorable, quite the contrary, Shigechi impressed her with his Stand. However, she can't help but think back to Sweetie Bell, to the idea that someone that foul could exists. This brought her to a terrible journey down memory lane with Angelo, Akira and Octavia as well as others, so many frightening people live in Morioh Town right under their noses.

Above it all was this gnawing at the back of her head. A sense of danger she has grown familiar with, yet can not place, eluding her constantly no matter how hard she attempted to focus on it.

"Yo! R-Rarity!"

"Huh?"

"W-We need you over here!"

Rarity grew faint as she found Okuyasu holding a frightened Shigechi bleeding from his hands and arms.

"Goodness, what caused this?!"

Shigechi wailed as he called back his Stand from all over town.

"S-Somethin' is comin' after me! I-It's killin' my [Harvest]!"

Rarity's eyes widened as she and Okuyasu glance at each other. With a nod, Rarity summons her Stand.

[ ~"You rang, Master? Who are going to save today?"~ ]

Rarity slapped a hand over Shine On's face where the mouth would be before addressing the grade-schooler.

"Now's not the time! Shigechi! Bring all of [Harvest] here at once. I can't protect you if your Stand is still vulnerable!"

Okuyasu held up a finger as he comforted the nasal boy.

"Rarity's Stand makes you invincible, so it's okay to to call your Stand back!"

"B-But, it's impossible! My [Harvest] is unstoppable! N-Nothin' should stop it!"

The trio all gasp as the small sprites that make up Harvest are chased down by the same grotesque monsters that had inhabited the rat just the other day. No larger than Harvest itself, the swarm kill them one by one with blades for hands, smash them with their hooves, and even eat away at those caught by a group. A savage army of miniature demons hunt down the fleeing Stand. Okuyasu panics as he summons The Hand.

"D-Dammit! Get the rest of [Harvest] over here, [The Hand]!"

The remaining sprites are pulled by the force of The Hand and sent right to Shigechi's side. Okuyasu prepares to face the oncoming horde, only for them to ignore him and Shigechi all together, retreating back into the far distance.

"... I-I think they're scared!~ Yeah! Run away pussies!"

Rarity tilted her head as she noticed a strange behavior even so far away. The creatures were digging into the ground at an astounding speed. Before she could even realize it, the ground beneath her exploded with the insectoid freaks flying out in a frenzy, attacking Rarity with a combined effort. She's taken off her feet and nearly carried off into the wind until Okuyasu shouts.

"OH NO YOU DON'T! GIVE HER BACK!"

The Hand furiously swiped at the air and brought the swarm close, before he swiped again, erasing enough of them to grab and pull her from their grasp. The injuries she suffered prevent her the use of her Stand, but as far as Okuyasu knew, he had saved her.

"Gotcha! You're safe now!"

"O-Okuyasu, darling, you brought them all to us!"

"U-Uh oh..."

The delinquent broke out into a cold sweat as the swarm attacks both of them. Harvest retaliated before any damage could be done and pushed the opposing force back. Rarity digs into her pocket before taking out a glass flask of alcohol, a fresh cloth in the opening, and with it a lit match that set fire to the cloth before she throws it to the swarm. They broke it in an attempt to break through Harvest only to be set ablaze. Rarity smilesx past her wounds.

"Dash once told me physical Stands can be harmed by conventional means. That alcohol was Mr. Joestar's, but he shouldn't be drinking at his age."

Okuyasu marvels at her as fled carrying her over his shoulder and pulling Shigechi along with his free hand.

"T-Talk about future plannin'! I wish Sis was here to see you pull that off, that was genius!"

"Shishishi! I don't get what jus' happened, but my [Harvest] ain't burnin' up! W-We're saved!"

Rarity watches the nightmare horde burn away, their appearance far too familiar and yet she can't place it, as if something won't allow her to. She shook her head and moved onto something she can think about.

"I hope Josuke and Senset are safe..."

"What the Fuck is that?!"

Senset shouted as she leaned back into Josuke. A strange man approached them only to transform into a hideous beast. The disgusting fusion between lizard and reptile is enough to make Josuke gag.

"T-That's... A goddamned nightmare is what it is!"

"It's... A Stand!?"

"What?!"

He looked down at her to see her Stand Activated. He looks up and noticed the Element of Harmony infused into the body. Josuke pulled Senset behind her with a reluctant step forward as Crazy Diamond erupted from his body.

"Dammit, this thing looks like business! Tell me how to beat it, fast!"

"It's physical, so try hitting it with an object instead of touching it, but be careful! It's-!"

Josuke stumbles back as the creature nearly tears open Crazy Diamond's chest. He had pulled back in the nick of time from a would-be devastating swing.

"F-Fast..."

"Dora!"

The creature leaned away after being punched with a hook, the head spins in a full half circle, but it spun back into place with a sickening snap before it sent a kick for his stomach. Crazy Diamond blocked it but skidded back with Josuke from the force.

"Damn... I ain't ever faced anything that could meet [Crazy Diamond] in strength before. Not on it's own power..."

He stood straight and rolled his aching arm with a foul scowl on his face.

"Usually I gotta outsmart or outmaneuver my foes, sometimes cause they're stronger, sometimes they're craftier. It's nice to just have a straight every now and again."

"Fight... Straight... Fight..."

The creature spoke in a confused tone as it copied his movements. It then began to change shape into Rainbow Dash.

"Fine! I'll beat the crap out of you, fair and square, so no crying afterwards!"

Senset and Josuke are stunned by the uncanny resemblance. Enough so that Josuke didn't react in time for a roundhouse kick to the neck. He's sent through a store window with shards of glass in his back. He sat up only to be fireman kicked in the face.

"Quit gawking and fight back! It isn't much fun to win this easily, y'know?"

It transformed into Tomoko next as it rolled it's head.

"Or would you prefer someone a little bit more fragile?"

It then transformed into Rarity entering a sultry pose as it blew a kiss at him.

"Would you hit us, Darling? Would you really send forth your brutal Stand to harm us, Josuke?"

Senset watched in horror as from their mannerisms to their fingerprints, they were perfect copies, and it was having an effect on Josuke. At this rate, if she didn't do anything he'd die, and so she ran. She ran as fast as her legs could take her until she spotted an officer.

"Police! Mr. Policeman! Help me!"

"H-Huh?! What is it, young miss?"

She didn't stop her sprint, rather she took to the air with a flying kick to his jaw, and knocked him out immediately. Quickly, she took his gun and inspected it with a sigh of relief.

"Loaded, safety on but not for long, that thing can be hurt by conventional means. One bullet in it's head should do the trick... But it can move faster than me..."

She looks to the street at a small number of parked cars and ignored the people yelling about her assault on the officer. She breaks the window of one and unlocks it from the inside, and in but mere moments, hot wired it come to life.

"I'll just have to pin the sonuva bitch down. Don't die on me, Josuke!"

Josuke spat out blood to the side with his back to a dented stop sign he had been thrown into. His grandfather shook his head at him as he adjusted his police uniform.

"I knew I should've raised you by myself. My daughter spoiled you and that deadbeat father only made things worse. What an awful family I've been burdened with."

It doubles over from the stop sign being shoved into it's gut. Crazy Diamond had struck it and changed it's shaped before throwing it at the cruel creep. Josuke glared at it with a dark fire in his eyes.

"Don't copy them like you know them, freak."

He lifted it off the ground from an uppercut by Crazy Diamond and followed with a barrage of crushing blows after the savage attack.

[ "DOARARARARA!" ]

It flies away with no bruises or cuts, rather dents in the body as if it were metal, and the head twitched erratically as it stood up changing between numerous face with many voices speaking at once.

"That hurt!~ That hurt so much, Darling! I can't believe you'd do this to me!"

Josuke dove for the ground as he dodged an elongated blade aimed for his head. It bends and flexes into a thorny whip. He blocked a lash with Crazy Diamond's arm, but howled in pain as the thorns dug into said arm, hooking itself inside as the thorns became barbwire. The living nightmare pulled itself to him with the head returning to it's true putrid form, the mandibles open to claim his head, it missed due to him leaning back with Crazy Diamond shooting out a knee to it's gut.

There was a moment of reprieve as he saw it react in horror in pain, but soon his own face reflected such an expression as the neck elongated, it bit down on his pompadour and chewed on his hair.

"Y-You! That was my hair, ASSHOLE! ! !"

Crazy Diamond grew in power with Josuke's unrelenting fury on full display. It strikes repeatedly in a rush with it's free hand on the head and neck. It shrieked and released him, the seized arm ripped apart as the barbed whip tore away at it upon coming undone, but one hand is all Josuke needed to send it into the middle of the street. Dazed and stunned, it hears honking before Senset rams into the monster with a car, taking it by the hood before she swerved into an alley to smash it into the wall.

Senset shook her head after the crash. Head throbbed, ringing in the ears, something wet trickled down her brow. For the smartest person in Morioh Town, if not all of Japan, even she admitted to herself this wasn't the brightest idea. However, it worked out perfectly for her. The mysterious beast's innards splattered against the wall and hood of the car like an over-sized bug. It groaned in pain and began to move, it's form changed into Keicho, catching Senset off guard as it spoke with his voice.

"Sunset... W-Why...? Do you... Hate me so much, you'd kill me again...?"

"...! A-Aah... Ah...! Y-You're not-! I didn't!"

She aimed the gun for the head and fired. She missed. She fired again, and again, but couldn't find it in herself to do it. She couldn't bear it. Even full well knowing this isn't real... It's a nightmare come to reality. A gentle gloved hand places itself over her own.

"Allow me."

An EMT nurse takes the gun from her. She sighed with a shake of her head as she raised the pistol high.

"There was an emergency call for a young man attacked by some strange animal. The emergency medical team arrived faster than I had thought they would with the police. What you did was very brave, Miss Sunset Shimmer."

The nurse then pistol whipped Senset unconscious with one swing.

"I was planning on using one of them as a disguise anyhow to get close to Josuke. However, there were two thorns in my plan, one being yourself. The other..."

She approached the freak speaking in a hushed tone and a soft coo as she caressed it's head.

"My little Thorax... You are too clumsy. Too loud. Too disobedient. You nearly gave Josuke fatal injuries. I can't have that. He's far too valuable to me. You were my greatest creation too, what a shame. Were being the operative word."

"M-Mother... W-Wait-!"

She emptied the gun into the head of her creation with no hesitation. She stopped after a few empty clicks before repeatedly smashing the head with the butt of the gun.

"You even began to grow self-preservation. I daresay that gem there gave you a soul. A pity. Changelings like you will only hinder me if you gain your own independence."

She ceased her ruthless punishment as she became satisfied with the lifeless corpse before her.

"[The Doors]: Changeling. What a very troubling Stand Ability. I'll have to remove it from my collection."

Meuda then looks to Senset.

"Speaking of removing annoyances... I'll have to remove your memory of seeing me again. Maybe, I should kill you instead. I'd certainly be doing him a favor..."

An ethereal arm holding a scalpel cuts open Thorax to retrieve a fired bullet for her to reuse. Just as she took aim, Senset's hand took the gun and pulled the whole arm into the car, she headbutt Meuda before bending the arm in the wrong direction to disarm her completely. She takes the gun back and pulled her would-be killer close by her hair.

"I may have hesitated with my brother, but you, you're too damn dangerous to let live. So give me a reason not to blow your fucking head off!"

"Because you won't pull that trigger. You've never actually taken a life. I can tell."

Senset raised a brow before she pulled the trigger snarling.

"First time for everything! ... What...?"

She couldn't feel her arm suddenly. Before she knew it, it slid off her body with no pain or blood, only a strange light that emanated from the wounds. The same light shimmered in her eyes from an ethereal blade in the hand of a spindly arm. Her eyes widened full of fear as the arm blurred to her throat before she can let out a scream. The elbow of the arm crushed her nose and sent her leaning back, only to be pulled back for a headbutt from Meuda, the gun now in her hand as she pressed it on the bridge of Senset's nose.

"You have no idea how long I've wanted to take you out... Josuke may be blind to it but I see how you look at him. How you act around him. You try to hide behind that vulgar and sadistic façade, but I won't even tolerate that anymore, and I know exactly how to dispose of you."

Several arms all held a medical instrument of a kind. The upper body of female corpse hovers over them, gaunt with a haunting open mouth with naught but a void inside, vacant of eyes as well. A jagged horn seemingly incomplete with holes on the side. It resembled a single antler rather than a horn.

The more Senset looked at the apparition, the more incomplete it became, as if it was still in the midst of falling apart. However, there were parts that were out of place, such as the arms and lower body. Arms of a completely different size and design, and snaking appendage with legs and strange ribs line the side.

They were parts of other Stands, Senset could see it with her own as sweat profusely trickled down her face, her severed throat is all that kept her from screaming. Meuda gleefully smiled behind the sterile mask at her victim's reaction.

"[Beautiful Surgery]. It's my true Stand Ability. The Ultimate Medical Stand. It's incapable of doing any damage, but in turn there isn't a single object I can't operate on, living or inanimate. It's why you're not feeling any pain or suffering from blood loss."

She glanced at her ghastly reflection of the rear view mirror of the police car..

"I can operate on myself. I've done so for years trying to create the perfect body. The Perfect Stand. Josuke is the key ingredient to my goal... [Crazy Diamond] is the perfect Stand to make mine invincible. That's why I love him so much, or rather, his Stand Ability. If he dies or loses his hands, he'll be worthless, and I'll be without perfection."

She frowned deeply then as the arms began to circle Senset. Forceps, scalpels, excavators, explorers, chisels, clamps, and more were used to peel her apart system by system. With her Stand granting heightened senses, this truly was Hell, for although she couldn't feel pain she was not numb to the probing. She felt everything being pulled apart, peeled away, taken and put into containers as Meuda put the car in reverse to drive closer to the ambulance outside of the alley.

"When I operate on a Stand User, I can transfer parts of their Stand to my own, and in turn use their Ability. Of course, this often means I have to physically transfer pieces of them to myself, and as you once tattled on me... You saw through it all."

Senset's head begin to ache and throb before a flashes of a memory resurface. Herself, following Josuke and a strange girl, she was jealous. She wasn't sure what to do with all her frustration. She activated her Stand to find a way to get revenge on the girl and ruin their date, only to be caught off-guard, to be stricken with sheer terror as the girl's whole body was layered in strange stitches.

"You see, you may already know this, but I did reveal myself before. Ah, I told as much, but you don't remember. I have to be careful too. I can, weaken, memories and seal them deep into the brain. I was on my date with Josuke and you happened to be walking by..."

She continues on but Senset tunes her out. She had called out to him at that time, tried to save him, but her Stand was too fast. It had immobilized them both, but not before Josuke struck her, not before revealing her body not be her own with his Ability. As she came apart, she was unable to properly operate, and so compromised by sealing their memories away.

"... I had to do it to the others. I was in luck that he had only told so few of you. Not even Koichi or Okuyasu knew about me. His mother, Rarity, and yourself were all I had to deal with... But to be on the safe side, I was busy for the last few weeks erasing myself from school entirely, including from the student's memories."

Meuda taps her chin as she gathers Senset into containers within the ambulance.

"I'll have to come up with a new given name again. Yoshi won't like that... But... I now have you. I hate you Sunset Nijimura, but I must have your Stand, and you understand what that means don't you?"

She laughed and reaches for Senset in her perspective. No. She reached for the eyes, it's unbearable upon the touch, the horrible feeling of being touched there is worse than she could have imagined. The dry rubber stings and her eyes begin to grow bloodshot from the lack of moisture.

"Don't be sad, if anything you should be grateful, you'll be the only one of my Stand collection to still see the Sun."

Beautiful Surgery smiled as Senset fell right into the empty sockets before all goes black.

Senset sees in front of her, unable to do aught but think to herself.

"Where am I... D-Did Josuke save me? Why can't I move!?"

She reached down for a dark colored school uniform and dressed herself in it. She took a school bag down the stairs and sat at a kitchen table not her own.

"W-What the Hell is all this!? Is-Is this a dream?! Am I dead!?"

"Yoshi?~ I'm hungry! I was busy all night!"

"Th-That voice! I-I never heard that before! So nasally and annoyingly cute..."

A man, a rather average man, in fact a man so generic and average that Senset thought he could not possibly be real. He was a man who had walked off the page of archetype office worker. The ideal Japanese Citizen. He wasn't all that bad to look at either all things considered. He arrived wearing an apron and a fresh hot plate of a most succulent cuisine in hand.

"You were having too much fun is what I believe that was. Be more careful."

"Yes brother!~ Is that dashi tamagoyaki!? You shouldn't have!"

"I always cook your favorites to celebrate days like these. Such beautiful days..."

He placed another plate on the table before he sat down. Senset pointed at him with her hand. She's sure this was her body. So why isn't she in control?

"Yoshi!~ You should bring our guest! She's going to miss breakfast!"

"Ah, you're right. She was so helpful cooking too, but you know Himiko, she loves to be clean."

Senset grew curious until she saw him pull a severed hand of a woman from a pot full of soapy water. He dries it off and placed it at his side. He used it to eat his breakfast. To turn the radio on. Just about everything. She wanted to puke but her body wouldn't allow it. She was too busy eating happy as could be. With a cheek full of food, she spoke with urgency.

"A-Ah! Yoshi! My school is far away! Can we go now!?"

"Oh? Someone is eager to go to class."

"I wanna make loads of friends, Yoshi!~ But most importantly... I need to find Josuke Higashikata once more."

Senset blinks then in utter shock.

"What!? Wh-Where's a mirror?! I NEED A MIRROR!"

With all her might, she forced the body to stand, but felt utterly drained then. She blinked a few times involuntarily as Yoshi stared at her confused.

"Meuda? Is everything alright?"

"... Yep!~ Oh! But that's not my name, Yoshi!"

"Ah right, sorry Chrysalis."

She smiled and finished breakfast with her brother as Senset became utterly distraught. Her terror only intensified as she heard another unfamiliar voice in her head.

"You're rather strong willed. Then again, you're the first Stand User who I've used over fifty percent of in a transition. I hate you, Sunset Nijimura, but even you can be absolutely beautiful if you allow yourself to be."

"..."

"Caught in silence? Don't you worry, I've only used your exterior body parts, and mouth. You have impeccable teeth. I'm jealous actually... Or... I would be if they weren't already mine. Now then..."

Chrysalis stood and made her way to the door before stopping at a hallway mirror. Senset's face stared back, yet her hair was radically different, even her voice and her measurements were different. She was apart of the ungodly amalgamation now.

"We have a life to live!~ I look forward to living it to my best. Especially with such perfect hindsight."

She blinked and activated All Seeing Eye.

"To think... All this knowledge... And you were keeping it all to yourself. You really are a selfish person aren't you?"

"You're going to pay for this..."

"Oh quit it with the tough girl talk. I'm going to punish you in ways you can't imagine... Just you watch. Oh, and you will watch."

Yoshi placed his hand on his beloved sister with a small smile and lunchbag in hand.

"Is everything alright, sister?"

"I'm just admiring this lovely dress I made the other night! Those lessons were certainly worth it. I look stunning, wouldn't you agree?"

Yoshi nodded and took her to the car.

"Yes indeed. My most beautiful sister."

Senset realized something in the car ride. Reimi and Sweetie Bell. The missing people throughout the year. These two were the cause, they are the killers she had been warned about, and she needed to warn the others. She needed to... But she had to keep them away from them at the same time. As she began planning, she gave up as they arrived at the school, the same highschool as Josuke and the others. She could even see them walking into the gates. How terribly she urged and forced all the willpower she could muster, only for it to result in another blink, a useless endeavor as Chrysalis approached the group.

"Excuse me. My name is Kōgō Chrysalis! I'm very new here, a-and I didn't want to get lost, could you help me?"

The party looked as if none of them had gotten any sleep. Rarity, who had always made her appearance a top priority, looked disheveled and worn. Uncharacteristically tired with eyes of red.

"I-I'm sorry we're... We're going to be late. Excuse me..."

Koichi followed after her mumbling an apology under his breath. He patted Rarity's back and gave her a reassuring smile.

"We'll find her... We have to! We got Granny Pie and Mr. Joestar!"

"I-I know... Shigechi is trying hard too but... I'm so worried."

Okuyasu hasn't even stopped to speak with anyone. His face, his posture, it all read of someone ready to snap. Senset wanted to call out to him. To Rarity and Koichi. To anyone and everyone. That's when Josuke approached them.

"Hey, don't take that personal. We're just going through something. You got your schedule?"

"Yes! I j-just don't know the layout of the school all that well. In fact, Motion Town is very foreign to me... It's my first time out if the country."

"Well this is hardly Tokyo but you can walk with me for a little while. I'm Josuke Higashikata."

He bowed but raised a brow at her outstretched hand.

"No need to worry about all that! I'm so happy to be here! Thank you so much!"

Josuke stared at her face. It was so much like hers, the smile, and even her touch when they shook hands. Senset shrieked in her mind, a mix of fury and sorrow, it was enough to force a few years to well up and fall. Josuke tilted his head in surprise.

"A-Ah! Is everything alright?!"

Chrysalis only smiled and nodded as she wiped the tears away.

"Sorry, I get emotional quickly. I'm just used to being alone is all..."

"Well don't worry. I'll be your first friend of many."

"You're so dependable, Higashikata! If you ever need me to help you please don't be afraid to let me know."

Josuke forced on a smile and escorted her inside. The wicked voice of the murder echoes in the mind.

"I told you I would punish you in ways you'd not think of. I hate you so much, Sunset "Shimmer" Nijimura. I'm going to do everything I can to replace you... And you'll have to sit there and watch."

It was at this moment that sh came to understand. The entire day would be Hell for Senset.