Same disclaimer as Chapter 1, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is property of Hirohiko Araki, Shueisha and Viz Media. All character's and Stands contained within are, to the best of my knowledge, original. This chapter's a little short, but hopefully the next few will make up for that.
It'd be hard to imagine Jojo being less impressed with the building being presented to him. It was a decent enough structure, solidly built. But the large red neon sign at the top was what got to him.
"Marco's Pizza? What is this, Havoc?" Jojo asked, exasperated to the extreme as people filtered in and out with cardboard boxes in hand. His newly made friend simply smiled and tapped his nose knowingly as he entered the restaurant followed begrudgingly by Jojo who scowled and slouched upon entering. The restaurant was simplistic, a chequered floor and lime green walls covered in paraphernalia from the 50's. Without breaking his stride, Havoc immediately walked into the kitchen and kept marching, Jojo seemed to take more time as he looked shiftily around before entering. The kitchen was fairly full of activity as the chefs lifted pizzas out of the oven and set to slicing them, Jojo watched in fascination as they rolled the curved blades over the pizzas to form neat and even slices, he had no idea cutting pizzas required such skill. Although, at the back of his mind, he did point out that it was just cutting pizzas.
Havoc pressed a button hidden into the wall as Jojo stumbled up behind him, narrowly avoiding someone carrying a large tray full of dough.
"Hey, Havoc, what are we doing here? If you want some food, shouldn't we be outside ordering?"
"Jojo, we aren't here for food." Havoc stated, his eerie calm and even temperament remaining as Jojo folded his arms distrustfully. There was a soft ding, at which Jojo looked over to see if a new order had come in but saw nothing, he turned to look again and saw Havoc standing casually on a small platform inside the wall. It took Jojo a few minutes to figure out this was probably an elevator and he carefully stepped inside, it was a bit of a squeeze, even though both he and Havoc were fairly wiry in build. Havoc pressed another button as the lift began to slowly descend, Jojo glanced at him to see if he could get any idea where they were going but his face betrayed nothing. Finally, there was a second ding and the duo hopped out of the lift quickly, Jojo's face suddenly lighting up as he realised where they were.
They'd arrived in a large room, clearly a basement, with thick wood panelled walls and a heavy white mat covering the floor, a few punching bags were evident in one corner and a bank of computers was situated on the far-wall. Two doors were at one end of the hall, one blue and one pink and at the end they had emerged from another door was located to their right. The whole room reminded Jojo of a training hall for martial arts, but the people sitting by the computers didn't look much like fighters to him. They were all strange people but none of them had the air of a warrior. They hadn't noticed their arrival for starters, which Havoc seemed suitably annoyed about. Strolling across the floor, he got about halfway before he shouted
"ALARM! INTRUDERS! BATTLE STATIONS!" The small mob of people fell over themselves and as they tried to disentangle their various limbs, Jojo did a brief headcount. It looked like there were five people here, not including him or Havoc. After the scrabble was over, one guy stood forward, his hair standing in tweaked orange spikes and his face dotted with metallic piercings, but despite his appearance he seemed quite pleasant and amiable
"Hi! Welcome, I'm Vicious, I'm the leader of Mission X" he extended his hand to Jojo, who shook it carefully. He had a policy of not trusting anyone who had more metal in their face then he'd expect in a guy who'd been shot but he figured now would be a good time to make an exception.
"This is Jonas Stellagio, but he prefers Jojo" Havoc announced, clapping a fraternal hand to Jojo's shoulder as he introduced him. There was a small murmur of greeting from the crowd before they began to disperse leaving only Vicious and one other to introduce themselves to Jojo. The last one to remain caught Jojo's attention, she was about the same age as him with spiky pink hair in a punkish style and a flashy application of make-up. Generally he didn't like fish-nets but it seemed to work for her and he found himself blushing, although he hid it as best he could by looking away.
"Ahhh, hi, nice to meet you…" he muttered, but his mind was rushing a lot quicker 'Shit, I hope she doesn't see how much I'm blushing, why did the first girl I meet have to be so hot?'
"Nice to meet you too," the girl chirped "I'm Molly" Jojo nodded as best he could and was painfully aware of Havoc smirking besides him as he talked to Vicious.
"Ahhh, so you want to help us beat B.O.C do you, Jojo?" Vicious asked cheerfully, "So I take it you have a Stand? What's it do?"
"Oh, sorry Vicious" Havoc rubbed the back of his head, glad to have a break from trying not to embarrass himself "I don't like to tell people my Stand's ability… I can demonstrate it in a fight if you want, and see if you get it. If you understand even a part of it I'll tell you the rest of it." Havoc slapped his face with his palm and shook his head sadly at this, to his surprise Vicious simply grinned and nodded
"Alright, who do you want to try and fight? I don't think you'll be able to beat anyone here but it's worth the effort"
"Oh, uhhh, I don't know…" Jojo began looking around, he hadn't really thought about this, could he try against Havoc? Nah, that just seemed dangerous, he'd annihilated Marlon, he needed someone he could surprise
"I'll do it" Molly chipped in, grinning at Vicious, "It'll be fun to see what he can do, c'mon, I'll hold back so he won't die" she winked at Jojo who slowly raised an eyebrow in confusion. This girl thought she could kill him with her Stand? Was… was she just overly confident or was this something else?
Either way, the decision had been made, the two of them were lead over to the floor mats and made to face each other. Molly bowed quickly and sprang back to her feet, bouncing around happily while Jojo carefully mimicked the motion and got ready. He watched as the girl snapped her fingers and a figure rose from behind her, it looked vaguely humanoid but rather than arms it had several small barbs with tiny whip like tendrils around it's sides. It's face was a single red gem that blinked. The entire body resembled a sculpture and was unmoving with a black and gold colour scheme, all in all, it looked a little intimidating but not too versatile. Jojo tensed himself and Radiohead slowly formed to his left, phasing out of Jojo in the process. Molly seemed to appraise his Stand in much the same way he had just appraised hers.
"You have a pretty Stand, what's his name?"
"Radiohead, and yours?"
"Mine?" Molly asked, her voice sounding innocent and ditzy but with a dangerous undertone. Her eyes darkening she glared at him as she announced "Alice in Chains"
With a quick lunge, she dived at Jojo fist drawn back for a punch. Instinctively, Jojo raised his arm to defend himself and felt a soft fingertip touching him, making a small noise like 'snik'. Jojo struck out to counter but found Molly had already moved out of the way and had reached one of the punching bags, tapping it to make the same noise. She giggled and once more dived at him, aiming her fist at his face. Jojo leant back and raised his arm like last time but found it surprisingly heavy as he tried to get it high enough to block. He couldn't make it in time! The fist smashed into his face and knocked him over but his fall wasn't normal, he still felt like his arm was held in the air and ended up landing unevenly, the sound of the punch-bag falling over hit his ears as well as he tried to re-focus his thoughts
'whaa, what was that? Why was my arm so heavy'? he thought to himself. He heard cute laughter coming from across the floor, he glanced up and saw Molly sitting next to Alice in Chains.
"Don't you get it? My Stand's ability is to (Connect) things. By touching them I can join two things together by a spiritual thread that can't be broken. Now, if you want to move your arm you have to move the weight of the punching bag and, if I was to move the bag like so!" Molly kicked the bag over as she said this and Jojo saw what she was getting at as he was lifted back to his feet by his arm being wrenched sideways sharply. Molly giggled again as she began knocking the bag around. Her fun was spoiled however by her phone ringing suddenly in her pocket, she sighed irritably as she looked at it and answered it
"Hello?"
"That's a pretty neat power, Molly. But it won't be enough to beat me"
"What!?" That voice… Jojo!? She looked at the ground and saw he was still there but he was grinning. To everyone's surprise the computer screen began flashing with images of text, Molly looked at Jojo and saw his Stand floating in the air, a montage of images and videos flashing across the screen it had for a face. Finally one stuck and a pause symbol flashed onto the monitor as Jojo got to his feet and rolled his shoulder
"Molly, I like you. If you want to give up now I'd appreciate it, it'd mean I won't have to hurt you" Jojo said earnestly as Radiohead floated a few inches from him, the image still frozen on it's screen. Molly simply stared at him, a mixture of pride and anger washing over her face
"How… dare you!? I'm a warrior, I won't surrender! I'll not only keep fighting, I'm going to win!" Grabbing a wooden sword from a display rack, Molly struck out at Jojo. Seeing her decision, Jojo dodged the attack and Radiohead's monitor quickly beeped into play mode. As Jojo dived over the Punching bag, Radiohead grabbed it by the bottom and lifted it up holding the sandbag against itself. Jojo got ready for the sensation as he aimed the attack before hitting play again; at this cue, Radiohead launched the bag upwards with Jojo following it. The bag crested it's arc near the ceiling before it began falling to the floor again right towards Molly. She was surprised by this attack but dodged out of the way of the bag. With both feet pressed against it and Radiohead adding it's strength, Jojo kicked the back of the punching-bag as hard as he could, causing it to fall towards Molly's new position but not so it would land on her. Smirking at what she thought was her being safe, she was completely unprepared for Jojo's inevitable being dragged by the bag and landing on top of her. After a small scramble, they ended with Jojo on top and pinning her to the floor, a smile on his face as Molly writhed to get free.
"Enough!" Vicious shouted, "I think we saw enough. Good work, both of you. That was quick-thinking, Jojo" Vicious admitted, looking slightly bashful. It was fairly obvious who he thought would win, and Havoc was smirking to himself once more as he slyly collected a few dollars from his team-mates. Jojo got off of Molly and sat against the punching bag he was tied to, rolling his shoulder to loosen it up as she got up too, her eyes glaring at him. Jojo held his free hand out and smiled at her openly
"That was a good fight, thanks Molly. You were amazing" his smile seeming to get to her, Molly found to her horror that she was blushing and hastily looked away
"D-Don't get cocky, you might be smart but you aren't anything compared to my brother"
"Brother?" Jojo asked as Molly stormed off, her heart pounding and some unknown emotions beginning to blossom in her chest. Jojo's question was answered as Havoc sat down next to him
"Her brother, Vicious. You've never heard of the Dropkick Murphys?"
"Ummm, no" Jojo admitted, rubbing his jaw. He looked up at Vicious, trying exceptionally hard not to picture how Molly looked underneath him and asked "So? Did you get it? I hope you did cos I'm not doing that again..."
"Don't worry, I got it" Vicious grinned "Your Stand lets you intercept and send (Transmissions), right?"
"Wow, that was quick, you didn't just go for cell-phone signals but got the whole thing"
"I watched the screens of the computers, they were flashing across with images of caber-tossing before Radiohead did the same movement. That was some impressive thinking though, you're definitely bright"
"Oh, uhhh, right!" Jojo laughed, 'I hope he doesn't realise I searched for the scenario so I could get ideas, I only got caber tossing because of that guy in Milwaukee with a vindictive brother in law'.
"In any case, we'll gladly welcome you to Mission X. So, I take it you know what we do and who we are then?" Vicious asked, sitting by the computer and rapidly closing the multiple video windows Jojo had opened.
"Well, no, actually. You were mentioned by Red Elvis, but that's all."
"Red Elvis?!" Vicious asked suddenly "You knew Red Elvis? Where is he? We really need his help!" The look on Jojo's face said it all, Vicious sighed and pinched his chin-piercing "I see… at any rate, we have you here now so that's something. I take it a history lesson is in order?" Jojo nodded at this as Vicious got up and moved towards the blue door "Alright, follow me, we're giving you a run-down about our whole operation. Havoc, you come too, make sure I don't get ahead of myself"
"Got it, Boss" Havoc nodded, getting up and walking towards the blue door too. Jojo stayed a moment, thinking to himself. After this, there'd be no going back, he'd be in this life for good, the life of Mission X. He could run now… but then he'd never get to save her.
He sighed, he didn't have a choice. He had to do this.
He rose to his feet and walked purposefully towards the door after Havoc. Vicious turned when he heard a slip and a loud thump, to see Jojo lying on his back groaning
"I guess we should call Molly and ask her to remove Alice in Chains' effect" 'Is this guy really going to be OK?' He wondered to himself as Havoc tried hard not to laugh out loud.
Stand Database
Stand Name: Alice in Chains
User: Molly Murphy
Power: C
Speed: C
Range: E
Staying: B
Precision: A
Learning: B
Ability: While the Stand itself isn't well suited to combat its ability can be applied in ways to make combat possible. Its primary use is so Molly can connect two things together, either two physical objects by touching them or two minds by linking them with her hands. The link itself is only breakable by Molly and she can lengthen or shorten the 'link' effectively binding someone directly to an object as if with super-glue. Alice in Chains can be used offensively by using its small fluorescent tendrils to latch onto things and use them as weapons, it renders them weightless once contact has been made making it easy for it to hurl things across great distances. Its weakness is its low range and the need for Molly to touch things to connect them.
Stand Name: Radiohead
User: Jojo Stellagio
Power: B
Speed: B
Range: A (but only for Transmissions)
Staying: E
Precision: C
Learning: C
Ability: Radiohead's ability is the control of Transmissions, these are normally used in the form of cell-phone signals as these are easiest to locate to a single source but can be used on nearly any form of transmitted data, allowing Jojo to receive, send and alter any data he wishes. Radiohead's main strength is in its versatility and even now Jojo hasn't revealed it's full range of abilities but the fundamental of the skill is always that Radiohead can intercept and transmit signals. The end result of this is Jojo doesn't own a cell-phone since any call he wishes to make he can make himself and he is a fairly renowned bandwidth thief as he uses Radiohead as a free wireless browser too. As he demonstrated against Molly, his Stand is also capable of being programmed with actions based on those performed on the internet or television allowing Radiohead to attack in odd ways. Radiohead has been referred to by Red Elvis as 'a glorified blackberry' but its abilities are always expanding. For instance, Jojo recently realised that the human brain uses electrical signals to convey information and has been considering how he can use this…