Following the horrifying experience in St. Dolphin Prison, Peter was taken to the Speedwagon Foundation, under watch. He was in a coma, after a mysterious Stand called Night Samba stole his Spirit and soul, via a compact disc.

At New York, Mizuki was crying, as Yamabuki held her. "It's okay… It was horrible…"

The rest of The Gang were very upset, learning of the fate of their Ace.

Percival was on the phone with Farra, "Yes? I understand. I'm so sorry… Peter really didn't have to go ballistic… but still, justice has been served, John-Johnny A is defeated, and Krystle is a free woman."

"Not quite… There's a lot you don't know about what goes on in prison. The rest of you will stay in New York and handle the Euphoria drug. Asa, Steven, Cassie, and I will be in Florida. We'll watch over Krystle, but a pardon is still undetermined."

Percival said, "Alright… If there's anything I can do–."

"Yeah." Farra hissed, "Just this… If the Big Guy dies, it's your fault! You got Krystle arrested, because of Hawley and Slater, a crooked judge, and an asshole brat of an ex-boyfriend! Venus is handling this! You've done enough!"

She sniffled, "Why didn't he say so, sooner? We would've helped… Krystle's still in jail, Peter's in a coma, and we're minus one Ace… You're the worst, you know! You can't even tell us where he went, because you don't want us to get into his personal life? We're friends and all! And we would've helped him!"

"But Farra, I'm sorry, it wasn't my fault–!"

"NO BUTS!" Farra hollered, "YOU GOT MY FRIEND'S SISTER ARRESTED, AND HE'S ON DEATH'S DOOR, BECAUSE OF YOU! I NEVER WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN, PERCIVAL GAYNES!"

She slammed the receiver and huffed, "ASSHOLE!"

Steven asked, "Had enough venting?"

Farra smiled, "Yes."

Steven said, "Good. Let's get to work." They departed, as they began their first day as interim guards in St. Dolphin Prison.

In New York, however, the others were stunned, as Percival was yelled at by Farra. Mundy shook his head and said, "Bloody hell, you're awful."

Mizuki hissed, "You let my husband go to Florida, to save his sister? SHAME ON YOU!"

Mundy walked out and said, "Let's go…"

Miki got up and said, "I'm sorry… I didn't mean to tell them."

Yamabuki replied, "It's alright. Ya didn't mean to, but he did start all this."

"Excuse me?" He cried, "I told you NOT to tell them! Now they're upset by Peter's possible death! Farra said that if he dies, it's on me!"

Yamabuki said to him, "Percival, know that this wasn't yer fault. We do know that it was all John-Johnny A's fault. But still, ya walked in on a plea bargain…"

Percival stated, "But my hunch was correct! Krystle was framed!"

Yamabuki nodded and said, "It's alright. What's done is done. Sadly, Mundy and Mizuki already turned on ya, but I haven't, fam."

Miki said, "Same. I'd never turn on you…"

Chazz huffed, "Neither do I… but I don't approve of them having a part-time job. Besides, prisons are very difficult to control, even with low-level experience." He said to him, "Listen, your wife will be fine. We have bigger worries."

Yamabuki responded, "Well, now that we know who the mastermind and crew of the drug ring is, our next step is the next move."

Chazz nodded, "Great! Haven't been on a mission, in a while."

"By the way, how's April and January?"

Percival said, "Not so good. They're under thorough repairs, and won't be ready until 3 days from now. It was a horrible moment. April's arm was replaced, and January took a nasty beating. But still, we're still sitting pretty, with the rest of our team."

Yamabuki smiled, "You bet. Even so… It was a shame that Peter risked everything to save his sister. To top it off, she has a Stand now. Ya think she'd be next?"

Percival said, "I hope not… But whatever goes down in St. Dolphin, Krystle does have protection."

XXXXX

That evening, in St. Dolphin Prison, Krystle was in her dark cell at the Punishment Ward. Steven and Farra met with her.

If you recall, last chapter, Krystle defeated John-Johnny A and cleared her name of the incident, long ago. But… she was still serving 15 years in prison; plus, an extra five years for assaulting the guard in the visitation room, after they believed she was a victim of an attempted breakout.

"So that's about it… World Government is still under review on whether or not they are giving you a pardon." Farra said, "Until then, we're on you like a hawk…" She sighed and whispered, "I'm sorry… Peter, he…" She grit her teeth and sobbed, "Why didn't he tell us? He should've…"

"Look, what's done is done, Farra. I'll be fine. Just let me know when my time here is finished."

Farra nodded, and then walked away. Steven said, "She means it. She's been through a lot, today."

Krystle said, "I hope you find more about who stole my brother's soul."

Steven nodded, "We'll do what we can." He stated, "Now, granted, we're not giving you freedom here, but orders are orders. The warden says that you DID assault the guard, so, you have a few weeks to think, but… I promise… When you are free to go, everything will be set."

He departed, as Krystle sighed, "Yeah… everything will be set. I hope you make good on your promise."

Episode 8 - Chapter 3: Johnny B Badd!
The Star-Studded Stand User!

We draw the curtain on Krystle Giese, for now. We focus on another inmate.

His name is Jason Brighton… aka Jace B Right. Krystle already met him, recently. He was lying in the infirmary, with a star on his hand. He was visited by a girl in black hair and glasses. She whispered, crawling onto him, in just her white shirt and panties, "Hey… Do you have ten I can borrow?"

He woke up and whispered, "Heh? Oh… Hey…"

It was Kim. She said to him, "I was wondering when you'd return."

"Where am I?"

"The infirmary. You had a nasty blow, earlier today… You okay?"

"Yeah… I don't know how I got here, but…"

Kim giggled, "I'm so glad. Anyways, the guards have been lax, lately. You're going to have some new guards come in, in the coming weeks."

"Yeah, Jace be ready for some guard action. Though, there's got to be order around here. Funny thing… one guard quit his job, after his left ear was sliced off."

"I see…" She thought, "I remember clearly… Krystle Giese's Stand, she helped him. I guess that was a call for help."

He explained, "Well, I hurt my right palm, and I had a fever, too… That's all I remembered."

"You're alright now."

"You should scram, before the guards see you with me. You know they don't allow sex in this place."

"I know… But I have been waiting for you, Jason…"

He moaned, "Hold on…" I think I remember something…"

At the police station, Jace went to a drain and saw a gold charm.

"When I was charged for 5 years, after the bank robbery, I found something on the floor."

He picked it up, but he cut himself and it spurted out blood.

"It stung my hand, so I decided to get rid of it… to, uh… this chick with green hair. I forgot her name. Right… Chiu? Yeah…" He explained, "Anyways, I sold it, and then I passed out. And then, here I was… The only time I appeared in prison was at the Infirmary."

"And here I am…" He said, as he looked at his palm, "Since then, I was bedridden, and haven't seen you, lately…"

He gasped, "What the hell? Why is there a star in my palm?" He removed his star and it produced another. He whispered, "No way… Jace be Bizarre… but Jace be getting a new healing factor! Jace be Logan!"

Kim thought, "I thought so… He has it… like I do, and like Chisame and Krystle…" She narrated, "Krystle got a charm from her brother and mother… After it vanished, Jason found it, but he was cut, and was bedridden, throughout… He sold it to Chisame for two dollars, but after Stone Wind awakened, Krystle got it back. After that… After that…"

He shushed her and said, "Hide…" the janitor walked by and mopped the floor. They were under the covers, as Kim whispered, "I shouldn't even be here…"

Jace said, "We can't let you leave… Pretend you were an injured victim."

"My health is fine, thank you…"

They saw his pants, as Jace growled, "Why that thief… He stole my $50!"

"Huh? You had money?"

"I was saving it for later… My hard-earned cash! And I was passed out!" he felt himself, and nodded, "Okay, just to be sure…" He looked at his hand and said, "This star… I wonder… He peeled off his star and said, "Maybe it can launch a fireball or something… or use mind-control… Jace be tripping…"

"Yeah, but can Jace be getting his fifty bucks back?" Kim whispered.

"I'm trying… but… How can I?" He threw a star to the ground, and it produced a puddle. He whispered, "Whoa… Mondo grody…"

"Yeah… You don't think…"

The janitor was blonde with a blue jumpsuit. He mopped up the starry puddle, and Jace whispered, "This is amazing… It can produce liquid… but what about solid?" He reached for the janitor, but suddenly, it shot out stars from his hands. The stars hit the janitor, and he was knocked out.

"Ha-haaaah! I got him!" He cheered, "Serves you right, fuckhead!" Kim took the fifty dollars back, but she gasped in horror. He asked her, "What's wrong?"

"Look!"

The janitor was lying down, as two discs were sprouting out of his head. Jace whispered, "No way… Is tha–? My god, I hope I didn't kill him."

Kim glared at the janitor, and then said, "This disc… It can't be."

XXXXX

The next morning, Jace was freed from the infirmary, and then he asked, "One question… The janitor from last night. I was up, and he fell. I was hopi–."

The guard yelled, "NO asking questions unrelated to your own self! NEXT!"

He tried asking around about the janitor, but no one knows who he is or was.

At the bathroom, Jace got the disc and said, "Kim said it's a weird looking CD. It's not an audio, or a visual… It's something dark. Kim said I have to hold onto this. But what's inside?"

He viewed something inside the disc. It was a hand, grabbing money. "OH! This is strange… I see something. And that's my money… No, there's a bunch of singles and a ten."

The janitor was harboring money, totalling up to $5,000. But as he was about to cash in, Night Samba emerged. While the movie played, the disc suddenly went into Jace's left cheek.

"McQueen… At last, we meet. How would you like to work for me? You have pure evil and malice inside of you… Perhaps we'd like to work together? I can give you more than money… You victimize yourself and become more of a pariah than a person. I like that about you, McQueen. Join me, and you can inflict pain into others, as long as pain comes within you…"

Jace pulled the disc out of his head and threw it into the toilet. He stammered in fear, as he cried, "What the hell? That janitor… He was a psychopath!"

He ran off, running in the halls, and then ran into a guard. He said, "I'm Jason Brighton, Prisoner MA21599, permission to return to the Men's section!"

He ran down the stairs, as he whispered, "Man, I better hurry, before that guy comes back… Or, at this rate, he tries to kill me!"

He went past Kim, who saw him. She asked, "I see you saw what was in the disc."

"Yeah… Sorry, Kim, but I can't stay on this side… Just, wait until we get out… I'll wait for you, Kim."

He walked off, as Kim said, "Then I take it that you know the truth… A friend of mine learned of the disc… except it stole her brother's soul."

"What? Brother's soul?"

"It's a long story, but I know what goes on." Kim explained, "I am sorry… But your powers are awakened. This is a Stand's power."

"A Stand?"

"Stands are drawn to one another, like a magnet. This also applies to a new breed called Spirit Callers. And like Stands and Spirits, they are attracted, like us…"

"K-Kim? Why are you talking like it's bizarre?"

"I have experienced it. This McQueen guy… He's pure evil. That janitor isn't around here, but we have to find him, near the men's section of the prison. I wish I could join you, but I cannot be seen."

"Wait, there was a vision of a creature that ordered McQueen to become evil, and steal from other inmates' stash?

"Correct. And the figure I saw… It's similar to Krystle's. That charm you picked up belonged to Krystle."

"Krystle? As in Krystle Giese? Wait, you know her? I only knew her, before she was transferred to the prison!"

"She had the same experience. Her brother's soul was stolen in the same disc as before. I do not know what, why, and how it happened… but I know who. The culprit's name… is Night Samba!"

Jace looked at the disc and said, "Night Samba… Here, this is the guy's disc. This McQueen guy… unless he's actually a woman. And if I recall, he had TWO discs."

"Exactly. When we knocked him out with his Stand ability, two discs came out. There was a Memory Disc and a Stand Disc."

"Wait… Krystle's brother… did he have two discs, as well?"

"No… Spirit Callers are one in the same, and can only be saved in a Memory Disc. However, for Stand Users, discs come in pairs."

"But wait… Don't I get a Stand Disc?"

"Yeah."

He thought, as he was concerned, "This McQueen guy… If only I can find the other disc, then I can disable his butt. But I'm surprised that you knew Krystle…"

"It's a long story…" Kim blushed.

Jace said, "Well, Jace be ready and raring to go, when I run into that jerk. Perhaps I'll meet him in the courtyard… or…"

"Try asking the inmates about him. I've done all I could… But for now, we have to locate his other disc. We remove both discs, we end him."

He returned upstairs and said, "I'll find the guy… Kim, when this is over, what do you say we hang out at your private place?"

"My private place is gone… but I found a new place." She said, "Just hurry up and find him. By the way, whenever you're done, find Krystle Giese. She's Inmate FE40536."

He nodded, "Roger. See ya around."

He left to the Men's Section of the prison, as he thought, "The guy's name's McQueen. He has a disc of his memories, but that also means… his Stand Disc… he'll be able to use his Stand, whatever that is." he returned, as he said, "Excuse me, I'm Inmate MA21599 - Jason Brighton."

He entered, as the guard said, "Shall I escort you to your cell?" Jace said, "No need. I know my cell." He walked to his cell, as Jace whispered, "Strange fellas… Kim said that this McQueen guy is here. But I think I know who he is. He's blond, he wears a blue jumpsuit, but I can't make out the size… It was dark out."

As he was thinking, he decided to ask his fellow inmates..

"McQueen? Never heard of him."
"You're asking me? Aw, shut up and leave me alone."
"Hey, I don't know nothing about a janitor, while you were in your shit bed!"
"How the hell should I know? Get lost!"

None of the inmates were of any help. Jace was still concerned. He lied in his bed and said, "McQueen. I wish I knew more about this guy. Moreover, I want to know about everything, including his Stand, and the one called Night Samba."

But as he waited, a man in blue passed by. It was McQueen. Jace sat up and gasped, "It's him!"

He stepped out, but the cell door was shut. He asked, "MCQUEEN! YOU GOT A MINUTE?"

He stopped, as McQueen said, "Meet me at the doctor's office… at 3."

He walked off, as Jace said, "What the hell? McQueen's… like a zombie." A female figure said, as she was lurking in the shadows, "What should I do?"

She approached him and said, opening his cell, "You wish to seek answers? Go to him. Take the disc with you."

"Huh? Who are you?"

"There will be time for all that, later. But first, the name… The Stand that stole the disc you have."

"He's called Night Samba. I think that's McQueen's Stand."

"Thank you. However, Night Samba isn't his Stand. See for yourself…"

Jace stepped out, as the woman departed. He called, "McQueen!"

Jace barked, as McQueen stopped, "I'm not waiting! I want to know… Why the Stand?"

"I don't know… You have something that belongs to me…"

"The disc? Well, I know for a fact that you're evil to the core. You'd steal money and contraband."

"So?"

"Fess up! Jace be cornering you!"

"Hmph!" He walked off and said, "I'm sorry… But can it wait?"

Jace grabbed his arm and said, "I'm not kidding, bastard! Just what the hell are you going to accomplish with this Stand of yours?!"

McQueen stared down at him, as they growled. One guard called, "YOU TWO! Get back to your cells!"

Jace walked off and huffed, "This isn't over… I promise we'll meet again. And Jace be wanting answers."

McQueen said, "Fine. I'm game."

They walked back to their cells, as one guard said, "What gives you the right to leave your cell, MA21599?"

He groaned, "I don't even wanna know." He stepped back in, but the guard assaulted him from behind. He fell to the ground, and he smirked, "Hah! Serves you right! You need to know who owns you, punk!"

STAB!
Cassandra stabs the guard in the back with her hand and hissed, "And that makes two of us…"

He dropped to one knee, as Cassandra said, "Forgive me for that… but I have to teach you NOT to abuse fellow inmates, without a reason or excuse." The guard croaked, "Y-Y-Yes, ma'am…"

She pointed him out and said, "Now, return to your post. And walk off the pain. I didn't puncture anything vital, so you should be alright, in an hour or two."

He crawled off, as Jace was hurt. Cassandra looked on and said, "Strange… I have never seen him, before."

Cassandra was making rounds in the Men's Section of the prison, while the rest were at the Women's Section. The guards surround Cassandra, as she asked, "What are you staring at? Please, return to post!"

The guards spread out, and sob in terror. Cassandra adjusted her glasses and said, "Santa Maria…"

XXXXX

Jace was recovering from the bump, as he was back at the Infirmary. The doctor said that the bump on his head was intentional.

That night, as everyone was asleep, Jace was lying in a hospital bed, with a bandage on the back of his head.

"Ugh… Back to where I started…" Jace said, "Maybe Kim would come back and seduce me again…"

He heard footsteps, and then saw him. He whispered, "Him…"

The doors open, as Jace growled, seeing the janitor. He called, "McQueen!"

He said, "Brighton…"

"No more games! What the hell are you? And who do you think you are, trying to steal my bribe money?"

"You think so, but…" He walked off to the nurse's office. Jace yelled, "GET BACK HERE!"

McQueen arrived at the office, and held up a scalpel, "Don't worry… I want the disc, after all… But I want your life…"

"Yeah? I've done nothing wrong."

"You have the disc… so technically… YOU HAVE!" he jabbed the knife into his chest. Jace groaned, blocking the scalpel, but the blade punctured his chest. McQueen grinned, "I wanna know how you hide cash inside your pores, Brighton! You're no Ermes Costello, and she's an overlooked legend!"

"That makes two of us!" Jace kicked him off. He added, "So, I see that we know each other, pretty well. Kim said that Stands are drawn to one another. So, basically, I don't need to ask."

"Who's Kim?"

"No one… but she trusts me…"

"You mean that psycho in the Women's Area? Yeah, I actually remembered her, from Sports Maximus."

"HIM?! Wait, that bastard?"

"Yeah… He was talking about her, the psycho, Kimberly…"

"You didn't…"

McQueen smirked, as he grabbed an IV stand, "Oh, we didn't. But we will… Maximus was hoping he'd have a way with your girlfriend… while you bleed to death!" He swung down, but Jace avoided the attack.

"You're a sicko!" Jace kicked him down and they started to brawl in the nurse's office. Jace grabbed a bedpan and clobbered him on the head.
WHAM!
After that, McQueen staggered, as he was shaken. He picked up two syringes, and Jace was ready. He threw them like darts.

STAB! STAB!
They stabbed into his chest and right arm. Jace winced in pain. McQueen called, "And this time, I'm going for your head!"

He threw a huge scalpel towards him. Jace caught it with his hand, but the scalpel flew down, onto his foot. Jace groaned, "Oww… Okay, bad idea."

"You're good… but not good enough." McQueen glared, "I'm only going to make you a bloody corpse in this prison. I only wish to see your girl's face, when she sees you dead."

"Leave… Kim… alone!" He shot out a star at McQueen. He dodged it and said, "So, that's your Stand power? Pathetic."

Jace growled, "Shut up!" He grabbed the syringe and yelled, "I won't let you harm a hair on Kim!" He dashed at him, "Jace be breaking that fucking face of yours, McQueen!"

"STOP!" A voice called.

Jace stopped, as the woman from before said, "Go easy on him… Your Stand, it's the only way to defeat him. He wants you to suffer, by letting him attack you. McQueen… That name, I heard of it before."

"What are you talking about? WHO ARE YOU?"

"What are you talking to?" McQueen said, as he held up a scalpel. He groaned, "Well, if you won't tell me… I guess I can stab you… HARD!"
STAB!
He ended up stabbing himself. Jace screamed in pain, and roared, "AAAAAAAAGH!"

"I was afraid of this… McQueen… Why did he come back, after 11 years?" The woman gasped.

He was once called Thunder McQueen. A suicidal inmate in Green Dolphin Prison. He was given a Stand, Freeway Thru Hell, by the evil Enrico Pucci and Pale Snake. His only target was Ermes Costello, the Stand User of KISS (aka Smack). However, Ermes was a fledgling Stand User, only given the Stand, after she pricked herself with the charm that Jolyne Kujoh received. Upon meeting, McQueen used his Stand to kill himself, in return, the pain he is given is sent to Ermes. But after nearly electrocuting himself and her, she used Smack to stop him, and he was fried completely, only for Ermes to stand tall.

"But now… Thunder McQueen came back, after he died… This isn't what I expected, but it's happening…"

Jace groaned, "Son of a bitch… You'd stab yourself, just to hurt me? What are you?"

"Someone who's about to experience heaven… All I wanted…" He groaned, "All I wanted was to live a happy life!"

Jace gagged, "Eh?"

The woman said, "I forgot… He's suicidal that he breaks down in tears, and he's a pussy."

"Truth is, I could never find a woman, or be that happy with friends. You're so lucky… That Kim girl is so hot!"

Jace thought, "Wow, serious to an adolescent in a 180. This guy's got issues." He called, "HEY! You took money from me, when I was on sick bay! But lucky for you, I took it back!"

"I'm sorry… But I had a lot of money stashed away, and I don't know where it went!"

Jace thought, "The Memory Disc… That's why…" He called, "Listen, I know where your money is, but I want to know… Are you friends with Sports Maximus?"

"Yeah… But he doesn't talk to me much. Only for this Kim girl…"

"That snake… I knew it. This is Jace B Right's last gig in the Jailhouse Rock. Kim and I are leaving."

"NO! Don't go!"

Jace paused and said, "Seriously, suicide is never an answer. You need to find someone that's right for you. Otherwise, you may never find someone you like."

McQueen sobbed, "You're right. I'm such a pathetic loser… I wanna die…"

"WHOA-OA! Don't go overboard! I'm just here to save you! Regret what you do, and it'll bite back! But still… You cannot kill yourself. I'll let you live, and give you a pass, but leave my Kim alone… And as for Sports Maximus, you tell him that Jace B Right is Jace be in jail… because I'm coming for his ass."

McQueen sniffled, "You're right. I'll tell him. I'll tell him, after you die!" He slammed him with a white cord. McQueen wrapped himself and coated his body with gasoline. He said, "I can't have Kim, and neither can you! We go together! Trust me… No girl will ever love me… Kim said so, when I saw her. She just lashed out at me… Calling me a scumbag!"

"That's not my Kim!"

"You don't know her… Ten years in prison, and suffering from trauma… and she has a split-personality, to boot! WHO'D LOVE SOME CRAZED WHORE LIKE THAT? Not me… And certainly not you!"

He was shocked, "Kim? Her? I don't believe you!"

"Even so, she doesn't understand me… In life, I'm invisible to the world… So why do you think I do this? You're a nice person. The only other nice person was a woman… and she told me that this isn't the path I must go to. Now I hear she's gone… and she won't give me an eye. No one loves me, so that's the reason…" He explained, "Four years ago, I was just cleaning in my apartment. I was cleaning and oiling my shotgun. Somehow, a shell got stuck in the gun's barrel. A woman jumped off the 11th floor… and I killed her…"

BANG!
A bullet shot the woman falling off, as it reached the 10th floor.

McQueen sobbed, as he explained why, "It was an accident! I was on the 10th floor, and she was committing suicide, up on the 11th floor… But even so, it was luck! People win millions in the lottery… and I did the total opposite! She was supposed to hit the ground, and end up as a suicide! But instead, everyone believed that I shot and killed her! The judge threw the book at me, after he called me coldhearted! THERE YOU SEE THE MAN BEFORE YOU NOW!"

"I mean it! Put down the switch. You're wasting your life away! McQueen, you cannot throw it all away, because someone like Night Samba used you to take everything away from you! I don't even wanna know why you're locked away, but you deserve much more, if you open up! Otherwise, you're just going to end up the suicidal inmate that no one will ever remember!"

"It's funny… At first your words moved me, and gave me courage, but it feels like you are insincere."

"That's part of it… But it's not true… You had me at Sports Maximus… He owes me something."

"I know… And I already know you and Kim… and the reason I decided to end it all, because she's more important in your life… is that it? I wanted to believe in such a great guy, but I should've known that it was too good to be true, from the start! No one wants to be with trash… but I'm worse than trash! My presence is invisible! YOU COULDN'T EVEN FIND A WAY TO THROW ME AWAY, PROPERLY!"

"CALM DOWN! McQueen, I wanna help you! I want to survive this, too. But you and I, we can work this out, together. You needed a friend. That's all. And the only reason you're killing yourself is because Night Samba is using you! But if you do not think of suicide, nothing will happen! He's tugging your heart strings! Otherwise, he'll do the same to others, as he did to you!"

Jace pleaded to him, but McQueen said, "You… You mean it… I'm moved… You're the first one to say that it is alright to live. I mean, no man said so, but I'm happy!" He sobbed, "I'm sorry if I treated you rotten! I learned now… death is not the answer! But it's life's great reward!"

Jace gasped, as he continued, "What a wonderful way to go together, knowing that a saint has guided me the way until the very end! Jace Brighton! Thank you so much! I KNOW NOW, I WILL DIE HAPPY!"

He hit the switch, as Jace roared, "YOU IDIOT!" he reached for him, as stars shot out of his hand. He knocked the switch off his hands, and the cord was sliced in pieces. Jace was shocked, as McQueen was moaning in pain. Jace gasped, "Wow… Jace be… I don't know what word I can use to describe it!"

McQueen got up and moaned, "You… You don't want me to die? FINE!" He roared, "You demon! I'll make you paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" Jace gripped himself and said, "YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YOURSELF, MCQUEEN! JACE BE SHOWING YOU THE ERROR OF YOUR WAYS!" He shot out stars all around McQueen, and he screamed, "Now! I was trying to save you, showing you that killing yourself isn't the answer! But I understand now! YOU'RE ROTTEN TO THE CORE! THE ONLY MISTAKE YOU EVER MADE WAS EXISTING! And you dragged Kim into this! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU, MCQUEEN! YOU CANNOT BE SAVED, YOU PERVERTED PSYCHOPATH!"

POW! POW! POW! POW! POW!
McQueen was slammed with a barrage of gold, white, and red stars, piercing and phasing through his body, showing pain. Jace roared, "MCQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!"

McQueen was burned alive and dropped to the floor. A disc popped out of his head. Jace nodded and took his disc, "And that's that. All that's left is the $5,000 you stashed away. I'll take that as compensation." A figure emerged, coated in gold and white, with stars printed on his body. "Kim… I have to ask her about what she's been through. She's adorable, but I don't believe she's psycho. And then there's Night Samba. He's the one that made me this way… What is he planning?"

[Jason Brighton aka Jace B Right – Stand: Johnny B Badd]
Johnny B Badd (aka Johnny Be Goode)

The woman nodded, "Well done, Jace Brighton. Your Stand has awakened."

Jace said, "Thanks… But I didn't expect you to be here. Just who are you?"

"Someone who knows this history, and is doomed and damned to witness history repeat itself…" she spoke, "But there'll be time for that, in due time. I will guide The Gang to stopping Night Samba. You, however, make sure that you find Kim Cheonsa."

"Right… But first…" Jace said, in a serious tone, "Jace be needing a serious talk… with Krystle Giese."

XXXXX

At the Punishment Ward, Kim talked with Krystle.

"I see, so Jace got a Stand, too, huh?" Krystle said.

Kim nodded, "That's right. It happened, moments before you came. And I know what goes on… especially the horrors I endured. More importantly, I learned something new about these discs…"

She showed two discs, hidden in her shirt, and replied, "These were related to the slimy Stand you met. He goes by the name – Night Samba. These two discs are related to him."

"Are they memories from within?"

"Yes. Jace was able to disable the janitor, called McQueen, and learned that he can replace the disc back into his head, regaining its memories and life. I will hold onto the Stand Disc, while you examine the Memory Disc, and give it to your friends. They may need a clue to rescue your brother. The disc you have will contain information on what Night Samba is doing to its victims. It's not much, but it helps."

Krystle then said, "Hmm… I see… So, the Stand that took my brother's soul is called Night Samba. Now I'd like to know who the Stand User is…"

Steven appeared, as he called, "Hey." He asked, "Where'd you get this?"

"Oh, this? It's a disc from–."

He took it and said, "Great… We'll say I confiscate this, but… Steven Cooke believes this is the slime Stand's doing. Any name you got on intel?"

She said, "He goes by the name Night Samba."

"Good. I'll examine it, right away. By the way, tomorrow, you're free to go."

"Oh, thanks. Just, uh… Can you not tell everyone else about our findings?"

Steven smiled, "I'd never turn away from a friend's sister." He walked off and gave the thumbs up to her. She thought, "Thank god. Now, maybe I can find this scumbag… This Night Samba."

To be continued…