"Let me come with you, JoJo!"
"No," Johan said to Ram Bamboo as he prepared to leave.
"This is pond gack! I HAVE to kill Mr. Bufo! He ate my parents!"
"Exactly why I can't have you with me, Felicia, Leatherleaf and Hopediah. Your anger and revenge is going to get in the way and I don't need to play babysitter."
"Is Ivy talking shit about me?"
"Ivy has nothing to do about it. If a has-been musician could kidnap you so easily, an insane cannibal like Bufo will tear you apart."
"But..."
"Stick to tactics, Ram Bamboo. This conversation is over."
"No guards," pointed out Johan as he and his group approached the shack that was on the map. It was old, run-down, with broken windows and a moss-covered roof.
"You know it's a trap," said Leatherleaf said.
"I know. They're expecting us." Johan exhaled. "Well, let's not keep them waiting."
They entered the shack and found Mr. Bufo. He was sitting in the center of the floor, swallowing handfuls of blue pearls. Accompanying him were BOC members. "You came at last, JoJo. I get to finish what I couldn't do two days ago."
"Give it up, Bufo. You're dead."
The fat toad stood up, smirking. "Not before I take you with me." Then suddenly, a flytrap-like tendril popped out of his back and opened its mouth. "Behold, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy!"
"Oh, that's not good." That was the last thing Johan said before it swallowed him whole.
"JOJO!" screamed the trio of frogs.
"Kill them all," said Mr. Bufo to the bodyguards. They reached for their guns, and opened fired. Leatherleaf and Felicia summoned their Stands and quickly made short work of the guards. Good Bad Ugly fired out of Leatherleaf's gun and made three headshots. The Rose threw a seed into the ground and grew a net of vines that trapped a few more.
"He doesn't have a Stand," one of the remaining guards pointed to Hopediah. "Kill the old man!"
Hopediah smirked, stepped forward and took a deep breath, creating a glowing aura. Mr. Bufo saw this and gasped. "R-Ripples? I thought that technique was dead!"
"It ain't dead yet! Let me show you how we Plantars are spitting champs in Wartwood!" He puffed out his throat sack, gathering enough spit before he said, "RIPPLE CUTTER!" He spat out the saliva with the trajectory of a bullet, killing the last guard.
Mr. Bufo made a look of surprise then chuckled. "I underestimated you. And here I thought you Wartwood folk were nothing but a bunch of poor as dirt farmers."
"We take pride in our dirt, Bufo!" said Felicia.
Suddenly, the toad's belly began to rumble. "Ooh, it's ready." Then with a great heave, he upchucked Johan. "JoJo!" Felicia ran up to him and helped him up. "Are you alright?"
"No I'm not! HE ATE ME!"
"And that's not even the worst part. The real nightmare begins." Mr. Bufo reached down his throat, much to everyone's shock and disgust and pulled out a small doll that resembled Johan. "I have to say I am quite the artist. It looks just like you down to the last detail."
Johan summoned DARE, feeling unsteady.
"And that's not all Big Bad Voodoo Daddy can do." Mr. Bufo gave the doll a flick and Johan suddenly began to bleed from the head.
"Wh-What the..."
"You see? Everything the doll feels, you feel."
Johan shouted at Felicia, "Get the doll!"
Felicia nodded and summoned The Rose. It grew vines out of its hands and shot out at the doll, but Mr. Bufo grabbed it by the hand slowly began to twist it. "NOOO!"
Pop!
The top half of the doll came off and Johan let out a scream, expecting himself to be torn in half. But nothing happened. He looked up at Mr. Buffo, confused. "What? Did you really think I would kill you that way? Take a look." Inside the bottom half of the doll were little pebbles with words written on them like "Right Lung", "Left Lung", "Large Intestine", "Bladder" and so on.
"This is Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's power," the fat toad said as he ran his finger in the pebbles. "These little stones represent every one of your inner organs. Like this one. It represents your stomach." He held up one of the pebbles and crushed it. In an instant, Johan felt extreme pain in gut and began vomiting blood. Mr. Bufo plucked another stone. "This one represents your tendon." He crushed it and Johan's right foot exploded in blood and he let out a scream as he fell down.
"JoJo!" Felicia, Leatherleaf and Hopediah tried to attack Mr. Bufo only to get swallowed and spat out by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and had dolls made of them too.
"I'll deal with you later. Right now I want to torture him first." The fat toad crushed another stone marked small intestine. Johan let out a scream of agony. "Let's see if I can find the lungs..."
"STOP!" Everyone turned to the doorway to see Ram Bamboo. "It's me you want!"
Johan coughed up blood. "R-Ram Bamboo... I told you to stay away..." He could barely keep himself up.
"I'm the one who told JoJo about the Blue Pearls! I'm the one who told him about the farm! And I'm the one who killed Dendrobatidae!"
Johan made a look of surprise. Why was she taking the rap for killing the musician? Mr. Bufo glared at her, then summoned Big Bad Voodoo Daddy to swallow and spit her out, creating a doll in her image. Then he popped the doll's top off, reached into the bottom half and pulled out three stones marked "Stomach", "Liver" and "Rectum". He crushed all three of them and she let out a scream as she fell to the ground. Blood began to come out of her mouth.
"Where do you get the gall to do this to us?" demanded Mr. Bufo. "After we took you in when your parents died?!"
Ram Bamboo glared at him. "You're the one who caused my parents' deaths! You ate them alive and you did it under Mr. Samandarin's orders!"
Mr. Bufo reached in and pulled out a stone labeled "Tongue" and crushed it. "Your parents owed us. So we took what they owed."
BANG! BANG! BANG! Mr. Bufo fell to the ground as blood began to pour out of three holes in his body. Leatherleaf chuckled as Good Bad Ugly returned to him. "You were so focused on Ram Bamboo that you forgot about us."
"Ram Bamboo! JoJo!" Hopediah quickly ran to the kids sides. "JoJo's bleeding bad! We gotta get him to the medic!"
"What about Ram Bamboo?" asked Felicia. Then she sniffed the air and smelled something odd. "Wait." She wiped the blood off Ram Bamboo's lips and licked it. "This isn't blood! It's raspberry jelly!"
Ram Bamboo stood up and stuck out her tongue. "Gotcha!"
Mr. Bufo gurgled as he attempted to stand up. "H-How? I smashed your internal organs!"
"Simple. I had help."
A small blue frog with pink hair stepped out of the shadows. "Hi."
"Maddie? Maddie Flour?" questioned Johan. "Aren't you the baker's daughter?"
"And an expert on magic! I have a life beyond the world of baking, you know. Anyway, Ram Bamboo came to me and she told me of Bufo's Stand's power. So I did the easiest way to bypass that. I created replicas of her organs and placed them in her body! It's only temporary though."
"RIDICULOUS! Not even ten minutes passed when I showed Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's ability to JoJo! There's no way you could have done it on such a short time!"
"You're right. I didn't. That's why I thought ahead and pre-made them. I was saving them for a decoration for the annual Shut-In night. Who knew they'd come in handy?"
Johan tilted his head in confusion. "What's the annual Shut-In?"
"We'll tell you later," said Hopediah.
Mr. Bufo growled as he stood up. "This fight is far from over..." Ram Bamboo grabbed Leatherleaf's gun and fired two more times into his chest. But he still got back up and gurgled, "You think that will stop me?"
"FOR FROG'S SAKE! DIE ALREADY!" Ram Bamboo continued to fire until the gun was empty and Mr. Bufo ended up looking like Swiss cheese. She dropped the gun and began panting heavily, only to stop when she saw a knife. She grabbed it and swung it down on the fat toad's neck, decapitating him.
"Ooh, I didn't need to see that," said Hopediah.
Then she broke down into sobs. Johan, despite the fact that he was basically a bloody mess at this point, found enough strength to limp over to her and give her a hug. "Shh, shh... It's okay, Ram Bamboo. It's okay. We're here."
"He... I couldn't let him kill my other family..."
"I know."
After Ram Bamboo finished crying, she pulled herself away from the hug and looked at the other frogs. They're the ones who took her in, not BOC and Wartwood was her home. "I want to go home now."
"Understood."
"What about them," asked Leatherleaf as he pointed to the surviving Blue Oyster Cult members.
"Just throw them in jail," Felicia said.
Suddenly, one of the BOC members let out a loud scream and began to writhe around on the ground as his belly started to expand and grow bigger and bigger until...
SHLAKOOOM!
Something burst out of the frog's stomach. Johan saw who it was and let out a groan. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me!"
Ram Bamboo let out a gasp. "No!"
"You really thought that killed me?" asked Mr. Bufo. "Behold, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's secret ability, Damballa! It allows me to be reborn in the body of any host I choose. By implanting my spirit into a living vessel, I can create a new body for myself. Do you understand what that means? I means I cannot die no matter what happens to me! I've been alive since the founding of Amphibia itself! I am..."
"Shut up," Johan said as he summoned DARE. "I'm getting sick of your generic villain speech."
"I-I...what?"
Johan turned to the frogs. "Close your eyes."
"Huh?" questioned Hopediah. "Why?"
"Just do it."
They complied and Johan slowly limped over to the fat toad, who just laughed. "You think you can stop me? You can barely walk! It doesn't matter if you've got your Stand out! Even if you kill me, I'll come back again and again! I am immortal!" At that moment, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy lunged forward. DARE grabbed the sides of its helmet and pressed and pressed until it shattered into pieces. Suddenly, there was a blinding flash of light and a few seconds later, the helmet reassembled itself.
"Well, can we open our eyes now?" asked Hopediah.
"Sure," said Johan.
The frogs opened their eyes and saw Mr. Bufo, frozen with a look of surprise on his face. "What did you do to him?" asked Felicia as she poked Mr. Bufo in the eye. He did not respond at all.
"DARE has a secret weapon that is activated when the dome helmet breaks," explained Johan. "I call it the Superhuman Ray."
"Superhuman?" questioned Leatherleaf.
"When two swordsmen fight for example, they often describe a sensation where their blades seem to freeze in midair, as if their sense of time has slowed down. Such phenomena occurs when the senses are pushed to the absolute limits. Remember, DARE has power over all the senses. DARE's Superhuman Ray forces your consciousness into that state of heightened awareness. In other words, it allows anyone who sees it to experience the superhuman limits of ability and sensation."
He paused and smiled at Mr. Bufo. "Are you following, Mr. Buffalo? With this ray, a bullet will appear to be as slow as a slug even to a child. So now, in your superhuman state, a normal person like me must look bizarre, my movements exceedingly slow and tedious. Now then. This knife, does it appear to have stopped?" He held his trench knife up to Mr. Bufo's face. "Ecco. And the most amazing thing about this secret weapon is, the master swordsman's senses are only heightened the brief moment his blade crosses his opponent's, but DARE's Superhuman Ray amplifies those senses by a factor of trillions. The closer DARE is, the longer the effect lasts. With how close you were, one second should feel like one hundred years.
"Take my knife for example. As I move it closer to you, your superhuman alertness will make the movements appear agonizingly slow, as if it'll take several centuries for it to reach you. Torturous, isn't it? But while your senses are sped up to superhuman levels, your non-superhuman body will fall painfully behind. Your body cannot keep up with the incredible amount of date your superhuman senses are sending it." Mr. Bufo slowly raised his hand to block the blade only for Johan to impale the knife through his palm. "Even if you manage to block me with your hand, it'll be hundreds of years before you even begin to feel the pain of the blade piercing your flesh. In fact, I'm talking to you in the present, but who knows when my words will actually reach your mind?"
Johan made a disgusted sound. "I hate using this technique for a reason. I accidentally used it on my Zio Mista when one of his Sex Pistols broke the helmet during a training session. The good thing was that DARE has the ability to undo the effect. He described it as an absolute nightmare and I wanted to not use it again. But for someone like you, I'm going to make an exception." He pulled the knife out and began slicing Mr. Bufo's body. "Just for the record, I'm not doing this because I want to take down your gang. I'm not doing this because of what you did to Ram Bamboo's parents. Hell, I'm not even doing it because i think you're a real piece of shit! I'm doing it for what you did to that frog you used to resurrect yourself. You're a coward who uses your own allies' deaths for your own benefit. Oh, and I want you to remember something. Every time DARE punches you, your pain receptors are amplified. And I want you to remember the pain when I punch you ALL THE WAY TO HELL!"
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With that last punch, DARE sent Mr. Bufo flying into a wall. Johan nodded. "I wonder how long it will take for him to realize he's already dead?" Then he collapsed. "Please, someone get me a medic. I think I really am going to die here."
Now there was only Mr. Samandarin left.
To Be Continued...
Stand: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
User: Bufo
Power: A
Speed: C
Range: B
Durability: E
Precision: B
Potential: D
Ability: Creates dolls that affect the person it is based off of. Its secret ability, Damballa, allows its user to resurrect himself using other people as hosts.
