EDGQ: I'm not sure I'm going to continue uploading daily, I still have school. But I'm glad that you enjoy my story.
fics BB-8: Well, Johnny is certainly going to be confused. As for Mista...he is integral to Jolyne and Giorno's revenge arc. And the duel with Snipe isn't a bad idea...
DeathlyJazzHands55: First off, digging the new name. Second, Jiro is going to get a few of those. Let's just say...it wasn't an accident when Josuke compared her to Koichi.
"What do you mean I'm fired?!"
Susan Cujoh stared at her boss in shock.
"Ma'am, so you really think we'd keep you in after what your daughter said? We don't want someone dishonest working for our company."
"B-but I've been working here for almost 20 years! Surely you would believe me over her?!"
"Normally, we would, but your daughter is a primary source, and you've contradicted yourself numerous times. We want honesty in this company, and you are anything but honest. You may collect your things on the way out."
Fresh hot tears burned in Susan's eyes as she picked up the assorted knick knacks that she collected over the years off her desk. Her former co-workers, people who once considered her a friend, now have her dirty looks whenever she walked by.
She took one last look out of the window of her office, reminiscing about the good times, when she realized that she was being watched across the street.
Her daughter was eating popcorn, looking up through binoculars and watching Susan suffer. Beside her, Giorno Giovanna was relaxing and drinking tea. Jolyne stood up and waved, a huge smile on her face, causing Susan to snap her keyboard in half in a fit of rage.
Her daughter just laughed.
Years of care and love, and her daughter just laughed at her misery as if she didn't care. Susan felt her whole world shatter. Did she really love Johnny more than her? Susan was actively trying to prevent that...
She slowly made her way to the elevator, earning several dirty looks as she continued her walk of shame.
...
"Did you see her face?! God that was hilarious!" Jolyne said as she finished up her popcorn. "And to think, some people say that revenge isn't satisfying."
Giorno nodded. "We're not done yet. We still have phase four to go through."
"Are your guys in position?"
"They are...oh no." Giorno's eyes widened slightly. "What?"
"I sent Mista..."
...
"...so she's a Karen."
Johnny raised an eyebrow at his friend. "Well...yeah, I guess...never thought about it like that."
Gyro made a face. "Jeez, and I thought I had family issues... "
Johnny remained silent. Gyro knew that was only scratching the surface of what his mother did to him, and he didn't want to come across as pushy, but he was concerned for his friend. Johnny was acting much more serious than normal, clearly this was affecting him.
"...hey Johnny, I have an original joke that I want to tell you, wanna hear it?"
Johnny gave Gyro a passing glance. The Italian seemed excited. No...he was trying to cheer him up. "Fine...hit me with it."
Gyro grinned.
"Okay, so a man walks into the vet, carrying a turtle.
The turtle wasn't moving, and it was all droopy.
The man walked up to the vet, and said: 'Hey, I think my turtle is dead, can you really take a look?'
The vet took one look at it, and said: 'yeah, your turtle is dead.'
'Come on man, at least put a little more effort into it.'
'Okay then, bring out the cat!' A cat walked out an sniffed the turtle, and meowed.
'The cat thinks your turtle is dead.'
'It's a cat, what does it know?!'
'Fine, we'll do another test, but it will cost you.' A dog comes out, sniffs the turtle, and howls.
'The dog thinks your turtle is dead too.'
'Okay, I guess they both can't be wrong...how much do I owe you?'
'500 dollars.'
'What?! Why?!'
'Well, I was initially going to charge you five bucks, but then we did a LAB test and a CAT scan, so I had to charge you extra!'"
Gyro waited patiently for Johnny to respond. Finally, Johnny replied in a monotone voice: "It was great Gyro, comedic gold."
"Really?! You think so?!"
"Yeah Gyro, it was so funny. You should consider a career in stand up." Johnny continued, his eyes dropping from boredom. "I knew you'd like it Johnny! Nyo Ho!"
Does this guy not understand the concept of sarcasm? Or is he just playing along?
"I'm dying of laughter." Johnny said as he looked up at the sky, only to come face to face with a dead cow. "Guh?!" Johnny jerked back, almost falling off of his horse.
Gyro glanced at the cow. "Who the hell hangs a dead cow from a tree? Talk about creepy..." Johnny brought his eyes closed to the cow. "Someone shot it, there are bullet holes in it's side. Whoever did this might've had beer with the cow's owner."
Gyro grinned. "Heh, beef with the owner, that's a good one Johnny."
"I wasn't...you're fucking with me, aren't you?"
"Only a little bit."
"Well perhaps the two of you would like to mess around with me instead."
Gyro and Johnny both turned their heads to see a racer dressed in pink. They had pink hair, cut short, a poncho, and a black fur cap with a gold spike at the top. The interesting thing was, Johnny couldn't tell the gender, and he didn't want to assume anything.
"The cow was mine, I was saving it for later, and I don't really appreciate the two of you trying to steal it for yourselves."
"Wait, no we weren't-"
"You killed my cow."
Suddenly, the racer pulled out a canister and sprayed Gyro directly in the face. "Mmph!" Johnny watched, horrified, as a fleshy substance covered his friend's face, cutting off his air. "Wait! Stop!" The racer turned to Johnny and sprayed at him too, but Johnny raised an arm and blocked it. Unfortunately, the fleshy substance began crawling up his arm, spreading like some weird growth.
Johnny activated Tusk, and the racer took a step back in shock. "You-you have a stand too?! Johnny let a few nail bullets loose, and the racer threw himself to the ground, but Johnny wasn't aiming at him.
He was aiming at a tree.
"Look! See the holes I just made? They don't match the holes in your cow, and Gyro doesn't even have a gun! We didn't kill your cow!"
The racer looked at the holes, then at the cow, and then at Gyro, who was squirming in the ground trying to breathe. He snapped his fingers, and the flesh fell off of Gyro's face, leaving the Italian gasping for air.
"I apologize, for trying to kill you at least. You still touched it, so I have every right to be mad, but I'll let the two of you off with a warning. My name is Hot Pants, and my stand is Cream Starter...if you ever think about screwing me over, I'll finish what I started."
With that, Hot Pants turned around and guided his horse away from the two of them, leaving them flabbergasted. "What an asshole! Who tries to kill someone over a fucking cow?!" Gyro asked, rubbing his throat.
"I dunno, what kind of a name is Hot Pants?"
"A stripper name...that's what."
...
Diego was currently crouched in the bushes, listening to Johnny and Gyro as they rode by. "So...can you take the Corpse Part out? Or is it stuck in you forever?"
What?
"Yeah, I can take it out. Wouldn't want some crusty old guy's hand inside me for too long, would I?"
Excuse me?
"Johnny don't drop it! The President is trying to kill us just for having it! Imagine what he would do if we broke it."
Diego furrowed his brow. What are these idiots talking about? Corpse hands? The President?! Are they mad?!
"I didn't drop it! It jumped out of my hand!"
"What are you doing with Tusk?"
"I'm not doing anything! It's moving on it's own! It's...drawing something..."
Diego peeked from behind the bush. Johnny and Gyro were crouched in the ground, well Johnny was like that by default, but Gyro was squatting next to him.
"Mons Castellum?"
"Sounds like Latin...Mountain Village?"
"...there's a village up ahead on this map! In the mountains too! Do you think... "
"The next Corpse Part is up there? Yeah, I think you're right."
"We need to get it, and fast. This thing must have some kind of untold power if Valentine wants it so bad, we need to grab it from under his nose."
Untold power...
The President of the United States is willing to kill for it...
That kind of item...in MY possesion...
Diego's mouth curved into a long, devious smile. What an exciting opportunity!
...
"You got to work on a murder case?! That's so cool!" Mina exclaimed, jumping up and down in front of Kyoka.
"Well I didn't really get to do much, I just helped with the investigating and the recon stuff." Kyoka lied. Josuke had instructed her not to tell anyone that she beat the villain, since she didn't even have her provisional license yet. What happened on that rooftop was kind of illegal...
"Still, you helped out! That's just so cool! I'm jealous!"
"Well I didn't do that much either, I just helped clean the ship and hoist things, although there was that time we caught some drug smugglers." Tsuyu said, resting her finger on her chin.
"Okay, that's cool." Kyoka and Mina said at the same time. "What about you, Ochaco?"
Said brunette had an intense look on her face as she punched the air. "I'd say it went swimmingly."
"Seems like someone found her inner fire, huh?"
Kyoka nodded. She had found something within herself too. Her body has moved on it's own when Okuyasu was in danger, and she went above and beyond what she had thought she was capable of. She couldn't wait to tel-
Oh...right.
Johnny hadn't spoken to her since she told him about his mother. Kyoka knew he didn't blame her, but she wished that he would talk to her. Midoryia hadn't heard from him either, and he was Johnny's friend the longest.
She had so much to tell him too, like how she beat up Midoryia after she found out that he fought the Hero Killer.
"You WHAT?!"
An earphone jack jabbed into Izuku's ear. "GAH! You fought a serial killer too!"
"Yeah, but I don't have One For All dumbass! You are far more important than me! Imagine what would happen if All Might's successor just up and died, All For One would take over in a matter of minutes!"
" I had to save Iida! What would you have done? "
Kyoka thought back to her fight with Takumi. She acted because she saw Okuyasu was in danger. Kyoka sighed, "I...would've done the same thing, I guess. Just...be more careful next time, got it? "
"I will Jiro, I promise!"
" ...why do I have the feeling I shouldn't believe you? "
Kyoka snorted. Truthfully, she had taken a liking to Midoryia, she could see why he and Johnny were so close. They both did whatever they could to help people, and they were both nerds, although Johnny is better at hiding it.
Although, she noticed that Uraraka was giving her weird looks whenever she was hanging out with him. It was probably nothing, just something Kyoka noticed.
Kyoka looked out the window, her mind wandering to her friend in the desert. Please call back JoJo, me and Midoryia...we're worried about you.
...
"Hey! You two!"
Johnny and Gyro turned to see Diego Brando approaching them with an uncharacteristically friendly smile. Johnny narrowed his eyes. "What do you want, Brando?"
Diego grinned. "Well I saw you two, and I figured the three of us got off on the wrong foot, so I decided to have a chat, am I overstepping boundaries right now?" He asked, looking concerned.
Gyro turned to Johnny and whispered, "I'm not buying this...are you?"
"Not at all...I think it's a trap."
"Y'know...it's getting pretty dark." Diego noted. "Why don't the three of us find somewhere to settle down for the night? This area is always teeming with wolves and other predators at night...I know! There's a village in the mountains up ahead! I know where it is, I can lead you there!"
Gyro and Johnny looked at each other, a mutual understanding passed between them. Diego could lead them to the Corpse Part. "Alright Diego...we'll give you the benefit of the doubt...but no funny business." Gyro said.
Diego nodded. "Come on, it's this way."
Diego spurred his horse and rode off, and Johnny and Gyro reluctantly followed behind. Diego had a huge smile on his face as he spoke. "So, how are the two of you today? I know that I'm feeling fantastic! Simply marvelous! Maybe it's because I fell back there, I dunno, but I feel great! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Diego began swinging around the underbelly of his horse, cackling like a madman, earning weird looks from his two companions.
Soon, they entered the village and checked into the hotel, and as Diego booked the room right next to them, Johnny had never felt more tension in his life.
...
"Gyro, have you seen my toothbru-"
CRUNCH
Johnny's face quickly fell as he watched Diego Brando bit into a rock. Johnny could only stare in a mixture of bemusement and confusion as his rival chewed on the pieces of said rock without the slightest care as to what he was eating. Diego looked left and realized that Johnny was giving him an unamused stare.
"Oh! I bet you're wondering why I was eating those rocks! Reptiles eat rocks in order to help with digestion, and since I can turn into a dinosaur... "
"You do know that dinosaurs are birds, right?"
Diego took a step back, "Don't be ridiculous! They're reptiles!"
"No, they're birds."
"Bullshit."
"Look it up."
Diego pulled out his phone and began furiously typing, only to do a double take.
"They're fucking birds!"
"Told you."
Diego shook his head. "Unbelievable...my whole life was a lie." Diego walked over to the hotel coffee pot and began brewing some for himself. "You want some coffee?"
"No...I think I'm good."
"Hey Johnny...there's a dead bear out here..." Gyro's voice came from outside. "It looks like..." Gyro walked into the room. "Did you go dino on it, Diego? It was practically torn apart."
That's when a dinosaur tail smacked Gyro clean out the window, sending him over the side of the mountain. "Sonuva-" a Utahraptor was now facing Johnny, it's tail lined with letters that spelled out DIO. Diego had gone full dinosaur.
The raptor shrieked as it attempted to claw at Johnny. "USHAAAAAAAAA!"
Johnny quickly rolled to the side, ducking under the Diego's claws as he attempted to crawl out of the way. The raptor attempted to stomp on him, only for a steel ball to hit it in the side, as a bloodied Gyro grabbed Johnny by the hood and heaved him out of the window, the two of them taking cover underneath the bear's corpse.
Diego jumped out of the window, transforming back into a man. "So...what's this Corpse the two of you were talking about? It sounded pretty important." Diego squinted his eyes. "Where are you? Hiding like cowards?!" Diego began sniffing the air. "Damn, that bear smells...probably shouldn't have killed- wait a moment..."
Diego dug his claws into the bear as he flung the corpse away, only to be met with a busted sewer grate. "Damn you!"
...
"I knew it wasn't a good idea to travel with him! I knew it!" Johnny exclaimed. Gyro shook his head. "He knew about the Corpse. He's trying to take it before we do."
Gyro kicked out at the other side of the sewer grate, and he helped Johnny out. "We have to get to it before he does, or everything is fucked."
"Yeah...about that..."
The two looked up to see Diego standing on a cliff above them, holding two eyeballs in his hand. "I think the two of you are a little too slow." Velociraptors ran to Diego's side, and then began circling them.
"BASTARD! You turned the whole town!" Johnny yelled. Diego smiled maliciously. "Oh, don't worry, I'll turn them back...after I take that hand from you. In the meantime, they make great pawns!"
The velociraptors charged at the two jockeys, and Gyro bolted. "RUN FOR YOUR LIFE JOHNNY!"
"GYRO, YOU FORGOT SOMETHING!"
Gyro turned around, ran over to Johnny and pulled him into a piggyback. "RIDE FOR YOUR LIFE JOHNNY!" And with that, Gyro sprinted away with Johnny clinging to his back, Diego and his raptors in hot pursuit.
Gyro ran into the abandoned town, jumping over a small raptor in the process. In the process of jumping, he hit Johnny's head against a hanging sign. "OW! Watch where you're jumping dumbass!"
"Sorry, I'm not used to carrying crippled Joestars on my back!"
Suddenly, a raptor bit into Gyro's leg from behind, and Gyro fell over, flinging Johnny forwards. Johnny landed right on his face. Johnny attempted to get up, only for a gun to be pointed right in his face.
Diego Brando stood victorious over him, a toothy smile on his half transformed face. "Hand over the Corpse Part, and Gyro will be spared."
"Wha-"
"Johnny...I'm...changing..."
Johnny watched as his friend started to transform into a raptor before his eyes. That's when he felt something slash across his arm. Johnny stumbled back as Diego's hand dripped with his blood. But Diego had a look of shock on his face.
"How are you not turning? I slashed you!"
Johnny's left arm began to glow with a golden light, and the outline of the Corpse hand could be seen illuminated under his skin. "I think the Corpse had other ideas, Diego."
Diego's face contorted in rage as he was about to pull the trigger, but then Johnny did something that made him stop.
He took out the Corpse Part, and began to change into a dinosaur. "What in the name of-" Diego was cut off when Johnny slammed his tail into the ground, launching him upwards, and Johnny slapped the Corpse Eyes out of Diego's hand. "I had to transform...so I could knock them towards...Gyro."
Diego watched in disbelief as Gyro began to turn back to normal. The Italian glanced up, a confident smile on his face as one of the Corpse Eyes sunk into his cheek.
Then he screamed and began writhing around on the ground. "Gah! La mia fottuta faccia! Brucia!"
Then Gyro stopped squirming and sat up, and opened his eyes, one of them was now a gold color, while the other one was the normal shade of green. Gyro got to his feet, and activated one of his steel balls at his hip. Gyro blinked, confused. Then he smiled and chucked the steel ball directly at Diego's face.
DIO's son jerked his head to the side as the steel ball sailed past. However, the steel ball bounced off of a street lamp and hit the Corpse Arm, knocking it back towards Johnny, who absorbed it and stopped his transformation. One of Diego's raptor minions attempted to sneak up on Gyro, but the Italian whipped around and punched it in the face, sending the dinosaur reeling. "I saw you coming...I can see all of you coming! I can see everything as long as one of my steel balls is spinning!"
"What?!"
The steel ball returned to Gyro's hand, still spinning. That's when Johnny was what was different. A small golden eye that matched the one that was now in Gyro's face was embedded in the steel ball, looking left, right, and all over. "Gyro...that's...that's a-"
"That's right Johnny! I have a STAND! I call it, Scan! I can see everything around me! Even through walls and bushes, I have 360 x-ray vision as long as I'm spinning this ball! "
Johnny turned and aimed a nail bullet at Diego. "Looks like you won't be sneaking up on us anytime soon Diego! Give up, we have the Corpse Parts and the advantage!"
"Only for now, Kujo, only for now!" Diego snarled, putting away his gun. "This isn't over!"
And with that, Diego whistled, and Silver Bullet ran up. Diego grabbed onto his horse as it rushed past, turning his horse into a dinosaur as he made his escape. The raptors began to turn back into people, while Gyro and Johnny finally let out the breath that they didn't realize they were holding.
"Man, and here I thought this was a western, not Jurassic Park! Nyo Ho!" Gyro quipped .
Johnny sighed. "At least we got the eyes from him, that's all that's important."
Gyro raised an eyebrow. "Do you have the other one?"
"Huh?"
"I only have one of them."
Johnny stared at Gyro in disbelief. "Gyro...Diego has the other eye..."
Gyro's eyes widened. "Bastardo! He tricked us!"
Johnny raised his arms. "Pick me up Gyro! We need to go after him, now!"
Gyro shook his head. "Not a good idea Johnny, Valentine is probably going to go after him too, and we're pretty beat up. We should wait and rest a bit, he'll slip up eventually."
Johnny looked disappointed. "You want to wait for it?"
"Yeah...you got a problem with that?"
Johnny stayed silent for a little bit, before responding, "No...you're probably right..."
...
Izuku's phone rang.
The One For All user quickly rushed over to pick it up, and his face lit up when he saw that it was exactly who he was hoping it was. "Iida, Uraraka, Jiro! JoJo's calling!"
Iida attempted to get out of his seat, but ended up falling over as Kyoka rushed past him. Uraraka helped him up as they gathered around Izuku's phone. Johnny 's tired face appeared on the screen, "JOJO!" the group yelled into the phone, and it soon disappeared as Johnny had fallen backwards out of surprise, earning laughter from Kyoka.
In the background, a blonde man with a big hat looked over in concern, but saw that Johnny was fine and turned his attention back to the television. Clearly, they were in a hotel room. Johnny climbed back onto his bed.
"Yare yare...I was just calling Izuku, not the whole class."
"We were all worried about you! Jiro said you weren't answering her!" Uraraka said.
"Yeah, what was the big deal?" Kyoka didn't look happy.
Johnny sighed. "I just needed time to process things, that's all. I'm sorry I was worrying you."
"Yeah, he was mopey as hell!" Gyro yelled from the background. "Didn't even laugh at my amazing joke!"
"I told you I thought it was funny, Gyro."
"Yeah, but you were so sad that you were only laughing on the inside."
"JoJo." Iida interrupted. "As your former class representative, I must insist that you maintain communication during these trying times! We are concerned for your mental health, and ignoring us like that will only make us more concerned. I made a mistake recently, I did something stupid because I pushed people away! Don't be like me!"
"Yeah, don't be a bonehead like Iida. Talk to m-us, we're here for you." Kyoka said.
Johnny closed his eyes. Suddenly, a hand snatched his phone, and Gyro Zeppeli's nostrils filled the screen. "Shame on you Johnny! Your friends are worried sick about you, and you left them like that?"
"Gyro! Give it back!"
"I'm sending you guys my number, if you don't hear from this asshole, you call me, understand?"
"Um...who are you again?" Uraraka asked. "Gyro Zeppeli, I'm his partner in the race."
"Gyro, the last thing I need is you crank calling my friends!"
"Dammit, he found out my ulterior motive, whatever shall I do? "
Izuku smiled and turned to his friends. "Something tells me that JoJo still has someone looking out for him."
Kyoka sighed. "Alright Gyro, but you're actually going to take to me this time."
Gyro grinned as he held Johnny in a headlock. "Deal!"