CoolK: I'm afraid Johnny was only crushed by one object, Overhaul's hand. Doesn't mean it's lights out for him though.
"You wouldn't" Susan said, pointing an accusing finger at the enraged Kyoka. "You're a hero student, and if you kill me, you'd lose that license of yours...if you don't get shipped off to Tartarus that is."
"But I would rid the world of a creature like you." Kyoka said, circling Susan. "I'm not joking Susan, I'm going to kill you." An earphone jack inserted itself into one of her hand speakers, and Kyoka pointed it at Susan with intent.
Only for Susan to fall to her knees.
"Wha-"
"You're right...I deserve to die for what I have done!" Susan sobbed, punching the ground. "When he was born, when Nicholas...a figure emerged and told me he would grow up to become a monster...and that he would turn everyone against me. I tried so hard to ignore it, to treat him the same as Jolyne...but I couldn't. Everything the figure said came true..."
Susan's face contorted. "But it was because of ME! I did this! Johnny saved you...he values life...I...I need to die for this. Please...get it over with...and give my family my apologies."
Kyoka blinked, and then burst into laughter, while Susan stared at her in shock.
"Why are you laughing?!"
"You almost had me convinced." Kyoka responded. "You really are a good liar, no wonder you convinced so many people to hate Dr. Kujo. But my earphone jacks can listen to your heartbeat...when you lied, your heart skipped a little. It's a shame too, I almost thought you could be human."
Susan slowly stood up. "Well...aren't you clever? Sure, Johnny surprised me when he saved you...but now I realize it's because you're just as bad. You're right, I don't have any regrets, I was just trying to lure you in. In order to reclaim my peaceful life, with my loving family...I have to kill all of you."
Blood on the Dance Floor suddenly emerged and barreled towards Kyoka, but she ducked down and raised her fists.
"HEARTBEAT FUZZ!" Kyoka shouted as she slammed her fists into the ground, and the whole roof caved in beneath the two combatants. Susan slammed into a toilet, her face becoming drenched in...oh boy.
"THEY DIDN'T FLUSH!" Susan screamed, her eyes blistering in rage.
"Fitting." Kyoka said from behind her. Susan turned around and swiped at Kyoka's head, but the hero student tilted her head to the side and kicked Susan in the chest. Blood on the Dance Floor retaliated with a punch to the gut, and Kyoka flew backwards, screaming as she landed on shards of glass. Her Heartbeat Fuzz blew out the windows.
Kyoka slowly got up, digging a piece of glass out of her back as Susan slowly approached. "Johnny corrupts anyone he touches, I see that now. He only sacrificed himself for you because you were a prime candidate for his successor. As long as you live, his evil will continue."
"Do you hear yourself?!" Kyoka yelled. "You're fucking delusional, how can you believe that shit?!"
"I'm not crazy Jiro! I'm enlightened! God warned me! I am God's chosen one!" Susan raved. "He came to me in my moment of darkness, and gave me a glorious purpose! I will purge the demon from this world! " Blood on the Dance Floor aimed another punch, but Kyoka extended her earphone jacks towards Susan's eyes.
"Johnny wasn't a demon!" Kyoka snarled. Susan grabbed both earphone jacks and yanked Kyoka towards her, driving her stand's knee into the side of Kyoka's face. Kyoka spat out blood, but used the momentum to backflip, kicking Susan in the chin. "He was a HERO! HE WAS MY HERO!"
Susan fell on her back, grunting, and Kyoka's fist came hurtling towards her face, with an armed hand speaker.
BOOM!
The combination of sound and fist blew Susan and Blood on the Dance Floor back, and Susan crashed through the dry wall and into the next building. "I've had a lot of heroes in my life. My parents, Mr. Josuke, Jolyne, Momo...even Gyro, I've looked up to them all! But Johnny...I loved him...he believed in me when I couldn't believe in myself, and I will never be able to repay him for that."
Kyoka's eyes burned brighter than any campfire as she continued. "So I'll avenge him!"
Susan grinned. "Well then...give it your best shot!"
The two women closed in on each other.
A fight to the death.
Only one would walk away from this fight.
"You killed him...YOU KILLED HIM!" Izuku screamed as he barreled towards Overhaul, hitting him with a powerful punch.
"I kill people Midoriya...that isn't new." Chisaki responded, swiping a giant fist towards the quirk inheritor.
Johnny's legs, and only his legs, were on the street below, the entire upper half of his body had been obliterated by Overhaul's quirk. I...I can't stop staring...Gyro thought to himself. Look away Gyro...God dammit look away!
This is all that stupid woman's fault! If she hadn't thrown Kyoka off of a building, Johnny would still be alive!
His stand would've protected him automatically...but it was carrying Kyoka...both Johnny AND Tusk sacrificed themselves! And there's nothing I can-
Wait.
Couldn't Overhaul also reassemble things?
Kyoka slammed into the wall, coughing up blood as she picked herself up again, facing her oppenent.
"You know, you could just take a dive." Susan said, grinning. "Would save me a lot of trouble, what's the point of prolonging your death? You are outmatched! Blood on the Dance Floor will overpower you in any scenario!"
Kyoka didn't say a word, she only charged Susan again, blind rage taking it's course. I'LL KILL YOU, YOU BITCH! I'LL TEAR YOU LIMB FROM FUCKING LIMB!
Susan sidestepped and kicked Kyoka in the back, causing the wounds from the glass to bleed anew. Kyoka grimaced, and sent her earphone jacks to wrap around the back of Susan's neck.
"What do you think that's going t-"
Kyoka used her jacks to pull Susan into a devastating headbutt.
Susan's eyes rolled into the back of her head as Kyoka's forehead crushed her nose as if it were made of paper. Blood flew everywhere as Susan stumbled back. Her nose was completely flattened, only plastic surgery could hope to fix it.
"You...you ruined my face." Susan said, bringing her hand up to her destroyed nose. "YOU RUINED MY-"
BOOM!
Another sound infused punch, and Susan flew away again. A sound wave washed over Susan as Kyoka turned up the volume, and Blood on the Dance Floor quickly covered it's users ears as Susan slowly got up. She slowly approached, fighting through the sound attack, and Kyoka rolled to the side as Susan threw a letter opener at her neck.I
The letter opener left a shallow cut just above Kyoka's collarbone, but Kyoka quickly retaliated by attempting to unleash another attack from her boot, only for Blood on the Dance Floor to grab both of her jacks in one hand, and Kyoka's throat in the other.
Kyoka gasped for air as the monster-esque stand applied pressure to her throat, Susan's eyes gleaming in satisfaction. "I think I'd like to finish you like this, watching the light slowly leave your eyes."
Kyoka began punching Blood on the Dance Floor's hand, trying to loosen it's grip, with no luck. She began to gag as her face turned blue. Johnny...you always said you knew what it was like to stare death in the face...well now I do too.
But I can't die here! My parents, what would they do?! Midoriya, Gyro, Uraraka and Tsu, they're all fighting for their lives while I'm here getting strangled by this witch!
Think Kyoka, think! There has to be some way to get out of this...you have to keep fighting, for their sake...for Johnny's sake.
Kyoka's vision was starting to go dark...
"HERMIT PURPLE!"
A purple vine wrapped around Susan's waist, and Joseph Joestar flung Susan to floor with a sickening THUD!
"You've hurt my family for the last time, BITCH!" Joseph snarled as Kyoka greedily sucked in air.
"You abuse Johnny!" *SMACK* Joseph punched her in the stomach.
"You break my poor grandson's heart!" *SLAM!* Joseph backhanded Susan across the face with his mechanical hand, showering the walls in blood.
"You hire some asshole to paralyze Johnny!" *SPLAT!*
"You spread lies, and dirty laundry!" *CLUNK!*
"You SHOOT AT my son! And then you start terrorizing Johnny's friends!" Joseph yelled, beating on Susan with every statement. "And I'm sick of it! My family means the world to me, I'll do anything to protect them!"
"Was...Suzi...Q...not family?" Susan said. "Because...you kind of just...threw her aside...like...an old rag..."
"Suzi forgave me." Joseph said, pulling Susan up until his eyes met hers. "I know I did her wrong...but she saw something in me, something that made her stay. I loved her with all my heart!"
"She...didn't feel the same...she only stayed with you because she had no where else to go. She told me that, back when I was still part of the family. You were all she had...and you made her last few years a living hell." Susan said, her eyes narrowing. "She died unhappy."
"Y-you're lying, just as you always do...there's no way..."
"But what if I'm not? Suzi trusted me, after all."
"MR. JOESTAR, DON'T LISTEN TO HER!" Kyoka said, but she was too late. Joseph crumpled to the ground as Susan got up and wiped blood off her face. "You're too sensitive old man. Of course Suzi Q forgave you, she was a dumb bitch!"
"You..." Joseph growled from the ground.
Susan cackled, covered in blood, looking more deranged then ever. "You know, maybe it IS the Joestars that are the problem! You are ALL evil! Every last one of you! I have to purge this world of all the filth that is the Joestar family!" Susan proclaimed. "Except for my darling Jotaro, and Jolyne of course. But the rest of you..."
Blood on the Dance Floor raised it's fist, ready to cave Joseph's head in, when Kyoka's fists slammed into the sides of her head.
"GAH! Leave me alone, you flat bi-"
"HEARTBEAT FUZZ!" Kyoka screamed, channeling the sound of her heartbeat into the speakers...
Into Susan's skull. This was a move that could cause earthquakes, and it was now being applied to a human body. Susan screamed in agony as the loudest sound she had ever heard made her eardrums explode, her entire body began to vibrate, blood coming out of anywhere you could think of: eyes, nose, mouth, ears...
Susan dropped to her knees, gurgled, and then fell on her face, blood pooling around her body as Kyoka stood over her, triumphant. "That was for Johnny..." Kyoka said, before she too dropped to her knees.
"I...I just killed someone..." Kyoka said, the full weight of what she just did hitting her like a truck. "But...she killed Johnny...she...I had to..."
Kyoka felt a pair of arms wrap around her, and Joseph pulled her into a warm hug. "You did the right thing Jiro..." He said, placing a hand on the back of her head. "You heard her, she was a nutcase..."
"I...I loved him, Mr. Joestar..."
"I know. If it makes you feel better...I didn't feel it happen."
Kyoka looked at Joseph, a flicker of hope coming into her eyes as the old man brushed a tear away with his thumb. "You mean, he might still be alive?" Joseph nodded.
"Fucking...*cough*...great." Susan said, rising from the floor. "Just when I thought...it was over..." Susan wheezed out, limping towards them. At this point, she looked more like a zombie than human.
"Just stay dead, witch!" Joseph said, getting up. "God dammit, you have more lives than a cat!"
"You...you both made...a BIG mistake..." Susan choked out. "Now...I get to use...Maneater... and escape to Chisaki...he'll repair me before I bleed out..."
"Maneater?" Joseph asked, as Blood on the Dance Floor emerged and snarled, baring it's yellow fangs.
"My...second...wind..." Susan's ruined face grinned back at them. "You pushed me into...a corner... *wheeze* ...so my stand...took control..."
Joseph's eyes widened. "It's an automatic stand!" He cried, extending his hand. "HERMIT PURPL-"
Blood on the Dance Floor moved faster than it ever did when Susan was in control of it, batting Joseph aside like a ragdoll, and then it lunged at Kyoka, it's fangs heading straight for her throat.
Oh no...
Izuku slammed into Overhaul at 100%, knocking the crime boss back with the force of a freight train. "HE WAS MY BEST FRIEND! HE WAS MY BROTHER!"
"NOW YOU'RE FIGHTING LIKE ALL MIGHT!" Chisaki responded, swinging at Izuku with one of his giant arms. That's when a steel ball slammed into his shoulder.
"Hey baby!" Gyro yelled. "I would appreciate it if you put my friend back together!"
Overhaul's arm began to twist and turn as it began to move on it's own accord, towards Johnny's broken form. "What in the-"
"You thought I would just accept that he would die? No. Not after everything we've been through together! Johnny won't be dying today! You...on the other hand."
Overhaul's arm touched Johnny, and the Joestar's upper body was restored. Johnny sat up with a panicked gasp. "KYOKA!"
Then he looked around, confused. "Why am I on the ground?"
"You were dead, idiot!" Gyro yelled back at him.
"Seriously? Again?" Johnny said, putting his head in his hands. "Yare yare daze...I'm gonna give Gramps a run for his money at this point. Is Kyoka okay?"
"I think so, Mr. Joestar went to help her!"
"That bitch!" Johnny snarled. "When I get my hands on her..."
"We have bigger problems!" Gyro yelled as Overhaul angrily swiped at the Italian, with Gyro barely ducking out of the way. Johnny jumped high into the air and began firing nail bullets onto Overhaul , the crime boss growling as several made impact.
Sir Nighteye stared in shock, his eyes wide in disbelief. "JoJo wasn't supposed to come back...did Zeppeli just...defy fate?"
Kyoka threw up her arm just in time, crying out as the savage beast's fangs sunk into it. It's cold dead eyes gleaned with ravenous hunger as it knawed on her arm.
"BITCH!" Kyoka yelled, grabbing the beast's upper lip and trying to pry the teeth out of her flesh. Blood on the Dance Floor bit down harder, and a searing pain made it's way up Kyoka's arm.
"Hey, I'm not controlling it anymore." Susan said, coughing up blood. "It's got a mind of it's own, and it's HUNGRY! No one can stop it, not even me! That is Maneater!"
Joseph slowly pried himself from the ground, and charged Susan, and Blood on the Dance Floor released Kyoka's arm, dashing over and slashing at Joseph. The eldest Joestar soon lost his mechanical hand.
"OH SHIIIIIIIIT!"
Kyoka supported her busted arm as Joseph danced around the feral beast, while Susan attempted to limp out the window.
She is NOT escaping this time!
Kyoka attempted to go to Susan, only for her vision to get blurry. Blood on the Dance Floor had torn her arm to shreds, and now she had lost a lot of blood. Kyoka slapped herself in the face, bringing herself back to conciousness, and pressed on, her eyes blowing brighter with the Dark Determination.
Kyoka grabbed the mortally wounded villain by the back of her jacket with her good hand, and yanked her back, catching the attention of Susan's pet monster.
"Grabbing me...was a mistake...it protects me..." Susan grinned as Blood on the Dance Floor turned to Kyoka and roared.
"SCREEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
"You said you weren't controlling it, right? No one can." Kyoka said, wrenching the wounded woman in between herself and the rampaging stand. "How will you stop it?"
Susan's eyes widened as Blood on the Dance Floor's claw descended on her. The beast slashed it's own user across the chest in it's rage, and blood flew everywhere as the stand faded away, screeching.
Susan staggered back, her hand closed around the massive wound in her chest, her fate sealed. Kyoka had used her as a human shield, and she was struck down by her own stand...no, her own evil.
"I...just have one...question..." Susan said, backing towards the shattered window, the light already fading from her eyes. "Why...? For...a useless bastard...like him? Why...risk...your life? Why...take mine? "
"I don't know Susan." Kyoka responded. "I guess I just have low standards."
"Heh...heh heh heh heh." Susan chuckled. "You and Johnny...really do deserve each other."
Susan toppled off the side of the building, and Kyoka's earphone jacks picked up a SPLAT!
She was finally gone...
Johnny felt a sudden burst of energy, as if a massive weight was lifted off of his shoulders. He grinned to himself as he shot towards Overhaul, clubbing the villain in the back of the head.
He landed beside Izuku and Gyro as the three faced their enemy. "You okay Eri?" Johnny asked, and the little girl nodded. "Good, hang in there, okay?"
"Cause we're about to kick bird boy's ass!" Gyro said, only to earn a slap on the back of the head. "OW! CHE COSA?! "
"Don't swear in front of the child."
"Sorry."
Izuku grabbed Tusk's hand and hurled both stand and user into the air as Overhaul slammed a hand into the building. Gyro attached his steel balls to his feet and zoomed out of Overhaul's range, while Izuku joined Johnny in the air.
"Let's finish this! So I can go home!" Johnny yelled as Izuku flew beside him.
Gyro threw a steel ball into Overhaul's back, paralyzing the villain as Johnny and Izuku loomed threateningly above him.
"100%..."
Oh fuck... Chisaki thought to himself.
"CORSCREW SMASH!"
Tusk and Izuku slammed their fists into Chisaki, and the villain spiraled all the way down to the ground like a drill, causing a massive explosion from the impact. Chisaki laid still, except for the occasional twitch, having been defeated by the teamwork of the three friends.
Johnny walked up to Chisaki. I promised I would kill you...but not in front of Eri. I think I'll ask Diego to do it once everyone's back is turned.
Johnny smiled, a big genuine smile, as the sun shone on the little girl, who had passed out from using her quirk. You're safe now, Eri...I can finally rest...
Johnny's happiness soon turned to worry as he got a good look at Kyoka, who was being escorted to an ambulance by Joseph.
Her arm had several deep gashes, and it was leaving a trail of blood as she moved.
Her back had several shards of glass embedded in it.
She had a big bruise on the side of her face.
And she had the biggest, stupid grin on her face when their eyes met.
She charged towards him, away from Joseph and the ambulance, and crushed him in a loving embrace. "You're okay!"
"You're not! What did she DO to you?!"
"Her best." Kyoka said, pressing her cheek into his. "But it wasn't enough...she won't hurt us anymore, she won't hurt anyone ever again."
"Your ARM!"
"It's a flesh wound...your hat, on the other hand..." Kyoka held up the destroyed remains of the hat. "Mr. Josuke is out cold, so we'd have to wait a-"
"It's a hat." Johnny said, closing his hand around both the remnants of the hat, and Kyoka's hand. "It was only important because you got it for me...I would gladly take a ruined hat for you being safe any day."
Kyoka looked away, a small blush coming to her face, before she suddenly remembered something. "Oh, that's right, I forgot!"
"My spider-sense is tingli-"
*SMACK!*
"That was for scaring me!"
"I saw that comi-"
*jab*
"OW! WHA-"
"That was for dying, again. Seriously, you're gonna break Mr. Joestar's record at this point. And THIS-"
Johnny braced himself for another blow, only to feel something soft tenderly brush against his cheek. Kyoka withdrew her lips. "That was for everything else..." She said, turning away and fiddling with her earphone jacks.
Did...did she just...?
"L-listen Johnny...I need to be real with you...when I thought you...you know...I realized I shouldn't wait anymore." Kyoka said, seeming completely oblivious to the fact that she was still covered in blood. "There's...something I need to tell you..."
"I have to tell you something too." Johnny responded.
"HEY! EARPHONE JACK! YOU SHOULD GET IN THE AMBULANCE!" A paramedic called out.
"NO! THIS IS IMPORTANT!" Kyoka yelled back.
"You...you should go Kyoka...you're hurt."
"But-"
"I'll visit you, in the hospital. You can tell me then...in the meantime, you should get that arm looked at." Johnny said.
Kyoka nodded and reluctantly made her way to the ambulance, before turning around. "You'll come and visit as soon as possible, right? This really can't wait."
"I will. I promise." Johnny said, and Kyoka gave him a thumbs up as she entered the vehicle.
Johnny then turned his attention to Diego, who was currently cleaning his gun. "You did it?"
"Whatever One For All is, it's safe. Chisaki won't be telling anyone soon." Diego replied.
"I'll tell you...later."
"Understandable." Diego said, before turning his face to one of the ambulances.
Giorno Giovanna was lying on one of the stretchers, and Johnny's mouth fell open. "U-uncle Giorno? HOW?!"
"I don't know, as soon as he heard you were fighting Chisaki, he ran over, and we just found him on the ground." Hot Pants said, sitting next to her boyfriend. "His body is fine, and there's no way a stand user caught him off guard with that stand of his...he just collapsed. It's a real shame too...Giorno can create body parts, while I can bind wounds, nothing more. Without him..."
"Nighteye won't make it." Johnny finished, looking down. "I...need to go do something...let me know if he wakes up."
"Will do." Diego said.
Johnny walked past Izuku and Gyro, who were busy chatting with Uraraka and Tsuyu, and Gyro immediately went to follow him, patting Izuku on the back on the way.
Gyro found Johnny standing over his mother's broken body with a neutral expression on his face. "You okay Johnny?"
"Yeah...I'm...weirdly happy." Johnny responded. "You know, I never asked much of her...I only ever wanted her to say that she loved me, that she was proud of me. I loved her, I hated her, sometimes I wanted her to hold me, and then I wanted to read her hair out. But now, now that she's gone...I'm free, truly free. I don't feel anything at all for her..."
Gyro put a supportive arm around his friend's shoulder. "She was never worth it Johnny..."
"I will never know a mother's love." Johnny lamented. "There was a void in my life...one that she was supposed to fill... "
Johnny turned to Gyro with a smile. "Instead, you filled it for her."
"You...think of me as a mother Johnny?"
"Not at all what I meant, Gyro."
"That's MAMA Gyro to you!"
"...yare yare..."
A big thank you to Kosaku Valentine, and PhantomKnightPercival for helping me plan out this arc!
Yes, Kyoka is planning to confess to Johnny. How do you guys think it should go?