AshenOne: Yeah, I wasn't really in the best mindset when I made that chapter. I wanted it done and out of the way. Bakugo is mellowing out just a bit, but his pride isn't going away anytime soon. He will still piss a LOT of people off.
Bakugo is actually pretty bitter at the moment, due to him being the last of the group to find out about OFA, when he feels he should have been the first. He feels betrayed.
As for young Joseph...if you've read Part 8...
ThatRandomWriter02: I actually REALLY like the idea of Polnareff coming back, but I can't find a way that would fit realistically into the world. I actually have a stand with that name already planned, but if you have an alternative name I would be more than happy to use it!
Mr. SandisComicsMadder: I love it!
Spaghetti Sauce: Yeah...it really has. I never thought it would, so it's really been quite an experience.
CorruptHero: :)
nocringeman: Thank You!
CoolK: 8 million IQ Joseph time.
Bearticguy7: Dabi is still around, and he's still hellbent on revenge. Once again, a brilliant stand!
PhantomKnightPercival: I did, and Bakugo is!
BOOM!
Alessi shrieked as he went flying down the hallway, his pigtail catching on fire from Bakugo's expolsion. He slammed into a wall and felt the left side of his head, his eyebrow and hair were burned clean off. "My...my HAAAIIIRRR!"
A silhouette with a spiky head appeared in the doorway, the flames behind it casting a terrifying shadow over the frightened stand user as Bakugo slowly approached, his hands bursting and popping as a sadistic grin began to grow on his face. "Looks like the stand user is mine this time...what a loser! You probably SHOULD have lost to Deku!"
"L-l-l-leave me a-alone! I'm sorry! It was joke I swear! A JOKE! PLEEEAAASEEE!" Alessi climbed to his feet, his back never leaving the wall as Bakugo suddenly stopped. "Oh thank God, thank y-"
"You're luring me in you bastard, I can see your shadow moving."
Alessi's face squinched up in terror as he sent Sethan along the floor towards Bakugo, but the explosive teen let another blast loose from both hands, one pointing towards Alessi and the other towards the wall, sending himself to the side to avoid the stand while sending Alessi right through the wall and onto a balcony below. Covered in ash and blood, with half of his iconic hairdo burned away, Alessi crashed into the room below through a window, with Bakugo sticking his head out of the floor above.
"COME BACK HERE!"
"Kaachan?"
Bakugo gritted his teeth and turned to find the little Izuku heading towards him. "What do you want nerd?"
"That was so COOL! And you saved m-"
"I didn't fucking save you, I was taking out the villain. Don't get any funny ideas!" Bakugo said as he lept out the window, chasing after Alessi and leaving Izuku behind. Izuku wiped blood from his nose and smiled. "You're the best Kaachan!"
"WHATEVER!"
Joseph dug around in UA's fridge, finding a box with the name "Mineta" on it, and opened it, and immediately shoved it back in the fridge and walked away, looking significantly greener than usual.
"What was in that box Mr. Jo-?"
"ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" Joseph said, clapping his hands and rubbing them together. "All right Joseph, you have nothing but a fridge, toddlers, and a building that you are unfamiliar with. Somehow you have to turn this in your favor...not to mention that these two just won't separate."
Kyoka wouldn't let go of Johnny's hand, it seems that what little memories of him she still had, they had made her extremely protective. Joseph had tried to separate them, but Kyoka just latched onto Johnny's arm and wouldn't let go. Johnny didn't seem to mind however, and Joseph was just relieved that he wasn't crying anymore.
"Hmm..." Joseph scratched his chin as he observed the common room. Fridge, kids, building...
Fridge...
He likes to hurt kids...
BUILDING.
There's no way he can know this building by heart either! He's going around indiscriminately, almost as if he's...looking for someone...
Joseph wracked his brain, trying to search for any potential targets that their enemy could be going for, other than children. I don't want to use these kids as bait, that would be horrible! Alright, I think I've got a plan! All I need is a babysitter...
"Ah, Gramps! Please tell me that you remember me." A female voice came from behind him, and Joseph turned to see Jolyne sprinting towards him, a small blonde boy trailing behind her. In her arms was Uraraka, who had been reduced to nothing but a bawling infant. "Anasui and I've been running around scooping up kids and getting them away from that creep!"
"Good Jo...Jol...Jolyne! Sorry, memory is still a bit fuzzy, I need you to stay with these ones here, I have a plan to take him down."
"...should I be worried?"
"No, it's bound to work! I just need a few things...now, is there any yarn around here? Or perhaps a shitty hat that no one wants? Anything involving string?"
"I mean, I can turn into string...but whatever you are about to do would probably be really painful, so I think I might just pass."
"I can create it for you." A fully grown Momo walked into the room, looking pissed. "I was just practicing my keyboard when I heard Bakugo and the stand user screaming, I think there is some sort of chase going on." Momo's eyes fell on the de-aged Gyro, who was running around and smiling as if he weren't in a life threatening situation, and scowled. "Who did this?"
"He had this weird hair, and creepy eyes. He has a big axe too." Eri said. "He turned Lemillion into a little kid and beat him up, but then he ran from Deku."
"Well, it's pretty clear that our enemy is a coward, he only targets those who are smaller than him, which means..." Joseph smiled deviously. "Alright girl that I can't quite remember but somehow has my respect, I could use that yarn, because I'm about to show this big bully what someone his own size can do!"
"Well, I don't know JoJo...wait..." Momo took a look at the JoJo that Kyoka was clinging onto, and then at the grown JoJo right in front of her. "Oh...you're not Johnny Kujo are you?"
"Joseph Joestar."
"OH!" Momo's eyes widened. "Well, I can certainly see the family resemblance, I can barely tell a difference! I suppose your British accent should have clued me in..."
"It's fine! I'm just happy I'm beautiful again!" Joseph began rubbing his face.
"Gramps, focus." Jolyne said, but she was suppressing a grin at her great-grandfather's antics. Joseph sighed and took the yarn that Momo had created. "Don't call me that, makes me feel old."
"You ARE old!"
"Uh, Mr. Polnareff? I know you used to be human and all, but do you really need to have a student take you to the bathroom?" Iida asked. "From what Yaoyorozu told me, we are in an emergency situation."
"Just leave me in there and go into lockdown, what would the stand user want with a turtle anyway? Besides, just because I'm a turtle doesn't mean I'm going to shit on the floor." Polnareff responded.
"Okay...if you insist..." Iida said, before sprinting off. "EVERYONE, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK! BEGIN LOCKDOWN PROCEDURE!"
Polnareff sighed as he began climbing the toilet and angling his turtle butt into the bowl. "God dammit, I wish I was human again...this would be so much easier." One of Polnareff's biggest struggles in his new life as a turtle was going to the bathroom, because unlike an animal, he still had some class.
Lucky I can slip under the bathroom stall, or someone might have to see me with it open, and that would be EMBARRASSING.
That's when the bathroom stall was flung open, and a silhouette with a singular pigtail filled the turtle's vision. Polnareff, from inside the room in the turtle, slowly looked up to find Alessi's gargantuan soot covered face magnified in the glass ceiling.
"Why HELLO POLNAREFF!" Alessi said with a menacing grin. "LONG TIME NO SEEEEEEE!"
The only response that Polnareff could give was the sound of a singular turd hitting the water below.
"WHERE DID YOU GO YOU BASTARD?!" Bakugo shouted, his face contorted with fury. "YOUR SORRY ASS HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH!"
Bakugo kicked open a door, and a boy with grey hair and odd eyelashes fell off of his chair in shock. "DUDE!"
"HUH?" Bakugo snarled, as Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu blinked. "Hey, you're Class 1A's Bakugo! What are you doing, kicking down my door like that?!"
"There's a villain running around here, and he might be hiding in one of these dorms! So piss off, I'm busy!"
"Woah there, that's not very manly! A villain in the 1B dorms...ALRIGHT MAN, I'M COMING WITH YOU!"
"I don't need help!"
"Class A has been hogging all the glory with these stand users, it's time for our class to shine! So I'm gonna help you whether you like it or not!"
"I've made a huge fucking mistake." Bakugo muttered
"Too late man!" Tetsutetsu said with a grin, turning to steel and bashing his fists together. "Let's hunt down a stand user!"
"God, you're just as persistent as Shitty Hair..."
"So...what do you guys remember?" Kyoka asked, still holding Johnny's hand. Gyro smiled. "Non ho idea di cosa stai dicendo, ma so che sei mio amico!"
Kyoka blinked and shared a glance with Eri, who gave a half-hearted shrug. "He said something about being friends." The other two turned to look at Johnny, who looked away with a blush. "Grandman Suzi taught me a bit of Italian..."
"You're so smart!" Kyoka said, hugging Johnny's arm.
"JoJo?"
Johnny looked up at Eri, who was giving him an inquisitive look. "What?"
"Do...do you remember saving me?"
Johnny studied her for a moment before nodding. "I do, Izuku and I tried really really hard."
Gyro put an arm around Johnny and began rocking back and forth. While there was a language gap, he could never forget the bond they shared. Johnny involuntarily smiled as Kyoka rested her head on his shoulder.
Then Kyoka's ears picked up as soon as she heard a noise, and she caught Jolyne hastily put away her phone. Jolyne caught her eye and winked. "You'll thank me when you're all grown up again."
"Help, Mommy, Mommy!" A high pitched voice cried in the distance, and Alessi licked his lips as he carried his turtlfied nemesis with him. "PUT ME DOWN!"
"No way Polnareff! Now that you don't have Silver Chariot, there's no way you can escape from me this time! No woman to take you in and hide you from me! I'm gonna slaughter every single little twerp in this school! And YOU'RE GONNA WATCH!"
"You'll get what's coming to you if you do, Alessi. You should have stayed retired, but when Jotaro gets he-"
"Ohohoho, VERY GOOD! I want Jotaro here too, that way I can pummel his stupid little face! I already scared the shit out of his son you know!"
"If you hurt Johnny..."
"Naw, he and that ear girl got away when I got distracted by the one with the horn."
"MOMMY I'M SCARED!"
"Ohoho, you should be..."
"Alessi, I'm warning you, you WILL pay for this."
"Shut up Turtle boy, the only reason I'm not going to do a repeat of our battle is because I have no idea if Sethan will even work on you."
Alessi turned the corner, only to find a massive...woman? She was hunched over a baby carriage and was shushing the baby within.
"It's okay sweety, Mommy's here." A distinct British accent cooed back, spoken with a high falsetto. "And Mommy is going to use you..."
The "woman" pulled out a Tommy gun dressed in a baby bonnet.
"TO BLOW THIS SICK BASTARD AWAY!" Joseph grinned as he opened fire, and Alessi shrieked and turned the other way as plaster and drywall flew everywhere. Bullets completely tore down the wall, leaving one room exposed. Mineta slowly looked up from one of his "comics", and then at his bullet ridden wall, and promptly fainted.
"WHAT THE SHIT?! WHAT THE SHIT?!" Alessi screamed as Joseph chased after him, gun still blazing, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. "RUN RUN RUN, AS FAST AS YOU CAN, I'LL GET YOU EVENTUALLY PEDO MAN!"
Just as I thought, he's a bloody coward. He can only attack children, he's too scared to handle a grown-up. Joseph thought to himself. That's right, keep running!
"Hey, running away is my thing!" Joseph called out. "If you start predicting lines, I'm gonna sue!"
Alessi brought out his axe and smashed a window, and next thing Joseph knew, the enemy stand user was dangling a turtle outside of it, grinning. "Take one more step and Polnareff will be learning how to fly!"
"Polna...? POLNAREFF!" Joseph said as a fuzzy recollection popped into his brain. He didn't remember much, only that this man has been his friend for a while. "Let him go you bastard!"
"A very poor choice of words." Alessi said, before letting go of the turtle's tail. Joseph ran forward, but Sethan had caught the turtle and brought it back into view.
"Mr. Joestar, don't worry about me! Just hurry up and beat this creepshow before he hurts anyone else!" Polnareff yelled, but his little turtle legs were shaking in fear. Joseph gritted his teeth, unfortunately, when his youth was returned, his temper was as well.
"You...BASTARD! You just LOVE picking on people smaller than you, don't you?! Well, two can play at that game!" Joseph rose to his full height and cracked his knuckles. "Because I'm going to twist you like a PRETZEL!"
"I can drop Polnareff at any time!"
"You could...but I think you'll find that rather difficult."
"Oh REALLY? Just try to get close, and you'll be just as small and helpless as itty bitty Polnareff here!"
Joseph did nothing, just slowly shifted his feet from side to side, staring Alessi down. Alessi's face soon drooped from boredom, and then turned to anger. Joseph wasn't saying anything, just staring at him and shifting his feet.
"Your next line is: Come on Joestar! What are you waiting for?!"
"Come on Joestar! What are you waiting for?! HUH?!"
"THIS!" Joseph said, and he lifted his foot. Suddenly, something went taught around Alessi's ankle. Joseph smiled as the yarn from earlier yanked Alessi off of his feet and began dragging him down the hallway. Guess I'm lucky that creep isn't a foot guy, or he might have noticed I was finishing the knot with my toes.
Joseph had used the Tommy gun as a distraction, in reality he was setting up a pulley system with Momo's help. He snatched Polnareff out of the screaming Alessi's grip as he passed, and turned and followed the Hamon enhanced yarn as it dragged Alessi down the hallway. The yarn snapped once the creep's ankle hit the ceiling, and Alessi fell face first into the baby carriage and began rolling down the hallway as a separate piece of yarn dragged the carriage towards the common room. Bakugo stomped into the hallway just as Alessi went past, only his ass sticking out of a speeding baby carriage as a Joestar in a dress chased after him, holding a turtle. Tetsutetsu came around from behind him and stared. "Dude...what sort of stuff does your class get into?"
"Why are you still foll...WAIT A MINUTE!" Bakugo seethed with rage as he began to propel himself after them. "YOU AREN'T TAKING THIS ONE FROM ME JOJO!"
Tetsutetsu took a deep breath, and turned around and walked away. Clearly, 1A had a pretty...bizarre situation on their hands, and it seemed to be as under control as they could get. Class 1B would get their time to shine eventually.
"Hm?" Joseph turned to see the explosive teen rocketing towards them and shrugged, dismissing him.
From the common room, Momo waited in anticipation as Jolyne guarded the kids, heading herself as Alessi's shrieks grew louder. The baby carriage came into view, and Momo outstretched her arm, casting a net around Alessi and the carriage as they passed, preventing his escape.
And the Alessi smashed into the fridge, which had been cleared out so he would fit inside. Jolyne proceeded to push the fridge over, and with a crash, Alessi was trapped inside a toppled fridge.
Joseph ran into the room and began kicking the fridge. "I bet that hurts huh?! Not so smug now are you?! You sack of shit!"
"DAMN YOU!" Bakugo came storming in. "I HAD HIM, YOU GLORY STEALING-"
"Who the hell are you again?" Joseph said, and Bakugo paused. "You know me asshole."
"That isn't Johnny, Bakubitch." Jolyne said. "That's our great-grandfather."
"Watch it." Bakugo growled, taking notice of the much more timid Joestar hiding behind his sister. "So, it seems I bested you after all, I didn't get caught by this bastard."
"You didn't really help either." Came the response. Apparently, Johnny had retained his sass.
"I could have beaten him without any of you extras. Instead your stupid grandfather took it from me."
"OI!" Joseph glared at Bakugo and cracked his knuckles. "You wanna repeat that?! Because I don't need to predict what will happen if you do!"
"BRING IT ON! I COULD TAKE YOU, YOU STUPID OLD FU-"
CRACK!
Joseph punched Bakugo in the face in the middle of the egomaniac's boasting, and Bakugo fell to the floor, not getting up.
"Holy hell Gramps...one punch." Jolyne said in awe.
"I'm just glad he didn't use his other hand." Polnareff stated, and Joseph blinked. He had completely forgotten that he was still holding the turtle and slowly set him down.
"He was pissing me off..." Joseph muttered. He turned around and kicked the fridge again, causing the stand user trapped inside to yelp. "Well...what now? He's trapped, and everyone is still young, so..."
"I have an idea." Alessi's voice came from underneath the fridge. "How about we try the whole hostage thing again?"
Suddenly, Johnny was snatched away from Kyoka as Sethan held him aloft. "JOHNNY, NOOO!" Kyoka forward, but the shadow stand's eyes buldged in anticipation. "Go ahead, and I'll turn him into a FETUS!"
Joseph stood there as Johnny desperately tried to free himself from Sethan's grasp. Slowly, Joseph's vision began to turn red.
This pedo bastard was threatening his boy.
He was threatening HIS BOY.
Joseph screamed, a feral scream of a mother bear protecting her young, as he outstretched his arm, and what happened next came as naturally as his Hamon.
"HERMIT PURPLE!"
"HUH?!" Was all that Alessi could say before massive purple vines ripped the fridge off of him and seized him, wrapping all around him as he struggled against them. Alessi could only stare in horror as Joseph began commanding the vines to squeeze. "THIS ISN'T POSSIBLE! YOU DIDN'T HAVE YOUR STAND UNTIL YOU WERE IN YOUR SIXTIES!"
"Looks like someone made me mad enough to reawaken it! You made a real bonehead move! I remember Hermit Purple, it was only ever as strong as my Hamon! Well, you just so happened to de-age me to when my Hamon was at it's STRONGEST!"
Purple vines tightened around Alessi's neck, and his stand began to fade away due to the lack of air. He dropped Johnny to the ground, and both Jolyne, Gyro, Kyoka, and Eri all rushed over to him. Johnny was in absolute hysterics, sobbing as his sister picked him up and began comforting him. The vines had wrapped themselves completely around Joseph, until he resembled a humanoid cluster of them. Hermit Purple had wrapped itself around him as though it were a symbiote.
"Well, this is new." Joseph noted, examining his new Hermit Purple suit. "I look like some weird mummy with creepy tendrils...I LOVE IT! I think I'll call it...Hermit Purple: Every Rose Has It's Thorn!" And with that, Joseph swung Alessi around, and flung him through the wall and onto the atmosphere.
"VEEEERRRRRRRYYYYY GOOOOOooooooood...!"
"Hah!" Joseph put his hands on his hips as his stand deactivated and smiled, and Eri came over to him and hugged his leg. "Thank you Mr. Joestar!"
"No problem!"
"Uh... Eri? You might want to let go of him..."
Joseph looked down as Eri gasped and put her hand to her mouth. "I'm so sorry!" Her horn was glowing for some reason.
"For what? You didn't do anything. Hey...my memories are back! And my mechanical hand!" Joseph turned to see that Johnny and the others had returned to their normal ages, but they were all staring at him. "What's with you people?"
Johnny slowly got off of his sister. "Uh...Gramps? Don't freak out..."
"Don't freak-? What's gotten into you Johnny? We won!"
"I brought help!" Anasui said running into the room, and Jotaro charged into the room behind him. Jotaro took one look at Joseph and hid his eyes underneath his hat. "Yare yare daze...AGAIN?!"
"What is WRONG?! Why is everyone staring...someone give me a phone, RIGHT NOW!"
Jolyne slowly handed him her phone. "Alright Gramps...just try and take deep breaths."
Joseph pulled up the camera, only to find a young version of himself staring back at him. Eri's quirk had accidentally stopped him from aging back.
"..."
"Gramps?"
"..."
"Gramps, are you okay?"
"..."
"Mr. Joestar?"
"OOOOOOOHHHHH MYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOD!"
I'm not setting up Part 8 Joseph, where did you get that idea? On another note, I remember Araki saying that if the Stardust Crusaders went back in time, they would find Joseph completely covered in Hermit Purple, and I've always wanted to see that. Every Rose Has It's Thorn is going to be a new ability that Joseph will be using, it's kind of like Venom.
