FinchFlyingAce: Don't worry, I have faith you will! Also, I knew I couldn't hope to continue this story with Johnny alone, especially with how important Gyro was to him. Gyro is essential for preventing everything from crashing down.
Bearticguy7: Very bizarre, so perfect!
PhantomKnightPercival: He actually knicked the phone from a living version of himself.
Random65: Hey! That's perfectly fine, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
AshenOne: Yes, Valentine loved the movie, and the theatre kid conspiracy is mostly due to Johnny's borderline showboating at the beginning of the year. It's mostly just Todoroki being a conspiracy theorist rather than Johnny actually being a theatre kid.
Euphoria: It would be cool, but since Johnny has a stand, he can't have a quirk. If Izuku tried to give him OFA, it would just delete the quirk from existence, since a stand would take priority. Although you are absolutely right, Johnny and Izuku need more moments together. I will be writing a Heroes Rising arc.
Vamsi: Josuke was going through a funk due to not being able to save Nighteye and Aizawa, so he was just sitting around in his underwear acting all depressed. When he finally took action, he never bothered to change, so he was lacking pants from the beginning.
So, I know this isn't part two for the festival, but I thought I could give you guys a fun little story for Halloween! It doesn't necessarily have to be canon, but it could really fit anywhere after the Yakuza Raid.
Mostly, I just wanted to do something while I was working on Part two, hope you all enjoy it!
"So, you guys used to do this often?" Izuku asked, and Johnny nodded.
Their friend group was sitting around a campfire, roasting marshmellows. Kyoka was attempting to roast one using one of her jacks, although Johnny had attempted to talk her out of it. The last thing he needed was for his girlfriend's head to catch on fire.
"Well, it isn't the same without Diego or Hot Pants...but yeah, we camped out pretty much every night we weren't in a town." Gyro said, grinning. "It was fun...when we weren't fighting for our lives that is."
"OW!" Kyoka withdrew a jack from the fire.
"What did I tell you?"
"I've done it before, jackass."
"And yet you burned yourself anyway."
Kyoka brandished a jack threateningly. "Don't sass me, we've both gotten worse injuries than a few burns."
"I think that could be applied to all four of us." Izuku commented. "How are we still alive anyway?"
"Well, I'm sure luck has something to do with it." Gyro said, before a smile came onto his face. "Speaking of luck...Johnny, remember when we met Bigfoot?"
A marshmallow fell out of Kyoka's mouth. "You WHAT?! Why have you never told me this?!"
"Well, we were constantly getting into fights to the death, so compared to that a sasquatch is small." Johnny said, scratching his chin. "Although at the time we were scared shitless..."
"Well we were being stalked by a big hairy ape, what did you expect?" Gyro said. "It was still really fucking cool, now that I can look back on it."
"Bigfootwouldn'treallybethatbigofastretchconsideringweliveinaworldweremostpeoplehavesuperpowers, nottomentionthatwealreadyknowthatvampiresandpillarmenexistsowhynotasasquatch? HonestlyIwonderif-"
"IZUKU!" Johnny slapped his childhood friend in the back of the head in order to restart his brain, earning a snort from Kyoka.
"Ow...sorry, got a bit carried away there!"
"And suddenly the quirk nerd becomes interested in cryptids." Gyro said. "I mean, I could tell you guys the story if you want, a campfire is the perfect atmosphere for it!"
"Oh yes, please do." Kyoka said. "An untold tale about the Steel Ball Run, how could I pass that up? I hope it's embarrassing!"
"Yare yare...of course you do." Johnny said, smirking. "Just another thing to tease me about..."
"Oh, something happened alright!"
"Alright...it was about two days after I-Island, before Valentine shot me..."
"Diego, you have a fucking problem." Hot Pants said, rubbing her forehead.
"Fug u!" Diego responded with a mouthful of rocks. Johnny gave him an unamused look as Gyro added wood to the campfire.
"So...any news on Valentine?"
"No...he's being awfully quiet. The scary thing is...he could ambush us at any time." Hot Pants responded. She looked over Johnny's shoulder to find him looking at a picture of Izuku and Kyoka, taken at I-Island. "They're really important to you...aren't they?"
"Awwwww!"
"Kyoka, I'm going to kill you."
Kyoka rested her head on his shoulder, giggling. "It's just so nice to know you were thinking of us."
"Why wouldn't I? You two were always on my mind, honestly, it was one of the only things keeping me sane."
"I was thinking of you too, JoJo." Izuku said with a smile.
"But you were mostly thinking about me, right?" Kyoka teased.
"Yare yare daze..."
"I need to live through this...for their sake. They're...they're my motivation, to see this through till the end. So I can be with them again."
"So you can be with ME aga-"
"KYOKA!"
"You will see them again Johnny, we'll make sure of it." Hot Pants assured her crippled friend, and Johnny gave her a brief half-smile. Diego, who was watching the two of them, decided to lighten the mood.
"So...I had a conversation with a woodsman on the way here, and he mentioned that he saw Bigfoot in the area."
Gyro snorted. "I wouldn't trust a guy who lives in the middle of the woods, besides, with quirks being a thing, how do we know it isn't some guy with a monkey quirk?"
"It's possible, still...maybe it wouldn't hurt to have some fun, to take our mind off of things...wanna go Bigfoot hunting?"
Gyro grinned. "You know, I once had to do a research project on apes in order study the human body for execution training...I know a few mating calls..."
"No way Gyro." Johnny said.
"Are you putting your metaphorical foot down?"
"Hell yeah I am! A MATING call?! What would you do if a giant ape man came barreling out of the woods all excited?!"
"Run away."
"In case you forgot, I CAN'T DO THAT! I'd be a sitting duck!"
"More like a sitting fuck..." Diego said, grinning, before Hot Pants broke a stick over his head. "WRYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
"Shut up. This whole Bigfoot thing is stupid, drop it."
"Wait, hold up. Did Bigfoot...?"
"Bigfoot almost beat you to it, Kyoka." Gyro said, winking at Johnny.
"That is NOT what happened! At all!" Johnny said, scowling.
Gyro stood up and cupped his hands over his mouth.
"Gyro, I will shoot you."
"Come on Johnny! It's not like anything is actually going to happen!" Gyro took a deep breath, sucking as much air into his lungs as he could, and let it out in a loud bellow. "AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGAAAAAAAAAA!"
"..."
Diego grinned. "Well that was dramatic. See Johnny, nothing to worry-"
"AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGAAAAAAAAAA!" A loud roar echoed in the distance, and Gyro slowly turned around towards the rest of the group. "I'm sorry..."
"Out of all the ways I thought this race would kill me, this wasn't one of them." Johnny said. "You just set a horny Bigfoot on us."
"I...I didn't think it would work...I DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD WORK!"
Hot Pants angrily stomped off to her horse, saddling up. "Fuck this, I'm leaving!"
"I think we should take a page out of her book...AND GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Diego screamed, leaping onto Silver Bullet.
"The best technique." Johnny stated, and whistled for Slow Dancer as the group took off. A large dark shape darted in front of their fire, putting it out as they attempted to flee.
"Hey, what DID happen to your horses?" Izuku asked. "I know that you guys were pretty attached to them."
"Well, UA doesn't really have any kind of proper housing for them, so Diego is currently taking care of them in Italy." Gyro stated. "At least until UA gets some stables...I miss my baby..."
"Anyway..." Johnny cut Gyro off.
"IT'S HERE, IT'S FUCKING HERE! IT'S CHASING US!" Gyro screamed as the dark shape began closing in on them, making a series of grunts and 'oohs' as it ran on bipedal legs.
"HOLD ON, WE CAN LOSE IT!" Hot Pants yelled back, suddenly veering left into the dark woods.
Every branch seemed to be grabbing at them as the four racers tried desperately to keep away from the mythical beast, but it proved to be just as, if not more so, fast as their horses. The beast suddenly jumped, and almost landed directly on Johnny.
Just then, an explosion occurred right where their campsite once was, and it lit up the dark forest, and for the first time, Johnny could see the creature clearly. It had reddish-brown fur, similar in color to Johnny's hair, and a large muscular body. It's face, while definitely having the features of an ape, also looked strangely human, especially it's eyes. The eyes were a baby blue, and they had a softness to them, almost kind.
It was also panicking. Bigfoot wasn't chasing them, it was fleeing WITH them.
"Guys, Bigfoot isn't chasing us...he's running from something."
"What the hell could a goddamn sasquatch be afraid of?! And why did our campsite blow up?!" Diego yelled, and Johnny shrugged.
"Where's the nearest town?!"
"We're in New York, so...Sleepy Hollow!"
Johnny frowned. Sleepy Hollow was known for something, but he couldn't quite wrap his head around it...
And then he remembered, and he realized he might not have a head to wrap things around if the legend was true. What would Bigfoot be afraid of? How about a certain headless ghost known for chasing people at night?
The Headless Horseman had joined the race. He could see a figure on a black horse in the distance, carrying a cutlass and swinging it around, and it clearly lacked anything above it's neck. This headless merchant of death was coming for all FIVE of them.
"Whoa, hold it. I thought you said this is a Bigfoot story, and now the Headless Horseman is involved? Like, Ichabod Crane and shit?" Kyoka asked, and Johnny raised an eyebrow.
"One, I'm just telling it as it happened, two...how do you even know about the Legend of Sleepy Hollow? It's an American folk story."
"I watched the Disney version." Kyoka declared. "Seriously, I don't understand how a guy like Ichabod Crane could be such a playboy, he was basically a stick figure with a beak."
"Getting off topic. Apparently, the legend was real, because we WERE being chased by a guy without a head, and we accidentally mistook Bigfoot for the threat."
"Well, he DID answer the mating call, what were we supposed to think?" Gyro said. "Turns out, he was smarter than we thought. As soon as he saw it was humans, he was uninterested, but then that headless asshole just had to use a Molotov on our camp...almost caused a damn forest fire."
Izuku was scribbling in his notebook, taking notes on both Bigfoot and the Headless Horseman based on Johnny's description of them. "IftheLegendofSleepyHollowwasrealIwonderifotherurbanlegendscouldberealaswellitiscertainlysomethingweshouldresearchespeciallyifoneofthemshouldattackus-"
"We broke him again."
The Headless Horseman was dressed in black, a long tattered cape flowing behind him as he made a slitting motion across his non-existent throat. Under the cape was a deformed red uniform, that of a soldier. His old rusty cutlass bass crusted over with the dried blood of his last kill, and smoke was flowing from his neck hole, as if his head was blown off recently.
Johnny remembered something his father told him about ghosts: "Sometimes, when a ghost is extremely bitter about the way they died, they sport the wounds they received. The severity of the wound depends on the bitterness of the ghost, if they are coming to terms with it, the wound might just be a scar...but the vengeful ones are always fresh."
Clearly, this ghost needed some therapy.
Johnny gritted his teeth and summoned Tusk Act 3, firing several nail bullets at the oncoming ghost, but they didn't seem to connect. Gyro hurled a steel ball, and it did nothing, and Diego just threw a rock.
They couldn't hurt him.
That's when the Headless Horseman returned fire, and a bullet grazed Gyro's cheek. The ghost was wielding an old flintlock pistol, which was now out and ready to fire again. "MALEDETTO!"
"Why does he have a gun?!" Hot Pants yelled. "That wasn't part of the legend!"
"He's supposed to be a soldier from the Revolutionary War, a German mercenary who had his head taken off by a cannon ball! We shouldn't be wondering why he has a gun...HOW THE FUCK IS HE AIMING?!" Johnny yelled.
"OOAAH! OOAHH!" The sasquatch said.
"Okay..."
A bridge lay across the path, heading into the small town of Sleepy Hollow. Remembering the legend, and how the horseman was supposedly unable to cross it...
Except that he apparently caught Ichabod Crane anyway. But Ichabod didn't have the Spin.
"TO THE BRIDGE!" Johnny yelled, and Diego took the lead, using Scary Monsters to get to the other side of the bridge quickly, and began shooting at the oncoming ghost, while it wasn't going to harm him, it DID slow down his horse.
Bigfoot ducked into the forest, however, being an animal that didn't quite have the same brain capacity as a human, it didn't know the legend. The Headless Horseman veered away from them, deciding the sasquatch was an easier target.
On the other side of the bridge, the racers let out the breath they didn't realize they were holding. "Well...that was a fucking handful...jeez, I guess EVERYTHING is just trying to kill us." Hot Pants said, panting and grooming her terrified horse.
"The sasquatch wasn't...maybe...we should go and make sure it's okay?" Gyro asked.
"It's an animal, our lives are more important." Hot Pants said, remaining aloof as usual.
"We lured it in, if that maniac kills it...it's our fault." Diego said, his eyebrows connecting. "Frankly, I'm tired of not fixing my mistakes, I'm going after them!"
"It's a fucking monkey Diego!" Hot Pants snapped. "Are you really willing to die for it?!"
"I'm not going to be that guy anymore! I got the monkey into this mess, I'm going to take responsibility for my actions!" Diego said, glaring at Hot Pants. "You'll have to forgive me for valuing life!"
"I VALUE YOURS, DUMBASS!"
The two fell silent, and Hot Pants turned away. "There are better ways to risk your life Diego...I'm not going to lose you because you want to save a damn ape."
"I...I understand, but...I have to, I NEED to. If I don't...all of the progress I've made would be for nothing...Johnny, you understand right?"
Johnny understood, both arguments. On one hand, Bigfoot was just an animal that was in the wrong place at the wrong time...but...
His thoughts turned to those of his childhood friend, Izuku. Izuku would save the monkey without hesitation, it's what made him a hero, what made Johnny look up to him so much.
Was Johnny even a hero anymore? He hasn't exactly been a paragon of virtue during this ordeal, not to mention he was no longer a UA student...
But he's always tried to do the right thing, and to be honest...
Izuku was always a good influence, and an even better friend. Being a hero wasn't a job, and you don't need to follow the rules, being a hero was a trait...one that Johnny knew that he and Izuku shared.
He shouldn't even be debating this, the answer was obvious.
"Come on...let's go save a monkey."
Next thing he knew, Johnny was being crushed in a hug, as his childhood friend began sobbing hysterically. "Jeez Izuku, I get it!"
"I'm...*sniff*...I'm just so touched!"
"I saved a monkey in your honor, okay?"
"That actually is really sweet of you. Even when you were a depressed asshole, you were still the JoJo we know and love." Kyoka said, smiling. "Never doubt if you were a hero, you always will be."
Johnny took her hand and kissed her on the cheek. "I know that now...thank you..."
"Do I get one?" Gyro asked.
"No."
The Horseman branished his cutlass, slowly advancing upon the terrified ape as it cowered against a a rock wall. It was now cornered, and it's doom was at hand.
Soon...the Horseman would have a head once more, even if it was hairy and a bit undignified, and he would reak havoc on the foolish Americans that DARED to take the original. The war was far from over!
That is, until a Utahraptor came crashing down on him. "USHAAAAAAAA!"
The Headless Horseman swung his cutlass at the beast, but it soon morphed into Diego, who blocked the strike with his long knife. While projectiles and physical weapons couldn't have an effect on the ghost, stands were another matter entirely.
Diego swung his tail and knocked the surprised Horseman off of his mount, and next thing he knew a wormhole had made it's way onto his chest, before turning into an actual hole that went all the way through him.
The Horseman finally made a noise, which was a scream. While he couldn't be killed again, they could at the very least hurt him maybe even destroy his physical form for a while if they were lucky.
Johnny directed Slow Dancer to advance, and his horse kicked the black one in the side, knocking it away from it's rider. The Headless Horseman swiped at Johnny in desparation, but he was suddenly covered in flesh spray. Hot Pants was smothering him with it, until there was only a covulsing pile of flesh, the Horseman screaming as he tried to break free.
Finally, Gyro pressed a steel ball into the side of his horse, strengthening Valkyrie's legs, and his horse gave the flesh pile a strong kick, sending the vengeful ghost flying into the air, landing somewhere FAR in the dark part of the forest.
Johnny turned to find Bigfoot staring at him, the creature's eyes were shining. The sasquatch slowly lumbered towards him, and placed a hand on his shoulder in gratitude.
Please tell me the mating call didn't work.
"Well, it seems he wants to thank you, Johnny." Gyro noted.
"Jawn...eee?" The creature inquired, and Johnny blinked.
"Er...yeah...that's my name..."
The sasquatch pointed at him. "Jawnee."
"Yes."
The sasquatch pointed at himself. "Konk."
Kyoka fucking lost it.
"Pfft...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! KONK?!"
"Hey, that was his name...I think." Johnny said.
"KONK! HAHAHAHA!" Kyoka fell off of the log they were sitting on, still howling with laughter. Johnny smiled and extended a hand to help her up.
"Hey, don't disrespect my man Konk." Gyro scolded, and Kyoka grabbed Johnny's shirt and buried her head in his chest, still laughing.
"It's so STUPID!"
"He's an ape, at least he's smart enough to HAVE a name!" Izuku said, writing in his notebook. "Maybe they really ARE the missing link, he's definitely more intelligent than most apes!"
"He did seem similar to a human, but he really was a monkey at the end of the day." Johnny said, smiling. "We escorted him to the other side of the bridge, just to make sure the Horseman didn't come back, and he gave me an acorn and ran off."
"Really, did you keep *snort* Konk's acorn?" Kyoka asked
"No, it was covered in shit. Like I said, he was an ape...but it was definitely an experience." Johnny said, ruffling her hair.
"I want to meet Konk, let him know you're taken."
"There was nothing romantic between me and Konk, STOP."
"But he gave you his shit acorn!" Gyro said, putting a hand to his chest in mock disbelief. "You don't just give that to anybody!"
"You should have kept the acorn JoJo! Imagine what the scientific community would do with a sample of Bigfoot feces." Izuku said.
"I'm going to kill all three of you."