PhantomKnightPercival: Oh don't you worry, that's the least she's gonna

ConfusedlookingCat: No, we aren't going to go through the whole Steel Ball Run. The last thing I want to do is just copy and paste Araki's work into MHA, so while certain events during the race will remain the same, others will be cut, and there will be some new things added.

GER: ...You can do that if you want, but I'm just a writer.

The doors to the Speedwagon Foundation's Mustafu headquarters burst open, and a flaming boot stepped through. A very angry Endeavor marched into the lobby towards the terrified receptionist. "I'm looking for Giorno Giovanna, where is he?!"

"H-he i-i-i-i"

"I'm getting impatient."

"Here, signore, what is it that you need?"

Endeavor whirled around and glared at the blonde Joestar. "You are under arrest, come quietly, and you will not be harmed." Giorno raised an eyebrow. "And why would I be under arrest? As far as I know, I've done nothing wrong."

Endeavor smiled, a smile that said: I know something you don't know. "That's not what my anonymous source told me. They mentioned your lot was selling drugs in the area."

Giorno's expression darkened. "I'm afraid you are quite mistaken, Enji Todoroki. That goes against everything I stand for. Maybe you should check to see if your tip was reliable before making assumptions."

"Says the crime boss." Endeavor sneered. "It was only a matter of time before we got dirt on you. It isn't a stretch to think it's true."

Giorno shook his head. "What do you hope to gain? Do you really think bringing me in will put you ahead of All Might? I hate to discourage you, but arresting me would be detrimental to you."

"Huh?" Endeavor raised an eyebrow. "Passione is a benevolent organization that funds many different hero agencies and facilities. If I'm suddenly out of the picture, U.A would crumble in a matter of weeks, and your 'successor' would be deprived of his education."

The number two hero gritted his teeth. Shoto needed his hero license so he could surpass All Might. "This...isn't over." Endeavor exited the building, burning with a bright fury. Giorno calmly walked over to the elevator and hit the button for the fifth floor, pondering over recent events.

...

"Mr. Higashkita?"

"Hmm?" Morioh's protector looked up from his video game, Oh, That's a Baseball!, and glanced behind him. A Speedwagon Foundation recruit was looking down at him rather nervously. "What is it?"

"Y-you might want to take a look at this."

...

Josuke was stunned.

He could only stare in disbelief at the several news articles that were practically shoved in his face. They were all about his family, and there was one about him.

Josuke Higashikita: Illegitimate Hero

A recent tip from someone close to the Joestar family revealed that Joseph Joestar cheated on his wife, creating the new upcoming pro hero Crazy Diamond, better known as Josuke Higashikata. Not only is the head of Joestar Realty a dirty old man, but his son could very well be just as irresponsible. Can we really trust someone like him to protect Morioh?

Josuke wasn't even angry, if anything he was disheartened. He had just started the Morioh Hero Agency with his friends a year ago, and he was already under fire. Not only had Jotaro come under fire recently, at the worst possible time too, but Giorno was almost arrested, and now Josuke was being targeted. Someone close to the Joestar family...

Or were they once a part of it?

"Susan!" Josuke cried out as he put it all together. "She's behind all of this! She sent Endeavor after Giorno, and she already knew about the whole affair! But why go after us? We didn't do anything to her."

Josuke scratched his head. Maybe Jolyne could provide some insight?

...

"She's trying to get revenge, we took everything from her."

Jolyne was angrily tapping her foot on the tiled floor of the restaurant, sitting with her two uncles as they patiently waited for their food. "What exactly do you mean?" Giorno asked.

"She loved Dad, he left her with me and Johnny. She treated Johnny like shit, so he moved away. And after my stint in prison I moved in with Dad, the final nail in the coffin. Her parents are gone and she's an only child, she basically lost her entire family, thanks to us."

"Yeah, but that doesn't explain why she's targeting us." Josuke responded.

"You guys are my family now. She's trying to return the favor and ruin it all, starting with Dad."

"So, what're we gonna do? You could easily put all of this to rest by speaking out. "

"Oh, that's the least I'm gonna do. I think I'm going to go with a little old fashioned vengeance."

Josuke nodded. "I'll help the best I can, but I also have hero work to do. I've got that new intern coming in, remember?"

Jolyne nodded. Giorno chimed in. "I, on the other hand, have all of Passione's resources ready for you to use for your dirty work. In other words, I'm in."

Jolyne patted Giorno's shoulder, grinning mischievously, as the two Joestars shared a mutual agreement. "Let's utterly crush that bitch."

...

Johnny took a swig from his canteen. He and Gyro had reached the watering hole, and they and their horses were taking a much needed drink. "Well, that was certainly eventful." Gyro said before plunging his face in the water, throwing back his dirty blonde locks. "So...now that we know there is a price on my head, I need to know..."

"I'm not going anywhere, Gyro. I made a promise to help you win this race, and that's what I'm gonna do." Johnny responded abruptly. Gyro smirked, "Just testing you Johnny, that's all."

Johnny shook his head. "Yare yare daze...I may as well keep look out."

"You do that, Johnny."

Johnny surveyed the area, and one particular thing stood out, or rather, the lack of one. It was as if the entire desert had gone silent, and the only things that seemed to be moving were Johnny, Gyro, and their horses. It was quiet, too quiet. Not the peaceful type of quiet, but the quiet that came before a bobcat pounces on it's prey.

"Hey Gyro, this doesn't feel right..."

Johnny received no answer.

"Gyro...?"

Johnny turned his head, and fear overtook him as he saw something that confirmed his worst fears.

Gyro wasn't there, and neither was his horse. Johnny began to panic as he glanced around. How does a rider and his horse disappear in a matter of seconds?! Johnny quickly spun onto Slow Dancer and brought out his stand, aiming a finger at anything that moved.

That's when his horse was pulled out from under him.

Johnny crashed to the ground with a loud thud, wincing as he landed on his back. The gunshot wound was still healing. Johnny sat up and looked around, his horse was nowhere in sight. You've gotta be kidding me...

...

"Gwee-Gachang! Hehehehehehehehehehehe!"

A boy that resembled Gollum was digging around in Johnny and Gyro's bags. More specifically, he was bashing them with a rock in an effort to open them. "Where is it?! Where are you hiding it?! Where is the hand?!"

The kid wore a hat made out of bamboo sticks, which was covering his bald, egg shaped head. His eyes had a blackness to them, popping out of his head like a pug's would. His teeth were crooked and sticking out of his lower jaw, and he was wearing a green outfit which seemed to be made of leaves. He snatched a pen from Gyro's bag and bit down on it, breaking it and drinking the ink.

"When you wake up, you better tell me where it is!"

The kid pointed up, and Gyro was hanging unconscious from the edge of a cliff, by his hair. Gyro's blonde hair was tied in a knot, if he was awake, he would be in a lot of pain. The Pork Pie Hat Kid dug through the bags, and he was disappointed when he couldn't find what he was looking for. "If Zeeeepeeeli doesn't have it..that means..."

The kid whipped his head around to where the crippled Joestar was flailing in the sand, his eyes gleaming with a murderous glee.

"Q'jer!"

...

Johnny was on the verge of panic, he was still trying to figure out how they were being attacked. That's when he saw something odd. There were feathers, vulture feathers by the looks of it, floating through the sky. The issue is, there were no vultures.

Johnny's eyes widened as he put two and two together. I need to avoid those feathers!

Just then, meat hooks attached to chains were fired from the bottoms of the feathers towards Johnny. Johnny went pale as he rolled to the side, desperately trying to avoid the attack. One managed to pierce through his hand, drawing blood. Johnny cried out in pain, only for a second hook to impale his cheek. "Yer hooked Q'jer! You better tell me where the Corpse Part is, now!" A whiny voice called from the cliffs.

"Where's Gyro?!" Johnny called back while clutching at the book that was threatening to pull his face off. "Straight forward, eh? He's alive, but he won't be for long if you don't have over that Corpse!"

"And what makes you think that I'm carrying a dead guy with me?!"

"Mishter Valentine said so! And he's never lied to me!"

"Valentine?" Johnny chuckled. "You know the president?"

"Yes!"

Johnny was taken aback. He was just being sarcastic in order to piss the guy off, but this guy actually thought the President of the United States told him to attack them? Either this guy was even crazier than Johnny thought he was, or...

Johnny brushed away the thought. That's ridiculous, this guy's just crazy. What would Funny Valentine want with a useless cripple like me?

Now I just have to figure out how to escape...

Johnny reached into his belt and pulled out a knife. It was normally used for preparing food, but that wasn't what Johnny was going to use it for. He quickly thrust the knife under the book and into his skin, gritting his teeth as he dug the hook out of his cheek, and then he yanked the other hook out of his hand and rolled over to a boulder, taking cover underneath a crevice.

"Where'd you go?! Q'JER!"

Johnny quickly thought of potential plans. Alright, he can see me through those feathers, so I'd say the best way to get an advantage would be to remain unseen...damn it, if I had my legs...

Pork Pie Hat Kid crouched beside a bowl, gazing into it with contempt. "You think you can hide from me all you want...but you can't hide from her!"

Johnny was hiding in the ground, partially buried by sand, when one of the feathers spat out his horse. The Apoloosa snorted, before making its way towards it's owner. Oh, so now you're loyal. That's when Johnny noticed something spinning on the ground.

It was one of Gyro's steel balls. It was leaving a trail in the sand as it made it's way across the desert. Gyro, you clever bastard! Now all I have to do is follow that trail in order to find you! But how do I get Slow Dancer to go away?

Then Johnny got an idea. If Gyro could spin things along the ground, why couldn't he? Johnny reached into his pocket and pulled out a baby carrot. I was gonna give this to her after completing the second stage, but now is a pretty good time too.

Johnny concentrated, he had to go right to the Spin instead of starting with Hamon. He felt the baby carrot begin to rotate in his palm, and he opened it up and set the carrot loose. It zipped across the ground, and Slow Dancer greedily followed ir. Glutton.

"Well, it appears as though you found a way to lure away your horse. It doesn't matter, I got a new surprise for you!"

The feathers began to pour a strange liquid all over the area where Johnny buried himself. A little smell invaded Johnny's nostrils, and he immediately knew what it was. No, he wouldn't...GASOLINE!

Then a match fell into the sand, and now more than ever, Johnny wished he was able to use the Joestar technique.

...

The Pork Pie Hat Kid gleefully danced as the area that Johnny was hiding went up in a blazing inferno. "Good luck hiding now, Q'jer! Any second now..."

Then a piercing scream came from below, and a figure that resembled Johnny burst from the ground, crying out in agony as the flames consumed him. "There you are! I'll tear you apart like a spitchcock and kill you for sure! Then the Corpse Part will be mine!" Pork Pie Hat Kid sent his hooks out towards Johnny, and his satisfaction grew as they tore him to pieces.

"Wait...Q'jer was pretty stiff when I killed him...he didn't come apart like a person would!"

"That's right, you piece of shit."

A bullet shot up from the bowl and pierced the kid's face, sending him flying backwards, squealing.

A gust of wind blew through the area, revealing a very uncooked Johnny, who had been hiding under the sand. "I had a feeling, since you were sending thooks hooks through those feathers, that it must be a two way street. As for the decoy, I used my nail bullets to carve a dead tree in my likeness." Johnny grinned. "Since the whole hero thing didn't work out, maybe I should consider a career in art, since you found my statue so lifelike. Or maybe you're just an idiot, I don't know." Johnny whistled for his horse, and Slow Dancer ran up to him. He spun onto the horse and spurred it in the direction from which Gyro's steel ball came from, picking up said steel ball along the way.

...

Gyro groaned as he opened his eyes. He was still hanging from his hair, and it felt like his head was being slowly pulled off. Gyro looked to the left and saw the kid who attacked him was twitching in the ground, blood pouring from the side of his face. Gyro smiled, Johnny must've got him. Sure enough, he saw his friend riding up to him, a worried expression on his face. "Took you long enough.." Gyro said as he began trying to untie the knot from his hair, without much success. "You need help?" Johnny shouted from below. "Yeah, toss me your knife!" Johnny did as asked, and Gyro caught it by the handle, and swiped at his hair, cutting himself loose. Gyro landed on his feet and limped over to Johnny. "Bastard hooked me in the leg, didn't know what hit me. " Gyro's eyebrows went up as he noticed Johnny's cheek, which had a nasty looking gash along the side of it. "You good, Johnny?"

"Yeah, it'll heal."

Gyro nodded, but then a hook went through his stomach and into Johnny's left hand, yanking Johnny's arm into Gyro. Gyro coughed up blood as he felt Johnny's hand start to pierce his skin.

"Hehehehehehehehe! You thought you had beaten me? No! Now I'm gonna pull you through Zeppeli, and kill you with my bare hands!" The kid screamed as he stood over the ridge, laughing at his enemies and their current predicament.

"J-Johnny, do something, shoot him!"

"I can't without hitting you!"

Gyro looked down at the hook coming out of his stomach and chuckled. "I knew I should've listened to Mr. Krabs."

"SERIOUSLY?!"

That's when Johnny's hand opened up, and another hand, although much more old and shriveled up, emerged from it. "Yes! The Corpse Part! Gimme gimme gimme! "

Johnny 's eyes widened in disbelied as the old shriveled hand was being pulled away from him. That kid was telling the truth about the whole Corpse Part thing?! That means...

Johnny 's disbelief only grew as he watched Tusk materialize, even though he didn't call it out, and rush over to the hand, activating the spinning nails on the Corpse Part and firing them at the kid. Did my stand just protect that hand, on it's own?!

The nail bullets slammed into Pork Pie Hat Kid's face, shredding it and causing the little shit to collapse. The hooks disappeared, and Johnny and Gyro fell to the ground. Gyro managed to sit up. "Well...it seems as though he wasn't lying about the whole Corpse thing..."

" Yeah... Gyro?"

"Hmm?"

"He...he said that the President wanted this thing, and that he was doing it for him. That couldn't be true, right?"

Gyro looked down, puzzled. "I couldn't tell you, Johnny."

...

"Jotaro, honey?"

Jotaro looked up from his drink, and saw his mother standing in the doorway of the bar, sorry etched into her aged features. "Mom."

Holly went and sat next to Jotaro, rubbing his back. "It's time to go home Jotaro. Everyone misses you."

Jotaro shook his head. "They deserve better than me, they always did. Hell, you always deserved better than me, I used to treat you like garbage."

Holly shook her head. "That's not true, sure you may have snapped at me a few times, but I always knew that underneath that tough exterior was a sweet boy. You traveled all the way to Egypt just to save me...most people would have already given up."

Jotaro sighed. "And why does it feel like you're the only person I managed to save?"

"Dad."

Jolyne had now entered the bar, and to Jotaro's surprise, she was followed by his students. Giorno was there too, carrying Polnareff. He set the turtle down, and his oldest friend spoke up. "Jotaro...you have had much more of an impact than you realize. These kids kept asking me when you were going to come back, and it broke my heart every time they did. I-I just can't take your place Jotaro, not when these kids love you so much. It felt wrong. "

"We miss you Dr. Kujo, we miss that tough love teaching style that we grew used to." Tsuyu said. Kirishima nodded in agreement. "Your class was the manliest Dr. Kujo, I don't care what that woman says!"

"Yeah! Screw her! I actually used to pay attention in class when you were there, but now it's just boring." Kaminari said.

"Sacre bleu, I didn't think I was that boring... "

"Shelly, you're boring as hell. " Bakugo stated.

Izuku walked up to Jotaro and surprised him with a hug. "Please come back, Dr. Kujo! JoJo wouldn't want to see you like this, and we all look up to you! We need our teacher back!" That's when Izuku felt arms wrap sorry around him, and he saw that Jotaro was returning the embrace. "I'm truly glad Toshi picked you Midoryia, he really did make a good choice." Jotaro let go and put on his hat, before turning to the students that had so much faith in him. "If I recall correctly, you all have a report on the Pillar Men due Thursday. If you haven't done it yet, I would suggest you get your asses moving, or there will be trouble when I get back."

Class 1A cheered, except for Mina and Kaminari, who both forgot the assignment. Jotaro noticed this, smiled, and muttered a quick "Yare yare.." before making his way over to his family. Jolyne turned to Giorno. "Phase one: complete."