Bearticguy7: He might not show up for a while, but I am adding him!

PhantomKnightPercival: Bring the fucking holy water!

dumpstertrashfire123: Don't worry, D'arby will in this chapter!

Kyeo307: Im going to pretend you didn't predict something. No, I'm thinking of making the Detective just the Detective. I think Kira is genuinely gone...

Maybe...

jkgaming: DIO will! A very hard one!

Jddraign: Well, Emporio's seen some shit.

Jpx0999: I had to nerf The World, otherwise he was gonna reduce everyone to a red smear on the ground.

Im4xsk1ll: Hey, thanks for pointing out the lack of enemy quirk users! I tend to be a bit JoJo-centric sometimes, so it's nice to get a bit more MHA in there.

Balanced goose: Love the idea! Well, more of a chase, less of a boss fight.

Euphoria: I like it!


"Stupid pillar..." Bakugo grumbled as he slowly slid down the oil. It was no secret that he was at a serious disadvantage, since his explosions would just light the whole place ablaze. So he had resorted to jumping at the pillar and trying to find a grip, to no avail.

Johnny was already a few feet up, but Gyro was leagues ahead of him. Turns out, the steel balls made for fantastic anchors.

Gyro looked down, smiling. "Nyo ho!"

"I wouldn't be so confident, Gyro!" Johnny called up.

"I'm sorry, I can't seem to hear you from all the way up here!"

"You're only six feet ahead of me!"

"Slowpoke!"

Johnny sighed. I could just go into a wormhole...but then I wouldn't be putting in any effort.

Joseph, at the bottom of the pillar, sighed. "Alright...I've counted to 200, your head start is over!" He ran at the pillar, and began scaling it effortlessly.

"OH COME ON!" Bakugo yelled in frustration. He walked around, stewing and grumbling for a while, before returning to Kyoka, who was just standing at the bottom with her arms crossed. "Why the hell aren't you going, Ears?!"

"I'm waiting."

"For what?!"

"An opportunity...Mr. Joestar said we could try anything as long as we put in effort, so I'm waiting for my shot."

"FUCK THAT!" Bakugo ripped off his pants.

"WHOA HOLY SHIT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Kyoka turned her head to the side, embarrassed.

"I'M FUCKING IMPROVISING, IDIOT!" Bakugo ripped off his shirt.

"D-DUDE!"

"I'M NOT WAITING FOR SHIT!" Bakugo furiously tied his clothes together, and hugged the pillar, creating himself a makeshift harness. He began slowly inching his way up, cursing nonstop.

"Sorry Kyoka, I know nudity makes you uncomfortable." Izuku patted his friend on the shoulder. "But that just goes to show how resourceful Kacchan is, he came up with a clever way to climb through sheer anger."

"He's an idiot." Kyoka muttered, shaking her head, then she looked up at Johnny, who was kicking oil down at his great-grandfather to slow him down. "Patience is a virtue, that's why I'm gonna beat him."

"I'm assuming you have a plan in mind?" Izuku asked, and Kyoka nodded.

"Yep...and I'm about to go through with it...now."

Kyoka pulled her feet out of the oil, and Izuku realized she had her boots on. "Oh wow."

"Might want to stand back, Broccoli boy, you might get blown away."

"Isn't this cheating?"

"I'm still gonna be climbing, but...a shortcut wouldn't hurt, right?"

BOOM!

Kyoka fired a blast, using Heartbeat Bounce to propel herself...

Directly onto Gyro's back.

"OOF!" Gyro wheezed out as he began to slide down, and Kyoka drew her sword and punched it into the oil slathered brick, cementing her spot on the pillar.

"Sorry Gyro, but I'm in it for the win, and unfortunately for you, you just had to be in first place!"

"My fucking back! Are you trying to turn me into Johnny?!"

"No, I'm trying to beat you." Kyoka said with a smile. "How am I supposed to climb past Hamon and Spin users, when the competition has the advantage? Simple, I climb the competition!"

"Clever girl..." Johnny muttered, grinning.

"EARS! YOU FUCKER!" Bakugo yelled as he continued to pull himself up with his clothes.

Momo was already at the top, having opted out of climbing the pillar due to previously training on producing more items with her quirk, she wanted to tackle it when she was at her best. She shook her head, chuckling at the hyper-competitiveness of her friends. "You guys..."

Kyoka began using a combination of sword and body strength to climb, grinning as Gyro began slipping, having lost his focus and had the wind knocked out of him to boot. Now she was in first.

Who said you had to be a Hamon user to beat one?

"Man, what a view!" Johnny called up, and Kyoka's face went red.

"Nuh uh! You're not gonna distract me with flirting, Johnny Kujo! I'm gonna try to win this!"

"Of course you are! I'm gonna enjoy watching you win, alllllll the way to the top!" Johnny said with a sly smirk, and Kyoka leaned over to yell at him some more...

Only for her foot to touch a concealed button, and one of the bricks began pushing outwards, and Kyoka had to cling to it, dropping her sword and watching it fall. "SHIT! JONATHAN!"

Tusk caught Kyoka's sword before it could fall onto the oblivious Izuku, and flew up to hand it back to her. "You're lucky Tusk is an A in range." Johnny said through his stand.

"You're the reason I fucked up, asshole."

"That was intentional."

"You are so lucky I like you." Kyoka stood on the exposed brick, and looked towards her approaching friends. Johnny and Gyro were now neck and neck with Joseph, and the three were slowly gaining on her position.

She would have to do this Getting Over it style, albeit without being buck naked and sitting in a pot. She plunged her sword into a crack in the pillar, and shifted her weight in front of the opposing trio...

Only to lose her grip on the oil covered handle, and she went down like a brick.

NONONONONONO!

Kyoka flailed for a bit as her fingertips brushed the oil covered pillar, trying desperately to stop her descent. For a brief moment, she felt the oil grip around her fingertips, and she used it to hug the pillar, and slid down until Joseph caught her with one arm. "Gotcha! Talk about a wipeout!"

"Oh my God...my whole life flashed before my eyes..." Kyoka muttered.

"I don't know how you managed to catch the pillar, but that was a close one." Gyro said. "Welp, I guess that's karma for body slamming me earlier."

"I don't know...my hand kind of stuck to the oil for a bit there...weird..." Kyoka shook her head.

Johnny blinked. "Weird indeed..."

...


Chuck E. Brando rounded the corner.

"I've been workin' on the raaaaailrooooad, allll the ding dong daaaaaaaay!"

"DO YOU EVER SHUT UP?!"

"You just don't appreciate that I have a good singing voice."

"I don't care if you're the next Elton John! You have been talking in my ear the whole time, and I'm sick of it! In case you didn't notice, we have a job to do!"

"WE ALLL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE, YELLOW SUB-"

"WRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Chuck E. Brando furiously shook the eye.

"WOoAoAOOoOaAAOoGH!"

"I'M THE ONE IN CONTROL HERE! YOU WILL OBEY ME, AND STAY AS SILENT AS POSSIBLE, OR YOU'LL BE GOING BACK IN THE SILVER, GOT IT?!"

"Party pooper...no cake for you..."

"Psychotic bastard..." DIO muttered, before he came to an empty hallway.

At the end of said hallway stood Emporio, throwing his baseball up and down, and staring at them with his yellow eyes burning with malice. "Hello DIO, Necromancer..."

"DIO...I'm scared."

"No you're not, I told you to be quiet!" Chuck E. Brando turned to Emporio. "A child so brazenly faces I, DIO?"

"...andacopyoftheNecromancer'sconciousnessthatisjustasmuchofathreatasDIOisbecauseheisn'tastinkybananavampir-"

"CEASE!"

"You two really don't get along, do you?" Emporio asked, still tossing the ball up and down. "Not really a trusting relationship, huh?"

"Of course not, this fool betrays anyone he comes across, which is why he is nothing more than a tool to me." Chuck E. Brando turned to Emporio once more, it's red eyes scanning the 12 year old with lethal intent. "I smell the Joestars on you..."

"Your boyfriend almost killed me, you know." Emporio glared at DIO. "Pucci ruined what little of a childhood I had."

"Pucci...he really tried his best to make my plan for heaven reality...his demise is one of the few regrets I have. You...you were the boy involved in it, weren't you? Alongside Jonathan's offspring, Giorno Giovanna."

Chuck E. Brando began to advance. "I heard that a child was involved, one that Jolyne Kujo took in, that was you, right?"

"It was...he almost took everything from me, I remembered running from him, terrified of him. I watched Jolyne die saving me..." Tears were forming in Emporio's eyes. "If Mr. Giovanna hadn't intervened during the chase, I might've lost the only family I've ever had. I used Weather's stand, and we killed him together."

"I see..." The World emerged from Chuck E. Brando, and it was clear that DIO was furious. "Then you must know that you are in a very similar situation...right?!"

"I'm not running from you. I'm done letting people like you and Pucci push me around." Emporio gritted his teeth. "You, DIO, are responsible for that madman, therefore you are also responsible for my suffering. It's time to grow up and face heartless bastards like you head on."

"That was beautiful...uh...DIO?"

"I told you...TO BE SILENT!" DIO snapped in a rage. He was mildly annoyed before, but now he was faced with someone who contributed to his 'friend's' erasure from this plane of existance. DIO was out for blood.

"Well...uh...ther-"

"SILENCE YOU MEWLING LITTLE SHIT!"

Chuck E. Brando turned towards Emporio. "Enrico Pucci was one of the few people I had affection towards...I WILL KILL YOU!"

The robot mouse/DIO charged towards Emporio, and The World began angrily punching towards him. "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!"

*CRASH*

"WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! WHAT THE HELL?!"

An arcade machine dropped on Chuck E. Brando from above, and The World barely managed to deflect it, but not before it tore off a good portion of it's face, revealing wires and an old rusty endoskeleton. Ochako had been suspending it above DIO's head the entire time.

"I tried to warn you, but I was told 'SIleNCe YoU MeWLinG LiTtle ShIT!'"

"I was not aware...my anger towards Pucci's death clouded my judgement! Damn! Was that his stand?"

"No, that was the girl's quirk. Ochako Uraraka has power over...gravity." For some reason, the Necromancer seemed to emphasize that last word, as if...

He couldn't know of my conversation with Enrico, right? About gravity? The Necromancer couldn't, there is no possible way for him to know of the heaven plan. DIO turned towards the fleeing duo, a lustful look popping into the red eyes of the Chuck E. Cheese he was inhabting. Perhaps...there may be a way to continue the plan after all...

That girl's quirk might be of use to me in the future...

Chuck E. Brando began to slowly gave chase, and the Necromancer's eye began pulsating...

Almost as if it were suppressing laughter...

..


"Alright, is everyone logged in?"

D'arby had provided each of them with a laptop, and he was using his PS5.

"I can't believe I actually had to create an account..." Jotaro muttered. "This is humiliating."

Jolyne played with the buttons, and leaned over to whisper to Kaminari, who nodded.

"I am quite good at Fortnite." D'arby monologued. "I've practiced. My stand, Atum, as you recall, can steal the souls of those who lose to me."

"It can also read minds." Jotaro reminded the group.

D'arby's eyebrow twitched. "Yes, Jotaro. Good job, you have a memory! Yes, I can also read minds, but I can only do so through yes or no questions. Anyway...I cannot begin to tell you how satisfied I was when online gaming first came out..."

"Wait..." Ermes looked horrified. "You...oh my God...you can play with anyone."

"YES!" D'arby threw his hands into the air. "I've developed such a large collection of souls, it's unbelievable! Anyone I eliminate from this battle royale falls victim to my stand, no matter where they are! Gone are the days in which I would have to take someone to secret room to play them, now I can safely eliminate people from the comfort of my chair!"

"You sick bastard..." Jotaro said, a dark look on his face. "How many people have you imprisoned?"

"I've lost count, it honestly depends on how many online matches I've beaten people in." D'arby put a finger on his chin. "Could be hundreds..."

It was dead silent. The true power of D'arby and Atum was now apparent. Just by playing console games, this stand was a threat, but now...

He could target anybody, at any time. This was a stand that had captured hundreds of people who were unlucky enough to play and lose against this random guy in an online match.

They had to beat him, he was a much bigger threat than they took him for.

"Some of the souls I imprisoned have formed a Chuck E. Cheese cult in here, did you know that?" D'arby questioned. "They went insane, they had been here for such a long time..."

"You're...a monster..." Kirishima said, his eyes wide with disbelief. "You're...seriously evil..."

"My power has grown alongside video games! I hold all the cards, hundreds of people are on the line here!"

"YOU...YOU BASTARD!" Kaminari abandoned his laptop and charged D'arby, his quirk ready to fry him.

"KAMINARI, NO!" Jotaro shouted, but it was too late, as Kaminari had already begun attacking D'arby...

For obvious reasons, Atum was quick to defend it's user. The stand simply absorbed the attack, and pushed Kaminari aside, leaving him to slide across the floor back to the group.

"You idiot!" Jotaro rolled Kaminari over to see if he was okay.

"Yee..."

"Yare yare daze...how much did he use? He usually do-" Jotaro stopped, a look of understanding coming across his face. "He never learns."

"My, it's seems as though he's been struck dumb...talk about drawbacks." D'arby said with a grin. "Have him play regardless, free soul for me."

The group got on the server, and it became apparent that D'arby was watching their every move. Soon, the game started, and everyone found themselves on the battle bus.

"Tell me, Jolyne Kujo, did you decide where your group was dropping before the game started?"

YES

YES

YES

YES!

"So you did, you wish to stick together in an attempt to try and outnumber me. Was the location...Tomato Town?"

NO

NO

NO

NO!

D'arby scratched his head, and grinned. "Tilted Towers?"

YES

YES

YES

YES!

"Tilted Towers, I'll make sure to avoid that area then."

Shit, he really can read minds. Jolynethought to herself. Now we have to separate, because he'll know where we are.

The group began dropping at different locations, except for Jotaro, who was just pressing random keys in an effort to drop, but he couldn't. Without thinking, Kirishima reached over and pressed the button for him.

"NUH UH! No helping him! That's cheating!" D'arby said, pointing at Kirishima.

"Dude, he can't play unless he knows which buttons to press." Kirishima replied, glaring at D'arby. "That wouldn't be fair."

"Hm, I suppose you're right, but cheating again will result in an automatic loss! This is your only warning." D'arby cautioned.

"Jerk..."

"He's arrogant to the bone." Jotaro said. "Expect him to be an asshole...but thanks for the help, Kirishima."

"No...it isn't possible..." D'arby glared at the screen. "He has joined my game...my old nemesis...BoltBrain69..."

"...It sounds like it's personal."

"Every match...I can never eliminate this bastard." D'arby stared at the username on the screen, sweating. "He is a battle royale GOD!"

"So...if this guy can beat you..."

"It doesn't matter! All I have to do is eliminate you all before he gets to me!" D'arby began furiously tapping his controller. "HA! I just got a lucky drop!"

"If he gets you, does that mean we win?" Weather asked as he and Jotaro started destroying a house.

"No, in order for you all to best me, I have to be eliminated by a member of your group, only then will your souls be saved!" D'arby said. "If BoltBrain69 gets me, we start over!"

Jolyne stared at D'arby for a good long while, before glancing at the dumb Kaminari. Without a word she went back to playing the game.

...


"Alright." Josuke said as the hostile animatronics surrounded him, cracking their metallic fists and snarling insults as if they were some demented kid-friendly motorcycle gang. "Clearly, you all are D'arby's victims, so I don't want to hurt you, but I will if I have to!"

"THE GREAT CHEESE WILL RISE!" One of the robots charged Josuke, and he barely ducked under the punch, grabbed the wrist of the robot, and judo flipped it over his shoulders.

You know, people would think that these things would be stronger than humans, since their metal, but that couldn't be further from the truth. They're built for entertainment, not combat.

I don't even need my stand.

It was clear, Josuke didn't want to harm them or destroy their bodies, because he would essentially be killing innocents who were suffering from severe trauma as a result of being trapped in a bootleg Chuck E. Cheese for who knows how long. His primary goal was getting to Todoroki before he bled out.

"Infidel, you disturb our ritual!"

"No, I'm disturbed by your ritual!" Josuke retorted, and smashed an arcade machine with Crazy Diamond, slowing the angry crowd of robotic cultists with the debris. He began continuously smashing them, keeping the cultists away.

"NOOOOO! The sacred texts!"

"You heretic! You know not what you do!"

"Stop it, PLEEEEEAAAASE!"

The haunting cries of the cultists echoed throughout the halls, the sheer torment of their poor souls caused a horrifying roar to echo throughout the facility.

This just went from ridiculous to heartbreaking, fast. Josukethought to himself.

It didn't really matter though...

Todoroki didn't have much time left, Josuke needed to act, and fast.

...


"Another trap?" Chuck E. Brando asked upon seeing Emporio waiting for him. "I will not fall for the same trick twice, you know."

"I do."

The World caught the grappling hook that was fired at him from the darkness, and DIO yanked Uraraka out. "As I said, I see through your deceptions."

Ochako detached the hook from her wrist and attempted to float out of the way, but The World snatched her and brought her in close. Ochako screamed and kicked, desperately trying to escape The World's grip."So...you're the one that manipulates gravity...tell me, do you believe in it?"

"H-huh?!"

"LET HER GO!" Emporio yelled as he pulled one of the cords on the floor, and the entire stack of arcade machines to their right began tumbling down towards Chuck E. Brando. The World simply batted them away.

"Quiet boy, I'm asking her a question. Tell me, Ochako Uraraka, you have control over gravity, but do you really know of it's true power?"

Ochako kicked Chuck E. Brando's head, and The World crushed her wrist in retaliation.

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Ochako fought back tears as blood dripped to the floor from The World's enclosed fingers.

"I just destroyed every single bone in your entire wrist, disabling you from using that hand. Answer my question, or you might not be able to use that quirk of yours in the future." DIO used The World to grab her other wrist. "DO YOU BELIEVE IN GRAVITY?"

"I have...nothing to say to you..." Ochako said, half sobbing.

"Then...you wil...where is the child?"

WHOMP!

Emporio had pulled an old baseball bat from the ghost room, and smacked Chuck E. Brando in it's exposed wires in the ruined part of it's face, and the entire optical system shut down. "WRYYYYYYYYY! YOU LITTLE!"

Ochako swung her limp hand which had been released, into The World, causing the stand itself to drag it's user upwards. The World begrudgingly let go of her other arm and grabbed onto an exposed wire to prevent itself from floating off.

Emporio looked at Ochako's wrist and burst into tears. "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I really thought that the arcade avalanche would work..."

"Nononono, don't blame yourself." Ochako assure Emporio while bracing her wounded arm. "He's smarter than us..."

"NOT SMART ENOUGH!" The Necromancer's voice came out, and the eye suddenly turned in Chuck E. Brando's palm and blasted the robot's hand clean off.

"DAMMIT! YOU WAITED UNTIL THEY DID SOMETHING TO ME!" The blind Chuck E. Brando yelled as the eye began flying towards...

Ochako.

"URARAKA! I HAVE CHOSEN YOU AS MY NEXT HOST!" The eye screamed as it hurtled towards her at breakneck speed. "IMAGINE, IZUKU MIDORIYA HAVING TO FIGHT YOU, OH THE GLORIOUS REVENGE! PLUS, I GET TO HAVE BOOBS, IT'S A FUCKING WIN FOR ME, YOU GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKIN' IDIOTS, I JUST PLAYED 4D CHESS WITH YOUR STUPI-"

The eye landed directly into Emporio's baseball glove.

"..."

"Did you ever notice how you always fail whenever you betray your allies?" Emporio asked the eye captured in his glove. "Well, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting the same result...so I guess it doesn't surprise me that you haven't learned your lesson. Thanks for giving yourself to us."

"So much for reading DIO's mind..."

"WAIT! WHEN THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT?!" DIO roared from the ceiling.

"When you used my power to regenerate The World, dumbass. You thought I wasn't conscious yet...so I pretended to 'wake up' later." The Necromancer sighed. "Er...DIO? I'm sorry, can you come save me?"

"After you just betrayed me?"

"I'm sowwy."

"You're absolutely disgusting."

Chuck E. Brando's mechanical eyes were soon replaced by DIO's real ones. "Although, it appears I don't have much of a choice in the matter...I will get that eye back, and you both will DIE!"

"You'll have to catch us first!" Ochako yelled, as she took Emporio's hand with her good one and led him up to the roof.

So, the Necromancer knew I would be interested in her quirk, he must've witnessed my conversation with Enrico. He lured me to her so he could have the opportunity to corrupt her...all to get back at that green bastard friend of the Joestars. DIO grunted as Ochako released her hold on him, dropping him to the ground and further damaging the animatronic body he now inhabited. If only he hadn't betrayed me when he did, now he is at their mercy.

Is it even worth saving him?

DIO shook his head. That eye has power, even with that imbecile inside of it. That kind of power would be crucial to my second coming.

The destroyed, rusty, and bloodthirsty Chuck E. Brando hobbled after the retreating heroes, as the Necromancer was screaming his name.

Does he think he would be saved if I am the one who wins in the end?

Either way, he's going back in the silver. I don't take betrayal lightly.

...


"Jotaro, do you even know what this game is about?" D'arby inquired.

NO

NO

NO

NO!

"No."

"Well, at least you're being truthful." D'arby said. "The storm is closing in, Jotaro, if you don't start moving, you'll be the first eliminated."

"Storm?"

"Yare yare dawa..." Jolyne muttered as she continued to treck through the terrain, and she hid in a bush. "Just use the secret technique in game, Dad."

"Jolyne? I'm sorry..."

"Narcisso?"

Anasui fell limp at her side, and Jolyne gasped. "NARCISSO! NO!"

"Didn't see me coming." D'arby muttered with a shit-eating grin. Jolyne turned to him in a rage.

"I'll fucking kill you..."

"Stay calm Jolyne." Jotaro said. "He wants to make you...crack...stick to your...plan..."

Then her father fell too.

"Looks like the noob couldn't avoid the storm, much less compete with the likes of me." D'arby said.

Jolyne blinked back tears, her fiance and father lying lifeless beside her, as she painstakingly played Fornite.

D'arby was calm, and confident, even BoltBrain69 couldn't stop him from feeling in control.

Then, his game lagged.

"What? That's impossible...my internet connection has always been perfect!"

D'arby decided to take his frustration out on Kirishima.

"NO!" Kirishima's character began engaging D'arby in a 1v1. "I WON'T LOSE TO YOU!"

"Nice try, Rock Boy, but I am an alpha gamer, and you...are just a BETA CUCK!" D'arby said, finishing Kirishima off.

"Dammit...I'm sorry guys...I tried..." Kirishima went down, a single tear making it's way down his face.

Jolyne looked towards the dumb Kaminari, who was somehow still in the game, and her face became desperate.

They were dropping like flies, if her plan didn't work, they were all fucked.

...


"I have seen the light!"

The cultists paused as Josuke fell to his knees, raising his hands to the sky.

"Huh?"

"What say you, Heretic?"

"I have seen the Great Cheese, I have heard him speak!" Josuke put his hands together, and began praying. "My brothers, my sisters, my family, no more do I resist! The GREAT CHEESE HAS CONVERTED ME!"

"ALL HAIL THE GREAT CHEESE!"

"COME MY FRIENDS!" Josuke spread his arms out wide. "LET US PRAY!"

The robots huddled around Josuke, and they began chanting together.

"WHERE A KID CAN BE A KID! WHERE A KID CAN BE A KID! WHERE A KID CAN BE A-"

Josuke lept out of the crowd and activated Crazy Diamond, and the robots were trapped in a giant wall of arcade machimes, the very same machines Josuke smashed.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Josuke sprinted towards Todoroki and cut him down, and proceeded to restore his body.

Todoroki wasn't moving...

Come on...wake up...please, you have to wake up!

...


"Er...Emporio...can we talk about this?"

"No."

They were in the roof of the building now, and Chuck E. Brando was slowly gaining on them, it's mangled face pointed at them.

Dropping the robot on the floor had damaged it's voicebox, so now it was only making weird garbled noises as DIO attempted to speak.

Ochako's wrist was bleeding pretty bad, and it was clear that if Josuke didn't look at it, there would be permanent damage.

"Come on...we're almost there..."

Emporio and Ochako began to climb up the ladder to their destination on the rooftop, and Chuck E. Brando began slowly climbing after them, DIO's eyes filled with nothing but bloodlust.

"WRYYY-Y-Y...HEY KIDS, IT'S ME-YYYYYYY!" The robot's original programming was starting to show, it was clear that the body was falling apart, malfunctioning.

"Eat my ass!" Emporio shouted the most Jolyne-esque thing he could think of at the approaching monstrosity, mostly to cope with his fear.

Eat my ass? Really Emporio?

They managed to get up the ladder, and found themselves at the edge.

"Nowhere left to r-r-r-r-run." Chuck E. Brando said, slowly approaching them. "You w-w-w-will d-d-d-die for your foooooooolishness."

"This chase is over, DIO." Emporio said. "You've fallen for our trap."

"Would it have s-s-something to d-d-do with the weak roof?"

Emporio's eyes widened. Crap, did he see through my plan?!

"T-there's something below us now, isn't there?" You could hear the malicious smile in DIO's broken voice. "A-a-a-and how exactly were you going to make me fall through?"

"THIS!"

DIO looked up to see Ochako had tossed a cooling unit at him using her quirk. He simply stepped back, and watched as it smashed through the roof and into the building below.

"A-ah...D'arby's vvvvvvvvat of pizza sauce...clever! I give credit where credit is due, to pinpoint it's exact location fffffroooooom above takes brains, bbbbbbbbbu-"

DIO felt something collide with his back, and he gasped as he fell into the hole.

Emporio had dropkicked him in while he was in the middle of his villain monologue.

"Y-YOU! LITTLE SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-"

PLUNK!

Chuck E. Brando clawed at the air as the boiling pizza sauce burned away at it's circuts, screaming with what little voice it had, and finally gave up, the robot shutting down. As the deactivated Chuck E. Brando sunk into the pizza sauce, the last thing they saw of it was an extended middle finger, before it completely submerged.

Emporio watched the whole time, the Dark Determination burning bright as he watched DIO's descent, coldly taking satisfaction in the demented mouse's demise. "That was for bringing Pucci into my life...bitch."

He had beaten the odds, he and Ochako had beaten DIO.

It was only at that moment did Emporio realize that his pants were slightly heavier than usual...he had shat in them without even realizing it.

Well...I guess you can face your fears, but they are still definitely fears.

"I would just like to say, I was rooting for you, like, the whole time. I'm totally Team Emporio and Uraraka, fuck DIO, just fuck him right in the ass. Which is something I definitely haven't fantasized about..."

"You're making me feel uncomfortable." Ochako said, glaring at the eye.

"Hehehe...about the whole planning to kill you and your whole family thing...er..."

...


Jolyne, Ermes, and Kaminari were the only people left.

D'arby was taking them all out, he was proficient at it as well. It was clear that he was really good as he claimed, but his game had begun lagging, much to his frustration.

"Why am I lagging?" He muttered. "There should be no way this could happen, I made sure that I had the best equipment possible...unless..."

He glared at Jolyne from the side. "Your father mentioned a plan...Jolyne Kujo, do you have something to do with this lag?"

NO

NO

NO

NO!

"Maybe your PS5 really is shit."

"Impossible. Ermes Costello, are you responsible for the lag?"

NO

NO

NO

NO!

"Yes, I am! I have super magical WiFi powers!"

"No, no you aren't." D'arby looked at Kaminari.

"Yay!"

"There wouldn't be a point. I guess the lag really is just bad internet speed." D'arby scratched his chin. "BoltBrain69...damn, he's here..."

D'arby began tapping on his controller as he engaged his Fortnite nemesis. "Damn it! How is he so nimble?!"

"Oh hey D'arby, I see you!" Ermes said as she made her character do a series of random emotes, trying to piss him off. "Hey D'arby! Hey! Hey D'arby!"

"SHUT UP! I'M TRYING TO ELIMINATE BOLTBRAIN69!" D'arby said, intently battling.

"Yeeeeeeeeee!" Kaminari put a thumbs up.

"STOP! DAMMIT NO THE LAG, THE LAAAAAAAG!" D'arby was getting angry now, he was practically foaming at the mouth. "DAMMIT NO! NOOOO!"

D'arby angrily threw the controller at the wall. "I HAD HIM! MY PS5 WAS LAGGING, I WOULD'VE WON, I SHOULD'VE WON, THIS IS BULLSHIT!"

"Wow, a real gamer rage up close." Jolyne commented with a smile. "Well D'arby, it looks like you've lost."

D'arby stopped his rant, and turned to Jolyne with a sneer on his face. "Lost? In case you forgot, I believe I specified that only a member of your party defeating me would count as a win. Sorry Kujo, but we're playing again!"

"Not so fast..."

"Huh?"

Kaminari stood up. "We did win D'arby, because one of us did beat you."

"What are you...oh...oh NO! NO! NO! IT CAN'T BE!" D'arby took a step back, his face a mask of sheer terror.

"That's right. I AM BOLTBRAIN69!" Kaminari turned his screen around, verifying that it was indeed his account. "To think I had been playing against a madman like you this whole time...I would've had no idea!"

"You...you..." D'arby looked like he was about to faint.

"When I attacked you earlier, it was actually part of the plan that Jolyne and I came up with! I was playing dumb the whole time, that way you wouldn't ask me questions!"

Everyone around them was starting to stir, Atum was losing it's grip on the souls it had collected. Several blue orbs floated into the air, and the next thing they knew, they were surrounded by several golden images of the people that D'arby had imprisoned for too long.

Kaminari stared in awe as the smiling spirits surrounded him, each of them silently giving him their thanks as he was bathed in their golden light, and he began to cry, overwhelmed by the beauty of it all.

They had saved these people, now they could finally move onto a better place.

He had saved these people.

D'arby was on his knees, he now looked ten times older. "Impossible..."

"You just weren't as smart as you think you are, and I'm not as dumb as everyone thinks I am." Kaminari said as the spirits of D'arby's victims continued to ascend around him, still moved to tears. "I can't even pass a math test on the first try, man...and you lost to me, not just once, but every time."

"I...I..."

"Also...it was me, I was the one lagging your PS5. I was sitting on the chord, so I started overcharging it, causing it to overheat. You know what happens to electronics when they get too hot?"

"What?!"

"It pains me to do this to such a beautiful console...but..."

BOOM!

The PS5 blew up in D'arby's face, rendering him unconscious.

...


When D'arby came to, the first thing he saw was Star Platinum.

"WAAAAAAAAGH!" D'arby scooted backwards. "WAIT, JOTARO, STOP!"

"Stop?" A big chill was felt in the room as Jotaro cracked his knuckles. "I don't know...a lot of those souls didn't have living bodies to go back to...in a way, doesn't that make you responsible for hundreds of deaths?"

"NONONONONONONO! I was bluffing! BLUFFING! Obviously I don't use my stand every time I play an online game, please, I'm not a psychopath!"

"That was a lot of souls, D'arby." Jotaro wasn't budging, even his allies weren't getting anywhere near him. "Even then...didn't you leave my daughter for dead?"

"Er..."

"You know what Dad, I kinda remember that!" Jolyne said, and D'arby then realized that the two Joestars were boxing him in.

"The League of Bad Life Decisions made me hurt my friends." Todoroki stepped out from the hallway, followed by Josuke. "Not to mention the near death experience I had back there..."

"Uh..."

"My wrist hurts, and DIO almost killed us." Ochako chimed in from the back, holding up her crushed wrist. Josuke immediately sprinted over to her.

Jotaro slowly turned towards Ochako, saw her arm, and back towards D'arby. "You enabled DIO to do that to her?"

"Well...I..."

"Might I just say, this is great. Everyone's here, we're all mad at D'arby-"

"YOU RECRUITED ME TO BE THE HEAD OF YOUR LEAGUE!"

"Yeah, and might I just say, you did a terrible job. Seriously, you can't trust anyone these days..."

"YOU ARE LITERALLY THROWING ME UNDER THE BUS AS WE SPEAK!"

"Tsk tsk, so unreliable."

"Emporio, would you please do us a favor and put that bastard back in his doggy crate?" Anasui asked, handing Emporio the silver case.

"Gladly."

"WAIT! I've seen the light! My actions were wrong, I see that now. You've inspired me to be better, Emporio, you made me see the beauty in this world! I'm going to turn over a new leaf. NECROMANCER REDEMPTION ARC BABY!"

Emporio stared at the eye.

The eye stared back.

And then Emporio went to put it in the case.

"NO! WAIT! EMPORIO, I KNOW WHO YOUR FATHER IS, WAI-"

"DIO was right about one thing..." Emporio said, shutting the lid on the silver case. "You talk too much."

The Necromancer's muffled screams came from the case as Jotaro and Jolyne were advancing on D'arby. The former agent of DIO scrambled to his feet, and tried to run away...

Only to be bound in a tight cocoon of string.

"Oooh, we've got a runner." Jolyne said. "Is this it Dad?"

"A little to the left."

"Like this?"

"Yeah, that's it...right there..."

Both Kujo's summoned their stands.

"THAT'S THE BEST PUNCHING ANGLE!"

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With one last punch, D'arby was sent flying, his face and body fucked up beyond repair. He landed with a CRUNCH, and he began weakly crawling away.

Only to be stopped by the cultists.

"We didn't have bodies to go back to, D'arby."

"We aren't going to see our families again."

"The Great Cheese has given us the greatest blessing of all: KILLING. YOU!"

"NO! PLEASE! HAVE MERCYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..." The broken and bloody D'arby was dragged off into the darkness by his victims.

Never to be seen again.

...


"So they got the eye back." DIO observed the group existing the facility. "I have to admit, I'm disappointed. It would've come in handy...but it is ultimately meaningless."

The World dutifully stood behind it's ghostly user. DIO smiled as he gazed upon his restored stand.

"I got what I wanted anyway."

...


"Why the hell would I peep at Kyoka through this keyhole?" Johnny said. "That's rude."

"Oh come on, you're a teenaged boy! Surely you're curious?" Joseph prodded his great-grandson with a smile.

"Of course I am. However, I also know that Kyoka's self-image isn't exactly the best in the world. She wouldn't be comfortable with me seeing her like that."

Kyoka was sitting in the bath, smiling to herself as her earphone jacks picked up the conversation. It was nice that Johnny knew her well enough to know that such a thing would definitely make her uncomfortable.

She just wasn't there yet.

Kyoka's mind drifted off to the events on the tower. Joseph had won the race of course, and decided to hoist everyone else out. Apparently, even for experienced Hamon users the climb would take about three days.

Three.

Fucking.

Days.

She had stuck to the oil somehow, when she fell, and it was bothering her. That's the second time I've gotten a hint like that.

You see, Kyoka was fairly certain that she could possibly be a Hamon user.

I've used Hamon before, Jonathan Joestar's Hamon. Could...could it have awakened my own? I remember Johnny saying something to YaoMomo on the day Santana attacked the school, something about him being unable to eat me...

First that, then feeling this spark whenever Johnny and I touch while he's using it, and now the pillar incident...either I'm going nuts, or I might have developed Hamon potential.

She would have to talk to Joseph about it.

I could certainly be able to handle myself better, even without my support gear. Hamon takes years of training though...

Kyoka opened the door just in time to hear her boyfriend say: "Listen Gramps, I love everything about her, including her body. I'm sick of people calling Kyoka flat, because I know it's the opposite, but she just hasn't gotten that through her head yet."

"And how would you know that?"

"Like you said, I'm a teenaged boy, I stare."

Joseph was grinning, and Johnny slowly turned around to find Kyoka with her mouth hanging open. "..."

"You...stare...at me?"

"...maybe."

"I uh...I..."

"Look, I-I'm not trying to be a pervert like M-Mineta or anything...but..." Johnny was getting redder by the second, his normally calm and composed attitude was long gone. "I...do occasionally look at you...in...that...way."

Kyoka could only stand there in shock. Without another word, she kissed him straight on the mouth, and walked briskly back to the room she was staying in, embarrassed. Then, she stopped. "J-JoJo?"

"Yeah?"

"You...really like what you see?"

"...yeah, I do."

Kyoka looked at her body, and for a brief moment, she actually believed what he was saying about her. "I...thank you. I...like looking at you too."

Johnny could only just stand by the keyhole, and Joseph patted him on the back. "That was for both you and her, by the way. Good things always happen by this keyhole, you know, one time I got lucky an-"

Joseph's face became one of horror. "Oh...My...God..."