"Diego Brando?!" exclaimed Grime in horror.

"Who is this jackass," asked Sasha, taking out her Stand, Slash.

"Sasha, no! Don't fight him," warned Grime. Sasha had never seen him this scared before. "Diego Brando is the Captain of the Royal Guard of Newtopia, and the reason I got this!" He pointed to the scar under his eye.

"What are you doing here," asked Marcy as she hid the music box behind her back. "What about the toad invasion?"

Diego said as he hopped off Silver Bullet, "Oh, that? It's already been dealt with."

Everyone was shocked to hear that. "What?!" exclaimed Grime. "But an entire army of toads..."

"Was dealt with in just five minutes," finished Diego. "Except for a couple of stragglers, your sister included, we had them all executed. Speaking of which..." He pointed his gun at Grime. "...Captain Grime, you are to be executed for acts of treason against the crown!"

The sound of a gun cocking made Diego turn around to see Johan pointing the gunblade at him. "What are you doing?"

"Get away from him," Johan growled. Diego didn't lower his gun. Johan kept his finger on the trigger as he asked, "Why are you really here, Diego? I know you didn't come all the way here just for Grime."

The blue newt said, "You're right. Andrias sent me to find you. We hadn't heard from you in a long time, and he got worried. He also wanted me to tell you that he found another way to charge up the music box, it's back at the castle." Everyone's breath hitched. "What's wrong? I thought you'd be happy to hear that, especially you humans."

"Why did Andrias learn about this NOW when he had all the time he needed back when we were in Newtopia," Johan asked as he inched closer to Marcy.

Before Diego could respond, Sprig shouted, "The jig is up! We know everything! About the frobots, and the invasion, and about the Calamity Box, and that you tricked Marcy this whole time!"

"Sprig, shush," hissed Hop Pop, but it was too late.

Johan groaned and face palmed. "Santo cielo, Rametto. Hai una bocca grande."

Diego stared, then said, "I see. Well, this makes my job a lot easier." Suddenly, he fired his gun at Valeriana so fast, no one saw it coming. She fell onto her back and gasped as she placed her hand on her stomach. "Valeriana," everyone shouted and ran to her aid, only to be stopped by another one of Diego's bullets. Johan fired back with the gunblade, only for his bullet to be redirected with a carefully aimed shot from Diego.

"All of you, you are not to move unless you want the littlest one," Diego said as he pointed the gun at Polly. "To have one between her eyes."

"Just try it, you scum," warned Polly.

All Stand users summoned their Stands, only for Diego to shock them by saying, "Put your Stands away."

"Y-You're a Stand user," asked Marcy.

"There's a lot of things about me that I won't tell."

"We still got the advantage," said Joan Jett. "You're surrounded!"

Diego smirked. "It's not me you have to worry about." The sound of Valeriana's groans becoming agonizing screams made everyone turn in her direction. She began writhing on the ground, her voice starting to change in pitch.

"V-Val...?" Anne asked.

"Get away," Valeriana shouted as her voice became a growl. Her body mass grew and destroyed her clothes in the process, her pupils became slits, her skin became scaly, her teeth became sharp and serrated, her fingers became talons, and her toes became claws, with one in particular becoming sickle-shaped. She let out a screech as she finished her transformation into a velociraptor.

"Holy shit, she's turned into a dinosaur," shouted Sasha.

Grime gave her a confused look. "What's a...dino-sore?"

"Uh...prehistoric lizards," said Marcy, giving her best explanation. "They all went extinct a billion years ago on Earth!"

"Looks like it's not the same case on Amphibia," said Johan.

The Valeriana raptor snarled and began to circle the group. "This is the power of my Stand, Scary Monsters," explained Diego. "A virus that transforms people into these prehistoric animals. And since I'm the user, they recognize me as the alpha, the pack leader." He suddenly transformed into a dark blue velociraptor with yellow stripes right before everyone's very eyes. His voice became a gravely growl as he said, "And it's not just people that my Stand can transform!"

Silver Bullet suddenly began to transform, growing spines out of his shell, his face became a reptilian snout and arrowhead tail, and a salivating mouth that dripped with venom. The transformed snail then spat at Johan's direction, but Hop Pop pulled him out of the way with his tongue. "Thanks, Hopediah."

"D-Don't thank me yet," the old frog groaned as he trembled and hugged himself. "I think...Diego's virus is affecting me, too." His pupils became slits. "Now that I think of it, you're not looking so good, either, JoJo."

Johan looked at his hands, and gasped as he saw scales growing. He looked around and saw that Sprig, Polly, and Grime were starting to look more reptilian than amphibian. "This is how he was able to defeat the entire toad rebellion," snarled Diego. "I turned most of them into dinosaurs and had them attack everyone who was still a toad! Pity your sister ran away before the pack could eat her."

Grime's eyes widened when he heard that. "Beatrix..."

Anne, Sasha, and Marcy gasped as they saw their friends transform slowly. Sasha summoned Slash and ordered it to attack Diego, only for Valeriana to lunge at her and bite into her shoulder. She let out a scream and tried to get the raptor off her. She had Slash stab her in the gut and launch her off. Anne rushed to her aid, only to get attacked by Sprig and Polly, who had transformed into a pair of compsognathus.

"Sprig, Polly, snap out of it," cried Anne. "It's me! It's Anne!" The two responded by shrieking and snapping their teeth at her. With no other choice, Anne controlled her breathing and said with tears in her eyes, "Ripple Overdrive." A beam of energy shout out her her hands, launching the two dinosaurs into the air and they crashed down. Aside from a nasty sunburn, they were somewhat alright.

Marcy rushed over to heal Anne's wounds, only to be blocked by Grime, who had transformed into a dilophosaurus with corrosive saliva. Then he spat her in the face and she let out a scream as she felt it burn her skin. Thankfully, she didn't get any in her eyes or she would have been blind. Quickly, she used the Spin on herself to fling the saliva off her face. Grime lunged to take a bite out of her, but she used the Spin again to make a ball of air and slammed it into Grime's stomach, knocking the wind out of him.

Frobo, upon seeing Polly transformed, let out a metallic yell of anger and pointed all his weapons at Diego, only for Hop Pop, who had been transformed into a stygimoloch, to ram his bone cap into Frobo's side, leaving a huge dent into it. Then he began banging his head into Frobo's face, causing one of his eyes to crack. Frobo grabbed Hop Pop by the head and slammed him into the ground, knocking him out.

The only one that hadn't transformed fully was Johan, though he was starting to lose himself. He started growing a tail, destroying his pants, his big toenails grew into sickle-shaped claws and destroyed his sandals, his face extended into a snout, and his fingers started to grow talons. Diego snickered, "Mmm, mmm, mmm. Your will is impressive, but pointless. You cannot resist the alpha forever. Eventually, you too will obey me."

Johan glared at Diego, his pupils starting to turn into slits. "D...DARE..." The Stand appeared, only to get slashed by Diego's claw toes, with the same wound appearing on Johan. Anne, Sasha, and Marcy rushed to help him, only to stop when Diego put his jaws on his head and growled, "If you don't want me to snap his neck, you will do as I say!" The girls glared at him as he made his demands. "You three will come with me, and take the Calamity Box with you, so King Andrias can have you drained and power it up! If you don't, I'll order all your transformed friends to tear each other's throats out!"

"No," gurgled Johan. "Don't do it. If he gets that box fully charged, Earth is doomed! Our families back home, they'll either die or be his slaves! Take the box and hide!"

Diego chuckled. "And where will they go, JoJo? This is our world. There is nowhere you can hide."

Suddenly, before anyone could make another move, Silver Bullet shot his tongue at the girls, paralyzing them. Diego then transformed back into his newt form, and everyone transformed by Scary Monsters returned to normal. Diego said, "It's a good thing my clothes remain intact during these transformations. Must be because I'm the user." He knelt down and whispered, "Don't try to follow us, or your friends will be shot. We only need them in tact just long enough to power up the Calamity Box after all." And then he kicked Johan in the face.

Before he blacked out, the last thing Johan saw was Diego taking the girls' bodies and placing them on Silver Bullet's back as he transformed into a pteranodon.

"Jo...Jo...JOJO! JOJO!" Johan awoke to the sound of Sprig shouting his name and slapping him in the face. He awoke, babbling, "Ci sto! Ci sto! Sono completamente sveglio!" He looked around, noticing everyone's clothes had been repaired. "What happened to your clothes?"

"We've got spares," said Sprig. "Same can't be said for you, though."

Johan looked down and saw that his clothes were indeed still damaged. "Great, so I gotta walk around with a big hole in my pants?" Frobo held up a sewing needle and thread. "Oh. Grazie, Frobo." He took off his pants and shirt and handed them to the robot.

"We have no time to sew clothes," snapped Grime. "Diego took Sasha and her friends back to Newtopia! They'll be doomed if we don't save them!"

"We may ALL be doomed," said Valeriana grimly. "Marcy has the Calamity Box. When Andrias drains them of their powers to charge it up, the ancient machines all across Amphibia will awaken. The mistake of our ancestors will begin again."

Everyone made a glum face. And then Johan started chuckling. "I'd say we still have some time."

"Huh," asked Valeriana. "What do you mean?"

"Frobo, reach into my pocket." Frobo looked at the pants he was sewing, then reached into its left pocket. He found nothing. "The other one, Frobo." He reached into the right pocket and pulled out the Calamity Box.

"But...how?" asked Hop Pop.

Johan chuckled and put his finger on his lips. "A magician doesn't reveal his secrets."

Several minutes earlier...

"Why did Andrias learn about this NOW when he had all the time he needed back when we were in Newtopia," Johan asked as he inched closer to Marcy. Then he reached into her pocket, took out the Calamity Box, and swapped it with the fake one Valentine gave them.

Present...

Johan chuckled again. "Valentine's not the only one who can pull the old switcheroo."

"Woo-hoo," cheered Sprig. "We one upped Diego!"

"Don't celebrate too soon, young frog," said Grime. "When they realize that they've been tricked, they're going to use other methods to drain the girls of their powers. Definitely very painful ones."

"He's right," said Johan. "We've gotta get to Newtopia fast."

"We could always use Crazy Train," suggested Sprig.

"It can't," said Hop Pop. "There's no railroad that leads to Newtopia."

Johan then had an idea. "Frobo!" The robot, who had finished sewing Johan's pants, turned to look at him. "Do you have a jet pack?" Frobo made a look as if to say, "That's a good question." Then a pair of small rockets popped out of his back, surprising him. Johan smiled. "Skip over sewing my shirt and get us to the castle!"

Frobo handed Johan his clothes, then grabbed him and the Plantars in one arm and and Grime in the other, then took off into the sky. Then Johan let out a whistle and Joe Sparrow appeared, catching up with the robot.

Down on the ground, Joan Jett watched, dumbfounded. "Good grief. They forgot about me! I want to kick some fat king ass!" She exhaled and said, "Fine. I might as well return to Wartwood and tell everyone the bad news, prepare them for whatever comes next." And with that, she and Valeriana left to board Crazy Train where Jones was waiting. "Where is everyone," he asked as they climbed on board.

"They've either gone to their destiny, or to their doom," Valeriana replied as she took her seat.

Night had fallen by the time Diego and Silver Bullet returned to Newtopia with the girls in tow. Then he flew into the throne room and threw the paralyzed girls onto the floor and at Andrias' feet. "Captain," he scolded Diego. "I told you not to treat them so roughly! Honestly, can't you do anything without being a jerk?" He then said, "I'm sorry, Marcy. I asked him to bring you here when I told him I found..."

"Save it, you fat tub of lard," Diego snapped. "They know everything!"

Andrias' jolly face became neutral. Then he cleared his throat and asked, "What do you mean 'everything'?"

"Everything. The robots, the invasion plan, what the Calamity Box was used for, everything. Even the Stone Masks." Anne and Marcy's eyes widened. "Oh, yeah. Don't think I don't know about that little sleepover adventure you had in the castle's crypt."

Marcy gave Andrias a pleading look. "It's not true. Tell me it's not true."

There was a pause. "No, I'm afraid it's true," said Andrias nonchalantly. "My ancestors weren't frail explorers, they were glorious conquerors! Now that I have the box back, I can finish the work my ancestors started. From this castle, I will not only rule over this world, but all worlds!"

Marcy felt tears start to leak as she said, "You said no one would get hurt!"

"I would have said anything if it meant you delivered the box fully charged. Hate to break it to you, kiddo, but you've been duped."

Anne and Sasha glared at Andrias as the former said, "Leave her alone!"

"I wouldn't be so quick to defend her," said the king. "After all, she's been hiding something from you and JoJo."

"We know," said Sasha. "She's the one who stranded us in this world in the first place." Marcy made a guilty look.

This surprised Andrias. Then he made a humorous chuckle, "And you actually still consider her your friend? She's the reason you're stuck here, all because she was afraid to move away. All because she couldn't stand being alone. Oh, don't give me that look, Marcy. That's what you get for pouring your heart out to me over flipwart."

"No," said Diego. "That's what she gets for being so gullible. Honestly, even I would have seen that you were the bad guy coming a hundred miles away."

"The three of us may have made some mistakes, but you? You're evil!" Anne shouted.

"Here we go..." Andrias said sarcastically.

"And I'm going to stop you; right here, right now!"

Diego chuckled. "How are you going to stop us when you can't even scratch your nose?"

"Enough games," said Andrias. He pressed a button and three lethal looking chairs rose up from the floor, followed by a podium. Andrias snapped his fingers and three guards grabbed the girls and strapped them to the chairs. Diego then put the music box on the podium as Andrias explained, "This machine will drain you of your powers and put it back in the Calamity Box." Pipes in the chairs painfully stuck themselves into the girls on one end and connected to the music box on the other. "A warning, you may not survive the process. By the way, before I start the machine, Diego, what became of JoJo and the Plantars?"

Diego smirked. "Dead. I turned them into dinosaurs and had them tear each other apart, like what I did with the toads."

The girls' eyes widened. He lied. Why? Andrias made a satisfied smile. "Good." He bought it?! "Start the machine!" A newt guard turned a wheel attached to the machine and it whirred to life. Almost immediately, the girls screamed as blue, green, and pink liquids flowed out of thier bodies, through the tubes and into the music box, restoring color to its gems.

"After all these centuries," hissed Andrias. "Our glory has been restored!"

"Sprig...JoJo..." Anne croaked as her skin started to become shriveled and gray. "Help us..."

"I can see the castle up ahead and..." Sprig's eyes widened. "Uh, am I seeing things, or is it flying up into the sky?" He wasn't seeing things. The castle was flying, supported by a series of jet engines underneath it.

"Andrias got it working," said Grime.

"We need to hurry," said Johan. "Onwards, Frobo!"

"Wait, hold on, JoJo," called out Hop Pop, but it was too late. The robot flew forward at top speed and crashed his way into the throne room, surprising everyone present. Everyone groaned in pain.

"So, that's what ramming through a brick wall with your head feels like," groaned Polly.

"Warn us next time, will you, JoJo," said Grime.

Andrias was shocked, then angered to see them. He turned to Diego and said, "You said you killed them!"

"Obviously, they survived," Diego replied nonchalantly before he reached for his pistol. "I'll fix that." BANG! Johan fired the gunblade, sending it flying out of his hand.

"Where are my friends," growled Johan. Diego turned his head to the right and Johan gasped when he saw Anne, Sasha, and Marcy starting to look like raisins. There were a series of tubes that were connected to their bodies and flowed colored liquid into the music box.

"Anne! Marcy!" cried out the Plantars.

"Sasha!" shouted Grime.

They tried to rush to help the girls, only to be blocked by King Andrias, who was armed with a giant laser sword.

"Ah-ah. You can get your friends back after we're done extracting them of their powers. Assuming they live."

Johan let out a growl as he summoned DARE. "Everyone, save the girls. I'll handle fatso."

The amused smile never left Andrias' face as he said, "You guys are serious. Okay. Let have some fun." Johan charged at the king, firing his gunblade, though all the bullets were destroyed by the sword. These were only distractions though, allowing him to get close to Andrias and allow him to punch the king and send his senses into overdrive. Or at least, that was the plan, but suddenly, a fiery hand popped out from behind Andrias and slugged DARE in the chest, burning both it and Johan, who let out a scream as he tried to put himself out. He looked down at his chest. Yep. This was going to leave some marks. Then he said to Andrias, "I knew it. You're a Stand user, too. I knew you could see DARE."

Marcy, despite being weakened, slowly raised her head to look at Andrias with a look of betrayal. "You're a...Stand user? But...you said..."

"Oh, please, Marcy," said Andrias. "If I lied about what I was going to do with the box, why wouldn't I lie about not being a Stand user?" Andrias smiled wickedly. "Indeed, after generations upon generations of failures, I am the only one of the royal family who is compatible for a Stand! A Stand fit for a king! I call it Imagine Dragon!"

The Stand fully revealed itself. It was a humanoid figure with a green dragon's head. It had a muscular upper body, its green scaly legs were wreathed in flames, and its hands had talons instead of nails. Andrias chuckled. "How ironic. That I, the screwup who lost the box, was compatible with a Stand. My father thought it was the only thing that was good about me."

"We already know this story," said Johan. "The box wound up on Earth because you got careless."

A look of anger formed on Andrias' face. "Careless? No. It was stolen!" He shouted the last word, causing the whole throne room to shake. "Stolen by the one I once called friend! Centuries of prosperity brought to an end because of me. I was weak, trusting those who said they were my friends and because of that, the music box was taken under my watch. It cost us everything and after a thousand years, no one even remembers our legacy. But now, thanks to one foolish little girl, our glory will be restored! And I can't have you lot ruining it."

Imagine Dragon breathed fireballs at Johan, forcing him to duck and dodge. "Okay, how do I get close to a dragon without getting fried?"

"Leave that to me," said Olivia who jumped down from a balcony and used the Spin to put out the flames.

"Olivia? How long have you been listening in?"

"Long enough," said Olivia as she armed herself with Book of Memories' feather quill.

"You sure you want to do this," said Andrias dangerously. "This is an act of treason."

Olivia nodded. "The Zeppeli family has devoted itself to protecting Amphibia, even from itself! Andrias, you are no king of mine anymore!"

"Fine by me," Andrias said as he made Imagine Dragon to attack with flaming fists. Johan had to jump out of the way to avoid getting burned, while Olivia used the Spin on Book of Memories' feather quill to launch it into Imagine Dragon's hide...and all it did was make a small prick.

"What the heck was that," snapped Johan.

"I told you," said Olivia. "Book of Memories was not meant for combat!"

"Luckily for you, my Stand is!" General Yunan appeared in a flash of smoke and declared, "It is I, General Yunan, Scourge of the Sand Wars, Defeater of Ragnar the Wretched, and the youngest newt to ever achieve the rank of general in the great Newtopian Army!"

"Nobody cares!" shouted Diego as he turned into a velociraptor and lunged at her. She summoned Jaws, who blocked his claws. Then suddenly, the sword shark Stand turned into a shark and bit into Diego's shoulder. She let out a growl, "I never liked you, Captain. You always picked on me, even when I won fights fairly and did great things for our people. You always called me a child!" Jaws threw Diego away, spitting out blood as it did.

Diego let out a snarl and leaped in the air, claws at the ready. He pinned Yunan to the ground, and as she tried to slash him with her gauntlet, he bit into her arm. "And you still are," snarled Diego. "You're still that same little brat who tried to make a name for herself back at the academy. You still haven't learned that..." He suddenly changed back into his newt form and shot her in the other arm, making her scream. "...I fight dirty." Suddenly, Yunan grabbed him with his tail and slammed him into the ground.

"So do I," she said as she grabbed her bleeding arm. Then she let out a whistle. "Jaws! It's feeding time!" The sword shark Stand flew up from the ground and "swam" toward Diego and bit into his neck. His hand turned into a dinosaur's and he grabbed Jaws by the blade and tightened his grip on it until it started to crack. The same cracks appeared on Yunan's body and she yelled in pain. Jaws' jaws lost their grip, allowing Johan to free himself and throw the shark sword Stand and Yunan into a wall.

Then he saw Grime about to smash the machine the girls were bound to and rushed forward to him. "I've been waiting for this," he growled as he grabbed onto Barrel's Warhammer, trying to tug it away from Grime. "I always wanted to test the strength of the legendary Warhammer of Barrel since I was a child. I won't let an unworthy, washed up gladiator like you touch it!"

Grime yanked the hammer out of Diego's hands and swung it, but the newt managed to dodge it. "Sasha and I had to go through much to get this hammer. We had to face a giant narwhal worm to get it!"

Diego smiled and yelled back, "I heard. And all it cost you and Sasha was the trust and loyalty of that stupid jester and his girlfriend." Grime let out a growl and activated the hammer's jets in an attempt to crush Diego, but the newt dodged just in time and punched him in the face. Grime quickly recovered and summoned Toxic Avenger to spray a stream of acid at him. He then threw the hammer at Diego, but he managed to catch it and throw it aside. This gave Grime the distraction he needed to infuse Toxic Avenger into his fists and rapidly punch Diego in the face and chest, burning him, though he quickly brushed it off.

Meanwhile, Andrias was still fighting Olivia and Johan when he saw the Plantars starting to free the girls from the machine. "Oh, no, you don't! I won't let a bunch of frogs ruin everything again!" He stomped past Johan and Olivia and raised his laser sword with the intent to skewer them, only to be blocked by Frobo. "Polly, I will save you," he said.

"Oh, look at that. One of my robots," said Andrias. "Must be defective." He summoned Imagine Dragon, who proceeded to melt Frobo until there was nothing left of him except his head.

"FROBO!" screamed Polly in horror. She then formed a look of absolute fury as she charged up her Ripple. "You... YOU MONSTER!"

"Don't worry. You're up next." Andrias swung his fist in Polly's direction and crushed her. Or so he thought. Suddenly, a little purple blur appeared out of nowhere and began to rapidly kick him in the face before jumping down onto the ground. It was Polly, only there was something different about her. "Guess who just got her legs," she said before stumbling. "Whoa. I gotta get used to this."

Hop Pop couldn't have been more excited. "MY LITTLE BABY'S GOT LEGS!"

"This is weird," said Sprig.

Johan was about to say something about growing up, but his attention was diverted to the music box. "Is that supposed to happen?" The box was starting crackle with blue, green, and pink electricity. Everyone, even Andrias was looking at it with worry. As the crackling intensified, Johan realized what was going on. "IT'S GOING TO BLOW! HIT THE DIRT!"

Andrias was heard saying something along the lines of, "That's not supposed to..."

Quickly, the Plantars freed Anne, Sasha, and Marcy from the chairs and everyone fell flat on their stomachs as the explosion occurred.

All across Amphibia, the ancient robot factories which were slowly starting to come alive again after the box was in place started to shut down again.

When the explosion ended, the Plantars were the first to get back up and noticed that the girls were starting to look healthier. "Anne," cried Polly as she hugged her. "You're okay!"

"Ow," groaned Anne. "Still hurts."

"Sasha, are you alright," Grime asked as he helped her up.

"A little woozy, but I'm fine."

"Looks like destroying the box gave you back your powers," theorized Johan.

Olivia and Yunan ran up to Marcy, the former asking, "Lady Marcy, are you alright?"

Marcy didn't even look at her as she mumbled, "Don't call me that. Don't deserve it..."

Andrias looked at the wreckage and asked in disbelief, "How?!"

In response, Diego picked up one of the shards and looked it over. "It's a fake. They duped you."

Hearing this, Andrias got mad. "You've all got spunk, real chutzpah. But this ends now."

He held up his hand, revealing Sprig. "Guys, don't listen to this bully, I'll be fine," he said.

"We'll see." Andrias summoned Imagine Dragon, who put its hands on Sprig's head. "No more games. No more tricks. Give me the real box, or I'll have roasted frog for dinner!"

"But, I thought that was the real one," said Marcy. "Honest! I had it in my bag the whole time!"

Then Sasha realized, "JoJo, did you swap the real one with the fake Valentine made?"

Johan couldn't help but chuckle. Unfortunately, Andrias heard that and he said, "They were right to warn about you, Joestar. So cunning, so brave, someone that one shouldn't underestimate."

Johan's heart almost skipped a beat. "How do you know that name?"

"That doesn't matter. Give me the real box, or I'll kill this frog!"

Anne said desperately, "JoJo, just give it to him!"

"Anne, no," called out Sprig. "If he gets the box, he'll invade Earth!"

Anne said sadly, "If it means saving my best friend, I'll do anything."

Andrias chuckled. "That's the thing about friends, isn't it? The more you love them, the more it hurts when they go. Allow me to demonstrate." Imagine Dragon's hands ignited and Sprig let out a scream.

"SPRIG!" Anne and the Plantars shouted.

"JoJo! Give him the box," Hop Pop shouted. "I already lost my son, I can't afford to lose my grandson!"

"Frobo..." wept Polly as she held the robot's head.

"Okay, okay," said Johan quickly. "You can have the box!" He reached into his pocket. "Uh, a little warning, I decided to make an executive decision." He threw the box at Andras' feet. What everyone saw made them gasp. It was completely caved in and the gems were shattered.

"You think another fake is going to..."

"It's the real thing, Andrias," said Diego, who was inspecting it with a jeweler's eyes scope. "Yep. This is real. And very much broken."

Again there was silence. After thirty seconds of processing this, Anne screamed, "JOJO, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!"

"Simple. If we can't have it, nobody can."

"JoJo, that was our only way to get back home," shouted Sasha. "We needed that!"

"No we don't. Valentine said you can use your powers to open a portal on your own. You hear that, you fat king? We may have lost, but so have you!"

"JoJo, it's not a good idea to egg him on," warned Marcy.

Her words seemed to ring true as Andrias started to chuckle, then the chuckle became maniacal laughter. The whole while his grip around Sprig was tightening to the point that the young frog thought his eyes were going to pop out. "Losing consciousness," he choked.

"You think you are so clever, Joestar," Andrias said, once again sending a chill down Johan's spine at the mere mention of his family's name. "You think you've triumphed? You think you've won? All you've done is guaranteed one thing." Then he threw Sprig away and grabbed his laser sword. "NOT ONE OF YOU IS GETTING OUT OF HERE ALIVE!" And with a great heave, he thrusted it forward.

Everything seemed to move in slow motion as the sword penetrated Johan's body. He coughed up blood and his head fell forward. "JOJO!" everyone shouted. Andrias then flung his body and it slammed into a pillar. He did not get back up.

Anne, Sasha, and Marcy, watching their friend die, felt something snap inside them. Their powers ignited as they let out a roar, making their friends back away. "Give him back," Sasha said with pure hate. "Give... Him... BACK!" They launched themselves forward, going after Diego first. Before he could react, the captain of the royal guard found himself getting pummeled by three pairs of fists before he was sent crashing into the throne.

Andrias looked around. "Where'd they go?!" Anne punched him across the face with tears in her eyes, knocking his crown away. Yunan, Olivia, Grime, Hop Pop, Polly, and Sprig gasped in awe. They'd never seen the girls this mad before. Recoiling, Andrias attempted to crush Anne, but she dodged it and retreated to the ceiling. Sasha then dove out from underground and slammed her fist into Andrias' chest, knocking him off his feet. Marcy followed by slamming her elbow into his head, sending him crashing to the ground.

Polly held Frobo's head close as she backed away. "Polly..." she heard someone whisper. "Polly..." She turned around and gasped. "JoJo! You're alive!"

"Not for long..." he whispered with one eye open.

"Stand still, JoJo! We can get you to the doctor, maybe they can use the Spin or we could use the Ripple and..."

"No. No amount of Spin or Ripple can heal this wound... I'm a goner..."

"No! No! You can't die!"

"Polly...there is one way...I just hope it's not broken. Reach into my bag." Polly set Frobo's head down and searched JoJo's bag. She pulled out the Stone Mask. "Good. Now put it on my face."

Polly knew at once what he was planning. "But, JoJo, if you put it on, you'll-"

"I'm willing to do anything to save my friends, even sacrifice my humanity. Now put it on my face, Polly. Now." Reluctantly, she did so. "Good. Now, take my blood and put it on the mask." She did so and the tendrils popped out of the mask and bored themselves into his skull.

Meanwhile, the girls managed to bring Andrias down, but their powers were totally drained. Their hair and eye colors returned to normal. "Give him back," panted Sasha. "Give...him...back..."

"You were my friend," Marcy panted. "I trusted you!"

Andrias recovered and said, "You should have picked your friends more carefully. Not that it matters anymore." He raised his sword... SCHLUCK! Then suddenly, he couldn't feel his right hand anymore. He looked down to see it had been reduced to a bloody stump and he let out a scream of pain as he clutched it.

But everyone else's attention was focused on what was behind him. He turned around to see what they saw. It was Johan, wearing the Stone Mask and pouring blood from Andrias' severed hand onto himself as he let out grunts of pain. Then he tossed the hand away and staggered forward as the mask's eyes glowed red. Johan let out a scream of pain that soon gave way to maniacal laughter as his nails melted off his fingers and toes and were replaced with black, pointy ones, and the wound caused by Andrias' sword began to heal itself without leaving even a scar.

Then, the mask's eyes stopped glowing as it slid off his face. His mouth was open as he breathed, revealing his canines had been replaced with fangs, and every time he exhaled, his breath became visible as though he was in a walk-in freezer. "Haaa...haaa...haaa..." Then, he looked up at everyone and grinned.

"Wrrryyyy..."

To be continued ➟

Stand: Imagine Dragon

User: Andrias Leviathan

Power: B

Speed: B

Range: C

Durability: B

Precision: C

Potential: D

Ability: Imagine Dragon is capable of generating flames intense enough to evaporate and melt anything in seconds. Its fire breath has a long range that can reach just about any target. It has the secret ability to raise the temperature in an immediate area, almost to volcanic levels, even in the coldest of locations.