Butterfly Effect
Welcome again, this time for the final of Part 2. Next chapter we'll continue with Part 3. Until then enjoy the final fight of Kars, who'll get into action now!
I do not own JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Chapter 5: To put out a light
Kars' anger couldn't be put into words. His best friends have been killed by a human and his race reduced to only himself. Of course, most of the latter was his cause, though he didn't care anymore. The Pillar Man was left with only two goals: Kill every Hamon user and finally find the red stone of Aja.
"Things are up to me again, huh…" Kars muttered, then performing a high jump from the stands into the arena. He was dangerously close to JoJo. Of course, he didn't forget slaying all the vampires badmouthing Wamuu for losing before the jump.
'Ah crap! I can't fight Kars in the state I am!' Joseph complained inwardly, gritting his teeth. 'Is this how I meet my end?! How unfair…'
"You know what Wamuu said." the Pillar Man lowly snarled, unleashing his blade from inside his arm. "After the rematch, anything else is free game. Time for you to die!"
As he was about to bifurcate the Joestar whole with his blade, a boisterous voice yelled at him from behind. "Hold on, Kars, leave him alone! Your ultimate opponent shall be me!"
It was Stroheim's voice, the Nazi stood on the outer edge of the arena, his hands placed on his sides. The ancient creature stopped the movement of his arms, instead moving his head.
"Come on, this hero has done his part. Now it's time for me to become a german hero and avenge all my countrymen you Pillar Men have killed!" the german roared in excitement, inviting Kars to fight him with his battle pose.
"Hmph!" Kars spat, accepting Stroheim's offer to fight him. "Killing you first doesn't matter to me! ALL you humans here are going to die, you just get to be first!"
The Pillar Man lunged at the Nazi at high speed, intending to diagonally split open his head. He put a lot of strength into his blade arm, though the Nazi's cyborg arm had a lot of strength too, enabling the german to easily stop the blade with one hand. "Oh really?"
Stroheim grabbed the blade, not letting its wielder escape. The ancient creature was in disbelief, clenching his teeth really hard and tensing his muscles.
"What's wrong, Kars? Can't handle german superiority?" the Nazi taunted with a cheeky grin, then breaking off the tip of the arm blade, forcing Kars to retreat with a jump.
"You foooooooooooooooool! German science is the best in the wooooooooooooorld!" the german proudly declared, saluting like Hitler and earning cheers of approval from his men on the stands. "My body has been recreated to be powerful enough to kill you! I'll tear you to pieces like plucking a bird's feathers!"
"Stroheim, you…" the young Joestar was about to say in awe, but Stroheim interrupted him.
"Don't you dare pity me, JoJo! My body…" A long strap of big bullets appeared out of the Nazi's coat "…is the result of the most advanced technology of the german people, AND I'M PROUD OF IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT! IN OTHER WORDS, I'M ABOVE EVERY OTHER HUMAN BEING~!"
Following his proud boasting, he turned his attention back to Kars. "Take this, Kars! This heavy machine gun can fire 600 armored rounds per minute through a 30mm steel armor plate! Each bullet will spall off a piece of your body!" the german declared, revealing the heavy machine gun built right into his torso.
"Even his body is mechanical?!" Caesar called in surprise, eyes bulging out.
"The germans are something…" Mario mumbled, shaking his head in awe and disbelief.
"I'm anti-war, but… this is… rad." Will spoke, sweatdropping. The Zeppeli family agreed, german science was the best in the world.
One moment later Stroheim let the machine gun do the talking and let all his bullets loose. His target, the Pillar Man tried shielding himself, though to no avail. Hundreds of armored bullets tore holes into his body or even lobbed off entire chunks of flesh.
The audience was left gaping, wide-eyed. That firepower was the definition of destruction and the german war machine.
'Britain's in trouble if the Wehrmacht mobilizes more soldiers like him.' Lisa Lisa thought in concern, impressed about how technology could do this much damage to this superior race.
Hundreds and hundreds of bullets left the ancient creature looking like swiss cheese. Luckily for him, the broken arm blade fully regenerated, allowing him to counterattack. "I shall not let a machine kill me!" Kars announced, letting his new blade glow.
Joseph, Stroheim and the others were alerted by this. "Light! The blade coming out of his arm started to shine!"
"My Mode is the 'Light Mode', the Mode of the Bright Bone Blade!" the Pillar Man explained, cutting through the remaining bullets like a hot knife through a bar of butter. While doing that, his body movements were really fast.
"I-impossible! That blade could only be made of hardened bone and flesh! It shouldn't be able to deflect bullets, let alone slice them in half!" the Nazi observed, greatly shocked about the ancient creature's true power.
"What is this light?! Why is the blade shining?!" the Joestar wanted to know, not having seen this Mode before.
"So he is failing…" Mario stated, disappointed the german couldn't finish off Kars.
"Despite this weaponry." Will remarked, worried about Kars being an even more problematic enemy.
Caesar sighed and gulped, slightly lowering his gaze in realization he'd have to fight the Pillar Man next. "I think it's up to me soon."
"No no no no no no!" Stroheim shouted as the ancient creature came closer as he ran out of bullets. He was horizontally cut in two, right through the machine gun.
While the blade cut through the Nazi, he uncovered its secret. Many shark-teeth-like tiny and slim claws ran along the blade at high speed like a chainsaw, refracting light and thus giving the blade its bright glow. 'I'm not ready yet… Human science isn't ready to face him yet!'
With a metallic clang, the two cyborg pieces of the german fell to the ground, the part with the head still processing his defeat.
"Stroheim, are you okay?!" the young Joestar exclaimed in concern, receiving no answer from him.
Kars picked up the part with Stroheim's head, holding him by his hair and letting his arm blade's sharp claws nearly cut open the Nazi's head, millimeters away. "I'm done fooling around. Tell me where the red stone of Aja is right now and I'll spare you."
Kars' threat and tone scared the german to death, albeit not literally. An inexplainable force glued his mouth shut.
A few seconds passed, the Pillar Man's patience ended after his question wasn't answered. "So you've chosen death."
Before the execution could commence, another human stopped the ancient creature from killing. "Stop right now, Kars! I'll fight you, so before you kill him, you have to kill ME!" Caesar energetically proclaimed, pointing at himself with his right thumb.
"Hmph!" Kars spat, narrowing his eyes in annoyance. "I did say I was going to kill all of you pesky humans, but I'm growing tired of your bullshit! Come and get it, your death, that is!"
Stroheim's head was tossed to the ground as the Pillar Man concentrated on the Zeppeli. He let out a long breath, glad to be alive.
"Fight and win, Caesar!" father and grandfather cheered on their descendant. "At this point only you can be victorious!"
"Y-yeah! Go, Caesar, go go go!" Joseph joined the cheers, believing in his friend.
"Bubble Launcher!" the young Zeppeli yelled, surrounding his opponent with many Hamon-imbued soap bubbles. His opponent didn't flinch one bit.
"Pathetic!" the ancient creature responded, slashing at the air with his arm blade, creating tiny air blades that cut through the Hamon bubbles. Those bubbles consequently popped, letting countless tiny droplets of soap water with Hamon drop down. Like with the bullets, the ancient creature had no problem reacting to that many of them, swiftly dodging all of them, letting not a single droplet touch and injure him.
"You lot keep getting weaker and weaker as I fight you. Who's next, the woman or one of the geezers?" Kars provoked the human in a serious tone, referring to Lisa Lisa and the elder Zeppelis.
"I wouldn't underestimate Master Lisa Lisa if I were you." Caesar merely warned, knowing her fighting prowess wasn't to be taken lightly. "Besides, I can still take you on, it's too early to talk about fighting others."
Kars' eyes twitched in anger. "Seems like you haven't learned your lesson yet!" he roared, lunging at the human. "Die, you fool!"
"Bubble Cutter!" the young Zeppeli shouted, revealing his new, improved technique. A new flurry of bubbles surrounded the Pillar Man, though those bubbles weren't spherical and round like normal bubbles. These bubbles were shaped like UFOs and had a very slim and very sharp edge.
"Pathetic, PATHETIC!" the ancient creature growled condescendingly, not thinking much about the newer bubbles. "This new shape of your little bubbles won't change anything, you're like a child!"
Swinging his arm blade again, Kars created a new wave of air blades, launched at the sharp flying bubbles. This time however, instead of slashing the bubbles to shreds, the air blades were deflected by the bubbles' own blade, their sharp edge.
"Wha-" the Pillar Man was about to say in disbelief. He was cut off as pain hit. His very own air blades that were deflected by the UFO-shaped bubbles inflicted numerous cut wounds on his body, including his left eye. Those air blades were deflected right back at him. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!"
"These disc-shaped bubbles are rotating at high speeds by using the centrifugal force. Their sharp edges allow them not only to spin that fast, but to cut through wind and air." Caesar calmly explained. This technique had been devised thanks to his grandfather's idea. "You cannot cut through them with air, Kars! You'll only get cut yourself!"
"That's my boy!" Will and Mario praised, smirking widely in high spirits.
"Pretty sick move!" Joseph complimented his friend, also grinning.
"Furthermore, the round section of my improved bubbles serves as a lense. If light shines on the lenses, the lenses bundle the light into concentrated rays of light." Caesar continued. "Too bad I can't use daylight right now to burn through you like a photographic film."
'Lenses…? Come to think of it, didn't they say light, specifically sunlight was their weakness?' the Nazi remembered, thinking of an idea after learning how the bubbles worked. 'Sunlight has an abundance of UV-rays. And speaking of UV… Hahaha, Kars! You're gonna get what's coming to you for ignoring me!'
Choosing the perfect bubble lense to reflect rays of light directly to the ancient creature's face, the german secretly opened up his mechanical eye, revealing a tiny UV laser implanted into it. He discretely fired the laser, exploiting the opportunity.
The next big pain Kars felt was his left eye being fried. "UUUWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" he screamed, suffering great pain. The worst thing for him was not knowing why, there wasn't supposed to be any daylight around.
Many were confused at this, this was a sudden surprise to the human faction as well.
After over 10 seconds of pure screaming, the Pillar Man became a little more composed, just calm enough to question this occurance. "Who… WHO DARES?!" he growled in immense rage, baring his teeth at everyone in his sight.
"Over here, dumbass!" Stroheim called, no longer scared upon seeing he could do notable damage to the Pillar Man, drawing the ancient creature's attention onto him.
Kars looked at the cyborg head in great fury. He was so enraged that his demeanor wasn't loud and violent, but rather quiet and calm. "You stupid machine…" the Pillar Man lowly hissed, expressing the meanest scowl the world had ever seen. "I've made a mistake by not ending you that moment!"
"Heh…" the Nazi chuckled. "Yes, you did. Here's one last question I'm going to ask you, Kars. Will you correct your mistake by killing me right now?"
"What kind of foolish question is that?!" the ancient creature snapped, grabbing the german by his hair to inflict pain to him. "Naturally I am! I'll kill you and it won't take long until I'm out of trouble!"
"You're wrong." Stroheim said, looking smugly into the flickering, angry eyes of his tormentor. "Whether you off me or not, you're in big trouble, Kars!"
"Tch!" Kars spat. "That bubble boy is nothing to me! I've seen his tricks, he won't get me a second time! Even with one eye, I will defeat and kill him, then JoJo, then the geezers and the woman!"
"Who said I was talking about the italian? Look around you, Kars!" the Nazi spoke, grinning very arrogantly, not befitting a threatened man like him. The Pillar Man knew, if humans talked big, then humans had big ideas. Most of the time these ideas weren't nearly enough to threaten his race, though at the point he was in, he couldn't take the risk of taking humans too lightly anymore.
"Men, surround the arena! Ready the UV light!" the german ordered, shifting his attention away from the ancient creature just for this order alone.
In the stands, Stroheim's subordinates surrounded the arena, getting into an entire circular formation. They carried UV lasers on their shoulders, and those lasers were far more potent than the tiny laser inside their superior's eye.
"Aim for the bubbles! Fire the light as soon as the Pillar Man kills me!"
At that moment Kars knew, there was no escaping anymore. All escape routes were sealed off. Killing the Nazi would only lead to his own demise. He could only stand still and think of ways to immobilize the soldiers from the spot he was staying on.
"Wow, didn't know you were this crafty, Stroheim!" the Joestar commeded, giving him a thumbs up.
"Hahahahaha, I've learned from the best." the german laughed.
Suddenly, the Pillar Man began spinning, intending to spam air blades into all directions with the aim to cut both through the UV lamps and the Wehrmacht soldiers' necks.
"Oh no, you don't!"
Caesar's bubbles were faster than the air slashes, intercepting them in midair. Once again the rotation of the sharp edges overpowered the air blades and deflected them back at the ancient creature. "Wuaaaaaaaah!"
"Oi, careful! You almost cut me as well!" Stroheim comically ranted, a sharp blade of air barely missing him. "As for you, Kars, you've targeted the wrong men. My men won't forgive you for this!"
Stroheim didn't sound angry when addressing Kars, he wasn't angry either when his men acted on their own and activated the UV lasers. Rather than being angry, he almost pitied him.
This action led to Kars feeling like he was placed in a very, very hot and burning oven. "OGOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the Pillar Man screamed as he disintegrated, slowly and painfully. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! HOW CAN I… LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE?! WHERE DID IT ALL… GO SO WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG?!"
Technically he had a method of staying alive by turning into stone. But that would mean he'd get captured by the humans and killed when he was defenseless. So the ancient creature sucked it up and turned into dust, disgraced from losing the battle but still as a free man.
About 20 seconds later, the Pillar Man race officially went extinct. The victorious humans initially stood where they were, heavily exhaling out of exhaustion and relief. The dust had settled, the threat to the world had been over, finally enabling them to relax.
"It's over." the young Joestar spoke, gratefully smiling and even crying. "We did it! Haha, yes!"
"Finally, we're at peace!" the young Zeppeli huffed, allowing himself to get out of his fighting stance and sit down.
"Guhahahahaha! If this doesn't prove that german military isn't the best in the world, what will?" the Nazi jokingly laughed. "Jokes aside, we're goddamn heroes of humanity! This feels almost as good as bringing glory to the homeland!"
"Heroes of humanity… That sounds so damn good! What do you think, Caesar?" Joseph asked, sheepishly grinning about the title.
"Neat." his friend briefly responded, shrugging. He didn't care about the title too much. While true, it was self-proclaimed.
'Yes Joseph, you're a hero… my hero!' Elizabeth thought, overjoyed about finally having the opportunity to reveal her parentage.
"Hey Mario, you know what?" Will said to his son.
"What, father?"
"This is the second time in my long life I've seen a Joestar save the world." the elder Zeppeli told, his eyes shining in nostalgia. "It can't be put into words, how special it truly is witnessing this."
'Jonathan, I hope you've seen this in heaven too. Your grandson is a hero just like you.'
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Following that day, things somewhat returned to normalcy.
Lisa Lisa told Joseph about her true identity. She later immigrated to the US and married a Hollywood screenwriter.
Joseph Joestar hooked up with and later married Suzie Q.
Holly Joestar was born in 1942.
Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli visited Germany, told Mark's fiancée about his death. He swore to protect her in front of his grave, ending up marrying her in his stead.
Marco Zeppeli was born in 1946.
Rudol von Stroheim died to a Soviet Stand user in Stalingrad as a proud soldier of the Wehrmacht.
Robert Edward O. Speedwagon died to a heart attack, aged 89 in 1952. He was single until the end of his life.
Erina Joestar died peacefully, aged 81 in 1950.
Will Anthonio Zeppeli died peacefully, aged 112 in 1950.
Mario Zeppeli died to a stroke, aged 100 in 1980.
Smokey Brown became the first black mayor of his native town in Georgia.
Time peacefully passed on until a certain year in the 1980s.
Man, this chapter was a pain to write. Writing the fight with Kars was much harder than writing the fight with Wamuu. I had to write the epilogue before finishing the fight. But hey, at least Battle Tendency is over! Stardust Crusaders is next, and I'll be on that for a long time, I believe.
Fun fact: If Holly was a boy, his name would be Wham, Wham Joestar.
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