My D and D Party in JJBA

by SlendVeny

This is the story of a group thrown into a series that is fictional in their own universe, some of them ecstatic at the idea of changing and improving, the conditions of one of their favorite tales. The early bits aren't as good, as I didn't really hit my stride until Part 3. That said, 1 is the only part the party is in, and later chapters are a result of their influence.

7. Part 3, Section 5

The group sit on a ledge outside the mansion, and look on at the setting sun.

"Are you crazy?" Polnareff calls, "You can't really just wait until sunrise! We're not cowards! Day or night, there's no way I'm running. Right, everybody?!"

Everyone around him is silent.

"I see how it is. YOU MORONS! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! Ms Zeppeli, I respect you, but I will not follow you in retreating. Avdol's death is on my hands. I didn't come all this way just to run!"

He quickly retreats. Will turns to his mother, Skull beside him. "I'm going with Polnareff. Any of you, feel free to follow."

Dio prepares himself, leaving the mansion. As he reaches out, the smell of cooking meat fills the air. His hand is slowly burning. These spotlights are burning his skin. Odd. Quickly, the group retreats. Speedwagon V looks back, lighting a rag on fire.

"God," he chuckles, "I love Molotov cocktails."

He chucks it, and the agents throw theirs as well. The flames slowly begin to spread. However, in only a minute, Dio has burrowed through the ground and into the street with his Stand's power. He appears behind the group, and stabs one of the agents through the chest, his Stand ripping another's chest open. As they turn, he's already decapitated another with his hand, throwing the head through the abdomen of another. The World strikes one with a barrage of punches, blowing him to smithereens. As they fire on him, he grabs the bullets out of the air with a rapid movement, and throws them at the crowd, killing another five. The remaining 4 throw aside their damaged guns and back away slowly, holding knives. Dio turns to them and laughs.

"You really think a normal human can harm me? Did you all actually volunteer to stay behind? Is this some sort of a trap for me?" The four of them all have tears in their eyes, thinking back to their families, as Dio, chuckling, tosses a rock up and down in his hand. The two nameless Hamon Users attack him from the side. However, their arms suddenly shatter, and they are launched to the side. One of the agents rushes Dio, swinging the knife. Dio ducks, grabs his arm, and rips it off.

Another agent swings at him, and he leans to the side, stabbing them with the knife in the severed arm, then kicking them into the third. A fourth swings a larger knife at him, and he grabs the knife, yanking it away, leaving a small cut on his hand. The bloodied knife appears in the kidney of the agent, who rapidly decays, reborn as a zombie. It leaps upon the two others, and consumes them. The zombie leaps at the two Hamon users, who battle it for a few seconds, killing it. Dio stabs one of them, who reaches out, grabbing the hand of the other.

"My love," he says, "take my Hamon... DEEP PASS OVERDRIVE!"

She is blessed with both of their Hamon.

"DIO! YOU HAVE KILLED EVERYONE I LOVED! I WILL END YOU!"

She leaps at him, three times as fast as before, and thrusts a hand toward his chest. In an instant, there is a burst, and Dio coughs out blood. She pulls back her hand, holding a heart, which she crushes.

"There, Dio! Feel that? That's the Hamon of my body coursing through your-"

She collapses, and Dio laughs, walking away.

"Hamon, always delaying the bodily functions," he says, spitting still more of her husband's drained blood into the Stone Mask. In her hand, the final remnants of her own heart cease to move. "It's almost a weakness." Holding the Stone Mask up to his face, he lets the tendrils tear into his skin.

"WRYYYY! THAT'S THE STUFF! FEEL THE BUUUUURN!"

Müller fires a beam of light at Dio, who jumps out of the way. "That one was too close for comfort," Dio thinks, "I had best be on my game."

Dio leaps toward Müller, but Speedwagon V intercepts him, swinging a closed fist downward at him in the midst of a midair leap. Dio leans to the side, but a cut opens at something strikes the back of his arm, and the side of his ribs. Dio, confused, whips around. "A Stand?! You? Again, I underestimated you, simply because you were so weak. I will not do so again. Who would have though there was a Stand that evaded even The World's vision?"

The man laughs. "It is only because I am so weak that my Stand cannot be seen. You see, my Stand is pretty strong, and I'm not. I just can't handle that level of power. The more of my Stand Energy that I manifest, the more of a toll it takes on my body. I would say I can manifest my Stand, at full power, around ten times a day. From now forward, since I've used some of it to scout around, I have nine uses. Once I hit zero, I might die. Every time I manifest my Stand, I have about a minute before I have to do it again. So, I have nine minutes to beat you."

"Why are you telling me all this?"

"Because you won't survive nine minutes. In the name of my forefathers, I, Robert E.O. Speedwagon V, will end you, here and now!"

"Speedwagon... doesn't ring any bells."

"You prick... IMMIGRANT SONG! AH-AAAAHHH-AH!" From the ground, a group of ten figures rise. Their faces are grinning, their bodies muscular and consisting of lavender-colored Stand Energy. "These are my Einherjar, ten fighters akin to the warriors of Valhalla. Each Einheri bears strength and speed akin to mine, and damage done to them does not harm me."

One of the Einheri, holding two battleaxes, rushes at Dio, who flips overhead, only for an arrow from another's longbow to graze his nose, as another's spear stabs his foot. Another, holding a greatsword, tries to split him in half. As he disappears again, Speedwagon is surprised.

"Is he increasing his speed? Teleporting? How could he-"

The World punches through his chest. He spits out blood, and reaches for the arm.

"I remember now," Dio says, "Speedwagon. He was a weakling. The fool could barely defeat my zombies. You're almost as weak as he was."

One of the now-fading Einheri grabs The World's arm.

"I will find it..." Speedwagon says, "Your power... if you can escape this..." The rest of the Einherjar attack Dio from all sides, surrounding him and seperating the two combatants, and he disappears. He reappears, holding the man, in another area.

"I see... my... Stand... Müller, it's 'time'! HE'S-"

Dio wrenches his head from his body. Müller, in the background, atop a tower, vomits. How could everything he had done be useless? How could his only friend die like this? HOW COULD HE NOT EVEN SEE THAT MONSTER'S MOVEMENT?! Dio looks up at him.

"You aren't worth being taken seriously. All you are is a pathetic man, using technology as a crutch to support your weak, disgusting body. At least your friend, though he may have had no potential, knew his place. He knew I would kill him. But he didn't give up. He wasn't pathetic like you. Your pitiful technology is a crutch. I outclass you in strength, I outclass you in speed, I outclass your pathetic mortality! AND YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A STAND! AT LEAST YOUR PATHETIC FRIEND, nay, EVEN STRAIZO COULD DO SOMETHING! YOU WERE CHOSEN FOR NOTHING! YOU ARE NO ONE! YOUR BLOODLINE IS WORTHLESS! PATHETIC!"

Müller looks at him. He growls, but Dio strikes him in the ribs, with him falling to a crouch. He reaches out, but Dio spears him through the abdomen. He lays down as Dio moves, and can only growl. His heart beats slowly, and like an engine, roars to life.

Outside, Polnareff watches as Dio leaps away. Will approaches from behind him, and both prepare to follow their foe.

Lisa Zeppeli drives recklessly, not displaying Joseph's respectful and lawful driving. Dio follows, tracking Jotaro.

Polnareff and Will try to hotwire a motorcycle. Skull cuts the chain, and Will starts the engine with his Hamon. A revving engine in the distance approaches them at an even faster speed.

Hierophant Green fires into Dio's car, but he effortlessly blocks with one finger. The World rushes out, punching Hierophant Green so hard that Kakyoin's arms bleed. Jotaro punches a hole through the roof, standing with his upper torso sticking out of it. Holding a stone in his hand, he and Star Platinum flick it forward at the same time, only for the World to punch it aside. As Senator Wilson Phillips is thrown directly at the car, Platinum smacks him to the side as well, with his body splattering against a brick will. The car careens into a nearby building, and Dio leaps toward it. As he approaches, Lisa Lisa bursts through the roof, pointing the Red Stone at Dio. He appears ten meters to the left as a storm of light tears through the air. Everyone in the car rushes away.

Polnareff and Müller ride a motorcycle toward Dio, as Müller bleeds out of his entire body. Will stands up behind Berryberry Skull, who flips a visor down over its face. The two of them ride Müller's Stand, Assy the Horse, a combination of a horse and a motorcycle, which allows them to move at supernatural speeds toward the enemy. This is their journey.

"DIIIIOOOOOO!"

Kakyoin grew up without any friends. Hierophant Green... if no one else could see it, how could they relate to him? Looking at Jotaro, who holds onto his torso as they swing, he chuckles.

"What's so funny?" Jotaro smirks, "You a big fan of dying?"

"I was just thinking how funny it is that I'm the one carrying you."

"Why's that?"

"Well, you're the strong one. You carried the group, literally for a few."

"Heh... I miss Iggy."

"And... Avdol. Mr. Zeppeli, too."

"And... grand... father... and... if we aren't fast enough... mom..." Jotaro's pupils dilate, and he chokes up.

"No... no... not right now..." Kakyoin whispers, "Not yet... you have to hold on, Jotaro!"

Jotaro grits his teeth.

Dio laughs as he approaches the group. He steps onto the roof of one building, then leaps onto another. He sees only Jotaro and Kakyoin, standing on a nearby rooftop, Kakyoin looking around while Jotaro sits on his knees, vomiting off the side of the building and directly into the meal of a passerby.

"Pathetic. A few deaths have broken him? How... human."

He takes a step forward, and trips. A series of crystalline projectiles tear at him from all sides. He slashes through the nearby tendrils as he knocks away all the projectiles, again and again, over and over.

Assy the Horse tears up the side of the building, and Will leaps over the side.

"OI! KAKYOIN! I KNOW THE WORLD'S "ABILITY!" DIO CAN STOP-"

"THE WORLD!"

-BVVVVVT!-

Dio approaches him.

"Hmmm... you don't seem as torn up... mentally, that is, as Jotaro. Perhaps it's because of your mother. I know Jotaro isn't doing so well on that front. Well, I suppose this is it, then. SHI-NEEEEEE! ZE-PPELIIIII!"

The World and Dio strike together, punching a hole in Will's chest.

"Good luck using your Hamon without lungs! Now to finish this! WRYYYYYYYY!"

Just as Dio swings his hand toward Will's neck, he notices the projectiles approaching him.

"DAMNIT! I FORGOT ABOUT KAKYOIN!"

He rushes toward the red-haired man, kicking off of Skull. However, as he does so, Skull's stance comes into play. As Dio kicks at the Stand, he instinctively wastes a fraction of a second to avoid moving in a way that would sever his leg on the precariously-positioned blades, leaping off the Stand slightly slower. He prepares to jump off of another nearby object, the ropes of Hierophant Green, and does so again and again. And yet... he feels weak. Just as he approaches Kakyoin, time resumes. He was WEAKENED! THE STAND WAS CHARGED WITH THE DAMNED RIPPLE AGAIN, SPREAD THINLY THROUGHOUT!

Just before the vampire can hit Kakyoin, Lisa Zeppeli appears along Hierophant's tendrils, and Dio's arm plunges through her stomach, ripping the organ out. Her body reflexively swings forward, her arms grabbing Dio's arm as her legs strike the sides of his, burning a chunk out of his calf and thigh, as well as both knees. The World throws her aside, Dio's burnt body exposing bone as The World kicks Lisa off the side of the building.

Dio laughs again, preparing to stop time, but it's too early. His body isn't fully healed, and the more hurt he is, the harder time is to stop, or at least the longer the... what was the term Telence used? Cooldown?

He looks over at Jotaro, chuckling. The World strikes at Kakyoin, knocking him back and shattering all the bones in his forearms despite Green blocking.

"I'm going to kill them all, Jotaro. I'll save you for last. I want you to watch them all. Watch them all die, that is. Even you are nothing. Look at you. Are you not a man? Can you not stomach even a bit of death? Grow up, you bastard!"

Jotaro's head quickly flashes upward, and Star Platinum's fist tears off Dio's face.

"I'm 17."

Will watches as he falls. His own mother... his grandfather... his friends... his acquaintances... everyone else he liked... people he was neutral towards... Kakyoin...

Dio was ruining this. Everything was terrible because of this. So many have died because of Dio. Damnit! Where are his group of otherwordly travellers? Why did that only happen once? Why can't someone save them? HE HAS TO MOVE! HE HAS TO MOVE! HE HAS TO-

His body gives out. His lungs cease to breathe.

"THE WORLD!"

-BVVVVVT!-

Dio approaches Jotaro. That pitiful boy nearly decapitated him with that punch. His rage, combined with that surprise attack, all in his injured state, was far too much for Dio, at least if it was a continuous attack. He only- Wait, what?

Jotaro's finger twitches. Dio steps toward him. His hand trembles. Dio reaches out. His arm shakes. Dio grabs his shoulder. His body clenches. The World draws back its fist. His Stand appears. Time has resumed, and Star Platinum punches him in the chest, slamming him into the ground, a hole in his sternum.

Dio looks down. Magnets. On his hand. THE IDIOT PLACED- Star Platinum punches him again, directly in the face. His skull caves in, and he calls his Stand. A barrage of blows forces Platinum to block, as Green fires an Emerald Splash from behind Dio, who blocks, now distracted enough for Jotaro to force him on the defensive.

Kakyoin smirks at Dio.

"You can't stop time very long, can you? I'd give you... ten seconds? No, less. If you had that, we'd be dead. It can't be much less, but then again, you might just be that fast. I doubt it, though. No, I know how fast you are."

Polnareff leaps in, Chariot stabbing downward with a blunted blade. Dio stops time again, grabbing the blade and throwing it aside. He rethinks this, grabbing it, and rushing in to stab Polnareff through the heart. The blade only reaches the tip of Polnareff's chest before Dio is forced to pull his hand back.

Dio leaps backward, his fingers burnt and steaming.

Müller takes his turn to laugh as time returns to a flow.

"You thought that was normal light, didn't you? Look at that! You might not be so smart after all! Do you know what seperates men and beasts? Innovation. HUMAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD! Not that there's much competition to be had. Ultraviolet Overload!"

He turns on two more lights, all three aimed at the roof. Dio stops time, leaping off of the roof to retreat. The group begin searching around, until Dio leaps up behind Müller and strikes him with The World, crushing half his ribs.

"How are you still alive?" Dio questions, "Are you undead as well?"

"This is the power of Foundation science! I am more than human! This is the power of technology! I am a cyborg!"

"More than human? More than human?! I AM MORE THAN HUMAN! YOU ARE A WORM!"

Dio punches down again and again, shattering Müller's skull. However, Müller chuckles.

"Do you think I would stand here with no way to protect myself? TAKE THIS!"

His body explodes, a ball of flame tearing out of his location and engulfing the building. Dio, skin torched, walks away, before being blasted by Kakyoin. He disappears again, stopping time. Appearing again, he stands behind Kakyoin, drawing back The World's arm. However, a stone the size of his sternum flies through the air, striking his arm and breaking it just before he can hit his target. Dio turns, and Jotaro stares him in the face.

"Oh... Jotaro. A fine prediction. However, you can't-"

Star Platinum shatters his jaw again, but The World punches it repeatedly, again and again, pushing it back. Polnareff leaps at him again, but he backhands Chariot in the face, knocking both to the ground. He throws a knife at the fallen Frenchman, but it is stopped by a bullet.

"Well now... we sure wouldn't want any of that here, would we?" Hol Horse chuckles, "You take one more step toward any of these fine fellers, and I will blow a hole in your brain, m'lord. Ey, Polnareff! I just want you to know, I didn't know all that about J Geil! I only just read his file in the hospital! I'm sorry, man!"

As Dio leaps at him, Doa and Kotetsu strike him from above and below, and Midler, standing up, the hole in her body now closed off with some advanced stitching technique from High Priestess' stones, launches an arm made of rock at him. He stops time again, trying to get away, but Lisa Lisa is standing on a nearby roof. The moment time unfreezes, she leaps onto his shoulders, pressing the Red Stone to his head. A burst of magnificent, respledent energy is fired from it. However, Dio, knowing the cooldown, knowing the toll on his body, pushes his limit to ten seconds, giving him but a moment more, at the cost of an extreme amount of pain, and a brief moment of paralysis, but it's worth it. His quick movement superimposes the Stone Mask between himself and the Red Stone.

The Mask shatters, crumbling apart. Lisa Lisa's body is bisected, as the ascended vampire moves forward. His hair has grown roughly half an inch longer, his skin briefly glowing as his body's muscles are accentuated by an improved physique.

"Damn you...! DIO!" Jotaro roars.

"MMHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AS I EXPECTED! Being the Ultimate Life-form! It suits me well! I'm perfect, my blood is rich, far stronger than anyone else's blood. My skin is denser, stronger. Even the sun cannot kill me now! I'll simply come back, again and again, forever! I have surpassed all limits! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Dio laughs, chuckles, scratching and tearing away at his own flesh.

"I'm growing stronger by the second, Jotaro! As time passes, I get stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and-"

Jotaro throws a punch with his Stand, but a new Stand catches it. The World's headpiece has widened, its diving cyclinders have become far larger, and its shoulder now houses a symbol shaped like a wheel.

"THE WORLD ULTIMATE! DESTROY HIM!"

Lisa Zeppeli stands up. She's dying. She can't do anything... except this. Pulling out her own intestines, she ties a knife at the end of them. She tosses the knife in Dio's direction, spearing into the ground.

"THIS IS MY FINAL ATTACK! OH! LONESOME! ME! LIFEBLOOD OVERDRIVE!"

Her entire body is charged with Hamon, the blood leaking out across the ground, even minute flakes of skin carrying enough energy to cause first-degree burns to Dio.

"AND NOW! MY END! LIVE, MY SON! DEEP! PASS! OVERDRIVE!"

Concentrated, her Hamon bursts forth as a chain, linking her son to the mortal realm, even as his soul would leave it. The energy rushes back into his body. Will Stands.

Dio growls. A tiny, miniscule, speck has harmed him, even though he's resistant to the sun's light... This pitiful little...

"MUDA!"

She's gone. A bullet from Hol Horse flies at him, nearly striking his head.

"THE WORLD ULTIMATE! STOP TIME!"

-BVVVVVT-

He moves toward Jotaro. The World Ultimate draws back a fist, and-

"ORA!"

The two Stands strike each other at the same time. Jotaro's hand is damaged, but so is Dio's. The two of them strike each other with rapid barrages.

"WHAT?!" Dio calls, "Jotaro, I had no clue you could move in stopped time! You should have warned me, I would have made tea~! MUDA!"

The World Ultimate strikes Star Platinum in the chest, sending Jotaro flying into a building, the wall crumbling around him.

Jotaro stands back up. Dio laughs.

"YOU! JOTARO! LOOK AT THIS! TWELVE SECONDS! THE WORLD ULTIMATE! STOP TIME!"

-BVVVVVT-

"LOOK AT ME, JOTARO! GEORGE JOESTAR IS DEAD! JOHNATHAN IS DEAD! HIS SON IS DEAD! JOSEPH IS DEAD! HIS DAUGHTER IS DYING! AND YOU, TOO, WILL DIE! EVERY JOESTAR, IN A LONG, LONG LINE, WILL DIE! HERE AND NOW! NO OTHER JOESTAR WILL EVER EXIST IN THIS WORLD, AND SO I SHALL BE FREE!"

A four-year-old Josuke Higashikata sneezes. His mother chuckles, and his grandfather pats him on the head.

Jotaro grimaces. His body hurts. How can time pass if time is stopped? He throws a punch, and The World Ultimate blocks him with skillful technique. The two of them hammer away at each other, but it's clear that the length of The World Ultimate's 'Time Stop' is growing longer and longer. He can't keep this up forever. He throws a punch, and Dio blocks. He does it again and again, to no avail. Dio's too strong. They're evenly matched, but Dio doesn't grow weaker.

Time Stop after Time Stop, the two Stands clash, again and again, fists matching as Dio draws closer and closer to victory. He holds the advantage with his superior speed, strength, skill, and ability to move around as he wants for roughly twice the the time Jotaro can. More, even. He leaps back and throws some knives from both of his hands. His Stand lunges forward, ready to crush Jotaro's skull.

However, Jotaro sidesteps, and the World misses a strike, the 3 knives that don't harmlessly bounce off Jotaro's Stand embedding themselves into his chest. He needs to buy time, or he'll die. But... he can't reach. A Stand grows weaker as it moves away from the user, but Dio can just deactivate his at any time. He needs to attack him directly, so he's forced to summon it to defend himself. However... Dio's too far away! DAMNIT! But... wait... WAIT! Star Platinum doesn't just have one ability. No, not even just two. He needs to push himself, and test its powers.

Aimed directly at Dio, he points his hand forward. "STAR... FINGER!"

Quickly, The World Ultimate moves back to catch the extended fingers.

"Jotaro, you imbecile. How long do we have to perform this same god-damned song and dance? How many times until you're ready to give up. Your power is nothing to my sheer skill, honed with a century of experience. YOU ARE... USELESS! MUDA!"

A shadowy figure slams down on Dio from above.

Doa charges his legs with Hamon.

"THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK!"

Kotetsu lunges at him from the front, arm ready to spear through Dio's chest, charged with electricity.

Their teamwork has been finely honed as well. They strike in tandem. When Dio moves to catch one attack, he's trapped by the other. He attempts to freeze Doa's legs, but Kotetsu's hand pierces his chest, electrocuting his internal organs. However, Dio flails around, tearing off Doa's legs. The man is left bleeding on the ground, forcibly using his Stand to prevent himself from bleeding out. Dio makes a move toward Doa, striking down at him.

A rock formation appears, Midler holding a cast of stone around her arm to shield herself, as Hol Horse appears in a wall that opens in a mouth behind her. As Dio punches at them, the mouth closes, and he shatters the brick wall, the two of them attempting to escape. Dio stops time again, strategically placing knives in the vital organs of all 4. He can't keep doing that. It's starting to leave a strain on his body, but the excruciating, agonized cries of pain bring him joy. In that instant, a blade pierces his chest.

"Oi, Dio!" Will chuckles, "Eat your heart out."

Placing his hands on Berryberry Skull's back, he charges his Hamon into the Stand, melding into it. The blade burns a hole in Dio's chest. Skull tears a hole through Dio's torso, faster and stronger than anything here that isn't the same type of Stand as Star Platinum.

"THE WORLD ULTIMATE!" Dio desperately shouts, "STOP IT! STOP TIME!"

With time stopped, he moves toward Will, drawing back his fist back. WAIT! DAMNIT! SHIT! FUCK! HELL UNHOLY, THIS BASTARD OUTWITTED HIM! He lifts up a huge chunk of rubble overhead with his Stand, bringing it down on the samurai. He chuckles as time unfreezes, but is quickly speared through the head with a stop sign.

Pushing through the stone, Berryberry Skull slashes the rubble to pieces, the remainder crashing into Will and cutting his arms. He leaps forward, wearing Skull as an armor, channeling Hamon through his body. He twists around at an incredible speed, spinning all 3 blades around like a whirling tornado of Hamon. This technique defeated The Sun, now it's infused with the sun.

Dio's forced back, tearing out the sign Jotaro threw into his head. He uses it to parry, but leaps back as it's shredded. As he prepares to stop time, his head is slammed into the ground.

Turning around, he sees Kakyoin standing above him. For some reason, the man is holding a gun, and his Stand is wrapped around Dio's throat.

"You see, Dio~? You know, you did the same thing to me, so... this is quite ironic." Green enters Dio's mouth, tearing down into his throat, and up toward his brain.

Confused, Dio looks at Kakyoin's arms.

"Didn't I... didn't I shatter those bones? Why are you regenerating? Was being implanted with 'my cells' enough to make you more powerful?"

Kotetsu stands back up, with a somewhat healed Midler, Hol Horse, and Polnareff standing behind them. HAMON CAN HEAL PEOPLE! WHY HAD HE LEFT THEM ALIVE?! IS HE STUPID?!

Jotaro punches him, and Will slashes at him, as he tries to avoid them. Polnareff cuts his back, and Hol Horse shoots him, while Midler shoots stone scales out of her arm at him. Kotetsu kicks his jaw, and Doa grabs his leg.

"THE WORLD ULTIMATE! STOP TIME! NOW!"

He moves through time like a knife through butter. He stomps down on Doa's skull, crushing it, and punches Kotetsu in the ribs with the grace of a boxer, then hits Hol Horse into the grave of a boxer, by which I mean he slams him through the wall of a nearby gym so hard it literally kills a man working out with a punching bag. He delivers a chop to Midler's neck that knocks her out, throws a spear of stone she was holding at Will, and tosses Polnareff at Jotaro full-force. He kicks Kakyoin in the face, at which point time unfreezes. The spear hits Will, grazing his cheekbone, Jotaro catches Polnareff, both knocked to the ground, and Kakyoin's jaw shatters. As this happens, Dio's body is wracked with pain.

"Seriously... HE DID THE 'SAME THING' AS THAT GOD-DAMNED STEELY DAN!"

Berryberry Skull impales his chest, and he twists around, damaging his own body. If these bastards... fine. He tears his own body in half, vertically bisecting himself, using his Stand. Quickly, The World Ultimate grabs Hierophant Green out of the air, grabbing it and stretching out its humanoid form overhead. Arms spread, The World Ultimate yanks Hierophant downward.

"NO! KAKYOIN!" Jotaro screams.

Will, armored in his Stand, charges forward. Both reach for their waist.

"DIOOOOO!"

"Pathetic. Little. Zeppeli. BRAT!"

Breaking Hierophant Green's spine over its leg, The World Ultimate yanks with such force that the Stand's right leg is torn off. Kakyoin, too, loses the limb, falling to the ground, and screams.

Will and Skull reach for their sheaths.

"THREE BLADES! IAI!"

Just as Dio prepares to move, three slashes appear on his chest. The Iai technique is far too fast for even the likes of him. Quickly, The World Ultimate stops time.

How does one beat 'an enemy' they cannot even touch? That is the question on Dio's mind. He's faster. He's stronger. His 'Stand Ability' is superior. He's ascended beyond death. He's using 'apostrophes' to make the sentences look cool in his head. He's smarter, he's got stamina, he's better in every way~! But that FUCKING HAMON! THE SUN'S ACCURSED RIPPLE! BLAST THAT DAMNED UNREASONABLE POWER!

He doesn't know what to do. He has to stop that Zeppeli brat from breathing. He throws knives into the lungs of the brat, and they barely manage to damage the Stand. Jumping back, he grabs the stop sign again. He leaps forward, The World Ultimate stabbing it through the lad's abdomen, preventing him from moving. As he walks away, he picks up a cigarette off the ground. As time unfreezes, he lights it using The World's finger, and throws it at Will. Midair, it stops.

"Dio!" A voice calls from behind him, "It's been roughly 15 seconds. That looks to be your limit."

Dio spins around.

"I HAVE ONE SECOND LEFT! DIE, JOTARO!"

The World Ultimate throws a punch, but Star Platinum catches it.

"I've seen through you, Dio," Jotaro says, "I'm still here, and you can't kill me. How does it feel to have someone behind you while you can't move? Really sucks, huh? Yare Yare Daze..."

"J... Jotaro! You couldn't have... STOPPED TIME! ON YOUR OWN?!"

"It's a funny thing, Dio. You're like a man on the edge of a river. You've just reached the shore, but then..."

Star Platinum punches through his chest.

"You're dragged back in."

Shattering his knees with a kick, Star Platinum tosses Dio onto a nearby bridge.

"Time resumes."

As Dio reaches for Jotaro, a car crashes into him. He twists around to push it off of him, but Star Platinum breaks his forearms. The car falls down on top of him, and Polnareff steps out.

"Damn! That felt good," he says.

"Dio," Jotaro growls, "You're trapped. If you beat me, Polnareff will impale your head. If either of us are about to die,

we'll blow that car up. If both of us die, and you live... well, the sun is going to be on the way up soon. However, right here... it doesn't matter. I'm going to end you."

How dare he... HOW DARE HE MOCK ALMIGHTY DIO! HIS LOGIC IS STUPID! IDIOTIC! FOOLISH! ABSURD! DUMB AS HELL! He splashes his blood in Jotaro's eyes, and The World Ultimate rushes forward to kick Jotaro, with Dio tearing through the hood of the vehicle.

"HOW DO YOU LIKE BEING BLINDED?! I WIN! DIE!"

Silver Chariot, unarmored, stabs him in the back of the leg, as Star Platinum punches The World Ultimate in the shin. Both Stands take damage, small cracks appearing across each of the limbs.

"Wha... WHAT?! HOW DID HE MATCH THE WORLD ULTIMATE?!" Dio screams, "I'M THE PEAK OF LIFE! I AM THE ULTIMATE LIFE-FORM! AND I CAN STOP TIME! NO ONE ELSE WILL EVER HAVE THOSE TWO TRAITS IN ANY FORM OF MEDIA!"

"You see, Dio, I've been trying to hold back this whole time, since the beginning. I've been trying not to get too angry. I didn't want to lose control, because then I'd end up getting sloppy. I didn't want to mess up. But you made one mistake, Dio. You pissed me off."

A cigarette, the one Dio threw earlier, still lit, rolls over to Jotaro, who picks it up, quickly crouching to easily avoid a punch from The World Ultimate.

"I bet you're wondering how that got there," Will says, stumbling over, a hole through his stomach barely bandaged up with an old shirt he found on the ground, "You know, I've come to like Kakyoin. He's the glue that binds us together, y'know~? You wanna mess with him? You wanna mess with any of us? Those are my friends, asshole. Go ahead, Jotaro."

Jotaro tosses the cigarette over. A miniscule piece of residual Hamon, the energy of a small-scale Scarlet Overdrive, allows it to pass through the hole in Dio's leg perfectly, burning through. Polnareff leaps out of the way as Star Platinum launches the vampire, distracted by slight pain, backwards, with a barrage of strikes that shatter The World Ultimate to pieces. The cigarette lands inside the car's engine, and the vehicle explodes.

Dio

- Stand: The World -

- Annihilated (Dead) -

The Speedwagon Foundation ambulances rush the group to a nearby hospital. After they arrive, each member of the group is rushed to a massive ward.

An hour before, Joseph is laying on the ground in the mansion. He hears fighting outside the room, and smiles. At least... thanks to him... there will be no interference. With him gone, Dio has less of them he has to kill, but... at last he helped.

"If only I could pass something on to the next generation..."

The vampiric Straizo, approaching him, lays a hand on his head.

"You will, just as I have."

"M... master Straizo?"

"Sleep, child. When you awaken, you will be safe."

He awakens with a sweating Jotaro looking down on him.

"Is Holly... safe?"

"Yes... Yes, grandfather."

"Then wipe that frown off your face, boy! We're all in the clear!"

"But Gramps... You don't get it... Will..."

Also an hour before, Caesar watches his enemy detonate himself. A burst of light flashes across the room, and a loud sound. At point-blank range, the explosion pushes him back, him hitting his head against the wall. However, it seems this was just some sort of concussive flashbang. He attempts to laugh, but no sound leaves his mouth. His vision goes black.

He awakens and sees... nothing.

"Is this... hell? Hmph. Thought there'd be a party when I got here."

"Grandfather!" Will excitedly shouts, "You're alright!"

"Oh, I'm just blind?" Caesar laughs, "Shit, my beautiful eyes! Why couldn't that ugly old bastard lose his? He still kicking?"

"Yes, sir."

"Don't you dare call me that, boy. You've become a respectable young man over this bizzare adventure of ours. You'll call me whatever you damn well please. You've earned it."

"Alright, old timer,-"

"HEY!"

"-let's get you some food."

"My thoughts have changed, they got any wine here?"

"You've lost a lot of blood, grandpa, you can't drink right now."

"You call yourself a Zeppeli with that attitude? Lisa, come tell your boy his history! Wait, no, let me walk over to you! I can find my own way around!"

"Oh... grandpa? I have uh... I have two things to tell you."

"Oh no."

"Your leg bones were permanently damaged. Your Hamon wasn't enough to put them back together. And mother..."

"Oh..."

Kotetsu, who was sitting in the corner, whispers, "I loved her, you know."

"HOLY SHIT! HOW LONG WERE YOU HERE!?"

"Caesar, sir, you're an inspiration to me. I've heard about you and Joseph's adventures, and... if you ever want any help, just call me."

"Thanks, boy. Do you need a place to stay, now?"

"I'm going to be on Air Supplena Island for... well, the rest of my days, I suppose. Lisa Lisa is gone, Doa is gone... I need to be better than I was before. I'm training the next generation of Hamon Users, and guarding the Red Stone of Aja."

"Good... good man. I'll support you as well."

An hour before as well, Iggy watches as a zombified falcon leaps down at him. However, in a zombie state, the brain of the bird has deteriorated, and after repeated brain damage, it's been reduced to the intelligence of a normal falcon. Non-sapient, it doesn't see the hole in the ceiling, and it doesn't notice the pain until it dies, disintegrating.

He wakes up in Kakyoin's lap, the prosthetic leg cold beneath his feet. He looks up, and a friendly hand pats him on the head. This is fine.

The Stardust Crusaders sit atop a bench on the hospital roof. Each looks at the others, glad to have met, enjoying the first food they've had in 12 hours.

They walk outward from the doors at the bottom of the building an hour later. In the desert outside, Joseph opens a cardboard box, turning it upside down, and the remains of Dio spill out, scattering to the wind.

Jotaro stares into the sunset.

"So many people who will never come back... So many of them! Everyone... it's all over..."

"Air France, flight 92 to Paris, passengers now boarding! Please proceed to Gate 18."

Polnareff checks his luggage, wrapped as it is in what resembles a garbage bag.

"So, you're heading to France, no matter what?" Joseph asks, "None of you have any family there. Come with me to New York."

"France is my homeland," Polnareff says, "I can't leave it behind. All roads lead back there for me."

Will chips in, "And grandpa is the same with Italy."

Joseph chuckles, and he, Caesar, Will, Kakyoin, and Polnareff all slam their hands on each others' shoulders. Iggy grins on the ground.

"I'll see you later, you forgetful idiot! You too, ya damned Zeppeli bastards! I'll see you soon."

Polnareff arrives at the other airport first, ahead of Will, who's wheeling Caesar in front of him. The group get into their Speedwagon Foundation taxi, and the driver turns around. It's Malèna, the woman who helped Polnareff when Alessi was threatening the group.

"There, asshole," Will laughs, "Good thing I accidentally slipped her a note with the Foundation's name on it, huh~?"

Caesar laughs.

"Convenient that we had a job open, huh~?"

Malèna excitedly shows off her license as a Speedwagon Foundation Officer.

"Mr Zeppeli here said I was qualified to work with you, since I'd already shown I could babysit."

Polnareff, tears in his eyes, grins wildly.

"You two really do care, huh? Waiiit~, won't it be weird if she works for me?"

Caesar laughs again.

"You have things confused, my boy. You're working for her!"

All three of them laugh, and Polnareff shakes his head, smirking.

Kotetsu goes home, and the remaining four Crusaders return to Jotaro's home. Holly welcomes them with open arms.

Kakyoin's family is another story. They're appalled that their son lost his leg and also broke his spine. However, he did make some friends, and that new Speedwagon Foundation job looks incredible as well, even if he was injured in a car accident.

Kakyoin and Jotaro graduate together, both somehow at the top of their class, despite their abscences.

They return from graduation, and, soon after, head off to college. The second day in their dorm, Jotaro wakes up confused.

"Kakyoin?" he asks, "Did you lay this egg?"