Jojo's Bizarre Adventures: Star Ocean

Chapters

Star Ocean 1
Star Ocean 2
The Thing in the Lake 1
The Thing in the Lake 2
The Thing in the Lake 3
Wayward Son 1

Star Ocean 1

".........w-what?" Jolyne said as she woke up from an unconscious state. Last thing she remembered was a huge stand-off between her and this priest. And the weirdest part that she remembers was that her father was actually there to help her out. She never would've thought that her father would actually care, but there he was, fighting for her and the fate of the world. Jolyne slowly regained her senses.

"Wha-what the hell?" Jolyne's eyes fully opened as she observes the world around her. There was nothing. Just an empty space. She could see the stars in the distance, and a couple of celestial bodies here and there but other than that, it was literally empty space. She felt weightless, as she floated around, zero gravity and all. Doesn't really know how she could breath but she was. Jolyne tried to move her arm, but she instantly felt it break.

"AH!" Jolyne winced as the pain traveled throughout her body. Once again, Jolyne wondered how she could ever feel pain or break bones when her body was made of damn strings. At this point, Jolyne knew that she was too weak to do anything. So she went on on floating, almost lifeless as she stayed still, letting the flow of gravity take her. It was actually quite relaxing. Jolyne felt at ease despite her pain, and closed her eyes.

"Woah! This is all nirvana and shit," She said as she began to relax. She even tried to meditate as she stayed quiet and concentrated on the universe around her, or something like that. She started hearing faint sounds of the stars twinkling. She felt great energy radiating upon her. She felt a gentle push from opposite dirrctions. "Holy shit, I am one with the universe," Jolyne said as she smiled. She haven't felt this relaxed in a long time.

But suddenly, she felt the push becoming stronger. Jolyne notices this significant increase in force.

"Okay, universe, you can ease up a little bit." The force kept growing stronger and stronger, Jolyne's body started to give in to the force as more bones started to break. "AH! FUCK! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" The pressure was getting higher and higher and higher, until finally.....

CRASH!!!!!!!!!

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH" Jolyne felt as if two giant rocks were grinding her to dust. She felt immense pain then blacked out. She heard the twinkling of the stars before her consciousness fully gave out.

Darkness. That's all there was to Jolyne. Amongst the darkness were her memories. In her unconscious state, her mind flipped through her memories like a TV. She saw her life, as a kid, getting into trouble about things she didn't really cause. She saw the divorce of her mother and father. She saw all of those trips to counseling and the local county jail. She saw the car crash, and the person that her boyfriend hit. She saw the trial, as her lawyer betrayed her. She saw her first days in maximum security, her first time she used a stand, her first friends in prison, her battles, her hardships, her sacrifce. She remembered it being really painful. And all she ended up getting was more pain. Suddenly, she felt a pull.

All of a sudden, Jolyne's eyes open as she sees a little colorful creature, with purple hair and an orange coat, staring back at Jolyne. The creature got scared and she fluttered away with her tiny litlle wings in her tiny little scooter. Jolyne looks up in the sky.

"Fuck the universe," she said.

Star Ocean 2

"AAAAAAHHHH!" screamed the little orange creature, as she scooted away from a possible threat. At this point, Jolyne didn't even question what just happened. She feels she's already neck deep in broken concepts that doesn't make sense. So she just tried to forget about it. Jolyne felt like lying down on the soft grass she was on. She wiggled around and noticed that she felt completely fine. She stood up and brushed herself off. She looked at her surroundings. She was in some sort of forest, filled with dense trees, wildlife, and other mysterious things. Jolyne decided to wander off into the opposite direction of where the orange creature ran off to.

Jolyne didn't really feel like caring about what happens to her anymore. There is so much left to be answered, so much left to be fixed, but she didn't care. At least, at the moment. Jolyne's stomach growls.

"Ugh, would it kill this place to have a Big Mac and a Coca Cola lying under a rock?" Jolyne hates it when she's hungry. Jolyne wanders deep into the forest, as she looks for the imaginary burgers and cola under rocks. It's been a while since she last ate. She was getting horribly cranky. She felt like taking two puppies by the tail and slam them together as hard as she can. She was ready to rumble. This mood may have been really convenient as she heard growling noises from a far, and no, it wasn't her stomach. From where she was she could see smoke rising from above the trees. She decided to follow it. As she got closer and closer to the source of the smoke, the growling noises started to sound like snoring. Snoring from something really big. Jolyne was having second thoughts but her bad mood willed her to move forward. As she pushed the wild brush, she saw the source of the smoke: a giant cave. Jolyne thought about what scary thing might be in there. However, she quickly decides that she doesn't care, and she's really really REALLY hungry, she marches into the cave. It was pretty dark, Jolyne could barely see a thing. Jolyne felt stone and some sort of glass like substance shatter beneath her boots. She started coughing from the smoke. It was at this point that Jolyne realizes that this was a bad idea.

"Fuck *cough* why *cough* did I go in here?" Jolyne turns around to leave, but something crashed right in front of her, the Shockwave knocking Jolyne back. "What the hell?" Suddenly, the entire cave lights up, as the chandeliers crudely hung above gave off luminescence. And what caused those flames to appear from a chandalier?

"A damn dragon," said Jolyne in dismay, as a giant dragon towered over her by tens of meters. The awake and cranky dragon roars. Jolyne covers her ears as the roar's sound waves bounced all over the cave. The dragon lifts up its tail and attempts to squash Jolyne with it again. Jolyne rolls out of the way of the attack and calls out her Stand.

"STONE FREE!" she screamed. But nothing appeared. "Huh? Stone Free?" The dragon roars again and muster up some air to shoot more scorching flames at its target. It exhales a wave of fire, and Jolyne, once again, barely dodges it. The tip of her hair buns had small flames on it, and Jolyne pats it out. "Damn it. Stone Free where the hell are you?!" The dragon once again lifts it's tail up. Jolyne readies herself to dodge again, but the tail suddenly moved in a sweeping move. Jolyne jumps but her feet get hit and she flips 3 times before hitting the ground. She lands in a pile of gold coins, and a few crystals, which broke and tore through the skin of her arm. "Stone Free, God damn it!" Again, nothing. The dragon's rage grows as its attacks do not kill it's target. The dragon extends it's arm as it tried to grab Jolyne. Jolyne sees a golden sword a few feet away from her, she grabs it, but was immediately picked up by the dragon. She almost dropped her sword, but managed to keep a hold of it. The dragon cocks its arm backwards, preparing to throw Jolyne right into the cave wall, but Jolyne sticks the sword into the dragon's hand. The dragon shrieks in pain, and loosens its grip, allowing Jolyne to escape. She then began to scale up the dragon's back spines until she got onto it's face. She raises the sword then drives it straight through the dragon's right pupil. The dragon's rage became immense as fire started to roar out of its mouth as it screamed in agony. Jolyne was holding on for dear life. The temperetures were rising, and Jolyne's skin started to burn as she held on to the scales, which were starting to catch the heat. The dragon quickly grabs Jolyne and lifts her over its mouth. Luckily, the dragon ran out of gas to set fire to, so he was running on empty, fire breathing wise. However, the hungry Jolyne was about to feed the hungry dragon. The dragon drops Jolyne right down its throat. While inside, Jolyne was still feeling very hot, and her skin was still slightly burning. She pushed herself against the esophagus walls to keep herself from falling down any further, but the walls started to shrink and constrict. Jolyne was getting cooked and crushed at the same time. This was really not her day.

"S-stone..... Free...... come to me..... please....." She said before she was fully engulfed in the walls of the dragon's throat. The dragon felt satisfied. A hard fought battle led to sweet victory and a sweet meal. The dragon lays back into its pile of treasures and ate some gems to wash its humanoid meal down the hatch. The dragon breath one big sigh of relief, though it was annoyed that it's eye and hand were scarred. But it was a damn dragon, it could manage. At least, until it started feeling something deep down inside of it. Its stomach started rumbling. A faint voice could be heard inside.

"Mhmhhmhmhmh....mhmhmh....... oraoraora......oraoraoraora.......ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!" It was Jolyne! She managed to get her Stand out and was using the gems that the dragon ate to cut her way out. The dragon went into a frenzy, and was crashing all over the cave, breaking down the cave walls and crushing its treasure horde beneath its feet. Jolyne was so close towards the outside world. Jolyne did one last big attack with a powerful "ORA!" and she bursts through the stomach.

Jolyne lands onto the floor, gasping for air. She felt the entire cave shake as the dragon was destroying it. Stalagmites were falling from the ceiling, one thing was clear: the cave was gonna collapse. After getting some oxygen back, Jolyne rushes towards the exit, running as fast as she could. Debris and chandeliers were falling behind her, and she ran faster with each crash. The dragon's roar of pain, loud enough to spread across the land, rings throughout the dying cave. The exit draws near. But then a piece of debris was falling above her, and is about to squash her like a bug. All of a sudden she seemed to have teleported a few meters in front of her. Confused, she looked behind her and saw..... herself. She saw herself get crushed by a rock as it disappeared into dust. Jolyne was confused but decided to figure it out after she gets out of the cave. The exit was right in front of her, and she jumps out, as the cave finally gave in. She managed to get most of her body out, but her left leg got crushed.

"AH! DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT!" she yelled. After that, the forest was silent again. Nothing could be heard, not even the birds living in the trees. Using Stone Free, she pushes the debris of her leg. The leg had a piece of bone sticking out of the skin. It was pretty bad. Jolyne winced in pain as she moved her leg away from the cave. Her arm was still torn up from the crystal shards, her skin had third degree bruns, and her abdomen was bruised for being held so tight. What a great idea to go inside the cave.

"God damn it. Stone Free if only you were there earlier- Stone Free?" It was at this moment that Jolyne realized that Stone Free wasn't stone free anymore. Or it didn't look like Stone Free. It still had the shades, the the blades protruding from its head were larger. Its shoulders were more broad and had larger shoulder pads with star patterns on it. It looked more toned with tightly woven string making its are look like arms with the muscle fibers showing. It had star patterns on its chest and knees too. "What the hell happened to you?"

The Thing in the Lake 1

Stand name: Stone Free???

Power: A (E)*

Speed: A

Staying: A (E)

Range: 5 meters (300 meters)

Precision: C

Potential: B

*Stats in parentheses refer to the Stand's string form.

A- Excellent B- Good C- Average D- Below Average E- Poor

Stone Free has grown more in ability and power. Not only has it posses more lengths of string, but now has the ability to use stardust to create illusions, which dissipate when hit with something. Jolyne can still turn up to 70% of her body into string without harm, but with the new string length, the range is increased and she can utilize it more, and when woven into one body, the string becomes tough strands of muscle, with enough strength to smash a speeding meteor, and is tough enough to stop bullets.

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"Shit....... what a day" Jolyne was beat. She was lying down on the soft grass, a few feet away from the cave. She could barely move, her whole body was aching. At least the cool wind was easing the pain on her burns. Her leg and her arm still hurt like hell though. Then there was the hunger. Her stomach growls. "Well, looks like I'm gonna die." She said nonchalantly. Jolyne was kind of hoping for something to come by and help her out. Jolyne didn't really expect this to happen, but whatever. At this point, anything could happen.

Well, it turns out, anything CAN happen.

The orange creature from earlier was staring at Jolyne from a bush. Jolyne seemed like she can’t see the creature, but she did. Suddenly, Jolyne heard the creature talk to something else in the bush.

“See? I told you I saw the monster from the lake!” said the orange one.

“Woah! You’re right! What the hay is it doing out of the water!” exclaimed the other one in the bush. Jolyne took note of the Southern American accent.

“I don’t know, but we gotta do something about it! We can’t just leave it there!” said a third one. Jolyne was kind of annoyed by the high pitched squeak in her voice.

“Yeah but what are we gonna do about it? We can’t just walk up to it, what if it attacks us?” says the orange one.

“I guess you’re right. Let’s let just let an adult know,” says the squeaking voice. “Hey, wait a second. The monster doesn’t look as ugly as you said, Scootaloo. I thought you said it was the ugliest thing you have ever seen. So ugly that you almost blew chunks!”

“Ouch, and I thought my burns were already bad,” interrupted Jolyne.

“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!” screamed the little ones as they run away from the bush. Jolyne sighed. One thing after another, she thought. Now I’m gonna have more things after me.

Jolyne noticed the other two as they ran back into the forest. One was white, the other yellow. She saw the orange one’s face through the bush. Jolyne thought it was cute.

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The CMC were running for their lives. The monster from the lake, a thing that has been terrorizing Ponyville for a few days now, at least a week. Nopony, not even Princess Twilight, could figure out, or even get a good look at the creature. Only its shadowy figure. So far, it hasn’t really done any harm, but its loud squishy sounds and growling, as it slinks about the outskirts of town has kept ponies up from fear. By the time you get near enough to see it clearly, it disappears, and all it leaves is a puddle of water. And now the little fillies were running from it. They dashed through the forest as fast as they could, Sweetie Belle even tripping a couple of times. All three of them accumulated some scratches, dirt, and tree sap over their coats, as they carelessly run past low hanging branches. They do their best to dodge said branches, roots that poke out of the ground, and even more obstacles nature could throw at them. Finally, they reach the outskirts of Ponyville. Once they jump out of the thicket, they all lie down on a rock to catch their breath.

“Hey…. Guys….. You think…. it’s still following us?” asked Scootaloo.

“No…. I don’t….. think so….” replied Applebloom.

“That was way too close. We are…. not doing that again.” said Scootaloo.

“But wait a second,” said Sweetie Belle. “You said it was the ugliest thing you had ever seen. I actually thought it looked kinda…. I don’t know, feminine?”

“How would you know what feminine really is?” replied Scootaloo.

“Hello, duh, I live with Rarity.”

“Oh, yeah, right.”

“Maybe it doesn’t want to hurt anypony.”

“Are you crazy? We’ve never seen anything like it before.”

“She’s right, Scootaloo,” said Applebloom. “Maybe it’s like Zecora all over again. We never know until we get to know it.”

“So what, you want to go back and go talk to it or something?” Applebloom and Sweetie Belle look at each other, then back at Scootaloo with a big

“Yes!”

“Oh, alright, but don’t say I didn’t warn ya.”

“We have to keep our distance though,” said Applebloom.

“Ditto,” said Sweetie Belle.

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Jolyne was still lying down in her soft grass. She didn’t really feel like standing up anytime soon, even though she was starving. She started thinking about the three little creatures. They look friendly enough, she thought, maybe they have a town nearby where I can have some grub? She didn’t really count on that idea though. Jolyne started thinking about that monster in the lake. How would they mistake her for something like that? Maybe there are no humans at all in this place. Jolyne pondered about her environment, how there is possibly no humans, how it is possibly away from Earth. From America. From home. Her pondering, however, was interrupted when a massive creature stomped up to her spot. Jolyne saw a giant lion, scorpion, bat thing. She didn’t know what the hell it was, only that it looks like it wants to kick her ass. It stared at Jolyne, who was still lying down, then roared. Jolyne was extremely annoyed now.

“STONE FREE!” she screamed, and her Stand appeared, complete with a new look, as it starts to fire a volley of punches at the beast. “ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAOARORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAAAAAAAA!” with a last big uppercut, the creature went flying through the forest, knocking trees away like a bowling ball through pins. It landed on the ground, 20 meters away from her.

“Jesus. Hehe, don’t know my own strength.” Jolyne felt pretty proud at herself. That is until she looked to see the three creatures from earlier, mouths agape, staring at her with fearful eyes. “Oh. Um….. Hey, it's not what you think-”

“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!” the three ran away again.

“Hey! Wait! Argh! Give me a break! I can't take this shit anymore!” the three fillies stop as they hear the supposed monster from the lake in frustration. They see the Jolyne hitting the ground with her good hand. And it was at this point they noticed her injuries too. The three look at each other with concerned looks. They decide to walk up to Jolyne, as she throws her fit.

“H-hey. Are-are you a-alright?” asked Scootaloo. Jolyne stops her fit and slowly looks up at Scootaloo. Jolyne smiles a bit.

“Oh, you don't know how long it's been since someone asked me that.” the three were silent for a bit. Unsure of what to do with the monster near them. Jolyne notices this. "Hey, whatever monster you think I am, that ain't me. Especially not one from a lake." The three fillies wear a look of confusion. Jolyne sighed. "Look, I can't really.... explain it well, but I just woke up, like, two hours ago. You see, I was fighting this guy back on my planet, he had the power to steal other people's power, and he put me in prison, then I said something about helping my dad, but he wasn't there all my life, but I managed to save him and made some new friends but some died, then the man I was fighting got a new power to turn things inside out but I beat it by turning my body neither outside nor out, then he got a power where he could accelerate time, then the universe exploded at least two times, I got knocked out then I was in space, then the universe crushed me and now I'm here." Jolyne inhaled as she lost a lot of breath trying to explain her situation. The three little ones looked extremely confused. "Look, I'm tired, I'm injured, and I'm hungry. Can you guys help me out?"

"Well, I-I don't know. You knocked that Manticore away without doing anything. You seem- well- dangerous."

"Well I don't know how you could get near me with that assumption," Scootaloo backed away a bit when Jolyne said that. "Look, I can be dangerous, but only if I need to be. Otherwise, I'm the coolest person you can meet." Jolyne smiles reassuringly. Scootaloo smiled a little, Jolyne kind of reminded her of Rainbow Dash.

"Well, o-okay. We'll help you out." Sweetie Belle and Applebloom also eased up a bit around Jolyne. "S-So what happened here? You beat up that Manticore pretty bad."

"Well, I was just kinda lying here, then it just appeared. It looked pretty mad, so I beat it before it beats me. And I'm in no shape to receive more beatings."

"How'd you get that beat up?"

"For some reason, I walked in this cave. I thought there was something that could help me out in there. Well, at least it was my best shot. Then there was this dragon, we fought, it knocked its cave to the ground and now its dead." The three fillies pupils shrunk and slowly looked at the big pile of rocks a few feet away from Jolyne.

"Y-you *gulp* killed a dragon?"

"N-no! Again, I was defending myself. The dragon killed itself by knocking its own cave down. You see, I was making it mad by dodging its attacks, and it got mad, then this happened. See, nothing to be scared about." the three once again calmed down a bit.

"I- I guess.... Um.... So, I guess we should take you to Ponyville, so um.... Hey Sweetie Belle." Sweetie Belle slowly trots up near Jolyne. She uses her unicorn magic to pick up Jolyne.

"Owowow!" exclaimed Jolyne.

"S-sorry! Sorry! I'm trying my best here but you're kind of heavy!" said a panicked Sweetie Belle.

"No, no, it's alright, I'm just glad you guys are helping me out anyways..."

As this was going on, Applebloom walks up to Scootaloo.

"Hey, you sure this is a good idea?" whispered Applebloom.

"You guys are the ones that suggested it. I think she's cool enough for now. If she tries anything, we can hightail it, it looks hurt and it can't chase after us. We'll tell Twilight about it when we get back. For now, let's try taking it to the hospital."

"It beat up that Manticore pretty bad without doing anything."

"Point taken." The three fillies proceed to bring Jolyne to Ponyville, and have the hospital tend to her wounds. Both Sweetie Belle and Jolyne had a hard time with this trip, both straining and yelping, generally being uncomfortable. As they were nearing towards their destination, Jolyne decided to get to know the three a little more.

"So..... you guys are ponies?" asked Jolyne.

"Wow, I guess you’re really not from this world huh?" Said Applebloom. "Yeah, we're three little ponies from the town Ponyville up yonder there." she pointed a hoof where the town could be seen below the hills.

"Pfft. Ponyville?" scoffed Jolyne.

"Hey, you know we can make Sweetie Belle drop you anytime."

"Ok ok, I'm sorry. This is all just so..... surreal to me. And after what I've been through, that's saying a lot."

"So what's yer story? You some sort of superhero or somethin'? What with all yer powers and what not."

"Not exactly. I'm just some girl who was at the wrong place at the right time."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Back in my world, I was sent to prison. But I'm not a criminal or anything, so don't panic! I was framed for..... hitting someone, and I was wrongfully sent to prison. It was the wrong place because I wasn't supposed to be in that prison. But it was the right time because there was this big plan that took place."

"That sounds terrible! What was the plan?"

"Long story, lots of stuff happened..... and I prefer not to talk about it right now." Jolyne suddenly got really sad. She suddenly remembered Foo Fighters and Weather Report, good friends who died back in Jolyne's world.

"Oh. I'm sorry."

"It's alright."

"You know? Yer not so bad."

"Thanks. I really appreciate that."

"Well we're here!" exclaimed Scootaloo. "And..... what is going on?" the citizens of Ponyville were all running about, panicking. There was a huge crowd in front of city hall. "I'm..... I'm gonna go see what's going on. You guys go ahead and take...... what's your name?"

"Jolyne. Jolyne Kujo."

"Right, take Jolyne Kujo to the hospital." Sweetie Belle and Applebloom nodded and head towards the hospital. Scootaloo turns the other direction, towards the crowd. She had to crawl near the ground and avoid some stomping hooves to see what the fuss was about. And when she got to the center she saw a nasty sight. Two sickly looking ponies, on the ground, foam coming out of their mouths. Scootaloo was shocked. Suddenly she was picked up by something in a blink of an eye.

"R-Rainbow Dash?" said Scootaloo.

"You're not supposed to see that, kid."

"What happened?!"

"That thing from the lake....."

The Thing in the Lake 2

Sweetie Belle and Applebloom enter the hospital. It was busy as the paramedics rush out of the hospital to take the lake monster victims in. The entire staff was talking about it, extremely worried about the victims and the lake monster. They see the two fillies and Jolyne enter and they all go silent. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom walk up to the receptionist desk.

"Um, 'scuse me miss, but we have a patient here for you." said Applebloom. The receptionist slowly looks up to see Jolyne floating in the air, with a broken leg, a bleeding arm, and several third degree bruns. Her mouth opens agape.

"How's it going?" said Jolyne with a nervous smile. "So can the doc fix me up?"

"S-s-s-sure." said the nervous receptionist. She was visibly shaking. She looks through some papers then, with a pen in her mouth, she circles a number at the very end of the paper, though it was more of some squiggly lines rather than a circle. "R-r-right this way...." The receptionist leaves the front desk to lead the three into Jolyne's hospital room. They had to walk really deep into the hospital, practically the last room right next to the far wall oposite from the exit. The mare leads them into the room. It was a little bit bigger than the other hospital rooms. There was the bed, with all the hospital doohickeys right next to it. There was a big rectangular mirror on the wall that the bed was facing. "O-okay, slowly place the patient down on the bed." Sweetie Belle did as she was told, she gingerly placed Jolyne on the bed, then she dropped on the floor, sweating, trying to catch her breath.

"Phew.... that was a workout." said Sweetie Belle.

"I'm sorry, little fillies, but you have to leave for now. The doctor will be checking on the patient shortly. Run along now, don't forget to grab a lollipop at the front desk." said the receptionist to the two girl. Her voiced sounded hushed and worried. She practically pushed the two out of the room. After having an exchanged looks of confusion at eachother, they leave. As they left, the receptionist closes the room door behind her, then locks it. A nurse walks up to her.

"Call for Princess Twilight," she whispered to the nurse.

Jolyne was pretty happy that she finally made to to a hospital. She would've been fine with any sign of civilization. But a hospital was the best place possible. At least she was gonna get fixed up. Her stomach still rumbled however.

"Huh, I wonder when lunchtime happens. I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."

"Oh, are you now?" interrupted a doctor, wearing surgeon scrubs, a facemask, and a cap. "That's pretty interesting."

"Oh, I-I didn't really mean it like that, it's just an expression people use in my world."

"Your world huh? You're not from here?" asked the doctor.

"Uh, no. I don’t how I got here, but I'm here now."

"Interesting. Interesting. So, what's seems to be the problem here?"

"Well, doc, I got some cuts on my arm, my leg's broken, and I got burns in a bunch of places."

"Oh, and where would one get such injuries?"

"Well, an accident happened."

"What kind of accident?"

"Look, I know you're a doctor and all, but you're asking too many questions for my liking."

"Alright, alright. I'll fix you up. Though I'm not familiar with your anatomy, I'll try to make this work." The doctor places her horn onto Jolyne's belly. It started glowing magenta. It took a few minutes, then the glowing stopped. A big ball of light came out of Jolyne's belly, and the doctor places it into a jar.

"What's that for?" asked Jolyne.

"It's just something for the books. That's just how it works around here." Anyways, now I can begin to fix you." The doctor places her horn o Jolyne's leg this time, and it glows magenta again. Jolyne felt her bones shifting in her leg. She yelps in pain. "Sorry, again, I'm not used to your anatomy." Jolyne felt like the doctor was solving a jigsaw puzzle in her leg. Suddenly, bones start to click in place, and it started to feel like they were mending themselves back together. The glowing stops. "Right, now for you arm." Again, she places her horn on Jolyne's arm, and the crystal shards get pulled out, the wounds close, and the blood disappears. "Now for the burns." A ball forms at the tip of the doctor's horn. It floats above Jolyne, then it falls onto her chest. She gets clocked with purple magic, then disappears, the burns going along with it. Jolyne suddenly felt good as new.

"Woah! Thanks doc! I feel like a million bucks!"

"Is that so? Good." Suddenly, ropes start to snake around d Jolyne as it ties her up then tightens.

"Argh! What the hell is this. What are you doing?!" said Jolyne, as she struggles in her binds. The doctor then removes her doctor's attire, and beneath it reveals a purple pony with wings and a horn.

"I am Princess Twilight. And you have a lot to answer for."

"What? What questions? Whatever it is, I've got nothing to do with it!"

"Oh yes you do. I suspect you have something to do with the monster from the lake."

"Oh, jeez, here we go again. Look, pal, I'm no lake monster. Hell, I even don't like the water a too much. What do expect to find about the monster from me?"

"For the past week, I've been trying to study about the thing that lurks in the shadows at night. I've tried my best to find out what it is and it always seems to elude me. Even when I teleport. All I got was that it never stays too far away from the water, and that it lives in the lake near Sweet Apple Acres. At first, I thought it wouldn't do anything but slink around and scare ponies at night. But today, it doesn't seem like it wants to wait until night time anymore because just moments ago, two victims were seen near the lake, knocked out, and foaming from the mouths. I've been patient with this thing this entire week, but now it's gone too far!" The Princess started to get really heated, the more she talked about the monster. She then caught herself in her rage, then did a little breathing technique. "I also saw its silhouette in the darkness, and I know for sure that you have the same bodily structure as the monster.

"What are you talking about?"

"Both of you are bipedal, both of you were around the same size, and both of you appeared in relatively the same time. I have reason to believe you have something to do with this creature."

"Alright, so what if I do have something to do with this thing, huh? What are you gonna do about it, huh? Lock me up? You know that I wasn't involved with that attack, and if I was, you have no solid evidence!" The Princess got quiet, as her ears point downwards.

"Fine, you're right. You can leave now. I guess we'll have to deal with this ourselves." The Princess started to walk away. Jolyne suddenly felt bad.

"Hey, wait, I'm sorry. If you want, I can go deal with this monster for you." The Princess stops, then turns around.

"Really?" she says.

"Yes really. Those three that brought me here today did a real big favor for me. I can't let this thing walk around knowing that they could get harmed at anytime." Twilight smiled a bit, then frowned again.

"So, how are you exactly going to deal with it?"

"I'll confront it. You see, I have this power," Jolyne says as she picks up the flower vase on the end table with Stone Free. Twilight doesn't see the Stand, she only sees the vase floating.

"Oh! So you have magic too?"

"Well, it's not exactly magic, but it can fix your monster problem. And since you fixed me up, I can go back into action."

"Well.... ok, you can help us. But if you try anything that could harm my friends, I will personally deal with you. Now, let me reverse the snake rope spell."

"No need." Jolyne unravels into a bundle of strings, then crawls out of the rope, then returns to her normal self beside the bed. Twilight nodded slowly, interested in Jolyne's ability. "So, mind if you point me to the right direction?"

"Follow me." Jolyne and Twilight exit the room. They walk towards the exit, with ponies in their way quickly getting out of it, generally nervous. Jolyne sees a room were a bunch of staff were rushing in and out of it.

"I'm guessing that's where the victims are?" asked Jolyne.

"Yes. After I point to you where the lake is, I shall attend to them." They exit the hospital and rushed towards Sweet Apple Acres. When. They got to a hill where they could see the lake, Twilight then pointed out the lake, there were ponies in armor and spears, posted up next to the lake.

"Let’s go," said Twilight. They walk up to the guards. They then bowed towards Twilight but kept a dirty look towards Jolyne. "At ease guys. She's with us. She'll try to confront the monster." The guards nod. "Alright Jolyne. You can take care of the monster. I'll head back to the hospital and tend to those patients. Good luck." And with that, Twilight teleports away. Jolyne looks towards the lake. She slowly walks up to it. One of the guards say something.

"You gonna deal with it or what? Hurry up, I'm supposed to be on break today." said the grumpy guard. Another guard steps in.

"Hey, let her do her thing. If she really does know how to beat this thing, let her," the other guard said. Jolyne nods. Jolyne slowly walks into the water. What the hell am I doing, she thought, how am I supposed to catch this thing? Suddenly, Jolyne is grabbed by the feet and is dragged into the water. The guard who stood up for Jolyne tried to follow her in concern, but was stopped by the grumpy guard.

"Let her do her thing, remember?" said the guard as he wears a grin with missing teeth.

Jolyne was being pulled in the water so fast, she couldn't see a thing. She was already running out of breath, as she wasn't prepared for the sudden attack, and didn't get a chance to breath in some air. Jolyne was slowly blacking out. This all happened way too fast. That was when the monster suddenly shot upwards, and threw Jolyne up. She was flung out of the water, and into solid ground nearby. Jolyne gasped for air. Jolyne then quickly looked around to find the monster. It seemed that Jolyne was in some sort of underwater cave. She saw the pool of water that would act as her exit nearby. She wondered how deep in the lake she was. The cave was illuminated by blue glowing fungus. Jolyne stands up and calls out Stone Free. She assumes her battle stance as she looks around the cave. There was no sight of the monster. Suddenly, this black mass of slime form behind Jolyne, and hastily grows into some creature. Jolyne turns around then gasps. She saw the monster. And she cried.

"Foo Fighters!"

The Thing in the Lake 3

Stand name: Foo Fighters

Power: B

Speed: A

Staying: A

Range: C

Precision: C

Potential: B

A - Excellent B - Good C - Average D - Below Average E - Poor

Foo Fighters is a mass of intellectual plankton. This stand technically does not have a user and acts as her own entity. Her source of power comes from water. With water, she can manipulate and make anything she wants freely, she can regenate, and when in water, she can swim at super speeds.

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"Foo Fighters! I can't believe you're alive!" cried Jolyne, tears of joy rolling down her cheeks, happy to see her old friend alive again. But Foo Fighters did not return the feeling. Rather, it questioned Jolyne.

"Who are you?" she asked. "And how do you know my name?" Jolyne, wipes her tears.

"It's me, Jolyne. Remember? Back in Green Dolphin Street Prison? In Florida? I spared your life in a fight and we became best friends! Remember?" Foo Fighters just tilts her head.

"I'm sorry you must have mistaken me for something else. I was never on some prison, I was born here in this cave a week ago." Jolyne suddenly remembered what Foo Fighters said when she died. She said that the disc that contained the Foo Fighters stand could make a new Foo Fighters, but not the same as herself. Jolyne felt really sad again. The Foo Fighters that stood in front of her though got down to business. "Look, just tell all of those ponies to leave me alone. I had nothing to do with those victims. All I want is to attain more knowledge from them by just simply observing. You see, my hunger for knowledge cannot be satisfied. I always seek to learn new things. I learned a lot about this world during this week. I learned the language, the culture, the history, and I quite like it. All I want is to learn in peace. And I will fight to keep that right." Jolyne suddenly felt angry.

"You know what? I don't believe you. I know your type, you only function by following someone else. And I know you were put here by someone who has a hold of your disc. Who is it?! Is it that bitch priest? Huh?!"

"Priest? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Withholding information huh? Well I guess I have to beat it out of you. Stone Free!" Jolyne brings out her Stand, and Stone Free starts off by throwing a huge left hook. Foo Fighters dodges, and quickly jumps into the pool of water nearby. The she starts to splash the water all around the cave floor.

"This ensures my victory." said Foo Fighters. Jolyne attacks again by shooting out strings from her fingers and binds Foo Fighters into a net, making sure it's tight enough to not leave any holes for F.F. to escape through. How ever, even when the hole was the size of a mere penny, F.F. pushes her slime body through the hole and jumps into the water, quickly jumping from puddle to puddle, going so fast, Jolyne could barely see her. Jolyne retrieves her strings, then quickly readies herself for another attack. F.F.'s slime body crawled into the puddle behind Jolyne, the she shoots slime balls at Jolyne, which were fast as bullets. Jolyne sees this and makes a hasty bullet proof jacket out of her strings. She gets the wind knocked out of her by the slime bullets, but at least it didn't go through her. She stumbles on to the ground as F.F. go in for another attack. She turns her arm into a spike and attempts to drive it through Jolyne's abdomen. But again, she dodges, only receiving a scratch. She kicks the spike arm, as it splatters all over the cave arm, but it didn't matter to F.F. as she grew another arm. Jolyne knew that it was useless to try and fight F.F. near a large body of water. She was practically indestructible. She had to make a plan to try and lure her away from the water. But how? F.F., again, shot slime bullets at Jolyne, and she rolls out of the way. She then decided to run into the pool of water then dived down.

"Ha! Silly thing! You cannot escape me. I am unbeatable in the water!" said F.F. as she follows Jolyne into the water. Jolyne was swimming for her life. This may have been the dumbest thing she has ever done, but she knew she couldn't do anything in the cave. She swam down to exit the cave, then upwards towards the surface. But alas, there was no way anything could out swim Foo Fighters. F.F. grabbed Jolyne from behind in a flash. "Like I said. Nothing in the water could escape me." Foo Fighters tried to crush Jolyne but her victim dissolved into sparkling dust. The confused Foo Fighters looked up to see multiple Jolynes. Foo Fighters then attacked each Jolyne, one by one, dissolving each into dust. "Argh! She couldn't have gone too far!" Foo Fighters looks farther up to see that there were Jolynes practically above the surface. "Impossible." Foo Fighters shot upwards, ignoring the Jolyne clones near the cave and once again attacked each one. "Grrrrrr!" In rage, Foo Fighters had large tendrils shoot out from all over her body, as it stabbed each Jolyne, all of them dissolving into the water. Except for one in the surface. "Aaaaaaaah!" Foo Fighters shot herself through the water like a speeding torpedo. She rammed herself through Jolyne and she blew up in dust, this one was not the real Jolyne, however, her extremely fast momentum still propelled her out of the water and into the air. As Foo Fighters fell down, she was caught into a net of string and was quickly tossed into some sand. There, Foo Fighters quickly dried up and was powerless. She slowly crawled towards the lake, but was once again caught in string. Foo Fighters saw Jolyne walk between her and the water.

"I know you can't do shit without water." said Jolyne.

"B-but how? How did you know there was sand here?"

"Because I found it when I got out of the water moments ago."

"What? But how were you not killed while swimming here? I made sure non of you survived."

"Well you see, I knew immediately that I wouldn't win in that cave from the get go, so I made a dust clone then ran off. I counted on it lasting long enough to go through the plan. I have this power where I can create illusions of myself through the dust my Stand makes. And then I can also control it from about 100 meters away. My clones can't fight, put enough force on them and they disappear, but they can sure stall like pros. Now, tell me. Who do you work for?" Foo Fighters was starting to shrivel up.

"I told you..... I don’t...... work...... for anybody......" Jolyne wanted to not believe her, but she did. She felt sorry for her. Jolyne knew this wasn't the Foo Fighters she knew back in Green Dolphin, but she still felt a connection with the stand in general. She decided to give her some water. She made a bucket out of tightly nit string and poured it onto Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters felt better, but the sand she was on would quickly dry her up. She still felt appreciative about the gesture. "Weren't you sent here to deal with me? Why are you helping me out?"

"Because I miss my old friend." Jolyne saI'd with tears. She holds out her hand towards Foo Fighters. F.F. looks at her hand then looks up at Jolyne, holding out hers. Their hands were about to meet, but suddenly.

"There's the monster, grab it!" The guards in armor suddenly catch Foo Fighters in the cage. Jolyne was surprised at first, then she got angry.

"Hey! Let her go- woah!" Jolyne felt something lift her up. She saw that it was Princess Twilight. "You bitch!"

"I don't appreciate that language. I do however appreciate you bringing the monster to us. This thing has a lot to answer for. The two victims in the hospital are dead! And it's all because of this thing. I'm not usually like this, and I hate to be, but this monster must answer for the pain it has caused to my friends."

"It wasn't her! I swear!"

"Are you actually sympathizing with this monster?"

"Just let me explain! Just please let her go! She's dying and needs water!"

"And why do you care?"

"Because she's my friend!" Twilight eases up when she heard this. "Please. Just let me explain." Twilight took a few seconds to think about it.

"Very well." she drops Jolyne. Jolyne quickly makes her string bucket again, runs to the lake, fills it up with water, and splashes it on Foo Fighters, who nearly died from being to dry. Foo Fighters would last longer, now that she isn't on the sand.

"How can they see you when you're a Stand?" Jolyne quickly whispers to Foo Fighters

"I don't know," whispered Foo Fighters back. Twilight looks at Jolyne impatiently.

"Well? Explain yourself." said Twilight.

"I know for a fact Foo Fighters didn't do it. All she did those nights during this week was observe. She's a creature of knowledge, and wishes only to learn. Back in my world, she was a true friend, and always stood by my side. She saved my life many times, and I trust her with all my heart. If you want her, you'll have to go through me first." Jolyne readied her battle stance. Twilight sighed. She was about to say something, but was interrupted by anot her guard running from Ponyville.

"Princess! Several more citizens are unconscious!"

Wayward Son 1

"What?!" exclaimed Twilight.

"It's true! There several ponies unconscious, though not foaming from the mouths, but it is clear that the thing that caused all of this is at Ponyville as we speak!" explained the guard.

"Then we got no time to lose." Twilight looks at Jolyne. "Hey, sorry about this. I can respect the fact that you would go at this length to protect your friend. This may be a bad time to ask, but could you help us with whatever it is that's attacking my town?"

"Let Foo Fighters out of the cage first." said Jolyne.

"Very well. Unlock the cage." The guards bow and unlock Foo Fighters' prison. Jolyne walks up to her and carries F.F.

"I want to help out now," said Foo Fighters.

"But you can't. Not without a dead body to wear." replied Jolyne.

"How do you know about that?"

"I told you, you were a good friend to me at one point." Jolyne places Foo Fighters into the lake. "I'll come back and visit after this is done."

"O-okay. Um, be safe I guess." this was awkward for Foo Fighters as she has never been in a social situation like this before, especially with someone who claims to have known her before. Jolyne smiles, then runs to follow Twilight.

"Let’s go," Jolyne says to Twilight. Twilight nods and she teleports away. The guards charge towards Ponyville with Jolyne following them. As they got near the town, they see several bodies of ponies on the floor. They seemed to be breathing for now. They halt as they reach town square, bodies everywhere. Twilight re appears right next to Jolyne. They slowly walk, scanning the area for threats. It was eerily quiet. Whatever was attacking Ponyville, it seems like it doesn't want to be seen. Suddenly, one of the guards pass out. The guards next to him jump, they quickly look behind them, but only see the passed out guard. They were shivering in fear. They then panicked.

"What in Celestia is going on!"

"We're all doomed!"

"Mommy!" The guards scream as they pass out one by one. Soon, it was just Jolyne and Twilight stI'll standing. They were ready for battle. Back to back, ready to fight anything that shows up. They turn towards a noise, but see that it was only an apple that fell of the apple cart. Twilight and Jolyne slowly looked around the cart. They saw two ponies. Applebloom, and Twilight's friend Applejack, passed out.

"Apejack! Applebloom! Aww, this thing has done it this time! I'm not letting you take away anymore lives!" Twilight screams as her eyes start to glow, and her horn radiating with powerful magic. Still, the town was silent. Nothing to be seen or heard. Twilight calmed down a bit, and cleared her mind so she can focus on fighting whatever is causing this.

"Hehe, and I thought you were supposed to be the princess of friendship. Look at you, all mad and evetything." said a voice behind one of the other fruit stands. Twilight suddenly shot a beam of energy at the cart, which exploded. Thankfully, no innocent ponies were nearby, but the problem was, there was nothing there. "Heh, that looked like it would've hurt. Too bad you didn't hit me." Jolyne and Twilight were frantically looking for the source of the voice. "Jolyne, is it? I've been watching you. I know about your Stand and where you come from. You're a pretty interesting girl. Too bad I have to kill you."

"Then get your ass out here and fight me you pussy!" screamed Jolyne. This guy was starting to annoy the hell out of her.

"Ha! Not yet! I gotta build up some Mojo first. Confused? Ha! Since you're gonna die anyways, I might as well explain my Stand, Wayword Son.

"My Stand covers a huge radius, practically this entire town! And it slowly sucks the life energy out of anypony in that radius. Well, it didn't start out that big, I had to start with little critters in the area, fish, rabbits, birds. Then I moved on to bigger prey: ponies. Those two gave me a boost in power! Now my range has increased. And when I accumulate enough strength, Wayward Son can take care of both of you personally. You're lucky to be alive to actually see it, since I unfortunately can't suck you're life force. You guys have too much damn power for me to do that! But don't worry. I'm just gonna have to crush you instead. Ha!" Now Jolyne was really pissed.

"Yare yare dawa." said Jolyne. She shoots string at a hoof that she can see from behind a house and pulls.

"AAAAAAHHHHH!" screamed the pony that was being dragged. "Ah, my ankle, you bitch!" The pony was blue with a grey mane. He was an earth pony that wore an aviation jacket and sunglasses. He was fairly small. "I was gonna give you a few more minutes to say your prayers, but you forced me! Wayward Son!" his voice echoed throughout the town.

"I'm not gonna let you do that. ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!" screamed Jolyne as she uses Stone Free to rapidly punch the pony sevreal times. She stops. "I'm gonna keep beating you until you tells us everything you know.

"You.... bitch..... you think I'm gonna do that? Hehehe, you got one thing coming..... for ya......"

"You can't use your Stand if I injure you badly!" Jolyne begins to beat up the pony again. Suddenly, the ground starts shaking. It's shaking in rhythm of hoofsteps. Jolyne stops beating the stallion to look around Ponyville, alarmed at the shaking. The stallion laughs.

"*cough* Hahaha! Did I mention that Wayward Son is an automatic Stand?" Suddenly, a giant minotaur destroys a two story house, it was as taller than the house it just destroyed. It moved its hand towards Jolyne and the stallion. Jolyne rolls out of the way, and the minotaur grabs the stallion. It pus him on its shoulder, the stallion hanging on to its horn. "Hahahaha! You see! You see! I, Steely Clouds, am unbeatable! Now, Wayward Son, DESTROY THEM!" Wayward Son rubs its hooves on the ground, preparing to charge.