Twilight's Bizarre Adventure Shining Road

Twenty years ago in the deep forests of northern Alaska, there lived a young boy.

He and his father didn't have money or much of anything, however they hardly ever went without food. They accomplished this by living off the bountiful wildlife of the untamed wilderness. From the salmon that swam in the streams to the large moose's that walked the woods, the young boy and his father hunted every day from morning to sunset. The boy's father would often disappear every now and then for several days, leaving his son in their cabin alone. But when he came back, he came back with a backpack full of essentials like vegetables, oil, ammo, and toilet paper. The boy looked forward to the day when he came back not only because his father returned but also because he brought back a book or two with some candy for him to enjoy. He often spent the time he had free at nights devouring the words printed on the books, learning more and more about the world outside the forest.

One day, after the father and his son had taken the life of a moose, a question formed in the young boy's mind. A question that had formed following the book he had read last night.

"Why do we have to kill, father?"

"So we can eat, son."

"But doesn't all living things have the right to live? What right do we have to take it away?"

"Son, you have your mother's kind heart but this is simply how the world works. If we want to live, we must take the lives of others."

The young boy, however, still didn't feel right taking the lives of the wildlife just so he could keep living. When his father passed away twenty years later from illness, the young boy decided to stop killing. He tried to live off the plant life, but it wasn't enough to sustain him. No matter how much he wasted away inside the cabin, he refused to take away the lives of any more animals. Then one day, he found that he did not have the strength to leave the cabin.

That day was the day that that man opened his door and appeared before him. His sight failing him, he could not see the man who had entered his home without permission but he could hear his raspy and old voice as if he was speaking right next to his ears.

"An experienced hunter wasting away in his cabin because he refuses to take a life. How pathetic…"

He couldn't argue. A hunter who refused to kill his prey was certainly a pathetic and contradictory existence.

"I should put you out of your misery right here and now but I'm feeling especially merciful today. I'll give you a test. Nature itself will be the judge of you, boy. If you survive, nature has given you permission to take the lives of its children. If you don't…"

A chuckle echoed throughout the cabin.

"Then this will have been a huge waste of time!"

A meteorite pierced through the young man's chest and the test began.

"Nature tested me that day and it deemed me worthy to take the lives of its children to sustain my own! I understand now what father was trying to teach me! Survival of the fittest is nature's way!"

The young man turned off the speaker and moved his gaze towards the two security guards he had tied up in the corner. They watched as the dark red-skinned, heavily scarred man wearing clothes made out of pelts pulled out a long machete. As they struggled to get out of their bindings, the young man inched ever closer towards them, lifting the blade over his head.

A humanoid beast invisible to the security guards phased into existence behind the young man. The beast had a body covered with fur, decorated with animal bones. Its gleaming eyes stared down at the two guards through the sockets of the moose skull it wore. It moved its arm to mirror the young man's, its hand disappearing into the hand that held the machete.

"For on that day I was given the power to take and give back life…"

The young man swung the machete down, the blade chopping off half of a security guard's head while lodging itself deep in the skull of the second. Even with the blood spraying onto his clothes, the man's expression remained the same. Filled with determination to complete his goal.

Dislodging the blade from the second guard and slicing again to remove the blood from the blade, he turned his attention to the security screens. From there he watched as his targets, Giorno and Twilight, were attacked by a velociraptor and a moving suit of armor.

"My Stand Back-On gives back life to that which once held it! Using my Back-On, I will repay my debt to the one who saved my life by protecting the meteorite from you thieves!"

A third figure appeared on the monitor showing the museum's entrance, catching the attention of the hunter. He stared at the young woman with flaming red and yellow hair on the screen but couldn't recognize her.

"More thieves? Fine, one more prey won't make a difference!"

The claymore sliced through the air on its way to cleave the young woman in two. Shining Star however swung its fist at its left foot, crushing the metal and smashing the floor underneath it. As the armor lost its balance, the claymore swung above Twilight's head and cut a few loose hairs from her bun.

"The ground under my feet hath given way! Art thou a witch!?"

The armor tried to lift its foot out of the hole in the floor but couldn't. So concerned with dislodging itself, it didn't notice that a pink star with the word 'LOCK' written on it. It kept pulling and pulling until eventually the left leg detached from the rest of the armor with an audible 'pop'. Without its left leg to stand on, the suit of armor fell forward, creating a loud crash as metal collided with the stone floor. As the knight collided, its pieces broke apart further until eventually the glow faded from the knight's helmet.

Giorno, meanwhile, kicked the velociraptor's underside with both his and Gold Experience's legs. The reanimated dinosaur let out a cry of pain and released its tight grip on the young man's shoulder. Free from the dinosaur's jaw, Giorno's Gold Experience then unleashed a barrage of punches onto the velociraptor, both he and his Stand yelling "Muda" with each punch thrown. With one final 'Muda' the dinosaur soared through the room and crashed into the wall, unconscious.

"That thing's alive," Giorno said holding onto his injured shoulder. "Gold Experience can't change it into anything else, which means that thing is alive as much as you or I."

Twilight gestured towards the pieces of armor laying in front of her. "And there's no one inside this armor," she told him. "But it was moving and talking like there really was someone inside it."

"This Stand, this Back-On he called it, must have an ability similar to my Gold Experience's," Giorno said. "We have to wary of any other exhibit-"

Giorno broke off suddenly as he held up a hand to his ear. "Do you hear that?"

Twilight did the same as Giorno and remained as quiet as possible and sure enough, she heard a sound. To the two of them it sounded like flapping wings that were getting louder by the second…

The room was then invaded by flocks of different birds as they flew into the room. Parrots, ravens, seagulls, and many other types of avian species flooded the area the two stand users found themselves in. Each one swarmed around Twilight and Giorno; pecking, scraping, and clawing at every inch of their bodies. As the two of them flailed both their arms and their Stands at the birds around them, their efforts proved fruitless as there were just too many of them. Forced to flee, the birds however followed them throughout the museum, cawing as they chased after their prey.

Twilight and Giorno, however, managed to stick with each other as they leapt through the nearest door and slammed it behind them; several of the bird's wings trapped in the door and more pecking and clawing to reach them.

The two found themselves inside a storage slash break room for employees. There were only two exits and one of them was the door they just came in from.

"Are they going to get in?" Twilight asked with worry in her voice as she gazed at the door the birds were desperately trying to get through to them.

"That door's made of metal," Giorno pointed out. "Even if they do get through, it'll take them a while before they can even make a dent in it. We should use this time to rest and plan our-"

The two had no time to rest, however, as the door they came through was torn off its hinges and flung against the back wall. Twilight and Giorno leapt out of the way as the door was flung across the room by the animal that charged into the room with a loud cry.

"Is that a bison!?" Giorno yelled.

The break room was flooded by the birds and once again, Twilight and Giorno were swarmed by the vicious creatures. The now added bison attacked along with the birds as well, charging at Twilight with a loud roar.

"Shining Star!"

Twilight's Stand appeared and swung a fist through the wall of birds at the incoming bison. The fist struck the bison's side but a combination of fat and muscle led to the punch having almost no effect on the charging beast. A pink star, however, with the word 'TRIP' appeared on the beast's side as an invisible force struck the beast's legs, causing it to fall. Twilight jumped to the side as it slid by her, crashing into the wall. The bison let out a cry as it tried to get back on its feet but vines created by Gold Experience wrapped around the bison forced the beast to remain on the floor. While the bison struggled to get back up, Twilight and Giorno fled out of the break room through the other door.

Twilight slammed the door behind her and stamped a pink star with the word 'Protect' on the metal.

"That should stop another surprise," Twilight said relieved.

"I wouldn't bet on that, Twilight. Look."

Twilight turned around and immediately, covered her mouth as she fought back a scream. They were in the backroom where they had planned to find and steal the meteorite but there was just one very huge obstacle between them and searching for the meteorite. An obstacle where even Stands would prove almost useless against.

There was a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the wrecked backroom.

"What is a Tyrannosaurus Rex doing here!?" Giorno yelled. "Just how powerful is this Stand's ability!?"

The T-rex turned its massive head towards the two intruders, its eyes slitting as it focused in on its prey. Lifting its foot, it brought it down on a wooden crate, smashing it and the contents underneath its foot, and let out an ear-shattering roar aimed at the frozen Twilight and Giorno.

"RUN!"

Twilight sprinted in one direction while Giorno sprinted in the other, the T-rex chasing after Giorno, which it viewed as the bigger prey. The young man ran faster than he ever did in his life with the T-rex following right behind him, Giorno occasionally looking behind him and seeing the dinosaur catching up. Giorno turned around a corner but stopped the moment his foot stepped on the stone floor.

A sharp pain shot throughout his body as he felt something clamp down on his leg with dull metal teeth. Looking down, he saw that his leg was trapped between the jaws of a bear trap, blood already starting to seep through his pants legs from the powerful trap.

"What is… a bear trap doing here?"

The T-rex crashed into the wall like Giorno planned but it didn't matter as the young man was stuck with his leg trapped inside a bear trap. He could only watch in dread as the huge dinosaur got back up and turned its attention back on its prey.

"There's no way out of my trap, Giorno!"

Giorno looked behind him to see a dark red-skinned young man wearing animal pelts walk out of his hiding place behind a wooden crate. His cold eyes stared at Giorno, similar to the eyes of a hunter looking at his captured prey.

"I hold no grudge towards you or Twilight Sparkle, Giorno. This is simply survival of the strongest," the young man told Giorno. "Once I take your life, Twilight Sparkle will surrender, I can see it in her eyes. She isn't a fighter or a hunter, Giorno. She doesn't have what it takes to steal a life like us and thus she will surrender to the strongest."

To the man's surprise, Giorno chuckled.

"You must be blind! Her eyes are shining like the North Star! Now, Twilight!"

"Alright, Giorno!"

The young man spun around in shock to see Twilight and her Stand appear several meters behind him. The Stand Shining Star let out a battle cry as it threw several rocks at the T-rex standing in front of the three. The rocks transformed mid-air into stag beetles. On the backs of the beetles was a pink star with the word 'PIERCE' written on it. The young man watched as the beetles pierced through the thick skin of the T-rex and its skull, rummaging around under the ferocious creature's skin. The dinosaur let out another roar, this time in pain, as it stumbled around the room, smashing its head against the walls in a desperate attempt to destroy the beetles inside of it. Its rampage ended abruptly as the tyrannosaurus rex let out one last cry before it fell.

"Looks like your biggest weapon fell," Giorno said.

"And we have you surrounded," Twilight added. "There's no way out of this."

Back-On's user gritted his teeth. "That's what you think."

The hunter pulled out a rifle from within his clothes and swung its barrel towards Twilight. Fire exploded from the barrel as a bullet shot towards the young woman. Before it could hit its target, Shining Star appeared and punched away the bullet, however the hunter used this as a distraction and ran past Twilight and her Stand afterwards.

"Chase after him, Twilight! He must have the meteorite on him!"

Trusting Giorno and following his order, she chased after the young hunter. Seeing her chase after him, he shot at her several more times, each time Shining Star blocked the bullets before they could hit their mark. The young woman followed the hunter out of the back room and back into the museum.

She kept running until the hunter turned around a corner. As she followed him, she felt something crash into her skull, momentarily discombobulating her and causing her a good amount of pain.

"OW!" the voices of both young women yelled.

Twilight looked up to see that it was Sunset before her, her friend rubbing her bleeding nose, wincing from the pain of crashing into Twilight.

"Look where you're going, Twilight," Sunset said pulling Twilight back onto her feet.

"Sunset? Y-you can't be here!"

What was Sunset doing here? Twilight thought with worry. She had put her to sleep using Shining Star's ability and yet here her friend stood, wide awake and obviously angry at her friend's actions.

"And why not? I'm worried about my friend," Sunset said pointing at her friend with a bandaged finger. "You put me to sleep when I thought you couldn't even use magic, Twilight. How could you use magic on me, Twilight? Why didn't you even tell us you can use magic too? I thought we were friends, Twilight!"

"Sunset, you have to leave right now!"

"Not until you tell me what's going on, Twilight!"

"P-please Sunset! You can't be here! It's too danger-"

BANG!

The world became silent after the sound of a rifle firing echoed throughout the whole museum. Twilight looked down and saw a hole in her uniform above her right breast. There was blood flowing out of the hole, however, no pain could be felt by the young woman because of what she saw when she looked up at Sunset.

A hole the size of a baseball had appeared on the left side of her friend's chest, the parted skin revealing the smoking barrel of the hunter's rifle. "Always strike when the prey lets down their guard," the hunter said definitively as he gazed at his handiwork.

Sunset spat out blood with wide eyes, unable to process what had just happened to her, as she collapsed into Twilight's arms like a puppet without strings.

"SUNSET!"

Stand- Back-On

User- Wild Heart

Power- C

Speed- C

Range- C

Durability- B

Precision- C

Potential- C

Ability- Back-on can give back life to that which once had it. Bones will regrow muscle and skin and the lifeless will move once again. Even clothes or armor someone died in will move as if the wearer was brought back to life (The souls of the departed, however, will not come back. It will merely be a shadow of the deceased). Everything brought back to life by Back-On's power will be under Wild Heart's control unless he releases it, at which the point the affected will lose the life it was given and return to what it used to be.