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madimpossibledreamerJojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Johan tries to plan his next move and figure out Rush's before it's too late.
Word Count: 1015
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
The Pretender basically just tosses the wing at Johan, trusting his User to get under cover and out of the line of fire, and dives in to drag Robin to safety. It’s a ridiculous assumption, as his own Stand should probably know, because chances of him actually having the sense to run and just staying to mouth off are roughly even, but he goes along with it because, really, if a person can’t trust their own Stand, then who can they trust? Pretender’s not the strongest, though, and so it’s not a simple matter of just tossing Robin over its shoulder and hightailing it out of there like a proper Joestar. Buffy could pull that off, but she’s too busy berserking to bother to help out. At least Jotaro’s keeping an eye on her, and he can stop time and pull her out if it gets too dangerous. Johan’s personal guess is that Rush is actually playing with them, maybe trying to discover how his Stand works, and so isn’t bothering to finish them off immediately.
Keeping up with all of them at once is a pain for Rush—or at least, that’s how it was before the Pillar Man got a Stand. Otherwise, why only pick a fight when someone (like Angel, rest in peace) was alone, and attempt to blend in or retreat when the possibility of reinforcements lay around the corner? Sure, some of it was just an abundance of caution, trying to even the odds before rolling the dice on an encounter, but that can’t have been all of it. Which would be good news, except they can’t count on that being true anymore. Rush was still hedging his bets, waiting for this third party to attack them, but he might not need that now, and if he figures that out?
Well, they’re just going to have to figure out a plan before then. It’s like the point where DIO decided to stop just showing off and just go for it. Jotaro knows that, too. It’s not all just on Johan’s shoulders.
Johan closes his eye and steadies his breathing, tuning everything else out. Buffy’s yelp of pain that she turns into a battle cry, the sound of Star Platinum’s attack rush, it all has to fade, because keeping his cool is necessary. Just because it was really hard to use hamon on a Pillar Man did not mean that it’s impossible or worthless.
He glances back around the corner. It’s hard to see with the crowd around Rush, but he’s pretty sure that’s a smug smile on the Pillar Man’s extremely punchable face.
“Stay cool, man,” he whispers to himself. “Like Oz.”
Not to claim that Pillar People aren’t arrogant, but Rush has just a tinge more confidence than he had before. Some of that is the Stand, obviously. Whatever it’s doing as a suit Stand, it’s pretty effective at preventing damage, whatever else its powers happen to be. And it’s possible that that and the slow dawning realization that he seems virtually untouchable might be the only cause, but the timing of it happening after Robin went down seems a little too coincidental. This is a whole lot of shaky what ifs and maybes to be building a counterattack off, but they don’t have a lot of choice. They have to believe there’s a chance, because just lying down and taking it isn’t the Joestar or the Scooby way.
“Hey, Mum,” he yells, and from her nod he knows she’s gotten the message. Seconds later she’s making a passageway with B3 and managing to get Pretender and Robin out of there, but not before one of those water lances spears Pretender in the shoulder, too. Johan’s just lucky discipline keeps his breath steady enough to reflexively heal most of it, and Rush doesn’t get a second shot, since she’s made the path short and they get out of the other end of the portal in time to close it.
The wing is from some kind of giant insect. Johan might not have direct experience with this, but it’s gotta be Jacawitz, the god from Xibalba. Since none of the Joestars had been with them, he doesn’t even have the insight of one of their points of view on the situation, but Darling, Beefheart, and Robin had all shared a little, enough for him to be fairly certain. The last they’d seen of him he’d been humiliated and vowed revenge, and—well, it’s a weird comparison to make, but in that regard he reminds Xander of Warren. One’s a loser with a gun, one’s a giant wasp god, but still.
It’s possible it’s not actually Jacawitz, of course. He was supposedly trapped alongside the Lords of Xibalba. He could have found a way out, snuck past the actually dead gods, maybe, but he also might have just flexed whatever influence he had to destroy where he couldn’t. But this is clearly the answer behind the swarm.
He prepares a punch as the shadow of wings fly overhead, only to look up and find that Whisper has a giant wasp in its beak. It’s not coming at him. The wasp is trying feebly to sting, but Whisper’s attack seems to have been effective, too.
Rush isn’t like DIO or Kars; he’s not likely to get drunk on power. He’s still trying to be thoughtful about this, still trying to rig the system. They’ve seen enough to start to get an idea of how he thinks, so what’s his next move?
Water. Gotta be. He had the tanks in his lab, and can probably manipulate it to some extent—that’s why he’d fled to the sewers after attacking Wolfram & Hart the first time, and probably why he’d been hiding there or the river. And sure, there’s water nearby, but even with his fancy new Stand he probably would hesitate to use the Well for fear of it backfiring, and he’d have to lure them to follow him to either of the other two. How does he plan to pull it off?
Chapter Summary: Johan tries to plan his next move and figure out Rush's before it's too late.
Word Count: 1015
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
The Pretender basically just tosses the wing at Johan, trusting his User to get under cover and out of the line of fire, and dives in to drag Robin to safety. It’s a ridiculous assumption, as his own Stand should probably know, because chances of him actually having the sense to run and just staying to mouth off are roughly even, but he goes along with it because, really, if a person can’t trust their own Stand, then who can they trust? Pretender’s not the strongest, though, and so it’s not a simple matter of just tossing Robin over its shoulder and hightailing it out of there like a proper Joestar. Buffy could pull that off, but she’s too busy berserking to bother to help out. At least Jotaro’s keeping an eye on her, and he can stop time and pull her out if it gets too dangerous. Johan’s personal guess is that Rush is actually playing with them, maybe trying to discover how his Stand works, and so isn’t bothering to finish them off immediately.
Keeping up with all of them at once is a pain for Rush—or at least, that’s how it was before the Pillar Man got a Stand. Otherwise, why only pick a fight when someone (like Angel, rest in peace) was alone, and attempt to blend in or retreat when the possibility of reinforcements lay around the corner? Sure, some of it was just an abundance of caution, trying to even the odds before rolling the dice on an encounter, but that can’t have been all of it. Which would be good news, except they can’t count on that being true anymore. Rush was still hedging his bets, waiting for this third party to attack them, but he might not need that now, and if he figures that out?
Well, they’re just going to have to figure out a plan before then. It’s like the point where DIO decided to stop just showing off and just go for it. Jotaro knows that, too. It’s not all just on Johan’s shoulders.
Johan closes his eye and steadies his breathing, tuning everything else out. Buffy’s yelp of pain that she turns into a battle cry, the sound of Star Platinum’s attack rush, it all has to fade, because keeping his cool is necessary. Just because it was really hard to use hamon on a Pillar Man did not mean that it’s impossible or worthless.
He glances back around the corner. It’s hard to see with the crowd around Rush, but he’s pretty sure that’s a smug smile on the Pillar Man’s extremely punchable face.
“Stay cool, man,” he whispers to himself. “Like Oz.”
Not to claim that Pillar People aren’t arrogant, but Rush has just a tinge more confidence than he had before. Some of that is the Stand, obviously. Whatever it’s doing as a suit Stand, it’s pretty effective at preventing damage, whatever else its powers happen to be. And it’s possible that that and the slow dawning realization that he seems virtually untouchable might be the only cause, but the timing of it happening after Robin went down seems a little too coincidental. This is a whole lot of shaky what ifs and maybes to be building a counterattack off, but they don’t have a lot of choice. They have to believe there’s a chance, because just lying down and taking it isn’t the Joestar or the Scooby way.
“Hey, Mum,” he yells, and from her nod he knows she’s gotten the message. Seconds later she’s making a passageway with B3 and managing to get Pretender and Robin out of there, but not before one of those water lances spears Pretender in the shoulder, too. Johan’s just lucky discipline keeps his breath steady enough to reflexively heal most of it, and Rush doesn’t get a second shot, since she’s made the path short and they get out of the other end of the portal in time to close it.
The wing is from some kind of giant insect. Johan might not have direct experience with this, but it’s gotta be Jacawitz, the god from Xibalba. Since none of the Joestars had been with them, he doesn’t even have the insight of one of their points of view on the situation, but Darling, Beefheart, and Robin had all shared a little, enough for him to be fairly certain. The last they’d seen of him he’d been humiliated and vowed revenge, and—well, it’s a weird comparison to make, but in that regard he reminds Xander of Warren. One’s a loser with a gun, one’s a giant wasp god, but still.
It’s possible it’s not actually Jacawitz, of course. He was supposedly trapped alongside the Lords of Xibalba. He could have found a way out, snuck past the actually dead gods, maybe, but he also might have just flexed whatever influence he had to destroy where he couldn’t. But this is clearly the answer behind the swarm.
He prepares a punch as the shadow of wings fly overhead, only to look up and find that Whisper has a giant wasp in its beak. It’s not coming at him. The wasp is trying feebly to sting, but Whisper’s attack seems to have been effective, too.
Rush isn’t like DIO or Kars; he’s not likely to get drunk on power. He’s still trying to be thoughtful about this, still trying to rig the system. They’ve seen enough to start to get an idea of how he thinks, so what’s his next move?
Water. Gotta be. He had the tanks in his lab, and can probably manipulate it to some extent—that’s why he’d fled to the sewers after attacking Wolfram & Hart the first time, and probably why he’d been hiding there or the river. And sure, there’s water nearby, but even with his fancy new Stand he probably would hesitate to use the Well for fear of it backfiring, and he’d have to lure them to follow him to either of the other two. How does he plan to pull it off?
