Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 120

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Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: When the volume summary just doesn’t cut it anymore.
I apologize for the lack of awesome Speedwagon Narrator Voice. If you want to read up on the Stands, though, there’s a post for that. I’ll mention which fights lead to new powers, but that’s it.
Word Count: 1878
Rating: Gen
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS.

 

            Volume IV: Angel arrives to warn them about Wesley’s position as a minion for Wolfram & Hart. After scouting with Spike, they return with news about something called “The Siphon”, which has all the demons they talked to extremely on edge.
            Buffy, Willow, and Josephine find some news of Xander from the restauranteur that had provided Fitz and Xander a meal. Buffy follows a running vampire and saves a civilian from a vampire, ignoring his insistence that he could help. Then she encounters more Slaypires and Jojo’s zombies, twisted mockeries of life. During this fight she meets Jotaro, User of the Stand Star Platinum, another relative of Josephine’s, who helps her defeat them and treats her with an odd familiarity and pride. They are also joined by another Stand User, Kakyoin, User of the Stand Hierophant Green, Josephine, and Willow, and Josephine deals the final blow.
            Willow and Kennedy have a fight.
            Buffy also shares a dream with Xander, due to one of the powers of his Stand (which he reveals to her). He also heals her arm. They can communicate, but only when they’re asleep; however, this does enable her to inform him that she’s run into Josephine and Jotaro, and for him to tell her that he’s found ‘Mercia’s son’. She talks about the Slaypires and that not everyone made it.
            Jotaro told Hol Horse and Koichi, who also came to help, that he was just going for a walk. While waiting, Yukako, Koichi’s wife, finds them.
            Josephine tells everyone her version of the story between her and Mercia. They were good friends, but she didn’t like the man she married, Gordon Sarde. They’re attacked in a museum, and they’re attacked, and they run into an adjacent dimension. Jotaro’s on his way, but Sarde finds Josephine first, and uses his Stand, Incognito, on her, causing her to lose her identity and become Jessica Harris. Josuke Higashikata, Josephine’s father, used his Stand, Crazy Diamond, to fix her and undo the effects of Incognito. She also gives Xander the name she would have given him when he was born if she had been Josephine at the time: Johan Higashikata.
            We also see the flashbacks of Josuke rushing to come and help his daughter based on Jotaro’s call. He is now a police officer, and his wife died, though they loved each other very much.
            Andrew and Willow then set up a conference with everyone—Willow, Buffy, Andrew, Giles, Faith, Riley, Josuke, Okuyasu and the other Slayers. They explain what they have discovered about the suspicion-causing spell (at least, how they believe it works)—it both undermined trust and pushed them back into bad habits. The source, they believe, is probably Wolfram & Hart, considering that Xander involved Wesley. In order to check for clues, a few Slayers volunteer to go to the old mansion. Willow uses the connection to all Slayers caused by her spell (in Season 7 of Buffy’s actual show, the same one that made all the Potentials become actual Slayers) to determine the current location of the Slaypire base—off the coast of Italy. Jotaro realizes that Italy is not the place for any such group to set up, and for a good reason—the gang called Passione, which includes a number of Stand Users.
            We see one of these gang members, Grappa Calabrese, User of the Stand Backstreet Boy. With orders, she attends a demonic auction in order to acquire a Stand Arrow, only to have it acquired by Wolfram & Hart and get into a firefight instead.
            The conference notices that the world appears to be changing, and Dawn reveals that she’d stabilized the world using her dimensional Key powers. Kakyoin also notices that the date is in the past of where they came from. Riley has also heard of the Siphon.
            Jotaro also gets a call from Giorno, the Don of Passione, who confirms that he has seen the change in the world, using it to his own advantage, and found someone Jotaro had asked him to find, Johngalli A, who is now dead. Jotaro does not remember the request, however. Giorno only remembers that Johngalli A was a follower of DIO’s. Giorno confirms that Wolfram & Hart are giving Passione problems and the law firm has gotten its hands on a Stand Arrow. He has confirmed its location and tells Jotaro what he knows about the train transporting it.
            Willow is capable of teleporting a few people to the train. The window to cast the spell is closing due to the fact that the train began moving again, so while the others argue about who should go Angel, a few witches, and a few Slayers are sent.
            The group of Slayers and Witches visiting the mansion discover that someone has found an unusual way of keeping an eye on the situation and are all killed. The Slayer Sachiko is able to send a text before she dies, however—‘water trap eye’.
            The group on the train gets a call confirming the deaths at the mansion as a warning.
            Angel notices a vampire he remembers from Wolfram & Hart boarding the train and decides to question him. The vampire stops pretending to be scared and conversationally asks Angel about the Arrow and his own demise.
            Volume V: For good reason, also known as ‘the one where all the Stand Users attack’.
            To begin with, however, we get the conclusion to the fight on the train. Angel decides that the unknown ‘vampire’ is actually a demon with powers involving water. The demon explains that he’d betrayed Wolfram & Hart because serving Wolfram & Hart no longer served his purposes. The demon wins, though Angel fights well enough to impress him, and salutes Angel’s memory.
            In the dreamworld created by The Pretender, Xander gets to speak to Angel, who explains that he’s dead-dead (and also tells Xander his new name, Johan), and warns him about the power of the demon.
            The hotel caught on fire, and they move to a new location. Fitz was worried because Xander wouldn’t wake up, and he explains it’s a new ability he discovered with Pretender. They bond over loss, and Xander offers to help bandage Fitz (and sees his tattoo, which Fitz is embarrassed about due to its tie to his past). He and Darling talk and bond.
            Xander gets to call his family, new and old, and tells Buffy about Angel. Jotaro is convinced that the culprit is a water Stand User, akin to N’Doul. And since it’s another murderer with a Stand, he wants to help. (They did, however, fail to warn Xander that Wesley was not to be trusted.)
            Next, Xander, Fitz, and Darling go to meet Fitz’s contact, a Dr. Ackerman, for a list of Stand Users. They enjoy the zoo for a bit. One of his colleagues harpoons Xander in the shoulder, who falls into the research shark tank. Darling and Fitz are able to rescue him, but they aren’t able to save Dr. Ackerman, who has been dismembered and stuck in his own locker. They are able to find an incomplete version of the Stand User list.
            Johan pushes for a shopping trip to get new clothes, and in the mall they encounter another Stand User, Scott Cain, who attempts to kill Johan with his Stand, Stereo Love. Johan learns of a new power of Pretender’s, the ability to copy another Stand (within a limited extent). Meanwhile, Darling Violetta fights Anthony Kiedis’s Stand, Sons of Dixie. She wasn’t really a fighter, but she managed to find new determination and win the fight.
            Josuke freaks out about the fate of his daughter (and Okuyasu’s not much calmer). The conference call from the previous volume occurs here. Josuke then starts freaking out about the fact that he’s now a grandfather and doesn’t feel near old enough for it. He decides to help an old man and ends up taking part in his own Stand battle against the old man he helped, William Kaulitz, and his Stand, Back in Time. With help from past Jotaro, he manages to defeat the User and his Stand. It turns out that Kaulitz’s family had been threatened if he’d refused to attack. Kaulitz was then given to Slayer/Witch custody.
            Fitz, Darling, and Xander then encounter another Stand User. They turn out to not be the Stand User endangering civilians, so she doesn’t attack them and introduces herself as Captain Beefheart von Stroheim. Her grandfather was Kaulitz, but she thought the User of the next Stand, London Calling, might have been her grandfather, hence her reluctance to deal with it. Her partner, Robin “Hood” Brown, is an archer sendo (hamon) master. They received an invitation listing “opportunities for Stand Users” as long as they ‘retire’ one of the people on the list. Fitz deals with his jealousy because he’s not used to sharing his friends.
            They decide to split up, with Johan and von Stroheim looking for the User while Darling, Robin, and Fitz try to help the civilians affected. Xander pulls a Joseph with the plane, and together with Captain Beefheart manages to defeat one of the Four Horsemen of London Calling, War. He gets pretty hurt and learns that mirroring Stands isn’t necessarily a good idea, as it also makes him mirror the Stand or User, which is dangerous in its own right.
            Fitz learns that he can use an acid that can melt a statue, and with help uses this new power to defeat another of the Horsemen, Famine. He also learns the identity of the User, an artist named Courtney Love.
            We meet two of Wolfram & Hart’s new Stand Users, Whitney Houston and Antonia Ellis. While searching for those on the List to kill, they run into another of the Horsemen, Pestilence. They defeat it with help from Darling, Fitz, and Robin, but Whitney dies.
            We also see everyone else fighting the living statues.
            Giorno also has traveled to London and ends up fighting and defeating the last Horseman, Death, by putting his life on the line.
            When Fitz, Darling, and Robin find the User, she commits suicide, saying that no one could help her, and Fitz sees a receipt Darling had found saying that one of her statues had been sold to Gordon Sarde…
            To be continued…

 

            Notes: Thanks to everyone who’s read this far (hey, this isn’t Babylon 5; I appreciate all you lurkers too!), left a comment (CoreData, If they Cutie, Touch the Bootie), bookmarked (Yoshichao), or gave kudos (Onio, kickassanakin, CoreData, aja100, DaytimeChaos, Mahaiwe, Thrawn), and anyone else I might have missed! Thanks also to the Sunnydale Herald for reccing! And, of course, my gratitude in the form of ice cream to Beta Senpai, without whom I would have floundered a lot more in writing this (and also what I did have would be a lot more flawed). Continue to shine on all you crazy diamonds, and look forward to what is to come!!
            I’d love to hear your favorite Stand (I really like Backstreet Boy’s design; Beta-Senpai prefers Back in Time) and fight (mine is probably Stereo Love; Beta-Senpai likes Back in Time as well). I can’t make a poll in Dreamwidth because I’m not premium but I’m still interested.