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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 155
Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Buffy continues the fight with Three Days Grace.
Word Count: 1110
Rating: Teen (Buffy|Jojo's level violence)
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
Maybe it’s weak. Maybe that’s what Jotaro was trying to tell her, to get her to do. Sure, she can fight them. Probably even could kill them, if she wanted to. But, more than anything, she doesn’t want to become Faith, even if the other Slayer’s pretty much overcome her own issues and become an awesome woman and fighter now.
So she alters her swing just a little, catching the Stand in the shoulder instead. Pass out from the blood loss or something. Please? Fortunately, she still has the Slayer endurance to go the distance, and while those with Stands are also more durable than your average human, even they have limits below a Slayer’s. Right?
Unfortunately, she’s just figured out the trap that was thrown at her. It’s a few links of a paper chain. Like a snake, it slithers up her leg, more links appearing from nowhere pretty quickly, until it’s got a snug hold on her waist and hoists her into the air, top of the chain wrapping around the branch of the tree overhead. Buffy winces. It’s a kind of absurd sight—it looks like just a small tug should tear the chain apart, and yet it’s holding her weight.
It’s just standing there, staring at her smugly. Which is kind of a dumb move, but then, maybe people who get Stands are just otherwise normal people, so why would it expect her to be able to do much more than just struggle?
“You’re really not used to dealing with Slayers, are you?” She’s got two moves here. She could cut down the tree branch. She still has the awesome sword of awesomeness—she didn’t accidentally drop it—and given how smoothly it went through…Stand arm (nope, not thinking about that, moving on)…a tree branch would be nothing. But that still leaves her with the same problem: hurting the Stand without killing it.
She chooses the second option, grabbing the chain above her with her hand not holding the sword, and yep, still feels like paper, weird, throwing her whole body weight backwards from the Stand, just like she’s a kid on the swings again, only she’s way stronger now than she was then. Aside from swinging the sword backward for some extra momentum, because she definitely didn’t play with blades when she was ten. Its eyes widen again like it’s surprised for some reason, which by this point is predictable, this is getting old, you’d think it’d learn, as she swings back with that much more momentum, that much more fury. Sure, she’s probably going to have bruises from the paper chain but she’s probably given herself worse bruises on accident, and on the plus side, she heals quick.
She smacks into it, feet first, quickly wrapping her legs around it so it doesn’t go sailing out of reach. She punches it twice in the face and twists her entire body, sending it crashing face-first into the cobblestones. And if she wasn’t imagining things, she thought she’d heard—yep. The metallic-like croaking of something, like a chain being bent because Slayer-strength. She takes back her earlier thought. The sight of the broken link still retaining its form and holding her up is even weirder, but if that’s possible, she might be able to cut through it with the sword.
It gurgles and pushes itself up weakly, which is really bad. Seriously, how much does she have to do to this thing to get it to stay down without killing the person on the other side?
At least it looks like she’s disarmed it (argh, that’s terrible Mind-Xander), because it’s not cutting anything with the shears, which still no matter how long she thinks about it looks really impractical. And it looks like if it’s getting new traps, it has to cut them. Unfortunately that still leaves whatever it’s got in its bag. Evil Lawyer Lady’s enough of a forward thinker to store some traps for later. The question then becomes, for the battlefield strategist, why bother cutting any traps on the battlefield, then? It’s the middle of combat, you’ve got a crazed Slayer chasing at you, and you’re busy cutting out paper people? What sense does that make?
There must be some sort of advantage to doing it at the time. One of the most obvious is that you’ve got precise control over what’s being made. It’s not like a Stand without a mouth can call for a time-out to look for the precise trap for the situation, never mind the fact that she’d just ignore that anyway. So it’d make sense not to crowd the pouch too much, just a few all-purpose essentials. And with that precise control comes to the ability to adapt to your environment—if you’re stuck in close quarters with your opponent, the landmines might be a bad idea, since they might get you, too.
Her Slayer’s instincts are suggesting something else, too—they’re less efficient. Sure, the chain still feels strong, but compared to the lasers and the landmines and the electricity trap it had felt comparatively sluggish, and if it was operating at full capacity wouldn’t it make sense for it to just, y’know, wrap around her throat and snap her neck? There’s some sort of decay period.
Unfortunately, the chain doesn’t part like butter, but she can feel it start to give way.
And then the Stand weakly tosses another paper at the tree, not her. It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out what this one does, given the shape of the paper. She starts the countdown in her head, because that’s something else she’d noticed, watching the Stand actually set the traps in front of her. There’s a priming period of three seconds between when the trap is set and when it’s actually active. At the same time, she puts that much more effort into cutting through the chain keeping her dangling.
A paper flame, and a tree she’s kind of chained to. She’ll give her enemy points for inventiveness, anyway, even as she groans out loud, “Oh, you have got to be kidding me.”
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Buffy continues the fight with Three Days Grace.
Word Count: 1110
Rating: Teen (Buffy|Jojo's level violence)
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
Buffy’s faster. She’s got the reach, with the sword. She actually unzips the bag and takes out the sword and even starts a fatal swing before the sudden thought pops into her head. The Stand looks all monsterish and inhuman, but on the other hand is a human. Human with weird powers like me or Willow, sure. What happens if I kill the Stand? The damage translates to the one with the Stand. I’ve pretty much just lopped off a human’s arm, and I’m about to cut it in half.
Maybe it’s weak. Maybe that’s what Jotaro was trying to tell her, to get her to do. Sure, she can fight them. Probably even could kill them, if she wanted to. But, more than anything, she doesn’t want to become Faith, even if the other Slayer’s pretty much overcome her own issues and become an awesome woman and fighter now.
So she alters her swing just a little, catching the Stand in the shoulder instead. Pass out from the blood loss or something. Please? Fortunately, she still has the Slayer endurance to go the distance, and while those with Stands are also more durable than your average human, even they have limits below a Slayer’s. Right?
Unfortunately, she’s just figured out the trap that was thrown at her. It’s a few links of a paper chain. Like a snake, it slithers up her leg, more links appearing from nowhere pretty quickly, until it’s got a snug hold on her waist and hoists her into the air, top of the chain wrapping around the branch of the tree overhead. Buffy winces. It’s a kind of absurd sight—it looks like just a small tug should tear the chain apart, and yet it’s holding her weight.
It’s just standing there, staring at her smugly. Which is kind of a dumb move, but then, maybe people who get Stands are just otherwise normal people, so why would it expect her to be able to do much more than just struggle?
“You’re really not used to dealing with Slayers, are you?” She’s got two moves here. She could cut down the tree branch. She still has the awesome sword of awesomeness—she didn’t accidentally drop it—and given how smoothly it went through…Stand arm (nope, not thinking about that, moving on)…a tree branch would be nothing. But that still leaves her with the same problem: hurting the Stand without killing it.
She chooses the second option, grabbing the chain above her with her hand not holding the sword, and yep, still feels like paper, weird, throwing her whole body weight backwards from the Stand, just like she’s a kid on the swings again, only she’s way stronger now than she was then. Aside from swinging the sword backward for some extra momentum, because she definitely didn’t play with blades when she was ten. Its eyes widen again like it’s surprised for some reason, which by this point is predictable, this is getting old, you’d think it’d learn, as she swings back with that much more momentum, that much more fury. Sure, she’s probably going to have bruises from the paper chain but she’s probably given herself worse bruises on accident, and on the plus side, she heals quick.
She smacks into it, feet first, quickly wrapping her legs around it so it doesn’t go sailing out of reach. She punches it twice in the face and twists her entire body, sending it crashing face-first into the cobblestones. And if she wasn’t imagining things, she thought she’d heard—yep. The metallic-like croaking of something, like a chain being bent because Slayer-strength. She takes back her earlier thought. The sight of the broken link still retaining its form and holding her up is even weirder, but if that’s possible, she might be able to cut through it with the sword.
It gurgles and pushes itself up weakly, which is really bad. Seriously, how much does she have to do to this thing to get it to stay down without killing the person on the other side?
At least it looks like she’s disarmed it (argh, that’s terrible Mind-Xander), because it’s not cutting anything with the shears, which still no matter how long she thinks about it looks really impractical. And it looks like if it’s getting new traps, it has to cut them. Unfortunately that still leaves whatever it’s got in its bag. Evil Lawyer Lady’s enough of a forward thinker to store some traps for later. The question then becomes, for the battlefield strategist, why bother cutting any traps on the battlefield, then? It’s the middle of combat, you’ve got a crazed Slayer chasing at you, and you’re busy cutting out paper people? What sense does that make?
There must be some sort of advantage to doing it at the time. One of the most obvious is that you’ve got precise control over what’s being made. It’s not like a Stand without a mouth can call for a time-out to look for the precise trap for the situation, never mind the fact that she’d just ignore that anyway. So it’d make sense not to crowd the pouch too much, just a few all-purpose essentials. And with that precise control comes to the ability to adapt to your environment—if you’re stuck in close quarters with your opponent, the landmines might be a bad idea, since they might get you, too.
Her Slayer’s instincts are suggesting something else, too—they’re less efficient. Sure, the chain still feels strong, but compared to the lasers and the landmines and the electricity trap it had felt comparatively sluggish, and if it was operating at full capacity wouldn’t it make sense for it to just, y’know, wrap around her throat and snap her neck? There’s some sort of decay period.
Unfortunately, the chain doesn’t part like butter, but she can feel it start to give way.
And then the Stand weakly tosses another paper at the tree, not her. It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out what this one does, given the shape of the paper. She starts the countdown in her head, because that’s something else she’d noticed, watching the Stand actually set the traps in front of her. There’s a priming period of three seconds between when the trap is set and when it’s actually active. At the same time, she puts that much more effort into cutting through the chain keeping her dangling.
A paper flame, and a tree she’s kind of chained to. She’ll give her enemy points for inventiveness, anyway, even as she groans out loud, “Oh, you have got to be kidding me.”