Session 40 (Season 1)

This is the fortieth episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Binding of Chains.

## Wholesome Hell: The Siblings

The Holy Knight, Kira and Voz continued their flight through the wasteland that was the United States following their conversation with the cyberized Ruun. Holy Knight explained how they would have to wait at the coordinates for the moon to be in the right phase, but nothing potentially problematic awaited there except for the ocean. The thought of the ocean still caused fear into Voz, which spiraled into a conversation about the fear of failing their missions, and all that which has occurred throughout their journey, including Voz’s shameful decision to turn into a vampire in the Holy Knight’s eyes. Voz would tell how much this journey had affected him, from his closest friend dying and becoming one with the person who killed him, and how being a vampire didn’t help with his emotions and feelings of rage. Ultimately, Voz said he does care for the two and wants to redeem his family name and honor, seeking to see if he’s redeemable despite his recent actions from his allies. He would continue through to see the journey to Heaven, looking past their recent argument, and over trying too hard to please Kira and Piero. However, their course was instead interrupted by a sudden change in weather, and a metal claw dragging them through a portal.

Awakening in advanced sci-fi esque tubes, stripped of their belongings, and submerged in a strange fluid were Kira and Voz. They were hooked up to respirators, and had their vitals monitored by other various wires attached to their bodies. The Holy Knight was completely missing, but Kira and Voz could communicate easily to each other through their Stands, which included the Holy Knight. Voz summoned the Holy Knight to search the laboratory they were being held in, noticing a metal door as the only exit and entrance. Holy Knight saw that “P-9499,” Kira’s ID, would be examined in a minute, with “P-2987,” or Voz, just after in 5 minutes. Kira was freed as the Holy Knight shaped the glass into a dog, but Voz would stay behind to see what would occur within the next minute, and with the sudden arrival of the cyberized Ruun Danolds. Appearing as only a cloaked figure with a yellow mask branded with the numbers 1-6, he noted that “P-9499” and “P-7432,” or Kira and Piero respectively, were awake.

Seeing as Kira and Holy Knight weren’t “restored” and were “defective,” various numbers on his mask began to blink up to four times, as he prepared to “normalize” them. This meant attacking the group, striking the Holy Knight with his absolutely high power while Kira turned the glass dog into a bomb and kept it on standby to detonate inside of Ruun. As the glass canine charged at Ruun, his cyborg body shielded him from the damage and revealed itself fully. A fully yellow, sleek metallic body, with nothing left of his human body. Voz then punched a hole through the tube he was in, partially shocking Ruun with electrified tube water which travelled up to his side. On this side was a now damaged power cell, which he threw at Voz in retaliation, only for the Holy Knight to shield it with his body at the last second. Kira would reason that if Ruun’s design was symmetrical, then there would be an opposite power cell, punching through him and turning the cell into a bomb. As Ruun kicked Kira into a wall with immense force, his body exploded, leaving barely part of his upper half, including half his skull, intact.

Leaving the barely functional Ruun alive, the Holy Knight demanded it give directions to find it’s plane and the group's belongings in exchange for the cyborg’s survival. Begrudgingly, Ruun led the three to their equipment. However, while Holy Knight was inside the room, he felt a sinking feeling like the world was flipped around as he also saw numbers akin to Ruun’s ability: 1, 4, 5, 4. Following retrieving their equipment, the group was guided to another room containing Holy Knight’s plane, and passed the room “NPC: 06-21-07-15.” After retrieving and compressing the plane, Voz felt the same feeling Holy Knight had, and saw the numbers 5,3,2,3, and the group realized these numbers referred to their respective Stand’s physical data. As the group was about to exit, the group was informed of Ruun’s sister’s designation as "NPC: 06-21-07-15," and overhead loud and familiar yelling inside the room. A sound belonging to that of Pannacotta Fugo, causing him to change objectives, and have Voz melt the door open. To his surprise, his Stand’s physical attributes were completely changed, seeing the numbers 3-2-3-5 appear, causing his acid to be significantly weaker.

With weakened acid, Voz managed to melt the door and reveal the room. Inside the room was Pannacotta Fugo, hooked up to a tube and wires much like the three had previously been. Operating on a computer was a cloaked figure, Ruun’s sister Macy, with her face only being a mirror that reflected the group’s Stands instead of themselves. The process occurring on the computer was at 44% completion, the mechanization of Pannacotta Fugo much like their previous allies. Voz suggested using Ruun as a bartering ticket, only for Macy to stare back at Ruun coldly as she declared she had no use for machines that couldn’t function. Ruun’s body began to overheat as Kira and Holy Knight’s Stand attributes were “reversed” to 4-3-4-5 and 4-5-4-1 respectively.

A fight broke out between the three and Macy Danolds and her Stand ability, which \*flipped the tables\* by rearranging the group’s Stand stats. Holy Knight immediately threw Ruun’s self destructing body at Macy, sending her back and revealing her similar to Ruun's sleek metallic body, only it was blue and her chest had the icon of a reverse arrow, with her face being a mirror. While Kira shot at Macy, Voz and Holy Knight went to work on rescuing Fugo from the ongoing process. Voz noticed on the side of the computer was a hard drive, something which contrasted the rest of the high technology, connected to Fugo’s tube. In the fight, Macy’s leg was torn off by Kira after the former tried to kick her, and the latter proceeded to remove the hard drive. With the process interrupted, Voz freed Fugo from his chamber. This prompted Macy to cause one of her power cells to go critical, and detonated on Holy Knight who took the explosion for the group. Following the explosion, Voz quickly went to check Fugo’s vitals, confirming that his boss still lives...

## A Funny Squadron's Normal Quest: The Interrogation

Following Jeremy Quick, Melissa Steel, John Smog, and Zachary Kishibe being taken into custody, they were placed inside of a room within a Speedwagon Foundation facility. The man behind an interrogation window, unbeknownst to them it was Ellis Mercia’s supervisor: Nelson Doughty. The group provided him with the information on what occurred specifically at Hilo Airport, September 23rd, 2019. What was explained were the first several instances of Jeremy’s adventures. This included what led to Jeremy being framed as a terrorist for the destruction of Hilo Airport, leading up to his teleportation to Sardinia and meeting Pannacotta Fugo along with his allies Piero and Flavia, finally being teleported to the turtle world by a girl, and meeting his three friends in said world.

At the same time, this information was being relayed back to Ellis while he was also giving his supervisor the details of his adventures, referencing his shared dreams, and discovering the either seemingly deceased or captured terrorists: Kira, Bradley, Ruun. He also informed Nelson about various other facts such as the Hilo events, the potential danger that lied in the existence of Kiss, and the upgraded Anubis. The Foundation would soon be sent to retrieve the sword at the final stop of Trinity Church in Manhattan. Soon enough, Ellis would be patched through the interrogation room and spoke with the four for the second time, and proceeded to listen in on their explanation of 1985. They explained the events that transpired of King Crimson and it’s user destroying the village they were in, how they went teleported back to the present in Jeremy’s apartment, and how Oliva told the four of Apex’s plan to attack the U.S if they didn’t make it to Manhattan.

After explaining their reasons for hijacking a foundation plane, they further backed it up with some proof of their adventures such as Jeremy’s arm and Zach’s baby photos of Aceto Singolo. Taking a quick glance of the photos, they were promptly sent by Nelson to Ellis. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the infant Aceto’s features were very similar to his group’s cyborg companion, Singola, with the baby’s mismatched brown eye and pink hair. The whole conversation between the sides was cut off immediately by Oliva, leaving behind the warning that the four friends would enjoy the “Mexican winds-”

The situation immediately began when flesh suddenly began squeezing through the vents, only for said creature to come out of the interrogation window alongside a man with half formal looking, half very relaxed attire with a fatal looking injury around his chest. The creature, a man covered in stone, walked into the room, and immediately approached Jeremy. Constantly referring to him as “brother,” the creature told Jeremy they must find the “remaining masters.” His attitude quickly changed to a stern and quiet one when Jeremy asked who said masters were as he held the stone man still with DDR’s arrows.

Everyone quickly prepared themselves for the ensuing fight, with John making the first move. John proceeded to punch the man in his gut, as his chest opened up and his ribs slashed in retaliation. Dropping from his still body were morsels of flesh and launched into Zach as he covered him in graffiti in order to give some extra conductivity for Hamon. Melissa’s arm would be slashed repeatedly in her attempt to strike with Hamon by the man’s rib blades, but proceeding to smash the rest of the rib bones that came for her. In order to get the leeches off of him, Zach created miniature jets to fly them off and back to the man, catching him off guard as they momentarily ate away at him. The man would reflect Melissa’s Hamon filled shield toss, and began to deform himself. His body, becoming nothing more than flesh and bone in a pile, launched itself at Jeremy, unable to properly control him with the arrow due to his nonexistent limbs. The pile of flesh began to consume Jeremy’s human arm, but would reject the ripple that soon flowed into the arm.

Zach quickly came up with the idea of trapping the pile of flesh in a paint microwave, using his Stand to surround what was the man in a microwave box. This gave way for Melissa to conduct the box full of Hamon, incinerating the Pillar Man from within. This promptly led to Jeremy to question the existence of the Pillar Man within the facility, asking the injured Nelson who was sewing his severe injuries with some unique sewing thread. He explained the original place it was found, Mexico, before being promptly brought into the Speedwagon Foundation for analysis. At the same time, he also quickly asked who Kiss was, with Jeremy explaining him being a friend and the reason for his other arm.

## Operation Stahl Blitz Laufen: Manhattan

Ellis, with his abruptly ended phone call at the front of the train, immediately came back to the bedroom car for the Anubis box, which was right next to Singola. Ellis brought up the name of the man the other four met in 1985, Aceto Singolo, prompting Singola to get up and speak in person for the first time. She explained to Ellis-san ,Ben-chan, and Lamb-kun her background with the Apex Cult. A genetically engineered child of two very important cultists, born from nanotechnology stolen from the Speedwagon Foundation a long time ago. When a section of the cult stole all of its own technology, destroying any remaining one's, that was when the cult wronged her. Her current loyalties were complex, as she liked being with the three of them. Ellis, upon processing this, said nothing, and simply left to process his thoughts in another car.

Meanwhile Ben and Lamb were left with Singola, who told the two about her mother. A woman who’s more like multiple people, a person named Fiume Sacerdos. The woman Ben could recognize from his time in the past, and would even be referenced by Singola as Niente-sensei talked about the woman who helped him out that looked very similar to Ben. The train came to a sudden halt at the end of a tunnel, and it was made clear this was their final destination: Southern Manhattan. All four would exit the train, and Ellis would quickly scout out the location marked: Trinity Church. Just before though, Singola would go up to and inform Ellis the infant in the photo, Aceto, was also her father, but that he probably didn’t care about that anymore.

Ellis, after a minor tremble, continued to move for his mission to deliver Anubis to the foundation. As he approached a nearby foundation van, and noticed the whole vehicle was completely silent. Tearing open the van doors, he found two workers foaming by the mouths on the floor of the van. Suddenly, a shotgun blast rang as Singola collapsed to the ground without injuries. Sneaking around the van was a humanoid Stand with a leather jacket, and shotgun labeled “Vaporwave” in its hand. It landed several of it’s pellets on Ellis’ chest, numbing the injured area, before it’s gun was knocked onto the ground.