Session 35 (Season 1)

This is the thirty-fifth episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Binding of Chains.

## A Little Story From The Past, Part 2

As Aceto and the others were about to leave, he brought up the topic of dating advice to Zach, asking for some. After some not as successful talking as he had hoped, they decided to go to the clothing store with the intent of seeing the girl Aceto was trying to get help with afterwards. Following a prolonged hug with Zach, he picked out an outfit that would be more than enough for Aceto, one with a nice sweater and match pants. As Jeremy was picking out an outfit for himself, he noticed something on a jacket: the infamous two faces of King Crimson. At the same time Zach also noticed a crimson figure right outside the store, staring back at him with it’s faces. A suspicious Jeremy wondered if Aceto was a Stand user, testing his theory with a feint from DDR, but the response Aceto gave was the fact his eyes changed from green to a darker color, before reverting back to normal. Zach grabbed Jeremy into a changing room to discuss what he had just seen, which was undoubtedly a Stand in his mind. Jeremy described King Crimson and how it belonged to an old mafia boss, but not knowing what it did. They created some profane hand gestures in the form of “flipping the bird” in order to warn each other of any ambushes.

Returning to the store, the squad paid for their items and noticed that they had spent the literal whole day shopping. However, Zach had decided to graffiti the clothing store in secret, only to find that he had finished his art the moment he had started. Heading back to the house, the group made themselves comfortable in the spare room, all except for John who went to sleep on a sofa. The group began to discuss what they had recently seen. Zach brought up his graffiti incident, noting that he felt as if he lost a bit of his memory after a dumpster rustled. Melissa brought up the fact that Aceto looked very similar to the “Good Feeder” and the chances of him being a Stand user were high, even suggesting the theory that Aceto may be possessed by the “Bad Feeder.” Zach went on to confirm the possibility that Stands could possess people from his history in Morioh. After discussing how long their respective worlds have been around, with Jeremy’s world being as far as the year 2019 and the Turtle World only being in 80 A.P. The group also argued the logistics of how time travel worked, including what changes they could make to the timeline to stop someone like Niente, they ultimately went to sleep to avoid confusion of paradoxes and other issues.

Jeremy and Zach were enjoying their dream, along a very futuristic highway with the worst song Zach could imagine blaring. Upon noting the fact they had some iconic red and white sneakers on, they sped down the highway at sonic speeds upon hearing police sirens. They were stopped by a gate, leaving them no choice to climb it and run into the helicopter along the way. Flying out from the helicopter came a man heavily augmented by cybernetics, a sleek metallic version of Piero Altera. Jeremy yelled at the cybernetic Piero, who responded with a smirk and told Jeremy to submit to the Apex, calling himself Piero Mark II. Coordinating a spring attack with Jeremy, the two managed to knock the metal Piero to the ground. It rose from the ground, calling itself Piero and that it was to purge organic life. It kept trying to convince Jeremy to join it, to achieve perfection. Meanwhile Zach made a failed attempt to skate along a rail up to the helicopter, being stopped by an explosive bullet from above and sending him back to Jeremy. After weakening the metal Piero with an arm falling off, it tried to prove to Jeremy that it was Piero by removing it’s faceplace to show a brain and eyes underneath.

## End of THE WORLD, Part 2

The fight against Dio continued, where Dio began to unleash The World’s true power against Piero with a storm of knives, slashing and stabbing him all over. Voz approached Dio with the intent of turning his blood into water. Meanwhile Kira set up a trap in case Dio got close. Piero dashed towards Dio and their Stands clashed with one another, with Piero taking even more of a beating through his leg. Growing tired of only fighting Piero, Dio shot a knife at Kira, who in turn sent it back with explosive force. As Voz continued converting Dio’s blood, Kira managed to cripple one of Dio’s hands with a bullet. Despite this disadvantage, Dio held his own against a charging Piero, whose sword was smashed in a single blow by The World. With a broken blade, Piero was left with no choice but to respond to Dio’s fists with his own, but doing so proved to be fatal as Dio ended him in a single blow to the chest, sending him flying into a wall. As soon as this happened, Voz completed his task in turning Dio’s blood into water, then into acid. The weakened Dio congratulated him for his work and made sure the group would read his diary, before collapsing and melting.

At the end of the fight, a dying Piero was quickly trying to be restored by Kira, but his chest wounds were practically fatal. Piero played his recording for Kira, one he had prepared all the way back in Hoirom: the one about his past, and a thank you to Kira. By that point, his heart stopped and while Kira tried to restart his heart, a resuscitated Piero tried stopping Kira, leading to a small argument between the two sides. Suddenly, a force stopped Kira and pulled her back, stopping Piero’s heartbeat. Voz laid a flower on Piero’s corpse as a goodbye and the remaining two opened the diary. Kira followed the diary’s instructions on the 14 words required for Heaven, causing Dio’s melted remains to glow and drew everyone closer, including the corpse of Piero. It bathed the group in a golden light, finding Piero and Dio walking together towards the two, merging in the same path. Placing a hand on each Kira and Voz’s shoulders, Piero & Dio broke like glass and caused Kira and Voz to wake up on the ground. Voz immediately noticed the top of Kira’s hair had a strange shape, a cross between a star and diamond. Kira made the assumption that they had absorbed the recently deceased’s Stands and also had a strange craving for pastries. She also noticed that Voz’s hair had the same strange shape in his hair as well and strangely tapping his feet against the ground. Voz was completely unaware, although they both decided to get back up and leave the mansion.

The outside of the mansion was shrouded in darkness, leaving Kira to use one of her coins as a strangely ineffective torch. It was enough to see that the staircase was damp, but unsatisfied with the light the group dropped some oil on the coin with Voz’s Stand, allowing them to see the mansion being engulfed in a red light. They also heard crazed laughter echoing through the mansion, but they went on to move down the stairs, which were awfully drafty. On the staircase, Voz found his whole leg covered in ice and stuck to the stairs. Kira realised the culprit behind this, Niente, but as they were trying to free Voz of his ice his arm began to get incinerated. While trying to repair Voz’s arm, the incineration spread to Kira instead. Voz tried to shoot out some acid to water, only for it to freeze over. That was when the two heard voices in unison with one another, telling them to enjoy a wonderful dream together, before calling it a nightmare and exploding the whole area.

Elsewhere, Voz found himself in a nice, calm environment with wildlife and green land for miles. Far away he felt a presence, Kira. He moved closer to find spikes made of ice, ridden with blood and impaled animals. As he was about to move further through, a voice yelled at him to stop. The voice revealed himself, who sported a blue outfit with holes all around. Pannacotta Fugo revealed himself to Voz and shook his hand with a very sweaty one. Fugo sought Voz out to find Giorno, who he also said could add Voz into Passione as he wanted. The two ran forward as the whole area was beginning to become frozen over. As Voz ran, pieces of a metallic box caught his eye as well as footsteps going down a hill over a cliff. Voz suggested that it could lead them to Giorno much to a now curious Fugo’s interest. Fugo convinced Voz to go down first, insisting his Stand was too weak to climb down. They made it down to a forest, while Fugo used a staff to scale the cliff. As they continued, Voz told Fugo about how he met Piero and were on the quest to attain Heaven, and Fugo was strangely interested by Piero’s dead status. They found a bush and footprints, but this ended up being a trap as Fugo fell through a hole. To Voz’s surprise, another voice yelled at him to stop. A man with golden hair with three curls at the front appeared, revealing “Fugo” to be an illusion, telling Voz to get away. The man had a strange feeling that he could trust Voz, cementing it when Voz showed him his Stand and he did the same, revealing his Gold Experience. They left the area and the man told Voz his name was Giorno Giovanna, and told him how Piero is a part of Fugo’s squad in Passione

Voz explained to Giorno how Piero died by Dio, but in the process Dio had also died by Voz’s hand. Giorno was at first distraught by the fact Voz killed his father, but wasn’t as upset as he felt he could trust Voz and even sense his soul. He felt he had known Voz for a while, reminding him of Piero. Voz found himself tapping his feet again and even remembering something he couldn’t have, a memory of him spilling water on Fugo and feeling the need to hum some classical music. Eventually they found themselves at a pit with a blue rimmed mirror at the bottom, the exit Giorno said he found. He explained how things fell through it like water, dropping a snake he created from a brooch. Unfortunately nothing Giorno threw in came back out, but Voz had a plan to dig closer to the mirror. Through the mirror he saw Kira staring at a lady with blue hair in a blue dress...

Kira found herself resting in a bedroom, but quickly got out to check her surroundings which seemed all so familiar. In a hallway, she found another door, leading her to Michel Polnareff’s study. The library was completely bare, except for the outside which was covered in a red mist. Upon going to the bottom of a spiral staircase, she went out to find she was in the City of Hearts. In addition to this she felt a presence deep within the city, Voz. Unfortunately, she was stopped by a massive metal gate. Kira destroyed the front of the gate, but before she could go through she noticed a silhouette staring back at her with it’s vibrant red eyes and flaming body. A woman with a soft voice spoke to Kira, remembering their similar abilities and encounter in the City of Hearts, revealing to Kira red hair.  The flaming silhouette prepared to “destroy” Kira, walking towards her but Kira moved away and left behind a proximity mine, triggering an explosion that seemingly caused the person to disappear. As Kira headed further in the city, she passed by several flaming silhouettes, before stopping by an alley. In the alleyway she saw Michel Polnareff, looking at a bloodstained wall. She went into the alleyway and spoke to Michel, saying how someone has been chasing her. Michel recognized the person as the infamous “Goddess of Destruction” from his great-grandfather’s book, and recognized Kira as not an illusion. He also learned of Piero’s recent demise and how she was looking for another ally. Upon hearing movement, Michel prompted Kira to go through the alleyway and through a metallic door. This led her into a factory and elevator, heading down it to find two large mirrors. A mirror with dark blue edges had an image of Voz face to face with Giorno Giovanna, whilst one with a red edge had a younger Giorno fighting a different looking version of NIente.

Kira decided to go through the blue mirror, finding herself in a forest as well as hearing rustling from a bush. From the bush came out Fugo, wearing a blue outfit and a staff. He claimed it to be a gift from Michel, and told Kira how he was looking for his co-workers. Fugo however made a strange comment about Flavia, correcting himself to mean that Flavia was working for Apex now. Following that he told Kira of an exit, which was a mirror with a blood red rim. Fugo became increasingly suspicious as he tried to convince Kira to go through the mirror, telling Kira to wait several seconds if he went in first. The suspicious Kira caused “Fugo” to become impatient and angered with her comments. This caused “Fugo” to reveal her true appearance, the blue-haired woman Fiume Sacerdos....

## L'imitazione Della Vita

oreN **wandered a black space, devoid of all life, before encountering two screens. There he saw Kira and Voz disappearing and being frozen respectively. He knew who was responsible, Niente. A cold woman introduced herself to** oreN**. With green hair, eyes, and clothing, a woman recognizable from the tournament in Orme, although not the exact same. Maledetta Umbra, as** oreN **recognized, having seen her or a copy of her powers at the very least, from the tournament. She told** oreN **how he was much like herself, and told him to enjoy Niente「Fantastic Dreamer」 as she walked away saying she would speak with her good friend Cherry Polnareff. Umbra turned into a reflection of** Piero**, before leaving by portal, prompting** oreN **to follow her. Through the other end of the portal, he was in front of Michel’s burnt tower, seeing “himself” warning Cherry that Michel and Giorno were in danger, with Cherry following the fake** Piero **through another portal.** oreN **charged through the portal, ending up at Polnareff’s Castle. At the top of the castle he felt a strange feeling, Voz and Kira. He ran inside and found Jean Pierre Polnareff speaking to Cherry. As Cherry nearly stumbled out of the window,** oreN **pulled her back, but rather it was Polnareff who pulled her back.** oreN **recognized the incident as some sort of flashback, as neither responded to his words or actions.**

oreN **found himself in front of a door, feeling the presence from earlier outside behind this door, and as he tried to open it he heard a frightened Cherry behind it. Cherry said he was the one that brought her here, but** oreN **reassured her that he wasn’t a fake. She slowly opened the door, with an eye covered by her hand, asking** oreN **if it was really him as he came back after three years. Over three years ago Piero took her to this place, after coming back from his journey.** oreN **assured her that he would’ve never have done such a thing, and Cherry opened the door for him to see her slightly older appearance, messy hair, bloodied dress, and a hand covering an eye. An eye “**Piero**” tore out, something** oreN **said he would’ve never done. Cherry explained who she saw that might’ve done it, a man with bright yellow, tall and spiky hair, bloodshot eyes, and claiming himself to be a god. After creating an eyepatch for Cherry, he led her out of the castle to avoid the dangers lying in it.**

oreN **found the whole castle shrouded in darkness, and lights flickering on and off in the hallway. It was completely silent, but** oreN **led the way. As he edged too far into a light source, he suddenly heard a woman from behind Cherry saying that she found her, but** oreN **defended the princess as they continued once Umbra vanished.** oreN **moved past another light source, although without touching it, and found himself at the main staircase. The staircase was surrounded by searchlights, but** oreN **attempted to avoid the light. He stepped in the first one, causing Umbra to appear and nearly pull Cherry away with shadowy arms until he sliced them away.** oreN **avoided the second searchlight without issue, but the last one he moved too fast, causing Cherry to fall directly into the light and causing shadowy arms to surround her once more. He grabbed her away, although a bit too slow as one of the arms broke off her foot...without any bleeding.** oreN **carried her the rest of the way out of the castle, and to a metal platform in bloodstains.**

**He saw a lever in the distance, causing the two to descend and on a smaller platform. He ended up in front of a large, black mirror with the writing “I HAVE ASCENDED”, and saw inside it Niente. A changed Niente, with spiky blonde hair, black bloodshot eyes, wielding his sword against a golden Stand with an arrow in its forehead.** oreN **touched the mirror, causing it to ripple like water and put his whole body in. He walked through and saw a factory, along the edge of Naples, the factory Niente originally died in.** oreN **knocked down the door, and he saw the bodies of three women. One dressed in a blue dress, one in a red trench coat, and one in a green tuxedo. At the end of the factory he heard the maniacal laughter of the man himself, Niente. Placing Cherry down, he approached the laughter as he saw a golden arm fly over his head, the arm of Gold Experience. He ran towards the area until he saw Niente, fighting a figure that resembled Gold Experience although with an arrow in its forehead, and a younger Giorno. Niente was hysterically cutting away at Giorno, with his voice sounding like several people speaking in unison.** oreN **proceeded to charge over with a steel sword in hand to stop Niente...**

## Operation Stahl Blitz Laufen: Arizona Stage End

Ben, Ellis, Lambrusco, and Singola were face to face with a rocket-like vessel deep within a crater formed by the mass of machinery that had attacked them earlier in the shape of various dinosaurs. In the rocket they looked at a man who was muttering to himself, hooked up to a machine and had mechanical arms. As Ellis inspected the outside of the rocket, Ben went to try and unhook all of the various tubes and wires on him. Ellis only got information he had known before, what with the fact that the rocket had the name D. Ferdinand on it. On the other hand, Ben found two metal boxes behind the rocket. The group decided to just take the boxes and place them aboard the train as they left the crater alongside the unconscious man.

Back on the train, the group opened the first box to find thousands of little nano-bots. In the second box was a laptop with two videos: Omega 1 and Omega 2. Playing Omega 1, the group saw that the video was about Lambrusco, albeit heavily outfitted by cybernetics. The Lambrusco in the video said to him that “We want you”. Viewing Omega 2, the group watched a recording of the box of nanomachines and someone saying they were going to be unstoppable. They also added that they got the box from the Apex, before signing out and calling himself Diego. Ben proceeded to try and beat the unconscious man and threw him into a wall, only for his impact to be softened by a metal tail. Still unconscious, the man pointed one of his bionic arms at the box of nanomachines, causing them to surround him and create various mechanical dinosaur parts around his limbs and head.

The man Ferdinand pounced at Ben and in the process his claw and her fist collided. Ellis came up to him and did the same and while also seeing the man was repairing his claws through the nanotech. The man proceeded to get blown into a wall by Lamb and Ben took the moment to strike again, attacking his claw as her face got scratched. The man then sunk his dinosaur head into Ben’s knee as he got blown away in the process. As Ellis tried to kick him, his leg was caught and crushed. Lamb then charged at him, flying past and slamming him to the ground with winds. Ben then hopped on his tail, only to be flung into a wall. The man proceeded to get back up and claw Ben with all his might, only to have it shatter. Ellis took the opportunity to send the man below the train by destroying the floor. This allowed Lambrusco to jam him into the train wheels and Ben to use her Stand to magnetize him to the wheels. Ellis then started the train and ground the man’s body below, ending the fight.

Ben and Lamb went off to take care of their injuries in the medical car through some of their nanomachines acquired from the fight with the cybernetic sword, Anubis. Lamb injected the vial of nanomachines into her shoulder, He then proceeded to carry her as they looked for spare clothes to put on Ben. Once they found an extra shirt, he laid the napping Ben on her bed in the bedroom car and went to sleep soon after. At the same time, Ellis went to check up on the mute Singola, who was more or less fine staring at the hole in the train. During this she asked ~~Ellis-sama~~ about where he was from and why he was with Ben; asked what happens after he was done with the Apex; also asking about what he does normally. She then asked for his opinion on two colored squares: yellow and pink. Ellis, tackling the question by basing off which color stood out more, suggested pink. Thanking Ellis, she suggested they go find Ben. They found them dozing off in the bed car, prompting Ellis to find some nanomachines to heal himself with as well. However, Singola suggested to Ellis that she could heal him, jamming her finger into his arm and slowly repairing his damage. After that he checked to see if the man was still alive, only seeing their mechanical arms clinging onto the train wheels and nothing more, leaving Ellis no choice but to grab some dinner and take a nap.

**In Ben and Lamb’s dream**, they found each other inside of a high school classroom with their desks facing one another. They quickly left the classroom and encountered someone outside, someone with a cold demeanor that Ben recognized: Maledetta Umbra. The older Umbra spoke to Ben and Lamb, although mainly catching up after their 34 years time apart. Ben learned of what happened to Nai and how he died by Giorno in a factory explosion. Ben also learned of Nai’s present fate; having the souls of Schietta, Fiume, and Umbra as a part of him and that his name had changed to Niente and he had joined the Apex Cult. Afterwards, they talked about Ben’s encounter with Giorno and Mista, the latter of which’s name intrigued Lamb as his brother Narancia knew a Mista. Lamb asked Umbra what she knew of Narancia, and while she didn’t know him personally, she knew he died in “duty.” Lamb demanded to know the killer, and she gave him what he wanted to see; showing him a vision of Narancia against a crimson figure that impaled Narancia in an iron fence. Narancia’s killer was however in a special hell thanks to Giorno, but knowing Umbra wanted to kill Giorno, Lambrusco blew her away with a strong wind and down a flight of stairs. An irritated Lamb pushed Ben aside to try and chase after Umbra, but he ultimately calmed down and Ben and Lamb made up after his yelling about not being Ben’s original Lambrusco. Lamb then took her outside the school where they relaxed up high in a beautiful sky and shared a kiss before appearing above a platform with three people: Jeremy, Ellis, and someone else...

**In Ellis’ dream**, he found himself near a school and a tall set of stairs in the middle of a forest. He recognized the school as the one Benjamin had attended, and for infamously being involved in a school shooting at, but the school grew further and further away. Left with no other option, he went up the staircase and heard a body fall from a tree: the body of “terrorist” Ruun Danolds. At the top of the stairs he saw a hut at the end of a brick road, but on the road were several chopped up limbs and the heads of two other “terrorists”, Jeremy and Bradley. When he got up to the hut, he heard quiet mechanical breathing on the other side and sent his Stand through. In the hut he found a metallic skeleton laying on the floor of the steel interior of the hut. Going back down the hill, he was poked by an individual in a yellow mist. The person wanted to guide Ellis back up the staircase, leading him up to a sky platform where there were statues of two medieval individuals. This however changed as Ellis saw two new people: Jeremy Quick and another man. Jeremy yelled at Ellis demanding to know who he was. Ellis did not trust them with his name, but he wanted to know if they could see the silhouette by him, which they could not. Suddenly, flashing over Jeremy’s head were the words “KILL HIM” in blood, but Ellis didn’t go through with it as he had no need. **(See A Little Story From The Past, Part 2 for the rest of the dream)**

After waking up, Ellis found the group’s young companion handing him something: a disc from one of his dreams. Ben and Lamb soon awoke and checked up on Ellis, then went on to find something to play the disc on which had USB cables attached to it. As they brought out the laptop from earlier, Ellis went to make a failed call, but settled for text. Hooking up the disc, the group saw two videos labelled 194X and 200X respectively...