Session 37 (Season 1)

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

## A Little Story From The Past, Part 4

At the car dealership, Jeremy, Melissa, and Cristo were discussing what kind of vehicle to buy for Aceto. Melissa and Cristo went off to check the available cars, while Jeremy stayed back in the truck. As he was relaxing, he suddenly heard something scraping against the side of the vehicle, when a voice suddenly asked him who he was. The voice felt as Jeremy was fated to ruin it’s life, and that it was going to make sure he wouldn’t ruin anything. A silhouette rushed towards Jeremy, chopping at Jeremy’s shoulder as he fired an arrow, revealing the figure to be King Crimson. As Jeremy was about to throw a punch at the figure, he suddenly ended up hitting Melissa while they were all driving back to Cristo’s house. Melissa asked if he was alright, and as Jeremy was repairing his damaged arm, he revealed to Melissa that Aceto’s Stand was what attacked him. The two decided they needed to get back to Zach and John as fast as possible. On the way there they learned of Aceto’s past, how his mother was a prison convict that never returned to her hometown, and that Aceto was adopted by the priest himself after he was just born. Jeremy himself found out that Melissa and Cristo apparently weren’t able to find a car due to the windy weather, but were able to make it back home.

Back at the home, Zach and Aceto were having a discussion about where Zach lived as Aceto had hoped to visit him some time. During the conversation, Aceto brought Zach into his room to tell him about his mom, who was a prisoner for quite some time. One day, Aceto apparently got the chance to visit her, but forgot the visit after leaving the prison. During her time in the prison, she was apparently pregnant, and strangely in a prison of all women. According to Aceto, she was pregnant for a while during her incarceration, around 2 years. Zach was handed a picture of an infant Aceto, with discolored eyes, and a mother with drastically normal hair compared to his pink color. Afterwards, they decided it would be best to bring in the last of the propane tanks. As Zach and John were loading them inside, they heard a voice call out to them from outside. The two followed the voice, finding something in the sky as winds blew harshly, a golden key. The turtle’s key was in Zach’s hand as Aceto called him back inside due to the harsh winds. That was when Zach suddenly heard a voice call out to him, his brother Rohan. Inside the bedroom, he was met with his brother’s workspace much to his surprise. The two talked about Rohan’s newest manga, with Zach being asked for ideas on a new character. Following their conversation, Zach returned back to Italy, finding Aceto just staring at a wall. After getting a panicked Aceto’s attention, the young man said he felt anxious, and at the same time someone was at the door.

When Jeremy and Melissa got back to Aceto’s house, they found out that Cristo was going to dig out the storage room into a garage using some pickaxes in the back of the truck. The two suggested he dig the next day, but he was adamant on doing it that night.At the front door, and Jeremy asked if Zach had seen the Stand he had fought, but he did not. Zach did however find the turtle key, and informed Jeremy of Aceto being very anxious. Jeremy prepared himself for the worst to come, heading straight towards the storage room to find Cristo digging through the floor. Cristo had found some pink hair in the foundation, and a part of a dress. Zach went off to find Aceto, and John as well. Jeremy aided Cristo in digging through the floor, and the two found a slip of paper. Upon reading the note, it read at the end that they would all perish. Jeremy tried to warn Cristo to leave, and pulled him away, but -

At the same time, John and Zach were exploring the living room and found something sitting on the couch in total darkness. With the lights not working, they tried to get the figure to leave, with John approaching it slowly. This was when something suddenly lit up in the figure’s mouth: a stick of dynamite. They also saw the figure in full view, Aceto’s mother, albeit with her mouth tied shut while also holding the dynamite in it. Zach immediately pulled the dynamite out, but the whole room exploded at that moment. Smoke filled the area, and an unfortunate Zach found himself completely covered in debris, and his ears ringing. The others pulled Zach out, and that’s when he noticed that Aceto’s mother was gone, caught right in the explosion. John started to look for Cristo, but not before taking a breath outside with the others. They noticed that the whole neighborhood was practically set ablaze. Melissa tended to the injured Zach while Jeremy went inside for John and Aceto. Outside the key began rumbling inside Zach’s pocket, trying to go up into the air, and manifesting a turtle around itself. The turtle immediately began sucking the two inside its shell, although it was a slow pull, and the two moved away from it. The two soon realized they needed to help the boys inside, and went back into the house.

Inside the house, John ventured deep to find Cristo, only to be met with a strike at his shoulder. Jeremy came in to aid John, firing an arrow at the figure and moving it away to see a muscular Aceto, with his eyes covered by his hair. Aceto muttered something about reigning supreme, and announced that his father was dead. The two then suddenly heard another voice in the house, the voice of Aceto asking for help. The Aceto in front of the two said he needed to rescue his “sweet”, “young” Aceto. As John punched the Aceto in front of them, his muscles became less defined, and a very confused Aceto was wondering what was happening. This was when King Crimson appeared and told Aceto that the group hurt his father, and to come with it instead. Jeremy and John tried to tell Aceto that it was actually King Crimson that killed his father, but the Stand said that their efforts were nothing. Zach and Melissa found the boys in their fight, and joined in on the action. Following a struggle against King Crimson, the Stand disappeared alongside Aceto. The fire began to consume the house furthermore, but the group was suddenly informed by a voice to exit through it.

The voice belonged to the turtle, drawing everyone closer to its shell. Jeremy was the first to be sucked in, finding himself inside of a void like area. The others soon followed into the turtle, and the whole group were greeted by a voice. It introduced itself to the group as Mr. President Requiem, a voice Jeremy knew from way back during the first time he went in the turtle, and it apologized for what the group had seen. It was going to bring Jeremy and Zach back to the present world only, but the group was persistent, and Mr. President allowed the whole group to leave together. It warned them of the shock of the modern world, but nevertheless it allowed them to exit, warning that a lot had changed outside. It would grant them their requests of saying goodbye to their friends eventually. In addition, it also ensured that Piero, Kira, and Kiss were safe, although Fugo was going on a “similar journey'' as their group. The voice gave one more warning that Zach’s bed was either “missing” or “obstructed,” before sending them all out...

## Operation Stahl Blitz Laufen: Rome Detour

As Ellis, Lambrusco, and Ben were going to watch the videos on Singola's disk, they were interrupted as the train came to a sudden halt. At the front of the train, they found that the train tracks were being blocked by several cars in poor condition, and that they were near a town. This was when they heard someone banging on the train car door, a middle aged man in very ragged clothing. The man was in complete distress, begging for someone to help as his town thought it was the end of the world due to the events in Italy. The man specifically wanted to rescue his family, who were being held hostage. The three decided to move the cars first before going into the town, and once the cars were moved Ben decided to stay back. Singola however, joined Lambrusco and Ellis to explore the town, and the three went into the devastated area. The man’s family was supposedly in the only non-destroyed building. Lambrusco took the first move to extinguish the flames, only for them to burst back up again. When Ellis made note of the bizarre situation, the man had suddenly gained a gaping hole in his head. Something else was also coming through the man’s forehead, a sniper round facing Ellis, shooting him in the chest as the man in front collapsed.

This was when the whole town began to turn against them, as a car began driving straight towards the group. Lamb and Ellis failed to stop it as the car slammed right into Ellis, before breaking down a few yards away. They debated whether to leave or stay, but ultimately decided to resolve the situation at hand by first responding to a voice from a destroyed convenience store. The voice groaned for help, and in the corner of the store was a person with their body horribly deformed and demanding to know where “it” was. It tried to grab Ellis’ leg, but he easily shrugged it off and went upstairs to hopefully reverse the effects of whatever had happened. Ellis accidently kicked something on the way up, a piece of scrap metal with a large x on it. He kicked it up to see if it had any meaning, but it began to float on it’s own towards the sky. Luckily, Lambrusco pulled it back to the three, but the sky suddenly turned to night, and the building began to look normal along with the town. This was when Singola asked the two if they knew where they were, and they thought they were in Arizona. This was when Singola ascended the stairs and asked them again, where they could see the city in full view and in perfect condition, the city of Rome.

Meanwhile back on the train, Ben was watching over their ride when suddenly a huge horde of deformed and mutilated people began walking towards it. Ben, being the violent person she is, walked towards the horde to engage it. One by one, groups upon groups of these zombie-like people were flung back, thrown, and smacked across as they leaped onto Ben and dug into her skin. They all kept yelling “where”, and to give “it” back to them, the thing in question being Rome. As Ben cleared another line of people, they all began to disappear because of Ben. This was when a helicopter suddenly flew over her, carrying a bomb with a large x marked on it. She leaped onto the copter, finding a robotic pilot that kept the thing flying forward towards a beautiful city. It engaged Ben as she tried to stop the helicopter from reaching its destination, stalling the copter in the air and dismantling the robot. Ellis, Lamb, and Singola oversaw the last seconds of the fight and quickly went up to the helicopter to check up on Ben, who was busy stabbing the robot to ensure it’s defeat.

What remained was landing the helicopter and preventing the nuclear warhead below it from going off, which was easily made possible by Lambrusco’s winds. The two sides went over what had happened to them, with Ben’s “zombie” fight and how the other three were brought to Rome. While talking about how they were going to return to the present, the group was interrupted by a man complaining about the traffic being ruined from the bomb. The bomb however had turned into two crashed trucks, with the bomb no longer being there. The group went along with what the man had to say about the ruined traffic, and they saw the man themselves appear in a wheelchair, without legs. The man offered the group a place to sleep in, and without any options they took the chance to gather information and find a way back to their time. Their first move was going to the hotel, a gorgeous place to stay in called the Kreisel Resort. After Ellis himself paid for their stay, the group was registered to the hotel via some state of the art photo technology and facial recognition.

What followed in their hotel room was a relaxing night’s rest before even starting to search for Apex headquarters, and after quieting the nightclub goers below the hotel, sleep ensued. In their dreams, Ellis, Ben, and Lambrusco find each other in special uniforms inside of a locker room. These uniforms belonged to the Speedwagon Foundation, and something was going on as sirens were loudly blaring. After breaking down a frozen door, the group discovered the whole hallway was frozen. The three decided to split up into groups, with Ellis being the solo one while Ben and Lamb went off in another direction.

Ellis discovered his fellow foundation members frozen solid after their screams were heard, and soon enough discovered the culprit. A Japanese man with a short mantle flowing behind his back, and the two went head to head against one another. Ellis practically bested the man by damaging his legs, and crippling his hand, although he was able to heal the first attack. He tried to negotiating with Ellis, asking for access to some “Nazi junk,” but Ellis refused the bargain. With the fight no longer in the man’s favor, he withdrew a shortsword and disappeared. This left Ellis to go to said “junk,” knowing the layout he rushed over until he was stopped by a silhouette in a yellow mist, wielding a sword in her hand it demanded Ellis to leave. He easily defeated the threat, and noticed as he left the sword in question was Anubis.

Meanwhile, Ben and Lamb discovered something behind a metal door, a laboratory containing various cybernetics. These cybernetics consisted of all kinds of bionic limbs, and blueprints connected to them that originated from a 1940s German design. After defeating some kind of defense robot, another door suddenly appeared by them. They went inside the room to discover an old radio on a table inside of another science lab. Ben turned on the radio, and Lambrusco fidgeted with the dials until it made a sound. This sound was a copy of Lambrusco’s words, played back to him in corrupted audio. It ignored Ben’s crude comments in favor of Lamb, and kept repeating most of his words until it played back something more cryptic. The voice of Jeremy Quick as he wondered about killing someone. Suddenly they were both interrupted by a new person, or rather Ben’s old friend Nai. He demanded the two hand over the radio, but he did catch up with Ben for the short while. As he was about to leave via a card, his command to take him home to the Apex was interrupted as the card was destroyed with the arrival of Ellis. This caused the whole a-area to glitch out like a-a computer screeeeeeeeeeennnnnnn.

## Wholesome Hell: 2-0-1-9

Kira and Voz were awoken by the rocking of the vessel they were on, and found themselves strapped down to mattresses in a very dark room. This was an Italian voice greeted them, before questioning them about what happened to “Giorno and Piero”. The two said what had happened to Piero, but the man insisted that he was sleeping right next to Voz. The voice also said that their bodies were found right near each other in the ocean, by the City of Hearts. The man explained the incident further, saying how he and Fugo were out on the island looking for Giorno before finding six bodies in the ocean, and some string that eventually disappeared on their clothes. During this, Voz freed himself easily and Kira explained her side of the story. This included how she had to fight the (supposed to be deceased) Niente, as well as Piero’s “death,” which the man kept insisting that Piero was right next to them. Eventually, the man got exhausted of having to understand the scenario, and another man named Spruce took over. Spruce had heard about Kira from Fugo, although he had no clue who Voz was. He released Kira from her restraints so that the two had time to talk to “Piero”, and eventually talk about a tower in the middle of the ocean. The man left with a head, which was the source of the Italian voice, and left the two to a restrained “Piero.”

The restrained figure had Piero’s face, and laid in a bed unconscious. Although unsure what to do, Voz decided to tap the figure, causing it to snap awake. It’s eyes were that of Piero’s, and it’s voice was as well as it asked Voz and Kira if they had any requests of sorts. It explained it was an echo of Piero Altera, and that the Piero they knew had died. It said it was the same being in the hallway, a combination of Piero and Dio Brando’s souls. The being’s purpose was to protect both Voz and Kira, as well as Cherry Polnareff. It also brought up the head was Capo Guido Mista, a member of Passione. Voz was interested in joining Passione during their adventures, but they would have to wait to get Giorno’s confirmation. “Piero” released himself to discuss matters with Spruce and the others aboard the ship, and got a full view of this holy knight. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cvTbBe5usrfH81i-KMpd24ccdTeTArxijXCTAo6Ahig/edit?usp=sharing). Spruce sat outside a room where the bodiless, vampiric Mista was watching over his unconscious friend Giorno, along with the unconscious bodies of Cherry and Michel Polnareff. “Piero” suggested building a mech suit to replace Mista’s lost body, at least until Giorno would be able to create one, and soon left to scour for parts.

“Piero” spoke with Spruce above deck about getting some metal, and also seeing for himself the tower reaching up into the prismatic red sky. He caught “Piero” up on how Jeremy survived the tournament, along with his new friends, and that this tower appeared after dropping Jeremy’s group off on the Jambo Islands. In addition, he said how Fugo had gone into the tower, but hadn't returned in quite a while. “Piero” had one thing to announce to them for when they woke up, which would take some time due to their slow vitals, and it was that Piero died to Giorno’s father. He also said that he was Voz and Kira’s Stand, and that calling him either \*Holy Knight\* or Piero was fine. Back below deck, Mista explained Giorno, Cherry, and Michel's current comatose condition, and that Fugo had left to go inside the tower out at sea. The three would be taken care of in Spruce’s ship by Mista’s words, and this would lead into Voz’s Passione recruitment. Mista suggested Voz show off his Stand, and Voz would go off to get a cup of seawater. Piero returned with Mista’s mech suit, and Voz got his cup. As he was outside filling it up, a voice warned him that Pannacotta Fugo was in danger.

Piero had just finished hooking up Mista his new mech suit, and Voz had just returned with his cup of water. He demonstrated to Mista his abilities, turning it to urine, then to wine. After an amusing showcase and Piero’s words of approval, Voz was accepted in Passione. Voz’s first assignment was to save the leader of his squad, Fugo, as Voz had warned the group about the danger Fugo was apparently in. Piero and Voz left to create him a Passione badge, while Kira and Mista had a conversation about their scuffles with the Apex Cult. This included mentioning how the cult wanted to achieve the perfect Stand user, and how they had access to advanced cybernetics. Piero and Voz returned from creating a Passione badge, and from also learning what Piero is now. The storm had gotten worse, and the group would have to leave soon to save Fugo. After a promise from Mista to keep Polnareff’s great-grandchildren safe, they left to head for the tower. Arriving at the tower, they hopped off the boat and went inside it, only to find themselves in an archaic elevator.

They found a keypad, and there were numerous numbers to try, but the ones that worked were 0,1,2,9. These numbers lit up and the elevator shot up, sending them higher until they all blacked out. Kira had awakened inside of her own bedroom, or at least a very empty version of it. Just as she was exploring it, something burst through the roof and into her bed, a recently freefalling Piero. They soon left to find Voz, who was exploring the bathroom after having found himself in the bathtub, and without clothes. Once Voz got dressed, he met back with the others and found out this was Kira’s house, except practically devoid of furniture. They went to look for something to help them out in their search, such as a map or computer, and only found that the living room was also plainly simple. The TV had a strange message, saying to please resume outside activities. Before Kira would leave, she went to explore the kitchen and found dozens of bottles labeled nutrients and boxes of nutrient flakes. Voz and Piero spoke outside about the current place they were in, where all the houses looked the same and the sidewalk was a conveyer belt. Piero knew something was wrong with the world, this was a uniform society, and told this to Kira when she came out. Piero sent a construct to get an aerial view of where they were, finding a skybox that blocked it from going higher, and that the sidewalk led to a chrome tunnel.

Piero sent his construct bird to the tunnel, viewing the strange tech inside of it, before going to investigate it himself. In the tunnel, he triggered some kind of alarm as the tunnel rejected him as an “unknown entity,” and a wave of heat blasted through the tunnel. Piero got to the end of it, and found himself in a park where he found other people. These people were silent, facing away from Piero, and all had the same uniform and haircut. Voz and Kira caught up to the tunnel entrance and learned what was at the end of it telepathically through Piero. Voz tried to go through, but ended up triggering another alert as the tunnel scanned Voz, saying it had to “restore” and “bio-register” him. Voz escaped the tunnel by breaking it’s incoming arms and needles, causing a siren to go off just as Kira had been made a copy of the other people’s uniforms. The tunnel began to malfunction, and it soon initiated a direct alert as it called the other civilians to return to their homes. The group ran back to the house, and sirens were blaring loudly.

The group set traps and cameras all around the house, and set themselves by the entrance accordingly to any visitors. Their only visitor was an individual in a thick black cloak with white gloves. Piero made first contact, trying to speak to them, only for the figure to be shocked. They reached out for Piero’s face, caressing it, before staring at Piero. When Piero tried to remove the figure’s mask, they slapped him away while Piero demanded the figure reveal themselves. It walked back up to Piero, holding a scalpel and struck at him. It kept blitzing Piero and attacking him, but Piero was brought back inside and Kira blew the figure away and Piero began to shield the door. It was then the figure’s cloak was torn away, revealing the top of their head to show brain tissue, along with needles. They then summoned their Stands, feathery and crow like silhouettes…