Session 39 (Season 1)

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

## A Funny Squad's Normal Quest: Speedwagon Airlines

Following retrieving the cassette tapes from all over Jeremy’s apartment room, with two of the five in total tapes having the writing “Domo” and “Arigato,” Jeremy, John, Melissa, and Zach were ready to set off. This was to a nearby airport as per Oliva’s instructions, but before leaving the group asked a few questions. One question involved Oliva’s alliance with Apex, which was complicated at the moment according to her. Secondly, Jeremy asked why she was in his apartment, to which she responded it was her Stand that had been waiting, referring to the radio she was speaking through. Third, they asked how she was alive, to which she explained that during Ruun and Flavia’s travels together, the man had leaked into the real world, and through that she attached herself to the tablet Ruun was carrying, and right now her real body is somewhere comfortable. Lastly, they asked what the purpose of the game was, which was to prevent the “end of the world.” The group was given instructions to head to a nearby airport, where a plane would be waiting. One last thing was to make sure at least one of them had a phone on them, to which Zach was the sole person with a cellphone.

Bag ✓.  Toothpaste ✓. Toothbrush ✓. Radio-Cassette Player ✓. The group had soon arrived at the nearest airport by the apartment, and drove around the back to find a special hanger. Housing a private jet with the logo “Speedwagon,” they boarded the suspiciously obtained aircraft. With Oliva’s Stand operating as the “pilot,” the group was told to relax and enjoy the ride as their purpose in New York was withheld until they actually were able to make it there. However, the group would have to make one stop to Washington D.C, but it would be some time before they got there. Following a brief conversation between Zach and Jeremy about how the airport houses some convention center, Zach’s wine drinking was interrupted when one the plane windows shattered. In a quick haste, the hole was quickly painted shut, but the group would see the culprit: a miniature and blocky jet. A sleeping John was awoken by the nose of combat as the jet fired small missiles upon Zach and Jeremy. Zach managed to keep reflecting the thing’s missiles while it dodged everyone else's attacks in a swift fashion. The miniature jet would be taken down by a bone bullet, leaving it barely in pieces. The group inspected the jet, keeping it inside a barrier of graffiti, and trying to decipher what exactly had happened. This led to John and Zach splitting up to search the cockpit and bathroom respectively, while Jeremy took the time to inspect the miniature jet.

Jeremy began to notice how the jet was kind of like a toy, taking his time to inspect and adjust it’s parts until it had transformed into something else entirely: a cassette tape with the writing “DOMO” on it. At the same time, Zach was preoccupied with inspecting the bathroom, beginning with the toilet. When he went to open the lid, a small tank cannon was pointed right at his face. He quickly shut the lid when a shell nearly exploded at him, then quickly began to weigh the seat down and warn the others. Jeremy soon arrived to help see what was happening and to aid Zach. Meanwhile, John was exploring the wonderful cockpit of the plane, and noticed a strange loosely open compartment. When he opened it, out erupted small, razor sharp rotors belonging to a miniature helicopter from within it. John punched it into a pilot seat, but when he went to inspect the damaged helicopter it blew him back with small missiles and out into the aisle. This was when Jeremy simultaneously punched and unleashed the miniature tank from the toilet, and leading to a conflict with the miniature helicopter and tank.

The helicopter rushed into John’s hand, receiving mutual damage as it’s rotors were crippled and John’s hand got sliced by the blades, but he managed to keep it down by restraining it with his thorns. Zach managed to stuff the tank’s barrel with paint at the cost of a shell exploding on his chest. When it tried to fire another shot, the shell would hit Zach’s paint trampoline, and cause the helicopter to crack further. Zach tried to figure out what exactly this tank was: Stand or machine? Upon picking it up, that already gave away it wasn’t entirely a Stand, but he couldn’t pry it open like he wanted due to the tank’s tough exterior. Suddenly, a new miniature machine appeared, a small formula race car that nearly knocked the tank straight out of Zach’s hands, but he had kept it from reaching the tank with a paint wall. John tried to catch the car as it raced to the end of the plane, but it was too fast and zipped right past him. The car then ran into Jeremy’s sights as he punched it straight into the floor. By now, all of the miniature vehicles had stopped moving, and the group asked Oliva about what had just happened.

It was stated by Jeremy that the vehicles were the cassette tapes from earlier, and his observations were correct. However they all overlooked the radio-cassette player as it then began to suddenly flicker with sparks of electricity as the plane lights became erratic. As the vehicles were soon drawn towards it, Jeremy quickly made the move to launch the radio out the window, along with its cassette vehicles. The inside went silent as the fighting had finally stopped, but the group has learned by now to never rest easy. The plane’s speaker systems turned on as the pilot herself began to speak. The group reaffirmed their goal of going to Manhattan, but they would need to survive one final test before the plane could land. 「Mr Roboto」 would soon converge on it’s targets as an emergency door began to be opened from the outside. Zach went to work, creating a fire hydrant trap for the Stand as it peered through with an arm with a helicopter rotor attached to it. John skewered the arm as Jeremy caused it to explode off completely, It soon busted down the door, it’s main body the radio-cassette player, and it’s limbs consisted of the various vehicles. The car and tank for it’s legs, and the jet for it’s remaining arm, wielding a sword. It launched the sword at Jeremy, but it missed as it soon was ejected by the paint hydrant and left to fall to the earth.

The fight, now truly over, left Jeremy to race to the cockpit to ensure the plane wouldn’t spontaneously crash. Luckily, it was lowering it’s altitude rather gracefully. This was when Oliva told them to enjoy the rest of their flight as her voice cut out from the radio, leaving them be. Zach looked back on his experiences alongside the rest of the glorious bastards, and the group relaxed on the plane. Four hours would pass, and the plane approached a landing strip. It stopped and the group was free to leave, but their freedom was quickly stripped away when a commanding voice told them to freeze. A platoon of armed men, all bearing the logo “Speedwagon” had appeared, on the grounds of bringing in the four for interrogation due to stealing government property and terrorism....

## Wholesome Hell: The Mischievous Dancers

After several hours had passed, Kira, Voz, and Holy Knight’s travels were marked by a dull, barren wasteland of what was once the United States. What would catch their eye during their night drive was a town that coincided with their route, a place called Mischievous Town. A man by a large metal gate checked the group, taking their names. However, Holy Knight would be able to notice the man’s identical appearance to an old ally: Jeremy Quick. “8340,” as Jeremy went by, allowed the group’s entry without any further questions. As they drove in, Voz grew more and more curious with something he had gained from the Dio Brando in the slums: a stone mask. Voz’s stress of the past events became noted by Holy Knight, but the group was able to carry on through.  A beautiful city, with an appearance identical to Los Angeles, the only thing off was the fumes of fresh paint. In addition, another more smoky and meaty smell grew closer to the group from an alleyway. The smell of burning human flesh, roasting on a barrel from some cloaked individuals, and being promptly consumed with their metal hands. Their illuminated eyes stared back at the group, and a voice shouted to get the three’s attention: the voice of Jeremy Quick.

On a rooftop, Jeremy reintroduced himself, explaining how these individuals were trying to regain their humanity by consuming people, much like how technology is consuming them. The three quickly prepared to leave the scene, walling off the cyborgs,  while Voz and the Stand went to confront Jeremy on the rooftop. Jeremy struck the two with a pose, but they would soon retreat back to the car to leave alongside Kira. Just as they were leaving, they heard Jeremy mention he would “call the police.” The route they took led them to a futuristic highway, where they would encounter police sirens rocketing towards them. It leaped over the car, avoiding Voz’s electric current, to reveal itself on the hood. An android with 3D glasses, green clothing with a spiky turtle shell on their back, along with the numbers 1112 on their chest, and on their feet were rockets attached to a pair of rollerblades. This figure chased the group through the sky on their now wooden biplane, harpooning it as it began to glow with unstable energy. Voz jumped into the figure to try to stop it, but the energy overwhelmed him as he was sent flying down the highway, and as the android floated back down and limp.

As Holy Knight was trying to repair his plane, the robot soon recharged, and shot it back down to the highway. It was interrupted by Kira as it was about to overload it’s energy over the plane, giving Voz a special opportunity. Left with no other choice with his current condition, Voz Moerudokutai would try to redeem his family name and ensure his enemies were defeated by empowering himself with the stone mask. Meanwhile, Kira managed to destroy one of the robot’s legs, but it began to try to crawl up the plane debris. It was at this moment Voz Moerudokutai emerged as not a mere human, but a vampire, and acted to rip the robot’s foot off. Holy Knight was soon able to repair the hole in the plane, and Kira sent the robot down the highway with an explosion. However, it clung onto the ledge with a grappling hook made of paint, prompting Voz to jump on it and finish the job, smashing the android into pieces.

Just before the group was able to fly out in victory, the whole landscape began to drastically change as it began melting. Paint fumes covered the entirety of Mischievous Town, and soon enough it would turn into a lake of paint. Holy Knight retrieved Voz from the bottom of the highway, and promptly flew in order to reach Heaven without any further distractions. Unfortunately, a whirlpool of paint began to follow them from below as the whole town was just paint, and a massive arm of paint was destroyed by Kira as it rose from the whirlpool. Enormous pillars of paint shot up near the group, but what was persistent was the whirlpool. That was when Voz and Kira combined their abilities to disrupt the lake and dilute it enough to make their escape. Just before they left, Jeremy called out for the group in the massive sea of paint, although he was nothing but a replica of Jeremy without any blood. They abandoned him as he missed to shoot the group with his arrows.

With Mischievous Town behind, that allowed the group to see the moon. A waning crescent, indicating how close the New Moon was, and how long Voz had before he would have to avoid the sunlight. Voz would be able to hide inside a back compartment created just for sunlight protection, but the group would soon need new materials for repairs. Holy Knight scoured a nearby wasteland for dead trees, and during this a tablet erupted from the ground. Kira would be the one to inspect it, a call from P-5925, aka Ruun Danolds. When she picked up, she saw a yellow figure with nothing on its face except for the numbers 1-6 in a circle. Ruun’s robotic voice greeted Kira, who referred to herself as P-9499. Immediately recognizing the young woman, Ruun asked Kira for information about her allies, to which she said that she had accepted Echo’s glory and would be delivering them to Echo headquarters for cyberization. Of course, all of this wasn’t true, but Kira got the information they were to avoid heading to Georgia in order to not get into a fight with the cyborg Ruun....

## Operation Stahl Blitz Laufen: Rome Detour, Part 2

Ellis and Ben were still inside of the dream world, and everything was frozen following the destruction of Nai’s card. With every step, the world acted like a broken computer screen. The two went out to explore the rest of the area, and found the next room to be very strange. A room split between a Speedwagon Foundation laboratory, and the other half a more dark room with a computer and dismantled radio connected to one another. The computer demanded a hair sample, one of blonde color, that Ellis was able to provide into a special plate. This “DEFENDER” program booted up, and a few blank boxes appeared. Personality, Intelligence, Gender, and Name, all able to be filled out in a fashion similar to creating a character for a game. Ellis solely designed said “character”, taking the time to describe a competitive personality, above average intelligence, girl with the name Annabelle Burke. As soon as Ellis hit ENTER, the back of the room was filled with the sound of stadium cheering.

A fighting ground akin to that of the Orme tournament to Ben, Ellis would be the one to face off against an upcoming opponent. This opponent, a fighter named “Annabellexa,” was actually Singola.  The young, cyborg girl immediately began the fight by taking on a different appearance, becoming a woman with blue hair, and a water like aura. A fight with an energetic, talkative, Singola occurred while Ben sat in the spectator seats and watched as Ellis hindered her leg movements through kicks. Soon enough, Ellis caused Singola to use one last trick as her hair began to change into red when she grabbed his leg. With Singola only erasing a foot, Ellis managed to get some space by knocking her away by using his Retribution on his own leg. The fight neared its end as Ellis got close enough to cripple her left arm, but a red circle of light began to surround them both. Asking Ellis if he had ever heard of Pompeii, he launched himself out of the circle as a massive explosion erupted, sending him into a wall. As it cleared, Singola was gone and Ellis was declared the winner, passing out from his injuries.

Benjamin, alone in the stadium, was asked by an announcer how it felt that Lambrusco was kidnapped. His face, having changed into the person that ran the hotel they were sleeping in, now with bionic legs, said that he would be off in the colosseum as Ben immediately woke. Ellis had awoken prior, having seen Singola and Ben asleep, but no sign of Lambrusco. The morning sun hit his eyes, and over in the Roman colosseum sounded like fireworks. Over on Lambrusco’s bed was a simple note saying he wanted to see the city, and this left Ben and Ellis to focus on finding the Apex Cult’s headquarters. As the two discussed how much time they had to search, Singola woke up and told them she knew where it might be. Pointing to the nearby colosseum, the familiar area would be their target in a series of Stand jumps for Ben while Ellis and Singola walked normally. On her last jump, Ben had fallen into a dumpster, attracting some quick fame before they continued towards the colosseum.

A corner of pure darkness, Singola pointed to it as the spot they were to go to. A staircase in the darkness led them towards a metal door, and to Lambrusco’s iconic vans. On the other side of a now torn down metal door was the hotel operator, now with bionic legs. He told them how Lambrusco Ghirga was going to be his newest hotel attraction, before stomping through the floor, prompting Ellis and Ben to chase. This led the two to fall into a hanger, where they faced off against a ship piloted by the man with some Disco music playing within the cockpit. A series of claws emerged from the ship to attack both Ellis as he was on top of it, and Ben on the ground. After Ellis had destroyed numerous claws, he was sent towards Ben as the ship prepared a different approach of attack. Straight from Ben’s memories, a series of propellers emerged from the ship and blew a razor sharp storm in a similar fashion to Lambrusco’s Stand. Ben, being able to destroy the propellers, gave Ellis an opening to jump onto the ship and open a hatch to reveal the cockpit. Multi-colored lights coming from it, Ellis would be able to inspect the inside as Ben kept pounding on the front end.

Ellis met the now exhausted hotel operator, who greeted him. Asking for a favor from the “hero,” the man removed his bionic legs to entrust into Ellis’ sight, and to additionally ask Ben about someone named “Alexa.” Seeing as the man had no malicious intent, Ellis decided to take the legs anyway. Just as this happened, the man told his 「Disco」 to cease the illusion, and took the entire group to a dance floor. This dance floor contained various metal skeletons, an unconscious Lambrusco, and saw that this was the location pictured in Kansas City. The group decided to head back, and Ben retrieved the sleeping Lamb. At the same time, Singola grew curious about the legs Ellis had on him, keeping a keen eye on them. The group found the train parked conveniently outside Kansas City, and they were soon ready to leave. However, Ellis would receive a call from his supervisor, Nelson…