Session 32 (Season 1)

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

## A Wonderful Vacation on the Jambo Islands, Part 1

John, Jeremy, and Melissa were finishing their talk with Spruce about the Jambo Islands, debating whether or not they should take some well deserved time off. Jeremy took the offer, receiving a badge to freely roam around the island, and went to retrieve Fugo and Mista. However, the two of them told Jeremy that they were going to leave in order to find their boss/friend, Giorno Giovanna. At the same time, Kiss also announced his plans to leave the group on their journey as he decided to stay behind to help Spruce learn about the Stone Masks. While giving their farewells, the group was interrupted with a sudden call from Spruce. Going up to the deck, Jeremy saw Spruce looking through a telescope, seeing a regular looking man stranded on a small tropical island. That’s when Jeremy realized the person was also from his world, and Spruce sailed over to retrieve the person.

Climbing aboard the boat, the person thanked Jeremy and revealed his name to be Zachary. He explained how he was from Italy, and had been skating when suddenly a group jumped him with a turtle. Jeremy explained to him that the turtle brought him to the beach, confusing Zachary who thought he was in Italy. Jeremy found out he could see his Stand, and said how this world was the turtle’s Stand. Zachary was then introduced to Fugo after Passione was mentioned, the bodiless Mista, and Spruce. After cruising for a moment, they arrived on the Jambo Islands’ very own Polnareff Land Resort, strangely reminding Jeremy of his Hawaiian vacation. Fugo and Kiss said their farewells for the time being, leaving the four to enjoy themselves on the island and for Zacahary to get caught up on all the events. They entered a hotel-like building, and Jeremy got the group two rooms as well as hearing about a nearby hot springs. After seeing some keys that looked similar to the turtle, Zachary instigated a conversation about the key bound to the turtle, and how iconic it was in the Turtle World according to Melissa.

While John went to sleep, the other three went to the hot springs, arriving at a large pool of water and a smaller body of water behind rope, labelled “VIEWING GLASS”. Changing into some available bathing outfits, the three enjoyed a nice, steamy dip in the water. Soon, Jeremy got curious about how his allies were doing and went up to the viewing glass, stating that it would show him whoever the user wished to view. He began with Kira, seeing her eyes getting pierced by metal rods. Trying someone outside the turtle, all he got was white tv static, with Zachary trying to check on a Rohan Kishibe to no avail. Next, Jeremy tried Piero, seeing him swinging a sword of blood. Checking on Flavia, she looked like her body was breaking, looking akin to a fruit being peeled. Finally Jeremy tried one more name, Giorno Giovanna, only to be met with red static. He saw in the water a pair of legs standing in front of Cherry Polnareff, and in the figure’s hand an eyeball. Jeremy only barely recognized the figure’s voice from long ago in the pyramid, and he saw the figure tossing Cherry into an icicle, only for it to cut to red static.  Next, Jeremy saw a man with hair the same color as Jean Pierre Polnareff, running an inch away into a wall of icicles before cutting out. Last Jeremy saw a man in front of the two injured from before, a man with blonde curls and a pink suit, Giorno Giovanna, bleeding from his forehead. However the figure was focused on someone else, Piero Altera. Just before leaving the hot springs, the group saw one more scene, a map showing the Jambo Islands, with the person saying they’ll need something to turn the tides.

Soon after the three went back to the hotel, in order to process the events. Jeremy went up to Zachary, trying to convince him not to get involved in the fighting, but Zachary refused to do so, with Jeremy having no choice but to let him help out. Afterwards, Jeremy went to the dining room to eat a roasted pig and some apples and alcohol alongside Zachary. They discussed when they got sucked into the turtle, as well as other things. This included Zachary’s Stand「Mischievous Boy」, a Stand that could turn graffiti into real objects. The two bonded over some Hawaiian pizza over their share of various misdemeanors, as well as why Zachary ended up in Italy. He explained how he had to flee to Italy and change his name for a new life, and after being wanted for manslaughter. After finishing their dining, Zachary and Jeremy went back upstairs, but Jeremy and Melissa had an awkward but loving conversation outside the room. Jeremy proceeded to tell Zachary to leave both him and Melissa alone in the bedroom for some…”strategization”

## On the Stairway to Heaven, Part 2

After nearly falling down the chasm, Dio, Kira, Piero, and Voz all managed to save themselves from falling. Piero created a pair of wings in order to stop his descent, while Dio, Kira, and Voz hung to the pyramid’s walls. With this, they all made their way down safely, with Kira and Voz descending on the wall while Piero gave Dio a flight down. When they made their way down, they saw a dark, empty room with a long, misty hallway and a fancy carpet stretching across the floor. Making some torches with the help of Piero and Kira’s Stands, they were able to traverse down the hallway, which Dio knew was the way they needed to go down. As they got to the end, they saw the staircase they viewed Benjamin in, with the carpet matching those on the stairs. However, something was climbing up the stairs, a metallic, silver figure, wielding two long rapiers akin to those of Jean Pierre Polnareff.

The figure was completely silent, and it wore bulky knight armor, and climbed up the stairs to thrust at Piero. Meanwhile Kira had fired at the figure with some explosive bullets, as well as having set up a trap for the figure, detonating it as soon as it walked by it. When this occurred, it’s armor began to become heavily damaged, falling off to show a thinner figure within the suit. Voz then knocked off the figure’s helmet, but it began to move faster following this. Dodging swiftly, the silver figure appeared behind Kira, but was moved away by Dio’s Stand. Voz proceeded to severely melt the figure’s chest, but it began to create afterimages from it’s speed. Kira then prompted it to attack her, baiting it into a spot where she could wound it even more significantly. However, Kira met with a prompt counterattack, getting rapiers thrusted into her eyes and rendering her blinded. Voz tried to save her, only to burn Kira’s leg with acid. Luckily Piero came in to distract the figure. This allowed Kira to gain a new ability, restoring her damaged eyes as the wounds slowly healed themselves. Then, after some advice from Dio, Voz ruptured the figure’s wounded chest, allowing Piero to finish it off with a barrage of punches, bursting it apart.

After the fight, the figure’s limbs began to shine for Kira, Piero, and Voz, calling out to the three. Piero was the first to touch it, viewing a flashback of the staircase they were all standing on. However it was not something any of them remembered, as they saw a younger version of Jean Pierre Polnareff, climbing the stairs. Voz and Kira placed their hands on it as well, seeing the late king viewing a menacing figure atop the staircase, a man that looked like Dio. Piero asked Dio if he was a vampire, and if he knew Polnareff, with him responding that he knew what it was like to be a vampire, and that Polnareff encountered him on one of the man’s travels to find the person who murdered his sister. Dio also revealed that he was extremely old. They continued their journey to the mansion, stumbling upon a hallway with sunlight at the end. When they made it down, they saw it wasn’t sunlight, but an electric like energy from purple thorns surrounding the end of the hallway, similar to Dio’s Stand. In the hallway the group saw television screens, which suddenly turned on and showed the group various scenes. Kira saw herself nearly getting run over by an ambulance, Piero saw a person that looked like his father and Niente combined, kicking Piero’s dog to death, and Voz saw a clown gasping for air in an ocean, being pulled by a chain of diamond into the depths of the water. The group continued down the hallway, seeing a door.

Piero was the first to go inside, ending up in a store selling plates, surrounded by modern buildings. He also saw something outside on a sidewalk, knives with dry blood. Voz noticed inside the store the window was smashed and there was a streak of blood behind a counter. As everyone went outside, they saw a trail of blood, leading to a building with tables and plates of food outside of it, as well as a pool of dried blood. Piero sent an albatross to scout the area, seeing that the rooftop was partially damaged, and across the city was emerald green wiring spanning across various rooftops. The group walked closer to the area surrounded by the wiring, seeing it encompassing the block from building to building. Voz ended up accidentally punching the wiring, causing a large green gem to shoot at him from a rooftop. Piero would see through his albatross that there was a green liquid coming from a water tower that had a hole blown through it, and shiny green jewels on the inside of it. Just as he was looking for a way up the water tower, something grabbed the three’s legs, a slimy green and white strand of string. It coiled up their bodies as if it were alive, beginning with Piero, and began to control his body and forced him to swing at Voz with his sword. Voz then shot at the string with his acid, forcing it to retreat towards the other wiring. Kira ripped the string off her as she Stand-jumped away, but had to deflect emeralds being shot at her mid-air. Piero would then burst out of his string hold, but out of nowhere jewels began firing at the group. Voz would then spray acid at a thicker strand of wiring, which caused most of the wiring around it to form into two arms, and fired at the group multiple emeralds from a pillar of green water manifesting between its hands.

## The Return, Part 2

Leaving the fashion warehouse, Benjamin, Ellis, and Lambrusco made their way to Benjamin’s house in order to relax for the time being. Ellis decided to crash in a random upstairs bedroom while Benjamin went on her PC to figure out anything she could about Passione, the turtle, and the arrow. As they were doing their own thing, with minor successes from either of their sides as Ben found no leads on Passione and Ellis was about to carry out a plan of his, they heard loud vibrations coming from below. Downstairs they saw the formerly relaxing Lambrusco, unconscious, being held up by a sleek robotic figure whose limbs were not attached directly to his body, with an Ω symbol on their diamond shaped head. The figure told the two they were taking Lamb to Mission Beach, before vibrating into thin air as the two’s attacks went through the figure. The two tried to figure out what to do, finding out the location of Mission Beach in San Diego, CA. Disappointingly the location was across the entire country, prompting Ben to use her Stand continuously in order to eventually create a portal straight to Mission Beach. The two walked through the portal, arriving in the middle of some seawater as they were footsteps away from the beach itself.

The two made the conclusion that where Lamb was taken had to be somewhere hidden, so they went to find a way underground. First they stopped by a clothing store to get some non-wet clothes using Ellis’ SPW Foundation Credit Card, and continued with their search. They tried to find a subway station, which failed as none were anywhere close to the beach, so they went to find a manhole cover near the boardwalk. Meanwhile, Ben was on the lookout for any spies, and during their search they stumbled upon something in the distance. They saw a metallic figure holding someone by the neck at the back of a hotel. The two rushed to the scene to see a young girl being choked,  quickly the two attacked the figure causing them to drop the girl. The figure scanned Benjamin, while Ellis went in for the offensive, unleashing his towering, muscular Stand, 「Retribution」! His Stand absorbed the damage from the metallic figure’s slash, saving it for his Stand ability.

Meanwhile Ben checked on the girl, a young teen with pink hair, as well as a pink coat and a helmet and goggles with the word TURBO written on each of the lenses. She was completely silent to Ben, running away from her as Ben saw some kanji written on her back: 単一. Leaving Ellis to deal with the mechanical figure, she chased after the girl who gave no responses until Ben mentioned Nai. This caught the girl’s attention, further mentioning the other three girls prompted the young girl to pull out a drawing tablet. She spoke to Ben through writing, saying that the Apex Cult wronged her and that she needed Ben’s help, which Ben agreed. During this Ellis fought the mechanical figure, tearing off one of its arms. It then overclocked to attack Ellis, slicing at his chest. As the fight progressed, the cyborg began to lose more energy, losing it’s remaining arm soon after. It then ran into Ellis’ fist, smashing through its chest and exploding. The explosion knocked Ellis to Ben, who quickly retrieved the injured agent. The girl wrote to the two that Lamb should be under the hotel building, and also wrote her name: “Singola”.

They made their way inside the hotel, descending an elevator after inputting the code 0007. At the floor they arrived on, the three saw suits similar to those of the mechanical man back outside, and one suit on a gyroscope. They saw a brain and spinal cord getting inserted into the gyroscope, and Singola wrote that what they saw was “robotization.” They made their way down a hall, with Ben learning that Ellis was taking down the Apex Cult as a part of his job, and Singola was there because the Apex “took something from her”. At the end of the tunnel they burst through a laboratory with various cybernetics laying around, opening some metallic doors to find Lambrusco sleeping in a glass cell inside of a workshop. Ellis used his ability to break the glass, absorbing the damage from a kick from Ben and applying it on the glass. As they were about to take him out, they heard machinery moving and heard the man that kidnapped Lambrusco. They ran into a force field, blocking them from leaving, and saw the sleek cybernetic man from before appear from various parts of the workshop. Ellis went to punch the man, only to barely chip the man’s metallic arm, explaining it as state of the art technology. The metallic man shot his arm at Ben like a missile, only to have it deflected. Ellis then kicked the man into his own barrier, which damaged his metallic shell more than Ellis’ punches. The man tried convincing Ellis to kill Lambrusco, to no avail. Ellis proceeded to have his body rendered immoble as his head was vibrated, leaving the man to propose to Ben to kill or give him Singola, only to be denied and be punch rushed into his invisible wall once more...