277. Temptations, Arcs... ~And Identities...~

The group wakes up in some sort of metallic room with Stand-Destabilizers around their necks.

"Ah... Gabrielle JoJo... How awful that you've killed our father..."

Gabrielle slowly stands up. "I didn't kill our father."

Gabrielle faced Victoria, who stayed on the screen on the wall before her.

"Of course you did! There you are acting like you did nothing wrong and you don't deserve to be doing all this... burdened with Dad's shit... Whereas what you should be doing is taking responsibility and taking the heat of fate! Instead you dilly dally with those twins in the slums and ask them to change your happily ever after!God? Father?What is your fate after all this, Gabrielle JoJo!?You want an easier way out. Do you know why!? Because you don't think you can do this! Any of this, girl!"

Gabrielle growls as she woges into an Aswang.

"Oh? Had I struck a nerve?" she laughed elegantly. "You can't kill me off, JoJo because, I'm your family. The closest thing you have with your Daddy's blood wriggling inside...Do remember, honey... Daddy was so arrogant that he got himself killed! He gave in to his ego over and over... and when he finally did something right! BAM!!! Your actions killed him off!"

"Gabrielle..." said Anne. "Don't listen to her... She's making you mad for a reason... She's challenging you... and making it easy for her to sweep your feet.That's pretty much what every bad guy tried to do with your father. Mostly, your dad wouldn't give in... Sometimes... however... he would... And boy did those times he fucked up..."

"Because he lost?"

"He won... because he regretted his actions... You're part your father... and remember... she is, too..."

Gabrielle's eyes widen. Gabrielle woges back to normal. She smiles and nods to her mother.

"Boy... You sure are pathetic... Using Dad's weakness on your sister... Pretty manipulative if you ask me... Were you the popular girl in class or some shit?" smiled Gabrielle. "Or... perhaps you were forgotten, yes? Did you lose your mother and Dad somehow? And now you're here to try and redeem yourself or whatever with whatever pathetic attempt of self-righteousness you have left in your pockets."

Victoria stares at Gabrielle from the screen.

"Aha..." she laughed softly. "AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!I don't think that Stand-Destabilizer is loose."

"Warning! Dysfunction detected!" yelled the Stand-Destabilizer's speakers.

*GAG*

Gabrielle begins to gag as the Stand-Destabilizer tightens.

"GABRIELLE!!!" yelled Anne, Raphael, Mercuria, and Narcos.

*BARK!!! BARK!!! BARK!!! BARK!!!*

Iggy barks at the screen.

"AHAHAHAHA!!!" laughed Victoria. "AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! HAHA!!! AHAHA!!"

"Victoria! Stop this right now!" yelled Anne.

"You're not my mummy!" yelled Victoria. "AHA!!! HAHAHA!!! Oh, dearie me. I don't mean to be a wanker but you honestly think that I was just going to not kill Gabrielle!? She's a liability to my employer's plan to destroy Maharlica!"

Narcos grabs Gabrielle's Destabilizer and tries to tear it apart.

"What is the purpose of Maharlica!?" asked Mercuria. "What was Mr. JoJo trying to protect the world from!?"

"Can't tell you~u! <3" she sang. 

"You're just going to kill us here!?" asked Narcos.

"One by one. Baby, you know it!" Victoria said quickly as she laughed happily. 

Narcos then woges slowly and turns into a Rock Human.

"What the shit!?" asked Raphael in sign language.

Anne looks astonished by this woging. "You're a...!?"

Narcos woges into a Rock Human as he gains the strength to tear it apart. His body becomes rock-like as his durability and strength heighten.

*SNAP!!!*

The necklace snaps in half as Narcos continues to break their necklaces apart.

"Gah!" yelled Victoria. "Stop that! Stop that! All of you!"

Gabrielle checks which wall is hollow. She sees that the screen before her is hollow.

Stone Free then blasts an ORA punch into the screen and blasts a hole open.

The group runs into a tunnel as every corner in the tunnel is a screen where Victoria laughed hard.

"Hahahaha! Oh, Gawd! You wankers just think you could get away, huh? It's a tunnel of death, you realize? Hahahaha!Good afternoon Stand-Users. This is the pre-boarding announcement for your cruel deaths. We are now inviting those passengers with small children, and any passengers requiring special assistance, such as preggers gals, to begin taking out your Stands at this time. Please have your Stands and resolve ready. Stand Battles will begin in approximately ten minutes time. Thank you!"

Gabrielle sighs. "SHUT UP!!! UGH!!! All I wanted was to nap and I was dragged all the way here!"

"Oh, please! You already had your nap!" said Raphael in sign language.

"Oh! Sure! You're the reason why we're here in the first place by giving me a case that got the whole family in danger!"

Raphael pants and hoots as Gabrielle yells at him.

"WILL YOU TWO STOP FIGHTING!!!" yelled Anne.

"NARCOS ANASTASIA!!!" yelled Victoria on the screen. "Are you still wondering who you are? Hm? You're doing this to find out who you are, right?Trust me, Narcos! You wouldn't like the answer! Hahahahaha! Pretty funny, actually! You see, Narcos... You may look like 19, but Rock Humans age slower as they grow older. You might not look like it, but you're over hundreds of years old. You're a juvenile in the Rock Human world... But I tell you...And you! Mercuria Costello! Searching for your sister's killer! Continuing the investigation in the hopes of finding her!And you! Raphael JoJo! Trying to be the best Captain and now threatening your very own status as Burnham's new hero just to find out what this conspiracy is all about! Is that right, now?Anne JoJo! You think you can honor your husband's death by mentoring these fools!Iggy! I... don't know what you want, exactly...You all think you're heroes... In the end... You're just slackening what's to come! Nocturna shall reign supreme and all life shall be destroyed in the glory of the Dark Gem Empire and their ruler, Bill Cipher!And Narcos? Trust me... You don't want to know who you really are..."

Narcos seemed to be fighting back tears.

"You're afraid... that you won't ever know who you are... But trust me... you should choose to not know... to never know... Who and what you really are..."

Narcos yells. "Stop it! I have the right to know! I have to know, right!? I am supposed to know! If you're going to stop me, I'd have no other choice but to kill you!You got that!?"

"Ooh! Why I'm so scared of a lad like you! Oh, please! You have no idea what you're capable of and all you do is collect buttons!"

"Capable of? Who the hell do you even think I am!?"

"You mean who I know you are? Heheh... Oh, dearie me... Narcos Anastasia... What a name that causes all Rock Humans to shudder! You honestly have no idea who you are!?"

Gabrielle squints her eyes.

"And you... Gabrielle JoJo... Neither do you know what you're capable of either... If only you knew... Heheh..."

"What the hell are you talking about!?" asked Gabrielle.

"Oh dearie me! I spoke too much!"

*click...*

"Huh... Annoying... She is Jessica's daughter..." sighed Anne.

*click*

"You found Mummy annoying?" asked Victoria.

"Duh. She framed me in high school and said that I was the one who put dead rats in Sarah Delgado's locker! Then that bitch was jealous of my relationship with Miggy even though she already had the chance! And what else-!?"

"Mom..." said Gabrielle.

"In high school, she stole my high heels in prom and I had to wear the dirty shoes she placed on the locker instead!Then again... I did enjoy the time we had together... Even though he tried to steal Miguel again by tricking him into a life that he didn't want... She did sacrifice her own life for our relationship and for the Universe..."

"Yeah...?" said Victoria, rather depressedly. "Well... My version of Mummy chose her own selfish reasons over saving the Humans in our world... When she finally told Daddy... they broke it off... and I was forced to live alone with her while Daddy continued to fight off Salvi... Daddy... didn't survive... in my world... Now I'm stuck with that selfish pissy whore...Then Mummy made a deal with him..."

"Bill Cipher?" asked Anne.

"Yeh... What an awful prick he is... He wants weirdness and chaos to come to the Omniverse... But that can't happen as long as Maharlica exists... Because Maharlica has a weapon powerful enough to take him out... Daddy... Your version of Daddy... Put something in there. In the eight Earths... That could destroy the Black Diamond..."

"Isn't she dead!?" asked Gabrielle.

"No... she's... very much alive... as someone else... Someone far more dangerous... because of you, Narcos..."

"Me!?" asked Narcos.

"So... it's true..." Victoria laughs softly. "Y o u  r e a l l y  d o n ' t  k n o w . . ."

Victoria shuts the screen as suddenly...

"Probably... Gabrielle and Narcos get separated from the others..." she whispered.

The group ends up in a fork in the path as a metal door separates them. Gabrielle and Narcos are at the left while the others are at the right.

"MOM!!! RAPH!!! MERCI!!! IGGY!!!" Gabrielle slammed the metal door over and over.

"Spirit Stone..." said Gabrielle. "Damn... I can't cut through that with Stone Free... Hay Naku... We have to enter the path..."

The pair silently walked toward the end of the tunnel.

*sniff...*

Gabrielle sighs. "Just blow your nose on the wall or whatever. We have no respect for these people, any-...Huh?Are... you crying?"

"Wut? Pfft! Nah... *sniff...*" Narcos looks away and wiped his tears. "I'm a man! Haha! I can totally help you beat Tooru..."

Gabrielle turns to Narcos and wipes his tears. "Hey... Come on, bud! We can do this!"

"I-I'm scared... Gabrielle... What if I used to be some creep... or Rock Hitler or whatever? It's just so terrifying, you know? I used to want to know who I am... But I really don't..."

Gabrielle sighs. "Hey..." Gabrielle grabs Narcos' hand and opens his fingers. Gabrielle removes a button from her pocket and places the button. "You're collecting buttons, right? Here... To... remember that even when I'm not there... I've got your back..."

Narcos immediately hugs Gabrielle as she turns red.

"Pfft... Uh..." Gabrielle's cheeks turn red.

"Sorry... I have no family, Gabrielle... You're the closest thing I have to a family..."

"It's poking..." she whispered.

"I really am sorry if this is awkward... But... I just don't understand this world... It's so bizarre... I'm scared to be part of it... and so far... you're the most normal part of my life..."

"Poking me..." she hissed.

"I think... I... I..."

Gabrielle pushes him away. She's red as hell. It is revealed that Narcos' penis hardened.

"You should really control yourself there, bud!" yelled Gabrielle.

"S-Sorry! I should cut this off-..."

"NO!!!" yelled Gabrielle. "No... That's... a very important part for... you know!"

"?"

"YOU KNOW!!! DOING IT!!!"

"Doing what?"

"YOU KNOW!!!"

"???"

"You do know, right?"

"I do not..."

"Just... control those urges!"

"I have urges? What kind of urges?"

"You know... Remember that embarrassing feeling you've had when I took off my shirt and you had the urge to touch them?"

Narcos turned red and nodded.

"Yes! Th-That! *cough...*"

Gabrielle and Narcos cross their arms as they stayed silent.

"Jesus Christ... JUST MAKE OUT ALREADY!!!" yelled Victoria, while on the screen beside them.

*click*

The screen turns off.

Gabrielle coughs awkwardly.

"Why are you coughing like that?"

"Because this moment is awkward."

"Cool."

Narco and Gabrielle then walk toward the door to the next room...