279. Call Me Maybe Part II ~And Ball Breaker...~

"HORA!!!"

*SPLAT!!!*

Gabrielle grabs her nose as she backs away and shivers in pain.

"You bitch!"

"Ugh!" Victoria jabs Gabrielle's shin.

Gabrielle angrily grabs Victoria by the neck and punches her in the stomach over and over again.

Victoria then uses Call Me Maybe to punch Gabrielle in the face over and over. "HORA!!!"

"ORA!!!"

*THWIP*

Victoria gets stabbed in the thigh by Narcos' Coldplay.

"FUREEEEE-!!!"

"Probably you can't freeze because you're dehydrated!"

Narcos gasps as he drops to the ground.

"Narcos!" yelled Gabrielle.

"No use, bitch! I figured out how his Stand works! It requires moisture and hydration of his body!" yelled Victoria.

"That doesn't make any sense! How'd you suddenly make him dehydrated!?"

"By manipulating the Flow of Calamity. The Flow of Calamity constitutes fate. Fate is made of countless rivers that come to disaster and chaos... or peace and order... as it is an endless cycle..." Victoria said. "... Pretty fuggin' lit, if you ask me. AHAHAHAHAHA!!!" she cackled. "Looks like you can't fuck me over anymore, bitch, with your boyfriend dying!"

"Narcos..." said Gabrielle.

*bzzt!!!*

The metal door is closed shut as Victoria is nowhere to be seen.

"VICTORIA!!! YOU FUCKING COWARD!!!"

Narcos trembles in pain on the ground, shivering. He begins to harden like stone. "It's okay... Gabrielle... This was a bizarre but fun... adventure... Thank you... for allowing me to experience... life..."

"I'll get us outta here!" yelled Gabrielle.

Stone Free punches the walls hard but fails to break the walls down because of the loss of her stamina.

"Gabrielle... just... calm... down..." whispered Narcos.

"Narcos!" Gabrielle began to weep, as she grabbed Narcos in her arms.

Narcos slowly hardened into stone. "It... was... fun..."

The walls are closed... the screens are off... and Gabrielle is alone with a statue of Narcos... laying on the ground...

Gabrielle sobs while sitting on the ground softly... hunched up and crying...

"Please... I can't do this... I just can't! I'm just a kid!" she sobbed. "I'm just...!"

Gabrielle cries softly.

*cling, cling, cling...*

A stone necklace from her chest pocket drops to the ground as her arm squeezed it out.

"This stupid thing..." she whispered. "Well... Dad... you gave this thing to me ten years ago... A half-assed early birthday present before you died... I never really understood how it worked..."

Gabrielle rubs it, seeing some steam clouding its shell, as it opens up, revealing that it is a locket. "What?" she whispered, looking confused.

Gabrielle looks left and right as she looks at it.

She, of course, looks confused. She sees that the stone has a hole the exact shape of her locket, patterns and all.

She then closes the stone as a hologram of her father appears.

"Hey, sweetie," said Miguel. "I'm in the Edge of Everything right now... I need... to tell you something... I know what you did... and I know what's about to happen... I know because your Uncle Lord told me.And let me tell you something. You didn't kill me, okay? But you did in fact cause my death."

Gabrielle began to cry even more.

"But that isn't a bad thing...You know why?Because... not only that you didn't know... But... I realized something... I am damn well different from Doughnut Trumpet... and you are, too. You know why? Because you cared about other people... You thought about other people... When I was fighting for Maharlica... I didn't do it because I wanted a powerful nation to own... I did it because I wanted to protect the world from the Dark Gems... which... I'm hoping you now know about... And that's why you're special. Because even though you did a mistake as I did... you can damn well learn from it...You're like me... But unlike me... you're also like your mother... and like your mother... you can overcome this while you're still young. It took me to realize that I'm going to die to stop hating myself...And you complain that you can't live up to me... You should know damn well that even I can't live up to myself... So stop hating yourself! Because the people who really love you will get hurt watching you hate yourself, too."

Gabrielle turns to Narcos, shocked... but smiles sweetly.

"So... There's a bunch more messages in here... I know you can navigate all of it... I know. You know why? Because you're special. You're like Josuke. You're like Raph... You're like the boys... You're special! You mean so much more than you give yourself credit for... So get out of the stone ocean you got yourself in and break out..."

Gabrielle sees the melted ice on Narcos' face.

"I will..." said Gabrielle, nodding proudly. "I will... I promise, Daddy...."

"Atta girl," smiled Miguel. "Oh... and... another thing!"

Later...

*click...*

"That was voice recorded, right?" Gabrielle turns to stone Narcos. "Heh..." she wipes her tears. "Wait..."

Gabrielle sees the ice on the walls.

Gabrielle takes the ice and gives places it on Narcos' face.

The rock slowly turns into human skin.

Gabrielle's eyes widen as she rubs it all over Narcos' body. 

Narcos, now human-like, is given a few drops of the ice into his mouth.

Gabrielle continues to let the ice melt on his warm body.

*GASP!!!*

Narcos wakes up after drinking the few drops.

"I've read in the books that Rock Humans drink through the pores of their skin, too..." said Gabrielle, grabbing his cheeks.

Narcos leans closer as Gabrielle turns red.

"W-We should go on and get outta here!" she yelled, turning away looking fidgety. "Ahahahaha!"

"Sure," said Narcos, turning red and sighing as his eyelids lowered.

Narcos tosses spikes into the walls and uses his Stand to tear the wall down. 

"Didn't you lose your stamina as well?" asked Gabrielle.

"I feel refreshed because of what you did," smiled Narcos. "Thank you... for saving me."

The pair run into the tunnel.

Gabrielle raises an eyebrow. She turns red and looks away, closing her eyes.

"You saved me, too... I never thanked you for that... *AHEM!!!* Thank you..." said Gabrielle.

"You're welcome, Gabrielle," smiled Narcos.

Gabrielle struggles to fight off the smile on her face.

Narcos smiles softly as he glanced at her. He then kicks the metal door down. 

"Nice smile," smiled Narcos. "Is your unstoppable smile it driving you crazy?"

"Kinda..." Gabrielle kept being red.

"Drives me crazy, too."

Gabrielle punches his shoulder as he laughs it off.

"Stop it!" yelled Gabrielle.

"Okay!" laughed Narcos.

"We have to find her! Wherever the hell she is and take that piece of shit coward down!"

Gabrielle and Narcos reach the end of the tunnel and into an opening where only Victoria stood. The pair faces off against her.

"STONE FREE!!! (COLDPLAY!!!)"

"ORA!!!"

"FUREEZEE!!!"

"PROBABLY A SATELLITE ISN'T IN ORBIT ANYMORE AND FALLS FROM THE SKY!!!"

The pair sees a spark in the sky as it approaches them from above. A satellite falls above them as the pair dodge.

*BOOM!!!*

The explosion was felt by the pair. It was so powerful that it paralyzed their bones because of the sheer impact of its power. A crater is formed next to them.

"Probably you can't stay steady and you'd slip into your feet!!!"

The pair slip on something slimy and drop to the ground. Oddly enough, underneath them is grass.

"Probably you can't breathe!"

The pair begin to gasp for breath.

"Probably you can't fight me!Probably you can't think right now!Probably your hearts can't beat! Probably-!Huh!?"

Some sort of golden energy begins to move around Gabrielle's body.

"What the-!?" asked Victoria.

Golden strings began to orbit her body like a ribbon dancing around her limbs, torso, and her head.

"Wrry..." Gabrielle somehow becomes immune to Victoria's flow of calamity.

Earlier... what Gabrielle listened to...

"I forgot to mention!" smiled Miguel on the screen. "Remember my ability? Soft and Wet? Well, your ability, Stone Free, is similar. Apparently, like your Uncle Kariel and your Uncle Lord, I branched off from Hamon and used Spin. In reality, the soap bubbles Star Platinum used to plunder attributes from objects are tiny threads spinning and vibrating at high speeds in perfect rotation. Thus... I am a Hamon-User and a Spin-User. Star Platinum's time-stop is also just a large spinning sphere that Star Platinum creates, which covers up the whole Omniverse. Your strings actually have The Spin. You just don't know it yet... but the strings can be imbued with The Spin... if you rotate your strings around your body... or even rotate it similar to my soap bubbles or my Time-Stop bubble, you can achieve the power of Spin. All you have to do is practice... But sometimes... when your resolve is at high... Heaven chooses its new champion, and your Stand evolves."

"Stone Free: Ball Breaker."

*zim zim zim*

Golden Spin surrounded Gabrielle's body.

Gabrielle flew toward Victoria. 

"OH, SHIT!!!"

"ORA!!!"

Stone Free blasts a punch into Victoria's face, and so did Gabrielle.

Call Me Maybe kicks her far away as Victoria yelled, "Probably a meteor isn't too far from here and came raining down on you!"

A meteor sparks in the atmosphere and drops as it explodes on Gabrielle's head. The dust clouds everything in Victoria's sight. She gives a sneer, but it disappears as Gabrielle walks out of the flames and the dust.

Victoria yelled, "Probably, you can't kill me!"

Gabrielle pounces at her and grabs her by the throat. She then picks her up.

"Haha... Trucies?"

"Wrry..."

(theme begins at 1:14)

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*SPLAT*

Victoria is canceled as she drops to the ground, nearly dead.

Gabrielle loses her balance as she loses too much stamina from her new technique.

*thud...*

However... Narcos caught her in his arms.

"Honestly..."

*BANG!!! BANG!!!*

*BOOM!!!*

A round metal door behind Narcos crashes open as Raphael's tree golem walks out of it.

Raphael, Anne, Mercuria, and Iggy meet up with Narcos.

"Is Gabrielle okay!?" asked Anne.

Everyone runs to Gabrielle.

"She's fine..."

"Thank you for saving her," smiled Anne.

"Well... actually... she did all the saving..." smiled Narcos. "Also... she did that..."

They see a massive amount of dead trees behind them as the meteor exploded on her seemingly invulnerable head before it struck the ground. They also see Victoria, battered on the ground.

"She did that!?" asked Raphael.

"Well... she did tell you that she could take care of herself," sighed Narcos. "Well... She did pretty damned well on this one."

Gabrielle slept soundly in Narcos' arms.

Anne smiles as she brushes Gabrielle's hair. So did Raphael.