272. Rumpel-Lip-Bomb ~Sounds of Silence~

Anne Zeppeli sunbathes on top of a hotel in her black bikini. She sighs in boredom as she looked upward with her sunglasses.

*ring ring*

Anne takes out her phone.

"One recorded message..."

"Hey, Mom," said Gabrielle. "I just wanna say that I'm doing fine... Raph's making me do a case that I think is digging way deeper than I originally imagined... I just... I wish that you were here..."

Anne smiled softly.

"I miss you, Mom. I promise I won't get hurt..."

*click*

"I hope so..." Anne gave a worried look.

*click*

Gabrielle turns to the metal door as the trio backs away from it.

"OSHYAAAAAAAAA!!!"

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA-!!!"

A third Stand blasts icicles at the door, as the door slowly gets ruined.

A few hours earlier...

The trio entered the house looking rugged and beaten.

"That was embarrassing," sighed Gabrielle.

"I'm sorry!?" asked Narcos. "You were the one acting like a kid and let the guy get away from us! Why didn't you use your Stand!? I told you to use your Stand!"

"And I told you that we shouldn't!" yelled Mercuria. "UGH!!! We almost died because you two won't listen! Now Lumper Stiltskin CXXVIII is out there planning to kill us because he knows who we are now!"

"Whatever! I'm ordering a pizza!" Narcos reaches for the phone.

Gabrielle sighs and stomps upstairs. 

"Yeah... Now that's how you stomp..." Mercuria nodded. "STILL DOESN'T CHANGE MY FEELINGS ABOUT THE STUPID SHIT YOU DID OUT THERE!!!"

"I DID NOTHING WRONG!!!"

"YOU RAN OVER A DOG!!!"

"HE'S FINE!!!"

"And you!" Mercuria turned to Narcos. "Using our Stands in a car chase!?"

"Duh!" said Narcos, with crossed arms.

"You shot an icicle into someone's windshield!"

"The old dude was fine! He just needs 12 stitches!"

"You two honestly have no regard for human life, huh?"

"We do!" yelled Gabrielle. "We just think that we should take the lead!"

"No... we never agreed that both of us should lead! Just you!"

"STOP PUTTING ME IN THE SPOT!!!"

Suddenly, the lights went out.

Gabrielle went silent.

"Uh... Gabrielle!?" asked Mercuria.

"You alright!?" asked Narcos. 

No answer.

"Great! Now I have to change the fuse in the garage!"

"Just do it, you big baby!" Mercuria rolled her eyes.

Narcos darted downstairs in the night. "Tabi tabi po," he whispered. He reached the garage and entered it. He walked past the car and turned to the fusebox, which looked like it was struck by a bowling ball moving at bullet speed.

"Huh?" asked Narcos. Suddenly, an actual bowling ball floated behind Narcos.

Narcos turns to the back window of the car and sees the bowling ball's reflection behind him.

Narcos' eyes widen as he ducks while the bowling ball crashes into the fuse box once more. Narcos ran upstairs as he froze the entrance to the garage.

*SLAM*

Narcos slammed the door shut. He then puts several padlocks on it to make sure no one gets in.

Narcos then runs inside.

Mercuria is shown to be slicing up some carrots for tonight's sopas.

"What's going on?" asked Mercuria.

"I'll bar the balcony and windows in the kitchen. An enemy Stand is attacking us," said Narcos.

Narcos runs into the kitchen and freezes the windows and the balcony glass door.

Narcos then goes upstairs and bars all the windows. "Gabrielle!?" he asked, but he can't find her anywhere. "God..." Narcos walks away and continues to freeze the windows shut.

"Narcos!?" asked Mercuria, as she follows him. "How do you know that a Stand is attacking us?"

"A bowling ball was lodged from behind me," said Narcos.

"Could've been some kids pulling a prank," she shrugged.

"In the middle of the friggin' woods!?"

"You know... ever since you learned cognitive skills, you've gotten really sassy."

"Okay... Let me rephrase that question... A floating bowling ball TRIED TO KILL ME!!!"

"Again... Could be a couple of Chupacabra kids!"

"Oh, yeah? What do you call-!?That-...?"

Narcos and Mercuria see a knife that floats before them.

The knife is shot toward Narcos' head.

"NARCOS!!!"

*CRACK*

Narcos freezes the knife right before his face as it drops to the ground.

Narcos sighs in relief. Narcos then freezes the knife in place on the floor.

*step step step step step*

What sounds like two people stepping on and climbing the stairs toward the hallway, where they are right now.

"Someone's here!" yelled Narcos.

Mercuria squints her eyes. "Wait a minute..."

Two pairs of shoes step toward the pair.

"What the hell?" asked Mercuria. "Aren't those my shoes!?"

Narcos' eyes widen as he sees two people outside their house. "Merci... There are two people outside... I can't see... It's way too dark... Those must be the Users!"

*KICK*

*POW*

Narcos' face is blasted into the frozen window as it cracks with his face slammed into it. Blood gushes out of his skull as he growls in pain.

Mercuria takes out Kiss as her Stand kicks away the two pairs of shoes and tears them to pieces.

"OSHYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

The shoes' pieces drop to the ground and slowly transform into four broken mixtapes.

"What!?" asked Mercuria. "Mixtapes!?"

"What!? Mixtapes!?"

"Who said that!?" asked Mercuria.

"Who said that!?"

Both of them hear a woman that sounds exactly like Mercuria copying the things she says outside.

Narcos puts his finger on his lips, "Sh!"

"Sh!"

Narcos' eyes widen. "What's going on?" he whispered.

"I have an idea..." said Mercuria. "And I'm terrified if I'm right-..."

*SHATTER!!!*

The pair's eyes widen. 

Narcos and Mercuria slowly walked downstairs.

"I'm sure that I froze all the openings..." whispered Narcos.

They reach the living room to see that not only the glass, but the ice had shattered into pieces.

*step... step... step... step...*

Narcos puts his index finger over his lip.

Mercuria nods.

They slowly walk downstairs and see the two people.

Narcos takes out the flashlight but made sure it wouldn't make a sound.

It's...

...them.

It's two exact clones of both Narcos and Mercuria. Eerily, however, is that these clones have no eyes.

*click click click click click*

The creatures clicked... something... in their throats. They slowly approached the pair.

Narcos and Mercuria slowly went back upstairs.

*creak*

Clone Mercuria's Kiss was lodged outward and duplicated its arms as it blasted its fists toward the pair.

"OSHYA!!!" Mercuria's own Kiss kicks the creature's Stand away as Narcos freezes Clone Mercuria's head.

*woosh*

*crack*

Clone Narcos freezes Narcos' hand.

Narcos' hand is frozen as Narcos shatters the ice on his hand. Clone Narcos hears this and blasts icicles at the pair, who run upstairs and silently run into Miguel's library.

Narcos freezes the door open as slowly as he can to make as little sound as possible.

Mercuria sighs as she paces left and right.

*yawn*

Mercuria's and Narcos' eyes widen as Gabrielle stands up from under the library's main desk as she stretches.

Gabrielle rubs her left eye and groans.

"Aw... Is it brownout?"

Mercuria grabs Gabrielle's mouth.

"Mm!" yelled Gabrielle.

Mercuria took out her index finger and put it over her lips, shushing Gabrielle. Mercuria then takes out a pen and paper from the desk and writes down what's going on.

"We're under attack by enemy Stands that look exactly like us who can use our very own Stands!" said the paper.

Gabrielle wrote. "What!?"

Mercuria wrote. "I think the Stand can copy you if it hears a sound that comes from your body..."

"What if you fart?"

"Seriously!?" Mercuria facepalms and shakes her head. "Dude! This is serious!"

"So am I... Does it copy your whole body, the air from your butt, or your butt itself?"

"Freakin' focus!" Mercuria wrote angrily.

"Right! Uh... We can get to the Reapercave!"

"How!?"

"Jump down from the balcony and to the garden then rush to the garage then into the Reapercave!"

"That's too dangerous! There might be more of them out there!"

The pair angrily write on the notepad.

"But only two of them are in here! Why would the User risk that!?"

"Probably to lure us down there!"

"If the User brought only two inside the house, why would they risk us escaping?"

The pair sighs and rips out a new paper.

"Like right now!?"

"No... They only copied the two of you because they're planning to copy my Stand..."

"So it's a trap!"

"Not if I do something about it!"

Gabrielle gags as her Stand grabs her throat and unravels her own vocal cords into smaller strings.

Gabrielle speaks but sounds like an old lady. "Hello, dearie. Would you fetch me some tea?"

"Ew," whispered Mercuria. "That's creepy."

"Cool," whispered Narcos.

"How can she copy an old lady that doesn't exist yet?" Gabrielle then goes to the library's porch and jumps down.

"Wait! I didn't consent to this!" whispered Mercuria. She bows her head and sighs as she leaps down as well. Narcos smiles and leaps down as well.

All three land in the garden.

"Now, what!?" asked Mercuria.

Suddenly, a clone of the pen from earlier and a clone of the notepad they wrote on appeared.

"Pfft..." said Narcos. "What can a pen and paper do?"

Narcos manifests an icicle sword as the pen is shot into his throat.

*SPLAT*

Mercuria then duplicates the pen as both pens pop out of his throat. Narcos then heals his throat by freezing it with ice.

"Thanks..." he said weakly.

The trio runs downstairs as Narcos shatters the ice block before them. The trio meets against the bowling ball as Narcos freezes it into the ceiling.

Gabrielle then opens the elevator as they walked inside.

*step... step... step...*

"They're coming!" yelled Mercuria.

*step... step... step...*

*step... step... step...*

"There's... a third person..." said Narcos.

The third person... Clone Gabrielle... steps down the stairs and meets the trio.

"Shit!" whispered Gabrielle.

*click click click click*

Gabrielle presses "basement."

*DING*

"SKRYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!" Clone Gabrielle roars and rushes toward the trio as the elevator slams shut.

The trio pants in relief.

"Computer? Emergency quarantine."

*beep beep beep!!!*

The trio sigh in relief as they all sat at the reading table.

"Hay Naku..." Gabrielle rested her legs on the table and leaned on the chair.

"I told you it wouldn't work!" yelled Mercuria.

"Shut the fuck up!" Gabrielle slams the table.

"You never listen! You both never listen!"

"Could both of you calm down!?" Narcos asked, slamming the table. "God! Look at us! Shouldn't we be a team!? That's our mission, right!? We have to do this together and here we are fighting! We should know better than fight and just learn to friggin' work together for once!"

"Say, 'Disable Quarantine...'" whispered a voice that echoes in the Reapercave.

"Did you hear that?" asked Mercuria.

"Disabling... Quarantine..."

"Gabrielle!?" asked Mercuria.

"What!?" asked Gabrielle, as the elevator goes down. "The interrogation room!"

The trio runs inside the interrogation room.

"Computer! Lock us in the interrogation room! Encrypt eye scan password!"

Gabrielle puts her eye in the scanner as the door opens and locks down shut.

*BANG!!! BANG!!! BANG!!!*

Three Stands blast their fists into the metal door.

Mercuria paces around as Narcos sits in the corner. Meanwhile, Gabrielle talks to someone on the phone.

"Hey, Mom," said Gabrielle. "I just wanna say that I'm doing fine... Raph's making me do a case that I think is digging way deeper than I originally imagined... I just... I wish that you were here... I miss you, Mom. I promise I won't get hurt..."

*click*

Meanwhile...

"I hope so..." Anne gave a worried look.

Anne's look went serious. "She'd never call me at this hour... It's 1 AM over there... Hm..."

Meanwhile...

*click*

Gabrielle turns to the metal door as the trio backs away from it.

"OSHYAAAAAAAAA!!!"

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA-!!!"

A third Stand blasts icicles at the door, as the door slowly gets ruined.

"Great! Now, what!?" Mercuria complained.

"Excuse you! I tried to think of a way out!" yelled Gabrielle.

"Yeah!? Well, your ideas were wrong! There was a third person outside! Now we're all trapped here and we're going to die!"

"Well... It wouldn't be so wrong-..."

"IF YOU'D JUST LISTEN!!!" yelled all three of them.

Suddenly, the creatures stopped attacking. Outside, they tilt their heads left and right, acting rather confused.

Everyone went quiet.

"That's it!" yelled Gabrielle.

The creatures attacked once more.

"DAMN IT, GABRIELLE!!!" yelled the trio. 

The creatures stopped once more.

"Okay..." whispered Gabrielle. "Apparently, we have to work together... If we do things in unison, it can't seem to detect us!"

"So!?"

*ding dong!!!*

"Say... 'Quarantine Mode...'"

"Quarantine Mode," said Gabrielle's clone.

"Initiating... Quarantine..."

Meanwhile... outside...

Anne gets locked outside the house.

"Oh, Geez," said Anne. "Welp... I am locked outside... Hm... I hope my baby girl's okay..."

Meanwhile... inside...

Gabrielle sees her mother through the Supercomputer's screen displayed outside the interrogation room.

"Gabrielle JoJo... kill her..."

Gabrielle's clone clicks, confused.

"Goddamnit! Right! I have to turn off quarantine! Uh... Let her inside!"

"Disable quarantine mode..." said Gabrielle's Clone.

"Shit!" yelled Gabrielle.

The other two creatures continue attacking the metal door after hearing Gabrielle's voice.

Meanwhile... outside...

Anne reaches for the metal door. "Wait a minute... Why does this feel like a trap... Tch-...! Hm... That's it!" Anne flips her hair. "Welp! Better go inside!"

Meanwhile... inside...

"No! Mom! What are you doing!?" Gabrielle whispered. Gabrielle then smiles. "Guys... I have a plan..."

The creatures wait for the elevator to go down.

*BEEP!!!*

*STEP*

The trio steps in unison and walks toward the focal point of where the whispering comes from.

"She's closing in!" The voice whispered excitedly.

The trio sees that there's a blanket behind the Grimm Libraries.

*POW!!!*

All three Stands punched his face in unison, punching a very weak-looking thin dude as he drops to the ground.

It's the pizza delivery guy Narcos ordered from.

"Carl!?" asked Narcos.

"Carl is dead... My r-real name is Lumper-!!!"

"DISABLE YOUR STAND!!!" Gabrielle grabbed Lumper Stiltskin's throat and began to crush it.

"OKAY!!!" sobbed Lumper.

The Stands turn into mixtapes and are launched back into the radio beside him.

The trio sighs as Gabrielle lets him go.

"KILL HER!!!"

"BUENA!!!"

Gabrielle blocks the fist of her mother's Stand.

Suddenly, Lumper gags as his vocal cords are torn out by a string coming from Gabrielle's finger.

*GAG!!!*

*SPLAT*

Each string of his vocal cords is plucked from his throat as he falls to the ground, bleeding. He woges into a Troll and shivers on the ground.

The trio looks at each other, smiling with pride.

"Can't believe we did it," smiled Mercuria.

"We had a smart leader taking the lead," smiled Narcos.

"Oh, please! I wouldn't have been able to do it without Gabrielle's help," smiled Mercuria.

"Couldn't have done it without you two," smiled Gabrielle.

She frowns and turns to the speechless Lumper Stiltskin CXXVIII.

"I knew you'd do something shifty... So I tied a string in each of your vocal cords before you attacked... now you can't command your Stands to do anything...Now... Eat..."

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA-!!!" cried Stone Free, punching Lumper over and over.

"OSHYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!!" cried Kiss, punching Lumper over and over with four arms.

"FUREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-!!!" cried Coldplay, punching Lumper over and over.

Lumper, with bones broken and blood exploding everywhere, drops to the ground, dead.

*ding*

Anne walks out of the elevator. "Hello, sweetie!"

Gabrielle sees Anne. She sighs and bows her head in embarrassment. "Hay Naku... Hi... Mommy..."

Narcos sees a book hidden in the dead troll's book with the black gem symbol from earlier.

"Rock Organisms: Bio."