Since the apparent deaths of Joseph and Lisa Lisa, Jonathan had fallen into a state of silent depression, being comforted by a mournful Johnny who tried to motivate the man while instructing him on a
certain type of running.
Now that the young Joestar men saw that their family was alive and well once more, they decided not to question any further, but to only rush to their aid.
Eventually, as the now one-sided battle between Elliot and the rest of the Survivors would come to a close, he would drop out of the floating form of the Human Reaper like a piece of shit coming out of a human body. Though he was weakened beyond belief from all the damage done ot him, the ill-tempered mastermind's rage would flare up exponentially. Staggering to his feet clumsily and taking a step back from everyone, he would take a brief moment to regather his strength, collecting more power that everyone would around would be able to feel. Whatever he was planning on doing, it was an easy guess that it wasn't good. Gritting his teeth, he would give you all a hateful glare, eyes burning with the rage of a thousand burning suns of hateful fury.
"You will all pay for your insolence with your lives! Tremble before my power!" Elliot exclaimed, before what felt like a powerful gust of wind would be felt by everyone. And then... As though there were a massive, invisible hand, everyone would suddenly be blown away by some strange, mighty push. A telekinetic push, to be exact! With enough power to blow most of you all off your feet, regardless of weight, it'd take a miracle to be able to stand proud against Elliot's telekinetic push!
Or a well-placed trick.
Twin stars! Streaking through the heavens!
Stir the surface of light and darkness!
Their ripples echo together!
And that was exactly what was pulled!
To Elliot's shock, despite the powerful push that he had let out, there were at least four individuals that continued to stand in his way, never faltering, never backing down! The Joestar Family! One Jonathan Joestar, Joseph Joestar, Johnny Joestar, and Elizabeth Joestar! The family that defied the power of the manifestation of the Rapture itself stood defiantly through what some would call a miracle, through what Joseph would call a well-placed ruse for the ages!
The sun leads those who seek the path of glory!
Demanding a sacrifice from all who pursue their ambition!
"What the...?! How are you--?!"
"Wouldn't you like to know, buddy! Why dontcha take a closer look?!"
And so Elliot did, and the answer was found.
At the family's feet was a puddle of what appeared to be oil. But where did that oil come from?! Why, it came from the oil that Joseph had poured all over his hammer earlier! And within that puddle, generated by everyone's feet, were Ripples of the Joestars' power! Utilizing the power of the Ripple, the Joestars were able to stick firmly to the oil that so cleanly conducted the power, not moving an inch despite how much force the mastermind would try to put in his magic push.
Shame that the hammer got blown away though.
Throbbing hearts burst as if aflame!
The pulse which beats forth from their palms!
The courage which runs through their veins!
Bravely embracing their fate!
"Hmph! No matter! If you think that will be enough to intimidate me, then you have another thing coming, you over-sized oaf!"
With a dismissive sneer, Elliot gritted his teeth for a moment, before putting more power into his telekinetic push aimed solely at the Joestars, hoping to perturb their efforts! But it was
useless! Useless, useless, useless! In fact, it only made the situation worse for Elliot, as when he would increase the power output, glass bottles of tequila and cola would suddenly fall off Joseph's being, shattering upon contact with the ground and creating an even bigger mess of liquids that helped conduct the Ripple!
As the puddle grew even larger, the pathway to Elliot became more and more clear, allowing the family a straight, linear way to their target!
It was time to move.
"I believe the time has come to show this spoiled brat a lesson or two in manners! It is now my turn to roll the dice and make my move!"
"You sure 'bout that, Ma?!"
With that being said, Joseph, Lisa Lisa, and Jonathan began to move, dragging their feet across the giant puddle of liquids as they began to dash closer and closer to Elliot, who could only back away in surprise.
The fate of that bloodline!
JOOOOOOOOOJOOOOOOOOO!!
"Tch... Get... Get away from me! Don't you dare lay a filthy hand on me!" Elliot could only exclaim helplessly as the family began to advance on him, attempting to create a gap between him and the trail of oil, cola, and tequila, in order to ensure that he would not be reached. The young man was about to put his power into another burst of a telekinetic push, but before he was able to possibly react, it was already too late.
"Haaaah!"
Before Elliot could possibly make another move, Lisa Lisa would leap into the air, headed straight for him. Her legs extended in the air and her heels collided right into his face, the woman performing something of a flip kick that would easily disorientate the opponent, before instantly following up with a jump kick upon landing on the ground, the power in her limbs powered by the Ripple and providing an extra punch to her kicks!
"I don't lead such a pitiful life that I'd require concern from you, JoJo! You seem to forget who taught you how to properly hone your Ripple power in the first place!" Lisa Lisa idly said as she beat Elliot down, as though the so-called mastermind were nothing but a petulant kid in her eyes.
The die is cast! He can do nothing but advance!
The eternally wandering adventurer tumbles through a bizarre spiral!
"Hey now! That's a little harsh, wouldn't ya say?!" Joseph merely exclaimed in response to his mother, pulling long wires from his body that he had kept well hidden, before tossing them forward. The wires wrapped all around Elliot's legs, trapping him for a brief moment, before doing the unthinkable! The wires around his legs began to slide down, pulling the present article of clothing down with them.
That's right.
Elliot just got pantsed by the best!
"W-Wha--?! How dare you?! Who--!" Elliot began to shout in response, his focus now fixated on attempting to stand up, as the wires remained on his ankles, continuing to prevent him from walking in an able manner. Before he would be able to finish his tantrum, he would be interrupted by a loud voice.
"He's a shrewd one alright."
"Don't bring me down just yet!"
A golden soul for the man who conquers his fears!
Fighting for the two who met! Fight!
"Eric! Your next line will be "Who the hell do you think you're messing with?!" That's the one! Say it loud 'n proud for all of us to hear, you shitter!"
Like clockwork, Elliot fell right into Joseph's hands once again.
"Who... the hell do you think you're messing with?! H-Huuh?!" Elliot would say, before gasping in surprise. How did he manage to predict what he was about to say before--?!
"I should be asking you that, bucko! 'Cause I don't think you realize who you are messing with! We're the Joestars! And we're gonna drill it into that tiny brain of yours to make sure you don't forget!!" Joseph yelled at the top of his lungs, clenching his fist tightly as he was now right smack in front of Elliot, towering over the smaller young man. Physically, Elliot was a shrimp compared to Joseph. Hell, Joseph had once seen Elliot get the shit beat out of him by Shizuo.
This is nothing! 'Cause that's all Elliot was! A big fat
nothing! So much so that Joseph still thought his name was actually Eric! That's how little Elliot mattered in the end!
The curtain rises on an endless tale!
Let the sparks as lives clash cast light on the days of your youth!
May fortune shine on the future you bring!
As Elliot's vision continued to waver from the assault that Lisa Lisa had brought about, he would temporarily lose sight of Joseph, despite the loud yelling that he had been mouthing.
The perfect opportunity!
"Where ya lookin' at? I'm right here!" Joseph exclaimed, popping right in front of Elliot, his Clackers in hand as the steel balls smashed into the mastermind's face with a loud
KRAKK, easily breaking his nose, causing the man to let out a loud, pained yelp.
Nah... This ain't close enough! I've gotta make this more personal! Joseph thought to himself, tossing aside his Clackers. With a quick popping of the knuckles, Joseph threw hands faster than the eye could see!
POW!
The sounds of Joseph's fists making their impact on Elliot's face were reminiscent of what one would imagine from a comic book. A few punches later, blood was drawn from Elliot's nose as it began to swell up. Each punch sent the young man stumbling back, Joseph's hard knuckles giving the boy a black eye in no time.
KRAKK!
With Johnny on his back, Jonathan charged forward in a perfect posture as Joseph proceeded his boxing match with Elliot. Lurching forward, the towering man launched Johnny off his back, his torso, limbs, and body overall in the perfect
Golden Rectangle ratio.
The fate of that bloodline!
JOOOOOOOOOJOOOOOOOOO!!
As Johnny was launched, he was able to use the energy of the
Golden Rotation from Jonathan to summon Act 4, landing on the
Stand's back besides Lisa Lisa.
After landing, Johnny gave his alternate universe daughter a smirk before using Tusk launching a volley of punches towards the grunts she was fighting, condemning them to slow and painful death of spiraling into the distance for infinity.
"I knew something like death in this sick game wouldn't keep you two down," Johnny stated confidently,
"You two are those who 'hunger' for victory. More so than most people I've met. Although you may want to apologize to your father for the state you left him in."
BAM!
"You like boxing, you little shit?! It's a Joestar pastime! Just ask Grandpa Jonathan!"
Meanwhile, Jonathan joined up with his grandson against Elliot, flooding his body with Hamon with a single breath.
THWACK!
"Ever heard a' Jack Dempsey, Eric?! Let's just say you're lucky I dunno how to do the ol' Dempsey Roll! Or you'd really be in trouble! Y'hear?! Do you understaaaaand?! Either way, I'm Jack Dempsey-ing the hell outta you! Don't feel so good, do it?!"
Approaching the mastermind from behind, Jonathan took on the classic boxing posture from his days of youth, landing technically standard but extremely powerful blows on Elliot in tandem with Joseph's attacks.
Two fates knot into one inseparably!
It all began at that moment!
"Indeed, boxing is something that I took up in my youth. It has been a while, so I am afraid that my technique may be rusty." Jonathan admitted in between fierce blows.
THOK!
"Either waaay! You still conscious enough to listen to me, punk?! 'Cause I haven't gotten to the important part yet! So listen and listen good! Do you think you're a big man?! 'Cause you're nothing more than a little shrimp!"
KAPOW!
At this rate, the only thing that was going to be more bloody than Joseph's fists was Elliot's face. And who could blame him? For such a scrawny, weak, pathetic excuse for a man, Joseph had to admit he was doing surprisingly well against the punches. For now, at least.
"You wanna know your biggest mistake, Eric?! It's not just because you happen to be as weak as my ol' Grandma Erina before she has her 5 o'clock breakfast! It's not just because you can't make a plan for multiversal domination to save your life, considering that you're dumb as a mule and twice as ugly! Hell, it ain't even just because you messed with the Joestars either! You wanna know why you're getting the shit beat out of you?!"
Of course, Elliot couldn't respond, other than continuous
"Gugh!" and
"Aghh!" and so on from all the punches Jonathan and Joseph were wailing him with. Nevertheless, Joseph continued speaking.
"It was because you lack resolve! You never see anything through to the end! You're the kind of scummy shitlord that starts things, then lets other people clean up your mess! That's some of the lowest trash I've ever seen!" Joseph exclaimed, berating Elliot,
"Even a guy like me who hates putting hard work into stuff knows that it's not always just the result that counts! Sometimes, it's the work and effort put into it that will live on in the memories of people!"
WHAM! KRAKK! BOOM!
"And you, good sir! You never put effort into anything in your life! I'll bet you're just another pampered, spoiled brat who wants everything done for you conveniently! That's how it went back then, and that's how it is now, worthless punk! You tried to rely on that Selvaria chick to do your dirty work back then, but in the end, you just betrayed her! Just like how you were gonna betray that Kenjiro guy, and how you were just using those damned Reapers for your own purposes! You really are the goddamn lowest of the low!"
Throbbing hearts burst as if aflame!
The pulse which beats forth from their palms!
The courage which runs through their veins!
Bravely embracing their fate!
"Joseph! That is quite enough. People like this one are beyond reasoning! We must work on finishing him now! I trust you have a method? If so, leaving this one to me so you can prepare!" With that, Jonathan clapped his fists together as he prepared to truly put Elliot in a terrible state.
"How my heart resonates!
The burning of its heat!
A heart and its razor beat!"
"SUNLIGHT YELLOW OVERDRIVE!!"
As Jonathan let out a merciless flurry of punches, now having Elliot's full attention while Joseph took off at his grandfather's signal and ran back to his mother, calling to her.
"Ma, it's time to use that!" He exclaimed, standing next to her. Nodding silently, Lisa Lisa simply took out what Joseph was referring to.
The Red Stone of Aja!
"It's been quite a while since I have used this," Lisa Lisa mused as Johnny dealt with the remainder of Bane's minions,
"Perhaps it might require some Ripple concentration!"
Channeling the power of the Ripple into the Red Stone of Aja that she held, the mystical artifact able to conduct the Ripple seamlessly and let out its full power, alongside Joseph, the woman would eventually call out to Jonathan, who was putting the finishing touches to the flurry of devastating punches known as the Sunlight Yellow Overdrive technique.
"Father! To us!"
"Right!" Jonathan exclaimed in response, delivering a final punch that would knock Elliot several feet back. With the mastermind stunned and unable to even move for a good moment, Jonathan took this chance to dash back to Joseph and Lisa Lisa, standing in between them from behind and placing his hand on the Red Stone as well.
Though he didn't exactly understand the object that they held, he understood that whatever it was, it was able to conduct the Ripple well, and so he trusted the power of his family.
"Joseph! Father! Are you ready?!"
"Ready!"
"Whenever you are!"
"Hooooohhh!!"
"BURNING HEART OVERDRIVE!"
With that, the mystical Red Stone, powered by the family's Ripple energy, would shoot out a massively powerful laser at Elliot, the laser traveling at light speed, far too fast for the man to dodge. Singed beyond relief, the sheer power of the laser caused Elliot to fly into the air, crashing through the wall and out of the structure that everyone had been standing in.
However!
Elliot's retribution was far from over!
The curtain rises on an endless tale!
Let the sparks as lives clash cast light on the days of your youth!
May fortune shine on the future you bring!
"Tusk! Act 4!"
Creating a sort of finger gun, Johnny took aim like a professional sharpshooter at the flying form of Elliot through the hole created after he had crashed through the wall.
"I dunno what Joseph was goin' on about there, but from what I could understand... You didn't understand that if you want results, you gotta starve for it! And you wanted to take the easy way out! But you didn't realize what you were dealing with in the first place!"
As the power of the Infinite Rotation, an ability with a name more self-explanatory than one would expect, charged in Johnny's finger, he would pull the imaginary trigger on his finger gun, and at speeds surpassing that of light,
Tusk suddenly appeared before Elliot's airborne form, letting out a high-pitched
"Chumimiiin~" sound, before its fists clenched.
"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!!"
Fist after fist after fist,
Tusk would eventually let up on its punches, before unleashing the greatest attack of them all. The Infinite Rotation. Shifting into a small ball of pure energy, it slammed itself into Elliot's body with godly momentum. From the view of others, it was as though an infinitely rotating ball, no larger than a tennis ball, were causing Elliot to fly higher and higher into the sky, continuously digging into his body.
The power was as its name implied. Infinite Rotation would
never stop rotating unless Johnny were to fire another nail bullet in order to cancel it out from the other side, but there was no stopping this rotation now. So Elliot only continued to ascend higher and higher into the air.
And then before anyone knew it... He was sent
out of the atmosphere!
Out of the entire planet!
The fate of that bloodline!
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
If nothing in the world could kill Elliot, then he'd just be sent out of the world!
WOOOSH!
"AAAaaaghh!"
But screaming was perhaps the final mistake Elliot would ever make in his pitiful life, for when he would do so, continuing to infinitely rotate into the endless boundary of space, his body would quickly be frozen up in the atmosphere, his expression permanently becoming a face contorted in pain, anguish, and suffering.
"I... I was supposed to..."
And with that, Elliot found that he was no longer able to speak.
Unable to die, yet unable to move, Elliot became completely inanimate, frozen in the vacuum of space where no one would be able to hear him scream, if he was even able to scream.
He could do nothing but hopelessly despair as he flew further and further away from Rannoch, lamenting the fall of the Reapers and his plans.
This was the fate of those who would dare to oppose fate, and the natural balance of the multiverse.
Before very long at all, he simply became nothing more than an inanimate statue. A former shell of a man who could hardly be described as a man in the first place.
Without the ability to speak, move, communicate, or function anything like a human, the only thing Elliot could do was think.
And so, eventually...
Elliot ceased to think altogether.
And with that, he continued to float further out into space, never to be heard from anyone ever again.
Heh. Not that he had much capacity to think to begin with!
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