(In the Catacombs of Paris, France - 12:30 AM)
(Sticky Fingers' POV)
My name is Jeff Howard. Before I became Sticky Fingers, I was 25 years old, had pale skin and had long straight auburn hair and dark blue eyes and was born in Charleston, West Virginia.
My mom worked in a bakery, while my dad was an accountant and they two were born in the same state and city. We lived pretty decent lives even during the pandemic. But there's one thing about me that you don't know about...
I have a hard time trusting someone.
I do trust my family but it's others out there that I can't trust. Because I trusted a person once and it led to some problems, and I had to pay the price for it. But I don't want to discuss it now.
Anyways, I've been stuck in this new world ever since I got that mysterious package, and finding this Stand arrow here in the catacombs of all places was surprising. I'm surprised nobody found it, but I needed to leave since the arrow is dangerous if it falls in the wrong hands and I've been hiding in the catacombs for far too long.
"Time to move out." I muttered as I took the arrow and then opened a zipper on the ceiling, entered through it and made more zippers till I reached the top side.
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(Third Person POV)
After going through multiple zippers, Jeff has now reached the top side and was now in an alleyway. He then looks up and launches his right arm using his zipper and grabs the edge of the roof with it and pulls himself up, reaching the top of the roof.
He then jumps toward another rooftop and lands on it successfully. He saw a chimney and then stood on top of it to get a better view of the place. It was a beautiful site to see the city of lights shine bright in the night.
"Beautiful." Jeff looked around before spotted something on the rooftop of another building not far from him.
"I don't have time for this." Jeff was about to leave but he noticed that the figure he spotted was heading towards him. So he quickly jumps down the chimney and lands on the street.
He was lucky that no one was around, otherwise he would have drawn unwanted attention. Then he saw a lampost, he quickly made a zipper on it and opened it to see a hollow space.
Perfect place to hide.
So he went into the hollow space and closed the zipper. Now in the hollow space, he waited patiently and decided to listen. He then heard a sound of something landing on the ground. Perhaps the figure he saw is now on the street looking for him.
'How was he able to spot me on the rooftop though? Does he have a good eye or something?' He thought.
Jeff continues to listen, only to hear two voices. One American and another Japanese.
"Are you sure you saw a Stand?"
"Hai, Dāmein." He said in Japanese.
'So it was the other one who saw me. But I could have sworn I saw only one person on the rooftop.' He thought.
Jeff opens a small part of the zipper to get a good look at the two. The first one was wearing a green sweater with a hood over his head with gray jeans and was holding an ornate knife of some type.
But it was the second person that caught his interest the most.
The second person was wearing purple samurai armor. He had the head of a skeleton and black mist coming out of his body, including floating in the air. This was....
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SCP-5175, a.k.a 'Death Knife'.
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"Well, he's long gone then. Man, I really wanted to meet a Stand, you know that eye to eye, Hanzo."
"Anata ni chansu ga otozuremasu."
(Translation: You'll get your chance.)
"Let's hope so, Hanzo."
'So it was that samurai Hanzo who spotted me.' Jeff thought as he hid inside the hollow space.
Sensing something, Hanzo slowly turned his head towards the lampost where Jeff was hiding with a menacing jojo aura.
"Kakusu koto wa mada desu. Detekoi."
(Translation: Hiding is futile. Come on out.)
Jeff, being a very cultured guy, understood what he said and thought.
'Nani?! He sensed my presence?! This guy is dangerous.'
Jeff, now having no choice, decides to reveal himself. He opens a zipper and comes out of the lampost, showing himself to both of them.
"So you found me?"
"Hai."
Both stared at each other with an intense and menacing atmosphere surrounding them.
"ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ"
"ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ"
As the two stared at each other intensely, Damien runs up to Jeff and shakes his hand.
"Before you two try to kill each other, I want to say I'm a huge fan of jojo and it's such an honor to meet a human Stand like you face to face. I wish I could you tell you my name but-"
"Damein, right?"
"You overheard our conversation?"
"Yes."
Damien lets go of his hand and says, "Ok. So look the people I work with want you to come with us."
"Are they the trusting type?"
"I assure you they can be trusted. Right, Hanzo?"
"Hai."
"Sorry, but I'm not going anywhere. Even if you try to force me to, I won't."
Hanzo, notices the arrow he was holding on his hand, pats Damein's shoulder to get his attention and tells him that.
"Sutandoarō." Hanzo points to Jeff and Damein sees the arrow he was holding in his hand.
"Is that a Stand arrow?!"
"Yes. Now leave."
"Dude, we just want to help."
"And I don't need it. If I give myself and the Stand arrow up, to the ones you work it.... they're will be deadly consequences."
"Look, just come with me and I assure that the arrow will be in perfect hands."
Jeff was about to walk away, but suddenly Hanzo noticed the arrow was.... shrinking?
"Nani?"
Feeling something strange, Jeff noticed his right hand felt empty and he saw the arrow was gone from his right hand.
"What?!"
"I could have sworn the arrow was on his hand for a few seconds. Where did it go?" Damien questions.
"Damn it! We're not the only one's here!"
The three looked around trying to spot the one who took the arrow, but couldn't.... until Hanzo spotted something on the ground. It had the same size as a mouse, it was a humanoid but had a sharp green index finger and was holding the arrow which had shrunk to the size of a grain.
"Anata o mitsuketa!" Hanzo shouted as he tried to grab the mouse-sized humanoid, but the small humanoid dodged the grab.
Jeff and Damien saw Hanzo trying to grab something and they too spotted the humanoid Hanzo was trying to grab.
"Is that who I think it is?"
"To think that... that Stand was here." Jeff mutters before he quickly jumps towards the humanoid, but suddenly the humanoid jumps towards Jeff, grows back to his original size and uppercuts him before doing a spin kick which sends him flying towards Damien and crashing into him.
Hanzo, at fast speed, punched the humanoid hard and sent him flying a few feet away, crashing into a lampost.
"Ow."
"Can you please get off."
Damein gets off of him and stands up, Jeff did the same and the three approached the humanoid who had his back against the lampost. This humanoid was....
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Little feet.
[IMAGES]
"So you think you got me?" He said in a German accent.
'Give me the arrow and I promise I won't cut you to pieces with my zippers." Jeff said menacingly.
Ignoring his words, Little Feet shrinked to mouse size along with the arrow and jumps into a drainage pipe which was next to the lamppost which the other there didn't notice.
"No!" Jeff punches the ground and creates a zipper, he then makes more zippers and starts following Little Feet by following the pipeline.
"Come on, Hanzo. We're following them." Damein said.
Hanzo nods and they both turn into black mist and go into the pipeline to catch Little Feet.
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Inside the pipeline, Little feet was using the Arrow as a surfboard as he was riding the water current.
'I need to meet up with a fish boy at the river, thankfully this pipeline will lead me straight toward the Seine river. Sticky Fingers, I've been spying on you for two days and was waiting for the perfect opportunity to take the arrow! I know going head on against you would be too much. But when you use strategy and patience. Thing's become so much easier for you.' He thought to himself.
Little feet then looked forward to see the light at the end of the tunnel, then he came out of the pipe and saw that he had reached the river.
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"Yes I made it!" He said in delight.
But before Little Feet could hit the water, a black mist came out of the pipe and a zipper opened next to a wall, it was the trio.
"Ariiii!"
""Kocchi Wo Miro!!""
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(Back at Site-19)
"Why do I feel like somebody stole a line from my Sheer Heart Attack.....? Naaaah! It's probably nothing."
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(Back in France.)
As the trio appeared, Little feet turned his head around to see the three jumping towards him while everything was in sloooooow motion.
"Ohhh... Myyy... Gaaaaad!"
The slow motion sequence kept on going and the three were about to grab him. Unbeknownst to the four however there was something in the river that spotted them.
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The slow motion sequence stops when a massive geyser of water erupted from the river which hits the four and sends the trio flying towards a wooden bench and crashing into it. Little feet were grabbed by the humanoid fish and both of them landed in the water.
"The hell was that!?!" Jeff exclaimed as the three stood up to see Little Feet in the river and were holding on to the back of a fish humanoid who had his head submerged in the water so they couldn't get a good look at the fish man.
"Well it was nice knowing you three. Bye!" Little Feet waved his hand mockingly as the fish humanoid started swimming down the river with him holding on to its back.
"You're going nowhere, bastard!" Jeff angrily used his zipper on his right arm and launched it towards the fish humanoid and was able to grab his leg but by doing so he got pulled into the water and was being dragged along the river.
Hanzo quickly throws Damien towards Jeff's direction and Hanzo disappears, Damein then wraps his arms around Jeff's neck and holds on to him. Now both of them were being dragged along the river.
*Music Play — JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Overdrive (Instrumental recreation)
(Music starts from 0:59)
"Hanzo, get up close and personal with little feet!"
Hanzo appears behind Little Feet and was about to punch him, but Little Feet blocks the attack but was then punched in the gut by him, in retaliation, Little Feet swings his right hand vertically to slash him but he easily avoids it.
Little feet then unleashed a barrage of slash attack on Hanzo, but he was able to dodge and parry the attack's with perfect precision.
"Watashi wa anata no kyōbō-sei o shōsan shimasu." Hanzo compliments him till he quickly does a palm strike on his chest, stunning Little Feet for a bit. "Shikashi, sore wa koko made shika dekimasen."
Back with Jeff and Damien who were still getting dragged along the river.
"Can't you just reel us in?!" Damien yelled.
"Working on it!!" Jeff quickly used his zipper on his right arm and reels himself and Damein in to get closer to the fish man.
The fish humanoid notices it and looks at Little Feet.
"Hold on." He said in an Australian accent.
Knowing his intentions, Little Feet wraps his arms around the fish man's neck, then, the fish man dives into the water and starts doing a drill spin while swimming along the water, trying to get Jeff's hand off his leg. But Jeff wasn't letting go and he along with Damein were being spinned around like a saucer. While Hanzo grabbed on to the fish man's left leg and he too was now being spinned around like a saucer.
"These guys are really desperate." The fish man mutters as he jumps out of the water like a missile.
But then all of a sudden, out of nowhere a WW2 British spitfire plane came flying towards the fish man, he quickly grabbed the right wing and held on to it tightly with his claw hands.
He then looks at the person inside the plane's cockpit and says, "You're late."
Jeff who was still holding on to the fish man's leg was just getting more pissed off and annoyed by this.
"This day just keeps getting worse. First, Little Feet then that fish man and now a goddamn plane comes out of nowhere. What's next? A goddamn pillar man will show up?!"
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(Back in Australia)
"...Why do I feel like someone was talking about me and my people.....? Must be my imagination."
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(Back in France)
"You do notice that we're in the sky, right?" Damien reclaims.
Ignoring his words, Jeff looks down and notices that the altitude increases more and more till they are going far away from the ground.
"Ok. I'm reeling myself in."
In the meantime, Hanzo quickly climbed up and stood on top of the plane's right wing. Little Feet gets off of the fish man and climbs up and stands in the left wing of the plane.
Jeff quickly reels himself in with his zipper and grabs the right wing. The fish man quickly climbed up the right wing, then ran toward the left wing of the plane and stood there.
Why you may ask?
It's because they do it in order to keep the plane leveled, so that one side doesn't tilt too much and to make sure that the plane doesn't lose its balance.
In the right wing, Jeff and Damien finally climbed up the right wing and stood on it.
(Music Pauses)
The trio who were standing on the right wing stared menacingly at the two Stands standing on the left wing. Little Feet and the fish man who turned out to be Dark Blue Moon.
[IMAGES]
"Now look, I'll make this simple for you three. Jump off of this plane and land in the water safely, and let us take the arrow." Dark Blue Moon said to the three before he continued, "Or we can have an all out duel while you know this plane is flying? So what's your decision?"
"Just give me the damn Arrow."
"No can do." Said a female voice in a British accent.
The trio looked at the cockpit and saw a girl who was 20 years of age, she had long red hair tied up in a pigtail hairstyle and had light hazel colored eyes, light pale skin and had a fine build with her height was 6 feet 1 inch tall. She wore aviator goggles on her eyes and was wearing a dark blue long sleeved turtle neck top, blue jeans and was wearing red Adidas shoes.
"Who are you?"
"The name's Katey! But you can call me Kate if you want to." She said with a sweet smile on her face.
"This plane? How were you able to get it functioning? These were used during World War 2." Jeff stated.
Katey smiles mysteriously. Then, her body and the plane started glowing with a dark blue hue surrounding them, and then a humanoid manifested on top of the cockpit window.
This humanoid had the same height and build as Katey but there were some differences. The female humanoid wore aviator clothing similar to the one's worn by pilots in World War 2, it also wearing aviator goggles, had a navy blue skin and was wearing a gas mask around it's mouth while the goggles glass were glowing light blue and had short teal hair.
This was a Stand.
"Is that a Stand?!" Jeff exclaims.
"Yep. This is my Stand. I call it 'Touch the Skies'. She isn't built for combat and is quite weak. But is responsible for this plane being in a functional state."
"What the hell does that mean?!"
"Sorry I can't tell you more about my Stand. Now that would make it too easy for you to deal with us."
'So that Stand is keeping this plane running? But if it's weak as she says then that means we can take it out easily, but with those two it's a different matter.' Jeff thought.
The Stand, Touch the Sky disappeared and it continued to fly the plane. The trio looked down to see how high they were before looking at Little Feet and Dark Blue Moon. Katey opens the cockpit window and Little Feet throws the Arrow to her as she catches it before closing the window.
"Hanzo. You and I will deal with Dark Blue Moon and Damein you will deal with Little Feet."
"You're actually trusting us?"
"Trust is earned. And if you want to earn my trust you're gonna help me get the arrow back."
"Sure man."
"Soredewa hajimemashou."
(Translation: Then let us begin.)