– In a Highway in Arizona, America - 12:00 AM –
It was now midnight in Arizona. Pretty much there weren't many cars driving around the highway. But a certain Pillar Man was, let's just say, wearing a gray tank top, dark red leather pants, black boots and a black motorcycle jacket with a flaming skull logo behind the jacket and was riding a Harley Davidson chopper down the highway.
And yes people, it's Esidisi.
Now you might be thinking why he's wearing human clothing and using a human vehicle? Well one he's blending in and sure he can deal with any human easily but it's best if he didn't draw attention to himself since he didn't want annoyances like humans following him everywhere asking death by his hands.
Two, this vehicle will help him get from one place to another easily and since he's a Pillar Man, it didn't take him much time to figure out how to ride a chopper.
Three, he took all of this stuff from some human who was unfortunate enough to lock eyes with him and meet a gruesome end at the hands of Esidisi. Also he took his wallet and phone as well. He found out from the phone that after WW2, many changes took place on earth and now everybody was living peacefully and their technology has become very advanced as well.
"These humans really think peace can exist?" He scoffed, "They will always find another reason to start a war again, and again, and again."
Esidisi continued his so called ride down the highway. But he still didn't knew the earth that he was in was not the same earth he knew all those years back. This was one of the many dangerous universes of SCP, where monsters from your worst nightmares lurk in the shadows and can end the world anytime.
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– Ward P, Infirmary, Site-19, America - 7:00 AM –
Carlos was in Ward P, sitting on the floor casually. Molly was asleep on a chair, and next to her was a bed. Lying in the bed was Lawrence who was still in the same injured and comatose state.
Carlos heard the door open and saw it was Amelia Buck who was wearing a short sleeved gray buttoned shirt, long blue pants and had her hair loose and was wearing her usual lab coat.
"Good morning, Carlos."
Carlos let out a chirp, Amelia approached him and pats him on the head. She then looked at Molly who was still asleep and then approached her.
"Collingwood, wake up."
She didn't wake up. Knowing she's not waking up any moment, Carlos then let out a big roar which was enough to wake up Molly immediately.
"Ahhh! I'm awake!!"
"Smart thinking, Carlos."
Carlos just gave a thumbs up with his six arms. But it seems like the roar didn't wake Lawrence somehow.
"Jesus, Carlos. You scared the heck out of me!" Molly shouted at Carlos who just let out a small chuckle. Behind him, Amelia approaches her.
"It's time, Molly."
"For what?"
"For the Stands' arrival."
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–Rooftop, Site-19 - 7:15 AM –
Amelia Buck, Molly Collingwood, Evan, Carlos, Emma, Sophia and lastly Rodeo were on the rooftop standing next to the helipad. Although Rodeo was on a wheel chair with the bandages and ice bags still wrapped around his body.
"Why am I on a wheel chair again?" The latter asked.
Amelia replied, "One, your wounds haven't healed properly after yesterday's attack and two, if you start walking or put strain on your body, your wounds might reopen again. So I took it at as a precaution to keep you on a wheelchair."
"Fair enough."
'I'm pretty sure her motherly instincts told her that.' Evan thought to himself in the distance.
Then, he heard footsteps behind him and turned around to see Agent Green. He was wearing his dark green shirt, brown leather shoes and dark gray pants, he also wears a black jacket over his shirt like he usually does.
"You're late." Evan said.
"Sorry I had to go somewhere. So it took me some time." Green replies before he stands next to Amelia.
Amelia noticed his hair was black rather than gray. Amelia raised an eyebrow and then whispered to him, "Did you dye your hair?"
"Yeah, I did."
"....It looks good on you."
"Was that a compliment?"
"Yes.... at least people won't see you like an old man anymore."
"True."
"So when do you think they will arrive?" Sophia asked.
"They'll be here." Emma replied.
"Wait, I see something." Rodeo squinted his eyes as he spotted something.
The gang looked at the direction where Rodeo was seeing and saw a CH47 Chinook helicopter bearing the foundation's logo on it's right and left side heading for the helipad. The Chinook helicopter slowly descended on the helipad with the gang being hit by the wind produced by the propellers.
The helicopter's wheels finally touched the helipad and the propellers stopped spinning. The helicopter's ramp lowered down and out of it came multiple Mobile Task Force Units with hazmat suits.
One of them approached the gang.
"Jesus, what happened to you?!" The MTF in a hazmat suit exclaimed as he laid his eyes on the man in the wheelchair.
"Carson, is that you?" Rodeo asked.
"The one and only. But in a hazmat suit because of the Stand we brought." Carson confirms while pointing behind himself.
Rodeo and the gang looked behind Carson to see Kreig, also known as the one who has become the Purple Haze Stand walking down the ramp. The MTF soldiers had their guns pointed at him and had cuffs on his hands which made the Kreig's psycho side less than pleased.
"I WILL BATHE IN YOUR BLOOD AND USE IT AS SOUP!!!" He shouted loudly in a psychopathic tone.
"Yep, that's Krieg alright." Evan said.
"But to think he became Purple Haze of all Stand it's kinda surprising." Rodeo uttered.
The MTF soldiers slowly brought Kreig close, but not too close to Rodeo and the gang.
[Now who the hell are you guys?] Kreig's sane side then asked.
"My name's Rodeo."
"Evan Williams, and the big bird here is Carlos."
Carlos let's out a growl.
[Uh huh. So who's the boss of this place?]
"Wait up."
The gang saw three people in hazmat suits carrying boxes and approaching them. They then stop in front of the gang and one of them approaches
"Hi guys." A familiar voice greeted them.
"Hello Gustav." Amelia greeted back.
"Hi Gustav. How's everything going?" Molly asked.
"Well from the usual interviews with SCP victims, doing research on SCPs and most of the time being late to meetings.... Everything's great." He says with a normal smile.
"Well that's good to hear."
As Amelia's words faded, the other two people in hazmat suits approached and also had familiar faces as well.
One of them said, "To think I would see you in this state, kid."
"Johnson, you made it." Rodeo said in relief, he then looked at the other person in the hazmat suit, "And you must be Simmons?"
Simmons gasps, "How did you know?!"
"I didn't. That was a joke, lads."
They both started laughing. As they were done, everybody looked at the helicopter again to see two figures coming out. This was Michelle Keegan, the one who has become Spice Girl and Jeff Howard, the one who has become Sticky Fingers. Although one was missing.
"Where's Miguel?" Johnson questions.
"Over here."
The gang then saw Miguel Rodriguez, the one who has become Black Sabbath standing behind Carlos.
"Sorry sir Johnson, but the sun can still burn me so I had to emerge from his shadow."
As he says that, Michelle and Jeff approach the gang and Rodeo, seeing that everyone was here, begin to speak.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. May I have your attention, please?"
Following his words, everybody looked at him, which he continued.
"Welcome to Site-19. My name is Rodeo, the one who has become Killer Queen. And the reason you are here is because of me. Now let's move to the briefing room.
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– Briefing Room, Site-19 - 7:30 AM –
The entire gang was now gathered up in the briefing room and everybody gave their names to each other. Carlos brought a large rectangular table from the cafeteria and placed in the middle of the briefing room. Everybody then gathers around the table and Rodeo, who was still in the wheelchair, places something on the table.
It was a hand drawn sketch of Ride Me to Hell that he was able to get an artist from the foundation to draw based on the description Rodeo and Evan gave to the artist.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. This is 'Ride Me to Hell'." Rodeo said, pointing to the sketch.
"Dear God!" Carson and Simmons said in unison.
"There's more." Rodeo continues.
"Nooo!" The two once again yelled, which made everybody look at the two weirdly.
"....okay, as I was saying, this thing is an automatic Stand that tried to go after Amelia. I have reason to believe that Chilli Pepper, the one who almost tried to electrocute me to death yesterday might be connected to this Stand's User. But we still have no solid proof."
"But he did mention a French man, who we believe to be his boss or at least he thinks of him that way." Sophia stated, "But again we have no evidence or leads."
"And we're not sure how many Stand users might have been made out there." Evan said.
"So basically we have no idea who they are working with and whether they have a Stand Arrow or not." Miguel said.
"You're absolutely right, Miguel."
"Speaking of Stand arrows," Amelia looks at Jeff, "Mr. Howard, weren't you the one who had a Stand arrow in possession?"
"Wait, what?!" Rodeo exclaims.
Jeff stayed silent with his arms crossed.
Gustav then says, "Dr. Buck, he has some trust issues with certain people.... especially with us."
"Is that so?"
"Yeah."
Amelia then looks back at Jeff and says, "I assure you, Mr. Howard, that you can trust us."
"Look, I don't trust you because your bad people, it's the ones who you're working with that I don't trust. The Foundation."
"Mr. Howard, the foundation wants to keep humanity safe. We don't have any ill motives."
"Amelia, don't force him. It's up to him if he wants to trust us or not." Rodeo said.
"Can I at least explain how it went down? Because Damien did give me a very detailed explanation of how it happened." Gustav said.
"Sure."
– One Explanation from Gustav Later –
The gang were basically shocked and dumbfounded except for Amelia and Green who were already informed by Gustav about this crazy feat by Jeff and Damien.
"Dark Blue Moon, Little Feet and a Stand user who has a Stand called Touch the Skies fought Jeff and Damien..... that too on a freaking plane?!" Rodeo widens his eyes, feeling shock and a bit of envy given that the fight seems better than the one he and Evan fight against Siren Head.
"Yes. Ain't that right, Jeff?"
"Yeah it's true.'
"If only I had that on camera." Carson said.
"Really, Carson?" Molly said with a deadpan face.
"Come on, Collingwood. This might have been the craziest thing-" His sentences were cut off by Rodeo.
"Ok Carson we're going off track. Now those three were able to get the arrow from France but that doesn't explain how that Stand User named Katey got her Stand. If any of you have a theory, then share it."
The gang started discussing with each other except for Kreig who was more confused regarding this. Then, among the group, Michelle raised her hand.
"Yes, Michelle?"
"Maybe she got it from another arrow?"
Rodeo rubbed his chin and went in deep thought, "Hmmm... maybe."
"So were you able to track them, Gustav?" Green asked.
"The guys at Site-06-3 tried their best but they couldn't find them in any airspace across the world."
"So they must have gone into hiding then because they knew the foundation is now after them." Johnson said.
"That does make sense actually." Miguel nodded.
"But are those three connected to Ride Me to Hell , The French man and Chilli pepper?" Simmons asked.
Rodeo sighs, "I'm not sure if those guys are from separate factions or are working together, I just don't know." Rodeo said, rubbing his forehead in frustration.
"So we're in the dark then?" Emma asks.
"Yes we are." Evan nodded.
[Ok I have no idea what you guys are talking about but I'm pretty sure it involves very bad people.] Sane Kreig said.
"Again why did we bring him here? He has zero knowledge regarding Stands and JoJo." Jeff said, pointing to the Kreigs.
"Don't talk to him like that. He's older than you." Michelle said.
Actually she is right. Krieg is an adult after all.
"THANK YOU, LITTLE GIRL!!!"
"You're welcome."
"Look, we lost an item that can create Stands and if one of the bad and I mean very bad people in this world gets their hands on it and gets a very deadly Stand from it.... we're basically done then."
"Why do you think we brought you all here? To help us. That's why." Rodeo said.
"I know. But you've been doing nothing with the resources you have at your disposal and trying to track them down."
"I know Jeff, but it's a busy year for everyone and we can't just send everybody to different places to search due to risk of containment breaches, new SCPs coming on our radar and surprise attacks from different rival organizations."
"Or because the higher ups have other plans?"
"It's nothing like that, Jeff." Emma said.
"Oh really? You have cameras and people everywhere looking for monsters and you can't find a damn Stand arrow while our enemy's can?"
*Bam!*
Rodeo slams his fist on the table to get everyone's attention.
"Listen, Jeff you can argue all you want about the foundation but even if they did shift their resources and people properly we can't guarantee we will find the arrows instantly."
Jeff just scoffs and then Rodeo continues, "Look, we don't have any leads or connections but that doesn't change the fact we can ready ourselves if they try to strike again and find the arrows as well. That's why you're here to-"
"Save the world?" Michelle finished.
"Um..... yeah, that and bringing change to it as well. This meeting is over."
Everybody nodded and as they started leaving the room, Jeff approached Rodeo.
"Why do you trust these people?"
"Because they are friends and family to me."
Jeff looks at the group and then back at him.
"I hope you're right." Jeff mutters before he then leaves the room with Gustav and the others. The only ones left in the room were Amelia and Rodeo.
"Well that was something." Rodeo said.
"You did it fine, even though this was your first meeting scheduled by you."
"Did you know that the Arrow got snatched by another Stand faction already?" Rodeo asked.
"Yeah, Gustav called me and told me everything that happened yesterday. The only reason I didn't tell you was because I didn't want to burden you with more problems and stress you out more."
"We're both stressed out, Amelia. The amount of things that are happening until now it's mostly been you know... bad. I know things will get better soon but we don't know why the enemy is doing it and who the enemy is working for and when they will attack. That's what bothers me. The who, the when, and the why."
Amelia pats him on the head, "For now, Rodeo, I just want you to relax. Don't forget your still not healed up fully and the O-5 have yet to accept our request for the use of SCP-006."
Rodeo sighs, "Yeah, you're right. I need to relax."
"Good. I think you should start talking with the other Stands. Try to get to know them a little bit better."
"Are you giving me advice?"
"Well, since your phone is still in a storage containment locker, what else can you do right now?"
"Yeah, you're right..... Can I get off of this wheelchair now? It's kinda annoying as fu-"
"No."
"...Please." He pleaded innocently.
"No."
Rodeo signs and drops the act, "As you wish, Amelia."
Amelia smiles and then pushes his wheelchair as they both leave the room.
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– Down the hallway –
After leaving the brief room, the two were heading down the hallway. Then they saw Michelle petting Carlos' head which she then saw the two and immediately waved her hand.
"Oh, hi Rodeo! Hi Dr. Buck!"
"Hi Michelle. Getting along with Carlos?" Rodeo asked.
"Oh yeah. He's quite friendly.... even though he's become a Stand that belongs to a crazy falcon."
"Yeah."
"Michelle, I think you can look after Rodeo because I have some work to do." Amelia said.
"Sure."
"Also make sure he doesn't get off the wheel chair."
"Ok ma'am."
Amelia nods and gives Rodeo a kiss on the forehead and then heads down the hallway.
"She really cares about you." Michelle said.
"Yeah, she does."
Carlos snuggles Rodeo's face, in response he pats him on the head which he then thought.
'Well she does see me as a son, and I see her as a mother. It's quite normal that she cares about me. I just want to see her happy and safe.'