– Port of Long Beach, California, America - 1:05 PM –
A cargo ship arrived on the seaport of Long Beach and docked itself on the port, carrying a number of shipping containers. The port personnels began unloading them off the ship one by one with the help of the machine cranes, and placing them next to one another on the ground.
Inside one of those shipping containers was the Pillar Man, Santana.
Looking through the small hole in the container that he was in, he saw that he had arrived at a port and the people who were handling the containers.
"I can kill these primates right now, but with the sun still shining, it's a risk I'm not willing to take." Santana mumbled to himself, "I need to find a way to head underground while avoiding the sunlight."
The last thing Santana remembered before being reawakened was him turning himself into stone in his fight against Joseph Joestar and losing to him. Since then, he always thinks that if he ever finds him again, he will end him without a second thought. Permanently.
"Times have changed quite drastically, and the humans have more advanced technology, " Santana says, bringing out a phone that he had taken from a random person that he killed back in England, "Thanks to this 'phone', I was able to get a clear idea as to what happened after my defeat at the hands of Joseph.".
Looking through the hole again, Santana noticed a drainage pipe covered by the shade of a container, which he can enter by dislocating his body, a technique common among Pillar Men. Moreover, there were enough shades in his environment for him to hide in and reach the drainage pipe safely.
"Let us begin."
Immediately, Santana dislocated his body and exited the container through the small hole, then hurriedly started jumping from shade to shade in a stealthy way without anyone noticing him until he finally got underneath the shade where the drainage pipe was located and quickly dislocated his body and entered the drainage pipe.
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– Few Minutes Later –
Underneath the tunnel of a bridge, there was a broken pipe on the ceiling of the tunnel, and from that pipe came Santana and he landed on the ground. Noticing that he was underneath the tunnel of a bridge of some sort, he looked around for a moment and noticed it was also a little gloomy.
"This place will do for now."
As he was about to advance forward, he sensed a presence behind him. When he turned around, he saw something emerge from the shadows, revealing to be a large worm-like creature.
The creature was fully white in color with a neutral human face, long white human arms that were over nine feet long, and a body the size and length of a school bus.
This was the Bridge worm.
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Noticing there was a menacing presence behind his neutral face which he knows is just a way to draw prey, since Santana is intelligent as well so he figured out that his neutral face is a lure to bring him close to him.
"I know your tricks, creature. Why don't you show what you really are?"
At the following moment, the neutral face, which was just a flap of his skin, opens up to reveal a red human face with a gigantic grin underneath it. It possessed 36 human teeth, has a lack of nose, and large eyes that were misaligned so badly that they moved to the left and right non-stop.
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This action caused the Pillar Men himself to freeze in place, "...I have seen many things in my life, but this... might just take the cake." he said.
"SCREEEEECH!"
With an animalistic screech, the Bridge Worm rushes towards him by running at him at alarming speed by using his arms, since it had no legs.
"Foolish predator! I'm not your average human being! I am a Pillar Man, and my kind were the most ultimate beings that walked on this planet!" Santana said, pointing his finger at him, and declaring," And you will receive no mercy from me!"
*Music Play — JoJo's Bizarre Adventure OST Track 21 - Overdrive*
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The Bridge Worm attempted to grab Santana with both of his hands, but before it could grab him, Santana swiftly dislocated his upper body and avoided the grab and responded by stabbing both his hands with his ribcage bones, causing the Bridge Worm to roar in pain.
Appearing underneath his chin, Santana kicked it hard on the chin with all his strength, dislocating the monster's lower jaw and sending his entire head crashing into the ceiling, slightly disorienting him.
When the Bridge Worm was beginning to recover from the attack, it noticed Santana jumped at his face, but the Bridge Worm had taken serious action on this, so it quickly backhanded the Pillar Men and sent him crashing into a wall.
As Santana quickly stood up, he noticed one of the monster's fist heading towards him, but he quickly sidestepped to the right and avoided the assault, which hit the wall behind him instead. With its arm embedded in the wall, Santana sees this as an opening, so he quickly grabs its hand and rips his arm off and tossed it away.
The bridge worm roared in agony once more. Enraged, it unleashed a barrage of punches with only one hand, but Santana avoided all of the attack with perfect precision. While he was busy evading, he caught the sight of the Bridge Worm's tail swinging horizontally at him, but he quickly jumped over the tail swipe, dislocated his body, and fell into a small crevice in the ground.
The bridge worm peered left and right, trying to find out where he was, oblivious to the fact that Santana was slowly emerging from a gap in the ceiling. Finding a perfect opening, he jumps towards its head, but the Bridge Worm moves upwards and instantly grabs him before slamming his entire body into the ground and then onto a wall.
Knowing he is stuck from its grasp for the time being, Santana absorbed one of his hands entirely into his own body, allowing himself to be free from its grasp. The Bridge Worm, now losing both of his hands, jumps towards him, ready to crush him with his jaws, but Santana simply jumps towards his face, and when he gets close enough, he quickly brings out his ribcage bones and stabs him in the eyes, blinding him which caused another painful roar from the monster as it tried to get Santana off his head by swinging its head side to side.
Raising one of his legs in the air, Santana swung it down and smashed the monster's entire head into the ground with tremendous force, enough to cause the tunnel to shake.
"We, the Pillar Men, are the ultimate life forms! Every other life form is beneath us!"
As he declares, Santana unleashed a flurry of punches and stab attacks with his rib cage bones violently on the Bridge Worm's face without mercy. As one of his rib cage bones pierced his skull and struck directly at his brain, the bridge worm let out one last agonizing screech before it went limp. It was now dead, with hundreds of stab wounds and bruise marks on his face that rendered him almost unrecognizable.
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"Pathetic abomination of a primate!" Santana laughed mockingly at it as he got off its face and gazed at it one last time with a disdainful look.
As he was about to move forward, a light from a Harley Davidson Motorbike shined on his face, and Santana immediately took a stance, preparing to face another battle coming at him, and it appears there is indeed one as he stares at two muscular figures wearing jeans, shoes, and hooded sweaters with their heads covered by the hoods, wearing scarfs that covered their entire face, and wearing sunglasses and leather gloves as well.
"Asking for death , primates? He questioned menacingly.
"It's been a long time, Santana." One of the two muscular men spoke out with a voice that Santana was all too familiar with.
"Wait! That voice... could it be?"
Removing their sunglasses, their sweater hoods and scarfs off their heads, Santana was completely taken back, as he discovered that the two muscular men were Esidisi and Wamuu.
"Lord Esidisi and Wamuu?!"
"In the flesh." Said Esidisi.
"And very real as well." Wamuu added.
Now knowing who they are, Santana immediately bows down in front of Esidisi and says, "I thought I was the only one to have awakened. If I may ask, were you successful in obtaining the red stone?" he asked.
Esidisi and Wamuuu exchanged glances before returning their eyes at Santana before each of them proceed to explain their side of the story, both before their reawakening happens and during the events with Joseph.
After hearing everything from them, Santana was both utterly dumbfounded and astounded that the same man he fought in that bunker long ago was able to take down Wamuu, a fighting genius and warrior, and Lord Esidisi, who is skilled in strategy, only to be outsmarted and outplayed by none other than the very same man named Joseph Joestar. Santana also related his side of the story as well to both of them, and they two were a bit surprised on how Joseph alone defeated them all.
"So the only one who might know what might have happened to the red stone is Lord Kars?"
Esidisi nodded at his words, "Unfortunately yes. Also..." he looks at a very dead Bridge Worm just behind Santana, "You finally got yourself in a fight it seems?"
"Yes, but the creature's reliance on luring its prey and using brute strength rather than brains led to its own downfall quite quickly."
"I see, but it is great seeing you again. You may stand up."
Santana followed his words as he rose up before saying, "It appears you're wearing clothing specifically designed to keep yourselves from being caught by the rays of the sun." he remarked as he looked at their clothing which felt strange for him.
"You're quite right. The human's clothing has changed quite a lot and these clothes are specifically perfect to keep us protected from the sun for now at least."
"So we don't always have to move at night and it makes up for some precious time as well." Wamuu added.
"I see. What do we do now?"
"Unfortunately at the moment, I have no clothes for you and it's still morning, but I did spot a small shed not far from this tunnel outside and we might settle down there for now until it's evening, and then we will move out with you."
"As you wish, Lord Esidisi."
And just like that, the three Pillar Men began to advance, with a purpose of hoping to find their one last member of the group and the way to survive in this strange world of monsters and the supernatural that they had never seen before.
'If we find Lord Kars, then we might finally get an idea on what happened to him and the red stone, and on what to do next in this world, but this creature that Santana fought, I wonder if there are more out there like this one, and if they are smarter and more powerful than this. And… I wonder if they are capable of killing us alone with ease.' Esidisi pondered as he rode his motorbike and drove forward, followed by his fellow Pillar Mens.