Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 9: One Year of Love

Chapter Twenty One: The Daft Punk

User: Timothy Avicii

Age: 27

Stand: The Daft Punk (Random Access Memories allows the Stand to access someone's memories and thoughts via a flash drive that comes out of someone's hand. This can be altered via the Stand to command the person to do something or give them information. The Stand can travel through television signals, increasing the range of said Stand in a move called Television Rule the Nation.)

Potential: B

Precision: C

Durability: C

Range: B

Speed: D

Power: A

On the bus, Josui sat next to Celine and then noticed something about her outfit. "Wait a minute," he said. "Is that my dad's old jacket?" Celine chuckled. "Yeah. Your mom gave it to me. She didn't want it to sit around and collect dust. It's a little big, but I honestly like it." He chuckled as well, "I think it suits you perfectly." She smiled while she looked out the window, seeing nothing but the road ahead and said, "So, at the Nightclub..." Celine bit her lip. "What did you call yourself? What was your... feminine name?" Pressing both of his legs together, Josui bit his lip and started to feel nervous, almost as if he had stomach flu. He then took in a deep breath as he said, "My name was... Jojo Star." Celine looked up at the roof of the bus then mumbled to herself. "Oh! I get it! You took your first name, then shortened it to "Jo," then took the Jo from Joestar and made up that name! I get it now! How clever!" Josui laughed, "Yeah, kind of clever, I guess. But that's not the reason why I got that name. David came up with it." Sarcastically, Celine replied, "What was his name? Diana?" In the row of seats behind them, David and Zeppeli sat next to each other, listening to Celine and Josui's conversation. In embarrassment, David covered his face with both hands while Josui said, "No, his name was--" David quietly mumbled under his breath, "Oh God, please don't... Don't say the name..." All hope David had disappeared as Josui said, "Diva Stardust." Zeppeli looked at David and asked, "Diva Stardust?" Rolling himself into a tightly knitted ball of awkwardness and rocking back and forth, David couldn't look at anyone normally ever again. Looking over their seats, Josui and Celine looked at their balled up friend and Zeppeli trying not to laugh. Sulking back in their seats, Josui bit his lip while Celine quietly giggled for a few seconds and then sighed. "Sorry I giggled. I don't think it's so bad. A name like that is very unique in my opinion." David poked his head out and felt a little bit better after what Celine said, boosting his confidence somewhat. After about thirty minutes of riding the bus, they finally stopped at another bus stop and walked down the street to a diner that was named Mom's and Pop's. The diner looked like an older, but typical mom and pop style diner with wooden planked floors and a jukebox in the corner. 

Walking over to the jukebox, Josui dug through his pockets, looking for a quarter but failing to do so. The roar of a motorcycle could be heard outside, attracting everyone's attention inside the diner as a man in a leather jacket opened the door and walked in. With each footstep, he slowly made a beeline towards the jukebox while the eyes of all the customers, waitresses and even the cook watched as the man approached an unsuspecting Josui. He was far too busy digging through his pockets looking for a quarter, cursing under his breath and unaware of the mysterious shadow behind him. Finally, in the back of his jeans he stuck his hand in the rightside pocket and pulled out what he believed was a quarter but was sadly disappointed. "Damn it! This is a dime, not a quarter." Shaking his head in anger, Josui was about to put it in his pocket when he suddenly dropped it to the floor and bounced several times on the recently mopped wooden floor. He got down on one knee as he looked around for the dime, meanwhile the stranger who Josui had not noticed yet stood over him and pulled out a shiny new quarter and placed it into the machine. The jukebox's sudden lighting up startled Josui, making him jump into the air, almost hitting his head against the stranger, who pressed a button that started playing a song called Lose Yourself to Dance. "Pardon moi, young man. I didn't mean to startle you. Are you all right?" Josui nodded as the stranger looked at everyone in the cafe, who went back to what they were doing. Turing back to Josui, the mysterious man then said, "Perhaps I can make it up to you by ordering you breakfast? It is honestly the least I can do for you mr...?" Josui then said, "My name's Josui, sir. I guess since you don't have anyone to have breakfast with, you can sit with me and my friends, over there." He pointed at their table, showing that Celine was slamming the flat end of her menu into her head. Zeppeli grunted loud enough for her to stop as he moved over to make room for both Josui and the unusual man. As they all sat in that corner booth of the diner, a waitress who was in a bright red uniform and white hat walked over to them and asked them in a cheerful demeanor, "Hello! Are we ready to order, or do you need a few minutes to look over the menu?" Zeppeli handed her his menu and said, "I'll have the eggs and hash browns with coffee." Celine also handed the waitress her menu then replied, "I'll have the same, but with bacon." The waitress quickly jotted down Celine and Zeppeli's order as Josui said, "You know, I think I'll have the french toast with whip cream if it's okay." David only ordered a plain black coffee and the mystery man just ordered chocolate chip pancakes.

Yes, it sounded innocent, but it gave a very uneasy feeling to the group and the waitress. She nervously took their orders then left back to the kitchen, leaving the three youngsters and Zeppeli alone with the mystery man. "If you don't mind my asking," Zeppeli said, "Do you have a name other than 'sir'?" Setting his gold helmet on the table. A light reflected off of the helmet and caught Josui's left eye, but bizarrely enough he could have swore that he saw a collection of wires in the shape of a human hand. "Excuse my manners. My name is Timothy Avicii, I'm from Paris, France and I am traveling America by motocycle. You must be traveling too, oui?" Avicii's words should have come off as fearful and intimidating instead came off as sincere and lighthearted. "Yes." Josui replied with a chipper tone in his voice. "We have been traveling for about two months now, right?" David counted on his fingers but then recounted again, counting the time before Josui, Celine and Zeppeli met him. The waitress came back with their food and the group started to eat their breakfast, slightly less afraid of Avicii. They said nothing while they ate their food, the previous unsettling feeling of being afraid crept back upon them again, increasing tenfold. But for some reason, Avicii just gave them the feelings of isolation despite being in a public area and even the feeling of their near death encounter from Jina and Amun. "So mademoiselle Celine," he said after taking a sip of his orange juice and eating some chocolate chip pancakes, "Where are you from? That jacket I've only seen in pictures of schools in Japan. Are you a foreign exchange student by chance?" Almost choking up her food, Celine looked at him with fears in her eyes, noticing how proud he was over his small achievement. "How... how did you know my name?" Before he could answer, Josui looked at him and saw the look in his eyes that could only be read as a look that a murder would give his victims as he watched their life fade. He slowly started to clap, "Well, you got me. I know who you all are... Josui Higashikata... Greta Van Fleet... Celine John... and David F. Christaine." As they were about summon their Stands, he simply started laughing and whispered in a dark and frightening voice, "My... my, my, my, my, my, my. All of your Stands are so impressive... except for you, Mr. Higashikata." Looking up at his Stand, he wondered what was wrong with it until Avicii began chuckling and said, "It's transparent. You can tell how powerful a Stand is via it's transparency. In your case, it's not very powerful." Josui had another look at his Mercury Vision then at Rocket Man, noticing that what he said had some truth to it sadly.

"So, what does my Stand's transparency have to do with anything?" He inquired. Avicii replied, "If you're going to fight DIO, that transparency will only show that you're weak enough to not even break a toothpick. The only way to make your Stand stronger is to do it the old fashion way: Grid. Fight off as many opponents as possible and build your strength. If your Stand is the embodiment of your fighting spirit, then make it stronger than before." Zeppeli then said, "How is he supposed to do that?! He just got out of the hospital after such a horrendous fight!" Summoning his own Stand, Avicii smiled as a mechanical being floated out of a yellow aura from around his body. This particular Stand looked like a man covered in black spandex with Silver plated armor and gold shoulder pads. Its head was a silver helmet with a thin visor that didn't look as if it could be good to see through. The Stand held out it's hand and scanned a light over Josui's hand which he tried to fight back against with Mercury Vision, but became pointless as his hand opened up like a flash drive tray that looked similar to a DVD tray and was shocked as the Stand pulled out a flash drive. Putting the drive into its head, the Stand seemed to be either downloading information or accessing information. It pulled out the drive that Avicii handed it to Josui who frantically placed it back into the tray and watched it disappear. Then he suddenly had the image of two men, one who wore ripped up jeans, a gold colored cap along with a fur coat and the other in a black suit, completely opposite to the first man. "What... What was that?!" Josui demanded. "Random Access Memories. My Stand, Daft Punk, can give you my memories and you can give me memories. It's a very useful power, don't you think? Or did you mean the two men?" Josui's anger made itself clearly visible as Avicii said, "The two men are named Beserker Killshot (Who is nothing more than a wannabe rapper) and Ares Sinead. They're both associates of DIO and they are very powerful. Beat them by yourself and you not only would win my respects, you may have a chance of beating DIO after all." Taking in a deep breath, Josui said, "Where are they and when do I leave?" Avicii explained that they were in town, hiding behind a large jewelry store as a front. David then asked how Avicii knew this, but Josui told him that, "He was a former associate of DIO. But something happened between the two of them, causing our friend here to betray him." Avicii nodded as Josui had the information, but decided to keep it secret for his sake and to prove his trust. Standing up from the table, Josui left the diner as the waitress came by with the check. Before Zeppeli had the chance to take it, Avicii took it and paid for all of their breakfasts. "Well, this will be exciting, won't it?"

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