JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: House of Cards

Dead Man's Curve

Street Racing, while illegal, is incredibly exhilarating, according to Californian teens and young adults alike. Currently entangled in this automotive debauchery are our "heroes" Jony and Leonard. Currently driving his own 67' Ford Cortina MK II was Jony. People scoffed at the car, since it was the "mom car" of the time, but the insides had been modified to meet Jony's wants and needs. Those who called it a mom car were left in the dust.

Jony's Cortina and the mysterious shady fellow's Camaro sit on a two lane road in the early morning. The next 20 miles were a backroad that wrapped around Joey's Hill, a steep, near clifflike mountain that spanned from Violet to Crownsbury. Mickey, Violet's "speed demon", was holding the flag that signaled the race's start. It wasn't checkered, refusing to adhere to the cliche. As the flag was raised, Mickey started counting.

3. Jony wiped the sweat from his brow.

2. The stranger leaned back in his seat.

1. Leo double checked his seatbelt.

In a flash, both cars began to speed away, down the backroad and around Joey's Hill. Jony pulls ahead rounding a curve, and sticks to the right side, cutting the stranger off for most of the race. But as they pull up to Dead Man's Curve, the stranger puts on a sickly grin. Jony slows down to make the curve, but the stranger speeds up and hits the rear end of Jony's car. As Jony attempts to slam the brake, the stranger only presses harder on the gas. Jony's car is flung off the cliff, colliding with the cliff walls as it falls into the forest below. The stranger stops his car once Jony is pushed off and goes about the course as normal.

When Jony wakes up, he's upside down and it's night time. He reaches to undo his seatbelt and falls onto the roof of the car. The car is smoking and parts are burning. Jony regains his composure and instantly notices the burning smell and billowing smoke. He rushes to unbuckle the seatbelt of Leo and pulls him out of the car. Jony kicks open the door and gets the both of them out. He limps with Leo on his shoulders for about a thousand feet before setting Leo up against a fallen tree and sitting down next to him. Jony leans back and closes his eyes. He can sort this out in the morning.

"Jony! Jony! JONY WAKE UP!" Jony awakens to see Leo frantically shaking him. "Wha- what's goin on?" Jony asks, still very groggy. "The damn car's on fire!" Leo shouts. "Yeah, it almost blew up when I got you out of it." Jony explains. "I need... I need some tree bark, some twigs, and a few leaves. I'm gonna make a splint" Jony lists off, almost robotically. "Uhh... You okay, Jony? That didn't sound like anything you've ever said." Leo states with a mixture of worry of confusion in his voice as a light begins emitting from Jony's underside.

A small metallic figure walks out, it's made of metal plates bolted together, with red eyes. The gremlin esque creature looked up at Leo, cocked its head and sprinted over to the nearby foliage and picked up all the items Jony listed and climbed up onto Jony's leg. The creature then constructed a makeshift splint around Jony's leg.

"That's amazing, man!" Leo exclaimed. "Yeah, it just did what I said. It built this thing outta nothin!" Jony exclaimed. "Is there just one?" Leo asks. More lights begin emitting from the log Jony is sitting against. Three more creatures climb out and stand around each other, fiddling with their hands, waiting for something to build. "They're a buncha little grease monkeys. Just like you." Leo says, observing the tinker-y nature of the creatures. "The Monkees! That's their name!" Jony shouts, pulling a name out of his ass as he gets up from the log and starts to walk towards the southern end of Violet.

Jony and Leo walk, followed by a group of The Monkees. The two stop about every twenty feet to look and see what The Monkees are doing. Every time, they'd just be fiddling about. This went on for a few hours until the two reached a large boulder blocking their path. "Damn. I wish this thing would just erode already." Leo says as he kicks the rock. "Yeah, I need a ladder." Jony states, and the two turn to watch The Monkees scurry around, picking up twigs, checking their strength, and then gathering the strong sticks and grass for a ladder.

But as The Monkees labored away, and Jony and Leo watched, something else happened. An arm reached out from Leo's shoulder and grabbed onto a tree. A figure pulled itself from it's master. A train engine for a head, draped in cloth, with shriveled, bony limbs flew from Leo and pointed its outstretched hands towards the rock and let out a massive blast from the horn in it's head, scaring both Jony and Leo.

The two jumped and turned around to see the figure pointing its arms at the rock. The two began to back away slowly, until Leo realized that the rock was eroding. "Jony, it's doing what I asked! It's eroding the rock." Leo exclaimed as the boulder turned to dust in front of their eyes. "So this thing makes change happen faster, and your thing builds stuff?" Leo rhetorically asks. "That's weird, man. It's really cool, but it's a little strange, don't you think?" Jony asks. "Anyway, let's get outta here. Violet's about one more mile out North and the suns comin up." Jony states as the two keep walking, still perplexed by the events of the night. Both of them knew they had to get back at the stranger, but these creatures would certainly make it easier.