JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: House of Cards

The Jester

"Let the fool. Let me, the Jester, bring the olden tales to close." Mutters a short, thin man from an alley. He shakes the dust from his coat and takes a step into the light. "Curtis Auto Shop" a sign reads from across the road. "This is it. My time is now." The man says as he pulls down a mask and sinks into the pavement.

In the shop, Leo sits watching Jony, who's standing next to a cork board. "So all these guys got card names, Y'know? So I went and bought a pack, and put em on this board." Jony points to 5 cards pinned to the board. A crossed out Jack of Hearts, a Joker, a 10 of Clubs, a Ace of Spades, and a King of Hearts. "Why are you getting so into this? We don't even know if Wickley was right. And while what he told us explained what happened to Dave, this whole 'Suits' thing could be bs." Leo starts to explain before being cut off by the tv.

"Local celebrity Allister Wickley has been missing for three days now. Residents of Violet grow more and more concerned as time passes. Nothing has been found yet." The tv rattles off as Jony and Leo stare in disbelief. "Holy shit, he was right. The other four merced him!" Jony shouts, backing up to the wall with his hands on his head. "That ain't possible. You're telling me everything we know about this town is a lie? It's all really run by a few guys? That's bullshit." Leo tries to reason before noticing a figure climbing out of the wall. It's wearing a comedy mask with a crown attached and a dunce hat coming out from the top of the crown.

The figure fully steps out of the concrete wall, brandishing two knives, readying to stab Jony in the neck. "JONY! WATCH OUT!" Leo shouts. Jony spins around and launches a right hook. As the fist flies, the assailant turns from a stony gray to the normal complexion of a person. Jony's hook lands, but his arm sinks through the attacker's face, his hand going all the way through the cheeks of his enemy. "What the fuck-" Jony can barely get out before the attacker goes to strike another time.

Jony spins around, with his arm still attached to the enemy. The attacker is flung around and slams into the concrete wall. His mask chips revealing a pale face behind it. The man turns back to the color of the concrete and sinks back into the walls, letting Jony's arm free. The wall begins to bend and break, chunks of concrete flying at Jony and Leo. Only after getting struck in the shoulder by a golf ball sized piece of rock does Leo bring out Tuesday's Gone. "You wanna be rock, then die as rock." Leo mutters before the shaky, bare limbs of his stand outstretch and the edges of the concrete wall wither away.

The man screams as he stumbles out of the wall, missing both of his arms, holding a knife in his mouth and the other piercing his shoulder. He lurches over to Jony and turns back to flesh and attempts to fall into him. Jony spins around him and hits the back of the man's head with his clothed elbow. The attacker groans once again and falls to the metal floor, sinking into it as his skin turns metallic.

The hysterical laughter of the enemy billows throughout the garage. Jony and Leo stand back to back, preparing for an attack from any angle. As soon as Jony and Leo look away from it, a carr door goes flying off of it's hinges. And while Leo ducks in time, Jony is struck by the door and carried over to the metal wall. Jony is pinned under the door, which begins to fuse with the wall, slowly crushing Jony in the process. The attacker sticks his head out from the door. "I win, kid. My job is done, cause you're dying." The man exclaims triumphantly before noticing the bone-like hand on the top of his head. The blank, illuminating eyes of Tuesday's Gone stare on, cocking its head to the side as the man screams in agony.

As Jony shoves aside the car door, a pile of rust lies where the man once was, with the amalgamation of headwear lying on top of the powder. "So now we know this is real. These 'Suits' are here to kill us. They want us dead since Wickley told us about them existing. This boogeyman is real, and we're gonna get to the bottom of it. All the Suits are gonna die. They're gonna pay their dues." Jony states as he and Leo clean up the debris of the fight.

"So what's our next move, then?" Leo asks. "Well, I don't quite know, but we may need to look into the Police. Either they can help us, or they could be in on it. Tomorrow, I'll go and talk to them about a noise complaint, which I'll fake, and see if they're up to anything fishy." Jony tells Leo as he takes a seat on the couch in the shop. Jony finishes his plan with the statement "This only gets worse from here, but it's the right thing to do, man. And I just gotta do it."