Board Thread:Fanmade/@comment-26912075-20180817221555/@comment-26912075-20181029190211

Jolyne gently shook her head. "It was from a piece of the arrow that dad left me... I don't know anything else about it." Jolyne diverted her gaze to the battlefield, where Joker's stand effortlessly batted away both Richard and Shadowlord. She clenched her eyes together and stands up. She attempts to move forward but pulls back. A glance at her stand's arm reveals that it has taken significant damage due to the loss of Jolyne's own. Without that extra power, she reasons, Joker would easily block and defeat her. With helplessness overcoming her, she collapses to her knees and holds her head to the floor. "It's over, isn't it...? Is this as far as I'll go... as we'll go? Is this... the end?"

Meanwhile, Joker hovered over the defeated with his stand, looking intently at those who laid before him. He took a deep breath as his confident exterior appeared to fade into one of lament. "Heaven..." A low-pitched and shallow sentence formed from his mouth. "Finish them now. The end is finally here, let us rejoice in it." Heaven bows slightly to him and forms several blades of ethereal swords that hung over their heads. Even raised its arm towards the air as Joker lamented. "The most humane thing I can offer you now is communion with me. For you brave warriors, I will grant such a thing. Heaven... execute." Heaven quickly lowered its hand and rows of swords, hundreds strong, rained down upon the earth. Jolyne lowered her face fully, accepting her fate.

However, just then, the swords begin to shake and stop in place. Joker looks at them in confusion. "Heaven?" He looks to his stand, who shakes its head. Joker looks down at the scene as the sword then crack into pieces and turn to small shards of souls in the air, quickly dispersing into the atmosphere. "What?! Why have my blades been dispersed?!" Joker quickly moved but found himself frozen. "I... I can't...!"

"Gimmie a break..." A voice resounded from behind him as Jotaro walked into the scene.

"You?! But... I..."

"You are a fool, Joker," Jotaro says as he approaches him. "But I suppose I was as well. I won't let you win here! Behold! Star Platinum's true ability!" Jotaro summoned Star Platinum, who quickly clapped its hands together and summoned the shards of souls, which flowed freely into it, giving onto it a blue aura. "This is... Star Platinum: The Closest Thing to Heaven!"

Joker looked at him in utter shock as his stand barely fought off Star Platinum's allowing him to float freely. He quickly turned towards Jotaro. "Star Platinum? Heaven?! That's impossible...! I could buy that he somehow awakened The World's power within him, even if a bit strange, but this... That's simply ludicrous!"

"Only if you don't see the truth." Jotaro retorted as he pointed at Joker and put Star Platinum into a fighting stance. "Star Platinum is not a stand that stops time, nor one that can physically overcome out of brute strength. It is the culmination of the Joestar lineage's flame. It's ability: To adapt to and surpass any obstacle, just as we Joestars must do. Joker... You are so caught up in your destiny that you have neglected the truth. Destiny, no matter how strict, can be overcome. That is my strength." Jotaro leaped at Joker and quickly clashed with his stand, before being batted away.

Joker looked at him and contorted his face into strange patterns, finally bursting out with a cry as he counter charged forward with his stand. "You are the fool, Jotaro!" Their stands quickly clashed, attempting to circumvent the other's guard and strike, but always being bashed back or having to stall in retreat. They have reached an equilibrium, impasse. Joker looked upon this scene with surprise in his eyes. "How?! This is impossible! Heaven is the ultimate stand, how can it be so easily matched by someone like you?"

Jotaro stared into his eyes and calmly delivered his answer. "Somewhere in that cold heart of yours... you know the answer to what you ask." Joker rose slightly in response, but quickly resumed his relentless assault.