DARE: Act 2
Gibby surveyed the area by dividing his Stand into its smaller marble parts. Through this technique, he found Annie "sneaking" through Chinatown.
Gibby: You've gotta be kidding me...
She was no expert in stealth, the only reason she hadn't been caught was likely due to Kim's trap causing enough ruckus to draw most of her men to that location.
Annie herself was too focused on her mission to notice her mistakes. Even if she did, she would forgo stealth and rush in.
Annie:(mind) The lives of Jojo and Selina along with all the other cops in that slime are in my hands...
(Flashback...)
John;(on call) You are our best hope, Annie.
John:(on call) I realize that I'm perhaps too casually asking you to take a life...
John:(on call) But understand... a fight between Stand users, is one of survival... survival of the fittest.
(Flashback end)
Annie: Survival of the fittest...
Turning the corner, Annie quickly gets into an Allyway where she climbs the roof to find and block off Kim's path.
Kim:?
Annie:(gulp)
Annie: You aren't going anywhere.
Kim: Hmph! And who are you?
Annie: The person who'll stop you!
Kim:(glares)
Kim: Stupid child.
(Opening Theme)
Still trapped in Kim's trap, a set of wires made from her Stand's goop which bound their limbs and slowly grew around their body, only Selina was visibly worried.
Jojo and Mr. Niceguy were too busy bickering to show a hint of concern.
Mr. Niceguy: So our only hope is your assistant?
John: Our only hope? So you can't escape this? Interesting...
Mr. Niceguy: Hmph. I know what you're trying to do. I won't stoop to that level.
Mr. Niceguy: But since you seem to have some type of plan to escape. Please, enlighten us.
John: Her men are rushing to this spot. We'll soon have to deal with gunfire.
Mr. Niceguy: I'm not afraid.
John: Neither am I.
Mr. Niceguy: What about her?
Selina: I'm fine...
Mr. Niceguy: No offense. But do you honestly believe Jojo here can save you.
Selina: He's made it clear, he won't be saving me.
Mr. Niceguy: What? Is that true? You aren't going to save her?
John:...
Mr. Niceguy: Heh... And they call me evil for being a gangster.
Mr. Niceguy: Don't worry detective. I'll save you. I've got to live up to my nickname after all.
Selina: And then I'll owe you a favor?
Mr. Niceguy:(smirks) If you want.
John:(stares at shadow)
(Meanwhile...)
Kim: I'd say you'd regret getting in my way, but you won't-
Annie pulls out a gun from her purse.
Kim: You bitch-
(BANG, BANG)
Kim: "DARE"!
Calling upon her Stand to protect herself. "DARE" forms to pull out a burgundy kunai which it throws at the bullets. Hitting one caused the kunai to explode into a blob which catches the other bullet before pathetically plumping in front of Kim who was now completely on guard, her Stand preparing multiple kunai.
Annie:(mind) Crap, her Stand is fast to react... Not on Jojo's caliber but faster than me, that's for sure.
Annie:(mind) My element of surprise is out. But I still have eight more bullets in this gun.
Kim:(sigh)....
Kim:(glares) I can see it in your eyes... You can see my Stand. And you brought a gun to this fight?
Annie: It almost worked...
Kim: Almost isn't good enough...
Thrusting a kunai, Anna leaps to the side, not to avoid a throw, but a stab, as the Kunai to her shock stretched out.
Kim: Hmph.
Dropping the stretched kunai of goo, Kim thrusted more of these Kunai at Annie, dropping them once they missed. Once Annie completed a lap around Kim, was when her opponent stopped attacking.
Annie:(mind) Did she reached a limit?
Across the roof was a tripe pattern going around Kim from all the goo from her attacks.
Kim: You're too reactive...
DARE lifted its fingers to reveal thin strings of burgundy.
With a quick thug and twirl, DARE lifted and spun all the flasset lines of burgundy goo.
Annie:!?
Annie: "Smooth Criminal"!
(BANG)
Firing her third bullet, Annie used her Stand to bootleg the bullets speed onto herself and leap over the waste level spin of goo.
Kim saw an opportunity in Annie's tactic and began manipulating the goo to try and hit Annie out of the air.
Slightly panicking, Annie reused her bullet technique to avoid the goo, wasting three more bullets in the process. Landing roughly on the other side of the roof, Annie watches Kim raise her goo lines to make a cage around her.
Annie:(mind) Crap, four bullets left... And time is ticking-erk!
She turns to her leg to see a small piece of burgundy.
Annie:!?!
Annie:(mind) Uh-oh...
Kim: You're a novice, girly...
Annie:(mind) I need a plan... And I need one now... Maybe... If I try to transfer the weight of the building to the bullet.
Annie:(mind) I don't know if I can even do that... But if I could... It would end this quickly!
She aims her gun, "Smooth Criminal" stood on her wrist. Annie focus intensely on her desired outcome.
Annie:(mind) People are going to die. You're going to die. If you don't take her life!
Annie: Hm?
Her Stand began losing color and wilting.
Annie: What's going on?
Kim: I've wasted enough time on you.
Annie:?!
"DARE" swung her lines of goo, whipping Annie across the roof infecting her with more burgundy.
Annie: Aaagh!?
Dropping her gun as Kim wraps her up in burgund, Annie becomes helpless to watch as Kim goes over to pick up her gun.
Kim: Girly, I'm a killer. A business woman at heart but killer by profession.
Kim: After I put you out of your misery... I'll use your body to make a new batch of Stand users and my gang will crush Mister Niceguy to oblivion!
She aims Annie's gun at her.
Annie:!!
Annie:(mind) Is this it...? How I die... How I fail...? No... Not like this!
Annie:(mind) I have to do something! "SMOOTH CRIMINAL" HELP-
Annie:!!?
She slumps her head down.
Kim: Good. You've accepted your faith-
Annie: Don't say killer like you're some cool lady...
Annie: You're a murderer and that is nothing to be proud of. But I'm guessing with your childhood, you've been desensitized to it all.
Kim: Tch. What would you know about my childhood?
Annie: I struck a nerve? Then I know a little more then you might think.
Annie: You see, I study criminal psychology. And what I can deduce from you...
Annie: Well...(Grinning)
Kim: Hmph!
Shoving the gun against Annie's head, Kim intends to pull the trigger.
Smooth Criminal: Hee-hee!
Kim: Huh?
But the gun was no longer in her hand.
Kim:(mind) Where did it-
Moonwalking out from behind Annie was a 4 foot 7 girl-like entity with hair like space and a fringe like a hat.
(Smooth Criminal; Act 2)
Kim: What is this!?!
Annie: I'm not quite sure... But you've awoken something in me...
Annie: Something that must see you be put down!
(Annie's theme)
"Smooth Criminal" reveals how they now held the gun, aiming it, they scared Kim away from Annie.
Tossing the gun into the air "Smooth Criminal" revealed its new range and speed by closing the distance and kicking Kim.
Smooth Criminal: Hee-Hee!
Kim: Oof!?
Falling on her back, Kim quickly noticed she was wearing nothing but her underwear. "Smooth Criminal" was now wearing her cloths.
Kim: You stripped me!?
Annie: Sorry... Still figuring this new power out.
She slowly approched Kim who used her Stand to try and attack but Annie's new Act 2 was proving to be a hassle as it would make everything she threw vanish somewhere else.
Eventually Kim was pushed onto the edge where she then stood her ground.
"DARE" and "Smooth Criminal" began exchanging blows.
Kim: Tch! How about we talk?!
Annie: You can talk to the souls of the people you killed... As they torment you in hell!
The gun appears in "Smooth Criminal's" hand, as they slip past Kim's Stand and shoot her in the head.
(BANG)
Kim falls off the roof into the alley. "DARE" and the burgundy goo fade away. Annie's Stand posing in an Anti-gravity lean.
Annie:....
Annie: Hmph. Good riddance.
(Meanwhile...)
Selina heard the foot steps of the gangsters with guns coming to likely end their lives.
Prepared for the worst, she closed her eyes and heard the door being kicked open. But what she then felt was freedom from the goo.
(CRASH)
Opening her eyes, she saw the floor had collapsed and all the gangsters fell down and were incompasitated. Looking further down, she found the floor under her was gone as well, yet she floated.
Jojo then pulled her over after having dripped black pain to collapse the floor.
John: Stay behind me.
He did not look at her, instead, his attention was fully on Mr. Niceguy.
Mr. Niceguy:(dusts himself)
Mr. Niceguy: Well I'll be... You made a sweet girl a killer.
John:...
Mr. Niceguy: Oh? Don't tell me you want to fight.
John: The day is fading and my darkness is growing... I'm beyond tempted.
Mr. Niceguy: I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you. It's been a long day.
(SHATTER)
The ceiling collapses and a cloud of dust hides Mr. Niceguy escape.
John: Run all you want...
(Later...)
John and Annie reunited outside. Calmly the two approached each other and the great detective Jojo immediately noticed a difference within his assistant.
But that difference vanished as she hugged Jojo.
Annie: Glad to see you're okay!
John: Are you okay, Annie?
Annie: I'll be fine.
She turns to Selina.
Selina:...
Selina: Get lost already. The paperwork for all this is going to send me to alcoholism already.
Annie:(smiles) We'll see you later.
The two leave the scene as Selina looks around the scene.
To be continued.....
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