Chapter 4: Silver Chariot
We see Ben and their latest enemy facing each other with Silver Chariot levitating above the Frenchman. "Hmmph, you your way around a sword I'll grant you that much" Avdol said when Ben adopted his poker face. "However it'll take more than mere ego to think Ben shall be will be defeated by the time the flames reach twelve" he added on when Ben raises his hand, "you're pride may very well be your undoing mr... uh... name?" He asked, "Pradonne-moi, it appears we haven't been introduced yet, my name is Jean Pierre Polnareff" he introduced.
"Well me Polnareff" Avdol said, "yes, Merci beaucoup, it's nice to know the name of one's opponent Polnareff, however!" Ben added before Emerald Rex appeared before roaring. At the same time the table with the clock bursted and fell forward, "back to the task at hand, if you're under the assumption that my flames burn upward or with the wind as they would in nature I assure you they do not. And since Ben's Stand has already copied my stand's abilities he assuredly has the same power, my Stand's name is Magician's Red, And it gets its name because it wields fire as though by magic" Avdol explained.
"Hmmph, Fire is what began life itself in this world, I should've expected so from a fiery stand like Magicians red. Who represents beginnings, though you dare to talk about pride and ego?" Polnareff said before taking something out of his pocket. "I assure you, my pride" he then tossed it up into the air revealing the objects to be coins "Is well deserved!"
In that second Silver Chariot had thrusted his rapier in that direction and what they saw astonished them. "In the fraction of a second the coins lined up, he Skewered all five of them in a single shot" Mr. Joestar said, "no look closer" Jotaro added, on the sword was not only the five coins, but also five pieces of fire. "I see it, you cut pieces of fire for every coin you got" Ben said, Jean smirked "now you know I am every bit deadly as I have said, it is not mere ego, my stand has the unrestricted power to cut fire as if it were ribbons, creating a vacuum and guiding the flames. Your fire is useless against me" he said.
"The power of Emerald Rex may have mastered the ferocity of Magicians Red, but even that fire fighter is powerless against the likes of my Silver Chariot" Polnareff said making his stand disappear. Then had some how teleported to the exit door "the hell?" Ben muttered, "Victory and conquest, that represents the card the chariot and defines my stand as well" he explained. "I could over power you in this cramped little place, as well as anywhere else, not very sporting though is it? Your powers may serve you in a much wider and open space. Beating you at the apex of your power Monsieur is the only victory worthy of my stand"
He then walked out "everyone! Follow me!" He yelled.
Later on everyone had followed the Stand User to a place with various statues, "what the hell kind of nonsense is this?!" Joesph asked confused by all the statues, "I believe they call this tiger balm garden" Kakyoin said, "I can see why, tiger stripes are complicated, can't get any more complicated than this" Ben commented. They followed Polnareff up the road until they got a large open area. "A prediction I may say, Ben Tennyson, you shall die here, destroyed by the power of your own stand Emerald Rex.
Ben took fighting stance before summoning said stand, Jotaro went to join him when he was stopped by Avdol "Jotaro don't, it's his fight" the fortune teller said.
"Thankfully in an open space like this, nothing can keep my stand or myself from fighting at full force" Ben said before turning into Omni, still with Emerald looking over him. Polnareff then charged "en garde! Come on! Come On! Nothing?! No sign of the power Avdol was crowing about of before?! Suit yourself! I shall prithee attack!" He said swiping at the two. "COME ON! COME ON! COME ON! COME ON! COME ON! COME ON! COME ON!"
Ben then used Echo Echo's power to launch him back with Emerald Rex doing the same. "Fire Ball! Emerald splash!" The two yelled before blasting several balls of Fire and crystalline green shards. Chariot had backed up before swinging his rapier and sliced the crystals and knocked the fire back into a statue. Everyone looked at the statue to see it was an exact replica of Ben's Stand and Omni.
"That damn bastard he's toying with us! He used Emerald Rex's own fireballs to make a statue of it!" Joseph said. Polnareff smirked tilting his head back "Well would you look at that, in a place this odd I'd say your fiendish faces are right at home" he said. Ben scowled before getting a smirk of his own, Rex adopted the expression and opened his maw to reveal a gloating orangish light inside his throat.
"Well, this may be interesting after all" Pierre commented, all the while Avdol's eyes widened "on no! I was hoping he wouldn't be able to learn that attack" he said before Joseph figures out what he was talking about. "Not good, everyone quick hide behind something, Avdol says Ben's gonna blow his top!" Mr. Joestar wanted, "Crossfire!" The Stand took a deep inhale "TYPHOON!!!" In a moment a powerful fire blast in the shape of the Omnitrix's symbol shot out towards the sword wielding Stand. "Really is that the best you've got?! I said it before my Stand's sword creates a gap between the pockets of air so I can slice the flame!" Polnareff said before Silver Chariot Uses his sword to knock the blast back. In a flash Emerald Rex and Ben were on fire grunting in pain. "Oh no! The flames are so intense that it's burning stand and used alike" Joseph exclaimed.
"Ha! Just as I foretold, you shall die of your own destruction!" Polnareff said before something bursted out of the ground and punched him in the face. Then suddenly Silver Chaript caught on fire "what?!" He looked at what jumped out of the ground and saw it was Ben with Armadrillo'a arm and Emerald Rex, "what?! How did you injure me during your own destruction?!" He demanded.
"Take a better look dude, that wasn't me you hit, it was the statue your stand carved earlier" Ben explained pointing to the burning statues. "I just used Magicians Red's fire to loosen it at the joints and the telekinetic powers of my alien Neurozard to make it move" he added. The swordsman grunted, The Alien then snapped his fingers and the stand exploded, "now that he's dealt with, let's get him to a hospital, you know before I'm wanted for murder" Ben said, "are you sure that's a good idea?" Avdol asked, the In a flash Silver Chatior exploded sending its armor pieces flying. When the smoke cleared they saw Polnareff suspended in the air "bravo to you though, using a sneak attack on my stand was very clever" Polnareff said. "The heck? Why's he in the air?" Jotaro commented, the silver haired man then crossed his arms "take a look with your inner eye, and what do you see?" He said as a figure was holding up.
"But that's inpossib-..." the man then jumped off and stood next to a now bare naked Silver Chariot, "he may have shed his armor but it's still my Silver Chariot!" Polnareff said. You seem surprised. It would be dishonorable of me to defeat you before I explained my previous move. Besides, one of you was willing to have me treated despite instigating this battle. It's only fair that I return the generosity extended to me. Will you allow me the honor of explaining it?" He asked.
Ben nodded "if you must, please elaborate" he said, "the explosion you saw was not Chariot what you took from Silver Chariot's body was armor. Armor that was cast off, before it was burned by your flames. That's why I'm mostly unharmed. And with its armor gone, it's much faster. Did you see my Stand lift me up? Indeed, that's just how fast it is now?" He asked.
"Hah! You may be faster, but that only means that without without any more protection your stands not gonna be able to take any of my hits" Omni said, "Oui, but that! Is impossible!" In a flash there were seven Silver Chariots above him. "Duplication capabilities now?" Ben groaned, "on the contrary these are after images, Chariot is moving so fast that he's able to be seen in more than one place" Pierre explained. "Well then, lets see how your copies fair against mine" The Alien said as he multiplied by seven using Echo Echo, as did his Stand.
"Unlike your after images my copies are able to fully interact with the environment and attack" he said. "Very well! Then it shall be copy against copy!" Polnareff's after images then charged at Emerald Rex. The dinosaur stands however jumped up before they could be hit and hovered in mid air with significant Bat like moth wings on their backs, "Scarlet Shackles And Jade Bind!" All the Rex's then shot out several of Magicians Rex's fire strands and Hierophant Green's tentacles to ensnare the metal men.
"A simple binding attack, as if that shall harm Silver..." he was cut off when Omni suddenly blasted the ground beneath him with electricity which distracted him long enough for Emerald Rex to grab his stand with Hierophant Green's tentacle.
"I don't think you quite understand Polnareff, my stand doesn't just have the power of Magicians Red, it's got all my original powers to. Including something to match yours, I've let Avdol speak for his powers that I have to throw you off but I think I'll take it from here. And in the spirit of chivalry I'll even warn you when my next attack is coming" Ben said before slinging Chariot to the ground and let him go.
"Hmm, what shall you attempt to do this time then?" He asked, "as you may have seen, my Stand Emerald Rex has the capability to function independently from me and doesn't alway need orders to do what I want. So any attacks that we throw at you need not be as a unison blast or move, rather we can each divide out collected powers in any manner we choose. Much like Avdol's little number I copied, The Crossfire Hurricanes, Including my own specialty", Omni then put a hand to the ground while Rex turned his arms into long tentacles while charging a fire ball in his mouth.
"CROSSFIRE HURRICANE AND EMERALD SPLASH SPECIAL! RAINING FIRE!!!" The Stand then leaped into the air and fired off both several Emerald Splashes from his many tentacles and several fire rings towards Silver Chariot. "Your a fool Benjamin it's useless!" Polnareff said summoning more after images "dammit he's covered on all sides" Joseph said, "he's thought of everything" Kakyoin added.
"Naïve! naïve! naïve! so very naïve! I shall use these divided attack just as I had did before! Slice it! And hurl it back!" Right when Silver Chariot's sword's were about to hit the jewels and flames the ground blasted open again, this time spewing water, erupting vines and green energy. "What?!" Polnareff exclaimed before being blasted back, Ben smirked before retracting his hand from the ground to reveal that it had been a hybrid between Water Hazard's hand, Atomic's hand, and WildVine's hand.
"Oh I get it, Ben was using Emerald Rex as a distraction to keep Chariot's attention away from his user so Ben could sneak up on him with a ground attack" Joseph realized. "God did it work though, I thought you said only Stands can hurt Stands" Jotaro said, "yes, but still normal people and non stand attacks such as real fire or throwing a rock are still able to harm and interact with Stand users" Avdol said.
"And with that out of the way, I'm gonna make Rex here perform an attack that's a homage to both Jotaro's Star Platinum and your own Silver Chariot" Ben said as his stand grew several of Hierophant Green's tentacles and Hermit Purple's vines that wrapped around Silver Chatiot. In a flash the reptile's hands turned into two sharp rapier like swords with purple thorny vines and tentacles wrapped around them that were lit on fire "I've got your Stand's powers as well, see my own attack the Stand Rush Beatdown!" he said before the reptile rushed the armored man while swiping his own swords at him "ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA! ARA!"
After the "beatdown" was finished Jean fell limp in the ground with various lacerations and had been burned, "I think we're done here" he said. Then the man had a knife thrown at him "being burned to death while having several bleeding cuts is a rather painful way to die, I'd suggest you save yourself the trouble and end it quickly" Avdol said. The shapeshifter gave him a glare "seriously Avdol, you can't be serious! Earlier you were fine with getting him treated, now you're telling him to either burn to death or kill himself?" He said.
Then he heard a thud and saw Polnareff face flat on the ground, "I concede, I didn't think even your power could match my swordsmanship, I'll die honorably by enduring this. Since you defeated me I should accept it out of respect, it'd be dishonorable to end my life myself" he said closing his eyes. "Oh not on my watch!" Ben said before snapping his fingers making the flames disappear, right when Avdol spoke up "I see now that you are truly a chivalrous man," He said as he approached Polnareff. "Even now, you have chosen not to attack Ben with the dagger while my back was turned." He knelt down and picked Polnareff up. "You have remained honorable despite your orders from Dio. You do not deserve to die. Something must be behind this." He brushed some of Polnareff's hair aside, revealing a fleshbud. "I'll take care of it this time Jojo" Ben said turning his arm into a thinner glove version of NRG's suit and used Emerald Rex's copied precision to safely remove the Fleshbud.
Joseph flinched away. "Those tentacles are nasty." He yelled as the shapeshifter began removing the flesh bud, its tentacles flailing.
"Ben Hurry!" Joseph whined "quit your b*tchin old man!" The delinquent shot back before Ben finally pulled the sucker out and burned it with the gauntlet's energy. "There, now that the flesh Bud is gone we can buddies" Joseph joked then did the ba dum tsh rimshot. Jotaro then spoke up "Hey Kakyoin, Ben. Doesn't it annoy you when idiots make stupid puns all the time?" Jotaro asked, Ben had just chuckled since he actually did make puns on certain occasions.
The next day the team was down at the harbor in Hong Kong, "the Speedwagon foundation charted a boat for us yesterday, with any luck should be in the harbor by now Mr. Joestar said. Right when a familiar face met up with them, "we meet again, so what's on your mind? Polnareff" Avdol asked, "I never thanked you properly for freeing me from Dio's mind control" he said. "Young Benjamin here's the one who freed you, you should be thanking him" Avdol replied said, "no thanks are necessary, it's what I do" Ben assured.
Polnareff sighed, "as you wish, I have no desire to come off as heavy handed. But I'm not quite finished here Monsieur Joestar, I hope you'll indulge in my asking of a very bizarre question" the man spoke. "A Bizarre question you say?" Joseph repeated, "at this point everything's bizarre" Ben commented, "I noticed back at the restaurant that you never took off your gloves even while eating. Tell me, is your left hand wouldn't happen to be a right hand under that glove would it?" The sword Stand User asked.
"Huh? Is my left hand a right one? You weren't kidding about the bizarre part" Joesph said, "what are you hoping to find out through all this?" He asked, "I am looking for the man who murdered my sister" Polnareff answered shocking everyone. Ben had actually felt like his food from yesterday was about to come up, "I don't know his face, but I do know he has two right hands instead of each" he explained.
Mr. Joestar then took off his glove to reveal his prosthetic hand, "here, I lost the real thing in an awful battle some fifty years ago" he said. "I see, I apologize for my rudeness" Jean said, "if it isn't too painful to talk about, we're all ears" Ben said.
Polnareff then told them the story, "it was three years ago," He said quietly. "My younger sister and her classmate were coming home from school on that rainy day. On the side of the road, a man stood with his back to them. Strangely, despite the heavy downpour, the rain was falling around him in a dome-like shape, as if he were surrounded by an invisible shield. Suddenly, her classmate's chest was sliced open like a blade had cut her. And then...my sister was raped, and then killed. That was all the man wanted from her."
Ben felt as if the fires of his rage from amalgam destroying his home and smoky had been reignited. "Miraculously, her friend somehow survived," Polnareff continued. "She hadn't seen his face, but she saw he had two right hands. Nobody believed what she said, except for me! I believed her since the man possessed a secret power similar to mine!"
"That man must've been a Stand user," Joseph said. Polnareff spun around, striking a pose. "I swore! I swore he would atone for my sister's death so that she could finally rest in peace! I'll use my Stand to get revenge!"
Ben narrowed his, having a pretty good idea what kind of revenge Polnareff had in mind. The revenge he took on the hybrid that did the same to him.
"And then a year ago, I met Dio," Polnareff said "He was standing next to a crystal ball, purple vines coming out of his hand. The crystal showed a man with two right hands. Dio claimed it was a vision from me. He said that he would help me find the man who killed my sister, only to put that flesh bud inside my head. Then he ordered me to kill you guys. I really believed that's what I needed to do."
"Although the flesh buds are partially to blame, Dio's power of manipulation is terrifying." Avdol said. "Yeah, but based on what you just said..." Kakyoin cupped his chin. "It sounds like Dio found the man with two right hands and they've now joined forces."
"I've decided to go to Egypt with you guys," Polnareff stated. "If I find Dio, I'll find the man who took my sister's life!"
"Is that okay?" Kakyoin asked the others. "I have no objections," Avdol replied. Joseph shrugged. "You're just going to follow us either way." Despite his concerns about Polnareff's desire for revenge, Ben also agreed. "The more allies we get, the better our chances against Dio. Besides I know how you feel Polnareff, you lost someone very close to you, your younger sister, while I lost my entire family, and my home" Ben added. "I know how you feel, but while I'm not willing to destroy again, I will assist you in tracking down your sister's killer" he declared.
Jean Pierre Polnareff
Stand Name: Silver Chariot!
Power: Fast and precise swordsmanship!
The man then smiled and gave a two fingers salute "the honor is all mine" he said, "Yare Yare de-" Jotaro was cut off from his classic good grief when two girls walked up to them. "Excuse me! Sir!" One of then said, "I'm sorry to bother you but could I bother you to take our picture maybe?" She asked.
"Please will you do it?" "Oh oh! We want it with the ocean behind us if you wouldn't mind"
"SHUT UP! GO BUG SOMEONE ELSE!" He yelled, "hey hey hey! Knock it off" Ben said when Polnareff walked over to them "easy now, ladies I would love to take your photograph, come along now. You have very lovely legs, I'll be sure to get them in the shot" he said as everyone stared at him awkwardly. "Oui perfection!" He said taking more "and another for safety" "Tres Bien, if only I could use this camera to capture your hearts and not just your picture" he added on.
"This is nothing like the Polnareff a moment ago" Avdol commented, "it's like his emotions change on a dime" Kakyoin added, "nah, more like he two Brians and the one downstairs just started calling the shots" Joseph joked as Ben snorted and chuckled at that "nice one Mr. Joestar!" He said.
Then noticed a strong breeze and saw the girl's... oh come on how many anime cliches happen? Well let's just say something flipped and Ben had to block it from the camera's view "you knew that was bound to happened didn't you?" He said as Polnareff gave a nervous laugh. "Sorry about that ladies, mind if I give you a gift to make up for my two associates?" He asked them.
"Well, maybe" they said before they were handed a bracelet and Diamond ring made from Diamond Head's crystals. "Fate thee well" he said as they walked away waving goodbye, but not before sneaking two kisses on his cheek, "like I said, he could be mistaken for a Joestar" Joseph laughed.
"Knock it off!" Ben yelled.
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