CW: R-slur written

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As the group entered the Inn, Jotaro looked around. He didn't know if there were any stand users nearby, but he assumed there were. He then spotted a guestbook. "Do we have to sign this?" He asked, before just signing the guestbook with a fake name, just in case.

Meanwhile, another member of the group was having a moment. "Erm, I hate to disturb you madam, but um... Is it possible for me to use your restroom?" The Frenchman asked, having not used the bathroom in over 6 hours.

"Why of course. It's down that hall." She smiled, though she was mentally planning his demise. "Ah, merci!" Polnareff start to quickly speedwalk toward where the toilet was.

Josuke was starting to get fussy again as the rest of the team went to their rooms. "Smells like Josuke needs a change, I better get him there too." Joseph remarked. He placed the baby up on his shoulders as they walked over to the bathrooms. 

"Aaaah sweet relief, about time too. At least this toilet uses water." Polnareff sighed as he finished doing his business. "How much further until we get to Egypt? It can't be far now, right?" 

A changing table was ready as Joseph cleaned his son up and powdered him. "Yeah, but it would be a lot quicker if we could charter a plane the rest of the way there. Although then I run the risk of surviving a total of four plane crashes, two in the same month. Heh." The older man joked. "You don't want to piss in a pig toilet again?" 

"How did you find out about that?! Uh, I mean, I don't know what you're talking about." The Frenchman squeaked. "Uh, how is Josuke? I know Jotaro doesn't seem comfortable whenever I hold him." 

"Oh? I guess he's gotten protective of his little relative. Although technically Josuke here would be his uncle since I'm his dad and I'm Jotaro's granddad. Bizarre, isn't it?" 

"I suppose. Next you'll probably have a baby uncle too."
"Well, that's more likely than you think." Joseph stated. "Huh? What do you mean?" The Frenchman asked curious.

"Well, because DIO stole my grandpa's body, so any babies made by DIO are technically my uncles or aunts. It's a crazy thought, but it's technically true." The old man stated. "But what's the likelihood of one of them being a part of his mercenary group is unlikely."

"Right, anyway I-" Polnareff was about to speak when all of a sudden, he noticed something. A dead body of sorts, well it was a group of dead bodies, a group of zombies.

"Um, Mr. Joestar, are you seeing this?" The platinum blonde asked, getting the attention of the older man. "Huh- OH MY GOD!" Joseph exclaimed as he looked at the multitude of undead people basically surrounding them. 

"Where the hell did they all come from?!" Silver Chariot was summoned immediately, slicing through the zombie horde. "Gah, it smells like a cemetery all of a sudden." 

Josuke held his nose as Crazy Diamond came next, bapping away the zombies as best he could. Unfortunately, there were too many for them all to deal with, they had to flee immediately. As they raced through the hotel, it was like it was falling apart before their very eyes, as if the smoke surrounding the area was keeping it together. 

Enya just watched from the sidelines, not wanting to blow her cover just yet. "Those morons, have they been surviving off of dumb luck to get here without any injuries? No wait, that baby has a stand. It must be able to heal them. Grr, I'll just have to take that brat out first." 

The team of three eventually made it into a nearby room, the door's hinges just barely hanging on. "Wait, could Josuke also repair inanimate objects as well as heal?" Polnareff asked. "It's worth a try, right?" 

The baby's stand gave the door a good bap with his fist, in an instant the door looked good as new. "Heh, that's a good boy, Josuke. You've got perfect control of your stand there, just like your Daddy, huh?" Joseph cooed, patting his head. "What is this room anyways?" 

They got their answer when Polnareff got his shoe stuck in a toilet. However, all the commotion didn't go unheard as Jotaro awoke and stumbled down to the lobby.
"Hey, what's all the commotion about." Jotaro asked, a bit sleepy still having just been awaken from his rest. Enya, now that Jotaro was there, had to pretend to be nice again. "Oh, well, it's nothing, go back to your room Jotaro-"

"How do you know my name?"

"I, uh, well, you signed the guestbook so, that's how I know." Enya said, thinking that Jotaro would write his own name in the guest book. "What kind of idiot do you take me for? Why would I write my real name in that thing." The ravenette stated.

The old woman went to the guest book, seeing that the teen put down Qtaro instead of Jotaro. 

"Oh, uh-"

"Don't even try to say it was a slip of the tongue, since Q and Jo require two different tongue movements to say." Jotaro spoke, summoning Star Platinum. 

"I might be able to get some answers out of this old crone." He thought as he sent a barrage of punches at Enya, knocking her off her feet. "What stand does DIO have? We're getting closer to you every second so you better fess up." 

"I.... I'll never tell you." Enya panted, only to be punched some more. By this point the hotel was crumbling apart at breakneck speed. "Gah! My Justice's illusion is fading already? No, I have to hold on just a bit longer, until the undead take out that damn baby!" 

Jotaro heard her thoughts loud and clear, and he was furious now. He didn't hesitate to toss Enya at a statue, hearing her bones break upon impact. "If I find out he has even a single scratch on him, I'll personally send your remains to your so-called master!" He snarled, Star Platinum tossing an entire desk her way. "Where is Josuke?! Where the hell are you keeping him?!" 

"I-I don't have him, honestly! I just ordered my zombies to chase down your grandfather and that French doucebag! You killed my son so I'm returning the favor!" 

The hotel was nothing more than a graveyard now, Joseph, Polnareff and Josuke followed the sound of punching to find the teen pummeling Enya unconscious. "So, this hag was J. Geil's mom."
"Oh, I see. I guess she wanted vengeance also... But her son was an a- A jerk, and a terrible person." Polnareff stated, catching himself as to not curse in front of the baby. "Yeah, but I guess that's just her instincts to care about her son even if he's horrible." Joseph stated. "Anyway, we should probably get going. No point staying in a graveyard-"

"Wait where's Kakyoin?" Jotaro asked, realizing he wasn't in the group. "Huh? Oh, yeah where is he?"

As this was asked, Kakyoin stood up from the ground and stretched a bit. "Kakyoin, were you asleep the entire time?" The ravenette teen asked, noting the fact that Kakyoin was asleep when we went to check on the noise.

"Yeah, I guess I was, sorry, I'm a bit of a deep sleeper." Kakyoin said with a bit of a laugh. "Anyway, where are we going now?"

"We're going to get a plane." Joseph stated. "Uh... Isn't that a bit risky? I mean, we dealt with a plane before, and we crashed" Jotaro commented. "Relax, it's a small charter plane. so it'll just be the 5 of us, so it's not like we'll encounter an enemy stand user."

"Well alright. We should get some grub first, our supplies almost run out." So off to the next town they went. Luckily it wasn't far, and a donor kabob stand was just up ahead. "Weird, I don't see any prices." 

"Well, it looks like this seller only accepts bartering, just leave this to me." Joseph declared. He stepped out of the car and up to the seller. "So how much are you charging for a kabob?" 

"That would be 7000 rupees." 

"That's about twenty-five bucks! With that cash I could just buy the ingredients and make ten donor kabobs myself!" 

"Well, if I charged any lower how do you expect me to afford housing for my wife and three kids? And don't even get me started on the vet bills for all those cats." The seller argued back. 

"Well then I suppose I'll just take my businesses elsewhere." 

Not wanting to lose out on a potential customer, the seller grabbed his shoulder. "Alright, name your price." Eventually it was settled at 2250 rupees. Jotaro had his plain with just beef while Kakyoin and Polnareff had theirs with garlic sauce, Joseph added pickled veggies to his own. 

As they were about to leave, the owner drew a knife at them. "Damn, another one of DIO's bitches." Jotaro hissed; he was about to summon Star Platinum when the man stopped him. 

"Now now, before you punch me, just watch this." The man pinched his hand, immediately Josuke screamed, holding his own hand in pain.

"What the? How did you attack him?! I didn't even see a stand!" Polnareff exclaimed. "Oh, while you were distracted, I sent my lovers into that baby of yours. Honestly shocked you'd bring a baby with you but that doesn't matter. If you attack me, you're going to get that baby killed!" The man proclaimed, removing his disguise.

Jotaro was starting to get pissed off at this guy. Not only for attaching a stand into his baby uncle, but also for being an annoying douche bag. "Ah, I see someone's getting pissed off. Why don't you just bash my head open?" The man taunted.

"Who the hell even are you? Other than a little bitch that is?"

"Oh, me? I'm just a guy, the name's Steely Dan, my stand is the Lovers. Now then, if you don't want me to hurt your dumb little baby, I need one of you to be my lackey for a bit. Hmm, how about Jotaro." Dan stated pointing at the raven-haired teen.

"... Why me?"

"Well, I know you have a bad temper, in fact I know you could kill me with that Star Platinum of yours. It would be so funny for you to suffer as you restrain yourself to not beat me to a pulp." Dan smirked maliciously.

Jotaro mentally growled at what had just happened, how could this man stoop so low as to send his stand into Josuke? He wanted so badly to tear Dan apart for this, but he couldn't, he was helpless as long as his baby relative was in danger of being killed. "Fine... I'll go along with your stupid game." 

The others however weren't going to just sit around while Josuke needed them. As soon as Dan and Jotaro were out of sight, the rest of the team made a mad dash towards the nearest electronics store. "Hermit Purple should be able to show us where The Lovers are." Joseph thought as he bought the cheapest TV they had. 

Josuke was squirming and crying as the tiny stand stood around in his brain. "Shhh, shh Josuke, it's gonna be alright. Just hang in there." His father squeaked, although in truth he was panicking just as badly. "Daddy's got ya, we're going to make that heartless menace pay for what he did to you!" 

This was a drastic change from the usual Joseph who would either joke around or make some sort of remark about how dumb their foe was. His fatherly instincts kicked into full gear with the thought of losing Josuke already. A tiny voice screamed out. "Daddy!" 

Josuke sniffled as he clung to Joseph's shirt, burying his face into his chest. "Mr. Joestar, we should be able to make our stands small enough to go in there and fight off The Lovers from within." Kakyoin suggested. "Hermit Purple can show us where our stands are going."
"Alright, that makes sense." Joseph said, trying to calm down Josuke with one hand while using hermit purple with the other. "Hopefully Jotaro isn't having to hard of a time with that Dan guy."

Meanwhile, Steely Dan and Jotaro were at a river of some kind, with a bridge being about a foot away from them. "Man, I would really like to get across." Steely stated as he looked over at Jotaro. "Well, there's a bridge-"

"But that's so far away. Maybe you could help?" The man stated. "What? You want me to carry you over the bridge?" The ravenette asked. "Hmm... No, I was thinking more of you being my bridge across."

Jotaro snarled at him a bit, causing the man to smirk. "Oh, you mad? Why don't you just punch a hole right through my chest!" He smirked, exposing his already exposed chest even more. "Or perhaps cracking my skull with a rock." He continued before picking up a heavy rock. "This one's a fine specimen. Or even better, I could just fall into the water, but then that baby would have his lungs filled with water."

Jotaro clenched his fist, the rage building up inside him was like a bomb, ticking until he eventually exploded. But he couldn't, any damage given to Dan would also affect Josuke. "Fine. Push me around all you want, but you better not try anything funny." He hissed. 

"That's a good boy, now lay down so I can walk." The teen rolled his eyes as he grabbed ahold of one side of the riverbank while placing his feet on the other. He winced as Dan took his time getting across, making sure to really stomp down on his arms. "You should be more sturdy than this, that water looks so deep, and I never learnt how to swim." He teased, kicking Jotaro's feet once he made it across. 

"Well? Are you just going to sit around or are you gonna come? I've got places to be, yknow?" Dan cackled. "I know you're just seething with rage right now; you want so bad to do your little Ora-Ora all over my frail, weak body. Weak like a baby's, like that tiny little baby with the ugly hairdo." 

"You are making it a chore to keep my temper in. Just tell me what else you want." 

"Oh not much, just a donor kabob with spicy garlic spread, apple peels, pickled veggies, and maybe a little marshmallow fluff on top." 

"Gah, you want to eat that? Just what is wrong with your taste buds?" 

 "Mmmn no, I want you to eat it."

"... Yare yare... Are you serious?"

"Of course, I am. Is that a problem? Oh, you're probably retarded right? I mean, why else did you get your donor kabob plain and you lose your temper so quickly? And seeing you suffer as you eat something you can't stomach would be amusing." Steely smirked.

Jotaro was about to lose it, struggling to keep his cool especially after being called a slur. He tensed his fingers, trying to relieve the anger inside of him before noticing the man reach for a knife. "Come on Jotaro, you wouldn't want that innocent baby to be hurt because you're upset, would you?"

"... No..." The teen stated through gritted teeth before getting the donor kabob, with all the things Steely Dan wanted on it. "Go ahead Jotaro, take a big bite."

And Jotaro, without any other option, took a bite. All the flavors and textures were making him nauseous; he felt like he was going to puke. "Uh, uh, uh. You have to swallow it, vomiting on these streets wouldn't be very polite." Dan commented, taunting the teen.

Using all of his strength, Jotaro swallowed down the disgusting kabob. He immediately wanted to wash his tongue afterwards, the aftertaste was going to bug him all day. "Now wasn't that good? You know it would be a waste to throw it out, you should finish that." 

However, it seemed Jotaro's suffering wouldn't last long; Dan was so busy taking in all the torment he was causing the teen that he didn't even realize that The Lovers was being destroyed. Josuke was calmer than before, but still sniffling as Joseph kept ahold of him. 

With one final slash from Silver Chariot's rapier, the stand was finally forced out. "There, that's the last of them." Polnareff took a major sigh of relief, it was stressful having to fight a swarm of Lovers while at the same time making sure he didn't cause Josuke any internal bleeding. 

He and Kakyoin immediately called back their stands, giving the baby some much needed hugs and bouncing. "You see, Josuke? Everything turned out alright." Joseph assured him. 

"Daddy!"

"Oh my God, he called me that again. Aww, Josuke said his first word. Now, I think there's someone who needs punishing, right little guy?" 

Josuke held his little fists up, summoning Crazy Diamond in an instant.

As the group went looking for Steely Dan, the man himself was forcing Jotaro to look at jewelry. "Why are we here?" 

"Well to get jewelry, of course. I should get this one. Would be great if I didn't have to pay-" Dan commented before realizing that there were purple vines around his body. "What? Man, that old man must have memory loss or something if he doesn't remember my stand. Oh well."  

"I don't have memory loss, we just dealt with that stupid stand of yours." Joseph stated, yanking the enemy stand user outside. "Alright Jotaro, how hard should we beat this bozo?" 

"Um... Well, he used me as a bridge, forced me to eat disgusting food, and uh... He insulted Josuke's hair." Jotaro said, excluding the fact he was called a slur, thinking it was irrelevant. The baby perked up at the mention of his hair, as if insulted that it was commented on. "Heh, looks like we gotta beat this guy up hard!" Joseph stated as he tightened his grip. 

"I wouldn't be happier than to beat this smug bastard." Jotaro commented as he summoned Star Platinum and immediately ora oraing him.

Crazy Diamond landed its own tiny punches on the bastard, followed by Hermit Purple forcing Dan onto his knees. "That's what ya get for thinking you could get away with messing with the newest members of the Joestar family!" Joseph declared, kicking Dan in the face. "That must have felt good, huh?" 

"Man, like you wouldn't believe. I've been wanting him beaten to a pulp all day." Jotaro actually smirked then. "Well, this was one way to bond as a family." 

Polnareff and Kakyoin just watched by the sidelines, occasionally kicking Dan their way if he tried to scramble off. "Now that that's taken care of, how about we get on that plane."