Pucci quickly took advantage of Atroe's distraction. "You hesitated, Foo Fighters. And now it will cost you. I will take back the intellect I gave you." Whitesnake immediately struck Atroe and retrieved the memory disc from Foo Fighters, but not the Stand disc. Atroe smiled, confusing Pucci. "Was that supposed to erase me? Sorry, Father, but I'm not who you think I am." She quickly fired at D an G, killing him instantly with a shot to the head. "Impossible!," Pucci exclaimed, Whitesnake dropping the memory disc.

"Turns out what you thought was your familiar cluster of plankton," Atroe said as she retrieved the disc and returned it, "Was just little ol' me, Atroe Fendi. Turns out I have Stand potential, and because of that I can make use of the Foo Fighters disc you were using to safeguard the other discs." Wes quickly kicked D an G's corpse out of the van as Ryusei climbed into the front seat. "Let's get out of here before Pucci decides to try reading one of our memories instead!"

Meanwhile, the trio of Jolyne, Rainbow, and Anasui watched as Yo-Yo Ma started dissolving. "Looks like Atroe and Wes pulled it off," Anasui said, "But we're not done just yet." The shell from the green child remained behind, completely empty. As it slipped into the marsh, Anasui went for it, only to pull his hand back when a searing pain hit him, causing him to notice a small handprint on the back of his hand. "Whatever this thing is... It has a mind of its own."

Jolyne checked herself out. "Looks like its completed birth stopped the effects of the plant growth. My body's back to normal now." "None of this is 'normal'," Rainbow pointed out, "Even by Stand user standards. Where did it go? It can't possibly swim at that size, it'd be lunch for the gators roaming the waters of the marsh." They scanned the area, and Jolyne pointed just ahead of them. "Over there!" Somehow, the green baby had crawled its way onto land again, now completely free of the shell.

"It must have a will of its own," Anasui reasoned, "Like a developing child." "Well if Pucci gets its hands on it," Jolyne noted, "It'll 'develop' into an enemy. And considering it was grown from a remnant of DIO's body, we really don't want that." She ran after it, but was stopped when Anasui called out, "Jolyne, stop! Look at that rock near your foot!" Jolyne stopped and realized something as she looked around. The grass was far too tall, the rock looked more like it was supposed to be a boulder, but was too small. And Rainbow and Anasui were looking way too tall as they approached.

"Okay...," Jolyne said, "I'm not sure what's happening, but I'm reminded of Gwess' Stand." "Except Gwess is still under the Speedwagon Foundation's care," Rainbow noted. She approached the baby for a bit, then called out, "Hey, how big does this baby look from your perspective!" "Pretty normal, honestly," Jolyne noted. "Same here," Rainbow said, "Yet the grass looks as tall as trees." "I was thinking more as tall as wheat," Jolyne replied, "Yet you look like the size of a doll my Mom got me for Christmas once."

Anasui rubbed his chin. "Rainbow, your flight field. Just what gets defined as 'perfect flight' by your Stand's definition?" "About the same level of flight as an eagle or falcon," Rainbow said, "Why do you ask?" "Because I remember you talking about how your field was able to negate the shrinking power of Gwess' Goo Goo Dolls," Anasui explained, "I was wondering if the same could happen here." "It only seems to work when I'm actually flying or hovering," Rainbow noted.

To demonstrate, she flapped her wings to float for a bit, turning back to normal size as she did. She landed, and immediately shrank again. "The same holds true for anything in my flight field, like how it protected Jolyne from Goo Goo Dolls because she was floating." Jolyne rubbed her chin. "We keep shrinking by half as we get close, at least by walking. By that logic we might never get close enough. Solving this puzzle is gonna be trickier than your average mind-bender from Professor Layton." Just then, the sound of guard dogs could be heard. "Damn," Anasui said, "They must be searching the whole marsh for signs of what happened."

Jolyne thought for a moment. "Wait... That's it! If we just run at the green baby we'll never get closer because we keep shrinking, making it take longer! But what if we tried coming in from above!?" She ran until she was small enough to jump onto a blade of grass, then leapt down to try landing on the baby. However, as she did, something grabbed the strings she threw out to grab the creature. It was a humanoid cyborg thing with blue skin. This was the Stand of the Green Child, called Green Green Grass of Home.

It grabbed Jolyne's leg and started to shrink it, causing her boot to come off. Rainbow spotted the boot returning to normal size as Anasui narrowed his eyes, taking a bottle from the boat and rolling it over to the child. He then ran to where the child was, getting smaller as he did. Rainbow, meanwhile, flew back a few feet to observe from a safe distance. 'I think Anasui's figured something out. That green baby is like a literal baby, curious and trying to learn. Anything it finds interesting is unaffected by its Stand. If Pucci is looking for this... He might be able to find a way to attract it to him.'

She then saw the baby's Stand trapped in the bottle Anasui had rolled over. "So, if I can convince the child to come to me, instead of trying to go over to it... Not easy to get its attention without also getting the guards' attention. Not to mention Pucci might be with them. In fact I'd say it's likely. But Jolyne is risking everything to stop Pucci's plans. I'll need to take some risks if I want to help. After all... That's a Speedwagon's real goal in life, to assist a Joestar."

The benefit of writing these chapters after the year they take place as opposed to before the way Araki-sempai did is that I can include more current events from those years, such as the reference to Professor Layton.