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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: A New Universe

by mtnetsurfer

Chapter 79: Nut of the Sky

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Nut of the Sky

Time to showcase Tomomi's Stand. I've heard one of my more frequent reviewers calling out more well-known Egyptian gods as her Stand's name, but I went with the road less traveled.


Nut of the Sky

With the news of D'Arby's defeat, Tomomi decided it was her turn. But she knew her power would be useless on its own against the Joestars. She needed an edge, and knew just where to find it. She boarded a plane to Aswan and returned to Cairo soon after, now carrying a large briefcase. As she hailed a taxi, two local thugs, brushed past her. "Sorry, we got here first," one of the thugs said. The other looked at Tomomi with a perverted interest. "On the other hand, if you're willing to make it worth our while..."

Tomomi grimaced. Air swirled around her arm as she pointed a finger at the thug's ear. A surge of wind shot out with the force of a bullet, tearing the man's ear off. As the other thug got confused as to what happened, Tomomi tossed the briefcase into the taxi. "Mena Hotel, Giza," she told the driver. As the driver got moving, Tomomi lowered the window next to the briefcase. "Hey kid. I'm about to open the briefcase so be sure to close your eyes. And make sure to stick your head out the window next to you if you're feeling sick."

She opened the briefcase to reveal Boingo, bound and gagged. She tore off the tape on his mouth and directed a wind current to slice the ropes binding his hands. Boingo promptly did as Tomomi suggested and stuck his head out of the window, throwing up shortly afterward. "What was that for Tomomi!?," he demanded, "You went and kidnapped me from the hospital in Aswan using your Stand, Nut. Do you realize my brother will be worried sick about me?"

"I had no other way to convince you to come," Tomomi explained, "Besides, as useful as your Stand is, on your own you're just a child. You need someone to make effective use of it. As for me, my Stand gives me control over air currents, able to shoot them like bullets or wield them like blades. I can even make them grab things. It's powerful, but the Joestars have beaten tougher opponents. So I need something that gives me an advantage, and your Stand is the first thing I thought of." Boingo seemed hesitant, making Tomomi sigh. "Listen, DeKurliss showed me how you wanted to man up and get revenge after what happened to Oingo. Are you going to go back on that just because you can't trust anyone but your brother?"

Boingo sighed. "Fine. But you'll have to put your absolute trust in me. Remember, my Stand can only see the near future, but the predictions are one hundred percent accurate. So whatever Thoth shows you, you must comply. Trust me, I've seen what happens when people try to change the fate Thoth shows." Tomomi nodded, and Boingo showed her the comic, which featured her kidnapping Boingo. Tomomi grimaced at the pictures. "Can't say I care for the images, though."


The duo was now just outside Cairo, where Boingo's Stand showed some new panels. "Let's see what we have here. Boingo and his new friend Tomomi were walking through Cairo, when suddenly they saw a beautiful woman. Out of nowhere, Tomomi kicked the woman. But she was so happy, the woman gifted the duo with a valuable piece of jewelry." "That's an odd prediction," Tomomi noted, "Why would me kicking some woman have her give me jewelry?"

"Thoth doesn't show every detail," Boingo admitted, "That's why me and my brother lost back in Aswan, because of events we didn't know about." Tomomi shrugged. "Well, if that's what the book says. So where is this woman?" Sure enough, Tomomi saw the woman, who was walking with a large male soldier, likely her husband. 'Might as well go for it,' Tomomi thought, 'If it comes down to it, I can take out the soldier using my Stand.' She immediately ran to the woman and gave her a swift kick right to the back of the neck.

"Hey!," the soldier called out, "What are you doing!?" He then looked to the woman, who was still conscious. He then saw a scorpion that had been crushed by Tomomi's kick. "This scorpion," the soldier said, "They're very poisonous." "Thank you Miss," the woman said, "If you hadn't kicked at it, I could be dead." She then offered Tomomi the jewelry mentioned in the comic. As the couple left, Tomomi grinned. "I never even saw that scorpion. Good thing I didn't throw my entire strength into that kick." "It's fate," Boingo said, "Thoth was demonstrating its powers to assure you." Tomomi laughed. "Boingo, this partnership is going to work out fine."


In Cairo proper, Polnareff handed the photo to a local roofer. "Sorry," the roofer said, "I've been fixing up the buildings around here for forty years but I don't recall this building. Then again a lot of the buildings around Cairo look similar. I can tell you that this building looks pretty old, at least a century by my reckoning. Further south into Cairo you'll find the older buildings. You should start searching in that direction. Sorry I couldn't be more help."

"No, it's alright," Polnareff said, "Sorry to take up your time." He dropped back down the ladder and rejoined the group. "At least we have a narrower search area," Avdol said. "We're getting close," Joseph said, "I can practically feel DIO's presence." As they walked off, they didn't notice Tomomi and Boingo hiding behind a nearby wall. "They're getting too close to DIO's estate," Tomomi noted. "They are?," Boingo asked, "I thought they were way off the mark."

"Oh that's right, you don't know," Tomomi realized, "DIO moved when he found out the Speedwagon Foundation had located his earlier mansion." Boingo nodded. "I see. Let me check the new prediction." He saw the panels appear in Thoth. "The two friends soon located the Joestar group. But there were too many people for Tomomi to fight. So instead, she shoved her fingers up Polnareff's nose, and proceeded to tickle him. Just then, the Joestar group all passed out from blood loss, giving Tomomi the chance she needed to finish them off."

Tomomi blinked in confusion. "Boingo, not that I don't trust this prediction but... Did your brains get addled when that gang beat you up back in Aswan? I think Thoth may have skipped a few steps." Boingo frowned. "You may not be wrong. I know this prediction will come true, it always does. But honestly this is the vaguest I've ever seen Thoth." He then looked again. "Not to mention the whole group's not depicted here. Fluttershy's not in this panel." "Must be why it doesn't show me actually finishing them off," Tomomi realized, "Because Fluttershy could still stop my efforts."

Boingo nodded. "Yeah, it's like back in Aswan when me and my brother tried poisoning the Joestars' tea. They drank it as predicted, but after the prediction came true they wound up spitting out the poison afterward." Tomomi nodded and peeked out from her hiding place. She gasped as she noticed Polnareff wasn't there anymore. She then gulped as she felt a rapier up against her neck. "Don't think I didn't know you were back here, mademoiselle," Polnareff said, "Iggy smelled you out easily."

"There should be someone else around here," Iggy noted, "Someone familiar..." Boingo quickly held his breath from under the box he had dove under when Polnareff approached. Tomomi then heard Joseph as he approached, "Hey Polnareff! Did you find that person following us?" 'This is going to be so disgusting,' Tomomi thought, 'But Oingo lived his life following those predictions and only lost due to back luck.' She waited until Polnareff was distracted by Iggy sniffing around and immediately stuck her fingers right up Polnareff's nose. "What the fuck are you doing!?," Polnareff asked, his words slightly muffled.

"I wish I could say," Tomomi said, "I will say that my name is Tomomi, one the Ten Glory Gods." "Hey Polnareff!," Hol Horse called out, "Where'd you go?" 'I already fulfilled my part of the prediction,' Tomomi said, 'It can't hurt to bust out my Stand at this point while I wait for fate to take over.' Polnareff tried to get out his Silver Chariot, but Tomomi remembered she was also suppose to tickle Polnareff, and did so to distract him before using Nut to slam an air current into his gut, then wrapping him up in it. "My Stand, Nut, can control air currents to create weapons."

"If you had that sort of power, why the fingers up my nose!?," Polnareff demanded. "Search me," Tomomi admitted. "Don't mind if we do," came Jotaro's voice. "Oh shit...," Tomomi muttered. "And you're about to be deep in it," Hol Horse. "Hey wait a minute, Hol Horse, I thought you don't hurt women," Tomomi pointed out. "Normally I don't," Hol Horse admitted, "But if a woman is trying to kill me, then I have no choice but to break my normal rules."

Polnareff then wound up sneezing, knocking Tomomi's air currents off him and causing her to stumble into the street, where she saw a truck coming in. Recognizing the thugs from earlier driving it, she realized what the prediction was going for. She looked at some water jugs that she had knocked over while stumbling, and the truck swerve to try and crush her, only to slip on the water. That caused the truck to to barrel into the Kujo group instead.

"That was too close," Boingo said as he lifted the box enough to see. He was staring right at the side of the truck, mere inches from his face. "But it worked out," Tomomi said, "Sticking my hand up Polnareff's nose caused him to sneeze. A human sneeze blows out air as fast as hurricane winds, so someone sneezing can dispel my Stand. But it also caused me to be noticed by those punks from the taxi. Let's move away for a bit. We need to make sure they're out cold, and confirm Fluttershy's location."

They moved off to a different building, where Boingo checked his Stand. "The speeding truck easily took out the Joestars, but it was too early to celebrate and finish them off. Jotaro was not hurt as badly, plus Fluttershy had seen the crash and came rushing to tend to them." Sure enough, they heard Fluttershy's voice call out, "Jojo! What happened!?" Jotaro pulled himself from the wreckage. "New Stand user. Tried to attack Polnareff, then this truck came outta nowhere. I managed to dodge aside just in time, but I still got clipped."

Nearby, Boingo looked through Stand. "Tomomi! I think this is it, the final prediction! Tomomi found some plumbers working on the drainage pipes. She paid them to open one of the pipes, then started firing her air bullets into the pipe at exactly noon." Tomomi then remembered the jewelry that was given to her earlier. "Good thing I didn't sell it yet." She then heard the plumbers the comic spoke of behind her. She followed the pipeline with her eyes, and realized that it reached right over to the wall where the crash had happened. "Let me see that," she said to Boingo. Boingo handed her the comic, and laughed when she saw the picture of her air bullets going right through Jotaro's head.

"Oingo got taken out because of a similar prediction," she noted, "But unlike him, my Stand doesn't have any transformation abilities. This for sure shows that Jotaro will be the one to suffer this fate, and no one else!" She checked her watch. "Noon is two minutes away." She dug into her pocket and pulled out the jewel. "Gentleman, I'd like you to open that pipe over there. I'll pay you with this if you do." One of the plumbers looked at the jewel. "It does look valuable. Well, you heard her. Get that pipe open." The other plumber nodded.

Tomomi pointed her Stand at the open pipe, looking at her watch. When she saw it hit twelve noon, she fired off three air bullets and waited. Nearby, Fluttershy was helping Jotaro clean up while the others started to stir. She yelped and grabbed Jotaro, causing him to move away from the pipe just as the air bullets shot past them both. "Something just grabbed me!" "Pardonne, Fluttershy," Polnareff said, "That was just me. I didn't mean to alarm you. While you're here, can you help get these stones off me."

Tomomi and Boingo could only stare in shock as the air bullets struck the top of a nearby building. "That shouldn't happen," Boingo pointed out, "My predictions have never been wrong before." "Did we do something wrong?," Tomomi thought, "Maybe if I bring my air shots back. Hol Horse isn't the only one who can control the trajectory of his shots." Before she had a chance to, however, a passing radio blared out, 'And now we'll bring you the twelve o'clock news.' A nearby clock was also striking noon.

Hol Horse shook his head, then checked his watch. "Huh... My watch is a minute fast..." Tomomi then checked her own watch. "Oh shit! I think my watch may be fast too!" She was still holding Thoth, so she looked to see if anything else would show up. Boingo, however, watched as a strong wind blew the air bullets until they came screaming around. "Uh... Tomomi... How strong does a wind need to be to counter your Stand?" Before Tomomi could answer, the three bullets shot through the comic, right where the blood spots appeared in the picture, and nailed Tomomi in the head.

The sound of her hitting the ground got the group's attention. "I think it's best if we move away from here," Joseph noted, "The police are bound to show up soon." Luckily for Tomomi, she was able to redirect her bullets just enough to avoid a fatal injury, but she still got hit hard through her head, enough to knock her unconscious from the blood loss. Boingo looked at the picture, and sighed. "Luckily my Stand's nature means I'm in no danger if it gets damaged."

He looked at the group. "But still, the Joestars must be powerful if fate just seems to favor them under all conditions. It's no wonder Tomomi and my brother were defeated. Lord DIO is probably the only one who even stands a chance against them. As for me, I think it's foolish to keep pursuing revenge. From now on, I'll try to use my powers to help people find a brighter future. And maybe someday, I'll find a way that more Stand users can act to protect people."

"Good on ya, kid," Iggy said as he approached, "You really seemed to learn from this experience." Boingo gasped. "Hey, you're that dog from Aswan! The one who was with the Joestar group!" "They prefer the Kujo group," Iggy clarified, "Jotaro is practically the team leader here. Speaking of which, I should catch up with the others." He ran off, and Boingo saw another prediction. "Boingo decided to return to Aswan to let his brother know he was alright. His brother was so proud of how strong Boingo had become." Boingo smiled. "And maybe... I'll get strong enough to see even farther into the future."

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