Everyone is here

Dio started to laugh.

"What's so funny?" said JoJo.

"'Numerical advantage', the tiresome old fool says? 'Heh'. Fortunately, I made a slight 'request' of my future self, and he 'obliged'... JoJo, allow me to 'introduce' you. These are my 'Elite Eighty-Eight'... Do say 'hello', JoJo."

He flicked a hand overhead and snapped two long-nailed fingers. An instant reaction occurred throughout the quad. Hovering about five or six feet above the ground, small circular platforms appeared, from which issued vertical columns of light. On each of these platforms, a figure stood. Eighty-eight in total.

"Shit," said Cable. "It's them."

The platforms vanished and the figures dropped to the ground simultaneously. They surrounded them on the quad, and thanks to JoJo's impulsiveness any sense of an allied formation was shattered as individual members of the party were divided by entire waves of these new enemies. JoJo stood alone with Dio, while Cable, Master Kenobi, and Isaac clumped back-to-back-to-back somewhat further behind, and the others either watched from the headmaster's office or had not strayed far from the academy walls.

"Perhaps you were wondering, JoJo! Why my first 'conquest' was of a relatively unknown Japanese 'playing card' company." Dio regarded the figures he had summoned, who lifted their heads one after another to face JoJo and his allies. "But perhaps you have forgotten the power of my 「Stand」, 「Mad World」."

No, JoJo had not forgotten. It was... the power to make fictional characters real!

A portly, mustachioed man with a red cap. His taller, higher-jumping brother. A blue-haired protagonist, wielding a sword. A giant turtle with a mane of red hair. An anthropomorphic fox. A small pink circle. Another blue-haired protagonist, wielding a sword. Another small pink circle.

He could name them all. Thanks to Reggie's test, he knew every single one of them. Mario. Luigi. Marth, Bowser, Fox, Kirby, Ike, Jigglypuff, and so many more, eighty-eight in total. All ready to fight.

"Excellent," said Dio. "'Everyone is here.'"

- Voeltz Finals