Dio regenerates

The red lightsaber raised high. At that moment, Dio froze. At first JoJo expected he did so because he thought of a better parting quip, but as his blurry vision faded back into focus he realized that Dio had turned completely blue, from his skin to his clothes, and that he wasn't completely immobile, he simply moved very, very slowly.

"It worked, the Stasis Module worked," said Isaac. "Everyone, attack now!"

Foo dove and snatched Baby Dio's egg out of Dio's hand. Reggie grabbed JoJo and dragged him out of the way as Linnya drifted past Dio and swept her tangible hand across his chest. At the same time, Cable fired an explosive bullet directly into Dio's forehead and, for good measure, Isaac divorced Dio's legs from his torso using a few blasts from his gun.

Dio blew up.

The stasis ceased and his head, body, and limbs burst into gore. The sneering face unraveled and disintegrated, the ribcage shattered and splattered innards everywhere, the peacock feathers scattered in all directions. What remained, afterward, were a pair of feet amid a star-shaped pattern of blood.

Unbelievable. JoJo could not believe it, not at all. Foo handed Reggie the Baby Dio egg and reattached JoJo's severed arm with her plankton. JoJo was so stunned, staring at Dio's feet, that the entire process barely registered; at one point he simply looked down and saw his arm, back where it ought to have been.

"Have we... done it?"

"For all that talk," said Cable, "he wasn't that tough."

"I can't believe all we needed was the Stasis Module," said Isaac.

The Queen rose blinking from her throne. "Hm? What now? Oh my! What a lovely new paint job," she said as she noticed all the blood.

"So that's it?" said Linnya. "We did it? Our future's saved? Dr. Ivan Ooze is gone for good?"

Cable lowered his gun. "Sure looks like it. Guess he wasn't so inevitable after all." He patted something on his belt, a child's teddy bear. Then he stopped cold. Linnya, Isaac, and even Foo, who was halfway to Master Kenobi to help him with his wounds, all saw it at the same time. Every ounce of good cheer drained from the room, but JoJo didn't understand why.

"What is it?" He attempted to rise, but his arm still seemed a bit loose. "What's wrong?"

"The bear," said Cable. "It's still covered in pizza sauce."

He uttered that statement with ample gravitas, and in his deep, serious voice JoJo almost found humor in the absurdity. Almost, but knew better.

Linnya pointed at Dio's feet. "Dads, he's—"

"You gotta be shitting me." Cable raised his gun. "Isaac, use the Stasis Module, quick!"

"But I don't have any more stasis energy—"

All of Dio's blood lifted off the ground and like the folding petals of a rose coalesced upon his feet. Cable fired, his bullet blasted a chunk out of the weaving sanguine coil, but that hole simply filled in with more of the material. It formed the shape of a body, then bones and organs generated within it, muscles and tendons knotted and twisted around them, and finally skin stretched from foot all the way to head. Even hair and clothing returned to its proper place, and in what seemed like only a few seconds, there he stood, as though not a thing had happened:

Dio.

- Voeltz Finals