Originally Published November 2nd, 2018

>The kitchen hums with activity as you and 「GREENSLEEVES」 bob and weave around each other, doing the prep work for your first breakfast with a guest
>You grease up a pan as your stand measures flour and milk into a bowl, and as the onions in another pan sizzle and brown, your stand adds in the cubed potatoes and peppers while you mix eggs into the pancake batter
>As you toss coffee grounds in the percolator while your stand stirs the hash in the skillet, a thought comes to mind
This would probably look cool as hell to someone who couldn’t see stands.
>”I can see stands, and I don’t even think it looks cool.”
>Lily stands in the doorway, her mane ruffled from sleep but cleaned and free of dirt and twigs
>「GREENSLEEVES」croaks and waves at her with your spatula, flinging hash around the room 
Well good morning…uhhhh
>It dawns on you that in between her wrecking your home and you blackmailing her with good intentions, you never bothered to ask her name
>Which is especially odd since Twilight never asked for her name either when she and Glimmer set your house back on the foundation
>”Lily. Longsocks.”
UhLIly, is what I was going to say. My name’s Anonymous, since we’re doing names. The hash is almost done, and I’ll have pancakes up in a minute. Do you want some orange juice?
>Lily shuffles sleepily over to a chair and crawls up to sit on it. “Coffee is fine.  Black.”
Sur-wait. Aren’t you a bit young to be drinking coffee?
>”I-AHHHMM twelve”, she yawns
>Your Stand croaks, placing the hash in the oven to stay warm and putting a flat pan on the heat
Eh, alright. My parents let me drink coffee all the time when I was eight, and I turned out fine.
>The cabinet door creaks as you swing it open, and you pull out two least broken mugs inside
>When you turn around, you see Lily and 「BANISHED」 dart their hands and hooves under the table, causing napkins to flutter off to the floor
You okay?
1/

>”I’m fine. I just need to use the bathroom. I’ll take six pancakes though, Endogenous.”
>Lily trots off to the restroom, with her stand following quickly after
“When you gotta go, you gotta go”, you shrug, pouring out two cups of coffee.
...
>”You’re sure you’re not mad?”
For the dozenth time, Lily. I am one-hundred percent not mad.
>The two of you stroll down the aisle of Ponyville Hardware, your shopping cart clacking and creaking as you push it ahead of you
Am I bit disappointed that you tried shoving silverware into the U-bend of my toilet? Yes, but I’m not mad.
>” I didn’t think it would break!”
>You turn left at Aisle 6, slowing your pace enough to look at the porcelain thrones which line the shelves
It’s fine, Lily. Really. Now, could you grab that one at the bottom for me?
>You point at a toilet marked as being on sale, a good ten bits less than the ones surrounding it
>”Sure,” Lily huffs, still sounding upset
>「BANISHED」 appears at her side, sizing up the kiln fired targets before it
>With blinding speed it lunges towards the discounted potty, missing the handle and burying its hand deep into the box
>You hear a loud *CRACK* as the toilet within shatters, and her stand fades out of sight
>”Ow!”, Lily hisses as she pulls back her hoof,  a small rivulet of blood tracing its way down her leg
Uhhhh….
>Grabbing some pocket sketti, you plop a bunch of it on the broken box
>You then scoop up Lily and plop her into the cart, placing another bottom shelf toilet next to her
There! Now, let’s go pay before somebody asks if we need help.
2/

>“FFFT!” Lily hisses as you touch a rag soaked in iodine solution to her foreleg, cleaning away the blood
I’m almost done, just relax.
>You hand the rag to 「GREENSLEEVES」, who passes a bandage roll back to you
>Carefully and firmly, you wrap up the wound on her leg
>”Why did you leave spaghetti on the toilet I broke?”
Eh, I figured it’d make a funny story for whoever found it.
>You take a safety pin from the table, and use it to attach the free end of the bandage to the section you already wrapped up
But more important than that: you haven’t had your stand very long, have you Lily?
>Lily stares at the ceiling in thought, rubbing her bandage with her free hoof
>「GREENSLEEVES」 croaks as it stands by the sink, washing the dishes from this morning
>”We’ve been together since I was six.”
Really?
>"Yes, really. Why?"
“Two reasons:”, you declare, making a V-shape with your left hand, “you knocked me on my ass during dinner yesterday with a whiff, and you punched a hole into a toilet I asked you to pick up.”
>You point at her as you finish your small list
>”And?” Lily stares at you with a mix of confusion and…something else. You were never too good at reading people
You don’t know how to control your strength.
>You bop her on the nose with your finger, and she glares at you
Which means one thing:
3/

“STAND TRAINING!”, you yell at the top of your lungs, your voice echoing off the trees of Ponyville Park
>「GREENSLEEVES」 cups its hands around its mouth and makes trumpet noises, celebrating your announcement as you cough from the strain on your voice
>Lily sits nearby, still glaring at you
>”You waited half an hour to finish that sentence. You know that, right?”
>Wheezing and spitting into the grass is the only reply you can manage
>”Why do I need training anyway? 「BANISHED」 is strong enough to get me through anything.”
“That may be,” you cough out, “crap that hurt my throat, But you still need to help me fix my house, and I don’t want to watch my nightstand get launched into the next county.”
>Your stand comes over to steady you and rub your back
Even Superman needed boxing lessons, Lily.
>”And who is Superman?”
>You and your stand stare at her in disbelief
Superman? Alien from Krypton? Beacon of Hope and Justice for all of Earth?
>”…so is it a stand or what?”
N-no.
>Damn ponies not knowing about Earth comics
>Damn you for forgetting ponies don’t know a lick about where you came from, aside from Twi and the girls
Superman is a hero from where I come from and is strongest person in the world, too. But he got his ass handed to him once by a pro boxer because for as strong as he was, he didn’t know how to use his strength.
>Maybe. You never were a fan of the one-off issues
So, we’re gonna spend some time today getting to know our stands, and how to better control them. Are you ready?
>Lily shrugs, then slowly stands to her feet
>”I mean, I guess”, she sighs as she kicks at a pebble by her foreleg
>It whizzes past your ear and embeds itself in a tree trunk some distance behind you with a *KNOCK, and you can hear the rustling of leaves loosened by the impact
G-great!
4/

>You pull an old print-off of the Jojo wiki out of your pocket, carefully unfolding it so you can read it
So, Stands are generally graded according to six categories: Strength, Speed, Durability, Precision, Range and Developmental Potential.
>From your other back pocket, you withdraw a small notebook and a pencil
And, in order to figure out how to work on our…less good areas, we first need to know what those are.
>Lily watches with some interest as you write the categories in your notebook
>”I have a question.”
Shoot.
>”Well, tw-three questions: how are you supposed to measure ‘Developmental Potential’?
>You and 「GREENSLEEVES」 shrug
Iunno. We can worry about it later.
>”Okay. Second question: why do you keep calling them ‘Stands’? Actually, why do I call them Stands?”
>You and your stand shrug again
Beats me. Why do we call birds ‘birds’? Or bread ‘bread’? It’s just what feels right, I guess. Now what’s your last question?
>Lily points directly at your stand, who smiles at her through her hoodie and waves awkwardly at her
>”Why does you stand act so…weird? 「BANISHED」 does whatever I ask, but your Stand can be a real smart-aleck.”
>You smell a nice ragu as pasta starts to bubble up from your pockets, and your Stand fades back into you with a pained croak
Well, Stands are unique. Some stay close by like guardian angels, others will go to the ends of the earth to blow up a doorknob for you. Some are even bound to physical objects.  Its just part and parcel of how bizarre life can be at times.
>Lily seems to digest your words
>”Okay. Makes about as much sense as anything else in my life. So, what are working on first?”
>Thank the horsey Lord she didn’t ask about why Stands look the way they do. Not even you know that one
Well, we can start with Power, and then we can work our way down the list in order. Now, what can I have you lift...
5/

>You scan the park, looking for anything that could give you a decent benchmark for Lily's strength 
>"I could just flip your house again, if you want."
>You freeze in place, and you feel your heart sink at the thought
>"I'm kidding."
I knew that.
>You didn't know that
Ah! That’s perfect!
>You run towards a sizable rock resting by some bushes, and Lily slowly trots behind you
>The rock comes up to your knees, and looks to be about two feet across
>You smack it excitedly a few times, as if you were showing off your new car to the neighbors
Lily, I’d like you to pick up this rock and throw it as high as you can, straight up in the air.
>You point up into the sky, where some ducks are flying south for the season
>Lily looks at the rock, then at you, then at the sky
>”You sure you don’t want me to flip your house again? Or maybe we could go to Canterlot and flip the cas-“
NO!
>Thoughts of angry tall horses flash through your mind, and you shudder in fear
>You wouldn’t last ten minutes in horse prison, man
>”I’m kidding, I’m kidding”, Lily chuckles at your discomfort. “One space rock, going up.”
>「BANISHED」 manifests in front of its user, its arms ready to seize the boulder and send it away at escape velocity
>”ORA!”
>Faster than you can blink, her stands arms close with a mighty *CRACK*, and the boulder is gone
>”GAH MY HOOF!”
>Lily stumbles, falling back into the grass, and with a soft thud you see the boulder land a few feet away from her stand
>You can hear a faint buzz, as if the bees in the park were also unsettled by the attempt
>It now sports a dent on each side, and a small print of blood rings one of the dents
>”STUPID ROCK!” Lily hisses from the grass as she clutches her injured limb
> 「BANISHED」 scoops the rock into its good arm, shoulders it as if preparing for the shot put, and snaps the rock over the horizon
6/

>「GREENSLEEVES」 croaks softly as it hands you a fresh roll of bandages
Now this is what I was talking about, Lily.
>Lily stares at cloud the rock punched through as if sailed off into the upper atmosphere
>Putting the soiled bandages to the side, you start to rewrap her wound with the fresh dressing
You need to remember that this is your stand. If you’re not controlling how much strength it uses, then how can you expect to fully uses the strength it gives you?
>”I don’t know.”
>Lily keeps staring out at the horizon, with no sounds but the faint buzzing of bees in their hives
>”Can we go back to your house? I don’t want to practice anymore today.”
>You can feel a deep disappointment in her voice, like she’s had this conversation before
S-sure. We can get ice cream on the way back, if you want.
>”Okay.”
>You help Lily stand up, and the two of you make your way towards the park exit as the buzzing starts to get gradually louder
>You see a bee land on Lily’s shoulder, and you brush it off of her, causing her to jump and stop walking
>”What are you doing?”
>You halt your stride as well
There was a bee.
>”A what?”
Bee? You know, “bzz bzz gimme honey”? They’re probably going after some flowers or something.
>“Anon, Ponyville Park only flowers in the spring.”
And? It’s autumn. Bees love ruining shit this time of year.
>You can hear the buzzing grow steadily louder as the bees get closer
See? Now I don’t know about you, but I’m leaving before I get stung.
>You try to step forward, and you feel a cool breeze on your foot as it lifts out of your shoe
The hell?
>Looking down, you can see the grass you’re standing on is covered in a strange liquid. And within it, you shoe sits defiantly
>And on your shoe rests a small, craggy looking brown bee
7/

>”Anon, you need to move. Now.”
>You stand and turn back to look at Lily, the buzzing growing steadily louder as you do so
But my sh-EEEGH
>Before you can finish talking, Lily hooks her good foreleg around your waist and rips you out of your other shoe as the buzzing reaches a crescendo
>Above where you stood, a vast swarm of bees had gathered
>A buzzing cloud of browns, greens, yellows and reds
>Your shoes begin to vibrate to the humming of the bees, and explode into strips of fabric and rubber
My Jordans!
>The bees drop from the sky, crawling over the fragments of what were your shoes as you and Lily start whisper-shouting at each other
>”What the heck is wrong with those bees!?”
>Lily shakes you, making your head snap back and forth like a cartoon character
>You summon 「GREENSLEEVES」 to stop the shaking, but your stand only makes the shaking worse
>Wait a second…that’s it!
>Lily and 「GREENSLEEVES」  continue to shake you through your epiphany, though you can’t help but  smile despite the nausea and whiplash
“IthInkitMIghtbeanENMySnd”
>”What? Why are you smiling?”
>You push Lily’s forelegs off of your shoulders, and you fall backwards onto the grass
I THINK IT MIGHT BE AN ENEMY STAND! MAN, THIS IS SO COOL! IT'S JUST LIKE IN JO-
>The buzzing noise returns as you see a bee float into your field of vision
…oh crap
>TO BEE CONTINUED…
/8

Stand Name:「HONEY BEE」 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhAcIuj3o1E
Stand User: ?????