[@Gentlemanvaultboy][@Kafka Komedy]

The pincer attack would have had an admirable effect on the punk, as the combination of surprise and brute force may well have gotten to him before he could react. Unfortunately, 「Courtesy Call」 was substantially faster than 「Vitalogy」, and the punk saw the attempted grapple coming very quickly.

'You've left yourself wide open, you old geezer!' he yelled into Rodger's face, his Stand charging directly at 「Vitalogy」, and delivering a barrage of punches to its unprotected chest, accompanied by yet another repeated "Oh no!" emerging from the Stand, and each hit transforming the colour of the Stand- and Rodger himself, via the Stand's transitive quality- to something random; this time, though, its final yell of "Oh no you didn't!" was accompanied by a kick to the chest of Rodger himself, throwing the human back even as the Stand was propelled in Nick's direction. Should Rodger have looked upon himself at that moment, he'd see that his entire body- though notably not his clothes- was a bright green colour, akin to what is usually considered the basic green on an art program like MS Paint, and despite the situation's severity and the pain of bruises emanating from his chest after the damage he'd taken, he'd find himself incapable of feeling any emotion other than sheer, unadulterated happiness, comparable to the sensation of learning you're going to be a father or a grandfather, though more abstract for its lack of focus.

As 「Courtesy Call」 passed the punk, it grabbed the bat from its owner's hand, and held it at both ends like a shield over the punk's head just as Nick's own bat fell upon it. Naturally, the bat bent slightly against the stronger impact, not helped by the surge of life powering its movement, but it held well enough, and the Ripple energy that would have surged through the psychopath's skull instead passed through the bat, and promptly fizzled out against his Stand's fingers, unable to harm the entity.

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'What the-?'

'Aaah, Nick Rix, the Kaiser Chief himself! Exactly who I wanted to talk to. Hmm, tingly.' With a shove, 「Courtesy Call」 pushed back against Nick's attack, throwing him off and sending him skidding back a short distance.

'Well, that's not normal,' Nick stated blithely, noting the opponent's own baseball bat as it returned to its usual shape, only to float back into the punk's hand. Was that, perhaps, related to...? 'Maybe this is a stab in the dark,' Nick asked, 'but you just fused some garbage together and set it on fire, then turned that older guy green and made your bat float in mid-air. Would that happen to be the effects of a, ahem, 「Stand」?'

'Ooooh, so you HAVE heard of those!' the punk lambasted, grinning with wide eyes that showed off his heterochromic irises. 'And I was told you didn't have one of your own... though if how useless that lightning you just produced is anything to go by, is that still a wrong assumption?'

'...let's just say I'm new to the concept,' he admitted, not wanting to show off just [i]how[/i] new to it he was. 'But trust that if my Ripple had hit you directly, you'd be toast. Now what do you want?'

'Well, hang on, I haven't even introduced myself yet! Rude bitches don't get treats.'

'What did you just call me?!'

'They call me Leeroy Jenkins, yes like the internet video. Now, I dislike gangs,' he began, ignoring Nick's anger. 'Actually, that's a lie, I fucking HATE gangs. If I had my way, I'd beat you to death right here, and walk away without a care. But, I actually need to talk to you about something pretty important, [i]without[/i] those two pricks getting involved.' He gestured behind him, at the middle-aged man who had been the victim of Leeroy's assault, and then again at the vampire standing somewhere behind Nick, not that he even knew vampires existed. 'Do you mind making them fuck off so we can chat in private?'

'Hey, free country, I don't control them,' the Kaiser Chief responded, shrugging with bat still in hand, and not feeling particularly co-operative at that moment. 'And I imagine at least one of them is pretty upset with you right now. Isn't that right, mister green skin back there?' he called to Rodger, evidently unaware of what effect Leeroy's 「Courtesy Call」 had had upon the mechanic.