Wired

Wired serves as the Stand of the Pork Pie Hat Kid, an assassin encountered during the events of Steel Ball Run. Rather than manifesting as a humanoid figure, it exists as a small crank fitted with a pair of hooked wires that sit coiled within the Kid's mouth. Whenever the weapon lies dormant, those barbed tips simply rest across his tongue, waiting to be deployed.

The Kid activates his power by feeding the two cable-mounted hooks through a shallow basin of water. That water behaves as a viewing window, letting him peer down onto a narrow patch of territory as though watching from overhead. Once he sets any object onto the surface, his hooks can travel through it and emerge from a second object of the very same type somewhere far away, seizing whatever is nearby. Placing a bird's plume in the pan, for example, lets the barbs sprout from beneath another feather near his prey.

Size poses no barrier to what can be pulled across, and even a horse has been dragged through the connection. The hooks strike quicker than a person can follow with the eye and carry the muscle to lift a grown man or hoist an animal, sometimes yanking a victim away while leaving whatever they were holding behind. Johnny once failed to notice Gyro being snatched right beside him. The technique is not flawless, though. The pool grants only a cramped and partial look at the target, so the Kid can be tricked into striking the wrong mark, and because anyone may exploit the linked objects, Johnny turned the trap around by firing through the feathers to wound the assassin himself.

The sole wielder is the Pork Pie Hat Kid, a hired killer who stalks the racers of the transcontinental competition. His concealed weaponry lets him strike from a safe remove, making him a dangerous ambush threat rather than a straightforward brawler.