The group decided to continue walking down the street again, this time paying more attention to where they were walking, they passed by the cafe, an abandoned Dust shop, a few houses, a bookstore and a clock shop...And then they were back again at the cafe, everyone couldn't help but groan as they walked by the cafe once more, "Damn it! Where the hell is the user?!" Polnareff shouted in frustration, Blake slowly raised her hand to bring attention to her, "Maybe we shouldn't go that way?" She simply suggested.
And so they did, they went past the dust shop and the bookstore, and then turned towards a small alley, it was going well for a little while untill Ruby turned her head upwards, everyone did the same soon after, they heard...Something, something that sounded like a mechanical sound coming from above, and then they realized. "It's coming from that weird clock!" Ruby exclaimed, pointing at the big clock attached to the wall of the alley, it was very odd to see something like that in a mostly empty alley, but what was even more odd was that the clock had a pair of eyes seemingly drawn on the glass, looking directly at them. Ruby, curious, got closer to the clock, but then Polnareff, who was in the far back, heard the sound of footsteps, and promptly turned around, "Who's there?!"
It lasted only for a second, but he saw it, he saw another big clock, bigger than his head, and a figure holding it, and in the blink of an eye it was gone. "Again?!" Weiss shouted, and Polnareff turned around, there it was, the cafe, everyone had their shoulders slumped, and Yang was starting to get a little bir angry, her eyes reddening a bit, "Damn it!" She shouted loudly, and tried to kick away an empty can on the ground out of anger...Only for her foot to phase right through it, resulting her in getting more angry, "W-We can't even touch objects now..." Blake said, and suddenly Polnareff intervened, "I think I saw the user!" He announced, and all eyes were on him, "The Stand...It must be that clock we saw!"
"Oh well, seems i've been found it." A low and monothone voice, like a machine's, suddenly said. The group turned around to look at the source of the voice, and there it was, standing on the roof of a small building a man clad in black and red clothes, a pair of black horns sprouting from his head, it was easily recognizable as a Faunus, but it was even more recognizable due to the red-and-white mask he was wearing on his face, covering it. "I-Is that a-" Blake started, before getting interrupted by Weiss, "It's a member of the White Fang!"
"Indeed I am" The man said, and suddenly something appeared in front of him as he jumped down, it's one of those clocks! Instinctively Polnareff unleashed Silver Chariot and started to run towards him, as he got closer he noticed, he was not standing on the ground, but on another clock! But why? He couldn't even begin to formulate an answer as the man grabbed the clock and pointed it towards Polnareff, the clock started to go backwards by a few seconds, and in the blink of an eye he was back where he was a few seconds before, "So it was you!" He shouted, a bit disoriented.
"Indeed, my Stand, "One More Time", can move people back to where they were at a certain moment in time" He explained, "That's...Pretty lame, honestly" Yang couldn't help but mutter as she piped down a little, "Oh, but that is not all. Every time a person is sent back, they become slowly disconnected with reality." The man slowly and coldly said. "W-What does that even mean, asshole?!" Polnareff shouted, and then it all clicked, first they couldn't interact with people, then they couldn't interact with objects, and then what?
He was standing still doing nothing, it was almost like he wanted them to attack him, and they promptly satisfied him. Though weaponless Team RWBY promptly rushed towards him, the Faunus held the clock almost like a shield, the eyes of it pointed straight to the Team "Bad idea, One More Time" he said, Polnareff didn't have time to turn around and stop them as they dissapeared in the blink of an eye, leaving him alone with the enemy. "W-What?!" he couldn't help abut shout, they should have only gone where they were a few seconds before!
The masked Faunus jumped up with extreme agility with his Stand in hand, the clock he was standing on disappeared just after he did so. Instinctively Polnareff jumped backwards as if to avoid an incoming attack, but the Faunus stopped in mid-air a few meters from him, standing on top of a hovering clock that just appeared, "Silver Chariot!" He shouted, and promptly Chariot advanced towards the hovering Faunus.
As soon as the Rapier got close to him, he simply and coldly muttered "One More Time.", and with the usual mechanical sound of the clock rewinding Chariot was pushed back once more, "D-Damn it, at least attack me, bastard!" Polnareff angrily shouted, to which the man replied with "Can't you see? You're already under my effect"
And promptly, Polnareff started to sink into the street's ground like it was quicksand.
"W-WHAT!?"
[To Be Continued]-