"Wow, this place is...big." Ruby observed, looking around. The air was dusty, like a closed off space that hadn't received fresh air in a long time, the museum was completely barren, there wasn't even staff around.

Blake looked back at the door, and then turned to Weiss, "Are we sure it's even open? Even for a place this old, there must be someone nearby."

"Oh, it's usually like this, apparently the entire place got de-funded, but the owners protested by leaving the entire place here and unsecured, it's been like this for a year, apparently." Weiss quickly explained as the five walked through the hall.

On the walls hanged old dusty weapons and paintings, mannequins with old uniforms from all four kingdoms. "Huh, this reminds me..." Josuke started, looking curiously at the various objects in display, "I've never actually been to a museum, well, not one this big anyway. My town's too small for places like this."

"Really? I just can't imagine that." Weiss said as they walked through the silent and empty halls of the museum, while Josuke placed his hand on his pockets as he looked around.

About fifteen minutes passed, and Ruby groaned, "Booring...Can it be Yang's turn? Whatever she would choose would be much better than this."

"Hey, as long as Josuke's interested, let him be, right?" Yang quickly replied, making Ruby frown.

"Hmph, if you don't want to stay here, maybe you should wait outside." Weiss coldly said, turning her head around with a smirk.

Ruby frowned and turned around, "See you later then." she said, crossing her arms and putting on a pouty face, starting to walk away.

"Ruubyy! You know she's not serious!" Yang said, trying to follow her, and Blake silently scolded Weiss with a glare.

Josuke couldn't help but smile at the scene, "You four are truly made to be a team.", making the girls turn around to face him.

"Well, by luck or fate, here we are." Blake said, smilin.

And suddenly…

Josuke's head snapped forward, "Did you hear that?" he asked, looking around.

Click, clack, click, clack, click, clack.

A metallic sound, like someone walking around with iron boots, coming up from above.

"What is that?" Weiss asked, "Could it be a thief?"

Blake placed a hand on her hip, near the scabbard, "Whatever it is, keep your guard up, I have a bad feeling about this..."

The four slowly distanced themselves from each other, looking around cautiously.

And then, like rain, bullets began to rain from above.

"A-Aah!" Ruby let out a shriek, various bullet colliding with her, though not penetrating the Aura. She quickly activated her Semblance, and made a short distance run, away from the attack.

"W-What the hell is go-" Josuke turned around and started to run, but was quickly cut short by a few bullet colliding against his back, digging into the skin, he let out a pained shout, but quickly rolled away, the pain was smaller than he thought it would be.

Yang quickly grabbed Blake and Weiss, throwing them forward before running away herself.

The five quickly walked through an open door, ending up in a room full of old paintings, Yang quickly shut the door, the sounds of bullets getting closer.

"Well...Great, this is just great." Josuke panted, sitting on the ground near the wall, "What the hell is going on?!"

Ruby took deep breaths, "T-They're trying to kill us, it's obvious." she said, taking out Crescent Rose in its rifle form, loading it up.

"Where did those bullets come from?!" Weiss shouted, "There's no place or second floor where they could possibly shoot us from!"

"I couldn't see, but it definitely came from above." Yang said, approaching Josuke, "Are you hurt?"

"Oh no, I just got shot in a few places, nothing big." he said with a sarcastic tone.

Yang peeked on his back, where various bullet wounds showed themselves, but there was something odd about them, "These bullets...They feel too skin-deep, shots like that would have left much bigger wounds." she analyzed. Ruby crawled close and checked too, nodding to Yang in agreement.

"So...Agh...What does it mean for me?" Josuke asked, slowly standing up.

"You'll be fine, if you're anything like your nephew it'll take a lot more to take you down."

Josuke laughed, well, he did survive a lot of crazy stuff.

Blake pressed her ears against the door, "I don't hear shots, I think they stopped." she stated to the team, before facing Ruby, "What are your orders?" she asked the leader, complete trust in her eyes.

"Let's get out of here, we shouldn't stay here for too long, but we also shouldn't all be together. Let's split up." she stated, and then pointed at herself, Weiss, and Josuke, "We will form Group A, Yang and Blake shall form Group B, is that all right?"

The other four nodded in agreement.

"Perfect, now, let's try to be on opposite points as much as possible." she stated, and crawled to the door, the others following her. She placed her hands on the door and took a deep breath.

"Three...Two...One!"

As soon as the door opened, Group A went to the right, towards the exit, while Group B went towards the left, crawling and covering themselves with the exhibits placed on the way.

After a few seconds of silence, shots were heard from above, and a myriad of bullet started to rain down Group A.

The three quickly hid behind a case of several old-fashioned weapons covered by glass.

Josuke quickly looked up towards the ceiling, and there it was.

A black mechanical-like being was walking on the roof, defying gravity as it casually aimed with its black rifle, on its face a red visor that moved with its face.

"W-What?! It can't be, it's a…!" Josuke shouted, gathering the attention of the other two, and unfortunately also gathering the attention of the enemy, who quickly rushed over on top of them and started to make bullets rain.

"D-Damn it. CRAZY DIAMOND!" Josuke shouted, his Stand appearing in front of him, and started to deflect the bullets with its fists.

"It's a Stand!" Ruby shouted, "But what's the ability?!"

"Less talking more attacking, please." Weiss grabbed hold of her rapier, and pushed her arm forward, creating a floating, platform-like white symbol.

Understanding what she wanted, Ruby nodded, and turned her weapon into Scythe form.

"Wait, are weird weapons like these the norm here?!" Josuke shouted as if just now realizing it, his Stand still tiredly but desperately deflecting the bullets.

Paying Josuke's question no mind, she quickly hopped onto the platform, which glowed as her boots pressed it.

The unknown Stand focused first on Josuke, and then quickly turned around, pointing the gun down at Ruby and pressing a finger on the trigger.

But before it could shoot, Ruby jumped upwards, the platform giving her an incredible boost in speed, allowing her to reach the ceiling in no time. Ruby grabbed Crescent Rose with both hands and swung sideways, directed at the stomach of the Stand.

The Stand jerked back as the scythe sliced open its stomach, blood dripping down to the ground. Gotcha! Ruby thought, thinking she already won. Josuke's face relaxed as the rain of bullets stopped.

Suddenly, the Stand's visor glowed a bright, ominous red, and Josuke fell to the ground, writhing in pain. "W-What t-" just as she was about to say it, she felt her Aura weakening, and she slammed on the ground hard, also in pain.

Weiss looked at the two confused, and panicked, "W-What is happening?!" she shouted, looking up at the Stand, and..."No…."

The deep wound caused by Ruby was being healed incredibly quickly, closing up as the armored, soldier-like Stand stood still, holding the rifle in both hands.

"I-I can't believe it...Ugh...The bullets...are draining our energy!" Josuke shouted, trying to get on his knees, "Even Ruby...Her Aura didn't deflect those Stand's bullets, they got stuck in it, and are slowly draining it!"

Weiss quickly moved, spinning the chamber of her rapier, and blue marks ran across its length. Quickly, blue missiles of pure ice Dust were shot out, aimed towards the Stand.

It didn't even make an attempt to move out of the way, it took the shots head-on, creating a ball of cold vapor cover the Stand, and as it started to dissipate, the Stand just stood there, upside-down and completely unharmed.

"What?!" Weiss shouted bewildered. Suddenly, bullets started to hit the Stand from behind, along with a few explosive shots, it was Group B giving their support from the other side of the room, Yang's explosive shells making the surroundings tremble.

And yet, all of the attacks did not even scratch the Stand.

Weiss stepped back, pointing down the weapon "Either that thing's immune to Dust-based attacks, or..."

"I-it's immune to all attacks while he's doing that..." Josuke stated, slowly standing up, Crazy Diamond looking incredibly weakened.

"D-Damn it!" Josuke shouted as he weakly ran over to Ruby, Crazy Diamond quickly placed a hand on Ruby's hunched back, and his ability began to take effect.

The small bullets 'stuck' on the aura, floating in midair, quickly went back and fell to the ground, and Ruby's Aura was quickly restored.

Ruby felt her energies returning, "This is your ability? It's amazing!"

"C-Can't use it on myself...unfortunately." Josuke said, his lifeforce still being absorbed by the Stand.

A sudden crash was heard from behind Group A, and after a big blast, Yang could be seen soaring through the air, yelling furiously, "AAAAAH!".

Slam!

Yang's Gauntlet slammed against the upside-down face of the Stand, cracking the visor and making the strange , and sending it fly back, but the Stand seemed follow its own rules of gravity, falling with his back on the roof.

"Now!" Yang shouted at Ruby as she began to descend. Ruby quickly pointed the scythe up, looking through the scope as her finger hovered towards the trigger.

Two shots, one on the abdomen, and one right on the heart.

And then, silence…

Josuke fell to his knees, "H-He's done for, that has to have offed him." he said, he was not happy with having killed another human, but it had to be done.

However, just as Yang fell back on the ground, the Stand's body dissapeared into smoke, leaving the rifle and visor behind.

Just a second later, they started to dart through the room like they were being attracted by something, their speed almost blinding as they clung to the walls of the museum, going out of sight.

"What the…!" Yang exclaimed, confused.

"Wait...No…Could that have been an Automatic Stand?!" Josuke exclaimed, if that was the case, the user did not die, and the Stand's equipment was being attracted towards the assassin!

[To Be Continued]-