"Automatic Stand?! What does that even mean?!" Weiss shouted, still looking bewildered.

"An automatic Stand acts without the User's intervention, and destroying it is completely pointless!" he shouted back, he had the unfortunate experience of having to deal with several automatic Stands, and he was sure that was one. At least the draining bullets were gone from his body now that it was defeated.

Ruby reloaded her weapon, then jumped on top of one of the long weapon cases and looked around, "I don't see anything, did anyone see where that gun and those weird goggles went?"

Yang quickly ran over to the three, breathing heavily, "No, those things were way too fast for me, but did anyone see Blake?"

The three looked behind Yang, and surprisingly, Blake was nowhere to be seen. "Oh, oh no!" Ruby exclaimed, coming to a dark realization.

And then, a flurry of shots were heard from another room, the group turned around, a tag above the door read "Vehicle Room."

The group didn't lose time, and quickly rushed over towards the door. "BLAAKE!" Yang shouted as her shoulder collided against the door, slamming it open.

The room was filled with various replications of ancient war machines put on display, all of them were surprisingly detailed and on-scale, but unfortunately the room was quite big, this meant that it would have been easy to hide around, or possibly even inside the machines.

The room was filled with silence, and a dark thought crossed the group's minds, were they already too late? Was Blake's life that easily stolen?

Ruby shook her head, trying to clear her head of that thought, "Let's look around!" she shouted, holding Crescent Rose backhanded. The others nodded, and split up to examine the various parts of the exhibition.

Five full minutes of emptiness passed, a deep desperation grew inside Ruby, Weiss, Yang and even Josuke. He scratched his head, making his pompadour wobble around slightly, as he placed a hand on top of an incredibly realistic tank-like vehicle "Where could-" he couldn't even finish before he heard the sounds of gunshot,

He turned around and then looked at the others that were scattered around the room, they seemed to have heard it too!"

"The shot came from inside….here!" He shouted, slamming his fist on the tank's hull, before starting to quickly climb it.

"What the- No! Stop! That's way too dangerous!" Ruby shouted, trying to stop Josuke's recklessness, but it was already too late.

A rusted hatch on top of the ancient tank opened up, and right in front of him…

An old man in a military uniform with a severely receding hairline and a red visor on his eyes pointed the black gun at Josuke.

"What?!" Josuke shouted as the Stand user began to shoot at him. Josuke instinctively summoned his Stand in front of him to absorb the blow, forgetting for a moment that the gun was a Stand itself.

The bullets phased through Crazy Diamond's torso, to Josuke extreme surprise, before they hit him square in the chest.

Josuke's fell from the tank and laid on the ground, "Aargh...These may not hurt like regular bullets, but they sting like a bitch!" he shouted.

The old Stand user grinned as the three girls rushed over to their friend, "I told you!" Ruby shouted with a hint of frustration.

"W-Wait, sto-!" Before Josuke could tell them to stop, the Stand user looked through the scope of the rifle, and with much more speed and accuracy than his body would imply, began sending out a hail of bullets towards the three.

"Argh!" Yang shouted as her thigh was grazed by a bullet, despite all of them being quite dexterous the flood of bullets hit all of them, though no bullet got stuck in their body.

Yang scooped Josuke up by the underside of his arms and began pulling him away, behind another large armored vehicle.

The four hid together while Josuke writhed in pain, "Damn it…!" he shouted, as bullets began to hit against the hull.

"I-I don't get it, replicas like those aren't supposed to even have an inside!" Weiss shouted in disbelief.

"I don't think that was a replica, that was a real deal, that's why it's all so rusty!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Wow, what an old piece of junk." Yang said, catching her breath, "So, what now?"

Josuke stopped his writhing, the pain becoming slightly more bearable as he got used to it, "A-Ah, I have good reasons to think your teammate is there with that scumbag."

"Are you sure about that?" Ruby asked, followed by Josuke shaking his head.

"I'm not sure, but it's the only place I can think of, if he still can drain, I think he's using her as a way to heal himself if we hurt him."

Yang gritted her teeth, "He really is a scumbag then! What do we do? Smash the tank up?" Yang looked over at the leader, looking ready.

Ruby rocked her head back and forth, thinking, "No, no! We can't do that!" she suddenly said, surprising the others.

"But...why?" Weiss asked, the sounds of shots slowly dying out behind them.

"That tank...I think I recognize! I think it's some sort of prototype that was used near the end of the war, it had a big fault in that if the insides were hurt too much, the whole thing would just combust from the inside!"

"How the.." Weiss hesitated to ask, "How do you even know that?"

"I know my weapons and vehicles, even old ones!"

"But we're basing this on an assumption, we can't be sure that Blake is there or that it would even do that!"

"It's a pain to admit, but we can't risk it, Blake's life is on the line." Yang said, back against the replica tank.

"Then we'll have to find a way to lure him out, somehow..." Josuke stated, looking down and trying to make a plan in his head, ideas popped up here and there, but nothing of actual use.

Suddenly, Josuke yelled in pain, clutching at the wound in his chest, "No! He's draining him even though he's not wounded?!" Ruby shouted in surprise.

"That means he's also draining Blake! We have to go stop him!" Weiss shouted, picking up her rapier and running out of the cover, along with the other tree.

There the Stand user stood, one half inside the tank, and the other outside, his visor glowed red as he stood still, grinning like he had already won.

"Hook, line and sinker." he simply said as the red glow stopped, and his arms sprung into action, letting out sprays of bullets down towards the three.

The bullets caught them by surprise, and they were hit directly, bullet after bullet smacking against their Aura, "D-Damn it! You're gonna pay for this" Yang shouted as she fell to the ground, gritting her teeth.

Josuke crawled out of cover, his eyes in shock as he watched the scene, they were all so caught in such panic that they didn't realize they were being baited.

Immediately the assassin turned around and shot Josuke a few times, and he groaned in pain. "I'm going to drain all of you brats." The old man said, laughing. And them, the visor placed on his eyes began glowing with an even brighter red than before.

The four writhed around on the ground, screaming as the life was drained out of them, "Daaamn iiit! Is there nothing we can do to s-s-stop him?!" Josuke began stuttering around his words, his arms and legs began to feel numb and lose all feeling.

"You can't, Shit Hair, just get on the ground and die, all of you!" The old man screamed in a deranged voice, he had completely lost his sanity, if he ever had any.

Then, on the Vehicle Room dawned silence, Ruby, Weiss and Yang bit their lips, and Ruby in particular closed her eyes, how could they get out of this situation?

Suddenly, with his chest and back bleeding, Josuke stood up, looking at the old man with fury in his eyes, "What the hell did you just say?" he asked, and then flashed a furious grin, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT MY HAIR?!"

And then, he bolted towards the tank, the wounds and the draining not enough to stop his infinite fury.

The assassin stood still in surprise, his mouth forming an 'O' "W-What?! How could you possibly be still movi-" his words were cut short from Crazy Diamond's fist smashing into his face, cracking open the Stand visor and making it shatter completely.

"DORARARARARARARARARARA!" The shout went up and echoed inside the room, each 'ra' being a punch with the destructive power of a cannonball straight to the stomach, Crazy Diamond juggled the Stand user in the air with its fists, beating him into a bloody pulp before headbutting him onto the ground.

"Phew, that felt goood." Josuke said as he adjusted his shirt, sneakily fixing it with his ability. The three Huntresses stood up, all of them incredibly surprised by Josuke's sudden burst of willpower, "All right, noted, never insult his hair." Yang murmured as she rushed over to the battered up Stand user, keeping him pinned down via pressing a foot on the chest.

Josuke jumped in the tank, and after a few moments of silence, he popped backed out, an incredibly injured and bloodied Blake slung over his shoulder, though the wounds already began to fix themselves.

Blake opened her eyes, "U-Uh…?" she murmured weakly, stumbling around as her feet touched the ground, she touched the side of her head, near her ribbon, and took a few deep breaths, "I feel...fine." she said, looking over at Josuke, "Thank you, I owe you one." she thanked with a smile.

"Hey, what's this?" Weiss walked over the attacker, and crouched next to him, and picked something from the ground, she raised her arm, letting everyone see it.

A crumpled piece of paper, inside were written strange symbols, and on the side were written words or numbers. Blake shook her head and took a few steps closer, leaning in to take a closer look, "Wait, I recognize those symbols, they're the same of the ones in the diary!"

Josuke looked confused, but from the expression on everyone else's face, he could tell it was a big deal. Yang slammed her foot down on the old man's chest, letting him gasp for air, "Tell us! Why do you have this?! Do you work with the Silver Records?!"

After a few desperate breaths, the old man laughed, "No...you've got it all wrong...I'm a proud ally of The Door, he was the one who told me to keep this thing, and keep it safe."

"The Door…?" Ruby stepped closer, "Just who is he?!" she said in frustration, there were too many unsolved questions, and this on top of everything was starting to get a bit much.

"Hehe...Like hell I would tell you, I prefer death than betrayal." The old veteran said, loyal to the very end.

Josuke cracked his knuckles, "Oh really now? I could just beat the shit out of you over and over then, as long as I don't kill you I can fix you back up, so we can go all day long."

The old man remained silent, thinking...After a few seconds, he started to give in, and talked, "I'm not gonna tell you his identity, but I am going to tell you this, he gave this piece of paper to a few of his most trusted assassins before sending us to kill ya. I don't know why, all I know it has something to do with those grimm cultist freaks!"

Josuke raised a fist, the faint outline of Crazy Diamond's closed hand hovering above it, "It's all I know, I'm not gonna tell anything else."

Josuke turned to look at Ruby, then Weiss, then Blake, then Yang, they all silently nodded.

"Well, g'night then!" he said, kicking him square in the face, knocking him out.

[Stand Name: Guns 'N Roses. Stand User: Old Spice

Status: RETIRED]

[To Be Continued]-

Author Note: Sorry if this chapter feels a bit...rushed, I have a few real life stuff that does not allow me to be completely invested in making chapters the highest quality possible, at least at the moment.