Anna-Rose walked into her science class, ready to enjoy a new lesson. However, she was somewhat shocked to see that nobody was in the class, before quickly realising. "God damnit." She put up her guard, quickly pulling some ball bearings from her backpack. "Okay, whoever set up this ambush, you've been caught. Come out from your hiding place, and-" Suddenly, Anna-Rose felt a tingling sensation in her feet. She looked down, and a pink spongey surface was bulging out of the floor, wrapping around her legs.

"What? Get off me!" She kicked against the stuff, but it sped up, beginning to encase her whole body. "Stop! Get away…" The mass of flesh consumed her entirely, before puffing out a little to give her some breathing room. "Sheesh. At least this thing isn't completely rude. I can still breathe for now." Anna-Rose couldn't see at all in the pitch blackness, but understood what it was. It felt like the inside of a person. She kept her feet off of the fleshy floor, in case some kind of acid started trickling into the chamber. It felt like soft sponge, or like a tongue. It was disgusting.

Anna-Rose summoned Eulogy to punch at the walls. The flesh absorbed the blows with ease. "Okay, that settles it. This thing has to be a Stand." She sighed. "Now, I guess I have to figure out how to beat it. If I had some space, I could probably get a Super Spin off and tear through it. However, in this situation…" She pushed against the flesh. "Too dark and cramped to pull one off."

After a few minutes, a section of the flesh went transparent, and Anna-Rose desperately pressed her face against it to look out. Staring back at her was a smirking woman with messy hair and cracked horn-rimmed glasses. She pulled up her lab coat a bit. "Look at the worm stuck in the trap. Watch her squirm."

"Who are you, and why are you doing this?" Anna-Rose pounded against the wall.

The woman on the outside chuckled. "My name is Sara, and I am a chemist working with you-know-who. She wants things done and I do them. She just so happened to desire your corpse today, so I'm happily obliging." Sara's wide smile terrified Anna-Rose silently. "My Stand, Heart-Shaped Box, will do something a little special for me first. It's going to turn you into my slave, so I can use you to make sure Daisy Stratter shares your fate. Do you understand?"

Anna-Rose smiled a bit. "Oh, alright. I understand now."

Sara was confused. "You understand? What do you mean by that? I'm going to kill you!"

Anna-Rose rolled her eyes. "Okay, okay. Just do it then." The bell rang; Anna had been inside Heart-Shaped box for an hour, and she had Maths next, with Daisy. "Or else you'll miss your opportunity to catch her."

"I know that!" Heart-Shaped Box began to fill with a pulpy gas, which Anna-Rose tried to avoid breathing in, but eventually had to inhale. She passed out, and Sara opened her Stand to let her out. "Well, well, how the mighty have fallen. Go to your next class now, and my pheromones will do their work."

Anna-Rose stood, her eyes dulled as if she were unconscious. "Okay." She shuffled off to her next class.

Stand Name: "Heart-Shaped Box"

Stand User: Sara Pluton

Power: E

Range: C

Speed: C

Durability: A

Precision: E

Potential: E

Daisy smelled a putrid odour approaching her mathematics classroom. It was almost a pheromone, but it smelled manufactured, and twisted. She was, once again, the only person in the class. If Sunset was to be believed, this entire day had been manufactured as a gauntlet for her and Anna-Rose, and a plot to kill them. She grabbed out her phone and called Delaware. "Hey, are you busy? I know you've got some university things to deal with and all, but we're in a bit of trouble."

Delaware, on the other side of the line, sighed. "I suppose I can swing around at 2pm. Can you stick around until then?"

"Maybe." Daisy gulped. Anna-Rose should be here. Was she already beaten? She was terrified, however when Anna-Rose entered the room she was even more so. Anna-Rose was coated in sticky faux pheromones. Daisy recalled her chess game with Tiffany all those months ago, and realised that it was one of her "inner circle" who had created it. It was a pheromone of control.

Anna-Rose sat down next to Daisy. "Hello, friend."

"Friend?" Daisy sighed. "What happened? Are you alright?"

"I am fine." Anna-Rose sat back in her seat and smiled. "How has your day been?"

"The hell kind of question is that?" Daisy rubbed her face. "Anna, are you conscious? What is that smell on your body? Did you get beaten, or what-" Daisy jumped back as soon as she saw Eulogy's hand sail towards her. "That answers that. Sorry for this…" Daisy tapped Anna-Rose on the forehead, releasing a real control pheromone from it. Anna-Rose inhaled the gas before Daisy immediately released her control.

"What…" Anna-Rose looked around, confused. "What the hell happened? Am I… am I alive?"

Daisy smirked. "I beat that artificial pheromone with a real one. I bet you knew I'd do it, too."

Anna-Rose nodded. "Yeah, yeah… a girl named Sara, and her Stand, Heart-Shaped Box, trapped me and did it. I bet she's close with Tiffany."

"So you got attacked too. Great." Daisy sighed. "Let's catch this Sara, then. This should be interesting." She stood up and began to walk toward the science class, Anna-Rose trailing slowly. The school was completely empty. Daisy wondered if Sunset was telling the truth about why classes were drastically undermanned. "Did we get the wrong first day?"

"I doubt it." Anna-Rose shrugged. "I mean, I know Tiffany's powerful, but every member of staff and every student other than us being given a wrong first day to tell us while still showing upon the right day is absurd, to say the least."

Daisy nodded. "Still, I'm calling Reggie. She's insane, but she hates Tiffany just as much as we do. She'll tell the truth." She rang up Reggie, the bizarre girl who had attacked her months ago. Reggie picked up quickly.

"Hello, Reggie here. Who's speaking?"

Daisy sighed. "It's Daisy. Does school go back today?"

Reggie audibly chuckled. "Nope. Who told you that? It's next week."

"Shit." Daisy bit her lip. "Reggie, you need to get to school right now, or else Anna-Rose and I will be dead, and you'll be the easiest picking again."

"Wait, what the fuck? She's got you at school? She wants you dead?" Reggie hung up.

Daisy sighed, putting away her phone. "She's either coming or freaking out, or both. Let's stick around until then, okay?"

"Alright." Anna-Rose began to breathe heavily. She was thinking back to her fight with the poor girl who had been cursed with the Stand Matador. "Daisy, I'm scared. I don't want to really hurt anyone, but…"

"We'll die otherwise?" Daisy looked into Anna-Rose's eyes, who took note of the golden rectangles formed by Daisy's dilated pupils.

"Well, yes. We don't even know what Tiffany's Stand is, except for maybe Tania's death. Aren't you afraid?" Anna-Rose was shivering, but Daisy smirked.

"Jeez. Only a few months ago, our roles were basically flipped. In our fight with Alfonse, I was terrified and you were so calm. What changed?" Daisy looked concerned.

Anna-Rose grabbed Daisy's shoulder. "Daisy, I killed somebody. That's what changed. A Stand user that Tiffany had… stolen, she wasn't a person anymore, more like a puppet. Well, anyway, I had to kill her… to stop her Stand. I can't bear this. I can't deal with-" Daisy slapped Anna-Rose's cheek hard.

"Shut up and think about what you're saying. She was dead before you saw her, okay? Tiffany had taken everything. That should motivate you to beat her more, if she would let people die for her cause."

Anna-Rose rubbed her face for a moment, before nodding. "You're good at helping people, Daisy. I know it's a tired observation, but now more than ever I really understand how nice you are."

"Well, I come from a place where sticking together is everything. It's not like here, where everything is survival of the fittest."

"Yeah, I get that." Anna-Rose nodded. "Let's get this scientist." The two stepped into the science class, looking bold and ready to fight. Sara, sitting in the class, smirked.

"Oh, look who we have here. Anna-Rose, come here." Anna-Rose slowly marched over to Sara. "Lovely, lovely. Now, please-" Eulogy grabbed Sara by the throat. "What? What are you… doing?"

"You're an idiot. You forgot about something simple, didn't you? Daisy's ability…" Anna-Rose chuckled, tossing Sara to the ground. "Your fake pheromones are no match for the real deal, it seems. And how unfortunate for you."

"It doesn't matter. I still have my Heart-Shaped Box. I can easily trap you again!" Sara scuttled to her feet and began to laugh maniacally. "You'll both be my playthings soon enough!"

Anna-Rose sighed. "Oh well. Looks like talking big won't do it. Let me just give you a taste of what my Stand can do, then!" Eulogy began to throw punch after wicked punch. After about 30 blows, Anna-Rose halted her attack. "Now, leave us alone, or I'll give you 300 more."

"Ah… No! Please, no more!" Sara was bruised and battered, crawling along the ground to try and escape Eulogy's range. "I'll stop, I'll stop! Just never do that again! Your Stand is just as terrifying as Tiffany's!"

"You've seen it?" Daisy interjected. "What is its power? Tell us!"

Sara smirked. "I won't tell you outright… but know that her ability is one that will mean nothing can stand in the way of her path to glory and power."

"How helpful." Anna-Rose rolled her eyes. "Leave now. If I see you at school again until it actually starts, you're getting one hell of a beatdown."

Sara fled in fear as soon as the sentence was finished. Daisy and Anna-Rose sighed. They had a long first day left until they could leave. How they would be leaving, however, was another question entirely.