A/N: This story is somewhat of a crossover between Persona 3 Portable and Digital Devil Saga, but mainly Persona 3 Portable with some things adjusted. This story is also a prequel to Persona Devil Saga: Inaba Tuner since the members of the Embryon are around.
The Moonlight Bridge, 1999.
Serph and Heat witnessed the few surviving soldiers of the Solids in the area pull two young children out of a wrecked vehicle. The automobile apparently crashed into the edge of the bridge by itself, but when Serph got closer to the car to get a better look, he found that it was no accident that it crashed. The driver had been shot through the windshield in the head and had lost control of the car. The children were around seven years old and one of them had blue hair and was a boy while the other one had auburn hair and was a girl. Both were traumatized by what had happened and they were also seriously injured.
Serph asked one of the surviving Solids, "Have you managed to ID them?"
"Yes. The boy is known as Minato Arisato and the girl is Minako . . . we didn't find anything on her last name, unfortunately." the soldier answered.
"We won't be able to get them to a hospital in time. Should we throw them into the 'Demon City' simulation? Heat?"
"Do it. Mick's already on the scene at the Kirijo Group laboratory."
A truck came by and stopped and its back door opened. Inside was a machine that could convert data into real objects and vice-versa. Minato was placed near the machine and Minako was laid down next to him and the machine was activated. Meanwhile, Mick the Nick was talking with one of his soldiers when a radio call interrupted them. Mick got on his radio and said, "This is Mick speaking."
"This is Gale of the Embryon Tribe. We found out that some of the Maribel were behind the ambush at the Moonlight Bridge. They managed to eliminate many of your loyal troops and from what information we gathered, a sniper of theirs even killed two civilians and endangered the lives of two others. The two survivors had to be thrown into our simulation in order to save their lives." Gale spoke.
"Any idea if Jinana approved this?"
"We interrogated a captured Maribel and it turns out that Bat was acting on his own again."
"That bastard better watch his ass because Jinana's gonna fry him if he shows his ugly bat-shit face at our meeting in Yakushima tomorrow. In any case, a lot of the scientists here are dead."
"Any idea who's behind this?"
"Yeah. My men managed to capture some of the attackers at the lab and they were Brute soldiers. My guess is that Varin authorized the attack on the Kirijo Group and so far, we've had to throw one guy into our jail simulation. His name's Shuji Ikutsuki and anyone who didn't die is injured. Takeharu and his daughter Mitsuru are okay and Eiichiro Takeba only had light injuries, but everyone else who isn't dead is either seriously wounded or missing."
"Damn. We'll share more Intel at the Yakushima meeting. Okay?"
"Sure. Mick out."
Mick cut the communication and said, "Alright, boys, attend to the wounded!"
"Sir, yes, sir!" the Solids said as they did so.
It took about ten minutes for Heat and Serph to arrive and when they did, all personnel from the Kirijo Group except for the dead had been found and injuries had been treated accordingly. The decision was made to transfer Ikutsuki from his prison into the Embryon's simulation. Once that was done, the Solids and the Embryon left the area.